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I'm almost afraid to ask, but what is the 22?

a deal can be made with Russia to end the fighting [in Ukraine].

How do you know? My impression is that any deal without security guarantees from the West will just be violated in about two years or so by Russia, and Russia would refuse to make a deal with such security guarantees for exactly that reason.

If Russia changes its mind and says it would be willing to accept such a deal, I would change my mind. Actually I still wouldn't because Russia are the lyingest bastards I know, but whatever. It hasn't happened. It would never happen.

Imperialists cannot be reasoned with without credible threats of violence. If it were otherwise, they wouldn't be imperialist.

Wow, China's propaganda in plain view in this comments section, damn!

How would you keep the imperialists from stealing land?

How do you know?

How do you know?

astronaut meme intensifies

They should wear what used to be worn in the 19th century in the Russian imperial court and call it patriotism.

Where do you live?

I always considered the problem not to be any one part of the message or other, but the process. It is a bad idea to make a perfect, inalterable text of any kind into law, no matter how good it is. The legal process does need guidance from higher principles, but the best way to do that is with a constitution, which can also be altered if necessary.

That is why I'm glad Jesus is kept the hell out of my government. Because yeah, he actually does try to teach a lot of commendable principles. But Jesus also says that all of the old Jewish laws of the old testament still hold. There is some fully crazy shit in the old testament.

Meanwhile, Jesus does all kinds of stuff in violation of those same laws. Is it no surprise, then, that, following Jesus's example, Christians follow the bible just as selectively?

Oh, that thing. Thanks. I don't know why ddg didn't find it. It's usually pretty good. Wikipedia did find it right away. Maybe next time, I'll just skip ddg and go right to Wikipedia. Seriously, web search is becoming increasingly useless, now that powerful AI is being used to fuck with their ranking algorithms.

And how did they help?