What genocide? I already addressed this. It didn’t happen. It is a baseless accusation made by Putin and nothing more.

Then who is included in your phrase “you people”?

If the US wanted Russia to stay out of Ukraine

Ukraine wanted Russia to stay out of Ukraine. Ukraine is the victim. Russia is the aggressor. The more you try to deflect from that reality the more your bias is made obvious.

it wouldn’t have planned and funded a fascist coup there in 2014

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Russia was far more involved in events in Ukraine in 2014 than the US was

the new US-installed government

The current government of Ukraine was elected

the over ten thousand deaths caused by the coup government’s now almost decade-long genocide in the Donbas

This is a claim that Putin has been making since 2015 with no evidence to support them. Again, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

As you are parroting Putin’s personal talking points, you again make your bias clear.

I have made no “US good” arguments. That is a straw man you are setting up to sidestep the real problem here.

And the problem is that Russia conducted a military invasion of another country, which started a war. Russia is a bad actor. Russia deserves all of the consequences of, and blame for, the war that it started.

the trials related to trump are a complete out of control purely political witchhunt

It’s not a witchhunt. Stop repeating this lie.

The U.S. ruling class has used the war in Ukraine to force all the European countries to cut their favorable trade with Russia and impose sanctions.

Right, everyone (especially the US) is to blame for the consequences of Russia’s attack on Ukraine… except for Russia. Russia should have been allowed to invade Ukraine with no consequences.

This has led to economic recession in most European Union countries.

Considering that there was already a recession due to COVID-19, blaming the sanctions as the primary source of recession is specious.

As sanctions cut off imports of natural gas and oil from Russia, the price of liquified natural gas produced in the U.S. increased.

Welcome to Economics 101. Lower supply results in higher demand. Perhaps if Russia wanted to continue to participate in the global economy they shouldn’t have started a war.

Washington’s strategy aimed to collapse the Russian economy and impose regime change in Russia.

This is true, it is the overtly stated goal. The current regime in Russia is responsible for starting a war.

This project failed because first China, and then all the countries of the Global South, refused to go along with the sanctions the U.S. and EU had imposed on Russia.

Yes, they all decided to support a warmonger instead.

This article is pro-Russian propaganda. It seeks to lay the blame for the impact of the war that Russia started on anyone but Russia.

The Nation is a collective illusion. While it is a shared illusion, it is not universally shared. We each can speak of the Nation in the same terms, but we each mean and understand something different when we use those terms.

Both those inside and outside the Nation believe they know what the Nation is. To some the Nation is its military, to some its politicians, to some it is a building, or a document, or a place, or a flag, a certain food, a way of speaking, or manner of dress, a line on a map.

In truth, the Nation is none of these things because the Nation does not exist, except in the imagination of those who believe that it does. This does not make the Nation unimportant or meaningless. Even if you (personally) decide that the illusion is delusion, you will still live inside the beliefs of others.

The Nation can only be what we (collectively) make it. What do you believe the Nation is? What do you believe it should be? Will you work to make it what it should be?

whoosh

What I need is discussion with people who are mature enough to not feel the need to use insults when making their arguments.

Apparently there aren’t many such people on hexbear.

You know what would keep more Ukrainians alive? If Russia stopped attacking them.

If you were legitimately interested in fewer Ukrainians dying you would be overtly critical of Russia’s invasion.

you don’t just randomly fire a SAM at a civilian jet

Unless you’re Russia

Doesn’t the Enterprise version require a bulk license agreement?

Roblox profits from child labor

Crazy enough plan to be Russian.

Where and when can there be ethical consumption?

Yes, I guess? But firing a gun inside a spacecraft would be a bad idea… and also firing it while spacewalking would be a bad idea unless you were very sure that you were very well braced & tethered.

Would you think china was more democratic if the 8 parties had a larger share of the votes

Yes, broader representation would literally be more democratic.

Why would a larger share be better?

Because that’s how democracy works.

Is democracy a function of how many parties are in government?

Democracy is a function of broad representation in government, ideally complete representation, though this is difficult to achieve in practice.

Would it be a good thing if the president had a minority share of the vote?

In the PRC, only local officials are elected, and only candidates which are approved by the ruling party can be nominated for those elections. The president is not subject to direct popular election.

Under the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China, the CCP is guaranteed a leadership role, and the National People’s Congress therefore does not serve as a forum of debate between government and opposition parties as is the case with Western parliaments.[9] At the same time, the Constitution makes the Party subordinate to laws passed by the National People’s Congress, and the NPC has been the forum for debates and conflict resolution between different interest groups. The CCP maintains control over the NPC by controlling delegate selection, maintaining control over the legislative agenda, and controlling the constitutional amendment process.[9]

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The ruling party controls delegate selection, the legislative agenda, and constitutional amendments, which ensures that they can maintain their own control indefinitely. This is the opposite of democratic.

Whataboutism is when you ignore a criticism of one party and instead say that another party is worse in some way, in order to distract from the original discussion. Hexbear users apparently love this underhanded tactic.

you are illiterate lmao.

Since this is demonstrably not the case, I have to assume that you don’t know what the word means, which is somewhat ironic…