It fits the legal definition of genocide. Has since March 2022.

What even? You start out by saying 10% of people in the U.S. are in jail which is obviously not true. It's like half of one percent.

You say 75% of people are in jail for non-violent drug offenses, but ALL drug offenses add up to less than 50%, let alone nonviolent ones.

I scrolled down and saw you saying that children are separated from families at the U.S. border. That's a total false equivalency. People were really mad about Trump's policy to separate every single child from every family member, even with documented evidence to show they were related. The idea was that's such a horrible experience no parent would willingly do it. Let that sink in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_administration_family_separation_policy

That was rescinded when the courts were about to rule that if the government separated families it had to put them back together again - and the government forgot to have any plan whatsoever to do that. The courts did rule in that way. The government STILL hasn't managed to reunite all families.

Yes, absolutely. Sorry I wasn't clear - Olga and Yuriy were killed by Russians because they wouldn't flip.

23 flipped, possibly. Perhaps decided their lives were worth more than their morals and ethics. Can't blame them.

They probably told the Russians everything they knew. Or, played along with the invading army's demands anyway.

The ones who disappeared may have held out too long, or perhaps the invading army thought they had more to offer than they actually did.

The mayors who didn't get kidnapped at all are the ones who just immediately switched sides and started parroting Russian propaganda. Of course many of them are now dead, targeted specifically by Ukraine, and personally I'd agree valid military targets.

Ukranian mayor Olga Sukhenko was executed alongside her family. Yuriy Prylypko was killed too. Russian puppets Ivan Sushko, Vitaly Gur, Vladimir Saldo, and many others were assassinated for their perceived treason.

Absolutely.

Every saved website URL is unencrypted.

Now the attackers have the owner's LastPass email address, all IP addresses used to log in (which for most people is an accurate geographic region), and for everyone who paid their full billing info including name, address and phone number.

And with URLs the attackers can tie all of that to every single service the person has a password for.

That's a goldmine in and of itself. Their utility bills tell you where they live with certainty. Their financial accounts tell you who their bank is, their mortgage company, their insurance company, their health insurance company, etc. Their company accounts tell you who they work for, even if they just have webmail or timesheets saved. Many people now have accounts for their doctor's office, and for different services that offer medical tests (scheduling).

Political affiliations. Hobbies. Clubs. What languages they speak. Deep dark secrets. There's a reason the backup was stolen.

Knowing all that, and previous password leaks, the attackers can (and already are undoubtedly) do Password Spraying attacks against the backup and will gain access to some accounts. It's inevitable, AES256 is too weak and stolen accounts too valuable.

No, the point was not that the facts are true.

The point was the facts are probably false, but they logically support Russia's actions.

In order to show they're false, what's necessary? Well, whoever carried out the first wartime surface-drone attack on a ship in the history of the planet, needs to give away information about how they actually did it. That's not going to happen obviously.

So, Russia has come up with a scenario where they can do something they desperately wanted to do - kill the grain program - while having "A justification" (to quote myself from above with all the same caveats) to do so.

Again, they usually aren't that smart.

No

I said I didn't believe that

I said "It's probably not true"

Edit: I didn't develop this talking point. I don't believe the drones took they path Russia says they did.

But that is all 100% irrelevant to my point. My point is that this is one of the smarter things Russia has done lately. No I'm not saying it's acceptable or defensible or smart, only smertER. Certainly smarter than sending a half million untrained unequipped civilians to the front lines.

I say this because they actually stand a chance of maintaining their remaining shred of reputation on a global scale (ie. not with the West), despite literally preventing ships of food from going to nearly-starving countries. Because they've tied the attacks on Sevastopol directly to the grain shipment corridor, doing so with no evidence but in what is basically an irrefutable way since nobody is going to provide evidence to the contrary of how they carried out a successful, novel attack on Russia's Black Sea navy stronghold. In the short term they'll give away grain to pretend they're not deepening famine, while it's probably Ukranian grain they've stolen anyway.

It simply isn't the stupidest thing they've done this month.

Unedited original post: They actually made a smart argument - they allege that navigationL data pulled from a downed drone indicates it was launched from a vessel in the grain corridor and navigated through the corridor before turning towards Sevastopol.

It's probably not true, but at least it's a justification for ending the grain transport agreement thing.

I am of course NOT saying I believe it's a valid justification. But at least it is A justification, when usually they don't bother or just make something nonsensical up.