RE: Russia and Ukraine
May 7, 2023 at 3:29 pm
(This post was last modified: May 7, 2023 at 3:36 pm by Irreligious Atheist.)
(May 6, 2023 at 7:00 pm)Helios Wrote: That is the dumbest take ever. This position is neither virtue signaling and no not taking action is not the same as being okay with something. Those are some absolutely epic mental gymnastic moves to force reality to conform to your warped idealogy
Not as though it's going to matter as there is no certainty Russia keeping Crimea. After they lose the war.
The word ok (oll korrect, originally, or all correct) has many different definitions. Here is one of them; used to express assent, agreement, or acceptance.
Acceptance. If I'm not willing to take Russia out of Crimea by force, I'm in a state of acceptance. I'm ok with Russia taking Ukrainian land. I'm ok with girls being barred from school. I'm ok with Putin staying in power and there being no regime change. I am ok with no tribunals for Putin. I am ok with all of this. I do not like these things though. In a just, ideal world, a man like Putin would not have power in any country including Russia, let alone Ukraine. Neither would Joe Biden, or Trudeau, etc. They'd be out of office too. But we're not living in an ideal world and I'm a realist, so yes, I'm ok with no school for girls and gains for daddy Putin.
The same idea as silence equals violence that you push out for your BLM rallies. You clearly understand, so stop pretending. Silence after Rodney King didn't mean that you liked what happened to Rodney, but it meant that you weren't willing to speak up against it and put forward new policies to deal with future situations like this, which could be seen as a sign of acceptance of the situation you are in.