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Do we?

>it's mostly all of us that have a say

Do you?


I mean, literally so in a democracy, no? You could argue 'we' (whoever that is) do not live in a democracy, but to say that a plurality of voices do not matter in a democracy seems wrong at face-value.

>Reminds me of a report that Russians have no word for "bribe"

You could've checked that faster than it took you to write your russophobic comment


>in a corrupt society, it's extremely difficult as an individual not to participate

Russia is considered a corrupt country by the West, but I have never bribed anyone and never felt that a bribe is expected.

>better high school by having them display academic excellence

Worked just fine for me.


Yep, that's true. People are unhappy

>if the cops (and other relevant personnel) gets it wrong, they should get served with the same injustices that they committed

What if no one would want to work as a policemen and you end up alone against local gang?


> What if no one would want to work as a policemen

This is by far the worst argument. What if we held doctors accountable for malpractice and no one wanted to be a doctor? What if we held engineers liable for faulty designs that break and kill people and no one wanted to be an engineer? What if we held OCCUPATION accountable for DOING JOB BADLY / BREAKING THE LAW? Its a nonsense argument.

What would happen is that only the people that intended to be bad police would not want to the job and/or the people that were bad police (intentional or otherwise) get kicked out of the police force. Same as with every other profession. This is a fantastic outcome and we should do it immediately.


What if the police force is the local gang?

There are plenty of westerns about it

I love this.

Russia evacuates a thousand orphans from the war zone - it's "crime against humanity", the US bombs school in Iran and kills over hundred young girls[0] - it's fine, war is war.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_attack


> war zone

It's a war zone now? I thought the line you were supposed to say was 'special military operation' zone. Keep it consistent, товарищ


"Iran's defense effort" would be correct. They are defending against American Department of War (former Department of Defense).

> "Iran's defense effort" would be correct

They’re at war. It’s a war effort. Mincing words doesn’t change that. America didn’t wage a defense against Japan after Pearl Harbor, it waged war. War is both offensive and defensive, the original language is fine.


It matters who started the war. The US is waging the war against Iran, the Iran is defending. If you don't make this distinction, a killer and a policemen who shot him are both murderers.

What a delusional paranoid thinking

How? This is 100% the ideology of the Russian foreign policy apparatus.

Just one example that comes to mind: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2014/05/11/romania-queries-mo...

At least Macron isn't threatening anyone, unlike the muscovites.


>Soviet era mosaics

Which somehow survived Ukrainian nationalists destroying everything Russian or Soviet?


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