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And I am referring you to see a mental health specialist, you are obsessed with shitting on Ukraine and looks like you spend your whole time on this forum here trying to spread Russian propaganda, being aggressive and attacking people.

They have been in a basement for 1 month without cell phone/internet lol, they say so themselves in the video that they don’t know anything about the current situation. What does telling a Russian soldier apart from Ukrainian solider has to do with anything? If anything they must have been in the part of the city under Russia’s control, they said themselves they only saw Russian soldiers.

I was referring to the whole thread. Seems like the people in the video are clueless about the current situation in Ukraine, like one of the ladies in the video said she has been cut out from TV/internet/etc for a month.. One of the women is complaining about Ukrainian army not helping them, not even giving them bread, without knowing that the city is under Russian occupation and Ukrainian army lost a lot of lives trying to even get to these people. They seem like a nice raw material to be brainwashed by Russia now, perhaps even telling them that Ukraine was the one bombing them.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-asks-red-cross-not-open-office-russias-rostov-on-don-2022-03-27/ https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2022/03/27/ukraine-says-new-red-cross-office-in-russia-will-legitimize-moscows-alleged-abduction-of-civilians/amp/ Looks like Red Cross is opening an office in Rostov in Russia and will sponsor Russia’s abduction of Mariupol civilians and deportation camps using the money donated to Ukraine humanitarian assistance. It looks like there was also minimal help from Red Cross in Ukraine so far despite millions of dollars being collected.

Lol, I feel like this thread should be called “you won’t see this in mainstream media, only in Russian media” ???

Amount of training and practice are also a huge factor that comes into play.

Well obviously the situation is more complicated than that, one could come up with more elaborate/complex solutions, and it still will not be a 100% win-win. I feel this has been a head scratcher for some time already. I think that with sports it’s kinda more obvious to me what the solution should be, but with the bathroom/change room situation it’s more complicated - although many places now, in addition to female/male bathrooms, have a “family” bathroom which is kind of like unisex. However, I feel that we do need to come up with a solution and have discussions about this in a respectful way and not avoid the topic because it’s “touchy” in a cowardly way.

Lol, WTF? They came to a foreign land, kill the children, rape the women (sometimes in front of their children and husbands), then kill those women, loot, steal, destroy, torture people, shoot civilians on the knees to scare them, shoot civilians to kill, bomb the cities, dismember people.. It’s fascinating to me how hard Russians on this forum try to find anything, any tiny small thing, any lie and propaganda, to keep trashing Ukraine

As a woman I would not feel safe with trans women using the same bathroom/changing room as biological women - the reason for that is simple, nothing is stopping a creep/pervert/rapist/pedophile to put on a wig pretending to be a trans woman. Same thing with competitions, men are physically stronger than women, biological women will always be at a disadvantage compared to trans women. It does not make for a fair competition, and can discourage a lot of biological female athletes from participation.

@Roy @Carl-Richard to me it’s very clear what they meant - Russia is doing shady shit and so it doesn’t want to potentially be “policed” by NATO or “others”. That is a legit argument and you need to learn to respect other people’s POV even if it doesn’t align with Leo’s POV, whom you’re all just parroting instead of developing your own understanding of the situation.

Why are you using cheap insults instead of addressing someone’s argument? And you’re a mod? ?

https://bylinetimes.com/2022/03/07/putins-invasion-of-ukraine-reveals-the-moral-and-intellectual-rot-of-the-anti-war-left/ “Here’s something every scholar of international relations knows to be true about Chomsky: when you read him as a college sophomore, you think he’s the most profoundly brilliant man on the planet. When you re-read him as a graduate student, you come to regard him as an individual blinkered by his own myopia. In the mind of Chomsky – and, by extension, the collective minds of the anti-US imperialist and anti-war movements he has inspired around the world for the past five decades – there exists only a single imperialist power: the United States. And while that may have been a somewhat reasonable but not entirely accurate assessment of the period spanning the collapse of the Soviet Union and the first major US withdrawal from Iraq in 2011, the recent emergence of a multi-polar international system – one comprising three great powers and more than a dozen middle powers – has made the Chomsky view of the world obsolete. In fact, Russia’s imperialist ambitions in Europe and central Asia, along with China’s military expansionist policies in Indo Pacific, has made him and his anti-US imperialist and anti-war brethren appear thoroughly delusional – if not downright dangerous. Europe has been reawakened by the well-known Latin proverb ‘si vis pacem, para bellum‘ – ‘if you want peace, prepare for war’, as noted by Foreign Policy columnist Caroline de Gruyter. As every student of international relations understands, the international system rewards nations that prepare for war and punishes those that don’t. Were you to condense a four-year undergraduate degree in international relations into a single paragraph, it would read like this: an international system absent a global authority or police force, or what scholars call a state of anarchy, leaves each country responsible for its own security, and because no country can never truly know the intent of its neighbours or rivals, it must accumulate as much power as possible to safeguard its sovereignty. Tragically, this realist lens of the world not only encourages arms races – but also invites both insecure and ambitious states to do awful things to their neighbours, rivals and pesky minorities. This is not the way the world should be, but it is the way it is. More to the point, it explains the conditions that produce war and peace. It gives reason, not justification, to China’s occupation of Tibet, persecution of Uyghur Muslims along its north-western frontier, and military aggression in South China Sea, along with its recent and ongoing military threats against Taiwan. It also explains, not justifies, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Buying into Russian Propaganda This simple reading or understanding of the world as it is is one lost on large segments of the anti-war left, specifically those who continue to wrongly believe that US foreign policy is the root of all evil. This includes veteran Australian journalist John Pilger, who has won numerous awards for exposing injustice and promoting human rights. His commentary during the Russian military build-up typified the anti-war left’s response to the war in Ukraine. Pilger – not once, but five times – mocked the US for warning of a Russian invasion tweeting that “Russian aggression in Europe is a fraud”, while accusing the US and UK Governments in an article on selling a fictitious war for the “restoration of imperial mythology” and “permanent enemy”. Worse, he parrots Kremlin propaganda by smearing and dehumanising Ukrainians as a land of “Nazi cultists” – a bogus claim that has been regurgitated across the leftist blogosphere, which serves only to undermine global solidarity for the besieged Ukrainian people. Unsurprisingly, they tend to be the same individuals and outlets that parroted Kremlin propaganda and conspiracy theories during the Syrian civil war, including those that dehumanised opponents of the Assad regime as ‘violent jihadists’, civilians killed under Russian aerial bombardment as ‘crisis actors’, and first responders in rebel-held territory as ‘al Qaeda propagandists’. Ibrahim al-Assil, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, says progressive millennials are facing an “intellectual dilemma” because they have never lived with a threat from another great power, having grown up in a US-dominated international system. Their world views were shaped under Presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush, when the US did whatever it wanted, unchallenged. “The main global event for progressive millennials was the invasion of Iraq,” says al-Assil. “While they spent their adult life criticising it, it left them with a deep sense of guilt and shame… The sense of guilt, coupled with a distorted view of global politics, where the US is always secure and dominant, resulted in progressive millennials buying into two notions they loath: American supremacy and tolerating imperialism as long as it’s anti-US dominance. He believes that this view – which posits the US as the sole bad actor – has left progressive millennials blind to crimes committed by rivals to American power, which explains why many ignore and even whitewash the “horrible and unprecedented human suffering” caused by Russia in Syria and Ukraine; Iran in Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Lebanon; and China in Xinjiang. “They saw the war in Syria as a pure foreign power intervention, ignoring the main role of Assad and how much Syrians didn’t want to live under him no matter what,” he observes. “In Ukraine, many argue that it was the West’s fault ignoring that Ukrainians made their decision to look West.” They ignore that polls conducted in 2014, 2017 and 2022 showed that an overwhelming majority of Ukrainians wished to join the EU and NATO and to shun Russia. They ignore NATO is a voluntary association. They ignore that eastern European countries Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia pleaded to join NATO to protect themselves from Russian aggression. They ignore that Russia has 3,000 combat tanks, 1,900 warplanes and one million soldiers within uninterrupted walking distance to the Ukrainian border. Most significantly, they ignore that there wasn’t a single NATO soldier on Ukrainian soil prior to the Russian invasion. In other words, there is no legitimate reason to excuse Russia’s criminal actions against a sovereign country that posed zero threat. Europe has been jolted wide awake to the necessity of hard power to resist Vladimir Putin’s imperialist ambitions, having learnt the hard way that ‘soft power’ – ideals, culture, and persuasion – isn’t enough to counter kinetic and hybrid military threats and attacks. But to attain and maintain peace, Europe will need to commit to building an even stronger military alliance and spending more on defence – as the US has long demanded – which means that the Chomsky, Pilger and their ilk should quietly take a back seat. Their time has now passed.”

Do you have good digital organization? How important is being organized digitally? I remember looking at my friends phone and being shocked at how organized he is, from photos in different albums, to notes, to contacts. My phone hasn’t been organized ever since I finished university and got really busy, I think I have around 10K of photos of random bs that I’ve never looked through. Same thing with my computer. I wanted to organize my phone and computer, I have Mac and iPhone, but I don’t have a clue where to start. Any tips? Videos I could watch to get me started? How do you maintain your organization on your phone/computer?

I found out recently that my “friend” from university got promoted to a manager position. Throughout university I really didn’t like her, she was lying for no reason, very selfish, only helping you if she could get something out of it, not empathetic (like when my grandfather died and I was sad about it, she didn’t say anything, not even “I’m sorry for your loss”). She was also cheating on every test, but always on time for class, never skipping, always having perfect notes. I remember once she failed an exam, and I got a B+. I was standing next to her when she was talking to the professor, and in front of me, she asked the professor how come she failed if she is always in class and I am constantly skipping yet I got a B+, basically throwing me under the bus. Anyways, I really don’t like her, and I am really bothered that she got promoted, because I feel she is a bad person. Plus, I am working a lot more than she is, yet I am not even close to being promoted. How do I deal with these feelings? I think I shouldn’t have been friends with her to begin with. Back in university I wasn’t very picky with my “friends”, basically whoever came my way. After university we remained in contact due to some mutual friends. I didn’t like her and didn’t feel good around her this whole time, now I am very tempted to just block her and be done with her, I am just not sure if she is actually very toxic or if it’s something wrong with me.

@K Ghoul I am curious, you yourself are Russian and are living in US. I always wanted to ask someone this question, so I hope you can answer. Why won’t you move to Russia and live there if US is so shitty and evil and Russia is so “great”? I am saying this because based on your posts, you seem to be shitting on US quite hard and are desperately trying to find any way to defend Putin and Russia’s horrific actions (that in my mind have no justifications). Again, I am sorry if I sound harsh, but I am really curious of Russians who live in US, shit on US, Biden is horrible, US politics is horrible, everything is horrible, they always complain, but yet they remain living in US and won’t move back to Russia. Shouldn’t you be thankful to the country that “took you in”? This seems to be a common phenomenon of many Russians (especially older generations) living in US, yet hating US.

That Scott dude is a convicted child sex offender lmao, no surprise he is pro Putin They also don’t filter through anyone these days it seems

https://bylinetimes.com/2022/03/07/putins-invasion-of-ukraine-reveals-the-moral-and-intellectual-rot-of-the-anti-war-left/ “Here’s something every scholar of international relations knows to be true about Chomsky: when you read him as a college sophomore, you think he’s the most profoundly brilliant man on the planet. When you re-read him as a graduate student, you come to regard him as an individual blinkered by his own myopia. In the mind of Chomsky – and, by extension, the collective minds of the anti-US imperialist and anti-war movements he has inspired around the world for the past five decades – there exists only a single imperialist power: the United States. And while that may have been a somewhat reasonable but not entirely accurate assessment of the period spanning the collapse of the Soviet Union and the first major US withdrawal from Iraq in 2011, the recent emergence of a multi-polar international system – one comprising three great powers and more than a dozen middle powers – has made the Chomsky view of the world obsolete. In fact, Russia’s imperialist ambitions in Europe and central Asia, along with China’s military expansionist policies in Indo Pacific, has made him and his anti-US imperialist and anti-war brethren appear thoroughly delusional – if not downright dangerous. Europe has been reawakened by the well-known Latin proverb ‘si vis pacem, para bellum‘ – ‘if you want peace, prepare for war’, as noted by Foreign Policy columnist Caroline de Gruyter. As every student of international relations understands, the international system rewards nations that prepare for war and punishes those that don’t. Were you to condense a four-year undergraduate degree in international relations into a single paragraph, it would read like this: an international system absent a global authority or police force, or what scholars call a state of anarchy, leaves each country responsible for its own security, and because no country can never truly know the intent of its neighbours or rivals, it must accumulate as much power as possible to safeguard its sovereignty. Tragically, this realist lens of the world not only encourages arms races – but also invites both insecure and ambitious states to do awful things to their neighbours, rivals and pesky minorities. This is not the way the world should be, but it is the way it is. More to the point, it explains the conditions that produce war and peace. It gives reason, not justification, to China’s occupation of Tibet, persecution of Uyghur Muslims along its north-western frontier, and military aggression in South China Sea, along with its recent and ongoing military threats against Taiwan. It also explains, not justifies, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Buying into Russian Propaganda This simple reading or understanding of the world as it is is one lost on large segments of the anti-war left, specifically those who continue to wrongly believe that US foreign policy is the root of all evil. This includes veteran Australian journalist John Pilger, who has won numerous awards for exposing injustice and promoting human rights. His commentary during the Russian military build-up typified the anti-war left’s response to the war in Ukraine. Pilger – not once, but five times – mocked the US for warning of a Russian invasion tweeting that “Russian aggression in Europe is a fraud”, while accusing the US and UK Governments in an article on selling a fictitious war for the “restoration of imperial mythology” and “permanent enemy”. Worse, he parrots Kremlin propaganda by smearing and dehumanising Ukrainians as a land of “Nazi cultists” – a bogus claim that has been regurgitated across the leftist blogosphere, which serves only to undermine global solidarity for the besieged Ukrainian people. Unsurprisingly, they tend to be the same individuals and outlets that parroted Kremlin propaganda and conspiracy theories during the Syrian civil war, including those that dehumanised opponents of the Assad regime as ‘violent jihadists’, civilians killed under Russian aerial bombardment as ‘crisis actors’, and first responders in rebel-held territory as ‘al Qaeda propagandists’. Ibrahim al-Assil, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, says progressive millennials are facing an “intellectual dilemma” because they have never lived with a threat from another great power, having grown up in a US-dominated international system. Their world views were shaped under Presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush, when the US did whatever it wanted, unchallenged. “The main global event for progressive millennials was the invasion of Iraq,” says al-Assil. “While they spent their adult life criticising it, it left them with a deep sense of guilt and shame… The sense of guilt, coupled with a distorted view of global politics, where the US is always secure and dominant, resulted in progressive millennials buying into two notions they loath: American supremacy and tolerating imperialism as long as it’s anti-US dominance. He believes that this view – which posits the US as the sole bad actor – has left progressive millennials blind to crimes committed by rivals to American power, which explains why many ignore and even whitewash the “horrible and unprecedented human suffering” caused by Russia in Syria and Ukraine; Iran in Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Lebanon; and China in Xinjiang. “They saw the war in Syria as a pure foreign power intervention, ignoring the main role of Assad and how much Syrians didn’t want to live under him no matter what,” he observes. “In Ukraine, many argue that it was the West’s fault ignoring that Ukrainians made their decision to look West.” They ignore that polls conducted in 2014, 2017 and 2022 showed that an overwhelming majority of Ukrainians wished to join the EU and NATO and to shun Russia. They ignore NATO is a voluntary association. They ignore that eastern European countries Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia pleaded to join NATO to protect themselves from Russian aggression. They ignore that Russia has 3,000 combat tanks, 1,900 warplanes and one million soldiers within uninterrupted walking distance to the Ukrainian border. Most significantly, they ignore that there wasn’t a single NATO soldier on Ukrainian soil prior to the Russian invasion. In other words, there is no legitimate reason to excuse Russia’s criminal actions against a sovereign country that posed zero threat. Europe has been jolted wide awake to the necessity of hard power to resist Vladimir Putin’s imperialist ambitions, having learnt the hard way that ‘soft power’ – ideals, culture, and persuasion – isn’t enough to counter kinetic and hybrid military threats and attacks. But to attain and maintain peace, Europe will need to commit to building an even stronger military alliance and spending more on defence – as the US has long demanded – which means that the Chomsky, Pilger and their ilk should quietly take a back seat. Their time has now passed.”