Ad hominem attacks on the site Deepa Parent rather than dealing with the subject matter is not the flex you think it is

Are you for real?

Also, “the dictatorship only killed 3000 protestors, they’re fine people really” isn’t much of a flex in itself.

Hey, I found one with a white SIM card

Yeah, there would be no point in relying on China as a new favored trading partner, but as one among (hopefully) many, it could maybe work out. Absolutely agree that building stronger partnerships with liberal democracies should be the top priority, but I’m guessing some of the potential partners will need some time to go through the stages of grief…

ETA: scratching my head a bit over the up/downvote ratios of our comments, as I think we mostly agree.

As I recall it, he addressed this by saying that future agreements and deals would need to be more pragmatic, with partners that don’t necessarily share all their values. It sucks to have to make deals with the ccp, but that’s exactly the new order.

I only watched it once, though, so I could misremember.

My moral convictions are more of the situational kind… In this case, I don’t know enough about the particular events to actually have a qualified opinion, and it’s not important enough to me to do the research. I’m content to dislike the ccp for being an oppressive near-dictatorship under Xi, and this random church I’ve never heard of for indoctrinating children (which all churches do, or they’d soon go extinct). On the balance, I probably dislike the heavyhandedness of the reaction more than the religious practice in this instance, but not with any strong conviction.

I can easily dislike both.

Tbf, Canada’s also on the other side of the Atlantic

In theory, that’d be a positive turn of events, but I don’t see any reason why the outcome would be different from the dictatorships of China, North Korea, or the USSR, human nature being what it is. Maybe I’m too cynical.

In the meantime I’ll support Ukraine against the invaders, since I see living in a liberal democracy as a better condition than being ruled by Moscow.

Also: the world is confusing. If you’re not confused (the general you, not you in particular), and certain of everything, chances are you are not being completely honest with yourself.

The dissonance between supporting the fascist regime in Moscow and waving a Soviet flag is mind boggling. If Lenin could see what his purported followers are pushing, you could probably harness his interred rotational speed to supply most of Europe with energy.

Fuck nazis. And other fascists incarnations. Like Russia, Zionism, and whatever is happening in the US right now. Fuck Ukrainian nazis too. But the existence of nazi groups in Ukraine does not justify the Russian invasions, even if Russian propagandists keep pushing that narrative.

I look forward to Ukraine expelling the invaders, rooting out the rot, and joining the EU.

They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

Excerpt from Sartre.

Originally about anti-semites, fits fascists too. For some reason I thought about this when reading your comment chain.

Good point, well made.

Nothing I’ve seen the last several years invalidates the “people are dumb” argument.

Haha, good one. Unless you’re serious, in which case it’s even funnier

If Moscow manages to force a ceasefire in Ukraine, I’m not sure they can go back to peacetime production without collapsing, so they might be forced to continue to build offensive capacity. Europe, on the other hand, would be happy to pretend we’re back to normal, and if you add Russian psyops and American unreliability to the mix it’s not hard to be pessimistic.

fuck off.

What you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room post is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

Username checks out, I guess

but it reads like it was written by an undergrad translated from Russian by ChatGPT

These are not hard questions, you’re just an idiot.

«topwar.ru»? Seriously?