The governor of western Russia’s Kaliningrad region blamed the 18th-century German enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant for the outbreak of war in Ukraine. “He is directly related to the military conflict in Ukraine,” Anton Alikhanov, who governs the western exclave of Kaliningrad, said Friday at a local political science forum.

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    10 months ago

    Remember the time Kant’s categorical imperative massed hundreds of thousands of troops for a “training exercise” along the border of a sovereign neighbor state, loudly protesting concerns it was preparing for a ground invasion?

    Then when it did invade that neighbor, on the most cynically pretextual grounds imaginable, and began a wholesale slaughter of innocent men, women, and children?

    Remember when Kant did that?

    Nobody else does either, but it will be a generational memory for Russia to live down now. Hope the good governor gets cancer of the anus talking that kind of shit.

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      610 months ago

      Hope the good governor gets cancer of the anus talking that kind of shit.

      Well. Having to live in Russia and apparently feeling the urge to make these kind of ludicrous comments on a regular basis to please this insane mobster state and ensure it won’t be your turn to be dropped out of the nearest window for the next couple of months seems to be a punishment in itself.

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      010 months ago

      Hope the good governor gets cancer of the anus talking that kind of shit.

      Nobody respects a man with a bleeding rectum

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      910 months ago

      Once upon a time, fish left the water. This event was later deemed the root cause for all wars.

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        510 months ago

        In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

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      10 months ago

      Don’t mess with Plato, apart from being a philosopher, he was a competitive wrestler who would occasionally threaten to beat up people who disagreed with him.

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    I wish the article went into more detail about the argument. Not because it probably makes sense but because I have a philosophy degree

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      310 months ago

      It must be, otherwise there would be no good reason why “Kant” is pronounced like “cunt”.

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    1010 months ago

    So they are trying to blame the loss of success or the whole war on something else than themselves. Interesting.

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    410 months ago

    Wow “Kant” is the worse misspelling of “Putin” I’ve ever seen - better luck next time

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      10 months ago

      In its correct pronunciation, it sounds like an English expletive that can be used on Putin. So all is not as bad as it seems.