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He definitely should've had a better answer to the Ethnic mix question than "predominantly Persian and Shia." Because if you asked the same thing about the US and replied "predominantly white and Protestant" it'd be absurdly ignorant. Yeah, dude, what about the Turks, Arabs, Lurs (I'll admit I didn't know about this group until I brushed up on the wikipedia article), Kurds? What about the Zoroastrians? The Jewish minority in Iran?

Well that's what's pissing me off! If you are pro-Ukraine so you don't want your country to support Russia, then you already won! You don't have anything else to do (I mean, go ahead and sign up to fight with Reddit mercenaries for Azov if you really want) but otherwise, it's a waste of everyone's time.

You don't have to be an essentialist to look at the situation as it is for the vast majority of men and feel like it's best to just check out. Just like you don't have to believe that people are biologically predisposed to be fascists to flee a fascist country. You just do what you gotta do

I hate how ineffective these redditors are at arguing against the "Iran is bad too" line. Oh, so Iran supports Russia? And Russia is bad? I guess if I want to be fair, if I'm sabotaging British planes that help Israel I must also sabotage British planes that help Iran. Because Iran is bad.

Ok, done. All British planes and intelligence agents and politicians that were supporting Iran have been dealt with. Now we just have to take care of the pro-Israeli ones, which I'm sure you'll join me for because you were just interested in fairness.

This response is just so overplayed and so brainless that they've started deploying it even in cases where the action in question had exactly 0 to do with getting popular support. An anarchist could [redacted] a bunch of ICE agents and break out a hundred people from an immigration facility tomorrow and this response would get spit out by social media bots.

Hurts being a Catholic anti-imperialist seeing the pope meet Zionist nazi Ben Shapiro meanwhile the Ayatollah cannot stop racking Ws.

Does she even claim to be a socialist? She only ever talks about cultural issues and "deradicalization." I appreciate her for having been an important part of my process of learning about politics several years ago, but she barely talks about anything economic ever.

Plus, even if Russia wasn't much weaker than the US, I still can't do anything to affect them except support the Military Industrial Complex or their candidates. I'm not gonna do that anyway. So what does it matter if, emotionally, I like Russia? It's not like my "support" for them means anything.

Also, FWIW, Ukraine's political system is obviously is at least as corrupt and antidemocratic as Russia, and the other obvious example is Israel, which doesn't even give equal voting rights to all Palestinians. So even if you were a Fukuyamist who only cared about which side is a liberal democracy, you still can't make the argument to support the West in either conflict just based on that. All roads lead to

I'm a lot more anti-ethnic cleansing than I am pro-liberal democracy. If one side of a conflict is doing ethnic cleansing, and the other side's biggest failure (relative to the first side's) is not being a liberal democracy, I'm taking the side that's stopping ethnic cleansing 10 times out of 10.

So close, yet so far.

And yes, the Baltics, famously sovereign countries that aren't just Nazis for hire.

Yeah dude after Poland we keep going East through Belarus and into Moscow, should be no problem.