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I have never said you shouldn't care. Ever. Fuck you. You are completely incapable of having an argument in good faith. You have repeatedly argued that the law doesn't meaningfully influence the legal standing of Russian because it merely reinforces a de facto status quo. If you are now acknowledgi...

Then you are an idiot, because no one ever at any point claimed that the repealing of the law constituted the banning of speaking Russian. They argue it as depriving them of the assurance and/or ability to conduct government business in Russian as a spit in the face to Russians. And while that may ...

That was never my argument? Fine, the argument of the person you linked to and said was right and that was why Frank was wrong. Does that get around your wiggling? I mean yah, you have never presented an actual argument of any kind, but that is hardly a selling point for disagreeing with Frank. Tha...

You are arguing that people should not care about the difference between de facto and de jure rights. You're fucking wrong. You absolutely should care. I have never said you shouldn't care. Ever. Fuck you. You are completely incapable of having an argument in good faith. Village governments are rel...

Your conclusion does not follow. The Law as passed does not have a funding provision, but the state budget each year allocates funding to the oblasts. It could and therefore did allocate funding that paid for the actual additional languages. The state government dictates to the oblasts, raions and ...

Your conclusion does not follow. The Law as passed does not have a funding provision, but the state budget each year allocates funding to the oblasts. It could and therefore did allocate funding that paid for the actual additional languages. The state government dictates to the oblasts, raions and ...

People portray Svoboda as being pro-Fascist dangerous lunatics because they are pro-Fascist dangerous lunatics. It's not an exaggeration that they are dangerous lunatics who use political violence, they are actual dangerous lunatics who actually use actual political violence. Even in the middle of ...

Redshirt, you are still being a dumbass, and it's getting very annoying. The 2012 national law extends to the provincial and local governments the right to declare official languages within their jurisdictions, and as a result of doing so, burden themselves with a lawful obligation to provide docum...

To shake their fist at Russia for past crimes by taking a shit on the Russian-speaking half of the country.

Uh... I know you're trying to be flippant and sarcastic, but that is a pretty fucking big change. In the Soviet version, you can request court documents in your native language if it's a regional language. In the Ukrainian version, you can request court documents in your native regional language if...

Again: it's not that the language was banned. Not according to the people I was fucking arguing with earlier. There were very specific claims that were made, and they were provably false. The country's many, many Russian-speakers had finally earned equal guarantee of access under the law There's no...

and it wasn't used solely for Russian. You do not understand his argument in a profound, almost spiritual way. The entire gotcha is that it's not about promoting the use of the languages among the people, but merely about state interactions. Well, no fucking shit! That's the part that the governmen...

Note: Mykola Riabchuk is actually a dude. Whoops. Before we get into your latest dumb misrepresentation, could we clear some things up? Are you still asserting that Riabchuk believes the English-speaking press has a pro-Moscow agenda? Do you still believe that repealing the 2012 law would have meant...

Well, I'm pretty out of my depth at this point. I'm still skeptical that Carrier and other mythicists aren't a minority in their discipline, but I'm not going to do the research necessary to prove that one way or the other, so there isn't a good reason for me to contradict Kaelik on it.

Frank, does it bother you that you can't read very well? The jump from "the AP reporter fundamentally misunderstands the way things actually work" to "the Western Press is a font of Putinist propaganda" is lazy, sloppy, and unwarranted. The line she criticized as "stupid&quo...

So no one has actually read the studies I posted then. Ukrainian language law is complex, and there is a web of constitutional law, treties, and national and local laws which protect the rights of Russian speakers and to a lesser extent Tatar speakers. Education and legal proceedings happen in Russi...

We've done the language thing already, it's a problem in the same way it's a problem for Sri Lanka to remove Tamil from the list of official languages there. Because you can't be a judge any more, or a teacher, or often work for the government at all just because you grew up in the wrong part of th...

And if you read the book, he argues that all of them are full of shit because they use invalid methods to find the Jesus they were looking for in the first place. I have no idea how you could possibly read a book to which the Thesis is "light all current scholarship on fire and start from scra...

Tussock, almost all of your information is either only half-true or just objectively false. The nation's entire army has, almost completely now, joined the Russian army, citizenship and all. No. Maybe a lot of troops in Crimea? Where are you getting this from? The Air Force has grounded all flights ...

I had a session a couple of months ago, where the other players arranged a gang rape of the character I was playing. And that session in fact, let me feeling terrible, depressed and generally awful for about a month in real life after the session ended. What the ever loving fuck. Why? Are you still...

For fucks sake you could start with The Quest of the Historical Jesus by Albert Schweitzer and read a book or article every decade and end with Beyond the Quest for the Historical Jesus: Memoir of a Discovery by Thomas L. Brodie, and the central thesis of all of them would be that there is no conse...

“Until the mid-2000s, we called it the ‘Chinese smuggler haircut,” the source told the Korea Times.

That actually makes it sound kinda cool.

They're a junta now?

I must point out that Forrest Gump also interacted with people we know existed, like John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Dick Cavett; or are pretty sure of it, like the guy who invented the Shit Happens bumpersticker. And if that movie was one of the only extant things about Forrest Gu...

Or are you admitting that Richard Carrier is a valid historical scholar with legitimate points about early Christian origins and that there are actual points of contention on whether Jesus existed in stark contrast to your earlier claims? Well you've already done a great gatekeeping job of making a...