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I'm sure you'd also tell someone being raped to not defend themselves so it's over faster? Jesus Christ, how do you people get so callous? What is wrong with you? who hurt you? What made you give up empathy and humanity? I'll never understand you people.
Agreed, this is beyond disgusting.
So essentially the problem is they're sticking to their "violence is bad" policy when in this specific situation violence is maybe not bad.
> when in this specific situation violence is maybe not bad. I'm pretty sure Russia would say the same thing if you ask them about their situation. That's the problem once you bring in subjectivity. That being said, tolerating the account for a few more days would've probably been a better play. EDIT: Just to be very clear, I'm not condoning Russian aggression in any way. My point is that not funding a war is an acce…
> If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor — Desmond Tutu
Russian visitors of my foss project ( https://www.filestash.app/ ) now see the message of peace address to them by president Zelenskyy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwzb_JX7u04
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> In this case that has been made pretty easy to see. Even large numbers of Russians agree with that. Just as large numbers of US citizens disagreed with the wars of the last decades. > Indeed. But this isn't the Cuban missile crisis (which was provoked by the USSR to begin with) and the Ukraine isn't anything like Cuba. Well, you could argue that the EU/NATO expansion did provoke this, too. But I'm getting distracte…
> Well, you could argue that the EU/NATO expansion did provoke this, too. You could, but it would be bullshit. > But I'm getting distracted here; I really don't want to defend Russia and especially not their recent actions. I also don't think that helping the Ukraine is a bad thing, quite the opposite actually. My point is that you don't get to both condone violence and keep your status as "peaceful" because it's aga…
In your (our) opinion. But that does not make it an absolute truth.
> If you really had paid attention to German history you would have realized that sometimes violence is the only way to deal with an emerging threat. It is precisely the lack of decisive action that allowed Hitler the space to do what he did.
And that's why I ended my post with:
>> It might sometimes be necessary, but it's never "not bad".
I don't think that turning the other cheek is the right move here. My point is that we don't get to feel good about violence because it's against the right guys.
Russian visitors of my foss project ( https://www.filestash.app/ ) now see the message of peace address to them by president Zelenskyy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwzb_JX7u04
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That's all I can think of... I just don't see an outcome where Ukraine receives so much support from the West that it will manage to beat Russia and make it go home without accomplishing any of its goals.... people seem to think that's a possible outcome. I wonder why when Kiev seems to already be surrounded and the USA government (who was right about warning about an imminent invasion!) has already said (correct me…
Consider both the US and Russia eventually left Afghanistan.
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it shows the video if /ru/.test(navigator.language)
This method is super inaccurate, since visitors from many countries (including Ukraine) could use Russian as their preferred language. You might probably want to use IP geolocation instead.
- Check preferred language (won't work for Russians who prefer English, and will show for non-Russians who prefer Russians)
- Check where IP is coming from (won't work for Russians on the border if public node is on other side of bordering-countries, won't work for Russians who use VPNs)
- Check preferred locale (won't work for Russians who has a different preferred locale, will show for non-Russians who use Russian locale)
- Finally, ask the user where they are from (worse UX, won't work for people who are lying)
Using all of them gets you pretty close to "perfect" but again, nothing is 100% perfect.