jevgeni

That's the same level of laws that you get in Western countries, including Finland. Ukrainian is a state language and public servants must be able to speak it at a minimum.

No. I said elsewhere that a good example is Finland. Your whataboutism isn't helpful.

But Native Americans weren't Dutch, were they? Immigrants CHOSE to come to the USA and CHOSE to adapt. A bit different in case of most russian minorities.

If you consider what the Americans did to the natives bad (which you should) you should be as concerned for russian minorities. This "if Americans are bad, we should be allowed to be bad as well" take is tiresome.

1. Why would I need to avoid it?

2. Visas are not a right, but a privilege.

3. Skripal case.

Cool genocide denial, bro.

US didn't annex the Germans or the Dutch into their country. Stop pretending that russia somehow grew peacefully.

So what, you approve this standard?

Some measures (like the visa ban) are justified. Telling them what you think - sure. Unjustified violence obviously not.

Russia has "filtration camps" right now. China commits genocide against the Uyghurs. I'd say _that's_ a baseline for calling someone a terrorist. USA is marginally better.

Do you assume AfD electorate in Germany is also "military minded, semi-trained and armed"?

Any German person I spoke to has a deep feeling of responsibility for WW2. Even today, even younger generations. Believe it or not it makes the society stronger. Russia is far away from that.

Being liked is a privilege you have to earn. Thinking you are owed nuanced, friendly treatment is a bit naive after what russia has done.

Since it's a political organization with stated political goals, it might make sense to look at those goals. Not to mention that even with those goals they didn't manage to break into parliament, i.e. reach 2% of the votes (if we are talking about "the rise of nazism in Ukraine", btw). Right now you're going "symbol scary!". By that logic German AfD, the French Front Nationale, or UKIP are totally above board in that respect...

> Ukrainians and Russians are mostly ethnically slavs, ugh.

Thanks for your racial theories...

> Oh please, it's like claiming that Duke Nukem is a represantative origin of women's rights in the US.

It was indicative of the culture though. This is why today you won't see a popular game with such rhetoric as Duke Nukem anymore. But Russians still don't realize Brat 2 is racist.

Cool! Let's validate. Let's find a useful content page in russian and see if it works say in Tartar.

https://tatarstan.ru/documents.htm

So, a guide through all the relevant administrative documents you might need. Let's click the "TAT" button to switch to the Tartar language... Oh wait, what's this? It doesn't exist? Imagine that. Another Potemkin website. The most ironic thing is that the "Report of the Tatarstan Foundation for Citizen's Right Protection" (PDF) is russian only.

Regarding your pre-edit statement about seething in anti-russian hate: if russians don't like it, they can stop invading, stealing and killing. Maybe that'll help?

So why claim that America wants freedom at the expense of everyone else?

So at which percentage of the population should you start to respect the culture of minorities?

I'll make it even easier. Go to any LOCAL government website in Russia where there is a concentration of these ethnic minorities and find me a version in their language.

Good examples of treatment of minorities are Finland with their treatment of the Swedish minorities there.

You can fact check it by going to the website of the people you are calling neonazis (Azov) and find a neonazi agenda.

It was never really about NATO [1] for the russians, but as Putin said in his initial speech at the beginning of the invasion to "find a final solution to the Ukrainian question).

If you want to see the origin of russian ethno-fascism, try to find an early 2000s russian action film called "Brother 2" (Брат 2). It was immensely popular in russia at the time and is the most racist thing I've ever seen.

1 - https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/exclusive-war-beg...

What would be the alternative? Wanting freedom for everyone in the world at the cost of your own?

Russia is fascist by assimilation (in contrast to the Third Reich which was fascist by exclusion). As in, you either call yourself russian or get marginalized. It's so pervasive that people stopped noticing it. There are 200 ethnicities, yet all the federal websites are only in russian and maybe english.

This is why Putin has this fetish for "Ukraine is not a country / we are the same people" narrative.

Then don't make that distinction? I originally wasn't.

Point is, whether it is a huge farm of ASICs or PoS holdings, it still leads to centralization.

If the value of gold is defined ONLY by the cost/effort/energy of mining it and the cost of mining silver is similar, then the prices should be similar and not orders of magnitude different per troy ounce.

You're confusing funding and cash flow. Funding is invested in value generating assets. Just because the money is spent doesn't mean the asset (like a conveyor belt) evaporates. It's essentially the equity holders allowing the firm to use their stuff. Which is an ongoing thing.

Crypto-to-cash liquidity is miniscule compared to cash-to-cash liquidity or cash-to-crypto liquidity.

The hurt tone really counters my argument. /s

So according to you a protocol that prioritizes nodes with higher holdings of the crypto currency is somehow decentralized?

So the value of gold should be exactly the same as the value of silver or coal then?

That's not even remotely coherent. Value of gold is not in the fact that it was pulled out of the ground.

Oh, so just like CDOs and MBSs in 2007?

You just need to look.

https://www.engadget.com/the-morning-after-cryptocurrency-ma...

Cost of storage for gold is nowhere close to the cost requirements of CCs.

No, I haven’t. That’s why I used the term “hashtag form” instead of just “hashtag”.