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> And that amounts to billions? You are a weird person...

An aircraft carrier alone is worth billions. Learn how to count, weirdo.

> Just a quick reminder, this ain't the first NATO mission to the area.

Yeah I know, we brought terrific destruction, killed millions of innocents and maimed more in the surroundings.

> The only message that this position would send is that wars of conquest are acceptable

If the only thing that makes a war bad in your eyes is the goal of conquest, than that seems rather hypocritical in my eyes. Whether land is taken or not, what really makes a country independent is who governs it. Who cares about land, it's just soil and it's not worth human lives.

At least the citizens of eastern UA had referenda to decide if they wanted to be with Russia. I don't think we granted Iraqis or Afghans the same privilege.

> You’re basically describing the start of WWII.

This is such an absurd statement I won't waste my time debating it.

So what? The CFO is Norwegian.

Since the CEO of Wikipedia is Egyptian born, would you define Wikipedia as Egyptian owned? Note that Egypt is a US backed dictatorship.

I'm sorry to insist but there are groups here who abuse flagging as a censorship tool to suppress opinions they disagree with.

Anything that goes against the status quo has a high chance of being flagged, I've seen this happen over and over and especially recently.

Do you think the CSIS has more incentive to inform you accurately, or according to their agenda, which is exclusively to protect Canadian's capital power?

> Their agenda is “A safe, secure and prosperous Canada, through trusted intelligence and advice”.

That's their "agenda" for the public. The real agenda is to protect Canadian's capital and to prevent communism from ever taking place in Canada. As any other western secret service.

> If they were caught lying, it would erode trust and disrupt their agenda.

Oh boy, I wish the world was such a nice place. The secret service MO when caught lying is to firmly deny it in spite of all evidence and keep doing what they do.

The USA are still meddling in Haiti[0], so don't discount their role into Haiti's current situation.

> The Dominican Republic is on the same damn island, also had a colonial history

Not just any colonial history: the USA invaded the Dominican Republic as well. Crazy how they can't refrain themselves from doing it over and over.

Now, comparing Haiti and Dominican Republic solely on the basis that both are on the same island and had a colonial history is too much of a simplification to mean anything, and to be fair verges on racist conclusions. Almost like you're implying that Haitians are inherently worse than Dominicans.

- 0: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/10/05/1042518732/-th...

You know what I mean. The USA, which the poster is defending. It doesn't really matter what his nationality is.

How long before we realize Israel is behaving like a loose cannon, willing to commit any depravity in order to complete the genocide and deportation of the Palestinian people?

Here comes debate bro with his list of fallacies.

Like I don't know what an ad hominem is or I care at all for the approval of a bunch of privileged shielded liberals...get a life. This isn't a high school debate contest and I couldn't care less about your rules when I know I'm right.

No matter who killed him or if he was killed at all, I'm glad Navalny is gone. One less fascist on this planet, and it's definitely helping expose hypocritical liberals like you.

And anyway you still have no hard proof that he was killed by the government. A previous poisoning is not proof of his assassination now, although it makes it likely. In any court, it wouldn't still be enough to warrant an arrest.

But who needs evidence when all you care about is discrediting the enemy and mounting a case to escalate a war?

Few days and we're supposed to know everything about Navalny's death. 5 years after Epstein's death and we still have no idea how did he die.

Usually HN is pretty biased but this thread is just based, thanks.

Is the truth too "biased" for you?

Loving how very based is this HN thread

> downvotes, which indicate that a majority of users feel your comment does not add to the discussion.

I've been on HN for far less than you have but I still have more karma than you do, it means your contributions add less to the discussion than mine do, somehow.

Anyway I reposted it because it got flagged. It just had 2 downvotes, that's pretty normal and I'm used to my opinion not being popular here. After all there's lots of privileged americans and westerners in HN userbase.

But maybe you'd prefer to hear only one side?

Perhaps we should have only "discussions" where everyone agrees that the Western liberal point of view is the best and there are no downvotes at all. Oh that would be so enriching and stimulating!

> Why is irrelevant when he was in russian prison in a faraway region and only the official apparatus with putin at the top had the means to kill him.

It is never irrelevant. I feel it's actually damaging for putin to have killed him now, so I still wonder why would have he done it?

Mafia shit is a naive answer and only shows your bias, Putin is not a mafia boss but the leader of a great power.

> Also why did you put Navalnys wife in quotations?

Shes known to have had other companions while he was in jail. All pretty rich. I strongly believe her appearance at the Munich security conference was just a carefully planned show.

Kinda, yes. Curious timing as well. But why would Putin kill Navalny now, while he's in jail and inoffensive? Cui prodest?

Wether that's true or not (given his ideological leanings there would be nothing surprising if he was corrupted), he still was a fascist and a racist.

Hardly the symbol of democracy that western liberals are struggling to make him to be.

BTW don't you find it curious how his "wife" was already at the munich security conference, ready to give a speech to the world just few hours after his death?

Oh that makes sense, I always repost flagged comments since flagging is abused so often that it has become a joke.

No actual moderator has ever complained of it with me, so that means it's just groups of highly biased users who can't stand what I have to say.

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Healthcare has been "solved" already in many countries, it's just the USA that can't deal with it.

You don't need "disruption" or a technological revolution to fix healthcare, you just need socialism. Just look at what Cuba is doing for once and learn something.

It takes comments like this to realize how quickly fascism has spread from Ukraine to the rest of the world.

A couple years of propaganda supporting "valiant heroes" like Azov and here we are pointing fingers on the traitor to be arrested.

Maybe not 1/2 years ago, but look at the hundreds of videos of Ukrainian citizens being forcedly taken from the streets and thrown into the frontlines only to die shortly after. There were many voluntaries when the war started, now UA forced recruitment attempts are met with civilians filming and trying to stop them.

> you are so obviously projecting the upper class life you have lived. Typical shithead.

I've never had an upper class life, quite the opposite. What's a shithead? You mean someone privileged like you are now?

> You know what feels amazing? Having no clue how to pay the rent and then you figure out a way to pay it.

LOL if it feels amazing why don't you donate most of what you got and go back to worrying about the rent? No?

You clearly have never struggled financially. I still have anxiety about making it to the end of the month even now that I don't need to worry about it. It absolutely sucks and makes all your life worse.

I've never heard anyone who's actually struggled spout the nonsense you have.

> Only people who believe that the world should be better, AND that it is possible to make it better expend effort to make it better.

I agree, but saying the world is much better than in the past while it still has all the same basic problems (wars, hunger, preventable diseases, poverty, exploitation, etc) sounds to me just like privileged people patting themselves in the back. In the meantime, children die under bombs and starving.

This is what shielded first world upper class tell themselves to not feel guilty, and at the same time to make sure that no actual change threatening the status quo that keeps them well fed happens too fast.

You never hear someone struggling to pay rent or to buy groceries tell you "God bless we have it so much better than 150 years ago". Guess why?

When was the last time "the people" were actually in charge?

I think "democracy" died in ancient Greece, along with its actual meaning.

The only modern interpretation that is consistent with the original meaning is a dictatorship of the proletariat.

Tell me again how the country with the highest incarcerated population in the world and prisoner slavery is a beacon of freedom. Forgot to mention, the prison system is built to be profitable for corporations.

Truly a miracle of capitalism and Western democracy.

That the world hasn't enjoyed peace at all. The West just relocated its wars somewhere else.

Asian men didn't have it good. The Vietnamese, Laotian, Cambodian, still have unexploded USA bombs on their territories. African and South American men didn't either.

It seems nuclear weapons only allowed one side of the world to bully the rest.

> peace we enjoy today

Perhaps you didn't read the news in the past two years..

Did you really need a Macbook pro to be just an overclocked terminal?

Seems like a waste to be fair, could have used a $500 refurbished ThinkPad for that.