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by whacko_quacko 825 days ago
> Very much like America, apparently.

No. America isn't in the habit of regularily murdering dissidents

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Is anyone refuting this? It’s hardly a wild claim.
Did you read the parent?
Did you read the title of this thread?
A convenient death for Boeing/USA versus a century of documented political assassinations. Russia’s state killings are vast, millions?

The two are not equal.

>Russia’s state killings are vast, millions?

If you go far enough back in time, sure.

Then again, if you go far enough back in time (not that long, truth be told), the US committed genocide against the Native Americans.

Is 30 minutes far enough? https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-missile-attack-...

Russian ballistic missiles just hit residential area in Odessa, killing at least 16 and injuring 70. It was a double-tap attack. The second missile hit the same place 15 minutes later to kill first responders that had arrived: one paramedic and one firefighter died on the scene.

> If you go far enough back in time, sure

It’s within living memory.

However we have gone off track, as the other responses show.

If happening at all, political killings are not occurring in the US at anything like the rate that they occur in Russia.