Surprisingly yes, I tend to agree. I think you wanted to communicate a general desire for retribution and nothing deeper. I get the sentiment. I’m sorry. I hope we choose a different path.

I am on the cusp of getting sidetracked by a discussion of the fundamentals of communication theory. Let’s just ignore all of that for a while.

Let’s say you understand the de-nazification program as it unfolded in East and West Germany. What aspects of this program do you like and how will implementing them help the people of the world?

Oh, well that’s cherry picked, obviously ignores the connotation of most use cases like the ongoing Uighur “re-education”, and is a terrible example because it was an unpopular and ineffective program. Of indefinite detention. But if you don’t care about being understood by other people or about making a good point, you can use the word that way!

Yeah obviously my beef isn’t with disarmament it’s with your comment about re-education, which means torturing and killing people. So we’ve still gone nowhere in this discussion.

Really obvious differences in skin color and culture

Yes, in the same way that Jahmal Kashoggi’s murder was facilitated by the ordinary citizens of Saudi Arabia, or chat control was facilitated by the ordinary citizens of EU nations, the ordinary Russian is responsible for the aggression towards its neighbors. Or are we perhaps talking about problems caused by politicians and oligarchs that don’t actually answer to anybody in a meaningful way

What the fuck are you talking about. As if the actions of the Russian state are some democratic groundswell of aggression from the people.

Well, then they are. The point of both articles is that people are being manipulated. It is hard not to be manipulated.

Would you consider an article about billionaires, Super PACs, and Russian election interference to be implying that U.S. citizens are too ignorant to vote for their own interests?