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Of course there are crimes everywhere in the world. Read the abusive husband analogy again. Also, whatever crimes there are in US, multiply it by 10 and you’ve got Russia. Plus you don’t need to listen to anything Russia says directly, you’ve got Candace Owens, Trumps and the likes, doing the work on the other side of the world for it
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I hope you’re aware that this is exactly a part of Putin’s propaganda campaign, to diverge attention from Russia and all the war crimes it’s committing and being the aggressor, to the US or NATO being hypocratics and aggressors. And it’s working really well. While Russian soldiers are raping children, women, seniors, torturing and murdering civilians, even stealing used underwear and washing machines, the world is saying “but NATO”.. It’s kinda like when an abusive husband beats up his wife every night, and then says, to whoever calls it out, hey I saw you yelling at your wife too, that’s just what marriages are like, why do even you care so much about ME beating up my wife, what about all the other wives being beat up?
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That is highly debatable. There was no need for you to say things like “Ukraine’s 5 minutes of fame is ending”, it’s like saying that Jews got their 5 minutes of fame during the Holocaust. Anyways, I don’t think this post really was about you leaving, if so, I recommend that you finally do leave. All the best. I do agree with @Yarco, I don’t see why these goodbye posts are allowed.
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no_name replied to alhhany's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Oh come on.. First of all, how many chicks really are that hot? Second of all, how many wealthy well-off men do you know who would be willing to take care of these chicks financially for the rest of the chicks life? Let’s say 10% of all the clicks are really hot and slide by life solely on their looks. What about the remaining 90%? How do you think they survive? Or are they not considered women? -
no_name replied to alhhany's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Yea, I think people still don’t realize how long the oppression of women lasted. It’s been less than a century that things started taking turns. Most religions, for example, till this day not allow women to hold places of power. -
Seriously you need to stop making these simplifications, they were actively mocking Ukraine’s war situation. That is why you see people responding in such a way, nothing at all to do with their nationality.
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Really? Because it looks like you’re the one aching to get a final stab here haha
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That’s a very simplistic way to look at it. It’s not because they are Russian, but because of the degrading comments they’ve been writing about Ukraine
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Lol, if sports culture is absolutely ridiculous, then so is music, art, movies, books, computer games, science, math, etc. We should all just sit on a chair and stare at a wall all day because doing anything is stupid.
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@Danioover9000 yeah, definitely would never enter a bathroom/changing room that has a camera inside My point was, I understand that transgender females would also not be comfortable in a male bathroom, that is why I think a third type of bathroom makes for an easy solution. For sports, I think it’s too hard to quantify the difference between men/women, it’s not just testosterone… women have wider hips, lower height, more fat, narrower shoulders, breasts, menstruate for 3-7 days a month… Honestly periods alone are a big obstacle for sports, periods are more often than not accompanied by severe cramps, fatigue, migraines, sore breasts, fever, menstrual cycles with all kinds of hormonal ups and downs.. many women have to take painkillers/stay in bed during their period.. even if a trans woman transitions and has the surgery before puberty (idk if there are actual cases of that) there will still be these differences/advantages in sport for them. Of course I do understand that transgender women want to compete as well, but it would, generally, be unfair to the other women. While you can quantify differences between women, height/weight/muscle %, I do not think you can compare biological women vs. biological men that easily.
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What’s stopping them is the illegality of it (I assume in most places around the world) or at least “social etiquette”, if it becomes legal/accepted and a male can be in a female bathroom, there is nothing you can do to get him out of there. The bathroom and change room are more of a target than other places for obvious reasons.
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@Husseinisdoingfine I remember reading that empaths make less than 20% of the population. People who are highly empathetic and sensitive often feel like there is something wrong with them, because they don’t meet many people like them. I suggest reading some books on highly sensitive people and embracing your sensitivity, as it is indeed a rare gift.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Lol, I feel like this thread should be called “you won’t see this in mainstream media, only in Russian media” ???
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Amount of training and practice are also a huge factor that comes into play.
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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.
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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
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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.
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@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.
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Why are you using cheap insults instead of addressing someone’s argument? And you’re a mod? ?
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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.”
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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?