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by yucky 4y ago
The real answer is likely because it's performative bs for an American audience.
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by yucky 4y ago
Meanwhile, you never addressed the point that the US invades more nations than anybody else. Why are you ignoring that?
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by yucky 4y ago
US de facto controls foreign policy through the UN and other international orgs for a majority of countries on earth. China and Russia are the two largest exceptions. We use economic pressure like a bully. This is a fact that nobody would d
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by yucky 4y ago
> I've set the benchmark to how many UN members endorse the view You could have just said you blindly support the US position regardless of facts, and saved us both some time.
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by yucky 4y ago
The Russia/China border isn't a very thin straw though.
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by yucky 4y ago
> There was no coup and no-one recognizes it as such. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957 https://www.wsws.org/en/topics/event/2014-coup-ukraine https://
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by yucky 4y ago
> There is nothing to refute. Well no, it's a fact that we were behind the coup. The question is why wouldn't you think it's obvious that Russia would have a problem with that? It's also a fact that Kiev cuto
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by yucky 4y ago
> Which countries recognize the independence of Luhansk and Donetsk? Which countries recognize Kosovo, and now tell me how that's different? Hint: because we said so. And that's it. Also, I love how you claimed nothing
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by yucky 4y ago
I love how we here in the US just assume we have the right to tell Turkey and UAE who they can do business with. As if they don't have their own interests.
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by yucky 4y ago
> The same train company that didn't meet safety standards and so recently ended up poisoning a whole town after a derailment? This is 100% false, why are you spreading misinformation? Buffet has zero connection to that com
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by yucky 4y ago
Alright, in the interests of educating I would point out that the US financed and fomented a coup in Ukraine in 2014 to install a pro-US government, which then lead to the Constitution of Ukraine being rewritten so that NATO membership was
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by yucky 4y ago
This segment of Gen Z should be reminded that their status symbol is a symbol of slave labor and that if they consider themselves so progressive they should keep in mind that they are directly contributing to the oppressors they love to m
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by yucky 4y ago
Well that's the problem, you're wrong to think nothing has changed in 20 years. The world is a very different place. So your assumption is incorrect and that helps explain your position.
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by yucky 4y ago
If you re-read my original comment and still don't understand the importance of leisurely bullshitting with friends, then I probably can't help explain it better.
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by yucky 4y ago
This isn't true. If you don't pay your property taxes you do not go to prison, you just lose the property.
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by yucky 4y ago
OK so in your case replace baseball with pokemon or anime or whatever your thing is.
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by yucky 4y ago
I think you're missing my point. They were both presented as facts and discussion online was (and still is in the case if Ukraine) presented as such. The only way to move past those types of bottlenecks is through discussion. "Loo
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by yucky 4y ago
The art of conversation includes moving between each, and pulling a phone out every few minutes stunts that normal conversational flow. There is also the problem of what is a fact (Alaska is part of the United States) and what is a "fa
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by yucky 4y ago
Do you think the world has changed much in the 20 years since then?
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by yucky 4y ago
Somehow this is the fault of Elon Musk.
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by yucky 4y ago
Why talk about anything then if you can just google it and move on?
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by yucky 4y ago
> Funny, in most my friends groups someone checks their phone and I'm glad they do. Why would we be talking about this if we didn't care about the truth of it? Interestingly enough, I miss the days where people would go
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by yucky 4y ago
Said another way, people who tend not to pay their bills on time, not paying bills on time.
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by yucky 4y ago
The conspiracy was why the government and major media worked so hard to tell us that anybody who thought it came from the lab in Wuhan was a conspiracy theorist. There is no good logical answer for how that was handled and it's destroy
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by yucky 4y ago
It's pretty clear that social media is a leading cause of the increase in suicide, because it certainly isn't anything else measurable in the data. Every single study on social media use shows how destructive it is for the psyche
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by yucky 4y ago
I can't count how many times any push back at all on the over-representation of LGBT in media is met with "you're threatening their right to exist", which is not only absurd but how would that even be accomplished if not
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by yucky 4y ago
One could be annoyed that the show went way overboard on the "Gay Bill" story considering how far it veered off from the actual game where it was merely (and barely) implied. Anybody who brings this up then gets branded as someone
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by yucky 4y ago
Mandela's ANC used to capture political opponents and "necklace" them. Be warned if you google images of what necklacing is, since it involves sticking them inside tires filled with petrol and lighting them on fire. I think t
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by yucky 4y ago
Yup, a coup on their border. One that directly impacted the majority Russian regions of Ukraine including Crimeans who voted to be annexed to Russia since they're mostly all Russian. We recognize Kosovo who did the same thing, but not
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by yucky 4y ago
This is how most people felt about Iraq and Afghanistan during the first Bush term. It isn't going to end the way they tell you. It never does.

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