lisasays

3 năm trướcdiscuss

You know you're right, Dan - 'pernicious' is not the best mental model to use here. No matter how ineluctably dreary some of these leavings my seem.

So a non-reciprocal response would be more effective.

lisasays

3 năm trướcdiscuss

All I can say, dan (and knowing this won't change your action): this wasn't my intent.

You've got some straight-up trolls running around, posting blatantly pernicious nonsense in regard to these topics -- obviously without sincere intent, simply to push buttons.

Mixed with some merely woefully naive and/or highly obstinate folks, posting basically noise (wildly inaccurate narratives about extremely basic historical matters or recent events).

If there is a better strategy or tone to use for countering this kind of negative behavior -- I wish I knew what it was.

lisasays

3 năm trướcdiscuss

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lisasays

3 năm trướcdiscuss

Thanks - it pretty much had to be something like that.

lisasays

3 năm trướcdiscuss

Look, I don't have time to go down these rabbit holes with you. I'd just like you to consider one the following:

Yes, the Iraq invasion thoroughly evil and insane and stupid, and probably illegal. And yes, it was driven by preposterous, bald-faced lies from the start. Including lies about WMD and bioweapons and such.

Fast-forward 20 years: the Russians are telling the exact same kind of lies with regard to its (no less evil, insane, stupid and illegal) invasion of Ukraine; including lies about bioweapons and WMD -- yet even more cheaply and transparently so (using photoshopped slides no less) -- and you're just eating it up, like it's a box o' chocolates.

You're really very naive.

Just because you didn't hear about it on CNN

I never watch CNN. And if you think that anyone who doesn't buy into your narratives, therefore, does -- then you're definitely living in a bubble.

lisasays

3 năm trướcdiscuss

The thing is he doesn't just "reference" the paper - he takes it out of context to suggest that it "serves as a kind of proof of concept for ethnically targeted bioweapons" (something the paper doesn't say at all, and which no researcher in the field would support). Alongside unsupported claims that the US and other governments are developing such weapons.

Of course he's also hedging, and talking out of both side of his mouth. It's a classic innuendo technique, and you fell for it.

lisasays

3 năm trướcdiscuss

The young men of Ukraine are being killed at a rate of 7-1 vs Russia, with nothing to show for it but 300k dead Ukrainian young men.

You have this information from where, exactly?

lisasays

3 năm trướcdiscuss

I have never, ever suggested that the COVID-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews.

And yet, in his taped comments he said exactly that:

    “There is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. Covid-19 attacks certain races disproportionately,” Mr. Kennedy said at a private gathering in New York that was captured on videotape by The New York Post. “Covid-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”

Of course then he got "caught" and tried to pretend not to have said what he just got caught saying.

But there's no wiggling out of it. Try as he may to do so.

lisasays

3 năm trướcdiscuss

The bridge is clearly military infrastructure (and bringing it down will have significant military impact). Just not exclusively so.

Why is the West helping them do this?

To bring an end to this insanity. As soon as humanely possible.

lisasays

3 năm trướcdiscuss

And yet - Pink Floyd with Syd matters so much more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36777995

lisasays

3 năm trướcdiscuss

https://archive.is/wXTHp

lisasays

3 năm trướcdiscuss

I did mention.

But you keep talking around it.

You still can't bring yourself to say who these people were. Or what happened to their descendants.

lisasays

3 năm trướcdiscuss

In Ukraine Russian speakers are hardly the minority.

What's this supposed to mean?

Certainly it's not referring to the portion of native speakers.

lisasays

3 năm trướcdiscuss

How many times has Russia invaded western Europe?

Since "Western" Europe now includes Poland, the Baltics, Moldova and Finland - perhaps you can answer that question for us.

For extra credit: which "Western" country did Russia sign an active military alliance with -- and not only join it invading one of the above countries; but march together with its troops in victory parades, afterwards?

lisasays

3 năm trướcdiscuss

Why did you ask?

Probably because you keep neglecting to mention, for some strange reason, the ethnic group that made up some 90 percent of the population the peninsula at the time of the (not so peaceful) 1783 annexation. Let alone what, specifically, happened to them in the summer of '44.

And how obscenely ridiculous it is, as a result -- to say that the peninsula was "Russian for 200 years" prior to the 1955 transfer.

ABM

Except the US didn't just thumb their noses at, and start violating willy-nilly (like Russia did with the 1994 treaty you are so hesitant to name). Rather - it had an opt-out clause which Bush chose to enact, giving the required 6 months notice.

lisasays

3 năm trướcdiscuss

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lisasays

3 năm trướcdiscuss

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lisasays

3 năm trướcdiscuss

And how did Russia come to "own" the peninsula again?

What happened to its original inhabitants?

Which treaty did the RF sign in 1994 pledging to respect existing borders of Ukraine -- including its sovereignty over the Crimea -- for perpetuity?

Tell us more, please.

lisasays

3 năm trướcdiscuss

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lisasays

3 năm trướcdiscuss

Have a plan B?

Seems you've found yourself a pretty nifty one:

Bait, bait. Evade, evade. Troll, troll, troll.

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