• nachtigall@feddit.de
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      3 years ago

      Soldiers of Russia enter Ukraine and kill Ukrainian soliders. How would you call it if not war?

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        Excuse them, we usually hear “war” when it should be called “piracy”, “massacre”, “imperialist conquest”, “genocide”… Either way, this conflict is showing me that I would rather be attacked by Russia instead of any Western country and even my own country (we had a Civil War already), frankly.

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        3 years ago

        Did he really unironically play the “special military operation” card. Wtf

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          I think I simply don’t share your view that it takes violence/terror against civilians for a conflict to be labeled a war (at least that’s what your previous comment seems to imply, you may correct me at any time).

          I doubt you are incapable, so I will just call it intellectual dishonesty.

          Thanks, very nice from you, comrade :D

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      “It’s just an exercise”

      “It’s just a special military operation”

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          What random sentence generator did you use?

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                  25 Rules of Disinformation

                  Sidetrack Opponents with Name-Calling and Ridicule ~ This is also known as the primary ‘attack the messenger’ ploy, though other methods qualify as variants of that approach. Associate opponents with unpopular titles such as ‘kooks’, ‘right-wing’, ‘liberal’, ‘left-wing’, ‘terrorists’, ‘conspiracy buffs’, ‘radicals’, ‘militia’, ‘racists’, ‘religious fanatics’, ‘sexual deviates’, and so forth. This makes others shrink from support out of fear of gaining the same label, and you avoid dealing with issues.