“Some of you may be willing to die, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make” but unironically

Edit: The user has since apologised https://hexbear.net/comment/3848285

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      The intentional destruction of a people in whole or in part. Russia is doing that to Ukraine.

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          This is in no way equivalent hahaha. What kinda swill do they hand out in the IRA breakrooms these days?

          Russia is invading the heartland of another distinct ethnicity and purging it. Ukraine is not doing that. It is simply clamping down on political liberties to ensure a stable war economy and political situation. This happens in every country that is forced to fight for it’s own existence.

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                Rescuing children from a warzone is genocide? Are you serious, you do realize the majority of those children are native Russian speakers and are reunited with their families when they’re located, like you do know those basic facts right, and aren’t just talking out your ass?

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                  Those children should have been led to Ukraine to reunite with their Ukranian relatives since they are citizens of Ukraine. And if you are not talking out of your ass, would you kindly provide proof that they’re “reunited with their families when they’re located” and not just assigned to whichever family is keen to get govt money for raising kids?

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                    MF the Ukrainian state doesn’t give a shit about Russian-speaking children or their relatives, hence the fact millions of Russian speaking Ukrainian citizens fled to Russia, their relatives are in Russia and if they’re not then it’s the responsibility of the Kiev regime to negotiate in good faith with the Russian authorities to reunite the families, but again the nazis in Kiev don’t give a fuck about the children beyond their use as propaganda tools

                    You literally don’t know basic facts about Ukraine or the conflict, instead of basing your takes on your bullshit intuition maybe go do some basic research

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                I’m sorry, what does that have to do with “purging” as it relates to genocide? Surely you understand that relocating orphans - not “purging” them - and then repatriating them when their Ukrainian family can be found does not constitute genocide, right? This is basic, “what do words mean” level shit, so if you’re having trouble here then you might need to take a few steps back on making declarative statements about geopolitics.

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            lmao the Ukrainian state was committing those actions before the invasion you dumb fuck, hence the civil war between the years 2014 and 2022, also trying to erase the identity of half your population is not an example of a wartime measure, it’s ethnic cleansing and the Ukrainians are pretty open about it

            Hence why the separatist Russian-speaking regions (especially Crimea) should win the war and prevent the expansion of state backed neo-nazism

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            Perhaps the Ukrainians should concentrate the population that shows Russian sympathy into small camps

            You know, to keep a better eye on them and to ensure the security of the Ukrainian identity against the perfidy of the Russian abhumans

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            Russia is invading the heartland of another distinct ethnicity and purging it.

            Do you think Russia is running death camps? Where are these purges supposedly taking place?

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            the heartland of another distinct ethnicity

            Kievan Rus exists

            Russian and Ukranian are almost the same language, as different as modern English is from Shakespearian English

            Why do white people try to create ethnic differences where none exist? Russians and Ukranians are visually / genetically / culturally pretty much identical. It’s like saying North Korea invaded South Korea to purge it of Koreans!

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          “not submitting to the ideological propaganda pushed by your oppressor is literally genocide”

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                  God no. I think there’s some misinterpretation here. I was saying that blocking the media of an invading country does not equate to genocide. That’s it.

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                    That’s interesting that you think one of us did the misinterpretation, because that’s not what happened - they did not block the import of media produced in Russia. They blocked all Russian language media. There’s an important distinction there that I’m certain you will pretend to not understand.

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                    This is part of the larger conversation of persecution of russians, that you were denying was occurring. A user links you to examples, which you then answer with “not submitting to another country is genocide now?”. Thereby implying that because russian is spoken in Ukraine and you can purchase russian-language media, Ukraine was subjugated to Russia, and this thing where speaking russian - which parts of the Ukrainian population had always done - is being eradicated and russian-language media being removed, is somehow NOT oppression, but instead Ukraine bravely standing up to its invaders. A user then highlights the flaw in your logic - Which is that because Russia is invading, it’s not actually persecution to suppress your native russian speakers.

                    So if chinese language is taught in your country and chinese publications are sold, this means your nation and culture has submitted to China?

                    That depends, is china invading my country.

                    Thereby claiming that pursuing and eradicating another culture is a-ok if a nation with a majority of that culture is invading you. Following that logic, it was all right to intern the Japanese.

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        No just no. I lot of Ukrainians live in Russia or fled to russia. Russia would’ve started with them first if they wanted to do something that.

        It’s a imperialist war at best started to secure a very strategically important location.