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Re: Last Day of IKEA in Moscow

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Post by Tepix » Mon, Mar 07, 2022, 4:07 PM UTC

maigret wrote: post #318

Tepix wrote: post #227

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Look at every single article discussing new taxes for the rich. You will find people (sometimes the article itself) arguing that the rich shouldn't be taxed because their money will "trickle down", despite this myth having been refuted decades ago.

I know at least as many articles saying the opposite. I consume news from at least 4 countries, and I see some countries are more leaning toward one direction. I suggest you widen your news intake then.

But how many countries have introduced new taxes for the rich in the last decades?

Re: Last Day of IKEA in Moscow

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Post by jessaustin » Thu, Mar 10, 2022, 2:12 PM UTC

sto_hristo wrote: post #303

aftergibson wrote: post #282

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Here's some for yourself to contemplate: The IBC project has recorded a range of at least 185,194 – 208,167 total violent civilian deaths through June 2020 in their database. Was this a justifying cost to toppling him? Was the decision the American Government's to make? Those events you mention are also a full 13 years before the war in Iraq started, why the delay, why end the gulf war? If my memory recalls, there wa…

A lot of innocent civilians die in the process of toppling any eternal psychopathic dictator with firm grip on their country. The bloodbath of WW2 could have been completely avoided if Hitler was simply allowed to take a bunch of countries and kill some minorities. If that works for you then there is something awfully twisted about you. This, however, doesn't work for people under those regimes - the ones that actual…

Saddam's chemical weapons were manufactured and sold by USA firms. Again and again, we create more problems attempting to solve the problems we created in the first place. Most Americans don't realize this because their thoughts are provided by the war media.

Ukraine is not an exception.

Re: Last Day of IKEA in Moscow

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Post by CRConrad » Tue, Mar 15, 2022, 1:48 PM UTC

justsomehnguy wrote: post #253

Aeolun wrote: post #180

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Huh? Don’t we have some servicemen on vacation in Ukraine right now? They’re just there on holiday, sightseeing in their A10.

PUTIN: These guys were on a holiday there THE WORLD: gasps UK: These guys were on a holiday there THE WORLD: claps Or as the saying goes "Rules for thee and not for me". [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30488680

Ah, good that you re-posted it; your [0] is too old to respond to. Here, let me fix that for you:

   PUTIN: These guys were on a holiday there (but actually conducting a war of aggression).

   THE WORLD: Gasps in righteous indignation.

   UK: These guys were on a holiday there (but actually defending against a war of aggression).

   THE WORLD: Claps at the brave defenders.

Or as the saying goes, "Don't sell me a turd in a bun as a hot dog, I ain't buying it".

There, fixed that for you.

(OK, except for the "saying"; I just made that up. But, something along those lines. As is, it seems to fit both Putler's blatant immoral lies, the West's equally blatant but morally defensible ones, and your whataboutish equivalizing of the two.)