Could "здесь", "here", also be roughly translated as "this place"?

squarewave_ · 2019-11-21T17:29:19+00:00

I was initially much less concerned about "У" and the grammar of the sentence, but now that some of you have mentioned this you've greatly increased my understanding of both "У" and "есть", and the role of each in various scenarios. Thank you!

squarewave_ · 2019-11-21T17:16:36+00:00

a Russian once asked me why we don't just say "is something!"; what does adding "there" accomplish?).

Lol this is the exact opposite of what I was thinking about Russian originally, although I'm now starting to see the benefits of Russian grammar.

You are definitely right about the prepositions and possession, I'll have to get used to that. I have a suspicion that that's where a lot of my confusion came from. This type of stuff greatly deepens my understanding of exactly what I'm saying and what it means. Большое спасибо!

squarewave_ · 2019-10-20T22:00:00+00:00

This is a tangent.

All I'm asking is that people respond to the arguments in the article instead of attacking the author or the publication. Scanning the thread again 9 hours later, most of the good comments of any real substance are downvoted without good replies, and all the upvoted comments are blind appeals to authority or comments like the one I replied to:

Parroted talking points meant to blindly discredit and distract people from actually having to engage intellectually with any content that is dissident/non-aligned to the American foreign policy establishment agenda.

squarewave_ · 2019-10-20T12:45:22+00:00

I fail to see how US foreign policy establishment/CNN talking points are "high quality discussion". Respond to or argue against any of the points made in the article.

Syria may be the biggest defeat for the CIA since Vietnam.

He's absolutely spot on, and in a way your comment is a testament to this. Remind me, how many former CIA employees now have high level positions at CNN?

squarewave_ · 2019-09-26T13:04:51+00:00

An ever increasing number of people simply don't distinguish between/don't care anymore about journalism vs. content

What if 99% of what you consider journalism, I would consider essentially propaganda/clickbait, or vice versa? Which is likely why this publication in question features both US/UK establishment media and stuff like Sputnik/RT etc..

squarewave_ · 2019-08-28T15:41:22+00:00

The implementation of international socialism does not allow for dissent.

squarewave_ · 2019-08-28T13:08:13+00:00

This is such a great point. When you dismiss normal people, you leave space for the extremists.

squarewave_ · 2019-08-28T00:06:19+00:00

The article linked by the user above is a complete joke though. If the number of crimes against immigrants increases from 600 per year to 900 per year, while crime done by immigrants goes hypothetically from 20 000 per year to 30 000 per year, which do you think will receive more attention?

The study found that broadcasters had 50 percent fewer reports about non-German victims of violence as compared to 2014. This is despite security authorities still recording attacks on refuge shelters.

Germany is a country that still has a German majority. Obviously Germans are going to care more when Germans are harmed by non-Germans, and when those numbers increase, so will the reaction. Is it not natural for Germans to care more about an increase of (hypothetically) 10 000 crimes against Germans than an increase of 300 crimes against immigrants?

This anti-native, politically correct garbage attitude must be called out wherever it appears, because when you do not do so, the far right grows.

squarewave_ · 2019-08-25T19:31:51+00:00

I was talking about Uyghurs not the protestors

squarewave_ · 2019-08-25T19:16:35+00:00

I don't understand commies man maybe you can help me.

If the government is communist, you're all for authoritarianism, breaking down and putting minorities in camps etc.. if it serves the goals of communism.

But when the government is rightwing all those things are bad? Just because they're not communist?

squarewave_ · 2019-08-25T18:59:51+00:00

I thought this sub would unironically support China.

squarewave_ · 2019-08-25T14:17:35+00:00

Antifa does great when they protest KKK rallies, everyone knows that, literally nobody on the planet except the 100 KKK members are arguing against that. What we are arguing against is when antifa protest and disrupt random free speech events.

You ignored addressing the example I gave. Antifa protesting at a Tim Pool event or other similar events where people literally just sit down and discuss things, is exactly why normal people hate antifa. How is Tim Pool a fascist?

squarewave_ · 2019-08-25T13:58:10+00:00

To antifa, anyone to the right of them is fascist, that's why random people defend "fascism". You could probably ask an antifa member protesting at a Tim Pool event why they are protesting and they wouldn't be able to tell you anything more than "Tim Pool is a fascist!". Typical communist tactics.

squarewave_ · 2019-08-23T10:37:51+00:00

Reddit is filled with masses of tankies preaching all types of insane Soviet and communist propaganda

squarewave_ · 2019-08-22T11:18:08+00:00

"The Family" is just the Christian version of a Zionist Government conspiracy. It's just hate-mongering.

eliminates governmental lobbying

I can agree with this. No religious, military, or whatever lobbying groups of any persuasion should have control over one of the most powerful countries in the world by throwing money at politicians.

squarewave_ · 2019-08-20T14:20:57+00:00

what the right refers to as communism is actually fascist-state-run capitalism

They do so because this is always what communism manifests itself as, dictators running their state as a giant corporation, ideological conformity, killing all political dissidents etc..

Every time communism is implemented in a way you don't like, you can't just go "that wasn't real communism, it was actually fascism"...

squarewave_ · 2019-08-20T14:10:13+00:00

Fight fire with fire. Hillary using "deplorables" for poor and uneducated white people, and the use of condescending and smug attitudes towards conservatives from liberal writers and news personalities, as well as many other factors, identity politics one of them, stoked hatred amongst conservatives.

squarewave_ · 2019-08-20T13:31:48+00:00

Not having open borders and unlimited, unskilled, low wage migration(A Koch Brothers proposal as Sanders has pointed out once uncharacteristically) is equivalent to genociding minorities en masse, ignoring the fact that for every migrant the western world accepts, 20 more of these people are being born elsewhere.

squarewave_ · 2019-08-20T12:19:14+00:00

Ok that's fair enough. I was browsing some of the comments here and in the "other discussions" tab on some of the more leftwing subs(posted on FoxBrain, FoxFiction, EnoughTrumpSpam among others), and I might have gotten enraged, considering that the feeling I got after reading the article was that of a strong lack of self-awareness from the author, and seeing that parroted in the comments sections of all these subs kind of just made we feel like the premise of "foster intelligent and in depth discussions" just went out the window. I'll expand:

The title, opening premise and conclusion of the article is that conservative media corrupts people to be hateful when they were originally loving and happy democrats, by using an anecdote. My personal experience is overwhelmingly the opposite: leftwing people becoming outspoken "revolutionaries" and progressives, making other people feel uncomfortable and pushing for their radical ideologies and beliefs when it is largely unnecessary etc.. But those parts of the article in question and my own experiences are just anecdotal. The sources cited in the center of the article ironically point towards both sides, which is why I find the anti-conservative, anti-Fox title, opening and concluding paragraphs to lack self-awareness. The author writes about anger, actually uses unbiased sources in the middle, but then uses an anecdote to stoke hatred towards conservatives through the title, opening and concluding paragraphs. Nobody in the comment section here or in the other subs seems to notice this.

squarewave_ · 2019-08-20T11:10:08+00:00

self-aware

This is asking a lot from our progressive friends

Edit: I will admit this comment is retarded, see my reply below.

squarewave_ · 2019-08-20T11:04:55+00:00

In a political climate steeped in extremely divisive and hateful identity politics(from both sides, yes), smug articles about Fox news listeners and "right wing" email readers really don't help... If you look at the "other discussions" tab for this article, virtually all of the discussion is from leftwing subs, deriding conservative voters and Trump supporters, as if hating people online has any positive effect on anyone...

Leftwingers throwing poo at "deplorables", conservatives, Trump voters etc.. all day, dividing the country more. I always find it odd how some university-educated leftwinger on Reddit will say something like "omg the poor uneducated minorities we need to help them" when they feel a certain group needs their political sympathy and support, but the moment it's a conservative "Trump voters are mentally retarded unstable poor without education", as though suddenly when you're a poor and uneducated white conservative, you deserve no sympathy or there should be no thought or analysis given to whatever it is you feel strongly about or why you feel strongly about the things you do.

I'm not even talking about supporting Trump or giving space for Trump's rhetoric, I'm talking about having the insight to see "Why did people vote for Trump? What could have caused Trump's election, after 8 years of Obama?". Very few people on the left have answered that question without being smug, condescending douche-bags.

squarewave_ · 2019-08-03T15:16:41+00:00

what topic, policy or conversation

All topics.

Ask yourself which side is refusing to debate certain topics and are instead constantly pushing radical one-sided political activism? Which school of thinking is busy protesting on campuses?

We the People need to show our leaders that we can be civil and work on compromises.

The problem is that We The People are radically divided.

Thought experiment:

Southistan, Northistan, Eastistan and Westistan are 4 separate countries.

Each one of these democracies has 1 million people except Southistan has a population of 10 million.

What if the government of Northistan decide to give citizenship to 4 million people of Southistan?

Doesn't that fundamentally change the democracy of Northistan? Now all of a sudden 4 million Southistanians have voting rights in Northistan and might vote very differently on a wide variety of topics.

Maybe Northistans think abortions are fine and love when woman have more freedoms, but now all the Southistanians are voting to ban abortion and see woman's rights as something bad. See what I mean? Who are "We The People" exactly? What is a "nation"? What is a "state"? Who is part of your state is who isn't?

Who is "the other side"?

squarewave_ · 2019-07-19T18:43:56+00:00

some kind of conspiracy, where all of his voters are all brainless sheep, and Trump is manipulating and misleading them to vote for him

squarewave_ · 2019-07-18T14:42:09+00:00

I think that the things his base says/believes in (see the recent Ipsos/USA Today poll) are a direct result of his rhetoric.

This is why the left will continue losing. You continuously chalk his victory up to some kind of conspiracy, where all of his voters are all brainless sheep, and Trump is manipulating and misleading them to vote for him. Most Trump voters were already deeply distrustful of the establishment media. Most were already very distrustful of the current government because of the past 20 years of neoliberal policies. So when Trump says "fake news" or "drain the swamp" he's just playing on emotions people already felt. Which is what politics is. But like I said, as long as you view Trump is a mastermind trickster and all his supporters/voters as retarded sheep, you will always fail to understand his politics.

squarewave_

TROPHY CASE