Yeah look, the method or type of expansion the Slavs did isn't the important part, plus the territory wasn't some Terra Nullius that Polesian Slavs wandered into and then peacefully built cities upon. I got the sparknotes abridged version of the history, but I was mainly using it to make a point.

The point I was making for the OOP who said "God put us Ukrainians where we are to hold back Russian imperialism like XYZ in the Bible and prevent Moscow from bringing darkness to the world" which implies the Abrahamic God directly creates nation states. Then the next logical question would be "well how did Russia get there?" The aforementioned God made Kiev expand to the White Sea in Finland to the north and modern day Russia to the east so one day, as part of its divine plan, the descendants of Kiev would be able to oppose Russia, who are different descendants of the Kievan Rus?

Which specific group of people that was displaced/assimilated isn't the crux of my argument. I don't know the name of the people who are descendants of the Scythians, I was picking away at a delusion of a divine destiny.

They never did reply to my comment pointing out that Russia existing is due to Kievan Rus' expansions driving out/killing the many Tartar, Bulgars, Scythian, Khazar etc nomadic and semi nomadic peoples in the region and that Moscow was only established as a Slavic city in 950AD, as Kievan Rus settlers migrated north east.

Was that also God's plan? For Kievan Rus' imperialism to create Russia then spend the rest of time opposing Russian imperialism?

Look, if Israel is allowed to purposefully sink US warships, they'll be allowed to kill a bunch of US citizens.

Did anyone even get a slap on the wrist for Rachel Corrie's death?

How about that one time zone in Australia that was established just so people traveling between Adelaide and Perth (back when it took like almost a week) could adjust to the difference in when the sun rose/set

UTC+08:45

"The use of this timezone dates back to at least 1935. The April 1935 Commonwealth Railways public timetable shows that 'Central Time' was used by that government organisation between Wynbring (in the East; Localities on the Trans-Australian Railway) and Rawlinna (in the West). Passengers were advised to advance/removed their watches by 45 minutes each night on their journey."

The number of permanent residents that use this weird time is in the double digits, incl. the town of Cocklebiddy (population:14)

The Slavs would be a balkanized or barely federated series of principalities and city states if the Mongols never rode west and killed so many of them they were forced to band together or face extinction. Russia and Ukraine wouldn't exist if it weren't for this historical event. Does this mean Genghis Khan is God, or at the very least the will of God?

Wait do you unironically believe that God is real, and it created modern nation states and borders? And the divine destiny of some countries' entire existence, the purpose of every person born into the country, is to defend against evil, something that was also created by God??

This is unhinged. "God put a population of people here for the sole purpose of dying in a struggle against some other evil people that God also created, for the benefit of the rest of Europe, which God created to just chill out and not have to deal with this. This is in no way, shape or form mentioned in our holy scriptures, btw. In fact they don't mention us at all, despite creating us for the sole purpose of opposing imperialism, because the scriptures were too busy condemning pork, gay people and mixed fabrics"

I get wanting to oppose Putin, that makes sense. Resisting imperialism? Yeah, makes sense too. "God created us solely to suffer for the benefit of some other people elsewhere in the world"? You lost me there champ.

USAID funding gets cut

Matt Yglesias says something positive about China

Can it get any more obvious?

There was a Chinese guy on Twitter several years ago defending China's use of riot police during the Hong Kong riots using non lethal force, saying the rioters were destroying metro stations and damaging the trains/tracks and the police were right to intervene. They brought up how much more violent and deadly the reaction would be if masked rioters destroyed the Dallas or Atlanta subway systems.

Then libs dunked in him for thinking Dallas had a subway, and not addressing the factually correct statement that the gommunist authoritarian government used less force than freedomland

Rare good guy with a gun in America

Internet communists in .world's minds:

nefarious agents of evil governments performing psychological warfare against adherents of the only correct ideology - western neoliberalism

Internet communists irl:

A poorly edited picture of Angela Merkel stretched over a scalene triangle titled "Angular Merkel", 150 upvotes

Its not about being a shill for Xi. Its about defending the country that went from having a 20% literacy rate to a country with its own space station in the span of 70 years. With railways and infrastructure that outshines those of the American empire, the richest nation in the history of the be world.

You may not call it socialism but it is still worth defending. My family and friends in China see improvement and growth before their very eyes. Dirt roads are now high speed rail. How many working class Americans can say things have gotten better in the last few decades? That they can afford to dine out more often, that they can afford a bigger apartment? How many can say their children are getting better educated, that schools are improving, that their extra curricular sports programs have gotten funding? How many can say that they've seen a new hospital built in a lower income area, or at all? I know households where the grandparents grew up literally illiterate, like animals they weren't given an education, without running water or electricity, and in leaner months would have to skip meals to pay the landlord. Today their bilingual grand children sit next to them in a home that they own, learning physics from a Livestream from the Chinese Space Station. Can you even conceive that level of improvement to a life, let alone a million, let alone a billion?

And the sheltered Reddit libs cannot understand that people would defend that. They cannot understand why people would defend that. They must be shills, there's no way anyone could genuinely defend a system that improved the lives of a billion people and abolished poverty. Our memes depict Xi as Winnie the Pooh, so those defending China must be robots or paid shills. No-one would actually defend China right?

There's literally an active thread about China "violating" """Taiwan"""'s airspace, and the OP assumes a bot army is defending the PRC in the comments because he's in a different instance and can't see Hexbear post histories.