Join Nato? Because they had too much corruption up until just recently. They kicked out the pro-Russian people and started working against state and s...
We've discussed a lot of things that then happened. For example, war crimes occurring. Generally, the Russian apologists deny on repeat until things a...
It's pretty clear how big the incompetence is in the Russian military, all the way to the top. I've positioned this right at the start of the war, Rus...
Yes, but Russia isn't a normal modern state playing by the same rules, as seen with the war crimes happening. And Putin is very much involved, probabl...
If the head of state is ordering top military generals on matters of military actions, isn't that like killing generals on the battlefield? They're pa...
He's unable to grasp such things, he's opposed to formal education, so I guess he's opposed to learning basic historical knowledge. Or at least it's h...
Ok, dr Professor Expert. You're still arguing the same premises that you've done for over a hundred pages, so it doesn't matter what people tell you s...
Why can't there be different reasons for different invasions? Shouldn't a professor expert be able to grasp that two nations with two different positi...
What is scary? It's scary for us in Sweden and Finland as the invasion of Ukraine showed us how the only way to be safe from the crazy people in Russi...
Why don't you read things correctly? To interpret this for you: Russia already has the groundwork to enable these problems, but the US doesn't... YET....
He touches upon just what the problem is. The young in Russia do not mix well with what Russia has always been and people just ignored everything. The...
You don't seem to know much about Sweden, do you? Like, you don't even seem to know that our small/mid economy compared to the big superpowers, spend ...
What a wonderful army Russia has that writes "For the children" on the side of their missiles hitting civilians at a train station. And with the const...
This I agree with. I think that a definition of being a mod is to at least keep a civil tone and argue for it. Baden does it, Benkei does not. That's ...
Hasn't he done that as well? I understand when the fallacy is used as initial counters as ways to discredit before engagement, but if their arguments ...
Isn't guilt by association about making the connection to such a group first and then go into the argument or avoiding criticism? Didn't Oliver connec...
I agree. That argument was more focused on the effect of education for people who don't have access to it or are in some ways not allowed by their gov...
Then we're done here, you have proven your inability to function through argument because that is not a counterargument. I've presented sources and el...
Ok, let's make it super clear. The conclusion is originally more: "Teaching critical thinking is needed to help people see past authoritarian propagan...
What is the level of free speech you want before you can accept the fact that you have free speech? It also depends on which country you are in, of co...
And what source do you have for this cut and clear answer for every situation in every nation by every nation? And why would the children be consulted...
Education is usually formed in collaboration with the people it is for. It is entirely possible to create a curriculum that is unique to the place the...
I said nothing of that, that's your words. This is your problem, you reshape someone's argument to fit your anti-western narrative. I said nothing of ...
Or that it's hard to reference when getting aural information from experts not easily referenced. But on top of that quality issue, you can also add t...
So ignored everything else? Like how schools shut down in villages, which supports the concept of concentration of education to the major cities, wher...
Can be luck or can be the result of that soil, that shapes the democracy into being functional. Nothing happens overnight, a functional democracy does...
Let me rephrase; a huge population in Russia has little to no quality education. (And the US doesn't even have a great educational system) And of cour...
Why would I? I live in one of the most stable socialist nations in the world while everyone else tries to copy it. And we still have a free market as ...
So, you mean that the fact that a large portion of Russians is educated, especially outside of the denser cities, is racist? Is Russian soldiers not e...
I'm asking for a real-world solution to an active problem that is existing right now. You are talking about anti-capitalist philosophy that I am agree...
Through the citizens of that country pushing for those things. Apathy and low education give birth to despots and tyrants. So education is extremely i...
Why is progress through time such a hard thing for people to understand? Yes, Yeltsin was corrupt, but there's a lot of shades of grey in all of this....
I stopped reading after that, your way of discussing in this thread is just low quality through and through so don't even bother caring. I won't be in...
I know, I live in arguably one of the best establishments of this kind of system and it ranks us very high on indexes of life quality and freedom. Why...
It wasn't. The economy was healing when Putin entered the scene, and then he consolidated his power over the course of 20 years. That "we don't know i...
So give me an alternative then. Why can't you just do that in order to prove the dichotomy wrong? Because you've only presented two alternatives, eith...
Free speech and you don't get imprisoned or killed if you criticize those in power. It's quite clear what I'm speaking about, isn't it? The government...
Yes, can it be avoided? Can all the criticized traits of western society be avoided while still enabling the progressive traits most common in western...
Exactly, and this leads to another point I've been making a few pages back and it's that whenever people use "western" in a negative way as a counter-...
And this seems to be the crux of the problem. When we see nation's who's transitioning to have better quality for their citizens, their well-being, th...
Probably, but how can such societies function on a large scale, like for example Russia? Isn't such societies functioning because they are small in na...
Yes, but what about the question of a society in the world right now that functions as an example of being good for the people without being a western...
Yes, a nation's act outwards internationally and the response that nation gets because of it, has nothing to do with their independence as a nation. I...
That's why I asked him politely to ignore me and stop quoting me when I'm not engaged in discussing with him. I can ignore him, but he is spamming quo...
I wrote about Russia's threats right before deliberately violating Swedish airspace carrying nuclear weapons. Because it shows just how fucking danger...
Did they deliberately violate borders with these nukes? Did the president threaten by heightening nuclear readiness without anyone threatening them wi...
The recent violation of Swedish airspace was a deliberate act... and the planes had nuclear missiles on board. But let's talk about how bad the US is ...
Of course all nations should evolve by without meddling of others. However, if the progression leads to dangerous risks of other nations they are the ...
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