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In reply to the discussion: I just listened to a discussion of Russian atrocities on MSNBC and one that was mentioned was the [View all]Hekate
(100,133 posts)31. It's an atrocity as old as humanity itself, crossing all cultures sooner or later. Just because it's
shameful doesnt make any one perp unique.
Russia and China are both real good at this re-education camp business in the here and now and back in Soviet days. Neither the Tibetans nor the Uighurs want their children taught only in Chinese with books available only in Chinese, yet this cultural genocide continues. In the US and Canada, indigenous tribes didnt want their children taken off to English-language boarding schools, either.
At least democracies have the means, motive, and opportunity to try to make amends. Dictatorships make it a crime to even notice.
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I just listened to a discussion of Russian atrocities on MSNBC and one that was mentioned was the [View all]
Atticus
Feb 2023
OP
It's an atrocity as old as humanity itself, crossing all cultures sooner or later. Just because it's
Hekate
Feb 2023
#31
he thinks democracy doesn't work because the guy he installed to destroy our democracy
LymphocyteLover
Feb 2023
#4
+1, part of the makeup of democracy is the people who are chosen as heads *WANT* democracy
uponit7771
Feb 2023
#19
Not sure what you're implying here about monsters... who else are you thinking of?
LymphocyteLover
Feb 2023
#5
+1, been saying the "P" tape is a tape of MAGA pedophiles. GQP allegiance to TFG isn't that organic
uponit7771
Feb 2023
#21
Media was talking about this a few months after invasion. Can't tell you which outlet though.
Evolve Dammit
Feb 2023
#29
Aren't kidnapped kids working in slaughterhouses and factories right in in the ole USA?
LakeArenal
Feb 2023
#37
Russia is clearly planning to use the children as hostages to get the parents to pressure
cstanleytech
Feb 2023
#30
If any region of the RuZZian Federation wants out of the sanctions, secede from it.
roamer65
Feb 2023
#33