SlAvA UkrAnI!

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    From the latest Perceptions of Democracy index, from NIRA Data:

    Ukrainians are among the most skeptical of the democratic processes in their country. Meanwhile, even a country as hotly contested as Venezuela, faith in elections is skyrocketing. And this is gathered by a western org run by a NATO official.

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    5 days ago

    Just for factual correctness (don’t actually care about your opinion) - no Israeli election was cancelled. Bibi himself lost an election in 2020.

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        4 days ago

        As I said, not going for any gacha. Also not versed enough on Ukraine politics to comment. Just saying that no Israeli election was cancelled (we’re going to have one in a couple of months).

        Decided a while ago I don’t want to get into internet arguments, big waste of time which can be used for more significant things.

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          I didn’t even meant to argue, just wanted to put it into perspective for lurkers. We could even go further and note that there is huge support for genocide in various forms and methods in Israel, but Zelensky got explicitly elected on his promises of deescalating and stopping the civil war.

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      4 days ago

      Actually, the opposite.

      Crazy to see many imperialist supporters trying to justify Western capitalist puppets/allies

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          4 days ago

          You made a classic ad hominem attack since you had no proper response to the meme.

          I replied to see your reaction and it confirms it then.

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              3 days ago

              Attacking the person and not the point?

              Should I have termed it as ‘Poisoning the well’ or something else?
              What term would you have used?

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                An ad hominem would be to dismiss an argument by attacking the person or circumstances. You know, like calling someone a Russian bot.

                Secondly, I think you missed the point of the image. You claim to believe America is bad, but simultaneosly adopt it’s views on geopolitical rivals uncritically. Yes, including the view that anything that portrays the west in a negative light being “Russian propaganda”. Funnily enough, that’s the real ad hominem and is something incredibly common to hear coming out of liberals.

                Edit: this was actually aimed at potustheplant, not Mayali. Clicked reply on the wrong comment.

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                3 days ago

                While that is correct, it’s not what the comment you replied to did. There’s no criticisim to you as a person. It simply says that the argument reads as “whataboutism” so yup, your reply doesn’t really make sense.

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                  3 days ago

                  Are you isolating that comment alone, while ignoring the original comment? I was talking about that one. Not any towards me, but the original OP.

                  I mentioned that they did not have any response, other than trying to poison the well and implying stuff about the memes community, OP and other posters.