Russia - threadbanned users in OP

If that was true, then China would be in trouble for their camps for Uighur Muslims

What you said was to quote "The truth of their stories or our stories aren't really important. It's just Important to know what the stories are"

When I want some "stories" I read fiction or I watch a film (I should probably stop reading this thread and do that...).

When I want "news" or to know what is happening, I want something as close to the "truth" as possible within all the (often large) limits of biases and failings of humans, and that does matter. What Russia and its mouths like the Ambassador here or its media are giving us as the facts of the matter right now (their "story" if you will) seems to be to be very far from such truth, at much further distance than the Western media "story".

There is an objective reality somewhere out there IMO, even as regards human events and history. 

I feel edit: that fairly deeply and think if we throw our hands up and say its all "stories" + the truth doesn't matter (what is truth etc.?) as quote above from you implies and there is no point trying to get your hands on reality, we are very lost and without hope.

I don't understand relativism or postmodern ideas or such at all, which is I think maybe where you are coming from with your posts (which are not at all appropriate for this thread or indeed perhaps the whole forum anyway, hence why I was sarcastic). I have not studied it or read about it, that is not my background at all so no doubt you'll be full of the quotes and arguments to convince me truth does not exist, there's no objective reality out there etc. 

Yes very much a case of 'the beatings will continue till morale improves'...

Right. The Ukrainians are under invasion, morale is absolutely critical to their survival, of course there will be stories or exaggerations.

The guys on Snake Island did tell the Russians to go "**** themselves", we have an audio feed of the exchange, and they did come under heavy fire right after. It was presumed they died, but new information has come to light that they survived and were captured.

As for the situation, it's not difficult to understand, plenty of global press outlets you can source and follow this from

Do you mean it stands for 'Soldier'? I do not imply this meaning, and like somebody already checked my account was created in 2018. If it is against any Boards rules, can you please point what the rule is and what exactly offended you?

Kharkiv, Kherson and Mariupol are now likely encircled by Russian forces now and Kyiv will also be soon, we are about to witness multiple synchronized massacres across a country, the like of which has not been seen since WW2 or the Balkans war on a smaller scale, genocide?

I mean seriously, they are chalk and cheese examples when it comes to the discussion of propaganda and biased reporting of facts.

Russia is invading a completely sovereign country on the most transparent excuses imaginable and is bombing civilian centres out of sheer desperation and frustration because none of this played out like they expected, or perhaps hoped.

Their own state media aren't reporting anything remotely close to the reality of what's happening.

Ukraine bigging up the accomplishments of their armed forces to boost morale while attacking enemy morale is hardly even remotely comparable.

More generally, do Russian people actually share such a level of paranoia of their President that they think every single country in the free world is part of some enormous global conspiracy against Russia....even countries in continents outside of North America and Europe.

Russia's only true vocal allies in all of this, tiny Belarus, it's dictator saved from being overthrown by Russian intervention recently, and Syria....well, we know how that went.

The simple reality is that Russia invaded it's neighbor on a non-existant pretext, no different to the one Germany used to invade Poland. It's that black and white. That is the narrative, regardless of what fibs Ukraine is telling in terms of its defense capabilities/achievements.

Everything, anything, that seeks to question or deflect that actual narrative, is just whataboutery.

What? Navalny, an opposition figure, was poisoned with Novichok in 2020. He's now residing in a Russian jail

The two men who were caught on CCTV in Salisbury on the day of Skripal poisoning, who claimed on Russian TV they were gym owners or some ****, a story which was backed by Putin, turned out to be two FSB agents (one of whom was decorated by Putin), their photographs left on the wall of the academy

You apparently know nothing about the incident, yet notice how you immediately try to cast doubt on it.

This is why people are sick of the Putinbots who come in here with their "I don't know what's going on, both sides are the same" BS.

Jesus, where does the op sympathise nazis? But it is true, my grandparents said the same thing. Germans came, ate and drank everything, 2 days later they were paid for the damage. With russians youre lucky if youre still alive and not raped. Of course if youre jew, well then its a different story. German soldiers were brainwashed just like russians today, following their orders. Watch a 'Pianist', movie based on a true story about Polish jew pianist. Nazi general helped him with food and water, hid him from other nazis. Of course its a movie you say and even if its based on true story they usually make it look better/worse, but point stands, German soldiers were less evil to regular human being than russians in our eastern european non jewish experience

edit: theres a tiny little possibility that when we were in soviet union, we didnt like mother russia, our grandparents sweetened the story, or we were a bit brainwashed aswell

The Geman's ran the place in a 'civilised way'? Was this during World War 2 when they butchered over 4 million Ukranian people and sent another 2.2 million of them back to Germany as nothing but slaves?

Boyd-Barrett, Murphy, Wallace, Daly et Al have been cheerleaded and promoted in the media for years. They have zip nationwide support but are constantly given platforms to for issues that the media are friendly too. When they come out with their batshit crazy things the Irish media turn a blind eye to them.

They created these monsters. I am not saying deplatform them, I don't believe in it. But FFS you can't just turn a blind eye for when they show their true colours, and promote them when they are saying things they agree with.

Great to see someone making an effort. Personally I think it would be better without the music with vocals. Human brains can't paralell process so a lot of any audience will get hooked on listening to the lyrics, rather than reading the text. Dark, sombre and threatening music would better suit the subject matter.

Something more like The Art of Noise - Instruments of Darkness.

A in Higher level History. No idea what a group cert is. Sounds like something only geriatrics would be familiar with.