The boss of the site, who calls himself the "sysop," wrote this little masterpiece. I have highlighted the worst of it:
In my view you really are a contemptible brain-dead gibbering idiot. Europe is rearming because Russia has directly invaded a neighbouring state and annexed their territory. Over the last 30 odd years they have supported and effectively occupied breakaway regions in several other neighbouring states, including Moldova, Georgia and several others that I can’t be bothered looking up links for. [L. Prent's links are invariably Wikipedia.]
But for shits and giggles, Please explain to me without using your usual unthinking geo-political bullshit how Ukraine ‘provoked’ a response from Russia? That the right of their citizens to self-determination and to set their own economic or defence policy should be subjugated to the demands of a neighbouring state.
Please avoid relating historical events in the Ukraine because your credibility about those is effectively zero. If we want bullshit lines from RT, then we can read or watch them ourselves. Comment on the logic of your position – which you somehow always seem to miss.
After you have established the framework that says that Ukraine (or Europe) should trust the benevolence of the Russian Federation.
Then perhaps you should apply the same logic between Australia and New Zealand, or New Zealand and pacific states. Because as far as I can see your logic simply says that one should always rely on the benevolence of large neighbouring states with large propaganda operations and their benevolent authoritarians.
I always like pointing out the absurdities of fools.
"sysop" is going to explain how if Mexico and Canada allowed Russia to place nuclear missiles along their boarders, pointed at the USA, it wouldn't provoke a response from the USA, because the citizens of Mexico and Canada have the right of self-determination and "the right to set their own economic or defence policy" which should not be "subjugated to the demands of a neighbouring state."
I was thinking of including Cuba along with Mexico and Canada but I think they tried that once and look what happened!
Never ceases to amaze how quick people are to launch into 'Pro Putin/Assad/etc' insults and smears when confronted by a thought process that strays outside of the propaganda-established consensus. Apart from a natural aversion to throwing out insults, I think I'd need to feel so completely secure in the knowledge that I was right and they were wrong, and then 100% confident that it was deliberate dishonesty rather than ignorance. And yet to multiple people in these threads it comes so easily to accuse others of lying, spreading enemy propaganda, being anti-democracy, supporters of authoritarianism, just hating the west etc etc. I can't imagine being that incurious and that hostile to an opposing viewpoint that it's immediately a case of reaching for the rhetorical weapons to beat it back down. A peculiar kind of cowardice, I think, knowing that this is the narrative the powerful have adopted, therefore you know you're under their umbrella of protection and will never face any real consequences for lashing out at those who challenge it. Its an accusation of being a traitor to your country, basically - a deep smear and something with potentially dire consequences in the wrong situation, not that they give a sh!t...
on March 22, 2025, 11:44 pm