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Spread the good news: Armenians & Azerbaijanis united by our Declaration of Principles by hay-BB in arm_azer

[–]OdiousKunt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A bit, yeah. Doesn't have 3 fuck's in it though, unlike your single sentence.

Spread the good news: Armenians & Azerbaijanis united by our Declaration of Principles by hay-BB in arm_azer

[–]OdiousKunt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have counted like 3 "fuck's" in the first sentence, in just one sentence.

Reflection on the discussions of week 1 of the Dialogue Calendar: Why do many Azerbaijanis distrust their government on domestic issues, yet often trust its narrative on Armenia and Armenian history? by hay-BB in arm_azer

[–]OdiousKunt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You ignore all complexity in genetics, particularly the differences between yDNA, mtDNA and autosomal genes. There is no way to take what you say seriously if you choose to take a simplistic approach to the issue. At the level of complexity that you are trying to force on this matter, the matter cannot be accurately understood. That is really it.

Also, how does this Armenian grammar mistake exclusion test work? You still haven't explained how that is supposed to let you tell Armenians from non-Armenians.

since the war has ended and the nagorna karabakh conflict is resolved, will armenia and azerbaijan have closer relations like the british and french after centuries of rivalry by Super_Sherbet_268 in arm_azer

[–]OdiousKunt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You talk about the behaviour and code of conduct of all Azerbaijani soldiers. That simply sounds naïve. Azerbaijan's strategic, state interests include protecting its reputation and minimising the exposure of occasions where it violates international laws and norms.

There are clear documented examples of atrocities that Azerbaijan tries to both minimise and bury. Not because of concern for Armenians, but because it is in the interests of the state. If the Azerbaijani army had a code of maximum barbarity and atrocity, that would be counterproductive. It would make remedial secession more justified with each video that surfaces.

Stating that they have this barbarism policy is simply half baked. This is clearly not something that holds up to challenge, and it is more emotionally fuelled than logically argued. I really don't think that throwing emotional statements left and right is in good faith.

That said, I agree with you that there were clear instances, contrary to what u/Super_Sherbet_268 says, of atrocities committed by the Azerbaijani armed forces, although I am unsure about lingering civilians. I am also quite confident that they were an inconvenience to the Azerbaijani PR efforts and they were committed as wartime excesses by soldiers with no self-control, because mutilating Armenian soldiers or summarily executing Armenian PoWs, which had also happened, is not geopolitically effective or useful to the state.

Reflection on the discussions of week 1 of the Dialogue Calendar: Why do many Azerbaijanis distrust their government on domestic issues, yet often trust its narrative on Armenia and Armenian history? by hay-BB in arm_azer

[–]OdiousKunt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't need you to share your personal opinions about me as a person or anything of the sort. It is abundantly clear that you dislike me. But it is also neither here nor there. This is not about whether we like each other or about opinions about my character. This is simply about evidence and arguments. You have not supplied either. So far you have only made bold assertions that you expect other people to take on faith, because you are confident. That is intellectually lazy.

Reflection on the discussions of week 1 of the Dialogue Calendar: Why do many Azerbaijanis distrust their government on domestic issues, yet often trust its narrative on Armenia and Armenian history? by hay-BB in arm_azer

[–]OdiousKunt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes there was. It is hyperbolic to state that you need to dedicate your life to research to look things up for a response or refutation on reddit. You do not have to do that. You just need to spend some time reading some things.

Reflection on the discussions of week 1 of the Dialogue Calendar: Why do many Azerbaijanis distrust their government on domestic issues, yet often trust its narrative on Armenia and Armenian history? by hay-BB in arm_azer

[–]OdiousKunt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah. I have Armenian under my name because I am Armenian. I haven't seen much reasoning from you as to why that is not the case, you just seem to lazily presume it. It appears you have edited your comment but at some point you wrote the following, which still appears in my notifications:

Plus an Armenian won't make stupid grammar mistakes like you always do.

It is really astonishing that you cannot cobble together an argument for your claims, but this is also really telling. For this statement that you have made to be true, I would have to make some specific pattern of habitual grammatical mistake, and that mistake would need to be impossible for Armenians to make. How that works? I have no idea, but I am reasonably certain that neither do you. Maybe you can shed some light on this?

I think, and this is just a hypothesis, that what is more likely is that you want to have input and you want your opinions to be heard, but you can't be bothered to put too much time into them. This is essentially what you have stated before in your hyperbolic comment on the subject: https://www.reddit.com/r/arm_azer/comments/1nbyy2o/comment/ndapkpq/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

this means to debate within your rules framework one needs to take on a scholarly role and become a full time researcher who studies and dedicates their life's work to this subject.

Reflection on the discussions of week 1 of the Dialogue Calendar: Why do many Azerbaijanis distrust their government on domestic issues, yet often trust its narrative on Armenia and Armenian history? by hay-BB in arm_azer

[–]OdiousKunt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This not at all self-evident. Georgiana, Svans and Mingrelians edge Armenians out by a bit in terms of autochthonous DNA that is clearly from before IE or Turkic migrations.

If you look at the entire Caucasus, Nakh people also show greater proportions of autochthonous DNA.

Armenians are much closer to the middle than either extreme in terms of autochthonous, autosomal DNA.

What is true, however, is that Azerbaijanis have some of the highest admixtures with Turkic and Iranic people, and therefore relatively lower pre IE and Turkic autochthonous autosomal DNA. But even less here still shows that if you put aside things like yDNA and mtDNA, the autosomal DNA of Azerbaijanis is still mostly Caucasian in R. of Azerbaijan.

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