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    Well? You were so ready to prove me wrong and Iā€™m still waiting. Iā€™ve given you days to find the sources for your claims, but I guess itā€™s hard to find sources for made up shit. Maybe you should follow your own advice and read before you write, otherwise you just end up self-owning yourself.

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      Nah, I actually wrote a thing out but lemmy 0.18.3 was buggy as hell and it didnā€™t post, and it ruined my mood for this. Since youā€™ve shown yourself to be so lazy that you couldnā€™t just google the statistics of English speakers in Russia (hint, wikipedia has some easily digestible data), itā€™s pretty clear youā€™re just wasting my time and moving the goalposts, misrepresenting your own sources and generally acting in bad faith, and the comment thread is so hidden that engaging with your bad faith wonā€™t even help to reach even actually curious lurkers. No point in it for me really, prove yourself right all you want in an endless thread talking to yourself. Maybe this talking to this lad instead, you both think alike.

      As evidence of your nonsense:

      Unless you want to provide with a clear source where NATO calls it a revolution Iā€™m going to claim they didnā€™t, because I couldnā€™t find where they said that.

      What is the official name for that coup, Coup of Dignity?

      In that case all should be good considering the US and NATO did respond, NATO also publicly if I may add.

      Actually read those and point me where the actual de-escalation is in there. Literally dismiss Russiaā€™s claims offhandedly while claiming ā€œchanges in transparencyā€ or other political non-statements.

      I did, this is false. Your sources stated that the US was backing the coup, not NATO.

      Your honour, I didnā€™t kill him, it was my brain who told the finger to pull the trigger.

      The latter NATO literally cannot fulfill because that is a decision of individual countries.

      Military defence alliance canā€™t control its members, logically.

      Russia obviously denies

      lmao, find me an official Russian source denying their support for the independence of the eastern republics.

      Itā€™s unrealistic to expect that your borders be respected before there can be peace talks?

      Yes. Find me a single case in modern history where a peace talk only started (read: not a surrender) only after the winning party abandoned all their military gains. You can probably think of one or two, but thatā€™s a good exercise nevertheless.

      Funny.

      Had to check, you donā€™t even read what your own sources say.

      Honestly, go waste somebody elseā€™s time with your debate pervert nonsense. If you really care that much that none of Russiaā€™s demands go answered, go join the foreign legion or something, Iā€™ve head they even help with student loans. Just dont pester some rando correcting your ā€œwhat guaranteesā€ vagueposting.

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        Lol, you became a caricature of the same things you criticize others for and then some. Absolutely unhinged reply.

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            You tell others to ā€œread before you writeā€ but then yourself donā€™t do it. Like you said, itā€™s quick google to see that ā€œa lotā€ of Russians donā€™t speak English. But instead of doing a quick google to see if youā€™re full of shit you just write it out anyway. No regards to you own ā€œread before you writeā€ mantra. In fact every place where I specifically asked for proof is a place where youā€™re either completely wrong or partially wrong.

            Then thereā€™s the whole ā€œweā€™re here to have a discussion, why are you even here to discuss something if you donā€™t care about it?ā€ as if youā€™re open to discussion. Except when I actually push back you turn around and go ā€œNo point in discussing, nobody else will see itā€ which is entirely contradictory to US having ā€œdiscussionā€.

            Then thereā€™s the deliberately vague part which is how the entire thread started. Your first comment literally ā€œmaybe this or maybe that and maybe something else wouldā€™ve happenedā€. Could it be any more vague? I even pressed you on specifically mentioning what you mean by guarantees and your response was somehow even more vague, telling me to read Putins speech and figure them out on my own. You did something similar the second time when I asked proof of a lot of Russians speaking English and you told me to go find the data myself. Any and all attempts for any specificity out of you is met with vagueness or deflection. Which makes it pretty ironic for you to call people questioning your vagueness as vagueposting.

            And then you pull out every ā€œdebateā€ lord trick in the book. You say Iā€™m wasting your time, Iā€™m moving goalposts, Iā€™m in bad faith. You call me names, like ā€œdebate pervertā€. And then you pull a series of ā€œevidence of nonsenseā€ where youā€™re just raging.

            I honestly had a good laugh over your entire comment because it epitomizes your hypocrisy.

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              Like you said, itā€™s quick google to see that ā€œa lotā€ of Russians donā€™t speak English.

              What is that number again, I canā€™t seem to find the wikipedia article on it. \s

              Really silly of you to come back and not even look into it. If you want something even more precise, I challenge you to find something called ā€œEnglish proficiency index,ā€ but the entire point there is that you wasted my time asking for source on some incredibly easy to find non-politicised source for data to deflect from your baseless speculation on how ā€œRussians fall for everythingā€ of their own propaganda. I wonder what youā€™ll think of the countries lower on that index. If you even look for it, that is.

              No regards to you own ā€œread before you writeā€ mantra.

              You seem to be mistaken. Itā€™s not that I didnā€™t read it, itā€™s that I didnā€™t feel like adding it in the comment because itā€™s such easy to find info. But since you seem to be incapable of doing a basic google search to verify, and I think I should be your personal source-fetching bot, Iā€™m stubbornly not giving you the source because I ā€œgave upā€ on you. On the other hand you also came out with your own claim of ā€œlots donā€™t speak English,ā€ with no source to contradict me, which is funny because you had a whole week to find one.

              I can be petty sometimes, and if you keep pestering me Iā€™ll only be petty from now on because youā€™re just a silly person with silly behaviour and I ainā€™t got time in my life to take you seriously.

              discussion

              Everyone has limits, and you seem so stuck on completely failing to grasp even your own sources that I donā€™t see why I should bother. I usually engage with silly people like you in forums because other, more curious and interested people might read it. Since youā€™re just being (intentionally?) silly and misreading your own sources on NATO or not remembering the official NATO name for the coup is ā€œRevolution of Dignity,ā€ I donā€™t think thereā€™s much use to this one here and youā€™re free to go pester somebody else.

              vagueposting

              I like how you accuse me of ā€œvaguepostingā€ by being vague in your accusations. My very first comments were being made about they hypothetical guarantees you took so much issue with. You still havenā€™t shown how those guarantees wouldā€™ve not prevented the war or been sane de-escalations.

              Since you always seem to forget: de-escalate war on Donnetsk and Luhansk, recognise their independence or at least do proper procedure on it, disband Azov and ban neo-nazi symbology, reinstate Russian as a co-official language, guarantee that Ukraine will not join NATO and thereā€™ll be no nukes in Russiaā€™s critical neighbouring countries.

              I bet each of those wouldā€™ve been welcome there, but alas, NATO only cared about ā€œtransparency,ā€ from your own sources, and did not consider a single of Russiaā€™s complaints as valid. Now please, go off again on ā€œwhat guarantees???ā€ as if I havenā€™t said that like 4 times now.

              Those complaints are in the literal declaration speech ffs, but no I did not tell you to figure out on my own. Go read the comment again, I specifically quoted the specific sections. Your memory seems a bit wonky even though Iā€™ve been apparently living rent-free in your mind for a week now. I donā€™t live rent-free in my own home, can we switch that? Go re-read the whole thread.

              You did something similar the second time when I asked proof of a lot of Russians speaking English and you told me to go find the data myself.

              As I said, I actually did put the source there, but lemmy bugged out and didnā€™t post, which led me to realise I didnā€™t want to bother with you anymore because youā€™re playing dumb. This last comment was specifically about how youā€™re playing dumb so hard you couldnā€™t even search for English speaker statistics per country, as if itā€™s some huge gargantuan task. I bet you did that just to distract from the main point of Russians being able to critically analyse text, though you probably donā€™t even remember that. Do you only know English, by any chance?

              And then you pull out every ā€œdebateā€ lord trick in the book. You say Iā€™m wasting your time, Iā€™m moving goalposts, Iā€™m in bad faith.

              Ah yeah, the old debate trick of saying ā€œfuck off, youā€™re being an arse, go pester somebody else.ā€ Iā€™m not ā€œdebatingā€ with you anymore, nor was I ever to begin with. I just want you to find something more worthwhile to do with your life because I donā€™t have an obligation to correct every single arrogantly ignorant person on the internet, just because theyā€™re feeling lonely. I do it of my own volition when I think I might change or learn something. As I said before, nobody else is watching, and you donā€™t seem to have much interest in either learning or teaching, so this is indeed ā€œa waste of my time.ā€ You might find more interest if you send a letter to your congressperson.

              just raging.

              I guess the internet is weird, people canā€™t differentiate fun mockery from actual anger. I was mocking how incredibly ignorant you were showing yourself off to be, by either stating complete unsourced nonsense, or asking for sources for things that are literally in the links you provided, or even failing to understand how military alliances work. Obviously since I have no hope for you I wonā€™t actually put the effort to explain why those are problems, I guess youā€™d just deflect to something else as always.

              You call me names, like ā€œdebate pervertā€.

              Yep. I stand by that.

              I honestly had a good laugh over your entire comment because it epitomizes your hypocrisy.

              Thatā€™s cool, at least something good came out of this whole interaction. I also enjoyed how you came back after the obvious bait of ā€œcare to elaborate.ā€ Seems like you really like me. But I donā€™t like you, go find somebody who reciprocates.

              Now, if you reply (and youā€™re obviously gonna reply, you just canā€™t leave me be), before your own comment list in your own words every single demand from Russia wrt the war, and whether theyā€™ve been conceded on or ignored. I wonder if youā€™ll find something, but please donā€™t come back without making it clear you understand those demands clearly.

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                Really silly of you to come back and not even look into it. If you want something even more precise, I challenge you to find something called ā€œEnglish proficiency index,ā€ but the entire point there is that you wasted my time asking for source on some incredibly easy to find non-politicised source for data to deflect from your baseless speculation on how ā€œRussians fall for everythingā€ of their own propaganda. I wonder what youā€™ll think of the countries lower on that index. If you even look for it, that is.

                Jesusā€¦ And you tell me how I misrepresent sources. But unlike you I actually take effort to explain why youā€™re wrong. EF EPI evaluates the English proficiency based on who took the test. It is not even an estimation of how big part of the population actually speaks english (on any level). It just states that from the russian people who chose to take test they proficiency is at B2 level. Also, you still didnā€™t even bother to link a source.

                You seem to be mistaken. Itā€™s not that I didnā€™t read it, itā€™s that I didnā€™t feel like adding it in the comment because itā€™s such easy to find info. But since you seem to be incapable of doing a basic google search to verify, and I think I should be your personal source-fetching bot, Iā€™m stubbornly not giving you the source because I ā€œgave upā€ on you. On the other hand you also came out with your own claim of ā€œlots donā€™t speak English,ā€ with no source to contradict me, which is funny because you had a whole week to find one.

                I also didnā€™t add any sources because most of should be an easy find, funny how you give me shit about it but then turn around and do the exact same thing. Also what the fuck? I never claimed ā€œlots donā€™t speak Englishā€. Youā€™re literally making shit up about what I supposedly said.

                Anyway since you now indirectly asked for it, and it seems itā€™s not that easy of a search for you, I give you the source that Russians in general donā€™t really speak English. I hope your Russian is good. Actually that wasnā€™t a quick search, a quick search wouldā€™ve found you an English site that actually gave a far more generous estimation (about 10%), but Iā€™m guessing you wouldā€™ve taken an issue with a random English side stating the obvious so I dug a bit deeper to find a more official source, specifically to prove how fucking wrong you are.

                I can be petty sometimes, and if you keep pestering me Iā€™ll only be petty from now on because youā€™re just a silly person with silly behaviour and I ainā€™t got time in my life to take you seriously.

                Maybe you should considering itā€™s becoming more and more apparent how little you actually know about the shit youā€™re talking about. You might actually learn something from me.

                Everyone has limits, and you seem so stuck on completely failing to grasp even your own sources that I donā€™t see why I should bother. I usually engage with silly people like you in forums because other, more curious and interested people might read it. Since youā€™re just being (intentionally?) silly and misreading your own sources on NATO or not remembering the official NATO name for the coup is ā€œRevolution of Dignity,ā€ I donā€™t think thereā€™s much use to this one here and youā€™re free to go pester somebody else.

                I wasnā€™t going to specifically address one part of your ramblings, nothing there deserved to be addressed because it was all bullshit. So donā€™t throw out some easy gotchas like YOU getting the name wrong.

                I like how you accuse me of ā€œvaguepostingā€ by being vague in your accusations. My very first comments were being made about they hypothetical guarantees you took so much issue with. You still havenā€™t shown how those guarantees wouldā€™ve not prevented the war or been sane de-escalations.

                Since you always seem to forget: de-escalate war on Donnetsk and Luhansk, recognise their independence or at least do proper procedure on it, disband Azov and ban neo-nazi symbology, reinstate Russian as a co-official language, guarantee that Ukraine will not join NATO and thereā€™ll be no nukes in Russiaā€™s critical neighbouring countries.

                Iā€™ve been trying to tell you for a while now, the demand of those guarantees is baseless. What is the justification for those demands? Should the rest of the world just roll over for Russia because they have concerns? Please, enlighten me how are they justified?

                Ah yeah, the old debate trick of saying ā€œfuck off, youā€™re being an arse, go pester somebody else.ā€ Iā€™m not ā€œdebatingā€ with you anymore, nor was I ever to begin with. I just want you to find something more worthwhile to do with your life because I donā€™t have an obligation to correct every single arrogantly ignorant person on the internet, just because theyā€™re feeling lonely. I do it of my own volition when I think I might change or learn something. As I said before, nobody else is watching, and you donā€™t seem to have much interest in either learning or teaching, so this is indeed ā€œa waste of my time.ā€ You might find more interest if you send a letter to your congressperson.

                You say that, but then you also claim you wonā€™t even give me the time of day. Another empty statement by you.

                I guess the internet is weird, people canā€™t differentiate fun mockery from actual anger. I was mocking how incredibly ignorant you were showing yourself off to be, by either stating complete unsourced nonsense, or asking for sources for things that are literally in the links you provided, or even failing to understand how military alliances work. Obviously since I have no hope for you I wonā€™t actually put the effort to explain why those are problems, I guess youā€™d just deflect to something else as always.

                Well if being deliberately wrong is fun mockery then by all means, be a joke.

                Thatā€™s cool, at least something good came out of this whole interaction. I also enjoyed how you came back after the obvious bait of ā€œcare to elaborate.ā€ Seems like you really like me. But I donā€™t like you, go find somebody who reciprocates.

                I do actually like you. Youā€™re part of my daily entertainment.

                Now, if you reply (and youā€™re obviously gonna reply, you just canā€™t leave me be), before your own comment list in your own words every single demand from Russia wrt the war, and whether theyā€™ve been conceded on or ignored. I wonder if youā€™ll find something, but please donā€™t come back without making it clear you understand those demands clearly.

                Iā€™m just going to stick my hand in your playbook and say every single demand is easy to google so you should know that I know what they are. I donā€™t need to give sources to things that are easy to google. Did I get it right?

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                  Accidentally posted before writing fully, if youā€™re wondering about the deleted comment.

                  You might actually learn something from me.

                  like patienceā€¦ lots and lots of patienceā€¦

                  like YOU getting the name wrong.

                  Whatā€™s the ā€œcorrectā€ name again, big guy? Say it in ALL CAPS like you like to do, like weā€™re in the 90s internet still.

                  Please, enlighten me how are they justified?

                  Just two that are obvious, tolerating of Nazi symbology and members in Azov (your initial source on this did not go into detail on how exactly Azov doesnā€™t allow Nazis in it anymore after being explicitly created by them 10 years ago), and de-escalating the war on Luhansk and Donnetsk and recognising their desire to be independent. Iā€™m not sure how somebody could be against those things, let alone deny that theyā€™ve been happening for 10 years now. The rest are more complicated, find a friend to talk to about those. But please, donā€™t address the important bit and go talk about random unrelated things like language levels, which is a tangent on top of a tangent on top of a tangent.

                  10%

                  About as much as Mexico. Not a bad number at all, and nowadays we have cool tools like google translate or yandex. I canā€™t actually read Cyrillic script but using those tools you can see that they name something like ā€œschool languagesā€ in which 20-30% of people study a foreign language at school but donā€™t use it day-to-day. Thatā€™s a very big number if you compare it to other non-EU developed countries. Hopefully you yourself know Russian and can help correct if I mistranslated it. Thatā€™d be the first time your knowledge would contribute to the conversation.

                  Iā€™m guessing you wouldā€™ve taken an issue with a random English side stating the obvious

                  erm, no? Arenā€™t we on an English site?

                  On the other hand your other source isnā€™t particularly ā€œofficial,ā€ itā€™s just a blog in Russian. You couldā€™ve provided the English one instead, but I guess you preferred to obfuscate it all. The only source listed is the Russian census, which comes straight from the Russian government. Since you like those sources and clearly are fluent in Russian, you can help me translate the excel file hosted in the Russian Govt website here to check on those ā€œstudy languages.ā€ Iā€™m not the one who throws away sources because theyā€™re from ā€œpropaganda outletsā€ here, you are. From the very beginning of the discussion.

                  Also what the fuck? I never claimed ā€œlots donā€™t speak Englishā€. Youā€™re literally making shit up about what I supposedly said.

                  Like you said, itā€™s quick google to see that ā€œa lotā€ of Russians donā€™t speak English.

                  lol

                  You say that, but then you also claim you wonā€™t even give me the time of day. Another empty statement by you.

                  You do know that when a person uses ā€œwhenā€ it means that they wonā€™t do it when the ā€œwhenā€ clause isnā€™t true? You have not shown any new info, and also donā€™t seem willing to learn. But no, I wonā€™t give the time of day to randos on the internet just because they demand it, get some irl friends.

                  Well if being deliberately wrong is fun mockery then by all means, be a joke.

                  Please elaborate on why every thing there was wrong, since youā€™re so sure of it. Do a whole a paragraph per statement. Iā€™ll be sure to pat you on the back. The mockery was pointing out how ridiculous your statements were, if you didnā€™t catch it.

                  I do actually like you. Youā€™re part of my daily entertainment.

                  Thatā€™s sad.

                  But although I find you incredibly annoying as a person, your silliness is also entertaining. Like an overly-aggressive Chihuahua or something. Or a Mensa teenager.

                  Iā€™m just going to stick my hand in your playbook and say every single demand is easy to google so you should know that I know what they are. I donā€™t need to give sources to things that are easy to google. Did I get it right?

                  No, you didnā€™t get it right. You got it wrong. Congrats. Here. I even hid it in the previous reply for ease of fetching later. I wonder if you can find where the easter egg was.

                  If you think youā€™re making me angry or something, and you take pleasure in that: no, you just bore me. Youā€™re boring, not nearly as witty as you think you are, and about as engaging as playing an idle game while on the bus or waiting for the food to boil. If youā€™re doing this out of some sadism, youā€™re probably going to be more efficient about it by frying ants. If you want to learn, go read a book or two, I recommend ā€œBlackshirts and the Reds.ā€ And if you want to help Ukraine, go join the foreign legion. But youā€™re definitely not ā€œschoolingā€ anybody here, specially since itā€™s literally just you and me now, and the Jigglypuff lullaby sounds like the Yellow Parenti speech next to your writing.

                  Come on mate, surely you have somebody who cares more about what you have to say in your life.

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                    Just two that are obvious, tolerating of Nazi symbology and members in Azov (your initial source on this did not go into detail on how exactly Azov doesnā€™t allow Nazis in it anymore after being explicitly created by them 10 years ago), and de-escalating the war on Luhansk and Donnetsk and recognising their desire to be independent.

                    You do understand what justified means? You just gave me examples of the demands, not how theyā€™re justified.

                    Iā€™m not sure how somebody could be against those things, let alone deny that theyā€™ve been happening for 10 years now.

                    Iā€™m sure you donā€™t. I can understand being critical of those things but that is not justification. If your neighbor beats up their wife/girlfriend do you think it would be justified to kick down their door, beat the man into submission , kill their children, thrash the entire apartment and call it a job well done? Would it be more justified if you before-hand told that you would do it?

                    But please, donā€™t address the important bit and go talk about random unrelated things like language levels, which is a tangent on top of a tangent on top of a tangent.

                    You do realize youā€™re the one who brought up language levels?

                    erm, no? Arenā€™t we on an English site?

                    Because in this case the English source looks better than reality?

                    On the other hand your other source isnā€™t particularly ā€œofficial,ā€ itā€™s just a blog in Russian.

                    I guess your Russian is not that good then. Itā€™s a blog post that goes over the 2020 population consensus data. That numbers there are official numbers. More than 99% of Russians stated they know only Russian.

                    I honestly donā€™t have anything else to say about the rest of your comment. It goes too off the tangent to really focus on any individual part there. Youā€™re just going on and on about how you donā€™t care but you still keep coming back.