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Yes. You might have a version of it in which every group gets one representative, whether it’s “people who have visited Vietnam at least once” with 0.5% of the population or “customer service workers” with 20% of the population

I’m not sure this really qualifies as an arms race. France doesn’t have an arsenal like America or Russia, and this plan doesn’t involve expanding the French arsenal or putting nukes anywhere that there aren’t already nukes

Even the poms don’t usually bother about that one, unless you’re specifically using that term to call them out.

Fun fact, both names for that game are British in origin, so if any of us ever do complain at you for it you can remind them that it’s their own fault

It’s so weird how some people are so committed to this. “United Statesian” and variants thereof don’t actually solve the perceived problem due to the fact that Mexico is formally the United Mexican States (Brazil, Venezuela, and Colombia were all United States of their own in the past too). And besides that, there are so many other examples of countries using the name of something they do not encompass the whole of. South Africa? Not actually the whole of the south of Africa, it turns out. The Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo? Both not the only country in the Congo basin. The European Union isn’t all of Europe, Sudan doesn’t include South Sudan, and the only part of the river Indus that’s in India is in disputed Kashmir

This is a consequence of the advertising market in Ukraine dropping in the first year of Russia’s full-scale invasion

Congratulations on citing an article about what happened in 2022 to attempt to disprove my claim about what happened before 2014. Please learn to read dates. This is the third time in this thread that you have either gotten them completely wrong or actively misrepresented them.

I find the concept interesting, but I recognise that my own motivation and knowledge of linguistics are significantly short of where they would need to be to make a conlang myself. I have played around with around with VulgarLang a fair bit, which allows me to fake a conlang to my design juuuust enough to do the job for the purposes of tabletop RPGs and such.

Does Silbo Gomero qualify as a conlang? It was made by adapting a way to speak the Guanche language through whistling into Spanish, but I’m not clear enough on the origins of it to know how “constructed” it is. I suppose it can also be considered to just be a version of Spanish. If it does count, it’s my favourite

You’re retreading the exact same ground that I already went over with Grapho in this same thread

I wasn’t there either, but I do know that on his inaugration he said “Ukraine’s integration with the EU remains our strategic aim.”

Are you saying that since he was more popular in the east, he must have been against EU integration?

Why did they vote in the guy that said “For Ukraine, association with the European Union must become an important stimulus for forming a modern European state,” and that he was going to sign the European Union–Ukraine Association Agreement? That does not seem at all contradictory to me. His sudden U-turn on that was what got the Ukrainian people so pissed at him

Ukrainians already wanted to align with the EU. The US didn’t need to do a damn thing to influence that, a long history of Russian imperialism did it all for them

America spent fuck all on Ukraine in the entire history of its independence up until Euromaidan (pg 167). They simply did not spend “all that money”, because a single digit millions of dollars a year is a rounding error in the US budget. American spending on Ukraine in 2013 was 0.00024% of the federal budget.

If America’s goal was to put Svoboda in power, they didn’t do a very good job of keeping them there, did they?

I have read the Nuland transcript. She’s talking about the existing leader of the opposition. Of course she said Yatsenyuk was the guy, he was the goddamn leader of the opposition. He was the one guy avalable with the best democratic mandate at the last election. Yanukovych even offered to make him prime minister at one point.

Russia put troops into Crimea before the referendum, and the referendum was run by the occupying army. Do you normally trust occupying armies to run referendums about whether or not they should get to keep the land they’re occupying?

Perhaps if Russia was so concerned about casualties in the Donbas, it should not have invaded and caused hundreds of thousands more casualties.

long before Russia went in

There’s a problem with this, because Russia has had troops in Ukraine since early 2014, before Poroshenko’s government

I am allowed to dislike someone for their actions without there being a written rule about it

I never said you said those things, I’m just saying that those things didn’t have an affect on him.

…cool? I never said the bans were effective, so I don’t understand why you’re responding to me as if I did.

I didn’t say anything about UM somehow influencing the American election either

My problem with UM is that they post disingenuously, evidenced by their refusal to actually engage with the content they post when asked about it

Was this comment meant to be a reply to me? You seem to be arguing with a bunch of things I never said

Well that does make it quite regrettable for most people, I suppose

Excuse you, this isn’t unconventional at all, 69,000,000 Brits do it every morning

Gallium? It’s solid at room temperature, but your own body heat will melt it, so you lie down on a solid block of metal and then slowly sink into a melting puddle in the middle of it. It’s non-toxic and six times denser than water so you’d be really floaty on it too

!politics@lemmy.world had UniversalMonk in the run up to the American election. They have about 15 alts, posted an average of 16 articles a day just on the main account, and would pointedly refuse to engage with any discussion of the actual content of the article in the comments. They were banned for “Indiscriminate posting of duplicate stories from different sources to flood the channel.”

That’s not this community, of course, but I think it is proof enough that it’s not an unreasonable concern for OP to have

I can’t even think of a way that this could be given some veil of innocence either. The “my heart goes out to you” thing was always bullshit, but it was an attempt at plausible deniability. I don’t think even that could be done here