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Who would've you voted for during the Ukrainian presidental elections?

Petro Poroshenko
- 5 (29.4%)
Yulia Tymoshenko
- 2 (11.8%)
Oleg Lyashko
- 2 (11.8%)
Anatoly Hrytsenko
- 2 (11.8%)
Serhiy Tihipko
- 0 (0%)
Mykhailo Dobkin
- 0 (0%)
Other
- 6 (35.3%)

Total Members Voted: 17


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Author Topic: Ukrainian Crisis Discussion Thread №3: Love your Country  (Read 74374 times)

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Re: Ukrainian Crisis Discussion Thread №3
« Reply #555 on: December 02, 2014, 11:43:27 am »

It can't hurt to have multiple threads around to facilitate parallel conversations.
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Re: Ukrainian Crisis Discussion Thread №3
« Reply #556 on: December 02, 2014, 11:59:32 am »

It can't hurt to have multiple threads around to facilitate parallel conversations.
Helgo, that's not a conversation. That's just bunch of clowns showing their opinions in each other's faces while normal people watch.

By the way, do you, by any chance, know where Mictlantecuhtli is from? He sounds like someone from the Baltics.
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Re: Ukrainian Crisis Discussion Thread №3
« Reply #557 on: December 02, 2014, 12:06:41 pm »

<Works better to ask the person directly> American, born of an Israeli and a German. Though my father's family was French pre-migration technically. Yes, my parents had a weird story.
« Last Edit: December 02, 2014, 12:11:30 pm by Mictlantecuhtli »
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Re: Ukrainian Crisis Discussion Thread №3
« Reply #558 on: December 02, 2014, 12:11:56 pm »

It can't hurt to have multiple threads around to facilitate parallel conversations.
Helgo, that's not a conversation. That's just bunch of clowns showing their opinions in each other's faces while normal people watch.
How's that not a conversation? That's 99% of human interaction! Of course, in RL people talk more when they have similar opinions already, and then they feel intelligent because others agree with them.
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Re: Ukrainian Crisis Discussion Thread №3
« Reply #559 on: December 02, 2014, 12:17:39 pm »

<Works better to ask the person directly> American, born of an Israeli and a German. Though my father's family was French pre-migration technically.
I did, you ignored me. Sorry for the third party question, though.

I was interested in where are you from because your impressively hostile attitude towards Russia would fit someone from the Baltics perfectly, and I wanted to test my theory.

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Re: Ukrainian Crisis Discussion Thread №3
« Reply #560 on: December 02, 2014, 12:19:52 pm »

Nothing to do with ethnicity, I just don't enjoy states falling into paternalism and autocracy, guided by a forceful cult of personality. It tends to lead to issues.
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Re: Ukrainian Crisis Discussion Thread №3
« Reply #561 on: December 02, 2014, 12:36:34 pm »

Tangentially related, I think the only the most strongly opinionated people talk about Russia on this forum. Everybody else just watches.
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Re: Ukrainian Crisis Discussion Thread №3
« Reply #562 on: December 02, 2014, 01:26:14 pm »

Well, it's hard not to have a strong opinion about invasions. Although we do only speak about subject we care about, as your several attempt to move the discussion toward Russian fashion (?) have shown.
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Re: Ukrainian Crisis Discussion Thread №3
« Reply #563 on: December 02, 2014, 01:56:24 pm »

Well, it's hard not to have a strong opinion about invasions. Although we do only speak about subject we care about, as your several attempt to move the discussion toward Russian fashion (?) have shown.
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Re: Ukrainian Crisis Discussion Thread №3
« Reply #564 on: December 02, 2014, 01:59:18 pm »

I have a lot of interest in Russia, but I only weigh in occasionally because the talk is usually about Ukraine and Crimea and that doesn't tend to go anywhere (though it's a decent source of useful vitriol for dilution.) The Russia Watch Thread/Ветка о России was supposed to be like that, I think, but that's not quite what happened...
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Re: Ukrainian Crisis Discussion Thread №3
« Reply #565 on: December 02, 2014, 02:03:55 pm »

I have a lot of interest in Russia, but I only weigh in occasionally because the talk is usually about Ukraine and Crimea and that doesn't tend to go anywhere (though it's a decent source of useful vitriol for dilution and use.) The Russia Watch Thread/Ветка о России was supposed to be like that, I think, but that's not quite what happened...
Unfortunatley, just as inflammation molecules tend to spread from the wounded area to the other parts of the body, inflammatory topics tend to spread to other threads of the forum.

But hey! We can make a new start: let's talk about Russia and avoid mentioning anything related to Ukraine. Who's with me?
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Re: Ukrainian Crisis Discussion Thread №3
« Reply #566 on: December 02, 2014, 02:05:09 pm »

Is the impending collapse of doom of the end of time of the Russian economy off-topic too?
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Re: Ukrainian Crisis Discussion Thread №3
« Reply #567 on: December 02, 2014, 02:08:29 pm »

I have a lot of interest in Russia, but I only weigh in occasionally because the talk is usually about Ukraine and Crimea and that doesn't tend to go anywhere (though it's a decent source of useful vitriol for dilution and use.) The Russia Watch Thread/Ветка о России was supposed to be like that, I think, but that's not quite what happened...
Unfortunatley, just as inflammation molecules tend to spread from the wounded area to the other parts of the body, inflammatory topics tend to spread to other threads of the forum.

But hey! We can make a new start: let's talk about Russia and avoid mentioning anything related to Ukraine. Who's with me?

You're asking in the wrong thread since this one is about Ukraine.
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Re: Ukrainian Crisis Discussion Thread №3
« Reply #568 on: December 02, 2014, 02:15:09 pm »

I have a lot of interest in Russia, but I only weigh in occasionally because the talk is usually about Ukraine and Crimea and that doesn't tend to go anywhere (though it's a decent source of useful vitriol for dilution and use.) The Russia Watch Thread/Ветка о России was supposed to be like that, I think, but that's not quite what happened...
Unfortunatley, just as inflammation molecules tend to spread from the wounded area to the other parts of the body, inflammatory topics tend to spread to other threads of the forum.

But hey! We can make a new start: let's talk about Russia and avoid mentioning anything related to Ukraine. Who's with me?

You're asking in the wrong thread since this one is about Ukraine.
Goddammit!

So, uh, should we move back into the bitcoin Russia thread?

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Re: Ukrainian Crisis Discussion Thread №3
« Reply #569 on: December 02, 2014, 02:18:53 pm »

Ukraine got new cabinet of ministers today. Including three foreigners who got citizenship and place in the government during one day
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