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Re: Spotify made a cowardly choice: to submit to the Kremlin

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Post by just-ok »

p1esk wrote: post #96
roenxi wrote: post #41

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The traditional way has been to organise a panel of bureaucrats and a large diplomatic/informant network spread over multiple countries, where individuals often have multiple decades of experience in their area of the globe. Which still throws up some pretty terrible misjudgements; but that is the baseline for a serious try. Any group who's state of the art information gathering includes having "a PR department" and…

reading the news shouldn't be trying to make moral judgements in countries half a world away How should we make moral judgments about what’s going on in the world? How is deciding to be a dumb service in a country when clearly innocent people are dying as a result of official actions of that country not a moral judgment? Or should we just not care?

Honestly? You shouldn't. There is so much we aren't privy to, and today's 240-character news cycle is full of rumor, hearsay, and lies, so any opinion or judgement formed is almost guaranteed to be flawed.

Re: Spotify made a cowardly choice: to submit to the Kremlin

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Post by trhway »

iisaev wrote: post #119
scrollaway wrote: post #117

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I know regular Russians don't want to kill their Ukrainian brothers. Come on. Most people in Europe know that (and the people blaming Russians directly are the same racist fucks picking fights with any random brown-skinned dude for "being al'qaeda"). But yes, some of what you're saying is indeed propaganda. This war is unjustified and unjustifiable. I would invite you to watch this video by a Belarusian lieutenant co…

> I would invite you to watch this video by a Belarusian lieutenant colonel, it's relevant: https://twitter.com/kopiganja/status/1498182268523016195 Watched the video. Sorry, I don't think this is relevant - this is obvious propaganda from the other side of war. I found this man's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CSSmN0uo0ir/ . Looks like he has business in Poland, so I think he's kinda biased - if Belarus will…

you again dumped a pile of steaming Russian propaganda in order to rationalize genocide. It is somehow got lost on the Russians in Russia that genocide can't be rationalized. If history is any guide, such loss (or at least suppression) of humanity will lead to catastrophic consequences to Russia and its people.

>ukrainian army continued the war calling it "anti-terrorist operation". Don't you see the similarity of the situation?

absolutely not. The similarity would be if Ukraine moved tanks on Moscow and bombed the sh^t out of Russia. They didn't even though their side also got shelled by the separatists.

> But you must understand too: a lot of defensive strikes made by Azov and AFU are made from civilian structures.

yea. Defenders of Stalingrad were guilty of the destruction of Stalingrad. That is Nazi logic. And it isn't the only time your post displayed it (which is naturally because Russian propaganda what you repeat is mostly nazism these days). Like this too :

>We want different government to Ukraine, the government that will agree to admit Crimea as a Russia and DPR and LPR states and not join NATO neither de jure nor de facto.

Just like Nazi wanted in their days - the USSR government without Bolsheviks and Jews which would suit more the vision of Great Germany the same way like Putin today wants to change Ukraine for his vision of Great Russia. Details change while the core nature of nazism stays the same.

>We don't want to absorb the culture

just drive millions of people out of their land, and the rest either killed for resistance or must accept the Russian Order as Putin declared. Just like Nazi planned for Slavic people in USSR.

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