• Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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    3 days ago

    Okay, yes, it checks a TON of genocide boxes, and every action Russia has made this whole time supports genocide, and they literally are calling for it at the state level, but can you really say for sure that it’s genocide?

    I mean just because it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, waddles like a duck, and shares 99.999% the same DNA as a duck, doesn’t mean for sure it’s a duck.

    I’d say the /s isn’t necessary, but apparently it is since people still seem confused about the whole “genocide” thing… Somehow

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      3 days ago

      It’s not genocide unless they systematically stuff Polish Jews into railroad cars and keep them in labor camps until they kill them all in gas chambers disguised as showers but ONLY if they use right kind of gas and ONLY IF there’s at least 5 million of them and ONLY IF the Soviet Union grinds them down so American can swoop in and claim capitalism won and fascism can secretly continue the way the confederacy also got off the hook. Then it’s genocide.

      Everything is just sparkling ethnic cleansing.

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        2 days ago

        You joke, but legit since the Holocaust was so bad that there’s resistance to call anything less than that a genocide.

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      3 days ago

      Umm how do you define genocide??! Cause it’s pretty obvious to me that genocide is defined as: “something bad I don’t like but isn’t what Russia is doing?”