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    Re: NBA Playoffs 2014

    Westbrook was electrifying. Even if he has a poor game, his attitude and effort is always 100%. Hopefully as he matures as a player he'll find a way to channel that effort more intelligently and...
  2. Re: Cartoon Villains kill Chinese workers in Cameroon

    Freeing kidnapped children is clearly a good cause, but the hash-tag activism sickens me with its arbitrary and utterly banal self-righteousness.

    I'm so torn.
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    Re: NBA Playoffs 2014

    Hooray! Great win by Indiana!

    And Hibbert played really well; hopefully he's back for good this time. I felt really bad for him with all the hate floating around the internet, especially those...
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    Re: Ukraine and Crimea development thread

    Can you quote me where I said Russian was banned? I think not.

    Put yourself in eastern Ukrainian shoes for a moment. You are not against Ukrainian unity, but in the past few months you've seen...
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    Re: Ukraine and Crimea development thread

    So why was the first order of business for the parliament to ban all official use of non-Ukrainian languages? Yes, Turchinov had the presence of mind to veto it, but why was the vote taken at all,...
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    Re: Ukraine and Crimea development thread

    A very intelligent opinion piece from someone with a thorough understanding of the situation:
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    Re: US sends support to Nigeria

    How about: that's reductive and ignorant in the extreme.
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    Re: Ukraine and Crimea development thread

    Yea there is an election, but you honestly cannot see why an eastern Ukrainian might be weary of the central government right now..?

    If it's only a few hundred supporters than proponents of...
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    Re: Ukraine and Crimea development thread

    So no response to post #8622, Geronimo? Is that because you have nothing to say?
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    Re: Ukraine and Crimea development thread

    Right, in other words they refused to kill their countrymen, or even risk killing their countrymen. But it seems the so-called "National Guard" has no such qualms, and I find this very troubling.
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    Re: NBA Playoffs 2014

    What are you getting at? I think he meant in that specific moment, when they moved into their apartment, he felt like everything was alright...

    (Unless you meant that in a genuinely admiring way,...
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    Re: Russian Homophobia

    It doesn't look like you know much about Justinian or Orthodoxy.
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    Re: Ukraine and Crimea development thread

    This new "National Guard" is troubling. Recruited from the hardcore violent fringe of the Maidan rioters (i.e. nationalists of varying stripes, many from western regions). It's these guys that came...
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    Re: NBA Playoffs 2014

    Wow, Kevin Durant's MVP acceptance speech was really touching. What a genuine dude.
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    Re: NBA Playoffs 2014

    Very disappointing to see the Heat win so easily. Or at all...

    I really hope OKC comes through, and I think they can do it. Even with Doc Rivers and Chris Paul the Clippers are, I would say,...
  16. Re: "Two nukes for you French" - US gave France two nukes to nuke Vietminh in Dien Bien Phu, and French did it

    The main difference is that nuclear bombs have lasting effects for many generations afterwards. Incidiary bombs caused more damage, but within a much shorter time span. After the initial devastation...
  17. Re: Putin outlaws the Quran in Russia

    It's probably a question of degree, since there are other translations that aren't banned. Having said that a ban is a stupidly blunt way of addressing those concerns.


    As an aside, I'm amazed by...
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    Re: NBA Playoffs 2014

    Lillard has been spectacular. So much weight on his shoulders and he performs.

    I think it's pretty clear that Houston has to get Harden out of the starting lineup, or better yet out of the team....
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    Re: Ukraine and Crimea development thread

    What gets on people's nerves is American officials lecturing about international law not only with a straight face, but in a way that's utterly dismissive of alternative points of view.

    It's...
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    Re: Russian Homophobia

    I'm wondering the same.
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    Re: Russian Homophobia

    So what brings you to a country you have utter contempt for?
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    Re: Ukraine and Crimea development thread

    That is a damning assessment. As expected, the authorities have made completely mismanaged the administrative and bureaucratic side of things (see the section on passport-issuing and citizenship...
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    Re: Ukraine and Crimea development thread

    What about them... what do you want me to say to that? You're trying real hard to make it look like I support the rebels. PAY ATTENTION: I don't support them. I don't speak on their behalf. So take...
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    Re: Ukraine and Crimea development thread

    This is an interesting article, explaining why the situation is more complicated than what either side says. I suggest you all read it.
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    Re: Ukraine and Crimea development thread

    It's Russian money for sure. The weapons themselves probably come from both inside and outside of Ukraine -- there is plenty of excess weaponry floating around for anyone with the money to secure,...
  26. Re: Serbian language and Vuk Stefanović Karadžić

    What's the point of reading but not understanding?
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    Re: The Death Penalty

    Because your constitution prohibits it.
  28. Re: French cops ask for Roma Gypsies to be evicted from France.

    The term comes from their own name for themselves. It's purely a linguistic coincidence, nothing to do with Rome.
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    Re: Ukraine and Crimea development thread

    Zaporozhie and Dnepropetrovsk are central Ukrainian through and through. There would never be any kind of support for separatism there.

    Media coverage makes a big deal of the east-west divide in...
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    Re: Ukraine and Crimea development thread

    Yes exactly. It also doesn't help that their wages are 10 times lower than those of their Russian colleagues.

    I think it's just more evidence that there is no clear or decisive loyalty either way...
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    Re: Ukraine and Crimea development thread

    Turchinov admits that security forces in the east are not obeying Kiev's orders, and that some have even switched sides.
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    Re: Ukraine and Crimea development thread

    They exist in the thousands, but the vast majority arel ultimately owned by one of the five giant conglomerates: Newscorp, AOL Time Warner, GE, Disney, and Clear Channel.
  33. Re: Donald Sterling banned for life, fined $2.5 million

    Yep and NYC hip hop has had a profound impact on the whole genre. Listen to Jay Electronica, who is in fact from New Orleans, but cut his teeth in the north-east. it's hugely influential in hip hop....
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    Re: Ukraine and Crimea development thread

    Certainly yes. Ukrainians were repressed a lot less coherently and uniformly; for example my great-grandfather's Ukrainian family in Kherson never saw the kind of starvation that hit most of the...
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    Re: Ukraine and Crimea development thread

    Good map, Adar. Interestingly, the gap between the Commonwealth's and modern Ukraine eastern- and southern-most borders is where the unrest has been the strongest. That's not to say that people there...
  36. Re: Serbian language and Vuk Stefanović Karadžić

    I think your broader point very much stands, but Spanish is the odd one out in that group. It is much more 'write as you speak' than the others in that list, regional peculiarities notwithstanding...
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    Re: Ukraine and Crimea development thread

    Ironically, the cossacks from the disbanded Sich moved to Kuban, where their descendants live to this day. Even more ironically, some of these modern cossacks are now going into Crimea and eastern...
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    Re: Ukraine and Crimea development thread

    It's not about what's "right" because it's never about what's "right" in international politics. If it was about what's "right", then NATO would never have broken it's promise not to expand...
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    Re: Russian Homophobia

    OK, lets have a look:

    Galileo was admittedly hindered by the Roman Church. They ordered him to recant and cease pursuing his heretical ideas. So he was placed under luxurious house arrest and, in...
  40. Re: Question Regarding the Soviet Occupation of Poland and the Anglo-French Alliance.

    I think it's probably because Germany was seen to be the primary aggressor. Britain and France declared war on Germany two weeks before the Soviet forces actually crossed the border, and did nothing...
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