Comments by "1midnightfish" (@1midnightfish) on "1420 by Daniil Orain"
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@istvanglock7445 It is whataboutism, I hear it a lot, and it's not about learning the history of slavery, it's about learning history. Children growing up in the US need to be thoroughly educated about the origin of their country, the enslavement of Africans forcibly transported across the ocean for that very purpose, and the racial superiority theories specially constructed to justify this practice, which sadly have a lot of traction to this day. Obfuscating the foundations of today's racial inequality makes it much harder to dismantle it. It is crucial for all US children to know that the descendants of the survivors are still in large part disadvantaged and discriminated against, and often actively victimised, as a direct consequence of these events and the beliefs which originated from them. "Naah-na-na-na-naah, look at the Ottomans"really, really won't do.
By all means do teach US children about slavery in other parts of the world at other times in history. Just remember to point out that this was not about "whites also getting enslaved" but about the Transatlantic slave trade being one of few, if not the only, to see people of one race enslaved by people of another, who came up with a whole theory of racial superiority to justify profiting from such an abhorrent practice. It was also one of the most recent and egregious occurrences in modern history, though I think Brazil ended slavery a decade or two after the US, and IS famously enslaved Yazidis as part of their genocidal campaign against them.
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@derinden15 If you support russia you are against Ukraine, you hypocrite - and don't think for a second anyone's buying your bs. russia is not at war with "the West", whatever that means - though some russians seem to be, in their heads.
As for NATO, which may be what you're actually talking about, russia isn't at war with them either: when a country's at war with NATO its cities get bombed to rubble before any of their boots hit the ground, I don't know if you were paying attention at the beginning of this century.
For all the good reasons much of the world has for hating "the West", russia is trumping them all - even in countries whose governments are currently giving russia the benefit of the doubt, many people are very clear who's doing what in this situation, and they don't like it. With the track record of countries like the US and the UK, it should have been so easy for russia to gain and keep the moral high ground... and they have failed at that immensely easy task. Spectacularly.
In short: committing genocide in one country to settle a more or less imaginary score with another part of the world is an indefensible strategy.
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@instantparty8856 Since you clearly don't realise the difference, an internet search does not mean "research via social media", though certainly someone on social may link you to a source that you could then decide to investigate directly, if you wish to exercise your critical thinking capabilities. As for the subject at hand, the 2014-2022 phase of russia's war against Ukraine:
In the 33rd report of UN OHCHR From 1 August 2021 to 31 January 2022: since 2014 the conflict in Eastern Ukraine incurred deaths over 14,000 as reported by UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, OHCHR. That is on both sides. Most killed were Ukrainian whether in Ukrainian government controlled or russian occupied areas.
UN list 14 April 2014 -- Jan 31 2022 Taking into account the 298 people on board Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 which was downed on 17 July 2014, the total civilian death toll of the conflict has reached at least 3,405. The rest were military combatants. A remarkably low civilian death ratio compared to many modern conflicts.
For the years 2014 to Jan 2022 Civilian deaths attributed to the conflict in each year were 2,084 , 854 ,112 ,117 ,55 ,27 ,26 ,27. From 1 August 2021 to 31 January 2022: "Thirty-two civilian casualties resulted from armed engagements. 3 killed (2 men and 1 woman) and 29 injured" 3 civilians killed resulted from armed engagements, 2 killed in territory controlled by self-proclaimed ‘republics’, and 1 in Government-controlled territory. 3 civilians died in mine or unexploded munitions incidents, 1 in territory controlled by self-proclaimed ‘republics’, 2 in Government controlled territory.
Other civilian casualties recorded during the reporting period resulted from the presence on a daily basis of armed actors among the civilian population(escalations of force incidents, road incidents with military, and killings of civilians by military outside of hostilities). 12 August 2021, three civilians were shot dead by an intoxicated member of armed groups near armed group-controlled Sakhanka and Uzhivka (Donetsk region). 9 December 2021, a woman was killed and two men injured when one of the men detonated a hand grenade during a domestic dispute in Government-controlled Zvirove (Donetsk region).
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@Inf1niteDreams No, it does not.
And tbh I'm fascinated not so much by the amoung of kremlin trolling under this video, but by the style of trolling: most comments here, like the one I'm replying to, are pushing the "nihilistic" strand of kremlin propaganda - "Nothing matters, there's no such thing as truth, no such thing as hope, you can't believe anyone anyway, you may as well let putin destroy Ukraine and the world...blah blah blah". "Competitive hopelessness", Timothy Snyder calls it, and he's so right.
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@paulheald3099 Some people's knee-jerk defensive responses to the slightest criticism of capitalism are honestly amusing to me, maybe because I've never believed in either soviet communism nor capitalism as the "end of history". I do not value buildings more than I value people's lives, since it's people who design, make and use buildings, not the other way round: who cares if a country's buildings are tall, shiny and beautiful if countless people live in inescapable misery in their shadows?
I'm wondering if you've heard of the Grenfell fire: in June 2017, in what is the probably the richest area in one of the richest cities in the world - London - 72 people died and hundreds more were traumatised and made homeless when a social housing tower block went up in flames. It had been done up cheaply with flammable material used in many other residential buildings all over the country, which are now deemed unsafe. Fire safety measures were inadequate, and the residents' complaints had been repeatedly dismissed by the relevant authorities. So much for capitalism.
Capitalism really doesn't work much better than soviet communism ever did: it's just shinier on the outside, just like Grenfell Tower was before it burned. Settling for the - temporarily - lesser evil is just not good enough, we need to stop worshipping capitalism just like we want people to stop worshipping communism, and keep looking for alternatives that are genuinely better than both.
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As all trolls know - and that's probably what you are - no one, NO ONE was ever going to attack a country with a massive nuclear arsenal. The rf is the biggest danger to itself - problem is, it's also the biggest danger to a number of other countries. Why do you think Ukraine, and the Baltic countries, and now Finland and Sweden, have been so keen to join NATO? Which I've never been a great fan of, by the way, but it's just obvious that NATO didn't force itself on any of these countries. I can see that with an insane, entitled, criminal, huge neighbour like the rf, they would want to be friends with the biggest bully in the playground.
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@drsa5856 It's russia's invasion of Ukraine that stopped me from wishing NATO would disband... I hate everything about that organisation but at this stage in history it is definitely the lesser evil, and I understand why Eastern European countries want to join it.
And why should other countries stop arming Ukraine, when Ukraine is simply defending itself from a totally unprovoked russian invasion? russia is the aggressor.
Ukraine joining NATO, or even just the EU which was originally all they wanted, would have never threatened the rf's security and territorial integrity - no one would have invested the rf, because 1, other governments were happy to do business with putin & co, an 2, because it's stuffed full of nukes. The problem was that, once free from russia's grip, Ukraine would have developed into a much better, happier, more civilised country than the rf, with a higher standard of living, and putin didn't want his people to see that and start getting ideas. And that is what will happen eventually anyway, the rf will end up even poorer and more miserable than they were before they started invading Ukraine in 2014, and all this death and destruction will have been for nothing.
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