Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Quote:As far as you can imagine, Russia, the largest country on planet Earth, which keeps threatening to nuke the world if it loses in Ukraine and is internally governed as if it was the novel "1984", is not a problem. Well, aren't you a special child, little Signym?
Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
What stake do we have in the Russia-Ukraine War?
As far as I got.
Answer: none.
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If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
But then I'm not surprised when Trump supporters I know get killed by problems they can't imagine. For example, the Trump voter next door who was murdered by her 40 year old son couldn't imagine he'd poison her, although it was easy for me to imagine from knowing the Trump voting son. It was no surprise when she left the house in an ambulance. Also no surprise when her other son served 10 years for negligent homicide because he was drunk driving, although none, not one, of the Trump supporters who knew the family could imagine it. Wow! Such a stupid bunch of people all defending, even voting for, Trump. I know 6ix has made some astonishingly stupid personal decisions. I know Signym was astonishing when she publicized her medical story, thinking nobody but the one intended person would read it before she deleted it. Remember, Signym? http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=58882&mid=11475
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As you can probably tell, my opinion of Trump voters is highly influenced by what happens to Trump voters when they are NOT voting. The same brain that picked Trump, and decides Russia invading Ukraine is not a problem for the US, is the brain that runs the rest of their lives so poorly. Can that brain know they are doing poorly because of their lack of imagination and their poor decisions? No. Instead it blames the Democrats.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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SECOND:
What stake do we have in the Russia-Ukraine War?
SIGNY: As far as I got.
Answer: none.
SECOND: As far as you can imagine, Russia, the [physically]
largest country on planet Earth, which keeps threatening to nuke the world if it loses in Ukraine and is internally governed as if it was the novel "1984", is not a problem.
a) It doesn't matter how big Russia is, physically. Most of it is frozen tundra. Makes as much sense as saying Antarctica is a threat because it's big.
Unless you're lusting after reources. Are you? You've mentioned that more than once.
b) Clearly, you haven't read "1984" or you would have recognized more than a passing resemblance to the USA, which is a OUR problem. If Russia truly is ruled as you say it is, that is a problem for RUSSIANS, not for me. Or you.
AFA Russia threatening with nukes... aside from the fact that there is only one nation on the whole planet that actually USED nukes in war (not Russia)... well, that problem isn't exactly going to be resolved by going to war with Russia, or attempting to regime-change, is it?
So far, you haven't posted one solid reason why we should intervene in that shithole of a country (Ukraine). It is poor BECAUSE it's corrupt. Studies show that corruption begets poverty, and considering how corrupt the USA is, it will be the death-knell of the USA. Maybe we better get working on OUR problems. Right?
*****
All that hyperbolic language, that's what got you into Vietnam, wasn't it?
And you ... what? Want to have other Americans experience the same kind of worthless destructive war that you did? You think it "builds character" or something?
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Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
What stake do we have in the Russia-Ukraine War?
As far as I got.
Answer: none.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
That about sums up how far I make it into Second's walls of gibberish these days.
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Quote:This happened 5 minutes ago: Trump voter and super fat lady across the street was carrying her baby on her left arm and had a cigarette in her right hand. She dropped the baby in the street. She won't remember next month what she did wrong, but the damage to the baby is real. The kind of people who vote for Trump, at least in Texas, don't understand what they have done wrong. By the way, super fat lady is opposed to Ukraine for, per usual, super stupid reasons. It is wonderful to be a Trump voter. They never know doubt that they are the smartest, wisest, most important people in America, but are being held down by those nasty Democrats and all the money they spend on Ukrainians when the money could be better spent on angry poor white trash.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
That about sums up how far I make it into Second's walls of gibberish these days.
Fat lady didn't waste that cigarette. She placed it between her lips, then picked up her squalling child from the pavement. That's a Trump loving mother!
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Originally posted by second:Quote:This happened 5 minutes ago: Trump voter and super fat lady across the street was carrying her baby on her left arm and had a cigarette in her right hand. She dropped the baby in the street. She won't remember next month what she did wrong, but the damage to the baby is real.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
That about sums up how far I make it into Second's walls of gibberish these days.
That's hilarious!
Did she have a Trump/Pence bumper sticker on her fat ass, or was it on her forehead?
Sounds like your neighbors are as useless as you and your entire family are.
I'm starting to think that everybody in Texas must be a real piece of shit.
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Quote:And SECOND followed that wall of gibberish with a wall of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
walls of gibberish
I think it's all mixed up in his mind.
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Quote:You write beautifully, but you're not beautiful.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:And SECOND followed that wall of gibberish with a wall of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
walls of gibberish
I think it's all mixed up in his mind.
Three possible futures for a frozen conflict in Ukraine
By late 2023, Western consensus is fraying. Concerned by economic costs, Ukrainian suffering, refugee burdens, and fears of escalation (including the risk of a nuclear attack by Russia), Germany and France lead a multinational effort to press Kyiv to exploring a peace arrangement with Moscow.
In none of the scenarios does the war end in less than a year. In all cases, the economic damage will be profound not just for Ukraine, but also for the rest of the world. Don't forget, this war was Putin's decision and completely unnecessary.
More at https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/three-possible-f
utures-for-a-frozen-conflict-in-ukraine/
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In none of the scenarios does the war end in less than a year. In all cases, the economic damage will be profound not just for Ukraine, but also for the rest of the world. Don't forget, this war was asshole Joe Biden*'s doing and completely unnecessary.
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Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:
Originally posted by SECOND: blah blah blah...
Just so you know SECOND: I haven't read any of your recent pos
Aw shucks, here is another post you can ignore. Europe and the United States are going to build back a modern Ukraine. New schools, hospitals, cultural centers, army, you name it. It's called a Marshal Plan.
No such luck for Russia comrade. Can_you_see_me_laughing?
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That's terrible news for Ukranians.
They certainly should handle building their own border walls and not rely on America to handle that part.
Come to think of it, they should also rely on anybody but America to handle their public schools, their hospitals, their cultural centers and their army too.
But at least you spelled Marshal right, Ted. Second, who was in the military, couldn't spell Marshal the other day.
You've been upgraded to 2nd stupidest person in the RWED.
Congratulations.
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Quote:Really? We're going to spend billions on rebuilding Ukraine when OUR schools, roads, bridges, and power grids desperately need repair??
Originally posted by SECOND: blah blah blah...
SIGNY: Just so you know SECOND: I haven't read any of your recent pos
THUGR: Aw shucks, here is another post you can ignore. Europe and the United States are going to build back a modern Ukraine. New schools, hospitals, cultural centers, army, you name it. It's called a Marshal Plan.
No such luck for Russia comrade. Can_you_see_me_laughing?
So Russia destroys it and we take responsibility?
Trust me, son, if that's what we do then the entire Russian Security Council will be smiling.
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Well... Technically speaking, the US did destroy Ukraine.
But CNN and MSNBC aren't going to tell you that.
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Quote:Signym, the money for American "schools, roads, bridges, and power grids desperately need repair" has already been passed and you failed to notice.
Originally posted by SignyM:
Really? We're going to spend billions on rebuilding Ukraine when OUR schools, roads, bridges, and power grids desperately need repair??
So Russia destroys it and we take responsibility?
Trust me, son, if that's what we do then the entire Russian Security Council will be smiling.
200 House Republicans vote against rebuilding America's infrastructure
November 6, 2021 11:47 AM
The House passed the $1.2 trillion package, which would fund improvements to the country's roads, bridges, and other infrastructure, late Friday night, sending it to President Joe Biden's desk for his signature.
The House of Representatives passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act on Friday night by a vote of 228-206, two months after the Senate approved the bill on a bipartisan vote.
A total of 200 Republicans voted against the bipartisan $550 billion infrastructure investment package, along with six progressive Democrats, the latter of whom felt the deal did not go far enough.
https://americanindependent.com/house-representatives-republicans-infr
astructure-investment-jobs-act-joe-biden-vote/
Signym, when it comes time to vote on money for Ukraine, the same 200 Republicans who voted against money for America will vote against Ukraine. Maybe it won't pass if more than 200 Republicans are opposed. What country are you living in, Signym, that you don't know when Republicans are opposed to "rebuilding OUR schools, roads, bridges, and power grids desperately need repair??" Possibly you don't know that Republicans are responsible for what they do because the stories they tell about themselves are not truth.
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Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:
Originally posted by SECOND: blah blah blah...
SIGNY: Just so you know SECOND: I haven't read any of your recent pos
THUGR: Aw shucks, here is another post you can ignore. Europe and the United States are going to build back a modern Ukraine. New schools, hospitals, cultural centers, army, you name it. It's called a Marshal Plan.
No such luck for Russia comrade. Can_you_see_me_laughing?
Really? We're going to spend billions on rebuilding Ukraine when OUR schools, roads, bridges, and power grids desperately need repair??
So Russia destroys it and we take responsibility?
Trust me, son, if that's what we do then the entire Russian Security Council will be smiling.
No, you have it wrong comrade. Russia will pay to rebuild Ukraine. American and Europe will help while forcing Russia to ante up. We are and have been, freezing their assets worldwide. That money is already in our banks stupid. I think the Russian Security Council won’t be smiling for at least a generation. And hey, I told you so.
Can_you_see_me_laughing?
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Hey comrade signym. Did covid get polish Russian collaborator kiki? Her disappearance was instant. Wouldn't that be a shame, not!
T
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Quote:1kiki hasn't posted since Feb 11th. Probably covid didn't stop 1kiki since 1kiki was not anti-vaccination, just anti-Ukraine.
Originally posted by THG:
Hey comrade signym. Did covid get polish Russian collaborator kiki? Her disappearance was instant. Wouldn't that be a shame, not!
T
http://fireflyfans.net/mthreaduser.aspx?u=41207
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Quote:So, now we're thieves? We steal other nations' money (agaist interntiona law) that's in our banks?
Originally posted by SECOND: blah blah blah...
SIGNY: Just so you know SECOND: I haven't read any of your recent pos
THUGR: Aw shucks, here is another post you can ignore. Europe and the United States are going to build back a modern Ukraine. New schools, hospitals, cultural centers, army, you name it. It's called a Marshal Plan.
No such luck for Russia comrade. Can_you_see_me_laughing?
Really? We're going to spend billions on rebuilding Ukraine when OUR schools, roads, bridges, and power grids desperately need repair??
SIGNY: So Russia destroys it and we take responsibility?
Trust me, son, if that's what we do then the entire Russian Security Council will be smiling.
THUGR: No, you have it wrong comrade. Russia will pay to rebuild Ukraine. American and Europe will help while forcing Russia to ante up. We are and have been, freezing their assets worldwide. That money is already in our banks stupid. I think the Russian Security Council won’t be smiling for at least a generation. And hey, I told you so.
Yeah, THAT'LL do our banks' reputations a lot of good!
Not.
No, we do not have Russia's money in our banks. We have SOME of their money in our banks. And it's apparently not as much as "we" thought. "We" thought it was $350 billion. An actual count has the money at about $100billion. It's a lot, but not enough to rebuild Ukraine.
You can bet that whatever money Russia is currently making on selling gas and oil to the west is NOT going into western banks.
Nah. ASSUMING that Russia just doesn't take over all of Ukraine (I wouldn't, but then, I'm not on their Security Council) the west is going to get stuck with that tar baby.
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THUGR: Can_you_see_me_laughing?
Yeah, I can picture it so clearly. And it's not a pretty picture!
THUGR, you seem to think that recognizing reality and criticizing the USA is somehow wrong. But, yanno, you can't fix problems that need to be fixed unless you recognize that they exist. You seem to need to keep latching onto one fantasy after another to maintain denial. Seriously dood, I hope you live your life better than you think about politics.
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Quote:1kiki hasn't posted since Feb 11th. Probably covid didn't stop 1kiki since 1kiki was not anti-vaccination, just anti-Ukraine.
Originally posted by second:Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Hey comrade signym. Did covid get polish Russian collaborator kiki? Her disappearance was instant. Wouldn't that be a shame, not!
T
http://fireflyfans.net/mthreaduser.aspx?u=41207
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
She had issues. And being vaccinated is no guaranty. Also, her absence was very abrupt.
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The two of you chucklefucks would love if Kiki died. Because you're both garbage human beings.
Her and I got into more personal arguments than either of us would ever have wasted on scum like the two of you and I've been worried about her.
Hope you're alright, Kiki. I'll make it a point to forget about all of our arguments. At this point, 90% of the fucking country already forgot about Covid anyhow, just like I said they would. So why hold any grudges about that.
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Ukraine Fires Own Human Rights Chief For Perpetuating Russian Troop 'Systematic Rape' Stories
For over the past two months, an avalanche of stories have hit Western mainstream press which purported to document instances of mass rape carried out by Russian troops against Ukrainian civilians. One particular story in Time took off, driving outrage and condemnation by Western officials and receiving repeat coverage on CNN and other major US networks.
It alleged "a systemic, coordinated campaign of sexual violence" - relying chiefly on testimony gathered by Ukraine's appointed top human rights representative. It included a particularly shocking story of 25 teenage girls being gang-raped by Russian troops - nine of which became pregnant. According to the report:
Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman, Lyudmyla Denisova said that 25 teenage girls were kept in a basement in Bucha and gang-raped; nine of them are now pregnant. Elderly women spoke on camera about being raped by Russian soldiers. The bodies of children were found naked with their hands tied behind their backs, their genitals mutilated. Those victims included both girls and boys...
Ukrainians are speaking up about rape as a war crime to ensure the world holds Russia accountablehttps://t.co/tEilTSgmbS
— TIME (@TIME) April 24, 2022
As has been the pattern in prior wars, whether in Syria or Libya, the media claims got more and more sensational and over-the-top as the conflict intensified, and as Western powers became more deeply involved, yet with no concrete or definitive proof.
But one consistent detail in the majority of the stories is that the aforementioned Ukraine human rights ombudsman, Lyudmyla Denisova, is often the central figure feeding Western correspondents the shocking rape stories.
For example, she's featured in this April Newsweek piece:
Lyudmila Denisova, the Ukrainian Parliament's Commissioner for Human Rights, alleged on Friday that Russian soldiers have raped children during the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
In a Facebook post, Denisova alleged that an 11-year-old boy was raped by Russians in front of his mother who was tied to a chair and forced to watch as it happened in the Ukrainian city of Bucha.
Lyudmyla Denisova, Ukrainian government image
Many such stories which presented ever-more horrifying details as the war progressed quickly went viral, particularly among pro-Ukraine activists on Twitter and other social media, to the point where prominent pundits would begin casually agreeing amongst themself that Russians simply are "animals".
And below is another example among many, which tended to be based on "reports say" for many of the most central, damning claims...
But recently, within the last couple of weeks, as investigators began to dig deeper into the allegations, it seems the media stories started to dry up. The geopolitical analysis blog Moon of Alabama details what happened in the following:
However, a bunch of eager NGOs in Ukraine, hoping for fresh 'western' money for new 'rape consultation and recovery' projects, tried to find real rape cases. They were disappointed when they found that there was no evidence that any rape had taken place
(machine translation):
On May 25, a number of media outlets and NGOs published an open appeal to Lyudmila Denisova calling for improved communication on sexual crimes during the war.
The signatories insist that Denisova should disclose only information about which there is sufficient evidence, avoid sensationalism and excessive detail in their reports, use correct terminology and take care of the confidentiality and safety of victims.
"Sexual crimes during the war are family tragedies, a difficult traumatic topic, not a topic for publications in the spirit of the 'scandalous chronicle.' We need to keep in mind the goal: to draw attention to the facts of crimes," the appeal reads.
An entire global activist movement eve
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Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:
Ukraine Fires Own Human Rights Chief For Perpetuating Russian Troop 'Systematic Rape' Stories
For over the past two months, an avalanche of stories have hit Western mainstream press which purported to document instances of mass rape carried out by Russian troops against Ukrainian civilians. One particular story in Time took off, driving outrage and condemnation by Western officials and receiving repeat coverage on CNN and other major US networks.
It alleged "a systemic, coordinated campaign of sexual violence" - relying chiefly on testimony gathered by Ukraine's appointed top human rights representative. It included a particularly shocking story of 25 teenage girls being gang-raped by Russian troops - nine of which became pregnant. According to the report:
Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman, Lyudmyla Denisova said that 25 teenage girls were kept in a basement in Bucha and gang-raped; nine of them are now pregnant. Elderly women spoke on camera about being raped by Russian soldiers. The bodies of children were found naked with their hands tied behind their backs, their genitals mutilated. Those victims included both girls and boys...
Ukrainians are speaking up about rape as a war crime to ensure the world holds Russia accountablehttps://t.co/tEilTSgmbS
— TIME (@TIME) April 24, 2022
As has been the pattern in prior wars, whether in Syria or Libya, the media claims got more and more sensational and over-the-top as the conflict intensified, and as Western powers became more deeply involved, yet with no concrete or definitive proof.
But one consistent detail in the majority of the stories is that the aforementioned Ukraine human rights ombudsman, Lyudmyla Denisova, is often the central figure feeding Western correspondents the shocking rape stories.
For example, she's featured in this April Newsweek piece:
Lyudmila Denisova, the Ukrainian Parliament's Commissioner for Human Rights, alleged on Friday that Russian soldiers have raped children during the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
In a Facebook post, Denisova alleged that an 11-year-old boy was raped by Russians in front of his mother who was tied to a chair and forced to watch as it happened in the Ukrainian city of Bucha.
Lyudmyla Denisova, Ukrainian government image
Many such stories which presented ever-more horrifying details as the war progressed quickly went viral, particularly among pro-Ukraine activists on Twitter and other social media, to the point where prominent pundits would begin casually agreeing amongst themself that Russians simply are "animals".
And below is another example among many, which tended to be based on "reports say" for many of the most central, damning claims...
But recently, within the last couple of weeks, as investigators began to dig deeper into the allegations, it seems the media stories started to dry up. The geopolitical analysis blog Moon of Alabama details what happened in the following:
However, a bunch of eager NGOs in Ukraine, hoping for fresh 'western' money for new 'rape consultation and recovery' projects, tried to find real rape cases. They were disappointed when they found that there was no evidence that any rape had taken place
(machine translation):
On May 25, a number of media outlets and NGOs published an open appeal to Lyudmila Denisova calling for improved communication on sexual crimes during the war.
The signatories insist that Denisova should disclose only information about which there is sufficient evidence, avoid sensationalism and excessive detail in their reports, use correct terminology and take care of the confidentiality and safety of victims.
"Sexual crimes during the war are family tragedies, a difficult traumatic topic, not a topic for publications in the spirit of the 'scandalous chronicle.' We need to keep in mind the goal: to draw attention to the facts of crimes," the appeal reads.
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Ted. You are the single dumbest person I've ever had the displeasure of knowing.
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Quote:Signym why do you not know that CONFISCATION OF PROPERTY has occurred in the United States during wartime ever since the revolutionary war?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So, now we're thieves? We steal other nations' money (agaist interntiona law) that's in our banks?
Yeah, THAT'LL do our banks' reputations a lot of good!
Not.
No, we do not have Russia's money in our banks. We have SOME of their money in our banks. And it's apparently not as much as "we" thought. "We" thought it was $350 billion. An actual count has the money at about $100billion. It's a lot, but not enough to rebuild Ukraine.
You can bet that whatever money Russia is currently making on selling gas and oil to the west is NOT going into western banks.
Nah. ASSUMING that Russia just doesn't take over all of Ukraine (I wouldn't, but then, I'm not on their Security Council) the west is going to get stuck with that tar baby.
As a means of financing hostilities against England, the Continental Congress declared in 1776 that the property of Loyalists was subject to seizure. By the end of 1781, every state had passed a confiscation act, and Loyalists had lost property worth millions of pounds. Article V of the Definitive Treaty of Peace (1783) provided that Congress would urge the states to compensate former owners whose property had been seized, but only South Carolina responded to this plea. With the United States itself refusing to provide compensation, the British Parliament ultimately indemnified a large number of Loyalists in an amount exceeding £3 million.
During the Civil War, both the North and the South confiscated property. The Confederacy's scheme, adopted in 1861, required all northern debts to be paid to the government in return for bonds. Designed essentially to produce revenue, it was not successful. The North's use of confiscation, culminating in the Emancipation Proclamation, effective 1 January 1863, was directed primarily toward the liberation of slaves. The slaveholders' losses incurred because of freed slaves has been estimated at $2 billion. The total value of confiscated nonhuman property, though greater in the South than in the North, was not large by modern standards, and some property was returned after the war.
World War I and World War II witnessed a revival of property seizure as an instrument of policy. Departing from its general policy of not disturbing alien-owned property in time of war, Congress enacted the Trading with the Enemy Act on 6 October 1917. This statute created the Office of Alien Property Custodian, which took over and operated in trust about $700 million of enemy-owned or enemy-controlled property. After the war, Congress decided to return most of this property, and in 1935 the office was abolished. Under the above statutory scheme, property had not actually been confiscated but merely "frozen" for return or other use upon termination of hostilities.
A similar approach was taken during World War II, when Congress amended the original Trading with the Enemy Act and reestablished the Office of the Alien Property Custodian. Enemy property worth millions of dollars was frozen once again. After the war, Congress enacted the War Claims acts of 1948 and 1962, under which German and Japanese property held in trust by the United States was vested and used to satisfy in part the war claims of U.S. citizens. Using the former enemy property in this fashion did not constitute confiscation, since it was done pursuant to the Potsdam Agreement of 1945 and the Paris Reparation Agreement of 1946, with respect to Germany, and pursuant to the Treaty of Peace of 8 September 1951, with respect to Japan.
More at https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures
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Have fun cheerleading your war idiots.
The rest of us have shit to do today.
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Quote:The first half dozen comments on YouTube (translated from Russian by google https://tinyurl.com/ykpv63jv ):
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
YouTube video: Mariupol is BACK !!!!!
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If we did not MAKE someone poor -William BlakeSignym
1. Finally comes to life! The heart rejoices! All the days of the bombing, I was mentally with Mariupol and constantly cried. Now there is reason to rejoice! Will live!
2. Grisha, how wonderful that you are in Mariupol now. Please, more videos about the life of the inhabitants of Mariupol and in general in the city. Take a video and show everything. It is very important.
3. Laundry is being dried. Like a victory flag. For if people again care about cleanliness, then they hope that the worst is already behind them. If you started washing, then water has returned, and water is life! Life is clean!
More of these flags on the houses of Mariupol!
4. Salute to Russian soldiers who gave their lives for the liberation and restoration of peace in Mariupol. God bless their families.
5. Hi Grigory, thanks for the video, it's very good that you show that life in Mariupol is getting better!
6. I really want people to move into renovated or new houses as soon as possible. Let Mariupol be reborn like a phoenix and become better than it was
Signym, the disinformation machine (directed at Russians) is working overtime to produce "comments".
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Quote:6ix, you are unmarried, unemployed and have no responsibilities. You have no pets, no children, no hobbies, no church, no clubs, no garden, nothing. What you do with your 24/7 free time neither subracts nor adds value to the world and we all know it. Not even your comments have a value other than zero. Being weightless has gotten to be habitual with you. Meanwhile --
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Have fun cheerleading your war idiots.
The rest of us have shit to do today.
Kremlin says US "adds fuel to fire" by supplying weapons to Kyiv
The US is "adding fuel to the fire" by supplying weapons to Kyiv, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday in response to President Joe Biden’s decision to provide more advanced missile systems to Ukraine.
"We believe that the United States is purposefully and diligently adding fuel to the fire," Peskov told reporters on a regular conference call.
The Ukrainian authorities have long asked the United States to supply high-tech, medium-range rocket systems. Biden said Tuesday the US is providing Ukraine "more advanced rocket systems and munitions" as its war with Russia grinds on.
"Such supplies do not contribute to the Ukrainian leadership’s willingness to resume peace negotiations,” Peskov said.
Peskov also added the Kremlin does not trust Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's words that Kyiv would not use multiple launch rocket systems to attack the Russian territory if they receive them from the US. So Russians are calling Ukrainians liars. But Russians call everybody liars. Such odd behavior from Russians.
https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-06-01-22/
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Germany will send its "most modern air defense system," the IRIS-T, to Ukraine, the country's chancellor said Wednesday.
"In the coming weeks, we will supply further weapons, for example, the German government has recently decided that we will supply the IRIS-T system, the most modern air defense system that Germany has," Olaf Scholz said during a speech in the German Parliament.
"This will enable Ukraine to protect an entire city from Russian air attacks," he said.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/1/germany-to-send-kyiv-anti-airc
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IRIS-T SLS Mk III Wide range of targets:
Fighter aircraft
Attack helicopters
Anti-radiation missiles (ARMs)
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Guided bombs
Drones
Large caliber rockets
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Quote:There are on-the-street videos with interviews by Patrick Lancaster https ://m.youtube.com/c/PatrickLancasterNewsToday/videos which show that the people of Mariupol did NOT support the Kiev Army. One person said "We voted for secession and got something else". Mariupol was an occupied city... occupied by Kiev.
Originally posted by second:Quote:The first half dozen comments on YouTube (translated from Russian by google https://tinyurl.com/ykpv63jv ):
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
YouTube video: Mariupol is BACK !!!!!
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1. Finally comes to life! The heart rejoices! All the days of the bombing, I was mentally with Mariupol and constantly cried. Now there is reason to rejoice! Will live!
2. Grisha, how wonderful that you are in Mariupol now. Please, more videos about the life of the inhabitants of Mariupol and in general in the city. Take a video and show everything. It is very important.
3. Laundry is being dried. Like a victory flag. For if people again care about cleanliness, then they hope that the worst is already behind them. If you started washing, then water has returned, and water is life! Life is clean!
More of these flags on the houses of Mariupol!
4. Salute to Russian soldiers who gave their lives for the liberation and restoration of peace in Mariupol. God bless their families.
5. Hi Grigory, thanks for the video, it's very good that you show that life in Mariupol is getting better!
6. I really want people to move into renovated or new houses as soon as possible. Let Mariupol be reborn like a phoenix and become better than it was
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Look them up.
Odessa is similar. People there remember the Trades Union building fire, where Nazis burned a number of people to death. They still lay flowers at the site.
Crimeans are, by and large, pretty happy with their being part of Russia, despite the fact that Kiev shut off the water supply (a war crime) years ago.
And don't forget that part of the fighting force in Ukraine is from the Donetsk People's Republic and and Lugansk People's Republic.
As I posted in 2014 there was a substantial minority ... roughly 30%... of the population in Ukraine that did NOT support the coup. Kiev (supported by pro-Nazi security forces) made the division worse by attempting to outlaw Russian (which the minority spoke), beating up Russian-speaking people, and then warring against eastern Ukraine, shelling civilian centers since 2015.
Many - altho certainly not all - see Russia as a liberator, not an occupier. Kiev, in conjunction with the USA, created this split when there didn't need to be one. I suspect Russia's aim will be to take eastern and southern Ukraine ... where the people see them as liberators... and force the rest of Ukraine to surrender by beating them to bloody pulp.
AFA advanced weapons coming into Ukraine ... well, they have to come in from SOMEWHERE. Most likely Poland. If Poland isn't careful it, too, will be targeted with hypersonic missiles. Certainly the Ukraine-Polish border will be targeted. Biden* says he's not looking for a direct Russia-NATO conflict, but he's doing everything to ensure that it happens.
I'm sure Russia's missile-factories are working 24/7 to build up stockpiles and they're preparing for just such a scenario.
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Quote:I know perfectly well what you are doing, Signym. Russia combines Soviet-era “whataboutism” and Chekist “active measures” with a wised-up, postmodern smirk that says that everything is a sham. Where the Soviets once co-opted and repurposed concepts such as “democracy,” “human rights” and “sovereignty” to mask their opposites, the Putinists use them playfully to suggest that not even the West really believes in them — all liberalism is cant, and anyone can be bought.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
There are on-the-street videos with interviews by Patrick Sullivan which show that the people of Mariupol did NOT support the Kiev Army. One person said "We voted for secession and got something else". Mariupol was an occupied city... occupied by Kiev.
Look them up.
Odessa is similar. People there remember the Trades Union building fire, where Nazis burned a number of people to death. They still lay flowers at the site.
Crimeans are, by and large, pretty happy with their being part of Russia, despite the fact that Kiev shut off the water supply (a war crime) years ago.
And don't forget that part of the fighting force in Ukraine is from the Donetsk People's Republic and and Lugansk People's Republic.
As I posted in 2014 there was a substantial minority ... roughly 30%... of the population in Ukraine that did NOT support the coup. Kiev made the situation even worse by attempting to outlaw Russian (which those people spoke), beating up Russian-speaking people, and then warring against eastern Ukraine. Kiev created a civil war when there didn't have to be one.
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Quote:Good. Because all I'm doing is posting THE TRUTH. You may not like this truth, but it's the situation in Ukraine as best as I can discern.
SECOND: I know perfectly well what you are doing, Signym.
Quote:Gullible people in the west believe their own cant, but an objective observer will note that the west DOESN'T promote democracy, human rights, and sovereignty. In reality, the west destroys and deconstructs wherever it goes, virtue-signalling all the while.
SECOND: Where the Soviets once co-opted and repurposed concepts such as “democracy,” “human rights” and “sovereignty” to mask their opposites, the Putinists use them playfully to suggest that not even the West really believes in them — all liberalism is cant, and anyone can be bought.
I added to my post and made a correction. It's Patrick Lancaster and here is his on-the-street reporting from Mariupol
https: //m.youtube.com/c/PatrickLancasterNewsToday/videos
I separated part of the URL so it would show up and you can copy it.
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Quote:Signym, you repeated too many times the prediction about Russia winning. Somebody gulled you into believing they know the unknown future is a certainty. And you really need to fix your signature, Signym, or William Blake will rise from his grave and punch your face for misusing a few chopped words from a longer poem that means nothing of what you imply.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Gullible people in the west believe their own cant, but an objective observer will note that the west DOESN'T promote democracy, human rights, and sovereignty. In reality, the west destroys and deconstructs wherever it goes, virtue-signalling all the while.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Gullible people in the west believe their own cant, but an objective observer will note that the west DOESN'T promote democracy, human rights, and sovereignty. In reality, the west destroys and deconstructs wherever it goes, virtue-signalling all the while.
SECOND: Signym, you repeated too many times the prediction about Russia winning. Somebody gulled you into believing they know the unknown future is a certainty. And you really need to fix your signature, Signym, or William Blake will rise from his grave and punch your face for misusing a few chopped words from a longer poem that means nothing of what you imply.
As you say, I post this as a PREDICTION, not a belief. I base my prediction on a umber of factors (supply lines, military strategies, amount and type of military hardware etc). Whether my assessment is right or not... well, events will show.
AFA the poem: we had this discussion and I proved you wrong. Stop beating a dead horse.
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Funny how CAPON ran away from the whole topic, after starting at least four threads on it!
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Quote:You proved nothing about the poem, Signym, but your inability to understand that particular poem has reminded me why Russians died in great abundance during WWII in the ratio of 4 Russians for every German: 3 out of 4 Russians understood nothing about fighting a war and so they died in vain. War is no harder to understand than Blake's “The Human Abstract” but when you misunderstand war you end up dead which is more devastating than a C grade in English Poetry.
Originally posted by SignyM:
As you say, I post this as a PREDICTION, not a belief. I base my prediction on a umber of factors (supply lines, military strategies, amount and type of military hardware etc). Whether my assessment is right or not... well, events will show.
AFA the poem: we had this discussion and I proved you wrong. Stop beating a dead horse.
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The scene of devastation in Rubizhne shows what Russia's unrelenting artillery fire is capable of. The small city is gone - scoured from the earth.
The way it fell some two weeks ago, marks an important shift in how Vladimir Putin's forces are now fighting the war. Gone are long armoured columns and tank and infantry attacks seen in the first months, in favour of large-scale artillery barrages - as many as 1,500 shells a day in Rubizhne - to wipe out resistance before any ground advance.
In Lysychansk, I meet private first class, Vladimir, serving with a reconnaissance unit in the country's National Guard. Russian forces are adapting, he says, first they came in "bold and got hit hard", now the enemy flattens what it can't capture with infantry.
He tells me of his month in Rubizhne. "It wasn't Mariupol, but it was pretty close. It was very hard. There were a lot of losses - a lot of fighting across streets. There was also artillery, just removing those houses very fast. People were trying to hide in the basement so they had no view, no assessment of the current situation. So there were a lot of losses during that time."
The men and women fighting in Donbas for Ukraine are not inexperienced. Many have fought against Russian-backed separatists who, since 2014, have been trying to secede from Ukraine. But, in this new battle for the region, they face a national army - one that has large resources of men and equipment. Even for experienced fighters, the volume and nature of Russian weaponry being used in Donbas is overwhelming.
I speak to another guardsman who doesn't want to give his name. "It's not my first war," he says, "I mean that one was a trench warfare, so it's a bit different [this time]. When I went to Rubizhne I saw the whole picture. It was tough. Shots with high-explosive fragmentation grenades, 82 mm calibre weapons," he says, stopping to draw on a cigarette.
Casualty numbers are still rising, but Russia isn't running out of men in Donbas. Nor is the Kremlin running short of artillery shells. The explosives which are hammering Lysychansk and Severodonetsk seem in plentiful supply. The surrounding countryside too is marked like a pox with black artillery craters spreading for miles along fields and roadways.
"There's a lot of artillery," says Vladimir. "Bombardments are like a nightmare, we shoot one round, they shoot 10. When our sniper is shooting, they send in a full packet of Grads on his position. So it's basically a sniper with one bullet and they send like $1,000 of artillery rounds. They really don't care how much ammunition they use."
On the outskirts of Lysychansk, bigger guns have arrived on the Ukrainian front line. Another unit of the National Guard are working on an M777 howitzer, newly received from the Australian government. It has two kangaroos painted on the barrel.
The gun is welcome but, as almost everyone I meet tells me, they need more. They specifically asked for longer range wea
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Quote:
SIGNY:
As you say, I post this as a PREDICTION, not a belief. I base my prediction on a umber of factors (supply lines, military strategies, amount and type of military hardware etc). Whether my assessment is right or not... well, events will show.
AFA the poem: we had this discussion and I proved you wrong. Stop beating a dead horse.
SECOND: You proved nothing about the poem, Signym, but your inability to understand that particular poem has reminded me why Russians died in great abundance during WWII in the ratio of 4 Russians for every German: ...
blah blah blah...
The scene of devastation in Rubizhne shows what Russia's unrelenting artillery fire is capable of. The small city is gone - scoured from the earth.
The way it fell some two weeks ago, marks an important shift in how Vladimir Putin's forces are now fighting the war. Gone are long armoured columns and tank and infantry attacks seen in the first months, in favour of large-scale artillery barrages - as many as 1,500 shells a day in Rubizhne - to wipe out resistance before any ground advance.
In Lysychansk, I meet private first class, Vladimir...
YOU meet?
Ahem!
In all if this time you still don't know how to use the "quote" function?
It's very simple
First type an open bracket: [
Then without any spaces type the word: quote
Then w/o spaces type a closed bracket: ]
That begins your quote. It colors the font blue and indents.
When you want to end the quote
Type an open bracket: [
Then w/o spaces type a forward slash: /
Then w/o spaces type: quote
Then w/o spaces type closed bracket: ]
That reverts formatting to normal.
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Also, you might want to change what you posted. You post that Russians lost many soldiers in WWII bc they didn't know how to fight and imply that they haven't learned. Then you post that they DO know how to fight w/ fewer losses (long range, using lots of artillery). So you undercut your own point.
Do you even READ what you post?
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Quote:The idea is to engage your mind, Signym, with the bigger world beyond your garden. Try engaging with this article, but just because you have never been in same room with these Russians doesn't mean you can't grasp what they are doing if you try hard:
Originally posted by SignyM:
YOU meet?
Ahem!
Inall if this time you still don't know how to use the "quote" function?
It's very simple
First type an open bracket [
Then without any spaces type the word The type a closed bracke
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Kremlin TV Names the Country Putin Will Invade Next
The first in line is apparently Poland, with Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev baselessly claiming on Tuesday that Poland is moving to seize territories in western Ukraine.
And they don’t stop there, suggesting Britain and the U.S. would be targeted in a looming WWIII.
While some in the West are pondering what kind of a concessions would allow Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin “to save face” in Ukraine, leading Russian lawmakers and top propagandists are advocating smashing the West, which they say is Russia’s ultimate target.
On the state TV show 60 Minutes, host Olga Skabeeva announced: “I have some unpleasant news… Even though we are methodically destroying the weapons that are being delivered [to Ukraine], but the quantities in which the United States are sending them force us to come up with some global conclusions. Perhaps it’s time to acknowledge that maybe Russia’s special operation in Ukraine has come to an end, in a sense that a real war had started: WWIII. We’re forced to conduct the demilitarization not only of Ukraine, but of the entire NATO alliance.”
Vladimir Avatkov, from the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said: “You mentioned WWIII and the way Americans and Poles are acting on the territory of Ukraine—indeed, we need to remember the words of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, who said that anyone who tries to interfere in the special military operation will pay a heavy price.” Skabeeva interrupted: “We never forget about these words of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, but a great number of people are already standing in line, trying to interfere in Russia’s special operation on the territory of Ukraine. Turns out, we have to act—but we’re yet to figure out how we can act without conducting a nuclear strike.”
Russian parliament member Oleg Matveychev weighed in: “If Poland starts any intervention… its current borders will be worthless.” Skabeeva wasn’t satisfied: “I wasn’t talking just about Poland, but mainly about Great Britain and the United States… they’re all lined up.” Avatkov chimed in: “No need to rush, there is a line. Everything in its time!”
Appearing on the state TV show Sunday Evening With Vladimir Solovyov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense Andrey Kartapolov expounded on the idea of Russia’s crusade against the Western world: “For us, the special military operation is just the first act, an introduction. The war that is going on right now... it’s not just an economical war and info-war, this war is about our faith. It’s about our right, as the people, to have faith in what we want to believe, to love those we want to love, and to live the way our ancestors would have wanted, on our land and by our birthright.”
Kartapolov added: “These wars are not the first wars. In the 19th century—Napoleon, in the 20th century—Adolf Aloisovich Hitler, and every time all of Europe came at us. The same thing is happening now…”
Signym, there is much more at https://www.thedailybeast.com/kremlin-tv-says-poland-is-the-country-pu
tin-will-invade-next
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I skimmed as far as "Poland".
Hell, SECOND, I mentioned Poland.
Seems like the brain that needs engaging is not mine.
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Quote:Hypothetically, 10 competent Germans fight 40 Russians, 30 who are grossly incompetent. Give them years to fight. The 30 incompetents are guaranteed to die, which leaves 10 competent people on each side to fight to the death. Not hypothetically, 7 million Germans and 27 million Russians died in WWII. About half the dead Germans were killed by Americans, Brits, French, Canadians. The Russians showed that a large percent of them are very stupid about fighting. But then again, in any large Russian group most will be highly incompetent at fighting or even surviving two months when electricity, heat and clean water are turned off temporarily because the Germans targeted "modern" 1940 technology since Germans understood how to fight a war. Russians? Not so much and they died by the tens of millions because they didn't understand.
Originally posted by SignyM:
Also, you might want to change what you posted. You post that Russians lost many soldiers in WWII bc they didn't know how to fight and imply that they haven't learned. Then you post that they DO know how to fight w/ fewer losses (long range, using lots of artillery). So you undercut your own point.
Do you even READ what you post?
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Quote:Skim this: "Perhaps it’s time to acknowledge that maybe Russia’s special operation in Ukraine has come to an end, in a sense that a real war had started: WWIII. We’re forced to conduct the demilitarization not only of Ukraine, but of the entire NATO alliance."
Originally posted by SignyM:
I skimmed as far as "Poland".
Hell, SECOND, I mentioned Poland.
Seems like the brain that needs engaging is not mine.
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By the way, Signym, I figured out William Blake, but his understanding of industry is very out of date. Living standards in England did not actually improve much for average people due to the Industrial Revolution. That helps explain why critics like William Blake and Karl Marx were so fiercely critical of the industrialization process.
Pessimism Perpetuated: Real Wages and the Standard of Living in Britain during and after the Industrial Revolution by Charles H. Feinstein
New estimates of nominal earnings and the cost of living are presented and used to make a fresh assessment of changes in the real earnings of male and female manual workers in Britain from 1770 to 1870. Workers’ average real earnings are then adjusted for factors such as unemployment, the number of their dependents, and the costs of urbanization. The main finding is that the standard of living of the average working-class family improved by less than 15 percent between the 1780s and 1850s. This long plateau is shown to be consistent with other economic, political, and demographic indicators.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2566618
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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.
The USA provoked the war in Ukraine to regime- change Russia. Biden* said so. (He* just recently reversed himself. He* thinks we're going to believe him*?)
This was never about Ukraine. It was all abut the west v Russia and China. WWIII already started. It just really hasn't gotten going yet. If we're lucky, it won't.
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Quote:Recently, Russians are being made aware of new and loftier goals that weren't talked about 100 days ago, before Russia entered Ukraine.
Originally posted by SignyM:
This was never about Ukraine. It was all abut the west v Russia and China. WWIII already started. It just really hasn't gotten going yet. If we're lucky, it won't.
Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense Andrey Kartapolov expounded on the idea of Russia’s crusade against the Western world: “For us, the special military operation is just the first act, an introduction. The war that is going on right now... it’s not just an economical war and info-war, this war is about our faith. It’s about our right, as the people, to have faith in what we want to believe, to love those we want to love, and to live the way our ancestors would have wanted, on our land and by our birthright.”
Signym, that sounds . . . well . . . what do you think? It continues:
Kartapolov framed it as a crusade: “I’m convinced that this war is about faith. Russia is an Orthodox country, and by “Orthodox” I don’t mean just Christianity. Orthodoxy is when on our territory all traditional religions peacefully co-exist: traditional Islam, Buddhism, and Judaism... They’re saying, we’re destroying the Ukrainian culture. What culture? Look at the devils they pulled out from the basements of Azovstal... It’s the face—I can’t even call it a face—the snout of the unclean. The holy scripture says, “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” In the 19th century, we came to Paris, in the 20th century we came to Berlin—we’ll come wherever they try to enslave and humiliate us. You won’t succeed. Expect us.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/kremlin-tv-says-poland-is-the-country-pu
tin-will-invade-next
Wars over religion are the very best wars of all. Also the longest wars.
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Corned Beef And Cocaine -- Putin’s Men, The Israeli Smugglers, And The Great St. Petersburg Drug Bust
https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-cocaine-connection/31855099.html (Radio Free Europe - Radio Liberty)
Putin has a colorful past from his time as deputy mayor of St. Petersburg. Too bad that Boris Yeltsin didn't select somebody less colorful than Putin to be his successor as "acting" President of Russia from 31 December 1999 to 7 May 2000. Putin has gone from "acting" to, maybe, President-for-Life. If Putin can convince Russians that the Ukraine War is a clash between Christianity and Satanists, Putin's murky past won't make any difference since he is the only one who can save Russia from being conquered by the heathens of Western Europe and North America.
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Originally posted by second:
Kartapolov framed it as a crusade: “I’m convinced that this war is about faith. Russia is an Orthodox country, and by “Orthodox” I don’t mean just Christianity. Orthodoxy is when on our territory all traditional religions peacefully co-exist: traditional Islam, Buddhism, and Judaism... They’re saying, we’re destroying the Ukrainian culture. What culture? Look at the devils they pulled out from the basements of Azovstal... It’s the face—I can’t even call it a face—the snout of the unclean. The holy scripture says, “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” In the 19th century, we came to Paris, in the 20th century we came to Berlin—we’ll come wherever they try to enslave and humiliate us. You won’t succeed. Expect us.”
What a backward country, frozen in time. 1800's? Putin thinks himself a Russian version of Napoleon? Same dim features, same little man angst. How'd that work out for Bonaparte? I mean, after all the dead were counted? He lost everywhere.
Russia only has a chance of beating a smaller country because they have more bombs that they can fire with fewer men (fewer f-ups) from greater (safer) distances. All thanks to Oil Money - i.e. dumb geography luck. And still not sure what the end game is. Grain? Territory? Ignominy? Self destruction?
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Quote:Russia had seen so many worlds flicker in and out of existence in such blistering progression — from communism to perestroika to shock therapy to penury to oligarchy to mafia state to mega-rich — that for Russians life is just one glittering masquerade, where every role and any position or belief is mutable.
Originally posted by captaincrunch:
And still not sure what the end game is. Grain? Territory? Ignominy? Self destruction?
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I suggest that you take the Russian Security Council at its word: This is about security. If that involves the globalist west, then that's because the globalist west is warring against Russia.
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Quote:If this about "security", then the war won't end until NATO surrenders to Russia. It will be a long war. Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense Andrey Kartapolov framed it as a crusade: “They’re saying, we’re destroying the Ukrainian culture. What culture? Look at the devils they pulled out from the basements of Azovstal... It’s the face—I can’t even call it a face—the snout of the unclean. The holy scripture says, “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” In the 19th century, we came to Paris, in the 20th century we came to Berlin—we’ll come wherever they try to enslave and humiliate us. You won’t succeed. Expect us.” War on Germany. War on France.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I suggest that you take the Russian Security Council at its word: This is about security. If that involves the globalist west, then that's because the globalist west is warring against Russia.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/kremlin-tv-says-poland-is-the-country-pu
tin-will-invade-next
“Perhaps it’s time to acknowledge that maybe Russia’s special operation in Ukraine has come to an end, in a sense that a real war had started: WWIII. We’re forced to conduct the demilitarization not only of Ukraine, but of the entire NATO alliance.” War on NATO.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/kremlin-tv-says-poland-is-the-country-pu
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But if it is Putin wanting a legacy, then as soon as he changes his mind about what he needs to declare victory or Putin dies, the war is over.
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The classified U.S. report says Putin seems to have re-emerged after undergoing treatment in April for advanced cancer, three U.S. intelligence leaders who have read the reports tell Newsweek.
The assessments also confirm that there was an assassination attempt on Putin’s life in March, the officials say.
The high-ranking officials, who represent three separate intelligence agencies, are concerned that Putin is increasingly paranoid about his hold on power, a status that makes for a rocky and unpredictable course in Ukraine.
“Putin’s grip is strong but no longer absolute,” says one of the senior intelligence officers with direct access to the reports. “The jockeying inside the Kremlin has never been more intense during his rule, everyone sensing that the end is near.”
https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-putin-treated-cancer-april-us-intel
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Quote:I suppose I shouldfile this with "Gerasimov was fired", "Shoigu had a near-fatal heart attack", and "Trump was colluding with Russia"?
Originally posted by second:
The classified U.S. report says Putin seems to have re-emerged after undergoing treatment in April for advanced cancer, three U.S. intelligence leaders who have read the reports tell Newsweek.
The assessments also confirm that there was an assassination attempt on Putin’s life in March, the officials say.
The high-ranking officials, who represent three separate intelligence agencies, are concerned that Putin is increasingly paranoid about his hold on power, a status that makes for a rocky and unpredictable course in Ukraine.
“Putin’s grip is strong but no longer absolute,” says one of the senior intelligence officers with direct access to the reports. “The jockeying inside the Kremlin has never been more intense during his rule, everyone sensing that the end is near.”
https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-putin-treated-cancer-april-us-intel
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Quote:Since I have a pretty good idea f "propaganda for the masses" here, I think I have a pretty good sense of "propaganda for the masses" in Russia.
SIGNYM:
I suggest that you take the Russian Security Council at its word: This is about security. If that involves the globalist west, then that's because the globalist west is warring against Russia.
SECOND: If this about "security", then the war won't end until NATO surrenders to Russia. It will be a long war. Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense Andrey Kartapolov framed it as a crusade: “They’re saying, we’re destroying the Ukrainian culture. What culture? Look at the devils they pulled out from the basements of Azovstal... It’s the face—I can’t even call it a face—the snout of the unclean. The holy scripture says, “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” In the 19th century, we came to Paris, in the 20th century we came to Berlin—we’ll come wherever they try to enslave and humiliate us. You won’t succeed. Expect us.” War on Germany. War on France.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/kremlin-tv-says-poland-is-the-country-pu
tin-will-invade-next
“Perhaps it’s time to acknowledge that maybe Russia’s special operation in Ukraine has come to an end, in a sense that a real war had started: WWIII. We’re forced to conduct the demilitarization not only of Ukraine, but of the entire NATO alliance.” War on NATO.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/kremlin-tv-says-poland-is-the-country-pu
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But if it is Putin wanting a legacy, then as soon as he changes his mind about what he needs to declare victory or Putin dies, the war is over.
People don't get worked up over abstract geopolitical concepts. They tend to get worked up over more ... colorful ... narratives: "Putin is crazy" or "Plucky Ukrainians fighting for freedom" or other emotion-laden stories. Making the west sound like evil creatures spawned by a sick civilization will prolly get more traction in Russia than putting a map up of the world with missile flight times to Moscow, or a discussion about globalization.
I discount many of those Russian statements ... which tend to cycle pretty quickly, just like ours do ... from one narrative to another as internal propaganda. The whole Russian Security Council has to agree on a plan of action, and my impression is there are quite a few strong-minded people there. Irrational plans and ideas would be sieved out pretty quickly.
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Quote: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.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Irrational plans and ideas would be sieved out pretty quickly.
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
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Quote:Are you simple?
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.
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.
Quote: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.
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
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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Quote: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.
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.
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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YOU post about people with mental problems?
Wow.
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Quote: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?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
YOU post about people with mental problems?
Wow.
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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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Quote:Do you really think your bullshit deserves aa reply?
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.
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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Quote: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!
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Do you really think your bullshit deserves aa reply?
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.
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.
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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Nobody cares.
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Quote: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.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nobody cares.
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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
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lol
It thinks it forms its own opinions.
Get fucked moron. Democrats are finished.
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Quote: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.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
lol
It thinks it forms its own opinions.
Get fucked moron. Democrats are finished.
https://www.propublica.org/article/national-debt-trump
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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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Meanwhile, the country that doesn't know how to fight is winning in Ukraine.
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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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Quote:
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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Quote: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.
Originally posted by SignyM:
Meanwhile, the country that doesn't know how to fight is winning in Ukraine.
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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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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Quote: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.
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, 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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lol
The amount of bullshit with your replies is astounding.
Thanks for your concern.
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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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Quote: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.
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.
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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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Quote:SECOND, there is a time bomb ticking away in all of us.
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.
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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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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Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
Those were the days...
$5.60 here now.
Fuck Joe Biden.
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Too many threads about Russia created by the assholes here to sift through and I've got better things to do today.
I have one in one of these threads with a list of possible outcomes of this war, and the only one that I thought would be realistic is Ukraine giving up some land to Russia as a buffer from NATO imperialism.
I guess that Asshole Joe Biden* thinks I'm right now?
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President Biden on Friday declined to rule out Ukraine having to cede part of its territory to Russia in order to end Moscow’s more than three-month-old invasion.
“Does Ukraine have to cede territory to achieve peace?” a reporter asked Biden after his remarks on the May jobs report.
“From the beginning, I’ve said and I’ve been — not everyone’s agreed with me — nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine,” Biden began his answer. “It’s their territory. I’m not going to tell them what they should and shouldn’t do.
“But it appears to me that at some point along the line, there’s going to have to be a negotiated settlement here,” the president added. “And what that entails, I don’t know. I don’t think anybody knows at the time. But in the meantime, we’re gonna continue to put the Ukrainians in a position where they can defend themselves.”
Puppet President, Tracksuit Z didn't appreciate this.
Fuck Obama plant Zelensky.
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Quote:6ix has doubted everything I have told him about myself. I should doubt myself, assuming 6ix knows better. The logical conclusion is that if nothing is true then I don't exist. How can I die if I am unreal? That sounds rather silly, doesn't it? But then neither Signym nor 6ix have any "proof" of anything. Everything about Ukraine is second or third hand hearsay from M$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?)
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:SECOND, there is a time bomb ticking away in all of us.
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.
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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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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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix has doubted everything I have told him about myself.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:SECOND, there is a time bomb ticking away in all of us.
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.
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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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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Quote: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.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
It's easy to lie about being rich and perfect dude.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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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.
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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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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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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Originally posted by second:Quote:It is easy to lie about anything.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
It's easy to lie about being rich and perfect dude.
I know it is. You do it every time you speak or type something.
Quote:
Easier still to disbelieve everything.
Trust is earned. There's no reason to trust anything you say.
Quote:
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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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 ant
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Quote:Come to think of it, it's hard to believe anything you post about yourself.
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.
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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Awwwwww.
We're done playing today, Second.
I guess you can just go ahead and pout then.
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Quote: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.
Originally posted by SignyM:
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.
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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Ih huh.
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Quote:If you read the whole story, there are parallels between Glenn Greenwald and Signym.
Originally posted by SignyM:
Ih huh.
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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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Hahaha!
Let's have another wall of gibberish!
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Quote: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.
Originally posted by SignyM:
Hahaha!
Let's have another wall of gibberish!
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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/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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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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Originally posted by captaincrunch:Quote:
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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I likecutting and pasting those posts intoBEING A TROLL IN her garden thread. After all, if she is going totrollpost FACTS that I don't like in all the threadswith her Russian propaganda,if she is going to postlies and bullshituncomfortable 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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Quote:Oh, I see the paid troll is sticking up for the sad sack sociopath.
Originally posted by captaincrunch:Quote:
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.
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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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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MEANWHILE ... Russia is winning in Ukraine.
And the EU is shooting itself in the face economically.
Get used to it.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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.
Every post from Ziggy is just more lying. You post the most and longest lorem ipsum of any poster.
I'm not a troll, and not paid to post - more lies. She's like a lying Olympian. On steroids.
I don't think second gives a second thought to who "sides with him" on an anonymous, near dead forum, dear. We leave that to you.
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
MEANWHILE ... Russia is winning in Ukraine.
And the EU is shooting itself in the face economically.
Get used to it.
The moment Russia invaded Ukraine, Russia lost. You definitely should be used to that by now.
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There had been shots fired already for many years, political turmoil, gun battles back and forth in certain area, maybe even historical issues but the conflict expanded significantly when Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 2022.
Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich's British telecoms company Truphone, once worth half a billion dollars, to be sold for $1
https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/russian-oligarch-roman-abramo
vichs-british-telecoms-company-truphone-once-worth-half-a-billion-dollars-to-be-sold-for-1/articleshow/92006891.cms
Putin loses another top soldier as 'The Executioner' killed by sniper
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-russia-ukraine-andanov-general-wagner-m
ercenary-1713368
U.S. wins case to seize Russian superyacht in Fiji, sails away
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/u-s-wins-case-to-seize-russian-superyacht
-in-fiji-sails-away-1.5935968
U.S. charges billionaire with violating sanctions by exporting planes to Russia
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-charges-abramovich-with-exporting-pla
nes-russia-without-license-2022-06-06/
2 senior executives at Russia's VK social media network died in an off-road vehicle accident
https://www.insider.com/2-russian-execs-vk-social-media-network-swept-
sea-reports-2022-6
Saudi Arabia hikes oil prices sharply, sending US crude futures up to a 3-month high
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/oil-price-today-s
audi-arabia-aramco-hikes-crude-selling-prices-2022-6
Russia's U.N. Ambassador stormed out of a U.N. Security Council meeting as the European Council President accused Moscow of fueling a global food crisis with its invasion of Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/kannbwx/status/1533895222803021824
In southern Ukraine, farmers are dying from mines planted by the invaders.
https://gettr.com/post/p1d1on59738
QUOTE - https://twitter.com/eucopresident/status/1533865475314266113
'The Kremlin is using food supplies as a stealth missile against developing countries.
This is driving up food prices, pushing people into poverty, and destabilising entire regions.
Russia is solely responsible for this food crisis.
Despite its campaign of lies.'
Russians were the invaders and aggressors
Ukraine Ukraine, mercs and allies have seen
4,600 + killed
9,700–10,700 wounded
Russia, Russian mercs and allies
5,700 + killed
and 12,700–13,700 wounded
Another war Russia vs Taliban?
https://web.archive.org/web/20060718225045/http://www.vfw.org/resource
s/levelxmagazine/0203_Soviet-Afghan%20War.pdf
To compare with official Soviet-Afghan numbers
USSR forces:
14,453 killed
9,500 killed in combat
4,000 died from wounds
1,000 died from disease and accidents
Beachgoers Adjusting Well To The "Norms" of War
https://funker530.com/video/beachgoers-adjusting-well-to-the-norms-of-
war/
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