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PaperclipPerfector  1mo ago (text post)   1181 thread views

Transnational Thursday for June 19, 2025

Transnational Thursday is a thread for people to discuss international news, foreign policy or international relations history. Feel free as well to drop in with coverage of countries you’re interested in, talk about ongoing dynamics like the wars in Israel or Ukraine, or even just whatever you’re reading.

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so Russia's favorite strategy of sending 10x people in and having 5x killed but still coming ahead on the numbers

what?

Please elaborate a bit when you’re questioning someone.

You should mod him, not me, the quoted line is inflammating claim without evidence, which is against the rules.

I mean, I could do both.

But I still can’t tell what part you find so inflammatory. Is it the assertion of higher Russian casualties? The specific ratios? Use of the word “favorite”?

That’s the kind of thing I’d have liked in your response. What specifically were you hoping to see? It’s very hard to respond to someone who’s just asking “what?”

TPO was modded and there was outrage about his comments "abos like sniffing petrol because they're dumb", this is the same thing. So it's norm here to say racist jokes about Russians

I don’t know who that is, I don’t recall modding him, and I can’t find your quote.

But that is beside the point. Whether or not a comment is inflammatory, when you reply, you have to follow the rules by explaining what you mean. A single word “what?” is insufficient. It strictly drags the conversation down further.

TPO? TrannyPorno was one of most prolific posters, who posted about HBD and often in insensitive manner. Do you want me to find TPO's remarks about Abos? If such thing like JarJarJedis was posted about other groups, the poster would be modded. I guess I have just accept that most people here consider themselves being in war against Russia and it's ok to raise spirit by telling snarky imaginary details about Russia.

Thank you for this thoughtful and well argued observation.

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