Libs: “THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO QUESTION THAT THERE’S GENOCIDE IN XINJIANG, AND IF YOU DARE TO BRING UP THE LACK OF EVIDENCE OF ANY SORT OF ABUSE FOR THE PAST 3 YEARS YOU’LL GET BANNED!!!”

Also libs: “Didn’t you know that 15k of the 40k humans murdered in Gaza were actually terrorists? it-is-known Also, lots of civilians die in wars like the one happening in Gaza, it’s sad but inevitable”

smuglord

Fuuuuuuuuuck this shit.

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    Let’s do an experiment. Russia had no business attacking Ukraine

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        Genuine question, just because there are some nazis in Ukraine, that justifies a military invasion? Should all countries with neo-nazis in them be invaded by others? Should Russia invade itself, as there are neo-nazis also within Russia? Do you think invasion, killing others, is a valid form of affecting change?

        If you say yes to any of these, why are some invasions good (Russia->Ukraine) but other invasions are bad (US->wherever)?

        What do you say about the 2013 Ukrainian revolution (Euromaidan), which goal was to topple a Russian-controlled corrupt government and give democratic power to the people? Why do you think the toppling of a Russian-controlled corrupt government wouldn’t be a much more likely reason for the invasion of Ukraine? Doesn’t it make much more sense that if Russia loses autocratic control over Ukraine through a people’s revolution, and can’t pay a corrupt government anymore to do what they want, they would try to regain that control through violence/annexation?

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          Nazi is part of the problem.

          The Nazi Kiev regime attacked the ethnically Russian Donbass for eight years intending to commit genocide in their quest for an ethnically pure Ukraine and Russia finally came to their aid after it became clear that the Minsk agreements were never going to be honored. Also, NATO was turning Ukraine into a hyper militarized threat to the integrity and security of Russia itself. Refusal of the US and Europe to negotiate on a new inclusive security framework, refusal to stop NATO expansion eastward, and the relentless and violent anti-Russian psychosis that has gripped Ukraine since the Maidan coup that triggered a civil war in a country in which half or more of the population are essentially Russian became intolerable.
          https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/1954733


          What do you say about the 2013 Ukrainian revolution (Euromaidan), which goal was to topple a Russian-controlled corrupt government and give democratic power to the people? Why do you think the toppling of a Russian-controlled corrupt government wouldn’t be a much more likely reason for the invasion of Ukraine? Doesn’t it make much more sense that if Russia loses autocratic control over Ukraine through a people’s revolution, and can’t pay a corrupt government anymore to do what they want, they would try to regain that control through violence/annexation?

          Why do you think the government formed from Euromaidan is legitimate when the people living there, Eastern Ukraine don’t think so? In your word, they just traded a Russian-controlled corrupt government to a US-controlled corrupt government.

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            I understand that there are people in Ukraine who are more aligned with Russia than EU. However, in democracies, which is a terrible form of government but still the best one we have, the majority wins. In 2013, the parliament of Ukraine overwhelmingly supported the European-Ukrainian association agreement, which is the democratically elected part of the government, and then the Yanukovich government suddenly decided, no, they’re not going to honor this decision. That is clear corruption in Russian direction. I can’t deny there might still be corruption in the government formed after Euromaidan, but it is very clear that in total, the majority of Ukraine supported this.

            It’s kind of telling to me how you ignored the part about an invasion being a fine way to solve this problem. Shouldn’t the people within a country solve their internal problems themselves? There was no military invasion by EU/US/NATO into Ukraine to bring it under their control. NATO militarization or membership looked very unlikely… Until the 2014 invasion of Crimea and now the 2022 invasion of the whole of Ukraine.

            There is a whole different level between trying to gain influence through trade agreements compared to trying to gain influence by military invasion. Sure, I completely concede that Western governments are trying to get influence over Ukraine. But why do these influence battles have to escalate into a war, don’t you agree that no matter who influences/controls a country, normal people’s lives are only going to get worse with a war than with peace? The invasions of the US to “help” all kinds of people (obviously not the real motivation) are rightfully condemned, why is this invasion any different? The thought of course is, after the war things should be better, but when had this ever been the case? During WW2, yes, but the problems in Ukraine were nowhere close to ethnic cleansing like was seen in the Nazi regime, in fact it is heavily disputed that there were any coordinated aggression against ethnic Russians at all. Only 3 months passed between Euromaidan and the Russian invasion of Crimea. There wasn’t even enough time to properly form a government, nevermind starting a controlled persecution of ethnic Russians (if that even was a plan/possibility, which is highly disputed).

            Another thing, why didn’t Russia stop with Donbas if it was only about “saving the Russians” in eastern Ukraine? Why did they go for Kiev immediately in 2022? It is quite clear that this current war was never (at least only) about saving “prosecuted Russians”.

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              Another thing, why didn’t Russia stop with Donbas if it was only about “saving the Russians” in eastern Ukraine? Why did they go for Kiev immediately in 2022? It is quite clear that this current war was never (at least only) about saving “prosecuted Russians”.

              They went for the head to make a quick peace negotiation. Not joining NATO is a big one in the deal and stop Azov from shelling Donbas/Donetsk. Peace deal fell apart thanks to Boris Johnson.

              Fears of peace talks with Putin rise amid US squabbling

              Why do you think Russia invaded, exactly ? they started the whole conflict after decades of making NATO encroachment along their borders a clear red line and being very clear what would happen if it was crossed

              The US still kept meddling in Ukraine (and other post-soviet states), with Russia making every effort short of war to try and stop that - like offering loans just as large as the IMF loans for example, except without asking for the batshit insane austerity measures the latter did

              Then the CIA backed a far-right coup there in 2014, and much of the following years were spent with NATO financing and training nazi soldiers there in preparation of trying to take back Crimea, while breaking the Minsk agreements in the meantime (I’ll pass on the various atrocities and huge reframing of nazi criminals as national heroes in Ukraine there at the same period, since it’s barely related, but it is worth a mention too)

              Now both Ukrainian and Russian people are dying. A peace deal would stop that.

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              My ‘hot’ take is that your unsubstantiated assertion is contradicted by Putin’s history. He was on the anti-communist side in the 90s, he has been against any sort of return to a planned economy throughout his terms, he has been in favour of stuff like monetisation of welfare, etc.

              It’s extremely silly to assert that he wants to ‘bring back his glorious USSR’ when his actions directly contradict that.

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                If you want to trust a career liar, then that’s on you

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                  You’re believing the US media about him, and they’re the biggest career liars on earth. Saddam Hussein’s People Shredder, anyone?

                  You people are so lobotomized by Good Guy Bad Guy Marvel slop, it’s embarassing

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                  Notice how all the analysis thenother person did was about the actions he’s taken and not the things he’s said because everybody here not only knows he’s a liar but knows that actions speak louder than words.

                  You’re the one confusing words and actions, right from the get go when you said “let’s do an expirement” and then made a completely uncontroversial statement.

                  Liberals are literally incapable of material analysis, they literally just make decisions based on what propoganda was presented to them most recently.

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          The liberal anti-communist wants to restore worker power and internationalism? The multi-billionaire that only pays lip service to communist aesthetics to maintain support among the older nostalgic generations wants to abdicate power to a system of democratic centralism?

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                I get paid to do it, so at least some people believe so.

                Why didn’t you answer my other questions, you’re replying to my replies for other people, but not the ones directed at you?

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                It really doesn’t cause a little itch in the back of your head to ignore the dozens of good faith replies you keep getting to make these shitlib reddit comments instead.

                Do you legitimately consider yourself to be an honest and serious person?

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            Putin wanted to be a western lapdog so bad he even asked to join NATO and helped the Americans wage the War on Terror. The West didn’t accept that, because they wanted every non-western country to be absolutely subservient and exploitable.

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          You are trolling right? Dear god tell me you are a troll. Putin hates Communism, he blamed the war on the USSR giving autonomy to Ukraine in the first place. If you want to say he is a Tsarist that would be dumb but closer to the truth. This is just pure brainrot. Motherfucker was part of what was called the Yeltsin Family, the clique of capitalists selling out the USSR to the west. Why would he destroy the USSR only to weakly try to bring back small portions of its territory decades later?

          You have no coherence, you have only knee-jerk responses based on regurgitated ideology

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          Sorry to spam you with replies but, while it is true that he’s an irredentist, the idea that he has loyalty to the actual USSR when he is one of the people who helped kill it is completely ridiculous. He is not a communist and makes no secret of that fact.

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          Do you have any evidence of Putin wishing to reinstate the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? Why is Putin moving in a Capitalist direction, rather than Socialist? Why is the conflict specifically centered around regions of Ukraine, not the entirety, and why Ukraine specifically?

          Do you believe history to be decided by Great Men, or by Material Conditions?

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          He and his party are the liberals who carried out a coup and then formally dissolved the USSR against the wishes of the public, then spent the next twenty years eagerly collaborating with the US, sucking up to the US, and being propped up by the US. Even now he’s just a sad old liberal trailing after the American far right and implementing American style reactionary laws in the hopes that they’ll finally accept him, even with the ongoing war to keep American nukes from being parked a stone’s throw away from Moscow.

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      To actually answer your experiment: the war in Ukraine is an imperialist war between capitalist Russia and a proxy of the capitalist west (mainly US through NATO influence). Russia is on a scary and dangerous trend towards fascism, and I have loved ones directly suffering the consequences of this.

      Edit: not just Russia, to be fair. France, Germany, the US (just to name a few western countries) are clearly on a similar and equally worrying trend. And nobody seems to care when other eastern European countries such as Poland literally ban communist parties (as a good fascist would do), and have people in congress using fire extinguishers against jewish symbols during Hannukah.

      Anyone who had a look at Lenin’s “Imperialism: highest stage of capitalism” and took it seriously, knew that there would be war in Europe as soon as they realized that the means of production of the former USSR were auctioned in a corrupt fashion, and their structure of ownership went not to western hands, but to national interests that collide with those of the US. Since that moment, it was just a matter of time that there would be conflict.

      Wow, materialist analysis of a conflict, instead of simplistic “Putin bad” or “NATO bad”? (both of these statements being true). Now, what do you answer?

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        You’re going at it wrong

        You need to add some Marvel references and throw in some hamburger analogies so the drone-like WASPs posting this shit can understand

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        What I don’t understand about Russia is, if they’re capitalist then why don’t they engage in imperialism? The capitalists there have the same interests as capitalists everywhere. Why weren’t they folded into the hegemony they way capitalists of Europe were?

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          As we all know here, I am very stupid i-love-not-thinking but I’ll give this a shot based on my current understanding.

          The USSR was not Imperialist, so when it was sliced up and sold to nationalist Capitalists, there were no readily available colonies to exploit, and Western Powers had already divied up the Global South amongst themselves. With little international exploitation, the Russian Bourgeoisie is Nationalist in character, exploiting their internal proletariat. Meanwhile, Western Powers seek the industrial base of Russia, causing constant conflict.

          Russia therefore aligns with BRICS after failing to join NATO and take their “share” of Imperialist super-profits. They tried, and were rejected!

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              I think you could also describe Russian foreign policy in the Middle East (namely Syria) as “adventurism.” AFAIK they’re still occupying parts of Syria with no real exit strategy. While this was done at the request of Syria’s government in order to combat ISIS, Putin hasn’t let the opportunity pass him by to build oil pipelines and whatnot.

              Russia has always been called “the sick old man of Europe” for a reason.

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          Putin tried really had to be taken into the fold imperialism. He assisted the west in its looting of Russia. He tried to join NATO but the crypto fascists who run NATO will never forgive the Slavic peoples for destroying the third reich. After getting teased and given the run around for decades he slowly wised up to the game. Putin realized by 2014 they wouldn’t let him be a European but until late 2023 he still didn’t understand that the west could never be trusted.

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        I dont think the war in ukraine is an inter imperialist war, it is an anticolonial war started by the national bourgeoisie

        Losurdo (2017):

        The risk of a great war remains as a result of the efforts, on the part of the United States, to stop anti-colonial revolutions, and to construct a new colonial counter-revolution. The US stands opposed China, but we can also consider here the position of Russia. In my books I insist on a point which is perhaps neglected: the history of Russia in general — not just of Soviet Russia, but of Russia in general — is, on the one hand, the history of an imperial and expansionist power, but there is another aspect to this historical reality: Russia has been at risk of becoming a colony for a very long time. We all know about the invasions by Hitler, by Napoleon, by Charles XII, by the Mongols. For example, if we remit ourselves back to the beginning of the 17th century, it was the Polish who exercised power in Moscow. Immediately after World War I — after the defeat of Tsarist Russia — Russia was in danger of being balkanized, of becoming a colony. Here I quote Stalin, who said that the West saw Russia like they saw Central Africa, that they were trying to drag it into war for the sake of Western capitalism and imperialism. [2]

        The end of the Cold War, with the West and the United States triumphant, once again put Russia at risk of becoming a colony. Massive privatization was not only a betrayal of the working classes of the Soviet Union and Russia, it was also a betrayal of the Russian nation itself. The West was trying to take over Russia’s massive energy deposits, and the US came very close to acquiring them. Here Yeltsin played the role of “great champion” for the Western colonization effort. Putin is not a communist, that much is clear, but he wants to stop this colonization, and seeks to reassert Russian power over its energy resources.

        https://redsails.org/losurdo-and-opera/

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          Ok, now your turn on the experiment. Is there an ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza? Is there an ongoing genocide against Uyghur in Xinjiang?

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              The US’s “Uyghur genocide” (“cultural” or otherwise) disinformation campaign has already been debunked several times over.

              We see here for example the evolution of public opinion in regards to China. In 2019, the ‘Uyghur genocide’ was broken by the media (Buzzfeed, of all outlets). In this story, we saw the machine I described up until now move in real time. Suddenly, newspapers, TV, websites were all flooded with stories about the ‘genocide’, all day, every day. People whom we’d never heard of before were brought in as experts — Adrian Zenz, to name just one; a man who does not even speak a word of Chinese.

              Organizations were suddenly becoming very active and important. The World Uyghur Congress, a very serious-sounding NGO, is actually an NED Front operating out of Germany […]. From their official website, they declare themselves to be the sole legitimate representative of all Uyghurs — presumably not having asked Uyghurs in Xinjiang what they thought about that.

              The WUC also has ties to the Grey Wolves, a fascist paramilitary group in Turkey, through the father of their founder, Isa Yusuf Alptekin.

              Documents came out from NGOs to further legitimize the media reporting. This is how a report from the very professional-sounding China Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) came to exist. They claimed ‘up to 1.3 million’ Uyghurs were imprisoned in camps. What they didn’t say was how they got this number: they interviewed a total of 10 people from rural Xinjiang and asked them to estimate how many people might have been taken away. They then extrapolated the guesstimates they got and arrived at the 1.3 million figure.

              Sanctions were enacted against China — Xinjiang cotton for example had trouble finding buyers after Western companies were pressured into boycotting it. Instead of helping fight against the purported genocide, this act actually made life more difficult for the people of Xinjiang who depend on this trade for their livelihood (as we all do depend on our skills to make a livelihood).

              Any attempt China made to defend itself was met with more suspicion. They invited a UN delegation which was blocked by the US. The delegation eventually made it there, but three years later. The Arab League also visited Xinjiang and actually commended China on their policies — aimed at reducing terrorism through education and social integration, not through bombing like we tend to do in the West.

              Credit to @[email protected]

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              Ok, why yes and yes? Where is the evidence that there’s an ongoing genocide in China? Please, as I said in the original post in .world, provide any evidence from 2022 onwards.

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              The claims of genocide against Uyghurs originated from germany-cool and have been supported by germany-cool amerikkka eu-cool nato-cool ukkk isntrael since and rejected by most rest of the world.

              germany-cool also committed a genocide in Namibia and killed up to as many as 150,000 people over a century ago. The mechanisms and media was also used as a “blueprint” for the Holocaust/Final Solution.

              Fast forward to the present, germany-cool starts wailing at Namibia for establishing closer ties with China and the then-president Habe Geingob very openly accusing germany-cool of us-foreign-policy, stating that China never belittles or infantilises them. Of course, Namibia (and South Africa) obviously rejects the claims of genocide against Uyghurs.

              isntrael starts yet another extermination campaign against Palestine, with very clear goals of a Final Solution. germany-cool in response, starts sending hundreds of millions of Euros in aid to isntrael. Worth noting that isntrael also supports the Uyghur genocide claims with the words “Free Uyghurs” written on the bombs being launched at apartment towers, hospitals, mosques and UN schools.

              So South Africa finally takes the violent Nazi brat isntrael to court and germany-cool immediately goes into hitler-detector, screaming at South Africa while Namibia tells the anti-cracker-aktion Olaf SSchwanz to sit down.

              Meanwhile, China is not starving or bombing the Uyghurs, nor have they been forced into an extermination camp the size of municipal Johannesburg. Life expectancy, literacy rates, incomes, education have all increased. Homes now all have electricity, hot water and working toilets, there’s widespread access to primary and higher education, medical treatment and is now united with the rest of China by high-speed rail. Infant mortality and crime has dropped significantly. There has not been a terror attack in nearly a decade and the desperation fueled by poverty is no longer present. Xinjiang is also now a highly important hub for mechanised agriculture and industry. The Belt and Road runs through it and in recent times, large quantities of lithium, oil and other valuable minerals have been found in the province. Uyghur culture is also frequently promoted on Chinese media and tourism both domestic and foreign, has grown. Uyghurs also have Chinese citizenship. China has also finally supported South Africa’s case in the ICJ.

              Hope that clears it up for you. If not, then PIGPOOPBALLS

              Death to America

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          Idk why you libs come here an act so smugly superior when you have nothing of substance to retort are arguments with, you just declare their apparent superiority of your opinions and scold us for not realizing their self-evident correctness.

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            Seriously they’re fucking children.

            “Oh yea, well what’s your take?”

            several paragraphs of analysis with historical context and a focus on concrete actions taken by both sides without relying on political statements

            “uhhhhhh nuh uh”

            They’re just as fucking stupid as chuds except that chuds know they’re being stupid on purpose to annoy you, libs are dumber than dogshit while also being a smug asshole and infantilizing you.

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        Changed it for you. And I knew someone was going to go for the bait. Remember, this is an international forum and we need to conduct ourselves appropriately.

        Also Einstein was a genius, so it’s not much of an insult to get compared to him. Kind of flattered honestly

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            So just so we’re on the same page, what was your point in providing this article?

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              I just thought an Einstein fan might be interested in reading his thoughts on communism, and Hexbear would be the place where people point it out as a board of communists who have a shortlist of articles that they reflexively post (Ask someone about brainwashing next). It has no bearing on the alleged uyghur genocide stuff.

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              it’s for you to not read, just ilke you won’t read https://redsails.org/the-xinjiang-atrocity-propaganda-blitz/

              and then keep flapping your ignorant mouth repeating the same embarrassing lies that get broadcast on TV as if we haven’t heard them. then we bring up easily verifiable facts and information you’ve never heard in mass media, and you ignore it because you’re a spoiled western chauvinist who just wants the treats to keep flowing

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          Oho,I admit,I’m flattered you decided to take time out of your day to look through my posting history to dunk on me

          Credit where credit is due

          Now,with all due respect,you can fuck off with that smug attitude you westoid fuck

          The gall of these smug little reddiors is astounding

          Seeing as you saw fit to look through my comments,I think you might have seen that I literally live next to “the” Ukraine

          I saw the Russians drone strike cities from my own house and I still think uwu smol bean Ukraine should lose this war on account of the being a puppet of the NATO reich and because they have become a Mecca for nazis of all stripes

          I hate NATO,I hate Ukraine and I despise Israel

          The fascist world order will collapse and you smarmy little fucks can do nothing about it, except piss yourselves on the internet and epically bait and pwn le evil commies

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            Yup. I’m smug and you’re a hypocrite who is ok with innocent Ukrainian civilians getting killed by an invasion force that has no business being there. Think about that. You want civilians to die for world politics

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              You want civilians to die for world politics

              You say this like “politics” is some nebulous, worthless thing. People typically want wars that are disruptive of the status quo because they view it as the only way to change systems in which, e.g., a much greater number of civilians live under brutal oppression, as their grandparents did and their grandchildren will if the state machinery is not smashed. You’re like the people who bemoan the Haitian Revolution because some white families died with no concern for the fact that it was a slave state and the revolution stopped, it cannot be stressed enough, the continuous, literal chattel enslavement of an entire country’s worth of people.

              THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.

              – Mark Twain on France’s “Reign of Terror”

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                Who’s being enslaved in Ukraine? It’s not comparable

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                  Notice I also brought up France, where people were not chattel slaves but living in oppression and fought a revolution that conservatives still have not forgiven them for.

                  So the question is “What humanitarian issues are you saying would actually get better by Russia invading?” And my answer is that the Euromaidan coup government was culturally repressing the better part of eastern Ukraine, which was the material basis for their revolting against the Ukrainian government, which resulted in an eight year war of the slaughtering of civilians and journalists in the east with indiscriminate bombing and shooting. Russia’s victory over Ukraine is the best chance they have to live without cultural repression or slaughter.

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              you’re a hypocrite who is ok with innocent Ukrainian civilians getting killed by an invasion force

              You are literally okay with things like your genocide of Palestinians, your atrocities in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Vietnam, Korea, etc., colonialism in general.

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                And now you’re just assuming. You got anything of substance to say or are we just going to keep doing this dance?

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                  And now you’re just assuming

                  Quick question,do you support Hamas?
                  Nope. I don’t understand why people think that one side needs to be right

                  You have admitted that you do not support a resistance to a genocide, and you don’t understand why resistance to a genocide is just.

                  But hey, sure, let’s hear how much you don’t support the rest of the things that I listed, despite uncritically regurgitating your empire’s propaganda (even though your empire has admitted to having no evidence to support it).

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          You literally argue like a 13 year old. Calling people Einstein sarcastically isn’t new, it goes at least as fat back as 1997 when a talking bird used it that way in star fox 64 and I understood the phrase and what it meant at age 6. By pretending what is clearly sarcasm is a genuine comparison between you and Einstein is patently absurd and you aren’t making yourself come off as at all clever, it comes off as a desperate child who knows he’s losing and has decided that being obstinate is a replacement for wit, rhetoric or a basic understanding of the topic. You’re infantile.

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      this post has remained up for well over 24 hours, and you have received an number of good faith responses to your statement and follow up queries - responses which demonstrate more effort and thought than your replies, to be honest.

      has your hypothesis been proven?