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The implication is NOT that something or another is 'unhelpful' per se. It is that essentializing a conflict as good vs evil has a cost: it makes it h...

To all holy warriors including Putin, the advice might be something like: If you want to be able to get out of a war at some point through a peace dea...

You mean, what use could a policy maker make of this indication?

I suppose it's meant as an indication about Putin's psychology and intent.

That is not what he said, again. He pointed out that holy warriors often find it difficult to make peace with their enemies.

Sounds like a plan.

@"ssu" did not say Putin was exceptional in that, though. He just said that holy warriors aren't known for signing peace deals, so Putin is unlikely t...

You are afraid that he could end up committing suicide?

For the beauty of Giulietta Masina. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_vIvjl4H524

That makes us even, I guess.

I think it's important to say these things unambiguously, not just "not say otherwise".

Maïa Mazaurette, French sex columnist and author, had something to say on male sexual misery. According to a recent study, many men are venting about ...

It's useful to keep all this in mind and to condemn every illegal war, including the current aggression of a democracy by a dictatorship in Ukraine. T...

From your Reuters link: The International Committee of the Red Cross called on the warring parties on Thursday to let people leave Mariupol safely and...

That was part of his cynicism. I believe that in actual fact people do think, which is why a dictator needs to intimidate and misinform his own people...

Ha ha. Thanks. Ok i was boasting a bit in that story, but as a matter of fact, i do not remember much of the banging, and it's not what the story is a...

You are welcome to go live in North Korea. We'll send you our good wishes and an orange once in a while. Plenty of people in the 30's thought that Hit...

I agree that Boethius must be on their payroll. Otherwise, his behavior here makes no logical sense.

LOL. Any European coalition can beat this Russian army flat out. The Italian air force all by itself would blow those Sukhois out of the sky in a day,...

Any fact in this sea of confusion? Any salient idea, even? It reads like a long, clumsy propaganda piece, honestly. Your rhetoric is as empty as the K...

In your cryptosoviet dreams.

I still loved her but couldn't take the madness anymore.

Ukraine's presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak about the Russian bombing of Ukrainian cities: “It’s a paradox: it wasn’t Western Ukraine that was bo...

How do you know that it matters to them?

Huh, this is not a story I tell very often. I won't tell the whole thing here for sure, but thanks for the kind words, it is much appreciated. I once ...

Also unlikely that they care about ethnic Russians NOT fighting the war either, because the civilians being bombed in Mariupol are in majority ethnic ...

Honestly, you don't?

Note: this is out of topic so mods, feel free to delete or reposition. That was intriguing. My current hypothesis goes from Darwin to the death of God...

It seemed more like self-preservation at the time. Nothing brave at all there.

Thank you, you are very kind. Honestly I failed her, but yes, in the end it was her choice.

I join @"Amity" and @"universeness" in thanking you for this excellent piece.

Oh oh... Now you'll be bombarded forever with ads from dating consultants and firms, telling you how you are doing it all wrong. I get them. Because I...

Exactly. Arguing from a position of ignorance is already ridiculous, most of times. But arguing that others know nothing because Joe Sixpack knows not...

Or perhaps I couldn't be bothered to dispell your mistakes, which are yours to deal with. I am not in the business of educating careless cretins. I do...

Information and knowledge management. It takes some competence to check information and from what I can see, you are lacking it.

Likewise, if you want us to believe that the Russian government gives a rat's ass about the lives of ethnic Russians in Ukraine, feel free to explain ...

My guess is you are just confused and incompetent at doing such verifications. If you want to be sure, do travel to Mariupol and see for yourself...

Well, ask your wife then, because I can smell a fish here. You've been screwed.

Would you have some recollection of the channel? Of the reporter? Any evidence to show or point at?

As any woman will tell you, men don't have a monopoly on being nasty.

You're probably right that the Russians are not really bombing Mariupol and that in fact, the aliens from Mars are the guilty party here. Thanks for t...

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And my point is that you cannot possibly know that for a fact. Some here may be on the Russian payroll and spreading talking points. And some others m...

Why then speak about it? What is the point of going around flaunting your ignorance about a topic? I could go to a reddit thread on, say, marple syrup...

I'm getting my info from the media.

I was a fan of Merkel, but not because she was a women. Because she a regular nice bloke, cautious, smart, not an asshole.

French. Nobody's perfect... Where are from?

I am not in Ukraine.

By your own account, you don't know anything about it. So how would you know what I know about it? Either you are ignorant or you are not. Which is it...

So why don't you shut up about it?