Russia Invades Ukraine. Again by captaincrunch

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SIGNYM:
Irrational plans and ideas would be sieved out pretty quickly.

SECOND: Tell me again what is the rationality for invading Ukraine. Don't say to stop Ukraine from asking to join NATO because if that is the rationality then Russian artillery should be bombarding Finland, which actually is asking to join NATO.

Are you simple?

Russia isn't going to suddenly start bombing Finland, just like they didn't suddenly invade Ukraine.

Russian spox have been talking about NATO expansion since at least 2007 (Munich Security Conference) and have been trying to deal with Ukraine through Minsk I and Minsk II, pressuring Germany and France (signatories) to get Ukraine to actually IMPLEMENT what they had signed, and what had been adopted by the UN.

Russia spox, including Putin, hve presented the globalist west with proposal after proposal for negotiations on issues like Open Skies, intermediate range missiles, but the west responded with broken promise after broken promise.

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This unstoppable artillery bombardment doomed Nazi Berlin. The Soviets opened the road to Berlin in 1945 at the Battle of Seelow Heights with a massive barrage that saw over 9,000 Soviet guns and rockets firing along a front approximately 18.5 miles long. That’s one artillery piece every 11 feet.
https://www.businessinsider.com/soviet-artillery-bombardment-doomed-na
zi-berlin-2017-1

You must be confused. You posted that Russia doesn't know how to fight without losing a lot of soldiers. Then you provide examples proving that Russia DOES know how to fight.
But since you can never acknowledge that Russia might do something right, you turn THAT into a criticism, implying that they SHOULDN'T have won the war against it the Nazis because that might admit that without Russia's military might, the French and British would by now be speaking German and be all-Aryan.

Stop trying to rewrite the past. You can't. Relax and accept reality.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

You must be confused. You posted that Russia doesn't know how to fight without losing a lot of soldiers. Then you provide examples proving that Russia DOES know how to fight.
But since you can never acknowledge that Russia might do something right, you turn THAT into a criticism, implying that they SHOULDN'T have won the war against it the Nazis because that might admit that without Russia's military might, the French and British would by now be speaking German and be all-Aryan.

Stop trying to rewrite the past. You can't. Relax and accept reality.

To be blunt as possible, Ukraine would have already been conquered without weaponry sold to them. To be even blunter, Russia would have been conquered without weaponry and metals sold to them in WWII.

Signym, accept the Reality that Russians have mental problems. If Russia wasn't inflected with aimlessness — from communism to perestroika to shock therapy to penury to oligarchy to mafia state to mega-rich and the new next thing, religious mania to destroy Ukraine — Russia would actually arrive at a worthwhile goal.

Signym, you did not click the military link, which reads: “As usual, we stuck to the book and by now the Germans know our methods,” said Colonel General Vasili Kuznetsov, a Russian commander. “They pulled back their troops a good eight kilometers. Our artillery hit everything but the enemy.”

Over the next few days, the Russians lost approximately 33,000 men while inflicting 12,000 casualties on the Germans. Signym, if the Russians knew what they were doing, Russian loses would have been 33% of German loses, not 275%! The Russians fired 500,000 artillery shells in the first 30 minutes of their barrage, but there was little aiming, which is why so few Germans died. Russia suffers from aimlessness — from communism to perestroika to shock therapy to penury to oligarchy to mafia state to mega-rich and the new next thing, religious mania about Ukraine.

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Friday, June 3, 2022 7:29 AM

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YOU post about people with mental problems?

Wow.

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Friday, June 3, 2022 2:29 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
YOU post about people with mental problems?

Wow.

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If we did not MAKE someone poor - ~~William Blake~~ Signym. If William Blake was alive, he'd kick the shit out of Signym for misusing lines from his poem out of context.

Signym, let me test your arithmetic skills. You can use a calculator because I can't tell if you cheat. Which number is larger? 27 million or 419,400?

One of those numbers is for Russian dead and the other is for dead USA citizens. Both countries "won" WWII, but one of them "lost" when measured by the cost in lives to "win" (assuming that Stalin cared how many Russians died but I don't think Signym could prove Stalin cared about anything but himself.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties#Total_deaths_by_
country

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Vladimir Putin Invaded Ukraine Over Control Of Their Oil And Gas Reserves

Vladimir Putin claimed he invaded Ukraine over eastward expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. However, this video essay by RealLifeLore makes a convincing case that Russia did it for control of the country's natural resources.

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Saturday, June 4, 2022 6:56 AM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Quote:
SIGNYM:
YOU post about people with mental problems?
Wow.

SECOND: Signym, let me test your arithmetic skills. You can use a calculator because I can't tell if you cheat. Which number is larger? 27 million or 419,400?

One of those numbers is for Russian dead and the other is for dead USA citizens.

Do you really think your bullshit deserves aa reply?

Let's test your sanity skills.

One of those countries fought WWII on its own soil along a 2000-mile front, and a lot of civilians were killed. The other country did NOT fight the war on its own soil, it sent its soldiers overseas, and fought on a 300-mile front.

Which is which?

Stop lying to yourself. You would be much less twisted that way.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
SIGNYM:
YOU post about people with mental problems?
Wow.

SECOND: Signym, let me test your arithmetic skills. You can use a calculator because I can't tell if you cheat. Which number is larger? 27 million or 419,400?

One of those numbers is for Russian dead and the other is for dead USA citizens.
Do you really think your bullshit deserves aa reply?

Let's test your sanity skills.

One of those countries fought WWII on its own soil along a 2000-mile front, and a lot of civilians were killed. The other country did NOT fight the war on its own soil, it sent its soldiers overseas, and fought on a 300-mile front.

Which is which?

Stop lying to yourself. You would be much less twisted that way.

One these countries killed 10,000,000 of it citizens by starvation, and yet denies it did what it did. Meanwhile, the other country had fewer deaths by starvation. I can't read the mind of dead world leaders, but I think the leader of one of these countries felt that he could expend the lives of his citizens with no consequences for himself. Not at all surprising that he would find the lives of his citizens easy to waste during war, too!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

Then after the mass starvation, one of the leaders of these countries made a deal with Adolf Hitler to divide Poland. Although I can't read the leader's mind because he's dead, he looks grossly incompetent for trusting the fate of his citizens to Hitler's good will, considering how much bad will Hitler had demonstrated before the deal was made. The deal inevitably caused massive death, but since the leader didn't competently distribute food during a man-made famine, why would he waste his time protecting his citizens from Hitler?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact

Between October 1940 and February 1942, in spite of the ongoing German attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Red Army, in particular the Soviet Air Force, as well as Soviet military-related industries were subjected to purges by Stalin and executed. That is NOT a winning formula for war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1941_Red_Army_Purge

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Saturday, June 4, 2022 9:00 AM

Nobody cares.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nobody cares.

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I know your mind, little man, because I'm surrounded by loudmouth pipsqueaks exactly like you who have all the same opinions as you do and all the same problems, too, with family, alcohol, tobacco, work, price of gas, women, et cetera, the same as you. They are the least special people in the world and the least deserving of any help. But on the plus side, you are the mostly likely to die young. May I suggest you exercise your 2nd Amendment rights? Finally you could do something newsworthy if you buy enough ammo.

The Japanese care about Ukraine because the same thing happened to them: Russia stole their land.

Russia didn't fight in the Pacific until Japan was nuked, then it claimed land that it has not yet returned to Japan, despite repeated diplomatic negotiations by Japan to have its stolen property returned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuril_Islands_dispute

Japanese assistance to the people of Ukraine
• Provide Ukraine with drones, bulletproof vests, helmets, winter battle dress uniform, tents, cameras, hygiene products, emergency rations, binoculars, flashlights, medical equipment and others
• Provide emergency humanitarian assistance of US$ 100 million in such areas as health and medical care, food, protection of people in Ukraine and neighboring countries through international organizations and others. An additional US$ 100 million already announced.*
*Japan has provided Ukraine US$ 1.87 billion in ODA since 2014.
• Provide Ukraine with financial support of US$ 600 million.
• Offer visa extensions to any Ukrainians in Japan who wish to receive one
• Promote accepting evacuees from Ukraine into Japan
• Provide in-kind contributions and consider personnel contribution in the fields of medical care, health, etc. to assist evacuees now staying in neighboring countries

https://japan.kantei.go.jp/ongoingtopics/pdf/jp_stands_with_ukraine_en
g.pdf

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Saturday, June 4, 2022 9:41 AM

lol

It thinks it forms its own opinions.

Get fucked moron. Democrats are finished.

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Saturday, June 4, 2022 11:33 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
lol

It thinks it forms its own opinions.

Get fucked moron. Democrats are finished.

The “King of Debt” promised to reduce the national debt — then his tax cuts made it surge by $7.8 trillion. How much of that went into your bank account? Divide $7.8 trillion by 130 million households (2021) in the US to get $60,000 per household. Where is your $60,000, 6ix? If I were you, I'd be bitter that Ukraine is getting the money Trump didn't send you.

https://www.propublica.org/article/national-debt-trump

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Saturday, June 4, 2022 1:05 PM

Democrat Covid Lockdowns caused all of it.

Not worried about Trump right now. I'm worried about your guy who is actively trying to destroy America and succeeding at it.

It's the only thing he's ever been good at.

P.S. I don't care about money I didn't get that I didn't earn because as long as the value of the dollar doesn't disappear before Biden* gets kicked out, I have more than I need. In that case, we have a Mad Max situation on our hands and I win.

I sleep better at night knowing that I don't pay any Federal Taxes that go to fund your Ukraine wars and baby murder too. I will never make more money in a year than the standard deduction for the rest of my life and I will thrive on that.

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Saturday, June 4, 2022 2:30 PM

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Meanwhile, the country that doesn't know how to fight is winning in Ukraine.

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Saturday, June 4, 2022 4:11 PM

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The Coming Global Fracture as Economic Orders Clash
Michael Hudson • June 1, 2022

...The State Department and CIA’s “mighty Wurlitzer” has focused on gaining control of Europe’s Social Democratic and Labour parties, anticipating that the great threat to U.S.-centered finance capitalism will be socialism. That has included the “green” parties, to the point where their pretense of opposing global warming is shown to be hypocritical in light of the vast carbon footprint and pollution of the NATO military warfare in Ukraine and related air force and naval exercises. You can’t be pro-environment and pro-war at the same time!

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Saturday, June 4, 2022 6:24 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
You can’t be pro-environment and pro-war at the same time!

You can when 50% of the people who vote are below average intelligence.

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Saturday, June 4, 2022 7:54 PM

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Originally posted by SignyM:
Meanwhile, the country that doesn't know how to fight is winning in Ukraine.

The poor performance of the Red Army in the Winter War of 1939 encouraged German Chancellor Adolf Hitler to believe that an attack on the Soviet Union would be successful.

Number of Soviet dead or missing during the Winter War 1939? 167,976
Finnish dead or missing? 25,904
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War

Russians declared themselves the "victors" in the Winter War.

The Winter War was followed by the Continuation War 1941
Soviet 250,000–305,000 dead or missing
Finnish 63,200 dead or missing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation_War

Russians declared themselves the "victors" in the Continuation War.

The Continuation War was followed by World War II
Number of Soviet dead during WWII? 27,000,000
Number of German dead during WWII? 7,400,000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties#Total_deaths_by_
country

Once again the Russians declared themselves the "victors" in World War 2, but they would been annihilated if not for America and Britain doing more than half of the job, while at same time giving weapons and metals to Russia.

Not surprising that the post-war economy of Germany soon surpassed the economy of the entire Soviet Union. Today the German economy is $3.40 trillion Ranked 5th in the world, 69% more than Russia. Russian GDP is $2.01 trillion Ranked 9th in the world.
https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Germany/Russia/Econo
my

Again the Russians declared themselves the "victors" in the Post-War years.

The Russians will declare themselves the "victors" after the Ukraine War, but the Russians will get their asses kicked, just like Finland kicked Russian asses in two wars. For the fifth year in a row, Finland is rated the happiest country in the world. Russia? Not so much.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/18/finland-named-the-worlds-happiest-for-
the-fifth-year-in-a-row.html

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Saturday, June 4, 2022 7:55 PM

Russians are the only ones winning now.

We certainly aren't.

Fuck Democrats. Fuck Joe Biden*.

Your time is almost up.

Tick Tock.

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Saturday, June 4, 2022 8:30 PM

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Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Russians are the only ones winning now.

We certainly aren't.

Fuck Democrats. Fuck Joe Biden*.

Your time is almost up.

Tick Tock.

6ix, there is time bomb in your chest from smoking. Tick Tock. You're dead. And let me remind you that the “King of Debt” promised to reduce the national debt — then his tax cuts made it surge by $7.8 trillion. How much of that went into your bank account, 6ix? Divide $7.8 trillion by 130 million households (2021) in the US to get $60,000 per household. Where is your $60,000, 6ix? If I were you, I'd be bitter that Ukraine is getting the money Trump didn't send you.

6ix, when Trump, or someone like him, gets elected there will be another tax cut and another $60,000 (or more!) giveaway per household. You won't get any of the $60,000 since you pay no income tax. I will be happy getting my $60,000. Tick Tock goes the countdown clock until that money arrives in my bank account. Thank you, 6ix, for voting for my future tax cut. And thank you for smoking, 6ix, and dying, since that will help Social Security keep paying $4,194 per month to me. Another $4,194 plus 10% more for the inflation adjustment goes to my wife, starting next year. Inflation is a very good thing when you are a seller of fuel. May you freeze next winter, 6ix, because you can't afford to heat your house with natural gas. I guarantee that the GOP will not lower natural gas prices or gasoline prices for you and all the other angry poor white trash of America who voted for Trump.

https://www.propublica.org/article/national-debt-trump

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Saturday, June 4, 2022 10:48 PM

lol

The amount of bullshit with your replies is astounding.

Thanks for your concern.

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Saturday, June 4, 2022 10:50 PM

Oh. Also archived for wishing death on me too, Second AKA reaverfan AKA Marcos AKA Arthur.

You're a real class act buddy. Your fake wife is lucky to have you.

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Sunday, June 5, 2022 8:28 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Oh. Also archived for wishing death on me too, Second AKA reaverfan AKA Marcos AKA Arthur.

You're a real class act buddy. Your fake wife is lucky to have you.

Russian soldiers have been warned to stay out of Ukraine. When Russians are killed or injured, it will be because they ignored the warnings. 6ix has been warned about his smoking and his voluntary early retirement from paid work. When he is ill or dying from smoking, can't get medical care because he has no money, he will be clicking all of his archived "death threats" to reassure himself that he was never at fault for what happened to himself. It was the Democrats' fault for failing to pass Medicare for All. Except for the rich voters, all the Trump voters I know (6ix will claim I don't) have the most difficult lives, from ruined marriages to job terminations to early deaths from obesity to their grown children avoiding their parents and yet it is never clear to the Trump voters how they could have escaped their problems. Maybe they should have not believed Trump when he blames their problems on Democrats. Maybe Russians should stop believing Putin when he tells them Ukrainians are fascists and Ukraine is Russian land and that Ukraine started the war, not Putin.

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Sunday, June 5, 2022 8:43 AM

lol

All we really know about your fucked up life is your anecdotes and lies, buddy.

Keep your discussion outside of the realms of fantasy, or start posting on some low-rent fan-fic site, mkay?

And don't worry about me dude. Really. I'm good.

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Sunday, June 5, 2022 2:09 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Quote:
6IXSTRINGJACK:
Russians are the only ones winning now.
We certainly aren't.
Fuck Democrats. Fuck Joe Biden*.
Your time is almost up.
Tick Tock.

SeCOND: 6ix, there is time bomb in your chest from smoking. Tick Tock. You're dead.

SECOND, there is a time bomb ticking away in all of us.

That means you, too.

Much as you like to think that you're "above" all of us, you're not going to live forever. Realistically, you've got about ten years left.

You might want to consider whether you want to live your remaining years as the hateful twisted fuck that you are, or ... yanno... shed that gross mental twitch, free yourself of hate and live a rich, fulfilling decade or so. You can't change the 50 years you spent being a slave to self-loathing and hate, but you CAN enjoy your remaining years in peace!

*****
But then, what does this have to do with the OT?

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Monday, June 6, 2022 10:20 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Our gasoline prices jumped $0.30 in one day- from $4.70 to $5.00/gal.

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$3.95 by me now. I bought gas less than 2 weeks ago for $3.18.

Go Joe*!

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Those were the days...

$5.60 here now.

Fuck Joe Biden.

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Monday, June 6, 2022 10:29 AM

Too many threads about Russia created by the assholes here to sift through and I've got better things to do today.

I have one in one of these threads with a list of possible outcomes of this war, and the only one that I thought would be realistic is Ukraine giving up some land to Russia as a buffer from NATO imperialism.

I guess that Asshole Joe Biden* thinks I'm right now?

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President Biden on Friday declined to rule out Ukraine having to cede part of its territory to Russia in order to end Moscow’s more than three-month-old invasion.

“Does Ukraine have to cede territory to achieve peace?” a reporter asked Biden after his remarks on the May jobs report.

“From the beginning, I’ve said and I’ve been — not everyone’s agreed with me — nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine,” Biden began his answer. “It’s their territory. I’m not going to tell them what they should and shouldn’t do.

“But it appears to me that at some point along the line, there’s going to have to be a negotiated settlement here,” the president added. “And what that entails, I don’t know. I don’t think anybody knows at the time. But in the meantime, we’re gonna continue to put the Ukrainians in a position where they can defend themselves.”

Puppet President, Tracksuit Z didn't appreciate this.

Fuck Obama plant Zelensky.

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Monday, June 6, 2022 10:51 AM

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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
6IXSTRINGJACK:
Russians are the only ones winning now.
We certainly aren't.
Fuck Democrats. Fuck Joe Biden*.
Your time is almost up.
Tick Tock.

SeCOND: 6ix, there is time bomb in your chest from smoking. Tick Tock. You're dead.
SECOND, there is a time bomb ticking away in all of us.

That means you, too.

Much as you like to think that you're "above" all of us, you're not going to live forever. Realistically, you've got about ten years left.

You might want to consider whether you want to live your remaining years as the hateful twisted fuck that you are, or ... yanno... shed that gross mental twitch, free yourself of hate and live a rich, fulfilling decade or so. You can't change the 50 years you spent being a slave to self-loathing and hate, but you CAN enjoy your remaining years in peace!

*****
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - ~~William Blake~~ Signym

6ix has doubted everything I have told him about myself. I should doubt myself, assuming 6ix knows better. The logical conclusion is that if nothing is true then I don't exist. How can I die if I am unreal? That sounds rather silly, doesn't it? But then neither Signym nor 6ix have any "proof" of anything. Everything about Ukraine is second or third hand hearsay from M$M. Nothing is solid. Nothing is true. ( I don't doubt everything, but doubt is the default setting for know-nothings like 6ix and Signym, who wait for scientific "proof" and for audits by people Signym and 6ix trust. But who do they trust? Putin? Paid and unpaid Russian mouthpieces for Putin? Trump and his paid and unpaid mouthpieces?)

6ix is bitching about gasoline prices being Biden's fault and Ukraine's, but US prices are bargains compared to the rest of the world. Since nothing is real for 6ix, he won't believe it:
https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/gasoline_prices/

But 6ix doesn't even believe gasoline refineries are gouging buyers out of $billions every hour of the day, all around the world, just because refiners can. Old fashion gouging is the real explanation for high prices, but nobody believes the obvious. Instead, people like 6ix put their faith in unseen forces of the Federal Reserve causing inflation by manipulating interest rates or the rate of increase in the National Debt or the price of Federal Bonds at the next auction https://www.treasurydirect.gov/instit/instit.htm?upcoming . The oil refineries along the Houston Ship Channel are thankful that these unseen forces, not the refineries, set the price for gasoline because that makes refineries helpless to lower their prices and therefore the gouging will continue.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Monday, June 6, 2022 11:02 AM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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6IXSTRINGJACK:
Russians are the only ones winning now.
We certainly aren't.
Fuck Democrats. Fuck Joe Biden*.
Your time is almost up.
Tick Tock.

SeCOND: 6ix, there is time bomb in your chest from smoking. Tick Tock. You're dead.
SECOND, there is a time bomb ticking away in all of us.

That means you, too.

Much as you like to think that you're "above" all of us, you're not going to live forever. Realistically, you've got about ten years left.

You might want to consider whether you want to live your remaining years as the hateful twisted fuck that you are, or ... yanno... shed that gross mental twitch, free yourself of hate and live a rich, fulfilling decade or so. You can't change the 50 years you spent being a slave to self-loathing and hate, but you CAN enjoy your remaining years in peace!

*****
But then, what does this have to do with the OT?

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If we did not MAKE someone poor - ~~William Blake~~ Signym
6ix has doubted everything I have told him about myself.

It's easy to lie about being rich and perfect dude.

Hell... Google "Catfish" and see just how easy it is to manipulate people online.

I'm honest about all of my faults. They've all been here in my post history and I've never deleted a single post. I have no reason to lie about any of that. On the contrary, I've posted things about myself that most people would never dare dream of revealing about themselves to anybody else, much less virtual strangers. And it's easy to see why when shitstains like you attempt to throw those truths back in my face as frequently as you lose arguments, and Ted will go back deep into my drunk post history from time to time when I really get under his skin. The both of you are walking personifications of negative campaign ads.

All you've ever done when talking about yourself is talk about how rich you are, how you're always right, how great your life is, and how you don't have a single personal flaw.

I'm hardly the only person here who smells your bullshit. NOBODY believes any of it.

Add to that the frequency with which you delete posts. Don't worry... I've archived them for you.

All of them.

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Monday, June 6, 2022 11:14 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

It's easy to lie about being rich and perfect dude.

It is easy to lie about anything. Easier still to disbelieve everything. What is hard is beating the shit out of people who lie to you, but that is the only sure way to teach people not to lie constantly and non-stop. Taking them to court? Threatening to sue? Angry words? That doesn't work. Firing them works. Making them fear the consequences of lying works. Nobody has ever punched Trump in the face after he lost a case in court, which is why the fat lying sack of shit never stops lying. Trump depends on others treating him civilly when they should be knocking him down and kicking his ribs until some break. That is how to communicate with a guy like Trump. Or with Putin. But second hand violence of killing Russian soldiers doesn't change Putin because he doesn't care how many die. Neither did Stalin when he was sacrificing 27 million Russians during WWII or killing millions before WWII by starving them or imprisoning them in Siberia where they froze to death.

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Monday, June 6, 2022 12:24 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Quote:
6IXSTRINGJACK:
Russians are the only ones winning now.
We certainly aren't.
Fuck Democrats. Fuck Joe Biden*.
Your time is almost up.
Tick Tock.

SeCOND: 6ix, there is time bomb in your chest from smoking. Tick Tock. You're dead.

SIGNY: SECOND, there is a time bomb ticking away in all of us.
That means you, too.
Much as you like to think that you're "above" all of us, you're not going to live forever. Realistically, you've got about ten years left.

You might want to consider whether you want to live your remaining years as the hateful twisted fuck that you are, or ... yanno... shed that gross mental twitch, free yourself of hate and live a rich, fulfilling decade or so. You can't change the 50 years you spent being a slave to self-loathing and hate, but you CAN enjoy your remaining years in peace!

*****
But then, what does this have to do with the OT?

SECOND: 6ix has doubted everything I have told him about myself. I should doubt myself, assuming 6ix knows better. The [il]logical conclusion is that if nothing is true then I don't exist. How can I die if I am unreal? That sounds rather silly, doesn't it? But then neither Signym nor 6ix have any "proof" of anything.

A) I have all of the proof that I need to know that you're a twisted fuck who lies like a rug, even to yourself. The proof is right in your posts. Youve twisted your brain into accepting any argument in service to your hate, no matter how untrue, illogical, or contradictory to previous posts.

B) The proof is right in THIS post. To say that it's "logical" to disblieve your existence bc someone disbelieves what you post about yourself is supremely illogical. It's hard to believe you were ever an engineer.

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Monday, June 6, 2022 12:26 PM

THG

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Yes, I knew about living standards in England. Cottagers thrown off the land, homelessness, workouses, poorhouses, beggar children and pauper children, flower girls, mtach girls, prostitution... it's been so widely portrayed (poverty is the in the background of Charles Dickens' and Jane Austen's stories) that I'm surprised you didn't know about it.

Sig is implying the living standards of the fictional characters of Oliver Twist and David Copperfield are comparable to modern day England? God Russians are stupid.

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Monday, June 6, 2022 1:41 PM

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Originally posted by SignyM:
Yes, I knew about living standards in England. Cottagers thrown off the land, homelessness, workouses, poorhouses, beggar children and pauper children, flower girls, mtach girls, prostitution... it's been so widely portrayed (poverty is the in the background of Charles Dickens' and Jane Austen's stories) that I'm surprised you didn't know about it.

THUGR: Sig is implying the living standards of the fictional characters of Oliver Twist and David Copperfield are comparable to modern day England? God Russians are stupid.

Speaking of stupid...

YOU went there first.
We were discussing living standards in England when Blake wrote that poem

Next time, wait until you have something intelligent to add before posting, m'kay?

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Monday, June 6, 2022 2:12 PM

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It's easy to lie about being rich and perfect dude.
It is easy to lie about anything.

I know it is. You do it every time you speak or type something.

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Easier still to disbelieve everything.

Trust is earned. There's no reason to trust anything you say.

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What is hard is beating the shit out of people who lie to you...

Not really. Come on over and I'll show you how easy it is.

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Monday, June 6, 2022 2:53 PM

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Russia's war on the world's food supply

by Matthew Yglesias / June 06, 2022

https://www.slowboring.com/p/russias-war-on-the-worlds-food-supply?s=r

Russia’s war in Ukraine is taking a terrible toll on Ukrainians and promoting hardship within Russia and throughout the developed world. But the biggest economic casualties are almost certainly the poorer countries that aren’t involved in the proxy conflict at all but are facing potential devastation due to the run-up in global food prices deliberately provoked by Russian policy.

Russia is using its Black Sea Fleet and control over most of Ukraine’s coastline to blockade exports of Ukrainian grain.

The grain can, to an extent, make its way to market along other routes. But back in 1843, the Russian Empire decided to build their railroad tracks a bit wider than standard gauge railroads. (1520 mm versus 1435 mm. Many people say they made this choice to make it harder for Germans to invade, but the people saying this tend not to have any primary sources to cite. In an old Slavic Review article, R.M. Haywood says this is wrong and the Russians preferred it for technical reasons and simply thought the idea of a rail connection to the West was unrealistic. ) The Soviet Union continued this policy, and the result is that Ukrainian freight trains today can’t easily move into Poland, so the blockade creates a huge shipping bottleneck.

I initially assumed the Russians were primarily interested in hurting the Ukrainian economy by denying them export income and secondarily interested in raising global grain prices to benefit their own grain exporters. But Russia has halted grain exports and is now arguing that western countries should lift their sanctions on Russia in order to get the Russian grain flowing. This doesn’t make a lot of sense since the countries sanctioning Russia are not the countries most hurt by soaring food prices. Unfortunately, the whole idea of invading Ukraine didn’t make much sense either (I tried to warn them!), and Putin’s thinking on this issue seems driven by ideology rather than any practical consideration.

This leaves us with a really big problem, and its most straightforward solution — Turkey abrogates the Montreux Convention and NATO sends a fleet of warships to break the Russian blockade — involves gigantic downside risks.

Food has gotten very expensive

Today’s global inflation is partially attributable to stimulative fiscal and monetary policies enacted in a number of major countries, including notably the United States of America — you can see that clearly in the “core” Consumer Price Index that strips out volatile food and energy commodities. But these commodity price swings are very painful and as you can see, grocery prices have been rising in the United States faster than overall inflation, driven by a staggering 40 percent increase in the cost of wheat flour.

There is partial substitutability between different staple crops, so even though the blockade directly impacts the price of wheat, the price of corn is up 32 percent and the price of soybeans is up 18 percent. Grain costs also partially pass through into meat prices because they raise the cost of animal feed.

While expensive food is a genuine hardship to many people in rich countries, it’s not a crippling economic calamity the way expensive energy is. Back in 1970, the average American household spent 16 percent of its money on food; today we spend less than 8 percent, even as we’ve shifted to eating out more and eating more meat (and more food overall). Nobody is happy about rising food prices, but most households can adjust across many margins.

And even though very few Americans are farmers, our farmers have incredibly high productivity and the United States is a major global exporter of wheat. High wheat prices push up the value of the dollar, improve our terms of trade, and have some offsetting disinflationary benefits in terms of making exports cheaper.

Long story short, Russia’s wielding of the food weapon is certainly annoying to their antagonists in the U.S., Europe, and developed Asia. But the real pain is coming for countries that are totally uninvolved in the war.

Russia isn’t hurting their enemies

Russia and Ukraine are both huge wheat exporters. But as you can see the United States is also a huge wheat exporter, and the EU exports wheat, too. And the per-person wheat exports of Canada and Australia — also integral members of the anti-Russian sanction coalition — are positively gigantic.

By contrast, even the biggest net importers among the anti-Russian countries — Korea and Japan — don’t make the top 10 list, so the war on food is instead hammering countries like Egypt and Indonesia.

Before the war broke out, there was a sense that the European response to a Russian invasion might be muted by fear that Russia would respond to sanctions by cutting off energy exports. This has not happened. Instead, European leaders have faced pressure to cut off energy imports from Russia in order to deny Russia money and are now set to phase out oil imports, though not Russian natural gas.

But as Matt Klein emphasizes, the sanctions on Russia have been highly effective at limiting what they are able to import, so accumulating foreign currencies through exports isn’t actually that big of a deal for the Russian economy one way or the other. The point is that the food war is not particularly hurting Russia’s adversaries in this conflict. It’s not even hurting Ukraine that much because of the quantity of aid pouring into the country from the west. It’s true, of course, that Ukraine isn’t getting all the foreign weapons that they want. But this is a question of western governments’ policy choices, not of Ukraine needing more money through agricultural exports.

So while the Russian government would clearly like to exploit the havoc they are wreaking for gains in Ukraine, they have very little leverage. I’m sure Indonesia would gladly make big concessions to Russia in order to get them to lift the grain embargo, but Indonesia can’t do anything useful for Russia.

If you look more broadly at “cereals,” some European countries do take a hit, but plenty of others benefit from the grain shortage.

It’s a war, and blockading Ukraine’s sea exports is something Russia can do, so they are doing it. But the damage this does to the world is wildly out of proportion to the damage it does to Russia’s enemies.

A crisis for the global poor

I’ve only been looking at the country-level impact of food shortage. But living in a country that exports grain on net doesn’t mean that you personally will benefit from high grain prices.

India has a big albeit low-productivity agricultural sector, but it also has a large urban population that includes many poor people whose ability to feed themselves is badly imperiled by rising food prices — even rising prices improve India’s trade balance. Back in mid-May, the Indian government banned most wheat exports in an effort to insulate local food prices from global market trends, but while this move specifically helps poor people in India, it does nothing to alleviate the global shortage. All it really achieved was to set off a wave of country-specific food export bans that are disrupting global trade patterns and making food scarcer everywhere than it would be if nobody was doing this.

And it gets worse. The natural response to a bunch of grain coming off the market should be increased plantings elsewhere. But for a mix of reasons including high natural gas prices and the fact that Russia is a major producer, there is a simultaneous trend of soaring fertilizer prices that’s making it harder to generate new food supply.

There are also drought conditions in some relevant parts of the United States, further crimping supply.

The upshot is that food prices are likely to stay very elevated, creating a huge annoyance for rich country households. But those households are relatively unlikely to dramatically shrink their food consumption, which means it’s the global poor who are going to be left holding the bag in terms of actual trouble feeding themselves.

Here’s where I would like to have some great solutions.

Unfortunately, I’m not sure I can offer great ideas about how to fix this.

It does underscore that seeing a Russia-Ukraine peace settlement would be highly desirable for the world. That’s a sentiment I often see accompanied by the assertion that there’s some “one weird trick” the United States could pull to end the war, which just doesn't seem true to me. Even the squishier European leaders like Olaf Scholz who are clearly uncomfortable with the concept of backing Ukraine in a fight to the finish aren’t coming back from their phone calls to Moscow with the outlines of what a settlement might look like. It’s good to continue to have dialogue, but as best as I can tell, the Russian invasion has from the start been motivated by some sincerely held and genuinely unreasonable ideas that are hard to compromise away.

I’m also worried about the precedent. The actual invasion of Ukraine has been very costly for Russia, and I think if a deal is reached at some point, it will be reasonable to think Russia has learned a lesson about the difficulties here. But the blockade gambit has been very low-cost for Russia, and as long as they retain the ability to do it, I’d be worried that they’ll just try again down the road.

In infrastructure terms, there are rail links between Ukraine and Poland that could take goods to Polish ports. The gauge incompatibility is an issue, but you could build a dry port with the fixed infrastructure to load and unload large numbers of containers off of one set of rail cars and onto another. The problem, according to the freight trade press, is that investors expect the war will end and the sea route will reopen, so you’d be undertaking a very expensive investment and potentially not be able to recoup it. The good news is that it seems like western governments could make this happen with a loan guarantee. The bigger problem is that even with the bad rail link, Polish ports are running out of capacity.

So the best strategy is probably to defeat Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. Ukraine got its hands on some Harpoon anti-ship missiles last week (and Sweden is about to send more), which should make defending Odesa against Russian attacks easier. And Turkey has closed the straits so Russia can’t re-enforce its naval force. But even though this will force Russian ships away from Ukraine’s remaining port, they could still linger out of range elsewhere in the Black Sea and probably maintain the blockade. The latest thing, as I understand it, is a Norwegian-made missile system called Naval Strike that lives on ships. Right now the U.S., Poland, and Norway are the only countries that have these (more are on the list), and either we could give some to Ukraine or else have the Poles do it and then backfill them. But you’d have to look at whether there are any vessels available to Ukraine that would be suitable.

There is something odd about the conventions governing this war where NATO giving Ukraine weapons to fire at Russia is considered fair game but NATO forces actually firing the weapons ourselves would be a potential trigger for nuclear war. But those are the rules we’re living with.

China’s mystery food stockpile

Finally, China has for slightly mysterious reasons stockpiled a staggering quantity of grain over the years.

The country has also taken a fairly pro-Russia line during the conflict, so of course they’re not eager to help the west out with a release of the wheat reserve.

But at the same time, it’s not really the U.S. or Europe who is suffering as a result of this food crunch. If Egypt and Indonesia and Nigeria and other places are pushed into crises as a result of a conflict between Russia and the West, it seems like a golden opportunity for China to trade its surplus grain for whatever geopolitical advantages they are interested in. So far, though, they haven’t done anything visible at all.

Will they start selling grain onto the open market at some point and reap a huge profit? That seems a little out of character, but it would be a great investment. Will they pull off some diplomatic masterstroke in Africa and the Middle East? Can the West accomplish something in bilateral talks with the Chinese on this topic? I don’t know and it seems like nobody else does either. The conventions of journalism are bad at underscoring the significance of the known-unknowns here. But we have a conflict between two major powers that is causing a huge global grain shortage and a third major power that has been stockpiling grain. You have to think that at some point, China will put that stockpile to use.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Monday, June 6, 2022 4:21 PM

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Originally posted by SignyM:

Quote:
6IXSTRINGJACK:
Russians are the only ones winning now.
We certainly aren't.
Fuck Democrats. Fuck Joe Biden*.
Your time is almost up.
Tick Tock.

SeCOND: 6ix, there is time bomb in your chest from smoking. Tick Tock. You're dead.

SIGNY: SECOND, there is a time bomb ticking away in all of us.
That means you, too.
Much as you like to think that you're "above" all of us, you're not going to live forever. Realistically, you've got about ten years left.

You might want to consider whether you want to live your remaining years as the hateful twisted fuck that you are, or ... yanno... shed that gross mental twitch, free yourself of hate and live a rich, fulfilling decade or so. You can't change the 50 years you spent being a slave to self-loathing and hate, but you CAN enjoy your remaining years in peace!

*****
But then, what does this have to do with the OT?

SECOND: 6ix has doubted everything I have told him about myself. I should doubt myself, assuming 6ix knows better. The [il]logical conclusion is that if nothing is true then I don't exist. How can I die if I am unreal? That sounds rather silly, doesn't it? But then neither Signym nor 6ix have any "proof" of anything.

A) I have all of the proof that I need to know that you're a twisted fuck who lies like a rug, even to yourself. The proof is right in your posts. Youve twisted your brain into accepting any argument in service to your hate, no matter how untrue, illogical, or contradictory to previous posts.

B) The proof is right in THIS post. To say that it's "logical" to disblieve your existence bc someone disbelieves what you post about yourself is supremely illogical. It's hard to believe you were ever an engineer.

Come to think of it, it's hard to believe anything you post about yourself.

If you were so wealthy, what are you doing here? Dont you have better things to do? I'm kinda heading in SIX'S direction- I think you're just some poor twisted soul posting from a basement somewhere.

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Monday, June 6, 2022 6:02 PM

Awwwwww.

We're done playing today, Second.

I guess you can just go ahead and pout then.

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Monday, June 6, 2022 6:19 PM

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Come to think of it, it's hard to believe anything you post about yourself.

If you were so wealthy, what are you doing here? Dont you have better things to do? I'm kinda heading in SIX'S direction- I think you're just some poor twisted soul posting from a basement somewhere.

I'm sitting at a desk, looking out the window at a metallic industrial building about 60 feet across a driveway. Forget about basements because there are none in the Houston area, other than a few subterranean parking garages under skyscrapers. Those are a very bad idea in the 100 year flood plain, which covers downtown and the Houston Medical Center, but still some architects design basements where they shouldn't.

The truth about what I'm doing at fff.net is silly. It involves my signature which mentions a Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives. I was impressed by that alternative script, which is better than the script for the final movie. There is also a story "Indistinguishable From Magic" where Wash lives because River and Kaylee save Wash in the Serenity movie with stolen technology. I was impressed by it and wanted to rewrite it to make it less J. K. Rowling and more science.
http://www.fireflyfans.net/bluesun.aspx?bid=5185

I was going to take the two ideas (Wash lives, River saves him) into stories that doesn't depend on almost magical super science. Instead, the stories would take River Tam seriously: that in our everyday reality River Tam actually can be telepathic and actually can know the future, two things hinted at in the TV show, but I'm sure Joss never committed himself to those talents because they seem to Joss as unrealistic as Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Telepathy and precognition were spices added sparingly to a few Firefly episodes, not really the main ingredients. Same is true with the first 5 episodes of Star Trek - Strange New Worlds. I doubt the Star Trek writers believe telepathy or precognition could be real although they keep added the two imaginary spices to their stories whenever the writers get stuck before a deadline to finish a script.

If I wrote those stories, I gotta get over my embarrassment at writing about things other people strongly disagree with or scoff at. Joss Whedon or the Star Trek writers don't have that problem, but I do, probably because of my engineering schooling and everything since in East Texas.

By receiving endless condemnation from people like Signym and 6ix, I am slowly growing less and less prone to being embarrassed by what I write. I complete believe what I write on Ukraine or everything, but I still get embarrassed because what I know as brutally simple facts contradicts what 99% of the world puts their faith in.

That's about as much as I want to write about my hobby. Saving the world becomes River and Kaylee's hobby, which they don't talk about because no one would believe them and this my hobby. Ukraine is also my hobby. Here's to hoping Putin dies horribly and the Russian Army gets slaughtered by Ukraine in revenge for what Russia did to Ukraine. Stories need villains. Russians and Republican voters, especially Trump, are those villains in stories and, in my opinion, real life. I don't have experience with Russians, but I have too much experience with damn fool Trump voters. They are best at bringing their personal problems to work and making their problems into co-workers’ problems.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Monday, June 6, 2022 7:42 PM

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Ih huh.

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Monday, June 6, 2022 9:40 PM

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Originally posted by SignyM:
Ih huh.

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Pity would be no more,
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If you read the whole story, there are parallels between Glenn Greenwald and Signym.

The Long History of Glenn Greenwald’s Kissing Up to the Kremlin

In his world, it seems America can do nothing right and Vladimir Putin can do nothing wrong.

In the months since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, maverick journalist Glenn Greenwald has emerged as one of the loudest anti-Ukraine voices in the American media, with all the usual themes:

transparent gloating over Russia’s apparent war gains in Eastern Ukraine;

alarmism over United States support for Ukraine leading to World War III;

even the flogging of “American biolabs in Ukraine” conspiracies in his Substack newsletter and in videos.

While Greenwald has made overwrought claims about the “neo-Nazi menace” of the Azov Regiment, his only response to reports of Russian atrocities in Bucha has been to warn about the dangers of falling for “war propaganda” and “social media’s manipulations.”

Greenwald has been baffling and disappointing legions of his progressive admirers for years with his cozy relationship with the MAGA right. And a look at his career shows that his pro-Kremlin affinity goes way back — as part of a more general tendency to sympathize with foes of the U.S.-led “neoliberal” (or “neoconservative”) international order.

I first locked horns with Greenwald, then a columnist for Salon, in the fall of 2008 over Russia’s war in Georgia — which, in retrospect, can be seen as the first trial run for the current war in Ukraine. In October, at the height of the McCain/Obama presidential race, Greenwald wrote a column blasting both candidates for peddling the “blatant falsehood” that Russia had attacked Georgia without provocation in August of that year. But here’s the thing: neither Obama nor McCain had used the word “unprovoked” in describing the Russian attack on Georgia. Obama used “unacceptable” and “unwarranted”; McCain came closer to the substance of Greenwald’s claim by referring to Russia’s “naked aggression.”

It is true that Russia’s August 8, 2008 invasion of Georgia was not “unprovoked”: it was preceded by Georgia’s August 7 shelling of Tskhinvali, the capital of the disputed region of South Ossetia, in which several Russian peacekeepers were killed. Of course, even aside from the question of whether the Russian troops in South Ossetia were really acting as “peacekeepers,” the Georgian attack itself came in response to ongoing and numerous provocations by pro-Russia separatist rebels, including the shelling of Georgian villages and other ceasefire violations. Russian troop movements in the region may have also contributed to escalating tensions. And there was the more fundamental provocation of flooding South Ossetia with Russian passports in a concerted effort to create an enclave within Georgia where Moscow could claim a national interest by acquiring Russian citizens to protect.

More at https://www.thebulwark.com/the-long-history-of-glenn-greenwalds-kissin
g-up-to-the-kremlin/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Monday, June 6, 2022 10:40 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Hahaha!
Let's have another wall of gibberish!

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Tuesday, June 7, 2022 7:35 AM

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Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:
Hahaha!
Let's have another wall of gibberish!

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake

I could write a long description of how the Ukraine War is a reboot of The Lion King, with Putin as Scar and the Russian Army as Scar's jackals, but then decided it is wasted effort to try convincing a Trump apologist that Ukraine would be better without Putin forcing his way in as the new ruler.

The Lion King 1994 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110357/
The Lion King 2019 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6105098/
Chiwetel Ejiofor, who was the evil Operative in Serenity, is the voice of Scar
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0252230/

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Tuesday, June 7, 2022 7:51 AM

CAPTAINCRUNCH

... stay crunchy...

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Originally posted by second:
I could write a long description of how the Ukraine War is a reboot of The Lion King, with Putin as Scar and the Russian Army as Scar's jackals, but then decided it is wasted effort to try convincing a Trump apologist that Ukraine would be better without Putin forcing his way in as the new ruler.

Not to mention that Zignym is the undisputed champ when it comes to copy-n-pasting the longest walls of gibberish from ZeroHedge, etc. She has no floor. Lying is just a habit she can't break.

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Tuesday, June 7, 2022 8:04 AM

THG

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Originally posted by captaincrunch:
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Originally posted by second:

I could write a long description of how the Ukraine War is a reboot of The Lion King, with Putin as Scar and the Russian Army as Scar's jackals, but then decided it is wasted effort to try convincing a Trump apologist that Ukraine would be better without Putin forcing his way in as the new ruler.

Not to mention that Zignym is the undisputed champ when it comes to copy-n-pasting the longest walls of gibberish from ZeroHedge, etc. She has no floor. Lying is just a habit she can't break.

I like cutting and pasting those posts into her garden thread. After all, if she is going to troll all the threads with her Russian propaganda, if she is going to post lies and bullshit about America and the other world democracies, why shouldn't I? Why shouldn't we?

T

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Tuesday, June 7, 2022 8:45 AM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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I like ~~cutting and pasting those posts into~~ BEING A TROLL IN her garden thread. After all, if she is going to ~~troll~~ post FACTS that I don't like in all the threads ~~with her Russian propaganda,~~ if she is going to post ~~lies and bullshit~~ uncomfortable truths about America and the other world democracies why shouldn't I BE A TROLL, BECAUSE I DONT UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING A TROLL AND POSTING TRUTH?

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake

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Tuesday, June 7, 2022 8:47 AM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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Originally posted by captaincrunch:
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Originally posted by second:
I could write a long description of how the Ukraine War is a reboot of The Lion King, with Putin as Scar and the Russian Army as Scar's jackals, but then decided it is wasted effort to try convincing a Trump apologist that Ukraine would be better without Putin forcing his way in as the new ruler.

Not to mention that Zignym is the undisputed champ when it comes to copy-n-pasting the longest walls of gibberish from ZeroHedge, etc. She has no floor. Lying is just a habit she can't break.

Oh, I see the paid troll is sticking up for the sad sack sociopath.

Must give SECOND a warm fuzzy feeling to know that only an idiot and a paid troll are on its side.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake

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Tuesday, June 7, 2022 8:48 AM

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Originally posted by THG:
I like cutting and pasting those posts into her garden thread. After all, if she is going to troll all the threads with her Russian propaganda, if she is going to post lies and bullshit about America and the other world democracies, why shouldn't I? Why shouldn't we?

The Garden doesn't belong to Signy.

It belongs to everyone.

You embarrass yourself in front of Brenda every time you do that, Ted.

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Tuesday, June 7, 2022 8:49 AM