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      Nah, I actually wrote a thing out but lemmy 0.18.3 was buggy as hell and it didn’t post, and it ruined my mood for this. Since you’ve shown yourself to be so lazy that you couldn’t just google the statistics of English speakers in Russia (hint, wikipedia has some easily digestible data), it’s pretty clear you’re just wasting my time and moving the goalposts, misrepresenting your own sources and generally acting in bad faith, and the comment thread is so hidden that engaging with your bad faith won’t even help to reach even actually curious lurkers. No point in it for me really, prove yourself right all you want in an endless thread talking to yourself. Maybe this talking to this lad instead, you both think alike.

      As evidence of your nonsense:

      Unless you want to provide with a clear source where NATO calls it a revolution I’m going to claim they didn’t, because I couldn’t find where they said that.

      What is the official name for that coup, Coup of Dignity?

      In that case all should be good considering the US and NATO did respond, NATO also publicly if I may add.

      Actually read those and point me where the actual de-escalation is in there. Literally dismiss Russia’s claims offhandedly while claiming “changes in transparency” or other political non-statements.

      I did, this is false. Your sources stated that the US was backing the coup, not NATO.

      Your honour, I didn’t kill him, it was my brain who told the finger to pull the trigger.

      The latter NATO literally cannot fulfill because that is a decision of individual countries.

      Military defence alliance can’t control its members, logically.

      Russia obviously denies

      lmao, find me an official Russian source denying their support for the independence of the eastern republics.

      It’s unrealistic to expect that your borders be respected before there can be peace talks?

      Yes. Find me a single case in modern history where a peace talk only started (read: not a surrender) only after the winning party abandoned all their military gains. You can probably think of one or two, but that’s a good exercise nevertheless.

      Funny.

      Had to check, you don’t even read what your own sources say.

      Honestly, go waste somebody else’s time with your debate pervert nonsense. If you really care that much that none of Russia’s demands go answered, go join the foreign legion or something, I’ve head they even help with student loans. Just dont pester some rando correcting your “what guarantees” vagueposting.

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              Like you said, it’s quick google to see that “a lot” of Russians don’t speak English.

              What is that number again, I can’t seem to find the wikipedia article on it. \s

              Really silly of you to come back and not even look into it. If you want something even more precise, I challenge you to find something called “English proficiency index,” but the entire point there is that you wasted my time asking for source on some incredibly easy to find non-politicised source for data to deflect from your baseless speculation on how “Russians fall for everything” of their own propaganda. I wonder what you’ll think of the countries lower on that index. If you even look for it, that is.

              No regards to you own “read before you write” mantra.

              You seem to be mistaken. It’s not that I didn’t read it, it’s that I didn’t feel like adding it in the comment because it’s such easy to find info. But since you seem to be incapable of doing a basic google search to verify, and I think I should be your personal source-fetching bot, I’m stubbornly not giving you the source because I “gave up” on you. On the other hand you also came out with your own claim of “lots don’t speak English,” with no source to contradict me, which is funny because you had a whole week to find one.

              I can be petty sometimes, and if you keep pestering me I’ll only be petty from now on because you’re just a silly person with silly behaviour and I ain’t got time in my life to take you seriously.

              discussion

              Everyone has limits, and you seem so stuck on completely failing to grasp even your own sources that I don’t see why I should bother. I usually engage with silly people like you in forums because other, more curious and interested people might read it. Since you’re just being (intentionally?) silly and misreading your own sources on NATO or not remembering the official NATO name for the coup is “Revolution of Dignity,” I don’t think there’s much use to this one here and you’re free to go pester somebody else.

              vagueposting

              I like how you accuse me of “vagueposting” by being vague in your accusations. My very first comments were being made about they hypothetical guarantees you took so much issue with. You still haven’t shown how those guarantees would’ve not prevented the war or been sane de-escalations.

              Since you always seem to forget: de-escalate war on Donnetsk and Luhansk, recognise their independence or at least do proper procedure on it, disband Azov and ban neo-nazi symbology, reinstate Russian as a co-official language, guarantee that Ukraine will not join NATO and there’ll be no nukes in Russia’s critical neighbouring countries.

              I bet each of those would’ve been welcome there, but alas, NATO only cared about “transparency,” from your own sources, and did not consider a single of Russia’s complaints as valid. Now please, go off again on “what guarantees???” as if I haven’t said that like 4 times now.

              Those complaints are in the literal declaration speech ffs, but no I did not tell you to figure out on my own. Go read the comment again, I specifically quoted the specific sections. Your memory seems a bit wonky even though I’ve been apparently living rent-free in your mind for a week now. I don’t live rent-free in my own home, can we switch that? Go re-read the whole thread.

              You did something similar the second time when I asked proof of a lot of Russians speaking English and you told me to go find the data myself.

              As I said, I actually did put the source there, but lemmy bugged out and didn’t post, which led me to realise I didn’t want to bother with you anymore because you’re playing dumb. This last comment was specifically about how you’re playing dumb so hard you couldn’t even search for English speaker statistics per country, as if it’s some huge gargantuan task. I bet you did that just to distract from the main point of Russians being able to critically analyse text, though you probably don’t even remember that. Do you only know English, by any chance?

              And then you pull out every “debate” lord trick in the book. You say I’m wasting your time, I’m moving goalposts, I’m in bad faith.

              Ah yeah, the old debate trick of saying “fuck off, you’re being an arse, go pester somebody else.” I’m not “debating” with you anymore, nor was I ever to begin with. I just want you to find something more worthwhile to do with your life because I don’t have an obligation to correct every single arrogantly ignorant person on the internet, just because they’re feeling lonely. I do it of my own volition when I think I might change or learn something. As I said before, nobody else is watching, and you don’t seem to have much interest in either learning or teaching, so this is indeed “a waste of my time.” You might find more interest if you send a letter to your congressperson.

              just raging.

              I guess the internet is weird, people can’t differentiate fun mockery from actual anger. I was mocking how incredibly ignorant you were showing yourself off to be, by either stating complete unsourced nonsense, or asking for sources for things that are literally in the links you provided, or even failing to understand how military alliances work. Obviously since I have no hope for you I won’t actually put the effort to explain why those are problems, I guess you’d just deflect to something else as always.

              You call me names, like “debate pervert”.

              Yep. I stand by that.

              I honestly had a good laugh over your entire comment because it epitomizes your hypocrisy.

              That’s cool, at least something good came out of this whole interaction. I also enjoyed how you came back after the obvious bait of “care to elaborate.” Seems like you really like me. But I don’t like you, go find somebody who reciprocates.

              Now, if you reply (and you’re obviously gonna reply, you just can’t leave me be), before your own comment list in your own words every single demand from Russia wrt the war, and whether they’ve been conceded on or ignored. I wonder if you’ll find something, but please don’t come back without making it clear you understand those demands clearly.

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                  Accidentally posted before writing fully, if you’re wondering about the deleted comment.

                  You might actually learn something from me.

                  like patience… lots and lots of patience…

                  like YOU getting the name wrong.

                  What’s the “correct” name again, big guy? Say it in ALL CAPS like you like to do, like we’re in the 90s internet still.

                  Please, enlighten me how are they justified?

                  Just two that are obvious, tolerating of Nazi symbology and members in Azov (your initial source on this did not go into detail on how exactly Azov doesn’t allow Nazis in it anymore after being explicitly created by them 10 years ago), and de-escalating the war on Luhansk and Donnetsk and recognising their desire to be independent. I’m not sure how somebody could be against those things, let alone deny that they’ve been happening for 10 years now. The rest are more complicated, find a friend to talk to about those. But please, don’t address the important bit and go talk about random unrelated things like language levels, which is a tangent on top of a tangent on top of a tangent.

                  10%

                  About as much as Mexico. Not a bad number at all, and nowadays we have cool tools like google translate or yandex. I can’t actually read Cyrillic script but using those tools you can see that they name something like “school languages” in which 20-30% of people study a foreign language at school but don’t use it day-to-day. That’s a very big number if you compare it to other non-EU developed countries. Hopefully you yourself know Russian and can help correct if I mistranslated it. That’d be the first time your knowledge would contribute to the conversation.

                  I’m guessing you would’ve taken an issue with a random English side stating the obvious

                  erm, no? Aren’t we on an English site?

                  On the other hand your other source isn’t particularly “official,” it’s just a blog in Russian. You could’ve provided the English one instead, but I guess you preferred to obfuscate it all. The only source listed is the Russian census, which comes straight from the Russian government. Since you like those sources and clearly are fluent in Russian, you can help me translate the excel file hosted in the Russian Govt website here to check on those “study languages.” I’m not the one who throws away sources because they’re from “propaganda outlets” here, you are. From the very beginning of the discussion.

                  Also what the fuck? I never claimed “lots don’t speak English”. You’re literally making shit up about what I supposedly said.

                  Like you said, it’s quick google to see that “a lot” of Russians don’t speak English.

                  lol

                  You say that, but then you also claim you won’t even give me the time of day. Another empty statement by you.

                  You do know that when a person uses “when” it means that they won’t do it when the “when” clause isn’t true? You have not shown any new info, and also don’t seem willing to learn. But no, I won’t give the time of day to randos on the internet just because they demand it, get some irl friends.

                  Well if being deliberately wrong is fun mockery then by all means, be a joke.

                  Please elaborate on why every thing there was wrong, since you’re so sure of it. Do a whole a paragraph per statement. I’ll be sure to pat you on the back. The mockery was pointing out how ridiculous your statements were, if you didn’t catch it.

                  I do actually like you. You’re part of my daily entertainment.

                  That’s sad.

                  But although I find you incredibly annoying as a person, your silliness is also entertaining. Like an overly-aggressive Chihuahua or something. Or a Mensa teenager.

                  I’m just going to stick my hand in your playbook and say every single demand is easy to google so you should know that I know what they are. I don’t need to give sources to things that are easy to google. Did I get it right?

                  No, you didn’t get it right. You got it wrong. Congrats. Here. I even hid it in the previous reply for ease of fetching later. I wonder if you can find where the easter egg was.

                  If you think you’re making me angry or something, and you take pleasure in that: no, you just bore me. You’re boring, not nearly as witty as you think you are, and about as engaging as playing an idle game while on the bus or waiting for the food to boil. If you’re doing this out of some sadism, you’re probably going to be more efficient about it by frying ants. If you want to learn, go read a book or two, I recommend “Blackshirts and the Reds.” And if you want to help Ukraine, go join the foreign legion. But you’re definitely not “schooling” anybody here, specially since it’s literally just you and me now, and the Jigglypuff lullaby sounds like the Yellow Parenti speech next to your writing.

                  Come on mate, surely you have somebody who cares more about what you have to say in your life.