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They said, while Russia is literally in the middle of doing the sort of invasion NATO is warning against.
They said, while Russia is literally in the middle of doing the sort of invasion NATO is warning against.
Apple users do have a choice. Apple isn’t the only game in town. If those users disagree with Apple and want Tate shit, they can use a different platform.
lmao okay dude. That’s a lot of projection.
It may surprise you to know that in a thread where I advocate for the US giving Ukraine cluster munitions, that I don’t care that Ukraine has been using cluster munitions.
As stated by another, your Pentagon source is out of date. It’s pretty funny though that you reject HRW saying Russia is using them, but use HRW as your source that Ukraine is.
WRT chemical weapons: different things are different. When you can contain things in an AOR, I’m less concerned about the lingering effects. Areas can be closed off and cleared, especially when you’re the one that dropped them. That’s way less possible with chemical weapons, that will literally drift with the wind.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/08/25/growing-civilian-toll-russian-cluster-munition-attacks
Chemical weapons: no, due to their effects easily leaving the AOR. Petal mines: yes. Crimea and the Donbas are occupied Ukrainian territory.
Russia is already using them
I’ll defer to the defenders WRT what weapons they need.
Buddy, lots of us had outrage when the US invaded Iraq. You just can’t handle when the conversation shifts from it for 5 minutes because an even worse thing is happening.
Yep, and that’s a good thing.
“But Iraq!” is literally all these people have. As if two things can’t be bad at the same time.
If it’s not internet connected it’s not that big of a deal
If you’re running Safari, you’re already running their OS. If Apple wants to spy on you, they’ve already got the means to do so, so you’ve already decided to trust them.
Switching to Chrome or Firefox means trusting one more entity in addition to Apple. This expands your possible exposure.
Point at where I said genocide. I didn’t use that word here because I know it’s contested in this case and I know it has a definition that I’m not interested in degrading. You said that word.
Regardless, this has nothing to do with my point. My point is that if a country is doing $thing, pointing at $otherthing means nothing. You’re deflecting.
Do US people deflect by pointing at China? Yep. Our guys totally deflect when they want to distract from shit. But this post brought it up, so own it.
This is still “butt butt-“
No. The sins of another country do not make another’s okay. You call it out. We call out the US all the time, and it deserves it. And so does China.
Germany owned their shit.
I guess the Nazi camps were fine because they’re closed now?
And I guess “because terrorism” is a good excuse now? I mean, the US has done all kinds of fucked up shit that’s okay by that reasoning. If we had put all Saudis in reeducation camps after 9/11, you would (rightly!) call us fascists, and I’d be on your side!
Edit: that’s not even the “entire Muslim world”, and you know better than to use the boot of governments as a representation of the people.
You’re right. It’s a good thing I’m not trying to explicitly deflect from my country’s sin by complaining about China letting people burn books!
Own your shit. When a nation does bad shit, call it out. Even if they’re in your “camp”. Don’t pull this “yeah but-“ fuck fuck games. This post is saying “well it’s okay that China put Muslims in camps because the West allows book burning.” Fuck off with that.
Putting people is camps is worse than burning some books.
Edit: not even burning them, just ALLOWING people to burn them. In the same way we also let people burn flags. Because that’s speech.
Patriot isn’t limited to missile interception.