Intelligence is inherited, but evenly distributed over the population/across (so called) ethnic groups You’re skimming over a wikipedia article, but the guy you’re replying to isn’t off the mark.

Easy to say to starving children. (Which is what happened in op’s article)

Calles ‘empire in decay’ hahaha

Serbia is not former Warsaw pact.

Yes and the 33 million people whose lives have been uprooted by the invasion, are undoubtedly very happy Russia is ‘fixing’ this with violence.

The reason I am interested in the Ukrainian people is because I am European and volunteer in refugee relief. I am confronted with the human cost of this invasion on a very, very regular basis. The lives of 33 million people have been violently uprooted by the decision of a foreign state, and the only socialist stance to take in that regard is clear condemnation. It is that simple.

My question was: how does the violence of the invasion help the self determination of Ukrainian people?

I’ll be more explicit: why not simply acknowledge that the invasion is not only unlawful, but deeply immoral – and completely contradictory to the self determination of a people?

Right, so how does the full scale, violent invasion by a foreign state help the self determination of both Ukrainian peoples?

Question: do you believe in the self-determination of Ukrainians?

A conspiracy theory popular amongst delusional Marxists-Leninists, and that’s an important difference.

Still it’s funny to see these (often) so called anti colonial thinkers struggle with the idea of self determination of other nations. Nothing can happen without American involvement, obvs.

Afghanistan did not arise as a result from colonial powers. That’s false and completely ignores the self determination of Afghans.

Also, the stuff you’re saying about how the country was just a simple, tribal place is actually very hurtful. Borderline racist.

I don’t know. All I know is that the exhibition is purposely – and even justifiably – provocative. :)

I am not making a normative statement. I actually kind of appreciate the effort of the museum. But being astonished by the intended outrage is kind of… I don’t know, naive?

You are astonished that people are upset over gross discrimination?

Depending on your hometown, that’s a terrible philosophy.

I am pretty sure much, probably most, of the US’s deserts will remain desert. But otherwise I agree: deserts are beautiful and not just empty. But hey, the US is addicted to energy and as long as that’s the case this is probably the least damaging way to generate that energy.

I have an active account and it also didn’t pop up in pwned.