Jan Wildeboer 😷Jun 15, 2024
I don’t know why this is so hard to understand. 2014 Russia invaded and occupied Crimea and some folks told us to let them have it so there will be peace. A few years later they invade again and now these same folks (and even more, because now it suddenly IS a war) say the same thing. “Let Russia have it so we can have peace”. Russia wants all of Ukraine and then even more. Why do so many people not understand this?
Show threadDCoder 🇱🇹❤🇺🇦
@jwildeboer
We really need to retire Hanlon and his rusty old “never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity” razor.
The people pushing this “appeasing russia will bring peace” poison are not clueless, they know full well what they are doing.
Jun 15, 2024 at 11:34amWeb
Show threadJayJun 15, 2024

@dcoderlt @jwildeboer The key word is “adequately”. The person who routinely, aggressively, with a singular focus that either doesn’t respond to criticism or argues against it in bad faith, promotes “anti-war” rhetoric that depends on Ukraine losing its own territory is not being used; the person who repeats these bad faith arguments amidst a slew of other attitudes that are generally anti-war IS being used.

We should not retire tools that remain useful.