So you’re saying your comment was just violating our incivility rule?

Altaicist isn’t an insult. I didn’t say there was anything wrong with being an Altaicist. There are reputable linguists who are Altaicists.

I was just observing that the person I was talking to subscribes to the Altaicist hypothesis.

You know, this is the third comment I’ve made to you in the past half hour where I’ve had to correct your misframing of what I’ve said. Can you please stop twisting my words? It’s starting to feel personal.

No, I was not agreeing.

I know. I’m not the one who claimed Turkish is related to Mogolian. The other guy said that.

Did you respond to the wrong person?

Ah, so now we’ve gone from “it’s not an invasion” to “they did it first.”

I said that several comments ago.

I said: “But even if you want to consider a balloon an invasion, the South still invaded first when it aerial dropped propaganda.”

My first response to you was about how North Korea was acting in response to what South Korea did first.

What’s with the downvotes? Are you all Altaicists here?

Who would have thought the worst thing about Lemmy was all the bad linguistics theories.

Edit: Oh, come to think of it, I guess bad anthropological theories are a bit of a staple of American reactionaries.

Yes, but you don’t have to overstate things in the headline so much.

I sometimes think of something to say after my original comment.

And is “comrade” supposed to be a dig of some kind? Because it isn’t.

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the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an agency that reviews violations of religious freedoms overseas and makes policy recommendations to the President and Congress.

Why does that exist?

What imperialist bullshit.

“Report says” is newspaper speak for “this is probably bullshit”.

Part of me thinks “Surely American military intelligence must know there are different ethnic groups in Russia”.

But then I remember how the invasion of Iraq happened in part because the Americans didn’t understand the difference between Shia and Sunni Iraqis.

Another story I saw says that North Korean troops were spotted in the Russian military. How could an observer know they were Korean? Were they wearing a Korean uniform? And if so, why haven’t we seen any photos of that? Ukrainians have cameras, right?

Is this just a case of Ukrainians not being able to tell the difference between Buryats and Koreans?

Edit: Come to think of it, it’s more likely a case of Americans not being able to tell the difference between Buryats and Koreans.

I can only imagine their shock when they eventually learn that Russia, a country that spans all of north Asia, has Asians in it.

So one intelligence source says 10,000 have already been sent, and another says 3,000 will soon be sent.

These are just rumours. Inconsistent rumours.

This is clickbait for a paywalled article.

I don’t care if garbage balloons count as an invasion or not. Even if they do count, South Korea still invaded first.

South Korea does not have control over its own military. The South Korean military is commanded and controlled by the United States, and North Korea is right to see that as a threat.

South Korea asked the United States to have operational control of their military back, and the United States said no.

South Korea is objectively a puppet and colony of the United States. If you do not have control of your own military, you are a puppet.

And I’m not surprised to see you defending the West’s puppet, as disgusting as that is.

It seems to me this is more an issue of you liking North Korea and not liking South Korea.

Every American owes an apology to North Korea for what America did to them.

There will be a reckoning one day. One day Americans will be taught about what they did, and it will weigh on the conscience of American schoolchildren, just like all the other American atrocities.

First of all, I doubt that’s the kind of balloon that was carrying trash.

Secondly, spy balloons were a thing back in the 1950s because satellites didn’t exist yet. No one would use a balloon for warfare these days, because you can’t steer a balloon.

What even is your point? If you think Washington was justified in freaking out over a weather balloon but Pyongyang was not justified in freaking out over frickin’ drones, you’re not making sense.

What’s the difference?

You don’t see the difference between a drone and a balloon?

A drone is a weapon of war. A drone can collect surveillance, or even deliver a payload to a target.

But even if you want to consider a balloon an invasion, the South still invaded first when it aerial dropped propaganda.

That was in response to South Korea dropping propaganda in the North. North Korea complained that the propaganda drops were littering the countryside with trash.

(But maybe Biden just needed a distraction from his poll numbers that week.)

I remember the entire United States freaking out when a weather balloon from China went off course.

I think they shot down three more weather balloons, including some kids’ school project.

And that wasn’t even a drone that was powered and could be steered.