Russia is known to use spotters to confirm military targets before striking in civilian areas: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/29/ukraine-says-suspect-directed-russia-missile-attack-on-restaurant

That’s why Russia has disproportionately fewer civilian casualties relative to military ones.

The ICC is toothless.

I mean, sounds like your most advanced exposure to statistics was “this is a joint probability”

Take a more advanced stats course. It’s really insightful and will open your mind.

Yes, because a targeted strike at clearly marked journalists on foreign soil is basically a stray bullet anyway.

Tell me you don’t have a degree without telling me you don’t have a degree

The casualty ratios are way off. Try again.

My modlog hasn’t banned anyone lmao go bark up another tree

Numbers don’t lie.

Neither Ukraine nor Russia come even close to as bloodthirsty for civilian lives as Israel. Israel is killing civilians and killing Hamas fighters as collateral damage. Ukraine and Russia are killing each other’s soldiers and killing civilians as collateral damage. They’re not the same.

Israel is worse than Russia. Russia, in contrast, looks downright reasonable.

In a few weeks, Israel has killed almost as many civilians as those that have died on both sides over the course of almost two years of the Russia-Ukraine war.

Given that Hamas launched this attack on a Saturday during Shabbat… sure looks like they were targeting schoolchildren at the school, eh?

Mhmm a top secret attack on a school…

On a Saturday? During Shabbat?

Except you really are LMAO

Where are you from? Genuinely curious which part of China you’re from.

At least someof us here know China from own experience, have worked for Chinese companies, lived in the country.

Oh hey, are you describing me? I’ll admit I’ve mostly lived in tier 1/1.5 cities, so my experience isn’t exactly standard. I’ll also gladly admit that top Chinese companies have worse culture than top American ones in web development. Where are you from?

You do understand that you can help someone without wanting to befriend them… Right?

How is any of this comparable to Nazi Germany? Violation of reproductive rights is literally CPC policy and was used on the Han majority for decades. Forced sterilization, forced abortion, all were used for enforcement of population control policy. You’re not criticizing the CPC’s treatment of Uyghurs, you’re criticizing the CPC’s policies in general. Conflating that with Nazi genocide is rather disingenuous, especially given that people haven’t been killed en masse (far from it).

Second, Chinese extremism is pretty well-defiined: actions supportive of those involved in the 1992 bus bombings, 1997 bus bombings, the attempted airplane hijacking in 2008, the truck attack in 2008, the taxi attack in 2008, the stabbing attack in 2008, the bombing in 2010, the police station storming in 2011, the truck hijacking in 2011… Do I need to go on? Pretending that terrorism wasn’t a problem in Xinjiang in the past decade or two is simply wrong, and pretending that China’s policies haven’t basically eradicated domestic terrorism would also be wrong.

So… Never?

Wonderful how people who don’t know shit about a country seem to be the most confident talking about it.

Budget airlines should start charging for backpacks.

It’s the Americanization of Europe happening before your eyes

Expansionism to… a bunch of uninhabited holes in the ground? Oh no, the horror.

Nevermind that I’m fairly sure that under the recognized methods of acquiring sovereignty, China owns the Paracels through either effective occupation or conquest during the Vietnam War.

So… You have no useful sources? Good argument, bravo.

This is the problem with all the bullshit surrounding China. It’s all “we KNOW it MUST be happening because I was told it a bunch of times.”