Ukraine and the Russian invasion, 2022-24

[editor]

I don't understand, you are moderating a thread while simultaneously posting your contentious opinions on the same thread so who is moderating you?

Apologies for my stupidity but I don't get it, please explain.

Oh, it's quite simple. If I break the forum's rules, users can report those posts and the other mods will take whatever action is required (if any).

 

[ID47]

The Pope is never right. Not even by accident.

There's papal infallibility hence the expression in Italian 'papale, papale' or saying it straight or like it is.​

Why is that in bold and I can't change it?

 

[The39thStep]

im a lover, not a fighter.

I wouldn't have thought you were anything else tbh

 

[ID47]

Oh, it's quite simple. If I break the forum's rules, users can report those posts and the other mods will take whatever action is required (if any).

Thanks, I'll get the report in asap. Much appreciated.

 

[editor]

I see the Russian people are voting for their president today, given the last two British prime ministers have been selected by Tory members and Tory MPs respectively there’s a good case to say Russia is more democratic than the UK

Yeah, right:

During his time in office, Vladimir Putin has methodically tightened his grip on power so no real threat to his rule exists any longer. His most outspoken critics are either dead, in jail or in exile.

Russia election 2024: Voting begins in election Putin is bound to win

Despite the guaranteed result, the Kremlin is keen to make the election appear legitimate.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[emanymton]

i didn't say they were the same. you are perhaps confused between things being comparable and things being equivalent. and not, i suspect, for the first time.

So you either can't or won't explain your point, instead hiding behind petty pedantry and insults.

 

[editor]

In the occupied territories, Russia has made it very difficult for Ukrainians to get by without Russian passports - but those who receive one risk getting drafted

A Russian passport is needed to prove property ownership and keep access to health care and retirement income. Refusal can result in losing custody of children, jail – or worse. A new Russian law stipulates that anyone in the occupied territories who does not have a Russian passport by July 1 is subject to imprisonment as a “foreign citizen."
Under international law dating to 1907, it is forbidden to force people “to swear allegiance to the hostile Power.” But when Ukrainians apply for a Russian passport, they must submit biometric data and cell phone information and swear an oath of loyalty.

Takeaways into AP investigation into Russian system to force its passports on occupied Ukraine

Russia has successfully imposed its passports on nearly the entire population of occupied Ukraine by making it impossible to survive without them, coercing hundreds of thousands of people into citizenship.

apnews.com

That's horrific.

 

[Pickman's model]

So you either can't or won't explain your point, instead hiding behind petty pedantry and insults.

If things are comparable they can be compared. You can't compare a quadratic equation and a good fuck, for example, there are no points in common between the two. You can compare human conflicts be one in contemporary Asia and one in ancient Italy. If you find yourself unable to grasp these simple points then your time would be better spent away from urban.

 

[emanymton]

If things are comparable they can be compared. You can't compare a quadratic equation and a good fuck, for example, there are no points in common between the two. You can compare human conflicts be one in contemporary Asia and one in ancient Italy. If you find yourself unable to grasp these simple points then your time would be better spent away from urban.

Ah, so when you said the situations where comparable what you actually meant was they were completely different got you.

Its just that when most people say things are comparable what they mean is that those things are very similar to each other.

But I was forgetting how superior your language skills where compared to us common folk.

 

[editor]

Not looking good even on this pro Ukrainian site. Maybe for once in his life the Pope was right on this one.

The stupid dithering twat changed his mind afterwards anyway.

Pope backtracks on Ukraine ‘white flag’ comments

The Pope said he is still recovering from his cold

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Maybe that’s what ID47 meant, Russia should get the fuck out of Ukraine as per the Holy Papa’s true desires?

 

[The39thStep]

Thanks, I'll get the report in asap. Much appreciated.

I hope Urban’s customer/poster focussed service meets your expectations

 

[Pickman's model]

Ah, so when you said the situations where comparable what you actually meant was they were completely different Got you.

Its just that when most people say things are comparable what they mean is that those things are very similar to each other.

But I was forgetting how superior your language skills where compared to us common folk.

when most people say - i like your twist on millions of pms of support. perhaps you could provide some evidence for your assertion. i don't know why you think my position novel or unusual, it's hardly the first time i've made the point as eg in 2014 FA Cup 2013/14, 2016 Tory UK EU Exit Referendum, and 2021 A thank you to Brexiteers..

 

[PTK]

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[PTK]

To wave a white flag can mean to surrender, or it can mean to engage in a truce.

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

To wave a white flag can mean to surrender, or it can mean to engage in a truce.

Or it can mean you've run out of coloured flags.

 

[Pickman's model]

To wave a white flag can mean to surrender, or it can mean to engage in a truce.

Or that a foul's been committed

 

[TopCat]

Oh, it's quite simple. If I break the forum's rules, users can report those posts and the other mods will take whatever action is required (if any).

This is so insincere it’s funny.

 

[Dystopiary]

Or that the train needs to stop and you've only got a white petticoat.

 

[editor]

This is so insincere it’s funny.

For absolutely the last time: if you wish to complain about the moderation of these forums, or feel that I am breaking the rules, then either report the offending post or start a thread in the feedback forum where the mods can decide the validity of your complaint.

Constantly disrupting this thread with your complaints amounts to the needless disruption of a thread, which definitely is against the forum rules.

 

[tim]

That's horrific.

The Ukrainian state forces people to go join the army and kill people too. Whatever passport you have and wherever you live conscription is horrific
because it is enslavement.

https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2023/international-organisations-call-actions-ukrainian-and-russian-embassies-protest-against

 

[emanymton]

when most people say - i like your twist on millions of pms of support. perhaps you could provide some evidence for your assertion. i don't know why you think my position novel or unusual, it's hardly the first time i've made the point as eg in 2014 FA Cup 2013/14, 2016 Tory UK EU Exit Referendum, and 2021 A thank you to Brexiteers..

Well you are consistent at least.

I apologise for niot having committed all of your posts to memory. I'll try harder in future.

 

[Chz]

editor
I think if you're going to take part and wear the moderator hat, then you should keep them separate with an indicator. Eg:

* OFFICIAL MODERATION *
You've been warned about excessive meta-moderation in this thread. Take it to the Feedback Forum. Three strikes and you're out.

Says the man doing meta-moderation.
I've seen this done on another forum I'm on and it's effective and you don't get so many complaints when there's a clear <Moderator_Hat=on> status. They even use a shade of yellow for it that can't be missed. ("Tyranny yellow", as the locals call it)
No-one is left wondering what's what, and generally only the temp-banned person gets upset.

Usual caveats of not my forum, not my rules, just my opinion applies.

 

[Pickman's model]

Well you are consistent at least.

I apologise for niot having committed all of your posts to memory. I'll try harder in future.

You're consistent too, a consistent disappointment. Making assertions you can't or won't support.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Look some people are Being Silenced and its very unfair.

 

[Pickman's model]

Look some people are Being Silenced and its very unfair.

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I've made no such claim. So dk why you've included me in your snip, sure you've a good reason tho

 

[cupid_stunt]

I've made no such claim. So dk why you've included me in your snip, sure you've a good reason tho

Now I think I know the answer to that...

...err, is it because you have made the most posts on the thread, and are therefore at the top of the list?

 

[Pickman's model]

Now I think I know the answer to that...

...err, is it because you have made the most posts on the thread, and are therefore at the top of the list?

You'd have to ask Artaxerxes. I think it's because he doesn't now how to crop a picture

 

[Artaxerxes]

Now I think I know the answer to that...

...err, is it because you have made the most posts on the thread, and are therefore at the top of the list?

Huge if true.

I even included myself For Balance but all I can think is how pathetic my numbers are, those are fucking rookie numbers.

 

[Pickman's model]

Huge if true.

I even included myself For Balance but all I can think is how pathetic my numbers are, those are fucking rookie numbers.

So who are these posters who say they're being silenced?