I believe that a state favouring one religion above others is inherently discriminatory and should progress into an actual democracy instead of the (Apartheid) ________ state it is now. The idea of a ("jewish") ________ state that favours (Jews as Jews) ________ is obviously wrong to anyone with a modicum of knowledge about human and civil rights. — Benkei

strives to maximize the damage to Ukraine by drip feeding weapons (... just enough to prop it up at an incredible high cost to Ukraine) — boethius

Well, we didn't do anything bad to anyone. We didn't attack anyone. — Valentina Matviyenko · Jun 2024

The fact is that Russia simply isn't a normal country that would try to have good relations with it's neighbors. It seeks the role it had when it was an empire/Superpower, makes huge gambles and takes extreme risks. It's extremely reckless. There simply are no benefits in trying to appease Putin. — ssu

There should be another narrative than the imperialist one when it comes to what Russia is. This narrative creates the reality were Russia sees necessary to intervene and dominate it's near abroad. First and foremost, the collapse of the Soviet Union, is seen as a mistake. An unfortunate accident. Russia is seen to be an multi-ethnic Empire and therefore it should obviously control what has been part of the Empire. And this makes everybody so nervous about Russia. It's not acting as a normal country. Yet the imperialist narrative dominates official Russia. It is fomented with the huge conspiracy that the West is against Russia, hence to defend itself, it has to attack. — ssu

For Russia to become a normal country and shed it's bellicose aggressive behaviour a humiliating defeat could do it. The Soviet Union came so splendidly and peacefully apart that people like Vladimir Putin understood it as a mistake, something you can and have to fix. — ssu

But I'm hopeful that Russia can shed it's fascist tendencies and perhaps become a normal democracy someday. But I acknowledge it will be difficult. Yet Spain and Portugal aren't anymore fascist. — ssu

extremely — boethius

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Yet if they do have an ancestral homeland it is in Africa. — BitconnectCarlos

A function cannot be its own argument, because the functional sign already contains the prototype of its own argument and it cannot contain itself.

If, for example, we suppose that the function F(fx) could be its own argument, then there would be a proposition “F(F(fx))”, and in this the outer function F and the inner function F must have different meanings; for the inner has the form ϕ(fx), the outer the form ψ(ϕ(fx)). Common to both functions is only the letter “F”, which by itself signifies nothing.

This is at once clear, if instead of “F(F(u))” we write “(∃ϕ) : F(ϕu) . ϕu = Fu”.

Herewith Russell’s paradox vanishes. — Wittgenstein

British barbers regularly cut their clients throats instead and dispose of their bodies in meat pies, to avoid this sort of difficulty. — unenlightened

Where are you even getting this from, following your own link: — boethius

You can post as much propaganda as you want — boethius

People here in Washington, DC are just ignoring that, making people believe like Ukraine can win, Ukraine can't, Putin won't lose, Putin will not lose, he's not going to lose. — Ron Johnson

The Barber of Seville shaves all the men of Seville apart from himself. — Nemo2124

the lies of Michael Cohen — NOS4A2

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And it is also difficult to do. — Sir2u

The moral case is clear, "we are all people" and those lives are all equal. That's why the just war tradition sets out to find objective criteria and random squiggly lines on a map ain't it. — Benkei

The "We are all people" concept does need to be accepted by both parties in a conflict if it is to be acted upon. If only one side plays by those rules, they will be the ones to suffer because the other party will use it to their own advantage. — Sir2u

To any sane person homicide is :sad:.

But as a last resort, it might be rightfully be labeled a tragedy. — Tzeentch

:ok: — Tzeentch

red lines — Tzeentch

Combined with the swift deteroriation of democratic principles in almost every Western democracy and we'll have a nice fascist alliance in a few decades. — Benkei

ridiculous — Benkei

over 2/3rds of Ukrainians were against NATO — boethius

1991              · Ukraine-NATO relations start
1993-6            · Ukraine given some security commitments by Russia, UK, US
1997              · Ukraine joins Planning and Review Process (NATO)
1998              · NATO-Ukraine Commission
20100118-0207     · Yanukovych wins election
20131121-20140222 · Euromaidan
20140218-23       · Dignity Revolution
20140318          · Russia annexes Crimea
20140329          · Kyiv: Ukraine is neutral, non-aligned
201405--          · Roughly all polls switch from neutral to NATO
20140525-26       · Poroshenko wins election (CyberBerkut interference)
20190401-19       · Zelenskyy wins election
20220224          · Russia invades Ukraine
20220308          · Kyiv: Ukraine not insisting on NATO membership
20220930          · Ukraine applies for NATO membership
20230404          · Finland joins NATO
20240307          · Sweden joins NATO

whereas Ukraine is pervasively corrupt — boethius

join ranks of the top four global economies by the purchasing power parity

agro-industrial production volume should grow by 25%