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05-20-2024 , 07:45 PM
no I dont think it works that. but this thread, unlike some others, appears to allow posters to make repeated personal attacks.
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05-20-2024 , 07:49 PM
That is exactly how it works.

What do you think was the personal attack in that post?
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05-20-2024 , 07:54 PM
I don't support Russia. No matter how much you try to say it, I dont.
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05-20-2024 , 07:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Victor
Im not pro Russia. people say that a lot bc they cant really attack my facts and arguments. I mean, last time I ballparked blame for this whole thing I put it at 50/50. that seems pretty anti-Russia to me! I mean, they are just as bad as the West!
No it isn't lol, it's the clearest 100/0 in a long time, with Ukraine at 0 fault , it's incredible to even start discussing Ukraine has any fault.

And btw whatever you think the west did, that still doesn't allow Russia to invade Ukraine in the slightest, at all.

So anything other than "Russia should retreat in the pre 2014 borders and be extremely thankful if we don't invade and kill/jail all leaders and occupy it for a couple of decades after they retreat" is being more pro Russia than it is justified.
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05-20-2024 , 08:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Victor
I don't support Russia. No matter how much you try to say it, I dont.
By your own logic you do, which has been discussed multiple times and you cannot refute:

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you spend all of your time in this thread criticizing the Resistance. so yes, that is your position.

not once have you criticized Israel for what it is doing.
This was defending your stance that I do not believe anything that Israel does is "morally bankrupt." This is despite the fact that I've been far far far more critical of Israel than you have been of Russia. Just a few days ago you were amplifying Russian propaganda and trying to cast Ukrainians as Nazis. You just admitted it is half not Russia's fault that Russia invaded a peaceful nation and began committing genocide.
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05-20-2024 , 08:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Luciom
No it isn't lol, it's the clearest 100/0 in a long time, with Ukraine at 0 fault , it's incredible to even start discussing Ukraine has any fault.

And btw whatever you think the west did, that still doesn't allow Russia to invade Ukraine in the slightest, at all.

So anything other than "Russia should retreat in the pre 2014 borders and be extremely thankful if we don't invade and kill/jail all leaders and occupy it for a couple of decades after they retreat" is being more pro Russia than it is justified.
I didnt say Ukraine had all 50% of the fault. I said the West had fault, primarily the USA.
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05-20-2024 , 08:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Bluegrassplayer
By your own logic you do, which has been discussed multiple times and you cannot refute:



This was defending your stance that I do not believe anything that Israel does is "morally bankrupt." This is despite the fact that I've been far far far more critical of Israel than you have been of Russia. Just a few days ago you were amplifying Russian propaganda and trying to cast Ukrainians as Nazis. You just admitted it is half not Russia's fault that Russia invaded a peaceful nation and began committing genocide.
well see, I dont agree with that and I dont think its a very logical argument. but regardless I dont think a mod should be baiting people with verboten topics. I hope I do not get banned for responding to this explicitly unsanctioned topic.
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05-20-2024 , 08:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Victor
I didnt say Ukraine had all 50% of the fault. I said the West had fault, primarily the USA.
So it's 50/0 Russia v Ukraine, + external influences, in your model, so why don't you take the Ukrainian side every single time no exceptions?

Why don't you ask for Russia to retreat into their pre 2014 borders as the only obvious moral option that would stop all the killings very easily?
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05-20-2024 , 08:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Victor
well see, I dont agree with that and I dont think its a very logical argument. but regardless I dont think a mod should be baiting people with verboten topics. I hope I do not get banned for responding to this explicitly unsanctioned topic.


You do not agree with what you said and think your own argument isn't a very logical argument?

Discussing your own logic is not a verboten topic, you are dodging.
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05-20-2024 , 08:13 PM
You just admitted Russia is infinitely more guilty than Ukraine, why don't you work through all the corollaries of that
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05-20-2024 , 08:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Luciom
So it's 50/0 Russia v Ukraine, + external influences, in your model, so why don't you take the Ukrainian side every single time no exceptions?

Why don't you ask for Russia to retreat into their pre 2014 borders as the only obvious moral option that would stop all the killings very easily?
yes it would be good if they did that. in fact, that was the offer in 2022 with the exception of Crimea. instead, the West wanted a war and got one.

I dont think Ukraine deserves much blame at all. Zelenskyy some and the far right more, but it seems to me that the USA was the driving force.

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Originally Posted by Bluegrassplayer
You do not agree with what you said and think your own argument isn't a very logical argument?

Discussing your own logic is not a verboten topic, you are dodging.
in this context it is. and dont think I dont see what you are doing.

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You just admitted Russia is infinitely more guilty than Ukraine, why don't you work through all the corollaries of that
I did not admit that. and I dont think its a fair assessment to say that I did.
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05-20-2024 , 08:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Victor
in this context it is. and dont think I dont see what you are doing.
There's no context, either it's a logically sound argument or it's not. This is an argument that works or it doesn't.

I'll tell you exactly what I'm doing: point out your hypocrisy.

I'll tell you exactly what you're doing too: evading your own hypocrisy by dodging. Don't think everyone who reads this doesn't see what you are doing: "My comments are only meant to attack others, they are never to be used against me. My rules only apply to you, never to myself."
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05-20-2024 , 08:28 PM
no I am following the rules laid out by crossnerd. you are the one breaking the rules but we all know that they are asymmetrically applied. so beyond that, you are trying to leverage that fact into enticing me into a ban.
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05-20-2024 , 08:31 PM
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I did not admit that. and I dont think its a fair assessment to say that I did.
You said the west has fault, Ukraine isn't the west.

So which fault if any does Ukraine have according to you? What exactly did they do as a country to Russia, that justifies being invaded by Russia.
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05-20-2024 , 08:32 PM
There was never an offer to retreat in full out of Donbass btw
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05-20-2024 , 08:37 PM
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There was never an offer to retreat in full out of Donbass btw
Russia was not in Donbas until 2022
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05-20-2024 , 08:38 PM
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no I am following the rules laid out by crossnerd. you are the one breaking the rules but we all know that they are asymmetrically applied. so beyond that, you are trying to leverage that fact into enticing me into a ban.
What rules laid out by Crossnerd?
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05-20-2024 , 08:43 PM
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Russia was not in Donbas until 2022
You been involved in these threads for over a year and a half. There's no excuse to be this wrong about this.

Also this is another extremely weak and transparent attempt to avoid the topic.
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05-20-2024 , 08:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Victor
Russia was not in Donbas until 2022
And there was no war before they invaded in 2022.

So again, the only morally defensible position since day 1 of the invasion is "Russians, go the **** back", how can you disagree with this?

You claim to be antiwar because you want Russia to be able to keep the land it invaded violently with a ceasefire lol.

That's what Russia wants as well, and it's not being pro war to not accept that.

Allowing an invader to simply attack, gain some land, then keep it "otherwise we are pro war", will convince a lot of countries to invade in the future.
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05-20-2024 , 08:57 PM
there was def a war before 2022 lol. and yes I agree with Russia going back. unfortunately, bombs and tanks didnt work. maybe they should have tried talking. a lot more people would be alive and Russia would have a lot less territory.

I think that the West and the USA does not care if Russia overruns Ukraine. they just want to weaken Russia and it doesnt matter how many Ukrainians die so long as they can profit in resources or power.
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05-20-2024 , 09:01 PM
We can't go over this every week, you've driven away the majority of the people who read this thread and at this point if you haven't learned then you aren't ever going to learn.

Ukraine has regained territory since the first failed negotiation. That negotiation failed because Russia did not want to talk, they wanted a capitulation; stop trying to put the blame on Ukraine. Ukraine tried talking and they were met with an ultimatum.

Russia does not want to negotiate. Putin straight up said this.

Stop repeating your nonsense!
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05-20-2024 , 09:05 PM
Putin does not want to negotiate now bc he feels that he is crushing and he doesnt trust the West. he was willing to negotiate before by all accounts.

I try to focus on the topic and you cant help yourself but to make repeated personal attacks. every post from yours is a personal attack.

this entire last string of posts has been about me and not really about Ukraine or Russia. and who brought me up? you did, like you and your people always do.
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05-20-2024 , 09:16 PM
Stop. You are not a victim here.



You have decided to make yourself the main focus of this thread. By continuing to assert Russian propaganda as fact despite the mountains of evidence provided to show you why it is false, you have decided to make this thread about you.

It is impossible to read a post by you now and not think "Wow this person is pro-Russia" as Movin did. Since you keep repeating lies as facts, despite having had them debunked multiple times, anytime you enter the thread and repeat a lie, the thread becomes about you instead of about the purpose of the thread. I was the only one willing to engage with you by providing you tons of resources and explaining things to you simply and clearly. You do not want to participate in this thread in good faith. You want to repeat Russian propaganda. I am finished with addressing your nonsense, just about everyone else other than Luciom is as well.

You cannot be talked to in a reasonable manner. At this point the responsible thing to do would be to remove yourself from this thread instead of repeating arguments which we've had multiple times.

There are 0 personal attacks in this post. If you think having your actions mentioned is a personal attack then that is good evidence that you should change your actions.
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05-20-2024 , 09:21 PM
sounds like you cant refute, must ad hominem.
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05-20-2024 , 09:33 PM
Here's the last 3 refutations from the past month or so. Unfortunately the many refutations from the last thread are now gone. If you'd like to look up any others, then you'll have to satisfy yourself with what is in this thread.

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Originally Posted by Bluegrassplayer
Here is the first part of the paragraph and sentence you cut in half:




Victor: proceeds to give a smoking gun, monocausal account meant to obscure more than illuminate. Here is the conclusion of the article on what you've been trying to argue for years, calling your argument "baseless":










Here is the article stating that your previous disinformation that foreign affairs powerhouse Boris Johnson scuttled the peace deal is Russian disinformation and propaganda:

Here is what he allegedly said, which is a good assessment for anyone who understands Putin the least bit:





Here is the article saying that the bs narrative you've been spreading since it happened (and are still spreading as of you most recent post ITT) is disinformation and Russian propaganda:





The article also says that your claim that Putin was just going to hand back Kherson and the area around Kharkiv is disinformation:




Here is the relevant section on why USA didn't agree to it: they weren't even aware of it at first. It also would required a war with NATO vs Russia, which would take quite a bit of convincing.







Here is the West's assessment of the treaty:



















Let's take a look at why the West would assess that; here are the reasons given in the article. This first one was explained to you in detail.:






This second one was explained to you in detail:








This third one was explained to you in detail.







This fourth one was explained to you in detail:












Since this article completely dispels the disinformation you've been spreading for over a year now, maybe you can finally drop it and move on.





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Originally Posted by Bluegrassplayer
The guy who tried to take over Ukraine's government to make it a puppet state, then tried that again when he originally failed, then tried to create an uprising so he could take over Ukraine, then sent in troops to kick off an uprising when that failed, then invaded, then invaded again... doesn't want to conquer Ukraine and would be happy with only limiting their military to a police force.

He has his authorities and propaganda constantly promote destroying and conquering Ukraine:

https://www.justsecurity.org/81789/r...-a-collection/


He even has the ex-president of Russia making fantasy maps showing Russia controlling the vast majority of Ukraine:




He personally wrote a manifesto about how Ukrainians aren't a people, aren't a state, calls them "Little Russia", and are part of Russia. He also straight up says he wants to unite Ukraine with Russia:








When given a softball question from Tucker asking for peace, said that if USA stopped sending aid he would be done in a few weeks and then the war would be over. Yet he doesn't want to conquer Ukraine because it's too costly? Yet he's still attempting just that despite the costs and poor results. He just wants to keep their military weak and give himself veto power on them receiving aid if they're invaded again because... who knows? Having accomplished none of his war aims, very little of his goal of conquering Ukraine, and having ensured that Ukraine would not have much of a military, thereby drastically cutting the costs of his future invasion, he would be satisfied and not attack again.


Yeah that's hopium. There's near 0 chance that Putin follows through with that agreement, much like he betrayed the Budapest Memorandum, Russian-Ukrainian Friendship Treaty, Istanbul Summit, multiple treaties with Georgia, multiple Minsk agreements, Syrian treaties, Chechen treaties etc.





PS. Since I know you are not posting in good faith, and instead trying to "sea lion" me, I want you to know that I dug this up for any mod or for future reference.


edit: looks like I forgot to put the third in here. Well doesn't matter, it's not like you're reading them anyways since despite the mountains of evidence proving your argument to be a lie, you keep repeating it.
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