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It's all we've ever been discussing. I can't be responsible for the fact that you're too stupid to understand the conversation.
May 30, 2022 at 19:32
cause noun us /k?z/ cause noun (REASON) something without which something else would not happen: Are we not talking about the same word?
May 30, 2022 at 14:00
Apparently, the moral lines are absolutely clear between what Russia are doing and what Amnesty describe (of Turkey) as ... We must immediately enable...
May 30, 2022 at 13:35
Wherein lies the persistent, willful, misrepresentation of all such arguments since no one talking about the US has been doing so by way of 'judgement...
May 30, 2022 at 12:17
Unfortunately your incredulity doesn't constitute an argument.
May 30, 2022 at 12:06
Seems to be a theme of yours. The comment was... ...and it was in response to a comment about America's apparent lack of concern for civilian casualti...
May 28, 2022 at 12:59
Nothing. I'm not remotely certain. Thousands of children's lives could reasonably be saved if America had stricter controls over the ownership of guns...
May 28, 2022 at 12:45
It's not your identification of the problem I'm objecting to, its your solution.
May 28, 2022 at 06:17
And yet that's exactly what you're refusing to talk about. The likelihood. There is a serious, deathly serious, consequent risk to keeping the guns ar...
May 28, 2022 at 06:16
You accused me of being unnecessarily insulting and unproductive. Not the other way round. In any decent company, it is such an accusation that counts...
May 27, 2022 at 19:34
Ah, I see. Such as...
May 27, 2022 at 18:51
Difference, yes. Significance to the discussion about whether Russia uniquely doesn't care about civilian casualties, no. What you've failed to show i...
May 27, 2022 at 18:40
Unfortunate then that you're on a public forum whose membership is not limited to those who already agree with you.
May 27, 2022 at 18:30
In general or specifically? The former are self-defined (those that do it), just as my target for criticism of racism are racists, no further categori...
May 27, 2022 at 17:43
I'm not sure what partisan point you thought I was making, but you've misunderstood. The complaint is against idiots regurgitating media talking point...
May 27, 2022 at 17:17
I meant by pundits, not perpetrators.
May 27, 2022 at 17:07
Funny how selectively applied such an aphorism is.
May 27, 2022 at 16:09
So you've said before, yet provision of any actual historical data examples remains lacking.
May 27, 2022 at 16:05
I do indeed think that. What I object to in your argument is the idea that if a government ever became that tyrannical it would nevertheless utterly r...
May 27, 2022 at 14:07
Yeah, what are those warmongering Ruskies like eh? Such a thing would never happen in civilised countries... https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/i...
May 27, 2022 at 12:55
You've simply asserted the 'large scale' without any basis whatsoever. Why would it be 'large scale', on what possible grounds might you believe a 'la...
May 27, 2022 at 12:43
And how did you suppose it was going to do that? By catching me out in a cunningly worded question? Are you one of the people who think "What's in you...
May 27, 2022 at 12:38
I wasn't talking about the changes to your argument regarding Chechnya, I was talking about the changes to your argument regarding Afghanistan. You ci...
May 27, 2022 at 12:33
Why? Should we add up all the collective interventions in the 'war on terror'? Ah, so we should reduce your figures for the deaths in Afghanistan? Or ...
May 27, 2022 at 09:09
Your point?
May 27, 2022 at 08:48
Civilian casualties during the American invasion of Vietnam (9+ years): 332,000 Civilian casualties during the American atomic bombing of Japan (2 day...
May 27, 2022 at 08:48
Translation: "I've got no counter argument and the intellectual imagination of a five year old, so I'll resort to parroting the puerile trope that any...
May 27, 2022 at 08:10
Ah yes, I'd forgotten that world-famous saver of lives - warfare.
May 27, 2022 at 08:10
Why would we do that via breaking a naval blockade when we could do it without losing a single life simply by paying the food producers a fair wage so...
May 27, 2022 at 07:10
Afghanistan - Not even going to dignify that one with an answer, it was 40 years ago. are we going to allow Hiroshima and Vietnam in the comparison? S...
May 27, 2022 at 06:35
I don't see why it matters. America and Europe have enough food to feed the world several times over. If they gave a shit about starving people they'd...
May 27, 2022 at 06:01
Not looking for engagement, just correcting your bullshit. The responsibility for the ensuing starvation is categorically the result of the underdevel...
May 26, 2022 at 20:05
Or there's facts... https://www.cgdev.org/cdi#/?adjusted=true Commitment to development index. The United States is below Russia. But who cares about ...
May 26, 2022 at 18:57
Woah, a pro war puff piece in The Atlantic. What a surprise! The same Atlantic whose Editor said, of the Iraq war... Sound at all familiar? Christ! It...
May 26, 2022 at 17:05
There's nothing red about them (nor herring-like). It's exactly what you're doing here. Declaring some really odd thing to be 'immoral' and then actin...
May 26, 2022 at 16:39
Good for him. I'm talking to you, not Zelensky. As far as I'm aware Russia has not made any greater demands than that. What's needed are some independ...
May 26, 2022 at 12:13
Who said methods didn't matter. The question was about objectives. A simple "yes" would have sufficed. Did I say it was? I suggested it might be a neg...
May 26, 2022 at 11:29
Myself, Boethius, benkei, streetlight among others have advocated diplomacy. You've demonised all. Accusations of working for the FSB, supporting terr...
May 26, 2022 at 11:22
This incoherent double standard again. Is Russia losing really badly or not? Make up you mind. When you want to advocate further arms sales, you claim...
May 26, 2022 at 09:26
Concede the independence of Dombas and Crimea, and the independence from NATO. Then deal with their independent governance via diplomatic means. It's ...
May 26, 2022 at 09:12
You're still talking about methods when the comment was about objectives. Russia clearly has no greater an objective of "control and influence" than A...
May 26, 2022 at 08:57
Directly contradicts... The 'culture had' was the one which decided to 'adopt the German model of bureaucracy and replace the domestic education the U...
May 26, 2022 at 08:32
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/05/23/henry-kissinger-warns-against-defeat-russia-western-unity-sanctions/ How psychopathic do you have to b...
May 26, 2022 at 07:56
Who said anything about disparaging diplomatic efforts? There's a quote function here for a reason. Quote the section of my post you consider to be a ...
May 26, 2022 at 07:30
It's immoral to wear hats. This proves that all policeman are immoral. It's immoral to eat spaghetti on a Tuesday. This proves that all Italians are i...
May 26, 2022 at 07:14
Not just 'war'. This war. Yes, it's always been about the ethics, not just 'now'. As I've said a dozen times none of us are qualified to offer an opin...
May 26, 2022 at 06:58
No one's commenting about the novelty of it. We're commenting about the ethics of it.
May 26, 2022 at 06:11
Yeah, and we're back into your obvious nonsense that we've been through before. Entertaining though your mental gymnastics are, there's little to be g...
May 25, 2022 at 19:37
Yep, as I said, I'm talking about what you support, not what you fail to object to. Supporting someone's right to do something is the same as just not...
May 25, 2022 at 19:16
Who said anything about anyone objecting to the signing of a peace treaty? I'm talking about what you support, not what you fail to object to.
May 25, 2022 at 19:11