• Tinidril@midwest.social
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    I never said anything about orc people. Russian infantry have a reputation for brutality towards civilians and it’s earned. They don’t even really try to hide it. Russian isn’t a “race”. Also, what do you expect when Russia slaughters civilians wholesale and relies almost entirely on “meat wave” tactics. Whether the comparison to orcs is racist can be debated, but it’s clear where it comes from.

    My claim about US troops was that they were less terrible. Unfortunately, moral ground troops are hard to find in today’s world. I also said they were better trained at certain things, and I stand by it. That’s not in spite of their many deployments, it’s because of it.

    If you want to know about the PLA I suggest asking someone who faught them. Perhaps Japan. If you want more recent, then look at the tens of thousands of Tibetan civilians that were killed - most in labor camps. That’s a bit worse than “collateral damage” from an errant missile. (And yeah, if it was an Israeli missile I think an investigation into how “accidental” it was is warranted.

    I was also very critical of IS decisions to go to war in the first place and how they justify it, so what the fuck are you talking about? I’m not “sneaking” anything in. I said what I said because it was precisely what I meant.

    Unlike you I don’t pick a team before making my conclusions. There is shit that’s good about the US, and stuff that isn’t. Same is true of China. As for Russia and Israel, I’d love to say something good about them, but they make it pretty tough.

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      The fact that you think the US is better than Russia says enough about your imperial chauvinism, in my opinion. There’s only one part of this comment I’ll even bother replying to.

      I never said anything about orc people. Russian infantry have a reputation for brutality towards civilians and it’s earned. They don’t even really try to hide it. Russian isn’t a “race”. Also, what do you expect when Russia slaughters civilians wholesale and relies almost entirely on “meat wave” tactics. Whether the comparison to orcs is racist can be debated, but it’s clear where it comes from.

      You barely even took a sentence to go from “I didn’t call them orc people” to defending calling them orc people. Again, I don’t know who you think you’re fooling with these kinds of rhetorical contortions.

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      I never said anything about orc people. Russian infantry have a reputation for brutality towards civilians and it’s earned. They don’t even really try to hide it. Russian isn’t a “race”. Also, what do you expect when Russia slaughters civilians wholesale and relies almost entirely on “meat wave” tactics. Whether the comparison to orcs is racist can be debated, but it’s clear where it comes from.

      “I’m not racist but-

      • Tinidril@midwest.social
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        but… what? But the thing you wrongly accused me of saying wouldn’t have been racist anyways? That’s not exactly the gotcha you were looking for.

        Why is everybody from lemmy.ml so disingenuous in their arguments? It’s almost like you have no legitimate arguments to make.