traveller
1yr ago
Therefore your narrow reliance on Soviet-provided data on the number of Jews in the Soviet Union post-war is putting far too much weight on an unreliable source.
Again: that is relying on reports from actual people living in Poland. Before Germans invaded Jews were everywhere, after they were not there. Unlike with say expulsion of Germans we have no records of this people arriving anywhere.
traveller
1yr ago
If you have a suggestion that isn't "ban certain topics/arguments," let's hear it.
Isolate topic in some containment thread? (subvariant of topic ban)
traveller
1yr ago
It seems likely that they sincerely believe it, but topic and style and tactics they use makes them functionally a troll.
traveller
1yr ago
How hard is it to simply shoot the drug dealers?
Easy. Without shooting whoever-is-disliked-by-local-police? Hard.
traveller
1yr ago
It is mostly intended as feedback to SS - in case they are interested why normies like me react to them as they react.
(especially as typical reaction may be based in the end on it, even if ends phrased as "go away")
traveller
1yr ago
Well, if the vaccine is that deadly, how smart are the "smart, educated" people who went ahead and got it, versus the "dumb, uneducated" who were suspicious and sceptical?
IF
By "associated with murderers" I meant "associated with Putin and modern Russia as she was also a leader of Russia"
For quite clear reasons Ukrainians are disliking anything Russia-adjacent more and more as Russia continues to bomb them and murder their friends/family members.
Former leader of Russia is clearly Russian-adjacent.
Was the Russian government supposed
Russian government is supposed to stop their invasion of Ukraine, give back invaded areas and stop murdering people and vandalising Ukraine and kidnapping people. For start.
traveller
1yr ago
Ukraine has also some resources, including not yet exploited gas fields.
traveller
1yr ago
Yes, but I admit that it was one of my immediate thoughts. Maybe because it was depressing and pole is without any context? And in my areas public transport poles are not standalone in the middle but more bundled with other parts of the vehicle?
traveller
1yr ago
Mary Mallon would have been entirely justified to kill her captors and escape for by the point they imprisoned her in perpetuity they broke the social contract and returned her and themselves to the state of Nature.
I was unfamiliar with that but assuming that following is accurate I do not consider it as straightforward. And if you go "returned her and themselves to the state of Nature" then it anyway justifies using raw power to overpower everyone else anyway - and I do not think that it is in any way better.
Mary Mallon (September 23, 1869 – November 11, 1938), commonly known as Typhoid Mary, was an Irish-born American cook believed to have infected between 51 and 122 people with typhoid fever. The infections caused three confirmed deaths, with unconfirmed estimates of up to 50. She was the first person in the United States identified as an asymptomatic carrier of the pathogenic bacteria Salmonella typhi.[1][2] She persisted in working as a cook and thereby exposed others to the disease. Because of that, she was twice forcibly quarantined by authorities, eventually for the final two decades of her life. Mallon died after a total of nearly 30 years in isolation.[3][4]
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She used fake surnames like Breshof or Brown, and took jobs as a cook against the explicit instructions of health authorities. No agencies that hired servants for upscale families would offer her employment, so for the next five years, she moved to the mass sector. She worked in a number of kitchens in restaurants, hotels, and spa centers. Almost everywhere she worked, there were outbreaks of typhoid.[35] However, she changed jobs frequently, and Soper was unable to find her.[13]
In 1915, Mallon started working at Sloane Hospital for Women in New York City. Soon 25 people were infected, and two died. The head obstetrician, Dr. Edward B. Cragin, called Soper and asked him to help in the investigation. Soper identified Mallon from the servants' verbal descriptions and also by her handwriting.
traveller
1yr ago
trivial to cure COVID since day 1
I am going to file it with "cancer is trivially treatable, evil medical companies are suppressing news about herbal remedies"
traveller
1yr ago
You are free to say that but it has no relation to what the "Holocaust" actually is.
and then you quote
The possible final remnant
I think that you found the genocide confirmation that you were looking for?
traveller
1yr ago
It is well known that the Germans gave prisoners at Auschwitz the option to either remain in the camp to be liberated by the Soviets or flee west with them. Most prisoners chose to go with the Germans, if you can believe that.
not checking this, but given how "evacuations" were defined by Germans I would be suspicious what will happen with remaining ones. Also, if people there were aware of what awaits people "liberated" by Soviets vs actually liberated, then trying to escape both Third Reich and USSR would be a good idea.
(See German armies trying to escape to Elbe’s shore to not end under USSR rule, with help to substantial numbers of civilians marking a rare case of Wermacht doing something good during WW II)
This is hilariously backwards. Ukranians volunteered for the German War effort at such a rate that Germany had one of the largest foreign volunteer armies in history, composed mostly of slavs and Soviet citizens.
And guess, how many Poles volunteered? And why ratio was so low despite USSR being evil, dangerous and both fact known widely in Poland?
traveller
1yr ago
Russia has reasons to perceive expansion as aggression
I reject this part.
Though it would be accurate to treat it as a threat on Russian imperialism and pre-empting USSR 2.0. That is exactly why Poland and other joined NATO and Ukraine wanted to join.
Russia is not entitled to having an imperial sphere of influence.
traveller
1yr ago
No idea how far Crimea should be rolled back but accepting Russian invasion is one of options.
traveller
1yr ago
I don't think any Baltic countries ran referendums of elections in 1945.
Well, that is a good way to make impossible to provide evidence that "Baltic referenda in '45 on joining the USSR were rigged" :)
And for 1940 ones I will just requote:
was the only party allowed to run
Seriously, anyone that is hearing about USSR-run elections and is not wondering "how they falsified them" is poorly informed.
Especially annexation "referenda" in just conquered areas, the same goes for what Russia run recently in occupied Ukraine.
traveller
1yr ago
Yeah, but they didn't know they'd bungle it when they started. Hindsight is 20:20.
With their handling hindsight was not needed.
On Sunday, after Popov already knew that Kursk was missing and presumed sunk, he briefed reporters on the progress of the naval exercise. He said the exercise had been a resounding success and spoke highly of the entire operation.
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On the afternoon of the explosion, before the Kremlin had been informed of the submarine's sinking, U.S. National Security Adviser Sandy Berger and Defense Secretary William Cohen were told that Kursk had sunk.
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The first official announcement of the accident was made by the Russians on Monday, 14 August. They told the media that Kursk had had "minor technical difficulties" on Sunday. They stated that the submarine had "descended to the ocean floor", that they had established contact with the crew and were pumping air and power to the boat, and that "everyone on board is alive."
(everyone was dead on 12 August, some sailors survived about 6 hours )
traveller
1yr ago
If I get infected, I'm getting a few particles as part of a spray.
no, cells in your body are hijacked to produce endless copies of virus
if you are infected it is not going to be "few particles"
this sounds a bit funny for Pole given that we are word-class at complaining and doomposting :)
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