Comments by "Taxi Rob" (@taxirob2248) on "Good Times Bad Times" channel.

  1.  @czwitek1995  who invaded who? You're looking to blame the victims.
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  2.  @chico9805  the West refused to negotiate? Budapest memorandum, Minsk and Minsk II, no recruitment by NATO, the fact that Sweden and Finland have only now joined BECAUSE of Russia's actions... you're truly a fool if you refuse to acknowledge any of that.
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  3.  @ljt3084  Russia isn't the Soviet Union. The 12 countries you're talking about weren't formerly Russia, they are sovereign states that made their own choices democratically. You show your ridiculous bias toward an empire that failed on its own merits, and your desire to see it return is plainly disgusting. And Trump and the Republicans are in fact a minority in this country, they have funding from foreign sources thanks to their loading of the Supreme Court who deemed it all legal. That allows them to gerrymander congressional and statewide districts, pour billions into campaigning and propaganda, and generally deliver the exact opposite of what you seem to to want. Supporting fascism doesn't bring about socialism, comrade.
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  4.  @IgorDruzhinin-qo2vj  keep dreaming Vlad
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  5.  @JaKingScomez  you can't claim defense when you're invading a sovereign state, Ivan
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  6. 18 years in a giant prison camp thinking about it probably just left violence as the only thing that made sense.
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  7. When did it have a worldwide trade empire? I must have missed that part of its history.
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  8.  @birdstwin1186  asking people to come and mow what used to be THEIR lawn for a subsistence wage, yes how generous indeed
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  9. have you been watching me sleep??
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  10. it's ridiculous that the US demands a strategy update when Ukraine is so overmatched and not receiving everything they've been promised in a timely manner. Obviously the strategy is to expel the invaders, and Ukraine has never been fully equipped to do so. WTF is it that the USgov needs to hear exactly?
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  11. not as many bots as outright bootlickers
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  12. The point isn't to replace anybody. Growth and attrition should leave plenty of room for such a small influx. The failure of the plan was letting go of energy independence. How much was Merkel paid for Germany's future?
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  13. *surrendered
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  14. I resemble that remark
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  15. crouching wolf, hidden bullshitter
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  16.  @FodaseNaoLigo  no. The past is what keeps it from breaking out. Letting go of the past and forging its own destiny is what Brazil needs to do.
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  17. Sad but entirely possible. UA without its entire legal territory is an economic weakling.
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  18. I still believe the UA gov narrative about needing weapons rather than conscripts. The technical abilities of the West's collective strategic arsenal is mind blowing. If sanctions against Russia had been complete and total from day one, they would not be able to recover from strikes against their war materiel facilities in Yekaterinburg and elsewhere in their interior. That UA hasn't completely destroyed their fossil fuel infrastructure is also a lack of Western will power to quit Russian gas cold turkey. Less exploitive terms with North African gas producer nations might have resulted in closer ties through strong trade relations, which would have been a bulwark against China and Russia's forays into the continent. The West isn't pouring the same amount of resources into a friendly Libyan regime, for example, when they absolutely should be.
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  19. Getting rid of nuclear power was economic suicide, and they've already swallowed the FlavorAid. Neoliberals in the CDU sold out Germany's future, and there is no rational alternative.
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  20. Yes, it really is that simple. I like the idea of Ukraine becoming an armory for other countries though, that would draw their interest and force them to look at UA as an investment in their own future. Ukrainian scientists and engineers were arguably the best in the Soviet Union.
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  21. maybe you shouldn't have treated North African countries like trash, you'd be getting cheap LNG from Algeria and Libya and Egypt today
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  22.  @trillionbones89  cost is always a red herring. New plants cost whatever the regulators decide they should. Existing plants that COULD continue should have, as the costs were already long since recovered. Shutting them down right when they turned profitable was a way to reinforce the false narrative of cost.
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  23.  @X-jn87ybt  Russia is a punchline to every joke about weak militaries. The only historical precedent they are recreating from their imperial past is losing their Black Sea fleet to an inferior nation. Having over 750,000 casualties in the ground war against one of Europe's poorest countries doesn't instill fear in anyone. Try again, Ivan.
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  24.  @alexv3357  *autocroissant
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  25. Translation: "this can be over tomorrow if Israel is allowed to complete their ethnic cleansing of Gaza."
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  26.  @Osonhador32  the state pays better than the private sector. This is widely known publicly available information.
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  27.  @kobalt6927  you can't be a communist if you assert your success by capitalist metrics
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  28.  @simonkriznik3437  which is why you keep alternatives available. Cutting off trade isn't "meddling." It's up to the people of Russia to decide if a piece of shit autocrat who prefers to crash their economy over behaving like a statesman is worth the trouble.
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  29. Israel blockaded the whole territory. Gaza is not a state, and has never been allowed true sovereignty by Israel. Stop pretending you didn't know that already.
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  30.  @BiggestCorvid  I could see it coming in the American Green party too, going back at least 25 years. There was a weird overlap with 1930s style isolationist conservatives in the Reform Party under the fascist Pat Buchanan, thankfully US Greens never held office outside of California where they were held to a more left wing stance... albeit with the same misplaced environmentalism.
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  31.  @overredrover9430  that's just alarmism pointing to old designs as the standard. That's like saying cars could never get safer than that first Mercedes when they all have seatbelts and airbags now.
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  32.  @keto0303  sounds like copium to me, Ivan.
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  33.  @brandonlance3601  so it's okay for Russia to put troops directly on the ground in UA territory, attacking UA military and civilians alike, but not ok for the US to merely advise UA in any way, shape or form? Because if you weren't so arrogant that you could actually hear yourself, you'd realize that's exactly what you're saying.
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  34.  @sanfinnik  right to return was never allowed to happen. Netanyahu has made dozens of false promises and intimations of things he never intended to deliver.
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  35.  @devoyblake4569  red herring argument, but the answer is yes. The US would obliterate RF in a head to head meeting. NATO support would only slow the US down.
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  36. We don't need to. Our stockpile is larger than you can imagine.
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  37.  @Kukura001  replacing a monarchy with a cult of personality based dictatorship is hardly what I'd call legitimacy
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  38. The more Russian thought about regional hegemony comes to light, the less sympathy I have for Russians as a whole. It seems more and more like the majority there are truly warped to the perspective of reestablishing empire.
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  39. the Intel project outside Columbus is probably going to fall through. Maybe Buffalo should give them the property they were going to give to Tesla instead.
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  40.  @AnonymousLibertar1an  show us proof of concept for your idiology
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  41. add Honduras, Azerbaijan, Uruguay and SIngapore... BRICSHITHAUS
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  42.  @CaDzA818 UA was functionally neutral, RF just wants more control than they are willing to give. If UA joined EU but not NATO, they'd still be an economic competitor to RF, and Putin is just as worried about that as he is about security.
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  43.  @JDDC-tq7qm they belonged to the USSR, not Russia
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  44. "At least we're not assholes" - Canada, while pointing to the US on a map
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  45.  @Christo_glenn  as if people don't suffer and die while waiting for care in the US, and aren't bankrupted by that care when they finally get it.
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  46.  @neolithictransitrevolution427  PRC's energy mix is still over 60% coal. The energy source with the most growth since 2015 has been hydroelectric. Don't oversell renewables because China isn't really buying them like you think.
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  47.  @tianlezheng6829  you have a weird idea of progressivism, comrade.
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  48.  @asiblingproduction  when you have a hammer...
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  49.  @eonby5941  Explain why marriages between non-Jews are not recognized by the state. Explain the limited power of non-Jewish Knesset members. Explain why dual citizenship with Israel is okay, but not with Palestine (yes, they have special passports that recognize them as a nation. Funny how that works only when Israel wants to exclude them, like the US putting natives onto reservations.)
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  50. Israel's capital is Jerusalem.
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