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by gdy 3y ago
"At some point that queue will fill, but that's a separate issue" Would you recommend something to read about that?
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by gdy 3y ago
Honestly, I find the dialog here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36270224 much more toxic and against the guidelines. I hope you just missed something while reading it. Anyway, there are plenty other comments like the
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by gdy 3y ago
"I don't think they crossed the line at which we would moderate comments, and I don't think they violated the rules nearly as badly as you did in this thread" Seriously? Where have I written anything worse than "The
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by gdy 3y ago
I cannot say I'm surprised by the lack of response but that's disappointing nonetheless. I guess the comments I asked about 'fit the culture here'.
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by gdy 3y ago
"multiple explanations to you" Actually, the last two were about someone else's comments and the one before that was a misunderstanding ("you've made yourself a straw man" wasn't a "personal attack an
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by gdy 3y ago
True -- there are some comments I'm not proud of. At the same time I'm not sure where exactly contradicting someone ends and 'battle and flamewar' starts.
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by gdy 3y ago
Too bad. I find my comments quite informative and intellectually interesting.
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by gdy 3y ago
These documents are primary sources. Gorbachev says contradictory things. "Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who participated in the 1990 negotiations, subsequently spoke out about the existence of a "guarantee of non-expansion
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by gdy 3y ago
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by gdy 3y ago
"you keep neglecting to mention" But I did mention. [0] "how obscenely ridiculous it is" No more obscenely ridiculous than saying that the US exists for 200 years. Ever heard of Native Americans who inhabited the North A
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by gdy 3y ago
I'll bet be the US will never do it. They pushed the Ukraine to disarm for a reason and that reason still stands -- no one wants them selling warheads to the highest bidder.
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by gdy 3y ago
"There is no practical difference between the two." Soviet leadership acted in the interests of the Soviet Union (and their own), not in the interests of RSFSR. "we can also say that Nazi Germany had nothing to do with German
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by gdy 3y ago
"Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner" [0] [0] https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/b
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by gdy 3y ago
"And how did Russia come to "own" the peninsula again?" By fighting the Ottoman Empire and their protectorate -- the remains of the Golden Horde known as Crimean Khanate [0]. The last was busy raiding Russia and selling
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by gdy 3y ago
How exactly does that make Crimea Ukrainian? "people like you" What's that supposed to mean? "it just blends in with all the other ethnic cleansing and genocide" It's ironic to hear that from a citizen of the U
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by gdy 3y ago
That's only because you don't know that Crimea isn't a warzone. Not driving on Crimean bridge after the attack last year is as meaningful as leaving NY skyscrapers after 9/11.
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by gdy 3y ago
Just as I thought -- no source or proof whatsoever.
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by gdy 3y ago
"Doesn't make any practical difference." Yes, it does. You are confusing 'Russian' and 'Soviet'. "Soviet colonial policies" That was funny. You are confusing with your colonial past. "If you
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by gdy 3y ago
You've deliberately ignored the context. It's like somebody saying 'It's funny that girls still walk in mini-skirts in the park' under the news that a girl was raped. And then you appear: 'Nowhere did *** say i
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by gdy 3y ago
It's as bizarre as saying "What are Ukrainian civilians are doing in the Ukraine which is active war zone?"
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by gdy 3y ago
The difference is quite obvious -- RSFSR was about half of the USSR's population.
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by gdy 3y ago
And who and where exactly is finding "the death of civilians ... to be a cause of great celebration"? Citation needed, as they say in Wikipedia. Anyway, you surely will find all sorts of people among 146 millions of Russians inclu
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by gdy 3y ago
You are confusing the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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by gdy 3y ago
"But in name only" By the same logic, Crimea could never be Ukrainian more than 'by the name only'. [0] "a magical event happened which would finally give the peninsula a majority Russian population" There&#x27
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by gdy 3y ago
"I do not see why Crimea is more Russian than Ukrainian" Because it was Russian for almost 200 years before Khruschev stole it from Russia and 'gifted' to the Ukraine. Because according to the Western polls after the reu
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by gdy 3y ago
Sure we are. You say that Zelensky can lie because of 'opsec' but use it to justify a random lie. I agree that he lies.
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by gdy 3y ago
Obviously, I and the author of the comment I was replying to.
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by gdy 3y ago
I agree, we can't believe anything coming from his mouth.
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by gdy 3y ago
And here is Zelensky lying with the straight face: "We definitely didn’t order it, as far as I know"[0]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yum-jxnkU8U
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by gdy 3y ago
Of course, Russia also blew up Nord Stream. Oh, wait.

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