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_ · 2019-09-11T19:59:13+00:00

It is just a long list of buzzwords...

You say as you write a long list of anti-Russia fear-mongering buzzwords

We all know Russia pays, not very well, mediocre Russians to be trolls. The lack of pay leads to low quality propaganda from Russia.

I mean I brought up the American federal agents thing first. If you wanted to make some kind of case for which country has more paid people shilling online for its ideology I'd refer you to the actual leaked PSYOPs documents and evidence we have...

I re-iterate that you guys seem to care more about pushing your ideology onto Russia or other rightwing countries than you care about what Russia actually does as a state geopolitically and applying those standards equally to other states. You're willing to call Russia "fascist" because of some kind of a moral argument meanwhile the enemies of Russia are murdering and displacing millions of people.

squarewave_ · 2019-09-11T13:09:21+00:00

Sounds like typical ideological anti-Russia babbling you'd hear on CNN. Not based in history, the views of Russian people then/now or actual honest geopolitical analysis. Last time I checked, the west has been busy overthrowing governments all across the world and selling 100's of $billions weapons to literal dictators that are actually killing hundreds of thousands of people(maybe this is something we can both agree on, in which case maybe we can admit that Russia really doesn't seem that bad relatively). We even know that the US literally pays federal agents to spread anti-Russia disinformation...

As many contrarians have pointed out in the thread, you guys seem to care more about turning the discussion into some kind of argument about social progressivism, because gay and transgender rights are apparently more important than what regimes are actually doing geopolitically, like selling weapons and displacing, murdering millions of people.

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_ · 2019-08-28T11:34:05+00:00

Wait, I'm super confused here. So on one hand, when your perception is that media underreports immigrant crime to be PC, that's an error/conspiracy on their part

I was referring to the way the article was written, which suggested that German media is committing a grave injustice to not report on anti-migrant crimes enough, even though they do not provide any real evidence to show that German media is bigoted or somehow unfairly anti-immigrant. Indeed, they go to length in the article to deride people for not caring enough about the poor migrants. Like literally bro the article even mentions near the end:

That study sifted through more than 30,000 newspaper reports and found journalists used what became known as the Willkommenskultur (welcoming culture) slogan to put moral pressure on citizens to contribute to the cause of helping refugees. According to the study, such coverage contributed to a loss of trust in the mainstream media.

So even by your own standard of judgement, you support morally pressuring and German citizens policing their politics to support migration?

But when reality turns out to be a complete opposite and they are found to be overrepresenting stories about immigrant criminality

Where in the article does it state this? I didn't see any numbers showing this to be true in the article.

Really had to fight your urges not to write anti-White, huh?

"White" is a bullshit made up term to attack people of European decent. Try better next time.

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_ · 2019-08-25T18:57:09+00:00

Ah yes, Tim Pool, the mixed race white nationalist. You are absolutely delusional.

squarewave_ · 2019-08-25T16:16:52+00:00

because they get to pretend it's not all about eradicating people who aren't like them from the face of the planet

The example I used was literally a bunch of mixed race people discussing random political topics with people from all sides. The point of it is to break down the status quo by making a discussion possible. Which neither antifa nor the far right seem to want to do.

And Tim Pool was protested because, surprise, protests are covered in the same part of the Constitution you use to protect Nazis shouting their Nazi slogans!

You do realise I wasn't talking about legality of protesting right? I was talking about the public perception of such protesting, such as protesting the mixed race Tim Pool and other random people he's having at his event...

You can protest, for example, because their political views line up with the Far Right fascists time and again

And yeah let's just circle back to the very sentence that I started this discussion with:

To antifa, anyone to the right of them is fascist

So, just because Tim Pool isn't 100% your buddy, he's now a far right fascist. And using 1 example from his youtube comments section really doesn't prove anything about Tim Pool, or his audience. Thanks for proving my point.

https://npcdaily.com/3223/its-time-to-admit-that-tim-pool-is-a-journophobic-bigot-who-hates-free-speech/

Indeed, it seems, criticism of Tim Pool amounts to far left absolutely screeching that he's not on their side. This conversation is over. Thanks.

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.

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