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Considering that OP’s teachers apparently beat their students (or at least stand idly by while their colleagues do), I’d argue that they do not deserve one ounce of respect.

Agreed. China is openly hostile towards Taiwan, but it has not committed any actual acts of aggression and none of China’s actions warrant a military response.

As evidenced by all those NATO troops on Russian territory. Oh, wait. There’s none.

Kindergarten. But my parents never really cared. I was told “know your audience” not “don’t say that”.

It’s not open to interpretation, it’s plain as fucking day. Do you even bother reading Russian media? Because they openly admitted to it.

Then the rest of the world ought to read Putin’s own essay on what he thinks of Ukraine, I can’t be bothered to link it right now but it’s on the Kremlin’s official website if you want to read it yourself. This invasion is a blatant, imperialist landgrab.

Hate to break it to you but China is a dictatorship. They don’t even pretend otherwise, the primacy of the Communist Party is literally part of their constitution.

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Nazi Germany had elections. North Korea has elections. As long as there’s no actual opposition on the ballot, just having elections means nothing.

So you claim that China is a democracy based on… having absolutely no knowledge of Chinese politics?

If only there was a country that could easily end the war by simply withdrawing back behind its borders…

But do keep cheering for a fascist dictator – everything to oppose evil America, right? No matter how many innocents die.

Convergent evolution is a thing. Aliens that live in similar natural habitats and that fill similar ecological niches as humans will likely evolve along similar lines due to facing similar pressures. With that said, this is a very big assumption and all that it really tells us is that it is not impossible for “humanoid” alien life to exist.

Also, whatever is out there, we’ll never know for certain. Distances are just too large. Space is so incredibly, unfathomably big that it’s almost certain that there’s other intelligent life out there. However, space is also so incredibly, unfathomably big that it’s almost certain that we’ll never meet it.

PiS is a bunch of self-serving wannabe fascists. And in other news shocking truth unveiled: water is wet!

I did. Explicitly cheering for Ukrainian deaths or not, they support the invasion, which means they support murdering Ukrainians by default. You can’t have it both ways, if you support Russia, you support the murder of Ukrainians.

31, Germany, I can’t drive at all. City kid.

Unlike Russia, Ukraine is not ruled by fascists and no provinces that want to secede from Ukraine either.

You know, it’s fascinating how some people on the left are willing to side with fascism just because it happens to oppose “the West”. Talk about ideological inconsistencies.

So we’re in agreement then. Russia needs to withdraw from Ukraine immediately so that peace talks can take place.

We’re the ones cheering on the war?! Are you shitting me? We aren’t the ones bending over backwards to justify this invasion. We aren’t the ones justifying Russia indiscriminately bombing Ukraine’s cities. We aren’t the ones justifying letting loose an army of convicts and rapists on Ukraine’s population. Fuck you. Seriously, fuck you.

I’m not really surprised. They got more and more open about their assassination attempts for years. They’re not meant to covertly get rid of enemies, they’re very public warnings to other dissidents. It’s rule by fear.

Putin absolutely couldn’t let Prigozhin walk, nobody could have. It’s not just about the semi-autonomous mercenary army, if a government lets someone get away with an attempted coup d’état they’d effectively encourage others to give it their best shot as well because there was no effective punishment. Assassination is, well, a very Russian approach to the issue, but every government on this planet would have taken some form of action.