Comment on Palantir Exposed: The New Deep State [27:27 | JUN 10 2025 | Glenn Greenwald]

• Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  While I genuinely understand where you’re coming from, his kid will almost certainly grow up to be a russian genocidal imperialist.

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  • whostosay@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Cross that bridge when you get there, it’s a child.

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    • Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      We’ve crossed it a long time ago.

      Out of the ~1.6 million russian men who took part/are taking part (dead, wounded, currently fighting) in the full scale invasion of Ukraine, how many were children in 2014 when the invasion started?

      While adults russians are clearly responsible, when are you fighting the russians you cannot put your head in the sand and wish away the fact that there is a ~65% chance a russian child will grow up as an open supporter of genocidal imperialism and another 20% chance (for a total 85%) that they will be supporters of imperialism but perhaps not open supporters of genocidal aims.

      P.S. Just an FYI, standard critiques about polling numbers are not relevant here, as these numbers exclude preference falsification (i.e. someone being afraid to state their true view), the “nominal” results are even higher.

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