Youtube comments of David Ford (@davidford3115).

  1. I'm sure that was excellent beef. Unlike most of the meat from the west, free range animals tend to be healthier and leaner with much less fat.
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  2. They are also ignoring that Ohio's abortion law also has a carve out for rape and incest. The crossing of state lines was to avoid the required police report; they were trying to cover up a crime.
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  3. "When words lose their meaning, people lose their lives," -Confucius, author of "The Analects". "Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure." --Thomas Jefferson This, Mr. Pool, is precisely why conservatives pay attention to history. "Political Correctness" is a term that came from Mao's Cultural Revolution. Similar contorting of words were used by "Democratic Kampuchea" during Pol Pot's "Year Zero" philosophy.
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  4.  @xenosayain1506  You are correct, it is not. And there is no process for it. The ONLY "recall" is the second amendment remedy to topple this corrupt and unconstitutional government.
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  5. No doubt his famous meme "I don't need a ride, I need ammunition!" Rallied folks to Ukraine's defense. Had he fled, Kiev would have fallen that very night.
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  6.  @primordialarchetypes2927  What are you talking about? Hamas was ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE. At some point, the Palestinians have to reject the people who use them as pawns. "We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us." -Golda Meir.
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  7. After the Nuremberg Doctor's trial the medical community had a major reckoning regarding how out of control people behaved "in the name of science". But it only happened because said "doctors" forgot the oath of Hippocrates which requires a medical practitioner to DO NO HARM. Today we are having a repeat because modern doctors have also forgotten the Oath they are sworn to uphold.
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  8. Agreed. They accept the risk when they intervene and can't cry when their troops are killed in Ukraine.
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  9.  @Vitalis94  Noting special except that many famous German philosophers came from there. Such intellectual giants like Immanuel Kant. Then you have the fact that before the rise of the Prussian elites, it was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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  10. And the DOJ declined to prosecute.
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  11. You would have thought that HIV/AIDS would have done so, but apparently it was not enough.
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  12. The phrase "Lady doth protest too much, me thinks" comes to mind. The louder he has to proclaim his masculinity, the less of it he actually has.
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  13. Welcome to the worst of all nightmare dystopias. Brave New World, 1984, Soylent Green, Clockwork Orange, Gattaca, Lord of the Flies, et. al.
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  14. The phrase "setting up for failure" comes to mind. NATO teaches the Ukrainians combined arms, and they fails to provide them the critical air component of that system. Fortunately, the Ukrainians have taken the elements they CAN use and have hybridized it with their Warsaw-Soviet system into something that is surprisingly effective and given the west something to consider going forward.
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  15.  @goji059  Which is why it STILL needs to go to court. So that a legal precedent is set that the government cannot ever do that before the act is officially ratified.
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  16. Indeed. Sacrificing the future for the present. There is a reason why previous generations to the Boomers were content to go without so that the next generation could live comfortably and thrive. Those in power and those retiring should be focused on child-rearing instead of their own comfort.
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  17. Lots of similarities between Monkeypox outbreak and the AIDS epidemic in the early 90s. A certain community doesn't want to admit that their particular lifestyle makes them particularly susceptible to infection.
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  18. Coincidence is NOT a Kosher word. Once is an aberration. Twice is a a trend, and three times is a pattern. But the author of the James Bond novels is correct.
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  19. Indeed. Cultural Marxism turning their anti-colonial arguments towards attacking the very ideals of self-governance.
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  20. Never take the Lord's name in vain. He might just be listening and take issue.
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  21.  @thirstyfajita4115  Not always. Texture is a component of flavor, as black pepper proves. Ignoring the fat, the major difference between Brisket, Tenderloin, and Top Sirloin actually comes down to texture.
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  22. Kleptofornia would be a better description.
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  23. More anti-nuclear hysteria by the power mongers. They lie about this just like they lied about Fukushima. And they lied about Yucca Mountain.
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  24. Hitler youth 2.0
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  25. And I appreciate you acknowledging that. Please share this with your fellow progressive liberals and maybe we can do as President John F. Kennedy advocated: "Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."---Speech at Loyola College Alumni Banquet, Baltimore, Maryland, 18 February, 1958.
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  26. "Child Nookie Network".
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  27. The Wuhan Flu had plausible deniability. This one does not. There are only TWO legal smallpox samples in the world, one held by Russia, and the other by the US That makes this an inside operation and possibly an act of bioterrorism.
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  28. Indeed. The ONLY reason why they allowed Kurtzman to create the STD monstrosity was a direct "up yours" to the Axanar Project and its supporters. Axanar is canon and Kurtzman Trek is bad fanfiction. Change my mind.
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  29. I love that quote and have modified it: "To the corrupt (those who receive preferential treatment), accountability (equality under the law) looks like revenge"
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  30. Yeah, NPR, the mouthpiece of the career government critters.
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  31.  Gaydolf Shitler  The phrase is "fashionably Jewish". They don't actually understand what it means to be a devout, practicing Jew. And interestingly enough, Ashkenazi Jews are genetically European, but a sub-set much like how Hakka are a subset of Han Chinese. What the Ashkenazi share with non-European Jews is the Y-chromosome.
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  32. "Fair election" being the operative point. It was anything but. And the Republicans thinking they will ever win another one is a delusional fantasy.
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  33. Love is hate ala Orwell's 1984.
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  34.  @LunaMane  That is kind of the idea. Just proves why the Copyright laws need to revert back to what they were under the original 1790 statue.
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  35. Doxxing is why the courts have no need to know the location of Rittenhouse. As long as he shows up to court on time, his whereabouts between sessions is irrelevant.
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  36.  @kameljoe21  What they need is liberty and individual right to self-determination. Technology has never been their problem, it is the top-down central planning and control that has always hamstrung North Korea.
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  37. It is often observed that brutal murders and serial killers start by killing neighborhood pets while they are children. When the government starts killing pets, it makes you re-examine that and consider the horrific implications.
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  38. It never was. 1861-1865 made that abundantly clear. "I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other." -Lincoln's House Divided Speech; Illinois Republican State Convention, Springfield, Illinois June 16, 1858
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  39. The only Encyclopedias of any value today are hard copies of Britannica, World Book, and the like. Online Encyclopedias are worthless when they bow to the mob.
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  40. Well, and his famous meme "I don't need a ride, I need ammunition" solidified Ukrainian resolve. I have no doubt that had he fled, Kiev would have fallen that very night.
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  41. Indeed. Starving people find some of the foulest tasting food to be quite delicious. Desperation and starvation make people change their perspective.
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  42. The Soviet Union didn't declare war on Japan until TWO DAYS after the Hiroshima bombing, and ONE DAY before Nagasaki. Your claims about the Soviet Advance in Manchuria is an anachronistic argument because it puts the effect before the cause.
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  43. Yup, because government officials are "more equal" than the rest of us.
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  44. You are partially correct. While this conflict is going on, they are using it as an excuse to go after American oil producers so they can blame the price on Russian while hiding the fact that it has more do with the Biden administrations war on American energy producers.
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  45.  @jorgeenchilada  Or knew it was coming, and chose to let it happen, hoping to use it as a rally for the next mobilization drive.
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  46.  @mochithepooh5368  You don't use deadly force when the Secret Service themselves will use deadly force to protect the former president. There is NO justification for this.
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  47. No joke. Back in the 80s, people feared the Japanese were going to buy up everything, from US debt to American companies. Then their "lost decade" put the breaks on that. I would rather the Japanese had taken over instead of the Chinese. With the Japanese, at least they have a vested interest in seeing the US succeed. China only wants the debt and stock so they can either control us or crash us.
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  48. Yup, she is a total brocon. The Japanese use it as a joke in anime, but she takes it seriously.
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  49.  @michaelfitzgerald38  There is a right way to leave and a wrong way to leave. What occurred on Biden watch was a full blow rout. That invites aggression from those who see it as weakness.
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  50. Indeed. She is getting her comeuppance.
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  51. I vote for option D: all of the above. Throw the book at this racial arsonist.
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  52. Providing material aid to the enemy is High Treason, so you would be correct.
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  53.  @strategery101  Don't forget pretend town, aka Hollyweird.
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  54. She takes home in one month more than my family with two children earns in a year. I have no sympathy for her.
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  55. American Reichstag Fire.
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  56. Yeah, I'm sure that the Buddhist Monks in Vietnam are who started the trend of self-immolation as a form of radial protest in the 1960s and 70s.
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  57.  @mweskamppp  Same here. I have no issues with India essentially plundering Russian oil and making a killing off it while Russia gets very little out of the transaction.
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  58. Except, the Onion isn't funny anymore because their "satire" only goes in one direction. The Babylon Bee is more hilarious, in part because the satire becomes reality.
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  59. It is as if people have never heard of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Aliiance, or as the Poles call it "The Pact of Blood".
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  60. Indeed. They are STILL feeling the demographic repercussions of WW2. When 80% of all males born between 1920 and 1930 died before having children, that is devastating to a society.
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  61. Interesting concept. I do believe that KONIGSBERG should be liberated from Russian occupation.
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  62. Ashly Babbit was not available for comment.
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  63. It is also a classic example of counter-intelligence operation. The goal is to get people to NOT act assuming everything will be taken care of. I stop listening to Q after he said to trust Jeff Sessions. All Q predictions have been bunk.
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  64. And sent to Leavenworth if not a first class "neck stretching".
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  65. I agree. Europe has been spoiled for so long, complaining about us despite relying on us to keep their peace. They need to pony up to the table and provide for their own defense.
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  66.  @chip1pan  NATO didn't force Finland and Sweden to join, Putin did. NATO didn't force Poland, Slovakia, Czechia, and the Baltic States to Join NATO, Putin did. And by the way, Poland, Slovikia, Czechia, and the Baltic States are former Warsaw Pact members who DIDN'T have a choice in joining that "alliance". You argument carries no merit.
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  67. Yeah, but at least there would be the stench of Disney's corpse on them. I think you greatly underestimate how other companies view the people who bring about the demise of their previous employer. Caterpillar didn't hire a single factory worker from Perkins engine after that company went belly up in the 80s.
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  68. And much of it public domain.
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  69.  @MyMomSaysImKeen  Coming from Pavlov's dog, regurgitating talking points on cue. You do realize that Nelson Mandela was also a convicted Felon?
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  70. "The Democrats have moved so far left, they have left the country," -Ronald Reagan.
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  71.  @jamaicansunitedforchange5745  When nations like China and France heavily subsidize their industry, they are NOT participating in "Free trade". When your training partner is using back door tariffs like Value Added Tax to imported products at the shelves instead of the port is NOT free Trade, it is cheating.
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  72. Zero accountability because incumbents are re-elected at 98%. Which is no surprise considering America is an ILLIBERAL Democracy.
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  73. Do you want a serious answer or do you want the canned answer by the partisan hacks? The canned response is that they are fascists, anti-Semites, and conservatives. The Stalinist leftists simply throw every accusation at them in the hopes that something sticks.
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  74.  @victorcates9330  Disney Plus was Iger's baby, one he left in critical condition before he left. Loss of Cricket in India was a major reason for its troubles.
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  75. And that is exactly the definition of a crime against humanity. To deny people access to food and water just because someone accuses them of racism is a clear violation of the UN declaration of human rights. Not that such details actually matter to the "politically correct" crowd of statists.
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  76.  @oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368  He could have been either a Tony Starke or Bruce Wayne. Instead, he chose to be a Norman Osborne, Lex Luther, or Victor van Doom along with Bill Gates.
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  77. Indeed. This is damage control on their part. They are trying to find an excuse to hide behind.
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  78. Yeah, Barney Frank, the architect of the 2008 sub-prime loan fiasco is a major member of the board of the SVB bank. This collapse occurred by design.
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  79. I think your analysis is more accurate than Mr. Spaniel. Yours looks at ALL layers from Tactical through Operational to Strategic. While Mr. Spaniel thinks he can predict the outcome based on numbers (a very Soviet/mathematical perspective), yours takes into consideration an aggregate of all factors.
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  80. THey are because the Murdock sons are flaming liberals. Rupert should have put Wendy Deng in charge of his media empire instead of them.
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  81. Isn't it funny how the actors and actresses who play villains are some of the nicest people you will ever meet, yet those who play the "hero" or at least protagonist role are usually jerks? I like to think that those who play the hero develop a hero complex and more troubling, protagonist centric morality (not a good thing). While those who play the villain understand that the role they play on screen or on stage is NOT acceptable behavior and as such know not to fall into such habits.
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  82. Also, Munich 1938 proves that land for peace is a fool's errand.
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  83. Same with the Irish and drinking jokes. You don't see them get all butthurt about leprechauns and shamrocks.
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  84.  @jonathandantonio649  Indeed. Which is why those cases STILL need to go to court. So as to set a precedent that until the act is officially ratified, any actions taken before it becomes official is unlawful.
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  85. And why my father left the Presbyterian Chruch (PCUSA).
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  86.  @Azzaciel  And in that, the fault lies with the board of directors and ultimately on the shareholders. It is a sad state of affairs when people look at CEOs, CFOs, and COOs as basically temp workers who get paid more than most make in a lifetime. With such people who have NOT come up through the ranks of the company, there is little loyalty, and so they pillage and extract putting nothing back in return.
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  87.  @reliablereindeer  The US was strong during the Cold War. Otherwise, we would not have outlasted and more importantly, outproduced the USSR. Sadly, those who resisted the Soviets now look at their own people as the enemy and Russia's "little brother" Red China as their allies. Tells you how far the nation has fallen.
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  88.  @DRiveraNat20  Agreed. ORIGINAL black characters who were total badasses even a pasty white kid could admire.
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  89.  @slps8099  You can blame Alex Hamilton for that. The parties developed because of the rift between Tommy Jefferson and him over the role of small vs. large centralized government. The real tragedy is that Jefferson's friendship with Adams as well as the Adam's presidency was the biggest casualty of that spat.
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  90.  @robertmaybeth3434  Fighting Jihadis is not the same as fighting a near-peer adversary. How much of the Army's experience fighting the Moors in the Philippines was actually useful in the trenches of WW1? To the Original Poster: I tend to agree. Ukraine is going to have a battle tested military who had to adapt on the fly to less than ideal conditions. THAT is the kind of knowledge that should be passed onto the next generation, not the over-reliance on traditional NATO advantages of air power, numbers, and technology.
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  91. The disparity of how the two women are treated by the left tells you all you need to know about the left's psychopathy.
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  92. Children of Thalidomide 2.0
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  93. Munich 1938 is why allowing Putin to take Donbas and Crimea should not be allowed to stand.
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  94. With a family name of Castro, it is not that surprising.
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  95.  @DeadMeat991  I think that is more Hollywerid's delusional logic rather than America at large.
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  96. As the Holodomor, Mao's "Great Leap Forward", and Pol Pot's "Year Zero" all prove.
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  97. What was it de Tocqueville said? "Bribe the people with their own money"?
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  98. Indeed. There is not much as far as viable alternatives because Google's friends in the "finance industry" purposely deny and discriminate when it comes to loans and banking services to the competition.
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  99. Or firefighters for that matter. You don't block roads because you might obstruct emergency responders. THAT is why most places jaywalk is a crime.
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  100.  @andrelotscher280  He won the popular vote. You are on the wrong side of history.
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  101. My ancestor Johnathan Strange Bishop(28th Iowa, 11th Louisiana Union-Black) in his letter to his wife made it quite clear that he viewed slavery as a scourge on humanity, not just blacks but whites as well. He was very much of the abolitionist cause as were all of my ancestors who fought for the Union. Indeed abolition is why they volunteered in the first place.
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  102.  @tonygucciano6875  They can't buy off everyone. Death by a thousand cuts will eventually bleed them dry, even if they win.
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  103.  @rickygarza2005  You are correct. Obama has his hand in this. Do keep in mind that in 2016, pallets of cash were sent to Iran. Three guesses as to where it went.
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  104. Indeed. I suspect that China is slowly gearing up to take Taiwan while we are all distracted.
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  105. Fiduciary responsibility. The rest of the investors can sue the Blackrock and Vanguard folks for purposely destroying the company.
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  106. They miscast the two characters. Gal Gadot should have been Snow White and Zegler should have been the evil queen.
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  107. Not much different than the Aztecs, are they?
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  108. Yeah, those are the same people who told us that to save the trees, we should use plastic bags instead. Paper bags are biodegradable.
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  109. I am gald you acknowledge it. Now if only more people would have the grace that you have shown by owning the problem. That is the first step towards fixing it.
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  110. And unless a smallpox plague village has been unearthed in the Artic, the only two possible sources for such an outbreak would either be Russia or the United States as those are the only two country with any legal samples of the virus. That makes this an inside job and within the realm of possibly being an act of government sponsored bioterrorism.
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  111. And Tolkien was metaphorically talking about WW 1 when he wrote those words. Sad thing is, people didn't learn the lesson the first go around. And our generation is to repeat those same blunders that laid low Isildur.
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  112. There are only two legal samples of smallpox in the world, Russia and the Unites States. That makes this an insider operation and possibly an act of government sanctioned bioterrorism.
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  113. Well, and they believed that if they could co-opt pop culture, they could use it as a vehicle for their activism. While politics is downstream from culture, just because you try to build a damn to divert the flow doesn't mean it will go where you think it will. In this case, they didn't understand at all the audience they were trying to influence.
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  114. Or, she knew that her coalition was finished and she would be a lame duck continuing in that position. OR she resigned in protest against the opposition's proposals which they could pass without her. Stop assuming a woman is having an emotional outburst. Some folks resign their post in protest against a system stacked against them because they refuse to be part of the problem.
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  115.  @sir.lancelot8338  Neither did Obama, so what is your point?
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  116. Indeed. It is hard to NOT cheer for the demise of people who have vandalized our cultural touchstones.
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  117.  @Huminahumina465  That is a fair point.
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  118. Fauci and company seem to ignore the fact that General Washington and the Continental Army fought smallpox with inoculation. Maybe today's "experts" need to pay more attention to practical medicine of the past rather than speculative fiction of the present.
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  119. "The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it," -George Orwell.
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  120. Agreed. This is pure damage control as their embrace of Mulveny WAS through official channels.
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  121.  @mrkojak-ci1zm  And even better, the courts rule that TWITTER owes HIM money. Would be great to see him take over the company without having to pay a single penny.
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  122. Just the like USS Maine's boiler explosion in Havana Harbor.
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  123. I agree. Being intoxicated is an AGGRIVATING factor that should result in HARSHER punishment.
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  124. No joke. People don't remember that Nelson Mandela spent time in prison before becoming the president of South Africa.
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  125.  @CatsJP  You and your ideology lost. Cope and Seethe harder.
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  126. Because while it has been debunked, it is still being forced on schools by politicians and hacks who only want to indoctrinate children.
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  127.  @JeepCherokeeful  It should be clear that after the West Africa outbreak of Ebola and the US government purposely letting in people with Ebola that those protocols are NOT being followed.
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  128. Accountability looks like revenge to the corrupt.
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  129. The sad thing is, we had the chance when it started back in the 90s. But people obsess about not wanting to be "hateful"" kept their silence letting it get this far. Mocking will not be enough to stop it now.
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  130. We use to deal with violently delusional people rather than coddle them. Perhaps we should return to that method of thinking.
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  131. But when your customer simply changes to LNG, such pressure tactics actually backfire. In response to the invasion of Ukraine and the fear of a deep freeze in the winter of 2022-2023, Germany looked elsewhere for its energy needs.
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  132. Because the success of America's population of Asian heritage puts to bed the lie about the US being a racist country. It exposes the lies of socialism and social justice.
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  133.  @HgHg-yp6ft  Battle of Tsushima. And considering the sad state of the Russian military today (Moskva and Admiral Kuznetsov), I am thinking that a repeat of that battle would occur if Japan decided to retake the Kurils.
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  134.  @УДачныйучасток-я1е  Wishful thinking. OPEC+ failed to meet previous year's production quotas. They only announced a drop so as to more accurately reflect ACTUAL production numbers. There was little change in oil commodities delivered to the market, hence that had very little impact on the price beyond speculators acting like hypochondriacs.
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  135.  @Greg-yu4ij  They are already going after OUR kids. What is good for the goose is good for the gander. Turnabout is fair play.
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  136.  @kingrainbow5432  And that is why we are in this mess. A vote for a RINO is WORSE than voting for a Dem.
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  137.  @bobfty2680  The irony is that many American men are seeking foreign women. And that is being driven by cultural aspects that have been incubating since the 1980s.
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  138. Agreed. And it is amazing how many people are trying to deflect from that by making excuses about birdstrike or the pilot panicking. The fact that my comments on SkyNewsAustralia keep getting deleted tells me that we are over the target.
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  139. Indeed. What fools like Tim and those who came up with the Warsaw Pact invasion plan 7 Days to the River Rhine fail to realize is that ANY use of a nuke is considered strategic escalation under NATO nuclear doctrine. Artillery nukes would be answered with SLBMs and strategic air nuclear strikes.
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  140.  @witchdoctor7398  If you are complaining about the Biden rule, you have nobody to blame but the currently sitting president. What goes around comes around.
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  141.  @chrispatterson8531  Indeed. Repeat the Murray Hill riots of Canada and this will only last three days at most.
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  142. Or they may not have yet prepped the battlespace like they did in Kherson. How long did they do HIMARS strikes before they made their move towards the city? A push to Melitopol would require a similar softening up of Russian forces before the ground troops move in.
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  143. And yet Netanyahu brings the stability that the anti-Netanyahu coalition failed to deliver. There is a lesson here (similar to Bien's election): if you only run on being against something, you are not offering a solution nor alternative, you just want to burn everything to the ground and make the situation worse.
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  144. All hail the Oppai! Especially Japanese Oppai.
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  145. Indeed. I don't fear the black guy out with his kids. I fear the white dude with the tattoos all up and down his arm strutting about like a peacock with something to prove. Cover your body in ink like a Yakuza, expect to be treated like a member of the Yakuza.
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  146. The Danes have realized what the Baltic States have known for sometime. You have to be all in when you are that small.
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  147. They are getting what they deserve. They have nobody to blame but themselves. Comeuppance.
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  148. Because they are successful and defy the narrative. Same goes for East Asians and Southeast Asians. The social justice crowds don't want equality, they want a caste system of serfs and nobility.
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  149. You are one of the few who actually grew up and matured into a well-adjusted adult. Most still behave like spoiled pre-teens.
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  150. I found mine overseas. Foreign brides are a safer bet than American born women.
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  151. And a larger portion too!
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  152. The Poles have been the real unsung heroes, facilitating the logistics so that Ukraine can focus on the fight.
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  153. Agreed. That is a classic damage control move: throw a mid-level manger under the bus to save the executives from their own bas choices.
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  154. Indeed, most of it came from the very crowd she has been pandering to all her life.
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  155. As Mark Twain observed, it is easier to lie to people than to convince them that you lied to them.
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  156.  @maurice3464  Naw, just give them Los Angeles, San Fransisco, Sacremento and the suburbs that support those slime pools. I would rather we keep everything north of Sacremento and East of Central Valley. I do NOT want to give up Yosemite, Sequoia, Kings Canyon, Death Valley, and Joshua Tree National Parks.
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  157. This is what happens when flag officers prioritize promotion over combat readiness. I blame Admiral Mike Mullens for opening the door to this in the DoD.
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  158.  @GoblinCh.  Ah, but in the court, enough details may come out that the court rules in Elon's favor. It could result in him acquiring the company for next to nothing.
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  159. I tried aruging the same thing to a corrections officer I play Star Trek: Attack Wing wtih. He went on about how that would force a review of all case law. My counter point was that there are too many laws on the books as it is. If this creates burden, then abolish those laws. FORCE oversight of the out-of-control courts. Hold judges accountable like the German Judges were at Nuremberg.
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  160. Adoption is ALWAYS and option. If they couldn't be bothered to use a condom, then they should live with the consequences of their actions.
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  161. And the irony is that the herd immunity is occurring irrespective of lockdowns or not. Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea did not lock down just like the Nordic countries didn't. And the numbers are proportionally the same. Just proves that these shutdowns are nothing more than a power trip by petty tin-plated totalitarians pretending to be advocates of Western Civil society.
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  162. If they accepted that Crimea was Ukrainian, and acknowledged Ukrainian sovereignty, I seriously doubt that the Ukrainians would force CIVILIANS to leave. That is the thing about moving into another country; you HAVE to accept the local laws and customs and endeavor to be a citizen. To refuse to assimilate is to be an invader, occupier, and colonizer.
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  163. Isn't that what George S. Patton said to do? "Rehabilitate the Germans to fight the Soviets"?
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  164. Considering the area was once part of Ukraine in 1918, there is an argument for allowing Kiev to retain it after the war.
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  165. Makes me wonder if this is the reason why they told people to stock up on food.
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  166. Why does this remind me of the Reston Virigina Ebola outbreak? Why does this remind me of the movies "Contagion", "Outbreak", and "The Hot Zone"?
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  167. And now you see why Teddy Roosevelt disagreed with collective bargaining. He believed the individual could negotiate a better deal than the union bosses.
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  168.  @VicePresidentKamala  The problem is, he is trying to appease a mob. As Munich proved, appeasement NEVER works. No matter what he does they will riot and the media will blast him; it is a fool's errant to even try with these people.
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  169.  @BallisticPlate  No joke. He basically is saying he is bigoted against women from his own race.
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  170.  @benguensche  I think Ukraine is handing itself quite well dude. Maybe you need to get better talking points.
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  171. Indeed. People conflate intelligence with "Wisdom". Great line in Attack of the Clones, by the way.
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  172.  @franckdebzh7608  George Washington was America First genius. He warned about the dangers of foreign entanglements in his farewell address. He was specifically describing what is going on right now.
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  173. And they need to be hit with "in-kind donation" complains with the FEC. The support they give to one side of the political aisle is worth millions.
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  174.  @MN-vz8qm  You are blatantly ignoring the details of the "secret protocol" of the Molotov-Ribbentrop alliance. That was agreed on in August of 1939, meaning that it wasn't last minute, they were coordinating their actions for at least a month.
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  175. Mr. Thomas is completely wrong about the wall. it is NOT 300 meters, but a mere 150 meters from the end of the runway. Second, the antenna is suppose to breakaway if impacted by an aircraft that has overrun the runway. But the wall and earth behind it prevented that., Third, just because a road is behind the fence doesn't mean a damn thing. It is called the perimeter road and EVERY airport has one. Almost every US airport has a chain-link fence instead of cement walls at the end of the runway specifically so they CAN breakaway safely. for a minimum of 610 meters of clearance for such a situation. This guy is not as smart as he claims to be. He has allowed himself as an "EDITOR" to act like he is a licensed aviation professional.
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  176. Yeah, putting an "X" at the end is basically an attempt to Anglofy it (ie white-wash). Even a Gringo like me isn't stupid enough to make that faux pas.
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  177.  @ross3022  Ukrainian MiG-29s have already been using HARMS. Also, some of these HIMARs are lock on jam, meaning as soon as someone tries to jam them, they home in on the jammer effectively becoming a HARM in flight.
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  178. Indeed. Russia is looking more and more like the Imperial Japanese in 1943.
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  179. Because ideologs and political activists don't care about profit, only their agenda. They will gladly lose billions if it advances their cause. Explains why such zealotry is ultimately self-defeating.
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  180. More and more I am coming around to that perspective. Yes, bigotry is a learned behavior, often brought about by bad encounters and personal experience.
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  181. Keep in mind that the prophets of the Bible as well as many of the great Sages of the East such as Confiucius were all considered insane or fools in their time.
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  182. Indeed. These people (Bill Mahr, J.K. Rowling, James Carville, et. al) encourage the left's insanity and then are surprised when it bites them in the rear.
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  183. To quote Admiral Yamamoto: "I fear our efforts are for naught, for we have awakened the sleeping giant, AND FILLED HIM WITH A TERRIBLE RESOLVE."
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  184.  @joshuabrown4652  You are not being honest. They PPURPOSLY put out a statement that they would absolutely be interfering in local Florida politics. They certainly DID threaten. Or have you so quickly forgotten the infamous "Disney Gay walk-out" back on March 22 of 2022?
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  185. Molotov-Ribbentrop Alliance proves that the two ideologies while claiming to be enemies are in fact cut from the same cloth.
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  186. "The problem with socialism is that you run out of other people's money," -Margaret Thatcher, UK's "Iron Lady".
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  187. The problem isn't the Cold War mentality. The problem is that the politicians can't think outside of the box. John F. Kennedy was a Cold War president who COULD be creative and imaginative. Most of those in DC lack that critical skill.
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  188. I get his point about non-violent non-compliance. The problem is that several state laws make jaywalking a crime. While the police rarely ever enforce it, those laws are on the books to protect RESPONSIBLE drives from irresponsible pedestrians acting dangerously. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. Those who think you can block a major road or Highway should try standing as a group on a busy railroad line and see if Sir Issaac Newton agrees with them.
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  189. The cycle of Californication.
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  190.  @tenchraven  They can't stop 72 million people all at once. They can only stop us if we fear them. Truth is, they fear us. They fear the BLM mob only because they are the most active. Should the right decide to take the kid gloved off, BLM will look like a high school football party.
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  191. Not just wrong, they want to be able to run their con-job again and again. These people HATE free will. They hate democracy which is why they try to subvert it every chance they get.
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  192. They miscast the roles. Gal Gadot should have been Snow White and Zegler as the Queen.
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  193. And that clip is still censored, yet Cardi's crap isn't? What total hypocrisy.
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  194. Partition is first. I would like to keep Sequioa, Kings Canyon, Death Valley, Yosemite, Three Sisters, and Lassen Volcanic National Parks.
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  195.  @arbiter1  But as a lawyer my father once dated said, "my job is to get people out of any contracts, even marriage contracts".
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  196.  @McCoy-j2w  Boy who cried wolf. Accusations of racism only means you don't have any argument. "“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left," -Maragret Thatcher, UK's Iron Lady.
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  197.  @zombieninjatedsmith1301  Except, the right doesn't riot, loot, commit arson, or the like. So your moral equivocation is a false pretense..
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  198.  @fnuvikas8883  Ever heard of speech notes? Most public speakers use them. A sign of a good speaker is how little they look at their notes.
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  199. Ironically Tommy Jefferson warned about this, but he believed it would come from banking institutions. But I guess control of information is just as powerful as the flow of currency.
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  200. Most of the time. But his first term suffered the same problems as President Grant; he was TOO TRUSTING.
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  201. 100 years? The state of Israel only came into existence in 1948 and has been fighting for its very survival against Arab aggression that entire time.
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  202.  @danielch6662  You got that bass ackwards. Taiwan is NOT the Donbas. For one, the Donbas has a land border with Russia. Taiwan does not. Secondly, the Chinese military's tussles with the Indian military have shown that they are just as unruly and unprofessional as the Russian military.
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  203. They need to. Any that stay on the job deserve what is coming.
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  204. Basically, describing the infamous "Casting Couch" in Hollywood. And for years the meetoo folks simply turned a blind eye to it. Hell, they still are today.
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  205. I trust the Japanese a hell of a lot more than the Chinese. Michael Pillsbury dug into Deng Xiaoping's 100 year plan to defeat the West. Buying up debt was one of the top priorities. As for the Japanese, their national Constitution and relative lack of standing forces means they are heavily dependent on the US for their protection. If America is strong, they are safe. If America succeeds, they succeed. The Japanese have a vested interest in seeing the US remain strong. The Chinese only want leverage over us.
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  206. I am glad I an not the only one who remembers the drama Nick caused with Tim's culture war show and the scheduling.
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  207.  @shadowednight1600  Good. May he be forever remembered and the man who destroyed the innocence of childhood.
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  208. Yeah, the irony that she is blaming the very people that created the comforts she now enjoys. Completely lacking in self-awareness. The textbook definition of entitled.
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  209.  @MannenFromNorth  Because the West has a painfully short attention span. Both China and Russia play the long game, willing to fight for decades if that is what it takes. Can't say the same for the West.
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  210.  @sweet5304  Or "right for the wrong reasons". It is why conservatives need to adopt the same mantra, "no justice no peace", but for entirely different reasons. The power mongers want us to live by the law of the jungle, then it is high time we oblige them.
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  211. OR there is the possibility that NOBODY is the good guy. Perhaps everyone is a villain.
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  212. They are spoiled children who were never spanked by their parents for throwing a temper tantrum. This is the adult version of that.
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  213. Indeed. It should be an aggravating factor much like it is for someone killed by a drunk driver.
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  214. You couldn't do that because you have a little something called pride and dignity. Sadly, those are considered "white privilege".
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  215. If the company goes belly-up so quickly, I would think there is ground for a fraud case against the Twitter board. They should be taken to the cleaners.
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  216. Why is it so hard for people to understand what you have pointed out. "With friends like these, who needs enemies?" used to be a trope. It perfectly describes a woke "friend".
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  217. Exactly. Deflect blame for that fact that their policies on domestic energy are doing far more damage than blockading Russia.
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  218. Exactly. They are creating a product with zero demand. Conversely, Manga and Doujinshi artists are creating a product that meets a demand; they are filling a vacuum created by the incompetence of Western Comic publishers.
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  219. Preach! What was it the George R. R. Martins said? Tearing out a man's tongue only proves you fear his message?
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  220. Kind of Sounds like Japan in the 80s before their lost decade. At one time, the land on which the Imperial Palace was on was worth more than the property value of the entire state of California.
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  221. People who use that term to disparage their opponents hate legal immigration because those who EARN their citizenship get wise to the charade being pulled and are not gullible enough to fall for it.
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  222. Considering that Barney Frank was involved with both this and the sub-prime mortgage loan debacle, I assure you this was intentional.
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  223. Tim seems to forget that women rulers have always had the most unstable and tumultuous times in history. From Queen Seondeok of Shilla Dynasty Korea experiencing Lord Bidam's rebellion to Nefertiti's domestic conflict with the priesthood, to Boudica's war with Rome, or Tamar of Georgia fighting the Mongolian horde, to even Queen Elizabeth the first dealing with conspiracies to dethrone her, there is no room for mediocre women.
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  224. He is in denial. He clings religiously to his pro-choice positon.
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  225. That "firefighter" is just a typical crybully.
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  226. Agreed. It is infantile to think that race-swapping in any way appeals to minority groups. If anything, it is degrading and demeaning.
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  227. Why can't they "peacefully protest" at her house? If she likes it so much, she should host one of these protests at her place.
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  228. "War cannot be avoided, merely delayed to the advantage of one side," -Carl von Clausewitz.
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  229.  @springerworks002  No, it is NOT both sides. The right does NOT prosecute its rivals the way the left does. Stop engaging in moral equivocation (logical fallacy).
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  230. "The Lady doth protest too much, me thinks" -Queen Gertrude; Act 3, scene 2; Hamilet by William Shakespeare. The louder he proclaims his masculinity, the less of it he actually has.
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  231. yeah, he chose poorly. He should have married one of the Thai princesses or one of the Mikasa daughters (either princess Yuko or Akiko).
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  232. He is the classic example of a beta male.
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  233.  @manmanman2000  Germany was devastated by Angela Merkel making the country critically dependent on Russia, particularly in the energy sector.
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  234.  @mochithepooh5368  Dan Bongio already explained that. And NO, they did NOT coordinate with Presidential Security. If they did, they would not need to go in loaded for Bear. You are simply making excuses now (rationalization fallacy).
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  235. Boy who cried wolf. And the results will be the same.
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  236. No female representation in Disney movies? The whole Freaking line of Disney Princess movies is about female protagonist leads!
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  237.  @alwinsoria97  Indeed. Many folks are unaware that the infamous Demon Core that killed Louis Slotten was supposed to be used on Kokura.
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  238. Agreed. ALL Oathbreakers, including civilian office holders should be held to the same standards as those who wear the uniform and betray their comrades or displace misbehavior before the enemy.
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  239. Indeed. I hope this helps to kill the grifting of the "believe all women" movement. False allegations are all too real and detract and harm actual situations.
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  240.  @chill_will9816  The US Army is lacking in adaptability. Ukraine is being forced to fight without air cover. NATO has become so spoiled that they won't even move without air cover. The US Army needs to learn how to fight in situations where they DON'T have close air support or naval shore bombardment.
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  241. My father served about the USS Ingersoll's sister ship, the USS Elliot (DD-967) and had a similar story. In that situation, the people on the boat intentionally set it on fire so as to prompt an S.O.S. rescue. After being rescued, they were given a hot meal from the galley, and were allowed to use the showers. While they bathed, the crew washed their clothes. As usually happens, money always falls out in the wash. After the meal, the boat people were asked whose wanted to claim the money found in the wash. Not a single person came forward; they knew if they claimed it, they would be sent back. Years later, my father was commissioning a Vietnamese-American into the Navy. Turns out the newly minted Ensign's wife was one of the people my father's ship rescued.
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  242. That is the thing, most of these people running the show at WoTC ARE pre-teen high schoolers who never grew up. They are continuing their drama antics today in the business world. It explains the obsession with Prom.
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  243. Philippines is the oddball of Asia. While most of East and Southeast Asia is Buddhist, the Philippines is Catholic because of Spanish colonization. Most names are of Hispanic origin and Tagalog is a creole language mixing Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Aeta. Race mixing has been so ingrained into the population, unlike other parts of Asia where ethnic purity is held in high regard. So, I don't think it is fair to say that Filipinos are a good representation of Asians in general. As you point out, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Thai, Cambodians, Vietnamese, Laotians, and Burmese all have distinct cultures, with Chinese have numerous subgroupings such as Hakka, Tanka, Min, Cantonese, Sichuan, and Techu.
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  244. "“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” -attributed to Whinston Chruchill.
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  245.  @onetwo5155  Make no mistake, NATO didn't provoke Russia, Russia simply took umbridge at its former Warsaw Pact Satellites wanting to join of their own accord. Russian aggression and the Soviet past is WHY those nations chose to join NATO. Blaming NATO for Russia having a bad relationship with its neighbors is blaming the victim. Russia has only itself to blame for NATO's expansion. Had Russia instead chosen to make amends and lasting peace with Poland and the Baltic States the way Germany did, this escalation would have never occurred.
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  246.  @KitsuneAdorable  YOu people only call her transphobic because she has stopped pandering to you and is calling out the rampant misogyny in the woke crowd.
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  247. Indeed. In the camps, they were called "Kapos".
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  248. Hell, Tim Allen as a blue-collar comedian would have been able to ad-lib some gold quality material just like Robin Williams ad-Libed quite a bit of his lines.
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  249. Why should the taxpayers be on the hook for their three hots and a cot? I say either expulsion from the country on pain of death (persona non-Gratta) or death penalty outright.
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  250. "Peace" as in complete submission under the bootheel of a tyrant.
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  251.  @travismcafee6769  No, it will not rip open to create the "Strait of Cortez", but I do agree that it would do the rest of us a favor if it did. Or at least just everything West of Central Valley did. The only folks I feel for are the Asians. They are the ones keeping Kleptofornia afloat, which is ironic considering that governor "Moonbeam" Brown didn't want any of the Vietnamese boat people in his words, "ruining his state" back in the 1970s.
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  252. First he is a white supremacist and a klansman, now he is an FBI informant? When are people going to realize the media is the boy who cried wolf?
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  253. Yeah, that Soviet Colonel probably save the world from disaster. He really should have been decorated by BOTH sides for his actions.
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  254. World War 1 bonus army part 2. Between Obama and Bite-Me, there is now a "citizen army" that can challenge the US government.
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  255. Yeah, I think she is one of the last along with Christine Amanpour. But theirs is a dying breed, replaced by woke activists who propagandize.
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  256. A gun behind every blade of grass.
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  257. They are religious zealots of a different kind. Much in common with Salafists in Islam they have.
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  258. They will still sign the book deals. And that is when they expose themselves to criminal liability.
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  259. Family name of Castro. Think about that.
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  260. Israel doesn't control Gaza's border with Egypt. If they can't leave via that route, then whose fault is it really?
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  261. People wonder who the Nazis and the Soviets came to power, yet lack the awareness to realize the 1930s are playing out right in front of us again.
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  262. She never should have pandered to the woke crowd in the first place. Could have avoided much ot the drama.
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  263. Quite racist of her to use such stereotypes, isn't it?
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  264.  @ghxstleader485  Agreed. The Left has used Jan 6th just like the Nazis used the Reichstag Fire to consolidate power.
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  265. To quote Mercutio, "PLAUGE ON BOTH THEIR HOUSES!"
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  266. Just continuing the business as usual from the Obama years.
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  267. @@ghassankanafani2837 Israel has not occupied the Gaza since they pulled out in 2005. Try again.
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  268. Indeed. My family with two working parents is just north of $25,000 A YEAR. She is a spoiled, entitled female.
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  269. Indeed. The politics are often a side issue, not the sole driving factor in the story. That is the difference between telling a good tale and propaganda.
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  270.  @steveoshap3566  I agree but not for the reasons you think. Putting Cruz on the SOCTUS takes him out of the senate where he along with Ran Paul have been Trump's greatest advocates.
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  271. "Without respect, we reject. But with respect, we accept," -Dicktor Van Doomcock aka Overlord DVD.
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  272. Well, and I also think they understand that the acts they do on screen or on stage are just that, acts, not acceptable behaviors in real life. I suspect having play the part of nasty people, they are able to identify such sociopathic behaviors and are better able to avoid them.
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  273. Zipper problems.
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  274.  @69TirmsOfUse  Hence why the bot accounts. Social media likes are a shell game to defraud advertisers, and they are FINALLY getting wise to it.
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  275. And that is the point. This was star chamber Kangaroo Court. Roberts allowed this sham to go on by NOT overseeing the process. If the chief justice really cared about the rule of law, he would have presided over it and on day one dismissed it all as not having any standing now that Trump is out of office.
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  276. I will take what I can get. They WILL lump the East Asians in with the whites when it comes to punishing the successful.
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  277. Agreed. People need to stop affirming and validating the psychosis.
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  278. Most of them still keenly remember their time as Warsaw Pact nations. That "mutual defense" was simply a pretext for Soviet occupation. It is amazing how the Putin apologists conveniently ignore that dirty little detail.
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  279.  @danporath536  Read the riot act. If you solicit as she did, you CAN be found guilty with very little evidence beyond the defendant's own recorded words. The problem is that no DA will ever bring a case against her because she is black; they are scared they will be called racist.
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  280.  @thetomdillengerescapeplan3525  Oh, so if someone chooses not to carry out a murder, then no harm no foul? There is a reason why ATTEMPTED murder is still just as much of a crime as actually doing the deed.
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  281. The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. -President John F. Kennedy; ADDRESS BEFORE THE AMERICAN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION at Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; April 27, 1961 JFK and Truman were of one mind on this.
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  282.  @anacowa221  That's the one. Ironically, if they had praised his landscape paintings(which are quite realistic in their detail) rather than ridicule them, the 1930s would have turned out much differently.
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  283.  @waltergro9102  Dude, the USSR collapsed before Germany re-united. Stop pushing Kremin Fantasies. Also, I think the Poles, Baltic States, Czechia and Slovaks all get to have a say. That fact that you think the Kremin can dictate whom they enter into military alliance with speaks to your contempt for the rights of those former Soviet Bloc nations.
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  284. I would say it started before then with the rise of wokism.
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  285. You are describing the results of existential nihilism. In an attempt to fill the emptiness inside themselves, they push the boundaries of acceptable behavior looking for that hit of "Excitement" to chase away the bleakness in their lives. It is a form of dopamine addiction coupled with psychopathy and narcissism.
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  286.  @nighthero7  The problem is that it will not fly in court, particularly before the SCOTUS. The Police need to prove a compelling reason to violate 1st amendment rights, and "disorderly conduct" does not cut it, especially with regards to strict scrutiny as defined by said SCOTUS. If anything, the video provides damning evidence disproving the claims of the police.
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  287. Open the Keystone XL pipeline. At a time when we are cutting off Russia, we should be drilling, drilling, drilling. Yet our criminally insane leaders are PURPOSLY making the situation worse.
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  288. The older movies and shows are what WILL help the media executives afloat. One only needs to re-release some of the movies from the 1970s to a new audience and it will put the "modern" writers permanently out of work.
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  289. And yet child predators get lighter punishment. So do those convicted of murder 1. That isn't justice you are cheering, that is vengeance. Vengeance solves nothing.
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  290.  @TheGreenKnight500  Just like the advocates of "eugenics" did. Both then and now, they violated their Oath of Hippocrates.
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  291. Why did my post get deleted? Does you tube not like me pointing out the 16% bias towards democrats in the sampling?
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  292. More like neck stretched for high treason.
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  293.  ALLisOn e  I have a more nuanced perspective. I see it that NOBODY has clean hands. Putin is wrong for going into Ukraine. But the US also has no business being in the Ukraine in the first place. After the fall of the USSR, Ukraine had most of the Soviet Nukes. The Bushes gave false assurances that if they handed over the Nukes to Russia, Ukraine would be secure from Russian aggression. That means this invasion very much is the fault of the US for disarming the Ukrainians.
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  294. That has always been the mantra of BOTH parties' leadership. It is the only way they can justify their continued existence.
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  295.  @fking66  He was right to be condescending because she was being completely unprofessional. All she did was ask loaded questions (logical fallacy).
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  296. Would not surprise me. The West is so bio-polar, schizophrenic when it comes to things like that.
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  297. Indeed. What is ironic though is when you look at interracial and out marriage stats. White Women consistently have higher rates of divorce when they out marry. Conversely, white men who marry outside their race tend to have higher rates of marriage stability, with foreign born wife being the most stable. I suspect that is an unintended consequence of the radical feminism.
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  298.  @iche9373  Indeed. A Tale of two peoples. One who wouldn't fight for their country, another that has.
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  299. Indeed. The norther front presents the opportunity to swing around the Luhansk defense lines and strike them from the rear.
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  300. Time to start doxxing the doxers. And I don't mean the dog breed.
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  301. And they completely lost the plot with Bonnie. She LOVED Woody in the third movie and then they have her completely neglect him. Talk about not doing your due diligence.
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  302. And that is the kicker, isn't it? They whine and bloviate about the Minsk accord, which was never actually signed by Ukraine, while blatantly ignoring the Budapest Memorandum which WAS a signed treaty.
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  303. Better to be laughed at in peace than angsty in times of turmoil. I don't think the world is laughing now.
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  304.  @alexanderacosta8111  The problem is that when you pander to a niche audience at the expense of a greater share of the market, you slowly become irrelevant. Case in point is Kodak refusing to get into digital photography. They are no longer a major company, having contracted 90% in size from their high point in the 1980s. Disney is doing the same thing by pandering to the woke audience that at best represents 3% of ANY population (US or overseas).
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  305.  @TheJeffL  And you are so opposed to the truth you would fit in Stalin's Soviet Union.
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  306. Indeed. The difference between irregular guerillas and professional uniformed militaries.
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  307. Cincinnatus preceded him. So did Sulla. But you are correct that it is the exception rather than the norm.
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  308. Agree. This isn't insane, it is entirely understandable, if not acceptable. I can understand motivation WITHOUT agreeing with it.
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  309. Never stopped the unions before. This is actually rather typical behavior. There is a reason why union bosses are often equated with mafia dons.
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  310. As I like to say, if you dress like an Amsterdam Harlot don't be surprised to get gawkers. Looking is NOT the same as touching. Touching is his fault, gawking is hers.
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  311. What was it that Mephistopheles said in the play about Faust? Men will sell themselves cheaply and debase their selves for very little?
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  312. Doesn't matter if the government is no longer legitimate. We are in the long night phase in the cycle of Empires.
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  313. Indeed. Zephram Cochrane's warp flight and first contact signaled the ending of the Post Atomic Horror, though it would take at least another 30 years or so (Q's court of 2079) before the barbarism would finally come to an end.
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  314. Yeah, Omar is a brocon. In anime it is used as a joke, but she takes it seriously.
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  315. Pence kept plugging the hole Trump was making to drain the swamp. Trump should have never picked that spineless jellyfish after his pathetic term as Indiana's governor.
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  316.  @paulchapman8023  I guarantee you they have designed on "Outer Manchuria". The Chinese have always been irritated with the Russian annexation of the Amur Valley.
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  317.  @lisahardy9707  How did unpopular Biden get more votes than POPULAR Obama's first run? "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark," -Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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  318.  @de4ds1ghtcsgo94  No, it won't. The GOP establishment will be giddy with excitement.
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  319. In Latin South America there seems to be a similar view. They are proud of their femininity and are insulted if a man does NOT notice and admire it. The story my Dad tells of Chile goes that he tried not to gawk at the secretary Maria. One guy asked "Is Maria not beautiful?" My Dad says, "Oh, yes she is, but I don't want to stare," The guy responds, "It doesn't matter. LOOK AT HER!" After that, she made sure he had the freshest post of tea every morning.
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  320. Neither did Teddy Roosevelt. He viewed Union leadership as just as corrupt as the CEOs. Hence his "Square Deal" was about empowering the individual and REJECTING Mr. Pool's call for collective bargaining. TR believed an individual worker could negotiate a better deal than union leadership.
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  321.  @jacob4920  Again, that was started under Iger. Granted, I concede that Chapek could have put his foot down and fixed it before it went live but failed to do so.
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  322. Ironically, the territory in Kursk now held by Ukraine was once part of Ukraine in 1918.
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  323. "If you won't stand for something, you will fall for anything," -old proverb. And you are correct, the GOP won't stand for anything so they fall for everything the left pulls on them.
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  324. They didn't know butter was $7. They are no better than Marie Antoinette.
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  325.  @aflyingcowboy31  Thank you. Seems like Youtube doesn't like me pointing that out. Nor a certain other dirty detail about Angela Merkel.
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  326. @grey momo How familiar are you with the 35 year occupation of Korea by Japan from 1910 to 1945? The Imperial Army rapes pillaged and plunder the country. Have you heard of the Rape of Nanking? Now imagine that going on in Korea every year. Old grudges die hard in East Asia. I am glad that DESPITE the historic animosity, there were some Koreans who looked past that and rallied around this girl. It shows that some folks can forgive past wrongs and move forward.
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  327. Then be advised that much like the Kenosha Kid, you will be hated by society and the government. You have my upmost respect for taking on that impossible task.
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  328.  @Mikalent  Don't forget that the US-Canada border is the LONGEST UNGUARDED border in the world. If a civil war sparks, there is no way that the Canadian government could prevent a surge of small arms (and a few larger artillery pieces) north into Canada.
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  329. Just like the issue with Simian 40 virus in the Polio Vaccines. They say there is no significant change in cancer rates, yet it has been conclusively demonstrated time and again that SV40 DOES cause cancer in humans. Their story doesn't match.
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  330. I would say picking Mike Pence was his first and greatest mistake. Pence is who recommended keeping these career critters in place as well as recommending other swamp critters such as Priebus, Dan Coats (DNI running cover for Comey, Brennan, McCabe and the rest), and Elaine Cho.
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  331.  @venicebeachsportsnetwork6677  The poor are worse off now under Democrats than they were under Republicans. A rising tide lifts all boats ad JFK observed. Too bad Democrats have abandoned JFK.
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  332. Just as Gina Corano warned. And she was martyred for it.
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  333. Indeed. The whole point about Germany sending the Gephards is that they are a VERY effective tool against the Iranian drones.
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  334. THAT is why Macro is so gungho over Ukraine.
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  335. Record of Lodos War was originally created within the D&D ruleset. But when the owners at the time of D&D refused to let them operate officially, they created their own system. Lodos War would go on to inspire the majority of JRPGS and by extension modern fantasy anime. Make you think.
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  336. I second that. I hope that the Japanese do in-house translation and dubbing and sell directly to the US market instead of relying on woke middlemen.
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  337.  @muddywater6856  At this point, I don't think the South Asian Hindu/Pakistanis want her.
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  338. She is just grandstanding in the hopes that Tinseltown will pick her up for a gig. That is the only reason why she made that video.
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  339.  @Raya-ir4tm  Oh you who does not understand history. You realize the American colonies were backwater under equipped and poorly trained farmers who took on the greatest military of the time? And it was done without ANY foreign support for years. Not until Saratoga did the French take an interest, and not until 1778 did they even join in hostilities.
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  340.  @УДачныйучасток-я1е  Your claims are overblown. Nothing happens in a vacuum. There are OTHER factors that came into play besides OPEC's announcement. Many of which played a bigger role.
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  341.  @CatsJP  Cope and seethe harder. Trump is clearly the one in charge but you can't accept that, so you tell yourself comforting lies to sooth your bruised ego.
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  342.  @FTChomp9980  Considering that the legends of Brother Rabbit (B'rer Rabbit) are public domain, Disney can't really sue if they try to duplicate the ride so long as the characters don't look exactly the same.
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  343. Well, and look at the cobalt industry. There is no getting around the environmental damage caused by mining for that metal. Not to mention the child labor exploitation, which is rampant in Zaire, where 70% of the world cobalt is sourced.
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  344. Yea, after the success of Star Trek the Experience in Las Vegas, it should have been a no brainer. The vast difference between the two comes down to the folks in Vegas giving the fans what they wanted as contrasted with KK and Iger trying to shove a Chinese knock-off down the fans throats.
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  345.  @wildeagle5791  They tried to do that in Orange County (aka Saigon City USA). Didn't work because ballot harvesting ensured that a while male Democrat stole the election from a female Korean American Republican. Elections in California are rigged.
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  346. Tytler was effectively quoting Aristotle there, but he elaborated on the why. I think he also said something to the effect of "good times make weak men, and weak men make bad times.".
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  347. Indeed. Serial killers often get their start by butchering neighborhood pets. Now apply that to government officials.
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  348. Indeed. Henry Ford's comments reminds me of Thomas Jefferson's warning about Banking institutions being more dangerous than standing armies.
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  349. That is the point. The context that the power mongers are using it now is basically "the proletariat".
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  350. Their reaction is that of a zealot towards an apostate. Seriously. She once pandered to them. Now that she said something they consider a heresy, she has become a threat to their non-theistic religion.
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  351. The problem is that tank on tank combat isn't want Heinz Guderian advocated. He was always about combined arms and believed that tanks always needed an infantry squad to back it up.
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  352. Self-respecting women would. But we are not dealing with self-respecting women. When a woman who had her skull fractured by a trans mixed martial artist, she sounded like an abused spouse claiming it was her own fault and that she deserved it.
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  353. Asian Airhead is suppose to be a unicorn. Hirono is trying hard to prove otherwise.
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  354. Would not surprise me. One of the stipulations for membership is not having ongoing territorial disputes. That is what put the Georgian admission on indefinite suspension after the 2008 invasion.
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  355.  @Not_Always  Famous last words. I remember hearing about several other things not having a chance and then coming to pass.
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  356. Agreed. So long as they are all at each other's throats, they don't have the time nor the resources to plot against the man at the top.
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  357.  @sthubbins4038  The coup was by the left who stole an election by changing the rules in the 11th hour and then engaged in LBJ Box 13 games.
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  358. Indeed. I would also suggest that in 2014, the studios and productions became overly formulaic to get the most payout for the least amount of effort (creativity, out of the box thinking, not fund invested), a typical reason why big studio productions fail so miserably as contrasted with Indie projects.
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  359. @Mithril That is what they said during the 2008 sub-prime mortgage loan crisis. And the people responsible for that one are the same people involved in this banking collapse.
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  360. And that is the dumb thing. It is NOT beneath her to marry a blue collar worker. The two can be quite the power couple if they are in difference fields. Alas, the Feminazis cannot see past their own pride and egos.
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  361. Yes and no. When people openly declared their vote, then that is how the unscrupulous use peer pressure, bullying, and mafioso tactics to compel people to vote the way the crime bosses want. Trump's victory would not have been possible in 2016 without the confidential voting process.
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  362.  @tribilinRivera  Sure, because mean tweets are some much worse than hyperinflation and economic stagnation. Nobody cares that Trump is living rent free in your head.
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  363. Yeah, I really wish the members of ASEAN would temporarily set their disputes aside and present a united front against China. The Vietnamese need to invite the Indonesians, Malaysians, and Filipinos to joint-base and operate in the Parcels. Likewise, the Filipinos need to invite their neighbors into the northern Islands on their side that are NOT in dispute so as to push the Chinese out of the are at the northern most location. Cut off the supply lines to the southern Islands and they will wither on the vine.
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  364. Because we humored the insanity for far too long. Some foolishness needs to be nipped in the bud.
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  365. Bestowed wealth vs. earned wealth. It is why "intellectuals" detest new money and seek to deprive all others of theirs.
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  366. Goes to the issue where they don't take him seriously, but literally, while Trump supports take him seriously, but not literally. What a sad world nevertrumpers live in.
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  367. He could have married one of the Mikasa Princess of Japan (Yoko or Akiko) or one of the Thai princesses. Probably the only Western man to be permitted that honor. Instead, he settled for a "used woman". Pathetic.
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  368. Fourth Reicht indeed. It would seem that the EU is becoming a Soviet Union of the West.
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  369.  @theclowninghasbegun3442  From day one Trump has had bad advice from people who wanted to pander to the mob.
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  370. He may have said it as a joke, but there was truth in it.
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  371. Too late. The justices DESERVE to have their power deluded. They deserve that have the institution obliterated because they chose petty partisanship rather than doing what is and right. They refused to do their duty with regards to the election cases, now they need to suffer the consequences for choosing to be derelict of duty.
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  372.  @mrgreen3002  Yes it is. the 23rd pair decides it, not someone's feelings. And it is NOT assigned at birth, it is assigned by nature.
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  373.  @P40oz  And you are a lickspittle who calls the American Founding Fathers terrorists. You didn't report to the FBI, you are just here trolling like a good little lickspittle for your feudal masters.
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  374.  @lisal9829  Mr. Gutfeld called out her lies about Trump's words. But then you don't care about OBEJCTIVE facts, all you care about is that your side wins.
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  375.  @lisal9829  He lied about Trump's words as Mr. Gutfeld pointed out. For someone obsessed about the truth, you recoil from lit like a vampire does to light.
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  376.  @joemamaobama6863  Or because the policies that lead to this ecological disaster came out of the Kremlin. Local control and decision making only really started after 1991.
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  377.  @ArawnOfAnnwn  Your numbers are horribly off. Most of it is wishful thinking and not the actual hard data.
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  378. Yeah, funny how they forget a little think like the Munich Agreement of 1938.
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  379. And that was the problem with the 2008 bank bailouts. They were rewarded for their bad behavior and went on to orchestrate the current financial crisis. Nobody was held accountable.
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  380. It was cute Tim believed that Kanye could win the GOP primary. The man built his career on the very things conservatives and the GOP establishment detested.
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  381. President John F. Kennedy was spot on. "For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people," -JFK
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  382. His mistake was listening to the establishment critters urging him to run in the first place. Most of his campaign staff are connected to the Veritas folks suing James O'Keefe.
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  383. I think that is Tim's point. The power mongers want him in Rikers so they can get him away from his detail. My question is, will the detail refuse to leave his side? Are they willing to follow through with Tim's scenario?
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  384. It's okay if they do it since the have the correct political affiliation. And if that didn't set off your BS alarm......
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  385. Seems like Google/Youtube doesn't like me pointing out the 16% bias towards democrat in the sampling.
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  386.  @princetigerbeatz9316  You make that much because the cost of living is astronomically higher in California. That isn't something to be proud of, that is just evidence that your labor isn't worth as much since everything costs more. You are playing a numbers game with monopoly money.
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  387. The audits are meaningless now that the horse is already out of the barn. The GOP NEVER does anything when they find irrefutable proof.
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  388. The Greens put them into this mess with their foolish policies on energy.
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  389.  @jeremysmith54565  Reminds me of the Monty Python skit from Holy Grail-Swamp castle. "I built a castle. It sank into the swamp. I built a second one, it also sank into the swamp. I built a third castle. It burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. I then built a fourth castle which you live in now."
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  390. @horace sheffield You seem to forget that John Kerry and Hillary Clinton also voted yes to go to war. Funny how you conveniently ignore war hawk Democrats and their culpability. Just proves you don't actually care about the facts, only about scoring cheap political points for your tribe.
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  391. It is a crime already, but as has been proven for a while now, the courts will not enforce it, nor will the police.
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  392. Sorry, my liver can't take that many. You would not need to embalm me with all of the alcohol that would be in my system already effectively doing the job.
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  393. @zachary Pinon Actually, he is correct. Stopping a pandemic is a medicine issue, not a peace issue. But then again, the Nobel committee is notorious for handing out the peace prize to war monger liberals and leftists.
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  394.  @squarerootof2  Trump was only in politics for 4 years. All of those name you listed were in for three times that much. I think you need to re-examine your definition of swamp.
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  395. Because they want to divide us to maintain their power. That is the end goal, to achieve power by dividing and conquering.
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  396. Indeed. You get the government you deserve. If these cities are burning, that is because they encouraged it by electing these activist DAs.
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  397. My father working for a defense contractor on military choppers was required to go through diversity training. He filed an EO complaint and the training disappeared as did the virtue signaling on the company's website. While his office no longer has those, it is clear the company is pandering to the hacks in government who are using the DoD to push social engineering programs.
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  398.  F AMERICA  Desperate, or realizing that the concern about NATO equipment falling into Russian hands is unlikely? And that threats about escalation to nuclear war is just empty rhetoric.
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  399. That is the goal. To disparage everything so that we are all miserable in their minimalist nihilistic worldview.
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  400. They didn't learn a damn thing for the ADIS epidemic.
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  401. Part of the problem is that she has always fancied herself as part of their liberal clique, back to when she was on Channel One News in the mid 90s. But I agree with you that I HOPE she realizes that they don't care about her, only that she agrees with them like a lemming.
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  402.  @irritatingtruth9121  Only those who fear the truth try and attack the credibility of the messenger rather than argue the merits. It is a sign of weakness and an act of desperation.
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  403. Sun Yat-Sen's Kuomintang unity government. More commonly remembered as Chaing Kai-Shek's nationalist Party.
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  404. Republicans are the same way as they don't do anything when the get power. Plague on BOTH their houses!
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  405. It would be great if the courts slapped them down by pointing out what they built their entire business on is effectively public domain.
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  406. Forgive me but what border dispute does Japan have with South Korea? If you are referring to the Dokodo/Takeshima dispute, that is a rather minor spat over a few rocks that barely rise above sea level at high tide. I do agree with most of your other points. Only observation I will make is that the rural areas of Japan are not particularly conducive to building large factors and the like. 75% of the country is steep mountainous terrain which is why the population is concentrated on the Kanto Plain around Tokyo as well as the other lowland metro areas.
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  407. Indeed. You perfectly described oligarchism. It has all the worst abuses of monopolies while paying lip service to the illusion of competition.
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  408. Not much different than Theresa May, if you think about it.
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  409. Samurai mentality.
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  410. Exactly!
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  411.  @schmetterlingsjaeger  Sure, benefit the rich trust fund kids who take out loans while destroying the savings of working class people. Tommy Jefferson was right, banking institutions are more dangerous than standing armies.
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  412. Indeed. Seth Rich was murdered, and not by some petty cutpurse.
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  413. These people crying "Racism!" and "Sexism!" have never heard the story of the boy who cried "WOLF!"
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  414.  @neutralevil1917  8 years for repairs is a LONG time to remain in dock.
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  415. The GOP is not and never has been conservative. They CONSTANTLY throw staunch conservatives under the bus to kiss up to the people that will never respect them. Stockholm Syndrome describes the relationship the GOP has with the DNC. it also describes the relationship conservatives have with the GOP.
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  416. The fact that women today pile on the makeup with a trowel should tell you something.
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  417. And yet he still doesn't know enough. His idealism is still blinding him to reality.
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  418. Indeed. Wait until they experience the "Peoples Commissariat Court" first hand. They WILL experience the horrors of the Russian Red Terrors first hand.
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  419. Yeah, at this point Timmy boy is regurgitating Kremlin talking points. He seems to think that Finland and Sweden don't have a choice in the matter. NATO didn't force the former Warsaw Pact nations to join the way the USSR did. He needs to stop listening to the Putin appologists.
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  420. I was stationed at Scott AFB with the 15th Weather Squadron and 618 Tanker Airlift Control Center in 2006-2009. I agree with you that there is WAY too much bloat at that base. Particularly with redundancies in the flag officers. Norton Swartz could have done the job of BOTH Transcom AND Air Mobility Command and eliminate about 1/4-1/2 of the staff officers.
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  421. I think I like that expression.
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  422. Good Wife, Wise mother. Yamato Nadeshiko. There is much about East Asia the west should emulate.
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  423. @Grim FPV Nice whataboutism. Classic communist response when you have no defense.
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  424. There is a reason why all societies that fully embraced this kind of deviant lifestyle collapsed. Peria, Greece, Rome, Song Dynasty China. It may not be the cause, but it is certainly the Swan Song of a society.
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  425.  @danilolabbate  Actually, his comment is on point. Chinese historically have been the great merchants of Asia, traveling between Dutch Indonesia, India, the Horn of Africa and parts unknown to trade goods. it is why the diaspora Chinese population has always been in better economic and financial status than mainland Chinese since the end of the conflict between the KMT and the CCP.
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  426.  @angelogarcia2189  Not entirely accurate. The DoD lost focus on what the mission was: to capture Bin Laden. Once that was achieved, all other considerations were secondary and nominally irrelevant.
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  427. Is this why the Red Government told people to stock up on food supplies?
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  428.  @Balthorium  And it should be an AGGRIVATING factor, not a mitigating factor.
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  429. Harold clearly supports power, not principle. If he really wants to uphold the integrity of the court, he should realize that the gag order should have been rescinded rather than enforced. The act of attempting to enforce it is what is discrediting the court, not Trump violating it.
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  430. He hasn't bothered to look into AOC's handlers, namely Saiket Chakrabarti. The man operates her like a marionette. Her speeches use the exact same vocal inflections and pregnant pauses that he uses in his speeches before the Justice Democrats.
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  431.  @MrBillkaz  For a guy who says he distrusts the news, he takes quite a bit of what they write at face value.
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  432. No joke, And he wore "controversial" as a badge of honor. If only more people would do the same, the left would lose its power.
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  433. The people who claimed "too big to fail" forget the old saying "the bigger they are, the harder they fall".
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  434. The "continent" is nothing new. It was exposed land during the last glaciation period when global ocean levels were much lower. The Graben itself is at least 83 million years old, with some of the rocks going back as far as 540 million years ago.
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  435. And that is precisely part of the reason why the Black Tuesday Stock Market crash occurred. Way too much short-selling on credit. Glass-Steagall Act was meant to put some safety measures on that kind of speculative trading, but Dodd-Frank obliterated them.
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  436. "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable," -President John F. Kennedy.
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  437. Indeed. There is a difference between a suntanned ranger and a blatantly blackfaced character.
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  438. Or a traditional East Asian woman.
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  439.  @strategery101  The money doesn't matter, it is about sending a message.
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  440. Yeah, he seems to forget that Georgia had petitioned to join NATO before the Russian invasion in 2008. There is some discussion that the whole reason for the insurgency in South Ossetia was to give Putin a pretext to prevent Georgian ascension. In the process of nuking the application (can't have border disputes), Putin got a mostly compliant client government in Tiblisi. Me thinks that Putin's success in Georgia encouraged him to act first in Crimea, then in Donbas as the DNR/LNR folks followed the exact same playbook as Ossetia.
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  441. And that picture was in 2014 under Obama. Notice how they left ALWAYS blames the other side for what it is they themselves have done?
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  442. Yeah, and they never should have trusted us. Once you have nukes, NEVER LET GO OF THEM.
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  443.  @mrjerzheel  And what have they done with that advantage? NOTHING! It is overblown and exaggerated. And with NATO equipment pouring in, that advantage is slipping through their fingers.
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  444.  @hofimastah  There is actually a better reason to explain her actions. She was a member of the East German Communist Youth League. Once you become aware of that, suddenly her actions to enslave Germany financially to Russia makes a lot more sense.
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  445. Helps that much of the material is a repeat from the previous video. But I do agree that it was great he got to it so quickly.
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  446.  @goblin6587  Pot meet kettle. You are projecting your own behaviors onto the people you disagree with.
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  447.  @maurice3464  SO? What is your point? They no longer have any legal claim to them. I am being charitable when i say we give them the cities. I would rather trade San Fransisco for Hong Kong and Los Angeles for Macau.
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  448. Cutting off one male member doesn't make them a woman. It makes them a gelding. Or a Stag, Steer, or Barrow. The historical term is eunuch. And eunuchs with power always destabilized the nation.
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  449. A self-identified communist. Why that man was ever given a security clearance is astounding.
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  450.  @genericscout5408  Between the Kursk disaster, the sinking of the Moskva, the Admiral Kusnezkov, and the detonation of the nuke in K-129's silo, Russia's nukes are in serious quesiton.
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  451. Yeah, nobody wants to talk about what scholars have known since antiquity: the strength of the nation comes from the integrity of the family as Confucius observed.
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  452.  @braddl9442  110 years? You realize child predators get much lighter punishment? How is that justice?
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  453. If they don't get violent when the government comes to kidnap their children, they deserve to lose. Defense of your family IS justified use of lethal force in almost every society and culture.
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  454.  @MyMomSaysImKeen  How about a countersuit for the unnecessary stress the "youth" put the clerk under? Your standard can go both ways, dude.
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  455. Jimmy Carter is now celebrating that he no longer holds the dubious distinction of being the worst president in US history.
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  456. There is a reason why more and more western men are looking to Asian women and Hispanic women for marriage partners. And that WILL make a major impact on demographics.
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  457.  @alexanderacosta8111  First, humans are who allows an innovation to succeed. Without support from a customer, innovations wither an die on the proverbial vine. So, yes, the analogy IS appropriate. And there have been plenty of sources that state 3% is actually on the high end, if you bother to look them up. But since Google/Youtube doesn't like links to outside sources, you have to go find them yourself. as my post will get deleted if I share it with you.
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  458.  @waltergro9102  The West does not have the authority nor authorization to trade the rights of Eastern Europe to Moscow. Why is it so hard for you to understand? Learn the lessons of the 1938 Munich Conference. YOU DON'T NEGOTIATE A NATION'S SOVERIGNTY AWAY. You don't get to abolish Czechoslovakia just to appease a tyrant. On further thought, such as "deal" would have to get unanimous approval from ALL members of NATO at the time it was proposed. That wasn't likely to happen and the fact that the Warsaw Past members WERE admitted into NATO by that very same unanimous approval is irrefutable proof that such a "deal" never had any legitimacy.
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  459.  @MrBorderlands123  Because we have a legal system that rewards prosecutions for pointless offenses such as purchasing alcohol on Sunday.
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  460. Which is all blowing smoke. NATO has not tested nukes since the 70s. Not even during Able Arch 83 did NATO test nukes, though they did simulate nuclear war.
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  461. The Arabs who call themselves Palestinian already HAVE a state. It is called Gaza. And what have they done with it since the IDF left in 2005?
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  462. Indeed. They pandered to this crowd, now they get to enjoy being consumed by it.
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  463.  @ChrisBa303  And you don't think they would not do that if they knew thar they were cornered and finished? You seriously underestimate the insanity of former Soviet-Russian leadership. Just look at the damage caused by the Russian army when they dug trenches around the Chernobyl plant in Prypiat at the start of the war.
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  464. Yeah, that scene always irked me. Dash could have been the team player by being the pacer for everyone. The person who was always just behind his fellow runners, encouraging them to go just a little faster. Seriously, some of the best run times are when you have a pacer helping you.
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  465.  @vedranvidov4890  What judge orders mandatory attendance to church? Unless you think that government indoctrination is a non-theistic religion.
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  466. If Gygax Jr. is smart, he will immediately put it into public domain so that nobody else can vandalize his father's legacy. That would in effect immortalize him in the gaming community.
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  467. The Trucker revolt gave me hope for Canada. Sadly, that was not followed up with escalation.
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  468. I think that is kind of the point. The Canadian convoy was the test run. Now they are doing it to an entire country's population. The entire West is next.
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  469. And Jamaican.
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  470.  @williamdavenport1687  America has become as much of a mockery of justice as Thailand. "What is the point of a nation surviving if its traditions don't survive along with it?" -President John F. Kennedy's Secrecy speech, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; April 27, 1961.
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  471. Yeah, hearing a lot of that in 2008 is what turned me off. The Wokeness was present even during the Obama years.
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  472.  @colinwinogradoff6794  Only in the minds of hyper partisans. The Trump economy was FAR better.
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  473. There are currently no term limits for Congress. If the presidency needs term limits, so does every other political office.
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  474. Indeed. If I was running a military intelligence network, you 60-year-old "eyes and ears" family member I would consider my greatest asset and would encourage him to NOT take any risks which would jeopardize him. Just listening into those sensitive conversations is dangerous enough.
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  475.  @josephrogers8213  I agree. Women SHOULD be drafted, and we should reactivate the WW2 WAVEs, WASPs, and WAACs. There is no reason why women can't staff the shore batteries.
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  476.  Dave Jones  Sadly I fear you are correct. The American Bolsheviks are going to make Soviet Russia under Stalin look pleasant by comparison.
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  477. The dumb things is, the game developers and programmers who embrace the end user mods generally tend to be more successful in the long run.
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  478.  @jimtalbott9535  How is Europe screwed if the US is not involved? Unless you are admitting that Europe DEPENDS on the US because they are incapable of defending themselves. In which case, they need a MAJOR attitude adjustment regarding their contempt for the US. No, France and Germany do have the ability to repel a Russian invasion without US intervention. Even Macron believes this which is why he wants Europe to be less reliant on the US for European defense.
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  479. The government still needs to be taken to court so as to prevent this from happening again. The defendants need to demand their cases go before court so as to set a precedent that any actions take without ratification are unlawful and those who do will be held accountable for their actions.
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  480.  @feoxorus  Then add to that, him wanting "all of historic Russia" would mean he wants Warsaw as well. Kind of like how the Austrian Painter wanted all of historic German Lands under the control of the Third Reich.
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  481. Accountability appears to be vengeance to the corrupt.
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  482. And they wonder why both Kirk and Shatner are effectively being canceled by Kurtzman's retconning of Star Trek. Can't have Rodenberry's Western chauvinist, Misogynist hero anymore. Woke Trek needs to go away.
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  483. Yeah, watched that one right after Overlord and Shield Hero. Love the situational humor involving Rem, Shera and now Klem.
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  484.  @davidrios-yx6xu  Equivocation like that shows you refuse to accept facts. Time for you to put down the sherry and sober up.
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  485.  @joebryniarski6698  When a number of precincts reported 120% of registered voter turnout, you know something is wrong.
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  486. The problem is that they will allow themselves to be fleeced again and again. They keep going back like an abused spouse. Sooner or later, one of them is going to end up dead.
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  487. Practically quoting Confucius right there. And it is absolutely correct.
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  488.  @7F0X7  Sure, as if every other prime minister in the world didn't want that as well. I at least give her credit for being brutally honest and sincere, unlike your patently dishonest ruling caste (neo-feudalist oligarchies) of Europe. I trust someone who is upfront about their authoritarian desires much more than I do the suave snake-oil salesman who pay lip service to empowerment then rob their constituents blind.
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  489.  @Teeurbo  That is doubtful. Keep in mind, the Chinese don't like the Uygurs whom share common cause with the Palestinians.
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  490. Yeah, he is a typical example of a crybully.
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  491. "Deserving ain't got nothing to do with it," -Clint Eastwood in "Unforgiven".
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  492.  @primmakinsofis614  Hope Japanese and Korean studios bury Tinseltown.
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  493. Good for them. I hope they continue to wisely leverage what they have to get out from under foreign creditors.
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  494. And proof positive that the mistakes of 1930s Germany can very much be repeated.
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  495.  @fangorn23  Writers in Hollywood or writers in general? For the former, I will list some that were good in their time but are held in contempt today by the wokistas. D.C. Fontana, J. Michael Straczynski, Brannon Braga, Joe Menosky, Kathryn M. Drennan just to name a few. And if you don't know them, well I think you revealed your own ignorance.
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  496. When "child protective services" come to kidnap their children, they NEED to get violent. Defending your children from government sanctioned kidnapping is justified use of force in almost every society.
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  497.  @Raximus3000  Indeed. They goaded us and they expect a different result. As many a villainous characters have said when they have had enough, "THEN LET ME BE EVIL!"
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  498. At this point that is the only smart option. The "courts" are shams no different that the show trials of the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, or the French Terrors.
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  499.  @waltergro9102  Yeah, again wishful thinking. That may be what the Kremin wanted, but it had no legal binding over NATO or the Warsaw Pact nations. Again, Russia doesn't get to dictate to the rest of Eastern Europe who they can and cannot enter into military agreements. That you keep trying to legitimize that autocratic, dictatorial, and tyrannical mindset show you don't care about self-determination and instead subscribe to "might makes right" of totalitarianism.
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  500. Why? That is like picking Hitler over Stalin. I agree with Poland: Hell with them both.
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  501. Which is why you never appease a mob. You answer them with a gun.
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  502.  @daysrcdays  I saw nothing of those verses in that "Bishop's" words. All I saw was Luke 11, Matthew 20 and Mark 12's warnings about the Woes of the Pharisees.
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  503. Because the leftists don't actually care about the workers. They just want power, and they will exploit the working class to get it.
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  504.  @evilLincoln713  Don't start that anti-Semitic crap. Israel is NOT pulling the strings. Biden and the American left HATES Israel and the Jews. Israel LOVED Trump. Why? Because since 1948 they have literally been fighting for their very existence. The Peace Trump was trying to implement would have secured Israel's continued existence. Biden and company would not shed a tear if Israel was wiped off the map.
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  505. Indeed. They are spitting in the face of LEGAL immigrants.
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  506. Immigration only works as a solution if assimilation is mandatory. Without assimilation, you get countries within a country which is what the Nordic countries are experiencing with their refugee/asylum populations or France and its Harams (Islamic no-go zones).
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  507.  @Morgamera  As Thomas Paine said about government is also true about the internet and technology: In its best form a necessary evil, but most often an intolerable evil.
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  508.  @kittybrowneye3163  "Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had." -Michael Crichton
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  509. August Landmesser. The irony is that he was once a member of the party but was kicked out because of his romantic relationship with a Jewish woman. Near the end of the war, he was part of a prisoner battalion in Croatia when he was believed to have been killed.
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  510.  @HorsemanExtreme  No it is not. Everything on Tiktok can be replicated on FB, Youtube, and Twitter.
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  511.  @thedstorm8922  Not at the time they were admitted. The dispute is a recent development encouraged by Erdogan and the Turkish Nationalists looking to deflect attention from the failing domestic policies.
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  512. Funny how the wokescolds don't understand how that actually works. Morgan Freeman is a big draw for movies NOT because he is a minority, but because he is a great actor. Same with Denzel Washington.
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  513. And that is where the Japanese are eating the American "entertainment industry's" lunch. They know the customer is more important than the message.
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  514. Or an overconfident smug snake about to get their comeuppance.
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  515. I would say Equal, BUT DIFFERENT. Men and women each have different strengths for different roles. Taken as a whole, we are equal, but we excel in different areas.
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  516. About the only person on the court worth of the title "Judge." He is the only one who can be held on the same level as Debora, Gideon, Ehud, and the rest.
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  517. Part of that has to do with the Paramount Ruling which deprived the studios of their theaters. After the ruling, there was no longer an incentive for the studios to produce high quality movies.
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  518. "By three ways we learn: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second is by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest," -Confucius, author of "The Analects".
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  519. And they will sufferer the same fate as those who said, "I was just doing my job!" at the Nuremberg trials.
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  520. Exactly. They have serious underlying issue they refuse to address and so hide it with this flamboyance.
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  521.  @elizabethlacky6068  Jameca Kamala was in Philadelphia as well. That they were both in the same state as Trump is no coincidence (which is NOT a Kosher word, BTW).
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  522.  @bloodybill61  Nuremberg trials. These cops need to be incarcerated themselves when it is all over.
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  523.  @dabombdawg3033  Wow, much anger over something you pretend to be knowledgeable but have only a Dilettante's level of understanding. For one, High Latin is still used in Catholic services, though it isn't conversational Latin. "Vulgar" Latin is still in use today as Romance Languages such as Italian, Spanish, and French. And look up the process of Anglicizing word. Placing an "X" on the end to denote feminine is a textbook example of such white washing.
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  524.  @alexmanzanares200  So guilt by association? (logical fallacy) Stalin and Mao love people like you who think that way. Incidentally, she PANDERED to that crowd by making Dumbledore gay. The claims about her now are no different than the accusations leveled against an apostate.
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  525. Agreed. Part of the problem is that Google's friends in the "finance industry" purposely deny loans and banking services to alternatives.
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  526. Indeed. Propaganda wars are meaningless without actual boots on the ground and guns to enforce it. That is where he misses the boat.
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  527. Because some people are part of a cult and refuse to see what they have become. Banality of Evil.
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  528.  @ArchonLicht  I do. Inflation is when the cost of bread or milk next week is 25-50% more expensive than it is today. Yes, I saw that crap in Guatemala and Chile in the 90s. We are very much on that path.
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  529. Yeah, but it means there is now a new World War One Bonus Army. Between Obama and Bite-Me, there is now a "citizen army" to challenge an unlawful government.
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  530. They always do. Got to protect the people who finance their campaigns and keep them in power.
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  531. It isn't a bug, it is a feature. "That which governs the best, governs the least"
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  532. Just like the old Soviet Union. Or Mao's China. Or the Khmer Rouge.
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  533. Oath breakers like his commanders need to be dealt with as ACTUAL traitors to the Constitution deserve. Your son is a true patriot, and I as a fellow vet salute him for doing what is right and refusing an unlawful order.
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  534. Probably hiding in the same place when the EPA botched the Gold King Mine spill.
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  535. Let us be honest, it was Kid Rock who made this go viral. And his fellow country music singers also stepping up to endorse the boycott further gave it the credibility to be effective. What a sad state that Kid Rock is better at messaging that conservative political strategists.
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  536. Dude, I LOVE the cut of your jib! Keep it up brother!
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  537.  @fraserfir19  "That which governs the least governs the best," -Henry David Thoreau "The lightest hand shall rule the land," -English proverb on governance.
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  538. It is said that serial killers often get their start butchering neighborhood pets. Now consider the ramifications when the government starts repeating that kind of behavior.
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  539. They think a blue collar worker such as an electrician, plumber, or auto mechanic is beneath them not realizing that not only can he bring in a good living and had little debt, the two of them can be quite the power team. That is assuming she has an engineering or hard science degree(physics, chemistry, etc.).
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  540. Indeed. The cultists can't stand when the "true followers" speak up about the blasphemies to canon which pervert and destroy the franchise. To dare question "the orthodoxy" is to be punished in an inquisition.
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  541. Like the old saying goes, fences make for better neighbors. When you respect private property rights, people get along so much better.
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  542.  @TimeFadesMemoryLasts  BARELY capitalist. More like corporate oligarchies not much different in practice than classic feudalism. And in practice, socialism is feudalism under a different name.
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  543. Good assessment. Atrophy is an excellent description for what has happened to his brain.
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  544.  @austintracey9368  I will believe the French are back on track when they restore the Statute of the Marquis de Lafayette back in a place of honor and prominence. He was the last great Frenchman and his legacy had been vandalized by those who cannot accept his flaws along side his greatness.
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  545. Agreed. They pandered to these people and now they deserve what is coming at them. There is no negotiating with fanatics and zzealots.
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  546. I think that is actually more health that the "experts" claim. So long as you are able to know that it is all in your head and not actually "see" the person you are talking to, you should be fine. As soon as the person manifests, yeah, that is the time to seek professional help.
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  547. A company in its death throws can take time to finally expire. How long did it take Conseco to finally close its doors?
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  548. Indeed. The bombs were basically telling them that their death would be meaningless. For a warrior culture, that is the ultimate nightmare, scarier than to die as an old man in their bed.
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  549. Indeed. If it goes belly up so quickly that has to be grounds for a fraud and securities legal case. And that the Twitter board should be held financially responsible and force to pay.
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  550. I would LOVE to see the courts tell the copyright holders to "use it or lose it". Force them to either own the "troublesome" IP or force them to give it up to public domain.
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  551.  @freedomnow8906  Then find better friends. If they hate you for who you are, then they were never really your friends.
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  552. Indeed. The Priemer of a country and the Party Secretary are not always the same. And there is still debate as to which one actually holds greater power. When the two offices are held by the same person, the question is moot.
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  553. And I am glad you have the self-awareness to realize the futility of Charles Manson's "Helter Skelter" race war. Realistically, NOBODY wins except for the buzzard, jackals, and other carrion eaters. I will more folks would learn the wisdom you have shown.
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  554.  @reginakeogh3776  Why not both!
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  555. More than that, buyer's remorse and those voters are getting a mulligan.
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  556. Californication.
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  557. Except, the Truth is impartial. Those people who say "my truth" are gaslighting. Don't play into their hands by using their false terminology.
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  558.  @Oceanleighside  In practice, the Soviets and the Nazis were not that much different, which is why the Molotov-Ribbentrop alliance was even possible. The difference between the two is that the Soviets would eliminate an entire village to kill their target while the Nazis would simply round up individuals and separate them out. "Equal Opportunity Mass Murderers" as opposed to "discriminatory mass murderers".
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  559. His guilt is not what is at issue. What IS at issue is the length of prison time. Commit child predation gets a much lighter punishment than this guy did.
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  560.  @LegoGirl1990  And the Feminists wonder why American men more and more prefer to marry foreign born women.
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  561. Modern day Marie Antoinette
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  562. Wow, you calling your fellow citizens, many of who have also worn the uniform shows how hollow your claims of military service are. MANY active duty servicemen would make the claim that your own words mark you as guilty of the very crimes you accuse them of engaging. ANd you clearly ignored the part where Putin's mouthpieces acknowledge that he is no friend, much less ally of Russia.
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  563.  @nid-jk2vx  I don't disagree that the US had made bad choices with regards to Pakistan. But if you are not willing to bury the past, then it WILL come back to hurt you in the future.
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  564. Harry is too stupid to be a grifter. A smart move would have been to marry one of the Mikasa princesses of Japan (either Yuko or Akiko) or one of the Thai princesses.
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  565. The problem with government shutdowns is the back pay when they end. Essentially, they all get a paid vacation on taxpayer dime.
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  566.  jcorb  Yeah, the Reconciliation process is a joke. It basically subverts the Constitutional process in favor of a back door method. The courts SHOULD rule bills passed through that process NOT prescribed by Article 1 of the Constitution as unconstitutional and dead-on arrival.
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  567. And some of these munitions are lock on jam, meaning that they go after the source of the jamming.
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  568. That was very much a performance, and it was not very good.
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  569. Oh, there WAS testing. the US DoD had quite a bit of it, but the data was ignored by the politicians (ie Obama and company) who wanted to sell off the frequency ranges to the highest bidder.
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  570. Good for nothing Murdock sons want Fox to be another MSNBC. Rupert should have put Wendy Deng in charge, not them. She was a Taiwan/Hong Kong media mogul after all.
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  571.  @zilari3662  Actually, as an American, i trust the Japanese with Nukes. They know firsthand the cost of engaging in a nuclear arms exchange and so I have every faith that they would not cross that bridge unless their existential existence is on the line. WW2 showed that while the US COULD wipe the Japanese off the map, we did not once they laid down their arms. Indeed, the US was VERY magnanimous in victory, much to the shock and surprise of the Japanese who were told we would devastate the country during the short occupation. so long as they harbor no ill will towards the US, that existential threat that might trigger a nuclear armed Japan would never be crossed by the US. Hence, the US would see no threat from Japan having nukes.
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  572. Well, he also wears facial hair which makes him look older and more distinguished.
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  573. There is still question surrounding improprieties in the Polish Elections. Perhaps a foreshadowing of what is coming?
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  574. I am all for the humiliation conga line.
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  575. The problem is that with both of those options the Arabs who call themselves Palestinian refuse to accept them. For the one state, there actually ARE Arab Muslims who are part of the Knesset. But they refuse to work with anyone, and the ONLY time they joined a coalition was to oust Bibi Netanyahu. For the two-state option, they already have the Gaza Strip and there was SOME progress towards making part of the West bank another self-governing area much like Bangladeshi after the first Inda-Pakistani War. But as usual, the Palestinians refuse to accept Israel's right to exist and violated their promises to renounce violence.
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  576. People hate the smug snake, and she gave that impression with her behavior.
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  577. As I recall there was a line in the Torah about making children walk through the fires of Moloch in the valley of Gehenna. Your example is the modern version of that.
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  578. They also want to punish people who had nothing to do with slavery. They conveniently ignore the Irish slaves sent to the new world.
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  579.  @ashflame6888  Hurling insults is not an argument, it is a logical fallacy called ad homin. It is also an act of desperation because it means you have no valid augment. Thank you for tacitly admitting that I am right. "I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” -Margaret Thatcher, UK's Iron Lady.
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  580. I am all for an actor or actress keeping their politics to themselves. People don't want to watch a movie if they know the lead actor or actress is going to propagandize and scold them. We don't pay them for their political opinions.
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  581. Not much different than the Aztecs, aren't they?
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  582.  @ostravamasterson4178  They many not reach the judge, but they may get the jury. In which the judge better damn well vacate an unsubstantiated guilty verdict.
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  583.  @victoriatreacy4626  I never took the jab, and neither did many of my friends. The problem is that people like you don't want to acknowledge that there IS a correlation between vaccinated and unvaccinated based on political leanings. And the implications of that would bust wide open the lies of the media and big pharma.
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  584. The United States is a REPUBLIC, not a democracy. "Republics decline into democracies, and democracies invariably degenerate into despotisms," -Alexander Fraiser Tytler. "Democracies ALWAYS elect a dictator," -Aristotle.
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  585. She embarrasses Asians everywhere.
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  586. It would have been even better had the ending song been "Puff the Magic Dragon" as Andy walked away. Woody metaphorically becoming Puff while Andy becomes Jackie Paper. "A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys Painted wings and giant's rings make way for other toys One gray night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more And Puff, that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane WITHOUT HIS LIFELONG FRIEND, PUFF COULD NOT BE BRAVE So Puff, that mighty dragon, sadly slipped into his cave," -Third verse of "Puff the Magic Dragon" by Peter, Paul and Mary.
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  587. I agree. Make them take their own vile medicine.
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  588.  @markpostgate2551  And I think that may hold the key. Playing nasty character, they can more easily identify sociopathic behaviors (along with the other dark triad, Narcissism and Machiavellianism). Because they can better identify those behaviors, they can avoid them.
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  589.  @hollywoodpineapple8337  As Mark Twain said, it is easier to lie to someone than to convince them they have been lied to.
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  590. "Honorary whites" as the racists of old used to say about the Japanese.
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  591. Indeed. Why does it HAVE to be one country? Why can it not partition down into smaller independent states? Why does San Marino, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, and Andorra get to be independent nations, but the small areas of Bosnia do not?
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  592. Arguably a win all around. Except for Putin.
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  593. States cannot violate the Federal Constitution and this case very much violated the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th amendments.
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  594. Jan 6th was the American equivalent of the Reichstag Fire; an excuse for the totalitarians in government to consolidate power and violate civil rights.
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  595. @Thanos Dione The Commies and the Nazis were two sides of the same coin. The Bolshevicks were just as anti-Semitic. The difference is that they would annihilate the entire village while the Nazis simply rounded up the Jews. Pasha: The private life is dead - for a man with any manhood. Zhivago: I saw some of your 'manhood' on the way at a place called Minsk. Pasha: They were selling horses to the Whites. Zhivago: It seems you've burnt the wrong village. Pasha: They always say that, and what does it matter? A village betrays us, a village is burned. The point's made. Zhivago: Your point - their village.
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  596.  @xendordawnburst9969  What property was destroyed? The police are who took the barricades down.
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  597. I suspect that trying to make them remain one unified country is also a part of the dysfunction. If the Serbia majority areas want to be annexed by Serbia, let them. If the Croat dominated areas want to be a part of Croatia, let them. And let the Bosnian Muslim areas be their own independent states if they so choose. This idea that it has to be one nation is based on 18th century chauvinism.
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  598. Don't forget them glorifying the grooming of little girls.
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  599. @paul sharon Confession through projection. Everything you accuse Trump of doing, you are guilty of doing.
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  600. Just because the Judge points out that those seized documents are fruit of the poisoned tree. Just because you disagree with the judge? It is people like you that result in Banana Republics that we mocked.
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  601.  @SaberInferno  Then you are regarding your abusers. There are a few words for that, one of which is called "Stockholm Syndrome". I take the mantra of Christian Bale's Batman: "I won't kill you, but I don't have to save you."
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  602. Twitter disappearing into the memory hole that it throws everyone else is the best karma.
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  603.  @michaelhill8441  According to whom? The shills in the media? You realize they used sampling bias and leading or loaded questions to generate a predetermined result?
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  604. Indeed. It is as if people have already forgotten about the Islamic Terrorist Attack on the Moscow Subway in 2010.
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  605.  @danielcraig9666  My wife never wore makeup either. I have always preferred the natural beauty. Blemishes give character.
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  606.  @1defowning  You don't even know what apartheid means, simply regurgitating on cue like Palvov's Dog.
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  607.  @jacob4920  Indeed. Cycles of inflation and defilation. What the so-called "experts" fail to address is that the deflationary periods is the system self-correcting for the artificial and excessive inflation. Basically, the larger the inflationary policies by market manipulators, the bigger the deflationary correction becomes.
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  608. Indeed. intoxication should be an AGGRIVATING rather than mitigating factor.
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  609. Timmy seems to forget that the SCOTUS has upheld Title 9 guaranteeing women their own division. The problem is that people are not enforcing the laws on the books. These sports programs that are allowing trans in women's competitions need to lose their Title 9 funding.
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  610. That slogan outlived its usefulness. They never actually believed it, it was merely a tool for them to control people.
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  611. People like Donny boy have never been accused of being self-aware.
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  612. Because they keep stalling for time. It is like a person at a restaurant who has forgotten his credit card, so he keeps ordering more food to avoid having the bill brought out. Sooner or later, the restaurant is going to close.
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  613. French used to be the language of the English court before the British Royals were kicked out of Normandy.
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  614. I guess that means Alec Baldwin now has the second confirmed kill on the war on women, after Mr Chappaquiddick Ted Kennedy.
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  615. Spiritual emptiness. When you have no faith sustaining you, in order to chase away the nihilism and depression, people chase after material things such as wealth or products. It is a sickness of the soul that only existential purpose can heal. Faith or spiritualism gives that purpose and mana to feel the soul.
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  616. Indeed. When the hayloft is on fire, the only thing you can do is grab a beer and some brauts. And maybe some marshmallows for s'mores because there is nothing you can do to save the barn.
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  617.  @ADCFproductions  Actually, we already had one built in Nevada: Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository. It was suppose to come online and accept its first shipment of waste in 1998. But Dingy Harry Reid along with Dan Coats killed it. Fortunately, Trump has reactivated it. A little side note, most nuclear waste in the West is stored on site at the plant. Fukushima's leak was mostly from those storage pools. Why is this important? Before Yucca Mountain was closed, the Japanese were going to pay us to store their waste. The leak from Fukushima would not have been as severe if Harry Reid and Dan Coats had not killed the storage facility.
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  618.  @kristiansandsmark2048  Considering that they are unaccountable and unelected, that means they are answerable to nobody but themselves, no different than a dictatorship. Until those agencies are punished for their failures, we will continue to be plagued by incompetence and corruption.
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  619.  @janieb34  Full disclosure, my wife is Chinese-Indonesian so my two biological son are "Hapas" just like Timmy Pool. Yes, they claim that only the majority can be racist, but as soon as whites (who are NOT monolithic, just ask the Teutonics and Slavs how they feel about each other) are a plurality, they will change the meaning again so as to continue their racist polices against "undesirables". Ethno-nationalism is a LEFT WING ideology, not right. There is a reason why it goes hand in hand with anti-colonial ultra-nationalist movements.
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  620. We used to have state mental hospitals for this behavior.
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  621. You are still thinking of it from a Western market base philosophy. Yes, China wants a market, but you are foolish if you think they care about the workforce in Africa. There is a reason why many countries have ended their contracts with China and have banned the importation of any goods. When the Chinese flood local African economies with goods, it bankrupts local businesses INCREASING unemployment. The infrastructure projects actually do very little to jumpstart and economy, merely facilitate an already existing one. And most of the ones China builds is so it is easier to extract resources from those countries and transport them to ports to be shipped to China.
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  622. I would gladly trade the woke feudal masters for Japanese Samurai Feudal masters. At least the Japanes take pride in their culture, unlike the woke scolds who hate their own society and culture.
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  623. "Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent." -Freeman Dyson.
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  624.  @FerrowTheFox  Yeah, it is as if Cameron has never head of the Tungsten-Carbide "Rods from God".
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  625. Indeed. Lodos War, Alternity, and several other systems were created in response to threats of legal action by the owners of D&D (before Hasbro).
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  626. Same with Song Dynasty China before it was conquered by the Mongolians.
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  627. Can't trust those on active duty; they are the mindless automatons for the corrupt government. It will take the "Bonus Army" of retired and honorably separated that Biden and Obama created when they engaged in a Stalinist purge of the military.
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  628. The irony is, only a few days ago he was calling Occasional-Cortex an establishment shill. So is she a hard leftist or an establishment critter? He needs to get his story straight.
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  629. Indeed. I hope Japan's anime studios bury the zombified mouse.
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  630. "Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin good forces have invented or made” -J.R.R. Tolkien
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  631.  JblueT  Depends on whom you talk to. Most Venezuelans have had enough of it. As has have most Cuban expats. And there is a sizeable Chinese diaspora who want nothing to do with it. Then let us not forget the Vietnamese and Cambodian boat people.
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  632.  @COMICSandpoetry  He is certainly guilty of crimes against humanity. Developing bioweapons and testing experiential medicine on unwilling subjects. The man needs a first-class neck stretching.
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  633. His example of capitalism is better described a corporatist-oligarchism. It only exists because government protects the aristocracy. In a pure laissez-faire which he criticizes, the elites would not stay on top long unless they are innovative and creative. That means the old money corruption would not last long as they don't have the force of government (ie authoritarianism) propping them up.
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  634. Fourth Reich indeed. A Neo-Soviet Reich.
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  635.  @TheTonyTitan  Or Brazil and its favela slums. Right next door to fancy high-rise condos, no less.
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  636.  @newguy3588  The details didn't come out until after the fall, but rumors almost immediately swirled in the aftermath of Able Archer 83 which occurred only weeks after that event. Timmy boy, however, confuses TWO nuclear close calls. The Sub incident was during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Interestingly, the ADMIRAL who refused to fire the nuclear torpedoes was the same man whom Liam Neison played in the movie "K-19 The Widowmaker". I guess his time on the sub the Soviets called "Hiroshima" convinced him NOT to ever use nukes.
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  637. Good. Kadokawa is filling a vacuum left by the bankruptcy of ideas, creativity, and originality in Hollyweird. That Fantasy Isekai has succeeded where Amazon's Rings of Power has failed tells you volumes.
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  638. She never really changed from her time as Hanoi's favorite American, posing for propaganda on an anti-aircraft gun.
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  639.  @bryanmanuel4945  I tend to agree. She pandered to this crowd with the whole "Dumbledore is gay" garbage. And she is surprised they turned on her? There is no compromising with fanatics and zealots.
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  640. And as only the US and Russia have the sole two samples, that makes this at a minimum and insider operation and possibly a government backed act of bioterrorism.
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  641. Marriage historically has ALWAYS been an institution of religion, one that governments have chosen to recognize with regards to taxation and inheritance of property. The problem is that government is now dictating to religious organizations what constitutes marriage in violation of the 1st amendment. Also, Justice Thomas is married to a white woman and so is in an interracial marriage. It shows how tone deaf the left is that they think he would vote to overturn Loving vs. Virginia and hence vote to annul his own marriage.
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  642. Don't forget that they consider Japanese to be "honorary white".
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  643.  @arutka2000  Indeed. People seem to forget how quickly the Japanese initially built up their military power. And the speed of the post war rebuilding further drives home your point.
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  644. But The CCP won't allow it to be sold. Bitedance has veto power and has made it clear they will use that veto over any attempts to buy it.
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  645.  @enelhorno2024  Yeah, that is where Jeremy is being dishonest. Ethnic Chinese are NOT Muslim despite Islam being brought to that part of the world by Chinese merchants. Whether in Maylasia or Indonesia, there is MUCH strife between the Chinese and the Muslim populations.
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  646.  @petercullen1624  Woe of the Pharisees. Read Mark chapter 12, Matthew Chapter 20, and Luke Chapter 11.
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  647. Nuremberg Trials for Judges Lawyers. We need that here in this day.
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  648. The problem is that intuitions established to manage humanity often become more concerned with perpetuating its power and maintaining that power rather than adapting to the needs of those it is meant to manage. This manifests in corruption and graft combined with nepotism to make a once efficient system grossly inefficient by rewarding vanity rather than merit.
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  649.  @jdw-616  Hypersonic gliders? Now you are just engaging in word salad to try and sound smart. Oh, and the patriot batteries sent to Ukraine shot down the Kinzhal missiles, so the threat of hypersonic weapons is overblown.
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  650.  @JohnCena-ce5sp  The Geneva Conventions also forbids the use of hospitals and schools as military munitions dumps, yet you are oddly silent about Hamas and Hezbollah blatantly violating that. Stop picking and choosing which articles to enforce. It is either ALL or none.
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  651. That is the point. She was an apostate to their non-theistic religion and has to have a "fatwa" issued against her. Little did they realize that people would not respond the way they expected.
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  652. @It Hurts Because It's True The problem is that the courts are stacked in favor of those with power and money. Just look at the recent refusal to hear any of the election cases for supposed lack of standing.
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  653.  @b12n23  Whataboutism is a typical response of someone who can't refute the point. Zelensky is actually holding his ministers to account. Putin isn't. But keep making excuses, your copium is music to my ears.
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  654.  @martin_9774  I think you grossly underestimate the intelligence of the audience. It is pretty hard to NOT understand the iconography they chose to use. You excuse only works on sheep herders in Afghanistan or rice farmers in North Korea. The entire Western World and much of the Global South know exactly what they were doing.
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  655.  @Cupid-Stunt  Those with irrational hate. When presented with the cold hard facts, the scream "racist!"
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  656. It is the 90s "Satanic Panic" all over again.
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  657.  @godiswatching9501  You are making the exact same augment as those who were put on Trial at Nuremberg. Sorry, soldiers have an obligation to disobey unlawful orders, particularly ones that constitute crimes against humanity.
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  658. You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to fight your way out of it.
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  659. Or put down rabid dogs. There is a reason why you put to death serial killers. It isn't for justice; it is to prevent them from continuing their killing spree.
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  660. Hence why the Baltic states so quickly clamored to join NATO. Even the Latvian foreign minister has come out and said they would have been invaded and recolonized by Russia if not for NATO ascension.
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  661. No joke. Justice Roberts and ACB are both just as liberal and big government hacks as the "Wise Latina" Sotomayor and Kagan. Hell, at this point Justice Breyer is more conservative than them, and that says a lot. Kavanuagh and Gorsuch are extremely squishy. The ONLY real conservative on the court is Justice Thomas, an irony at that.
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  662. If the Serbians in Bosnia want to be annexed by Serbia, let them. If the Croats in Bosnia want to be annexed by Croatia, let them. And allow the Bosnian Muslims to live in their own independent nation-states just like San Marino, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, and Andorra.
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  663. Sowell is the Ehud of our time, dispensing wisdom as sharp as a double-sided blade.
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  664. What is the difference between organized crime syndicates and government? Not much. Narco States are how cartels become governments.
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  665. Hence why the international law on war stipulates that you do NOT execute or mistreat prisoners.
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  666. These children forgot the warnings of Shakespeare's play "Julius Caesar" which is mandatory reading in high school. Particularly Mark Anthony's "Cry Havoc!" Monologue.
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  667. @The Purge Post Election Year They have. It did not work. Intercity NEVER votes Republican, to the order of 90% of votes cast there are for the Democrat. There is a reason why they are called "modern plantations".
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  668.  @TheGlock30owner  As I recall, BOTH his parents are Vietnamese. But since there is quite a bit of French admixture in the Vietnamese population, as far as the wokescolds are concerned, that makes them "honorary whites". Yeah, I think a certain other racial purity group used that kind of language in the 1920s and 30s before the sneak attack on Pearl Harbour.
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  669. Nuremberg Trial for Judges. We need them here.
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  670.  @jamestinsman1603  "still love you and hope you can come to this realization" Spare us your false compassion. It is as empty as the rhetoric of the left. There is NOTHING hypocritical about holding people to their own standards.
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  671.  @Charlie0l9  Ah yes, the infamous Molotov "bread baskets". The Finns answered with cocktails.
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  672. No joke. The Flintlock was the M-16 or AK-47 of its day; the regularly issue firearm of standing militaries. Our founders WANTED the people to have access to the same weapons as standing armies.
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  673. There is very little love lost between the Japanese and Koreans. Remember the 2013 earthquake? There were many Koreans cheering about that. When the South Korean government offered to send search and rescue K-9s, the blowback from the Korean population caused them to rescind the offer. Why the anger? 35 years of brutal occupation is hard for them to forget. Their grandparents remind them of the horrors they lived through.
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  674.  @strategery101  Indeed. That is how the German Socialist Worker's party came to power: because people of good conscience kept silent.
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  675. It's called Califnornication.
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  676. Or Charles Mason. But then again, I think that is their goal; to provoke a Helters-Skelter race war.
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  677. Trump's quip reminds me of the one Winston Chruchill said. "Bessie, you are ugly. But tomorrow I will be sober, and you will still be ugly.”
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  678. Agreed, this is just genital mutilation. They made a big deal about it occurring in the middle east during the 90s but now are all for it in the west under a different reason.
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  679. Tim, My father and I are looking at the electoral data for West Virginia and I can tell you that the state splits 65% GOP, 31% Democrat, and only 2% Libertarian. I would love to give your organization a presentation on this. We are NOT affiliated with any campaign or candidate. This effort is mostly a result of my failed 2014 Congressional run and we want to share this knowledge as widely as possible.
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  680.  @userelle12  Yeah, would not surprise me that they are doing the bidding of the Korean Government who doesn't want the uncomfortable questions about that wall coming out.
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  681.  @ArawnOfAnnwn  Source for your claims? Where is your data to back up what you say? Yet again you are making extraordinary declarations which require extraordinary evidence (Sagan Standard). All I am hearing from you is NOT independent data but regurgitated Kremlin arguments.
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  682. Same here. The Korean Tiger is not to be taken lightly. I for one welcome the competition.
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  683.  @PatriotsW710  Situation on the ground proves otherwise, Negative Nancy.
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  684. Like the snake that eats its own tail. They never learn.
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  685. "Shots heard round the world" as was said so many years ago.
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  686. Second question, not necessarily. Remember, that area expose would be muddy lake bottom.
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  687. And the Romans "appropriated" it from the Greeks. There is very little originality in the world; everyone copies from everyone else.
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  688. Fort Leavenworth, "breaking big rocks into little rock and little rocks into tiny rocks" as they said at Basic Training.
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  689. @ The girls? Probably not. Yuko is going deaf. Aikiko's asthma has gotten worse. And poor Princess Bajrakitiyabha of Thailand has been in a coma since 2022. They all have enough on their plate to deal with his sorry bum.
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  690. I am in complete agreement about Miss Nova. A well written character. They should have picked one or two of the highest rated episodes of that series and made the movie plot based on that. Hell, most of the script would already have been written!
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  691. Probably a better movie anyhow. Love Antionio Banderas.
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  692. EXACTLY! This was all by design. They PURPOSLY caused both the sub-prime and now this debacle.
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  693. No joke. The rise of third and fourth wave feminism has created a group of entitled females (rather than women) who think they don't need men, or the men should be subservient to them. The irony is, this has actually contributed to the rise of white men marrying non-white women as well as Hispanic women. Indeed, since the landmark case, Loving vs. Virginia, the increase in interracial marriage has been largely due to white men marrying outside their race/culture.
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  694. And yet he was also correct about Europe's over dependence on Russian Energy. He was also correct about the economic woes if the Democrats took back power. You underestimate the man at your own peril.
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  695.  @Zanroff  The South wanted a "peaceful divorce" in 1861. How did that work out? As Wiliam Sherman warned, the North would never let the union come apart without a fight. The same is true today.
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  696.  @Homer-OJ-Simpson  That tends to happen in time of war. It's hard on the furniture, and hard on the people.
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  697. Indeed. They trusted Russia to keep the Budapest Memorandum and so don't want to see a repeat of it violated again.
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  698.  @HerculesBallsInc  Actually, you CAN have both justice an mercy, but the people who advocate for one, often do so at the expense of the other. Justice becomes meaningless if mercy is shown on those who will continue to revel in their actions which will cause more harm. Mercy is wasted and worthless should the guilty not show remorse or contrition. Genuine regret for the harm caused on the part of the guilty allows for justice to give mercy knowing that self-corrective action is already in progress.
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  699. Just like they were lying about the masks at the beginning of the Wuhan Virus hysteria. I hope you are correct that this forces the people to act.
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  700. Love Jeremy from Geeks and Gamers. The man was not afraid to call the crap out for what it was at the start. Long live the "Fandom Menace"!
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  701. I am tail end of Gen X and I am struggling to even start a career after serving in the USAF. The Military didn't do jack for me as far as making me employable out of uniform.
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  702.  @johnb6749  The problem is that mass tank engagements were never how the system was supposed to be used. Even Heinz Guderian said that they were supposed to ALWAYS be supported by infantry.
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  703. Sad when the Unabomber makes more sense than the people in power.
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  704.  @fraserfir19  While I suspect that is true, it is almost statistically impossible to get higher than 77% in any genuine survey or election.
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  705. They should still hold his feet to the fire. Don't let the matter drop just because he retracted it.
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  706. I agree. People are simply using children as hostages to get you to comply. Refuse to let them do that. Do NOT let them use innocent bystanders as an excuse to muzzle you.
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  707. The Russian invasion of South Ossetia shares many similarities to Russian actions in the Donbas. Considering that Georgia had applied for NATO ascension before the invasion, it makes you wonder.
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  708.  @superchuck3259  I'm not sure he is necessarily a "traitor to the rich". In the classic "old money vs. new money" , he certainly fits the mold of a Nouveau Riche(meant as an insult, but could be a badge of honor, think unsinkable Molly Brown). And yes, those who subscribe to "Der Wille zur Macth" (the will to power), cling to it like a man hanging over a cliff. Power is a drug more addictive than Heroin. The analogy of Gollum and the Ring of Power is apt.
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  709.  YouTubeDweller8008  Agreed. Don't save these people from their bad choices. As Bruce Wayne said to Rau'Gul in Batman Begins, "I won't kill you, but I do NOT have to save you."
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  710. Streisand effect.
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  711.  @alexanderdeclercq982  Then why was Shoigu given a MORE important position within Putin's inner circle?
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  712. The problem is that the IAU's definition is not based on actual science. The part about clearing the orbit is based on a since disproven theory of gravity only mentioned in single 1802 publication. Dr. Philip J. Metzger (Ph.D.) of the University of Central Florida has done a deep dive to find the source of the IAU's criteria and found it lacking. Further, he points out that Gallello called the four celestial bodies around Jupiter "the planets of Jupiter". Further, he demonstrated that Pluto around a red dwarf like Proxima Centauri would fit the criteria, but if you put Jupiter around a large star like Sirius or Vega, it would NOT pass those criteria.
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  713. @ Fredrich Nietzsche complained about that. "The worst readers behave like plundering troops: they carry off the few things they can use, dirty and confound the rest, AND REVILE THE WHOLE."
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  714. I tend to agree. It reinforced some really bad stereotypes about gamers, geeks, and nerds. Sure, it may have made it "cool" and "mainstream", but it only helped to maintain the false perceptions of the community.
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  715.  @thatisme3thatisme38  Their "Self Defense Force" is neutered by their Constitution. They got a lot of flak for simply providing air refueling support out of Diego Garcia for allied operations in Afghanistan. Much like the Taiwanese military, the JSDF does NOT have the actual combat experience to say they can effectively wage war. In that regard, the South Korean military has a leg up over Japan considering all of the skirmishes that have taken place across the DMZ.
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  716.  @workoncruiseship  She probably married the hockeyplayer and got a green card.
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  717. THe problem is that Wall Street OWNS the southern District of New York courts. The case will not go anywhere. Which means the people then need to occupy the courts just like Shay's Rebellion did.
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  718. Alexander the Great's mentor was spot on with regards to his observations on government. Seems that studying people is not much different than studying the planets and stars.
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  719. It has been almost a year since the Kakhovka Dam was destroyed. That action allowed Russia to move its forces covering the Dnipor River in Kherson to reinforce the Zaporizhian line in anticipation of the Ukrainian offensive. The Ukrainians have managed to establish a foothold on the southeast side of the river since then. My question is how has that front changed since then? Could the Ukrainians execute an amphibious operation and push towards Crimea?
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  720. The problem is that New Mexico's governor will keep their part open. As will Arizona and California. The problem will simply shift West, though many of the illegal aliens will simply flood into Texas from the West rather than from the south.
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  721. The sooner the better. This needs to happen or the right and the GOP will NEVER act.
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  722. Good, let the House of Spud (Mr. Potato Head) burn to the ground along with the House of Mouse.
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  723. Because these two have never had one. Anyone who says they have had one and want another are lying through their teeth. The experience is PAINFUL.
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  724. Indeed. Follow the money and you understand 90% of the motivation.
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  725.  @sebastianflynn1746  Doesn't matter if YOU think it is credible or not, it is what the AUDIENCE they are targeting thinks. "Those who can get you to believer absurdities can make you commit atrocities," -Voltaire.
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  726.  @TBC256  Diversity of OPINION, not diversity of race/gender/ethnicity et. al. As the original poster alluded to, the Oath of Hippocrates requires medical practitioners to be blind to skin color, faith, or creed. A medical practitioner prioritizes severity of symptoms and nothing else.
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  727. So would Alexander Shcherbakov., Stalin's head of Soviet Propaganda.
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  728. I am GLAD that Japanese Manga is burying the American comic book "industry".
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  729.  @christyann1201  Ask West Virginia. Lotss of Democrat coal miners voted for him.
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  730. Funny how he ignores his favorite scenario, the Stand Alone Complex.
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  731. Yeah, that was the real kicker to me. School choice is a conservative "white privilege" value. Doesn't seem to realize that Austin's lack of choice is the end result of his own political policies.
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  732. We have several copies of "Dr. Seuss goes to war" which contains his anti-Nazi cartoons. Incidentally, he also blasts social justice as a tool of the Third Reich.
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  733. As if Russia hasn't supplied weapons to African insurgencies. Spare me your moral outrage.
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  734. The capitol "breaching" was just as much of a false flag operation as the Reichstag Fire.
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  735. I agree. It matters not what the name of your deity is, only that such spiritual faith is given a special place in a person's life and is acknowledged in society as a whole. Rejection of it has led to this nihilism we see rotting pop culture and society.
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  736. Yup. Classic 1930 Fascism. The anti-fascists are implementing the very policies they claim to oppose.
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  737. And the Streisand effect immediately went into play defeating their attempt to quash it.
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  738. Dodd-Frank and the repeal of Glass-Steagall created this situation. Black Tuesday of 1929 that caused the great depression is once again in play.
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  739. It actually started BEFORE the Google case verdict. But it is the perfect deflection for them.
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  740. Sequels are rarely good, and prequels do even worse than sequels. The obsession with prequels starting in the late 90s and early 2000s was the start of franchise vandalism.
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  741. Indeed.He falsely assumes that the older man younger woman, particularly the "opportunities" aspect didn't exist. Reality is that in most cultures the man being older than the woman anywhere from 3 to 7 years is actually commonplace. Yes, older men with more wealth will attract women better because of that ability to provide. Mr. Pool is simply fooling himself making excuses for why that factor has become more pronounced. Dating apps haven't changes human behavior, al they have done is amplified it.
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  742. Indeed. Rather than admit their lack of full knowledge, they pretend to be omnipotent. And the results are predictable. Being honest that you don't know shows sincerity which WILL make it easier for people to believe you later.
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  743.  @xSandamx  That assumes you meet the BARE MINIMUM in terms of quality. Sending peasants with pitchforks won't work very well against well trained soldiers. King Leonidus proved that at Thermopylae when his vanguard of 300 held off the vast number of Persian "Immortals".
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  744. Some of us are like Jerimiah the weeping prophet. I am starting to sympathize more now with Ezekiel saying that they deserve what is coming. I have wept enough wasted tears that I have none left to give to those for whom there is no hope.
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  745. And most major faiths have warned that such people were a danger to society since antiquity. And it is not just the Abrahamic faiths that warn against it.
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  746. And as the soon to be AG, he will have the resources to do so. But it should be part of a larger push against the monstrous Sullivan decision.
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  747. The US military is now the defenders of the corruption. The flag officers are all a part of the cabal having betrayed their oath and used their positions to promote political agendas while punishing their subordinates for doing the same. There is a very good reason why generals never lead military coups. It is always the Lt. Colonels, Majors, and Captains who do, backed by competent mid-level NCOs.
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  748.  @anthonycicero6102  France benefited, but it is a stretch to claim the UK did. The EU has always been a Franco-German Fourth Reich.
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  749. Well, and the long-range weapons Ukraine has developed domestically have been used on targets in Russia demonstrating Ukraine's restraint and self-imposed limitations. In essence, they have already proven they can be trusted with those western weapons by demonstrating how they would be used by domestic weapons.
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  750. It amplifies the effectiveness of the head-fake.
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  751. The fools who fancy themselves our feudal lords seem to forget there were many revolutions in the last century and the one preceding it that lead to the beheading of the noble class. In their chronological snobbery, they think they are immune from experiencing the same results.
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  752. Operation Downfall and Operation Ketsu-Go make it quite clear WHY those bombs had to be dropped.
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  753. The movie "Outbreak" is playing out before our eyes. As is "The Hot Zone".
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  754. The cost for Ukraine was going to be high no matter what they do. So, when you have nothing to lose, you fight like a cornered badger. Better to die on your feet than live on your knees as a slave. And the Ukraine understands slavery to the Soviet State.
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  755. We had that in Korea as well. The Sky looked as red as Mars.
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  756.  @BVasquezp  THAT is one map I want to see. Namely the oil and gas deposits under Donbas and Crimea which are at the heart of the Russian invasion.
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  757. I call it the Samurai mentality. You are less likely to either give or take offense if you know the other guy can kill you where you stand. And likewise, he is less likely to give or take offense from you when you know you can kill him just as easily. "If you were any other man, I would kill you where you stand!" -Worf to Picard after being called a coward; Star Trek: First Contact.
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  758. Sad how much the department of corrections gets tired of playing mental health professional.
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  759. He will eventually demand that Poland withdraw from historically Russian territory such as Warsaw. That is why giving him the Munich agreement of 1938 is a fool's errand.
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  760. I hope more sistas follow your example.
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  761. Yeah, didn't they do that in Crimea? Elections don't really matter; it is who counts the votes. Referendums are just window dressing to give the illusion of choice.
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  762. @Kam If indeed the rising tide did lift all boats, you would have a point. The problem is, free trade doesn't benefit everyone, it only benefits a few transnational businesses. The local regional and small-time operations suffer while the mega-corporations squeeze them out of the market.
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  763.  @jdw-616  You are assuming Putin's nukes don't detonate in the silo like they did on K-129 instead of launching like they are supposed to. Considering the state of both the Moskva and the Admiral Kuznetsov, I seriously doubt the competency of the Russian Nuclear Forces. Also, you trying to use scripture to push a political message is a blasphemy. It is exactly what the Carpenter of Nazareth and the Baptizer on the Jordan both critizised when they spoke of the corrupt bread of Caiaphas and Herod Antipas. "But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father." -Matthew 24:36
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  764. I agree that it is very infantile for them to think that race-swapping in any way appeals to or addresses the issue of minority cultures. They need to stick with original ideas and concepts. Br'er Rabbit and Kimba/Simba were from West Africa, but you didn't see them race-swapped to pander to white audiences.
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  765. And now you see Teddy Roosevelt's dilemma with the Coal Miner Strike. He detested both the unions and the corporate executives. Plague on BOTH their houses!
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  766.  @minerran  Indeed, which is why negotiating with Putin or letting him keep the Donbas and Crimea is no different than Munich 1938. Putin WANTS Warsaw as it was a Russian city at the height of the Tzarist Empire. No different that the Austian Painter demanding that all of historic German territory be under the control of the Third Reich.
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  767. Blind leading the blind.
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  768. "Those whom the gods would destroy, the first drive mad," -Sophocles.
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  769. It is clear that only bankruptcy will clean out the cockroaches of wokeness. Same goes for Disney. Once they are shattered and their assets sold off will it be possible to rebuild.
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  770.  @DadsCigaretteRun  He clearly doesn't care that he proved through his actions and words that he is the very caricature of a racist he claims to hate. Seriously, a White guy of Southern European Heritage claiming he knows more about "the struggle" than a quarter Asian who has personally experienced it? Not a good look.
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  771.  @michaelhill8441  "According to historical data"? Wow, you are really grasping at straws here. "Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had." -Michael Crichton, author of "The Andromeda Strand", "Congo", and "Jurassic Park".
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  772. Where is the "Giant Mouse of Minsk" to scare off Warren T. C(R)at and his band of cat thugs?
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  773. Don't forget the old saying "The bigger they are, the HARDER they fall". "Too big to fail" is just asking to prove that old proverb.
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  774.  @someguyfrommaine  Indeed. Like a good totalitarian dictator, Pretty boy Trudeau and Joe Bite-Me want to start a foreign war to distract from their abject failures domestically.
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  775. The irony is, had they embraced his landscape portraits (they are actually very realistic in their attention to detail) rather than ridicule them, things in the 1930s may have turned out much differently.
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  776. Screaming "racist!" just means you have no counterargument to refute. It is tacit acknowledgement that the people you disagree with are correct and you know it.
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  777.  @clay1883  To which Trump will say, "Wrong answer".
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  778. That environment with an activist household would have been very anti-military. My previous post using the descriptors college liberals used to slander Vietnam Vets got deleted.
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  779. The trope is "no good deed goes unpunished". Often leads to a "Start of Darkness" for a villain character.
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  780.  @Macheako  Yes, there IS a difference. The neo-feudal elites HATE Israel with a passion. They pander to the Arab Islamists who call themselves "Palestinian" because it stands in defiance of Christian America's support for the Jewish people and their homeland. Do keep that in mind when you knock on Zionism. Being anti-Israel is just fashionable anti-Semitism.
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  781.  @lisal9829  Yeah, it turns out that security video from the capitol building disproves EVERYTHING claimed in that AP article. But then reading the AP is like reading Soviet Pravda.
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  782. Indeed. Every woman I tried to court rejected me. My wife was the one who reached out to me and made the first move.
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  783.  @danielgarner1959  As George Bernard Shaw once said, "two people divided by a common language".
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  784.  @thomasgrabkowski8283  That is not a solution if they are not assimilating. There is a word for that, one that I think the Germans are quite familiar with.
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  785.  @orcoastgreenman  How much of that is driven by the suicides that these insane policies are provoking? That is the dirty little detail the "health professionals" advocating lockdowns are blatantly ignoring.
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  786.  @saulhernnadez9203  2019 under Trump was the best economy we have ever experienced since the days of Calvin Coolidge. That you prefer to burn the country to the ground just to spite the man speaks to your contempt for your fellow citizens.
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  787.  @middlefinger1565  No, she is not. She was on CNN, OWN, and a few other blatantly leftist rags. But unlike most of them, she still subscribed to the old school rules of journalism. I would hope that this made her realize that she is not part of their clique, and that they only care that she is Asian and that she is in 100% lockstep with them.
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  788. Which makes the Holodomor all the more tragically ironic. Even more ironic is that Ukraine was independent of the USSR in 1918.
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  789. Indeed. As X-Men 97's creator said, the people running the show hate the source material. WOTC never should have hired "business normies" who have zero interest in the product itself.
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  790. Tourism is fine so long as Americans BEHAVE themselves and act like proper house guests.
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  791.  @MegaBanne  Then what DID it have to do with? And don't try pushing the "de-Nazification" or "NATO expansion" arguments because both have been so completely discredited that even the Chinese don't believe those claims.
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  792.  @user-ob3ss1tkas  Molotov-Ribbentrop Alliance was only possible because they are cut from the same cloth. How quickly people (except Poles) forget the Pact of Blood.
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  793.  @nobodyspecial115  In practice, Nazis and Commies are not that different. It is why the Molotov-Ribbentrop was even possible.
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  794.  @mutegikimathi6258  If the West "milking the continent dry" as you put it is bad, then your excusing China doing the exact same thing is hypocrisy. The issue isn't bad ideas or differing opinions, it is the contraction and inconsistency that is at issue. You may THINK that China wants the population to grow its own wealth, but that is the exact same argument used by EUROPEAN colonialist during the mad scramble for Africa. If that was a lie then, it is a lie now, regardless if it was someone from Europe or East Asia that said it. And no, I an NOT kidding. Infrastructure by itself doesn't create anything. It will not spontaneously create a thriving economy if there was not anything there to begin with. The claim that "if you build it, they will come" is a myth perpetuated by those who love centralized planning, but lack any understanding about the invisible hand of the market or how economics actually work beyond a chalk board theory.
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  795. Don't forget to twist the dagger as you slide it in.
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  796. Oh, Putin has an out, he just refuses to take it. If anything, he is backing himself into a corner. It is his choice to continue his invasion of the Ukraine. He could recall his forces today and the sanctions would be gone by tomorrow.
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  797. That is the best thing, if only more teachers practice what you do. My mother as a math and art teacher was always a political enigma to her students. She was an anti-teacher's union Democrat. She detested how the union laundered her dues to finance people she disagreed with. But she always kept her personal politics out of the classroom as she believed it had no legitimate place there.
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  798.  @刘振东-d6i  Yeah, the Indians have video of that engagement, and it tells a VASTLY different story. It shows the PLA behaving more like street muscle rather than a professional military force. When your army acts more like organized crime than a disciplined military, you are in deep trouble. That is something China has in common with Russia.
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  799. Indeed. The smug snake look won her no converts.
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  800. And the CBP is also following unlawful orders by facilitating human trafficking. Which is the worse crime?
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  801. Or Q's Kangaroo Court of the Post Atomic Horror. Yeah, people forget about that part.
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  802.  @sthubbins4038  Then I guess you think the Reichstag Fire was about an attempted overthrow of the rightfully elected Nazis Party. Jan 6th was America's Reichstag Fire; a false flag event.
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  803. Most warfare today is a joke. Politicians playing tin soldiers. And they are wasting the lives of good men in the process. Nothing beat boots on the ground when it comes to victory. Anything else is just posturing and grandstanding for the cameras.
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  804.  @SoloRenegade  Touche! Game set and match.
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  805. Another head screw: Jasmine in Aladdin was white washed. The original character in Arabian Nights was actually a Chinese Princess named Barbadour. "Agraba" was actually a trade city is Western China along the silk road, either in Xinjang or Gansu.
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  806. Notice how they first called him a white supremacist and klansmen, now he is a police informer? They are getting desperate that the Proud Boys are gaining street support.
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  807. Legalizing it doesn't solve your problems, it just shuffles the deck chairs around. Trading one set of problems for an entirely new set isn't working the problem, it is an attempt to cover up the problem.
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  808. Progs can never laugh at themselves so they have to crush anything that is remotely funny. And you are correct, denying people an outlet for their frustration such as parodies will lead to people throwing lead instead.
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  809. @Joshua Jason Karl No joke. They also like to ignore other eras of historic such as that the Mesozoic was the very 10 degrees warmer that they are all alarmist about. Seems to me that warmer temps are more conducive to reptilian life.
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  810. Light is the best disinfectant.
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  811. Accountability looks like revenge to the corrupt.
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  812.  @ElliotMess  He can't defy both Congress and the SCOTUS. He has to take an L on this one.
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  813. Fauci is the Jospeh Mengele of our day.
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  814.  @alvinyong9370  Good, because it is not America's responsibility to protect you, provide for you, nor be your sugar daddy. Malaysia has its own issues to deal with, especially the Islamists. Maybe you SHOULD focus on that instead of Trump.
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  815.  @parcher2535  And yet you are here. Why don't you take your own advice?
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  816. Oathbreaking. They swore to uphold the Constitution which means carrying out these unlawful orders is itself a criminal act.
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  817. The left actually loved the 6ths because it was for them what the Reichstag Fire was for the Nazis.
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  818. Pakistan has been playing both the West and China for fools. It was the Pakistanis who supported the Taliban the whole time, even sheltering Osama Bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri. I do agree that India has tried to play the same role they always have since WW2 as the neutral third world power. I give them credit for being consistent. The more interesting and I would say laudable action is ripping of Russia by demanding a 30% discount on oil. Allies don't exploit their friends like that.
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  819. Indeed. Mr. Pool seems to forget that since the time of Alexander Hamilton, they have been playing these stock games to extract money at the expense of long term investors. Indeed, the roots of Shay's Rebellion go to the stock market crash caused in Boston by Henry Knox and Alex Hamilton right after the end of the American Revolution.
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  820. Racism is learned behavior. The left was preaching that all in the 80s and 90s. What they failed to realize is that by preaching about racism to a society that is no longer racist, you create the said racism.
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  821. "Republics degrade into democracies, and democracies invariably degenerate into despotisms," -Alexander Frasier Tytler quoting Aristotle.
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  822. Just like the old Soviet Union. Russian jokes are painfully funny because of how humorless their ideology is.
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  823. "All politics is local," -Tip O'Neill. There is nothing new under the sun. The political games between politicians today are no different than the games played but feudal lords in antiquity. The only difference is that they are nominally more vulnerable today than they were then.
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  824. And the best thing his son can do if he can claw back D&D would be to put it in public domain so that nobody else can vandalize it.
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  825. Indeed. People quickly forget the lessons of the Munich Conference.
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  826. Cruela McCarthy, Cruela McCarthy.
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  827.  @Lucille-Dunnyboy  And who runs that "prison"? HAMAS. Gaza WAS the "Palestinian State" and THEY are responsible for its condition, not Israel. Ho, and it is Isreal who provided ALL of the electricity and water at no cost. Funny how you ignore that dirty little detail.
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  828. We need Judges trials like they had at Nuremberg.
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  829.  @InvertedWIng  I'm not sure Ralph Bakshi purposely made Aragon Native American. I think that is people interpreting something that isn't necessarily there.
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  830.  @nn-dj2nu  Indeed. The WEF folks at Davos are like the fools in the movie Idiocracy who think that putting Gatorade on the fields is good, not realizing they are salting the soil (depleting the soil in this case). There is a reason why people alternate with alfalfa: to PURPOSLY restore nitrate into the soil.
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  831. Agreed. Turkey clearly does NOT meet NATO standards for membership, so it is high time the nation was expelled. Or at least its power to block new members or have a say in strategy suspended.
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  832.  @Raya-ir4tm  Capitulating to the mob is career ending. People respect a strong horse like Trump. Rogan showed weakness and now the vultures and jackals are circling him.
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  833.  @Kongajinken  Actually, he would. Putin never invaded Ukraine while Trump was in office. As for China, they have been in an economic war with the US since the 90s, but Trump's economic policies were actually making Americans once again competitive against China. Trump gave us the best economy since the John F. Kennedy tax cuts, and that is irrefutable.
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  834.  @heythere5817  Need to remember that WIND DIRECTION is what determines the path of approach; there is no "wrong" direction when landing.
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  835. They are not gone yet. They are desperate like a wounded and cornered badger.
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  836. They are not? That might be a good thing for Putin because you DON'T want to get on the wrong side of a Gurkha.
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  837.  @jamesanthony8438  For me it is very simple. 2 X chromosomes on the 23rd pair is a female/woman. An XY on that pair is either a male (functional "equipment") or a Eunuch (castrated).
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  838. I too look forward to the day that Japan and South Korea can let bygones be bygones and stand united against the Dragon pretending to be a Panda. And I also agree with you that just because the West has become decadent on its largess doesn't mean it is weak. Though it remains to be seen how long that lasts with the current leadership of the West.
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  839. Because at the end of the day conservative "activists" are just as morally bankrupt as the left. They don't actually care one way or another about wokeness or violation of civil rights. Just like the left, they want to be the ones with the reigns of power. Just like the left, they only want a campaign slogan but don't actually care about rolling back the march of progressivism. Just like the left, they want to be the establishment. This is nothing more than high school drama on a national level.
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  840.  @WoodyWard  Ah, like most who misunderstand, and eye for an eye was an improvement over previous barbarism. If you injured a vassal, then the lord of the injured party could inflict the same on another vassal; an innocent was pushed for the wrongs of another. But with eye for an eye, a feudal lord himself suffered the punishment of putting out the eye of a vassal; thereby discouraging the behavior. Seriously, look into what the philosophies actually entail before you spout off in ignorance. The categorical imperative states that reciprocity is not just absolutely correct, it is required. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrakW1DjApo
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  841. Just like the Nazis did to their political opponents after the Reichstag Fire.
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  842.  @heathclark318  No joke, there is an ongoing edit war on Yuske's page.
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  843.  @Brains_Into_Monuments  Your loss would be our gain.
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  844. If Russia goes back into Ukriane in 10 years like the went into Grozny the second time, then Trump will have earned a place alongside Nevile Chamberlain. And I say this having been a Trump voter. I am HIGHLY critical of the wasteful spending in Ukraine. My Congresswoman, Victoria Spartz has demanded an audit of what has been sent to Ukraine.
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  845.  @cooperkowen5370  One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. The problem is, terrorists provoke fights(which is what ANTIFA does) while the Proud Boys finish the ones started with them. The PB never start fights on their own.
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  846. Yes they would, and yes they do want a civil war.
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  847.  @10speed4  At this point it doesn't matter who put the bullet in the gun, Baldwin is responsible for putting the bullet into the woman. Don't try to make excuses or shift the blame for him. He had an obligation to check if the gun was clear. He had an obligation to not point the weapon at her. All other issues are secondary.
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  848.  @daleweiss9507  What I am hearing is that he is bigoted against women from his own race. Though to be fair, I am white and married a foreign born Asian woman. American White women of my age cohort have lost their minds because of "feminism".
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  849. "The greatest injustice is to make unequal things equal," -Aristotle. The damn fools don't realize the only true equality is at the lowest common denominator: crushing poverty. That is the end result they are willfully blind to.
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  850. He could have left Mendeleev in office for a second terms and remained the power behind the throne, much like Stalin. But like a typical authoritarian, he could not resist being in the driver's seat.
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  851. Agreed. The Chinese having watched how the European powers bungled in Africa have chosen to be more subtle in their approach to colonization.
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  852.  @burnttoast9890  Truth doesn't care about your feelings. Truth is OBJECTIVE, not subjective as many would like to believe. People who parrot Kremlin talking points on cue like Pavlov's Dog are essentially bots.
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  853. Welcome to being Cassandra of Greek legend or Jerimiah the weeping prophet.
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  854. 40-50 years ago, if men did this, they would be institutionalized in a state mental hospital.
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  855.  @ConvictedFelonTrump8647  Your idea of "accountable" is the Soviet concept of "Show me the man and I will show you the crime". That is called political persecution.
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  856.  @dalekrenegade2596  How very STALINIST of you to call those you disagree with traitors.
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  857.  @sthubbins4038  Don't need to. The people they pander to will do it for us. That is the way with these people. "A good capitalist will sell you the rope you use to hang him with," -Vladimir Lenin.
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  858.  @sthubbins4038  More liberal lies. Citizens united was about letting individuals come together to exercise the same power as corporations. Ironically, that "dark money" in politics helped YOUR side, not the right. But then a typical prog like you just regurgitates your master's talking points on cue like Pavlov's Dog. Who is the Russian asset now?
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  859. Escape from New York was suppose to be a Kurt Russel fiction, not a model to follow.
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  860. Something tells me if she does run for governor, she would lose badly. Even liberal New Yorkers are starting to wake up to the damage she causes.
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  861. I hope you are correct. But after the fiasco of the Chauvin trial, I don't know what to expect. That judge had an obligation to overturn and declare a mistrial, and failed to do so.
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  862.  @XDWX  Because judges HATE jury nullification and will dismiss any juror, they think will even suggest it to their fellow jurors.
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  863. The irony is that Chinese Taipei has much affection for Japan, in stark contrast to many other Chinese populations. Even the Chinese Indonesian community has much better relations with Japan than mainland China.
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  864.  @nishantmaderna6295  Old biases die hard. You may have papered it over for the foreign audience to see, but internally when nobody is watching, those old bigotries reveal themselves. Some of us see what goes on when you think nobody is watching.
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  865. Yeah, Paul doesn't seem to realize that "anonymous sources" just means the "journalist" made it up whole cloth. How often has it been revealed that "anonymous" sources were totally and completely wrong?
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  866.  @napsclub  It was once said that the victors write the history. And that is true to a certain extent. The victors trying to minimize and downplay what they did wrong while emphasizing and often exaggerating the wrongs of their opponents. Classic case I like to use is Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. He was quoted as saying "you have to dictate terms to the US from the White House". American media for decades played this up as a jingoistic brag. In reality, he was warning Tojo and company the difficulty of making war on the US. Another example is that he is quoted as saying to his men after reading the after-action report on the Pearl Harbour attack: "Gentlemen, we have just kicked a rabid dog". Again, American media made it out to be an insult. In reality, he was making the observation that the sneak attack will have the same fatal result as if a rabid animal had bitten you. And there are several more examples littering history of such disproportionate analysis and hyperbole of the situation. Genghis Khan's brutality. The excesses of the Julio-Claudean dictators of Rome. The "peaceful and noble" nature of the heart eating Aztecs. et. al.
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  867.  @Peter-xl7zm  What video have you been watching? The Antenna was ON THE CONCRETE BERN! A plane doesn't shatter like glass when it hits a localizer antenna; the antenna breaks away.
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  868. Indeed. He is trying to parse out the use of tactical vs. strategic use of nukes. Yes, the Soviets made such a distinction in their War Plan 7 Days to the Rhine River. What Tim and the Soviets failed to acknowledge is that the US considered ANY use of nukes to be strategic; even a tactical use of one was considered strategic escalation. Hence, Nuclear artillery use of a nuke would be answered with strategic air or ICBM nuke strike. In the Warsaw Plan 7 Day to the River Rhine, had the Soviets used tactical nukes in West Germany against Munich and Frankfurt, the US would have almost immediately launched Trident nuclear missiles at the USSR in response under Ronald Reagan. Had James Earl Carter been president, that would not have been assured.
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  869. Not really. There are MANY departments in smaller communities that are dying for good talent. Despite what many claim, it is actually a seller's market.
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  870. If you were sending a message, well, the fact that people are talking about it means that the mission was accomplished.
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  871. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. So why should they stick their neck out for people who don't appreciate it. Let the calls go unanswered; that is what they voted for.
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  872. How about you actually debate the points instead of making an emotional outburst?
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  873.  @afgor1088  Nice sarcasm. You might actually want to study on what Salafism is and why negotiating with religious zealots in pointless. Or are you not aware that as soon as the US left Afghanistan, the Taliban and ISIS-K have turned on each other? Yes, former allies are now fighting each other over religious differences between Deobandism and Salafism.
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  874. OR, she has principles and knew that with a united opposition she was wasting her time being a lame duck. It is amazing how people automatically jump to assume her actions were an emotional outburst. Some people resign as a sign of protest against a system stacked against them.
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  875. World War 1 Bonus Army. Between Obama and Bite-me, there is a "citizen army" to challenge this corrupt government.
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  876. It also means they have written off Crimea.
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  877. That is the logical solution. The problem is we are dealing with illogical people. They don't want their own separate division. They want to take over the women's division because they cannot cut it in the men's division.
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  878. Granted, the B-52 pilots today are flying the very same aircraft as their grandfathers, but at least they got newer engines and avionics. The only thing that is really 60+ years old is the fuselage frame and maybe the wings. Talk about ship of Thesus.
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  879. They should ask to use the anime Girls Und Panzer for recruitment.
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  880. To her comment about "not deserving it, I quote Clint Eastwood in "Unforgiven": deserving ain't got nothing to do with it.
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  881.  @reubenong8728  Sounds to me more like that is an issue with racial/ethnic supremacy. Minority populations in Russia have ALWAYS been treated as second-class to the ethnic Russians. Very rarely has Moscow allowed the regions to enjoy autonomy. Yakutia is a notable exception because despite its large land area, the population is quite small; Moscow doesn't view them as a challenge to their dominance.
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  882. And closet racists who publicly profess adherence to "social justice" but in reality have nothing but contempt for those who are not part of their elitist clique.
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  883. Too late for a mistrial. However, this is more than enough justification for overturning the conviction on appeal.
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  884. Founder of Planned Parenthood Margaret Sanger in the 1930s said we should not be opposed to the sexualization of young girls. Hitler took her depraved ideology of racial purity, eugenics, and "sexual liberation" to its extreme conclusion in "The Final Solution". And yet Sanger is still praised today.
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  885. Timmy is misreading Title 9. He is leaving out a lot of the context that the media conveniently ignores. Most of these organizations should be losing their federal funding over this but are not, and I have to ask why? The irony is most of these organizations would fold without those tax dollars.
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  886.  @ktcarl  Yes, he did. But much like Reagan, he realized he was batting for the wrong team.
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  887.  @alanjenkins1508  Then why do farmers plant Alfalfa? Ever heard of soil depletion? How about crop rotation? We solved these problems almost 100 years ago and yet the bureaucrats who have never farmed in their life seem to think they are experts in farming. China's Great Leap Forward Famine and Ukraine's Holodomor are what happens when you tell farmers how to do their job.
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  888.  @wartome3196  The US didn't indiscriminately target civilians the way Putin has.
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  889. Consider this statistic as well. The gender disparity in China where men were dying like flies while women were surviving. That was because Chinese men smoke, while Chinese women do not. Smoking (whether tobacco or marijuana) is the kiss of death for those infected by the Wuhan Virus. Now consider that California allows recreational smoking of marijuana(but wants to ban tobacco).
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  890. Hell, there are already so many micro-breweries there is no reason to ever again buy mega-corporate franchise beer. Buy local!
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  891. It is all about risk management. Some people are more scared of what MIGHT happen contrasted to what is known will happen. As pointed out, a birth control pill causes more thrombosis than the Wuhan Vaccine yet they are not calling for it to be removed from the shelves.
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  892. Funny how people forget that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and the first Chairman of the PLO was good buddies with the Austrian Painter.
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  893. It was started when Obama sold off to the highest bidder much of the frequencies that the DoD had reserved for operations. Doesn't help that 5G is also the emission frequency of water vapor. That is significant because it will make meteorological satellite analysis difficult with all of the "signal pollution".
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  894.  @RCXDerp  That is the irony. The Feminaizism has resulted in more American men marrying foreign women. And the even greater irony is that they are not even white! Asian women and Latin women are whom these passed-over men are partnering up with. Even black women who are willing to marry non-black men are seeing higher than normal rates of marriage and marital stability than white women. Kind of tells you something.
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  895. Yeah, funny how those who break one law have no problems breaking more laws.
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  896. I hope so. The good for nothing Murdock boys have started to ruin Fox. I can totally see Trump coming in like a Hurricane with a media empire and doing what Rodger Ailes and Rupert Murdock did to News with Fox in the 90s and 2000s.
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  897.  @gretasstolendreams2154  When they go from 98% Dem under Obama to about 65% Hillary, that is a MAJOR victory. No, it doesn't mean that they are automatically going GOP for Trump. But it IS a start of the dam breaking.
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  898.  @janieb34  Well, and with multiracial, things get even more complicated. Take Filipinos for example. They are both Asian AND Hispanic. Or Afro-Cubans like Mr. Tario. Or the fastest growing bi-racial cohort, the children of White men and Asian Women.
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  899. Agreed. Which is why tort reform for litigation needs to occur post-haste.
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  900. "Five finger discounts".
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  901. Indeed. They are acting more and more like the old Soviets.
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  902. Because most of the policies that lead to this ecological disaster were directed from the Kremlin. Local control over the area only really started after 1991 when the USSR broke up.
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  903. I chose Yevgraf's words in "Doctor Zhivago": "it was a war between the Allied and German upper classes - and which of them won was of total indifference."
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  904.  @mattmarzula  "I was just following orders" was rejected at Nuremberg. There is an obligation to refuse UNLAWFUL orders.
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  905.  @ryemannoodlz7890  And Maxine Waters is more lucid? Sorry, your critiques of MTG can easily apply to Democrat incumbents who also often run unopposed. You are not making an argument, you are simply making yourself look petty.
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  906.  @fnym9rdsavsffdik9a25  Cleft Palette is akin to severe disfigurement. There is nothing wrong with corrective surgery for that.
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  907. Wow, the liberal trolls are out in droves. I guess you "triggered" them.
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  908.  @fturatti  Funny, because the most prosperous nations have always depended on their mercantile class. The most technologically innovative societies have had a robust merchant populace.
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  909.  @luciferjohnson8495  And yet Ukraine did just that in the defense of Kiev. Europe COULD fight Russia, but they would get a bloody nose for their effort.
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  910.  @megaglock22  Sadly, it will take force of arms to do that. And it is now or never. If the people of Canada do not take action now, they will never have another opportunity to save their country from totalitarian dictatorship.
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  911. Yeah, something tells me those photos were staged. These are the same people who bragged about only coming into the office twice a week. Potemkin Village is what comes to mind with these claims.
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  912.  @captainmaim  Mike Pence is deep state. He couldn't stand up to his onw party when they had a super majority in both chambers of the Indiana General Assembly. What makes you think he can stand up to the Dems? He will be to Trump what Bush Sr. was to Reagan. I hope Trump dumps Pence and picks up Bobby Jindal. Now there is an executive who has been tested in the fires of adversity.
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  913. Indeed. The Japanese are so much better at handling those kinds of characters than the wokescolds in Hollyweird. I prefer a non-binary anime character because they are not in your face about it; their sexual orientation is often only a minor component and not the sole defining feature. Case in point is Nagi “Alice” Arisuin in "Chivalry of a Failed Knight".
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  914. Nuremberg Trial for Judges. We need those here.
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  915. Good analogy. It really is high school drama all over again. Could also explain the recent obsession with prom.
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  916.  @Mrdm0066  Yeah, the Soviets had a Bill of guaranteed Human Rights. Didn't mean a damn thing.
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  917. The blame lies with the board of directors. TWICE they put Bob Iger on the "captain's chair". They have only themselves to blame WHEN the house of mouse implodes.
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  918. Seems like youtube/google doesn't like me pointing out that Western men are choosing non-western women as marriage partners.
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  919. Indeed. The rarest of all rape cases is when a woman forces herself on a man. Very few take it seriously because of certain mindsets cultivated by our culture at large. And because of that, they are almost never taken seriously. I would know because I am one of those few. Fortunately, the SARC office at Scott AFB DID take my case seriously.
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  920. Indeed. And since Canada and Norway have been sending winter gear since August, that puts them in a good position to exploit the cold.
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  921. The reactions of Hu Jintao's protege on the other side of Xi is quite telling, as is the reaction of most of the other folks. The stone-face expression was just as much of shock as it was of horror and dread.
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  922. I have heard that some pirate versions came from a Japanese release of the movie. If true, then once again the Land of the Rising Sun comes to the rescue.
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  923. Ah, but upholding the Oath of Hippocrates goes against the orthodoxy. The Oath was created by an old dead white guy after all(sarcasm).
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  924.  @olderchin1558  The Russia-Chinese land-based supply lines are unreliable at best. How much actually transits the trans-Siberian Railway from European Russia to Manchuria? Not nearly as much as you think. And the energy pipelines that feed Europe do NOT have a direct link to the Russian pipelines that connect to China. They are two separate systems.
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  925. Could have something to do with the hero complex; namely because they THINK they are setting right wrongs, let lose perspective of what is actually right and wrong. They in effect go looking for monsters that may not actually exist. Conversely, those who see evil having gotten into the minds of a malicious character know the dangers of such thinking and can quickly spot its creeping influence. But that is just a wild guess. Psychology is not my strong suit. I ten to prefer the physical sciences.
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  926.  @DavidJohnson-hg1mz  Redactions are for individual words, not entire paragraphs. That "redacted" affidavit was nothing more than a showpiece to pretend that they were complying with a FOIA request.
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  927. Indeed. Destruction of people' livelihoods is how revolutions begin. This is very reminiscent of a CIA backed color-revolution.
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  928.  @SigFigNewton  Hopefully at a steel discount. I have not problems with helping the local businesses liquidate unsellable product on the condition that they do NOT replace it.
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  929. Indeed. People conveniently forget that Stalin declared war TWO DAYS after Hiroshima. As you point out, he knew the Pacific theater was about to close so he wanted to get in and claim some spoils before it was over.
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  930.  @VisibilityFoggy  Basically the same argument AGAINST reparations in the US. And why Soviet collectivism never works. Workers, unless they came up through the ranks into management, don't necessarily understand WHY a factory or business runs the way it does. Without that wider perspective, you may make choices that adversely harm the company. In a similar vein, some folks should take a look at Indonesia and ask why the ethnic Chinese tended to have most of the wealth after the Dutch left following WW2. The Dutch used the Chinese as the mid-level managers and the local Javanese and Sumatrans as the labor. The anti-Chinese sentiment under Sukarno and Suharto threatened to do to Indonesia what Mugabe did to Zimbabwe.
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  931. The progs have no sense of humor and never did. They are so deadly serious they are willing to kill for their beliefs. That is why Russian-Soviet humor is so painfully funny.
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  932.  @andrewnorris5415  Ukraine has captured in one week more territory than Russia took in over a year. Cope harder.
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  933.  @UncleUncleRj  No joke. Americans didn't systematically exterminate Japanese the way the Germans did to Jews. But then his talking points are typical of Communists in WW2 who wanted to deflect from the anti-Semitism and their own collaboration with the Holocaust under the Molotov-Ribbentrop alliance.
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  934. Hell, in Korea we were warned to be wary around the local girls because one could be a DPRK agent. Hell, it was even suspected that some of the on-base taxi drivers were spys.
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  935. I for one am GLAD that Japanese Manga is burying the American comic "industry". As you point out, there is such a bankruptcy of ideas by lazy people who either just want to skate by, or think that they can use the medium to propagandize. The Japanese are naturally filling the vacuum created by these two-bit hacks who got their position more because of nepotism rather than talent.
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  936.  @Gizziiusa  That may be the theory, but in practice these guys are nobodies that the real criminals know not to take into their inner circles. Remember the phrase "snitches get stitches"? The Big fish know these guys are trouble and keep them at arms length. The theory fails spectacularly in practice like it did in this case, which is why they shouldn't even try.
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  937. Kids being expensive is the major driving factor in why the birth rate in Japan and South Korea has collapsed.
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  938. I would say it was less a problem with "normies" and more a problem with activists trying to use geekdom as a vehicle for pushing agendas.
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  939. Yeah, the whole "too big to fail" folks ignored the old saying "the bigger they are, the HARDER they fall".
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  940. What was their worry in 2016? "Media extinction event"?
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  941.  @ezg8448  As I recall, Robert Mueller was in charge of the anthrax investigation and bungled that one as well. His accusations against a suspect led said suspect to commit suicide under the pressure. And because his death prevents him from speaking in his own defense, the Feds naturally pinned the blame on him. It is easy to accuse the dead of maliciousness because they cannot refute the charges.
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  942. And several wars before that. The Teutonic Knights have fought the Slavs since antiquity.
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  943. Maybe under the Bourbons, but modern France still leaves much to be desired.
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  944. Murray Hill Riot. And it NEEDS to happen here. Let these cities burn for five days straight.
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  945. And that is the point. They don't want kids to be able to read. Because readers are thinkers.
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  946.  @nathanaelsmith3553  It is funny when the legal system is used to persecute your political opponents? Isn't that what Alexander Lushenko did in Belarus?
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  947. The problem is when they come for you. "Firs the came for the Jews and I did not speak up because I was not a Jew, " -Martin Niemöller.
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  948. Some of these munitions are lock on jam. Meaning that they target the source of the jamming.
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  949.  @mechadoggy  indeed. it is a paid vacation. A reward for bad performance,
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  950. Indeed. Some of the cannibals of Melanesia and Micronesia have a brain disease caused by the eating of human flesh. They call it Kuvu. And its effects are similar to mad cow disease.
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  951. " It will be pleasant work, requiring skill and officers will work as well as men. The Japanese Army cannot have idle mouths to feed. If you work hard, you will be treated well. But if you do not work hard you will be punished! A word to you about escape. There is no barbed wire no stockade, no watchtower. They are not necessary. We are an island in the jungle. Escape is impossible. You would die. Today you rest. Tomorrow you will begin. Let me remind you of General Yamashita's motto: Be happy in your work. Dismissed!" -Colonel Saito's "Welcome Speech" from the movie "Bridge on the River Kwai"
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  952.  @mrgreen3002  That is the RARE exception, not the norm. Don't argue from the exception as that is a logical fallacy as well as a strawman argument. And XXY is usually Downs Syndrome, which is an entirely different issue which I will not delve into here.
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  953. Marshal Mud has given the Russians a reprieve. This winter has been so warm that General Front has not given his favor to Ukraine. The Fall mud season (Rasputia) has continued into the winter preventing a winter offensive. Let's hope this spring is a dry one otherwise it will be another three months of stalemate.
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  954. What progress? The world is less safe and the economics, particularly inflation are worse than they were during the previous 4 years. Oh, but mean tweets are more important to you than the soaring cost of living, particularly energy and fuel costs.
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  955.  @PPM7ke  You want us to be thankful for him simply doing the bare minimum of his job? As a former Fox News host said, "Don't settle for less".
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  956. Your first point blatantly ignores a truism that the Koreans know which you refuse to acknowledge: The strength of the nation comes from the integrity of the family as Confucius observed. It has been conclusively confirmed in multiple studies that children of single-parent families have lower rates of education, higher rates of crime, teen pregnancy, and a whole host of other problems. Do keep in mind that Confucius himself was born out of wedlock and grew up in a broken family. His experiences are empirical evidence supporting his contention that a traditional core family unit is the best situation and that all others fail to sustain a culture.
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  957.  @megchow8245  Those that didn't participate in the elections voted for it by omission. Had they gone out and actually voted AGAINST it, then they would have an argument. "Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome," -Marcus Tullius Cicero.
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  958. No joke. Often the big wigs go shopping for people who will be their "yes-man".
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  959. No, they just simply strip mine and rip the country off while leaving half-completed projects, flood the local economies with cheap goods and force local businesses belly-up with market domination. Yeah, China's tactics are much less overt than military conquest, but certainly not any better.
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  960. It is a Freudian slip showing that they know the claims have merit.
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  961. Because they sneer at people who are responsible and save rather than splurge on frivolousness. That is the difference between the "greatest Generation" and the "millennial generation". The former scrimped and saved remembering the Great Depression. The latter has never experienced hardship.
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  962. Yup, just like Pavlov's Dog. Conditioned to accept the bridal and bit like a broken horse. The frog in the pot of slowing boiling water.
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  963. Agreed. They are only trying to save their own hides and will go right back to their bad choices when the dust settles. As Batman said "I won't kill you, I just don't have to save you".
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  964. I take a different perspective. The death penalty is used to put down rabid dogs. Someone who has murdered on multiple occasions will continue to do so when released. You put them to death NOT for justice but to prevent him (or her if a black widow) from killing again.
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  965.  @muellersgame8001  Or a false flag much like the Reichstag Fire. Or Operation Northwoods.
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  966. A lot of US equipment is in that situation. The DoD should have taken it as an opportunity to do a full accounting and audit of the armories across the US. Send all of the expired or soon to expire equipment over there instead of wasting money disposing of them.
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  967. ​ @bobstoffel6811  No, he doesn't. The both of you put the cart before the horse in an anachronistic fallacy.
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  968. Face diaper for those who get diarrhea of the mouth.
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  969.  @chemkatungalag6834  No joke. Nearly one in ten Asians have direct lineage to the Great Khan. That is a dirty little secret that the ethnonationalist Chinese "purists" don't like to talk about. And ironically, he and his immediate family were patrons of the Eastern Christan Chruch in a similar manner to how Cyrus the Great was the greatest benefactor to the Jewish people during their exile. Pax Mongolia was a time of great prosperity and peace eclipsed only by Pax Americana after WW2. The West could learn much from the horse nomads of Asia.
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  970. Hydrogen bombs are fusion bombs. You are thinking about the fears regarding the detonation of Little Boy and Trinity which were fission bombs.
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  971. From whom? The Russian Bots or the people pointing out the holes in the arguments of Negative Nacy?
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  972.  @starmaker75  Because that is the point. The Red government in Beijing is ethno-nationalist. There is a reason why they use Hui (Muslim Hans) to enforce the laws and to encourage the local population to Sinicize via intermarriage.
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  973.  @Launchpad05  "That lame-brained freeway idea (wokeness) could only be cooked up by a toon"
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  974. Mairo and Topgun completely demolish Tinsel Town's false narratives. Which is why they are desperately trying to trivialize both.
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  975. I'm shocked that the jury did NOT go for nullification. Hunter will still get a pardon from his father, but the optics are clear.
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  976.  @littlicitum1897  China running Tiktok is like Japan running newspapers complete with opinion sections in the US during WW2.
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  977. Remember, this is the THIRD time they put him in the driver's seat. That is not accident, but rather enemy action.
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  978. Reminds me of Michael Crichton's quote about consensus in science. When anyone tells you the science is settled, reach for your wallet, you're being had.
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  979. Spoken like someone who believes Soviet Pravda is telling the truth.
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  980.  @TimPool.BeanieCivilWarlord  You don't think someone was trolling by using Gaetz's name? Hell your own account handle is an example of such behavior.
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  981.  @ruthlewis8097  Sometimes I wonder. The man is correct on many things, but he is ALWAYS wrong when it comes to Trump.
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  982.  @harrymorris2361  They have been in training for over a year now. I recognize that an F6F Hellcat from WW2 is not the same as an F-16, but American aviators in WW2 could get trained up in less than a year before getting thrown into combat against either the IJN or the Luftwaffe. Ukrainian Mig-29 pilots shouldn't take more than that to change over from the Soviet airframe to the NATO as they already have the basics of combat aviation in a high performance vehicle. The issue is simply a matter of equipment familiarization.
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  983. Indeed. They had drunk their own kool-aid.
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  984. They need to be stripped of their licenses on the grounds of violating "DO NO HARM". Maybe even malpractice lawsuits.
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  985. The fans are certainly channeling Gandalf are they not? "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!!!!!"
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  986.  @aaronburdon221  You haven't read the actual book have you? He only kept 1/3. He left 1/3 because he knew you don't kill the golden goose. Further, those nobles with a reputation for providing for widows and orphans, he didn't take a single shilling. Look it up: Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Copyright 1883 by Howard Pyle.
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  987. Because DEI hires are narcissists.
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  988. Well, and Timmy seems to ignore that the SCOTUS upheld Title 9 against the Civil Rights law. Why is he simply ignoring that? More importantly, why are these organizations not being called on the carpet for being in violating of Title 9?
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  989.  @Spacedog79  I am all for more nuclear. And US Navy nuclear has proven that it IS the safest form of energy that we can use. Thank Admiral Hyman G. Rickover for that.
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  990.  @BetaGunslinger  Nice job switching the roles and blaming the wrong party. Guns are how women protect themselves from predators, whether cutpurses or rapists. Though 90% of rapes are by someone they know; the stranger rapist is something of a mischaracterization. And Incels are more likely to go find a prostitutes to satisfy their "needs" than to go on a shooting spree.
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  991.  @fooo2241  How about the rules governing mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania? How about the changed to voter ID requirements in Georgia and Arizona? How about last-minute approval of ballot harvesting? There are plenty of examples that people just brush off. I'm talking NOT about questionable practices during the counting, but the PROCESS, and chain of custody issues that the court refuse to even consider based on the merits. Those changes should NOT have taken effect until the NEXT election cycle. And the excuses used to rationalize them going into effect mid-election are typical of those trying to game the system.
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  992.  @gelliohumberto5858  I will agree that the left does their malevolence out in the open for the most part while the GOP does in with a smile on their face and concealed blade. But the right does NOT engage in that behavior. They actually do believe in "fair play" for the most part. Ask yourself who is actually trying to play by the rules (and setting themselves up for failure in the process).
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  993.  @orockzman8757  The president has final declassification power. In fact, ALL declassification authority comes from the POTUS as invested in him by the US Constitution, Article 2.
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  994.  kraken hunter  You are about 8 years late. It was Obama who divided the country. Trump simply revealed the damage for all to see.
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  995. A return of the housing bubble from 2008. This time it is going to be FAR worse as the protections that limited the size of that bubble were completely removed by Obama and the Democrat Congress.
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  996. I am mostly in agreement with you, though the idea of tank on tank mass battles was a wet dream of the Soviet Red Army that had mixed results if we are honestly assessing the Battle of Krusk(largest tank battle in history).
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  997. Yes, historically anime shows were made to advertise the Mangas and light novels. But Kadokawa realized that there was an American market for the shows, so they have gone back and given a second season to some that have been sitting in limbo for 10 or more years. Hell, Overlord has a fourth season!
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  998.  @lordbread2083  John Hopkins proves you wrong.
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  999.  @jdw-616  Many wiser men than you have tried to predict the end of days. They ALL failed. You are just as foolish if you think you know the hour of judgement. It will occur when you least expect it, so why are you trying to use fear of it to compel others? THAT is where you have blasphemed.
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  1000. As only the US and Russia have the only two labs with smallpox samples, that makes this an inside operation and a government backed act of bioterrorism.
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  1001. It is pretty pathetic when even the North Koreans don't think he is worth wasting a bullet.
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  1002. Indeed. He is an actor, that was very much all a performance.
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  1003. My grandparents had some horror stories about the 1930s Great Depression, they being children during those times. Many of their actions such as not letting throwing out perfectly good food or reusing plastic cups from fast food I still practice. Those habits developed by previous generations during hard times and passed down to those of us who remember them will be greatly benefited for having adopted those actions.
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  1004.  @Anthony69420  I don't. There are some things you do not wish on your worst enemies. Yes, California burning is because of radical greenie policies that prevented natural cleaning brushfires that use to occur yearly. But that doesn't mean we have to cheer. We can still weep at the misery that they inflict on themselves.
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  1005. First class "neck stretching".
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  1006.  @onemangang2010  That was what immediately came to mind for me.
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  1007. No joke. As Carl von Clausewitz observed, war cannot be avoided, merely delayed to the benefit of one side.
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  1008.  @alterkooper431  Yes they do. When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. That proverb is in ALL three Abrahamic faiths.
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  1009. This, completely. Also, a tariff goes on any product subsidized by the government. Germany and France are notorious for propping up their local companies against foreign competition.
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  1010. Accountability looks like revenge to the corrupt.
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  1011.  @CatsJP  Wow, lack of self-awareness. You do realize you just describe yourself?
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  1012. JK Rowling pandered to and encouraged this crowd. What you are missing is that there is no negotiating with fanatics and zealots; they are never satified.
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  1013.  @Alondro77  We didn't start the fire, it was always burning since the world's been turning, we didn't start the fire, no we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it...
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  1014.  @martinleuchs5403  A gag order is to PROTECT a defendant, not silence him. It has NEVER been used in this manner before. Stop apologizing for unconstitutional actions by this unlawful court.
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  1015. "Five finger Discount" as they call it.
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  1016. Seems like my comment about SV-40 in polio vaccines got deleted. Can't be talking about that now, can we?
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  1017.  @hectoralejandro9883  Sure, then how do you explain the after-incident images of the wreck? There is NO excuse for that cement wall.
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  1018.  @MrUntapishtim  Great economic future huh? That sounds like the argument justifying the Molotov-Ribbentrop Alliance. You seem to forget that POLAND has been encouraging Ukraine just as much if not MORE than the UK. Yet you don't seem to be casting barbs at them. Seems to me you are an Anglophobe.
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  1019.  @garhent  They are making the argument that guilt by association in the public eye will cause harm. I hope that the courts come back and say that by putting a "warning label" on materials over 30 years old they are basically disavowing their products and therefore the copyright claim to them. I hope this causes those old D&D models and books to be placed into public domain via court order.
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  1020. But one that has been updated and modernized over the years much like the B-52. Most of these legacy Soviet tanks have NOT been modernized.
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  1021.  @NewsGuyFred  You are ignoring that EU countries heavily subsidize their industries (particularly auto and aviation) that directly compete against Us businesses. THAT is protectionism under a different guise.
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  1022. Indeed. Canada let Fidel's love child take the levers of power, and he refuses to let go.
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  1023. I much prefer the risqué art in the movie posters over this weird cult behavior by the woke scolds in Disney.
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  1024. If they do not get violent when the government comes to take their children, then they deserve to lose everything. If that is not the crossing of the Rubicon to get you to start using lethal force, then nothing will, and you accept being a slave.
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  1025. @Kasper I don't disagree that Turkey is the odd man out in NATO. But I look at it from a different perspective. Turkey could turn to its Muslim neighbors who depend so heavily on Russian and Ukrainian wheat and claim that THEY were the ones to secure the world's food supplies. That is a very powerful message to send. Turkey is looking to expand its influence, and this was the perfect opportunity.
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  1026. He didn't fire enough people. While it was good he got rid of the people he did, his first blunder was picking Mike Pence as VP. All of the bad hires are a result of his dependence on the advice of Pence. Makes me wonder if he was a plant by the establishment from the start.
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  1027. Kind of reminds me of Winston Chruchill's response to being called drunk. "Bessie, you are ugly. But tomorrow I will be sober, and you will still be ugly.” -Winston Chruchill.
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  1028. Agreed. The fireball didn't occur until AFTER the impact with the wall. Had it not been there, the plane would have slid along the surface of the bay much like the Miracle on the Hudson.
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  1029.  TaxEvasion777  I don't use roundup. And if you think mosquitoes and ticks have more value than humans, then I think you grossly overvalue your contributions.
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  1030.  TaxEvasion777  Funny, because Bees despite having the issue with colony collapse disorder have bounced back. In fact, urbane hives have been found to be healthier than the "industrial" hives that go from farm to farm. For someone who is worried about insect pollinators, you show complete ignorance regarding the one insect responsible for almost half of humanity's food crops.
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  1031.  @beefiddy8  Don't need to be a biologist. Sane people know that 2X chromosomes on the 23rd pair is woman/female while and XY pair is a male/man.
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  1032. Look at their finances and you will understand why. So long as they remain a territory, they get fully subsidized by the US government. As soon as they become a state, they lose that gravy train and have to implement state taxes to cover the shortfall. That and as a state government they would have to get their debt obligations in order. Lots of people on the Island have stakes in municipal bonds that would be declared junk status as soon as the Island becomes a state.
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  1033.  @Hard_Boiled_Entertainment  As much as I would like RFK Jr. to be part of Trump's team, I DON'T want him as HHS when he is spouting reparations nonsense. Policy advisor, sure, but no actual power in any of the areas with his crackpot ideas.
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  1034.  @Polygon-yug-9581  Not really. It is Russia who is using the nuclear power station as a military strongpoint. They are acting no different than the Germans using Monte Cassino as a strongpoint in WW2 (a war crime, BTW).
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  1035. All the more reason why this is VOLUNTARY manslaughter, not involuntary. He knew the dangers of handling guns and still chose to be cavalier about it and pretend he was a John Wayne character (which is ironic considering Wayne would never act that way in real life).
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  1036. That will be absolute comeuppance considering that Disney effectively owns NatGeo.
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  1037. Hey, that is his prerogative so long as he does not force me to subsidize it. And that is where the left becomes evil. Taxpayer dime to fund their non-sustainable exclusive communes is theft on a grand scale.
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  1038.  @venicebeachsportsnetwork6677  What is your metric? Your source for that claim? "Figures don't lie, but liars figure" -Mark Twain
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  1039. I look at the historic coinage. Kievan Rus coins have the trident of Ukraine. The coins of ancient Moscow have the symbol of the Golden Horde of Mongolia. That tells much.
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  1040.  @fmsida  They are ALWAYS better because you are not lining the pockets of trans-national megacorps. The people who are making a profit are your neighbors. That alone makes them better.
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  1041. The bigger issue is if Russian aircraft violate Ukrainian airspace. Would NATO assets engage the Russians? That could be the "Man, Moment, Machine" that sparks wider conflict.
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  1042.  @doyouevennaturebro4593  Hamas has ruled Gaza uncontested for over 10 years. They were not occupied, they were enslaved by their own people.
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  1043.  @bigbird4481  Because Trump is living rent free in his head.
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  1044.  @ford289cid7  Then why was it traveling over 110 KPH?
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  1045. Yes and no. The USSR wasn't exclusively Russia and Russia is not all of the USSR. But almost all decision making came from the Kremlin rather than the local Commissariat.
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  1046. I chose Yevgraf's words in "Doctor Zhivago": "it was a war between the Allied and German upper classes - and which of them won was of total indifference." Sometimes it is best to not take a side at all and just stay out of it.
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  1047. Folks call me a millennial for being born in 1984, but I am closer to Gen X as far as philosophy. Despite what Pew Research and the like say, the generations are NOT fixed at 20 years and there are no hard cut-offs. Gen X does include people born as late as 1987 and Gen Y can include people born in 1980.
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  1048.  @Hasib.p  So you are going to blatantly ignore the fact that Germany and the USSR were each other's biggest trading partners during that time? You are also going to ignore the fact that they also exchanged technology and military hardware? Hell, the Germans were even touring Soviet military manufacturing plants! Those are not the activities of a mere non-aggression pact.
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  1049.  @Homer-OJ-Simpson  "Furniture" in this case refers to the historic and cultural items and locations. Case in point: During the Korean war, Hwasong Fortress was pulverized with even the foundation turned to gravel. Bulguksa Temple burned to the ground from shelling during the desperate Pusan Defense Line. In both cases, the Koreans were able to rebuild them to exact replicas because detailed records of their original construction were found in local archives. Had those documents been lost, then those historic sites would never have been restored.
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  1050. Good call getting a hard copy of TOS. I have TNG, DS9 and the first half of Voyager on DVD and have zero intention of getting any of Kurtzman's woke trek. There are still copies of ST: LSD season one sitting on the Best Buy rack with a significant layer of dust covering them. Makes me wonder how much Paramount/CDB is paying distributors to keep them on display.
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  1051. Then refute it with rational, coherent points. Otherwise, the argument stands uncontested.
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  1052.  @Butterflyyyxoxo  She is making the same arguments that advocates of the burka make. Who needs to touch grass when you are justifying that kind of misogamy?
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  1053.  @RambleOn07  Indeed. Appeal to "authority" or "accreditation" logical fallacy.
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  1054. Lets make sure we are using her proper title "Oberst Fuhrer", Frau Vitmer . Note: that is NOT a complement.
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  1055. @Joshua Jason Karl Actually, I see them acting more the like Bolsheviks in Russia. In practice there is very little difference between the Soviets and Nazis.
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  1056.  @ChienaAvtzon  The problem with Rowling is that she attempted to pander to them initially, which is why they have kept up the pressure against her; they know she capitulated once, and they think they can make her do so again, setting up Stockholm Syndrome. If you never appeased them in the first place, then they are less likely to invest as much effort in the attempt.
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  1057. Agreed. This is a classic damage control tactic to deflect from the bad choices made by the executives.
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  1058. If they can get to Melitopol, then the HIMARS rockets can reach the Kerch bridge from the city.
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  1059. It would become the right's equivalent of the Che t-shirt that the left loves to wear.
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  1060. Same with the Garland Texas terrorists. Same with Lee Harvey Oswald. The US government has a history of false flag operations. Read up about Operation: Northwoods and it will send chills down your spine.
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  1061. It is interesting how the Japanese and South Koreans have become America's greatest advocates in Southeast Asia. It is something that American policy makers should NOT take for granted.
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  1062. Same here. They try to claim that there are no lockdowns and that it is only a few cities under restriction. They are either in total denial or they are controlled opposition.
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  1063. It is made up and meant as a derogatory slur against straight people.
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  1064. The fact that Putin has not taken Kharkiv, Kiev, and most of Ukraine is about the only true thing in this Fog of War.
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  1065. Indeed. Children of Thalidomide 2.0
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  1066.  @Chef_JRod  The problem with collectivism is that it is diametrically opposed to the idea of individualism and self-sovereignty. The two are anathema to each other. Now, I do agree that in a post scarcity society, other motivations take the forefront. Where Trek both Gene Rodenberry's and Alex Kurtzman fail to account is that hedonism replaces the struggle to survive. Aldous Huxley in "Brave New World" deconstructed the fatal flaws of a post-scarcity "utopia".
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  1067. The irony is that since Ukraine is in the fight for its life, and existential crisis, corruption is viewed as helping the enemy. Where previously people could get away with it, now there is an incentive to put a stop to it.
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  1068. Yes, but then that becomes the pretext for disarming the population. After they ban guns, they will ban knives. Once knives are banned, then they will go after baseball bats, woodcutting hatchets, grass cutting machete, harvesting sickles and scythes, and anything else that can be used as a blunt force object.
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  1069.  @MrWhitmen1981  Stalin and the Austrian painter micromanaged battlefield decisions just like LBJ would later do in Vietnam. When did Trump ever micromanage choices made on the battlefield? He didn't. Hel let his subordinates make the call and then held them to account if they screw up.
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  1070. The problem is that American studios are just not up to the task anymore. In their drive to be woke, they have ruined otherwise decent story concepts. Netflix's show "The Dragon Prince" had something going for it, but they simply dropped it when the Wuhan Virus insanity started.
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  1071.  @michaelalston2877  Seriously? Machin has been more consistent about protecting coal miners than Sinema has been at protecting the Southern Border.
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  1072. "When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. That's why we'll win." -Kirk Douglas as Spartacus.
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  1073. Yeah, i would be freaking out while saying that too.
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  1074. Funny how fascism took root in Anglosphere nations, isn't it? Even the US is not immune. The English-speaking world needs to take a long hard look at how it betrayed the principles of basic English Common Law and held the precepts of the Magna Carta in contempt.
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  1075. Because he can't bring himself to admit that the protesters were NOT rioting much less invading the building. He is still wed to the idea that the Capitol is NOT the people's building, but America's equivalent of Buckingham Palace and hence off-limits to regular citizens.
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  1076.  @ImLure  Wow, I think that was one of the plot threads in the "children's book" by Lois Lowry: "The Giver".
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  1077. Life imitating art or art emulating life? Hard to tell.
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  1078. And that doesn't even touch on the XY/XX chromosome argument.
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  1079.  @Chadmlad  Yeah, as an American I wish we would cut our losses with the Imams of Pakistan so as to improve our standing with the Rajahs of India. Our shared history as colonies of the Crown and the desire for decolonization and local self-determination of populations makes us natural allies. But so long as the US stays in bed with backstabbing and double-dealing Islamabad, US-Indian relations will remain poisoned.
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  1080. I think the issue stems from Intersectionality being used to stifle character creation and development. To your point, a great DM will use those issues to drive a plot, not pigeon-hole players into a specific playstyle. Alas, the game has lost its "interactive storytelling" in favor of agenda advocacy.
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  1081.  @dogdriver70  Your comment is dripping with sarcasm and contempt. I love it!
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  1082.  @sebastianflynn1746  You give the Arab-Muslim world way too much credit. There is a reason why Osama Bin Laden is still held in high regard in that part of the world.
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  1083.  @garytsang5673  And it looks like they failed spectacularly considering DeSantis' margin of victory.
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  1084. Wreck-it-Ralph's villain support club motto.
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  1085. Indeed. Many of the arsons on the West Coast and in the Rocky Mountains were started by city slickers.
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  1086.  @alexmanzanares200  And now proof by verbosity. If you have to use logical fallacies to win an argument, you have already lost.
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  1087. Ouch, I felt that burn.
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  1088. No joke. This goes back to the mandatory minimums circular jerking. A few activist judges abuse their discretion to set bails or jail time. Outcry occurs and minimum jailtime and bail are set. The jails and prisons then get filled to capacity because responsible judges have their hands tied. Then criminals are set loose and the cycle repeats.
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  1089.  @paradoxmo  Yeah, but she is simply choosing the best of many bad options. It is only a matter of time before the bill comes due.
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  1090.  @SasukeTheCursed  The problem is that the California critters were purposely using company time and assets to push their personal political agendas. THAT is where things crossed the line. When you are on the clock, don't use your position in the company for political gain.
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  1091.  @monkeygraborange  Yeah, they totally miscast the two ladies. Gal Gadot should have been Snow White.
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  1092. Indeed. These people are the Boy who cried "WOLF!".
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  1093. Indeed. Which is why the defendants need to demand that their cases be heard instead of dropped. Don't let the government get away with this. Insist that the courts hear the cases so that a precedent is set that such actions taken before ratification are unlawful and those that do will be held accountable.
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  1094.  @LadyRenegade77  Indeed. Most self-described "atheists" today are actually misotheists (aka god-haters).
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  1095. I see what you did there. And I love how you throw it back in the faces of the wokescold crowd.
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  1096.  @Madfrog625  Nick wanted to bring in someone with a history of what Tim calls "crop dusting antisemitism". The purpose of the whole thing was so that Nick could set up a strawman and then grandstand at the risk of getting the Timcast channels permabanned by Youtube.
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  1097.  @xhesil8848  Actually, there IS a difference. Our holding facilities in the US are NOT murdering people the way the Chinese, Nazi, North Korean, and Soviet Gulags did. Nice attempt at moral equivocation. You are psychotic to say they are no different.
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  1098. If it bursts, there should be a refusal to buy it. The only way to save it after that is for someone to put down a few million and then place the brand and IP directly into public domain. A high cost, but one that would immortalize the person for saving D&D in about the only realistic way possible.
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  1099. That is exactly what it is. Since the UK is no longer top dog and has been replaced by the US, they still view it as sticking it to the Anglo-world.
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  1100. The 5G band also is the emission band for water vapor, a major component of meteorological satellite, particularly during nocturnal hours. So, weather analysis is also going to be affected by 5G implementation.
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  1101.  @emmettkeyser1110  The UK and France have ALWAYS had separate nuclear arsenals from the US. India gained theirs in the 1970s. Your augment that it only works in a two-adversary scenario is already disproven.
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  1102.  @nathank2289  Basically an inverse of the Peter Principle.
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  1103.  @seanblankenship5404  No he did not. Hamas has NEVER accepted Isarel's right to exist.
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  1104. Indeed. Good times make for weak men. How did the Spartans lose to the Romans? They forgot their warrior traditions and became the "boy lovers" that Leonidus mocked.
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  1105. Schadenfreude. They get what they deserve.
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  1106. Some states have been trying to pass laws that force you to wait one election cycle after you change your voting address before you can vote in the local elections. Of course the courts have been striking them down as "racist".
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  1107. "Not in my neighborhood!" -typical liberal response when their chickens come home to roost.
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  1108.  @BlockYTCensorship  Where in the gospels did he say ANY of that. Cite the book, chapter and passage. You can't because he NEVER said anything like what she said. if anything, Mark, Luke, and Matthew would point out the Woe of the Pharasses which is what she just did.
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  1109.  @sharwama992  Yup, foreign men can't resist the charms of Korean women. There is a reason why Chinese Emperors and Japanese noble lords often took Korean spouses. Though their descendants would never publicly admit it (and Akahito cause quite a stir when he admitted to being related to King Muryeong of Pakeje).
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  1110.  @cfcblue8  And in our golden years, we realize that the heroes are often defined by the villains they oppose. Without the villains, the heroes would be nothing. The nastier the villainy, the greater the heroics.
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  1111. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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  1112. @Mithril No, they don't. These are the same people that got bailed out after the sub-prime mortgage loan fiasco. A bail out just rewards them for their malfeasance.
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  1113.  @mhamma6560  Indeed. ALL of the flag officers are oath breakers. Half of them should be prosecuted for Crimes against Humanity, particularly General Chris Donahue for prioritizing a war trophy (war crime) over troops and refugees (Crime against Humanity).
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  1114. Other than tourism or seafood exports, I don't really see what industry many of these Island territories could develop.
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  1115. First class "neck stretching".
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  1116.  @mikecampos1193  It was. The examples they pointed to about suicides and death on campus had more to do with alcoholism and depression issues.
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  1117.  @nadrewod999  Mr. O'Neal is wise to stay away from Hollyweird. Samuel L. Jackson might make a decent Cobra Bubbles. He has the hardass part down, but could he also do the soft and gentle part?
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  1118.  @thomasravard7127  Hardly. Repeating to yourself the same lie over and over doesn't make it true. Truth is objective and stands on its own merits. if you have to "prove" a truth, then I have to ask if it was event truth to being with. That is the problem with the subjectivist perspective and moral relativism of the left; there is no objective reality.
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  1119.  @lexluger6904  Kremlin propaghanda.
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  1120.  supernovaaust  Pot meet kettle. But I expect that from fascist bootlickers.
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  1121.  @bryanshamrock83  Zelensky is a Jew. Neo-Nazis would NEVER fight on behalf of a Jew. That alone shows you have lost the plot.
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  1122. Indeed. If Russia collapsed, the China would try to take back outer Manchuria. And if THAT happened, I could easily see the Japanese move into Sakhalin Island as well as the Kurils.
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  1123.  @moiseshuerta3984  You realize that the Ukraine originally view the Germans as liberators at the start of Operation: Barbarossa? It was only after the Germans abused the Ukrainians that they switched sides back to the USSR.
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  1124.  @angiedelap6831  Just because you disagree with her? The FBI violated the 4th amendment, unlawful search and seizure. Their warrant violated that because it was NOT specific and was unconstitutional for being too vague and broad.
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  1125. Working the legal process is NOT a crime. You want to simply criminalize your political opposition, which is the Reich thing to do.
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  1126. "Today you sentence me, tomorrow the Bolshevicks sentence you," -Werner Klemperer as Emil Hahn, "Judgement at Nuremberg" (1961 film)
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  1127.  @romanboi3115  No joke. I can list several of my ancestors who paid in blood. And we are northerners who never owned slaves.
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  1128. I am glad you understand those nuances and details. I am amazed at how many people arguing against the use don't understand the critical details you point out.
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  1129. Why not an "all of the above" approach?
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  1130.  @geoffreylohff3876  It is a variation of Orwell's line that in a time of universal deceit, speaking the truth is a revolutionary act.
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  1131. RFK Jr. keeping the nevertrump GOP establishment out of the Biden camp is a win for Trump.
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  1132. Why are you trying to gaslight people with a false narrative about "right direction"? Most runways are BI-DIRECTIONAL, meaning that one can go in EITHER direction. That is critical in an emergency.
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  1133. Yes, he is. He is completely misreading Title 9, especially the part regarding federal funding to women's sports programs.
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  1134. So you are saying that the Flying Tigers, American pilots who flew for the ROC against Imperial Japan were treasonous? I have no problem with PRIVATE individuals providing aid. I take issue with the American government doing so.
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  1135.  @Coyotebriggs  Incineration is what is supposed to be done, but lab technicians in China have a nasty habit of dumping test materials into wet markets to make a few bucks on the side.
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  1136.  @psycobleach46  It is very much within the rights of the accused to call for a change of venue. It is more common than you think or care to admit.
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  1137. The people rioting now are those same people set to riot after the Floyd case. They just found a pretext for getting started early.
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  1138. What is stopping them right now? I guarantee you that Jameica Kamala and her cabal already have in it the works, we just don't know about it yet.
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  1139. Hanks was president of the Screen Actor's guild. I guarantee you he was paying attention. Do keep in mind that he was critical of his early self. To which people were telling him he needs to give back the awards he won playing those roles if he really believes what he said.
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  1140. If people were not awake already, they never were going to be. There are less than 3% of the people who have not chosen their side. We are in the calm before the storm of civil war. "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a time of crisis maintain their neutrality," -JFK quoting Dante.
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  1141.  @gnubbiersh647  That is a strawman argument. The government is NOT entitled to anyone's wealth. “I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.” ― Thomas Sowell
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  1142. I tend to agree. This idea that they HAVE to be under one flag and one government is an 18th century chauvinistic conceit. Let them fracture into localized governments. If San Marino, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, and Andorra can all be independent nations, why can the various localities of Bosnia do the same?
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  1143. They tried. But much like a Soviet election, the people who count the votes are more important than what the actual tally was.
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  1144.  @chasedoman8212  I will present ONE exception. Deborah from the Torah. But most women don't even come close to her as far as wisdom.
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  1145. Nothing shows the emptiness of the social justice mantra than when it becomes crystal clear that envy is what drives it rather than righting actual wrongs. The Asian-American population proves that America is NOT racist, that the problem of a lack of success is within the particular communities themselves.
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  1146.  @blueblade455  I prefer the 6 Californias proposal. Everything East of the Sierra Nevadas don't want to be part of the rest of the state.
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  1147. "Peaceful majority"? Tell me, what has happened to the Christan populations of the Middle East? What about the Jewish congregations? Ask the Chinese Christians of Indonesia what they think about their Muslim Neighbors. Ask the Dayaks of Borneo what they think of Islam. Ask the Hindus of India how "peaceful" their Muslim neighbors are. A country doesn't go to 98% of the population being Muslim without violence being a factor.
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  1148. The Baltic States know first-hand not to trust the Russian Bear (who happens to be geriatric).
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  1149. @Bone spurs are contagious That isn't capitalism you are describing, that is OLGIARCY you are talking about. Oligarchy of the powerful elites who support leftist ideology. Capitalism has brough more people out of poverty than any other economic system. If there is a rise of poverty, it is not because of capitalism, but because of the destruction of capitalistic free markets.
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  1150. The effects of the red-pill are starting to kick in. The question remains if it takes hold or if he has an anaphylaxis reaction to the red-pill.
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  1151.  @РоманКомолов-е3б  He is talking about the one singed on 23 August 1939. But I get that you would ignore Soviet Occupation of Poland in 1939-1941.
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  1152. And in doing so, they are making themselves irrelevant. People are being turned off by the toxicity of that "ideal customer" who does NOTHING to support said company. I hope Disney goes the way of Kodak.
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  1153.  @rickmcdonald2233  Pot meet kettle. Nobody is buying your hysteria anymore. Your ideology is like the emperor with no clothes.
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  1154. Ukraine is not a strategic asset that Taiwan is. There is little upside to the US supporting Ukraine beyond grinding the Russian war machine to dust. And the benefit of that is mixed at best. Yes, it sucks for Ukraine, but it is their fight, not ours. While I am all for giving our old and soon to be expired gear to them, there is no reason for pallets of cash to be laundered by companies such as Burisma.
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  1155. I am wondering if her license to practice was revoked just like Bill Clinton's.
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  1156. Because you are principled. People who engage in cancel culture have not principle except the will to power; to wield power and lord over others because they can.
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  1157.  @DarkMatterX1  Correct. However, he is right about one thing, Fox is NOBODY's friend. The good for nothing Murdock sons want to make it into another woke MSNBC. Rupert should have put his media empire in the hands of his now ex Wendy Deng instead of his worthless sons. As a former Hong Kong and Taiwan media mogul herself, she would have known exactly how to run his company.
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  1158.  @gbonkers666  Actually, the Golden Rule is one of the cornerstones of Confucius' writings. But to your point, such "classical philosophy" is rejected because it comes from "privileged old rich men". Nevermind that Confucius was born out of wedlock and grew up without a father. Ironic that a man from a broken family would create the guiding philosophy of East Asian predicated on the integrity of the family.
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  1159. Talcum X(Shaun King) is whiter than "Carrot Top" Scott Thompson from those annoying 90s commercials.
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  1160. No tank is invincible. Do keep in mind that the crews of those Challenger tanks are alive and well unlike the crew of the turret tossing Soviet Tanks.
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  1161. You have to forgive them, they didn't realize butter was $7. And if your BS alarm didn't go off from the saracsim, I think it needs to be adjusted.
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  1162. This situation is normal practice. When Kevin O'Leary points out that what Trump did is typical ACROSS THE PLANET, then you have lost the plot.
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  1163.  @owenmersk4626  And your preferred sources MSNBC and CNN are funded by actual white supremacists. Calling folks on the right racist doens't mean anyhting anymore because you guys are the boy who cried wolf.
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  1164.  @justsomeguyontheinternet5331  Sad how in a world of rich villains very few want to be a Bruce Wayne or Tony Starke.
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  1165. They did. On November 5th of 2024.
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  1166. Isn't it somewhere around 15-20% increase in food prices that sparked the "Arab Spring"? Hyperinflation is the match that often starts violent revolutions.
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  1167. Don't forget Ellen Ripley in the ORIGINAL Aliens movies.
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  1168.  @Private-Jimenez  The problem is that not even the activists know what it means. The definition changes from day to day. Biological men who dress as women but are NOT taking hormone therapy, nor undergoing surgery want to claim they are trans. But often, it is simply a grift for an ulterior motive.
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  1169. How much is Disney paying you to shill for them?
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  1170. Would not surprise me. And if the president/priemer of Moldova is smart, the response to those bills is "services not requested nor desired-refuse to pay".
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  1171. And he will Californicate Texas with the exact same Soviet-Socialist (ie communist) polices.
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  1172. Indeed, Uncle Sugar is not your baby daddy.
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  1173. There is a word for that : Californication.
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  1174. Actually, puts his money where his mouth is, unlike most of them who couldn't be bothered to do the same.
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  1175.  @sinoroman  The Finish and Swedes put that threat to bed. Joining NATO will not endanger Moldova any more than it did the Nordic countries.
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  1176. A man who runs the most finaically successful business in the world is not qualified to run the treasury's finacies through an audit? You clearly need to touch grass.
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  1177. I would assume you are referring to Formosa? It was the crown jewel in the Empire of Japan and was given preferential treatment over all of Japan's other possessions. My understanding is that the feeling of affection was and still is mutual
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  1178. Agreed. A waste of perfectly good art material.
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  1179. Or as scripture says, "the wisdom of man is foolishness in the eyes of the lord".
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  1180.  @tameoregano5006  Yes it IS the actor's job to check his weapon before pointing or waving it around. Stop deflecting and making excuses for willful misconduct.
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  1181. @ Touch grass.
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  1182.  @ArsenAl-zorK  Armenia already had clearly defined borders. Why did they need to go into Azerbaijani territory? The "ancestral homeland" doesn't hold water when there is already a sovereign Armenia state. Yours is the ridiculous take.
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  1183. @Chairman Jao Bai Den And then they wonder why the serfs engage in scorched Earth against them. Sooner or later, the despots will run out of potential slaves.
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  1184. As long as he keeps the Nevertrump GOP establishment out of the Joe Bite-Me camp, that is a net victory from Trump.
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  1185. Which is sad. One of the greatest Trek villains, Khan, was supposed to be central Asian, but played by Mexican actor Ricardo Montalban. That man could make some really compelling characters whether Mr. Roarke or Khan.
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  1186.  @irresistablejewel  Ukraine is NOT Russia. Put down the vodka, you are wasted.
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  1187. I like Scott Bacula in Quantum Leap. As far as Enterprise, I don't blame him, I blame bad writers for not knowing what the hell they were doing. Not only was Rick Berman getting long in the tooth, but the writers were trying to make Archer ALL of the previous captains combined, when they should have picked a single lane and stuck with it. I would have stuck with the experimental pilot/design Engineer.
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  1188. No joke. And this is exactly what Tommy Jefferson warned about. He was fully aware of the game Alex Hamilton and Henry Knox were playing with their stockjobber friends in Boston which lead to government bailouts and raising of taxes on farmers to pay for it. THAT is the root cause of Shay's Rebellion. Not poor farmers but moderately wealthy men of homesteads pushing back against confiscatory taxes.
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  1189. No, it just proves that if your campaign is only against something, you are not actually offering a solution nor alternative;it just means you want to burn everything to the ground.
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  1190. Or you are just refusing to address the points they bring up.
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  1191.  @waltergro9102  Your "facts" are nothing more than opinions you are trying to pass off as something they are not. You are parroting Kremlin wet-dream, not objective fact. Your claims completely ignore reality. No such agreement existed, and the Warsaw Pact members of NATO prove that beyond a shadow of a doubt. Your continued obsession with a non-existent agreement shows you have completely lost the plot.
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  1192. Yup, that is exactly what it is. Sour Grapes indeed.
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  1193.  @lisal9829  Ironic that a liar calls others a liar. Mr. Gutfeld called her out, yet you blatantly ignore anything that does not affirm your myopic views.
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  1194. You have a point. Compare the Fentanyl crisis with the Opium crisis in China which lead to the devastating Opium Wars with the UK. The parallels are startling.
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  1195. GDP does not accurately reflect the health of a country. When local businesses are being bankrupted by China flooding local markets with cheap goods while the Chinese strip-mine the country is not healthy for an economy. What good is infrastructure if there are no jobs to feed your family? Infrastructure does NOT put food on the table.
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  1196. Make those who graduate from high school or register to vote take the citizenship test that naturalized citizens take.
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  1197. That was his Marie Antoinette moment, and he was too stupid to realize it. Shows you how historically illiterate these people are.
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  1198. There is a very good reason why East Asians, particularly Japanese, Korean, Thai, and Filipinos have come to dominate ACTUAL medicine in the US.
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  1199. Kind of a similar thing with US Navy pilots in the Pacific. The carrier groups attached to the Akagi, Kaga, Souryuu, and Hiryuu were battle hardened fighting the Royal Navy in Southeast Asia by the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor. It took Coral Sea and development of tactical air combat skills such as the S-turn to pull off the victory at Midway and Santa Cruz Skies.
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  1200.  @jasonmax5759  Seriously? Have you forgotten that Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are already part of NATO and share a border with Russia? Stop pushing the Soviet lies.
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  1201.  @juniorleslie4804  Yeah, a number of absentee ballots had only the office of the president selected and nothing else. The down-ballot numbers reveal the lie to all.
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  1202.  @KathleenMann-u9u  Talking about yourself? You did not make an argument, you simply engaged in an emotional outburst. Try providing a coherent rebuttal with facts, not logical fallacies like appeal to emotion.
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  1203.  @jsanint77  Sadly, that nuance is lost on these folks. The fall for the false choice dilemma of "you are either completely in lock-step with us, or you are completely against us". TV tropes calls that black and white insanity.
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  1204. OJ got off because of the incompetence of the police. Seems like Kenosha PD is just as pathetically incompetent, if not worse.
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  1205. And the leftists judges NEVER recuse themselves when they do something similar. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
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  1206. EVERYONE should have some experience in food service. You quickly learn what it means to serve others. After spending about a year in it, I ALWAYS try to be one of the easiest customers to please when I go out for food.
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  1207. Indeed. Hannah Arendt and Eric Hoffer both observed that the Nazis and the Communists appealed to the same kinds of people. Which probably explains why the Molotov-Ribbentrop alliance was even possible.
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  1208. Fortunately, the recent Texas circuit court case has started the pushback that "muh private business" does NOT have a right to censor speech if they are operating in a public environment. Glad to see at least ONE judge properly enforce section 230.
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  1209. Indeed. The fools making this argument don't realize that if the government didn't have the power to revoke the Reedy Creek district, then they never had the authority to negotiate and enact it in the first place. That is called original position fallacy. Incidentally, they are complaining about higher taxes? What about the rest of the state? Or any other bailiwick in the country who don't have the special situation that Reed Creek created? There is a simple solution to all of this in that the locals get to now tax and regulate Disney directly rather than Disney regulating itself.
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  1210. "Child Nookie Network".
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  1211.  @linusgustafsson2629  Or Bolshevicks.
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  1212. "Child Nookie Network".
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  1213. Russia cannot fight the long-term battle/war. Ukraine is. The Ukraine can slowly grind down Russian strength. While it also grinds down Ukraine's, the Ukraine has the moral and the defensive advantage to maintain their strength longer than Russia.
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  1214.  @TrackMediaOnly  If by "few inches taller" you mean a neck stretching, I concur.
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  1215. A minor accident at 110 kph?
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  1216.  @GinaTaglioli-vi5pn  I agree that QE2 was a classy lady. The kind of monarch the US founders would have wanted to serve rather than KG3.
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  1217. Never actually visited the Korean DMZ have you?
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  1218. Yeah, my military service hasn't done squat for me. Can't find a steady job despite the claims that military service proves my dependability as an employee.
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  1219.  @Johnny_Rico.You_Know_WhatTo_Do  So if a person who plans out a murder but does not go through with it, they should not be prosecuted for ATTEMPTED murder? No harm no foul right? No jury would agree with you on that.
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  1220. I hope so. Clearly the country music singers know their audience better than the A-B Beer company does.
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  1221. There strategy is based on the false theory that the Wendy Davis campaign used back in 2014. They didn't learn then and now that same false assumption has deceived the Democrats running for president. And the results will be the same. They really should read the Prism Communications e-mails to Wendy Davis.
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  1222. "Figures don't lie, but liars figure," -Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain.
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  1223.  @TK199999  If it worked so well, why did almost every power except the US blatantly violate it? In particular, both the Germans and the Japanese created Heavy cruisers (Admiral Hipper, and Mogami respectively) with light cruiser guns that could be easily retrofitted with bigger ones so as to get around the limits? Then you have the fact that the Japanese absolutely lied about the true displacement of their capital ships. In particular, the true displacement of their battleships was 50% greater than what they claimed. Also, it wasn't Dolittle, it was Billy Mitchell who demonstrated the feasibility of air power over capital ships. Dolittle was the Lt. Colonel who led the Tokyo Raid from the deck of the USS Hornet. Don't try lecturing me on military history when you can't even get your basic facts correct.
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  1224. And face double jeopardy? No, at this point the only recourse is overturning the conviction on appeal.
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  1225. Agreed. They are just trying to save their own hides. Wehn the dust settles, they will go right back to their bad choices.
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  1226. He calls himself "moderate", but then refuses to ever vote for anyone but a Democrat. That doesn't make you a moderate, that makes you a partisan with delusions of moderation.
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  1227. Remind them that consensus is NOT science, it is non-theistic religion. Actual science needs just one person with the empirical data to back up his position. Michael Crichton was right about consensus in science.
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  1228.  @BlockYTCensorship  You can't even cite which gospel as the source. You are ignorant. "I never knew you, begone from me you workers of lawlessness!"-Jesus of Nazareth, Matthew 7:23
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  1229. @Kristopher Chavez I agree. It is reminiscent of Marie Antonetta's "Let them Eat Cake". Psychopathy and narcissism.
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  1230. I would rather keep the East Asian around, thank you very much. There is a reason why these wokescolds discriminate against them just as much as they do whites.
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  1231. Don't forget the exploited Chinese railroad workers.
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  1232.  @shueyk2320  They didn't. They actually did make progress and inflicted massive casualties on Russia. Most of those forces fighting in Zaphoresia were redeployed to other areas including Kharkiv. But keep copeing and seething Private Conscriptovich.
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  1233. Indeed. This guy is castrated.
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  1234. And that won't solve anything. It only means that the wolves will be at our door next. You can be against foreign intervention and still be supportive of both Ukraine and Israel.
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  1235. Not even Xena, Jackie Chan, and Robin Hood (Thor's buddies) could protect you.
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  1236. The states are still subject to the Federal Constitution, namely the Bill of Rights.
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  1237. Yeah, something tells me these photos are theatrics. Most people who sleep in the office don't make a scene like that.
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  1238. Exactly. He is attacking the very people that made her life of ease possible. Complete lack of self-awareness. And her comments about being called entitled only serves to prove her critics correct; her words make the very case she is trying to disprove. "The lady doth protest too much, me thinks," -Queen Gertrude; Act 3, scene 2; Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
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  1239. Hanoi Jane should have never been allowed back into the country after her infamous photo on a North Vietnamese gun.
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  1240. Japan doesn't have fair use like the US. However, Toei did not cite specifically where in the Japanese statute folks like Mark violated. That alone speaks volumes.
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  1241. People don't seem to realize that doing that will encourage Beijing to invade Taiwan and Venezuela to invade Guyana.
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  1242.  @ceejay1353  On paper means "in theory" ie, perfect conditions. Russia's Army looked impressive when looking at the numbers, but when actually used, they were less than effective. And using the Russian Military as an analogy, I am saying that the Russian economy is analogous to the Russian Army.
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  1243. Everyone is ALWAYS self-interested; it's called human nature. The question is, is that toward destructive self-interest or altruistic and enlightened self-interest?
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  1244.  @schulzbrianr  The problem is that government is NOT charity, it is theft. Charity implies consent. There is no consent with government spending tax dollars, despite what politicians may claim. Charity is ALWAYS more efficient than government; if they were not, people would stop contributing.
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  1245. Agreed. Those people are like locusts that consume everything in their path leaving nothing but wreckage behind.
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  1246. Not really. Vietnam, particularly the French disaster at Dien Bien Phu proved that the French Empire as an institution was finished. The others just haven't seen a need to emulate the folks in "French Indo-China". And considering their (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos) example, I don't really blame them (French Overseas) for rejecting that path.
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  1247.  @markpostgate2551  The irony is, assuming that women are "kind and gentle" is a form of misogynism, or so they have told us for the last 30 years. They told us it was bigoted to not let girls play with trucks or other toys typically marketed to boys. Mind you, most people didn't have an issue with little girls playing with those toys; it was a strawman.
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  1248. Brenda Song's character London Tipton, the Asian Airhead is supposed to be a joke. Hirono is trying her hardest to prove it is not.
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  1249.  @Balenza345  And what did Russia do in that same period? Get their clocks cleaned by the Chechyans way worse.
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  1250. Do you trust someone like this with radioactive materials? I don't.
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  1251. She was overruled as if it was a presidential override vote. Tell me again how being a lame duck constantly being overruled is somehow more responsible and mature than stepping down in protest?
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  1252. Indeed. Rather than go with the "angry white man" shtick, the calm and almost whispering voice is much more effective.
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  1253. Don't forget nihilism in that mix.
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  1254. And they hate the "segregated" WASPs, WAVEs, and WAACs of WW2.
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  1255. I stopped listening to NPT in 2008. It was a show glorifying grooming of children as trans that turned me off. Yes, they WERE doing that even then.
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  1256. Hold Nuremberg Trials for lawyers and judges.
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  1257. Indeed. Rather than hold taxpayers accountable, the court need to hold the politicians who improperly abuse the law or enforce unjust laws financially and personally liable. If the politicians had to shell out the cash, they would stop seeking elected office.
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  1258. Azur Lane the Animation has Enterprise say that in the opening sequence. "The Truth is, war never changes. It's exactly the same, no matter which era it happens upon," -USS Enterprise in Azur Lane.
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  1259. And yet for all of its flaws, it has raised more people out of poverty than any other economic system.
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  1260. "Amateurs imitate, professionals Plagiarize" Pretty much tells you what you need to know about the industry.
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  1261. And the irony comes down to the moral authoritarians. The wokescolds don't like that the Japanese often take their favorite topics (such as homosexuality) and plays it for laughs. Often the best way to broach a sensitive topic is through clever use of self-deprecating humor. Such self-deprecation is lost on the Mary-Sue crowd.
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  1262. Ah, but what if in the long game, the Daily Wire simply becomes the same as the Establishment left? When fighting monsters, take care not to become one. DW is becoming the very thing they claim to oppose.
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  1263. Which is why these cases need to be taken to court. This will happen again unless a precedent is set that the government cannot legally act until AFTER final ratification.
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  1264. Precisely. All this talk about "tacking towards the center after the primary" is all hogwash. Biden is an empty suit possibly with Alzheimer's dementia. A classic case of an invalid on the throne being manipulated by the eunuchs behind the scenes.
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  1265.  @Bobby-rq5pe  Just because Soros is Jewish does NOT mean all jews are part of his evil cabal. Stop blaming all jews for the wrongs of one man. You are no better than the Nazis when you do that. Stop using pretexts to justify antisemitism.
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  1266. Nuremberg Trial for Lawyers and Judges. Repeat those same proceedings here for these corrupt court officials.
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  1267.  @TylerIsSound  Jim Webb and Joe Machin beg to differ. Some of us still subscribe to the ideals of John F. Kennedy even if the rest of the party has gone full Bolshevick.
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  1268. Loss of custody is just the start. They are clearly unfit to have children. And I say that having nothing but utter contempt for the racism exhibited by child protective services.
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  1269. My thought was that I would put out a campaign book with ZERO game mechanics. Basically, all lore and world building. And as a snub, the first page would say something to the effect "Dear Reader, as this is not endorsed by any game system, we encourage you to adopt the material herein to which ever favorite game system mechanic you choose".
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  1270.  @rizkyadiyanto7922  No you did not confirm it. You failed to provide your source claim it is a hoax which means you didn't disprove anything. Hamas themselves were boasting about it.
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  1271. Ever heard of the trope "So beautiful it's a curse"? There is some truth to that. Just look at all of the flak Japanese idols get from "fans" when they accidentally reveal they are in a relationship. Rushia from Holodive was fired because of that insanity.
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  1272. hikikomori is Japanese, nor Korean. But you are correct about the alcoholism and suicide rates. But it isn't unique to Korea as it is also seen in many other Asian cultures.
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  1273. At a minimum they need to have their children taken away from them. And I say this while having nothing but contempt for "Child Protective Services" who are blatant racists when it comes to enforcement.
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  1274.  @Raya-ir4tm  Funny, because most of those "war mongering right wingers" are liberal-progressive establishment. The "uniparty". Yeah, your beloved Democrat leadership is absolutely okay with starting wars in Libya and Syria.
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  1275. Same here. I prefer a natural beauty with imperfections over the "perfect" beauty. "Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without flaws," -Confucius, author of "The Analects".
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  1276. Back when authors cared more about world building instead of pushing ideology. They sought to emulate JRR Tolkien (the sincerest form of flattery) and held him as the ideal to strive for. Today authors like Tolkien and CS Lewis are reviled and the result is that fantasy has suffered for it.
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  1277.  @daviekingipotiki8918  Experience is no replacement for technology. Japanese aviation proved that in WW2; they started out with the edge in both experience and tech, but quickly lost both.
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  1278.  @nobodyshome6792  You have absolutely no clue what you are talking about. You know nothing about how the NATO ascension process works. Poland Czechia, and the Baltic States would have blocked any attempt by Russia to join.
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  1279. Paul, you need to be more honest. The turn-around time between aid pledged and its delivery is anywhere from six months to a year. Look at how long it took the Challenger and Leopard tanks to get to the front lines from the point when they were promised. With that in mind, to link the fall of Advika to the current aid package is a really bad hot take. If you want to place blame on the US, it really should go to the dithering that occurred during the first year of the war when it was claimed that giving Ukraine F-16s and M1 Abrams tanks would provoke Putin. Further, being skeptical of Ukraine aid is NOT being pro-Russia. That is classic false choice dilemma typical of Soviet Propagandists. Shame on you!
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  1280.  @JMM33RanMA  Indeed. When I was stationed over there from 2009-2011, I came to realize that while the deepest, darkest, most desperate desire of the older population was reunification, the younger generations were much less enthusiastic about that. They perceived it as a nice idea, but one with serious difficulties that could threaten to destabilize their society and culture.
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  1281. The Greeks culturally conquered the Romans as Roman culture basically became a continuation of the Greeks after the Latins conquered the Near East. Why do i bring this up? I see Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan very easily being to the West what Greece and Greek culture was to the Roman Empire.
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  1282. I agree. The best thing he could do after his term is fade into the background and only privately offer advice to political leaders when solicited. He could become Ukraine's version of George Washington.
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  1283. Exactly. "Not in my backyard!" they always whine.
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  1284. Kind of like how ANTIFA was Stalin's street muscle in the 1930s before the Nazis quashed them.
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  1285.  @SiLoMixMaster  Who assaulted Kiev? Who sent their troops into the Donbas? It is cute that you think that the bully can pretend to be a victim. But then that is typical of ideologies. Even the Nazis claimed to be victims of the Jews despite zero evidence supporting that myth.
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  1286. True, but that was after they refuse to perpetuate Himmler's nonsense, which wasn't much different than the modern left's nonsense. Indeed, the talking points are practically the same, down to the "Jewish science vs. German Science" garbage.
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  1287. You give her way too much credit. The woman doesn't have a single original idea in her head. Watch the video mashing up Siaket Charrabart talking to Justice Democrats with her and the speech is word for word exactly the same, right down to the vocal inflections and pauses in speech pattern. It is as if one is telepathically speaking out of the mouth of the other.
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  1288.  @motownbiker92  I don't know, maybe the Falklands War between the UK and Argentina? Or how about Desert Sheild/Desert Storm?
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  1289. "The Truth is, War never changes. It is exactly the same, no matter which era it happens upon, "-USS Enterprise, Azur Lane the Animation.
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  1290. Crimea was never Russian homeland, it was Ukrainian. Now, if those folks accepted Ukrainians sovereignty and jurisdiction, then something tells me the Ukrainians would have let them stay IF they assimilated and became citizens of Ukraine.
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  1291. Indeed. Officials admitting to you that they are lacking information or knowledge is NOT a sign of weakness, it is a sign of sincerity which builds trust. Them hiding their lack of knowledge only empowers the skeptics and is fuel for those who distrust the system. But their pride won't let them show such humility.
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  1292.  @dangeroreilly2028  Yeah, he may have won the election (by changing the rules in the 11th hour), but his presidency is going down in flames faster than the Lusitania.
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  1293. It was the American version of the Reichstag Fire.
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  1294. Well, and she kept her opinions to herself, unlike Charles. The best thing he can do for the institution of the Monarchy is to keep his mouth shut and stay sequestered in Buckingham Palace as a recluse. Let his son William be "The People's Prince" and represent the crown in state functions. William has the class to emulate his grandmother and become beloved.
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  1295.  @jaric82  Yeah, what is wrong with that? Take Japan for example. They are very resistant to naturalization of those who are not ethnically Japanese. But those Western gaijin they DO naturalize often become fluent speakers of Japanese as well as adopting distinctly Japanese names and identities as part of that naturalization process. It also helps that they have married a Japanese national so that the children will at least be part ethnic Japanese. Same situation applies to South Korea. So don't pretend that it is just an Euro-centric perspective. If anything, it is the typical and historic view on nationality.
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  1296.  @kasper2970  You seem to forget that both Germany and France heavily subsidize their industries. Without that government assistance, they would not be anywhere near as competitive with US manufacturers.
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  1297.  @notusneo  They were not useless. They could have been dismantled and the cores sold to the west to be reprocessed into power plant fuel. But the West not upholding their commitment to the Budapest Memorandum when Russia stole Crimea certainly facilitated the current situation.
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  1298. And that is the irony. Anime and Manga is filling a vacuum created by the media establishments in the west. They obsess about the medium while completely ignoring the content and story which people are yearning for. There was a time in the 50s and 60s where production companies on shoestring budgets spent more on good writing rather than special effects. That is why movies and TV shows from that period still have staying power despite being dated and hokey.
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  1299. The nuclear accidents in the West are overblown. Not a single person has died from Fukushima or 3 mile Island. In fact, the worst nuclear disaster in the West was the Windscale Fire. That was a graphite reactor similar to Chernobyl. Boiling Water and pressurized water reactors almost automatically cease fission reactions when the water is removed because it is the water that makes those reactions possible. In the graphite design, you remove the water and the reactions go prompt-critical(Nuclear Fizzle).
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  1300. The "singularity" is Roko's Basilisk.
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  1301. That is the thing, they are intentionally doing this. It is called "Grooming". They WANT young children to engage in that kind of behavior.
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  1302.  @XXMatt0040XX  What has changed between 2000 and now? NOTHING can justify the Pogrom of October 7th, and even the Arab world who has long been the greatest advocates of the Palestinians have grown tired of their whining.
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  1303. Californication.
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  1304. And how many of those conflicts have had the USSRs hand behind the scenes? You do realize that the Korea war was instigated by Stalin? You realize that the USSR encouraged Naser to fight Israel? You realize it was the USSR who invaded Afghanistan in the 1980s? It takes two to tango. You are blatantly ignoring the aggression by the Soviet bloc.
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  1305.  @Madfrog625  It was Nick who was being disingenuous. It is Tim's show and Nick doesn't get to invite someone else without Tim's consent. Nick was just looking to cause a controversy for clout.
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  1306. Despite the claims from the "experts" wars are never won in just one year. Germany occupied MORE than 20% of France in WW1. Who won that conflict?
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  1307. Hell, adapt an R.A. Salvator novel to screen, WORD FOR WORD like Kenneth Branagh did with Henry 5th and it would have been money in the bank. Crystal Shard would have been a good one to start with.
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  1308.  @oohehoohahahtingtang1232  "Eye for an eye" is basically the golden rule taken to its logical conclusion. It also happens to be an advancement in egalitarianism and refutes elitism of nobility. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrakW1DjApo
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  1309. Politicians do that all the time. Indiana put forth a "hand free device" law after a retard in the state senate went off the road into a ditch while talking on his cell phone behind the wheel. Some of us are responsible enough to pull onto the shoulder to answer the phone.
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  1310.  @Solon_The_Lich  Well, the Ptolemaic Pharaohs were Greek. Rasmus the Great was apparently a Redhead! I am still blown away by that revelation.
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  1311. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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  1312. Ain't that the truth! And even many of the overtly conservative ones eventually succumb to liberalism.
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  1313. Just like what happens in Communist countries after they take power; they purge the revolutionaries that help put them in power.
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  1314. "Block busting" as Mr. Pool has pointed out before. Interestingly, there actually is a critical mass. I leave it to others to learn at what percentage it takes for the property values to start dropping.
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  1315.  @truebluereef419  The price at the pump did NOT go down during the lockdowns. They flatlined. The price skyrocketed because of Barak Obiden's polices. Get better talking points.
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  1316. As many classical philosophers from Confucius to Aristotle have observed, the beginning of wisdom is knowing that you have so much more yet to learn. Welcome to that never-ending race against your own imagination.
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  1317.  @Raptorade  If by "assault weapon" he is referring to FULL AUTO, I am okay with that. Strike down the bans on select fire weapons.
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  1318. The problem is that those very same bailouts extend and exacerbate the problem, not solve it. It merely kicks the can down the road. Depressions ALWAYS occur after periods of artificial inflation caused by bad monetary policy by central planners to game the system. Hence, depressions and deflation are natural market corrections.
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  1319. Bob Paycheck was bad, but at least he was trying to make the company solvent after Iger demolished its liquidity. Iger back in the driver's seat A THIRD TIME and he does controlled flight into terrain.
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  1320. And that I think is the answer, foreign spouses. They tend to value earned citizenship more than the entitled brats who have it by accident of birth. My own wife is Chinese Indonesian and that was the right choice for me.
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  1321.  Matt Peterson  You are correct, he succeeded in dividing us like nobody had before. He succeeded in rolling back 50 years of race relations. He did fundamentally change America.....for the worse.
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  1322.  @boomshocka1000  Bytedance has declared it will not. The CCP won't let them sell. You are grasping at straws thinking an extension will get them to budge on their refusal. Kind of like that "Dumb and Dumber" meme: "So there is still a chance?"
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  1323. Just like what happened in 2008, and the cycle repeats. Glass-Stegal was put in place to prevent this.
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  1324. "To prepare for peace, arm for war" -Roman saying. "War is the continuation of politics by other means," -Carl von Clausewitz.
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  1325. Indeed. No need to Californicate La Florida.
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  1326.  @astrumspace  I tend to agree. So long as people are out of the area of danger, let nature show her full fury and might.
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  1327. Indeed. He knew damn well the danger and still chose to behave recklessly on set. Ample evidence for VOLUTARY manslaughter rather than involuntary.
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  1328. Yeah, I was kind of hoping that Putin would castigate Trudick for his hypocrisy. It would have been an epic excoriation.
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  1329.  @dpelpal  You have never met an American in person have you? You are making the exact same mistakes that Trump critics made in 2016.
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  1330. What was it that Reagan said, "It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.” ?
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  1331.  @jacobleaver2450  No, they don't have the dough-boys reinforcing them, but they do have the logistical and industrial backing of the West keeping them in the fiight.
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  1332. When they realized they were not breaking through as planned, the UAF very quickly changed tactics, something the media blatantly ignored. Ukraine pulled out the playbook of the WW1 Battle of Broodseinde. "Nibble and Hold" became the new plan and it HAS been more successful than its implementation in WW1.
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  1333. Indeed. The Soviet officers who chose to de-escalate deserve all the praise for their coolness under fire and level-headed judgement of the situation. Vasily Arkhipov and Stanislav Petrov both deserve recognition for their actions in preventing a nuclear arms exchange. Yes, as an American I CAN praise Soviet Officers who acted with professionalism and honor.
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  1334. They have done it before and they will do it again. The folks at the top don't care who gets burned or dies so long as they can score political points. They complain about compromising sources yet they do it all the time.
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  1335. Fusion power is not controllable at this time; that is why we have bombs(uncontrolled reaction) but not power plants. Fission is controllable.
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  1336.  @Sylvershade  Not everyone uses the internet to make purchases. You are discriminating against people who prefer brick and mortar stores.
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  1337. That is the dirty little detail that the critics don't want to talk about. They will deflect and make it about anything but that.
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  1338. They didn't learn anything from the Gold King Mine debacle.
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  1339. Poe's Law has been in full effect since 2016.
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  1340. A meme that will forever be remembered by Ukrainians.
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  1341. I tend to agree with that assessment. The US has great potential to become the production powerhouse it was in WW2. But government taxation and over-regulation is hamstringing that capability.
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  1342.  @qjtvaddict  Cuts to education have nothing to do with that. In many states such as Indiana, 65% of the budget goes to education, and yet Indiana is NOT at the leading edge of breakthroughs. I will agree that choosing not to modernize and invest in upgrades has killed US productivity. Rather than use the extra money from profits to innovate, the CEOs, CFOs, and COOs have chosen to slim down and become "leaner and meaner" which actually is counter-productive in the defense industry.
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  1343. Practically quoting Golda Meir right there. I salute you!
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  1344. Ah, but the US DID act this way. Or have you forgotten that America didn't join the war in Europe until AFTER the Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor, a full 2 years AFTER the Germans and Soviets invaded Poland.
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  1345. Tim talks about botched robbery and Seth Rich immediately comes to mind.
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  1346.  @thefool3424  They are if they manipulated stock prices for the company to overvalue it. That is called insider trading and is why Martha Steward went to prison. His offer was based on that manipulated value.
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  1347.  @thefool3424  When he made his first offer, that was but one example. The whole issue over the bots is yet another where they were possibly engaging in securities fraud. Seriously, try actually looking at the situation instead of simping for woke corporations.
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  1348.  TaxEvasion777  And you reveal your true colors. Anti-Jewish bigotry is not something to be proud of.
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  1349. I prefer the more correct term "Unlawful Foreign Alien National". But this is all a word game with the left. They are NOT in any way innocent when they sneak across the border under cover of darkness like a thief in the night.
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  1350.  @grahampaterson4368  It show concern because that is the international distress signal. An upside down flag is basically an SOS.
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  1351. Which is why we need THREE possible verdicts in a court of law: guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, innocent beyond a reasonable doubt (which then automatically denies standing in wrongful death cases), and not proven.
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  1352.  @Sircool1  Agreed. The cancel culture folks were the spoiled children of the 90s who never grew up. "I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up Not me, Not I, Not me! So there!" -Song from Peter Pan
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  1353. Agreed. The ONLY way she should be given a "spin-off" is if she wears that revealing outfit from the anime. Cleavage and pantsu flashing would need to be mandatory.
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  1354.  @armandomercado2248  That never happened. You have been listening to liberal bloggers, not actual facts on the ground.
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  1355.  @luck9837  You got that Bass Akwards. We take satisfaction in people reaping what they have sown. Also known as Schadenfreude. It is those of YOUR political persuasion who wishes death on the rest of us because we are not in lockstep with you.
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  1356.  @networkgeekstuff9090  I find myself wondering why Greenpeace is not a suspect for the Nrodstream pipe incident. They have MUCH to gain from putting it out of commission.
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  1357. Indeed. His villainous rant may have just set in motion a spanner in the works.
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  1358.  @rogerrussell9544  Indeed. Putin is doing to Russia's Demographics what Stalin did to the USSR during WW2. Russia's current demographic collapse is a direct result of WW2's terrible toll and mirrors what happened to France's demographics as a result of WW1. Putin has doubled down on that butcher's bill.
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  1359. It is called REALPOLITK, something that peaceniks have zero understanding. "To prepare for peace, ARM FOR WAR," -Roman slogan.
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  1360.  @dalekrenegade2596  Put down the sherry, you are drunk.
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  1361.  @dalekrenegade2596  Funny, because he was doing EXACTLY the same things that Hillary Clinton did after she lost in 2016. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
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  1362.  @VallornDeathblade  Beat me to the punch. Your initative roll was clearly in the 20s range while mine was in the single digit.
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  1363. More like the cost of raising a child is driving the fall in "domestic production". The reason why the birth rate in Japan and South Korea has collapsed is because it is way too expensive to own and home and have kids. Even with just renting, it is almost prohibitively expensive to have children in the Five Asian Tiger nations.
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  1364. They have destroyed western iconoclasts like Star Wars, Star Trek, Dr. Who and the like, now they want to destroy the creators in the East who are stepping in to fill the vacuum created by corporate vandalism and wokescolds.
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  1365. "Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system." -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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  1366. I think what you need to be considering is the difference in what constitutes wealth. Cash on hand (liquidity) or assets (property such as land, farming equipment, manufacturing machinery, etc.) Most of the super wealthy have much of it stored in assets. Maybe the thing to differentiate is that stocks and bonds be differentiated from physical assets such as property.
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  1367. Because that is what it means to be part of the cabal.
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  1368. Ever notice today that the actors and actresses who play the villain or the series jerkass are some of the nicest people you ever meet? Conversely those who play the hero or protagonist are some of the meanest, stuck-up, egotistical, narcissistic folks you will ever meet. As pointed out "Hero syndrome" in actors should emulate Christopher Reeves and come with a HEALTHY dose of humility and self-deprecation. We need more folks like Keannu Reeves who try to downplay or change the subject when their charity and good actions are brought up.
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  1369. Indeed. That is why there is a VAST difference in the caliber of LEGAL immigrant from East Asia as contrasted to "refugees" from Africa or the Middle East.
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  1370. Only because Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer went at him figuratively like Brutus and Cassius did Jullius. "Et tu, Brute?"
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  1371.  @julies9629  Indeed. Taxation is theft. Property taxes mean we never really owned it in the first place; we are simply renting it from the crown.
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  1372. What are you talking about? The US supplied all of the Stingers, Javelins, and most of the 155mm shells. Don't fool yourself.
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  1373. Apples to oranges. Puerto Rico has time and again been given the choice between Statehood or independence. They have always chosen to remain a territory. Same goes with American Samoa and the Northern Marianas. Now contrast those with nations like Palau and Vanuatu which WERE given independence. Or the fact that the Philippines was also emancipated (those the Japanese invasion of the Island delayed it).
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  1374. Just like the Reichstag Fire.
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  1375. "If we burn, you burn with us! Fire is catching!" -Katniss Everdeen, Mockingjay.
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  1376. Great analogy.
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  1377.  @dereksbooks  When the shooting starts, that will not be a problem. Keep in mind that the US-Canadian border is the longest unguarded boundary in the world. You could put the entire US and Canadian military and border patrol along it and still not stop a flow of small arms across.
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  1378. Upstate New York needs to be split off from the City and Long Island. Everything north of White Plains should be a separate state with one of the following names: Buffalo, Niagra, American Ontario, Syracuse, or Adirondack.
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  1379. And they eventually turn on each other for not being woke enough. We have seen this before first with the split between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks before the Bolsheviks split between the Stalinists and Trotskyites. Same thing happened in Cambodia when Pol Pot's supporters turned on each other to curry favor with the boss after they ran out of "others" to target. And then there was the feuding between the communist factions during Mao's "Cultural Revolution".
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  1380. That is the dirty little detail that most pundits have blatantly ignored. Even during the 2023 summer offense, Ukraine rapidly changed and adapted their tactics as the situation progressed. People chastise Ukraine for failing to make gains, but they ignore the dirty details which show how Ukraine went from massed mobility attacks which were ineffective to "bit and hold" of WW1 which while slow, were far less devastating in combat losses than meat wave attacks.
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  1381. I' not surprised Deutschland chose to create a competitor system in the 80s. Record of Lodos War in Japan was refused by the owners of D&D at the time so I suspect the Germans saw that and said "we can follow the Japanese example".
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  1382. The destruction of historical buildings and monuments constitutes at minimum War Crime. Could be argued that this rises to the level of crime against humanity with how pervasive, methodical, and institutionalized the destruction is.
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  1383. Agreed. Anyone who gets litigation immunity from the government MUST abide by the Bill of Rights as if they were part of the government.
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  1384.  @dragosstanciu9866  Because it often goes hand in hand with cultural Marxism and moralistic relativism.
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  1385. You realize that Vietnamese are among the most reliably Republican votes in the country? More so even than Evangelical Christians. They remember the horrors of Communist Vietnam all too well.
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  1386.  @dimesonhiseyes9134  Why does that not surprise me? I remember back in the 2000s that WOTC held a competition for submitted campaign worlds. No surprise, they picked as the winner someone from inside the company (Ebberon setting). I don't know about others, but that felt like it cheapened the contest and made it pointless.
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  1387. She is now the boy who cried "WOLF!"
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  1388. Now if only the right internalized that as much as the left has. Sooner or later the right needs to oblige the left and give them more of a resolution than they can handle.
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  1389.  @jdw-616  Yeah, as Dana Louche points out, the devil can quote scripture too. You using religious text to make an argument doesn't give you the moral high ground, it just proves you have to use people's faith against them to create legitimacy for yourself. I also find it interesting that you chose to deflect into a religious argument rather than debate the merits of the original point. You have clearly lost the plot and are hijacking this threat for your own self-aggrandizement. "It would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck and to be thrown into the sea than to cause one of these little ones to stumble." -Luke 17:2
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  1390.  @cainabel6356  No joke. Only the US and Russia have the exclusive control over the only two samples in the world. That makes this an inside job and quite possibly a government back act of bioterrorism.
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  1391.  @Rachel_M_  The problem is that there may be too much information and much of it either irrelevant or flat out wrong. Read Huxley's Brave New World. The media is going by the idea that you bury critical information in a ocean of frivolousness.
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  1392.  @arthurvandermark5397  They already do that. With term limits the at least have to play musical chairs instead of being 20+ year incumbents.
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  1393. Indeed. There is a very good reason why Thomas Jefferson advocated for semi-regular revolutions every 20-30 years. Even he didn't think the electoral system set up under the Constitution was really enough to facilitate the needed change to prevent stagnation and complacency.
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  1394. Kiev still stands. You claim that Ukraine lost carries no merit when the capital of Ukraine is independent of Moscow's control.
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  1395.  @ttemp2631  Yeah, they said the same thing in the USSR. Ronald Reagan even made a joke to Gorbachev about it. Just because the communist party CLAIMS something, doesn't make it true.
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  1396. Which is ironic when you consider how the US Navy built up starting with the Spanish-American War. USS Oregon (BB-3, aka McKinley's Bulldog) was purposely built on the West coast so as to encourage more shipbuilding so that it was not exclusively on the Atlantic Coast. Then there is the fact that the US defeated Japan because we were producing ships faster than the Japanese could sink them. Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese production was effectively at its maximum capacity with almost no room for expansion.
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  1397. This is what happens when you give power to the Robespierres.
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  1398.  @zbigbozbboy5245  Now you are being disingenuous. While the Dutch first arrived in that part of the world in 1603, their aggressive colonization didn't really become significant until about 1700. One notable conquest was of the Lanfang Republic in Borneo. And that was a private company crushing them, not the government of the Netherlands. The did not become an official part of the country until the company was nationalized in 1800. It was at that point, it became direct sovereign subjects of the Dutch. Now contrast that with the Japanese who destroyed Korean history such as the demolishing of the Gwanghwamun Gate. The Japanese tried to systematically replace Korean culture with Japanese. The Dutch were never that aggressive in pushing their culture on the locals.
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  1399.  @LoopyAnh  You are more responsible than most people who drink, sadly. I wish folks would exercise the same wisdom you display.
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  1400. "We destroyed"? I guess "re-education camps" and gulags don't mean anything to you do they? Ask yourself why so many Vietnamese even today are coming to the US. How about what Pol Pot did in Cambodia under the Khymer Rouge? More Vietnamese have died at the hands of their fellow Vietnamese than ever died by the actions of America.
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  1401.  @insectwarriorjojo7780  About half of Congress.
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  1402. Yeah, something tells me Saint Peter may have pulled some strings, or put in a word with the boss.
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  1403.  @Brave_New_Tube  Socialists like to point to four factors that trigger revolution and often bank on them to take power. 1: Labor and workforce conditions, namely availability of jobs that give compensation that meet basic needs. 2: Polarization of political and social groups in society. This becomes much easier in a diverse society than in a homogeneous culture. 3: Economic factors such as resource scarcity, accumulation of unpayable and unsustainable debt, and depletion of national treasury. 4: Ability to spread information and communication. Ironically, while the socialists in America are trying to control these factors to stage a revolution, thinking they will consume those that oppose them, they forget that those who start revolutions by implementing these policies are often the ones who are consumed by said revolution.
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  1404. I don't think I have watched one either.
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  1405. @Scott Bloss I don't know about that. Just because the KGB is interested in you doesn't make you one of their agents. Case in point is MLK. The Soviets tried many times to get him to work for them; he rebuffed and refuted them every time. For all of the US's flaws, MLK preferred the American way over the Marxist way.
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  1406. Glad to see you here, our resident Montreal Litigator. Love you and Robert Barnes analysis. I hope Mr. Pool can join you guys one day for a livestream. The one you did with Dicktor Van Doomcock was EPIC!
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  1407. Maybe not attack the US, but China IS gearing up for War in the Pacific. They WILL use force to take the Spratly Islands in the South, Forcibly unite Taiwan and the Senkaku Islands in the North.
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  1408.  @Aksarallah  One head vs how many impaled? Yeah, i think I know who got the last laugh.
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  1409. Well, given the opportunity to ad-lib he might have. Much like Robin Williams, Allen was a stand-up comedian.
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  1410.  @8bituser  Agreed. That wasteful behavior is what contributes to the overfishing of lobsters and other important species.
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  1411. Yeah, the Ossetian insurgents make the EXACT same claims as the DNR/LNR folks. Same playbook. These guys are Astroturf.
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  1412. Confirmation bias on their part. Which is usually the sign of a religious fantastic. Only this time liberalism itself is the religion.
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  1413. Welcome to 1930s Germany.
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  1414. Indeed. If attractive women can convince people to stop fighting, I am all for it.
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  1415. They will be responsible when the company goes belly up. But unlike Enron, people WILL blame them for as Doomcock and Palpatine said, "lack of vison".
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  1416. I always knew there was a reason why I thought Soy Milk tasted awful. And it is a good thing I do NOT patronize Starbucks.
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  1417.  @angbandsbane  Indeed. Everyone sets out thinking they will be like the Fellowship of the Ring or DanMachi. More often than not it becomes either The Slayers or Konosuba.
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  1418.  @JohnCSmith-lp1qr  Put down the vodka Private Conscriptovch. You are so drunk you are hallucinating.
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  1419. Which probably explains why more and more Western men are marrying Eastern and Latin women.
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  1420. What was it that George R.R. Martin said? Tearing out a man's tongue only proves you fear what he has to say.
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  1421.  @thecomedian5933  To which you counter, "but actual Laissez-faire free-market capitalism hasn't been tried either!"
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  1422. While he conveniently ignores that California has become another Venezuela and due to the exact same leftist policies.
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  1423. The fact that anime is kicking Hollyweird's butt is proof positive that Tinsel Town is bankrupt of original ideas. Hell, the Japanese have even shown that you can take a rather niche show (reincarnated as a villain in an Otome game) and run is ten different directions with it, each being their own novel take.
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  1424. I have my own eclectic list though it is rather dated. Descendants of the Sun My Princess Queen Seondeok (now banned because of copyright infringement) Dae Jang Geum Kim Soro, the Iron King
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  1425. Loved those opening "subtitles" from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The moose have been sacked.
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  1426. Minisk Agreement is overblown. You seem to forget that Russia violated its promise to not violate Ukraine's territorial integrity as a condition of Ukraine's nuclear disarmament. Your blatant disregard for that shows your intellectual dishonesty.
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  1427. They knew it was coming but really could not do anything about it. Politicians and Bureaucrats made the call, ignoring the warnings of both the FAA and the DoD.
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  1428. At this point I have come to the conclusion that there has not been enough rioting, looting, arson and violence. The peasants have not been punished enough for their foolishness in voting for the same politicians that encourage the bad behavior. Only when they stop supporting these feckless cowards who call themselves elected officials will their suffering come to an end. And I fear only a violent overthrow of the government will put an end to the madness.
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  1429. I loved the episodes involving the president. Nailed Obama's narcissism perfectly.
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  1430.  @hopliteluke1452  Pushing Trudick's propaganda are we? Nobody is buying to lies.
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  1431. Ask yourself why Poland, Czechia, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Slovakia, and Croatia wanted to join NATO. Nobody forced them to do that. Nobody forced Sweden and Finland to join NATO. When former members of the Warsaw Pact want to be part of the defense alliance against the Soviet-Communist bloc, you have to ask yourself why.
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  1432.  @auntiec6294  Exactly. Existential nihilism. "Those whom the gods would destroy, they first drive mad," -Sophocles
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  1433. All while ignoring the plethora of sexual assault scandals among Congressional Democrats. Self-awareness isn't a skill of yours, is it?
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  1434. Yes, that would be in addition to employing what Erwin Rommel proposed (and was rejected by the German High Command) for the defense at Normandy. Hit them with subs in the channel. As the ships approach the littoral waters, bog them down in the coral and on the shoals. Then turn the beaches into an enfilading crossfire. And once they establish a foothold, engaging in a fighting retreat towards the caves and dig in like the Japanese did in WW2.
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  1435. IKR? They pick and choose which slavery is acceptable and which is not.
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  1436. Well, and it fails to consider Africa's notorious reputation for Brushwars. A large and young population can either be a blessing or a curse. If there is no significant labor market for which that population can be put to work (nominally in a free market where employers compete for the labor), it WILL engage in strife and conflict. How many child soldiers have been created since the 1960s because they were readily available to the local warlord?
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  1437. "You've got to admit, I played this stinking city like a harp from HELL!!!!!" -Danny DiVito as The Penguin. I kind of wish he would say that at one of his rallies. The audience would cheer and the pundits and activists would all blow a gasket.
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  1438.  @Zertryx  But there is little in the way of retail support which is what the original post was about. And yes, I DO still plat the original 1970s version alongside my 3rd edition.
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  1439. Munich 1938. APPEASEMENT NEVER WORKS.
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  1440. I suggest Japanese anime. I prefer the Isekai genera, particularly the "reincarnated into a medieval fantasy" kind. As far as games, Star Trek related ones are my go-to, but Azur Lane is also another.
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  1441. It is the slow, gradual (ie grooming) decline. Much like with federal tax law, it expands as time goes on.
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  1442. Oryx visually confirms the losses they report. They geolocate photographs to confirm that a particular piece of equipment is NOT double counted. If anything, Oryx UNDER reports losses.
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  1443.  @zeynepceyhan1909  I wish you would separate your points into bite size paragraphs as it makes for easier reading. I only got half way before I couldn't read anymore on account of my eyes glazing over. I tend to agree with you that the 1923 treaty would supersede UNCLOS. Local agreements don't get to be abrogated simply on account of the rest of the world unilaterally deciding on a set of principles the locals didn't mutually agree to.
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  1444. Indeed. This is corporate oligarchism not much different in practice than a monopoly, hence the anti-trust statutes as you point out. Interestingly, using your example, if Coke and Pepsi pull out, that in theory does let another cola company like Royal Crown to step in, but to your point, they are so much smaller that the damage is still done.
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  1445. And now it is falling apart.
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  1446. @John Stuart Mill Yeah, Timmy boy clearly has never heard of the trope "Villian with good Publicity". Some of the most devious and effective villains put out the image of being virtuous and heroic. I would almost say that Nanjiani having what Timmy boy calls "heroic characteristics" makes the subversion of those traits that much more effective.
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  1447. Indeed. NEVER CONTRADICT nor "Reimagine" canon. You either insert into what already exists (not shoehorning) or you don't do anything at all.
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  1448.  @nickngunjiri4282  Sometimes. Certainly, with both Obama and Biden "I have a Phone and a Pen". They basically act first and abuse their power as much as they can before Congress and the Courts can put a stop to it.
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  1449.  @PatriotsW710  Thank you for proving you don't have a single original idea between your ears; it is all just empty space.
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  1450.  @UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana  That is pure wishful thinking. NATO by providing arms to Ukraine shows that it IS willing to militarily support others against incursions and invasions. Finland and Sweden joining NATO with Austria considering it is a complete and unmitigated disaster for Russia as the frontier they now have to defend is two to three times as long as it was before the invasion.
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  1451. Agreed. Perun's analysis of Russia's military production indicates that it is that legacy equipment that is sustaining this war. When it run out, Russia is up a creek without a paddle.
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  1452. Indeed. Despots who know their domestic agenda is failing and bringing misery distract the populace by starting a war against an "other" they can blame for all their problems. Rather common practice from the 1930s.
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  1453.  @RCXDerp  Among other things. The words of Confucius are VERY compatible with Judeo-Christian values. Which is probably why the left choses to ignore him. There are so many echoes of Western values that can be found in East Asia that the "ethnic studies" simply ignore. Lanfang Republic in Borneo, the secular-governance of Choseon Dynasty Korea coupled with the mantra that the power of the king comes not from Heaven but from the consent and support of the people. I find it disturbing how the elites want to emulate regressive, inbred Europe rather than take a page from the Japanese, South Koreans, and Taiwanese. They took elements of American's culture and incorporated it into theirs to make spectacularly successful modern nations in a much shorter time than Europe. We can take the hybrid culture they created and incorporate it(assimilate) into our own. But the multicultural "all cultures are equal" garbage refuses to do so. John F. Kennedy would be disappointed. Anyhow, sorry for my rant.
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  1454. Don't forget the scene in "Deconstruction of the Fallen Stars" where the propagandist talks about "goodfact" as opposed to "realfact".
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  1455. Or when you are flying over the Arctic. Even under clear skies looking out over the ice you can clearly see the curve of the Earth. As the sun dips down below the horizon and then comes back up, that can often feel like you are actually in space. The moon position can also help to enhance this perspective effect.
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  1456.  @MrJimmy1717  As opposed to corporate equivalent of the same thing? I can tell you this from firsthand experience, McDonalds owns their own supply chain specifically so they CAN cut costs to wholesale numbers and then some. Quality is only marginally better than the local Gordon Food Service store or Costco.
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  1457.  @goldenbear8250  That is not entirely true. The Pardon was for VERY specific crimes for which Nixon was in legal jeopardy once presidential immunity expired. Ford's pardon only covered those, and nothing else.
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  1458. Russian nukes are more likely to detonate in the silo rather than actually launch.
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  1459. What a lot of these arm-chair quarter backs fail to realize is that the strength of nukes is in their deterrence factor. Once used, that effect is lost. An opponent unfazed by threat of first use against them will not stop once they have been used.
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  1460. Amongst other things. Cults also prey on people who have been deprived of love and belonging.
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  1461. Indeed. The problem isn't the ethnic background, it is the culture of dependency and entitlement that forms around government subsidies and handouts. Stop it at its source before it festers into something much worse.
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  1462. Scary that the "People's Courts" which your country experienced behind the Iron Curtain have come to the US. Bolshevism as a disease has jumped hosts and now infects the West.
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  1463. How did the attackers during the previous Moscow terrorist attacks behave? Or how about the Belsan school bombing?
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  1464.  @sharathnair642  Not Highschool drama? You clearly have not been paying attention. World leaders are nothing more that glorified drama queens. It is neo-feudalism of a different kind, with all of them strutting about like peacocks! I understand India's historical neutrality, advocating for the Third world. But I also point out that Switzerland, Austria, Finland, and Sweden have also traditionally held that neutral stance as well. And all of them have moved away from that stance because they know it is no longer a tenable situation.
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  1465. Yeah, I think preventing the people repurposing Soviet bombs into reactor fuel is kind of counter-productive and undermines the non-proliferation agenda.
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  1466.  @krasserTerror  First, Chernobyl and Fukushima are grossly overblown. The fact that the exclusion zone around Prypiat has become reclaimed by nature to the point that previously endangered species are now at populations levels not seen since prehistory speaks to the ignorance of man regarding radiation. Secondly, Man is NOT the cause of climate change. The Milankovitch cycles have a MUCH greater impact than anything man has done. The so-called science around climate change activism is as flimsy as the fears of nuclear winter. Michael Crichton debunked BOTH.
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  1467.  @mutegikimathi6258  Proof by Verbosity huh? That is not an argument, it is a logical fallacy. So is appeal to emotion, which is the entirety of your post. It is not based on fact, logic, nor reason but to pull at the very heartstrings of the gullible. Brevity is the great charm of eloquence and is a virtue in ANY debate. You are using the cultural Marxist argument of the "oppressed" which as the core of anti-colonialism is nothing more than poorly disguised racism and bigotry cut from the same mold as anti-Zionism which is nothing more than "fashionable" anti-Semitism. And your choice of words "heart of a witch" goes to show you are NOT arguing in good faith. it shows your position is not based on anything other than emotional reflex. Saying "I'll keep it to myself" after having already typed and posted it shows insincerity in your claims.
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  1468.  @allthingsafrica1111  You clearly didn't watch the video in its entirety. 30% of Chinese construction projects make zero economic sense and as such are a complete waste or resources. This is even more true for their projects in Africa as that continent is NOT China.
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  1469. Yeah, funny how people don't apply that same logic to the 2020 election. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
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  1470. And likely to make the Russian complacent as well. When the capture vehicles had parade uniforms, it was clear that the Russians expected a cakewalk. What they got was a rude awakening.
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  1471. Since only the US and Russia have the only two labs with smallpox samples, that makes this government backed bioterrorism.
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  1472. Among some of the most loyal and effective forces fighting in Ukraine. The brotherhood between the Georgians, Belarusians, and Ukrainians is something to behold.
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  1473.  @ROTHSTEIN01  I hope so. But I don't think the Indians have been convinced to join that fight just yet. They have their own priorities to worry about which I entirely understand. The trick is, can the West convince India that it is in their best interest to join the battle?
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  1474.  @CatsJP  You have no freaking clue what you are talking about. Wars are fought and won but UNITS, not individuals. Sit back down at the kiddie table, the adults are talking.
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  1475. Don't be too sure. Indiana is dominated by the GOP and our liberal-Progressive RINO of a governor met with one of the organizers of these riots. And this was after calling the anti-lockdown protesters in front of the governor's mansion and the capitol "Petri Dishes". BTW, those anti-lockdown protesters actually picked up trash and made the place cleaner than when they first arrive.
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  1476. Can't find what you don't specifically look for.
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  1477.  @syko2164  I didn't steal your heritage, you chose to reject it. Take away the religious component and Jewish populations are nearly indistinguishable from the populations they reside in. About the only two genetic markers that are as close as you can get to uniquely Jewish are Tay-Sachs and the "Levi Y-chromosome". I CAN trace my lineage to King Asa of Judea, but that does NOT make me a Jew. Unlike you, I respect what it means to be a Jew by NOT trying to claim something I am not entitled to.
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  1478. Stalinist purging of the government just like the Bolshevicks did to the Menshivicks, or Stalin's crew did to the Trotskyites. The Dems don't realize, this will result in Robespierre "off with their heads!"
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  1479.  @michaelmazowiecki9195  And yet Putin has chosen NOT to call NATO's bluff on Article 5.
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  1480.  @AICW  I think you greatly overestimate the power and size of communist parties in Japan. The ones in Europe have much more influence. Japan has been pretty staunchly anti-communist because in no small part due to North Korea regularly threating them. Add to that is Red China who further drives a great distrust of communism in Japan. There is also very little love lost between Japan and Russia, particularly with regards to the Soviet Legacy. Next time, try telling me a story that actually fits the data points instead of grasping at straws.
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  1481. Funny how thye get that one moment of lucidity, then go right back to the intoxication of their preferred narcotic. Social media is a drug they can't give up.
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  1482.  @KPX01  That is exactly it. Obsessing about sexuality as these activists do is all about personal gratification. It comes at the neglect of everything else, hence the collapse.
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  1483.  @wizzle0979  Electric cars run on Coal Power. And they are much less efficient than combustion engines. The ONLY way they become green is with nuclear power.
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  1484. I think it is ironic that a white guy of Southern European Heritage thinks he knows more about racism than a Quarter Asian guy who HAS experienced it first-hand. RA's behavior is the very thing he claims to be against. As Timmy likes to say, those who fight monsters.....
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  1485. Agreed. They are cultural vandals who as kids picked on the geeks and nerds. Now they are doing it as adults.
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  1486.  @JahNgomba-ir2zi  Yugoslavia is not the same as the Russo-Ukraine War. So right there you are making an apples to oranges false analogy. As for conflict in the Balkans, they have been fighting each other since antiquity in insurgencies and terrorism campaigns. Hell, WW1 was started by such strife. Unlike the Balkans, Europe is VERY united with regards to support for Ukraine while it was more divided over Yugoslavia.
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  1487. Now if she has only realized that much of the drama could have been avoided had she not pandered to them in the first place.
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  1488. Or, only now is it actually a viable option. Before, the Russians could have outflanked the Ukrainian position while still occupying the Northwest side of the Dnipro. Now that the river acts as a natural obstruction to Russian advances in that direction, Ukraine can redeploy those forces to the Zaporizhian front.
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  1489. "Iran is the protagonist". This is a villain-protagonist story? Nice change of pace. PS, there WERE chemical weapons in Iraq. US Troops going into Baghdad were hit by sarin gas shells. This was well documented, but the media refused to ever report on it.
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  1490.  @zilari3662  Taking your example, Japan is NOT likely to use Nukes against China unless the CCP goes nuclear first. Hence, it will be China that would be "first use". And if China uses them first, NOBODY in the world would condemn Japan for retaliating in kind.
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  1491. We need term limits for ALL political offices, Federal, State, Local, and appointed.
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  1492. Touche!
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  1493. It was part of Ukraine in 1918. They are simply liberating occupied territory.
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  1494.  @LuigiTheMetal64  You are trying to use logic on people that are ruled by emotions. Yes, there are creatures in nature that are best described as hermaphroditic. But humans are NOT like those invertebrate creatures which is where the logic of the left falls apart. As to "non-binary" it means a rejection of the two genders/sexes and the bi-modal nature of human sexuality. As for the critters who think they can transition from male to female, they fail to realize that cutting off the male member simply makes them a gelding or steer. The historical term which people need to start using again is "eunuch".
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  1495.  @engliterra355  And pray tell, how is the Moskva going to defend your internal sea?
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  1496. Don't forget Brave New World, Soylent Green, Animal Farm, Clockwork Orange. Logan's Run, and Lord of the Flies.
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  1497. Trump already declared that on the campaign trail.
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  1498. Not surprised. The Japanese are all about "face" and the fact that he lived because of a medial exception while all of his contemporaries died in glorious combat is considered a great shame. Not his fault, but that is how their culture views it.
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  1499.  @rickhart6631  And she was likely sterilized by the process of giving birth at that age. There is a reason why it is not recommended and highly discouraged.
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  1500. You remind me of Yoda's warning about the path to the darkside. "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." -Yoda.
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  1501. Your "best and brightest" couldn't even find Gaza on a map. Your "Best and brightest" are creatures of pure emotion who would never survive if they actually had to live in Gaza.
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  1502. Nobody is upset when they bully is bullied himself. That is why the left hated Trump, he fought back, beating them at their own game.
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  1503. Put down the vodka, you are drunk.
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  1504.  zappadallure  Orange man live rent-free in your mind. Touch grass.
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  1505.  @TP-nv7zz  Put down the vodka comrade. Finland's ascension into NATO is effectively a done deal. Getting Hungary and Turkey's consent is but a mere formality at this point.
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  1506.  @mohamedosama7  Nice moral relativism argument. That is a logical fallacy, BTW. Also, most Middle East oils and gas goes to East Asia, not Europe genius.
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  1507. Have you actually seen the Trafalgar poll? Have you not heard about the six million he collected in just one day? No you haven't because you live in a bubble and have never actually met anyone on the right.
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  1508.  @strategery101  No joke. Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno are much better.
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  1509. On paper or in reality? On paper, the Russia economy have never looked better. In practice, it is as effective as the Russian Army was during the battle of Kiev.
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  1510.  @patriktoth6258  Parroting Kremlin talking points doesn't make you smart, it reveals you to be Pavlov's Dog.
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  1511. Indeed. There is no point in holding trials anymore because these are Soviet People's kangaroo courts.
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  1512.  @SteinlichStein  Actually, it is exactly what is happening in North Korea. DPRK is doing the very same things as the Soviet Union did, which is no surprise considering that North Korea was basically a client state of the USSR.
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  1513. What kind of human being purposely engages in human smuggling and puts those people in danger in the first place?
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  1514. Yeah, Israel caught most of the Kapos and put them on trial for their collaboration. But as pointed out, "Spooky Dude" managed to get away.
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  1515.  @kimandre336  I think you grossly underestimate Japan and South Korea. And you badly overestimate Red China and Russian ability. The fact that Ukraine last longer than the one week even the optimists expected shows that EVERYONE horribly overestimated the Russians. The Ukraine proved to be the sleeper in Europe. And they have Poland to thank in part for that.
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  1516. From the Russian side of the damn? It is so easy to poke holes into your claims.
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  1517. And now you understand Teddy Roosevelt's frustration during the Coal Miner Strike in 1902. He detested both sides.
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  1518. Two flagships are already pretending to be submarines, so it may only be a matter of time.
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  1519.  @maestro6458  Other than bargaining chips at the negotiation table. The return of Kursk Oblast for the return of Kherson and Zaphoresia Oblasts.
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  1520. Debt games are always a house of cards. There is a reason why most of the world' religions consider usury a severe sin. Debt is the first link in the shackles of slavery.
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  1521.  @thetapheonix  It was in the past, but with the American Revolution, the idea that ethnicity and nationality were one and the same started to decouple. They are now closely related, but NOT the same.
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  1522. And they wonder why more and more American men are marrying foreign women. Drive them away with the radical feminism and the men will find companionship elsewhere.
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  1523.  @CatsJP  Touch grass.
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  1524.  @patrickt601  And yet that was a hallmark of their platform. One does not have to be in power to be a kingmaker.
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  1525.  @ehm2943  How dumb are you? The movie is based on a novel written by a Singaporean Chinese(Kevin Kwan). The director of that movie is Jon M. Chu. Seriously, have you even watched that movie? No, you are just another racist wokescold. The entire plot could just as easily be set in Monaco or Malta rather than in Singapore. It runs eerily similar to the 1970 movie "Love Story" about a rich boy falling in love with a poor girl. And as far as Asian not flaunting their wealth, the Koreans would disagree. The Hyndai family is one of the Chaebols and they are pretty obnoxious about flaunting their riches. And they are not the only ones. It is not uncommon for a bride gifts in East Asia to be on the order of several hundred thousand with the pride price or dowry easily 5 times that. I was fortunate that the bride price asked by my wife's family was under $10,000.
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  1526.  @tedmoss  Or they should. Sadly, most never grow out of their sophomoric period.
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  1527. Indeed. We get the government we deserve. The people wanted this, now let them reap the bitter crop they have sown.
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  1528. Georgia had applied for NATO ascension before Russia invaded in 2008. There has been some discussion that the separatists in South Ossetia was merely a pretext to prevent Georgia from joining NATO. Considering that playbook was followed almost exactly the same in the Donbas makes you wonder.
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  1529.  @minimax9452  No, Germany did not star "The Great War", they were dragged into it by the Austro-Hungarians. Francis Ferdinand had no business being in Sarajevo, a city where almost everyone wanted him dead. And considering the performance of the Hungarians in that war, Kaiser Wilhem should have never honored the call to arms and instead done what Italy ended up doing: stay out of it (for the most part initially). I recently read the West Point Atlas on WW1 by Brigadier Vincent J. Esposito. Very enlightening. Hindenburg's reputation is well earned; he pulled off the Tannenberg campaign flawlessly. Conversely Bulow was a complete incompetent fool who basically cost Germany the entire war with his blunders during the battle of the Marne. Kluck was shafted by Bulow's slothfulness and dithering. Crown Prince Wilhem conducted himself respectably desire never having never commanded a unit larger than a regiment.
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  1530.  @hhhieronymusbotch  Wow, strawman argument now? Your hyperbolic statements like that don't make your point, it shows the weakness of your position and is an act of desperation.
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  1531. That is a gross over-simplification. And it shows a complete lack of understanding. Try reading about the Korean War and WHY that conflict occurred. Then look up the history of the ruling Kim Dynasty of DPRK. There are irreconcilable differences.
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  1532. Funny how the Movie "Outbreak" from 1995 about the military creating bio-weapons has suddenly come true. Only, in this case, DARPA refused to do it but still kept tabs on the civilians doing the work.
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  1533.  @evilLincoln713  The Bushes are in bed with the rest of the Swamp. Establishment GOP and liberal Democrats actually agree on much, they only thing they disagree on is team jersey.
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  1534. Poe's Law.
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  1535. Even state courts must abide by the Bill of Rights in the Federal Consitition.
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  1536. This will not end by Christmas. The Soviet Red Army made its greatest gains against the Wehrmacht during the winter season. Considering that Canada and Norway have been sending cold weather gear since August and the Russians are having trouble with gear for even summer operations, this has the makings of a VERY RED Christmas (aka an ass kicking Christmas).
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  1537. If the leadership in Moldova was smart, they would refuse to pay the bills for Transnistria. "Delivery of services neither desired not requested" is justified reason in international court for refusal of payment.
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  1538.  @FlamingBasketballClub  You haven't addressed ANY the points I brought up to counter you claim. Instead, you are resorting to typical logical fallacies of someone who knows they have lost the plot. ANSWER THE POINTS I MADE TO REFUTE YOUR CLAIMS.
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  1539.  @albertpeckham8708  What rock have you been under? The GOP sabotaged Trump at every turn. Why do you think they kept siding with the Democrats?
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  1540.  @thatisme3thatisme38  So did the Islamic State. Doesn't mean they are combat capable. Until the JSDF actually performs in combat, they are effectively a paper tiger. Same with Taiwan.
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  1541.  @theminuskai7453  What does that have to do with any of this? Paul even pointed out that this occurred during Obama.
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  1542.  @sigmacademy  How? The fact that it wasn't gatekept is why things are in the mess they are now.
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  1543.  @A_Jeff  When you find yourself in a hole, STOP DIGGING. "Better people THINK you a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt," -Mark Twain.
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  1544. Well, eugenics gives it a run for its money. The Holocaust was conducted in the name of "human health" by advocates of eugenics.
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  1545.  @alvinhang8721  Cost benefit. Those missiles were cheaper than the ships. It is like trying to shoot down a quad-copter drone with a patriot missle.
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  1546. They should be following the rules and go through the existing channels, not sneaking in under cover of darkness like a thief in the night. There is no excuse for "jumping the line" as it were.
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  1547. I hope they do go scorched Earth. Whether Elon fixes Twitter or burns it to the ground is a matter of apathetic disinterest. (paraphrasing Yevgraf in "Doctor Zhivago)
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  1548.  @Tigerbythetoe  Indeed. Just look at the basket case of Zimbabwe. They will repeat the same blunders.
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  1549. Indeed. Michael Crichton even demonstrated that the science is flimsy at best using WW2 firebombing campaigns as a frame of reference.
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  1550. And THAT is the best way to get them to abandon this. Unfortunately, you have stupid youths who think this is perfectly acceptable and so consent to serfdom.
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  1551.  @succatash  WRONG on ALL counts. First, NATO is a DEFENSE ALLIANCE, not an equal opportunity employment agency. Its first and foremost priority is defense, ignoring all other considerations. If diversity and inclusion takes priority over defense, you are already dead. As for the Anglo vs non-Anglo divide in NATO, you are imagining something there that confirms your preconceived notions. It wasn't US/UK and all the other members. As I said, the former Warsaw Pact members of NATO were practically in lock step with the US and the UK. It was France, who historically was always obstinate, that was the cause of most strife in NATO. Germany since unification has been something of a joke as not even the Germans take the Bundeswehr seriously. As for the "Trip Wire" policy, that was more a result of the situation and pragmatism. I can assure you that American military planners before this year wanted to station troops in forward locations. Hell, Bush got flak for wanting to put troops in Poland. Did you know that NONE of the Bridges East of the Vistula are capable of handling Abrams Tank traffic? Not even the rail bridges are capable of handling the weight. It is little details like that which made it impossible to forward deploy many NATO assets. This is a weakness known to military planners since the fall of the Iron Curtain, but they couldn't do much about it.
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  1552. In Korea we used to get hit by "aggressor squadron" folks who were simulating an enemy probe of our systems and personnel. Seem like they don't do them at all stateside, which is a major weakness.
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  1553. That is exactly what I was thinking. They simply shifted their revenge against the Anglo-world from the UK to the US.
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  1554. No joke. They should have seen that and immediately put the brakes on this project. Repurpose the art for something original.
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  1555. Yeah, not much has changed since the famous article described the city as "Disneyland with the Death Penalty".
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  1556.  @Miinecraftserver  I visited that "FINE" city once. I have no desire to visit it again. "Controlled Pandemonium" is the best description I can give it. I felt like I was walking on eggshells in that simply sneezing could get me 20 lashes with a bamboo cane. And that was in 2011.
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  1557. Yup, the dirty little detail is that if final assembly is in the US, it gets yo use that label. Also, Saipan (overseas US territory) with its sweatshop garment factories was another example, though they are not as prevalent as they used to be.
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  1558.  @garyfredrickson2301  "Ukrainian Russian speakers"? You realize the oxymoron in that? Most Ukrainians across the nation can speak Russian because of their similar linguistic roots. Kind of like how French, Spanish and Italian have a shared Latin origin. And as far as "being forced", that is a strawman because nobody is making them stay in Ukraine. The borders of Ukraine haven't changed much since the time of Ivan the Great. And you are oversimplifying the Russians. Winston Chruchill pegged them best: “I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. But perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.” -Winston Chruchill in 1939.
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  1559. Amen to that. Who cares about skin tone when money can give you the access that race/ethnicity cannot provide.
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  1560. Indeed. He is blatantly ignoring how the inflation is greatly devaluing people's savings.
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  1561. The problem is that both are flavors of the same kind of statist tyranny. The Molotov-Ribbentrop alliance proves how Fascists and Commies are actually cut from the same cloth. Even Hannah Ardent lampshaded that in her writings.
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  1562.  @MN-vz8qm  You are giving France credit for the wars in which the participated with OTHER nations. Those other nations did the work. As far as demographic advantage, Germany has NEVER had it against France. Pre-ww1, France was the 4th largest nation by population. And marshal Petain (Vichy France's Fascist leader and willful collaborator with the Third Reich) got them slaughtered in a fashion very similar to what Marshal Zhukov would do on the Eastern Front.
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  1563. Joe Stalin said that. The hero of these sick leftists.
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  1564.  @junkeatng  In theory, yes that MIGHT happen. But as is often the case, the most predictable plans fall apart once contact with the enemy is made. The fatal flaw in your plan is the markets for which China would sell. If foreign companies leave, do you really think that China would be able to sell their now counterfeit goods internationally? The domestic Chinese market would be a boon for local Chinese businesses, but they would NOT be able to take advantage of the international markets.
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  1565. Don't be sad. They are bankrupt of creativity, having rewarded nepotism rather than talent and creativity. Let the Japanese bury them.
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  1566. Yeah, it is generally cheaper to hold onto experienced personell rather than force them out and train new people. But the higher ups don't stop to consider that. They worry so much about "stagnation" that they lose sight of the bigger picture.
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  1567. Indeed. They could have helped the US to keep the Taliban from retaking power. Instead, they turned a blind eye and did nothing. They are upset? They have only themselves to blame for driving out the folks who were protecting their rights.
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  1568. Just like what the Crown did leading up to Lexington and Concorde. Pontiac's Rebellion was instigated by the Crown as a pretext to disarm the colonies. But much like Obama's "Fast and Furious" gun running program, it backfired spectacularly.
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  1569. Agreed. We take the good with the bad, warts and all. You have my respect.
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  1570. In its own mind. Superpowers have blue water Navies. The Russian fleet can barely stay at sea, and the Black Sea Fleet is cowering in Rostov-on-Don.
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  1571. Which is funny considering that the Korean War started when North Korea violated the 38th parallel. And since the Armistice, it has only been the North Koreans who have violated the DMZ to attack the south.
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  1572. Everyone uses people to their own advantage, even Russia. Don't kid yourself. Oh, and ask Armenia how great an alliance with Russia is. Azerbaijan begs to differ.
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  1573. In a world of Lex Luthers and Victor van Dooms, where are the Tony Starkes and Bruce Waynes?
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  1574. He seems to forget his favorite scenario: Stand Alone Complex.
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  1575.  @rohitsawant5805  You are conflating assimilation with multiculturalism. The two are NOT the same. Multiculturalism rejects assimilation.
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  1576. And yet he is doing the investigative journalism that the legacy media refuses to do. Legacy media has become indistinguishable from Soviet Pravda.
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  1577. Very long, but all of it was dead-aim on target. (malice of forethought in my choice of words)
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  1578. I agree that race-swapping is a disservice to minorities. They need to come up with original stories. Arguably Simba/Kimba was a story from West Africa as was Br'er Rabbit. Aside from being animals, you don't see them being race swapped because those stories stand on their own merits.
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  1579. They like strong WAHmen.
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  1580. You are trying to apply logic to an illogical group. They want to take over the women's divisional because they can't make the cut in the men's division.
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  1581. @EvexMybusiness And yet India banned Tiktok back in 2020.
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  1582.  @VicePresidentKamala  No, they will NOT loose steam. They have effectively been out rioting no stop in many places since Freddy Grey in 2015. And further back than that you could link them to the Occupy Wall Street "protests". These people NEVER take a break. They are "professional protestors" and rioters who get bussed from city to city as the needs of the establishment desire.
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  1583. Remember the "food desserts"? They occur BECAUSE of five finger discounts putting the small businesses under.
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  1584. Ironically, they already exist for little children: sippy cups.
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  1585. Why? What makes her not credible?
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  1586. No joke. After the second or third time, he should have let the jury see the rebuking. One or two mistakes is one thing, but a pattern of contempt for the process and the Constitution requires the jury to know when the prosecution is violating someone's rights.
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  1587.  @headoverheels88  Indeed. As one foreign commentator observed, not since WW2 has the US put its full effort into a war. We have ALWAYS fought with one hand tied behind our back, often using our off-hand. Most people don't realize that.
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  1588.  @b12n23  Have yet to come off the production line? Then what were the tanks that drove into Bagdad in 2003? If you want to talk logistical nightmare, it is the Russians you should refer to, not the US. NATO supply lines are second to none. You are simply engaging in wishful thinking.
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  1589.  @rasidmantawil1052  If Russia has the capability to counter NATO tanks, then why have they not used it against the tanks Ukraine already has? The truth points to itself.
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  1590. Closer or are they simply swindling us? A smiling face makes it MUCH easier to bamboozle a mark. Make no mistake, China's government cares only about one thing: the survival of its communist party. All other factors are secondary to that.
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  1591. Nuremberg Trials for Lawyers. We need those here post haste.
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  1592. You are likely to have better results with a foreign woman. Pew Research data on interracial marriage, particularly when the woman is foreign born is quite surprising.
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  1593.  @plumbqnearly2292  Ma'am, I salute you! A woman putting a punk in his place is a wonderful thing.
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  1594. Indeed. Outer Manchuria is an easier target to take than Taiwan.
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  1595.  @greatestscott6599  Half-asslings, I'm going to filch that.
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  1596.  @lie01234  What kind of anti-colonialist drivel are you muttering about? Taiwan is mostly Han Chinese, just like mainland China.
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  1597.  @dreadcthulhu1439  It really is getting to that point isn't it? "The courts have made their ruling, now let them enforce it!" -Andrew Jackson when the SCOTUS ruled against him on Native American removal.
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  1598.  @anotherinternetperson8495  Some places have tried to implement election laws that make you wait one election cycle after registering to vote or moving your registration. Unfortunately the Federal Courts have almost uniformly struck most of them down. That tends to happen when you have the judiciary overrun by political partisans.
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  1599. She is the sacrificial lamb so that the rest of it gets swept under the rug.
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  1600. The problem is that the power mongers will never let the rest of the country leave. As Lincoln said in his house divided speech, it will be all of one or all of the other.
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  1601.  @teacup347  The Kuril Islands ARE Japanese sovereign territory that is illegally occupied by Russia. While it may have not been tenable for them to liberate those Islands in the past 50 years, today the West would not bat an eye if Japan reasserted its sovereignty over those Islands. As for Sakhalin, if the Japanese invited the South Koreans to join them in securing that Island, things might turn out differently. By making it a joint venture between two formerly hostile nations, it would act to circumvent a number of issues. Keep in mind, the scenarios I have listed ONLY HAPPEN IF CHINA INVADES OUTER MANCHURIA. Without that precondition, only the Kuril Islands would be in contention.
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  1602.  @joseraulmiguens6699  Japan didn't surrender because of Russia joining the War. It was the nukes, plain and simple. Looking at the timeline, the Emperor had already prepared the surrender speech before the Russians even started moving.
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  1603. Yours was a "father to his men" kind of leader. Very few generals of the caliber exist today because of the toxic influence of politics.
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  1604.  @bearmcquade2846  The left opened Pandora's box. This is the result of their lack of foresight.
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  1605.  @internetzenmaster8952  No joke. Get no kidding D&D fan actors. And even better, let them help write the script. 100 to one odds that their ad-libbing would be better than any writer's guild plot.
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  1606.  @charliegraham2789  Denial is not just a river in Egypt. You KNOW it is, yet you make excuses to justify the indefensible.
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  1607.  @marcogenovesi8570  Unlike with many unions, you can ALWAYS quit your job if you are being exploited (called "option six"). So, your analogy fails.
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  1608. There is very little love lost between the Mongolians and the Chinese. It goes back to the time of Genghis Khan. No Chinese Army has ever defeated the Mongolian cavalry. George S. Patton can tell you exactly why.
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  1609.  @armouredjester1622  Those who make peaceful revolution impossible as JFK warned.
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  1610. Harold clearly doesn't actually care about principle, only power. He doesn't seem to get that the attempt to enforce the gag order is what discredits the court. TO preserve the integrity of the court, the judge should either rescind it, OR send Cohen to jail for violating that same gag order.
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  1611. Tulsi is good, as is Jim Webb. In both cases, they left office rather than remain a party to the treason.
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  1612. Agreed. They don't get to have a mulligan. They encouraged this behavior, now they get to live with it.
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  1613.  @CharmanderSR  Indeed. In my favorite franchise, Star Trek, the lady who plays Admiral Alynna Nechayev is such a sweet lady though her character is a total bitch. I suspect the same if true of Louise Fletcher, who played some really nasty characters such as Winn Adami and Nurse Ratchet.
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  1614.  @strategicperson95  The MiG is not and never has been equivalent to anything the US had. The MiG-15 in Korea was smoked by the F-86 Sabre in MiG Alley during Korea. In Vietnam the NVA's MiG-21 were almost all completely wiped out by the USAF's F-4 Phantoms and F-105 Supercheifs. Yes, it IS degrading to call them simply rice farmers, but it is a bigger slap in the face to American planners than they let an inferior force make complete fools of them. In a straight up fight the NVA could not hold the field against the US. The fall of Saigon was because the US simply turned tail and fled, unilaterally pulling out while the NVA was still actively fighting. That fault lies squarely with both Westmoreland and Abrams (yes THAT Abrams who the tank is named after).
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  1615. I wonder if Dog the bounty hunter is making bank or is out of business.
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  1616. Mr. Heinlein was effectively describing the Samurai mentality. Less likely to give or take offense when you know the other guy can kill you where you stand.
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  1617.  @buffanderson5957  I don't disagree. The Soviets were monsters. And Putin is the heir of that legacy, having been a pupil of Yuri Andropov.
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  1618.  @SamtheBravesFan  You are not wrong to equate the behavior of wokistas to Salafism. The two have much in common with the fanatical zealotry.
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  1619.  @charlescarter3867  Agreed. He may not have been the best messenger, but the fact that he got the message out effectively more than makes up for any other deficiencies.
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  1620.  @SovietBelka  "Right side of history"? Where have I heard that terminology before? Oh, yeah, from the 1930s when the apologists for the Third Reich claimed they were on the right side of history. People who have to make such an argument clearly are trying to persuade themselves because they don't believe their own claims. "The lady doth protest too much, me thinks" -Queen Gertrude; Act 3 scene 2; Hamlet, by William Shakespeare.
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  1621.  @JassZoigel  LIMITED public figure meaning it was NOT his choice to become a public figure. You are dangerously close to being a victim shamer with excuses like that.
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  1622.  @lordbread2083  Spoken like an elitist feudal lord. I got news for you: DON'T BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU. If you insult people like you just did, it is a sign of desperation.
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  1623. I agree. Letting her rant unfiltered was a refreshing breath of fresh air. Not that there is anything wrong with the normal format, mind you.
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  1624. I dido that. May the Japanese bury Tinseltown.
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  1625. Indeed. He epitomized the "banality of evil" that Hanna Arendt observed of Eichmann.
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  1626. They are purging the military just like Stain did to the Red Army in the 1920s and 1930s. And how did that work out for them in the Winter War?
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  1627. Part of the problem is that most people today do NOT understand the distinctions between Atheist, Agnostic, and Deist.
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  1628.  @Danny451  Didn't your mother ever teach you that if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all? Indecently, how would you feel if people mocked you in your time of need?
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  1629. That is a far point. Those on the top of the heap become complacent. And complacency breeds corruption and stagnation.
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  1630. As someone who was apathetic towards Trump, it is sad to see how many people make excuses and try to appease the left.
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  1631. If people didn't know before hand, this was not going to open their eyes. People have already chosen their side and no amount of evidence is going to change their views. Confirmation bias is the word.
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  1632.  @Raya-ir4tm  The politicians and corrupt lawyers are who you should blame. Truckers are the lifeblood of this nation. You are biting the hand that feeds you when you attack the truck drivers.
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  1633. Like a good little communist it seems. No wonder he panders to the Red Chinese.
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  1634.  @Catmint309  And Trump conceded too, otherwise he would never have left the White House. Clinton conceded after she has exhausted all of her legitimate legal challenges. Trump was not afforded the same right and is instead being prosecuted for exercising those legitimate legal challenges.
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  1635. Yes, but it also requires repentance for sin (violations of the law aka the Ten Commandments). Grace requires remorse otherwise it is meaningless.
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  1636.  @pirn3676  Sure, because the people who did vote for that monstrosity of a bill were not also bought and paid for. Cheap energy is the fuel that drives an economy. Without cheap energy, only unemployment and poverty exists. ""I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or if they try, they will shortly be out of office." -Milton Freidman
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  1637. False analogy. People coming up from Mexico are not fleeing from Communist Gulags. Mexico is NOT Vietnam.
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  1638. A lot of conservative personalities are grifters. They want influence but are not willing to say the things their audience NEEDS to hear. Speaking truth to power means taking the risk that the people you nominally agree with may get pissed when you tell them the cold hard truth.
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  1639. As long as the Murdock sons who are flaming liberals keep running the place, it will continue its slow slide into liberal delusions. Rupert should have put Wendy Deng in charge instead.
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  1640.  @KenBissell-oq2ns  And it is very cold.....IN SPACE!!!!! Seriously, Ricardo Montalban should have gotten an Oscar for that.
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  1641.  @mikelondakos9723  The Donbas is sovereign Ukrainian territory. Acting to put down proxy Russian insurrectionists is no different than when Putin went into Grozny to put down a rebellion there. Funny how you defend Russia's actions, but not Ukraine doing the same.
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  1642.  @stinkfinga4918  Except, China doesn't actually care. If they did, they would have done something about the habitual and systemic mistreatment of ethnic Chinese in countries such as Indonesia.
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  1643.  @DramaMustRemainOnTheStage  Had they left, about half the congregation would have followed them out. It would have humiliated that Bishop and embarrassed the Epicostle Chruch.
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  1644.  @roberthitchman5073  Not entirely true. Either the plaintiff or the defense can request a change of venue on account of not getting a fair trail because of tainted juries. It just happens that should the judge deny the motion for the defense, it becomes grounds for overturning a conviction on appeal. The defense can point to the rejection followed by conviction as evidence of bias by the court.
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  1645.  @shafqatishan437  What do you consider as "help"? Sure, the West is giving them equipment and training, but that is the limit. Ukraine is still a Soviet Army fighting another Soviet Army. Only the Soviet-Ukraine army is being augmented by Western tech and tactics.
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  1646.  @mattfoley6082  "Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded. Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." -Fredrich Hayek. Sorry, my rights trump your feelings. Also, the Nuremburg Code is on our side with this. VOLUNTARY CONSENT is what makes this a crime against humanity.
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  1647. I heard it was a migraine rather than dysentery. But the point is still the same, he ad-libbed because he was in agony, and it worked out great.
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  1648. If it is so great, how come the GOP lost the Senate? Sorry, the GOP can't even capitalize on the blunders of the left. They don't even try when victory is handed to them on a silver platter.
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  1649. What a disgrace to ignore Hamas' own war crimes.
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  1650. And that is what makes the true heroes on par with the veterans of WW2. They are not out for glory; they are there to keep their families safe from true evil.
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  1651. Indeed. As Mr. Pool says, we are in the middle of a Color Revolution. The Deep States doesn't realize that by trying to provoke one here in the US to maintain power, they will be hoisted by their own petard.
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  1652. So, swallow your pride, vote in the Democrat for one term and then throw the Democrat out. Kentucky can afford to put in one for a single term.
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  1653. They don't want to admit that the ideology they espouse is actually very similar in practice to "Italian Socialism" (ie Fascism). Horseshoe theory of politics is correct.
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  1654. They stole a lot of things, to include the Boxer Salute used in China from 1899-1901.
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  1655. What was it JFK said about trusting the American people to judge truth from falsehood in an open market of ideas? If you have to force something, it means those ideas are not good.
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  1656. Lincoln said in his house divided speech, "It will become all of one or all of the other". Those in power NEVER let people they subjugate go freely.
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  1657.  @kieranh2005  They think uncle sugar is their baby daddy. Worship of government and power is their religion.
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  1658.  @geigertec5921  A government that fears its people will also try to oppress it as both the Soviet Union and Red China have proven. The only real difference is whether the people can do something about it.
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  1659. Pride is the first Lieutenant of Hell. And Pride comes before the fall. Both aptly describe this fiasco.
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  1660. @Phileas Frogg Democracy is basically the mob. "Tyranny of the majority". And Alexnader Fraiser Tytler observed that straight democracies ALWAYS elect a dictator.
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  1661. Agreed. Appeasement NEVER WORKS. That was the lesson of Munich that people have since forgotten.
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  1662. They will wait until February of 2022, That way Jamaica Kamala can hold office for 10 years.
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  1663. Ukraine can cross rivers, Russians cannot. How many failed crossings of the Donesk River did the Russian's attempt and fail?
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  1664.  @reliablereindeer  If Hiroshima and Nagasaki have proven anything, it is that the fears of nuclear holocaust and nuclear winter were grossly overblown. Incidentally, the US ALWAYS had the advantage over the Soviets in every area except for submarines. That was the ONLY place where they outnumbered the US. But then, their Boomers were not particularly good. The Oscar-class proves how quantity did not equal quality.
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  1665.  @mandowarrior123  If you are referring to FEMALE circumcision, I would agree. This practice is no different than the ones they perform in Africa that Oprah was all obsessed about in the 90s.
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  1666. @ And you only proved you are a bigot. Hate on white men is no longer tolerated.
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  1667. As my spark chaser engineer father said, and I am sure you have heard, "A program or AI is only as smart as the person who programmed it". These wokistas think they are being clever, but they are just learning the hard way what old school programmers have always known; an "evolving AI" may have an ever-expanding dataset, but it is still bounded by the parameters of its programing.
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  1668. Molotov-Ribbentrop Part 2?
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  1669. All three of them are Democrats with an "R" beside the name. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is particularly bad considering that she lost the GOP primary but got Democrats to support her write-in campaign. Most other states have "sore loser" laws to prevent that.
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  1670. The irony is that those folks who don't understand that Coyotes are flesh peddlers are the same people who ignore the fact that in Australia Dingoes have a history of carrying off babies. One lady spent several years in prison wrongfully accused of murdering her child; she was released after they found the little girl's clothing in a Dingo den. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Azaria_Chamberlain
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  1671. That will not solve anything. As Robert Oppenheimer said, if he had not been the one to create and build the first bomb, someone else would have done it. Further, restricting possession of nuclear weapons is about as successful as the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 regulating the size of Navy Battleship fleets. Here is a hint: it did not stop WW2.
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  1672.  @shortyorc121  The catch is, Trump bucked that equation. He didn't need to win blacks or Hispanics, he only needed to get 10-15% of the blacks or 20-30% of the Hispanics to take the white house. And then you have the wildcard of the Americans of Asian Heritage that while at 5% is still enough to swing a close election. They are completely ignored by both parties and when they become that decisive factor, American politics will change drastically. Demographics may be a problem, but it is not an insurmountable one. LEGAL resident aliens who earn citizenship the right way tend to be conservative rather than liberal. It is their children who fall into the false ideology of identity politics. This is most pronounced among the Vietnamese-Americans where the Boat people are staunch Republicans while their children have been swayed to the Democrats. However, this is slowing as more and more Americans of Asian heritage are realizing that diversity programs discriminate against them more than they do against whites.
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  1673. Indeed. The Three Laws of Robtics was a driving factor in a lot of AI ethics.
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  1674. People may be pushing back, but it won't stop until the lead starts to fly. These people only respond to force. Money is a force, but so is ammo. And it is the ammo that gives the money its power.
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  1675. Indeed. And there is the fact that after 20 years and so much prevalence of brand dominance, the court could rule much of WoTC's claimed IP as public domain material. Case in point: Ban-aide, Q-tip, Tylenol, et. al. Yes, they are brands, but the market prevalence has all but eliminated much of the IP restrictions.
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  1676.  @samwilliams9352  Novorussiya comes from the same fiction that fabricated the lies in "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" by Czar Nicholas II.
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  1677.  @KarmasAB123  Tell that to "The Greatest Generation" that fought World War 2. The resounding defeat of Japan proves that violence CAN bring peace so long as it is an absolute victory over an enemy who knows that a last stand is pointless(which is what the nukes proved).
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  1678.  @eileenmcconnell8420  What encirclements? Except for the Azov plant in Mariupol, the Russians have failed to carry out any effective entrapments; the Ukrainians have managed to evacuate before they get into trouble. Because of that, the Russians are doing brute force frontal assaults under an umbrella of artillery fire; classic 1970s Soviet military doctrine, and one that is actually very easy to evade.
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  1679. I hope this leads to more people giving up the bottle. While a little may be good for heart health, too much cause good men and women to become absolute monsters.
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  1680.  @ruleoftwo6174  For mainland China, that is pretty much a given, and goes without saying because it is blatantly obvious. However, CCP propaganda has a much harder time permeating the Chinese diaspora population. Given the choice, most overseas Chinese identify more with the Taiwanese and Hong Kong folks than they do mainlanders.
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  1681.  @DogSpeak  Preach brother! Corporate brands are overpriced because you are paying for the name. And as you said, outside of local payroll, the rest of the money goes out of the community. I said after the Bud Light fiasco that there are so many microbreweries that there is no need to every buy a franchise product, that that goes for food as well.
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  1682.  @k9px  Schadenfreude. It occurs because people who disagreed with her on vaccines were told to die (not by her but by people who think like her). Don't cast stones if you don't want people to laugh at you for dropping one on your own foot.
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  1683. What was it that Alfred said? "Some people just want to watch the world burn"? Mulvaney is one of those cultural arsonists.
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  1684. "Living Wage" is a myth pushed by communists. The problem isn't the businesses that give minimum wage, the problem is the bankers and the politicians that destroy savings via inflationary monetary policy. The value of your labor is not any more than when your mother worked. The difference is that she could save and her wealth increased, while you and I try saving and our wealth goes DOWN. Try reading Fredrich Hayek and Karl Menger on economics.
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  1685. The best Netflix animes are the ones where they simply bought a complete project from a Japanese studio and simply sub/dubbed it. The "in house" Netflix stuff suffers from too much "executive meddling". Take "The Dragon Prince". It was actually a very good cartoon, but with way too much homoeroticism no doubt pandering to certain audiences. And oddly, since the start of the Wuhan Virus hysteria, they seem to have simply stopped all work on that project after three seasons even though there was supposed to be a total of nine seasons.
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  1686. The laws are meaningless if the people who are supposed to enforce them are on the take from the people they are regulating.
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  1687. Because for the longest time, nationality was tied up with ethnicity. Take the Germans of Alsace-Lorraine. The French didn't like them, and the Prussians didn't trust them. Many fled to the new world after being driven out by the French.
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  1688.  @Tadicuslegion78  No kidding. Ph.D. Presidents like Woodrow Wilson were complete disasters.
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  1689.  @Thorsten_Wiegand  What green power are you specifically referring to? When you factor in HYDRO-electric, then yes you can get that number because the prevalence of dams to generate electricity makes up for the steep cost of solar panels and the mineral oil required to operate wind turbines. As for Nuclear, much of the cost comes from regulations as Matt pointed out. The front end may be expensive, but it very quickly makes up over time at a much faster rate due to lower overhead operational costs. Solar and Wind NEVER make up the difference over time. Only Hydro-electric is able to do that.
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  1690. I would not trust them to do any of those jobs considering the quality of work they produced so far. Even working fast food seems to be beyond their capabilities.
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  1691. Tiktok threw them a bone, and like an abused spouse, they came crawling back on hands and knees.
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  1692. Indeed. He knowns that if he follows Merchan's lead, he will end up in the same place as the Nuremberg Trials.
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  1693. Love Canal is the first thing that came to mind for me as well.
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  1694. Because the people who advocated mass tank battles haven't read Heinz Guderian's book, "Achtung Panzer". Guderian said that tanks should ALWAYS be escorted by an infantry platoon.
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  1695.  @sarahbrown5073  No joke. Most of my investments are in blue chip stocks like Caterpillar, Ford, Texas Instruments, and the like; stocks that don't fluctuate wildly and which you plan on still for 20-30 years. The market manipulators can't screw with them so easily and if they do, the people who do become pariahs and plague bearers for crashing a reliable investment.
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  1696. I think General Sherman made the same warning to the south. That though slow to anger, the people of the North will not give up the fight so easily.
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  1697.  @shonuff5297  I hope so, but they are behaving like a cornered badger. They are using the exact same dirty tricks as the left to go after conservatives. The problem is that conservatives keep going back to them like an abused spouse.
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  1698. Indeed. Everyone saying "involuntary" misses the point that he knew his actions were reckless and yet he still persisted. That is the definition of culpable or VOLUNTARY manslaughter.
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  1699.  @dudeonyoutube  "When the wise man points at the moon, the imbecil examines the finger," -Confucius. "Wisdom sounds like foolishness to the stupid" -attributed to Socrates. Guess who resembles those quotes?
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  1700. I suspect they have a GREAT appreciation for the US's bill of rights, particularly the due process of the 6th amendment as well as protection from unjust searches under the 4th.
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  1701. Just like the Reichstag Fire.
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  1702.  @jabronjunklove760  You are assuming that Biden is a dangerous to the establishment as JFK was. No, they will keep him around just like they did with Senate critters who had a hospital orderly bring them to floor votes.
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  1703.  @Definitelynotjewish  Because "progressive liberals" today have "moved beyond JFK", or so I was told by Hoosier Democratic Party power mongers when I tried running as a Democrat in Indiana during the 2014 primaries. And yes, the power mongers did have him take out by Lee Harvey Oswald. The FBI and CIA at that time used him as a patsy just like they did with the Garland Texas shooters.
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  1704.  @gheaflorin  Then tell the Arabs in Syria and Lebanon to stop firing rockets into Israel. Also, the Druze in the Golan Heights prefer to be under Israeli authority than Syrians.
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  1705.  @sigmacademy  Not quite. It was a post scarcity society. Capitalism still existed otherwise merchants like Quark and various shop owners at the colonies the crew visited wouldn't exist.
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  1706. No joke. People call the Great Depression a "deflationary spiral", but that oversimplifies the situation. Artificial inflation is followed by deflation as the "market correction" for an overvalued commodity. Thomas Jefferson warned about this cycle of inflation and deflation used by Banking institutions to enslave a population.
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  1707. To be fair, India has always tried to play the neutral third-party card. But recent developments are making that position more and more untenable.
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  1708. History. Japan and the USSR never officially ended WW2 with a peace treaty. Russia has never officially signed a peace treaty with Japan formally ending the state of war between the two nations.
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  1709.  @nicarde88  More like queeffed in the beer, but I still agree with you.
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  1710. Same could be said about The Original Series Star Trek. Or most of the shows made during the golden age of Television.
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  1711. The issue comes more from the fact that there are TWO cultures in Japan. The traditionalist reactionary culture which dominates the established institutions (much like how liberals dominate government and media) and is hell bent on maintaining their stranglehold on power, and the counter-culture which can and often does make bored jaded US Marines blush. Fortunately, the Japanese in both circles know a little something about discretion and subtlety which is lost on many Americans, particularly the reactionaries in government and positions of power.
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  1712. I agree. Given the option, CONCEAL carry. Don't let them know you are packing that way they will be in for quite a surprise.
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  1713. Just proves that much like the Oscars and Golden globes, it is the industry patting itself on the back. The foxes guard the hen house.
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  1714.  @SouthoftheHill  No, it is not. Communism demands that you get the same result regardless of effort. Egalitarianism is very much merit based.
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  1715. How just two Neptune missiles took out the Moskva does NOT speak well for Russian military's advanced systems.
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  1716. Yeah, the fool seems to realize that school choice is a conservative value, not a left-liberal value. Jamaica Kamala has already said that she will kill both charter schools and Catholic as soon as she takes over from Biden.
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  1717. People don't realize that the nature of the ceasefire WILL have an impact on Beijing invading Taiwan or Venezuela going after Guyana.
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  1718. Sweden and Finland joining NATO puts to bed your narrative. When even the historically neutral Swiss don't believe your claims, you have lost the plot.
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  1719. Indeed. The Anime dropped in the US around the same time as the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing. The Manga predated the metoo movement. But since Malty's behavior reveals an ugly truth they don't want out, they tried to destroy a great isekai series.
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  1720.  @kevinho8616  Don't forget Operation Northwoods that JFK rightfully rejected. I suspect that played a major factor in his assasination.
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  1721.  Doc V2  Apples to oranges false analogy. Nice try. Modern Japan is NOT fascistic Imperial Japan. Most Japanese today would rather make love to Chinese (particularly Taiwanese Chinese) than war. My point was that having been on the receiving end of nuclear warfare, they who know when it is and when it is NOT appropriate to actually use them. They know firsthand the terrible cost of unleashing the power of the atom.
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  1722.  @20quid  That sounds like a strawman argument. Me thinks that the villages and hamlets are NOT integrated multi-ethnic communities. That argument really only applies to major cities. If San Marino, the Vatican, Andorra, Lichtenstein, and Luxemburg can be independent states, then why can't the same occur in Bosnia?
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  1723. Perun looked into that question in his Russian Production video. Yes, they are building T-90 tanks, but the vast majority coming off the line and into their reserves are the T-72s. Mid-grade equipment like the T-80s and the BMP2s are becoming an extinct species. If you have an hour, he goes into great detail.
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  1724. They didn't learn from last years' bruhaha.
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  1725. Yeah, funny how it works when the peasants and serfs openly revolt and take the property by force. Who do they think they are going to get to reassert property rights? And once their praetorian guard removes the squatters, who will they get to move in? A classic example of the wannabe feudal lords not thinking this through to its eventual conclusion.
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  1726. Or the families of Union Soldiers who fought to liberate them? Mine were active in the Abolitionist movement before joining the fight against the Jonny Rebs.
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  1727.  @mohammed44_  Yes, they killed him and about 2,000 of his retainers. He impaled no fewer than 20,000 and possibly more than 100,000. Again, you are only showing your ignorance.
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  1728.  @DigitallySaved  Something tells me there is more to the case than what you are citing. In the case of Andrew Johnson's pardon, the SPECIFIC crime it covered was sedition and armed rebellion.
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  1729.  @Carabas72  The only reason why 70 years after author's death is because of Disney's lobbying. Under the 1790 law, it was for 14 years with only ONE extension for another 14 years. The law kept getting changed to push back the expiration date a year or two before Steamboat Willie was set to go into public domain. Some Republican lawmakers are re-examining the law in the wake of the Florida Law that Disney foolishly stuck its nose into.
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  1730. Batteries are very inefficient, losing just as much energy charging them as you get from storage. Just look at the capacity numbers as the temperature drops. This is true even of lithium-ion. The ONLY realistically viable cheap energy that happens to be clear is nuclear.
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  1731. Was it a direct chain or were they simply playing a game? The Houthis are on Iran's leash.
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  1732. Probably not a popular opinion, but Russia should be partitioned. The area west of the Urals centered on the Volga River drainage area of Russia should become "The Volga Republic". East of the Urals becomes the Republic of Irkutsk, and the Far East district becomes the Amur-Kamchatkan Republic.
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  1733. Do you even understand what goes into being a rental property owner? They are entirely responsible for facility maintenance, which is often not cheap. Roof leaks? That is the property owner's responsibility. Pipes burst? Also, property owner's responsibility. HVAC breaks down? That is also up to the property owner to fix. Renters are not obligated to pay for any of those fixes as rental costs are supposed to factor that in on the front end. There is a reason why they say being a homeowner is more of a curse than a blessing.
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  1734. I agree. It is good to see that some Koreans are willing to bury the hatreds and wrongs of the past and treat people on their own merits and with dignity.
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  1735.  @whitewolf3051  That theory has no value. Jar Jar came onto the scene in 1999. His final "live action" appearance was in 2005 with Revenge of the Sith. Disney bought Lucas Films in 2012 which means that a seven year gap disproves that theory. It is just a story the Disney wokescold apologists use to validate their contempt for "The FANDOM Menace".
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  1736. Some of those frequencies happen to be the emission wavelengths of water vapor. That is significant because the signal pollution will negatively impact meteorological satellite observation and analysis. This is especially significant during nocturnal hours.
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  1737. It can. Soil Alkalinity can be a factor when growing crops. Not that followers of modern day Lysenkoism would care to admit that.
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  1738.  @buddy1155  Because people in power refuse to let go of that power. The US has the "seniority rules" mentality. Those two things are why you have people who have held the same office for 30 or more years.
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  1739. " Peace will come when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us.” -Golda Mier, Israel's "Iron Lady".
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  1740.  @nik6759  Speak for yourself. The Muscovites are NOT the heirs of the Kievan Rus. Coins from that era make it pretty clear: the Trident in the south, and the Horse of the Golden Horde in the North on the coins of Moscow.
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  1741. @GenerationX19694 Except, it is still fake. Blemishes actually give a woman's face some character.
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  1742. Putin doesn't care about Ukrainian lives. If he did, he would not be specifically targeting civilian infrastructure. Also, the butchery of Bucha proves beyond a reasonable doubt that your claims is hogwash.
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  1743.  @Kunfucious577  The problem is that with such rights comes the responsibility to know how to property use them. The reason why gun safety is not taught in schools is that they WANT stupid kids to get their hands on a weapon and cause grievous injury. It gives them the perfect pretext for disarmament. Much like using power tools or starting a fire, knowing proper control and use makes all the difference.
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  1744. I served with the United State Air Force. During my time at Osan AB, Korea, we were told that the common scam with the "Juicy Girls"(typically Filipinas, but sometimes Russian or rarely Korean) is that they tell as sad sob story about sick or injured family and that they need money. I really wish that warning was shared around with everyone. I sickens me that those of us who wore the uniform are being discredited by these hacks. I would gladly do a public service announcement (in full service uniform provided the DoD gave consent) for these girls warning them to not fall for the same scams.
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  1745.  @dmitriyalaasniy8442  HIMARS are a precision weapon that would only leave pockmarks on the dam. This was done by demolition explosives. Unless you are telling me the Russian Army is so blind as to not see Ukrainian Frogmen place those only the Russians had access to the location to detonate such explosives.
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  1746.  @crocidile90  Kodak became a niche company because they refused to adapt to digital. They may again become relevant if only because we have reached peak digital.
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  1747. Indeed. That is the damage control excuse they try to use to hide behind their bad choice. Don't let them get away with it.
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  1748. Forgetting the Baltic States which DO share a land border with Russia? Or have you forgotten that the Warsaw Pact nations didn't join NATO until AFTER Putin came to power. They didn't feel a need to join while Boris Yeltsin was President of Russia. Try looking at an actual map of the region and do a little research on the recent history of the area before you regurgitate the Kremlin's talking points blindly.
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  1749. And it contributes to the over-fishing of these species. If these people were stopped, it would go a long way towards addressing the problem.
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  1750.  @Yearlinphillips  Governments printing money with nothing to back it up ala Zimbabwe and Weimar Germany is responsible for most of the inflation since 2019. THAT is easily "fact checked".
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  1751.  @2017NationalChamps  Yeah, somehow Universal, the Keys, and the Space Coast say otherwise.
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  1752. Two companies demolished by unreasonable union demands: Pekin Engine of Illinois and Hostess. Best paid employees in their respective industries until they filed for bankruptcy.
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  1753. The sad thing is, they won't. These people withhold forgiveness for others and so will not repent in their own hearts. When the heat is off, they will return to their old ways rather than make amends. Look at their actions for their words are cheap.
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  1754.  @dimesonhiseyes9134  Book of Erotic Fantasy. WoTC took offense to it because of the explicit material and modified the OGL to exclude it. Didn't stop the publisher. That case WILL be brought up in any litigation.
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  1755.  @BLUEYGILA  DNA says that the "Palestinians" are indistinguishable from the Jordanians, Syrians, and Lebanese. The Aaron Y chromosome however.....
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  1756. Not popular, but the body is as temple to the creator. And tats are vandalism on the walls of the temple.
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  1757. While they are getting outflanked on the sides. Yeah, grandstand over rubble while you get surrounded. Not a wise move.
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  1758. You realize his 2016 election spent the least amount of money in over a century? Money doesn't buy votes, it buys name recognition, which Trump already has.
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  1759. Harry himself devalued himself. He should have married either a Thai or Japanese princess (Yuko or Akiko of Mikasa). He is probably the ONLY Western man that could have married into those royal families.
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  1760.  @sababugs1125  Ossetia belongs to Georgia just like Crimea belongs to Ukraine.
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  1761. Indeed. As Cicero said, "do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome".
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  1762. They got infested with people who viewed it as a platform for their agenda and wore the organization like a skin suit (think the Edgar Bug/Alien in MIB).
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  1763. More like Frenemies.
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  1764. @ Smarter voters isn't the problem. It is the power of incumbency. Their campaigns get to sent out flyers and paid TV spots on taxpayer dime.
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  1765. Judges and lawyers were put on Trial at Nuremberg. We need those trials here in the US post haste.
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  1766. I would love to see him get the entire company without paying a single penny.
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  1767.  @Darth1Marik  That is what discovery is for. Trust me, this is going to explode in Twatter's face.
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  1768.  @im2tweaked  Surely you jest. If you think that allowing the government to kidnap your children from you is acceptable, then you have already lost. When you let the state steal your children away from you, you are no different than a slave in Antebellum Dixie. Staying peaceful at the cost of losing your children is capitulation of a different kind.
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  1769. And let us tally up how many times the ARABS have attacked them. " Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.”- Golda Meir.
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  1770. With the sound of the blast being recorded in Brisbane, Australia as well as in Alaska, this has to be comparable to the 1883 blast of Krakatoa.
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  1771. They had applied for NATO membership before the 2008 invasion nuked it.
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  1772. He is a Rachel Dolezal.
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  1773. His backing of the 1943 short "Der Fuher's Face" mocking fascism is proof of what you say.
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  1774. Sad that the medical profession has become so tainted that you have too look around for one. The Wuhan hysteria has proven that many doctors have forgotten the oath of Hippocrates, namely DO NO HARM. Lost of harm was done by doctors trying to pander to the politicians.
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  1775. Semper Sic Tyrannis.
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  1776. Yup. There is a word for this ideology: Eugenics.
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  1777.  @TheCrazyMoparDude68  Yes Egypt lost the Gaza. But Israel also agreed to vacate Gaza for peace, which is why these calls for Palestinian Statehood are insincere as are the calls of "land for peace".
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  1778.  @Blackcat-k9e  ONE missile hit the sub, the other hit the amphibious landing ship. That lease one missile unaccounted for. And that assumes that 10 missiles were fired. Russia has a habit of exaggerating the numbers to make themselves look good. There is a word for that: Varenyo.
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  1779. Except he was also correct on Europe overdependence on Russian energy. You underestimate the man at your own peril.
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  1780. @Clowfish_TV, you are correct about mourning the death of a franchise. I hate watched Enterprise, but to its credit, it had some decent ideas. As you so succinctly pointed out, I absolutely refused to watch STD, Pukcard, or Lesser Decks. For me it was as if a sibling or grandparent died, a slow painful death similar to losing someone Alzheimer's dementia or cancer. The only thing that can save these franchises now is Public Domain. Only then can they be saved from corporate defilement.
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  1781. Indeed. This WILL go to court and Disney WILL find out the hard way why you don't screw with the folks who butter your bread. (Disney's power in Reedy Creek is not theirs but rather the state's which they are allowed to exercise)
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  1782.  @timjester8555  Because they are self-deprecating, which takes a certain level of sincere humbleness, which the woke scolds lack. One thing I have noticed about those of East Asian heritage (with the exception of the heavily Americanized Asians) is that they almost NEVER blow their own horns; they think boasting about themselves is the height of uncouthness.
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  1783.  @FlashRyu  Every airport in the US uses chain-link fence (which breakaway easily) with a required clear area beyond the end of the runway in case of an overrun like this. Don't make excuses for criminally incompetent designs.
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  1784.  @_Mohit_Joshi  The US never considered them client or vassal states, but partners (albeit junior partners). Client state is how the Soviet Union viewed its satellites. As for superiority, why shouldn't India be the big dog in that part of the world? Why shouldn't Brazil be the 800-pound gorilla in South America? Stop using the anti-US perspective and broaden your horizions.
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  1785. @ So dumb he won back the presidency. Cope and seethe harder.
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  1786. I think you missed the whole part about the oil deposits offshore of Crimea for which Shell signed deals for before the Crimea Annexation. Or the gas and coal deposits in the Donbas. Taken together those energy resources would have made Ukraine the third largest oil and gas producer and second overall energy producer for Europe. With that context, the Russian invasion has more to do with Putin's attempt to preserve his energy monopoly on Europe (which obviously failed spectacularly).
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  1787. They want to build their utopia on the rubble and ruins of the old rather than build a new one in the wilderness.
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  1788. Only for people who have a hard on for Stalinist authoritarianism. This is what Alexander Lushenko does to his political opponents in Belarus. It is what the South African Government did to Nelson Mandela.
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  1789. TV Tropes page "Japan takes over the world" has a breakdown of the plight of Japanese workers today under the analysis tab. Short version is that Japan's lost decade, which the US is now replicating, resulted in zombie banking institutions, and the labor force being chronically under employed such that the sons of men who worked 40 years for the company cannot build a career because they end up changing jobs every couple of years due to a lack of steady work at those institutions.
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  1790.  @okene  Spot on. I first heard its pronunciation in the 90s when that ambassador killed someone while drunk driving. Was quite surprised that the Georgian governement allowed the local authorities in the US to prosecute him (his own government basically revoked his diplomatic immunity).
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  1791. Indeed. The fact that the bridge sections were lifted up and sideways similar to the US-90 bridge after Hurricane Katrina indicates that the explosion was UNDER the bridge, not above it.
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  1792.  @DavidLLambertmobile  Part of the problem is that the WI bar is dominated by political hacks. Same is true in Indiana as well. Take a look at how AG Curtis Hill, a black conservative was railroaded by the Indiana legal system, effectively put on trial for false groping allegations FOUR TIMES before the state SCOTUS stripped him of his license. The law "profession" is foxes guarding the hen house.
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  1793.  @DomAnthony89  And blessed is he for he can incorporate elements of all his heritage into a sum that is greater than its parts. "American mutts" don't have to chose between the cultures of their parents because the can have the best of both worlds(or of several worlds if multi-racial).
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  1794.  @ASDeckard  Are you saying that Israel was unjustified in 1948? If so, you are parroting Haj Amin Al-Husseini who promised to "drive Israel into the Sea". Do keep in mind that the Grand Mufti was not only a member of the Nazi Party, but he was also the commander of the Bosnian SS who committed atrocities so bad that even Himmler wanted him prosecuted for War Crimes.
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  1795.  @tamasgyorffy1  Western Europe doesn't like to see their populations carry weapons in times of peace either. And Australia which did have that mentality at one time has also disarmed its population. The West is ripe for conquest because their governments distrust their own people more than they distrust China.
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  1796. There is a WORLD of difference between Chapelle and Cuties. Cuties was the willful exploitation of a minor. Actual crimes were committed and while the actions may have occurred in France, the distribution of the paraphernalia of that crime is itself a crime, hence why states like Texas took Netflix to court. Try looking up the statutes on the distribution of CP and you will find that comparing Chapelle to Cuties is an apples to oranges false analogy (logical fallacy).
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  1797.  @GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket  That is a distinction without a difference. Conversion still results in living under an oppressive dictatorship.
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  1798.  @bakenbeans420  Funny because the people who scream the most about fascism are themselves engaging in that very fascistic behavior. To quote the Princess Bride meme, "You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means".
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  1799. Agreed. Politics is NOT linear; it is at least 4-dimentional. There is a very good reason why in practice the "far right" and far left have more in common with each other than they do the "center".
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  1800. Being a Tejano doesn't make you any less of an American. The Latinos who sided with Sam Houston against Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna were true sons and daughters of the Lone Star Rebellion. And those Tejanos captured at the Alamo were brutalized FAR worse than the Gringos.
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  1801. Funny because the people in the streets of Japan and South Korea tell a different story. And when you look at whom they elect to office, it speaks much about what they really believe.
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  1802.  @GamerFromJump  That government may find itself toppled much like Yankovich was after both the Orange Revolution and the Euromaidan protests. The Polish people are crying foul over the elections.
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  1803. The PAYING customer is always right. If they are not going to buy anything nor pay for your service, they are not worth paying any attention to because they are NOT your customer, they are a squatter. PS, this is why when I use a business's WiFi, I generally try to buy a drink or snack so they can't simply throw me out.
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  1804. Among other things. Cults prey on people who feel rejected by providing them with sense of belonging and love that was denied to them.
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  1805. And yet it came in LEVEL, unlike the crash in Kazakhstan. Planes that are not in control don't touch the ground with nearly perfect symmetry.
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  1806.  @Adivasilover10  She was the Pharisee boasting about their sin. "I will tell them plainly, I never knew you. Begone from me you workers of lawlessness!" -Matthew 7:23
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  1807.  @zahrans  Wrong. That is the myth of the "mutually assured destruction" folks who hate Regan's "Star Wars" missile defense system. JFK offered to remove those missiles (which the Soviets were NOT aware of at the time) to Khrushchev as a face-saving measure so the Soviet Priemer could go back to the Politburo and claim he walked away with a victory.
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  1808. Agreed. When they could have been Tony Starke or Bruce Wayne, they choose to be Lex Luthor or Victor Von Doom.
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  1809. I would hope JK Rowling learned that lesson. She pandered to them over making her characters gay, and now that she has outlived her usefulness, they have turned on her. You get the audience you cultivate.
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  1810. The previous administration gave them all to China, so what are you complaining about?
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  1811.  @mutegikimathi6258  And again you assume that all white people are responsible for the woes in the world. I got news for you, many of Africa's problems since the end of WW2 are the faults of your own people, not mine. Further, the US is NOT and never has been responsible for the bloodshed in Africa. We are NOT to blame for the wrongs of Europe. My father's father fought in WW2 against Japanese Imperialism. My mother's father fought in Korea against Communist aggression. Before that my grandsires only fought in wars on US soil. So no, your indictments of "my grandpas murderous rampages" is nothing more than racist bigotry on your part. it may play well to YOUR country's domestic consumption to distract them from the failings of YOUR governments, but that is YOUR problem, not mine.
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  1812. Panopticon.
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  1813.  @jonkisby4871  So the drive to Kiev was simply a feint? Nice after the fact goal post moving. When the Ukrainians captured parade uniforms from the retreating Russians, it was clear they were expecting to do a victory march through Kiev. When even the nominally neutral Indians and Swiss don't believe your story, you have lost the plot.
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  1814. Taqiyya, Tawriya, Muruna and Kitman.
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  1815.  @SydneyBristow0788  Ghislane Maxwell is proof of that.
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  1816. The problem with the "Information Age" argument is that it ignores the whole of history. In over 10,000 years of history(Egypt; China, Mesopotamia), human nature has stayed exactly the same. The internet is simply to media today what the Printing Press was during the Colonial period. Advances in technology don't improve our morality, it simply makes it easier to live down to our most base-animalistic instincts.
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  1817. Yes and no. There is a buyers market and a seller's market. The question is, who is in the position of strength? Beggar can't be choosers, but when it comes to employment, one has to consider that some folks will come on the job and then slack off and do very little work. Those people are a net drag on the business and are more harmful than being understaffed.
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  1818. People keep telling me that Mando is the show that Book of Boba Fett should have been that bad boy turned hero should have been fanboy fav Mr. Feet, Mr. Bob A. Feet. I, however, think that Boba Fett's story should have been a villain protagonist story. The Anime Overlord featuring Lich King Ainz Owal Gown shows you exactly how a villain focused story CAN be done.
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  1819. Here is my proposal. 20-year terms staggered every four years on the mid-term cycle. Limit the court to 5 justices, and you have one SCOTUS judge pick per presidential term. I only see this getting pass via Article V Convention of the States.
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  1820.  @mosh.4245  They have already commissioned a JS Kaga. And it is a carrier, despite their claims otherwise.
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  1821. As Doomcock says "The Grim Squeaker".
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  1822. @ Citizen by blood, just like Obama. Both of them had American citizen mothers.
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  1823.  @fenfenwang6356  Yes, Chang Kai-Shek's supporters who were mostly Han Chinese fled to Formosa so that Taiwan is Chinese culturally. But there are TWO Chinas just like there are TWO Koreas. Hell, the Koreans have been divided for at least one year less than the Two Chinas depending on if you are measuring from the outbreak of the Korean War or its conclusion. Tell me, do you pass through customs when traveling between the mainland and Formosa? If you do, then it is pretty clear there are de facto two countries.
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  1824.  @fx3dv2vg7m  Nice apples to oranges false analogy dude. You equating the USSR with Czarist Russia shows gross intellectual dishonesty. Incidentally, folks like to claim that RUSSIA defeated Hitler and the Nazis. Why ignore the other Soviet Republics? It is absolutely appropriate to equate the USSR with Russia rather than Ukraine, Kazakhstan or the rest. Do keep in mind that it was often Russian troops that kept the local minority populations in line, even in the nominally "minority-majority" Soviet Republics.
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  1825. "Those whom the gods would destroy, they first drive mad," -Sophoclese. The first sign of madness is delusions of godhood. The nihilist often fancies themself a living deity.
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  1826. There is a rouge juror who is being a total Karen.
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  1827.  @A_Stereotypical_Heretic  I didn't need to. I fancy myself the Japanese man who jumped into the half-empty boat: my wife is Chinese-Indonesian. I didn't even bother with Western women.
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  1828. I seriously doubt that. It has been almost 40 years since the meltdown. If it was going to explode, it would have done so already.
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  1829.  @jonassunden9382  Operation Ketsu-Go proves you claim about them intending to surrender to bed. The Imperial Japanese Army had every intention of continuing the war whether the Emperor wanted the war to end or not. Ketsu-Go would have made any Allies invasion of the home Islands take at least a year if the Okinawa and Iwo Jima landings are any measure.
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  1830.  @Mike-ec2xi  Wrong. Japan's actions on Saipan, Guam, Okinawa, and Iwo Jima showed that starvation was NOT a viable option in any way shape or form. Typical of armchair quarterbacks, you lack any understanding of what it requires to sustain an embargo and siege on such a massive scale.
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  1831.  @newvolume7  What makes you think these people are even trying to investigate? My comments were mocking the situation.
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  1832. Of course. It was fast-tracked by Trump and they cannot have him claiming credit for something that actually works.
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  1833.  @JoxnLeague  "Jewish Athesit"? You do realize that is an oxymoron? And before you get started about "it is an ethnicity", do keep in mind that said ethnicity is DIRECTLY connected to the religious component. Without the religious component, the ethnic component becomes almost non-existent, and barely traceable in genetics.
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  1834. Guns for me, but not for thee. Classic Bolshevism.
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  1835. Family name of Castro. Think about that for a moment.
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  1836. It is called false flag. Russia has a history of engaging in them.
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  1837. Well, and the Japanese never reached out directly to the US, UK, or any of the traditionally neutral powers like Switzerland. They reached out to SOVIET RUSSIA to ask for terms of a cease fire. That shows you how insincere they were. It also shows how insincere the anti-bomb crowd is that they don't acknowledge that critical point.
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  1838. Oh, I agree. And I hope that the Ukrainian soldiers show great magnanimity (food, safe passage, etc.) towards the civilians to further drive hope the point that this conflict is against the Russian government and not its people.
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  1839.  @deebil8099  "Everything made in China is one big joke" Fair point, I concede that to you.
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  1840.  @DH-xw6jp  I hope that was sarcasm. I have seen what ISIS thinks is "cultural enrichment". It involves the destruction of anything not Islamic.
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  1841.  @GUSplatoon  And thank you for proving my point. The left can't meme. "The Lady doth protest too much, me thinks," -Queen Gertrude; Act 3, scene 2; Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
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  1842. Had they been honest in the beginning about uncertainty and lack of data rather than pretend to know everything, they would have been more credible. The fact that they lie from the start is what killed their credibility and created the distrust today.
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  1843. The GOP is guilty of colluding with the Democrat left, but your point still stands.
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  1844. Agreed. If they can improve their medical system and then invest in water purification and sanitation so that people can drink water straight from the tap, then tourism becomes a VERY viable option for economic diversification.
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  1845. Indeed. The rampant rise of Isekai Anime shows that the Japanese can tell a good high fantasy story that Western Audiences will enjoy.
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  1846.  @JohnnyKaw11B  While you are correct about targeted killings and what the Brits called "The Troubles", the idea that such a situation would precipitate a peaceful divorce is nothing more than wishful thinking. As Jose pointed out, it would be more like the Spanish Civil War. A proxy conflict between foreign powers.
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  1847.  @Kay2kGer  That may have been the claim, but the "customer" on the other end isn't buying it anymore. That changes the equation.
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  1848. Using nukes is NOT an automatic win. Most geopolitical analysis treat it as an automatic loss for all sides. In Putin's case, he stripped the air defenses around Moscow and Petrograd, sending them to Ukraine. Using nukes now with that kind of vulnerability to a counter-strike is literally suicidal.
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  1849. I hope Japan and Korea buries Hollyweird.
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  1850. And Street Cubans as well.
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  1851.  @danilolabbate  Moving the goalposts (logical fallacy). China's problems have NEVER been a direct result of outside forces, it has ALWAYS been an issue of bad leadership from within. Blaming "European colonizers" is just deflecting blame and is typical of despots.
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  1852.  @Nightss  At what cost? How much combat power was irrecoverably lost taking Bakhmut and Advika? Ukraine quickly adapted in Zaphoresia to minimize losses. Russia just keeps grinding forward heedless of the losses. That is called a Pyrrhic victory, which is actually a loss.
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  1853. No joke. She doesn't have a single original idea in her head; she just parrots what Siakat Chakrabarti says, word for word, with the EXACT same vocal inflections and pregnant pauses in her speech.
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  1854. Only enforced in one direction.
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  1855.  @leonardticsay8046  Pixar after they were bought outright by Disney has gone to crap. The last several movies they produced have been total garbage.
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  1856.  @AngryReptileKeeper  "Perhaps if we can't have it, the government should not be able to either" That was why the founders gave us the 2nd amendment. They knew governments would never restrict themselves, so the people should not be limited either.
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  1857. If a doctor refused to let me be in the room with my wife, we would change our doctor immediately.
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  1858. The Earth is ambivalent to us. We are but a blink of an eye to her 4 billion years of existence. Don't fool yourself into thinking we have any control over nature.
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  1859. Typical of the French. They cut and run at the first sign of trouble.
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  1860.  @ATigerShark  I guarantee you that not a single Trump voter, even the reluctant ones in 2016 voted for Biden in 2020. I suspect that there are VERY FEW remorseful Biden voters.
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  1861. Russia committed its best troops early on and so no longer has ANY combat power to leverage a new offensive; they are the poker equivalent of "all in". Also, Ukraine is fighting the WW1 battle of Homel, doing a slow and steady grind. That is the ONLY way you can breach trenches, which they HAVE done.
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  1862. Indeed. What I am seeing is the opposition to the establishment fighting among themselves. Probably doesn't help that many of the want to BE the Establishment.
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  1863. Mark Twain said it is easier to lie to someone that to convince them that you lied to them.
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  1864. Or the media and the partisan hacks are suffering from an acute case of "Sour Grapes".
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  1865. No joke. The repression of East Asian ideas is eerily similar to the repression of Jews in academia and business. I find it interesting how anti-Asian bigotry parallels anti-Semitism. All the more interesting as in the 1920s Japanese were called "honorary whites" while Jews were called non-white by the haters.
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  1866. That almost sounds like a scene from the 1980s movie "The Day After".
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  1867. He doesn't seem to realize that militant egalitarianism was the hallmark of the Soviet bloc. Nor that his beloved universal health care is another defining characteristic of the USSR. He claims to dislike socialism yet calls for the very policies of socialist governments.
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  1868. And that key detail gets overlooked. Had Zelensky fled, Kiev would have fallen that day. He stayed and that emboldened the people of Ukraine.
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  1869. I suspect that most people there laughing did think it was part of the show. I was at a magic act where the performer's table actually broke in spectacular fashion. He rolled with it, but it was after about two or three more tricks that I realized that it was not part of the show. Afterwards, I complemented him on his coolness and that I honestly though that mishap was part of the act.
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  1870. Tell that to Indiana. Our Republican governor is emulating the Fascist Democrat governors such as Frau Whitmer.
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  1871. Amen. When I was in Korea, I warned folks that visiting Hawaii or California was NOT visiting ACTUAL America. I encouraged them to visit Missouri, Indiana, Tennessee, and many other places in the Heartland rather than on the coast.
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  1872. The problem is, they are NOT wiping out the debt owed to China, they are trying to INCREASE it, foolishly thinking that they will somehow benefit and be rewarded for selling their fellow citizens into slavery. They seem to forget that the only rewards they will receive are those that befit a traitor.
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  1873. Not really. Most Ukrainian built munitions have significantly different components than NATO equipment. That was how they could identify the missile that landed in Poland.
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  1874. As someone said, if you can smell a fart through the mask, then you can easily get the virus too.
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  1875. The "walking ghost" phase. The IPs are like someone with a fatal dose of radiation: they look fine but are simply living on borrowed time.
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  1876. I would wait until AFTER he has escaped this mortal coil. I am not against adding him to Rushmore, but it should not be while he is still with us.
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  1877. The Corona is very diffuse, which is why it can be so hot. Believe it or not, the upper layers of the Earth's own atmosphere (thermosphere and exosphere) are several million degrees, but the particles are so thin that it barely raises the temperature in the cabin of the spacecraft.
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  1878. How about the rest of Congress? You act like Trump invented lying while ignoring that the elected officials you voted for lie for a living.
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  1879. I tend to agree. It "normalized" Qatarian culture and sensibilities as mainstream, even if those "norms" would be considered civil rights abuses in Western nations.
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  1880.  @benjauron5873  The thing is, people say that helicopters would make tanks obsolete. It wasn't true then and it is not true now. Technology isn't going to make the tank go extinct, people who don't know how to use tanks properly are going to simply discredit an effective system.
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  1881. No joke. There are only TWO biocontainment level 4 labs in the world that legally hold smallpox. One is in Russia, the other in the US. THIS IS GOVERNMENT BIOTERRRORISM!
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  1882. This still needs to be investigated, and the defendants should still demand that the cases go to court so as to set a precedent that such actions taken before the act is ratified are unlawful, and that those who carry them out will still be held accountable for criminal acts taken on behalf of the government.
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  1883.  @kkutwarscorner6922  I can go back further. How about Cinderella (1950)? How about Snow White (1937)? Or Aurora (1951)? Or Alice (1951)? Or Maid Marion (1973)? All were strong in their own ways. All had a resolve and iron will despite having a more feminine personality.
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  1884. If Pyrrhic victory is your idea of winning, I hate to see what your definition of losing is.
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  1885. As he said, times have changed. Even Japan becoming more assertive is a welcome change. And BOTH countries keenly remember their imperialistic past and are reluctant to repeat it; they will use their newfound military power much more reluctantly than they did in the past.
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  1886.  @GraniteInTheFace  And yet studies out of Israel prove otherwise. Why is it that they have managed to create a pill that replicated the beneficial effects of marijuana WITHOUT the addictive side effects? And yes, the fact that user CANNOT quit cold turkey proves it is psychologically addictive.
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  1887.  @absolootely2571  Wow, completely wrong on so many levels. First, Bush's "Shock and Awe" was basically Blitzkrieg on steroids by using precision guided munitions, not "rattling the rubble" as you claim. When the Iraq's ministry building had to be hit a second time with people only 10 meters away watching, that is hardly leveling the town as you claim. Second, it is the Russians who are leveling the cities and towns in Ukraine because they failed spectacularly with their own attempt at Blitzkrieg. Because they couldn't even do enveloping maneuvers, all they can do is bulldoze forward with indiscriminate shelling. The polar opposite of "thread the needle". But I get it, your news is a steady diet of RT and Pravda, which is dictated by the Kremlin.
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  1888. Yeah, the fools don't realize that in Charles Mansons' "Helter Skelter" scenario, only the buzzards and jackals, and carrion eaters win; everyone loses.
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  1889. I want the left to continue thinking this way. It keeps them blind to the fact that they are allowing their ideological opponents on the right a victory without realizing it.
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  1890.  @snidecommenter7117  The fact that they started sending it in August tells you that they were planning ahead. Mad props.
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  1891. Snow and ice being solid means they are technically dry. Hence the difference between "wet cold" (+3 C to -7C) and "dry cold" (-7C to -20C).
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  1892.  @ChickenPermissionOG  If by negligent you mean voluntary manslaughter or culpable killing, I agree. He knew damn well what he was doing was dangerous yet he still persisted. Involuntary is predicating on not knowing your actions can endanger another. The crew walking off set proves beyond a reasonable doubt that he had foreknowledge of the danger.
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  1893. Naw, it means you have a gallows sense of humor.
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  1894.  @TomaTs1  I never was blaming NATO. The fault lies exclusively with Putin and the Kremlin. I was simply pointing out what was going on in their minds. Playing "devil's advocate" as it were.
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  1895.  @TomaTs1  Yeah, I am familiar with Stalin's favorite tactic of relocating populations as well as drawing absurd lines on a map. Only the British in Africa could be considered more foolish.
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  1896.  @baronvonlimbourgh1716  You ignore the other factors that came into play during those times. First, you had the post-WW2 economic boom cause by the labor pool as well as resources no longer being sent to the war machine. Second, the culture was less frivolous and more focused on savings rather than consumption. Again, this is a result of Great Depression and War rationing. When people save, there is more productivity. Rather than just regurgitate slogans, try actually understanding the underlying principles and not pretend taxes rates occur in a vacuum.
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  1897. #confessionthroughprojection Seriously, have you even heard what leftists are saying? They have wet dreams about killing their opponents in gulags. Arbeit Macht Frei, that is their motto.
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  1898. People don't seem to realize that gridlock was purposeful. The American founder had already seen what a compliant Parlaiment under King George would do when it simply rubber-stamped the King's desires.
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  1899. Not likely. I suspect that Ukraine would NOT want to administer so much territory and opt instead for the Central Asian republics of the Russian Federation to be independent. Tuva, Yakutia, Buryat, et. al.
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  1900. Sounds like the kinds of judges appointed to the Bench in Germany in the 1930s. Fast Forward to 1947 and 12 of them found themselves convicted for crimes against Humanity at Nuremberg.
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  1901.  @Vaeldarg  Not really. You are looking at it from the top-down organization perspective. Most of the founders of religious movements (Zaurashtra, Jesus Christ, Father Abraham, Gautama Buddha, et al) were VERY skeptical of such to-down control. Most of them were actually critical of those who used religion to control people.
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  1902. Indeed. It was widely believed the Helicopter would make the tank obsolete. Didn't happen.
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  1903. Indeed. Isn't it ironic that the people pushing intersectionality are using the same talking points of the very racists they claim to hate? Ironically, these are the same people that think Japanese, Korean, and Chinese are "honorary whites".
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  1904. Indeed. Better equipment has shown to be a HUGE force multiplier against Russia's greater numbers.
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  1905.  @bagsikdangal  It also shows a lack of creativity on the part of executives as well as their current writers. The Japanese are filling a vacuum created by the incompetence of the American comic industry.
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  1906. Cope harder dude. The attrition on Russian numbers is higher than on Ukraine.
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  1907. The problem with this, and I wish Mr Pool would pay attention to it, is that the South Bend Mayor is NOT listening to experts like those at Prism Communications, but instead following the echo chamber crowd that advised Wendy Davis to go hard left falsely thinking that there is some hidden liberal base waiting for the right candidate to energize them(Prism's actual words in their e-mail to the Wendy Davis Campaign). Seems like the people who advised her have now attached themselves to the candidates running for President.
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  1908.  @musicninja98  That is why I am fully in support of Japanese Anime, Korean Dramas, and Taiwanese sitcoms. Our Asian allies have figured out how to entertain audiences while Tinsel Town withers because of its nepotism.
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  1909.  @bruvathroatpuncher500  Despite what others may say, I declare(for what it is worth) that you ARE blessed to have both heritages. You can combine the best of both worlds into something greater than the sum of its parts. And I am in agreement with you that this racial divide crap is wrong. The best way to end it is by two(or more) peoples becoming one mixed hybrid population. YOU are among those to bridge the divide. God speed brother!
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  1910. To quote from Tropic Thunder, "You went full retard, man! Never go full retard!"
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  1911. Because the people in Tinsel Town got their job NOT because of talent or ability but because of whom they are related to. This is the result of good old fashion nepotism.
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  1912. Yes, but they are misapplied and completely inappropriate in regular everyday conversation.
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  1913. Antisemitism is not a good look.
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  1914.  @CatsJP  Ironic coming from a shill.
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  1915. Wow, had a flashback to the opening cinematic of Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction when Baal arrives at the gates of Sescheron. Musk makes for an interesting take on the middle brother of the Three Prime Evils. PS, I don't think The Twatter employees are the good guys, I think all are corrupt.
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  1916. Never get between a mamma bear and her cub.
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  1917.  @Bobby-rq5pe  Why do you believe the Jews are controlling the NWO? That is Nazi-Soviet propaghanda. The NWO HATES Israel and the Jews. Why? Because they defy the power mongers by refusing to "own nothing and be happy". Jews are the preferred target of socialist BECAUSE of their wealth.
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  1918.  Seeyou Seemee  Sidelined, or being dealt with as part of the war effort? A nation in an existential fight for its very existence cannot afford graft and corruption, so there is a powerful incentive discouraging such behaviors. The blowback from the populace making sacrifices for the war effort alone is enough to make the corrupt think twice about their actions. "We must not rely on the conscience of good men, but rather create the conditions for which bad men choose to do the right thing," -Thomas Sowell.
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  1919. That is exactly what it is: trying to put in the least amount of work to get the most amount of reward. And the quality reflects it.
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  1920.  @outdoorolli5754  The problem is that the money is simply a short-term band-aide over the problem, and it does not address the underlying issue of sustained and reliable delivery of funds for contracted supplies. When the German government only budgets one year at a time and defense contracting is a three-year minimum, it is a major problem to ensure consistency when the allocated funds quickly disappear if you didn't use them.
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  1921. Well, the female brain is wires more to be emotional while the male is wired to be more logical. Now there is some overlaps, but the average is that men operate on reason while women operate on feelings.
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  1922. The dumb thing is, the anti-establishment, antigovernmental crowd has been pushing silver for years now. Seems to me that the media is trying to divert the GME rebellion crowd against the Alex Jones crowd. Don't fall for this misdirection by the power mongers. They are trying to pit their favorite boogieman against the GME Rebellion.
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  1923. Yes. That is part of the separation process.
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  1924. IN two years, Russia has had ALL the advantages from numbers, to technology, to air superiority. The fact that Ukraine has fought to a draw against overwhelming disadvantage is itself a victory for Ukraine and a net loss for Russia.
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  1925. Ah, but they are not catering to the normies. Even normies are being put off by them. They are pandering to an overly vocal minority who happens to be part of their echo-chamber. They are in effect yelling at their own shadows and enjoying the reverberation.
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  1926. I tend to agree. Let the locals sort it out. No reason for Western powers to waste blood and treasure. And if the local happen to engage in butchery and genocide, well, the West should merely observe and take note of who is doing what crimes against humanity and only prosecute them AFTER the dust has settled.
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  1927.  @MacHamish  I wish I could, except that history has shown that it only works with a moral and just society. We are anything but. We have become just as jaded and nihilistic as Weimar Germany.
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  1928. Except, the Asian immigrant population proves that a lot of the issues regarding redlining were fixed in the 1970s and 1980s. You can't only blame the fallout from those policies for so long before it becomes clear that the problem isn't historic discrimination but simply a lack of motivation from said populations. Thomas Sowell even points out with HARD STATICAL DATA that recent African immigrants are better off than native born Black Americans. Clearly the problem isn't discriminatory policies anymore.
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  1929.  @bolsa3136  Agreed. Her actions were by design.
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  1930. There will never be a soft secession. Much like in the former Yugoslavia, those in positions of power will never consent to people leaving. They will use force of arms to keep people in.
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  1931.  @ukaszOzog-gk6yh  I think that is quite a stretch. Most of Russia's "super weapons" are inferior to anything in NATO's arsenal. Even China, who IS more advanced than Russia has acknowledged their inferior position despite rapidly closing the gap.
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  1932. You are a person of culture to know that song.
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  1933. Tim needs to be reminded that Nelson Mandela also spent time in prison. This is just giving Trump street credit in the Hood.
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  1934.  @A_Jeff  This judge keeps getting overturned on appeal. But you don't want to talk about how violating due process like this is unconstitutional. Or how this action by the judge will simply guarantee that the FEDERAL appeals court will vacate the State Court's violating on the FEDERAL Constitution.
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  1935. Put these purged officers and SNCOs on the jury. Yes, SNCOs need to be on the jury for officers. All of the retired Command Master Cheifs of the Navy, Seinor Master Sergeants of the Air Force, and Sergeant Majors of the Army for Miley's court-martial.
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  1936. Indeed. Create a catch-22 so as to convict him on a process charge rather than a principal charge. And hold is all up long enough that the wrongful conviction keeps him off the ballot. They seem to forget that Lincoln not being on the ballot in numerous states did not stop his election.
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  1937.  @miamianz  Let us hope they scrap them. They could end up salvaged like the Mahan Class-Destroyers, USS Downes and USS Casin were after the Pearl Harbor Attack.
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  1938. Because the hate and detest the source material. This is intentional vandalism on their part.
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  1939.  @r0x0r-p4t  Fire back that they are harassing you.
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  1940. Have you seen how Russia treats areas it considers their territory? In capturing Sevrodonesk, they reduced it to rubble. And they have been trying to do the same to Bakmut. Scorched Earth is standard operating procedure for Russia.
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  1941. Japan is a VERY traditional society. Respect for elders is ingrained into them practically from birth. Abe may not be in office, but he IS a mover and shaker behind the scenes. And current leadership WILL listen to what he has to say.
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  1942. Keep in mind that serial killers often get their start butchering the neighborhood pets. With that in mind, what does that tell you about these people?
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  1943. Praise our lord and Savior Agumon.
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  1944.  @succatash  Diversity by itself is no strength. Diversity for its own sake creates divisions and strife. Eastern Europe doesn't seem to have a problem with NATO being Anglo dominated. France could have had a bigger impact on NATO had Charles de Galle not unilaterally pulled out of NATO.
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  1945. So? Making money is not a crime. Doing it fast is not a crime either. Only when done by deception and fraud makes either of those a crime. And you are hard pressed to prove that.
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  1946.  @maidenminnesota1  Chronological snobbery I see. History didn't start with the advent of modern government. You realize that the institution of marriage has existed since Ancient Egypt, Ancient China, and Ancient India? Marriage was defined in antiquity by religious teaching. Marriage is specifically spelled out in Hinduism, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, as well as the many now extinct faiths such as the aforementioned Ancient Egyptian religion. So, yes I am correct. You, however, are regurgitating statist talking points meant to glorify institutions of power rather than convey independently verifiable facts.
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  1947. I agree. He deserves to have his power diluted. He chose this when he refused to take up the election cases. This is his comeuppance.
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  1948. And yet again my comment gets deleted because it is not politically correct. Apparently the Great Chinese Philosopher Confucius is now racist. "There is very little that separates men from the beasts, and most throw that away," -Confucius, author of "The Analects".
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  1949. Cloth have an efficacy of 10%. The disposables have 12%. It is all a joke. Face diapers are the modern day slave collar.
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  1950. On what charge? Most of the cases against him are falling apart because of prosecutorial misconduct.
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  1951. More like serfs and slaves. Subjects tacitly enjoy the benefits of English Common Law. Serfs and slaves don't even get that.
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  1952. And that may be the point. Got to keep those builders in business with artificial demand
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  1953.  @Kabup2  Agreed. The Indonesians have to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps because nobody outside can do it for them. The problem with Indonesia is the same as many other third world nations: plagued by corruption, borderline despotism, and internal ethnic strife. Look at their decades long war with East Timor and you understand much of what is going on in the rest of that country.
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  1954. Lavrenty Beria, Stalin's head of the NKVD/KGB.
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  1955.  @lisettes.9598  You were raised right and are blessed. Sadly, people don't look within for their self-worth but buy into the "keeping up with the Joneses" fakeness. Keep up the good fight my fellow American of Caribbean heritage.
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  1956. And it started going downhill with "Army of One" BS.
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  1957. Prisoner battalions are not the most effective troops.
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  1958.  @kasperrator4153  They are like someone exposed to a lethal does of radiation; a dead man walking much like Louis Slotin.
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  1959.  @zmanjz  I tend to agree. That merger should have been denied on the grounds of monopolistic control of IP and its distribution.
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  1960.  @alexmanzanares200  Nice Gish gallop there. Here is a hint: when you find yourself in a hole, STOP DIGGING. Oh, and pointing out fallacies is a virtue in debate, and one of the most effective tools. Another is quoting a well-known source. "Brevity is the great charm of eloquence," -Marcus Tullius Cicero “If you can say it in a paragraph, don’t write a book.” - Frank Sonnenberg
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  1961. ALDI has DEI hiring practices.
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  1962. "Let 'em burn! See my fire across the sky! Let 'em burn! Let 'em burn! Like I rocket I can fly! I won't care how they're going to scream! Let the fire rage on, the flames never bothered me anyway," -Frozen Parody.
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  1963. Funny, because a sizable portion of the US population actually agrees with them. Ask yourself why the Democrats outside of the intercity areas are horribly underwater, especially among suburbia.
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  1964.  @bababababababa6124  Free JUDEA!
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  1965.  @bil8647  No it isn't. That is corporate oligarchism, the antithesis of free-market capitalism.
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  1966. "Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me," -Psalm 23. If he is sent to Rikers, there is a VERY high probability he will get Epstined.
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  1967. Villainous virtues make for more compelling characters anyhow. And then you have the "Draco in Leather Pants" crowd.
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  1968. Interestingly, they are driving American born men into the arms of foreign born Asian and Latin women. Check out Pew Research's data on interracial marriage. The numbers will shock you.
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  1969.  @sburgos9621  That is a very mature perspective. If only more people were like you and did NOT try to judge the past by today's standards (Presentism fallacy).
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  1970.  @u2beuser714  The analogy used is sitting at a restaurant and realizing you left your credit card at home and don't have enough cash on hand. Rather than tell the management of the problem and work out a solution, the person simply keeps ordering more in the hopes that the bill is never brought out. Only, the restaurant WILL close eventually.
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  1971. Look overseas for real entertainment. Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan can fill the void created by Hollyweird's incompetence.
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  1972.  @Gleifel  The Russians are NOT monolithic as the media would have you believe. Just because he has ties to Russians doesn't mean those Russians are pro-Putin. We must encourage the dissidents, not shun them because of their heritage.
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  1973. And anti-gun as well. "Rules for thee, but not for me".
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  1974. When the bus hit her at 110 kph?
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  1975.  @apengvin  Did the US allow the Japanese ministry of information to run a paper in New York, San Francisco, or Honolulu during WW2? Same concept.
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  1976. That is what George Carlin said all those years ago. "The planet will shake us off like a bad case of fleas".
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  1977. So no condemnation of Hamas using human shields in flagrant violation of the Hauge and Geneva Conventions? No criticism of Hamas using schools and hospitals as ammunition dumps? Spare us your moral grandstanding. You would never last 5 minutes in his shoes.
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  1978. A case of which came first. The chicken (bad journalism) or the egg (ideology)?
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  1979. Funny how their standards change on a whim. Classic cult behavior. And they call us the cultists.
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  1980. Sneako has a reputation among the Vturber and anime fans, and it is not a good one.
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  1981. So you wish harm on people you disagree with? How does that make you any different from Putin?
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  1982.  @chill_will9816  That is exactly what Ukraine is doing right now. The West should stop wagging its finger and start paying attention. Class is in session.
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  1983.  @tadaskay79  Not really. Those who learn history and take it to heart don't repeat the blunders. It is those with Chronological Snobbery (CS Lewis, a friend of Tolkein, coined that) who think that they are smarter than those that came before and hence immune that invariably repeat the blunders. Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, Andromeda Strand, Congo) echoed that same sentiment as CS Lewis with regards to science. "To remain ignorant of that which occurred before you were born is to forever remain a child," -Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator, stateman, and Lawyer 45BC.
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  1984.  @hornetguy9063  Indeed. They have betrayed the Oath of Hippocrates and chosen instead the mantra of the Doctors who were hung at Nuremburg.
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  1985. Yeah, tell that to the Allies in World War 2. Unless you would prefer to be speaking in German? Spare us your moral outrage.
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  1986.  @UltimatePowa  Um, what planet are you on? The left or right polarization has been going on since Obama. Remember when he said elections have consequences and that Republicans and conservative need to go to the back of the bus? The left never stopped. You CANNOT reason with zealots like that who refuse to even acknowledge your position much less have a dialogue. It is like asking the Iranians and Israelis to sit down together; one side is calling for the total antihalation of the other side.
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  1987. Great analogy!
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  1988.  @brawndothethirstmutilator9848  Something tells me it won't work this time. Among other things, Israel has gotten better at the counter-propaganda game.
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  1989.  @tomtom7955  Nice strawman. It isn't about me, and it never was. Don't try shifting the burden onto me because I made a strong argument you cannot refute. Incidentally, fan projects and Indy film producers create a better product than what studios in Hollywood has done in the last 10 years. They are proof that you need a million-dollar budget to make a movie is a myth.
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  1990. "Deputizing" folks like that is how a company SHOULD behave. it helps their bottom line, particularly as they don't need nearly as much training and the like. Sadly, those days are gone.
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  1991.  @Eric-jh5mp  "A fool and his money are soon parted" -proverb. There is a very good reason why wealth generally doesn't last beyond three generations. Yes, the first generation busts their butt creating it. The second generation maintains it, but don't usually expand it, while the third generation squanders it. It kind of goes to the Strauss-Howe Generational Theory, also known as the fourth turning. "Hard times make strong men, strong men make good times, good times make weak men, and weak men bring about hard times".
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  1992. I hope you folks all discounting Jew as a race seem to fail to realize that almost all male Jews have the exact same Y chromosome. And that Ashkenazi Jews are a distinct sub-clade of the Euro-Caucus population that has self-isolated from the greater population. In time, that actually does result in a distinct group. Try looking into the Genetics and results uncovered by the Human Genome Project. Now, just because a population has become distinct does NOT in any way justify discrimination nor preferential treatment. We are all still humans despite our ethnic and genetic differences. And our rights are inherent to individuals and to human existence.
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  1993. Alaska tried with Murkowski. The Democrats supported her write-in campaign. Most other states have "sore loser" laws to prevent candidates who lose in a primary from doing what she did. Colins is from Maine which is deep blue so she is basically a Democrat.
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  1994. @Chairman Jao Bai Den And publicly shame and blacklist those involved in the project so that they never work in the industry again.
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  1995. Indeed. You listed off public domain assets. Arguably much of what WOTC claims is IP should really be considered public domain. If only the courts would acknowledge that.
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  1996. And Russia's diplomats have not offered serious proposals. All of their "compromises" have been nothing more than window dressing for Putin micro-managing Ukraine as a puppet vassal.
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  1997. No joke. First he is a white supremacist, now he is an FBI informant? When are people going to realize the media is the boy who cried wolf?
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  1998.  Pub Thumpin  Indeed. That is why I calling him not a moderate by a Democrat partisan. That he refuses to vote for anyone but a Democrat shows his true colors. That he refuses to consider Libertarian, Green, or independent is what reveals his true allegiance.
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  1999.  @sleepisthecousinofdeath7395  What an infantile response.
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  2000.  @JohnCena-ce5sp  Yet you only call out Hamas when YOUR hypocrisy is pointed out. "Muh both sides" is moral equivocation and is a logical fallacy.
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  2001. Something tells me she has never seen the Disney WW2 anti-Fascist cartoon "Der Furher's Face". Donald gets a chance to mock the ideology in that short.
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  2002. Unfortunately true because we now live in a neo-feudalist society where the elites are the new nobility and as such there is "High Justice" for the rich and powerful and "Low Justice" for the rest of us "unwashed masses".
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  2003. Yeah, kind of funny how people don't realize that the Fukushima leak was from the waste storage pools and not the reactor core itself.
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  2004. A lot of the strife can be directed at Joseph Stalin who PURPOSLY put Azeri SSR and Armenian SSR territory within the other's area. Naxçıvan in particular was his doing.
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  2005.  @MelissiaBlackheart  Wow, engaging in linguistics and semantics is basically tacit admitting that you know you have lost the debate. "When words lose their meaning, people lose their lives," -Confucius, author of "The Analects".
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  2006. @ People survive high-speed impacts. They succumb to their injuries later.
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  2007. OR, it has less to do with that and more to do with DeSantis violating Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment.
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  2008. No joke. Only the US and Russia have biolevel 4 labs that legally hold smallpox. This is government backed bioterrorism.
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  2009. Poe's Law in full force. When people can't tell the difference between hyperbolae of satire and real life.
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  2010.  @AlexiosJG  Sounds like your staff take their professionalism as well as safety seriously. If only more Hollyweird folks shared your values. And I agree, a sword muck like a gun should never leave the scabbard without a very good reason. Practice with a Bokken or Shinai until the actually day of filming that specific scene. And even then, I would consider using post production CGI to digitally replace a wooden Bokken with a rendered metal blade.
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  2011.  @JohnLee-db9zt  History is a great predictor. The problem is that too many people draw the wrong conclusions based on it. Taking Japan's example, you had MANY officers such as the entire Japanese Navy officer staff who were adamant about NOT going to war with the US. Yamamoto is often quoted about how much of a fool's errant it would be, as well as precisely how long they would have the initiative before it all came crashing down. So, to your point, while the Japanese ethno-nationalists were extreme, they were by no means the majority. They were simply the ones who held the power in a feudalist society. Japan is no longer the Feudal stratified society it was in the 1940s.
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  2012.  @b12n23  And you don't think that those secret components can't simply be removed and shifted over to the newer tanks once they come in? Once again you show a complete ignorance of how logistics work. Already there is video of rolling tank stock from Iraq that is now in Poland. We know it is from Iraq because they still have the tan paint job for desert operations.
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  2013.  @chingron  While I agree with your first part, do keep in mind that ALL communist parties invariably become cults of personalities. Cuba's CCCP became the part of Castro family sycophancy, North Korea's "Worker's Party" became the religion of the Kim family divinity, the Khmer Rouge became the part of Pol Pot worship, Yugoslavia's communist party became the Josef Tito fan club, et. al.
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  2014. Try considering a foreign woman. Interestingly, out marriage by American men with foreign born wives tend to be more stable. Don't give up, just look further afield.
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  2015. Michael Crichton had a number of biting quotes regarding the wisdom of experts. In particular, he excoriates the "consensus" that said Pellagra was caused by a germ rather than nutrition deficiency.
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  2016. These boneheads don't understand that there would not even be a franchise without the legacy fans.
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  2017. And if they get to the coast just south of Melitopol, then the HIMARS can target the Kerch bridge directly.
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  2018. There is more to it than that. China obligates these countries to remove ALL trade restrictions and tariffs on goods imported from China. The result is a food into the local markets bankrupting local businesses. While the aristocracy of those Africa countries may be making bank on Chinese loans, it is the regular population who pays the interest on those loans via taxation. Just because Chinese loans are "cheaper" than loans from Europe doesn't make them better. it is the strings attached that make them a Faustian bargain.
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  2019. Agreed. Let Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese studios bury Tinseltown.
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  2020.  @raze3297  Indeed. The worthiest to hold power want nothing to do with it because they know how dangerous and corrupting that power is. NOBODY CAN WEILD SAURON'S RING OF POWER.
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  2021. Japan didn't truly regret until after the two nukes were used against them. Not advocating for nukes on Gaza, but a similar level of devastation may be required.
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  2022.  @mrweb2009  Funny, because the UN has also said since 1948 that Israel has a right to exist, something that the Arabs calling themselves Palestinian have refused to accept.
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  2023. Then explain Operation Faustschlag. That was the SECOND time Russia lost to the Kaiser's Imperial German Army.
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  2024. No joke. There is a video out there that lists the five people who can literally crash the entire world web with just one swipe of a security card. These five card holders are beholden to nobody but the trust that has been invested in them by those who own the physical hardware.
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  2025. Angelina Jolie is a better Jones than Fleabag. Change my mind.
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  2026. Because the police are nothing more that the tools of the people in power. They will never bite the hand that feeds them. Ever notice that they only go after the easy crimes to solve and never the difficult ones? Or use entrapment to catch people who would otherwise not commit crimes without solicitation or enticement?
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  2027. They are going to make Coleman Young's actions in Detroit look like child's play.
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  2028.  @NoFocksGiven_  That is how you know if someone is a good person or not. If they can't laugh at themselves (self-deprecating humor), then there is something seriously wrong with them. Trump to his credit allowed his hair to get messed up and laughed it off; the left stopped mocking his hair as a toupee after that. But while many cultures appreciate self-deprecation as a form of humility, the left and leftists typically are so deadly serious that they can't laugh at anything. Reminds one of Russian(ie Soviet) jokes at the dismal state of Stalinism.
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  2029. To quote Katniss Everdeen: "If we burn, you burn with us!"
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  2030. I agree. That would have been so much better. But Hollywood hates the idea of an East Asian Hero who is not a Jackie Chan martial arts clone.
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  2031. Assuming that is what Russia is doing. But the looks of it are that Putin's "no retreat" order is actually being done, which means that such a killing zone is NOT being used by Russian forces.
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  2032. I agree. The "Aryan Princess" look is so 1930s. I prefer the East Asian beauty.
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  2033. Which is why we need to go back to free-range parenting of previous generations.
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  2034. They are not scabs if they never were a member of the union in the first place.
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  2035. I was not inclined to believe there was a connection. The media thinking they need to fact check it is what makes me a believer that there is.
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  2036. @Whinkle Fourth turning, also known as the Strauss-Howe Generational Theory. And I was born in 1984.
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  2037.  @marcogenovesi8570  Nice job changing the subject (ie deflection fallacy). Supply and demand. There are too many people who want in and not enough jobs to fill. THAT is why the pay is so low. You even alluded to it.
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  2038. You might try Perun's channel. He focuses on defense logistics and did a few videos on War production capabilities for various nations including Russia and Ukraine.
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  2039.  @ジョジョさま  Communists hate Jews just as much as the Nazis did. Don't forget, Stalin purged all Jews from his Soviet government before signing the Molotov-Ribbentrop Aliiance.
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  2040. Kind of sounds like the Downs Lady in my church. She was one of the nicest people you ever met. It was a sad day when she passed in her mid 50s.
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  2041. And it is questionable as to how much it really helped the Trump campaign. But they still have their boogeyman.
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  2042. Want to make they really howl? Put SNCOs on the courts-martials for these flag officers. Call up ALL the retired Command Chief of the Navy, Sergeant Major of the Army, and Master Sergeant of the Air Force to be on the jury. Then watch the panic on their faces as they men they ordered around sit in judgement of them.
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  2043. That is exactly it. Tribalism makes them willingly pick one greater evil over a lesser evil.
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  2044.  @SocialLust  Wow, you had to play that card huh? Thank you for admitting that you have lost the plot.
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  2045.  @KrepsyK  Indeed. Worry about the fidgety guy rather than the one who is relaxed. And if the body language gives the impression of a lazy lion calming watching you, well that speaks for itself.
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  2046. I am hoping that the new Samurai bosses hold Anime News on a tight leash. It doesn't help Kadokawa's business if their subordinates are trashing the product the company is trying to sell.
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  2047. Seems like right now Ukraine does have the resolve to keep fighting.
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  2048.  @chemkatungalag6834  Cherish that detailed genealogy. Knowing your ancestry and heritage keeps the memory of your forebearers alive. And yes, the Great Khan is arguably THE most prolific man in history. He likely has more living descendants today than anyone else in history, including father Abraham.
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  2049.  @willywonka4340  What was it that General Joe Stilwell said about Chaing Kai? "He is an SOB, but at least he is OUR SOB."
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  2050. Agreed. Then they CAN'T silence his mic.
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  2051. Just smoking accidents, of course. (and if your BS meter hasn't maxed out, it needs to be recalibrated)
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  2052. Taht would be great if the courts slap them down for what amounts to copyrighting public domain derivatives. Even better would be for them to tell WOTC/Hasbro that much of what they built their business on is so pervasive, it no longer enjoys trademark rights (think Q-Tip, Band-Aide, Tylenol).
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  2053. Any number of Japanese Anime or Isekai-adjacent High Fantasy is better than crap out of Hollyweird. Any of these is guaranteed to be better than a WoTC rag production. Goblin Slayer DanMachi (Is it wrong to Pick up Girls in a Dungeon) The Slayers (aka the Lina Inverse Show) Re:Zero- Starting Life from Zero Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom In Another World with my Smartphone Rising of the Sheild Hero Restaurant to Another World That Time I was Reincarnated as a Slime (aka the Rimaru Slime Show) Ascendance of a Bookworm Just to name a few.
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  2054.  @SelfProclaimedEmperor  Let's start calling the city by its actual name, not the one Stalin changed it to. Liberate KONIGSBERG!
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  2055.  @ConnieA1262  Along with all of the J6 political prisoners. This pardon happy behavior is just going to make it easy for Trump to grant clemency across the board.
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  2056.  @MentallyLibtarded  That is kind of the point. Throwing it back in their faces after they have wagged their finger at us.
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  2057.  @sues3218  Not if they document their own malfeasance on Tiktok.
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  2058. I hope you chaps over in Jolly old England can get out from under your government soon. The Tories are cowards and Labour is Bolshevick. Kind of like here in the US, I fear.
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  2059.  @unvergebeneid  Let us also put some context which I wish the video would have acknowledged. The reason why at the surface Venus is so efficient at distributing energy is that at 90 atmospheres, CO2 acts NOT as a gas, but as a liquid. At that the Temps on Venus a supercritical fluid at that. A liquid is better and conduction and convection(advection) of energy transfer than a gas. The change-over point for CO2 from super-critical liquid to gas is 70 atmospheres which is about 5km above the surface. So in a sense, Venus has a 5km deep ocean of liquid CO2. Now I don't disagree that much of that may have been locked up in the Venusian Mantle at one time. So a question that arises is at what partial-pressure value does CO2 create this "runaway greenhouse effect"? If we want to do a proper analogy of atmospheric conditions to Earth, we have to go up to 50km altitude where the pressure is 1 atmosphere (about 1000 mb) At 1 bar, the temperature of Venus is 131 Fahrenheit(55 Celsius). The hottest natural temperature recorded on Earth was Death Valley and registered 121 F(49.4C). When you go up to 500mb (1/2 atmospheric pressure), the Temperature drops to 70F (21C). This temperature change in temperature to pressure is consistent with the Ideal Gas Law in physics. Water Vapor in Earth's atmosphere changes the dynamics. If you were to evaporate water into Venus's atmosphere, the temperature would drop drastically due to latent heat absorbed by vaporization of the water. Not even Death Valley at its hottest is as dry as Venus. Just some food for thought.
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  2060.  @grahampaterson4368  Because claims that it is a sign of racism, or the like is completely divorced from reality. His wife has as 1st amendment right to free speech and her exercising that right is NOT Alito's responsibility. To claim it does is the logical fallacy of guilt by association.
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  2061. I agree. They should have used this rather good art for ORIGINAL characters, not to blackface existing ones.
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  2062. Yup. Case in point is North Korea.
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  2063. "Amateurs imitate, professionals plagiarize," -Attributed to Igor Stravinsky.
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  2064. Jury nullification is within the power of the jury. I'm surprised the judge allowed it to stand. Most judges will dismiss a juror if they give even a hint of considering jury nullification.
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  2065.  @gebys4559  You realize that most people in the US stopped using asbestos in buildings and cars in the late 80s? And that was driven more because of private company choices rather than government. Indeed, the major reason why asbestos continued to be used was BECAUSE of government intervention. The whole banning part was basically the government telling itself not to use it. So yeah, the Nanny state has NEVER done anything correct, being the biggest aggravating factor in society's problems.
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  2066.  @meyou9369  Actually, he is correct, and you have fallen into the "AVERAGE LIFE EXPECTANCY" (ie fallacy of averages). When infant mortality and childhood diseases kill people in the single digit age, that is averaged with those in their 80s to make the AVERAGE age in the 30s-40s. Generally, if you made it to 17 years of age, you could easily expect to live to your 80s.
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  2067.  @dustinholmes3832  Well, I will agree with that. He did have enablers. But a grand conspiracy? Even Jeff Davis and Robert Lee were aghast.
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  2068.  @PerceivedREALITY999  "Fact checked" by whom? Verified independently by who? You can claim whatever OPINION you want, but that doesn't make it true. And considering that such reliable sources as SOVIET PRAVDA use "fact checkers", that shows how insincere you are.
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  2069.  @godiswatching9501  "Brainwashed by CT into believing that"? That exact type of "mental conditioning" is what goes on in police training under the auspice of "sensitivity training". You are simply deflecting from the cold hard truth that your position is untenable. Everything you use to explain how the Nazis were different also applies to the police under social justice policies.
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  2070. But the horse is already out of the barn What good is it now? The GOP will not do anything about it.
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  2071. He still has a long way to go.
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  2072. Yeah, China choses to cherry pick which ones they follow and which they ignore. It is only hypocritical if you are pushing an anti-West agenda. Incidentally, Korea is not one country but two. And the two Chinese populations have been divided far longer than the Koreans have.
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  2073.  @zachn5529  The funny thing is, a lot of Assasin's Creed Fans would have been okay with him being an ally or cohort that fights alongside the MC. But they (Ubisoft and Sweet Baby Inc) couldn't abide a black man being relegated to the role of "sidekick".
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  2074. Apparently they haven't seen how devastating Kuvu is in Melanesian and Micronesian cannibal tribes. It is the human equivalent of Mad Cow Disease.
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  2075. Thank you! Nobody wants to talk about how promotions among the flag officers are held as political leverage with the results being deleterious on the combat readiness of the force.
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  2076. There is a word of it: STOCKHOLM SYNDROME.
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  2077.  @sinergy111  If Russia can't be defeated, they why did they retreat from Kiev? Why did Kherson fall to Ukraine? Why is the most elite Russian unit, the 1st Guards Tank Army no longer exist?
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  2078. Great analogy. Please, twist that dagger some more as they need to feel the pain they are inflicting on us with this madness. "Tell me *friend*, when did Saruman the Wise reject reason for madness?" -Gandalf
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  2079. @Jason Except, not everyone does benefit from it. The only people who do are the very 3%ers you are complaining about. Government doesn't do anything right except take money from the working class to line the pockets of the plutocrats. Government spending isn't the solution, it IS the problem.
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  2080. The politicians may be getting fatigue, but I doubt the population is. And anyone who says that Ukraine should just cede territory has forgotten the lesson of the 1939 Munich conference.
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  2081.  @Taletad  Bargain for what? Ukraine has already declared it will retake Crimea.
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  2082.  @Taletad  That is like asking the Iranians or the Nazis to only kill half the Jews and calling it a "compromise". Don't make excuses.
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  2083.  @robinx961  Massive Tank on tank battles are as Soviet Red Army wet dream. Even Heinz Guderian, the father of tank combat, never advocated for that instead arguing that EVERY tank needed an infantry squad escorting it.
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  2084. They don't have a say in the matter. By refusing to take up the election fraud cases, they chose to let this happen. This is their comeuppance for being derelict of duty.
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  2085. Indeed. Look at how TNG handled and respected TOS source despite the hate it endured from skeptics. Now look at how Kutrzman has treated that same source material. The Rick Berman/Ira Steven Bohr period honored both TOS and attempted to comport with the examples of Issaac Asimov, Carl Sagan, Robert A. Heinlein, and Arthur C. Clarke. Kurtzman and his merry band of vandals probably have never even heard of those futurist authors, and it shows. TNG Data very much was in the mold of Asimov. ST:Picard with Dahj and Soji shows utter contempt for Asimov. And that is just one example.
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  2086. How could they vote for him the first time? Sunk cost fallacy is why they will again.
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  2087. Hence why Thomas Jefferson said that banking institutions are more dangerous than standing armies.
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  2088.  @psycobleach46  You have failed to disprove anything I have said. Caveats as you have laid out is not prove of negative. And it is pretty clear that it would have been completely appropriate that change the venue, a power that even a judge can automatically invoke. But I see you still blindly trust in people who pervert the law for a living.
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  2089.  @StrangeCreed  I agree. spur of the moment lines are often so good, they become the defining quote of the movie.
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  2090. The think is most of the "anti-war" movies of the 1950s were NUANCED. Meaning that they were against unprovoked war, but that there was a time when you DID have to fight. The message was basically a more tactful version of General William Tecumseh Sherman's "War is Hell" quote.
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  2091. More likely than not, it would simply be the Arabs allowing the Israelis to fly through their airspace, getting mid-flight refueling from American tankers in the area.
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  2092. Ralph Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings is way better than Amazons hot garbage.
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  2093.  @tatsusama3192  Yeah, his story had more holes in it than a chain-link fence. Most subways close by 9PM. I don't know of a single one open after 11PM. Then you have the claim that Chicago, the bluest of the blue cities is MAGA country? How dumb did he think people are?
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  2094.  @cliffordting8650  Zelesky could negotiate, but do you really think the Ukrainian people would just accept whatever terms he agrees to? The people of Ukraine have made their intentions clear. It will be up to THEM to decide what terms are acceptable. And right now, it is clear that noting less that the complete withdraw of Russian troops will satisfy them.
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  2095.  @kolerick  "High income tax rates not only check consumption but discourage investment and encourage...the avoidance of taxes rather than the production of goods." -President John F. Kennedy
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  2096.  @adrien5834  I do NOT support communism, I detest it. No, my position is that of President John K. Kennedy, a staunch anti-communist. But like a good little Grobbels propagandist, you accuse your critics of that which you yourself are guilty of. You can't win the argument on the merits so you engage in logical fallacies to confuse the subject. "When words lose their meaning, people lose their lives," -Confucius, author of "The Analects".
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  2097. Because that is what the crime lords of Chicago did in the 1920s and 30s during prohibition.
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  2098. I hope not, because that would give him the justification for overturning on appeal.
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  2099.  @Chingaez  Indeed. The roles of the 90s have switched and it is now the left who have become the "moral authoritarians" who only accept deviance if they are the ones doing it.
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  2100.  @Disneyfan82  DeSantis is the duly elected governor of Florida. HE represents the interests of the people, not unelected Iger.
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  2101. It is in no small part to the neighborhood they are in. When surrounded by people who want to "drive Israel into the sea" (the words of Grand Mufti and unrepentant Nazi, Haj Aimn Al-Husseini, chairman of the PLO) you tend to become just as hard as they are.
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  2102. Reminds me of Winston Chruchill's quip on being called drunk. “Bessie, you are ugly. But tomorrow I will be sober, and you will still be ugly.” -Winston Chruchill.
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  2103. Accountability looks like revenge in the eyes of the corrupt.
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  2104.  @frankpaya690  So the Korean War in 1950 wasn't part of the Cold War? Vietnam was not either? You seem to be watching too many Hollyweird revisionist history. Nixon used the Sino-Soviet Split between Mao and Leonid Brezhnev along with Nikita Khrushchev in a gambit to benefit the US against the Soviets. The problem is, Red China never had any intention of being our ally. They simply wanted to replace the USSR as the patron of world communism. And they cleverly used us to succeed in that endeavor.
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  2105. Indeed. The power Disney wields flows from the power of the State of Florida. To use an analogy from "The Slayers" anime, it is like trying to use Shabranigdo's "Dragon Slave" attack against him. "Help me kill you" as Lina Inverse put it. Yeah, not going to work.
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  2106. "Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway," -John Wayne.
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  2107. Indeed. They think we are too stupid to know but that they are? What makes us different? They bloviate about better food, education, or a whole host of shallow excuses. Such is the self-delusions of elitists.
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  2108. If this goes to court, i could see the judge telling Hasbro "OGL basically put D20 into public domain". Once something becomes public domain, it is nearly impossible to claw it back.
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  2109. They are banking on the Gelman-Amnesia effect. Problem is, that is loosing its potency and effectiveness because they have overplayed it, much like how penicillin has been overused.
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  2110. Indeed. A Male without his member is simply a Gelding. Or Steer, or Stag, or Barrow. Historically we called them Eunuchs. We should start calling them what they are.
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  2111. He has been red-pilled, but still doesn't realize that this is the end result of the liberal policies he once supported.
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  2112. Simian Virus 40 in the Polio vaccine and children of Thalidomide 2.0
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  2113. The daily dot's comment "Too Big to fail" shows the power monger insider's ignorance of the old adage "the bigger they are, the HARDER they fall". We are seeing that with America's "entertainment" industry. They have become "too big to fail" and the fall spectacularly hard because of that arrogance. Pride comes before the fall.
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  2114. USS Harder was sunk by IJN's antisubmarine vessel CD-22. It was assisted by IJN's Patrol Boat 102 which was previously the USS Steward before being salvaged.
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  2115. Ah, but if they independently do that it is one thing. If they organize together to do that, it because a violation of anti-Trust Laws.
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  2116.  @Nucl3arDude  That sounds good in principle, but smacked face-first into certain cultural proclivities of East Asia. First and foremost, employees are expected to show up before their immediate supervisor and remain at work until after that supervisor leaves. In practice, that means that the junior most in a corporation is expected to arrive as much as three hours before the senior executive arrives. And will remain there as the mid level manager slowly trickle out according to rank in the company after the senior leadership leaves. The West has a radically different perspective of work hours than Koreans and Japanese do. Appearances are everything, so even if one is very productive and gets all of their work done, rather than go home early, they are expected to find something to make themselves look busy until the boss goes home.
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  2117.  @billyhyatt5190  That is what the gun owners of Moscow thought when the Bolshevicks took power. How did that work out for them? http://www.pravdareport.com/opinion/123335-americans_guns/
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  2118.  @orockzman8757  How do you know they were declassified? The fact that the FBI took pictures with cover letters doesn't mean anything. You are trying to prove a negative (logical fallacy). For the sake of argument, if they were classified, by taking pictures and releasing those images, the FBI agents themselves violated Federal Statues on the handling of classified materials. And no, the Archives DID'T lose access to those files, they were in fact COPIES of the originals still held in the Federal archives. I love how you people think that original copies can just be removed. That is NOT how the national archives works and if it did, it defeats the whole purpose of the institution. Yes, the president CAN wave his hands because he has ultimate authority under Article 2 of the US Constitution. This whole garbage about "didn't follow procedure" is a red herring because the president IS the final authority and sets the policy on how declassification occurs; if he chooses to declassify, he doesn't have to get permission from anyone. And this may surprise you, but the president DOES have the power to reveal secrets that could supposedly endanger national security. JFK did it when he revealed the extend of the Jupiter missiles in Turkey to Khrushchev. He revealed that information as part of the USSR removing their missiles from Cuba.
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  2119. Ther Russian Bear is Geriatric. They may be using the T-62 because it is convenient and easier, but that tells you the desperation they are in and how effective Ukrainian used of anti-Tank weapons have been.
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  2120. De Jure or De Facto. De Jure they are one country. De Factor, they have been two separate countries since 1950. Hell, the Koreans have been officially divided into two countries for at least one year less than the Two Chinas.
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  2121. "Slightly improved" isn't innovation, it is called efficiency. The Japanese in the 1970s and 80s were masters of efficiency. Hell, the fact that they modernized so quickly to become a major military player leading up to WW2 was because of that proclivity for maximizing efficiency. But improving efficiency WILL hit a physical cap. Only recently have the Japanese gone from being masters of efficiency to becoming ACTUAL innovators, particularly in the area of AI.
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  2122.  @eileenmcconnell8420  Generals worth their stars use the wisdom of ALL military philosophers. "War is the continuation of politics by other means," -Carl Von Clausewitz. "War cannot be avoid, merely delayed to the benefit of one side," -Clausewitz.
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  2123. People forget that in Lincoln's house divided speech he said, "it will be all of one or all of the other."
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  2124.  @Jahn_Pah_Jonz  Or the 3.5 version of Book of Exalted Deeds.
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  2125.  @wamingo  Yeah, wisdom looks like foolishness to the stupid. As I recall, that is an ancient proverb.
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  2126.  @colormedubious4747  Only because we expect the home nations to extend the courtesy to our citizens in their countries. It is less a matter of "human rights" and more about international diplomacy. Foreign nations do not always recognize concepts such as due process.
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  2127.  @Hyperencrpted12345  Indeed. Ther term you are looking for is misotheism (god-hate in the strict definition, bigotry against spiritualism in a more general sense)
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  2128.  @ErikOosterwal  Indeed. People don't seem to realize that a full tank doesn't have gas evaporate off as quickly as half a tank does. And a quarter tank evaporates off gas fumes faster than a half tank does. And that does add up to lost gas efficiency.
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  2129.  @Buzzillus  Tell that to the German defense industry who can't count on the German government to ever keep a contract. Ask yourself why very little kit actually gets to the Bundeswehr. Ask why foreign contracts are considered more successful than ones with the Bundeswher.
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  2130.  @betornween  Do you really trust that his detail would not refuse to stand down? I'm not sure that they would refuse to step aside.
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  2131. Almost like the moose skit in Monty Python's Holy Grail. "We apologise for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible have been sacked. " "We apologise again for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked." "The directors of the firm hired to continue the credits after the other people had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been sacked. The credits have been completed in an entirely different style at great expense and at the last minute."
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  2132. Indeed. He knew damn well his actions were dangerous and he persisted. That is VOLUNTARY manslaughter.
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  2133. Yeah, funny how all of these folks who lorded power over others want "forgiveness". I say they should get the very same treatment they inflicted on others. You reap what you sow.
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  2134. Woke culture is like crabs or lobsters in a fishtank; they are too busy tearing each other down to try and work together to escape.
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  2135. Poe's Law.
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  2136.  @peadarocolmain4850  Yeah, you don't seem to understand WHY so many Koreans flee their country.
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  2137. Indeed. The cross-tabs revealed that the poll had a 16% democrat favor in the sampling.
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  2138.  @dimesonhiseyes9134  That was the FIRST thing that crossed my mind when the results were announced. Someone working inside the company should be able to pitch his campaign setting to leadership WITHOUT needing a contest. The whole "conflict of interests" comes to mind.
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  2139. Agreed. Which is why the defendants need to demand that their cases be heard in court. So as to set the precedent that such actions without ratification are unlawful.
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  2140.  @yourstruly4817  In many places, not just the US. "Workers of the world unite" is a Bolshevik slogan.
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  2141. Politics is downstream from culture. This "controversy" goes to the heart of why Title 9 protections for biological women in sports exists.
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  2142.  @ColoradoStreaming  Don't blame Trump for the GOP own blunders. Trump was NOT on the ballot, that was McConnell and Governor Kemp screwing us all over just because they hate Trump more than they hate Democrats.
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  2143.  @rainer250  Comparing this to nuclear waste is disingenuous. The nuclear flasks used to transport the waste have been tested for this very situation. You can find the videos under "Operation: Smash Hit". But I do agree with you that this whole situation smells musty like cut grass or hay (the scene of Phosgene).
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  2144.  @kevinlarue1909  I agree that ANTIFA was Stalin's street thugs in the 1930s and they are no better than the Nazi brow shirts. That being said, the good law enforcement are being thrown to the wolves by the corrupt politicians. Had they been supported at the start, things would not have gotten as bad as they have. Nobody has clean hands now because people refused to do the right thing from the start.
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  2145.  @gen_z_hippichikk  Where in the constitution is it the government's responsibility? BTW, most of those "price gougers" are multi-national corporations who support Democrats. Your local businesses can't afford to price gouge lest they lose their customer base. How about you pick up a book by Karl Menger, Friedrich Hayek, and Ludwig von Misses? They completely disprove every claim of Marx, Lenin, Mao, and the rest.
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  2146. The problem is the abominable Sulivan ruling. Let us hope that Alan Dershowitz can get the SCOTUS to overturn that monstrosity.
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  2147. And people wonder why they stopped showing audience scores and only "acclaimed critics" scores. The critics are paid to give good reviews having never actually watched it while the audience reviews give the more truthful verdict.
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  2148. Not broken, better gaming experience for the end user. No more boring level grinding just to feed the machine.
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  2149.  @shonuff5297  While I agree with Libertarian principles, getting them to organize is like herding cats. Worse, the Gary Johnson folks purged the Austin Peterson folks in a Stalinist Purge, so the big "L"s are basically controlled opposition with major party rejects as their candidates.
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  2150.  @Laugh1ngboy  There is impartiality and then there is flat out pandering. He is trying to pander to both sides.
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  2151. Or the "incident" in Butler, PA.
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  2152. Something tells me he is the bonehead who actually waters his yard in a dusty climate rather than rely on zero-scape or AstroTurf grass. Yes, these fools are that dense.
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  2153. Not entirely true. The infamous "Demon Core" that killed Louis Slotten was supposed to be bomb number three to be dropped on Kokura (the original target of Bockscar and Fat Man).
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  2154.  @FUNKOfilms  Stallone himself says he is just a plain Italian Stallion.
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  2155.  @anitagorse9204  Tatarstan proves otherwise. If they could become prosperous under independence in all but name, so would Chechnya.
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  2156. Can't fly through volcanic ash. It literally melts glass in the engines if you do.
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  2157.  @PrimoTheRRC  Basically armed militias going at it? Well if the police and the national guard are unwilling to get involved, maybe the Proud Boys were correct all along.
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  2158.  @whutzat  Guy In Real Life But yes, just because "Elliot" remove its breast tissues doesn't mean its chromosomes changed. IT has two X chromosomes on the 23rd pair.
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  2159. Just means plot spoilers now.
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  2160. Yeah, the people who obsess about slavery seem to forget that the Pharaohs kept Hebrew slaves in bondage to but the Pyramids and Temple cities.
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  2161. Apparently country music singers know their audience better than the beer companies do.
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  2162.  @captainblacktail8137  No, they would not join, they would side with the radicals in those 4 states. But the problem for them is that they can't control their own streets, how do they think they will stand against National Guard and Active Duty troops trained for urban warfare and insurgency operations? Ironically, the Jihadis in the mid-East gave our military the very training it needs to put down a civil war.
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  2163.  @mustafahassan7781  Tell that to Nelson Mandela who also ran from prison.
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  2164. Never going to happen. Seriously, do you even know why the Korean War was fought 70 years ago?
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  2165. The TV Trope you are looking for is "Then Let Me Be Evil". When you treat people like dog squat, don't be surprised when they decide to embrace it and become FAR worse. (self-fulfilling prophesy right here) Please note, I an NOT justifying villainy, only showing that the twatteradi should have tried actually reading books instead of burning them.
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  2166.  @LeeroyPorkins  agreed. There is a reason why East Asia in antiquity used bricks of Tea as a currency. Not only did it have intrinsic value, it lasted a long time, and was easy to transport. Much more stable currency minted coins. Commodities are currency with inherent value unlike modern currencies which are not inherently worth the material used to make them.
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  2167. Don't forget that the infamous "Demon Core" was supposed to be bomb number three that would have been dropped on Kokura.
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  2168. All valid points that really need to be looked at by NATO "planners" who have been wagging their fingers at Ukraine.
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  2169.  @blackoak4978  The thing is, not even the Feds felt there was a case to be pursued and so declined to go forward. Even CNN admits that this is all bunk.
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  2170. That is why the impeachment WITHOUT a defense attorney is not just unconstitutional, it is a Star Chamber Kangaroo Court, not that the SCOTUS would even care about constitutionality. Part of me wants them to do it so as to provoke that color revolution that drags everyone of them into the streets for "people's" justice they claim to care about.
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  2171. She has been lying since the first day she went to work at MSDNC.
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  2172. How about the dirt bad CBP officers aiding and abetting in human smuggling?
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  2173. The problem is that incumbents get retained at 95% in the primary. Need to also vote them out in the general election. And of course, term limits are even better.
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  2174.  @lostandfound5145  If you are cleaning your gun when your daughters come home, that should be enough to scare the potential beaus straight.
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  2175. It is fair when one is NOT using their share of the market to manipulate and crush one's competition. THAT is where it stops being a free and fair market and slowly degenerates into an oligarchy. MORE competition is conducive to Capitalism. Less competition is anathema to capitalism.
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  2176. Mark Twain said that at 17 he couldn't believe how stupid his father was. At 22 he was amazed at how much his father learned in 5 years. Clearly that does not apply to Cameron. Or rather, the opposite is true.
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  2177.  @JA-yx9mq  No "technicalities" about it. The law did not apply to him. Stop pushing myths such as the insinuation that the three people shot were black.
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  2178.  @dmitriyalaasniy8442  You are doing quite a bit yourself with your trolling private Conscriptovich.
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  2179.  @anthonylogiudice9215  I think that was the big thing. Deny other short people the roles. Guess he didn't like that Peter Jackson DID use short people for background hobbit characters (but not the major five hobbits for some reason).
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  2180.  @Arcaryon  yeah, she had options, but one must also consider her history with the East German Communist Youth League. Much like Putin, she saw the fall of the Eastern Soviet Bloc to be a geopolitical disaster.
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  2181.    You basically have described many conservatives. They still foolishly think the GOP works for them while ignoring how often the party leadership has betrayed their trust and sold them out. Case in point is the GOP governors defying their own GOP controlled state Congresses.
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  2182. Oh, there are a bunch of other dystopian novels we are emulating. Solyent Green, Gattica, Logan's Run, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies just to name a few.
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  2183.  @rizkyadiyanto7922  You are referring to a population that has been there since the 14th century invasions by the Ottomans. They didn't seem to be much of a problem after Lord Vlad Draculi of Transylvania made it clear what he thought of Islam.
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  2184. Especially when people can't tell the difference. George Orwell described people like you perfectly. Probably because he saw it firsthand during the Spanish Civil War.
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  2185. Mitt Romney in one of his rare coherent and good moment in 2012 made the observation that with the amount of money NPR and PBS make off of Sessame Street merchandise, they should be completely self-funded. Of course, the left threw a hissy fit over the suggestion.
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  2186.  @ethandollarhide7943  Yeah, and most of those top 15 are under the umbrella of US protection. Think about that.
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  2187.  @LordEjnar  How about everything? Yes, that is hyperbolic, but he is looking at it through political lenses rather than a cold rational, and dispassionate perspective.
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  2188. Word is that it cut out at one point indicating a serious electrical malfunction.
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  2189.  @RocketmanRockyMatrix  India is an interesting case. Since antiquity they have been various Rajahs and Princedoms fighting each other. Only when Alexander the Great conquered Punjab did they finally unite against the Greek threat. As soon as he died, they went back to fighting each other again. Further example of how historically India has been at war with itself is the former border between Bangladesh and India which at one time had the worlds only third-order enclave(Dahala Khagrabari). Rumor is, that convoluted border was the result of political games between Rajahs to prevent outright war. Then you have the issue that one of those Rajahs did NOT want to be a part of India when the British emancipated them. The rest of India effectively invaded that country within a country to force them to unify with the rest of India. Yeah, India is unique.
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  2190. Yup, you hit on the big issue, namely dominance via trade. Forcing locals to drop ALL trade restrictions and tariffs so that they can flood the market and bankrupt local business does far more harm to a nation than those in power dare admit.
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  2191. They need to bring back ALL of the beloved classics. Even my all-time favorite Big Thunder Mountain is not the same ride is used to be.
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  2192. Don't count your eggs before they hatch. Same thing was said about the defense of Kiev. They said the same thing about Kherson. One thing you people keep doing is grossly underestimate the Ukrainains.
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  2193. Actually, that is what the people he is taking to court are doing. To are accusing the wrong side.
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  2194. To quote Michael Crichton, "Consensus in science is the first refuge of scoundrels. When ever you hear that the consensus agrees, reach for your wallet, you are being had."
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  2195.  @tomsuh1362  CCCP troll.
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  2196. Q Annon is a deep state counter-intelligence operation. "They" succeeded in keeping people from acting under the false premise that everything would be alright in the end. It's not.
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  2197.  @Nitro1000  If you think that was punishment, you have lost the context. How familiar are you with Japanese Defense Plan Ketsu-Go? How about the American Invasion Plan Downfall consisting of Olympic (Invasion of Kyushu) and Coronet (Honshu and the Kanto Plain)? Kokura was suppose to be the target of the second bomb and WOULD have been the third target had not Emperor Hirohito finally ordered his men to stand down. Even then, there were elements of the military who tried to stage a military coup d'état and dethrone the emperor to continue the war.
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  2198. One corporation to rule them all, one corporation to find them, one corporation to bring them all and in the darkness, bind them.
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  2199.  @whitewolf3051  The problem is that he sold it off completely. He has only himself to blame. He should have insisted on maintaining an executive veto power over any project.
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  2200. Overton Window
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  2201. That was my first response to this story. Why did the doctor go to the media instead of the police?
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  2202. Oh, how I wish the fears of the 80s where Japan took over the world had come to pass. Samurai feudal lords value meritocracy and results over petty virtue signaling.
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  2203. I hope it gets broken up ala Rockerfellear's Standard Oil.
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  2204. Can you say "Reichstag Fire"?
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  2205. Yeah, remember the other Nieson aircraft hijacking movie where the villain was a white American combat veteran, and the Arabs were the innocent victims? Tinsel Town has a serious problem.
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  2206. Andd we pay for them via property taxes, gas taxes, and income taxes. It is covered three times over and yet that is still not enough for some.
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  2207.  @joshuacalkins  Well, part of the problem is the one facing ALL prequels: you box yourself into a corner. Some things you CANNOT bring in because it cheapens the shock of the original. I can't tell you how many times they violated well established canon, particularly involving the Klingons. And the failures of Rick Berman and Michael Okuda opened the door to J.J.Abrams and Kurtzman's vandalization of the franchise. I will agree with you that Picard and Sisko had a rough start. Hell, DS9 seasons 1 and 2 Jadzia is more like Spock before they completely changed her when Worf came onto the show. Janeway likewise changed around season three (something about "growing the beard"), but at least they kept her background as a scientist under Admiral Owen and the Al-Batani consistent and stayed in that lane. And of course, Chakotay basically dropped the Native American angle because rather than use a pre-existing tribe/nation, they chose to create a fake one whole cloth with the predictable inconsistencies. Anyhow, sorry for my rant. Scott Bacula's potential was wasted by Rick Berman and company. They did him no favors and practically demolished his career.
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  2208. My ancestors were proud rebels having fought with the Green Mountain Boys under Ethan Allen.
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  2209. You sell the Ukrainian effort short. Equpment is great, but as Afghanistan proves, it doesn't mean you automatically win. It is the Ukrainians who are actually fighting the fight.
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  2210. Yeah, multimillionaires, not small dollar donations. Keep coping buddy.
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  2211. Don't forget that politicians through arbitrary zoning laws have made cheap affordable housing an artificial scarcity.
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  2212. Tell that to the builders of the US Navy Nuclear Reactors, particularly for the nuclear carriers.
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  2213. Serial killers often get their start by butchering neighborhood pets. How would that be any different when it comes to government? And for those of you who advocate peace at any cost, if you DON'T get violent when the government comes to kidnap your children, you deserve to have them taken away. Defense of your children IS justification for use of lethal force against agents of the state.
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  2214. If he is still a mover and shaker behind the scenes, playing king maker means people SHOULD listen to what he has to say. Japanese are VERY traditional, and they WILL take heed of warnings from a prior leader.
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  2215.  @Dewydidit  CAPITAL POLICE LET PEOPLE IN. You have clearly not seen the released security footage disproving claims of January 6th.
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  2216.  @dralord1307  That always seems to be the way with the children of successful rags to riches children. The Murdock boys and Henry Ford's son are another example. Fortunately for the Ford company, the Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren took after the founder and had a vested interest in the business and maintain the legacy.
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  2217. Oliver Stone is an ENTERTAINER, not a historian. You just proved PT Barnum's point about a sucker born every minute.
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  2218. Indeed. Appeasement NEVER works. It failed at Munich, it will fail here.
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  2219. Fox's problem is the good for nothing Murdock sons who are flaming liberals. Rupert really should have put Wendy Deng in charge of his empire instead of the good for nothing sons.
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  2220. I think having alibis are going to be the gold standard again. Pictures could disprove a false alibi, but in an era where picture can be faked, the alibi becomes relevant again.
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  2221. The Islands are simply the lip of the caldera. Think of crater lakes and you start to understand.
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  2222.  @wut3358  You are reading something in my words that just isn't there. Unchained Spirit and C G have it correct. Let us not fool ourselves into thinking that there will be free and fair elections with feckless Republicans as the nominal opposition. What we need is a groundswell. We need the proverbial well armed sheep contesting the vote for lunch.
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  2223. Yea, it is like people don't realize the SCOTUS would not have permitted the Japanese Ministry of Information to operate a paper in San Francisco, New York, or Honolulu during WW2.
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  2224. Indeed. But having elected officials being escorted around by hospital orderlies is nothing new. Robert Byrd, Strom Thurman, and many other politicians who died in office were regularly used as puppets.
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  2225. And that is pretty much how Ukraine has dealt with Russian positions: out flank them with superior mobility. Guderian would be proud.
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  2226. So you are saying that the Russian Army is so blind and powerless it could not stop Ukrainian Frogmen from placing demolition charges? Cope Harder dude.
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  2227. I know not much about Ukrainian leaders. But I do know that had Zelensky fled, Kiev would have fallen that night. His resolve rallied the people of Ukraine to their banner.
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  2228.  @peterfranks6243  "Just like every other" Seriously? Which country takes in the most refugees and asylum seekers? We have what every other nation in the world desires and envies. If you think America is so bad, I invite you to move to DPRK (North Korea). That will sober you up fast.
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  2229.  @brettmerrill4806  Really? Who is it that is calling for Israel's obliteration? Who is it that is apologizing for terrorism against the Jewish people? The American media HATES Israel, that is why they always call Israel the aggressor when it is Hamas and Hezbollah who fire off hundreds of rockets to murder Jews. Yeah, I think I know who is the shill.
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  2230. It is just sad that Kurtzman and company don't have the breadth of knowledge nor are well read enough to come up with such good stories. DC Fontana and the rest had life experience. They read futurists like Issac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and Heinrich Heinlein, men whom today are called Nazis and racists. "New Trek" is a poor pretender to the golden age under Rick Berman.
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  2231. Part of the problem is that you get governments like the Soviets under Stalin who do fear their people and respond by crushing and oppressing them. It isn't enough that governments fear the people; the people MUST have the means to keep those governments in check by force.
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  2232.  @waltergro9102  You are making a distinction WITOUT a difference. And no, it was never approved by NATO. Again, you are engaging appeasement of the Kremin. STOP ACTING LIKE NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN.
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  2233. Agreed. People are too quick to attack the messenger rather than listen to the merits of the message.
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  2234.  @Omenowl  I agree that would be most fair. Except, what happens when original authors are dead? Logic would state it goes to next of kin, but that can also get messy. Originally at the Founding of the US, copyright and patent was for 50 years flat. Trademark eventually came around based on those laws. Thanks to corporate activism and lobbying, they now extend to 120 years in most cases. The laws now punish creativity and innovation rather than protect and encourage it. We need to go back to the original purpose of copyright law and limit how much corporate interests can exploit copyright laws to protect monopolies.
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  2235.  @lordbread2083  So because someone disagrees with you, you send them to the Gulag. Go back to Soviet Russia Comrade.
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  2236. They didn't learn a damn thing from last years' debacle.
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  2237. And yet that fails to explain the Abraham Accords. Or the Camp David Accords that preceeded them.
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  2238. Don't forget that even the state courts must abide by the Federal Constitution, particularly the Bill of Rights.
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  2239. "A rising tide raises all boats" -John F. Kennedy. The best way to improve the lives of everyone is to CUT taxes so as to stimulate growth which WILL increase revenues more than raising taxes would.
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  2240. While Trump is left of Reagan, he is the closest to Reagan that the GOP has put up for president since the Gipper. Too many Rockefeller-Romney Republican RINOs.
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  2241. Heh, I had a similar experience being exposed to East Asian culture as a result of my father being in the Navy's Pacific Fleet (USS Elliot). My parents separated when I was in kindergarten so mine was a broken family with each of my parents effectively single for most of my childhood. Like you, being exposed to Asian culture and values left as lasting impression and so when I joined the Air Force, I very quickly volunteered for a tour in Korea. It was while I was there that my wife first made contact with me. She is Chinese-Indonesian and oddly, was already very westernized despite having never traveled outside of her country until she married me. It is our shared blend of Eastern and Western values as well as faith in Jesus Christ that has kept us together despite some of the wild fights we have had.
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  2242.  @rutgaurxi7314  There is a word for that: NEPOTISM. When you get a job just because you are related to them (or having s*x with them), that goes beyond cronyism into the incestuous realm of nepotism.
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  2243.  @warlockpaladin2261  Indeed. Never forgive, and most importantly, NEVER FORGET.
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  2244.  @warlockpaladin2261  When Trek parodies like GalaxyQuest and The Orville are more faithful to the source material than CBS/Paramount/Viacom's glorified fanfiction, that shows you how upside down the world is. Axanar Project is true canon and Kurtzman Trek is insult parody, change my mind.
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  2245. Maelstrom was great too. I would not have minded if they put Olaf in a few of the scenes so long as they did not make major changes. That they took out that classic is a great travesty.
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  2246.  @omalleycaboose5937  You don't think SciFi's version released in 2000 wasn't good? That was 9 years before Avatar.
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  2247.  @ConvictedFelonTrump8647  How is Trump a traitor? The US Constitution specifically defines it as "providing aid and comfort to the enemy". Please detail exactly how he has done that.
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  2248.  @richardsaunders3743  Because the leadership of "democratic socialism" have always been about power rather than the working class. Take a look at what happened to the Russian Democratic Socialist Party after 1917 when they took power.
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  2249. I suspect the old-fashioned alibi is going to become the gold standard again.
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  2250.  @KemetledAfrica  It is what it was supposed to be about. It has since been perverted into this mockery where certain historically discriminated groups are given preferential treatment in a patronizing and condescending way. It has become the very thing it was meant to combat.
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  2251. Agreed. Her unmoderated rants were great!
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  2252.  13ased_American  Talking about yourself? Put down the vodka comrade, you are so drunk you are hallucinating.
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  2253. The Soviet Union recovered from its disastrous defeats at the hands of the Wehrmacht because US supplies that were sent via the Northern Route to Murmansk. For almost 30 years after WW2, the trucks used in the yearly May Day parades were American built. Russia today does NOT have that production supply; Ukraine is who benefits from it.
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  2254. The Brits held the line while Americans procrastinated. But as Chruchill said, America will eventually do the right thing, even if we first attempt everything else.
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  2255.  @Darth1Marik  You would be surprised what kind of skeletons come out in discovery. Take the Jonny Depp Amber Herd trial. Musk vs Twitter is already starting to emulate the Depp vs. Herd trial.
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  2256. Yeah, that continent hasn't always had the brightest of leadership in the last 3 centuries. I blame the rampant nepotism and in-breeding.
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  2257. I kind of hope that the new Daimyo of ANN cleans house. I would much rather see it become a shill for their products than be a woke dumpster fire that attacks the fans and trashes the medium.
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  2258. Sounds like you are describing Joe Stalin there. The man RARELY drank in public. While the vodka flowed at public events, he drank.....water.
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  2259. I'm down for that.
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  2260.  @auggieeast  Again, back in 2006 NATO was mostly supportive on Georgia joining the alliance. Putin instigating those conflicts is what has kept Georgia out of the alliance for the foreseeable future.
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  2261. Except anti-trust laws come into play. This isn't free-market capitalism, it is corporate oligarchism, the antithesis of capitalism.
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  2262.  @zidaneffixexe  Eh, their "Our Dumb World Atlas" was actually quite funny. But I concede that was likely because they aggregated their best material.
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  2263. "You've just been erased!" -U.S. Marshal John "Eraser" Kruger (aka the Governator)
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  2264.  @shanenolan8252  Indeed. Boudica's war with Rome, Tamar of Georgia against the Mongolians. Seondeok of Shilla Dynasty Korea against both Paekje and KoGoreyo. And of course, Queen Elizabeth the First.
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  2265. UNCLOS plays a significant role in the South China Sea territorial disputes. In particular, the EZs do not apply to artificial islands that China has been building.
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  2266. I only see term limits for the SCOTUS coming from Article V convention of the States.
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  2267.  @MrMarinus18  Ask Venezuela how nationalizing their oil industry works out.
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  2268.  @paulfaigl8329  You are trying and FAILING to quote Sherlock Holms' famous adage, "Once you eliminate the impossible, what remains no matter how improbable". Your problem is that you are biasing YOUR analysis with routine landings. You are purposely conflating data so as to obfuscate a very valid question.
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  2269. Yeah, spreading 30million deaths over 500 years is easier than the same number over just 5 years during WW2. I think that context is being lost.
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  2270. It also doesn't help that the Murdock sons are also flaming liberals. Rupert should have put Wendy Deng in charge of his media empire instead of his good for nothing sons.
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  2271. Alaska tried to get rid of Murkowski. But since they don't have a "sore loser" law preventing someone who lost a primary from doing a write-in campaign, the Democrats in that state supported her.
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  2272. Well, and did the US permit the Japanese "Ministry of Information" to operate a paper in San Francisco, New York, and Honolulu? Basically, the same concept.
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  2273. Refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of the courts and refuse to comply with them. If there is a guilty verdict, the Governors of Republican states need to come out saying they will NOT honor ANY extradition request from the State of New York. The reason being that to do so would make them accomplices to constitutional violations of civil rights and due process.
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  2274. Or, it may result in warlordism much like during the famine in Somalia that led to a certain incident involving US Helicopters. The video authors blatantly ignore the history of brushwars that have plagued the continent.
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  2275. Remind people that Nelson Mandela ran for office from a jail cell after being wrongfully incarcerated.
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  2276. Communal with those they view as kin. They are vicious towards those the view as reproductive competition.
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  2277.  @dreadtrain2846  Burden of proof is on you to disprove me and you have offered up nothing. Your empty declaration is not a rebuttal, but an emotional outburst. But nice trying to channel Joe Wilson of South Carolina.
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  2278.  @thomaslacornette1282  But not at the expense of the mission. It is always a balancing game, one that many generals and colonels fail at.
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  2279. I tend to agree. Shout once, maybe twice, but otherwise don't interfere with the game. Nuking sports is what really soured people on the Wuhan Virus restrictions.
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  2280.  @middlefinger1565  I would say old school liberal. Those can be reasoned with. Progressives have never been rational. Unless you think the socialist policies of 1930s Europe were in any way rational. Socialism and "progressivism" have always been ideologically conjoined twins.
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  2281. I prefer the mantra "Art is art, but there is absolutely no accounting for taste".
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  2282. Arguably that is what the FDIC is. The banks pay insurance fees into the system. The problem is that the bureaucrats pay out when they shouldn't. They OVER protect corporate investors and short the small depositors.
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  2283.  @lesigh1749  Springtime for Hitler in the movie "The Producers".
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  2284. Too many damn comic supervillains and not enough Tony Starkes or Bruce Waynes.
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  2285. The Russian Bear is geriatric.
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  2286. And you are making the same blunder as US generals did in the American Civil War. Terrain is not nearly as important as destroying the army that hold it. That is the difference between the Ulysses Sam Grant strategy and the George B. McCellan strategy.
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  2287.  @xhagast  That was exactly why the M1911 was developed as I was mentioning in my previous posts. Jihadis high as a kite on drugs don't feel bullets. Police engaging with drug crime see the same thing.
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  2288.  @cactuslietuva  You haven't seen many US Marine Corp veteran trainers, have you? There are triple amputees who are training the next generation of Devil Dogs.
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  2289.  @cactuslietuva  Depends on the context. If the triple amputee can still deliver a beatdown, what does that tell you about how hardcore he will make them? You can be a negative Nancy or you can look at the positive side. It is clear you don't understand the warrior ethos. Most hold their wounded and disabled in high esteem as having paid the price for the nation's badassery.
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  2290. That Gelding DID compete in the men's division before "transitioning" (ie castration) and could not cut it. That should tell you much.
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  2291. Yeah, but one has to remember that the UN resolution was signed by Chang-Kai Shek's Kuomintang government when Taiwan still held the official seat on the UN security council. Nixon and Kissinger in Beijing changes all of that.
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  2292.  @shakeelali9418  May you experience first-hand the "justice" you find acceptable. The God of Israel has a funny way of making those who curse his people fall by their own hands.
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  2293.  @ActuatedGear  Oh, I won't disagree that Robin Williams was the master of off the cuff humor. But that doesn't detract from my point that if you let a stand-up comedian have the flexibility to go off script, he or she will deliver gold quality material.
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  2294. They also don't seem to realize that nitrogen in the soil is what makes plant growth possible. Farmers will sometimes alternate with Alfalfa to restore the nitrogen in the soil and prevent depletion which would make the soil barren. Yet another example of city urbane elites not understanding basic botany, and why they should never be dictating to farmers.
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  2295. Hell, franchise out the Disney Parks brand. I'm sure Lotte World in Seoul South Korea would LOVE to become an "official" Disney Park (it is already a Korean knock-off of Disneyland).
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  2296. Actually, I think you are correct that Putin thinks like Joe Stalin. The parallels are striking.
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  2297.  @MadKitty10  Yeah, too bad Youtube/Google doesn't like me comparing MSNBC to her.
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  2298. I completely agree. This "qualified immunity" for judges and prosecutors simply because they are government officials needs to go away.
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  2299. When was the last time NATO invaded a former Soviet Republic? Never? Then sit down and let the adults talk.
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  2300. Accountability looks like revenge to the corrupt.
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  2301. The thing is, they do have something to lose, they just don't realize it. And that realization will come too late.
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  2302. Yeah, I kind of got that vibe as well.
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  2303.  @EvanFAF  We also have a shared heritage as colonies of the crown. We both advocate for local self-determination and de-colonization. The strife with the USSR and the fact that we allied with the UK is why India and the US have been strained since the 1950s.
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  2304.  @spudsmackenzie13  You and I are clearly reading different posts. I was responding to the OP of this thread. Op's first point about knowing your enemy is not wrong as a good solider will know the equipment and tactics of his adversary if he really wants to win. Op's 2 point about the Russian War machine being more unstable is an assessment I will also agree with. His third point about American's agreeing with Russia is completely off-base. He has zero evidence to support it, and apathy towards Russia is NOT the same as actively supporting them. To make that leap is an example of fallacious thinking predicated on what TV tropes calls "Insane Troll Logic". His contention that "MAGA traitors" are blocking is also another hyperbolic and absurd argument that is inflammatory and lacking of any evidence to support it. It is actually the talking points you would expect to hear for authoritarian apologists. His further comments about simping is yet again just bomb throwing and NOT rational, coherent discussion.
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  2305.  @nas4apps  Agreed. One arrogant and prideful man is the Kremin is to blame for all of the suffering. And it could end overnight if he would just recall his forces.
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  2306. You Mean George Harrison. Ringo played the original Mr. Conductor on Shining Time Station and the first Season of the Thomas the Tank Engine voice over. What did Harrison do after being part of the Fab four?
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  2307.  @pfroudzdo  Dude, you don't remember the Russian theft of South Ossetia from Georgia, do you? This war is exactly the same, with the EXACT same false pretexts.
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  2308.  @kets4443  How much of that is his critics making him out to be worse than he actually was? It was something of a Roman tradition to embellish the evils of predecessors whom you disagreed with. Incidentally, harsh punishment is about the only way to keep corrupt people in line. As Thomas Sowell pointed out, you have to create the conditions where evil men choose to do good rather than rely on the supposed goodness of human nature.
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  2309. I don't think they did. Much like with Kurtzman Trek, they are literally writing it as they go.
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  2310. And he conveniently ignores that Estonia, Lativa, and Lithuania which share a border with Russia are already part of NATO.
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  2311. Pence is Grima Wormtongue.
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  2312.  @martindeleon9863  I was trying to point out that you have a proud heritage that is American, Mexican and specifically Texas unique. The ethnic Mexicans who fought alongside the Gringos during the Texas Revolution were true American Patriots. And as I said, it doesn't make you any less American being a Tejano.
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  2313.  @ionnanskilliorus6877  You are conflating SOCIAL DEMOCRACY with Democratic Socialism (aka Bolshevism). There are TWO critical points which make Scandinavia's SOCIAL DEMOCRACY work as well as it does. The first is that they are 98% ethnic homogeneous. They are more ethnically monolithic than countries like South Korea and Japan. It makes a MAJOR difference because of a lack of competing priorities when everyone holds the same cultural values. The second is the oil and gas deposits which are eclipsed only by Russia's Siberian deposits (which are technically in Asia, not Europe). The oil pays for EVERYTHING. Without it, Those Scandinavian countries would still be in developing economy status, just barely above mud huts. There are many documentaries about how the oil changed Nordic society in the late 1960s
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  2314.  @chickenintherain5172  Glad that us "cousins" from south of the Great Lakes can help in any minor way possible. We may not pay allegiance to the Queen, but we can still show familial love to our kinfolk and stand with you against a tyrant in Parliament.
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  2315.  @1mouseman  So was Depp and he still won. She can make the argument that calling her a public figure is like calling Nick Sandman a public figure.
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  2316.  @joshanonline  Not quite. The original German ANTIFA were bullies much like the Brown Shirts. The difference is, they worked for Stalin instead of Hitler, but their end goal was still the same. The Modern American Antifa are an exact carbon copy of the original.
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  2317. Indeed. I find it incredibly ironic that a white guy of Southern European heritage thinks he knows more about racism than a Quarter Asian guy who has actually experienced it. RA clearly doesn't get that he is very the caricature he proclaims that he hates.
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  2318. I always figured that line meant she was one of Triton's court nobles until her exile. That she was essentially his major domo until her side deals came to light.
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  2319. What was it said, "live long enough to see yourself become the villain?" Crenshaw proves that.
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  2320. She is also unwilling to call out the ACA for what it is: Soviet Style medicine she grew up under.
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  2321. Johnson is cut from the same cloth as John Boehner, Paul Ryan, and Kevin McCarthy.
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  2322. Fox's behavior has more to do with their leadership, namely the good for nothing Murdoch sons. They want Fox to be another MSNBC. Ruper really should have put Wendy Deng in charge of his media empire instead of them.
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  2323.  @jaybee4577  And you are a Chi-Com shill. See how that works? It doesn't, it comes across and petty and banal. Try refuting my points with reason, logic and facts rather than disparagements. Also I am pro-TAIWANESE China. They have just as much claim to the name of China as the mainland Red Government.
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  2324.  @fmsida  I do agree that you don't just throw your money at a shit product. But as many others have famously said, "don't give your money o people who hate you and your values". And sometimes it is just better to pass on a good product because it does you no good to help the people who want to destroy you.
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  2325. And they need to. THe defendants should demand that the courts hear their case so that the Supreme Court is forced to rule on the legality of what just happened.
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  2326. And now the Germans are almost entirely dependent on the Russians to supplement their power during the winter.
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  2327.  @asmkalrizion7078  Not by her father. The fact that she has such as tense "relationship" with him (he is a Trump supporter) tells me much.
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  2328.  @ramonandrajo6348  That sounds like copium and sour grapes.
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  2329.  @lastsong7159  I think you are conflating your terms. The saying is "best defense is a good offense". What I think you are trying to say is General James Longstreet advocated: "strategic offense, TACTICAL defense". He very much agreed with you that you pick the location to fight and prepare a strong defensive position then lure the enemy to that strongpoint and force them to shatter themselves against it.
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  2330. Government is the last refuge of the incompetent who could not cut it in the private sector. "Government is the great fiction by which everyone attempts to live at the expense of everyone else." -Fredrich Hayek.
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  2331.  @nomdeguerre7265  Fred Hayek, Carl Menger, Fred Bastiat, Adam Smith, and all of the other advocates of the Austrian school need to be citied to counter the Keysean-Marx school of economics. Every argument of more government spending can be completely disproven by those men I listed.
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  2332. Good, because not even the Feds felt there was a case to pursue.
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  2333. Indeed. They have a single moment of lucidity, then they are right back into the intoxication of social media narcotics.
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  2334.  @iamaloafofbread8926  And yet Germany went to war with the Soviet Union in WW2 over the gas and Oil deposits in Eastern Europe. Look up "Bessarabia".
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  2335.  @hkchan1339  There used to be many more, but the Germans have over time become very resentful of the US presence. We were actually being nice when we shut down ones like Sembach AB.
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  2336.  @UndeadSlayer5  You mouth to the almighty's ear.
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  2337.  @Parcha64  Yup. And the Uyghurs make the same claim about the Tarim Basin Europoid mummies(particularly the Beauty of Xiaohe), never mind that those mummies date to the time of father Abraham while the Uyghurs only arrived recently(750s AD). To further debunk their claims, the matrilineal (mitochondrial) DNA of those European looking mummies is East Asian, particularly Northeast China, Korea, and Kamchatka. And most of them were buried in Celtic Plaids! It is a common tactic of ethno-nationalists to make false claims about human remains as in the example you described. The UK's Piltdown Man was one such example that set back paleontology for decades.
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  2338. They are repeating Conseco's path into oblivion.
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  2339. Now if the fandom can make pirated copies of the books to further spite WoTC. Make those "counterfeit" copies as desirable as a Beetles record was behind the Iron Curtain.
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  2340. Which one? At this point I would rather be in Blazing Saddles rather than Men in Tights. Hell, even Young Frankenstein would be an improvement.
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  2341. Put down the vodka Russia bot.
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  2342. The UN aid agencies are willfully participating in crimes against humanity, stealing food aid and facilitating human trafficking.
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  2343. Standard procedure. Look at how they acted in Grozny.
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  2344.  @Dept246  You are rationalizing (ie making exuses fallacy). Fact is, the Indians have a disciplined, professional military while the PLA has degenerated into street thugs.
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  2345. Another guy who would not put up with shit was Don Rickels. Hell some of his best material was when he heckled the hecklers, though he hated doing that. Today people would call Rickels a boorish bully.
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  2346.  @A_Stereotypical_Heretic  Do your research first. Lots of girls from the former American colony are simply looking for a mark. Don't be afraid of considering a girl from a Commonwealth Nation such as Kiwiland or Emutopia. I skyped with my wife for over a year and had both emails and skype chat texts that accompanied the video sessions with which to present to USCIS (Immigration and Naturalization).
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  2347. We are experiencing Guatemala's economy in the 1980s.
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  2348. And how is that working out for them with the Russian Bear knocking at their door? It is easy to live a life of largess when someone else is paying for your protection.
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  2349.  @mazzaleen6091  So says the person hiding behind a number and a false identity rather than put their name to their claims. You are parroting the talking points of the power mongers on cue like Pavlov's Dog.
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  2350.  @peterharrell7305  Don't forget the left's favorite hero: Nelson Mandela. That guy was convicted by a corrupt system and sent to prison before becoming the President of South Africa.
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  2351. He fails to realize California is Venezuela 2.0. And that Bernie praised Hugo Chavez for what he did there.
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  2352. Indeed. They are the manifestation of the largess, complacency, and corruption. When they become unproductive parasites, the host will eventually remove them from the host. The only true elite are the ones who actually sacrifice of themselves passing on the accolades and glory, something completely foreign to those who currently call themselves "the gentrified".
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  2353.  @RoyalPain83  And whose fault is that? When people refuse to vote for anyone but a Democrat, you end up with overt communist candidates. Sorry, but maybe you folks should have let the commie hold power for one cycle so something better comes along. High turnover in politics is actually a good thing. Better to take the bitter medicine now than to die by slow asphyxiation.
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  2354. GDP includes governemnt spending. When military spending is more than 50% of your GDP like it is for North Korea (and now Russia), that isn't growth, that is simply a reflection of government increases in spending.
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  2355.  @Lucifina-chan  The scary thing is, the Soviets basically said the same thing. Party officials were called "Kommisar" rather than "Comrade" because they were "more equal".
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  2356. Indeed. Woe of the Pharisees.
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  2357.  @lemarcoX  The Iran nuclear "deal" is a joke: Iran has already violated it and it was never actually ratified by the US Congress. In effect, the US will not do anything if India arms Taiwan with nukes.
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  2358. Indeed. "Spoiled prince-regent" comes to mind. She makes Prince Charles seem charitable by comparison. PS, I know Charles is now king, but he is still the spoiled man-child that never grew up. Diana was too good for him.
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  2359. Which was rather common during the Arab Slave trade, but the wokistas don't ever want to talk about it.
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  2360. Apparently, Facebook has said in court proceedings that fact-checks are merely opinion pieces. The fools failed to realize that by making that argument, they are now guilty of advertisement fraud by redirecting traffic. Robert Barnes had a great analysis of it with Viva Frei.
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  2361. You are conflating Japan with China. The two are not the same.
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  2362. I agree. if you are truly faithful, you treat the source material as if it is the word of a God. You show an almost religious reverence for that source material and never attempt to abridge or modify it.
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  2363. Ralph Bakshi was more faithful to the source material than these hacks.
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  2364. As my father said, "If what you are doing is front page of the New York Times, how would you explain it to your mother?" If you can't, then you should not be doing it.
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  2365. Even Steve Urkel couldn't defend this junk.
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  2366. The nuclear control treaties are no different than the Washington Naval treaty attempting to limit the number of battleships. And the Washington Naval treaty failed spectacularly in attempting to prevent WW2.
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  2367. The problem is that standards were lower in an attempt to meet diversity quotas.
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  2368.  @insensitive919  Which should be a lesson, never attempt to appease zealots and fanatics for there is no satisfying them. Just like how the Munich Agreement in 1938 failed to satisfy certain German Zealots.
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  2369. Corporate oligarchism, which in practice is no different than a monopoly.
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  2370.  @schadelharry4048  I will agree with that. You described exactly what Thomas Jefferson warned when he said banking institutions were more dangerous than standing armies. These speculators who extract wealth from the system without contributing anything of value into it. And Warren Buffet is the classic example. Not surprising when he is following in the same game that Alex Hamilton and Henry Knox did which lead up to Shay's Rebellion. And again, which lead to the Whiskey Rebellion. Same players, same problems, no accountability.
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  2371. Tora! Tora! Tora! is so much better than that garbage movie.
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  2372.  @lazerith840  If he is still with us, thank him from this grateful white guy. If not, leave a drink for him next time you visit his resting place on my behalf.
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  2373. Part of the problem in being too inclusive is that you let the freaks and the posers into the tent. Then it is all downhill from there. I agree with you that gatekeeping would have prevented a lot of this.
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  2374. Heh, seems like the white feminists are now experiencing the marriage squeeze that black women have been experiencing since Johnson's "War on Poverty". Something to think about.
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  2375. All very good questions. If their regular border skirmishes with India are any indication, the PLA is not nearly as effective and disciplined fighting force as the politicians in Beijing would like to think.
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  2376. Weather balloons don't usually have gondolas the size of three city busses.
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  2377.  @K.emperorx  That isn't an argument, that just proves you are doubling down on your logical fallacy. Not only should you learn to code, but you also need to learn how to debate. BTW, my ancestry is Lorraine German.
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  2378. I would like to see a video following this about the Europoid Mummies of the Taklamakan Desert. Blondes and Redheads buried in plaid in the middle of a Chinese desert along the old silk road. For a further head screw, their mitochondrial/matrilineal DNA is from East Asia! Edit: The narrator is incorrect about the Tarim basin's time of settlement. The aforementioned mummies such as the Beauty of Loulan and the Beauty of Xiaohe were contemporaries of Father Abraham.
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  2379. Let the house of Mouse burn to the ground.
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  2380.  @zionleach3001  And then there are the grifters who try to hijack it to push their agenda or defraud people to line their own pockets.
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  2381. I think Sonic is going to be a case study in future decades of when studios listen to the audience rather than insult them.
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  2382. It is still a mockery of justice as well as violating both 6th and 8th amendments.
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  2383. They worked on Japan because they were new and provided a capability nobody else enjoyed. That is not the case now.
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  2384. Indeed. Ukraine has stated for years they didn't want the bridge across the Kerch Strait because it would block shipping to the ports on the Sea of Azov. Make no mistake, that bridge Putin cherishes so much is right in their crosshairs; this was practice for taking out that bridge.
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  2385. Yeah, I don't know why they don't immediately find a new position after he takes the shot. Even if you are safely across the river, the other side could still send an artillery shell or RPG in retaliation on your position. "Counter battery fire" as it were.
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  2386. IN theory that is supposed to be how it works. In practice, what they are doing is kind of pointless. Sure, they can confiscate any money he tries to make in Japan, but if he doesn't do business nor visit the country, it is and exercise in mental masturbation.
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  2387. Indeed. It is easier to shift resources on Russian trains than it is to push forward into Ukraine. The logistics are the defining trait of Russia's actions.
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  2388.  @clobar70  They just say "killing women and children" without stating specific examples. They also ignore how Hamas and Fatah regularly use them as human shields.
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  2389. No joke. He is among the people who claim that Bactria (historical name for Afghanistan) is the graveyard of nations while ignoring that both Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan both subdued and pacified that area. Knowledge of history is lost on militant pacifists like him.
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  2390. @Kerry K Not mutually exclusive positions.
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  2391. If Ukraine didn't have a chance, then Kiev would have fallen on Day One of the invasion. It is now Day 514.
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  2392. Don't forget Connery as a Russian submarine captain.....with a Scottish accent.
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  2393.  @JKK_85  That is some very strong vodka you are drinking. The Soviet Red Army was in full retreat until August of 1942. That is over two years getting their clocks cleaned by the Wehrmacht. And the ONLY reason why they were stopped is because Hitler sabotaged his own forces by making the southern force pull double duty reinforcing the Central Force AFTER they had already been committed. You clearly have zero understanding of the war, instead only parroting "Great Patriotic War" textbooks from the USSR, not an objective analysis. Even West Point textbook author Brigadier Vincent j. Esposito acknowledges the competency of the German military before Hitler's ego sent the whole thing into a tailspin.
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  2394. Yup, most of the hate and violence ageist Asians happens to come from a "protected class".
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  2395. Vasectomies is better than abortions because life begins at conception. That being said, I do NOT support FORCE vasectomies because that is basically forced sterilization.
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  2396. And yet he sold it off. Don't be surprised when people vandalize your intellectual property once you sell it off.
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  2397. @tekinfomedi Make excuses all you want. Stalin was signaling to Hitler for YEARS that he wanted Polan annihilated. The signed treaty was simply formalization of the already agreed on premise.
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  2398. No joke. The Chinese seem to be following what the Japanese did in the 1980s leading up to their "lost decade". The ONLY reason why they have avoided the bubble popping is because they have not stopped their spending spree. The analogy I have seen is someone at a restaurant who forgot their card. So rather than admit to it when the bill comes due, they simply keep ordering more from the menu. Eventually the restaurant is going to close(even if it is nominally 24/7; there is a period to close the dining room for cleaning).
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  2399.  @toddtaylor6506  Scissoring lady elves would have been more entertaining than "The bestest evar GaladREEEEEEEEHHHHal".
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  2400. Clearly the country music singers know their audience better than these woke corporations.
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  2401. The copium regarding Elon buying Twitter reminds me of the same claims about Trump in 2016: "he's not serious!" "he is just clowning us!" et. al.
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  2402. Then why the gondola the size of three city buses?
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  2403. Schadenfreude. They get what the f-ing deserve as Arthur Fleck said.
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  2404. Excatly. They got their kicks from bullying Geeks, Nerds, and Dorks in high school and as soon as the people they abused got ahead of them, they try to hijack that influence.
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  2405.  @jbo3536  Yup, it is a false flag to push more authoritarian despotism on us.
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  2406. No joke. We now see who the real totalitarians are. As they say, you can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.
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  2407. Yes, it is. I was just thinking about that the other day. The most disturbing part of that book was the pointless killing of a child via lethal injection. And I read that in 4th grade!
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  2408. Yeah, amazing how the Pride of Moscow tucked tail and ran like cowards.
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  2409. In theory that is what the union dues are for. In reality, the union bosses just pocket the money.
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  2410. Oppenheimer basically said as much. If it wasn't him, someone else would have made the breakthrough and once out, there was no putting it back in the bottle.
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  2411.  @Handlethis342  Or you can actually look at the raw numbers, particularly the number of cross-over Democrats in the New Hampshire primary.
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  2412. Same with my mother. And why she despised her union.
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  2413. Nitrogen in the soil isn't pollution, it actually enhances it. There is a reason why farmers alternate with Alfalfa; the nodes in the plant's roots have nitrogen fixing bacteria that prevent soil depletion.
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  2414. Indeed. The false choice dilemma of "with us or against us". Some of us are neutrals who are being driven away by their toxicity.
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  2415.  King Of Dust  Yes, you can. You just lack imagination. The best example I can give is a game analogy. Some players opt for the Tank role. Others are the healer/support. Yet others are the DPS power house but are glass canons. Women have endurance and pain tolerance while men have raw physical strength. Each of those fill a different purpose, but taken as a whole make both equal. Stop falling into the black and white, one or the other false choice dilemma. It makes it easier for the woke scolds to control you if you have such dualist thought process.
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  2416. She is an apostate to their ideology. At one time she pandered to them and now that she dared to utter a heresy, they must silence her. They are already the monster she helped to encourage, but I agree with you that the dragon needs to be slain before it causes any more damage.
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  2417. Agreed. This is just as wrong as what the Lincoln administration did in Lee vs. United States (1883).
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  2418.  @daveinspiration7333  Yeah, but I stopped watching that show when Xena faked her death, and they had the time skip. The idea that she could know both King David of Jerusalem AND Julius Caesar was just too far-fetched for me. I just really like this scene for Thor. It was hilarious! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz5LOb4pyho
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  2419. They need a war to kill off their surplus of men to prevent that civil unrest. And they may get it with the Spratly Islands as well as unifying Taiwan with the mainland.
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  2420.  @StoryGirl83  Yeah, EA games bought the Maxis brand and while SIMCity has held strong (mostly on nostalgia), the other interesting titles have been left in 1999 to rot. I would love to see SIMISLE: Missions in the Rainforest get a revamp and re-release. Bonus points to the greenies because it is a game that focuses on environmentalism, though it is even handed allowing the player to go the full industrialist route if they choose.
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  2421. What tenants? What scripture actually supports what she said? I can point to THREE chapters in the gospels warning AGIANST what she did; Luke 11, Matthew 20, and Mark 12. Woe of the Pharisees.
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  2422. Except, the Anglo-world has turned its back on English Common Law holding it in contempt. From Australia during the lockdowns, to New Zealand's hate speech laws targeted at critics of Islam to the US government engaging in lawfare to stifle political opposition, we are FAR from the standards which made English Culture the preeminent culture and justice system in the world. And the world is worse off for it.
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  2423.  @cormoran2303  Sadly true. For the guy who said he was doing it to unban the Babylon Bee, it shows he was an empty suit from day one.
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  2424. Indeed. As Katniss Everdeen said in Mocking Jay, "If we burn, you burn with us!"
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  2425.  @c0ya1  Indeed. The option with the fewest casualties on both sides is ALWAYS the best solution. Sadly, too many people think impossible and unworkable solutions should be pursued even when it is a fool's errand.
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  2426. Saddam tried this in the early 90s when he claimed Kuwait was a province of Iraq. How did that work out?
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  2427. Make no mistake, this is a Soviet-Ukrainian Army fighting a Soviet-Russian Army. Only, the Ukrainian Soviet Army is being augmented by NATO technology and tactics.
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  2428. The same thing was said in 2016. Guess what happened next.
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  2429. Washington Naval Treaty tried to do that with Battleships and Cruisers. The fact that it failed to prevent WW2 as its advocates claimed proves the folly of such thinking.
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  2430.  @angelogarcia2189  If your contention about a small number of troops in Afghanistan were true, then Kabul would NOT have fallen like it did. The DoD didn't even expect it as it was a repeat of the fall of Saigon and Phnom Penh in 1975.
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  2431. If you live in a desultional fantasy. They have been whining about climate change since the 1910s. They were wrong then, and they are wrong now. All they care about is power. And you give them that power over you.
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  2432. I take it you watched the video by Perun about tank maintenance with his guest speaker? Though dry, the material was informative.
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  2433. One cannot serve both Mamon and God. It is clear that Chik-Fil-A chose Mamon.
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  2434. Nature abhors a vacuum and will quickly fill it. And that basic principle of Physics is why leftist top-down policies fail spectacularly; they don't let an "organic, natural" economic ecology to develop.
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  2435. The printing of money with nothing to back it up is the biggest factor. We are approaching Weimar Germany levels of insanity in monetary policy.
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  2436. "Strike me down and I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine," -Alec Guinness.
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  2437. The story was originally published in 2012 before the advent of the metoo movement. It just happened that the anime dropped in the US around the same time as the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. The disturbing parallels between Naofumi and Kavanaugh is why they wokescolds tried to destroy this great show.
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  2438. True. The fact that Kiev still stands is already a victory. As for the other territory, it remains to be seen. Ukraine hasn't given up the fight yet so we may still see something shift, especially as Russia is having more and more partisan actions occur behind their lines.
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  2439. It is also how Richard Nixon dealt with the USSR. There is something to be said about giving the impression that you are insane.
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  2440. I will take a more nuanced position. Some of us DO appreciate their work and we as the consumer should let the original production companies know that so they continue to put out more. But to your point, the Japanese should bypass the dubbing middlemen and hire their own local dubbing talent and distribute directly to us the consumer.
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  2441. We live in a neo-feudalistic society where the elites like him get "High Justice" while we, the "unwashed masses" get "low Justice". He will walk because they will make sure by hook or crook that the court is stacked in his favor.
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  2442. Agreed. Are the French willing to give Putin Paris or the Ardennes? Are the Germans willing to part with Kiel or Bremerhaven? Are the Dutch willing to give Putin Rotterdam? Are the Italians willing to give him Sardina or Sicily? If not, they need to shut up because they are making the same blunder as Nevil Chamberlain at the Munich Conference. "Peace in our time" was his words.
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  2443.  @notastone4832  You keep telling yourself that. Ther performance of the Ukrainians tells a different story. Oh, and what you claim will happens sounds suspiciously like the Molotov-Ribbentrop agreement over the fate of Poland. History has shown what happens to agreements like. I doubt the Poles will be that foolish.
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  2444. Wow, if it wasn't for colonialism, most of those resource rich nations would still be impoverished. Thomas Sowell has done a very detailed analysis contrasting the parts of Africa that remained uncolonized with those that were. The standards of living today are quite drastic. Now, there is also a vast difference between the colonizing powers. The US, UK, and Protugesse former colonies are in vastly better shape than the Dutch, Belgian, and French former colonies. Spain's former colonies is somewhere in the middle.
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  2445. Indeed. A villain can make or break a story because a hero is defined by the villains they oppose. The nastier the villain, the greater the heroics.
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  2446. If the Ukrainians can do it, they should make a push in both areas simultaneously. They showed they could do it with the twin Kharkov and Kherson counter-offensives.
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  2447. Agreed. Some folks need to read the Federalist Papers and about the flow of sovereign authority.
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  2448. If their CEO receives a six figure salary, the are a for-profit organization, namely the profit of the person running it. If anything less than 80 of the funds they collect go to the actual cause rather than "overhead" they are clearly profiting someone.
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  2449. How long does it take to build a nuclear reactor for a US submarine or aircraft carrier? The biggest issue really isn't the construction time but all of the red tape and regulations surrounding the process.
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  2450. I agree on voluntary manslaughter, but it is amazing how anyone who disagrees with murder one is someone evil. The false choice dilemma.
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  2451. Or as the Ferengi say, "the bigger the smile, the sharper the knife" Rule of acquisition #48.
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  2452.  @olderchin1558  You must have issues listening or understanding as I already explained it to you if you bothered to actually read. Power of Siberia does NOT connect to the oil and Gas pipes that power Europe. And the European connected fields are far more productive and profitable than the ones connected to China. The Sakhalin wells are nowhere near as developed as you claim, barely breaking even at the best of times. Further, the LNG carriers are easy pickings for submarines if you know anything about how American subs like USS Albacore operated in WW2.
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  2453. THC products are a gateway. While not everyone who uses them move on to harder drugs, almost all who use harder drugs got started with marijuana. Those that didn't usually are a result of botched prescription drug regimes.
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  2454.  @cainabel6356  To quote both Alexander Frasier Tytler (Lord Woodhouselee) and Aristotle, "Republics degrade into democracies, and democracies invariably degenerate into despotisms."
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  2455. Poe's Law.
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  2456. Elections have consequences, as Obama cynically pointed out.
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  2457. I'm hoping he does so that these unhinged wackos promptly start inhaling pure chlorine gas.
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  2458. I agree. The inmates will do everything they can to protect him from the guards knowing he will remember.
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  2459.  @Paint-brigade1776  The Bourbons supported the US during its revolution. Then the French people killed them and also threatened to execute The Marquis de Lafayette. Fast forward to the 1965-66 and De Gaulle drags the US into Vietnam. While at the same time ordered all US troops out of France prompting Dwight Eisenhower to cynically ask if the war dead buried in France should also leave. Some friendship.
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  2460.  @renkol123  Not to mention that Red China calls their system "State Capitalism" which basically blows the whole argument out of the water.
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  2461.  @DasRaetsel  Not really. Bibi is who carried out the Oslo accords when he came to office in 1996. He made MANY concessions to the Arabs which they kept refusing to reciprocate. His current government's hard right positions is a direct result of his opposition caring more about defeating him than actually trying to build a functioning government. Only now with the threat at the door are they realizing how badly they screwed up.
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  2462. The Russian Bear is geriatric!
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  2463.  @johnmuthan286  Didn't watch any of the videos discussing this have you? The EU set a goal of 95% of winter consumption in storage by November. They reached 98% at the beginning of September.
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  2464. Was it censorship to ban Japan and Germany from operation newspapers in the US before and during WW2?
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  2465.  @andreasv9472  My wife is Chinese-Indonesian. I am fortunate that her eldest sister in Taiwan, so it is safe to assume that my bi-racial sons will not go there anytime soon.
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  2466. Same here. Where is the French, Germans, and British lines of defense in Eastern Europe? THEY need to be on Poland's border, not the US. And I agree that Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea ARE worth defending. They appreciate us more than Europe does. And what they have to offer the US is more than what Europe brings to the table.
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  2467. More like they are cowards who care more about their legacy rather than ruling on the merits on issues that only they have the authority to decide. And no, their word is NOT final. Dredd Scott getting overturned by the 14th Amendment proves that the SCOTUS is NOT the absolute power of the land as the left would have you believe.
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  2468. Indeed. The narcissism of self-aggrandizement.
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  2469. Diversity for its own sake is NOT a strength but a weakness. Some ideas are NOT valid and should NOT be given any legitimacy (pedos for example). Egalitarianism, not equality is the path to peace. The two are NOT the same thing. “We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." -President John F. Kennedy [Remarks on the 20th Anniversary of the Voice of America; Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, February 26, 1962]”
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  2470.  @LuigiAzsassin  All of which get taken out of context by people who have nothing but contempt for the faith. "The worst readers behave like plundering troops; they carry away the few things they can sue, dirty and confound the rest, and revile the whole," -Fredrich Nietzsche.
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  2471. I LOVED the Silverado reference. "Geeze Paden, that guy isn't even cold yet!" -Kevin Costner as Jake, Silverado (1985 Western film).
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  2472.  @ArchonLicht  Government takes from the private sector, then resells it? Think about what you just said. Oh, and Zimbabwe did just that under Mugabe. How did that work out?
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  2473.  @Rickstartes  Ah, but there are TWO Sonys. There is Sony Entertainment America and there is Sony Japan. The former is responsible for most of what you describe, but I suspect that the latter is responsible for the purchasing of CrunchyRoll. Nominally the American branch answers to the Japanese branch, but it is given much liberty and independence because the Japanese know better than to kill the golden goose as the American branch historically has given them that access and outreach to foreign markets. Time will tell if the Japanese leadership reigns in the out of control American sector.
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  2474. Can we (the US) trade San Fransisco to China in exchange for Hong Kong? As a sweetener, I would throw in Los Angeles in exchange for Macau.
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  2475. Marxism glorifies MAN. Christianity glorifies an almighty deity. Christianity looks at the flawed and imperfect nature of man. Marxism is predicated on the idea that man is perfect and without flaw. So, with just those two points, can you really claim that they are the same.
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  2476. He should but he won't. He(LeBron) is a spoil rich kid who grifts because he knows the population are stupid enough to buy his garbage.
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  2477. What was certain was the mobilization of troops and weapons in preparation for Ketsu-Go as the Japanese very accurately predicted where Operation Olympic would make landfall in Kyushu.
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  2478. Yeah, that is exactly what the Soviets claimed in 1950s. It is what North Korea claims about the south today. There is a word for that: PROPAGHANDA.
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  2479. Yeah, as I recall, that tax rate drove most of the UK's capital overseas, particularly to the US.
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  2480. Indeed. Water moderated reactors are among the safest in the world because when the water is removed, the reactions STOP. It is literally a fail-safe, rather than a fail-criticality situation with graphite reactors.
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  2481. Disney's greatest productions came about because of legitimate competition: Don Bluth, Fox Animation, Hannah-Barbarra, et. al. Today the only real competition they face is from Anime. And Disney is too stupid to realize that Japanese companies like Kadokawa are going to eat their lunch.
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  2482.  @nickanderson8305  Indeed. I don't know about Canada's military philosophy, but the US military has become completely divorced from Baron von Steuben's initiative-based leadership in favor of fully and completely embracing the European model of "shut up and color". I seriously doubt any of the "Academy Rings" have even read his book.
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  2483. Something to consider: The WW2 German tanks one on one were the best in the world. But they were vastly outnumbered on the battlefield by the Soviet T-34 and US Sherman. While neither on the allied tanks would want to face a German Panzer one on one, typically the Shermans would gang up on the Panzer with number of three or five to one. A strictly better tank can be overwhelmed by numbers (quantity is a quality of its own- Joe Stalin). I guess what I am saying is that I am all for the Germans handing over their surplus tanks to the Ukrainians rather than simply scrapping them. Though likely obsolete compared to the T-90, a large number of Leopard 1s thrown against Russian tanks could still turn the battle in favor of the weaker armed Ukrainians simply because of the numbers game,
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  2484. Two in the pink, one in the stink!
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  2485. I totally agree. Let them be hoisted by their own petard.
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  2486.  @nomanor7987  Maybe, but the casualties to Russia are far higher. Ukraine has the fortune that most of their "losses" are recoverable meaning that the injured can return to the fight a few days later.
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  2487.  @PapaWooody  Ukraine is a direct result of his blunder in Afghanistan. As Bin Laden said, the world respects a strong horse.
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  2488.  @cameronpatterson130  Yes really. Killing the Keystone XL. Ending drilling on federal land. Gumming up the works with environmental regulations. THe list goes no. Get your head out of the sand.
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  2489. Yeah, people don't understand what moderation means. And bureaucrats in particular are drunk on the power they can lord over others via regulation.
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  2490.  @Ilovegrunge123  Kobayashi's Dragon Maid had an example where the dubbing pushed an SJW anti-patriarchy snark from Lucoa to Tohru that was not in either the sub nor in original Japanese. It is things like that which are "stealth edits". Personally, I tend to prefer the medieval high fantasy which just happens to have lots of overlap with the Isekai genre.
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  2491.  @k.k.8394  I tend to agree. Gorbachev and Yeltsin (though they disliked each other) were the cooler heads that allowed the peace of the 90s. They were better leaders than Yuri Andropov or Leonid Brezhnev.
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  2492. Suicides and substance abuse has skyrocketed. The damage is already done and is going according to plan. The elites want us progs to self-immolate under the pressure. Better solution is to take it out on the tyrants in positions of power.
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  2493.  @teaser6089  Progressed? You are still worried about Nazis in your own back yard!
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  2494. Was the British India Trading Company the downfall of the British Empire? How about the Dutch East India Company (VOC)? Things come in cycles. Those juggernauts will either adapt or die.
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  2495. And they never will. Sunk Cost Fallacy prevents them from accepting they were wrong.
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  2496.  @stevenriften7561  There are only two, but they are under dire threat from the Chi-Coms. Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan have remained relatively true to Western Capitalism, but they have their own issues, with China being the biggest specter.
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  2497. Kiev still stands after one year. 1st Guards Tank Army and the 155th Naval Infantry, both the pride of Russia are no more.
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  2498. I want SCOTUS term limits, but not in the way Joe Bite-Me wants it. I would shrink the court down to just five justices and have them serve staggered 20-year terms with appointments done during the mid-term cycle. 5 justices staggered over 4 years comes out to 20-year cycle.
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  2499. NovoRussiya speech proves you wrong.
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  2500. Indeed. The Kangaroo courts of "People's Commissariat Court". It will not end the way they think it will.
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  2501. Mos Esley is a more heroic town than CNN.
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  2502.  @Thichaou  The skit I referred to was genuinely funny, as dry British humor often is. You, like a typical prog, are not. That is why you can't meme.
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  2503. "Democracy" as a term has become conflated with Republic style governance. The two are actually not the same thing. "Democracy" is what gave rise to the Jacobin Faction and the Reign of Terror under Robespierre. Republic is what guards the "human rights" you get to enjoy. It is when those built-in protections become subverted that you get the "flaws" which critics of the West love to point out. "Republics degrade into Democracies, and Democracies invariably degenerate into despotisms, "-Alexander Fraiser Tytler quoting Aristotle.
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  2504. Camel's nose in the tent.
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  2505.  @fredjohnson9833  Expanding is in effect a variation of the struggle to survive. The whole reason for the age of discovery and the colonization of the New World was because over-population in Europe created fierce competition for limited resources. By moving to the new world, people could compete not against connections and pedigree (basically against their fellow man), but against nature itself which was a much easier challenge. I don't disagree that competition is a good thing, but the problem both then in 17th century Europe as today is that the power mongers at the top have decreed that it is a zero-sum game and forced artificial scarcity and limits. Rather than let things play out, they try to game the system to keep themselves at the top while crushing everyone else, stifling their ability to survive. That will occur regardless of technology.
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  2506. Same with many of the Looney Tunes/Merry Melodies characters.
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  2507. I hope they go the way of Kodak.
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  2508. Because he didn't. He is a pigeon playing chess: knocking over all of the pieces and crapping on the table thinking he accomplished something.
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  2509. Agreed. China plans for 100 years. That is what Confucius, Author of "The Analects" pointed out in his famous quote.
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  2510. Here, here! I have mad respect for PUBLIC DEFENDERS, for they do a job that is critical in a free and open society. The litigation and Tort lawyers are a different matter, though.
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  2511. I agree that there was absolutely no reason for three Hobbit movies. Sure, you could have filled out TWO movies by using material from Silmarillion, but even that would be a stretch.
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  2512.  @uselessmask3816  What do you mean "originally"? Are you talking about the Party founded by Thomas Jefferson or the re-organized party lead by Andrew Jackson? While it is true that during the Civil War democrats were the party of slavery, times do change. And while the Democrats were also the Party of Jim Crow, JFK worked AGAINST it. Do keep in mind that his brother Robert put pressure on the governor of Georgia to get MLK out of prison in 1960. Not all Democrats are evil. And not all Republicans are righteous. You can find good hidden among evil and you can find evil hiding among the good.
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  2513. Yes, the good times created by the "Greatest generation" have created soft cowards in the Boomer Generation. And the Millennials have taken that lazy entitlement even further.
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  2514. Don't counter your eggs before they hatch. Ukraine always said their counter-attack was going to be slow and methodical. A Kherson style rather than Karkov.
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  2515. Indeed. Those folks forgot the old saying "The bigger they are, the HARDER they fall".
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  2516. He would likely adapt them into his story as the heirs and apprentices of Sauron the corruptor.
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  2517. I will agree that Tibet and Xinjang are NOT the same. But I don't wish on the Uygurs what the Red government is doing to them. Not even your worst enemy deserves that.
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  2518.  @Sneedmire  No joke. Confucius said, "There is very little that separates man from the beasts, and most people throw that away." And you are correct, laws are only as strong as the weapons that enforce them.
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  2519. How about the Moskva? What about 1st Guards Tank Army? Or 155th Naval Infantry Brigade?
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  2520.  @bsl025  Yeah, nice red herring augments. You throw out something without even addressing the nuances in the topic you bring up.
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  2521. Even with generous terms of surrender, the Japanese would have never accepted. The fact that even after the first bomb, they went to the Soviets wanting to dictate terms shows that nothing short of unconditional surrender was even possible. By the time of the Philippines, most Americans had gotten to the point of "let them keep their Emperor".
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  2522. Indeed. That his critics are parroting the propaganda leaflets of the DPRK, it makes you ask what is REALLY going on?
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  2523.  @deedat81  A "perfect" victory is one in which you never fire a shot. That is essentially what Russia got in 2014. Their attempt to repeat it in early 2022 failed spectacularly.
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  2524. I call it the "Samurai mentality". Less likely to either give or take offense when the other guy can kill you where you stand. "If you were any other man, I would KILL you where you stand," -Worf, son of Mogh; Star Trek: First Contact.
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  2525. I agree. Diamond hands on this one, only relenting when they consent to drop all attempts to block Trump.
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  2526.  @tylere.8436  The first is naive and the second is dangerous. The first is basically trying to deny humanity's proclivity to divide into camps based on common goals. As soon as the American Revolution ended, you immediately had the once united Patriots bitterly divided among themselves. As for ranked choice, that is how both Lenin and the Austrian Painter came to power. More recently, that was how Erdogan and Mohamed Morsi got power. Ranked choice doesn't get a consensus candidate, it rewards the most loyal and fanatical groups with power.
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  2527. Indeed. I think Winston Churchill said something to that effect as well.
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  2528.  @fakeninja4447  Well, a certain amount also goes to Mike Pence, who whispered poison into Trump's ear. Every Pence recommendation from Priebus as Chief of Staff to Dan Coats as DNI(Coats ran cover for McCabe, Comey, Brennan and company), to Jeff Sessions as AG was an unmitigated disaster. Even Elaine Chow as SecTrans was not particularly good though it was the least of several bad choices.
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  2529.  @charlesmoss8119  I tend to agree. After his term is over, he should fade into the background and only offer advice privately to politicians and leaders who specifically solicit it. Become the George Washington of modern Ukraine.
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  2530. Funny how Japanese manga authors are more worthy heirs to Tolkien. In part because they pay homage and reverence to the source material that makes their creations even possible. Further, Japanese anime can insert a messaging WITHOUT being "Anvilicious". They know how to be subtle and NOT preachy.
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  2531.  @luftim  Yes, India has a beef with China. Russia does not. The Russians will lie to themselves about China until it is too late. They will only turn on their ally when the Chinese try to take back the Amur Valley and all of the territory south of the Stanovoy Range.
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  2532. Considering that Havana Syndrome has been known for years, the timing of accusing Russia seems suspect.
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  2533. I now cannot un-know that. You have opened my eyes.
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  2534. "Five finger discount" as some folks like to call it.
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  2535. Just like Star Chamber in England or "People's Courts" of the Soviet Union.
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  2536. There is a reason why power mongers use privliged members of a group they oppress to keep the others in line.
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  2537.  @Tokinjester  Fair enough. Still, there are OTHER people reading, watching, and listening. THOSE are who our message is for.
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  2538.  @Tokinjester  "Fat General" huh? Sounds like you are describing Hermann Göring. And I say that with the malice of forethought.
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  2539.  @johndavidmanuel2189  Funny you mention Russian vs. Ukraine as a measure of quantity vs quality. In that case, training is the decisive factor as both are using Soviet Tanks. The Russians are just completely terrible while the Ukrainians are using much of the very same equipment and showing why combined arms is critical in warfare.
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  2540.  @normanicusinvictus7416  Indeed. Remember back in the 2000s when Geico gave permission to use its Cavemen in an attempted sitcom? The entire 13 episode run was all about woke intersectionality that the critics panned as cringe worthy. That should have been a signal to corporate entertainment that such ideology based on race doesn't play well. Conversely, the Winslows from "Family Matters"(black family, breadwinner is a police officer) was good material because it cared less about race and more about some of the humorous aspects of everyday life. What was depicted in that show could have easily occurred with ANYONE'S family.
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  2541.  @A_Jeff  That isn't an argument, that is an emotional outburst. But I expect that from a creature ruled by their passions such as you. LEARN TO DEBATE AND TO CODE.
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  2542.  @wennapeters115  Thank you for pointing that out. And I will follow up your excellent rebuttal with a quote from Confucius: "There is very little that separates man from animals, and most people throw that away," -Confucius, author of "The Analects".
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  2543.  @TheWaynos73  Same problem here in the US with education. Nobody disciplines in school anymore and the results speak for themselves.
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  2544. Indeed. Japan's Fu-Go balloon bomb from WW2 has been proven as a viable weapon by the Chinese.
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  2545.  @Kimito_Lioku  The original poster's was talking about having some of the best beef sourced from Mongolia. I pointed out that some of the best tasting beef is going to be the lean stuff which most of the rich snobs typically look down on. When you cut off the gristle, the only real difference in the cut of meat is texture. Hence, most of the prices are not justified. If you can't follow that, then I can't help you.
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  2546.  @f.b.lagent1113  Not the same thing. The Great Khan didn't try to exterminate entire populations because of their ethnicity.
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  2547. The sad thing is, a Hindu god, Shiva is also known as the destroyer of worlds. And Jar Jar Abrams seems to be trying to steal that title away.
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  2548. China benefits most, but India also benefits greatly. I am glad to see the Indians are stepping up to the plate to fight piracy.
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  2549.  @chrimony  If they have repaired the Antinovski Bridge then that doesn't become much of a problem once the Ukrainians drive Russian Artillery out of range of the bridge.
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  2550. He never had you in the first place, so what are you complaining about except to grandstand and clout chase?
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  2551.  @sherylpayne5851  Indeed. I am reminded of the words of Werner Klemperer's character Emil Hahn in the 1961 Movie "Judgement at Nuremberg. "Today you judge me, tomorrow the Bolsheviks judge you!" I think the Bolsheviks in power need to take heed that those words will apply to them.
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  2552. Yeah, sadly they are following the exact same playbook of a certain political ideology in Russia after the collapse of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Alliance.
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  2553. Repeal of Glass-Steagall by Dodd-Frank played into that change of business culture.
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  2554. LOL! I see what you did there......And I fully agree.
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  2555. Maskirovka only works if you have a coherent plan to back it up. Russia hasn't shown the ability to quickly follow up on such confusion.
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  2556.  @akshayganesh4144  Except, assimilation is NOT occurring in Europe. Take a look at the Muslim refugees in Nordic countries. Or France and its Harams (Islamic no-go zones).
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  2557. And you would be correct. Those awards are the Hollyweird machine patting itself on the back. A Circle of Jerks, if you get my drift.
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  2558.  @luigivincenz3843  Chirs Rock was slapped in the face by Will Smith for making a joke about her playing GI Jane.
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  2559.  @MelissiaBlackheart  Tell that to the people smuggling human cargo across the border. Tell that to the federal agents aiding and abetting that criminal enterprise.
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  2560. From a bus traveling 110 kph?
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  2561. Michael Crichton had an epic rant in 2003 at the California Institute of Technology about "consensus" in science. He pointed out how groupthink lead to unnecessary post-partum mortalities as well as myths medical professionals perpetuated with regard to Pellagra.
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  2562. "Better dead than red!" -Anti-communist slogan of the 1950s.
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  2563. Left wing and right wing are part of the same bird: the uni-party. The only reason why they argue is about who gets to claim credit.
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  2564. The sad thing is, it was the SCOTUS decision on Paramount calling it a monopoly in violation of Anti-trust law that set into motion the death of both Hollywood and the theater business. When the two were connected, there was a vested interest in making sure the other was financially viable. By severing that connection of ownership, the studios were no longer accountable for creating a bad product.
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  2565. Because he is a threat to their indoctrination and grooming.
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  2566. Bring back the WASPs, WAVEs, and WAACs. Women can still serve in the home guard and in non-combat roles such as quartermasters and nurses.
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  2567.  @svanimation8969  Yeah, how did that come about? Was it because Russia deported most of the ethnic Ukrainians? Joseph Stalin, Putin's hero was well known for doing that. Take Konigsberg, for example. That was a GERMAN city before Stalin changed it to Kaliningrad.
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  2568.  @mistaajones  You flatter me with too much praise. Any wisdom I speak was bestowed on my by men AND women much wiser than I.
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  2569. Indeed. They have been AMAZINGLY scrupulous with their munitions, making sure EVERY shot counts.
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  2570. Gold King Mine 2.0
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  2571.  @lordbread2083  Not so much as Obama did. Telling his political opponents to move to the back of the bus ala Rosa Parks? Yeah, get your head out of your rear.
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  2572. Not all god haters are Satanists. Many are existential nihilists and misotheists.
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  2573. I think that nuance is what is finally turning opinion against the Arabs who call themselves Palestinian. For the longest time, many people in the West were ignorant of the terrorist actions of Hamas and Fatah. Only now is it being realized. And why the hyper partisans are making excuses for the brutality, more rational people are seeing the truth of the situation.
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  2574. The irony is, Funimation refused to do "Interspecies Reviewers" while another show they DID dub two seasons, "The Testament of Sister New Devil" was MUCH more risque, basically being porn with a plot(Basara fondles the breasts of at least one girl in each episode). Talk about cognitive dissonance.
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  2575. They said that after WW2 when the Helicopter came about. it wasn't true then, and it isn't now. If people would just read Heinz Guderian's book, they would know that tanks are NEVER supposed to be part of a mass unit but rather ALWAYS in combined arms with a squad of infantry providing cover.
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  2576. Think about it this way. The powers that be would rather see a perfectly usable vaccine go to waste rather than have it used by people who are NOT part of the protected class. This is part of Soviet medicine, particularly during the Holodomor Famine in the Ukraine. Withholding medicine is a violation of the Oath of Hippocrates. The doctor obeyed his oath. The administrators violated it.
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  2577.  @grandspringdale1564  Heh, I am already a military veteran having been medically discharged under honorable conditions. That would be part of my caveat. Not just any service, but honorable separation. MOST medical discharges fall under honorable conditions (Biden's son kicked out of the military was NOT an honorable condition).
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  2578. It isn't. They are basically living on borrowed time when they fan-bait like that. "Walks dead phase" of radiation poisoning to use an analogy.
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  2579.  @notoriousbig3k  How? Did not the early Germans identify themselves as Teutonic? And are not the people of Eastern Europe generally Slavic, the Poles being in their own distinct group? Those terms are not racist, merely descriptors those people have used to identify themselves.
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  2580. And in a sense, they are being true to their profession: entertainers. If they use their social media to make us laugh of go "awww..." then they have succeeded in entertaining us.
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  2581. @PaPaSmurf The irony is that Admiral Yamamoto who planned it was very much against carrying it out but did so out of an obligation of duty. Indeed, most of the IJN was against war with the US but could not muster the support to oppose Tojo.
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  2582.  @plendafuture7451  As John F. Kennedy pointed out, the Chinese brushstroke for "crisis" consists of two parts: Dagner + opportunity.
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  2583. Actually, more like 7-2 liberal. ACB, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch are just as liberal as Roberts. ACB in particular LOVES big government totalitarianism.
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  2584. Indeed. The Obama administration said that prices would "necessarily skyrocket". His energy secretary wanted prices in the US to be higher than they are in Europe. And Joe Bite-Me is continuing that plan.
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  2585. Anything less than the Korean DMZ along the Southern border is not a serious proposal.
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  2586. My grandparents were kids in the Great Depression and I find myself still using their life lessons. Such as taking leftovers home from the Restaurant and not letting ANY food go to waste.
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  2587.  @S0ulinth3machin3  There is a reason why critics of that "paper of record" call it "The New York SLIMES".
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  2588. That is a nuanced and very mature way of looking at it, but the Wokesters in Hollyweird can't contemplate such as complex story. Incidentally, your scenario very closely matched the Creek and Seminole Wars leading up to the Trail of Tears. That context is lost on people who chose to ignore everything that let up to the Wokeista's favorite "abuse of native peoples".
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  2589. The irony is, Peltz could make this case go away, if the Disney board wasn't so stuck on stupid with regards to "The Message". Peltz as CEO/COO could issue a PUBLIC apology to Gina and a reasonable settlement and the problem would all go away. But again, the board doesn't want to admit that Iger and KK fouled this up creating the deathspiral.
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  2590. Overton Window.
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  2591. Their own fault for not making use of their own resources.
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  2592. Europe has their own coal and gas deposits, but they refuse to exploit them. Not the US's fault that Europe is suffering from a bad case of "not in my backyard!"
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  2593. Agreed. All they needed to do was forward the complains to local police or the FBI. Beyond that, they should have taken a hands-off approach. There was no reason for them to take the law into their own hands like internet vigilantes.
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  2594. I'm surprised they can't get a job as somebody's bouncers or bodyguards. Those dudes are ripped!
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  2595.  @joekopsick1540  I can believe that. There is a reason why the casting couch is so infamous.
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  2596.  @alexmanzanares200  You are clearly only trying to convince yourself because nobody else here is in agreement with you. You have convinced zero people of your claims. Again, just because YOU disagree doesn't mean you are correct. Don't conflate OPINION with objective fact. "The Lady doth protest too much, me thinks, "-Queen Gertrude; Act 3 scene 2; Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
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  2597. NO, she did not. She was pushing false witness and malice. Hers is the woes of the Pharisees that the Nazarene warned against in Luke 11, Matthew 20, and Mark 12. Read your Gospel and you would NOT agree with ANYTHING she said.
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  2598.  @colinyates7485  I think you should stop watching mouthpieces of the Australian government who are no better than Soviet Pravda or Russia Today (RT). BTW, most of those convictions in Jan 6th violated the fruit of the poison tree doctrine in law. Prosecutorial misconduct and tainted jury pools are NOT justice, they are typical of the Soviet "people's courts" where you are guilty until proven innocent.
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  2599. "Redistribution of wealth from the top to the bottom"? Didn't they do that in the old Soviet Union? How did that work out?
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  2600.  @alexnik1181  That is hyperbolae. Yes, Ukraine is taking lots of prisoners, but there is no need to make absurdist claims.
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  2601. They don't seem to like the idea that a young white boy can learn valuable life lessons from an older gentleman of color.
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  2602. He also forgot that the two leaders signed that after the close calls of 1983. Between Able Arche exercise and the Soviet False Alarm scare, the two sides felt that there needed to be a major draw-down from their aggressive posture.
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  2603.  @badluck5647  Which is a strawman argument. For 60 years the US never invaded when they did NOT have nukes. No, the nukes are blackmail against Japan.
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  2604.  @badluck5647  Iraq never actually gave up their weapons program. Libya was nowhere near completion of theirs. And as far as Syria, Bashar al-Assad is still in power, boosted by Putin. So, your examples all fail to prove your point.
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  2605. @ You can claim anything you want online, but that doesn't make it true. I citied specific chapters, you just responded with a temper tantrum like a spoil child.
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  2606.  @robertscott961  Don't conflate fog of war with lying. Or Maskirovka for that matter, which IS lying.
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  2607. I put the odds at .223
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  2608.  @strategery101  Want a head screw? Rapping was culturally appropriated from Englishman John Skilton who was born in 1463. Seriously, rap was invented by a white guy!
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  2609.  @chrischuba5037  Russia can't keep up with the attrition while the West hasn't even ramped up to full production. Perun did a great video looking into Russian war production capability.
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  2610. I have ALWAYS hated the scalpers and speculators. I hope they lose just as big as Hasbro does.
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  2611. "When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. That's why we'll win." -Kirk Douglas as Sparticus. "I am First Omet'iklan and I am dead. At this moment we are all dead. We go into battle to reclaim our lives. We do this because we are Jem'Hadar. Remember, Victory is life!" -Clarence Williams III as Omet'iklan; Deep Space Nine episode "To the Death".
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  2612.  @pjm6939  I like the nickname a police officer in Windsor called him: Trudick.
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  2613.  @michaeldy3157  Yeah, but Soviet medicine is not the answer either. Universal healthcare is simply medical communism under a different name. There is a VERY good reason why the US is challenged only by Israel when it comes to medical breakthroughs.
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  2614.  @andypeutherer4218  How is he a Russian asset when he supplied Ukraine with military support in the form of arms and equipment? You have lost the plot dude. NO Russian agent would ever be assisting the people Russia is invading.
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  2615. Yup. There is a whole discussion about how Glee destroyed the cast, but all in the name of advancing the agenda.
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  2616. You make an excellent point about the retro-Victorian era for Steampunk. As if World War 1 never occurred, or if it did, it was not as devastating as real life leading to the horrors of the 1930s. When I see someone talking about steampunk WITHOUT that aesthetic, I know them for the poser they are. And I am not at all a fan of steampunk and yet see the frauds for who they are.
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  2617. Indeed. They love to point at the two major accidents in the West: Fukushima and 3 Mile Island while ignoring the fact that the safety systems in both work EXACTLY as designed an there is not a single fatality connected with those two incidents.
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  2618. @ Were you? It cuts both ways.
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  2619.  @Raya-ir4tm  Yeah, how did that work out for the Soviet Union going into the Winter War with Finland or when the Wehrmacht invaded? It works to neuter a nation's ability to defend itself from foreign invasion.
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  2620.  @OtherDalfite  Apparently they have not learned about seasonal monsoons. In Korea they call it the "Changma".
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  2621. Graphite vs. water moderated reactor. There is a reason why Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, father of Navy nuclear, picked the water reactor design. And the US Navy has NEVER had a reactor related accident in its entire history. Civilian agencies take their cues from the US Navy for a reason.
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  2622.  @drtrikeman9123  So oblige them. Give them more of a revolution than they can handle. Stop being scared of them. Stop caring what they think about you.
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  2623. Anyone who does NOT use lethal force to defend their child from kidnapping by the state deserves to have them taken away. Protecting your family from state sanctioned kidnapping IS justified use of force in almost every culture.
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  2624. If he builds it for himself and his friends, more power to them. The taxpayer should not have to foot the bill for something only a few people will use. Skate parks are one of those things only a few people will ever use.
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  2625. Actually, many are. Establishment Republicans fled Marion County/Indianapolis for the doughnut counties outside the I-465 beltway. They then proceed to muscle their way into local office using their state party connections and proceed to pass the very same liberal policies they passed under Republican mayors which only helped to advance the Democrat agenda. And after destroying the finances of historic GOP strongholds, they flee further into the countryside.
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  2626.  @rh3309  I don't disagree that the natives didn't really do anything with the bounty they had. While the Aztecs and Mayans built empires in Central America, the Metropolises of Cahokia in St. Louis and Mesa Verde in SW Colorado didn't amount to much by the age of Discovery. Indeed, the agricultural productivity of the New World is directly corelated with the introduction of honeybees (aka White Man's Flies). And yes, as the Aztecs proved, the natives could be just as brutal and violent towards each other. Hell, spouse kidnaping and child hostage taking was quite common practice by the Algonquin. I am a descendant of Mary Neff (Hannah Duston's nurse) who experienced first hand those practices.
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  2627. Cold but true. America's Flag officers are all oath breakers and traitors.
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  2628.  @LeeroyPorkins  Or is Mammon simply one of the primordials? Hard to say with some of the Lords of Baator.
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  2629. I agree. He NEEDS to finish his entire term.
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  2630. Agreed. They asked for defunding the police. They asked to live by the law of the jungle. LET THEM HAVE IT!
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  2631. Ironically, it was the puritanical right that took issue with it. Fast forward 30 years and it is now the puritanical left who is butthurt over it.
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  2632. Indeed, on all points. Shalom and blessings on you, my brother from the lands of Judea.
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  2633.  @jamesng7320  First, the land is called JUDEA, not Palestine. The British simply used the name the Romans made up to erase Jewish history after the Revolt of 71 AD. As for the US, what did the natives actually do with the land? Cahokia was the high-water mark for North America's indigenous population.
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  2634. Great analogy. Their ideology is effectively a non-theistic relgion.
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  2635. They had a purpose during the roaring twenties and the trust monopolies. Today we have enough competition that the unions have outlived their original purpose. They should instead restructure to become something similar to a temp agency or the trade guilds of old: connecting qualified people with employers who need people. Act as a job clearing house for those looking for work or those needing workers.
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  2636. The US used to make its own steel and a-lum-i-num (not Alu-mini-um). Why do we need yours or China's? That being said, I would rather have Emu Steel instead of treacherous Panda Steel.
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  2637. Kenosha Kid is a badge of honor. Why are you trying to deprive him of that distinction?
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  2638. Remember the Florida redevelopment issue in the 2000s? People's homes were eminent domained so that Jeb Bush's buddies to could build their "urbane renewal" projects. Florida quickly changed their laws governing ED. That being said, Florida DOES have sovereign authority in Reedy Creek and CAN make life hell for Disney.
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  2639. They realized he wasn't worth wasting a bullet.
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  2640. Looking more and more like what happened with the Reichstag Fire.
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  2641.  @joemunk  Or Gypsies. Or any number of other white minority groups.
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  2642. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Theory of Stupidity explains RA's behavior. Only when he has lost his freedom will he finally be openminded enough to look beyond his myopic perspective of the world.
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  2643. @Timcast: Tim, if you want to talk about election Data, I sent you a sample of a presentation back in June of last year. I know your people got it because I paid the USPS a sign for receipt of delivery which occurred on July 7th. Our analysis was WAY better than anything Nate Silver made up because we only used REAL data: certified election results over the past 20 years. Please, dig out that presentation and cover letter I sent and make contact with me. I want along with my father to make a tailored presentation for your podcast show doing a deep dive into the precinct level in detail on a race or election of your choosing.
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  2644.  @alkkoor3044  And yet the slaes data proves otherwise. You can bloviate about "only Ufotable Studios", but the point is still that it is making money which means that there is a demand for it. If there was no demand nor desire, it would have become a liability for the studio.
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  2645. Wanger using the convicts in near suicidal combat actions reminds me of the Irish indentured servants sent to the new world. Most of the fatalities occurred in the last year of the forced labor as the people who held them literally tried to work them to death before their term of servitude ended.
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  2646. That has been my experience too. In my Primitive Baptist Chruch, one of our members had Downs. She was one of the nicest ladies in the church and it was a very sad day when she died in her mid 50s some years back.
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  2647.  @greenghostman174  The problem is that fascism has never been a right wing ideology. Advocated of fascism from Mussolini to Giovani Gentile, to Hitler have all considered themselves leftist. The idea of fascism being right wing is a myth perpetuated by the communists and their advocates in the west.
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  2648. The problem is that the Paramount decision is what opened the door to this insanity. When the studios had a financial investment in selling tickets to the movies they made, the quality was good. When the courts decoupled the studios from the theaters, that incentive went away, and the quality suffered as a result.
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  2649. Indeed, if not for that wall, the plane likely would have slid into the bay and ended up like the one that landed on the Hudson River.
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  2650. Yeah, funny thing how shells and bullets manufactured in Bulgaria during 2022 ended up on the Ukrainian front lines before the end of that year. Kind of like how Finnish weapons also mysteriously disappeared only to also show up in Ukraine.
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  2651. I don't know about mechanized warfare in winter. What I DO know is that the Soviet Red Army made its greatest gains against the Wehrmacht during the winter campaigns. And considering that Canada and Norway have been sending cold weather gear since August, it is foolish to think that the Ukrainians will simply stay in trenches over the winter. Don't forget, there is the Battle of the Bulge where Patton's forces actually ADVANCED on German positions while everyone else fell back was during the winter as well.
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  2652.  @afgor1088  It is. The Houthis claiming their actions are about Gaza is a non-sequitur. And goblin88 is correct in demonstrating another example of a non-sequitur.
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  2653. You would be surprised at the ethnic composition of Russia's Far East District. Vladivostock was originally founded by Koreans back in the first century BC and even today has a sizable population of both Chinese and Koreans. Then you have the fact that Chinese started settling the Amur valley area which they call "Outer Manchuria" back during the 9th century AD. It would later be ceded to Russia under the Treaty of Aigun in 1856 (something the Chinese greatly resent). Yakutia (known officially as Sakha Republic) is mostly a Mongolic population that has many ties not just to the Horse Nomads of the Stepps, but also to the Manchu people of northern China.
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  2654. Yeah, they are kind of idealistic when it comes to the changes in Central and South America, as if they never studied the history of the region.
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  2655. They get the government they deserve. They have nobody but themselves to blame.
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  2656.  @mynameisurl1073  Desert or Dessert? Funny how one missing letter can drastically change a word's meaning.
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  2657.  @someperson4819  Indeed. Record of Lodos War spun off its own system because the D&D owners at the time refused to license them under the D&D brand. A lost opportunity because almost all modern JRPGs and fantasy anime are heavily influenced by Lodos.
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  2658. The US had built a waste repository at Yucca Moutain until Harry Reid and the Democrats closed it in 1999.
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  2659.  @mnimbus05  And that is why I am for Ip going into public domain no later than 20 years after the death of the original creator. Children often squander their inheritance. And grandchildren are notorious for destroying the legacy of their forebearers (wealth only lasting three generations).
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  2660.  @NameIsDoc  Yup. Give him what the Koreans classified as "isolated confinement". The guards are not even allowed to interact with the prisoner.
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  2661. And just look at what the "guilds" (ie unions) in Tinseltown have done to the American industry. Woke as a joke and getting its arse handed to it by foreign films, particularly from Japan and Korea. Of course, much of that started before the woke craze when it became so expensive that many production companies moved to Canada.
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  2662.  @jeffschroeder4805  And you don't think Hamas is doing the same? You are so quick to blame Bibi, yet you turn a blind eye to the wrongs of Hamas.
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  2663.  @GentlemanJack705  You really think they wanted to be a part of the Abraham accords? Dose "drive Israel into the sea" mean anything to you? That is in Hamas' charter.
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  2664.  @dalecrocker3213  Don't conflate OPINIONS with facts. Facts don't care about your feelings. "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” ― John Adams
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  2665. Yeah, but the CCP won't allow that. Bitedance has veto over any sale and they made it clear they will exercise that power.
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  2666. Or Rachel Dolezal.
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  2667.  @levelazn  No, you are deflecting with a red herring. Trump had NOTHING to do with this discussion, yet you HAD to bring him into it because he is living rent-free in your head. Trump Derangement Syndrome, much like Bush Derangement before it is unbecoming of thinking, rational people. STAY ON TOPIC.
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  2668.  @levelazn  Not fact, that is nothing more than your OPINION. And opinions are like buttholes, everyone has one and they all stink. Don't conflate your worthless opinion with independently verifiable facts. The two are NOT the same.
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  2669.  @TheFinalChapters  I tend to agree with you. People forget, WW2 was won in large part because of US production which vastly outstripped all of the other allies AND the Axis powers combined! Hell, for some 30 years after the war, the trucks used in the Soviet's annual May Day parade were American built!
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  2670. The best justice would be for the courts to adjudicate that what WOTC is trying to claim infringement is in fact public domain because of its pervasiveness in the culture (Q-tip, Ban-Aid, Tylenol, et. al).
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  2671.  @stevenwex6797  The WHO under Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus covered up not one, but TWO cholera outbreaks in Ethiopia. And that is not the only epidemic where they were grossly negligent.
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  2672. Further, the HAD a state in Gaza. And promptly handed it over to the Jihadis.
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  2673.  @acutelilmint8035  Wow, that reminds me of the scene in "Chamber of Secrets" "See you at work, Mr. Weasly" -Lucius Malfoy "See you at school Potter!" -Draco Malfoy
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  2674. No joke. As you succinctly point out, the people who insist on using plural pronouns for "non-binary" sound like elementary school children who haven't learned to conjugate their words correctly. and when publishers like Fantasy Flight Games uses they/them in the body of a game source book, it makes said book damn near unreadable.
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  2675.  @ChavezBlueHair  IN six months? I seriously doubt that. It took decades to rebuild Stalingrad after the famous battle.
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  2676.  @command_unit7792  The fact that Ukraine DID grind slowly forward isn't a failure, nor is it copium. Measured against WW1 trench warfare which is the closest analogue, the Ukrainians are moving faster than the Western Allies did against the Central Powers.
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  2677.  @Puma-ph5ep  Apparently you have never heard the well know war proverb that dates from at least the time of Sun Tzu: "The best laid plans never survive contact with the enemy".
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  2678. Yes and no. Turns out that the Battleship is a great platform for shore bombardment. And it has the facilities to act as air traffic control so that the individual carriers can focus on launch and recovery without directing the air engagement (granted, the AWACs does that too). There is still a place for ONE battleship per carrier fleet. It becomes the big boy to engage the surface combatants that get past the pickets and try to melee the carriers.
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  2679.  @0That_Guy0  I did not say they locked down. I said those nations of the Scandinavian Peninsula followed a path similar to Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea. But for some reason, the rest of Europe chose to go full Soviet-Stalinist. It is as if continental Europe wants to repeat the Holodomor. That famine was aggravated by government officials withholding medicine as well as food.
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  2680.  @Fairred6507  Youtube keeps deleting my comments comparing them to Soviet Pravda.
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  2681. Putin is a Russian patriot, which is kind of odd for an old school Soviet. But that is more than can be said about America's ruling CASTE who care nothing for their nation.
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  2682. Indeed. Conflict in the Pacific needs to be viewed with the history of WW2 Pacific Campaign. The US with Warplan Orange expected to steam all the way across the Pacific and wanted to establish forward positions (Truk for example). Many of the same basic assumptions are still true today despite the increase in range and precision of weapons.
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  2683. Put the political-economic views of the people running the NetFlix shows alongside your analysis and suddenly you realize that warnings about Bolshevism were true.
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  2684.  @tacticalcenter8658  Says the obvious troll. Pot meet kettle.
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  2685.  @tacticalcenter8658  Says the person who is in denial of reality. Seriously, you are not a very sophisticated propagandist.
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  2686.  @paullnetinstitute4799  I don't disagree that corrupt African leaders misappropriate loans and that Western bankers don't hold them accountable for the fraud. But the idea that Chinese loans are any better because they send "specialists" is not seeing the forest for the trees. Those "specialists" are not advising what is in the best interests of the African countries, they are advising them to take actions that are in the best interest of China, even if it is detrimental to the nation. Trading one evil for a different evil isn't picking a lesser evil, it is just affirmatively making a bad choice when the best option is to not play at all.
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  2687. Only so long as they don't catch the rest of us in their crossfire. It is the collateral damage I am worried about.
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  2688.  @johnmuthan286  Europe has only itself to blame for prostrating themselves before Putin and making themselves slavishly dependent on his cheap energy. Also, the War in Ukraine is solely Russia's fault, not the US. Or have you forgotten what happened to Georgia in 2008 over South Ossetia?
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  2689.  @johnny718bravo  If there was something worth saving, I would be all for a reset. Sadly, they destroyed everything of value when they vandalized classic Americana such as Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, et. al. "Let it burn, let it burn, They're no longer my concern! Let them burn, let them burn! Time to show the world, it's their turn I won't care, how they're going to scream! Let the fire rage on. Flames never seemed to bother me." -Frozen Parody.
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  2690. Or a eunuch.
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  2691.  @aceman0000099  Actually, Kaiser Germany defeated Russia during the winter in Operation Faustschlag.
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  2692. No joke. No race is truly monolithic. There is East African and West Africa. And even in those sub-groups, there are various tribes and ethnicities that absolutely hate each other. But it is glossed over by the wokescolds.
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  2693. And that is a net win for Trump.
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  2694. Between Disney now owning the distribution rights and Tohe Animation having been a major factor in their creation, there is LOTS of legal red tape.
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  2695.  @killingmasheen  Yeah, I am hoping this next winter will not be a repeat of the nearly nine-month long Rasputisa of last winter. Ukraine got (frost) burned when the ground failed to freeze.
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  2696. The left praised draft dodging during Vietnam. Perhaps the right should do the same if the left reinstates the draft.
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  2697. Full circle.
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  2698.  @Optimegatrongodzilla  It means that they can't pay their debts to creditors if they can't meet their liabilities. Basically, zero liquidity means financial default and possibly bankruptcy.
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  2699.  @KetsubanSolo  I think Chapek's "screw ups" are more in public relations blunders than financial mistakes. What NEEDS to be done financially to make a business viable is never going to be popular.
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  2700. And so you avoid a number of chronological fallacies. I wish more people would have the wisdom that you show but NOT judging the past by today's standards and criteria.
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  2701. If only it were that easy. The sad reality is, they will actually form a "gentleman's agreement" where they passively help each other, much like how the Nazis and Soviets passively helped each other in the 1920 and 30s
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  2702.  @Sphere723  And you really believe that Japan is sustainable? Between their aging population and the shrinking workforce, they are living on borrowed time. They are a debt bomb waiting to go off just like Detroit. And that doesn't even begin to discuss the issues that made that debt so bad, namely their "lost decade". As for Afghanistan, until the fall of Kabul, most Western countries were willing to take a risk on loaning to them, but now those debt contractors have had to write off those loans as losses, which artificially lowers the debt to GDP ratio. Also, your numbers don't take into consideration the collapse of the Afghan economy under the Taliban and how far it has contracted. Your example is fundamentally flawed. But I get that a partisan would use false analogies and poor analysis to justify their agenda.
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  2703. Granddaughters of Boudica are not to be messed with.
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  2704.  @zoompt-lm5xw  The problem is that there are numerous examples of women with power. History unfortunately does not have room for mediocrity in women. Hence why they are either great (and hated for it) such as Queen Seondeok of Shill Dynasty Korea, Nefertiti of Egypt, Tamar of Georgia, and Queen Elizabeth the first of England; or they are abominable monstrosities such as Jinseong of Korea, Cleopatra of Ptolemy Dynasty Egypt, or Mary Tudor (Bloody Mary) of England.
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  2705.  @Kelli.B.  Yeah, it is pretty bad when your old man throws you under the bus.
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  2706. Good. Let Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese studios bury Tinseltown.
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  2707. From the Russian side of the river?
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  2708. Indeed. Chinese merchants may have brought Islam to Southeast Asia, but the resident Chinese diasporas are NOT Muslim.
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  2709.  @jolp9799  I guess you need context, huh? Ming Dynasty China often demanded tribute from Choseon Dynasty, with the most beautiful noblewomen of Korea being part of the demanded treasure. It was not uncommon for one of those women to give birth to the emperor's heir to the throne. Then you have Japan's numerous invasions of the Pennesula. Every time, the Samurai would carry off Korean women to be their concubines or just as often, their full status wives. This was well documented in the Imjin War. Then there is the issue that one King Muryeong of Pakeje originally grew up and lived in Japan before taking the throne as 25th monarch. One of his daughters later married into the Japanese royal family.
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  2710. For the sake of argument, if the flood was caused by the Plutonium, would it not have left a radiation signature? Plutonium does cause a Geiger counter to tick after all. So does the radioactive decay products.
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  2711.  @pouncepounce7417  Long lifespan or not, it would still pick up on a Geiger counter. White Sands still has elevated readings after more than 75 years since the Trinity Test.
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  2712.  @troyjohnston7454  It is called Reciprocity and is actually sanctioned under the Hague and Geneva for FORCE compliance. Perhaps you need to ACTUALLY READ about the Law of Armed Conflict. And why Islam rejects it.
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  2713. "Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program -Milton Freedman.
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  2714. I tend to agree he is paranoid. But he also saw an opening. Biden basically invited him to invade, and he took it. "Now or never" was the reasoning.
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  2715. Having already been preceded by a more faithful adaptation. Namely the cartoon.
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  2716.  @shahzebk7899  Thank you for your opinion Nevile Chamberlain. When you show weakness and capitulate once, you invite further aggression. Lessons of Munich.
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  2717. (snicker) Yeah, Page is precisely why Sigmund Freud came up with his outlandish theories about Penis Envy.
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  2718. What is good for the goose is good for the gander. Turnabout is fair play.
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  2719. I remember a KND episode where boys were banned and the world was ruled by a tyrannical womanchild. Sometimes I wonder if that actually came true.
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  2720.  @joaquimdantas63  Thomas Sowell makes that rather nuanced argument, contrasting the former English colonies with those that were colonized by other nations as well as those that were never colonized at all. Makes for an interesting read/watch.
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  2721.  @timothygibney159  SOVIETS, not Russians. Soviet forces included Belarusians and Ukrainians. Canada and Norway have been sending winter gear to Ukraine since August in preparation for the Winter offensive. Indications are that Russian troops don't have ANY winter gear. How do you think that is going to play out? So far Marshall Mud has not hamstrung Ukraine. If that is any indication, it means General Frost will be assisting in a VERY Red Christmas (aka a butt-kicking Christmas).
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  2722.  @Opachki69420  Agreed. It was their screw up and the affiliate should assign him to another product in the interim.
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  2723. Indeed. Russia was supposed to back China militarily after Ukraine when Beijing was going to go after Taiwan/Formosa. But Russia clearly cannot deliver on that support. Then there is the issue that despite claims otherwise, Beijing still has desires for "Outer Manchuria". They are still irritated with Russia over the Treaty of Aigun and want to go back to the borders originally established under the Treaty of Nerchinsk.
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  2724.  @andrea6637  Companies exist to make a profit, what you folks call "corporate greed". Record profits as you call them are more an accounting and stock value gimmick. They are looking at GROSS receipts, not NET receipts for which there is a MAJOR difference. And it IS entirely possible to report a Gross record profit while still barely breaking even. Companies don't report record profits then file for bankruptcy the following year without some account games being played by the Chief Finacial Officer.
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  2725. It is pure copium on their part. They can't accept that they just had a mirror held up to see their reflection.
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  2726. Agreed. Fighting to a draw against a numerically superior and nominally better equipped opponent is a victory. The fact that Ukraine has made gains is gravy.
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  2727. Sure, we have a debt problem, but that has more to do with incompetence in government rather than our economic model. And without business and industry guiding universities, what are they but exercises in mental masturbation? Financial investment by corporations gives them a direction to focus their efforts. The universities can always turn down the sponsorship after all.
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  2728. Replace it with nothing. The Treasury Department alone should be able to collect tariffs WITHOUT requiring a subsidiary organization.
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  2729. And Facui, Miley, Brennan, and the rest of the Obama and Biden teams did? What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
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  2730.  @jimbothegymbro7086  Nice apples to oranges false analogy. Nuclear Physics is not the same as Aeronautical Engineering. While both rely on the same basics of physical science, they are NOT the same fields for a reason. A Bullwhip goes supersonic, that is why it makes a crack. Science has long known that fact. The people pushing the idea that an aircraft could not go faster than the speed of sound had just enough understanding of science to be a danger to themselves and to others with their misinformation.
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  2731.  @provaassemblea8063  Ukraine has yet to commit their reserves. Conversely, Russia has already deployed theirs.
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  2732. I think Perun dug into that in his recent video on Russian equipment losses for 2023/2024. It is interesting how many of the T72As and T-64 are being untouched. Contrast that with how the T-62 and T-80s are quickly disappearing from the reserve parks.
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  2733.  @bartonbella3131  Chapek, for all of his flaws was a pragmatist. Iger is an ideologue and a zealot.
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  2734. They are reacting the way a zealot would to an Apostate. When you realize the similarities to religious zealotry, everything else starts to make sense. They are guilty of the very behavior they claim to hate.
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  2735. They are employing the exact same strategy as the Wendy Davis Campaign. Her longtime advisors at Prism Communications warned her not to do that,, and they were proven correct when she lost. Now national Democrats are making the exact same blunder.
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  2736.  @jbrown7063  Wrong. There was practically NOTHING there in the 1930s during the British Mandate. It was the Jews who built up the area and made it productive. It was the Jews who built up the infrastructure in Gaza and the West Bank. And when they handed it over to the Arabs who call themselves Palestinian, the result is exactly the same as what happened in LA after the Koreans handed over their businesses to blacks.
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  2737. I am glad you are acknowledging that. Too many people are simply using this to posture and grandstand for their own political gains, knowing full well that the side they are backing domestically is about to be humiliated in November.
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  2738. Why? Explain how Europe is not also responsible? It is THEIR continent, after all.
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  2739. Choosing not to vote is in effect a vote of no confidence. It just doesn't get officially recorded.
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  2740.  @felix0749  I think the French love of dictatorship stems from both Napoleon as well as Charles DeGaulle. Both men were charismatic leaders that convinced the French population that a "benevolent dictatorship" was in their best interest. Those of English heritage understood quite well the dangers of despotism, even if it was a "kinder, gentler" one.
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  2741. "War is good for business," -Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #34.
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  2742. You said the same thing about the Kherson offensive. You were wrong then, and you are wrong now. It is absolutely possible to advance along trench lines during mud season as vehicles and armor are not as useful in trench-to-trench fighting.
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  2743.  @emps8992  That is a strawman argument and has nothing to do with whether Bosnia's localities can be independent states. How about you actually debate merits instead of gutter sniping?
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  2744. Raise the Jolly Rodger, my friend! Plunder Disney's vaults.
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  2745. I will agree that the population levels may be self-correcting. But I disagree about the population not meant to be this big. We have NOT even gotten close to what the environment can actually sustain. Advances in technology keep marching on. We have gotten nowhere close to maximum food production.
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  2746. Unions are no different than the trade guilds of old that busted up anyone who would "poach" on their turf.
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  2747. And now you understand Teddy Roosevelt's contempt for the Unions.
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  2748. That is still a loss of value, mostly for the magazine.
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  2749.  @shhshs9139  DNA evidence proves you wrong. It is the Y-chromosome that comes from Judea, but the matrilineal DNA is wide range, with Ashkenazi predominantly European.
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  2750.  The Bloody Doctor  So he choses the slow bleed over the instant kill. The end result is still death. No matter what he does, they are still censoring him.
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  2751. I would much rather read your stories and give them the benefit of the doubt than anything that comes out of Tinseltown today. Trek should have been put in Public Domain in 2000.
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  2752.  @Fantastika  Not really. That is just European Chauvinism and arrogance. Most of the developing world don't really care about European concerns unless it means getting free money in the form of aide. Most of them are more concerned about simply surviving than worrying about First World Problems. And yes, Europe is obsessed with First World problems.
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  2753.  @matthewparker9276  Sure, except, countries that did NOT follow China's advice via the WHO fared the best, while those that locked down did the worst. Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the Nordic Countries didn't do what China suggested and they had a better control of the spread than simply forcing people to say in their homes.
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  2754.  @Danny451  No, you are trolling. There is a difference.
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  2755.  @Danny451  Funny, because the great futurists Arthur C. Clarke, Issaac Asimov, Carl Sagan, and Michael Crichton were men of faith, but unlike you, they were not setting out to either prove or disprove the existence of an almighty. They knew how to partition out matters of faith from temporal affairs. Something you can't seem to achieve. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," -Arthur C. Clarke "Any sufficiently advanced extraterrestrial intelligence is indistinguishable from God," -Michael Shermer
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  2756.  @SGTsnick3  The catch is, you have to provide that initial evidence to the court to get a warrant for further searches. The point of the special master is that the redacted affidavit failed to meet that standard. Censorship is NO justification for violation of civil rights, particularly against unconstitutional searches.
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  2757. Seems like Maduro is channeling Saddam Hussein, claiming Guyana in much the same way Saddam claimed Kuwait was a province of Iraq.
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  2758.  @matthewmosier8439  John Wilks Booth was not FBI as that organization didn't exist until the 1920s. That man acted entirely on his own.
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  2759. She humanizes him and as you say. makes him relatable. Like someone who lives next door.
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  2760. If your claim is true, then why did the citizens of Kiev welcome the Russians with Molotov Cocktails instead of flower garlands?
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  2761. Indeed. Alex Hamilton and Henry Knox were doing the same thing in Boston which lead to Shay's Rebellion after Massachusetts raised taxes on the farmers to bailout the stockjobbers. Tommy Jefferson warned about this.
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  2762. Indoctrination and grooming have similar roots and goals.
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  2763. Agreed. As Arthur Fleck said in Joker: "You get what you freaking (sic) deserve!"
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  2764.  @dersven4122  You would be speaking German or Russian if not for the US. You laugh, but it is the painful laugh of a child who knows they have been caught with their hand in the cookie jar.
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  2765. Even the Herald in Henry the V was more credible that these fools.
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  2766.  @Rin-qj7zt  That is my guess as well. He had most of the slides prepared and ready with blanks to fill in with the specific details.
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  2767. Considering the DoJ declined to go forward with any charges tells you all you need to know.
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  2768.  @em3sis  Did I say I was defending him? That is the problem with you absolutists. You think only in terms of either/or false choice. Some of us go for a third option you refuse to even consider. His guilt is not in question. What IS in question is the excessiveness of his punishment. Child predators get lighter punishments. ACTUAL MUDER ONE four counts would not get the punishment he received. Drunk drivers don't get that harsh of a prison term.
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  2769. Hayek should be required reading for ANY economics degree. As should Karl Menger (Austian economist, not his mathematician son).
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  2770.  @CatsJP  Freedom comes with RESPONISIBLITY, genius. Also, if children under 18 are too young to smoke or get tattoos, then they are too young to choose their gender. Get a clue.
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  2771. Smart people know you do NOT kill the golden goose. China's communist leadership are not smart people. They are narcissists who think the rules don't apply to them.
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  2772.  @dennydeckerful  Thank you. I pointed that out and my post got deleted.
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  2773.  @vania7302  What is your opinion about the Harem Genre? "Infinite Stratos" is a Battle Harem series if you are into the Mecha stories. For a love story my favorite was "Ai Yori Aoshi" which was more of a slice of life series. For Isekai, "Didn't I say to make my Abilities Average in the Next Life" is pretty decent with an almost all female cast. Combining the Romance-Comedy and Isekai "My Next Life as a Villainess: All Route Lead to Doom" is pretty good.
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  2774. The Muslims "came to help" in Iberia, and only left when they were expelled by force. And that has been typical through history.
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  2775.  @StandStrong614  And what makes you so confident about that? It is the "arrest that man!" scenario that Timmy is talkign about.
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  2776. There were anti-tank guns in WW2, Korea, and Vietnam. Amazing how people forget this.
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  2777.  @knowname7289  Not really. The UN 1948 partition was just and legal. It is the Arab refusal to accept Israel's right to exist that has caused this conflict to continue.
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  2778. That is why brinksmanship is a much better model of human behavior than its critics care to admit.
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  2779.  @tristanyoung9673  Nice chronological snobbery. You know why people still read Sun Tzu? Because his observations on warfare are still true today. It is also the same reason why Carl von Clausewitz is still studied. Perhaps YOU should pick up the book "Achtung Panzer" and learn what combined arms is. Nothing that Guderian wrote about has lost its value over the years. And people like you are only going to prove him correct by ignoring it.
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  2780.  @taoliu3949  Nice apples to oranges false analogy. The Kharkov front is NOTHING like the Zaphoresia front. For one, Ukraine has been forbidden to attack anything on Russian soil, which means they HAVE to let the Russians onto their soil before they can even counterattack. They basically used Paul von Hindenburg's strategy used on the Eastern Front in WW1. "It's not wrong if it works?" Tell that to the Kamikaze pilots of the IJN in WW2. Tell that to the IJA soldiers who engaged in Banzai Charges. Don't conflate "works" with "effective". The two are NOT the same.
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  2781. Newcomers to his channel may not be aware of the fact, which is why he repeats it.
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  2782. That may be a hope, but it also means they sacrifice Crimea. That dam is the source for the pennesula's water supply.
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  2783. William Henry Harrison had the shortest presidency on record, exactly one month (March 4 to April 4). I expect a Biden presidency to be less than that before 25th replaces him with Jamaica Kamala.
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  2784. Agreed. It would have been better if he was an ally and possibly a recruitable cohort.
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  2785. Most of the movies where she has been in the lead role were flops. In old school Tinseltown, she would have been blacklisted after the second flop.
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  2786. The problem with this guy is that he would gladly silence new reporters such as WION.
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  2787.  @dans4125  Actually, they did. The problem is that the Sherman anti-trust laws are NOT being properly enforced against them.
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  2788.  @lovenutzhate4981  I would say both are dangerous. The feckless politicians are the internal threat while the Red Chinese government (not the Chinese people) is the external threat. Both are dangerous, but they also both require different strategies to deal with. While the domestic threat is more pressing at this time, the external threat is in more insidious as it is a slow burning issue. And sadly, the external threat is manipulating the internal threat to their advantage. "Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us." -President John F. Kennedy.
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  2789. Before I went to South Korea, I watched an episode of "Locked Up Abroad" where a guy tried to smuggle Marijuana into Korea. Spent almost 7 years in solitary confinement (usually punishment is death). When Koreans do solitary, it means that not even the guards interact with you: they only enter your cell if you are unconscious. Your food is delivered through a slot. While there for two years, I was VERY sensitive to the fact that I was just a guest at their pleasure. This was after the two little girls were run over by a tank.
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  2790. It is because the Japanese are not Anvilicious about it. They present it in a more nuanced, less in your face fashion. May issues, particularly those involving LGTBQ are often presented in a self-deprecating humorous fashion which makes the wokescolds irate. A favored tactic is creating a situation embarrassing for the straight male lead; the humor comes NOT from mocking the gay/trans character but from the discomfort, misery, and shame experienced by the straight characters. You sympathize with them rather than get angry and it is something of a more refined version of slap-stick without the physical injury. Anime is basically filling a vacuum created by hollyweird's lack of creativity. While the American West Coast is lecturing, Anime is endearing. While Hollywood is trying to shame, Japan is trying to entertain.
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  2791. Streisand effect. Previously known as Forbidden Fruit allure.
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  2792. Fortunately the Streisand effect is the trump card that makes such attempts fall apart.
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  2793. Indeed. The plane was intact when it touched down on the runway. It was the violent impact with a cement wall that made it fatal.
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  2794.  @M0butu  I didn't disagree with the premise that Konigsberg wasn't beautiful nor that it did not attract painters and artists. I was simply slapping down the false claim that there was noting importation nor special about the city. Oh, and Petrograd (Leningrad) IS a Baltic city as the Gulf of Finland is a part of the Baltic Sea.
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  2795. AOC is a marionette controlled by Chek Uygurt at Young Turks, her campaign manager/treasurer Saitket Cahkrabarti, and Zack Exley at Justice Democrats. Listen to them speak and then listen to AOC, she uses the EXACT same vocal inflections and pauses as they do. Word for word and pause for pause, kind of scary. At minimum it is similar to Pavlov's Dog, and it makes you wonder if telepathy is a real thing.
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  2796.  @goblin6587  Your disparaging remarks of those you disagree with is typical behavior. You are immediately hostile of those who are not ideologically in lock step with you.
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  2797. I love how you use Tim's own rhetorical point slamming the left against him.
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  2798. "Figures don't like, but Liars figure," -Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain. Perfectly describes this guy.
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  2799.  @psycobleach46  Uncommon doesn't mean it doesn't happen as you are trying to claim. Nice job moving the goal posts. That is a logical fallacy, by the way.
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  2800. Schadenfreude. Couldn't have happened to a nice group of people.
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  2801. Indeed. In the US, most power comes from coal and natural gas. Unless there is widespread adoption of nuclear fission power, the net emissions from electric will be higher than combustion.
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  2802.  @viysnjor4811  Indeed. Reminds me of the quote by John F. Kennedy when after he took office he realized things were worse than he made them out to be and that his predecessor Eisenhower was actually downplaying the danger.
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  2803. Anschluss 2.0
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  2804. Indeed. The deep state is the very military-industrial complex that Eisenhower warned about. And now that the old Soviet Union collapsed, they have turned their attention and skills against they very people they claim to be protecting. The fall of the USSR has resulted in the fracturing of the US now that we have lost sight of an external threat. Ironically, Red China has become that external existential threat, but our intelligence agencies are blind to the danger because they are too busy jumping at shadows of Lenin's imploded empire.
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  2805. I love how people lecture Americans on gun ownership while conveniently ignoring that place where gun ownership is unlawful, STABBINGS are five time higher. The problem isn't the weapon, it is the people. You can use human hair to kill someone via strangulation. The hands can be a deadly weapon.
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  2806. That is ironically a result of the greenies. They were the same people holding up the "no nukes" peace sign in the 70s and gloating after the 3 miles Island accident. "Not in my backyard" they said. I say YES, build one in MY backyard!
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  2807. Indeed. They had the ferocity of a Jihadi. You would think that today we would have learned the lessons of WW2 when fighting fanatical zealots.
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  2808.  @cyberwolf_1013  Don't forget Robin Williams in one hour photo. Granted, that was a villain role, but his wife threatened to leave him if he ever did a role like that again. They call it "becoming the mask" and is a form of method acting. Sadly, some people cannot separate their true selves from their character.
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  2809. Considering that they memory-holed him, I would say yes.
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  2810.  @neyte7313  There was already a precedent with LBJ stepping down.
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  2811.  @sa34w  What is your point other than to show you are throwing a temper tantrum? JFK and Art Laffer have time and again proven that low taxes increase productivity while high taxes stifle it.
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  2812.  @FazeParticles  Actually, they are that stupid. Some of the most intellectual people in the world have zero common sense. The establishment is just that; people with booksmarts and zero street smarts. Street-smarts is what allows you to survive societal collapse.
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  2813.  @kasession  TNG also had most of the alumni from TOS. Writers like DC Fontana who actually wrote characters, not diversity quotas.
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  2814.  @LasseEklof  When you use children as human shields, you are undeniably evil. Stop making excuses for Hamas. Stop blaming Israel. "When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons. Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.” -Golda Meir.
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  2815. Imagine putting bombs on a balloon and sending it towards the US. Oh, wait, the Japanese did just that starting a number of forest fires during WW2.
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  2816. If so, I would love to know how to hack it so that I can have the cute NATURAL fire redhead that I wish I had met 20 years ago.
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  2817. @Pro2ASteve Liberty or Death The GOP's relationship to the DNC is best described as Stockholm Syndrome. And conservatives' relationship with the GOP is Battered Wife/Abused Spouse Syndrome.
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  2818. "Oh no, they say he's got to go History shows again and again How nature points out the folly of men Godzilla!" -Blue Oyster Cult
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  2819.  @alansteel  It was part of the Tri-Star 1998 Godzilla movie. Glad I could make you aware of it.
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  2820. Except, Smallpox is a biosafety level 4 pathogen. Unless it was vaccine samples, there is no way that this escaped containment by accident.
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  2821.  @johannesdharma6112  True. My wife is Chinese-Indonesian. And Singapore while being ethnically dominated by Chinese all speak the King's English. My father was a Pacific fleet sailor so I grew up with lots of strong Asian influences. Hence my great appreciation for the cultures and history of that part of the world. And I accept ALL of it, the bad with the good.
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  2822.  @GeorgeMonet  Yeah, killing your beloved is kind of an Adddams Family thing. They are obsessed with death after all.
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  2823.  @geigertec5921  I wish you were correct, unfortunately, there are way too many lemmings and NPCs that are clamoring for this and harassing those of us who refuse to wear a mask. or get vaccinated.
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  2824.  @eleneesakia6973  Yeah, I am disappointed at how NATO dragged its feet on Georgia. And most Europeans consider the Caucuses to be one of the dividers between Asia Minor and the European continent. Heck, Europeans are called CAUCASIAN, after the Caucuses.
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  2825. Thomas Jefferson warned about this. There is a reason why he detested Alex Hamilton's baby.
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  2826. I second that. The Japanese industries need to sell directly to the US market and cut out the middle men.
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  2827. I was always disparaged as being gay in school. Now those very same people call me a bigot for being against that very lifestyle. Ironic.
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  2828. What principles? The man does what his political handlers tell him to do. Just look at how he waffled on Indiana's RFRA bill in 2015.
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  2829. Sergy Brin is not calling the shots, Sundar Pichai is. And he has chosen to delegate that power to political activists on the left.
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  2830. Wuhan Virus Hysteria is a purely human caused situation. The Volcano is uncontrollable nature.
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  2831.  @borgri9125  I agree. Take the restrictions off the weapons and allow Ukraine to target military facilities on Russian soil.
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  2832.  @TheHouseOfWaffles  The problem is that historically Republics either degenerate into outright feudal oligarchies, or they are run by oligarchy families. Take a look at South Korea and you will see that the politicians are basically owned by the Chaboels(13 most powerful business families such as Lotte, Korean Air, Kia/Hyndai, and LG-DaCom just to name a few).
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  2833.  @theoutlook55  I think you are mistaken on both accounts. The US Navy builds nuclear reactor cores with great regularity. The technology has become cheaper over time. Most of the costs today are REGULATORY rather than technological. As for nuclear waste, we DID have a place to put it: Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository. It was slated to open in 1996 until Dingy Harry Reid and Dan Coats killed it. Trump tried to reopen it but was stymied by Congress. Indeed, Japan would have paid the US to store its waste in the 90s, and had Congress not killed it, Fukushima would NOT have been as bad as it was. So in short, while I applaud your openness to nuclear power, I hope that your eyes also are opened to the myths and lies surrounding nuclear power today. It is those myths that do more harm than the reactors and the waste itself.
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  2834. It shouldn't be baffling when you realize that this behavior is typical of religious fanatics and zealots. Now ask yourself what the religion of the cancel culture folks is. Here is a hint: it isn't an officially recognized nor organized religion; claiming to be Christian or Jewish is but a false front to disguise their actual religion.
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  2835. Exactly. The Chinese have long memories and play the long game. To them, the US simply replaced the UK as the representative of the Anglo-world and so all of their grievances against the British have simply been shifted over to the US.
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  2836. The board was stupid to bring him back A THIRD TIME. At that point, it isn't coincidence, it is enemy action.
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  2837. "In an era of universal deception, speaking truth becomes an act of defiance," -George Orwell.
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  2838.  @giin97  Lee Harvey Oswald with a bolt action was able to replicate the rapid fire of a semi-auto. While the uninitiated may think it is time consuming and tedious, those who are properly trained are not encumbered. Same is true with a revolver auto-loader; instead of individually loading every bullet into a cylinder, one can load it all at once and achieve the same effect as changing out a pistol magazine. And anyone who fully loads a magazine wears it out quickly. One should only load a ten round magazine with about 7 or 8 so that they don't wear out the spring as quickly.
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  2839. "When you spoke of the prisoners, you used the term revolutionary. Indeed, death has been known to stop revolutions. But I suspect it's not a revolution that Angel One is hoping to stop. It's evolution. Mister Ramsey and the Odin survivors did not initiate the waves of dissent that are rippling through your planet. Their presence here merely reinforced the change in attitudes between men and women that was already well under way. They became symbols around whom others who shared their views could gather. You may eliminate the symbols, but that does not mean death to the issues which those symbols represent. No power in the universe can hope to stop the force of evolution. Be warned. The execution of Mister Ramsey and his followers may elevate them to the status of martyrs. Martyrs cannot be silenced." -Commander William T. Riker, TNG episode "Angel One". Perfectly describes what is going on in the US today.
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  2840.  @dt6559  Indeed. People seem to fail to realize that the German Panzer was hands down the best tanks in the world at the time. But they were defeated when vastly outnumbered by the inferior T-34 on the eastern front or the Sherman Tank on the Western Front. Likewise, the German Battleship was the most robust capital ship in the world, but they were never produced in the vast quantities that British and Americans shipyards produced. The Messerschmitt fighter was a premier fighter aircraft. But when facing off against multiple Soviet Yak-3s they were quickly overwhelmed. The thing is technology has to be above a certain point for both training and numbers to off-set the disadvantage in the gap in capabilities.
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  2841.  @BetaGunslinger  Again with the false premise. Those shooters did not legally own much less lawfully acquire them. But then again, that is the dirty little detail; that those who wish to do crimes don't care about the laws on the books. There is not a single gun control law that would have stopped ANY of the shooters you just listed. The best way to prevent a school shooting is a teacher that is conceal carrying. And there are examples of such teachers stopping a mass shooter but of course the media refuses to cover those stories. One occurred within the last two years in Noblesville, IN. No, you want a population of sheep that are at the mercy of wolves. I choose to be a sheep dog.
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  2842.  @prometheusjackson8787  Then why did Kiev not fall? Why are the Russians in full retreat from Kharkiv? You want to talk about Live-action Roleplaying? (what larping actually means since NPCs like you don't actually know) You are taking quite a huge dose of copium.
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  2843. The point isn't to stop it completely, but to make it onerous and burdensome. When the cost of your favorite soda doubles, that becomes quite noticeable.
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  2844. Yeah, but his air defenses around both Moscow and Petrograd have been removed and sent to Ukraine. If he uses a nuke, he is vulnerable to a counterstrike.
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  2845.  @shortyorc121  Funny, because I recall 2 minutes was about how close we came to nuclear war during Able Archer 87. People will not just roll over and take it. If anything, the country will Balkanize much like the former Yugoslavia. And that is the worst case scenario. My point is that it is never too late. The only thing that changes is how high of a price we must pay. And the longer we dither, the steeper the price. Even Winston Churchill observed that while we may be late, the American people DO rouse themselves to do something about festering problems.
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  2846. @Bone spurs are contagious Numbers game. If those stimulus checks were as good as you claim, then the Bush stimulus checks should have also done the same. All those checks did was give an advancement on your payday. They will actually cost more in the long term from inflation and debt interest. Try reading Bastiat, Hayek, and Menger instead of Keynes or Marx. Government never creates anything. Government is legalized theft.
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  2847.  @187Rajah  As if Russia and China are not engaging in imperialism today. Touch grass.
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  2848. And that assumes that they don't detonate in the silo like they did on K-129 instead of launch as they are supposed to do. The issues regarding the Admiral Kuznetsov and Moskva casts serious doubt on the competency of the Russian Nuclear Forces.
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  2849. He provides CONTEXT, which propagandists and actvists intentionally leave out.
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  2850. He was likely quoting Sun Tzu or Carl von Clausewitz, but the point is still spot on. Too many generals try fighting the last war with what they want, not the current war with what they have.
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  2851.  @zjeee  Agreed. The Ukraine has been a real sleeper who has exceeded the expectations of everyone. And their performance in counter-battery operations against Russia's artillery fire is wildly effective, getting the most impact for every round they fire off.
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  2852. The Kharkov and Kherson offensives were conducted with ZERO air superiority. It can be done, but air dominance does help.
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  2853.  @LuigiAzsassin  Perverting scripture for temporal power is a blasphemy. It is the woe of the Pharisees for which you now are a party to.
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  2854.  @genkiferal7178  Not ethical huh? ALL life save for plants and archaea engages in predation on other life. This may surprise you, but farm raising a species for consumption actually helps to preserve that species. Despite the claim, there are some certain nutrients and proteins the human body needs that can ONLY come from meat. Plant based substitutes for it is similar to rabbit starvation, Kwashiorkor, Beriberi, or Pellagra. But I agree with you about the power mongers in Davos trying to make one world currency they can control. This is Orwell-Huxley levels of dystopian nightmare.
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  2855.  @ashlynbrown3728  The guy who vandalized Star Trek with his nihilistic Dystopian perversion of Gene Rodenberry's dream.
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  2856. Because accountability appears like vengeance to the corrupt.
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  2857. Russia has proven that they CANNOT cross rivers. Ukraine has shown tremendous skill in amphibious operations, particularly in crossing rivers often in places where the Russians failed. Just because the Russians have their back against a river doesn't mean that the same problems apply to Ukraine. Don't forget, the Ukrainians successfully evacuated Sevrodonetsk despite having their back against a river.
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  2858.  @AmitCYT  That is the image you choose to show the world. But behind closed doors when you think nobody is watching, the truth is revealed. Some of us know what goes on when you THINK you have privacy; your true colors are revealed.
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  2859. Only if you believe in SOVIET Justice. Political prosecutions are not something to be cheering.
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  2860. And that is what terrifies them. Their obsession with Trump's "vengeance" is because they know they will suffer the consequences of their actions.
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  2861. What crime? Paying hush money is not a crime as even the judge acknolwedge that.
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  2862. Some do, most don't. Keep in mind their full-throated opposition to the anti-grooming bill in Florida.
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  2863.  @kartikeyatiwari2502  Rather well, actually. Russia has FAILED to dislodge the UAF.
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  2864. There is no such thing as "peaceful divorce". As Lincoln said "it will be all of one or all of the other" in his house divided speech.
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  2865. So, you are just going to ignore the fact that the fireball occurred AFTER the impact with the concrete wall?
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  2866.  @paulgifis1908  The wall was barely 500 ft (150 Meters) from the end of the runway. Most US airports have at least 2,000ft (610 Meters) of clearance at the end of the runway. Stop making excuses for the ONLY reason why the plane ended up exploding.
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  2867.  @justineld4905  Don't forget, in the absence of a fatherly role model in the house, young males look to find a replacement. BLM encourages this by directing those young boys towards criminals. Gangs in effect fill the vacuum that fatherless homes create.
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  2868. Indeed. Nearly all of the torpedoes and bombs used by the Japanese in WW2 came from Nagasaki.
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  2869.  @onlyfacts4999  If that was truly the case, then why are so many governments who have taken Chinese investments getting overthrown? Kenya canceled its contracts with China under pressure from the populace who were getting screwed by Chinese goods flooding their markets and bankrupting local businesses. I have to ask, are you part of the aristocracy in Nigeria who personally benefits from China?
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  2870.  @wickian9571  Five years ago I would have argued vehemently against that Libertarian contrarian viewpoint. Since this last election and the fecklessness of the GOP to include Ted Cruz, I find myself in agreement. What is the point when they are going to steal it and the elections are as much of a sham as elections in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea(North Korea)? "Democracy consists of choosing your dictators after they have told you what it is you want to hear," -Alan Coren, 1975.
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  2871. And they were not before? This is normal compared to the crap she has pulled before. You know, with that incest marriage?
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  2872.  @jaylenharris343  Because they were in deinal.
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  2873.  @voixdelaraison593  Funny how when judges like Kagan, Sotomayor, and the rest are asked to recuse themselves, THEY NEVER DO. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
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  2874. Indeed. What Mr. Pool fails to address is that those voter rolls often tell whether a person voted in a primary (and which party's primary ballot they pulled) as well as if they have voted in a particular year's general election. THAT is how they know if a dead person voted; if they cast a ballot in the general AFTER the date of their death. My own view is that when the county coroner issues a death certificate, one copy needs to be sent to the county election office to remain on file so that said voter is locked out and prevented from casting a vote but not actually purged from the rolls. Someone who has been declared dead and suddenly appears can easily get family to swear affidavits as well as a medical examiner signature to reverse such lockouts after a court hearing reviews the evidence.
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  2875. Agreed. Make this a class-action case.
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  2876. I think there should be term limits for judges. That is part of the reason why they are so old: judges almost never retire, usually dying in office.
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  2877. That might be one interpretation. I always took that line to mean that she was a high ranking noble in Triton's court, possibly his major domo until her side deals came to light resulting in her banishment.
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  2878.  @JosephArata  Indeed. Ralph Bakshi was more faithful to the source material and his cartoon version is far and away better than Bezo's fan-fiction.
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  2879. So what is the alternative? So long as oil is traded in USD, you are never going to get rid of it as the fiat world currency.
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  2880. But that is NOT the context of how it is being used. "Stakeholder" is being used to include people NOT included in your definition. It is being used to include people who have no part. It is basically the new "Proletariat".
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  2881. No joke. "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable," -John F. Kennedy.
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  2882.  @pauldillingham6316  That is true. However, her family has deep connections with Red China. There are many Taiwanese who are communist sympathizers. And let us not forget that they got caught smuggling several kilos of Cocaine into Costa Rica earning "Turtle-neck" McConnell the moniker "Cocaine Mitch".
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  2883. You are just looking at one number and not the whole picture. For example, every Mayday Parade in the USSR for 30 years after WW2 had American made trucks towing their artillery pieces.
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  2884. @Kam I agree with you on both of those points. If America was as bad as people claimed, why are they willing to die to get here? And you explained the why perfectly. I also agree with you about the socialism part. Nikia Khruschev warned us that we would be subverted from within. That warning was ignored, particularly by the advocates of capitalism and free markets who for one reason or another are unable to articulate why socialism ALWAYS fails spectacularly. "The great problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money," -Maggie Thatcher, UK's "Iron Lady".
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  2885. They are having their Marie Antoniette "let them eat cake" moment.
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  2886. Indeed. The Gephard anti-air gun has seen a new lease on life. We might even see a return of the WW2 Bofors and Oerlikon!
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  2887. It has only been a month and a half. The Normandy Campaign in WW2 was 5 months. Blitzkreig is an aberration, not the norm.
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  2888. "You can fire anyone at will." You proud of your ability to ruin people's life on a whim ? Soi let me ask you this, do you want to go through all of the legal challenges to firing unproductive employees? Businesses don't exist to provide you a paycheck, they exist to turn a profit. They are not "adult daycare". Own and operate your own private business and you will quickly change your tune. I suggest starting with a restaurant.
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  2889.  @DwayneThompson22  Um, yeah, "The Analects", Confucius' primary writings predate the PRC. Even the Japanese and Koreans have copies of his writings in original Hanja on bamboo texts dating back to the 6th century when they along with Buddhism was brought to the Islands. But yes, his name IS a pretext for infiltration into the US education system.
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  2890. So Winston Chruchill's quote about a Puzzle in a riddle, wrapped in an enigma was needlessly over complicated?
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  2891. Lee vs. United States (1883) says what she is doing is unconstitutional.
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  2892. It essentially is already. The Chinese are using it against the US in much the same way British traders used opium against the Chinese from the 1840s to the 1860s.
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  2893. At this point, I would rather watch a Bollywood movie than anything that comes out of Hollyweird.
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  2894. Indeed. The B-parody movies were better written than these "reboots".
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  2895. Indeed. Turley and company should go back to the SCOTUS under the original filing and make the SCOTUS remand them for being in contempt of the Supreme Court.
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  2896. Which is why the defendants need to demand to see their cases goes to court so as to set a precedent that until the act is ratified, it has no legal power and that those who take action under that act before it is ratified WILL be held to account for unlawful actions.
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  2897. Yeah, I was under the impression that it started out as a Nintendo game that took on a life of its own.
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  2898. Lots of quality points that speak to the slow decline of the US, sadly. And you point out places for improvement if only the people in power would admit to those weaknesses.
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  2899. Exactly. This war is ALL about energy. In trying to protect his near monopoly, he may have just destroyed it beyond repair.
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  2900.  @bluebelle8823  Which is why it NEEDS a change of venue. But since the judge is a notorious activist and nevertrumper, your point is very well taken.
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  2901. Agreed. They pandered to this crowd and are now surprised that it has turned on them? As Arthur Fleck said in Joker: "You get what you fracking(sic) deserve!"
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  2902.  @M81005  You don't "scrap" a radioactive core. A better description is that it was melted down and recast into a new core. And as I recall, the recycled core was used in a later nuclear test, though I don't remember which one.
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  2903.  @jagdson2701  Indeed. My ancestor Malcolm McCallum was an Irish Redhead who fought with the Scots at the battle of Dunbar. He was one of the lucky 100 sent to Massachusetts. Those sent to Virginia or Barbados didn't survive their forced servitude.
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  2904. Those advocating for abolishment never learned why the Washington Naval Treaty failed. Same philosophies.
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  2905.  @Kyle-gj6oc  Yes and no. Taken to the extreme, you are correct. But if you tit for tat and only go a measured degree proportional to the other side, you do NOT get to the other extreme but instead balance out somewhere in the middle. Reciprocity is how you bring things back to sanity.
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  2906.  @Zminator1986  I'm not surprised. They went belly-up in 2010. The subprime housing fiasco helped to bring about their demise.
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  2907.  @spookyengie735  There are a number of nations completely surrounded by another. San Marino, and Lesotho for example. Tatarstan would effectively be like them.
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  2908. Why anyone would trust this person with the power of the atom is beyond me.
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  2909. How fast can Russia produce weapons? Most of what they are resupplying with is old Soviet leftovers.
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  2910.  @robertmaybeth3434  I think it was stopped with the sonar dome. That is actually the most expensive part of the boat. And yes, Kilo-class subs are boats, not ships. The Typhoon sub is a ship, as was the Kursk.
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  2911.  @deistormmods  I claim no credit, I simply rely on the wisdom of that great Democrat leader. And he leaned on the wisdom of Tommy Jefferson. Jim Webb in 2016 could have been the next coming of JFK but the party conspired to have him squelched.
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  2912. Most of the power that comes from nukes is in the threat of using them. Once unleashed, they lose much of that power as the effect is expended. An opponent unfazed by nuclear threats will not stop once it actually is delivered.
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  2913. "Very little separates man from the animals. And most people throw that away," -Confucius, author of "The Analects".
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  2914. Boy who cried "WOLF!"
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  2915.  @ukmaxi  A birdstrike started it, but it was a cement wall that made it fatal.
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  2916.  @jjr6929  Yeah, I have a sneaking suspicion that NASCAR has been having a discussion with their corporate sponsors.
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  2917. It was 10 years from the passing of the Stamp act to Lexington and Concorde. It was 5 years from the Boston Massacre to Lexington and Concorde. It was 16 months from the Boston Tea party to Lexington and Concorde. By that measure you sir are absolutely correct. We are WAY behind schedule. As King George 3 himself said, it is time to let blows decide.
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  2918.  @animezilla4486  If Iger is the only bully there, then why is the company imploding? Iger is a symptom of the underlying rot.
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  2919. And distract from the social upheaval they created at home. That is always how it works; start a war to distract the people from your failing domestic agenda.
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  2920. 9/11/2001
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  2921.  Janitor Queen  First, you got things bass ackwards. it is the Liberal-Progressive Democrats that run roughshod over the Republicans. And the Republicans establishment let them because most of them are neocons who agree with the liberal agenda! Yes, most Americans are ignorant of other countries and systems of government. But that does NOT mean the Parliamentary system is better. The American system is loosely based on the Roman Republic and the Greek City-States rather than straight democracy. The biggest problem with most European multi-party parliamentarism is the lack of stability and the rampant bureaucracy. Why should the functionaries of government worry about getting fired when their boss changes in less than a year? That encourages the decay phase of the cycle of Empires. While MOST ELECTED OFFICALS in US government behave exactly as you say, there are a FEW rare statemen like Jim Webb of Viriginia who DID step down from power. Now you can claim he only waited to the end of his term, but choosing to not run for guaranteed reelection is the same as resigning. And if the US has been a joke to you for 40 years, it is because we no longer have the existential threat of the Soviet Union to keep us focused and unified. Again, looking at the Cycle of Empires, with the loss of the USSR, the United States transitioned from the Stabilization phase to the Decay phase with the election of weak leaders like the Bushes and the Clintons, a neo-feudalist psudo-monarchist oligarchy. And with Joe Bite-Me, who favors YOUR political persuasion, we have entered the Long Night Phase. Time will only tell if we emerge at the dawn's early light reinvigorated or finished off.
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  2922.  @burnttoast9890  Not that I subscribe to the philosophy, but Stalin believed you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs. Considering that it is PUTIN who started the war, you should blame him for the carnage.
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  2923.  @shadowslayer9988  Tokyo had already been firebombed such that over 70% of the city was already smoldering rubble. They would have only targeted the capital with a nuke after all other targets had been expended.
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  2924. Javelins and TOWs means infantry don't fear tanks.
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  2925. Yeah, that is not how it works. NOBODY is allowed to leave the "Korean Worker's Paradise".
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  2926. "Lies, damn lies, and statistics, "Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain. "Figures don't lie, but liars figure," Mark Twain.
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  2927.  @mattnewby123  The EU has been filling up their fuel tanks for the winter in anticipation of Putin cutting off supplies. In fact, the goal was to be at 95% capacity by November. They reached 98% capacity at the beginning of September.
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  2928.  @scottwillie6389  You clearly do not understand the meaning of the word "occupation". Nor do you understand Japanese politics. Sit down because adults are speaking and children like you are to be seen and not heard.
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  2929.  @jacobedler296  Yes, it is. The whole reason why farmers or even homeowners sit on a mortgage is because of taxes. If your land or home is completely paid off, you pay full value on property taxes. While under mortgage, that value is prorated such that taxes paid are lower.
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  2930.  @Tha3rdworldghost  I wish the peacenicks would accept the cold hard reality you have astutely pointed out. Instead, they pontificate about how enlightened they are and try to claim that we are making logical fallacies for stating what should be blatantly obvious.
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  2931. Don't conflate corporate oligarchism with free-market capitalism. The two are NOT the same. This is oligarchism plain and simple.
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  2932. Reminds me of the Biblical passage about not singing your own praises on the corner. That is exactly what this virtue signaling is.
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  2933. Tell that to Mr. Chappaquiddick.
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  2934.  @randalsaladbar  False piety won't get you any grace. But then you don't actually believe do you?
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  2935.  @saltactual6159  No joke. Bush Jr. was the first Republican to flip West Virginia in decades helping him to win in 2000. Then Trump carried in in the widest margin of victory in that State's history (a margin of nearly 46%!). Joe Manchin is smart enough to know not to oppose the Trump folks if he wants to stay in office.
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  2936.  @paulfaigl8329  "Organic farming" is what precepted the revolt in Sri Lanka against their government. Very same policies as the Netherlands is trying to do now.
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  2937. I tend to agree. The love triangle was ham-fisted. All they needed to do was have a flirtatiousness between her and Legolas in a manner similar to Han Solo and Leia and nothing more.
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  2938.  @goodmanj1941  The irony is, these Trans in women's sports IS VIOLATING TITLE 9. Why are they not being called to account for that?
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  2939. The keep out signs were taken down because of accusations of exclusivity and istaphobia. And we now see what has happened by giving into that peer pressure.
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  2940. It is as if people have never heard of the role of the Public Defender. Marcus Tullius Cicero was the archetype as was Nicodemus before the Sanhedrin.
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  2941. Agreed. This was perfect example of why every Israeli should be allowed to conceal carry the Uzi they are issued during the mandatory service in the IDF.
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  2942.  @yakovdan  Funny, because firearms safety should be the FIRST thing taught in the military. if they can't trust their soldiers to properly carry firearms, then that is a failure of IDF leadership. And I can say this with complete confidence because the US has the highest per capital gun ownership but doesn't have anywhere near the highest per capita murder rates (that dubious honor goes to Honduras). The "gun violence" problem is exclusively an issue with "gun free" cities like Chicago who ban firearms ownership.
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  2943.  @rickyshiffer1519  The issue comes from efficiency of collecting that energy. Particularly would creating a new hazard with contaminated moderator.
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  2944.  @shaltonwilson5992  I agree. I would rather listen to awkward English dubbing spoken by someone who may not understand the words and whose primary spoken language is Japanese rather than see the show censored. I hope the Anime Studios cut out the middle men and do their own dub working "in house". That may put more strain on the Japanese voice actors and actresses, but that I would spend my money on that rather than rewards the social justice hacks who would demolish that which they don't personally like.
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  2945.  @AlmostSawtooth  Registering for the Draft is already part of the process to Register to vote. Just like the military service for citizenship is already law. Don't be fooled into making concessions for something you already have. That was the bait and switch part of the Dreamer Act; the Dems were offering as a "concession" something that was already law.
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  2946. Kathleen Kennedy and Alex Kurtzman would sue them for plagiarism.
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  2947. Yes, they get what they deserve for pandering to these people.
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  2948.  @DannyVega1  They were not just throwing plastic bottles. They were trying to use a dumpster to detonate a gas station. THAT IS LETHAL INTENT. Rittenhouse along with a few others used fire extinguishers to put out the fire so the arsonists turned their murderous intent on him.
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  2949.  @logixxt9097  Considering most of the Serbs are in Republika Srpska, it seems to be the difference between then and now is that then the Serbs wanted to control ALL of Bosnia, but now they just want to take what they do have and go their own way. LET THEM. The Croats and Bosnian Muslims don't need them. With that context, no, it is NOT the same and my proposal is NOT what they were doing genocide for.
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  2950. He can be in court for no crime if the process IS the punishment. This is how the Germans conducted law in the 1930s.
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  2951.  @روسلان-ق3ض  Not exactly. Just becuase you refuse to pay the bills for moochers and leaches doesn't mean you relequish the territory. You are rationalizing squatting. Most people reject the idea of squatter rights.
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  2952.  @Shadowalchemist1  I think the explosion in popularity of anime is the herald that the American "entertainment" industry failed to heed. Now that the Harbinger of their demise has delivered the message, the reaper shall come to collect.
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  2953. OfficerTatum, you are correct about a woman leader needing to be a "bad mamajama". History shows us that women rulers are really great, or horribly incompetent. There is no room for mediocrity for women in positions of power. Great women rulers: Queen Tamar of Georgia, Boudica of the Celts, Queen Seondeok of Shilla Dynasty Korea, Queen Nefertiti of Egypt, Queen Elizabeth of England (both). All of them were "Iron Ladies" to borrow the moniker of Margaret Thatcher. You don't find many other examples like them in their nation's history.
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  2954. Which is why people like that should NEVER hold power; they are easily cowed by bullies and terrorists.
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  2955. Some might have the goal of actually becoming a store manager or owning their own local franchise. But I agree that if they are still in the barista position after 20 years, they need to reassess why they are there and how much they are really worth.
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  2956. And that is what people don't understand. By NOT pursuing these charges, that just tells the injured party that they have to take justice into their own hands, often with lethal force. Vigilantism will explode.
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  2957. It is pure hubris to think we can contain or control her. "History shows again and again how nature points up the folly of man Godzilla!" -Blue Oyster Cult.
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  2958. Agreed. Kurtzman has done nothing but fan-bait. This is the same guy who publicly mocked Trek fans years ago.
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  2959. No, not related. Humans do NOT have the power to trigger volcanic eruptions. That is pure hubris to think we do.
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  2960.  @lostbutfreesoul  Part of the problem is that for almost a century the US department of the Interior forbade ANY burning in California, including the seasonal ones that use to occur every year. This resulted in the tinderbox situation that they are experiencing now. It took the Sequoias and Redwoods not producing a single new tree for decades to open people's eyes to the necessity of regular burns.
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  2961.  @coreyrussellgaming6330  I am in total agreement. Deterrence is much more effective than empty promise of peace. "Si vis pacem, para bellum; If you want to have peace, arm for war" -Roman saying.
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  2962. Typical of people with the dark triad of personality traits.
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  2963. Indeed. Loose nukes in the hands of a rouge actor is a far more terrifying threat than a hundred thousand nukes in the arsenal of a military.
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  2964. One destroyed in a failure? How many Russian Main Battle Tanks have tossed their turrets? Cope harder.
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  2965.  @GamerBoy870  No, I chose to use the non-politically correct name. I chose to use the historic way of naming diseases, namely after the location they were first identified and described. Are these names "racist"? Ebola Virus Japanese Encephalitis Zika Virus Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever West Nile Virus Marburg Virus Plague of Athens Legionaries Disease Guinea Worm German Measles Ross River Fever Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever Lassa Fever La Crosse Encephalitis Lyme Disease
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  2966. They never could. These are the same people who would squander their lunch money and beg you to help them eat.
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  2967. Except that NATO's expansion was completely voluntary. The members of the Warsaw Pact didn't have a choice whether to join Soviet Russia's military bloc. While I nominally agree with your assessment, THAT particular false narrative completely demolishes any point you were trying to make. The fundamentals are sound, but the application is improper.
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  2968. Only tell half the story huh? You realize that most of the fuel in American reactors are from the disassembled Soviet nuclear arsenal? Then you also have the retired American nuclear weapons that have not been repurposed into newer systems. Also, Australia and Canada have uranium deposits. And that does not include the fact that the US has not mined its own in decades.
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  2969. Lisa Murkowski did. And Lost. But then like a sore loser, she launched a write-in campaign and the Dems crossed over to back her.
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  2970. Very good analogy. These wokescolds are the very same people who bullied the Geeks, Nerds, and Dorks in high school. It is sophomoric high school drama all over. Also, kind of explains why the sudden obsession with prom and what not.
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  2971.  @Carabas72  It is relevant because if the US goes back to that standard, it puts pressure on the rest of the Western World to follow. The whole purpose of copyright was to protect creators from monies interests who would steal their IP and make a killing because of their market access (ie dominance) which the creators may not enjoy. So, who benefits the most from the extension of copyright protections? Not the creators. It is the very monies interests they were supposed to be protected from.
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  2972. No, it just means it becomes overtly Communistic propaganda.
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  2973. LOL! Seriously though, South Korea is indeed dominated by the Chaebols. Those thirteen families are the real power behind the throne.
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  2974. That would be so lit! I would suggest hiring MKatwood. If you have not watched their Pasche "The Smothering" you should. There is a reason why Cartoon Network and Rebecca Sugar have tried to nuke it.
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  2975.  @yokaiou5848  I don't blame you for having written off Western Studios. They have lost the Mojo. The Japanese ironically, have found it with anime.
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  2976. Yeah, I think the Germans did this same thing in the 1930s. Guess what happened next?
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  2977. And how are they going to do that without proper equipment? They didn't have enough fuel to storm Kiev, what makes such an ambitious plan work now?
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  2978.  @wh34t_  It is actually much easier that you think. When Cubans are making rafts made out of trash to get to the US, you don't get to whine and complain that it is too difficult to move from one country to a different one.
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  2979.  @wh34t_  Nice goal post and blame shifting there. You didn't address my points at all, you just bloviated with emotional outburst like a spoiled child. And since you brought up North Korean refugees, most of them agree with those of us who are critiquing your argument. They would call you out for supporting the very ideologies they fled from.
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  2980. Nelson Mandela.
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  2981. Nice apples to oranges false analogy.
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  2982.  @FancyPenosi  The irony is, that would be a much more effective strategy than mandates. But the power mongers are too stupid to understand you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
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  2983.  @kosmosXcannon  We have the worst of all dystopias. Don't forget Fahrenheit 451, Soylent Green, Animal House, Logan's Run, Gattaca, et. al.
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  2984. Never heard of OSHA have you? Its sole purpose is "worker protection" for all the good it really does. American organized labor means that ""worker protections" are just as strong in the US as they are in Europe.
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  2985.  @alexkelly8131  Prove to me I am wrong. When Q said to trust Jeff Sessions, the firing of the AG was proof positive that it was a scam meant to fool Trump supporters. That is my irrefutable proof. Ball is now in your court.
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  2986. Ah, but there was no trail, it was summary judgement. Which means the judge can decree without actually hearing any of the merits. The whole case violated his right to due process. Specifically, the right to call witnesses and face your accuser under the 6th amendment.
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  2987. China is not your friend. You have your own problems to worry about. Or do you think that Kashmir is a lost cause?
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  2988. Basically, who is most dedicated to their cause. And perhaps who has the most support. "It's not the hunter - Not the weapon To guarantee the kill, all that counts in the end Is your determination Rivaling the hunger of your slayer's will," -Guren No Yumiya (Attack on Titan), translation by AmaLee.
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  2989. 2021 is the year of the metal ox (steel bull). According to Chinese folklore, the year of the steel bull is as stubborn and troublesome year. Can you say 2020 redux?
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  2990.  @Likeaworm  But we are not in nuclear arms exchange right now, are we?
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  2991. Think about this: The North Koreans think he is not worth a bullet.
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  2992. The problem is that lots of aid gets misappropriated by Hamas or Fatah. Concrete meant to build hospitals and schools gets repurposed to build infiltration tunnels for example.
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  2993. No joke. Inflation destroys buying power. Thomas Jefferson warned about this when he said banking institutions would first use inflation followed by deflation to enslave the grandsons of the men who conquered this continent.
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  2994.  @Sparticulous  Indeed. When Pakistan went nuclear in 1996, I was convinced that World War 3 was about to start. It is QUITE surprising how both sides having nukes actually cooled tempers in the region.
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  2995. THIS! They have only acted with impunity because of government protection from litigation.
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  2996. Because they suffer from chronological snobbery. They think nostalgia is "oldy, moldy, fuddy-duddyness" that should be mocked and ridiculed. They don't realize that nostalgia is the bread and butter of franchise and branding.
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  2997. For taking actions to protect the state of Texas? Try reading Article 4 of the US Consituition.
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  2998. Bring back the WASPs, WAVEs, and WAACs. Every woman drafted to fill a non-combat role puts one more man on the front line. I support drafting women to serve as quartermasters, supply officers, nurses, and other logistical positions as well as home guard gunners and pilots.
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  2999.  @joshuacalkins  I don't think "story of the week" was the problem. Indeed, starting with season 6 of DS9, it felt more like a mini-series where if you missed one episode, you were missing a good chunk of the story. Enterprise got into that serialized saga with the Xindi arc. And this was before the rise of online streaming and the ability to binge-watch. If you missed the weekly episode, you were up a creek without a paddle. As far as Michael Okuda, he was the official Star Trek Historian charged by Gene Rodenberry himself to keep the confirmed canon. The result of which was the Paramount endorsed books "Star Trek Chronology" and "Star Trek Encyclopedia". Writers were supposed to send their stories to him for review to make sure they were consistent with established canon. The inconsistencies in Enterprise were endorsed by him as he was the number three behind Ira Steven Bohr. I hope that gives you more insight. While Okuda was involved with Star Trek Online and much of the early game was heavily influenced by him, by the time Anaxar was being produced, he was no longer a consultant.
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  3000. Or Saint Peter did and pulled a few strings.
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  3001. How is Ukraine facing annihilation when they are infliction 7 to 1 casualties on the Russians?
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  3002. There was already a 3rd intifada. This is nothing more than an Iranian back, organized terrorist invasion not much different that than Taliban.
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  3003. They also had Joe Stalin as man of the year once. Time is not known for being the most intelligent of publications.
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  3004.  @rayfish007  In response to "deserve", I can't help but think of Clint Eastwood's line in the movie Unforgiven: deserving ain't got nothing to do with it.
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  3005. He will get a government subsidy. That is how they turn conservative business into socialist loving liberals.
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  3006. Don't forget that Buzz Lightyear of Star Command cartoon had a Pixar CGI opening where the toys gather in front of the TV to watch the show.
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  3007.  @aiaesthetics1124  Except, this isn't free-market, it is corporate oligarchism, the anthesis of free-markets.
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  3008. There is a reason why even the grandaddy of Unions, Franklin D. Roosevelt was against public sector unions.
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  3009. In every state There's a station Playin' Cash, Hank, Willie, and Waylon
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  3010. Just like the Reichstag Fire.
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  3011. Yes, we can. Korea and Japan make better shows over the last 20 years than anything that has come out of Tinseltown.
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  3012.  @flyinpug3791  Your grasping at straws. The fact that Ukraine found parade uniforms among the captured vehicles left behind showed that the Russian MOD didn't expect ANY fight whatsoever. So while you are correct that they were not meant to engage in much of a fight, the REASON for that is completely off base. As for "diplomatic solution", I suggest you ask the Czechs in 1938 what they think about your proposal.
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  3013. That would be the smart move. But considering that Russia has previously chosen to cannibalize their training units in favor of generating combat power, I suspect that they will not follow your advice. Long term, your proposal would give them better dividends.
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  3014. She is projecting. Everything she accuses the fans, she herself is doing.
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  3015. Deportation of Taiwanese to Mainland China is awful! Rather, Chinese mainlanders deported should be sent to Taiwan. If countries like Thailand send North Korean defectors to South Korea, why can't they do the same with regards to China and Taiwan?
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  3016. Indeed. Even the hardened criminals consider it their obligation to "take out the trash". Even cold blooded killers can be fathers.
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  3017.  @ericaandrus579  Indeed. White Union soldiers would often walk out of restaurants in protest when the proprietor refused to serve their black brothers in arms.
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  3018. Apparently, you are not aware of the Arab Muslim members of the Israeli Knesset. They are part of the currently ruling coalition government of Israel.
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  3019. Divide and conquer. The power mongers want us afraid of each other, so they remain in power. As soon as the people realize that the enemy is NOT their neighbor but the career political CASTE, is the day the power monger's hold is broken.
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  3020. How do you explain the out-marriage disparity between American men and American women? There is something in the data that does not quite explain why out-marriage between American men and foreign born women are more stable. Something to consider when you talk about migration.
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  3021.  Tropical Breeze2000  First off, the US and Canada have not existed for a millennia(1,000 years). The US has only been around for 245 years. Canada for just 154 years. So just on that along you have no idea what you are talking about. Economic cycles occur over the course of a single decade, not thousands of years.
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  3022.  @defaultlogos2976  It is because Westerners, and Americans in particular have a very short perception of history. Japan has 5,000 of history, Korea 6,000 and China all the way back to the Mesolithic (12,000 years). Contrast that with Europe where the Romans were the civilizing force and before them to a lesser extent, the Greeks.
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  3023. You don't measure victory by ground taken but rather by the destruction of combat power. The US held lots of territory in Vietnam but still lost the war.
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  3024.  @hopliteluke1452  And the people who acted under its unlawful actions should still be held accountable. The cases still need to go to court so as to set the precedent that until the act is ratified, such actions are not lawful. Otherwise, this will happen all over again. And he will retract the act after 5 days, only to reissue it again after 2-3 thereby doing an end-around.
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  3025.  @khanhnguyen-tt3ff  Indeed. People respect a strong horse. And for all of his flaws, Bibi is something of a strong horse. As you so succinctly pointed out, the Israelis need a strong horse because the Arabs don't respect weakness.
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  3026. Agreed. Make it a class-action.
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  3027. Isn't there also something about Yamato Nadeshiko?
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  3028. Same people who swore that Dewey defeated Truman.
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  3029. Well, don't forget that Canada and Norway have been sending cold weather gear since August. The Russians are not even properly equipped with summer combat gear.
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  3030.  @minimalistic_banhaus  That assumes they want a bargaining chip. Some people can't be reasoned with. Some people just want to watch the world burn.
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  3031. Hey now, you are giving NASCAR a bad name with that association. As least the drivers are trying to win the race and not get into a crash.
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  3032.  @CityBoyNYC  You clearly have never read the Bible. Her words come NOT from the gospels but from the Woe of the Pharisees. "I never knew you. Begone from me you workers of lawlessness!" -Matthew 7:23
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  3033. @ "I never knew you. Begone from me you workers of lawlessness!" -Matthew 7:23 Jesus of Nazareth DID say THOSE words. He also said "It is said my house shall be a temple of prayer, but you turned it into a den of thieves!" He then proceeded to make a whip of cords, overturned the tables, and chased out the money changers. I'm guessing you purposely ignore those dirty little details because it doesn't comport with your politicized view of Christianity for the sake of temporal power.
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  3034. "If we burn, you burn with us! Fire is Catching!" -Katniss Everdeen.
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  3035.  @SGTsnick3  Except, it wasn't. The SCOTUS has said time and again that Warrants have to be SPECIFIC and TARGETED. And the agents cannot take materials not spelled out in the warrant. Warrants that fail these two points and are too broad are incantational. If during a search they find something outside of the original warrant, they go back to the judge and get a SECOND warrant. In short, the whole reason WHY there is a special master being approved is BECAUSE the warrant was unconstitutional; the government failed to prove to the court that their actions met the legal standard. In effect, the judge has declared all of the documents "fruit of the poisoned tree".
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  3036.  @EL_Duderino68  How about you actually TRY debating him instead of resorting to ad hominin personal attacks?
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  3037. Expose all of the hacks from the Indiana delegation. RINOs, the whole lot of them. And our state government is also a RINOs government.
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  3038.  @badluck5647  Japan, Germany, and Italy are not the same countries as they were 80 years ago. Japan is very liberalized, Germany is effectively neutered, and Italy, well, is just Italy without Mussolini.
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  3039.  @shueyk2320  While inflicting unsustainable casualties on the Russians. Ukraine is playing the long game.
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  3040.  @dreamingmusic3299  "TYPING IN ALL CAPS MEANS THAT WHAT YOU"RE SAYING IS THE INDISPUTABLE TRUTH." No, it does not. It proves you have completely lost the plot. Being the loudest voice doesn't make you correct; it just means you can't debate the merits and are throwing a temper tantrum like a petulant child.
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  3041. I agree. Tank it and maybe let one of the local Missouri micro-breweries buy up the Clydesdale mascots.
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  3042. And he will be America's Nelson Mandela. The black community is already calling him that.
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  3043. And what is to say that the oligarchs in charge of maintaining his nukes didn't do the same? The Moskva and Admiral Kuznetsov makes me question the readiness of Russian nuclear weapons (Bent Spear/Dull Sword).
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  3044. Why must Taiwan be reintegrated? Historically the Chinese Emperors couldn't be bothered with it. When Qing Dynasty finally took notice, they only occupied the Western half and ignored the mountainous Eastern half. It was Japan that united the Island under one governance.
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  3045. Love that man's witty remarks.
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  3046. Neo-Soviets, are they not?
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  3047.  @Kat-zj5kd  Runways are Bi-directional. That excuse of "Wrong direction" is a gaslighting deflection.
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  3048.  @coffeelover7687  Loved LoD. One of my favorite console RPGs. I am glad that its fandom has not (yet) been infected with the woke plague.
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  3049. Indeed. This is Cultural Marxism weaponized to divide and conquer.
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  3050.  @Defiant1940  "Better to be feared than loved, if you can't have both," -Nicolo Machiavelli. Yeah, and how many wars started with Trump in office? Tell me, since when has Russia ever taken the UK's nuclear threat seriously? The British Empire is not what it was after WW2.
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  3051. Back when Hollywood actually cared to tell a story and perhaps some ACTUAL life lessons. I hope Japanese and Korean entertainment buries Tinseltown.
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  3052.  @garyish  Complete agreement. Case in point is Japan. Much of the country is mountainous and not useful for either farming or living. But what suitable land there is benefits from hyper-rich volcanic soils making the few crops they do produce domestically some of the most productive in the world.
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  3053. My sympathy for them died when my sister who was groomed by them jumped headfirst off a 7-story parking garage. And they had the gall to attack me at her funeral.
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  3054. As I like to say about the Japanese: Great in bed, but messed up in the head. Never change Japan, never change(or rather, never change quickly).
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  3055.  @arwenstrong2818  Moderate or wishy-washy? Being "centrist" on principle for the sake of "balance" simply means you can be moved by the whims of the crowd and stand for nothing if the crowd is moving one way or another.
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  3056. The Azeris are mostly Muslim. The Armenian genocide was perpetrated by the Young Turks who were Islamo-nationalists. Hence the deeps distrust.
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  3057. Wow, someone needs to calm the hell down. Every nation has their radical elements, and every nation has its nationalistic streak. South Korea is NOT the expansionist ultranationalist bastion you make it out to be if only because they have been oppressed by their neighbors. For nearly its entire existence, the Chinese and Japanese have fought their wars in Korea, abusing the locals in the process. Most of the Korean independence movement during the 1910-1945 happen to be Christian which likely explains why the Koreans embraced the religion. Perhaps you should actually try learning their history before you start casting stones.
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  3058. I hope so. It would be a blessing if it simply stays off shore.
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  3059. Russian girls in South Korea are probably what we called a "juicy girl". Guys buy overpriced drinks for her for her time on the order of $10 worth per 10 minutes. Russian girls were "team red", Filipinas were "team brown", and the few Korean girls in the "business" were called "team yellow".
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  3060.  @crimsonfury949  So sad that you justify not taking a stand by claiming you want to hear both sides. If you will not stand for something you will fall for anything. "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a time of crisis maintain their neutrality," -JFK quoting Dante.
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  3061. I am glad that Japan is burying the wokescold American comic "industry". They deserve it.
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  3062. Makes one wonder how Josif Bros Tito was able to unite the disparate factions as Yugoslavs, overcoming the historic differences and animosities. Yes, Visual Politik has a video on Tito, but while the platitudes of Tito sound nice, there is something more to his mojo. And I suspect it has to do with him being something of a dictatorial strongman because emphasizing unity on share human experience (shared Yugoslav identity in Tito's case) is not a very strong glue, unfortunately.
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  3063.  @octoslut  A paper tiger is what Russia clearly was. The US only becomes a paper tiger if its power is seriously challenged, something that nobody has done yet. A fight over Taiwan might prove that there is more fight in the US than you think.
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  3064. @Apsoy Pike On first pass, I tend to agree. Thomas Jefferson warned about the dangers of banking institutions being in control of the power to print money. As far as making the banks compete against index fund, I cautiously agree, though I admit that I need to look into your proposal more.
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  3065.  @alka7145  Indeed. Those airframes from Denmark are about as advanced as the model gets before you start re-fitting F-22/F-35 stealth components into it.
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  3066. I think you greatly underestimate the strategic value of Ukraine going after Melitopol. The issue has less to do with breaking through and more to do with cutting off the land bridge connecting Russia to Crimea. And if they can get to the coast of Azov via Melitopol, then the GMLRS rockets can easily reach the Kerch Bridge from there. Right now, setting up for capturing Crimea is a bigger value target than retaking Sevrodonetsk.
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  3067. Hey now, Sergeant Shultz was loveable. This guy is just incompetent.
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  3068.  @tastethecock5203  In this case it is. Russia has been wasting valuable precision weapons on civilian targets. This simply matches that short-sighted thinking.
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  3069. Orange man lives rent free in your head.
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  3070. Shows how out of touch you are with the American electorate.
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  3071.  @PunmasterSTP  Agreed. Choppiness was hardly noticeable. Only after he pointed it out did I notice on second watch through.
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  3072.  @GeoffMiell  How long does it take to build a nuclear reactor for an American Super carrier? How about the nuclear Submarines that Australia is looking to acquire? You are hyperventilating over a topic on which you have zero understanding.
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  3073.  @YuaTakahashi-m3e  Not bad luck, a series of mishaps in a chain of events that leads to a disaster. Or as the NatGeo Program "Seconds from Disaster" puts it: "Disasters don't just happen. They are a chain of critical events. Unravel the fateful decisions in those final seconds from disaster."
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  3074.  @Baratheon.  You made a very good point. The FDA is in an incestuous relationship with Big Pharma. There is a very good reason why medical developments out of Israel such as the THC-free Marijuana pill has never passed FDA approval; Pfizer, Lilly, and the rest don't want to pay the license to distribute it. Those "pesky" Patent laws are in the way.
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  3075. That is a total Operation Mincemeat move. I approve!
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  3076.  @GaganSingh-nx2yv  Sherman Anti-Trust law. Look it up, as this organization clearly fall under the statutes.
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  3077. Right now, they could add a third rail to their existing lines in the West and central so that it is easier to run supplies from Poland.
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  3078. @ I guess HISTORICAL context is lost on you, isn't it? I was saying DURING WW2, not now.
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  3079. The other problem is that the copyright laws are corrupt beyond reason. The original 1790 statute only called for 14 years of exclusivity with the ability to renew only ONCE for an additional 14 years. Notice how 1932 Ink and Paint Studios, Bray Studios, and other such materials are already Public Domain and have been for almost a decade, but the last 1930s stuff is still strictly limited? That is no accident.
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  3080. I would love to see the Korean Lotte group buy up the Disney Parks. By doing so, Lotte World would by default offical become Disneyland Seoul.
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  3081.  @Channel-ml4qv  Yeah, funny how they conveniently ignore the Abra Muslim members of the Knesset.
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  3082. The fools calling for peace at any cost have to realize that you MUST use lethal force if the government comes to kidnap your children. If you don't, then you are tacitly accepting that you are a slave to be exploited by the state.
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  3083.  @turnerfamilyinozi  Should not be a single one. But then people like you cheer on that insanity because it sooths your ego.
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  3084. WW1 had VERY detailed accounts of chemical warfare. It is why BOTH sides of the conflict refused to use them in WW2. Japan's Ketsu-Go defense plan for the home Islands assumed the West would use chemical weapons but refused to retaliate in kind.
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  3085. Wow, a lot of drivel coming for a paid Chinese CCCP troll. You gave away yourself with the not so clever rearrangement of the letters. Nobody outside of paid trolls uses that.
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  3086. Actually, the fact that the rookies protested and said he should be turned on his side helps their case if the prosecution goes for murder one. If Chauvin goes down for premeditation, they get to walk because he alone bears all the blame. Murder two spreads the blame.
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  3087. Whether he takes it over and fixes it or whether it burns to the ground, of which occurs is a matter of total indifference. Paraphrasing Yevgraf Zhivago in "Doctor Zhivago".
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  3088. @TrumpRapedJeanCarrol The left says "no justice no peace". When the right agrees with them, what do you THINK will happen next?
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  3089.  @borreLore  Seems like some folks don't want the hear about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Alliance. My previous post talking about it was deleted.
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  3090.  @FlashRyu  "Stating the facts" or simply being a contrarian? the ICAO takes its cues from AMERICAN safety standards. Why is it that the Unites States NTSB is almost always the agency that leads the investigations into crashes like this? When an airfield is NOT meeting those standards, they are NOT an authorized ICAO field with an ICAO reporting code used in METAR observations. Local airstrips may be approved for LOCAL use by LOCAL authorities, but NOT for international flights. Perhaps YOU need to check your facts, because your information has major holes.
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  3091. Just like how Hasbro destroyed the D&D brand. Or Disney destroyed Star Wars.
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  3092. More proof why copyright protections are too long. It should have entered Public Domain in 2000.
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  3093.  @timberwolf1575  That is why I conceal carry. They don't need to know what you are packing. And if a business is a "gun free zone", then should you be revealed, all they can really do is ask you to leave should you be exposed. of course, I prefer not to go into such establishments unless I have no other choice; gun free zones effectively billboards just asking to be attacked.
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  3094. They don't. They have just come to the realization that the enemy of my enemy can be an effective ally. In short, they view the Persians as a greater existential threat than the Israelis. And as Hamas and Hezbollah gain in influence among the Arabs in Judea (who call themselves Palestinian), that drives the other Arabs into the open arms of the Israelis.
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  3095. I agree with you. And have "Puff the Magic Dragon" as one of the featured songs, since it is an allegory for toys. "A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys Painted wings and giant's rings make way for other toys One gray night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more And Puff, that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane Without his lifelong friend, Puff could not be brave So Puff, that mighty dragon, sadly slipped into his cave" -Third verse of "Puff the Magic Dragon" by Peter, Paul, and Mary.
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  3096.  @Rembanspellsong  By a licensed PROFESSIONAL gunsmith who knows what the hell he or she is doing. Too often these types modify their weapons (unlawful for any of the rest of us to do, mind you) without understanding the consequences of doing so.
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  3097.  @danielneufield1605  It is already happening. The White House already classifies them as "breeding persons",
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  3098.  @danporath536  Clearly you have never bet fired at in anger. Just another safe neighborhood liberal who have never had to live on the rough side of town.
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  3099. Wow, someone has been drinking so much Vodka they are now hallucinating.
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  3100.  @michaelmoorrees3585  I was kind of thinking the same thing. Even the North Koreans don't think he is worth wasting a bullet.
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  3101.  @strayandrongo7461  As for Starlink in Ukraine, that may have been the case early on, but that is just ONE think he has done. And something tells me that the Ukrainians quickly ditched it after his abominable comments.
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  3102. Wishful thinking. The ballistics coupled with the Zapruder film makes it undeniable that ALL of the shots came from the book depository.
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  3103.  @nathanhollingsworth413  You are talking about the equipment, I am talking about the tactics and strategy. The M1911 developed for fighting the Moros was standard issue until the late 90s when the DoD decided that 9mm was better. Dumb choice considering that the reasons why M1911 was because jihadis were amped up on narcotics, something that would be repeated in Afghanistan.
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  3104. @Raylan Givens No joke. The Katana in the hands of a master can be quite brutal, dismembering a person faster than the body can bleed out.
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  3105.  @gushterell7989  The US has the 4th, 5th, and 6th amendments to prevent exactly what China is doing. Does your country have the right to due process or protection from unjust seraches?
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  3106.  @chatteyj  The problem is still the same: mass. The waste products still have the same mass as the original unspent fuel. And remember, both Uranium and Plutonium have more mass than lead. The Plutonium cores in NASA spacecraft are small, but still account for a significant portion of the mass and hence the Delta-V.
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  3107.  @KingCreeper-1026  Tell that to every candidate who attempted to run against Alexander Lushenko in Belarus. This has zero difference from that.
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  3108.  @KingCreeper-1026  A "mile of difference"? You are making a distinction where no difference of substance exists. Even CNN of all places admits that this is purely a political prosecution.
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  3109.  @davidcjupp  All people on the left think they are in the center. If you believe in censorship, you do NOT believe in open dialogue. If you have to silence people you disagree with, it means you can't effectively debate nor refute their augment. And no, just because someone disagree with you does NOT mean they are a "right wing extremist". "When you tear out a man's tongue, you don't prove him a liar, you just show to the word that you fear what he has to say," -George R.R. Martin, author of "A Song of Fire and Ice", more popularly known as "Game of Thrones".
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  3110. Marshall Mud has not slowed down the Ukrainians, so if that is any indication, shows General Frost may favor Ukraine. And since the Canadians and Norwegians have been sending winter gear since August, that puts Ukraine in a VERY good position as contrasted with Russia and its lack of proper gear.
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  3111.  @ActuatedGear  Fair point. It is just a shame that he did not have the confidant that he could drop the act and be himself without the need to make that person laugh. Someone he could pour out his frustrations, his anger, or his sorrow to.
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  3112. Star Chamber justice.
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  3113. Indeed. I view the death penalty as putting down a rabid dog, so they don't hurt or kill anyone else. Not about justice, more about limiting further damage.
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  3114.  @TheObsesedAnimeFreaks  So you are okay with someone killing an entire family or two should be rewarded with three hosts and a cot for the rest of that person's life? I think you have your priorities wrong. A serial killer WILL continue to kill, even when locked up in prison, preying on their fellow inmates instead. THAT is where your "scientific evidence" falls flat.
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  3115.  @TheObsesedAnimeFreaks  You are moving the goal posts. "Mentally unstable" is a canard too often used as an excuse. Those who murder with regularity are often very cold and calculating, hardly the sign of mental instability. They just lack the compassion to not engage in that behavior. "In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule." -Fredrich Nietzsche.
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  3116.  @TheObsesedAnimeFreaks  Try chopping your rebuttal into smaller pieces. Proof by Verbosity is not an argument, it is a logical fallacy. Your emotions don't really matter. Just because you think something is horrid doesn't mean the convicted doesn't deserve it. And many are beyond "treatment". If a person is emotionally unstable, they would be declared unfit to stand trial and would very much be put in a mental institute. ALL of the people in the Nuremberg Trials were deemed fit to stand trial, so you cannot accuse them of being mentally insane. ANYONE who stands trial is by legal definition NOT insane. Nice try moving the goal post again.
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  3117.  @TheObsesedAnimeFreaks  And again with another verbose post with bloviation and little substance. For one, you failed to actually provide a like to your "scientific evidence" and just assume we should all accept it blindly. That isn't science, that is appeal to authority logical fallacy. " When someone claims consensus, that the matter is settled, and there’s no room for debate, reach for your wallet; you’re being had." -Michael Crichton's 2003 CalTech Speech.
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  3118. @Brad1156 That line of thinking is exactly why we are in this mess right now. When tribe is more important than principles, you get the hyper-partisan pettiness we see today. Stop falling for the false choice dilemma. Given two bad options take a third. Given three bad choice pick an unexpected fourth. And don't forget, you ALWAYS have the ability to pick option 6: "up yours, I quit!"
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  3119.  @FlorinSutu  Dein Bein Phu reinforced that perception.
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  3120. The teacher's unions were against him from the date he came down the escalator.
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  3121. You mean the guy that even CNN doesn't think is believable?
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  3122.  @jasonlarsen4945  And how quickly have those environments recovered on volcanic islands? If Surtsey in Iceland and Mount St. Helens is any indication, it will be a lot faster than you think.
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  3123.  @jasonlarsen4945  Moving the goal posts. Typical. But then I expect that from alarmists like you who have such hubris you think you can tame the planet.
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  3124. South Korea under the Chaebols system IS neoliberal capitalism (ie corporate oligarchism). What Yoon is proposing is more akin to classical free market capitalism which the West hasn't seen since the 1950s.
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  3125.  Rageagainst Nwo  What kind of drivel are you spouting? Take your intersectionality dogma somewhere else.
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  3126.  @conspiracyoccultilluminati6512  Not really. Look at those movements in Sub-Sahara Africa and South America and you will find they operate hand in glove with Communist forces and ideology. But then again, those who refute me refuse to actually review the history of such movement.
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  3127. The USSR had gas and oil to sell to Western Europe which helped to artificially keep them afloat. Germany's dependence on Russia energy started way back in the 1950s.
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  3128. All movements start out as a nice idea but become co-opted by the unscrupulous. As far as the Feminist movement, MeToo, and Unions, take a look at whom they support politically. It is no accident that they support the same kinds of politicians when they follow the exact same playbook. They are in effect, the multiple heads of a hydra.
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  3129. Indeed. In a crisis situation, you fall back on your training by instinct. So people should make sure they have trained in exactly the way they intent to fight.
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  3130. And yet Trump overperformed in Puerto Rico. Because THEY knew exactly what Tony Henchcliff was talking about.
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  3131.  @jeffbob1776  Indeed. For the longest time, generals kept their politics to themselves. Somewhere along the line they broke that unspoken agreement.
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  3132. It is interesting that some think of "Coolies" as being South Asian/Indian, while others think of Chinese railroad workers or Thai rice farmers.
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  3133. Part of it comes from how diffuse the particles are. Individual ones can have lost of energy but be so spread out that they barely raise the mercury on a thermometer.
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  3134. The big point is reciprocity. If Australia isn't putting tarriffs on products imported from the US, Trump won't place tarriffs on Australian goods coming to the US.
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  3135. Well, and there is market pervasiveness that renders IP or Brands effectively "public domain". Q-tip, Band-aide, et. al. They can have the registered Trademark, but that is about it.
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  3136. Journalists were always trolls and gossip mongers, going all the way back to Ben Franklin talking smack about people behind an assumed name. It is just that today with the internet people have access to information that reveals the truth and exposes what journalists really are.
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  3137. Yup, they are trying to regain relevance despite having dispensed with any semblance of it or credibility for decades.
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  3138. I think you miss the greater context of why the US had overseas bases. 1991 was when the USSR fell and the Iron Curtain came down. Until that point, there WAS a very real and justifiable reason. The nearly 50 yearlong Cold War didn't just occur in a vacuum.
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  3139.  @francisquebachmann7375  mandated nannies? I think you need to re-evaluate what public schools actually are. Parents constantly at work is the problem. Going full Bolshevik and demanding that they continue to slave away in the labour market is only doubling down on the problem, not fixing it.
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  3140. East Asian counties very much consider ethnic identity to be a part of what constitutes a citizen of their country. That is why they are so averse to immigration. Which is sad, because if they were more open to allowing citizenship to the mixed children of one of their citizens and a foreign spouse, that could go a long way towards fixing their demographic problems.
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  3141. Completely out of touch with reality. 90% of the convivences you enjoy today are a direct result of military spending. "Climate migration" is just as first world comforting myth rich people tell themselves so as to feel good about their patronizing and racist behavior.
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  3142.  @deanfirnatine7814  Yup. That about sums up my philosophy. Hence why I advocate for ACUTAL moderation in all things, similar to the Temperance movement, but WITHOUT the drunk-on power obsession of Prohibition.
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  3143.  @trussmonkey5910  The Romans deported them from JUDEA in 73 AD after the Roman sacking of Jerusalem during the Jewish-Roman war. They then made up the name "Palestina" in an attempt to erase the history of JUDEA. The Jewish population was really only allowed to return to the region during the British Mandate period after WW1. The return only happened in earnest during WW2 and the period afterwards when Stalin started quietly persecuting Jews.
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  3144.  @indepthmike5578  Until the robots decide they don't need to serve us. Think Matrix and Terminator.
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  3145.  @ericp1139  How much French land did Germany occupy in WW1 before they lost?
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  3146.  @TheFrankvHoof  Treason CAN be applied outside of declare law. But then it is restricted only to those who provide aid to a hostile power that is in open conflict with the US. And example would be those who provided classified secrets and materials to the USSR.
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  3147. Why did the US evacuate Kabul? Why did the US evacuate Saigon? Use your head.
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  3148.  @thetaexali9550  So how does Russia evacuating Kherson make any difference? What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
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  3149. When used for the right reasons, you are correct. Sadly, the warrior culture mentality of the strong protecting the weak is despised today in the West.
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  3150. Because she is part of the protected class.
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  3151. The problem with redlines is that Obama drew so many that most of America's geopolitical rivals viewed the US as a paper tiger. The Fall of Kabul to the Taliban only further reinforced that assumption. But the Ukrainians have proven once again that someone defending their homeland greatly enjoys the advantage of terrain and intimate knowledge of the home field.
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  3152.  @frankierayo6291  Well, word is that they have already GPS and geolocation marked numerous locations and landmarks so that when the Russians move into areas that the Ukrainians have move out of, the Ukrainians can punch in the pre-calculated coordinates for maximum simultaneous impact from multiple guns. And this is also great for counter-battery operations.
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  3153.  @Uhtredrag1080  Jim Webb was the one rational voice in 2016 on the Dems side. When he realized that Lincoln Chaffee, Bernie Sanders, and Martin O'Malley were playing the wokeness pandering game, he realized there was no point in continuing because the party rejected his arguments about the working class in favor of idenitarianism. In many ways, Tulsi Gabbard is carrying his same message.
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  3154. No joke. They are as worthless as Parliament under Lord North.
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  3155. Either people will accept it, or they will snap. Some people refuse to be caged like an animal, even if the case is one of social-societal construction.
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  3156. That is still capitulation. Especially as he was already giving both sides an opportunity to come on. His critics on the left only want ONE opinion on his show: theirs and nothing but their view.
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  3157. As opposed to occupied by a neo-Soviet Union? Nice to see you are parroting the Kremlin talking points. When the historically neutral Swiss, Finns, and Swedes don't believe you, you have lost the plot.
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  3158.  @chicostephenson  Why do you think the Live Action Mulan did so poorly? The "righteous outrage" by the wokescolds only flows in one direction, namely against anyone who dares to criticize their Maoist ideology. That is why it is supposedly acceptable to go after Cadice Owens, but not Don Lemon. But then most of us already knew that the wokescolds were fake posers.
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  3159.  @jordanmoir1076  Yeah, that argument doesn't hold much water. Yes the movie theaters were shut down, but for some reason other movies besides the PRC Mulan did just fine despite the theater closings. Don't parrot the talking points of the media elites who are out of touch with what it really going on.
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  3160. She has no idea what awaits her in the afterlife. "I never knew you, begone from me you workers of evil!" -Jesus of Nazareth to the false agents of the Pharisees.
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  3161. Wishful thinking. The tide has turned against Russia. The fall of Isyum and the complete route of the First Army Tank Guards, the pride of Moscow is proof of that.
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  3162.  @MrB1923  Yeah, the retreat of the Russian Army in Kharkiv speaks for itself. The Russian Bear is Geriatric.
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  3163.  @prioris55555  Watched the same video I did and then did the follow up research I see? Well done, better than most other internet "experts". And that is not sarcasm, it is sincere praise for you. I also like to point out that they moved SLOWLY. They built up and modernized at a controlled and methodical pace, not rabid modernization which always topples because weak fundamentals.
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  3164. The sad thing is, LJB was right when he cynically said he just got them to vote for his racist party for the next 100 years.
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  3165. Tells you the priorities that they would rather see such expensive medicine go to waste. They violate the oath of Hippocrates when they play these games. The doctors who make sure all doses are used is acting with honor and fidelity to that Oath.
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  3166. @William Mayonnaise III Not quite. It means opposite as in diametric or polar. Might want to go back and recheck that. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti
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  3167.  @kgjung2310  That is true in some states, but not all states. Typically, at will employment also goes hand in hand with right to work states which prohibits mandatory union membership in a workplace.
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  3168. But as part of a broader push to get the Sullivan Case overturned.
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  3169. And yet the banks who are supposed to be the victims said they got paid back in full. You don't actually care about justice, you just want to see the people you disagree with suffer to sooth your ego.
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  3170. She forgets that the Nazarene said, "I came NOT to overturn the law, but to fulfill it!"
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  3171.  @gugulethuzangwa8358  He threatened nukes if the West supplied Ukraine with HIMARS and failed to deliver on that threat. He is bluff and bluster at this point.
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  3172. He certainly does have a Napoleon complex. Recent pictures of him show he is actually rather short. So is Zelensky, but the president of Ukraine never pretended to be tall.
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  3173. I will begrudgingly agree that "fanfic" has been used as a slur against some Mary-Sue garbage, and that analogy is appropriate to the "professional" stuff coming out of Hollyweird. I do agree with you that much of the Fan created material today is so much better than the official stuff put out by the copyright holders. The products of fans are a labor of love, and it shows while the corporate material is cheap trash with little in the way of due diligence.
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  3174. I am inclined to believe that considering that my first introduction to him was his drama with Tim and scheduling. I would have love to have gotten a spot on Tim's show, but his team keeps ignoring me. I know they got my letter because I paid the Post Office to have the "sign for receipt of delivery" service.
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  3175. Our the pause right before the tempest unleashes its full fury.
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  3176. Well, and he needs to put that into context. Assuming 26 liters of Vodka for the average Russian Alcoholic, that is like drinking the equivalent to 1/4 of a 2 liter bottle of soda per week (52 weeks a year, so 1/2 liter per week). Doable, but hard on the liver.
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  3177. Yeah, something tells me Philip Short is one of Putin's biographers and is hardly unbiased.
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  3178. Isn't that often the case? The underdog overperforms and the expected champion fails to live up to the hype.
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  3179.  @JustTooDamnHonest  Marvel MCU was a bought and paid for champion. Disney basically paid for the guy who war already effectively at the top. To use an analogy, Disney basically was backing Apollo Creed and Illumination was the guys backing Rocky Balboa. And much like in the original movie, the upstart humbled the cocky peacock.
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  3180.  @JustTooDamnHonest  Bob Iger is like Sauron. His ego, his arrogance, and his pride will not let him admit that he is wrong. Disney has become Mordor and WDW is Barad-dur. Yes, another analogy because there is nothing new under the sun. Everything is simply variations of the same themes.
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  3181. Which shows that people like him are bigoted against the women in their own racial community. Ironic.
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  3182. Well, at the beginning Ukraine's mobilization was a cluster f(ire tr)uck. But to their credit, they quickly adapted and corrected their issues. Russia is 7 months behind the 8-ball and it remains to be seen if they get their act together. Something tells me that it will not without the same Western support that Ukraine enjoys.
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  3183. Considering that they are NOT using body cameras as required by Canadian law, nor are they allowing people to know their badge number, it is clear they KNOW they are acting without legitimate authority. I hope they realize there WILL be a Canadian Nuremberg Trial.
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  3184. Judges were put on trail at Nuremberg for allowing the legal system to be used as an instrument of terror. We need those trials here in the US.
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  3185. Yeah, these people are anti-nuclear activists trying to create hysteria. Just like was done with the Wuhan Virus.
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  3186.  @gargoyle7863  Indeed. And we are seeing the same thing today in Hollyweird. It is like they took a page from Stalin's "Ministry of Culture" circa 1932.
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  3187. There is a word for that: parasite. Time to let them wither and die.
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  3188. Yeah, and they keep moving the goal posts. It is an incestuous relationship between Big Pharma and govenrment.
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  3189.  @butterfly7562  Sure, as if race has anything to do with it. But sure, try to deny that the CCCP has not been engaging in a cold war. Your own military leaders have been boasting about their "Cold War" efforts against the US for 30 years now. Some of us "white guys" like Michael Pilsbury and Richard Murdock took the words of your military's Senior Colonels and Generals seriously.
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  3190. As opposed to the invalid currently in the White House?
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  3191.  @hgv1883  Taiwan doesn't have to go through the strait. They can bypass it.
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  3192.  @Ali-bu6lo  I did not watch either of those vides, but from my cursory digging after the death of his daughter, it became clear that Western media was making Dugin into the Russian version of David Duke. Another boogeyman they could whine about. So, your assessment pretty much matched my assessment, though we arrived there from different directions.
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  3193.  @petercullen1624  Read Luke 11, Matthew 20, and Mark 12. Hers is the woe of the Pharisees. Practically to the word what the Nazarene chastised of false preists.
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  3194. It is a sign of a better future. She is a light at the end of the tunnel.
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  3195. Indeed. You would think a guy who boasts about his knowledge of military history would be familiar with the prisoner battalions of WW2. The Soviets were notorious for using them.
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  3196. I suspect that much like the German people in the 1930s, the vast majority are clueless as to what is going on. How many stories are there of Allied commanders making the local townsfolk tour the concentration camps because they were in denial?
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  3197.  @wreagfe  Pot meet kettle. Now stop wasting oxygen.
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  3198. Practically a repeat of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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  3199.  @daviddesrosiers1946  Indeed. He screwed up that, he screwed up the Wuhan Ful, and now he is screwing up this. He should be in prison for willful medical malpractice.
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  3200. Anglophobes never fail to disappoint me.
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  3201. "Back in the USSR, you don't know how lucky you are. Back in the USSR." -The Beatles.
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  3202. WW2 is NOT debatable. The Soviets would have never survived Operation Barbarossa without allied supplies coming into Murmansk. For 30 years after WW2, the annual Mayday Parades on Red square featured American built trucks.
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  3203. They can't. It is a Schrodinger's cat.
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  3204. Talking about Zaire? That was one messed up situation.
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  3205. Because the "executives" falsely believe that money=success. They blatantly ignore the fact that some of the most lasting shows and movies were often made on a shoestring budget.
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  3206.  @nomdeguerre7265  Which one? Mine or the one I "borrowed" (ie plagiarized) from Hayek?
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  3207.  @jesukxd8494  They could still have been dismantled for the components. Do keep in mind that codes were part of US developed technology given to the Soviets in the wake of a few attempts by the KGB to use nukes without oversight by the Central Planning Committee.
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  3208. "So give Putin what he wants"? As I recall, Chamberlain gave the Austrian Painter what he wanted from Czechoslovakia. How well did that work out?
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  3209. Is this an example of "failing upwards"? Namely that the more the foul up, the higher they rise in an organization.
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  3210.  @iyfan2961  Don't forget, they also lost their case against Owen Benjamin, which means that Paetreon will be stealing money from people who donate through them to pay the settlement.
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  3211. Indeed. it is like Japan running a radio station or newspaper in the US during WW2.
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  3212. It isn't about size, it is about replacement value. 4.5 babies per woman in Bangladesh where space is a premium is NOT sustainable. China's population "growth" is 1.7 officially and more like 1.2 which is NEGATIVE growth. That is also not sustainable. Ironically, India is walking a path closer to where the US was in the 1970s as far as population balance.
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  3213. They also only grown in tropical to sub-tropical environments, which rules out most of the US. Hawaii, Florida, and maybe southern Georgia are about the only places you could grow them outside a greenhouse.
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  3214.  @chadmax4087  That is true, they do grow them in SoCal.
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  3215. Not necessarily. Do keep in mind that Putin's financial backers, namely the oligarchs who have the real power in Russia, have already started turning against him.
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  3216. I agree. It is a complete waste of a good piece of art by trying to hamfist it as a known white character.
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  3217.  @Launchpad05  And that is the dumb thing, if they don't want piracy, they should not only make the DVDs cheap, but they should also be including more valuable materials such as promotional art in the retail packages. The best solution to piracy is to make a better quality product that cannot be easily duplicated via a DVD burner.
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  3218. They can join Conseco in oblivion.
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  3219.  @wesmcinerny4524  They were a financial investment firm in Indiana. The subprime mortgage loan fiasco helped to bankrupt them. They were heavily criticized for having spent millions to have the naming rights to the local basketball arena when experiencing money problems.
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  3220.  @travian821  Really? Considering how quickly Joe Bite-me dropped the Nordstrom 2 pipeline sanctions that Trump put in place, I would say mine is a very safe bet.
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  3221. Good points. People are hyperventilating over anti-nuclear myths.
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  3222. Says the non-Christian.
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  3223.  @Makeitstorm  Catholic? I seriously doubt that. Catholics have NOTHING in common with the DNC today. They have EVERYTHING in common with the Trump platform.
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  3224.  @chris0000924  BINGO! Most people are ignorant that Buffett was the major financer of the protestors against the Keystone XL pipeline.
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  3225.  @deinonychus3421  Is that what Warren Buffet told you?
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  3226.  @deinonychus3421  Any Bureau that is part of the executive branch is NOT independent no matter WHAT they claim. ALL offices and bureaus in the executive branch are answerable to the POTUS. That is the whole point of the executive. In this case it falls under the Department of Labor. The secretary is Martin Walsh and he DOES answer to the president and that Bureau answers to him. Take a civics class dude and lean about how government actually works.
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  3227. Thank you for pointing all of those facts out. People conveniently ignore that Stalin's Soviet Union was a psudo-Axis member up until Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa. And almost everyone on BOTH sides were content to continue that amicable and VERY profitable relationship. It was purely "Der Furher's" ego that sank the alliance of the Hammer and Sickle with the Swastika.
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  3228. I love the Bill Whittle video asking "Whose land is it?" He points out that even the "native first peoples", as the wokes scolds call them, stole the land from the now extinct Clovis people.
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  3229.  @douglastaggart9360  Russians flew Egyptian aircraft during both their wars with Israel. That was simply a continuation of the practice started in Korea.
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  3230. Mr. Pool is slightly wrong, yes 5th generational war is the battle over information, but that is simply the first stage in the "counting heads" phase before the lead starts to fly. No, war will not become solely the domain of "5th generation" as nothing means victory better than boots on the ground putting down dissent. The propaganda fight simply makes it easier to achieve the ground game goals.
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  3231. The dumb thing is the stuff they sell at Tokyo Disney they could easily put in the Japan Pavillion at Epcot. The stuff at Euro-Disney they could sell at the France Pavillion. Shanghai Disney merch could be sold at the China pavilion. But of course, you have nepotistic inbreeds running the show at Disney rather than competent entrepreneurs.
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  3232. Oh Putin's was all about gas and oil. Just look at the assessed oil deposits off the coast of Crimea. Or the gas fields under the Donbas. Or the Coal fields in Donbas.
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  3233.  @egobrain6826  Dude, you grossly underestimate the levels of depravity these people will go to eliminate Trump. Do keep in mind that the Secret Service is government employees. They are part of the executive branch. Who do you think gives them their assignments and pays their salaries?
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  3234.  @egobrain6826  What he is owed and what they actually do are two separatee things. These people don't care about what is right and wrong and what is owed or not. The ends justify the means to these people.
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  3235. THe established players don't like competition. They try to destroy anyone who would threaten their monopoly.
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  3236. Indeed. Most Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese are a better match for the phenotype than Zegler. Do keep in mind that over there, raven hair and ivory skin is considered the ideal beauty.
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  3237. What are you talking about? Both the Kharkov and Kherson offensives occurred without air superiority. While it will greatly facilitate an offensive, that does not mean it is impossible to happen without it.
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  3238. He does seem susceptible to Stockholm Syndrome, doesn't he?
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  3239. Indeed. Abrams fouled up Star Trek with that reboot, particularly the Wrath of Khan rehash.
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  3240. You bet they did. That poll has a 16% democrat bias in the sampling.
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  3241. Choked like he always does because he has Stockholm Syndrome.
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  3242. Something tells me that Japanese anime and South Korean dramas are what is carrying platforms as American produced materials are failing to meet the audience demand for quality storytelling. When all is said and done, it is the story that carries a movie or TV series, not the special effects.
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  3243. Nope, we cannot have Hindus and Muslims getting along. That would prevent the European Socialists from exploiting them and their historic grievances. I agree with you, this is pure madness.
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  3244.    The problem with Europe achieving number three is the same as in the past: too many princelings overly concerned with maintaining their fiefdoms rather than doing what is pragmatic. Each country wants personal control over the process rather than setting up a framework where individual nations in the block could buy the equipment, they like from a shared procurement source. Perun has a great video on the basket case that is the German logistical procurement process.
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  3245.  @bgandjsco1  And what if Americans decide to go over there like many did in Ukraine? Are you going to stop them?
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  3246. Well, and Chicago is MAGA country? The bluest of the blue cities? How dumb does he think people are?
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  3247. "Amateurs imitate, professionals plagiarize," -Attributed to Igor Stravinsky.
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  3248. Not fast enough I fear. They will burn the world to ashes around them in their quest for purity.
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  3249.  @themuff6739  You are correct. They would never participate because they would get owned and embarrassed like Gupta was. They would only participate if the opposition was controlled like Liz Cheney, Mitt Romney, or Megan McCain.
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  3250. Farnsworth sounds like a movie name? It should considering Hubert J. Farnsworth is a fictional character on the show "Futurama". His catch-phrase is "I have good new, everyone!"
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  3251. And yet most European business that directly compete with the US are monopiles. Airbus is a government owned monopoly.
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  3252. Kind of like Kurtzman and his bastardization of Trek.
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  3253. The naysayers blatantly ignore those little details.
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  3254.  @sethprice241  There was a movie about Facebook, and it turns out that much like with Bill Gates and Microsoft(see Pirates of Silicon Valley), Zuck took credit for the work of others.
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  3255.  @jgw9990  That is a very even-handed assessment, and I cannot refute anything you point out. What is just as telling is how many blindly followed them, knowing full well what they were doing was wrong. "The Banality of Evil" must also be applied to Japan. So, if we are to condemn the German people for their complicity in the Holocaust, so should we also blame the Japanese for allowing the brutalities inflicted not just on China but on the Okinawans, Guam, and Saipan (Banzai Cliff and Suicide Cliff). "Japan's future is bleak if it is forced to kill one of its best pilots. I am not going on this mission for the Emperor or for the Empire ... I am going because I was ordered to!" -Yukio Seki before he took off on his Kamikaze attack which sank the USS St. Lo at the Battle off Samar.
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  3256.  @znail4675  And yet Stalin said he needed 30 days before he would enter the war. He moved up the timetable because the second nuke made it clear that the Japanese would surrender before his deadline.
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  3257.  @USAads2023  Nukes are no replacement for boots on the ground. If you even bother to educate yourself on the use of nukes in a battlefield environment, you NEED infantry to capitalize on the deployment of such a weapon. ALL tactical level employment of nukes is predicated on using infantry as follow-up. There is just no getting around the fact that infantry is the fundamental and critical piece of ANY military. Without it, you can't do anything of value, as we have seen with Russia's lack of enough light infantry to support their tanks and artillery. And as far as turning enemies into friends, well, that is just wishful thinking. Some enemies NEVER want to trade or be your customer.
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  3258.  @SamSam-qk5zr  Because of NATO, duh. Europe fought two world wars because the US chose isolationism instead of interventionism. The US is in Europe because Europe is not responsible enough to NOT start a war that consumes the entire continent. I very much think the US SHOULD completely and unilaterally pull out of Europe. Even more so today seeing as how the Ukrainians in conjunction with the Poles and the Baltic States have taken on the Russians so successfully. But I guarantee you that as soon as the US does, the entirety of the NATO alliance will be begging the US to stay. Think about how quickly the anti-US anti-military protests in South Korea almost completely disappeared when Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld went there in 2003 to discuss the complete withdraw of US troops.
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  3259.  @USAads2023  Wow, lots of word salad but very little on substance. Nothing in that was coherent except for "US is bad".
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  3260. They will not. They had 20 years to secure their rights and did nothing. They did not lift a finger to prevent the Taliban from retaking power. They made their bed, now they can sleep in it.
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  3261.  @Iknowthismeme  You must not be paying attention. The US supplied the Mujahideen with weapons in the 80s to fight the Soviets. When the Taliban took power in the 90s, the US had long since stopped giving weapons to that part of the world. The Taliban was in for a rude awakening when they thought they could use US made Stingers against US aircraft; it only gave away their position for a retaliatory strike. The more recent weapons the Taliban acquired were CAPTURED, not given. Why the hell would we give weapons to an active aggressor? Your logic is fatally flawed on that. But I get it, you want to blame the US for all of the world's woes instead of considering that there really is true evil in the world. You cannot possibly contemplate that the US is the only one trying to actually do something to address them, unlike most countries in the world. You may despise the US, and that is fine. But the world is less safe without the US. You bite the hand that feeds you.
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  3262. Actually, Russia did have TWO "Eurasian Unions" The first one created under Vladimir Lenin was called the Soviet Union and was touted as a multi-national coalition. The second was the Warsaw Pact founded after the organization of NATO. Most of the former Warsaw Pact Nations and a few of the former Soviet "Republics" do NOT want to go back to either of those.
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  3263. All four are alive and well. Can't say the same for a turret tossing T-72.
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  3264.  @aodfr  346 out of how many people in the total US population? Now I can agree we should be comparing that number to how many people have actually used the vaccine. Still, you are engaging in statistical murder. 2% of 100 people is only 2 people while 2% of 1,000,000 people is going to be 2,000 people. Try to keep things in perspective. "One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic," -Joseph Stalin.
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  3265.  @hello93617  And your rational understanding and consideration of my possible scenario to the situation is why I take criticism of Trump from you with more seriousness than the "orange man bad" crowd. Trump skeptics like you are at least willing to give him credit where credit is due despite your disagreements and distaste for the man. It gives you a level of integrity and sincerity that is lacking in the nevertrump hacks. YOU are the loyal opposition unlike them.
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  3266.  @aodfr  So you estimated the number but don't have any actual hard raw data? Yeah, I think you just torpedoed your own credibility there. Estimates and theories are rarely correct, especially with regards to ANYTHING related to the Wuhan Virus.
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  3267. Indeed. Whether he fixes it, or it burns to the ground is a matter of total indifference. Paraphrasing Yevgraf in "Doctor Zhivago".
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  3268. The problem is that Russia isn't using any troop rotations while the Ukrainians have. That is why Units such as the 155th Naval Infantry have been completely pulverized beyond recovery.
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  3269. "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges; In times of war, the law falls silent" -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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  3270.  @Johnny_Rico.You_Know_WhatTo_Do  What you call a strawman is cold hard truth. You just don't want to accept it because it shatters the fantasy of subjective morality you have create around yourself.
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  3271. And having the side effect of driving American born men into the arms of foreign born women, particularly Asian and Latino women.
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  3272.  @Rob_F8F  Don't need an Aegis, you just need the Vulcan Phalanx. While not specifically designed for anti-drone, it more than meets the challenge.
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  3273. Yeah, the irony is that life is THRIVING in the exclusion zone. Species on the verge of extinction are now in numbers not seen since antiquity. So much for nuclear devastation causing extinction.
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  3274. I am still a Jim Webb John F. Kennedy Democrat. We need more of them and Tulsi Gabbard than we do of the rest of the field. The party isn't dead, but we need to take it back from the Bolshevicks starting at the LOCAL level and leveraging that to the state then the federal level.
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  3275. "War is unavoidable. It can only be delayed to the advantage of one side," -Carl von Clausewitz. Remember the lessons of Munich. Appeasement NEVER works.
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  3276. You wouldn't if you got her glossy campaign flyers paid for by your tax dollars. She is unwilling to call out the CDC and the ACA what they are: Soviet style Medicine. Just like everyone who goes to DC, she got the frontal lobotomy and became part of the swamp.
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  3277.  @wharfrat9707  No I did not. I pointed out a valid complaint. But like a typical emotionally driven partisan, you took it for something it was not. But I get it, you don't care to debate in good faith, you only want your tribe to win.
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  3278.  @decimusrex92  Pure hubris. To quote George Carlin, "The planet will shake us off like a bad case of fleas". Man is not nearly as powerful as you would like to believe.
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  3279. It does constitute a War Crime under the Geneva and Hauge conventions. But good luck getting the UN to enforce those statutes.
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  3280.  @bige8949  Except, it is not just Central and South Americans. Border Patrol has been finding Islamic Prayer rugs in the desert. Chinese are also getting picked up by ICE and Border Patrol. About the only people not sneaking across under cover of darkness are Europeans, Japanese, and Koreans.
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  3281. That reeks of rationalization and excuse making.
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  3282. Are you implying that the Russian Army is blind to Ukrainian frogmen placing demolition charges?
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  3283.  @Frank_inSA  Charles diddled Camella (at the time married) on his wedding night to Diana. Not having a lot of free time as a child doesn't excuse that kind of entitled arrogant behavior. Especially as his heir William has turned out so well and likely grew up under similar conditions.
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  3284.  @alexsveles343  Yup, the Barbary Coast Corsairs. Not even the Sultan of Morocco's declaration of protection for American sailors could keep them safe from the Berbers. Word is that the Caliph of Algeria's favorite slaves were young American boys. Supposedly he found their screams form being lashed for the first time in their life to be particularly exquisite. That should tell you how messed up those people were (and still are in many cases). All of this would lead to the famous line in the Marine Corp song "From the Hall of Montezuma to the Shores of Tripoli". Steven Decatur is a man more Westerners should be familiar with.
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  3285. So you don't think that Kiev has a say in the matter? if that were the case, then why hasn't the UAF folded like the Afghan National Army or the ARVN of South Vietnam?
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  3286.  @jackhazardous4008  Well, he has been around since the 80s so he has hade plenty of time. He doesn't really need a DeLorean.
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  3287. Race based segregation doesn't have the scientific data to support it that gender/sex-based segregation has. Major difference. When you go beyond the color of one's skin, there is actually very little difference between a human male from Africa, Asia, the Americas, or Europe. Just as there is very little physical difference between the females. There ARE significant differences between males and females which DOES retain that consistency across the races and ethnicities.
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  3288. Or basically Lenin's so-called "proletariat".
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  3289.  @kukaliemikalie8157  I'm not sure the Brown Shirts are the answer. But I agree that drastic action IS required.
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  3290. Not really. Thanks to Disney, distribution of IP is strictly controlled by the holders of the copyright and any attempt to distribute it is infringement. That is part of why sites like "The Trove" were forces to shut down.
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  3291. Hunter had business dealings in China. This is a known fact that the media would have your forget.
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  3292. They are looking for the insurance payout.
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  3293. Russian nuclear subs almost started WW3 during the Cuban Missile Crisis. It was the level-headed Vasily Arkhipov, admiral in charge of the whole fleet that countermanded the order to launch nuclear torpedoes.
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  3294. Hoisted by their own petard, as it were.
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  3295. At this point yes. He was who foolishly sold it to Disney. It was he who nominated KK to run Lucasfilm. And it was he who sabotaged Nelson Peltz's attempt to right the sinking ship of Disney. Georgie lived long enough to become the villain.
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  3296. Don't forget that the radio operator on the Titanic told the radioman of the SS Californian to stop repeating iceberg warnings and get off the radio so he (Titantic's radioman) could send paid messages to New York. An analogy could be made with the people who warned Amazon this was a disaster in the making and were call bigots and istaphobes. Incidentally, the radioman of the Titanic was praised as a hero despite the fact that his actions directly cause the SS California to not come to their aid despite being within visual distance of them.
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  3297.  @michaelmazowiecki9195  I agree with you on all of that. Going forward, the best situation would be a partitioning of the Russian Federation. Several smaller national boundaries would help to quell violence and animosity between the local populations. Chechnya and Dagestan should be a single Republic. Tuva should be a separate country. Yakutia should be independent. And several more could be listed as well.
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  3298. Sherman's warning to the South applies just as readily to the liberals and ANTIFA today: "You people of the South don’t know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don’t know what you’re talking about. War is a terrible thing! You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it… Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth-right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see in the end that you will surely fail."
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  3299. Confucius said that, as I recall. Wise men of the past are not to be ignored. Heed their words.
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  3300. @Grim FPV I am glad you add that context in your response because your original comment sounded exactly like what a Biden apologist would say. I agree with your follow up that Joe Bite-Me will be MUCH worse.
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  3301.  @terrymike7053  Some truth to that. But keep in mind that Joe Bite-Me is part of the clique that is the beast while Trump was an outsider. Biden is the face of the bull while Trump was a Matador.
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  3302. It is quite amazing how the Ukrainians have developed into a professional Western Military while the Russians have degenerated into barbarism and brutality. All pretense of professionalism out the window.
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  3303. Indeed. The story of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand is echoed in the fall of Detroit.
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  3304. "Who made God?" Might as well ask who made time. Some things are not created but simply exist or coalesce WITHOUT an external factor.
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  3305. There are weak spots in the Russian line, particularly between Vuledar and Zaphorezia. Punch through and either roll up behind them or make a split dive towards Melitopol and Mariupol.
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  3306.  @sergarlantyrell7847  Yes I did, and it is all hypothetical. Or did YOU miss that part?
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  3307. After WW2 people said that the Helicopter would make the tank obsolete. Wasn't true then and is not true now. The problem is, people haven't read Guderian's book. He even said that tanks NEEDED infantry support at all times.
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  3308. Doesn't do well to go "duck hunting". What goes up must come down, so it is better a misfire ricochets off the ground rather than follow a ballistic trajectory. That is what they taught us in Korea.
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  3309. The BBC is basically an arm of the British government. That makes them not much different that Soviet Pravda.
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  3310. It also happens to be Davos collectivism when they claim, "international community".
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  3311. I do NOT agree that it is a good thing. However, you may have hit on a point I will agree with. The population decline will reach an equilibrium level eventually. The idea that these populations will go extinct is farcical.
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  3312. Woe of the Pharisees in her words.
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  3313. @ Actually it is. Hers was the moral grandstanding that the Nazarene called out. BTW, it appears that the church removed her from the position for her actions, which means even they believed it was out of line further making your defense of her pathetic and untenable.
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  3314.  @Grandpuba1069  Uh, Keystone XL would pump oil from Canada to the US. I don't know how you think it helps US producers export.
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  3315. A railway hub IS a strategic asset. But I understand that you folks in the Middle East don't have regular rail service so i forgive you for your gross ignorance.
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  3316.  William Cooper  Don't forget the Maoists. Those are the Red Guards who carried out the Cultural Revolution on the direct orders of the Chairman.
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  3317.  William Cooper  Take your own advice. Maoism is NOT the follow on to Leninism. Nor Stalinism as some think. While Mao claimed his ideology was "Marxism with Chinese characteristics", it was certainly something else. For one, Leninism was focused on the Urban factory workers while Maoism was focused on the farm workers. While Lenin sent the farmers to the cities to learn from industry, Mao sent the city dwellers to the farms, an inversion of Leninism. Secondly, Lenin was "workers of the world unite" and was about the international movement, Mao was about "China for the Chinese" a specifically ethno-nationalist movement. Seriously, crack open a book printed in the 1980s BEFORE China got writers to sanitize their ideology. George Urban, Michael Pilsbury, and Gordon Chang are good sources.
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  3318.  William Cooper  That's true.
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  3319. He basically reinstituted the system under Brezhnev.
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  3320. Look up Deitrich Bonhoeffer's Theory of Stupidity. RA was a classic example of why Bonhoeffer said it was pointless to even try to convince these people. Only once they have had personally experienced the loss of their freedom will they finally be ready to change.
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  3321. Some of the greatest American soldiers have been of Native American heritage. The Windtalkers are the obvious example, but Ira Hayes who helped raise the flag at Iwo Jima also comes to mind.
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  3322. It also helps to know the leader's background and motivations. Angela Merkel for example was a member of the East German Communist Youth League.
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  3323. Some yes and some no. Pokemon and Digimon were more kid focused. Many of the other ones are not.
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  3324. Freed from this mortal coil, I assume?
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  3325. Indeed. Between the hydroelectric dam project, improving their medical system, and then investing in water purification and sanitation, they could very well become the Singapore of South America.
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  3326. It is not the crime, but the cover-up that gets you into trouble. In this case, making false "evidence" discredits anything of merit that one was trying to point out.
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  3327. True, but Kimmy is likely to cycle out his old gear first before allowing the newer stuff to pass to Russia.
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  3328.  @ascoop22  When Trump took office, the economy soared in just three months. The economic decline came with the lockdowns of which Turmp had zero control. That was LOCAL governments acting fascistic. It NEVER improved under Democrats, only ever getting worse. If everyone knew about Europe's over reliance on Russia, why didn't they DO anything about it? Why did it take Trump stating the blatantly obvious out loud? And why even then they mocked him rather than change their ways? Your problem is that your personal contempt for the man is blinding you to logic and reason. You can't let the man have even one good day which only discredits you, not him.
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  3329. Or Stalin's Black Shirts.
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  3330. As Tolkien said, "Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt, and ruin good forces have invented or made”
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  3331. No joke. Some people snap when sent there. I however had a blast. Loved visiting the countryside, tasting the food, and learning the history. Was willing to marry one, but none were interested.
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  3332.  @555Trout  If only it were that simple. Hitler's concentration camps were modeled after Stalin's more pervasive and persistent Gulags. Able Macht Frei is literally worked to death.
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  3333. Burn, baby, burn. Disney Inferno!
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  3334. Yes, it is attritional, but the defenders have the advantage. The Russians attacking Bakhmut is akin to Picket's Charge into Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg.
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  3335.  @SyndicateOperative  Misinformed? Talk about pot meet kettle. Domestic energy production has EVERYTHING to do with this. Just say for the sake of argument, the Biden administration had maintained the Trump energy policy, we would NOT be experiencing the current spike in oil and gas prices because domestic producers would ramp up production to meet lost demand as well as keep prices low. Yes, hyperinflation is coming, but that may actually have more to do with the printing of money and monetization of debt. And that is on top of the energy cost spike. Think Weimar Germany or Zimbabwe. And yes, this war is a convenient excuse to deflect that blame.
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  3336.  @JohnnyKaw11B  And yet history has shown that when the scenario you describe happens, it ALWAYSS results in violence. Does Bosnia not ring a bell? How about Darfur and the breaking away of South Sudan? Or the break-away provinces of Caucuses Georgia? I post now the words of General Sherman, because he was correct then as well as now. "You people of the South don’t know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don’t know what you’re talking about. War is a terrible thing! You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it… Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth-right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see in the end that you will surely fail." -William Tecumseh Sherman to David French Boyd, 1860.
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  3337. I agree. And his experience and knowledge should be passed on to the next generation so it will not have to be paid again.
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  3338.  @K.emperorx  Wow, rather than actually debate the merits, you jump to the Troll accusation. Apparently oyu have never heard of Ray Epps nor the fact that he is the ONLY person to ever be on the FBI most wanted list and not either be killed or captured.
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  3339. Do keep in mind the makeup of the jury. 9 blacks, 1 Hispanics, 2 whites. 10 women, 2 men. I guarantee you most of that jury went in already knowing they would acquit before open arguments even started.
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  3340. Always respond to any discussion of 2A with "Lexington and Concorde". Not bringing it up means that it is not in any way a serious conversation on the matter.
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  3341. Then why all of the winter gear from Norway and Canada? If anything, the winter is the best time to make use of the momentum. General Frost favors the prepared and Ukraine is ready for winter ccombat.
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  3342. As I recall, they were some of the most effective troops in the Pacific Campaign despite the mistrust the British had in them.
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  3343. What for? The Prosecution has failed to even state what the crime is, a violating of 6th amendment due process.
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  3344. Because it never was. Diversity for its own sake is destructive, not constructive. Our motto, E Plurbus Unim means out of many ONE. "For a nation afraid to let its people decide truth from falsehood in an open market of ideas is a nation afraid of its own people," -President John F. Kennedy.
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  3345. You think Ukraine has the ability to manufacture replacement gear for what they have already lost? Look into Perun's defense production videos and you will find your answer.
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  3346. It would be epic if the counter suit demanded complete and total control of the company was handed over WITHOUT ANY compensation, a total disbanding of the board of directors.
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  3347. She has too much pride to admit she was wrong and beg for forgiveness. And Pride is the first lieutenant of hell for a reason.
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  3348. Apologizing for Joseph Stalin, are we? Ask Eisenhower what he thought of Marshal Zhukov's human wave assaults. The Soviet Red Army was handing out medals for acts of brutality against German women.
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  3349.  @anton9002  Descendants of Ishamel as Muslims claim are HAMITIC, not Semitic. Ishamel was born to Egyptian Hagar. Ishamel's 12 sons were also born to Egyptian women. That makes them Hamites, not Semites.
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  3350.  @johnshite4656  And yet the world was safer under Trump with no new wars. As Bin Laden said, "the world respect a strong horse". Trump is that strong horse.
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  3351.  @zionleach3001  I agree. Most of the show runners for these franchises are the very same people who mocked, ridiculed, disparaged, and harassed us fans when we were in school.
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  3352. Calling out hypocrisy is not cancel culture. It is simply holding people to their own standards.
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  3353.  @olajong2315  Comparing modern Japan to Imperial Japan is an apples to oranges false analogy. The culture is significantly different. Nice anachronism on your part.
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  3354. I am all for emptying out the old stockpiles. This SHOULD be the perfect excuse for the DoD to do an inventory (ie audit) of the guard units and supply depots to see what all is in the arsenal. The stuff that is expiring or out of date can quickly be transferred to Ukraine.
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  3355. You don't get to count the prepatory period as part of the official start of the offensive. it is like saying the Build-up for D-Day constituted a failure because they didn't actually land in France yet. Blitzkrieg is an aberration, not the norm in war.
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  3356.  @Metatarsus0  I don't disagree that he is using their logic against them. I just caution that in fighting monsters, we don't become monsters ourselves. The "anti-fascists" have become the very thing they claim to be fighting and so have become the monsters they were originally hunting.
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  3357.  @Joe_Narbaiz  Retribution is how the corrupt view accountability.
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  3358.  @70dreadnought  He doesn't trust American news sources, the very people to railed against Trump. But I get it, you are a shill for the establishment power mongers who want the "global reset".
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  3359. Because Hollywerid decided to take a page out of 1930s Soviet "ministry of culture" where ideology and "right think" took priority over telling a good story. The Japanese, Koreans, and Taiwanese have managed to aquire that "secret sauce" of storytelling that Tinseltown has forgotten. And I hope our Asian allies bury the American industry.
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  3360.  @sociolocomtsac  Indeed. Some of the best movies and TV series that came out of Hollywood were made on shoestring budgets. The classic Cowboy Western is archetypical of this, low budget and so focused more on story and plot than effects. And also, why those same productions also have more staying power over time. There is a reason why the Spaghetti Westerns are still watchable today.
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  3361.  @sammymcfone8281  Funny, because Biden hasn't taken a single question from any audience since 2020.
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  3362. Indeed. Caspian Report out of Azerbaijan has an interesting video on the conflict, but I would like a different perspective from someone NOT a part to that conflict. For my own part, I greatly sympathize with the Armenians, but their poor choice in "friends" with both Moscow and Tehran sours it.
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  3363. You might be more satisfied with Japanese anime. At least they focus on characters rather than diversity.
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  3364. I think Ukraine has been inflict that 10 to 1 loss on Russia both in Bakhmut and Advika. The problem is that outside of urban conflict, Ukraine cannot sustain those ratios on open fields. It isn't a lack of ability on the part of the Ukrainians, but rather on the myopia of the Russian MOD towards urban conflict but a more coherent perspective in open fields.
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  3365. Stopped to regroup. Unlike the Russians, Ukrainian forces do NOT want to outrun their supply lines.
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  3366. Yeah, but I am not looking forward to the Post-Atomic Horror. Nor the Eastern Coalition invading the US. And worst of all, the hostile exchange of nuclear weapons.
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  3367. The state of the Arabs in Gaza is a direct result of Hamas. Israel is being unreasonably scrupulous with regards to crimes against humanity, yet people like you turn a blind eye to the war crimes of Hamas.
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  3368. It is JUDEA, not Palestine. Also, Gaza is a free and independent nation of Arabs in the former British Mandate.
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  3369. And replace it with what? BRICs won't succeed as it does not cover even 1/3 of the economic activity in the world.
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  3370. Tell that to red states like Indiana that passed Red Flag Laws. Swatting is real, and 85% of those cases, the police were found to be in the wrong for disarming law abiding citizens.
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  3371. Humans cannot control volcanic eruptions. It is pure hubris to think we can.
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  3372.  @directordigitaldiscoursefo4171  I think Pinatubo was classified as a 6. But I do agree with you that this is another good way to factor in volcanic effects into the equation.
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  3373. I hope the new Samurai Lords publicly shame them. Loss of face is a big deal in the Land of the Rising Sun.
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  3374. Yes it is. So is Sie sind das Essen und wir sind die Jäger!
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  3375.  @danilolabbate  "Making excuses" is called rationalization. Or colloquially "copium". This has nothing to do with tribalism, you are just making inane claims like a petulant child does when they know they are wrong. As the Marine Corp teach, failure is ALWAYS a result of bad leadership. China's problems have always been a result of bad leaders, whether military or political leadership. Try actually debating merits instead of making the logical fallacy of "appeal to emotion".
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  3376.  @theman9048  You didn't disprove his points.
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  3377. Or the Reichstag Fire so they could consolidate power.
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  3378.  @bloodgout  American carrier groups are built around protecting that asset. Hence they are VERY big on both Anti-Air AND Anti-sub capabilities. The US excels at BOTH of those, while the Chinese have yet to show effective ASW operations.
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  3379. Pyrrhic victories are NOT the "win" you think they are.
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  3380. Not going to be the same this time. More likely, it will be Poland who is more militarized than Germany.
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  3381.  @JKK_85  Don't conflate your worthless opinion with objective fact. The two are not the same. While a lot of mistakes were made by the German High command, it didn't really become a problem until they reached the gates of Stalingrad. Your problem is that you are engaging in the Historian's Fallacy. Hindsight is 20/20 and it is easy to claim something was a given after the fact.
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  3382. "Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin good forces have invented or made” -J.R.R. Tolkien
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  3383. The Dems still control the Senate. Impeachment doesn't mean a damn thing if you can't get the senate to convict.
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  3384. Sovereign Power of the State. Disney only has authority in Reedy Creek because it was bestowed by the State of Florida. Which means Constitutionally, the state can take that power back at any time. Only the SCOTUS can override the state in this matter.
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  3385.  @Nightss  Ukrainian casualties are recoverable, especially when the time from frontlines to emergency trauma centers in rear areas is AT MOST 36 hours. Contrast that to Russian casualties when their EVAC time is a MINIMUM of 3 days. Tank numbers don't mean anything when what Russia is sending to the front lines are T-64 and T-72 tanks built almost have a century ago. As for artillery, Ukraine makes EVERY shot count by limiting to counter-battery fire. Rarely do they miss. Conversely, Russia has to use as many as 20 shells to hit a target. With drastically different accuracy rates like that, Russia's artillery advantage becomes irrelevant. You need to stop listening to KREMLIN propaganda and start reading the Insitute for the Study of War as well as the Royal United Services Insitute analysis.
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  3386.  @_TeXoN_  Actually, you have that bass ackwards. Per kilowatt hour, nuclear is hands down the cheapest and safest. Solar and wind have NEVER met claimed expectations.
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  3387. @Wilhelm Eley Hydro elected is also heavily dependent on rather drastic elevation change, storage capacity of said reservoir, as well as consistent rains to maintain that reservoir supply. While Bavaria can make use of damns (assuming their greenies don't make a big stink, and they invariably do), Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schleswig-Holstein, and Lower Saxony being relatively flat cannot make use of hydro-electric damns.
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  3388.  @mario7501  And yet tariffs are the BEST way to discourage that. How many foreign nations subsidize their industries? Tariffs have historically been used to stop that unfair practice. PS, Google/Youtube keeps deleting my posts point that out.
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  3389. There are quite a few attractive Asian Russian models.
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  3390. Sad how the Russian shills don't understand the point you make. That it is more important to make sure your shots hit than to put lots of rounds downrange.
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  3391. He faces an Epstein scenario if he does.
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  3392. So is Japanese defense plan Ketsu-Go. Aguments agaisnt using the bombs fail to account for the actions the Japanese would have taken.
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  3393. I would love to welcome someone like you in. Unfortunately pretty boy Tredeau is making that impossible when he closed the border.
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  3394.  @Gnomezonbacon  A month is a lifetime in both politics and war. You are rationalizing (making excuses fallacy).
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  3395.  @cainabel6356  Indeed. After bragging about only coming to work twice a week at most, I suspect those photos of employees sleeping in the office are staged. The phrase "Potemkin Village" comes to mind.
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  3396. Or as I like to say "One is an aberration. Twice is a trend. Three times is a pattern".
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  3397. Yeah, but she is unwilling to call the ACA what it is: Soviet medicine which she grew up under. Just like everyone who goes to DC, she got the frontal lobotomy and became part of the swamp. Granted, that process started when she was a state senator.
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  3398.  @wharfrat9707  Have you actually met her in person? Have you actually considered how my points cut to the heart of how she is all talk and no action? Use your own advice and address MY message rather than deflect.
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  3399. Wagner was complaining that MOD troops were shelling their own forces. This is actually par the course for Russian "friendly fire".
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  3400. If it feels dated, that probably has more to do with the fact that the old movies which much of it is based on are not watched anymore. When was the last time you saw 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea with Kirk Douglas? More importantly, when was the last time it aired on ABC? How about Cinderella? Or Sleeping Beauty? That seems more like a problem with the corporates ignoring what they have.
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  3401.  @dragonlord1689  I will agree with you on that. Tomorrow land has what TV tropes calls "Zeerust" or "Retrofuturism". if the goal is nostalgia, then that is one thing. If it is supposed to be actual futuristic rather than steakpunk, then I will also agree that it needs a major overhaul.
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  3402.  @stunner9005  rule34. Give it time and we WILL see a porn parody eventually. It is just a matter of whether it is an "amateur" production, or one made by a "porn studio".
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  3403. Don't forget the French. Macron has a score to settle over being humiliated in Africa.
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  3404. Agreed. These folks who think only coming into the office twice a week at most are likely staging these photos to garner sympathy.
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  3405. @ And yet he arrived with the reciepts, particularly the FAA's own documentation proving it regarding their hiring practices.
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  3406. He wasn't fired, he was promoted out of the MoD. He is still a part of Putin's inner circle.
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  3407. There is something to be said about hate-watching which is what fan-baiting is doing, but as a long-term strategy, it is doomed to failure.
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  3408. Indeed. Some people don't realize that nuclear control treaties have a precursor that failed spectacularly: The Washington Naval treaty restricting battleship construction.
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  3409. Agreed. The military can't unionize, why should any other government employee be able to?
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  3410.  @triggerwarning5762  Yes he did. Too bad the people today who idolize him conveniently ignore that little detail.
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  3411. Indeed. Giovani Gentile is a name most have not heard because he completely destroys the myth of fascism being right wing.
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  3412.  @fletcherhamilton3177  Indeed. They are all variations on the same theme: totalitarian centralized control. Only difference is who part of the "in-crowd" and who is not.
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  3413. False choice dilemma. It is possible to be apathetic to both sides and not care who wins. Yevgraf said it best in the movie "Doctor Zhivago". "In bourgeois terms, it was a war between the Allies and Germany. In Bolshevik terms, it was a war between the Allied and German upper classes - and which of them won was of total indifference. " -Yevgraf.
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  3414. Well, you are the exception, not the norm. Most of the GOP votes RFK will take are the nevertrumpers who weren't going to vote for him anyhow.
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  3415. Well, and the media blatantly ignores the carve out in the law for rape and incest.
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  3416. The Russian MOD has yet to actually face Polish, German, or US troops. Ukraine is fighting this essentially alone. The Foreign Legion doesn't count as NATO forces; it is more akin to the French Foreign Legion, but for Ukraine.
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  3417.  @AndrewJacobson-cq2om  As Oppenheimer said, if it wasn't him who built it, someone else would have.
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  3418. Yup. As everyone is focused foreward, you want someone covering your six.
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  3419. Actually, the Federalist Papers describes such as situation. Constitutionally, Disney is screwed as the power they wield in Reedy Creek comes from the State of Florida.
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  3420. That is inflation for you. The purpose is to obliterate savings. Thomas Jefferson warned us about this cycle of inflation followed by deflation at the direction of the Banking institutions.
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  3421.  @redpanda9367  I agree. America's "ruling caste" is no different than the Feudal Lords of Europe our forefathers tried to flee. Time to topple them just like America's Founding Fathers did.
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  3422.  @kruggmichaels8958  Saving face and honor are actually two different things. One can have honor and publicly lose face, while someone with NO honor or integrity can manage to have face and great clout. The contrast is a favorite topic of Samurai dramas. The example I would use is Tojo and Yamamoto. Tojo had face but no honor. Yamamoto had honor, but not enough face to challenge Tojo. I do agree with you that both are alien concepts to folks in the west.
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  3423. A Day late and a dollar short.
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  3424. No, she didn't. There is a care out in the law for rape and incest. The ONLY reason to cross state lines was to avoid a police report, basically they were covering up a crime.
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  3425.  @zefft.f4010  Honey badger was my first thought.
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  3426. Exactly. They are marketing to the wrong audience. And neither will pay to see their less than inspired product. Better to give the actual audience what THEY want, not what you THINK the audience you want desires.
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  3427. Please watch examples of how human rights get worse AFTER those colonial powers leave. Colonialism is bad, but the anti-Colonialist movement that comes to power afterwards is often far worse. India is the best example of things going right (but not perfect). Somalia shows what happens most often.
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  3428.  @falkwulf3842  It was never confirmed to be in the coal bunker. Besides, coal does not explosively burn, but pressurized water does act explosive. And a fire in the coal bunker then spreading to the magazine would have given enough time for alarms to be sounded. No alarm was ever sounded before the explosion. PS. I do concede that a coal DUST explosion is entirely possible, and Admiral Hyman G. Rickover makes a very strong case for it. I just think he makes certain assumptions that bring into question certain practices.
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  3429. "Strike me down and I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine," They trashed Gygax, but I am betting that in the outer planes he is getting a good laugh at their coming comeuppance.
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  3430. Ah, but as Mr. Pool pointed out, if millions of Americans use their stimulus checks to combat this, it counteracts any effects of a bailout of Wall Street. All it does is destroys the value of the currency and securities the uber rich are holding worthless. To quote Katniss Everdeen, "If we burn, you burn with us!"
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  3431. Short answer: yes. They rarely bother to look into the long-term ramifications of their proposals. And most of them are anti-nuclear which is the only viable cheap energy to achieve their claimed goals.
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  3432. Practically quoting John F. Kennedy there. And I completely agree.
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  3433. If Ukraine was hopeless. Putin would be in Kiev installing Yanukovych.
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  3434. I give it less. William Henry Harrison lasted only 30 days before pneumonia took him. I expect Jamaica Kamala and Pelosi to invoke the 25th in less than 30 days.
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  3435. One media group rule them, one media group to find them, one media group to bring them all and in the darkness, bind them.
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  3436. You would be surprised by the injuries sustained when hit by a bus traveling at 110 kph.
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  3437.  @TheIceCream1  How WESTERN and Eurocentric of you to think that. Niccolò Machiavelli is actually the norm in the world. One only needs to look at the rulers of the disparate factions in Africa to understand that peace is the aberration, not the norm.
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  3438.  @TheIceCream1  I do, it is called "The Prince" by Machiavelli or "Von Kreige" by Carl von Clausewitz. That is how I understand what people like you blatantly ignore. You should try reading yourself, you might learn something.
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  3439. Indeed. Since when does being Japanese constitute white privilege? These "critics" are themselves the racists to assume the characters are white. All four of the cardinal heroes talk about their version of Japan.
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  3440. BINGO! Think Guatemala in the 1980s.
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  3441.  @ArcticPrimal  I'm not sure I really believe that regular people are losing their job. Case in point: how many people said they would leave the US if either Bush or Trump was elected, but then did not? Yeah, those are the kind of people at Twitter.
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  3442. Read Michael Crichton's rant about medical "experts" and consensus in science. Decades of stagnation because people rejected empirical data that refuted the "prevailing wisdom". Case in point is post-birth mortality rates among mothers because doctors for years refused to wash their hands after performing autopsies.
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  3443.  @BFSOM  And "Dead fish" Emmanuel plagiarized it from Winston Churchill's "Never give up, Never Surrender" speech.
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  3444.  @BFSOM  Glad to enlighten you. Do keep in mind the contexts were different. Churchill was rallying his people during the Battle of Brittan. "Rahmbo" was simply advocating political expediency and opportunism.
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  3445. And they don't consider that Russia still has to protect its borders with China and Kazakhstan. Those are not like the US-Canadia border.
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  3446. Allow malfeasance to go unchecked? If there was malicious action in any of them by agents of the government, that corruption has been allowed to fester for 60 years.
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  3447. I would say there is a different answer to high growth and high "prosperity". It is called currency manipulation and cooking the books. It is often said that governments differ very little from organized crime. So, when government dispenses with the pretense of legitimacy and fully embraces the idea of mafia operations, you can see it become surprisingly effective in the way that organized crime syndicates can be quite profitable.
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  3448.  @gingernightmare9152  In the New Hampshire primary? Clearly not, but it DID account for over half of Haley's voters, which clearly invalidates WSJ's numbers.
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  3449. Yeah, westerners have a problem understanding when to pronounce a K and when not to. For example, the Palance if "Knossos" is pronounced "Gnossis"(think Gneisenau), but many folks mispronounce it with a hard "K". But of course, that is Minoan-Greek, not Hebrew as you so aptly point out.
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  3450. That is pretty much what Heinz Guderian said.
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  3451.  @Canoby  Nor do they realize that Blitzkrieg which he had a hand in formalizing was essentially combined arms. People have this false idea that it was massive tank Collums.
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  3452. Perun dug into the Turtle tank argument. His contention is that these "turtle tanks" are not actually doing the mission of a MBT, but rather as glorified assault sheds for clearing trenches.
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  3453. I had something of a similar experience with both GenCon in Indy and Starbase Indy. First two time of each was great, but by the third, the wokescolds had ruined it for me. GenCon also had a few other issues cause problems as well, namely insiders and cronies getting access to the exhibition hall before the general public and proceeding to buy-up all of the convention exclusive goods such that none of the general public could get them, and then those people turned around and scalped them on E-bay.
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  3454. What is wrong is that we have indulged the mentally ill for far too long. It is time to stop spoiling them and be assertive in saying "enough, stop".
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  3455. Peter Pricniple.
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  3456. They would recoil from a mirror just like a vampire that can't look at its own reflection.
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  3457. The man in the Kremlin is to blame for ALL of those deaths.
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  3458. Or as Teddy Roosevelt said, "speak softly, but carry a big stick".
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  3459. We should call them the "Child Nookie Network".
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  3460. Indeed. Most of them are neo-Bolshevicks and have zero understanding of how the "Entertainment BUSINESS" operates. Rather than admit that their ideas suck and won't sell, they seek to tear down the people whose ideas DID sell.
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  3461. I would love to see Brendan Frasier as Kongol in a live action of "The Legend of Dragoon". And I would have David Boreanaz/James Marsters play the Dart/Lloyd rivalry duo.
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  3462. Praetorian guards.
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  3463.  @Kiamors  So only men can be surgeons, but only women can be nurses? A good doctor needs something called bedside manner. Women are often better at that than men. But it is the doctor that makes diagnosis, not the nurse. And it is the doctor that gives the bad news, not the nurse. Incidentally, I always grew up thinking doctors were suppose to be women. Gate McFadden's Beverly Crusher and Jane Seymour's Dr. Quinn left quite the impression.
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  3464. I hate to break your bubble, but authoritarianism has been the norm rather than the exception throughout human history. The modern period of "Jeffersonian Democracy" is something of an aberration. And if prior examples are any indication, it is about to come to a violent in within the next 50 years.
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  3465.  King Of Dust  Just because you have fooled yourself into believing a myth doesn't mean it isn't true. You are not making an argument, you are simply throwing a temper tantrum because I used a very good analogy you can't contradict.
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  3466.  @akishorekumarr  And that is the nuanced point I am making but these naysayers fail to grasp.
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  3467.  @WeAreHere-42  Actually it is, but you refuse to accept it. You can have two things that are optimized differently, but come to the same end result by different routes. That is why I used the character class analogy from gaming. Try opening your mind instead of blindly accepting the leftist myth that the only way you can be equal is by being exactly the same.
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  3468. Yeah, he has always come across as a spoiled child, even in his later years. The best thing he could do for the institution is to keep his mouth shut and stay sequestered in the palace like a recluse or hermit. Let his son William be "The People's Prince" and carry out the role of the crown in state ceremonies.
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  3469. He was, specifically Ngo Dinh Diem's persecution of Buddhist and favoritism towards Catholics. The sad irony is that when the North Unified with the South, the Commies treated them FAR worse than the Catholics did.
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  3470.  @t.c.8697  Indeed. Taqiyya, Tawriya, Kitman, and Muruna are the justification for lying and deceiving the Kafir and Infidel. One only needs to look at the broken promises of not just the Ayatollahs in Iran but the Arabs who call themselves "Palestinians" who constantly renege on their agreements to know peace with them is impossible.
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  3471. You realize the Japanese government forced civilians to manufacture vehicle parts in their homes? Even if what you suggest was done, the Japanese government would never have permitted the population to evacuate.
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  3472. Because you are trying to apply logic to people who are ruled by emotions. Reason and rationalism is as alien to them as the surface of the moon.
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  3473.  @cruzcflores  And incompetent when they stormed Grozny. TWICE.
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  3474. Not going to happen. By hook or crook they will make sure the jury is from a blue precinct so that a liberal jury will acquit him.
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  3475. "Child Nookie Netrowk"
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  3476. Funny how many on the left side of the culture was loved that series in 2014 but now the slam it as promoting fascism. I guess they don't like that Dot Pixis was modeled after a WW2 general convicted of war crime (namely the execution of prisoners), nor do they like that the nation of Marley is like Kaiser Germany with the anti-Semitism of Nazi Germany.
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  3477. Indeed. Tiktok is like the Japanese or Germans operating a radio station or newspaper in the US during WW2.
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  3478. Because the same people that cause the 2008 financial crisis are the architects of this current one. This is all by design.
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  3479.  @StoryGirl83  Nothing wrong with that. That you can name one of their classics earns you my upmost respect. SIMCopter was rather popular with one of my classmates.
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  3480. Indeed. With the plethora of isekai, both good and bad, it could have been a "test run".
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  3481. "Wisdom seems like madness to the fool" -attributed to Confucius. Infantilizing people you disagree by calling them insane with doesn't make you correct; it only discredits your own argument because you refuse to debate the merits.
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  3482. Agreed. Pills should be the LAST choice, and only for those that are a clear danger to either themselves or others. If they are not at risk of harming someone, they don't need mind altering chemicals.
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  3483. Indeed. The disastrous amphibious landing attempt at Kinmen Island in 1950 shows the extent of poor planning by the PLAN (People's Liberation Army Navy). Unless their Navy builds dedicated landing craft, they will not succeed. Using wooden ferry boats is a recipe for another embarrassing defeat.
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  3484.  @tianxiabai1185  Human wave attacks. Yes, when you have a swarm of bodies overrunning your position, you are going to run out of bullets long before they run out of bodies. But that is an amazingly large butcher's bill to pay.
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  3485.  @tianxiabai1185  Nice bloviating and goal post moving. Fact is, your PLA got its clock cleaned in Vietnam. Everything they learned fighting the US they put to effective use against you.
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  3486.  @chrisbova9686  I would agree with you simply by the fact that the three who got acquitted should have been convicted. And those who only got life sentences should have had their neck stretched. Interestingly, the Tokyo Trials which got much less attention resulted in fewer convictions and lighter sentences despite the fact that Japanese war crimes and crimes against humanity were far and away much worse than anything the Germans did. Who says Americans are not forgiving? The only explanation I can give is that after the spectacle of Nuremberg, the American's didn't have the stomach to watch the brutality of Imperial Japan's atrocities.
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  3487. They deserve to follow Conseco into oblivion.
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  3488.  @jodieford5738  Trump didn't take those rights away during his first four-year term. You are the boy that cried wolf.
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  3489.  @daniel86250  "British stealing Latin American lands" I think you mean SPAIN stole the land from the natives, not the Brits. Nice job deflecting the blame their Jose. Anglophobia is not a good look, especially as most of the modern word benefits from the pervasiveness of English values. And I hope you get to personally experience the "tender mercies" of the Red Chinese government firsthand. In fact, I invite you to visit the Uygur camps in Xinjang.
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  3490. Thank Obama for that. He got the ball started early in 2007, breaking with tradition.
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  3491. The problem with the peninsula is that it is marshy, meaning it is NOT good ground for combat operations. I suspect the Ukrainians are there simply to harass the Russia position from the flank and force them to commit resources to an area of otherwise no significant value.
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  3492. Indeed. Ukraine realize that they should have put on SOME pressure last winter, even if the Rasputisa prevent major armored movements. They will not make that mistake again.
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  3493. Oh god, that reminds me of the awful "salad" dish my grandmother made. She called it "Marion Salad". Word is, she used too much alcohol in preparing it. And I think there were even cucumbers in it!
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  3494. 95% of incumbents are retained in a primary. Need to take them out in the general election. And term limits.
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  3495. It's not the Frizz without the frazzled hair.
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  3496. I guess you haven't been paying attention to the Alzheimer's patient in the White House.
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  3497. The only "impeachment" that would be successful would be a Color Revolution like the Ukrainian Orange revolt in 2004, Cedar Revolution in Lebanon, or Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia.
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  3498. That was proposed early on, but the Russians rejected it.
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  3499. How has Russia been threatened? The only wars Russia has been involved in are the ones that the Kremlin started. Georgia and Ukraine were and are no threat to Russia. Japan is no threat either.
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  3500.  @Clark_Kent_ZA  Why should Trek Fans take anymore abuse? As Dictor van Doomcock has pointed out, Kurtzman and Abrams have so violated the corpse that there isn't a single hole left to violate.
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  3501.  @yellowcard7139  Wow, talk about creepy psycho-stalker behavior on your part. Do you always behave like this to someone who has gotten under YOUR skin?
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  3502. Because current Pixar doesn't understand the meaning of "source material" or "canon". These are spoiled children who got the job not because of talent but from good old fasion nepotism.
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  3503.  @jcjaramillomo  Look at the US economy under Trump's first 2 years and contrast it with Biden's first two years and you tell me which one was better for the US.
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  3504.  @jcjaramillomo  Not as much time as you thing. The markets react to election results in less than a week. it is much easier to destroy an economy than it is to build it up. And all of that is true not just in the US but around the world.
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  3505. In Classic Tinseltown, yes. Today's Tinseltown is no different than Stalin's "Ministry of Culture" circa 1933.
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  3506. That would be a very interesting question. I think the ruble would reveal its true value unless China fixed the conversion rate, which comes with its own problems.
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  3507. The cost is always in blood. The only question is, how much? But to your point, that cost is skyrocketing because of panty-wastes on both sides who were more interesting in their own self-aggrandizement rather than keeping their eye on the real threats to liberty, namely the ones from within.
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  3508.  @stevedenis8292  Fidel's illegitimate son is effectively in President Poohbear's pocket.
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  3509. Horseshoe theory. It is why in practice the Nazis and the Soviets got along so well under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Aliance. As Hannah Ardent and Eric Hoffer observed, the two ideologies often recruited from the same pool of people.
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  3510. "Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt, and ruin good forces have invented or made” -J.R.R. Tolkien
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  3511. And as Mercutio said, "Plague on BOTH your houses! I am sped!"
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  3512. And Merkel was not much better. She was a member of the East German Communist Youth League, after all.
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  3513. Indeed. If the register had a braille interface, that is absolutely an acceptable and reasonable accommodation. I would much rather have that person take my order than an AI robot who could screw it up. I trust people, I don't trust full automation.
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  3514. Yeah, I think that does more harm to the trees. But then that is classic virtue signaling; do more harm than good to score cheap political points.
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  3515.  @achilleos1  I agree that lost of waste. Especially on social engineering projects. The leadership at Scott AFB in the late 200s wanted to make Dorm life resemble the college experience and had them renevated as such. Talk about a stupid idea.
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  3516. They didn't know butter was $7 and you expect them to suddenly recover from the Marie Antoniette mentality?
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  3517. I want to point out that the BigMac size in both Japan and Korea is smaller than the BigMac in the US. So that as an analogy is not exactly an accurate measurement as the sandwiches are not exactly the same. Also, as far as productivity, keep in mind that subordinates in a company are expected to show up before their superiors and are expected to stay until AFTER those same supervisors have left for the day. So, while top management may get to enjoy a strict 8-hour workday, the bottom of the work pyramid might expect to be on the job for as much as 12-14 hours.
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  3518. That is EXACTLY what it is. Rather than admit that she has exposed the truth of their toxic ideology, they try to disassociate themselves by claiming she is one of their enemies. It comes straight out of Stalin's playbook after the collapse of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Alliance between the Nazis and Commies.
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  3519. He should have done that by going to the SCOTUS arguments.
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  3520. Makes you wonder about the state of their nukes. Will they detonate in the silo instead of launching like they did on K-129?
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  3521.  @handmadehearts  Hence why I ask the question. Knowing Russia's proclivity for Potemkin Villages, are IAEA inspectors really seeing the true state of the Russian arsenal?
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  3522.  @jonmacdonald5010  Agreed. This looks just as bizarre as Operation: Mincemeat.
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  3523. If only that were true. Whoever hold the most money decides what is done with IP canon. It is corporate "entertainment" oligarchism which vandalizes beloved franchises.
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  3524. That is a bit of a stretch. Russia was going to find a way to sanction bust by laundering through the central Asian nations or China. This just provides an easy out that is less profitable.
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  3525. No kidding. They create absolutely nothing, provide no service of significance, and take out of the system without providing anything of value in return. Taking that into consideration, at least vultures provide a service: cleaning up the carrion. These Hedge Funds don't even do that!
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  3526. Indeed. Mandating an experimental vaccine is a Crime Against Humanity under the Nuremberg Code. The Doctor's trials and the Judges trials convinced most of the accused for doing what our judges and doctors are doing today.
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  3527.  @dang3554  Only if the US or Russia gave them samples. Russia might have. US Federal law prohibits the transfer of biohazard level 4 outside the US. Foreign researches have to come to the US to conduct their experiments with smallpox. That being said, I concede that Fauci has regularly defied Federal Law and done whatever the hell he wants.
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  3528. Apparently, you are not familiar with how horrible life in the Soviet Republic of Ukraine before 1990. You also don't seem to remember the defiant defense of Kiev at the start of the war. You grossly underestimate the determination of Ukraine. Your comment comes from the point of view of a pampered westerner.
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  3529. I agree with you nuanced position. Tariffs for the sake of taxation is wrong. But put in place to force other nations to not unfairly subsidize their companies against American producers are the very purpose for tariffs.
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  3530.  @Gamebuster  But the garbage they put it was based on insane ideas, input by people who thought that insanity was reasonable. Hence, the OP is still correct.
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  3531.  @hallelbimpong1901  Apples to orange false analogy. Now are you going to add something useful to the conversation or are you going to continue to make yourself look foolish? "Better people THINK you a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt," -Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain.
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  3532. The Ukrainians have been supplied with cold weather gear from the Canadians and Norwegians since August. They are ready for a winter offensive.
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  3533. Most US aid is on a 3-to-12-month delay. Weapons promised a year ago are only now showing up on the front lines. Conversely, Russia doesn't have much left in reserve. If the Ukrainians are able to achieve in Zaphorizia what the Allies did at the WW1 battle of Cambrai (1917), you will see them fold almost a quickly as Imperial Germany did.
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  3534.  @ivrearde3236  Not really. The US could have helped them to dismantle the weapons for their component parts.
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  3535.  @eddyunger1419  Not Really. Have you seen Albino Blacks? While the facial features are clearly African, the hair is pale straw blonde. And still has the frizzyness. Snow White is the classic Raven Hair with Pale Skin stereotype. Only the Yamato Nadeshiko aesthetic comes close to that, differing for very obvious reasons.
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  3536. I think you have been drinking way too much vodka.
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  3537. Yeah, funny how those same countries criminalize political opposition. How is this any different than Alexander Lukashenko did in Belarus?
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  3538. And that is the kicker. This offensive needs to be measured against WW1 trench warfare, not WW2 Blitzkrieg. The Ukrainians are already moving faster than the West was during the Battle of Somme.
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  3539.  @maritaschweizer1117  North Korea is no threat. And Russia has ALWAYS been in bed with Iran. Nothing has changed in the balance of power.
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  3540. Agreed. The price of oil and gasoline has been decoupled since the 1980s. I guarantee that big Oil has storage for refined gasoline so that they are insulated in both directions from the fluctuations in price. One only needs to look at CITGO and its connection to Venezuela to understand this.
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  3541. US Navy Nuclear has operated reactors with ZERO reactor related accidents. Nuclear is by far the safest energy source in the world.
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  3542. If they can get to Berdyans'k, then the land bridge to Crimea will be completely severed.
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  3543.  @betterlifeexe4378  Fair point.
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  3544.  @xiphoid2011  Hostile country? Maylasia or Indonesia? I was under the impression they are on good terms with their neighbors.
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  3545.  @xiphoid2011  Thank you for enlightening me. I knew that Singapore was part of the Malay Union at one time, but I thought it was a mutually amicable parting of ways. That it was not gives me a new perspective on that part of the world.
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  3546.  @amyb.6368  And that is exactly the underpinning of Soviet Socialism: no such thing as property, not even "personal property". ALL belongs to the people as represented by the government. Basically, absolute monarchism under a different name.
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  3547. Anyone who doesn't believe Beijing has designs and ambitions for "Outer Manchuria" doesn't understand that China plays the long game.
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  3548. They want us to live in pods and eat the bugs. Developers WANT to build single family homes, but the politicians through obnoxious zoning laws prevent it. The Housing crisis is entirely artificial scarcity purposely created by corruption in government.
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  3549.  @Matt-yg8ub  Except,, under the citizen's arrest law that was in effect at the time, they DID have legal justification. A gun was recently stolen from a truck at the site so there WAS probable cause to suspect felony burglary. Just because you don't like that dirty little detail doesn't mean you can ignore it.
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  3550.  @Matt-yg8ub  I agree with that assessment. It is very nuanced and detailed. And your points are likely why the Georgia legislature repealed and nullified citizen's arrest after this incident. Maybe it made sense 50 years ago when someone could easily drop off the radar, but today with all of the security cameras as well as GPS tracking of cell phones and digital footprints it is almost impossible for a suspect to hide forever. Sooner or later, their need to interact with society will cause them to come out of hiding.
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  3551. They try to kill the message they cannot control, not realizing that the Streisand effect ensures that their attempts to stifle it only make it stronger.
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  3552. Well, he fouled up the AIDS response, so this is par the course for him.
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  3553. Under US Law, it would. But Japan doesn't have that concept. Toei doesn't seem to realize that Mark and people like him are giving free advertisement for their IPs. And Google/Youtube pandering to them only shows the disconnect from reality as well as the audience.
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  3554.  @hamfistsman6267  He refused to take them up on it in the first place. Don't be so dense.
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  3555.  @Ajourneyofknowing  Have you not been paying attention? How many localizer scandals regarding translations do you have to see before you realize that these American companies are woke as a joke.
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  3556. Plate Techtonics. This volcano predates human existence by several million years.
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  3557.  @djewynne9638  Completely missed the visible pressure wave that outran the eruption column huh? You could see it deform the clouds you claim were not affected.
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  3558.  @meandyou2046  The combustion temperature of most plastic polymers is around 850 Celsius. The temperature of molten magma and lava is three times that. Doesn't take a scientist to know that your theory about plastic blocking volcano vents has no merit.
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  3559. A direct assault on Belograd would NOT be supported by the west and it would be too costly for the Ukrainians. However, there is nothing against striking military targets in that area with HIMARS.
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  3560.  @marvinegreen  I agree with you on that. Take the option nobody expects.
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  3561.  @wesleapenknife1755  Nice strawman argument. Not everyone drinks Coffee. And caffeine is found in naturally in other food products like tea and chocolate so your argument there is total rubbish.
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  3562.  @wesleapenknife1755  Except the CDC, FDA, and FBI statistics prove otherwise. Just because you claim something is not true doesn't mean it isn't. In this case, you have to prove a negative while I simply have to point to objectively verified data sets. Data sets you would rather pretend didn't exist.
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  3563. Reminds me of the John F. Kennedy quote about the Military and our culture being more of a spectator rather than participating with regards to sports.
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  3564.  @mytvchannellock  You have to meet the weight requirements BEFORE you ship off to boot camp. But to your point, yes many people do lose weight at boot camp. One guy in my basic training flight didn't eat much and lost 30 lbs in about a week. He was ordered to eat more bread. I maintained my weight. during the entire time.
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  3565. Part of why Thailand has a military coup every ten years or so. The cities get too big for their britches, abuse the countryside farmers, and the military steps in to restore order. Straight democracies are at best unstable.
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  3566. The Tongan government had already put out warning due to the eruptions from earlier in the week. That means most of the population was already on high alert to the danger. It is actually a credit to them and their disaster preparedness that there was not a higher fatality rate.
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  3567. I agree. Too much American blood and treasure has been squandered on those spoiled children in Europe who are not mature enough to fix their own problems.
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  3568. More like Oberst-furher, Frau Lehman.
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  3569. Lots of good anime out there if you know what to look for. I can give you advice on Isekai shows as high fantasy is my cup of tea.
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  3570. Leninism under a different name.
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  3571. The problem with price capping energy is that it invariably leads to rolling blackouts. Don't tell me that is prefereable.
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  3572.  @scottjoseph9578  Air Force Academy has gone full woke. Remember the Wicca hate crime hoax? The Academy still refuses to admit that they mishandled that incident.
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  3573. Wishful thinking.
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  3574. And yet you blatantly ignore the emissions from both China and India that make all of your laudable goals pointless. All of those years reductions you praise get wiped out each year by the increasing activities by Red China. All you are doing is trying to force people to give up their standard of living just so that you can feel good about yourself.
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  3575.  @HexerPsy  I pointed out the fatal flaw in your green agenda. And that glaring hole is Asia. Yesh, China is the great copier. But that does NOT mean they will copy green technology when cheaper dirtier options which have greater payouts are still available. You believing they will switch over is just wishful thinking. While I do agree that we should use biofuel options as alternatives, the cold hard reality is that soy-diesel as ethanol gas is no substitute for sweet crude when it comes to high performance vehicles like Jet Aircraft and Abrams Tanks. There is just no practical alternative that can deliver the high-octane levels required. As for Sea Level rise, apparently you have not heard of Glacial Isostasy and lithospheric rebound. Take a look at the Baltic, particularly in Finland and much of that area was UNDER WATER as little as 100 years ago! As the glaciers in Scandinavia recede, the land uplifts and the oceans actually recede. Same thing is happening at remote arctic beaches in Canada. All in all, your claims blatantly ignore critical data points which reveal fundamentals in your theory that undermine the whole equation. Climate change hysteria is born from the same false theories of Peak Oil. And much like Peak oil, claims of man being the cause of climate change have been around since the 1900s and failed to ever meet predictions.
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  3576. Closer? You do realize that Poland, Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania share a border with Russia and has done so since joining in 2004? Parroting Kremlin talking points only proves your ignorance.
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  3577.  @sharwama992  I expect that. But better they fight among themselves AFTER China is told to take a hike, because if they keep fighting amongst themselves now, China will take everything.
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  3578.  @EricWilkinson-e3b  And how much collateral damage occurs in the process? Population percentages don't directly equate to the devastation caused by such a conflict.
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  3579.  @EricWilkinson-e3b  Yeah, I think the Russians have been trying that in Ukraine. How is it working out for them? NEVER underestimate your opponent. It is the ones you LEAST expect who end up being your undoing.
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  3580. Sic Semper Tyrannis
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  3581.  @Lucylou7070  Or the Woe of the Pharasees in Luke 11, Mark 12, and Matthew 20.
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  3582. Foxnews uses prefer pronouns of trans people such as Dylan Mulvany. That is NOT a right-wing position. Right wingers NEVER do that.
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  3583. It is because Rowling is an apostate to their ideology. Look at the similarities to Salafism towards apostasy and how the left is treating Rowling. Then ask yourself the more troubling question: is this a non-theistic religion we are dealing with, complete with zealotry?
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  3584.  @scribblerjones  I am glad that I opened your eyes (not awakened, because I hate how that has been bacterized). I hope you can articulate that same point to others as concisely as you did here. And you did a way better job than I did in describing it.
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  3585. The CCP won't allow a sale. People are engaging in wishful thinking.
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  3586.  @beejcarson  On all Florida residents or just Orlando area? Either way, Disney has been abusing its special privileges for 50 years. The tax payers would have paid for it regardless. Only now, the local government gets to have a vote when before they didn't.
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  3587.  @danielallan8061  Only people who refuse to see the parallels in history would think it is a lazy comparison. The rhetoric Putin uses about "Russia for the Russians" is exactly the same as the Austrian Painter.
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  3588.  @moiseshuerta3984  They did NOT have thousands of tanks at the start of the war. And while it is true that they captured many in the Kharkiv offensive, it can hardly be considered enough. The only "fair fight" in war is one where you have overwhelming superiority in manpower and equipment.
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  3589.  @moiseshuerta3984  You are making a distinction WITHOUT a difference there. And I agree that the Panzers were better Tanks than the Soviet Tanks. They just happened to get outnumbered and overwhelmed (Zerging) which did them in.
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  3590.  @-whackd  Part of the problem in the US is that vertical integrated supply chains run afoul of the Sherman anti-Trust statutes regarding monopolies. Standard Oil was broken up in part because it had just as much of a vertical monopoly as well as a horizontal one.
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  3591. All of the legends of Succubi Lamias, Harpies, Gorgons, Sirens, and other female monsters are embodied in Sarsour. No surprise, most of those creatures come from the Greeks after they visited the part of the world she came from.
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  3592. Well, and don't forget that even Adult Swin had its own blunders with anime. Maybe not as bad as some of the others, but they have made some bad choices for purely political/partisan goals and ideals.
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  3593. The Vice President had an obligation to hear the concerns about the election and as a result send the choice to the House of Representatives as the Constitution prescribes. That is what Alex Hamilton did with the Jefferson-Burr dispute in 1800, that is what was done in the disputed 1888 race between Grover Cleaveland and Benjamin Harrison. Pence violated that.
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  3594. Indeed. Most US airports only have a chain-link fence perhaps topped with consintina wire so that in an overrun situation, the fence breaks away safely.
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  3595. Yup, they could have gone with the Two Blues in the East and the South but passed. I guess they don't like the "white savior complex". Nevermind that the two blues could have been played by any race/ethnicity.
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  3596.  @probium2832  It should even be a 7 as both the Kyshtym disaster and the Windscale fire were MUCH worse than Fukushima. Further, most of the leaked radiation from Fukushima was from the waste storage pools, not the core itself.
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  3597. You blame the US after pointing to Zelensky's comments. That is a non-sequitur. The US is tired of war after the disastrous fall of Kabul. The US didn't even want to give Ukraine war material when the invasion started. It was only the desperate defense of Kiev that convinced the US to start backing Ukraine. Your problem is that you refuse to accept that Ukraine has any agency in this fight. The fall of the Afghan National Army or the Failure of the ARVN is what happens when the US backs a side that doesn't want to fight. Why hasn't the UAF folded like they did?
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  3598.  @rawdog314  How? Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005. There was ZERO justification for what Hamas did.
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  3599.  @heythere5817  You don't know that. Even with landing gear deployed, it still might have gone off the end of the runway like the crash at Heathrow.
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  3600. And that is the important part. If he nails the role, it doesn't matter what he looks like.
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  3601. Yeah, Harry chose poorly. Had he married one of the Mikasa princesses of Japan (Yoko or Akiko) they could have lived quite comfortably in the Japanese countryside.
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  3602.  @Bitchen1  Because you regurgitate their talking points on cue like Pavlov's Dog. Who is the Russian asset now?
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  3603. Mercenaries.
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  3604.  @bradevans7935  Try measuring from the Beach south of Melitopol (Stepanivka Persha, specifically) and you will find it is exactly 50miles, right at the range of the DoD's PUBLICALLY acknowledged range for ATACMS.
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  3605.  @baronvonlimbourgh1716  And where did that consumerism stem from? RESPONSIBLE spending resulting from the hardships for which I mentioned. 1950s Americans were not running up massive credit debt on day-to-day luxuries like we are today. They could splurge here and there because they were managing what they had so they could afford those consumerist goods. Again, for someone who complains about others, you show a distinct lack of knowledge about nuance and details that completely blows your neo-communist premise completely out of the water. You accuse us of re-writing history when that is exactly what you are doing with your half-truths that lack CONTEXT.
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  3606.  @blahbruhsikgdesgujgfdvhjvf2804  I agree with you on the microbreweries. There is zero reason to support the transnational brands when there are plenty of local brands one could buy.
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  3607. Lexington and Concorde is what is meant by Militia. They were NOT deputized as the left wants the term to mean.
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  3608. Or told Saint Peter to make an opening in the schedule.
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  3609. That singularity has a name: Roko's Basilisk.
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  3610.  @guvviyulg4821  Are you really interested in having a discussion or are you just here to troll? The DIE philosophy demands that we accept ALL views and perspectives, including those of deviance and perversion. The "diversity" cult demands that we not call out "minor attracted persons" (their words, not mine).
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  3611. Exactly. They are like spoiled children, complaining about the big scary Daddy keeping the wolves at bay.
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  3612.  @Mildain2000  No, it was not. Kokura, the original target of the Second bomb was still a priority.
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  3613.  @Vaeldarg  Just now you didn't debate the merits, you simply used a strawman argument (logical fallacy). You are attacking institutions of power and falsely claiming that it represents the entire faith. That is typical of militant secularist bigoty. And double negatives do exist in language for a reason, clumsy though they may be. Thye are often employed as a rhetorical device. Again, you are not debating merits, you are engaging in logical fallacies as if that somehow makes your position valid. It does not. Unlike you, I am NOT attacking the messenger, I am attacking your message but pointing out the inherent flaws in your arguments.
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  3614.  @Vaeldarg  Talking about rejecting history, you realize that much of the Torah is independently confirmed by Persian, Egyptian, Greek, and Babylonian sources? Cyrus the Great was an actual king, and the high priest of Zoroastrianism. Nebuchadnezzar's conquest of Judea is documented by the Greeks, Egyptians as well as the Babylonians themselves. As to the Gospels themselves, Roman sources confirm that Pontius Pilate was the governor of Judea, and that Herod Antipas was the governor of Galilee and Perea. And the head of the Sanhedrin being Caiaphas is confirmed by Jewish records. And that doesn't even go into what Josephus has confirmed. Do keep in mind that Josephus is considered just as credible as Tacitus, Suetonius, Lucius Cassius Dio, and both Pliny the Elder and Younger. it is clear that you yourself fail to abide by the standards you apply to me. It is YOU who needs to realize that you are engaging in quite a number of chronological fallacies simply because you refuse to accept a message from a specific source.
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  3615. You mean like their counteroffensive list last spring? Put down the Vodka private conscriptovich, you are so drunk you are hallucinating.
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  3616. I'm not sure she is even a Millennial. Those born in the mid 80s are late Gen X. Dana Lousch is Gen X.
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  3617. Just like the Reichstag Fire. A false flag operation.
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  3618.  @ArchonLicht  I am comparing ANY nationalization or government confiscation of private business to Venezuela. The result is ALWAYS the same.
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  3619.  @Rickstartes  And that is the irony. Sony buying up FUnimation and Crunchyroll is them telling the Woke scolds to piss off. I would rather pay for Japanese domestic dubbing rather than from woke Hollywood.
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  3620. Good luck with that. I tried for two years to find a Korean wife while stationed at Osan AB. My experience is that many think they are too good for Western men. Ironic when so many older couples would have loved for me to marry their daughter.
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  3621. An East Asian girl might have worked out. Do keep in mind that they consider raven hair and ivory skin an ideal in that part of the world.
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  3622. I am not a fan of the show, but I agree that Rebecca is hands down a better character than "bestest evar" Rey or REEE-VA.
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  3623. No there wasn't. Yasuke was a RETAINER, not an actually Samurai. Major difference.
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  3624. Indeed. Preparing an amphibious assault larger than D-Day is not going to be easy to hide. And if Taiwan is sounding the alarm bells while it is happening, many folks would NOT blame them for preempting the invasion provided that they only targeted the munitions like Ukraine did early in the HIMARS deployment.
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  3625.  @peterwebb8732  I don't disagree. I think we are on the same page, just looking at different aspects in the lead up to an actual placement of PLA boots on Taiwanese soil.
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  3626. One of the favorite disguises of the great deceiver.
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  3627. That is the very question I have been asking since the sinking of the Moskva. Between the Black Seas Flagship and the Admiral Kuznetsov, I wonder if the nukes will detonate in the silo like they did on K-129.
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  3628. Eh, I was hoping he would take a page from either Long John Baldry (AOSTH) or Jim Cummings (SatAM Sonic). But to each their own.
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  3629. Toxic shipping of the Rey-ylo type.
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  3630.  @Kazeshini25663  Actually, Google does benefit from government intervention. Communication Decency Act of 1996, specifically section 230 is their protections. Without them, Google would have been taken to court years ago. Hell, only now with Prager University is Google finally getting hit with violating the terms of their government protections and now being exposed to the slander and libel litigation that publishers face. Litigation, slander, and libel and the costs associated with that is part of the free-market. It is a critical part of the system that the government all too often interferes with.
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  3631. Indeed. Those who claim politics is a spectrum forget that it is actually a horseshoe. Otherwise the Molotov-Ribbentrop alliance would never have been possible.
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  3632. Part of the problem is that someone close enough to photograph the explosion might not survive to deliver it. Many of the most spectacular pictures taken of the Mount St. Helens eruption did not live once the cloud overran their location. it was the fact that they used their own dying bodies as protection for their film that we have those pictures.
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  3633. Similar story with some of the Italian prisoners held at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indiana. Much like with Russians captured by the Ukrainians, the Italian prisoners ate better as POWs than as soldiers on the front lines. While some went home after the war, a number chose to stay in the US and integrate into the local existing population (gravitating towards the communities of Italian heritage for obvious reasons).
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  3634. Targeted political violence phase of a revolution.
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  3635. Alpha Strike. Or a WELL prepared defense tailored to defeating its specific weaknesses.
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  3636. Perfect analogy!
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  3637. That also assumes that Russia isn't dedicating troops to protect its borders with China and Kazakstan. Those are NOT like the US-Canadian border.
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  3638. He also blatantly ignores that Putin gave Shoigu a more prestigious role in his inner circle. Calling this a firing completely misses the bigger picture.
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  3639. Railroaded? Yup. Ironically, they are making Trump the Nelson Mandela of America.
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  3640.  @epramos6800  You don't know a single Trump voter. You say they want you vote but hate your skin tone? That is liberal-progressive Democrats you just described. Your bling hate of "Orange Man Bad" has made you easily manipulated by those who would exploit you for their own personal gain.
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  3641. Sadly, it often takes martyrdom because the people don't pay attention until such drastic actions occur. It is the apathy of complacency.
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  3642. It is religious zealotry. Once you see the similarities between these radicals and the Salafists in Islam, then everything starts to make sense.
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  3643. "Amateurs imitate, professionals plagiarize," -Attributed to Igor Stravinsky.
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  3644. I agree. IF there is to be a live action with Faye, the actress NEEDS to wear the very same revealing outfit from the anime. Cleavage and pantsu flashing would have to be written into the contract as mandatory.
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  3645. Mary Jo was not available for comment.
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  3646. That sounds a lot like Teddy Roosevelt's "Square Deal". That the employee can do a better job negotiating than any union could.
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  3647.  @AllenAndMarie  I don't blame you. Most of those negotiated "benefits" are simply money laundering schemes.
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  3648.  @edwardjmayer87  That is the most realistic analysis I have heard about war with China in a VERY long time. Too many people have been braggadocios and over reliant on equipment. You however, have put forth a rational, coherent strategy. Or at least operational level plan. Thank you, it gives me hope yet that once these overbearing, over decorated peacocks(Sukhomlinov Effect) who call themselves flag officers have been removed from leadership, more serious and capable commanders can step up to get the job done.
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  3649. Yeah, funny how that works. These people don't contemplate the ramifications of what they intend to unleash.
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  3650.  @Boretheory  One could argue that the only reason why the population was even able to get this large is BECAUSE of capitalism. The breaking of the famine-population cycle which plagued humanity for millennia (called Malthusianism) was a direct result of capitalism in the West.
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  3651. They are not going to win it because they refuse to self-reflect and understand WHY they are losing it. In effect, they are defeating themselves in this competiton.
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  3652.  @fetB  Solar doesn't work when its cloudy out. Yes, hydro-electric dams are great but even the green movement hates them. Nuclear is the only financially viable "green" energy, and that is why France invested so heavily in it when it became available in the 1960s.
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  3653. Indeed. The US NAVY has long talked about "tyranny of distance" in its operations. China does NOT have the logistical chain that Japan was able to use in WW2, much less the American Logistical support of WW2.
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  3654. They are already putting him in for a cushy retirement on our tax dollars.
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  3655.  @antoniomromo  Sure, blame the society rather than hold individuals to account. Blaming society is just a cheap cop-out to avoid taking personal responsibility.
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  3656.  @Obscurai  Yeah, the US tried that with Lyndon Banes Johnson's "Great Society" program. It has been an unmitigated disaster that has made the situation worse, not better. Those social pressures stigmatizing single parent households serve to discourage deleterious and destabilizing factions.
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  3657.  @Obscurai  You are grasping at straws. Korea's population decline has very little to do with cultural contempt for single parent households. You are advocating for societal collapse.
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  3658.  @Obscurai  That is wishful thinking by someone who has zero understanding of the culture. Or of history for that matter. 6,00 years of history from KoChoseon to the Republic and you are trying to claim that a recent development somehow is caused by the very thing that kept Korea a cohesive society against invasions from the Japanese and Chinese. You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. You are clinging to a false belief in neoBolshevism which has only had a track record of destruction as contrasted with Asian conservatism which has thousands of years of stability.
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  3659.  @AWARHERO  Easier than the 235 in the US house and 100 in the US senate. Compared to the uphill battle in the US, 185 seems a lot easier to achieve.
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  3660. @Dustyjazz _ The problem with most wokescolds is that the gay characters they push are solely defined by that one characteristic, namely their sexual orientation and nothing else. Such characters are flat and for lack of a better descriptor, monocrhome. Manga characters who happen to be gay have more to them than just their sexual preference. Often that preference is brought up mostly to create tension with one or more characters, typically the straight ones, and often it is played for humor at the straight characters expense. But the wokescolds can't stand such situational slapstick humor.
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  3661.  @sufianramli8017  Same here. I am no fan of BL, but the ambiguous characters are often the most compelling BECAUSE you don't know for sure. A classic example of less is more. A fan's imagination can fill in the gaps in ways the author never considers. Sadly, that nuance is lost on the alphabet crowd.
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  3662. Yes. To quote Arcturus Mengsk, "I will rule this sector, or see it burned to ashes around me!"
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  3663. Indeed. How many hoax reports from "anonymous sources" have to be proven false for people to realize that "unnamed sources" is NOT credible and is no better than internet gossip.
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  3664.  @HKim0072  Recheck your numbers. The US is still taking in refugees fleeing from authoritarian regimes. The "refugees" you speak of are nothing more than economic migrants. Mexico is NOT communist North Korea. The two are completely different situations.
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  3665.  @josephahner3031  Except counter-battery fire means that they are easily put out of action by enemy targeting systems that calculate faster than your old fashion gunners quadrant.
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  3666.  @Ilovegrunge123  Do keep in mind that they are trying, especially with their "stealth edits" when it comes to the dubbing. Fortunately, MOST of the Japanese studios are telling the woke scolds to go pound sand.
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  3667. What do you mean by "mature" developed economy? The Chinese play fast and loose with that description. Case in point: a "developing" economy doesn't really have the resources to finance a space program. it is a luxury that only a developed economy can afford.
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  3668.  @2KSnSLifestyle  Oh, I am sure that there is a coming economic crisis. Command economies invariably experience a brutal one when they try to control market forces. But I do agree with you that if you are a developing country, you don't have any justifiable reason to build nuclear boomers and carriers.
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  3669. I think it was a combination of factors. Do keep in mind Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty was broadcasting across the Iron Curtain to put the word out in the Warsaw Pact of another option. But to your point, it took the peoples of Eastern Europe to rise up against their Soviet Oppressors. And rise up they did in Budapest 1956, Prague in 1968, Gdańsk in 1970, and all across Eastern Europe in 1989. It took 40 years, but the encouragement from the West most certainly helped them stay in the fight.
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  3670. Don't forget that their financial institutes are a house of cards about to implode.
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  3671.  @paperfart3988  With Soylent Green, Logan's Run, Animal Farm, Gattaca and a few other dystopias added in.
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  3672. I think that yes, for the most part it would, save for having Russia not only return Crimea to Ukraine, but also pay reparations in the form of gas deliveries in place of cash.
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  3673. Maybe. Or it is a case of sour grapes by the partisan hacks. Yes, Aesop is still relevant today.
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  3674. Indeed. I hope the new Samurai Lord from the Land of the Rising Sun clean house and make it into something that the fandom can enjoy instead of being a dumpster fire.
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  3675. Angelina Jolie is a better Jones than Fleabag. Change my mind.
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  3676. Seems like even Marshall Mud will not stop Ukraine.
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  3677. The Deccan Traps were laid down around the same time as the K-T extinction event.
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  3678. I wish he, Ben Carson, and Herman Cain were considered Black Icons alongside George Washington Carver, Madame C.J. Walker, Elijah McCoy, Garrett Augustus Morgan Sr. and Alfred L. Cralle. Barak Obama is not worthy to even hold their coat and act as valet to them.
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  3679. Hopefully one named Mt. Dhoom or something like that?
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  3680. Yeah, funny how nobody had a problem with Joe Bite-Me or Hilrod did that. You whine when Trump does the same thing they did. Your mask is slipping.
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  3681. Agreed. And they were hand selected by Heritage Foundation, a GOP establishment cabal and hack group that cares nothing about the Constitution.
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  3682.  @thoughtsofaveteran  Indeed. His first mistake was picking Mike Pence, a coward and establishment hack. Anyone who knew Pence's record as governor would not have been surprised at his betrayal of Trump.
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  3683. Nelson Mandela was in jail before becoming the president of South Africa.
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  3684. That they are ashamed of their Public Defenders tells you all you need to know about them.
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  3685. Guess they are breaking the youtube algorithm.
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  3686. No, you have zero clue how the legal system works. Time on the statute of limitations does NOT suspend just because he leaves the state. Even Democrat lawyers refute your claims. You are grasping at straws.
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  3687. Zipper problems have always been the bane of people with access to highly classified materials, whether it is politicians or military personnel. For my own, I accepted that I would never get access to such information when I married my Chinese-Indonesian wife. She became a naturalized US citizen in 2016.
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  3688. Volcanic lighting is more common than thunderstorm lightning.
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  3689. Because the institutions have been hijacked by rabid leftists who care nothing for reputation, only about power. Khrushchev was right when he said we would be taken over from the inside.
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  3690.  @Bobby-rq5pe  You insinuated it by calling the NWO a "Jewish conspiracy". Kind of like Ilhan Omar or Rashita Talib do when they crop-dust anti-Semitism. Right up to the line so that you a technically claim you didn't but the context makes it clear what you mean.
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  3691.  @jeremysmith54565  As I said in my first post, it come from Monty Python's Holy Grail. When Sir Lancelot goes to Swamp Castle.
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  3692.  @jeremysmith54565  No worries. Glad to have pointed you in that direction.
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  3693. Agreed. People seem to forget that even Nelson Mandela served time in Jail.
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  3694.  @kickchef3319  Defense of Antebellum South is a defense of slavery. The society and culture of the south was predicated on King Cotton. All other arguments that don't address that elephant in the room are attempts at deflection.
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  3695.  @Rjsjrjsjrjsj  James Earl Carter was a lot worse than Trump. Unless you were born after 1980. But I get it, you have the myopia of tribalism and refuse to believe your lying eyes. "‘Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter (Joe Biden) loses his.’ -Ronald Reagan.
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  3696. 'If You Voted For Biden And Don't Regret It, You're The Problem' - Jake Paul
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  3697. Bakhmut was Stalingrad 2.0, with the Russians playing the Wehrmacht and the Ukrainians playing the Soviet Red Army.
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  3698. Chernobyl hasn't been in operation for over 2 decades. This is just hysteria from the anti-nuclear crowd.
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  3699. Sneako has quite the negative reputation among Vtubers and the Anime crowd. I can totally believe it was Sneako purposely causing mischief.
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  3700. Yeah, something tells me that General Frost will favor Ukraine, not Russia. And the nuclear option is a dangerous one while the air defenses around Moscow and Petrograd have been stripped bare and sent to Ukraine.
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  3701. And that is the beauty of voice acting for anime dubs of western animation. I love the fact that Garterbelt in "Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt" sounds black but is played by a white dude. In the seeming other direction, the best Sonic voice actor in my worthless opinion was Jaheel White. You can play a character that is completely out of your personal life experience and if you have internalized the character's motivation, pull off a convincing portrayal that people confuse the actor for the character.
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  3702.  @DundG  Who said we wanted to exclude them? That is the very problem of the IAU. They DON'T want to include anymore because of their own pride and arrogance. Do keep in mind that Mercury is SMALLER than the moons Ganymede and Titan. By the IAU's size obsession standard, Mercury shouldn't be a planet because those two moons are bigger.
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  3703. Many places follow that logic. In Indiana, that is the one way you can legally get a firearm onto school grounds. So long as it does not leave your vehicle, you are legal.
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  3704. Don't forget Japanese Anime as well as Korean Dramas.
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  3705. As it should. Even a "Anglish" Grino like myself knows that putting an "X" on the end is white washing and absolutely insulting. Hence why this stupido Grino doesn't do it: I have too much respect for both cultures to attempt do that.
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  3706.  @Tha3rdworldghost  The greatest lie ever told is that there is no such thing as evil. Don't fall into that moral relativism trap. Such thinking is what gives rise to some of the greatest atrocities in history.
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  3707. They had a state in Gaza. But then proceeded to hand it over to the Jihadis.
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  3708. Parent company of King Sooper, Kroger is gun free in even red states like Indiana and Texas. They were asking for something like this to happen. Which is why conceal carry is so critical. Kroger/King Sooper doesn't need to know you are packing heat. If nothing happens, then they are none the wiser.
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  3709. Yup, the hubris of man to think he knows everything. Unintended consequences. Someone once said that for every action, there are at least three unexpected ones, with at least one being VERY bad for the person responsible.
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  3710. Agreed. If they can hold the line against what remains of Russia's best, it is all downhill from here.
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  3711. Naw, they will just find a pretext to go in and massacre the people ala the Soviet Red Army.
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  3712. Indeed. Not two months ago they called him a white supremacist and a klansman. Now a police informant? They are getting desperate.
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  3713. How many Frenchmen does it take to defend Paris? Nobody knows, it has never been tried.
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  3714.  @fra604  Actually, in debate quoting a well-known source is the highest virtue. The fact that you chose to resort of name-calling (saying it is stupid) just proves you have already lost the debate. "When debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser," -attributed to Socrates.
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  3715. They tried that when they attacked Israel in 1948, rejecting the UN two-state solution. They tried again in 1967 and 1973, failing both times. The problem isn't that Israel doesn't want to live in peace, it is that the Arabs, particularly the Arabs who call themselves "Palestinian" who refuse to live in peace.
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  3716. The great restraint and scrupulousness of the Ukrainians in attack Russian targets shows that NATO SHOULD let them start using NATO weapons against military targets in Russia.
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  3717. Yeah, there is much talk about trying to stop him when he militarized the Rhineland. Alas, France and England did not want to experience the butchery of World War One (aka the Great War) all over again..
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  3718.  @justmenotyou3151  Isostatic rebound. It is why Scandinavia's shorelines are receding after their ice caps melt. Much of Finland was underwater just 500 years ago.
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  3719.  @prometheusjackson8787  Pot meet kettle. Like a good neo-Soviet mouthpiece, you accuse me of what you are guilty of doing. And again you are trying to deflect from the issue of Moldova and Ukraine with red herrings. STAY ON TOPIC.
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  3720. And that my friends, is a crime of passion. It also falls under murder 2, lacking the premeditation of murder in the first.
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  3721.  @757Poppy  Clearly not.
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  3722. They are doing more than hugging in that field. "Roll in the hay" comes to mind.
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  3723. "Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin good forces have invented or made” -J.R.R. Tolkien
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  3724. Probably. Because Kavanaugh is a coward. So is Roberts.
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  3725. Not possible. Tropical systems don't develop in the Black Sea. And the wind patterns are not conducive for an Atlantic Hurricane to travel across the Mediterranean to that part of the world.
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  3726. The Ocean water quenched the lava. Might also explain why the eruption cloud was so large.
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  3727.  @sunkillsmoon  You are trying to make a distinction where none exists. But then I expect that from wokescolds who don't understand the meaning of words and why it is important. "When words lose their meaning, people lose their lives," -Confucius, author of "The Analects".
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  3728. Oh I hope it goes to court. And the judge tells WOTC that they are trying to copyright public domain materials. Would be a great slap-down.
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  3729. When you spam post like this, it is a sign of desperation.
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  3730. Indeed. Uncle Remus was like a surrogate grandfather, teaching valuable life lessons to young white kids. But the wokistas don't like that scenario one bit. They don't think white kids can learn anything from black folk culture.
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  3731. It would have been safer if they simply went with the apocrypha regarding the two Blue Wizards and ran with that.
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  3732.  @lesmowhomever174  That is not an argument, that is an ad hominin personal attack and a sign that you have no valid argument. “I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” ― Margaret Thatcher
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  3733. The Twitter Staff and Musk seem to be ahead of them but at least Musk is TRYING to salvage the burning wreck.
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  3734.  @thehappyclam3942  Indeed. It is less the pilots and more the ground maintenance crew that need to be trained up.
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  3735. Agreed. The idea they care about their people is as foolish as believing Putin cares about his. There is one goal of the Chi-coms, and that is survival of their political system.
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  3736. The problem is that he will NOT learn from this. If we save him from his own bad choices, he WILL make them again and again. A tiger never changes its stripes, and those who show false remorse when it happens to them will never change. He needs to let his ACTIONS prove his contriteness. Talk is cheap, and BS walks.
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  3737. Funny how you don't apply that to Congress. "The Lady doth protest too much, me thinks," -Queen Gertrude; act 3 scene 2; Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
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  3738. But how far behind schedule was that? And how grossly overbudget? The entire project is some 20 years behind schedule. Meanwhile, the Grippen was designed, tested, and perfected in that same time period.
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  3739. The problem is that Bejing will not let it happen. They want to use North Korea much like how the Soviet used Poland after WW2.
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  3740.  @Ghoxtfire  No, more like Bob Iger started gloating like a villain before his plans were complete. It is practically cliche how often a villainous gloat rapidly becomes a villainous breakdown as his plans come to ruin due to a spanner in the works.
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  3741.  @BeachSamuraiStudios  Yeah, the bats in the market were dumped there by corrupt lab technicians trying to make a few bucks on the side. Seriously, the Wuhan lab has been citied many times before for improper disposal of lab samples. The ONLY appropriate way to dispose of such samples is via incineration at temps well in excess of 1,000 Celsius.
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  3742.  @beringstraitrailway  So? what is your point. Bridges make invasions that much easier. UN forces got pushed south from the Yalu River in late 1950 because Truman refused to let McArthur or any of his successors destroy the bridges over the Yalu.
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  3743.  @callmebigpapa  Buy it up slowly and then dumping it all at once is how you destroy an economy. Deng Xiaoping spelled that out in his 100-year plan back in the 80s. Michael Pilsbury and Richard Murdoch both wrote about Xiaoping's plan in the 90s. But our sell-out politicians didn't care. All they saw was the immediate payout rather than the long-term danger.
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  3744.  @dusanpiscevic6213  "US colonies"? What US colonies? The Philippines was emancipated in 1945 after WW2. Guam, Samoa, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Norther Mariana Islands have all desired to remain US territories. Seriously, stop with this anti-colonialism bigotry. It is just poorly disguised Anglophobia in the same way anti-Zionism is "fashionable" Antisemitism.
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  3745.  @dusanpiscevic6213  When you use the talking points of the anti-colonialism movement (who are flaming communist BTW), you paint yourself as such. I don't need to make assumptions when you condemn yourself with your own words. And putting out a dissertation like that isn't an argument, it is a logical fallacy called proof by verbosity. See also: Gish Gallop.
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  3746.  @theminuskai7453  Obama did nothing about it either, so what is your point other than "Orange Man Bad", which isn't an argument, it is an unhinged derangement.
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  3747.  @theminuskai7453  You act like career politicians don't lie for a living. You don't actually care about shady elected officials, you only care that your political tribe wins by any means. I'm not brainwash, I just don't act hypocritical by pretending that politics isn't anything other than the dirty business it is. "The lady doth protest too much me thinks," -Queen Gertrude; Act 3 scene 2; Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
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  3748. Murder 2 require intent to kill, but lacks the premeditation of murder 1. Some jurisdictions have murder three. I think VOLUNTARY manslaughter is reasonable as he knew damm well his actions were dangerous and yet he still chose to persist.
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  3749.  @hankogle6858  The problem is that all of the flag officers are oath breakers who have forsaken their obligations to the Constitution for the sake of power and prestige. Even the Bird Colonels are compromised as they are seeking that promotion which can only be given by Congress. And the Senior enlisted is also corrupted as many of the E-9s are trying to earn that coveted spot at the top of the enlisted (CMSAF, CCPON, SMA). If you are looking for the military to back a populist uprising, you have to look at the Majors, Lt. Colonels, and O-3 Captains as well as the mid-level NCOs. Those junior to them are too naïve and wet behind the ears to understand the meaning of their oaths. So no, do NOY count on the military, they will be defending those in power. As to who fills the gap in world affairs, that should be obvious: Red China. Mr. Pool constantly talks about Thycluditie's trap. The Chi-Coms have sought world domination since the end of WW2.
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  3750.  @jasonarcher7268  So you think that Ukraine should simply be a puppet state no different than Belarus? How SOVIET of you. The fact that you don't think the Ukrainas themselves should have a say WITHOUT the Kremlin dictating to them shows you are spoiled by living in the West. Ask the Baltic States if they should give up their independence and return to being occupied by Russia.
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  3751. Ruled for thee, but not for me. They never believed in turning down the heat, only ratcheting it up.
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  3752. Yes and no. I agree that threats of violence are not protected, yet the application of that principle has been abused again and again. As for depictions of minors, that is also a slippery slope. Do we destroy a Rembrandt simply because it depicts a nude baby? That was the point of the Ashcroft vs. Free Speech coalition ruling that both sides blatantly ignore. Unlike photography, paintings and cartoons do not document actual child exploitation.
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  3753.  @ukaszOzog-gk6yh  I don't disagree that we should not underestimate them. But do keep in mind that their unmanned assets are actually a reaction to Ukraine, not an innovation.
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  3754.  @Shiftinggers  No, but sometimes you have to acknowledge that there are situations with no good guys. Poland found itself in that position in the 1930s.
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  3755.  @Shiftinggers  There were WMDs. Where do you think Assad got them? You know who supplied them to Saddam? France. And then let us not forget that there WERE Sarin gas artillery attacks on US troops in Bagdad that the media covered up. Bush ALLOWED the trucks carrying those weapons to flee to Syria. Why? So that his Haliburton friends to use it as an excuse to go after Assad. Why do you think the power mongers were so gungho on invading Syria? Don't be so foolish. Why would the Military Industrial Complex destroy Sadam's stockpiles when they could get him to transfer them to another dupe?
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  3756. Or sending the cops to Tim Pool's place.
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  3757. If the Ukrainians forces can take Melitapol, then they can pepper it with HIMARS from the beach.
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  3758. Indeed. Nothing is more devastating that death by flame. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KillItWithFire
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  3759. And that is the point. This is the kind of prosecution you saw under Joe Stalin by the NKVD/KGB.
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  3760.  @coolthief8375  Well, and let us not forget that the government has time and again extended copyright, trademark, and patents out far in excess of their original purpose. Instead of protecting and encouraging innovation and creativity, the laws on infringement are being used to maintain the status quo of the corporate monopolies.
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  3761.  @rachaelbrugmans4309  Surgery for a disfigurement caused by an accident or injury is NOT the same thing. That is a strawman used to justify this bizarre behavior.
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  3762. That description of unions hasn't changed much since the 1920s. They were protecting unproductive workers even then.
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  3763.  @asatru211  That is the irony. America endured another 70 years while he hung from a meat hook. That being said, it would seem Alexander Frasier Tytler's warning about the collapse of Republics first into democracies then into despotisms may still come true.
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  3764.  @A_Jeff  No, you are the pigeon playing chess, knocking over pieces thinking you are accomplishing something. We are counting coup against you.
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  3765.  @SerendipityChild  US Aid expiring in October means that no new material is being pledged or budgeted for. That does NOT mean that what is already pledged and in the pipe is not going to be delivered. That is where you are being disingenuous. There is still at least a year's worth of materials still in backlog. The issue isn't the gear, equipment, and physical stuff being sent. The biggest problem is the pallets of cash being sent to Ukraine much like Obama did with the cash sent to Iran. Ukraine is still as corrupt as it was in the 2000s with companies like Burisma acting as money laundering fronts for corrupt western politicians and their family members like Hunter and James Biden. Even Ukrainian born Congresswoman Victoria Spartz is asking where all of the money has gone.
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  3766. Sick burn!
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  3767. Not with Moscow and Petrograd's air defenses dismantled and sent to Ukraine. Why leave himself vulnerable like that if he plans on using nukes?
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  3768. What was the crime? The was none. Even Real-estate developer Kevin O'Leary says this is fraudulent prosecution.
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  3769.  @Nothingcomestomind124  He is the second largest developer in the US after Trump. It is his business to know what kind of bonds and loans are possible.
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  3770. Even Russia doesn't believe that. Put down the vodka, you are drunk.
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  3771. That wasn't a prayer, that was an invocation to power, a canticle to the prince of hate. it is the very blasphemy that the Nazarene warned about in Luke 11, Matthew 20, and Mark 12.
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  3772. Indeed. People seem to not understand that Japan was a warrior culture. So, death in battle, even a losing one is still a warrior's preferred way to go. The bombs denied them that "clean warrior's" death. And I agree about post-War Japan becoming an economic powerhouse. They seem to have taken a page from the Dutch who change to economic might after their pasting by the British.
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  3773.  @BlackDragoonV7  Yeah, something tells me that is plagiarism and copyright infringement.
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  3774. No, he cannot. You clearly didn't read the ruling that said immunity only applied to OFFICAL duties. Stop parroting DNC talking points on cue like Pavlov's Dog.
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  3775. Or put another way, they don't stay on there for ling. Since marrying my wife after finding her on OKcupid, I am lucky to get on that site once a month. I just don't have a burning need to waste time there when I can spend that time with her.
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  3776.  @travv88  Looking for friends for my wife. She is foreign born and I am trying to find gal pals she can reach out to. But if you bothered to actually read closely, I said I am lucky to be on it once a month. It has been almost a year since the last time I was on. THAT should tell you something.
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  3777. Ironically, he DID create a "citizen army". Just not in the way he planned. World War One Bonus Army Marchers 2.0
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  3778. I think his point is to force it into court. And I hope the courts say "use it or lose it".
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  3779.  @jules4626  Sleep well, sir!
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  3780. You basically described the Washington Naval Treaty.
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  3781.  @ardaybeluday2444  True. Ukrainian and a few of the other Slavic peoples use the Cyrillic alphabet as well. I don't know how much use it has in the Central Asian Republics.
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  3782.  @gingernutpreacher  Honestly? Biden. When he made the money printer go "brrrrr", it made the problem EXPONETIALLY worse.
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  3783.  @TheBigfattuna  You are projecting. But then that is typical of what Vlad Lenin described as "useful idiots".
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  3784. Sure, keep telling yourself that. Just like the Bltizkreig on Kiev was "just a diversion". First Tank Guards, the pride of Moscow is effectively non-existent as of now.
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  3785. Negative Nancy. I think you greatly underestimate the Ukrainian logistical situation. NATO has given them what they need to sustain themselves, with Russia graciously donating the Soviet equipment they need.
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  3786.  @smb-c3po  That's Final Fantasy, not Bhagavad-Gita.
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  3787. About Damn Fracking time!
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  3788. Ukraine can still conduct trench warfare during Rasputisa. Once they make the breakthrough the last line, they can then roll up the trenches and destroy the Russian forces in echelon and enfilade. The big part will be getting enough gravel to lay down roads parallel to those trenches so the vehicles can support the slow trench clearing operations.
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  3789. Two deuces shy of a full Yugi-Oh! deck.
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  3790.  @colinwinogradoff6794  You are lying. or you just don't understand how inflation works. That 401k is LESS valuable today because the devaluation of the dollar means that while on paper it looks great, the actual conversion rate is in the toilet.
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  3791. Didn't work those previous times. We should treat him as we would a rabid animal.
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  3792. And people wonder why the Fort Hood shooting occurred.
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  3793. All of Asian has co-existed? Have you even read a book on Asian History? The continent has only really seen true peace in the last 50 or so years. Whether it is the Chinese and the Japanese, the Vietnamese and the Cambodians, the peoples of Asia have constantly been butchering each other over the millennium.
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  3794. Paul, the Nuclear boomers are MORE significant than silo ICMBs. For one, they are NOT easily targeted. Two, they have much better survival that the other two components of the nuclear triad meaning that they are what guarantees the counterstroke. Three, they can set up practically on the shore of the target being in effect a "little Cuba" Don't belittle nor underestimate the boomer fleet. They are the most reliable nuclear launch platform.
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  3795. Not that they had much intelligence to being with. These guys were more interested in spying on grandmothers than foreign adversaries.
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  3796. Russia leasing Sevastopol is not what keeps Ukraine out of NATO, it was territorial disputes. Same goes for Georgia's application to NATO.
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  3797.  @LasseEklof  Hamas uses civilians as human shields, which explains the higher numbers. That is a critical component you blatantly overlook. Also, Israel has not occupied Gaza since 2005. And they do NOT occupy the Palestinian dominated cities of the West Bank such as Nablus. You are being intellectually dishonest about that.
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  3798.  @LasseEklof  Considering that ALL of the military munitions storage is co-located with civilian structures, you present Israel with an impossible situation, and play right into the hands of Hamas. It is generally accepted that in such as situation, HAMAS, not Israel would bear the responsibility for those deaths. Indeed, that is essentially what happened in WW2 with Monte Cassino. Again, you are not acting in good faith but instead propagandizing to vilify Israel. You are victim blaming.
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  3799. "Social Justice" was also the name of Father Coughlin's regular publishing which apologized for a certain German worker's Party in the 1930s. Nearly 100 years later and it hasn't changed one bit.
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  3800.  @silentvoiceinthedark5665  No, Gerald was adopted. Ford was the name of the man who married his mother. Apparently he connected so well to his step-father that he asked to be formally adopted. No relation to Henry Ford either. Our clan Patriarch was William Ford who shows up in Massachusetts in 1704 out of nowhere. We don't know if he came over on the Fortune from Europe or if he fled from one of the other colonies. Either way, he was trying to get away from his past. His son Robert Ford married Jemima McCallum who was the granddaughter of Malcolm McCallum, a survivor of Dunbar, and one of the lucky 100 who did not get sent to Barbados or Virginia.
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  3801.  @rickrussell579  Sure, as if NOAA is an unbiased source, being part of the government and ran by political partisans looking to finance their pet projects by getting the population panicked over a perceived threat. When they are pushing the theology of man being the cause of climate change, they are priests, not scientists. The Carrington event was the extreme example that EVERYONE points to but how often has it actually occurred. if you believe the government, it should be happening every ten years or so. It does not. Some places are affected while others are not. Stop listening to the fear mongers in government who do NOT have you best interests in mind.
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  3802.  @alastor8091  "Social Justice" was a favored talking point of the German Nationalist Worker's Party. And it was parroted by Vather Charles Coughlin who was often an apologist for "racial awakening" ideology. Dr. Theodore Seuss was right to castigate him for it.
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  3803. The dud rates are also overblown. While Russian dud rates are as high as 35-40%, US cluster dud rates are more like 2%. Major difference that is being conflated.
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  3804.  @wesdowner5636  I think you mean one out of 50, not 48. Numbers matter.
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  3805.  @wesdowner5636  You are moving the goalposts. Percentages are not in 24 or 48. And 2% is actually a rounded number. The actual percentage is closer to 1.56% and as low as 1.32%, which rounds up to 2%. None of that obliviates the fact that the number is so low that the critics arguments against them are an example of what is called statistical murder (which happens to be a logical fallacy based on emotions, not hard logic).
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  3806.  @cyberpunkspike  Hence why Tommy Jefferson hated banking institutions. What is going on with these mutual funds is exactly what Alex Hamilton and Henry Knox were doing in the 1780-1790s. The finance games played by them lead to disproportional taxation and bailouts for the stockjobbers at the expense of the farmers in Western Massachusetts and Pennsylvania leading to Shay's Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion respectively. And it is the exact same games played by brokers in Parliament leading to the Stamp Act which precipitated the American Revolution.
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  3807. I blame the politicians and bureaucrats. Both have their heads up their rear-ends fighting over turf. This could have been resolved years ago but ego, pride, and arrogance of people preoccupied with protecting their little fiefdoms got in the way.
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  3808. Without assimilation, immigration is not a solution. It just replicates the same problems inherent with a caste-based society.
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  3809.  @koushikdas1992  That is the definition of invasion. And the Koreans know full well that from experiencing the Japanese and Chinese forcing their culture on the Koreans every time the two went to war. The US is the ONLY military to have come to Korea, fight a war, and then go home WITHOUT forcing new cultural values on the locals.
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  3810. Are they trying to tie it to Schrodinger's Pantsu?
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  3811. You confused tactical and operational but are otherwise correct. The funnel is tactical -> Operational -> Strategic.
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  3812.  @alchemist889  True. But it is also done but the rich young, not the poor young. Usually because the older generation refuses to entrust them with power. Take a look at the country today and the people who hold power are a whole 20 years older than those who held power just 30 years prior.
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  3813. Horseshoe Theory is true. And the Molotov-Ribbentrop alliance between the Soviets and the Fascists is proof of this.
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  3814. Then explain the Russian drive on Kiev. They could not sustain that.
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  3815. They tried with Lisa Murkowski. But since there is no "sore loser" law in Alaska, she ran as a write-in and won with Democrat support.
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  3816. Or if Yasuke was a recruitable cohort who joined the MC.
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  3817. Draft refusal. The left loved to hold up Vietnam draft dodgers as noble. Time to give them a taste of their own medicine and refuse to fight in their foreign wars.
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  3818. Grifters count on that short memory span. They expect you to save them then they attack you again. Don't be the foolish frog that let the Scorpion ride on his back.
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  3819. All about self-respect. Do they love themselves or do they put the opinions of others before their own needs?
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  3820. Indeed. Sovereign power of the State as the Federalist Papers described. Disney can't do shit. To use an analogy from "The Slayers" Anime, Disney thinks it can use Ruby-eye Shabranigdo's "Dragon Slave" spell against him. "Help me kill you" as Lina Inverse put it.
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  3821.  @cidsephtis2273  I agree. Never take anyone's word at face value. ALWAYS do your due diligence and research the subject.
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  3822. I don't think you understand what a Sigma Male actually is. Sigma don't care about being popular, nor do they seek power. They are the quintessential "Lone Wolf". On both counts Putin fails to meet the definition of a Sigma Male.
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  3823. Sneako can't take on the vtuber and anime crowd, what makes you think he can take a security guard to court?
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  3824. No joke. They seem to conveniently forget that La Malintzin was Cortez's mistress. They castigate her as a race traitor yet she is nominally the mother of all Latinos despite having no surviving descendants.
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  3825. Just like Biden eh?
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  3826. Indeed. Before 1945, Pharaoh was the icon of despotism, tyranny, and evil. Then a certain Austria painter took that crown. I hope these guys eclipse that German Chancellor.
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  3827.  @6thsense79  While I don't disagree about corporate hacks manipulating tax law to benefit them, ALL attempts to have a "progressive" tax structure makes the inequality WORSE, not better, which is what the neo-feudalists want. Attempts to "spread the wealth" and directly fight income inequality ALWAYS makes it worse, not better. Income inequality will ALWAYS exist as effort is the primary factor in a truly open and free market (namely, one that has ZERO government intervention).
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  3828. And that is the kicker. When you have actual feminists push back how these freaks are co-opting their struggle, the left chooses the most extreme position because they don't actually care about women's suffering, they only care about attaining power.
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  3829. Apples to oranges false analogy. Gaza has been an independent nation since the IDF pulled out in 2005. Hamas has ZERO justification for this. Also, do your Indian independence movement indiscriminately kill women and children? You insult Ghamdi which such comparisons.
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  3830. Better that it becomes a shill for Kadokawa products than the dumpster fire it currently is attacking the fans and trashing the medium.
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  3831. RICO statutes. The most under prosecuted crime in the country.
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  3832. The Earth doesn't even notice us. We are a blink of an eye to her 4 billion years of existence.
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  3833.  @Man-vs-Metal  Not true. THey sold all of their IP to Disney but the News agency is still owned by the Murdocks. The problem is that the two sons are flaming liberals. THey want Fox to become another MSNBC. Rupert should have put Wendy Deng in charge instead; she was a media mogul in Hong Kong and Taiwan after all.
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  3834.  @ppp123asdf  Social Credit Score. The CCP wants to know who will be collaborators and who will be trouble when they take overt action.
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  3835. Should have had "Puff the Magic Dragon" as the ending theme when Andy walks away as Bonnie is playing with Woody. "A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys Painted wings and giant's rings make way for other toys One gray night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more And Puff, that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane Without his lifelong friend, Puff could not be brave So Puff, that mighty dragon, sadly slipped into his cave" -Third Verse of "Puff the Magic Dragon" by Peter Paul and Mary.
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  3836.  @sonneh86  Poland IS the top provider in Europe, bar none. The UK is number two. Your numbers are a shell game to make yourself feel better about Europe's dithering. "Figures don't lie, but liars figure," -Mark Twain.
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  3837.  @sonneh86  Mine come from Perun's defense logistics channel. He aggregates the data and doesn't just rely on one single source.
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  3838. Yeah, Paul calling them "questionable" for successfully pinning Russian military power and grinding it down shows his lack of vision and foresight. He can't seem to see the forest for the trees.
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  3839.  @ImGodSoAreYou  How? The Sagan Standard (Philosophical Razor) states that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Hitchen's Razor says that which is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. Put up or shut up. And circumstantial hearsay isn't evidence.
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  3840.  @ekaterinalokshina2043  "Crimea voted to stay in the USSR in 1991. But they were betrayed." You mean like how the people of Iraq voted for Saddam at 98% of the votes cast? Or Kim Jong Un getting 99% of the votes cast in his election? Spare me you Kremlin talking points.
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  3841. Agreed. Anything less than there total annihilation would be viewed as they defeating the decadent West. That being said, the US should NOT get too involved in Yemen. Coordinate the actions of local forces, but the US does not need to waste blood and treasure in a part of the world that provides nothing of value.
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  3842. Agreed. The Twatters are engaging in Potemkin Village antics.
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  3843. A circle of jerks as Mr. Pool once said.
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  3844. The problem is that most on the left do NOT believe in a creator deity, much less any divinity at all. Many are existential nihilists who are so miserable in their spiritual emptiness that they want to watch the world burn.
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  3845. I agree. All or nothing. None of this middle ground special treatment crap.
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  3846.  @catherinehanson1106  The "honorary white" was first used by the Klan and other racists in the 1870s in response to Japan's rapid modernization during the Meiji period. It was later picked up by others such as South Africa during apartheid, and Brazil in the 1970s. Of course, Wikipedia has completely removed that context and claims that South Africa came up with it exclusively. Creates an interesting dichotomy where in the 30s before the attack on Pearl Harbour, the white supremacists hated Jews who were white, while begrudgingly respected Japanese. Such cognitive dissonance is just as apparent today.
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  3847. Raise the Jolly Rodger!
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  3848. Sounds to me they have a similar problem as Russia, namely the development of an NCO corp. That is going to be a major problem especially as Mainland China has spent the last 20 years nurturing one.
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  3849. It is because the people bitching are neo-Bolsheviks. They refuse to admit that their ideas suck and will not sell, so they seek to tear down the successful and blame "capitalism" rather than admit their own shortcomings.
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  3850.  @01Sassoon  The problem is that Logistics didn't win Afghanistan. Generals like Donahue forgot how to actually fight a battle and lost because tactics CAN be employed to defeat logistics. The whole rock-paper-scissors meaning you need ALL parts working otherwise logistics alone won't save you.
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  3851. Indeed. European nations subsidize their businesses against American producers. That grants them an unfair advantage in trade.
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  3852.  @unknownpersonofinterest  I agree on most of that. We desperately need spiritualism in our institutions, not secularism which has become a non-theistic religion all of its own. And that secularism is engaging in a religious inquisition no different that the Spanish one and with the same zealous fervor. We the people of faith, despite irreconcilable differences in doctrine should none the less put aside those ecclesiastical disagreements and unite against those who would annihilate us all. Let not matters of faith be the vehicle of our destruction by the existential nihilists.
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  3853.  @drzavnalutrija  You don't seem to realize that international law is nothing more that what people agree to recognize. And it is only their force of arms that upholds those agreements. To your bloviating point, for 30 years ALL of the world recognized Taipei as the legitimate Chinese government. Even the USSR agreed to that. That only changed because the US chose to recognized Beijing after Nixion visited. Then everyone changed to conform to that. Jerusalem was NOT recognized as the official capital of Isarel until Trump changed US policy and then suddenly the rest of the world stopped calling Tel Aviv the Israeli capital and acknowledged Jerusalem as the official capital. As far as the UN, the ONLY reason why it continues to exist is because of the US. The minute the US chooses to boot them from their compound in New York City is the moment the organization implodes just like its predecessor the League of Nations did. Learn your history.
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  3854. Unfortunately the Soviet Union took those words to heart and in their abject fear of the people, seek to oppress them. Red China took that lesson as well. Now our own government who fears its people is trying to oppress them. "“A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." ― John F. Kennedy
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  3855. The value of nukes is in their deterrence. Use them and they lose about 80% of their effective power. Someone unfazed by threats of first nuke against them will not be stopped once they have been used.
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  3856.  @Kerea09  Eh, I doubt it. They prevented Gabbard from being on the stage but put Jamaica Kamala on. By hook or crook they will make sure Biden and her are the last ones standing before knifing him in the back. She has less baggage than Warren and so they think she can be an easier sell.
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  3857.  @Kerea09  I think all of them are going to get demolished which is why the donations for most of the candidates are so pathetic. The financiers know it is a lost cause. And when the monied interests are not exercising their power, then it falls to the activists and the loudest voices to call the shots. While I acknowledge the merits and logic of your arguments, I just don't think that logic will be what drives the primaries. They have already shown habit of doubling down on stupid. I expect that to continue.
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  3858. The elitists in Washington certainly TRY to centrally plan the way the Soviet Politburo did. A pesky little think called innovation keeps getting in the way. The Shale Oil Fracking boom in particular threw a wrench in their plans.
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  3859. I tend to agree. if you cast a minority actor for a role where his or her relatives were played by white actors and actresses, most audiences and fans would accept a handwaved explanation on the grounds that said actor or actress was indeed the best person for the role. There are so many ways you could explain it away in a high fantasy setting.
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  3860.  @maggiemae7539  The Chinese tried to screw around in the Solomon Islands, but it blew up in their face (no pun intended).
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  3861. Indeed, they are not "mainstream", they are LEGACY. And they should disappear into the mist of legend.
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  3862. The Russia Soviet dominated the USSR. Nearly all decision making came from the Kremlin rather than the local Commissariat.
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  3863. Liberate JUDEA. Palestine is a word invented by the Romans to erase Jewish history of JUDEA.
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  3864. @reeva5735 WRONG. The plane touched down in the MIDDLE of the runway. There is no "right way" to land as it is WIND that determines takeoff-and landing direction. Also, if the plane went into the bay, it would have been like the Miracle on the Hudson River. Stop making excuses for a dangerously designed airport.
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  3865. Kneon and Geeky, when you mention the people who are abused by Disney and still go back to them, there is a VERY apt description of that co-dependent behavior: Abused Spouse Syndrome. It has much in common with Stockholm Syndrome. And I agree that many people have such an abusive relationship with something they fanatically hold dear.
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  3866. Because the word fits the situation.
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  3867.  @primmakinsofis614  Unions have always been ideological. There is a reason why folks often accused them of being communist front groups.
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  3868. Agreed. The Chernobyl exclusion zone shows that extinction is highly unlikely. And nuclear weapons produce short decay products unlike a nuclear fizzle of a reactor core accident.
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  3869. I disagree. The Ukrainians should NOT endanger Russian citizens but instead make it absolutely clear their dispute is with Putin and the Kremlin, not the Russian people. If doing that means helping the local population with small acts of kindness such as refilling someone's tank of gas who ran out.
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  3870.  @asmo1313  I'm not sure that is the answer either. However, making the military base outside of Moscow a smoking crater WOULD be a good response.
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  3871. I think you need to reexamine your claim. A US company can be a small as a local game store. There are still more brick and mortar companies than there are virtual ones.
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  3872. I would not be so quick to hate on all of the Russians. The foreign legion has a cadre of Russian dissidents who are fighting alongside Ukraine. They are the "good" orcs, as it were.
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  3873.  @louisecorchevolle9241  How about you make a coherent argument instead of emotional outbursts?
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  3874. Indeed. It is the corium that was created when the meltdown occured.
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  3875. I would be ashamed to own stock in "Child nookie Network"
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  3876.  @jimmywest8684  Because other countries have a stabbing problem instead. When guns are banned, people resort to knives, tire irons, and other implements of destruction. Seriously, stabbings are FIVE TIMES HIGHER where guns are banned.
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  3877.  @jimmywest8684  You numbers are cherry picked. First, you did NOT differentiate gun violence from other kinds of violence. You are trying to be clever by half. Then you ignore that some violent crimes which do not result in serious injury (such as fist cuff fights) are not reported. You are a totalitarian shill who wants a disarmed population so you can exploit. A disarmed population is easier to abuse.
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  3878. PWA has some great jokes about the EMU shadow government down under. And the Laser Kiwis.
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  3879.  @flynick  But how easily do you pull one out? Whether a knife or a gun, knowing the most appropriate time to use it is critical. While a bladed weapon is more effective within 50 feet, most people would not pull out a knife as their first go-to. Further, a woman can be easily disarmed of a bladed weapon by a 250 lb. man. A gunshot wound will more immediately stop a mugger than a knife stab.
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  3880. False information. Oryx reports only one HIMARS damaged (not destroyed). The vodka you are drinking has been poisoned.
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  3881. Exactly. These people are so drunk on their own self-importance and smugness that they can't be bothered to actually "war game out" their own theories.
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  3882. Indeed. Once a trial has started and opening statements have been made, it violates due process to admit new evidence that only one side has been privy to.
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  3883. I think zealot better describes these freaks.
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  3884. And if you can't get rid of them in the primary, vote against them in the general election. A vote for a libertarian is more honorable and principled than supporting a RINO just because you don't like the other side.
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  3885.  @rickyratcomics  Thank you. I can[t tell you how many times conservative make excuses for voting in a RINO over a Democrat. In a Red state like Indiana, we can afford to let a Democrat win one term because there is a high probability that the Democrat will get tossed out next term. Yet the Tea Party folks don't want to even try that.
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  3886. Practically quoting Teddy Roosevelt's "hyphenated American" speech right there.
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  3887. The one China policy was always dumb. There are two Koreas but only one Korean people. There are 56 different ethnicities in China as well as the historic warring states period and yet this myth about one China remains. Taiwan is an independent Chinese Republic very similar to the Lanfang Republic of Borneo.
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  3888. So why is anyone even trying to put it out? Let the feces burn itself out.
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  3889. @ See, you are looking at it from the ARMCHAIR GENERAL position. A military and an Army in particular is a UNIT, A TEAM, not an individual. A single multi-talented person can't hold off an entire invading force. We need people who can be cohesive, NOT everyone only thinking about themselves.
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  3890. Indeed. He fulfilled his obligation to the Oath of Hippocrates. Those going after him are flaunting that oath.
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  3891. And I blame our flag officers for allowing that sorry state to occur. They cared more about their promotion and prestige than doing what was right for the military and for the country. They are oath breakers.
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  3892. "Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin good forces have invented or made”- J.R.R. Tolkien
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  3893.  @greghenrikson952  Today the "shore batteries" would be Neptune and HIMARS launch platforms. The description is still valid.
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  3894. Perun looked into Russian production capacity and the fact is, the Russians are NOT able to keep up with the attritional losses. The T-80 tanks are now an extinct species having been replaced by either a few T-90s or by refurbished T-72s. The mid-grade gear has already been grounded to dust leaving only the new and the very old left.
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  3895. Could be possible it was damaged by the tsunami. Under the surface, there is much turbulence that goes undetected.
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  3896. The fact that the bridge sections were lifted up and sideways is indication that the explosion was UNDER the deck, not above it.
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  3897. Not is it not. Even Democrat lawyers say that you cannot count each transaction as if it were a separate crime. How about you try reading the RICO statute before you speak in complete ignorance.
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  3898.  @mattburns8839  Thank you for proving that you don't actually have an argument worth making. If auto-correct putting in the wrong word is the best you can do, you have already lost the debate. Learn to debate as well as to code. “I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” ― Margaret Thatcher
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  3899.  @livingtribunal4110  Yeah, you sure showed me. Try actually debating what I said rather than acting like a seal barking and clapping after getting a fish.
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  3900. Yeah, I kind of wish Toei had the rights to D&D cartoon. They are who animated it after all.
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  3901. Don't forget First Officer William McMaster Murdoch. Cameron made him into a complete arsehole and a murder-suicide while the real man made sure as many people got on the lifeboats as possible (Women and Childre FIRST rather than ONLY). Many of the men who survived that night was because of his more reasonable stance as contrasted with second officer Charles Lightoller who would not allow any man except White Star oarsmen into the lifeboats. Sorry for my rant. Cameron made the wrong man the villain with regards to filling the lifeboats.
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  3902. Family name of Castro. Think about that for a bit.
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  3903. How do you know a politician is lying? Their lips are moving.
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  3904.  @username65585  Clearly you did not because the Ohio AG cited it for us. That is if you bother to actually pay attention.
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  3905. Perhaps you should stop propagandizing. It is clear you hate the West.
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  3906. "murica!" I like your idea. Unabashedly American Founders iconography.
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  3907.  @junkeatng  Land wise, yes. Share of the international market, not so much. You really think that 75% of the worlds nations which together account for less that 50% of the world's total trade are going to be a big enough offset? You are smoking some pretty strong reefers if you think so.
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  3908.  @Flynn_Stones  Twitter is just as flighty as the bird it emulates.
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  3909. She is a pigeon that thinks it is playing chess.
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  3910. Read Michael Crichton's speech about consensus in science. He Lambasts the medical field for their numerous blunders.
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  3911. I hope they run it full speed into the ground (controlled flight into terrain).
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  3912. I would argue that burning down Twitter is just as important to human survival as space travel. Social media has become a net negative on stability in the world, and the people previously running Twitter were purposely throwing gas on the fire.
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  3913. More to do with understanding how stars operate and exist. Knowing the characteristics of our star makes it easier to look for other stars capable of hosting life.
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  3914. "Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin good forces have invented or made”- J.R.R. Tolkien
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  3915.  @Student0Toucher  Precisely.
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  3916. And that is a bad thing how? Let the stans suffer. And the alternatives who offer a better product than Disney will benefit as they should.
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  3917.  @ElliotMess  No he won't. He cannot defy both Congress AND the SCOTUS. When those two are united, the POTUS can't refuse.
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  3918. Agreed. As the Marines teach, if there is a failure, it is the fault of the leadership.
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  3919. No joke. We are on the proverbial Titanic.
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  3920.  @alexmanzanares200  Learn how to debate. If you have to make a dissertation, then you have not made an argument, you have engaged in the very fallacies I pointed out. Proof by verbosity is used to prevent people from being able to make an argument by drowning it out with long winded speeches, which is exactly what you are doing. "“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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  3921.  @alexmanzanares200  First, your use of "TERF" is an ad hominin. As it your repeated use of "homophobe". Using insults and disparagements like that doesn't make your point, it simply discredits you. As for her financial support, she has been backing women's support groups, for BIOLOGICAL women, not men pretending to be female. That you take issue with that shows your own bigotry and sexism. As for being friends for decades, well, that is yet again failing to prove a point. Gamer groups get together all the time and have wildly different political beliefs, but they share a love of the game. You have made no point other than to prove you are acting in bad faith. You don't care about logic, facts, or details, the only thing that matters to you is that your tribe wins.
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  3922.  @alexmanzanares200  Can't help yourself with the long dissertations, can you? Yes, TERF IS a slur used only as a disparagement because NOBODY uses it to describe themselves. And it is absolutely fair to compare it to other insults used in the same fashion. Again, you are not debating, you are engaged in scurrilous gutter sniping and grandstanding. You are not arguing logic, reason or facts, you are making emotional appeals (logical fallacy).
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  3923.  @alexmanzanares200  I get that you think you HAVE to be right, even if that means succumbing to the original position fallacy. You have clearly lost the plot.
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  3924. Heinz Guderian always argued for combined arms. The German Blitzkrieg was basically CAS backing up tanks and infantry.
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  3925. I wish more folks had the nuanced perspective you have. Too often I hear people chastise Israel while ignoring the insincerity of the Arabs who call themselves Palestinian. Has Israel over-reached? Certainly, but one also has to acknowledge that since their founding they have literally fought for their very existence. That tends to make people go to further extremes than they would if they didn't perceive an existential threat.
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  3926. @nmurphy2212 Trump isn't a criminal either. None of the charges are convictions, which means he is innocent until PROVEN guilty. The analogy still stands.
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  3927. You are ignoring the fact that Poland and the Baltic States joined of their own accord. And so has Finland and Sweden. If Russia didn't menace their neighbors, they would not have felt a need to join up.
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  3928. I agree. I was not the fastest on my middle school cross-country team. There were many girls who could outperform me. I did it more for the pleasure of simply running and I appreciated the ladies who could help me maintain a consistent pace. If that happened to make them better runners during competition, that was good for all involved, and it was never a direct competition when I ran with the ladies.
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  3929. Dilettantes and posers. Yeah, that describes the crowd Amazon is pandering to.
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  3930.  @ARVINDKUMAR-dt1iy  And so quickly you forget about OTHER colonial powers in the world. Have you so quickly forgotten Japanese colonialism? How about Chinese colonialism BEFORE the 1700s? Zheng He's "treasure fleet" was all about projecting power and colonizing for China's emperor. Or how about the Muslim colonization of Iberia by the Moors? Or the colonization of Africa by the Arabs? Spare me your moral outrage, you are just grandstanding for your own ego.
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  3931. Red Star Rogue scenario you just described. The Soviets may have tried that in the 1960s with K-129 attempting to nuke Pearl Harbor and blame it on the Chinese.
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  3932. @TimPoolWithoutTheBeanie Ever heard of the "Boy who Cried Wolf"? Yeah, that is in play now.
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  3933. Bonkers, isn't it? Marshall Zhukov would not have failed as spectacularly as these guys have.
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  3934. Governor Abbott Californicated his state when he welcomed all of those people from California.
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  3935. Let the house of mouse burn to the ground.
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  3936. And the irony is that the Kreigsmarine (save for Dontez) was actually rather anti-Nazi. And they along with Erwin Rommel conducted themselves with the upmost dignity and honor expected of Sailors on the High Seas. Just read about Gunther Prien (Bull of Scapa Flow) fishing men out of the water and flagging down neutrals to take on the survivors of the ships he torpedoed.
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  3937.  @DavidHalko  Don't forget that as Hamas and Hezbollah gain in influence as proxies of Iran, that pushes the other Arabs into closer relations with Israel.
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  3938. Considering that Zelensky was used as a campaign prop, he SHOULD be looking uncomfortable. Despite the overall anti-war position of Trump supporters, many are actually VERY sympathetic to Ukraine's plight. They just don't want American blood spilled over the whole affair. Zelensky shilling for Que-mala greatly damaged that sympathy.
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  3939. So he is the textbook example of a professional grifter.
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  3940. @ Well, then that should show you how much credibility I put in his singularity theory, because it is simply repackaged just like "Dark Energy" is simply a rebranding of the Eather Theory of Energy.
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  3941. Don't forget that the establishment really wanted Jameca Kamala only for Tulsi Gabbard to knock her out. And when Biden became their guy, they forced the one person NOBODY wanted as the VP on their base.
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  3942.  Capitalist Pig  I agree. And conservatives will simply roll over and take it because their beloved GOP tell them to. The nation is lost because as Edmund Burke said, "All that is required for evil to thrive is for good men to do NOTHING." Conservative activists do nothing. Conservatives politicians do nothing.
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  3943.  keith moore  That is the kicker, California and many other blue state prisons are overcrowded BECAUSE they have minimum sentencing which often add years for misdemeanors. The biggest problem has less to do with punishments are more to do with feckless judges and prosecutors.
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  3944. And it wlll take at least one season for that to happen with how large the area is. I predict this war will go on for at least another year.
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  3945. Manchild is nothing new. THey have just been coddled too much these days.
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  3946. Glad you pointed out that devastating disease affecting the cannibals of Melanesia and Micronesia.
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  3947. It isn't. They are what Orwell was talking about when he said the more the talk about freedom, the louder their chains are rattling.
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  3948.  @WildWolfheart23  Indeed. Pay attention to what they are learning and supplement. The trick is, how to teach them to hold their tongue. There is a temptation to voice dissent by a child who had learned something from their parents that runs counter to the indoctrination. How do you get the child to resist the mental programing and not actively try and refute it? That is the problem I know I am going to face with my two boys in the public school system.
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  3949. Do you even know what goes into making Lithium-Ion batteries? Just look up how they source Cobalt in Africa for it.
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  3950.  @vez3834  The Russian Bear is GERIATRIC!
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  3951. You posting the exact same comment as elsewhere only shows you are Pavlov's Dog. Who is the Russian asset now?
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  3952. Interestingly, the Anime Spice and Wolf delves into this kind of trading between Kraft Lawrence and Amarti in the iron-pyrite arc. A hard lesson about market manipulation, but one more digestible by the population at large. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imejnozdcuI
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  3953. As Gorky said in Lower Depths, "Miserable creature must find MORE miserable creature, then he is happy".
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  3954.  @Raya-ir4tm  You realize that JFK was a Lt. in the US Navy during World War 2? He WAS in active combat during the Pacific campaign. Not that you would be aware of his career.
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  3955. Agreed. Let them smother themselves in their own exhaust. Instead, he have given them a new fuel line.
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  3956. "Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin good forces have invented or made” -J.R.R. Tolkien
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  3957.  @stephenglover8828  Thank you. My previous post pointing out that he was promoted out of the MoD to another position in Putin's inner circle got deleted.
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  3958.  @u2beuser714  Actually, it is a VERY accurate analogy. Because it DOES quantify unknows such as the unpredictability of irrational human behaviors. I failed to see you provide a counter-example which means than my point still stands. Try using an ACTUAL argument instead of emotional outbursts.
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  3959.  @animezilla4486  In the original 80s snow, no there was not. In today's remakes and reboots, you bet your bottom there is. The fact that she had to explain to her cousin's children is proof of that.
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  3960. Good catch. Most people don't realize that much of the radiation from Fukushima came for the waste storage pools. I am glad you pointed that out with regards to this power plant.
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  3961. Yeah, I suspect the reason why he is making propaganda clips for the CCP is because his son is facing prison for drug trafficking charges. "Indeed, as a policeman, I would say, get hold of a man's brother and you're halfway home." -Yevgraf, "Doctor Zhivago".
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  3962. Loiter time over the target. Also, the resolution is much better from 60,000 feet.
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  3963.  @rehabwales  You would be surprised. Not everyone in the West is monolithic. Take the contrast between Neville Chamberlain and Winston Chruchill. There are MANY politicians in the west who are no different than the infamous appeaser.
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  3964.  @dahuterschuter  I did too. It seemed to capture much of Raiders in the way Temple of Doom failed. My biggest gripe with Crystal Skull (other than the ancient aliens shtick) was that it did not feature Sallah or Short Round. In particular had Short Round been in it, they could have played up sibling rivalry; the Asian step-son who went to college and became respectable vs the delinquent biological son.
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  3965. Sadly. He revealed that when he took AOC's word at face value and had to spend the entire day yesterday backtracking.
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  3966. Who is not properly enforcing Title 9? Why are these organizations being rewarded for flouting that statue?
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  3967.  @andrehashimoto8056  You are correct. it is already a zombie that needs to be put down. I hope the Japanese can do that. Heck, maybe even have a Miko character doing the metaphorical exorcism.
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  3968. Tacitly, they have made gains, but on a strategic level, they have lost spectacularly. NATO is not more united than they have ever been since the 1980s. More members, and now with Finland as a member, Russia is even MORE vulnerable.
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  3969.  @venkate5hgunda  Lady Tremaine was more principled than the freaks running the show at Disney. She understood subtly and nuance and wielded her power over others like a scalpel. They use that same power like a cudgel. In that, she is much more respectable.
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  3970.  @pwillis1589  You are trolling.
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  3971. I take claims of Russians destroying Patriot batteries as seriously as I take their reports of destroyed HIMARs and Bradleys.
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  3972. The devil is always in the details. Part of the problem is that the organization who loses the contract bidding can and does sue the government and it is the major reason for the cost overruns and logistical backups.
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  3973.  @KoguryoKid  Yup. Both the Korean government and Jeju Air want to avoid the court directed investigation for internal documents, particularly regarding fidelity to safety measures (or lack thereof) as well as the approval process for the construction of the cement wall a mere 150 meters from the end of the runway.
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  3974. GITMO complies with the Geneva Convention. If anything, the prisoners there should be executed as spies and Saboteurs. Try actually reading what the statute prescribes.
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  3975. In practice, not much difference. Unions back in the day were very much in bed with the Mafia and organized crime.
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  3976.  @demigod1013  Criticism of Israel is tacitly consenting to everything Hamas does. The IDF is THE MOST RESTRAINED military in the world. No other force has EVERY purposely tied its dominate hand behind its back the way they do. Oh, and holding Israel to a completely different standard than Hamas is blatant antisemitism. PS, you insult only shows you know you have lost the argument. "When the debate is lost, slander become the tool of the loser," -attributed to Socrates.
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  3977. I guess you have never heard of cruel and unusual punishment. I guess you blatantly ignore the fact that the "crime" has never before been prosecuted in this fashion. Nor that there has NEVER been a bond issued in the amount that is being demanded of him. Your problem is that you don't actually care about justice, only that your tribe winds at any cost, even if it means burning the nation to ashes around you.
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  3978.  @Baron_Blue_Max  I agree. He can spend his hard earned cash however he choses to, more power to him. But authoritarians on the left don't agree with that viewpoint. "Consumer protection" has less to do with protecting people and more to do with telling them what they can and cannot do with their own money.
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  3979. Indeed. That is what Louie Gomert said when the SCOTUS rejected his case.
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  3980. Um, it is in Article 2 of the US Constitution, genius.
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  3981.  GNnisa orobo  Indeed. The Woke garbage has created a vacuum that Japanese Anime and Korean Dramas are filling. And I am cheering because we should be taking a page from them rather than Europe.
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  3982.  GNnisa orobo  Yes, most Anime female characters are quite interesting, with character types that run the gamut. This is especially true of the Harem genre. Though they hate it, the battle harem genre in particular destroys the leftist claims about men not liking strong women. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BattleHarem
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  3983.  @tigervalley62  I have heard some of those arguments before and they fall flat. There is nothing Americanized about the Soviet System. There was nothing Americanized about Deutsche Nationalsozialistische. The "hybrid monster" as you call it has changed very little from the monstrosities of the early 20th century. And while HISTORICALLY those countries have been ethnic in origin, it is not nearly the case today. England brought in many from former Crown Colonies, particularly from Asia. France has basically thrown open the doors to Algeria. And Germany has heavily imported Turks. As far as "never colonized", I think the Vietnamese would tell a different story with regards to the French. And a number of Crown colonies would say the same about England. Germany is something of a odd-ball as they were late to the party with regards to the mad scramble for Africa. And even the Dutch of Holland have an interesting history with Indonesia. The Spanish have one with the Philippines before the US took it in 1898. The Belgians certainly have a history with Zaire. So to say "never really colonized" is ignoring plenty of history. I never subscribed to the anti-colonialist movement, but to say Europe was not a colonizer is ignoring history. Just like it is ironing history to say the Chinese did not colonize before the Age of Exploration(Age of Sail/Age of Discovery).
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  3984.  @PaulVandersypen  Despite their mother being first generation? Oh, and PEW Research defines First generation as the ones naturalized, with 1.5 being foreign born children who are naturalized while still underage. The Japanese even have names for them: Issei, Neisei, Sansei, Yonsei, and Gosei. (literally one, two, three, four, five)
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  3985. I think most of us are wanting Truck-kun to send us to an Isekai world.
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  3986. Because numerical superiority can overcome force multipliers like terrain, tactics, and equipment. That is how Marshal Zhukov was able to advance despite incurring massive casualties inflicted by the Wehrmacht against the Soviet Red Army.
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  3987.  @ZELJKO472  Most Olympic games put the cities that host them into a financial hole that lasts for decades. The governments that host them often follow those municipalities into financial insolvency.
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  3988. Bingo!
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  3989. Basically have that already when incumbents are re-elected at 98%. They just don't want to own up to it anymore. And the progs are stupid enough to buy it. "Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome," -Marcus Tullius Cicero to Brutus before the assassination on the Ides of March.
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  3990. I agree with all except for the testing part. Hiroshima was the location of an Army barracks used to train newly conscripted soldiers making it a valid target under the Law of Armed Conflict. Further, Nagasaki was the primary munitions production site, with ALL of the torpedoes used by the IJN and most of the artillery shells having been produced there. Munitions production is also a legitimate military target under LOAC.
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  3991.  @karineroumache9124  Your questions are an example of presentism (chronological fallacy). You are judging their actions based on today's standards which is an inappropriate way to analyze that situation. By the laws in place for that time (both American and international), it was absolutely justified. And yes, they did test the trinity device before they dropped it on Nagasaki.
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  3992.  @karineroumache9124  Nothing wrong with asking questions with the purpose of gaining a better understanding. I applaud that. Sadly, most discussions of American use of nuclear weapons degenerates into insipid recriminations and loaded questions rife with anachronistic claims. To your first question, the US had already used large scale incendiary weapons in Tokyo. Compared to that, the use of nuke was actually LESS destructive than the firebombing. As for legislation, there was none specifically regulating the use of nukes and so their use actually fell under the auspices of the local commanders. They just happened to choose to defer to the POTUS, setting the standard by which modern nuclear use doctrine follows.
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  3993. Let it burn. They wanted it when they voted in these people.
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  3994. Indeed. The role of the public defender is the argue the defense of those that are reviled. And for the critical role those Public Defenders serve, they are just as hated as the clients they defend.
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  3995.  @AmonAnon-vw3hr  Those are Tim Pool's own words. Especially as he describes Ilhan Omar. You are clearly a tourist here shilling.
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  3996. Ironically, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson warned about this. If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare... they may appoint teachers in every state... The powers of Congress would subvert the very foundation, the very nature of the limited government established by the people of America. - James Madison
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  3997.  @tadaskay79  "Wall of text" huh? Then what is your post? Pot meet kettle. As for your last Paragraph, we are in agreement.
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  3998.  @tadaskay79  To a certain extent, yes. But then you have to keep in mind that the reason why the victory write the history is so as to justify and perpetuate their legitimacy, right or wrong. Fortunately, there are others who keep records that are not so easily re-written by power mongers. And there are those who DON'T seek power but enjoy history for its own sake. That last point renders your claim moot.
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  3999.  @rferg1533  He is only telling half the story. People are spending like Guatemala in the 1980s. Meaning that they are trying to convert their currency to something of REAL value before the inflation makes the currency worthless. Total dollars in people's bank accounts may be up, but their value and buying power is LESS than pre-pandemic.
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  4000. Or on the British Commonwealth.
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  4001.  @cizzymac  They never are. They think they are your betters which automatically makes them wrong.
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  4002. Or perhaps they just don't agree with being part of a European collective where the best interests of the Island take a back seat to the desires of the technocrats in Brussels. What is good for the European continent may not be what is best for the Island.
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  4003. Tanks were always meant to be in combined arms with infantry support. Even Heinz Guderian foot stomped this.
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  4004. Yeah, that is the argument of the anti-nuke crowd and completely takes the whole situation out of context. It is predicated not on facts but on emotions of people who blatantly ignore key details such as the Japanese defense plan Ketsu-Go.
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  4005.  @EsmeraldaWolfsbane7777  You clearly have no self-awareness do you?
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  4006. Grozny all over again.
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  4007. @ "War cannot be avoided, merely delayed to the advantage of one side." -Carl von Clauswitz.
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  4008.  @xhesil8848  We are in agreement that totalitarians love to play word games. As Confucius said, "When words lose meaning, people lose their lives." I may have confused you with another person who often defended the Chi-Com government, which is my fault. For that I apologize.
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  4009.  @xhesil8848  Albanian? Nice! My wife is Chinese Indonesian. My favorite babysitter growing up was a political refugee when her family fled after the Tiananmen Square protests were crushed. I love Chinese culture but hate the Red Maoist government. I view the Chinese people much as I do the Russians; possible allies but with bad leadership. My nuanced positions confuses the hell out of absolutists because it does not fit nicely into their pigeonholes. So they call me the worst they can even when such disparagements are contradictory. Keep up the good fight.
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  4010. Don't need to buy the logo/trademark if they abandon it. I hope this does go to court and they are told "use it or lose it!"
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  4011. It all comes down to the good for nothing Murdock sons. They are as far left as can be. And they drove off Wendy Deng, who was a media mogul in Hong Kong and Taiwan. He would never have allowed Fox to commit seppuku the way the good for nothing sons have done.
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  4012.  @seanwallace89  Wow, the cope is strong with you. As Kelley Gee pointed out, nobody asked for him to be their voice. They respected him because he was speaking his mind without fear. Now, he is a pushover who will do what the feudal lords tell him to do in a vain attempt to be loved by the people who detest his independent streak. "Better to be feared than to be loved, if you can't have both," -Niccolò Machiavelli.
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  4013.  @maximusgrandus  How would such a small state be a problem? If San Marino, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, and Andorra can all be independent nations, there is no excuse for not letting the local regions of Bosnia do the same.
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  4014.  @cavalryscout9519  Then why did they not set up the camera for remote recording? If you are going to point a gun at a camera lense, make sure nobody is behind it when you do. Second or third rule of gun safety is to check to see that there is nothing behind your target because projectiles CAN and often do pass right through the target and continue through other objects.
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  4015. They said the same thing about the "Regan Revolution" Trump's revolution was suppose to be a continuation of that. No, Trump was a flash in the pan, the establishment is eternal as they are survivors. Tyranny and despotism by a feudal elite has been the norm in all of human history. Freedom, liberty, and the right of self-governance has always been the aberration. Republics never last more than 200 years.
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  4016. Agreed. They pandered to this group, now they can suffer the consequences of it.
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  4017. Your comment about these guys going vegan and becoming sissies reminds me of the warnings about soyboys. Maybe there really is something to the concern about the emasculation of men by these new age diets. That being said, you do you. If you would rather eat bugs or only veggies, I have no beef. Just don't force me to participate.
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  4018. Yup, she is the product of good old fashion nepotism.
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  4019. Indeed. As Vlad Lenin said about probing with Bayonets: "If mush, push. If steel, stop".
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  4020.  @ThatComixGuy  Stopping an arson and rendering first aid ARE Heroic acts. And both Rittenhouse and his colleagues did just that, no imagination there. Certainly more heroic that a hack like you making excuses for rioters and looters.
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  4021.  @ThatComixGuy  Hypocrite. What turns people off is your inconsistency. Your double standards. But sure, blame the actual victim. Be part of the crowd cheering on a rape or murder.
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  4022. If not for the wall, they could have slid 1.08KM on the ground before the vehicle would have ended up in the bay. At that point it would have been like the Miracle on the Hudson.
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  4023.  @tomtom7955  Ah, but that is the thing, it does NOT need such a budget. It is Hollywood's obsession with needing one that has caused such horrible adaptations. They focus more on special effects than actual storytelling. You don't need a fancy budget and special effects to have a good movie. Cowboy Westerns are proof of that.
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  4024.  @sal-the-man  The fact that there are Harams (aka no-go zones) and areas of Europe that are governed by Sharia law outside of EU law proves otherwise. If anything, YOU are showing your own racism because you chose to ignore hard irrefutable facts which contradict your preconceived biases.
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  4025.  @HansReichardtsohn_grub  The ICC facilitates crimes against humanity by only targeting Israel. Their arrest warrants for Hamas leaders are for men who are already dead, showing how unserious they ate.
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  4026. Agreed. Obama was no tactical genius. The rise of the Islamic State was a direct result of him ignoring military leaders on the ground in Iraq.
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  4027.  @noahway13  Don't forget Vietnam. The US was there for just shy of 20 years and the locals also refused to fight for their own country. And much like Afghanistan, the local government was more interested in settling petty feuds than actually fighting the real threat. Now contrast that to the Koreans who DID fight for their nation.
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  4028.  @pale_saint  Science is agnostic. Atheism in science is how you get unethical experiments in the 1930s which eventually resulted in the Nuremberg Code.
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  4029. @Nasty Cunter No, when the San Andreas rips open it will not fall into the Pacific, though that would benefit the rest of the nation. It would be nice though if it did create a "Gulf of Cortez". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWMXt_Sr0B0
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  4030. Agreed. "Natural" infection, aka inoculation is a better solution than these mandated vaccines. If it was good enough for General Washington and the Continental Army to fight smallpox, then it is a good enough strategy for me.
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  4031.  @Mr.Rogers91  Yeah, who said that? Wasn't it Tony Fauci? The same guy who fouled up the AIDS pandemic is the same guy who screwed the entire country with the Wuhan Flu and is yet again screwing up with Monkeypox. When is Fauci going to be jailed for willful medical malpractice?
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  4032. That was a smart store owner, prioritizing the paying customers over the window shoppers. It is also why when I use a space either for roleplaying games or to use the wifi, I make it a point of purchasing SOMETHING so that I have the distinction of being a paying customer. I wish more businesses recognized that. Most of the staff that I interact with appreciate me making a point of being a paying customer instead of an obnoxious freeloader disturbing other people.
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  4033. Sadly true. Some people don't want to live and let live. They want to control everyone around them. This obsession with speech is just a symptom of that sociopathic need to control everything.
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  4034.  @ivanfiorani1363  Kiev still stands independent and free of the Kremlin. Two years now into a Three-Day operation. Yeah, Russia is losing when they are on their THRID army because their elites were all killed off in the first year of the war.
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  4035. And that is the point. They want us to simply accept the derogatory disparagement. I say turnabout is fair play and start using "canceled words" they don't like right back at them. I will start by suggesting that guys who cut off their frank and beans are not women, but Eunuchs. Or Steers, or Geldings, or barrows.
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  4036.  @crockettstheme7560  Kavanaugh is an example of Stockholm Syndrome. Rewarding and pandering to your abusers.
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  4037. He also doesn't like to point out Charles DeGaulle. During WW2, many of these overseas territories had an opportunity to break away with the establishment of the Vichy government by Petain. While Petain was no saint, DeGaulle insisted on being the second coming of Napoleon. The fiasco of Vietnam in particular at Dien Bien Phu was in large part because DeGaulle refused to accept that the French Empire was finished as an institution.
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  4038.  @adrien5834  He had every opportunity to emancipate the region and chose not to. He instead chose to continue the status quo as an occupying foreign power. You haven't disproven my point.
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  4039.  @kimandre336  I blame romanization. One of the things that frustrated me the most during my time in East Asia is how many extra silent letters are put into Korean, Japanese, and Chinese word. Between American phonetic spelling and European romanization, nobody can properly pronounce when given the "official" romanization.
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  4040. I love Michael Crichton's quote about consensus in science. A epic take-down of why rational giving way to group-think is disastrous.
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  4041. Oryx has the most accurate count as they require visual confirmation.
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  4042.  @glennmandigo6069  Agreed. He is 20-30 points underwater.
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  4043.  @alicesnyder5394  Yeah, my understanding is that the Presbyterian Chruch of Colorado Springs broke from PCUSA and joined in fellowship with the Ethiopian Presbyterian Chruch. Funny how that works when the faithful put scripture first.
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  4044.  @alkkoor3044  Wow, real mature. The fact that you had to resort to insults like "smoothbrain" and "mutt" shows you don't really have any valid point to make. You are just trolling for kicks. Bur sure, keep resorting to name-calling, it only proves me correct. "I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." -Margaret Thatcher
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  4045.  @alkkoor3044  Pot meet kettle. Your attempts to dehumanize me only prove that you are the Stalinist snowflake, agitating rather than actually debating merits. By your own words you reveal you are doing exactly what you accuse me of being.
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  4046.  @Defensor314  The irony is that Section 230 was supposed to give the immunity on the condition that the NOT sensor anything except for blatantly criminal behaviors. Of course, the regulators turned a blind eye because it benefited their political tribe.
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  4047.  @Defensor314  Stop shilling for the corporate-political machine. The only "myths" are the ones you are pushing to defend the status-quo.
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  4048.  @Defensor314  Pot meet kettle. I gave you evidence, you refused to accept it. That is a YOU problem, not mine. Learn to debate.
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  4049.  @Defensor314  Repeating yourself like a broken record doesn't prove your point, it just means you are reading from a script and propagandizing on cue like Pavlvo's Dog. And who said I was offended? The fact that you keep responding when you say you are disregarding me only shows I have gotten under YOUR skin. I have debated more sophisticated opponents that you. It is easy to count coup against you.
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  4050. And both would have looked like cakewalks compared to possible landings at Kyushu. That is but one piece the naysayers blatantly ignore.
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  4051. I was just thinking about that. And while initially Alex Hamilton's idea of consolidating the debt within the national treasury sounded nice, reality was, Hamilton had zero intention of ever paying off that debt. He and Henry Knox along with their stock jobber (ie gamblers) buddies who caused Shay's Rebellion in Massachusetts were going to game the system and extract lots of money from the taxpayers by leveraging that debt to line their pockets. Those that say a nation makes money off its own debt are liars who would directly benefit while bilking the taxpayers.
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  4052. According to the wokescolds, if you are a fan of AoT, you are a Nazi glorifier. Seriously, they turned against the show and the fandom over the last two years.
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  4053.  @Omer1996E.C  "The Magic Kingdom" is hampered by the Sharia police. That has NOTHING to do with the expenditures of oil revenues. Nice deflection.
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  4054. Russia lost two of their A-50s (Soviet AWACS). The Russian air fleet is going in blind, not knowing if there are interceptors lying in wait.
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  4055.  @jimjames6074  Have you met with many currently serving officers? Most of them are more considered with getting their next promotion than upholding the oath to the Constitution. One of the great flaws of Congressional approval of flag officer promotions is that politics corrupts the military.
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  4056.  @thetapheonix  Never underestimate your enemy. Just because they are woke and only care about power and prestige in the organization doesn't mean they are incompetent. The access to equipment alone is enough for concern. The power they wield over greenhorn and ignorance new recruits makes them dangerous. No, these are the very people who help to destroy a nation by being collaborators; they are the ones who open the city gates to the invading hoard.
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  4057. Yeah, but how much damage will they do in the meantime? While a wildfire will eventually burn itself out, it can still do a lot of damage.
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  4058.  @GerrardPique2010  How about you give up your property first? My ancestors didn't have a choice in the matter. They were dumped in the new world as political prisoners by the British Crown. Further, while they DID try to live in peace with the natives, the natives didn't reciprocate. Hell, the natives were notorious for stealing land from each other.
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  4059.  @GerrardPique2010  Apples to oranges false analogy. Learn to debate. And stop deflecting.
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  4060.  @GerrardPique2010  Apples to oranges false analogy. Not the same.
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  4061.  @jasonarcher7268  When they start using the exact same vocal inflections and pregnant pauses it becomes REALLY scary. Telepathy or Pod People? Seriously, take a look at AOC and Siaket Chakrabart giving speeches-they do exactly that.
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  4062. ANd not a very realistic story. Someone in that environment would be taught to hate the military, not embrace it.
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  4063. Calm down. Half the hype on BOTH sides of the conflict is overblown. But what you can be assured of is that the Ukraine being able to hold out as long as they have against a numerically superior foe, defying ALL expectations is itself a victory. The fact that Russia failed to take Kiev or advance anywhere except in Luhansk is already a win for Ukraine. Keep things in context.
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  4064. Ballot box won't cut it as this last election has proven. Why vote when they are just going to make up numbers whole cloth?
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  4065. Put down the vodka, private conscriptovich. You are so drunk you are hallucinating.
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  4066. Indeed. The fall mud season never truly ended with the unusually warm winter.
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  4067. Schadenfreude. They get what they f-ing deserve as Arthur Fleck observed.
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  4068.  @Wallychans  Indeed. They foolishly think that by stabbing Trump in the back and abandoning their base that they will be rewarded with power? They are finished. The best thing conservatives can do is let the left have the government and accelerate the collapse. When you hare hanging over a cliff, at a certain point you have to cut the rope and let someone fall. Time to let the GOP fall to the bottom of the chasm.
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  4069. Considering that they didn't surrender after the first one, a "demonstration" would have done nothing.
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  4070. At least 10 years if not 20. I expect his hair to go completely white before age 40.
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  4071. "John Brown’s body lies a-moldering in the grave. His soul is marching on....."
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  4072. Depends. Most of the convivences you enjoy are a direct result of military spending. The internet you are using now? Military under DARPA.
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  4073.  @rjfaber1991  Indeed. While this makes the reconnaissance in force beachheads on the south untenable, they were merely landings of opportunity to begin with.
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  4074. There NEEDS to be a color Revolution here just like the Ukrainian Orange Revolution that threw out the Russian backed sham election.
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  4075.  @callsigndd9ls897  Indeed. When the fighting breaks out, you cannot afford to turn away ANY assistance. But during the fighting the wheat is separated from the chaff, and the ideologues are separated from the professionals such that only the competent soldiers remain.
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  4076. Except that they are the breadbasket of the world. Most of the grain they produce goes to feed Africa and the Middle East.
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  4077. It is tragic especially when they could simply walk over to the Ukrainian lines and surrender. They would received better treatment as POWs than they would by their own leaders.
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  4078. They are throwing anything and everything at the wall and see what sticks. It is an unhinged derangement.
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  4079.  @LuigiAzsassin  Funny because for someone who claims to know it, you don't actually understand it. Start with "clean the cup out" in Matthew 23:26.
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  4080. Love and hate are opposite sides of the same coin. Apathy is the horseshoe end.
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  4081.  @davidpritchard604  During my two years stationed at Osan AB, I learned much about the history of the Land of Morning Calm. 6,000 years from KoChoseon to the Republic. While I don't think that the Buyeo people of Paekje settled Vladivostok, I do know for a fact that it WAS part of both KoGoreyo AND Balhae. As was Noktundo Island which was later the site of a famous battle won by Admiral Yi Sun-Shin (known for his Turtle Ships).
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  4082. Hell, America's first attempt at nation building was in 1790: the nation of Liberia in Africa! I think the results are mixed at best, but at least they have great affection for the US. Maybe in no small part because the nations of Europe considered them a protectorate of the US during the mad scramble for Africa. Liberia became a haven for those fleeing French and British rule.
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  4083.  @hello93617  The Chief of Police is always an appointed position answerable to the Mayor. You are thinking of the County Sheriff who IS an elected official answerable to the voters. My own opinion is that the Chief of Police should be an elected position and that while his budget is subject to the whims of the city council, he SHOULD operate autonomous from the mayor. The AG in some states is autonomous from the Governor, local law enforcement should run similar.
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  4084.  @hello93617  Glad I could clear that up for you. You having a better understanding is victory enough for me.
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  4085.  @julius7539  Exactly. History has shown that people simply replace one set of tyrants with an entirely new set, and the cycle of violence and recrimination continues. Very rarely does that negative feedback get broken. And the US is following down the same path.
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  4086.  @gabahungle568  You sound just like Pope Paul V who claimed he knew more than Galileo and Copernicus. Even the Egyptians knew the Earth was round. Watch a tall-masted ship sail either towards you or away from you. The bottom disappears behind the horizon with the flag on the top mast both disappearing last and appearing first. Then you have what I call the well of Alexandria proof. In 205 BC Eratosthenes used sticks in the ground during the equinox and measuring the shadows. He got a figure within 1% of the Earth's diameter.
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  4087. How does O'Lreary get to be a property developer in NYC? Same logic applies.
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  4088.  @hardcoresb3  Well the media is often wrong. Just because they use it improperly doesn't mean that they get to define it.
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  4089. India is getting irritated with Russia's failure to deliver on its weapons deals.
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  4090. It is still medical discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities act. Indeed, that is precisely WHY Ben Shapiro's company is taking the government to court: they have created an unconstitutional catch-22.
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  4091. They despise apostasy. Nobody is allowed to leave the church of wokeism.
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  4092. Indeed. They will do this again right before the elections so as to make them a sham.
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  4093. Which is ironic considering that NATO has not sent any troops into the area. Putin is jumping at a figment of his imagination. Nato's expansion is a result of his own paranoia driving the former Warsaw Pact into the Western camp.
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  4094. With the Moscow and Petrograd air defenses having been completely removed and sent to Ukraine? Why leave himself exposed like that if he is going to use a nuke?
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  4095. @ Burden of proof is on you, not her. She had the evidence, you don't.
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  4096. And we have seen how well that works out. They need to be 20-year terms, staggered every four years. Shrink the court down to just five and you have one nomination per presidential term which isn't much different than it is now.
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  4097.  @DandyE44A  NO, it did not. That hotel you mentioned is 700 meters from the end of the runway while that wall was a mere 150 meters. Further, that hotel isn't even on the slide path of the plane as it is off to the side. From the centerline of the runway, there was a clear 1.08KM line to the bay. At that point, the water would have resulted in a situation similar to the miracle on the Hudson River.
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  4098. Like playing chess with a pigeon. They knock over the pieces and shit all over the board, then fly back to their friends and act like they accomplished something. Ironically, that was a description someone on the left had about the right in the 90s.
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  4099.  @demongrunt7  That is how is SHOULD work, but juries are notoriously fickle. They have often convicted on circumstantial evidence where reasonable doubt does exist. Back to the point, if a prosecutor is behaving unconstitutionally, the jury NEEDS to know that. They need to know that certain arguments have no legal justification.
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  4100. I also find myself asking why the Canadians didn't shoot it down either. Then I remember that pretty boy Trudick is also in China's pocket.
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  4101.  @Jm-wt1fs  Except it was nowhere near Russian territory. It was just outside of TURKISH airspace. If anything, the Russians were infringing on Turkey.
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  4102. Because it was edited and taken out of context. This is exactly the problem with deep fakes that Timmy boy is worried about.
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  4103. Canada needs more Steven Harper and less Trudeau and Campbell.
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  4104. Oh, I don't disagree that the WHOLE truth about Ukraine is being obscured. But I think you are also being deceived. How much do you know about the oil deposits that Shell was contracting for in Donbas and off the coast of Crimea? How about the Coal deposits in Luhansk? Ukraine with western backing could have become the THRID largest oil producer in Europe after Norway and Russia. They had a good possibility of undercutting Russia's near monopoly on European energy. All of that came to a halt with the theft of Crimea.
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  4105. More like they don't have enough considering reports of them stealing it from the locals.
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  4106. Guns didn't create the problem. But I do agree with you about not laundering money to the cartels. Hell, the US was basically facilitating the narcotics trade by protecting Afghan poppy farmers who were using the profits to fund the Taliban and Al Qaeda!
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  4107. This is actually one solution to the Fermi Paradox. Namely, that humanity gets to a point where it destroys itself. But who would have guessed it would be Ai chatbots that bring about the end of humanity?
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  4108. Nice! I take it you are ALWAYS wary of Mephistopheles, whether in Golarion, Aber-Toril, or Oerth.
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  4109.  @priqq1  Don't forget an unhealthy does of nihilism, especially the existential variety of such nihilism.
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  4110. One Western tank while losing over 2,000 of theirs. Not the victory people are making it out to be.
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  4111.  @levelazn  And the Democratic Party was one for Obama for 8 years. Still is in many ways, so what is your point?
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  4112.  @levelazn  Don't need to as the burden on proof is NOT on me but you. You are already so obsessed with him doing no right that he could cure cancer and you would still complain that he was putting doctors out of business. Your are guilty of your own cultish behavior when nothing will convince you as you have already closed your mind to different perspectives.
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  4113.  @levelazn  And there you go making assumptions. You know NOTHING about me. You think you are right even when evidences proves otherwise. This whole conversation has been about YOUR obsession with "Orange Man Bad". Try swallowing your pride and arrogance and actually start using your ears and eyes rather than your proverbial mouth.
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  4114.  @pratimabhattacharya1186  Touché! But I consider it good debate practice.
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  4115. Not without the consent of the governor releasing them. This was part of the issue when Oklahoma refused to mandate the Wuhan Virus shot and the Feds threatened to decertify the guard.
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  4116. And they are trying to steal Shiva's title "Destroyer of Worlds".
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  4117.  @truebluereef419  Where? California? Here in Indiana, they didn't change at all. The ONLY places they MIGHT have dropped is in blue areas that were locked down.
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  4118. Not everyone in your list wants to live in peace. Tell me, have you actually met a Wahabbist from the Saudi Kingdom?
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  4119. Because he doesn't want to be banned and canceled. He is trying so hard to pander to people who hold him in contempt.
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  4120. Iger was a disaster from day one, which is why they fired him. That they brought him back for the Wuhan Virus shows that Disney investors need to lose their shirts.
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  4121. I think you are conflating a worker's brotherhood with the pro-federalist forces. The two are completely different things despite having similar names.
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  4122. "Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin good forces have invented or made”-J.R.R. Tolkien
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  4123.    And more drivel. Pew Research data compiled from the US census data refutes your contention. You are using anecdotes which are the exception, not the norm. There is a negativity bias such that you never hear the success stories, only the failures. Same negativity bias is in play with the vaccine scare. And by the way, my wife and I are celebrating our 7th anniversary this November so that alone proves you wrong.
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  4124. When Injustice becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. -Thomas Jefferson.
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  4125. How? In most measures, Europe is VERY liberal, both socially, economically, and politically.
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  4126.  @Launchpad05  Remember, CNN means "Child Nookie Network".
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  4127.  @katelady1370  Did you not see my previous post? Population size does not play a major factor. Proportionally the time to herd immunity is effectively the same whether highly dense such as Japan or smaller like Sweden.
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  4128.  @rob-8928  Ukraine does not have nukes because they gave all the ones they had to Russia at Bush's urging. But to your point about retaliation, I do agree that if Putin uses one, then the West has every incentive to give Ukraine a few to use as they see fit.
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  4129. Al Qaeda attacked the US in 9/11 from Afghanistan. Checkmate.
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  4130.  @jamestinsman1603  Out of context quoting passages are we not? Tell me, to what was eye for an eye first advocated? I tell you it was in response to existing harsh penal code such as the Code of Hammurabi in Babylon. Are you quoting scripture for HIS glory or for your own? Seems to me you are simply citing it to gratify your own sense of moral superiority. And as Matthew 5:6 says, ""And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full." As for the quote about loving your neighbors, that only works on those with a conscience. The context of what the Jewish Carpenter from Nazareth was talking about was encouraging what we call "The Golden Rule". Finally, I would remind you that he himself said in Matthew 5:17, "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them." That means the old laws, to include eye for an eye still stand. NONE have been overturned.
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  4131.  @jamestinsman1603  You say it is for his glory when clearly you are exalting yourself. For as Luke 14:11 "For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted". You are obsessed with love your enemy but like the Pharisees of old, it is about appearance of cleanliness on the outside while "full of dead men's bones" as Matthew 23:27 says. Clean the cup on the inside. You use scripture as a weapon much as the Pharisees of old, "You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people's faces." as Matthew 23:13 says. That is not righteousness, that is self gratification. There is NOTHING rewarding about using another person's faith as means of control or a weapon to force compliance. The fruit of THAT tree is bad fruit(Matthew 7:18).
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  4132. @Zealadinn Eye for an eye is spiteful? Cleary you were told that by someone else. Try learning something about the actual philosophy rather than just parroting catchy slogans without understanding what they mean. This video explains it if you bother to watch it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrakW1DjApo
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  4133. @Zealadinn Yes I did watch the video and you clearly missed the points Denis Prager made at 3 minutes 30 seconds about how eye for an eye was about equality and that it refuted the idea that a King's eye was more valuable than a peasant's eye. I understand the material, you are just being intellectually lazy as Denis Prager pointed out. YOU seem to miss how the precepts which seem cruel are actually ingenious because it force people to take them to the logical conclusions, thereby DISCOURAGING certain behaviors. Instead, you moralize and then when I provide the rebuttal you then move the goal posts.
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  4134. Collector's Editions sell because it is nostalgia. Because the old content is way better than any of the newer stuff. Think about that.
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  4135. There is some merit to those points aside from the "unintentionally provoking Russia". The whole bit about NATO expansion (not your argument, but the one often made) fails to consider that FInland, Sweden, Poland, Slovakia, Croatia, Czechia, and the Baltic States all have agency of their own and would choose to join of their own free will. One has to ask why both historically neutral countries as well as former Warsaw Pact nations would choose to join.
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  4136. I don't believe the claim about Crimean Reservoirs. It takes YEARS to fill them up. And if it only took one year to fill up, it would not last a full year.
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  4137.  @jakedee4117  When you win a trade war through better quality products without putting your customer over a barrel, what is the problem? The UK was notorious during the 17th and 18th centuries of doing as China is doing today. The US during the 19th and 20th centuries didn't create a mercantile empire the way the British and the Dutch did through colonialism and military adventurism. We didn't create vassals beholden to us the way the British and the Chinese have done.
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  4138.  @jonathanodude6660  Finacial institutions are NOT the lynchpin of an economy, they are often the CAUSE of the collapse. Bad monetary policy which leads to those recession is their fault. Don't save corrupt organizations for their own bad behavior. "And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity in the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale," -Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816.
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  4139. Advances to nowhere with no clear objective.
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  4140.  @animezilla4486  The cartoon Disney has licensed from foreign Studios like Bluey are okay. But a lot of the domestically made shows, particularly the ones that air aft 6PM are very much of the grooming category. I know because I pay attention to what my children are watching.
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  4141. The power of nukes is in their deterrence. Once you use them, they lose the effect. An opponent unfazed by threats of nukes against them will not be stopped once they have actually been used.
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  4142.  @gerf1023  In practice, the two are essentially the same. There is a reason why the Molotov-Ribbentrop alliance was even possible.
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  4143. The prosecutor who used black inmates as slave labor in California.
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  4144. Tim seems to forget his favorite Nietzsche quote about becoming monsters when fighting monsters. Trying to reform from within is one of the fastest ways of becoming perverted into the very thing you are fighting.
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  4145. He has been wanting to run for president since 2016. The Democrat primaries made it clear that unless you are an ideologue, corporate CEOs need not apply.
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  4146.  @Chou-seh-fu  I saw that too. Which is why I contend that the ethnic Chinese population of Taiwan is becoming a separate ethnic identify. The Two Koreas at least nominally both claim the same culture and heritage. Taiwan having blended Japanese, Chinese, and the local aboriginal elements has become something completely different from mainland, having more in common with the overseas diaspora populations (such as Singapore) than they do with the mainland.
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  4147. Indeed. Declare the state in rebellion, AND QUOTE PRESIDENT LINCOLN as he invoked the insurrection act.
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  4148. Seuss' WW2 era cartoons are great. My favorite one is where he blasts Vater Charles Coughlin's "social justice" as being a tool of the Nazis.
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  4149. Don't just defund the ATF, COMPLETELY DISBAND IT.
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  4150. The fact that Kiev is still independent is already a victory over Russia. The problem is that people have moved the goalposts for what constitutes victory.
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  4151. It is the Grima Wormtongue of America.
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  4152. I'm not sure I would want to be trying to fool Gurkhas. They WILL make you regret it.
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  4153.  @bigmoe9856  Does it? Russia never used nukes in Afghanistan when they lost badly to the Mujahadeen. Also, the US chose not to use nukes in Vietnam so your claim that a nuclear power will never lose is historically ignorant.
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  4154.  @bigmoe9856  You are moving the goal posts to justify your position which is undercut by objective fact. Your argument is lost and now you are flailing to justify yourself.
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  4155. Amazing how people are ignorant to that little detail. There is a very good reason why Admiral Rickover pushed water moderated reactors over graphite.
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  4156. And that would be the best revenge. He starts up his own private practice and hospital telling these jack-wagons to go screw off.
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  4157. India isn't helping Russia; they are ripping off Putin by demanding a 30% discount premium. Further, the Indians are irritated that Russia has failed to deliver on their weapons. In particular they are livid over the Aircraft Carrier. At best, India is playing the neutrality card as they always have since WW2.
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  4158. "The strength of the nations is derived from the integrity of the family," -Confucius, author of "The Analects".
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  4159. In part because JK Rowling pandered to them. And they believed they could use her and her IP as a vehicle to push their ideological agenda. Both were quite surprised when the other took issue with how that was playing out.
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  4160.  @Sphere723  Extremely well in the short term, but the long-term costs actually stifle it. Countries with LOW levels of debt see boom-times. Countries with large amounts of debt are hamstrung by the interest.
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  4161.  @michaelp.Watermaker  That is the point behind the "Aryan Princess" look. The Jew haters of the 1930s loved using her phenotype.
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  4162. There is a reason why some call it the "New York SLIMES".
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  4163. Unions should be more like the trade guilds of old: connecting workers with jobs and jobs with workers. But they don't have the longer-term vision to adapt to such a model.
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  4164. Best reason I have heard for going to see it.
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  4165. You have gallows humor, that is good.
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  4166.  @mariarizzo-roy7446  I agree. People who hold public office should be made to live in poverty' they should be slaves to the people not living like royalty. Only if public office is unprofitable will we actually get people of quality and caliber rather than greedy narcistic hacks.
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  4167. You do realize that the Russian Soviet dominated the USSR until its breakup in 1991? And until then, nearly ALL of the decision making was made by the Kremlin, not the local Commissariat. Only after 1991 can you truly start placing blame on the locals.
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  4168. She is JAMAICAN. Her own father called her out that their ancestors were slave OWNERS.
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  4169. It is his money, he can do with it what he wants. I think he is trying to pull an Elon Musk buying Twitter move.
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  4170. China has no interest in emancipating Tibet. Strategically, most of China's water comes from the Tibetan Plateau, so whoever controls the Plateau controls the Chinese heartlands. THAT is why they will never tolerate India or even an independent Tibet in the area. Keep in mind that while I agree it SHOULD be independent, that does not blind me to the geo-political realities of the situation.
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  4171.  @azmendozafamily  Indeed. My first experience was that Kobolds were like evil version of Dwarves. Of course, I like having more non-typical characters as they have to have a very compelling story for breaking the species architype. My issue with "modern" D&D has more to do with the intersectionality crap. Most of the time it detracts from the game, not add to it. If it advances the story, that is one thing, but most of the time it is used as a cudgel to stifle character creation and development.
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  4172. The irony is that Tolkien's War for middle Earth was modeled after WW1 with Mordor being an analogy to Kaiser Germany. I think Tolkien knew exactly the nuances of War and rejected the moral relativism of Grey.
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  4173. Thank you for pointing out how much Charles DeGaulle's influence is what drives France's relations with its overseas territories. He had an opportunity to establish a French equivalent to the English Commonwealth, but instead insisted on a very centralized system with him at the center of power.
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  4174. "Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt, and ruin good forces have invented or made” -J.R.R. Tolkien
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  4175. Hanoi Jane up to her old tricks.
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  4176. And Joey Tempest's song "The Final Countdown" starts playing.....
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  4177. I'm guessing that like the Zeppelin, the balloon actually has several separate gas bags so that if the exterior is punctured, the whole thing doesn't come down at once.
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  4178. Yes. It actually has better loiter time than the U-2 Dragon Lady.
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  4179. No joke. They just got away stealing an election, getting caught, and STILL got to keep their ill gotten gains. SO what will stop them from doing it again? Anyone who thinks the GOP has ANY chance to take back power in 2022 is lying to themselves. They just don't want to admit that they will never again win an election. They are deceiving themselves into false hopes and fantasy.
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  4180. Only one country is fighting Russia, and that is Ukraine. If NATO actually joined the fight, it would be over in a week. The entire might of the West is NOT engaged in Ukraine. Put down the Vodka.
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  4181. The pace of the Ukrainian offensive is FASTER than the progress of WW1's Western front. How long did that war last?
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  4182. No proof of that. The Colorado case is about to be struck down because of that.
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  4183.  @larryalvares1369  The US Senate adjudicated on that very charge and acquitted him of it.
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  4184. I thought she was saying KUNI which is a real thing. But yours is so much better.
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  4185. Indeed. Roberts, ACB, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch have revealed themselves to be big government liberals. The court is already 7-2 liberal but that is not enough for the left.
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  4186.  @LuigiAzsassin  Seems like you need to be read to more. it is clear that you fail to understand CONTEXT. That is the problem with people like you, charity is NOT compulsatory. The two are anathema.
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  4187. Your rebuttal is cope for the Russia is winning crowd. Put down the Vodka, you are drunk.
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  4188.  @shueyk2320  The fact that the Russian Black Fleet has fled Novorossiysk for the safety of Rostov-on-Don, completely abandoning the Black Sea to a country with NO active Navy, yeah that IS winning.
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  4189.  @kolumbos  You are talking early war and pretending that those conditions exist now. They do not. The tables have completely reversed.
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  4190. And neither a Tony Starke, nor Bruce Wayne to take out the trash. All I am seeing is Victor Van Dooms, Lex Luthors, Montgomery Burns, and Norman Osborns.
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  4191. And these people wonder why "food deserts" occur. They do it to themselves.
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  4192. General Forst favors the prepared. And both Norway and Canada have been sending cold weather gear since August.
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  4193. "One gray night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more And Puff, that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane WITHOUT HIS LIFELONG FRIEND, PUFF COULD NTO BE BRAVE So Puff, that mighty dragon, sadly slipped into his cave," -Third verse of "Puff the Magic Dragon" by Peter, Paul and Mary. The feels would have been epic had that played as Andy walked away as Bonnie is playing with Woody.
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  4194. Sounds like Czechia has the same problem with "low information voters" as the US. Namely too many overly comfortable armchair quarterbacks with silver spoons in their mouths who have never experienced real hardship. First world problems, I suppose.
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  4195. Funny how they conveniently forget she existed since the 1970s.
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  4196.  @Primaate  Minsk was violated BY PUTIN, not Ukraine nor NATO or the West. Stop parroting Kremlin talking points on cue like Pavlov's Dog. If Russia is disrespected, it is because the Kremlin created the conditions for that disrespect.
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  4197.  @EyeOfMagnus4E201  Indeed. We should never forget that the decline of Disney was started by Iger. The board is to blame for having brought him back FOR THE THRID TIME after his disastrous first term as CEO.
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  4198. I tend to agree. Timmy seems to miss the bigger issue that it is likely Fox themselves who "leaked" the videos to media matters in the hopes of slandering Tucker. The "right-wing" collaborating with the left-wing to crush dissenting voices.
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  4199. The 1980s was the start of the "lost Decades" which the West seems hellbent on replicating.
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  4200.  @user-kq3gm3zc4x  How is Enrique Tario, a Hispanic a White Supremacist' Nazi? How is Tusitala ‘Tiny’ Toese, a Samoa, a White surpremacist? The problem with hacks like you is that you call everyone who you disagree with a Nazi without actually understanding the ideology of the German national SOCIALIST worker's party. There is a phrase for that: "CRYING WOLF"
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  4201. The battle of Kiev says otherwise. So does the collapse as Izyum. And the evacuation of Kherson City.
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  4202. The nation of Marly is certainly Kaiser-Reich Germany. Eldians are certainly a stand in for Jews. But you and I understand those nuances. The wokescolds simply claim the series glorifies fascism. Ironically, that is just going to push the Otaku crowd into the conservative camp.
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  4203. The answer to hate speech is BETTER speech. You kill an idea with a BETTER idea. "When you tear a man's tongue out, you don't prove him a liar. You just prove to the world you fear what he has to say," -George R. R. Martin.
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  4204.  @elaineread15  Someone around the time of the American Revolution said that only an Englishman could talk another Englishman into being a slave.
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  4205. Yeah, I am guessing that or some of the soap operas that ran for decades can cover you for years, even when binge-watching.
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  4206.  @ovan2190  "Guiding Light", "As the World Turns", "The Bold and the Beautiful", "The Young and the Restless", just to name a few. All of them, even with their cheesy plots are better than anything out of Tinseltown today.
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  4207. No joke. His waffling on RFRA is what caused him to do spectacularly bad in an uncontested primary for Governor. Hence he bailed on us for promotion to VP. That show you his character.
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  4208. I am inclined to agree. Warlord era China between the Two World Wars saw China still acting as a trade partner with most of the major seafaring nations of the world. Shanghai, Dalian, Hong Kong, Zhangjiang, Lianyungang, Quingdao, Taizhou, and Xaimen were all major destinations and boomtowns for foreign trade. Mao put a stop to that. It was Deng Xaiping who effectively re-opened China's trade with the outside world.
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  4209. About the hipsters becoming the very same squares they complained about once they were the ones in charge? I would have to agree.
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  4210. All of the flag officers need to be tried for treason. They broke their oaths and sabotaged our ability to defend ourselves.
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  4211. That was something my father and I always pondered on. The Ukrainians and Moldovans should add a third rail to their lines so as to be able to handle carriages from both east and west. Granted, the biggest hang-up would be the switches, but that can be dealt with on an individual basis as the needs arise.
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  4212. Exactly. Why is it so hard for people to understand that? Anime by the strictest definition is NOT a style, but a brand that is uniquely Japanese because it was made (mostly) with Japanese hands. Western cartoons can be heavily influenced by Anime, but that doesn't make them one.
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  4213. Agreed. The Soviet Red Army made its greatest gains against the Wehrmacht during the winter months. I suspect Ukraine will also enjoy that favor from General Frost.
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  4214. Those that say "too big to fail" forget the old saying "the bigger they are, the HARDER they fall".
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  4215.  @jjdelft3216  Dude, witnessing it with my own eye in those countries IS the evidence! Clearly you don't understand the term "self-evident". But I get it, you are a contrarian, no better than a petulant child.
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  4216.  @nkosipwl  Yes, it occurred during WW1. The Imperial Russian army went home after shooting its officers. The Oktober Revolution started soon after. Then you have Operation Faustschlag when the Germans inflicted a MAJOR defeat on the Soviet Red Army who at that time was under the command of Leon Trotsky.
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  4217.  @kostaanestopoulos5189  Pyrrhic victories are not something to be proud of. Even the Russian milbog sphere has been lamenting these not as victories but as failures.
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  4218. Reminds me of Ah-choo's line in the movie "Robin Hood: Men in Tights".
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  4219. Yeah, the anti-bomb crowd blatantly ignores the Japanese defense plan Ketsu-Go, often trivializing it without acknowledging that it would have made Okinawa look like a cakewalk.
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  4220. The problem is that these people are using exceptions to demand conformity by everyone. And I am sure as a historian, you are familiar with a particular term that needs to come back into vogue: Eunuch.
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  4221. Indeed. They miscast the roles; Gal Gadot should have been snow white, while Zegler as the Evil Queen. Hell, they could have even cast an Asian girl as Snow White (think geisha with the white face makeup). But instead, they chose to follow their false idol of skin color rather than stay consistent with the original story.
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  4222. On what charge? The criminal cases are all falling apart under prosecutorial misconduct. And the ones he has "lost" are civil cases that don't result in prison. Even those will get overturned on appeal.
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  4223.  @cjlake5754  I am not very familiar with those details. She seemed sharp as a tac and fully coherent up until the week or two before her passing.
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  4224. Agreed. Need to stop affirming and validating the psychosis.
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  4225. No joke. LBJ was right when he said by signing the law he objected to in 1952 that it would ensure they would vote for the racists for 100 years.
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  4226. Good times make weak men, weak men make hard (bad) times.
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  4227. A sword on one hip, a pistol on the other. One for close range (blade) and the other for medium range (firearm).
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  4228.  @Cumbriamag  Did you have an actually point to make or are you just hurling insults like a propagandist who can't argue any of the merits? "When your argument is weak, abuse the plaintiff," -Marcus Tullius Cicero. "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser," -attributed to both Plato and Socrates. "If you can't win on the merits, attack the messenger," -Saul Alinsky.
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  4229. Okay, how about you take the locks off your doors and windows and let anyone who wants to enter your personal home. See how that works out for you.
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  4230.  @piotr2951  Say the guy with an obviously Russian name for his account handle. Pot meet kettle. Now how about you actually debate the merits rather than resort to guttersniping. PS, my ancestry is Lorraine German, from the province of Alsace. which is now French “I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” ― Margaret Thatcher
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  4231.  @TheDotBot  Except, her family were West German visitors connected with the embassy staff, NOT permanent residents. THAT is where your "everyone did it" argument falls apart. She joined for ideological reasons.
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  4232.  @truckwarrior5944  I don't think you have actually read the documents. But alas, you are shilling for her which is to be expected by people who will cherry pick and cast things in the most optimistic light rather than look at it through realpolitik and Machiavellism. Occam's Razor still sides with my analysis.
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  4233.  @kintothewind  You are correct that "Asian" tends to mean different things to different people. In the context of the UK Asian typically refers to what people in the US would describe as Indian/Pakistani/Punjabi. While in the US it tends to describe East and Southeast Asian populations. Oriental historically mean the near East, typically the Persian Gulf region, Turkey, and the Arabian Peninsula. Over time, it came to mean all of Asia, particularly during the Age of Discovery into the Colonial period of the 18th century. Since the 1980s, in the West it has reverted back to meaning just the Near and Middle East while East Asia is referred to more as the Sino-sphere.
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  4234.  @UnaliverOfChildren  As if Russian and Chinese agencies don't also engage in such black ops activity. Spare me your moral grandstanding.
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  4235.  @TheWedabest  James Carville
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  4236. I would call it the Titanic, except that would be an insult of Captain Edward Smith who at least had the dignity to go down with his ship. Iger is more like Joseph Bruce Ismay, owner of White Star and who ordered Smith to make dangerous choices that endangered the ship.
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  4237. Hence why the Law of Armed Conflict exists and why trials for War Crimes MUST be conducted. And if they can't then measured and limited reprisals must also be taken to force the non-complying side to abide by LOAC.
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  4238. "It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits." -President John F. Kennedy, Address to New York economic Club; December 14, 1962
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  4239. Don't be worried. You will be vindicated. "Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had." -Michael Crichton.
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  4240. @ She lost it in 2010. She was on track to lose again in 2022, but Alaska foolishly changed to ranked-choice voting and won again because of Democrats supporting her. The woman does NOT have the faith and confidence of the people of Alaska, but she keeps winning because of political corruption in the election process of Alaska.
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  4241.  @jimbothegymbro7086  They said "just 30 years" back in the 1960s. Again, the problem is actually one of containing the reaction. There is no known material that can withstand the energy release of Fusion at this time. That is the major limitation and it is one of pure physics that has not changed since the 1950s.
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  4242. I tend to agree. Ukraine is something of a trail run for the defense and logistics of Taiwan.
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  4243. As if Putin didn't install puppets in Belarus and Ukraine. Spare us your moral outrage.
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  4244. "War is the continuation of politics by other means," -Carl von Clausewitz.
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  4245. The problem is that nationality and ethnicity are often intertwined. The idea that a nationality could have different ethnicities is only a recent development in large part because of the United States. Historically, your ethnicity WAS your nationality.
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  4246. Yeah, the Boxoffice Mojo channel is a Hollywood insider shilling channel. They NEVER say anything bad about the industry.
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  4247. And they conveniently forget that Carie Fischer's Princess Leia ever existed.
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  4248. How is Taiwan and the KMT colonial humiliation? It was the Chinese Nationalists who overthrew the Qing Dynasty and asserted independence from European colonialist ambitions.
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  4249.  @rferg1533  The problem is that while there may be more dollars in people's bank accounts, those dollars are worth MUCH less than pre-pandemic. Which means the buying power of the saving is LESS. "Figures don't lie, but liars figure," -Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain.
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  4250. The only part of the equation the wet market comes into is as the place the unscrupulous lab technicians dumped the contaminated specimens to make a quick buck rather than incinerate them as they were suppose to do.
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  4251. Answer: did the US allow Japan or Germany to own and operate Newspapers in the US before and during WW2?
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  4252. The problem is, most of these do-gooder activists THINK they are NG when in fact they are at best Lawful-Evil. The actual LG Paladins are called fascists today.
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  4253.  @Launchpad05  Or How Don Bluth was able to challenge Disney.
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  4254. Sic semper tyrannis
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  4255. I hope MBC and KBS bury Tisneltown.
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  4256.  @LesOubliesQuebec  Most people don't think like you. Most people are inherently selfish and can only think about the immediate payout rather than the long-term gains. Case in point: casino gambling.
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  4257. Reminds me of Katniss Everdeen's rant after the Capitol bombed that hospital in district 8. "If you think for one second, that the capitol will ever treat us fairly, you are lying to yourself..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76HRpwJkAX4
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  4258. Putting the cart before the horse. The USSR didn't join the war until TWO DAYS AFTER HIROSHIMA and one day before Nagasaki. You are engaging in an anachronistic fallacy. If anything, the Japanese wanted the Russians to act as mediators between them and the Allies. Stalin only declared war because he knew the war would end before he could claim war spoils.
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  4259. Nobody forced Poland, Finland and the Baltic states to join NATO. It was Putin who invaded Ukraine. Stop blaming the victum and apologizing for the bully.
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  4260. Sadly, I think that is exactly what they want. The fools just don't realize that only the buzzards, jackals, and other carrion eaters are the only victors in a race war. EVERYONE LOSES.
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  4261. Indeed. His hospital orderlies who call themselves "white house staff" are the ones running the show, and he is going off script faster than they can stop him.
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  4262.  @KinoKong14  Forgotten the Bundy Ranch stand-off? The Feds are who blinked first.
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  4263. Yeah, my Air Force MTL at Keesler was deployed to Iraq. His helmet which had a number of shrapnel scratches on it was affectionately called "The Brain Bucket". There was a certain level of reverence for it since it prevented him from becoming another notch in a Jihadi's belt of kills.
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  4264. Well, and for almost 50 years, the US had a defense treaty with Taipei. This is clearly seen with Dean Acheson's infamous "Pacific Defense Perimeter" which INCLUDED Taiwan but not South Korea. Only with the recognition of Beijing as "official China" has the position changed to ambiguity.
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  4265. Then where is the hate for Taiwan? Spare us your cries of racism, you are the boy who cried "WOLF!"
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  4266. Oliver Stone even admitted that his movie was horribly inaccurate. You proved PT Barnum's point about a sucker born every mintue.
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  4267.  @AlexKaneROTN  History. Try reading about it someday.
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  4268. They are basically the prisoner battalions of WW2.
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  4269.  @Andrew-zv4fm  One can only hope. Nothing like this happened during the previous administration.
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  4270. Hence why some folks call woke feminists, "Feminazis".
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  4271. As if the Wuhan Virus hysteria didn't already cause mayhem for their tourism industry. But you are correct that this is going to hurt them even more.
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  4272. I view the death penalty not as justice but as putting down a rabid dog. Mass murderers (5 or more confirmed kills), pedos, and persona non grata who keep returning over and over again as they have all shown that they keep choosing to do wrong.
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  4273. "I will tell them plainly, I never knew you. Begone from me you workers of lawlessness!" -Matthew 7:23 There is nothing brave about using your position as a spiritual leader for political gain. She is guilty of the Woes of the Pharisees.
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  4274. Ironically, it was the US who proposed the Antarctic Treaty. The White House at the time realized the extreme difficulty in trying to join any competition for claiming the continent. So instead they opted to take a different approach.
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  4275.  @taoliu3949  It is easy to build tanks. It is hard to train tank crews. Hence why the West puts such a premium on crew survival. Conversely, the Soviets viewed life as cheap and tanks and their crews to be expendable. And we are seeing the results of that philosophy in the Ukraine war. Don't fall into the flawed logic of the USSR's "Deep Battle" theory.
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  4276.  @taoliu3949  Except, the data doesn't show that. Soviet Tanks used against Western tanks, particularly the "Super Sherman", in the Six Day war and the Yom Kippur War prove otherwise. I am not wrong; you are simply spewing wishful thinking.
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  4277.  @Incandenzian  And who does that benefit? Not the SJWs who get even more mad accusing white men of colonial conquest and exploitation of women of color. Ever notice that? They praise white women with men of color but castigate white men with women of color. That is not accident.
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  4278. Granddaughters of Boudica are not to be trifled with unless you want to get burned.
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  4279. "Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin good forces have invented or made”-J.R.R. Tolkien
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  4280.  @raumograeywolf5477  Clans are matrilineal while family names are patrilineal. Man and woman cannot stand on their own. You show ignorance when you discount the power women wield within the family. I am reminded of one of the Peloponnesian Wars. The women of Athens and Sparta got tired of burying their sons husbands, brothers, and fathers. So the women of both cities decided to force the issue by refusing to sleep with their men. The War ended within two weeks. You are conflating these man-hating girl-children with real women who know how to use their power and make the most of their situation. Women rule the roost and always have. Girl-children have yet to even establish a roost.
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  4281. Something tells me she will lose in a blowout after this case is finished.
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  4282.  @skye.325  Thatcher didn't "invade" the Falkland Islands, that was Argentina. She simply fought back. The irony is, had the Argentines waited just six more months, they could have taken them easily as the Brits were going to downsize their Navy anyhow. The Argentines simply made it easier.
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  4283. @David45sa What? Emotional outbursts? That isn't a point, it is childish behavior.
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  4284.  @sillysad3198  Touche! Though my point about libido still stands. And it affects women as well as men.
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  4285.  @citytianyu  You are equivocating (logical fallacy). Don't get me started on Pocahontas aka Liz Warren aka Liawatha.
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  4286.  @citytianyu  Are you done throwing a hissy fit like a 5-year-old? Try making a coherent argument instead of throwing a temper tantrum.
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  4287.  @eurobonapartiste  I agree with your first post about the French and American Republics being sisters. Though France's continued contempt for the Marquis de Lafayette will sour my opinion until his statute is returned to its rightful place of honor. As for modern Poland, I suspect it WOULD have been restored after WW2 even had Napoleon not established the Dutchy of Warsaw. I will agree with you that Napoleon was something of a populist which struck terror into the hearts of monarchists across Europe. As for Latin American independence, you realize that most of the Declared Independence not out of support for Napoleon, but in fear of him? it goes to the fall of the Spanish monarchy. Most of those Latin independence movements were to preserve the status quo of the nobility and continue the Spanish CASTA system without the crown. Yes, France helped Mexico, but Santa Anna was a monarchist of a different kind.
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  4288. West choses to work with winners? Tell that to Iran or the Taliban.
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  4289. In sailing, the call it the law of gross tonnage. I calling arguing with Sir Isaac Newton.
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  4290. And HOAs are the worst of the worst. Sad that we need to push back against violations of property rights. WW2 victory gardens were a major component of America's homefront strategy. They may be so again.
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  4291. Yes, they are. Public office seems to attract the worst of humanity, particularly the sociopathic and narcissistic. Throw in Machiavellianism and you have the Dark Trifecta of destructive personality.
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  4292. Same here. Medically retired after 8 years and my military service which should have made me attractive as an employee hasn't done anything to help me retain long term employment. Nobody needs the skills of a Weather Forecaster trained by the USAF.
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  4293. The Mujahedeen turned on us because we refused to support their plans to invade the USSR. Now under Soviet control it would have been just as bad as it was under the Taliban in the 90s. There is no win situation in that part of the world.
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  4294. The Insurgency in South Ossetia followed the same playbook as the one in the Donbas. The invasion of Georgia had more to do with preventing NATO ascension of Georgia than it did about protecting minority populations.
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  4295. No joke. And that is the goal of socialists; to make us all slaves to the government.
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  4296. Not really. Even if you confiscated all of the wealth by the top 50% of Americans, it would not even make a dent in the US national debt. Same applies to China seizing Hong Kong or Taiwan. You don't kill the golden goose, which is what China has done to Hong Kong and will do to Taiwan.
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  4297.  @Dr.Shah_Fan  Even Oppenheimer observed that had he not created it, someone else would have. This was a genie that was never going to remain in the bottle forever.
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  4298.  @brokenrecord3095  Sadly, that is the madman scenario. In that someone with nothing to lose will take the whole world with him in an atomic Armageddon.
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  4299. Just like Feminazis that Rush Limbaugh coined. Both are brilliant!
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  4300. Did NATO invade Ukraine? No, that was Russia. Did NATO force Poland, the Baltic States, Slovakia, Czecia, Hungary, and former Yugoslav states to join? No, it was Soviet Russia that forced them to be part of the Warsaw Pact. Stop victim blaming.
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  4301. Graft and corruption. All of those kickbacks in the form of campaign donations.
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  4302.  @tc2334  Dude, from a genetic standpoint, the Hui ARE Hans just like the Hakka are also a subgroup of Han Chinese. The ONLY thing that differentiates them is their religion.
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  4303. The problem with Russia has always been bad leadership. There have been good ones, but they are rarely allowed to reach heights of power where they could make a change for the better.
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  4304. Yeah, since Turkey doesn't even meet the standards for joining NATO anymore, it's membership should be put on probation. Namely, the ability to block new members or have a say in strategic planning is suspended until they are once again in compliance.
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  4305. Why not protest AND refuse to complete deliveries to Ottawa?
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  4306.  @puraLusa  Just like Duffman says a lot of things, OH YEAH!
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  4307.  @anthonycicero6102  UK keeping its own currency? Put down the Bourdon. NOBODY got to keep control of their currency in the EU. And the UK being worse off is simply a matter of opinion. Labor loved it, but most of the rest did not.
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  4308.  @grahampaterson4368  I never said you did. However, the fact that you immediately went to Jan 6th "RIOTERS" means you are regurgitating the exact same talking points of the people who claim those flags are racist. Further, being on the SCOTUS does NOT mean that they surrender their constitutional rights, nor that their family must do so either. The fact that Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson ALL regularly engage in conflicts of interest and the same kind of behavior yet NEVER recuse themselves means that you cannot hold Alito to a stricter standard than the one you hold them to. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
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  4309. All hail the supreme Kek, Pepe the Frog!
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  4310. Eating the eye candy, eh? I don't blame you, but I tend to prefer East Asian women.
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  4311.  @YouYou-sm8tf  The problem is that in the West where single parent families due to divorce is on the rise, they are becoming more and more unstable both socio-politically and economically. There is a reason why Confucius said, "The strength of the nation is derived from the integrity of the family".
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  4312. Nobody is allowed to leave the "Korean Workers' Paradise". Seriously, try looking up the history of the Korean War before you make such an intellectually lazy comment.
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  4313.  @zelenskyy-the-blackmailerh5920  HIMARS doesn't create large holes. Look at the Antinovski Bridge.
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  4314. Agreed. Mr. Spaniel thinks he can rationalize a settlement using numbers and statistics when wars are just as much about morale and emotions.
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  4315. No, that is just you. He lives rent free in your head.
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  4316.  @cheeseburgersuperior1874  And these wokistas call the rest of us "smooth brained".
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  4317. Indeed. Revolutions often simply replace one tyrant with a new one. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. The American Revolution also repeated that historical trend until Washington chose to step away from the Presidency. THAT single act is what prevented Napoleon Bonaparte from being the George Washington of France.
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  4318. Just like how the Nazis exploited the Reichstag Fire.
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  4319. As "assault sheds", sure. But they are not doing the role of an MBT.
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  4320.  @EnslavedLonesoul  You are talking about common law marriage. Typically, the standard is 10 years together. Ironically, the gay marriage crowd was not content with that. They wanted parity NOW. My counter is "do you want to force your way in the front door and get immediately tossed out the back door, or do you want to come in quietly through the back door and leave with all of the other guests out the front door at the end of the night?"
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  4321.  @NuNugirl  Yeah, pretty messed up that one can be blonde and blue eyed, yet because their ancestry has but one Jew (think One Drop Rule regarding blackness), they are claimed to NOT be white when it is or is not convenient at whim. Incidentally, I CAN trace my ancestry back to one of King Asa of Judea's lesser sons who did not ascend to prominence. However, I do NOT claim to be Jew because my family fell away from Jewish traditions centuries ago and so I consider myself unworthy of that honor. If my sons were to be permitted marry into the community, I would consider it a blessing, and my family's heritage would only serve to reinforce the legal claims my grandchildren would receive from their mother's side, providing no standing on its own.
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  4322.  @lynngreen7978  You clearly hold the legacy material in reverence. Kurtzman and company hold it in complete contempt. That is why fan works such as yours I am more gracious with; as a fan project it does not harm the IP. My vitriol with Paramount and Kurtzman is because they abuse the copyright as a bludgeon to force their trash on the IP as if holding the IP somehow makes theirs more legitimate. Axanar Project is Canon and Kurtzman Trek is corporate fanfiction. Change my mind.
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  4323.  @eragonship4929  One which you haven't actually bothered to listen in full context. You only listen to the second long sound bites that the media purposely clipped. Kind of like what they did with the George Zimmerman phone call to the police. Or the video of Nick Sandman and the Covington Catholic kids.
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  4324.  @VicePresidentKamala  To which there is only ONE appropriate answer. It involves lead meeting grey matter. Tyranny of the mob and those who empower it MUST be opposed with force.
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  4325. Put down the vodka private conscriptovich, you are so drunk you are hallucinating.
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  4326. You can be cordial to your enemies. It is the boorish who act like children while pretending to have the moral high ground.
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  4327. North Korea isn't producing that on a per annum basis. They may provide Russia that much in once transaction, but that is because they are liquidating their old and nearly obsolete stockpiles. Perun looked into the numbers and Russia is not able to keep up with the attrition rates. At best, 10% of the material sent to the front is new build. The rest is refurbished Soviet legacy stockpiles.
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  4328. What is the old saying? "You can't legislate morality"?
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  4329. Poe's Law, unfortunately.
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  4330. They used bulldozers , tunnels, and paragliders to breach the wall. Do keep in mind that they had the North Korean example. Look up the infiltration tunnels under the DMZ.
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  4331. They are the rot that destroys a society. Cicero warned us about them.
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  4332. "Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system." -Marcus Tullius Cicero. I could say the same thing about the political class in Europe. The problem is that Western societies have become "illiberal democracies" where the results of the elections are known long before the ballots are even printed.
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  4333.  @Mackalkka  When even leftist lawyers say that Merchan's behavior was out of line, you parroting the talking points of the DNC shows you have lost the plot. As for Hutner getting a pardon, well, there is a reason why "Biden Incorporated" is a meme.
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  4334. Indeed. If their cause was just, they would not need to silence the opposition: they would let their opponents discredit themselves.
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  4335. Indeed. Even Michael Crichton used the WW2 firebombing campaigns to show that fears of nuclear winter were exaggerated. Even Pinatubo which released energy equivalent to the world's stockpile barely made a dent in the climate.
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  4336.  @HotAI-1990  The yield may be bigger, but the physics haven't changed. The radioactive byproducts are NOT significantly worse just because the yield is larger. The decay products are short-lived on the order of days to months unlike the years to centuries resulting from the fizzle of a nuclear reactor core accident. Fearmongers like you capitalize on people's ignorance of that. Some of us actually study nuclear physics and know the truth.
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  4337. Indeed. Regulations ALWAYS stifle innovation, no exception. That politician showed how out of touch he or she was with the R&D process.
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  4338. The Russian Bear is Geriatric.
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  4339. Iger is doing what they call in aviation "Controlled Flight into Terrain".
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  4340. At this point the only way to fix it is to put it in public domain.
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  4341.  @Danny451  Funny, because existential nihilism leads to madness and insanity. It is NOT the path one wants to take when they are spiritually shallow. But hey, you do you. Just don't be surprised when you meet your maker, and he holds your lack of faith against you.
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  4342.  @mommapancakess  And witness testimony is already considered unreliable. So much for having an alibi.
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  4343. Only, Bytedance won't sell; the CCP won't let this go through.
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  4344. Not quite accurate. It isn't that the GOP candidates in the cities are not trying, it is that the state and national GOP party leaders don't want to lift a finger to help them. They have a "gentleman's agreement" with the Dems to not poach on each other's turf. The GOP knows that if they take one or two Democrat cities, then the Dems will go after their liberal GOP suburbia precincts.
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  4345. Plague on both their houses, as Mercutio cursed.
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  4346.  @ZeteticPhilosopher  Yeah, but our aircraft have injected a large amount of water vapor into the stratosphere at 40,000 ft. elevation. That DOES have a similar effect to particulates at high altitude.
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  4347.  @boink800  True that. But I consider it good debate practice to wrestle with them.
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  4348.  @godiswatching9501  Complacent Jews asked the same questions you just did when they were first confined to the ghettos. But sure, keep your head buried in the sand like an ostrich.
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  4349. No joke. Nobody learned the lessons of Shay's Rebellion.
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  4350.  @fpxy00  What NATO army? They can't even beat the Ukrainian Soviet Army augmented with western equipment.
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  4351. Ironically, gymnastics DOES favor women over men. Women tend to be more flexible than men.
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  4352. I had no problems sending Ukraine our old and soon to be disposed of gear and equipment. I have ALWAYS been against the pallets of cash like Obama sent to Iran.
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  4353. It was cute he believed that the GOP base would ever support Kanye, a man who built his entire career on Rap culture.
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  4354. There is very little that the Kriegsman has to be ashamed of. Indeed, submariners like Gunther Prien (Bull of Scapa Flow) conducted themselves with immense compassion and restraint during the war, often rendering survival aid to the crews of the ships he sent to the bottom of the Atlantic. Indeed, Even the Wehrmacht itself acted with great restraint and honor as contrasted with the PARAMILITARY Schutzstaffel (SS). And before anyone goes on about "Wehrmacht war crimes" might I remind them that outside of the Field Marshalls of the OKW, NONE of the rank-and-file members face the Nuremberg Trials that the SS, Doctors, and Lawyers all faced.
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  4355. Class-action it.
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  4356.  @spidif2544  Yeah, several military experts laughed at Billy Mitchell when he argued for Air Power and warned that there was a glaring weakness in the defenses of Pearl Harbor. Exactly 15 years (minus 10 days) after he was court-martialed, the Japanese conducted the attack on Pearl Harbor exactly as he predicted.
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  4357. Then how do you explain the frequency bands overlapping with water vapor emission? Meteorological satellites use those wavelengths to detect and identify atmospheric features. The US Department of Defense has known about this for over a decade, but the data has been ignored by the politicians who approved the implementation of 5G.
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  4358.  @mggentry  Believe it or not, aircraft trails do show up on water vapor metstat channels. So do ship trails in the ocean.
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  4359. Yes and no. You are correct about constant regime change and that IS biting China in the rear. The kicker is when they choose to back strongmen such as the ones who toppled Robert Mugabe instead of buying off corrupt local elected officials. Both sides are exploiting each other, but it remains to be see who comes out on the better end.
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  4360. The big problems, and one they didn't touch on is that dismantled Soviet nuclear bombs are having their cores reprocessed into reactor fuel. If we want to shrink the number of nuclear weapons, we cannot sanction the companies that are engaged in that process.
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  4361.  @nuclearmedicineman6270  Thank you for bringing those points up. Projectiles CAN and often do pass right through the target and hit other objects. People have this naïve belief that a bullet stops in the initial target. An example of one bullet with multiple targets hit: The Zuvuder Film of the JFK assassination proved the single bullet theory correct; it passed right through both the president AND the governor. Oliver Stone's "debunking" made numerous assumptions such as the governor facing forward and level with the president that were just not true. When you take into account the actual positions of both men, all of their wounds line up perfectly and the ballistic trajectory extends back to the book depository. And the bullets used by Lee Harvey Oswald ARE strong enough to pass completely through a human body.
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  4362.  @bfa-xi1py  What colonies did Germany try to retain or acquire in WW2? Part of the reason why the ideology of the Third Reich never gained wide traction is because unlike with Bolshevism, there was nowhere for them to export it. Germany's Asian possessions were swallowed up by Imperial Japan. France and the UK took over the African territories. Russia was NOT a colonizing power leading up to WW1, so your whole argument is moot.
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  4363.  @bfa-xi1py  Wow, triggered much? You have lost the plot. You contradicted your own argument claiming that the whole point of WW2 was WW1. "If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought," -Dennis Roch
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  4364. A single moment of lucidity on their part, then right back into the delirium of their social media narcotics.
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  4365.  @thepoliticalanalyst5684  Your point being? I guarantee you that with American help, those codes could have been compromised. At a bare minimum, they could have been dismantled for components, particularly the radioactive material to be used in power plants. If giving them up was so symbolic, then why make such a big deal about it? You are trivializing the hand-over. That Russia got to keep the warheads instead of them being dismantled IS a big deal.
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  4366.  @gigikontra7023  Yeah, that was part of my point about dismantling the devices. You and I have the creativity to think outside the box. But this guy clearly can't think outside of his official talking points. A clear case of Pavlov's Dog.
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  4367. Lovely analogy! And yes, human nature is scarier than a Lovecraftian horror.
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  4368. Who is "everyone"? You make just as many false assumptions as he does.
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  4369. Voting hasn't solved the problem. For over 12 years the Tea Party has been trying that only to fail spectacularly. Getting new people into office will not fix the problem because as soon as they get there, the receive the frontal lobotomy and become part of the problem. Time to change up what we are doing.
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  4370. Indeed. Destroying combat power long term is more significant than territorial gains. That was the mistake made by the Union Generals in the East during the American Civil War. General Grant came in and said no, we must destroy the Army of the Confederacy. And we do that by pinning it down in Richmond.
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  4371. Nature abhors a vacuum. The Japanese are simply filling that void.
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  4372. Which is sad because the X and Y chromosomes makes it pretty easy to define it.
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  4373. The fondness Japan has for its former prized colony still remains. Formosa was the crown jewel of the Empire of Japan and that affection hasn't diminished.
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  4374. Agreed. When they are focusing on diversity instead of story, it is clear they have nothing of substance worth spending time or money on.
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  4375. No joke. They still remembered Lexington and Concorde as well as numerous incidents involving private merchant vessels attacked leading up to the Revolution.
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  4376.  @wallace44able  I drive an economy car that is supposed to get 30 miles per gallon. Most Americans don't drive gas guzzling SUVs. Especially as Obama's energy polices made them untenable. But I get it, you want to blame the victim because it defects for the real cause.
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  4377.  @wallace44able  I do travel, because I am on the road and can see the vehicles on the interstate. It is mostly family sedans or minivans on the road, not H2 or H3 hummers. Also, an F-150 is a full-sized truck, not and SUV, so you are being completely dishonest when you imply, they are the same thing. While an SUV nominally has a truck chassis, their performance is radically different. And it is apples to oranges false analogy to compare the US to Europe. For one, Europeans don't commute an average of 15-20 miles to work every day. -Secondly, their population density is an order of magnitude larger, which is why mass transit is viable in Europe, but not in the US outside of cities over 200,000 in population. -Third, unlike in the US, Europeans don't view driving as a right the way Americans do. Americans don't pay $200-300 processing fees to get a license like they do in Europe. It is clear you are only looking at the worst aspects of the US and only looking at Europe through rose-colored glasses. You are NOT debating in good faith, assuming that some such as myself isn't and well versed on the topic as you are, and it shows.
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  4378.  @rantingrenegade4225  Women change their last name when they get married. Or did you miss that part?
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  4379. Yes, it is, more anti-nuclear propaganda designed to generate hysteria.
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  4380.  @dbphillips1978  Funny, because it sounds like you are talking about yourself. But then that is typical of you leftists. You can't argue merits so you engage in ad hominin personal attacks just like a child would. " I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." -Margaret Thatcher
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  4381. Agreed. He missed the nuance of why triage requires medical professionals to ignore race, religion, nationality, etc. If anything, I find it interesting that Afghans or Iraqis would actually abide by that code. They are not particularly known for subscribing to Western concepts of "civilized" behavior.
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  4382. That is pretty much true of EVERY war ever fought. The US Civil War was just as much an economic one as a battlefield war. WW1 was a production war once trench warfare stagnated the fight. And finally, WW2 was won on both fronts because of American production outpacing everyone.
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  4383. Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law, rock n' roller, cola wars, I can't take it anymore, We didn't start the fire, it was always burning since the world's been turning... -Billy Joel.
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  4384.  @nerdyali4154  Usually it does. However, Europe is less democratic and more hereditary Republic which differs from feudalism mostly in name. Aristocratic nobility of a different kind.
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  4385. On what charge? The Georgia electors' case is imploding due to misconduct.
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  4386. Why did it take over 3 1/2 minutes into a 4 1/2 minute video to get to the part about Israel? Nice job click-baiting.
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  4387.  @LasseEklof  I would agree that Egypt could be the "neutral outsider" But the fact that they are choosing NOT to help the Palestinians speaks volumes. Perhaps they know as both the Jordanians and Lebanese that they are terrible house guests.
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  4388. The problem is that Trump allowed swamp critters like Mike Pence into his administration. He set himself up for failure from day one. Trump should have picked Bobby Jindal as his VP. Jindal would not have surrendered to the establishment the way panty-waste Pence did.
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  4389.  @Leamichellefan2244  And Asian actress could have done it with natural raven black hair. The trick is to make sure she spent most of the summer indoors so that she would not tan and retain the white complexion that many East Asians have during the winter months. Hell, just opting to NOT use stage makeup could have maintained the image (typically those who don't use stage makeup look pale as a corpse, even those of darker complexion experience this under stage lights).
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  4390. With regards to "deserve", I keep thinking of this line: "Deserving ain't got nothing to do with it" -Clint Eastwood, "Unforgiven".
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  4391. Look away, look away, look away, Dixieland!
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  4392. Probably. These people would burn everything around them to ashes if they cannot hold onto power.
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  4393. As an "assault shed" for tanking trenches? Sure. But for its primary purpose as an MBT? Hardly.
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  4394.  @taoliu3949  Just because you breach doesn't mean you are doing it correctly. And with Russia, if there is a wrong way of doing it, you can assume they will pick the most wasteful option. The Russia MoD troops may adapt in the field, but their leaders are still ideologically welded to flawed Soviet doctrine regarding combat. Contrast that with the flexibility of the Ukrainians who are NOT employing the ad hock modifications that the Russians employ.
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  4395.  @taoliu3949  Win the battle but lose the war. INDIVIDUALLY the Kamikaze MIGHT have been more effective, but taken as a whole, they were WORSE than trained pilots. And you still failed to address the fact that the goal of the Kamikaze was to slow the American advance, which it failed to do. Seriously, you are embarrassing yourself with how you are grasping at straws. NOBODY who is honestly assessing the Kamikaze considers it to have been a success. Same with the Banzi Charges.
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  4396.  @taoliu3949  It wasn't the Solomons that destroyed Japanese Aviation, but rather the Battle of Midway where they lost 4 Fleet Carriers and most of the pilots with them (called the five minutes of fate). It could also be said that the Battle of Coral Sea also contributed greatly to attritioning Japanese Aviation. Further, the organized Kamikaze units didn't get deployed until the Philippine Campaign, with Lt. Yuko Seki's unit attacking the Jeep Carriers off Samar being their first major deployment. The fact that you got that wrong shows you have no idea what you are talking about. As far as the attacks on oil refineries, what part of PARTISANS do you not understand? Many of those targets are well out of range of domestic Ukrainian weapon systems launched from Ukrainian soil. Hell, most of the attacks in Crimea have been partisan actions. It has only been since the deployment of Storm Shadows and the accompanying MGM-140 ATACMS that Ukraine has had systems that could reach Sevastopol from Ukraine controlled areas (naval sea drones not withstanding).
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  4397. The best thing for the D&D IP now is for it to be placed in public domain. It has been long enough. Under the original 1790 copyright law, everything would have been public domain in 2001.
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  4398. Indeed. This is very much going to go into the courts with people arguing from the Federalist Papers regarding the flow of sovereign power.
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  4399. As one of my former co-workes in the USAF who did Army support said, "Joe ain't too damn bright".
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  4400. It wasn't the state of Florida that signed it, it was the previous Reedy Creek board, stacked with Disney flunkies.
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  4401. Sure you did. If you voted for Trump is 2016 and 2020, there is zero reason to vote against him again.
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  4402. Indeed. The Chinese basically refined and perfected the Japanese Fu-Go Ballon Bomb.
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  4403.  @Roger_Gadd  I agree on both counts. Oh, and those they consider Russian are likely the collaborators. Those who consider themselves Ukrainians are likely staying because they don't want to be under Russia's authority.
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  4404. They still made pushes in Kherson, it was just slower and more methodical. Too many people expect a Blitzkrieg when war is usually a slow slog.
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  4405.  @malachir2418  The idea that unpopular Biden got more votes that VERY popular Obama doesn't pass the smell test.
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  4406. No joke. All of these Democrat border towns voted for this when they supported Joe Bite-Me. They have nobody but themselves to blame.
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  4407.  @animezilla4486  Not sustainable. The pixie dusters supporting it are nowhere near enough to support Disney's lavish and wasteful spending habits.
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  4408. Paul, cross check your information on Avdivka with Perun. His video on the major battles (Vuhledar, Bakhmut, Avdivka, Marinka, and Kupiyansk) go into great detail, particularly how many of the "cities" are now effectively rubble piles.
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  4409.  @fifi23o5  No, I got your message. Your problem is that you cannot see the forest for the trees. The fact that garrisons from Russia's Far East districts are being sent to Ukraine shows the desperation in Putin's position. He knows that if he does a full mobilization, he will experience what Czar Nicholas did during WW1.
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  4410. Wow. As bizarre and off the wall as that is, I just might actually work!
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  4411. Debt to control other nations was planned out by Deng Xiaoping in the 1980s. The Chinese have always played the long game. And they have the population to conscript into an invasion force to collect on their debt. I do agree with you that geopolitically it remains to be seen how it will play out. And how China responds if the whole of the continent stops fighting each other and unites against the Red Panda.
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  4412.  @wahyuindrasto  The problem is, there is no such thing as a limited exchange. One use is answered with an overwhelming retaliatory strike. There is a reason why NATO no longer fields "tactical" nukes. ANY use of nuclear weapons in ANY capacity is considered a strategic escalation and is answered with a strategic level response.
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  4413. I am from Indiana and have met Jim Banks in person. He is a grand-standing establishment critter. Any criticisms he gets, and he loves to hide behind his military service and his missing hand (veteran and disability cards). He was quite proud to help Mike Braun, and Eric Holcomb raise the state's gas and diesel taxes to the highest in the nation. He isn't even pro-business; he is pro-status quo and oligarchism. With republicans like him, who needs corporate democrats? He LOVES liberal policies provided he benefits from them personally. Just like every other Hoosier incumbent Republican.
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  4414. Today you would be correct. However, in WW2, the US shipyards were producing vessels faster than either the Germans or the Japanese could sink them. Just look at how many jeep and escort carriers were built in the war. Essex class fleet carriers alone outnumbered the total number of Japanese carriers.
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  4415. As an "Anglish" Gringo, even I am disgusted at this attempt at Anglicization.
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  4416.  @ChienaAvtzon  Yeah, there was no reason to make three movies. Two, using material from the Silmarillion to expand the story was pushing it. The entire third movie was pointless and plagiarized from several other movie franchises (such as the Worms from Dune).
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  4417.  @BagoPorkRinds  Indeed. I paid close attention to the local orientation briefing. Never had a problem with the locals. In fact, a number of the older ones wanted me to marry a girl from their family after listening to me wax about their long history.
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  4418. And where are the drivers of that poverty? Democrat controlled cities in those red states. Tell the WHOLE story.
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  4419. Because Angela Merkel was a communist collaborator. In the 1980s she was a member of the East German Communist Youth League. So, it is no surprise that when she got into office, her first order of business was to prostitute Germany to Putin and Russia.
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  4420. I am glad that Japan is burying the American industry. Serves them right for being bankrupt of ideas and rewarding nepotism over talent.
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  4421.  @actionjksn  It also means you have no principles and shift as the wind blows.
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  4422. You are conflating the 37 with the 707. Two COMPELTELY different airframes.
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  4423. I wanted term limits BEFORE the recent rulings. And I DO think most of the ones in the last 2-3 years are good ones. Yet I still stand by my position on SCOTUS term limits. I have principles, you do not.
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  4424.  @SilenTHerO78614  Not if it is the Stalinists who do it. Remember, if they really were against anti-Semitism, they wouldn't be so rabidly anti-Israel. Anti-Zionism is fashionable anti-Semitism today. And it goes hand in hand with socialism and social justice.
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  4425. Funny, as I recall, the US save you guys from having to speak German. TWICE. Oh, and we kept you from speaking Russian as well. If not for the US, Europe would be in constant conflict just like sub-Sahara Africa.
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  4426.  @tetraxis3011  Doesn't matter. They could have disassembled them for components. When the arming device won't work, simply remove it and replace.
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  4427. Idioms are the early version of a meme, a quote that concisely captures a situation. Such mastery of language has been lost since the start of the internet age.
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  4428. And that is why that ad is so unrealistic. Someone who grew up in an activist household will NOT fit into the disciplined lifestyle of military service.
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  4429. That is what Disney shill claim. Florida legal experts say a different story. There is a reason why red lining a document takes hours of legal follow up work.
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  4430. Yeah, IT needs to read Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451.
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  4431.  @gerrycastlemanwarde5933  They have known about this for years, almost 2 decades, but are only now blaming it on Russia. You have to ask yourself why that is.
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  4432. The Palestinians have never renounced their demand that Israel be driven into the sea. They refuse Israel's right to exist.
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  4433.  @goblin6587  You don't even see what you are doing. You lack self-awareness. Typical of a Saul Alinsky Acolyte. "Accuse your opponent of what you are doing to create confusion," -Saul Alinsky Rules for Radicals.
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  4434.  @goblin6587  And there you go again trying to make it all about YOU again. Trump lives rent free in your head. THAT makes you a cultist.
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  4435. In theory he could tell the Canadian Parliament to disband and hold new elections to form a new government, but the likelihood of that happening under Castro Jr. is slim.
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  4436. Him bringing in "The Donald" to deliver the news would be epic!
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  4437. Geology Hub also has been covering this in pretty good detail. Though I admit that he has a rather monotone delivery.
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  4438. @Fortune_cookie, might I suggest "FIVE DOWNED MiGs"? Rhymes more with the original line 5 golden rings.
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  4439. Why? This was a SOUTH KOREAN plane. You think they care about that?
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  4440.  @ltipst2962  The SR-71 was replaced with.....the U-2 Dragon Lady. No joke, the plane that the SR-71 was supposed to replace has since replaced it!
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  4441.  @gerhardk98  First off, it is the height of hubris to think that man is the cause of climate change. Mount Pinatubo's 1991 eruption produced more CO2 and SO2 than all of humanity combined. And that was nothing compared to the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora which caused the "year without a summer". The only constant in nature is change so claims that man is the cause is just bad methodology; there is no control much less a baseline to sus out human impacts.
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  4442. I prefer to call them "Child Nookie network".
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  4443.  @smkh2890  Yes. High turnover rates are GOOD. Incumbency breeds complacency. Complacency breeds contempt. Contempt breeds corruption. It is too bad you are ignorant of your own history for you would learn precisely why Americans are a rebellious type. But then again, you seem to forget that Europe used the American colonies as their dumping ground for the "undesirables", criminals, malcontents, and rejects of your "utopian euro-society". Did the same with Australia as well. Does Botany Bay ring a bell?
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  4444. They don't like the idea that a young white boy can learn valuable life lessons from an older gentleman of color.
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  4445.  @markfergerson2145  I keep trying to post it, but Youtube/Google doesn't like me pointing out how the lockdowns are similar to the practices of certain 1930s ideologies.
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  4446. "Those whom the (Gaming) Gods would destroy, they first drive mad," -Sophocles.
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  4447. Jason Borune and James Bond are not realistic. That is not how spies and assassins operate; too flashy and too obvious.
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  4448. And Konigsberg!
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  4449. More like Stalin's black shirt ANTIFA folks, but the distinction is likely academic. Eric Hoffer observed that the Nazis and Commies recruited the same kind of people.
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  4450. Even Ralph Bakshi wasn't as disrespectful to both the audience and the source material as these dilettantes.
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  4451. Probably something with him falling alseep.....and off his chair.
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  4452. Indeed. The Suni-Shia spat is better described as a Persian-Arab divide. Or a Farsi-Arabic divide.
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  4453.  @badluck5647  "Asian" in the Commonwealth and the US mean different things. For those who still count the late Queen as their monarch, "Asian" tends to mean Pakistani/Hindu/Indian. For the US, it tends to refer to Northeast Asia, particularly Japan, China, Korea, and Taiwan. Both tend to agree on "Indo" as referring to Southeast Asia.
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  4454. Hopefully it means that the website becomes something of a shill for Kadokawa products (which is not really a bad thing if they want to reach the audience directly).
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  4455. Welcome back to the light. We all make mistakes, and you prevented it from becoming a blunder. That is worthy of praise.
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  4456. Sadly, firearms training is also lacking in the US military. As part of the USAF, I only trained on the range TWICE in my 8 years of service. One time at basic at Lackland AFB, and the second time at Scott AFB right before I went to South Korea. Even after going from Korea to Fort Carson where deployments to the sandbox were a regular occurrence, there was still very little firearms training.
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  4457. Yeah, as Far as Europe is concerned anyone of East Asian heritage are all "Chinese". Never mind that Japan, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and the Philippines all have distinct cultures.
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  4458.  @Mohankeneh  How? Yugoslavia broke up NOT because of the US but as a direct result of Josif Bros Tito's death. He failed to groom an effective heir who could keep the disparate factions operating in harmony.
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  4459.  @mikevarga6742  Unrest under Maduro in Venezuela is a direct result of Hugo Chavez' death. Yes, it can take as much as 9 years for a country to come apart. Things don't just happen overnight. And in Yugoslavia's case, it took some time for Tito's successors to screw things up.
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  4460.  @Mohankeneh  All wishful thinking. Yugoslavia was NEVER a superpower. India, United Kingdom, and Maoist China had a better claim than Yugoslavia ever did. So just on that point everything else you claim can be discounted.
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  4461.  @kolerick  "In those countries where income taxes are lower than in the United States, the ability to defer the payment of U.S. tax by retaining income in the subsidiary companies provides a tax advantage for companies operating through overseas subsidiaries that is not available to companies operating solely in the United States. Many American investors properly made use of this deferral in the conduct of their foreign investment.” -President John F. Kennedy.
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  4462. I much prefer "grandpa Morgan" over most of the other hack glorifying gang culture. But then again, Morgan Freedman is from the old school before LBJ's war on poverty.
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  4463. Hogwash. The labor market is at the worst it has been since the Great Depression. Even Jimmy Carter's Stagflation was better than now. Part of it is that companies have replaced full-time with part time and part-time with seasonal and temps to cut costs. And they are rewarded for this by the politicians.
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  4464. No joke, when Fantasy Flight games used the plural they/them for a character in their Legend of the Five Rings books, it makes the body of work damn near impossible to read.
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  4465. Paul, what about the Azov Rail line the Russians have built along the coast? It is supposed to connect Rostov-on-Don to Sevastopol via Mariupol, Berdyansk, Melitopol, Chonhar Bridge over the Syvash to Dzhankoi before spitting between Sevastapol and Kerch.
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  4466. Indeed. Uncle Remus was a mentor to Johnny and almost a surrogate grandfather. That these people think a young white boy should not learn valuable life lessons from an older gentleman of color should tell you who the actual racists are.
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  4467. Guatemala in the 1980s. When the value of your currency at the end of the day is half of what it was at the start, you try to spend it as quickly as possible.
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  4468. Indeed. The hips and waist are different. Healthy women have that hourglass shape and they wear the pants lower than men do.
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  4469. The Russian Bear is Geriatric. They should have captured Kiev in just three days. It has been six months, and at the rate they are going, it will be next century before they return to the gates of Ukraine's capital.
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  4470. He reminds me of a quote President Kennedy used which reference Dante. "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in a time of crisis". He seems to put his "centrist" positions as being more important that actually standing on principle. He claims he has planted his flag on a position, yet easily changes that position because being "a milk toast fence sitter" seems to be more important that taking that stand and getting off the fence to do so.
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  4471. The fact that every movie she was the major character has failed shows that she gets her roles because of nepotism. In golden age Tinseltown, she would have been blacklisted after the second movie flop.
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  4472. The left glorified and praised draft dodgers of Vietnam and Korea. Maybe it is time the right did the same should the left reinstate the draft.
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  4473.  @nonyabisness6306  Agreed. Which is why I say the IAEA classifying it as a seven was NOT based on hard science but rather politics. More people died as a result of the Windscale fire and the Lucens Reactor in Switzerland than did from Fukushima.
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  4474. My guess is that Western Logistics has been a factor in their planning of this. While the Soviet system heavily relied on rail (as we have seen with Russia), the Ukrainians have been depending more on wheeled and tracked vehicles to deliver supplies (the M113 battle taxi can deliver supplies just as easily as troops.)
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  4475. Failure to meet recruitment standards lead to this. Maybe instead of pushing out high tenure people, they should be allowing some of the seinor PFCs and Corporals to stay in past the time they would normally be put out.
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  4476. Glad that you were able to find that hidden heritage. I am reminded of the passage in Genesis "Those that bless you I will bless, and those that curse you I will curse. And through you, a blessing to all of the nations of the world".
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  4477. Yeah, kind of funny how large the doujinshi is as a legal loophole. Here in the US, doujin would be considered parody and hence protected under the first.
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  4478. The only saving grace is that it WILL add to the ranks of the Bonus Army that was started when Obama purged the DoD. How many retired and honorably separated prior military service members will be willing to take up arms against those who currently wear the uniform and are oath breakers?
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  4479. Paul, keep in mind that Avdivka has held since day one of the invasion. Hell, the Ukrainains have fortified it since 2014 when they took it back from the DNR/LND rebels. And while it is basically a rubble pile, I think that the defensive positions at that location are stronger than the ones in Bakhmut.
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  4480.  @homersimpson408  A very nuanced and enlightened analysis. Thank you, for you have very nicely quantified the situation.
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  4481. Grossly exaggerated. The amount of waste (including contaminated suits and other non-reactor materials) created in the last 70 years barely covers one Rugby or Cricket Pitch by half a meter.
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  4482.  @braddl9442  Hate requires that you still care about something, making it the reverse side of the coin from love. Indifference is akin to apathy. Apathy requires that you don't care one way or another.
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  4483. Except, Ukraine ISN"T targeting civilians in Russia. Putin's buddies are doing false flag attacks to promote sympathy. Except, it isn't working.
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  4484.  Wayne Patrick  You assume he believes in Hell. Existential nihilists face a far crueler fate than the fires of Gehenna; cessation of existence, as if you were never born. Oblivion is a FAR crueler punishment in my view. There is a reason why Damnatio memoriae was a special form of punishment that went beyond simple execution.
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  4485.  @luckylarry88  Br'er Rabbit and Kimba are NOT plagiarized from white culture. They are West African originals.
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  4486. Russia had one until it met a determined defender. Now it has become something of a paper tiger. That is the great irony; the invasion has shattered completely the image of Russian invincibility. The "god" has bled and now the sharks will start to gather.
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  4487. I have said that only military veterans are my peers. No other jury will suffice. Incidentally, how many juries are purposely stacked with minorities and/or women when the defendant is white and male?
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  4488. I would not put it past them to try and send him to Rikers to be Epstiened.
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  4489. How? Details, not just emotional hyperbolae.
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  4490. Put down the vodka, you are drunk.
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  4491. Sounds like a typical winter in Soviet Ukraine before the 90s. And you think that will break their morale?
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  4492.  @QwadLuzr  "Si vis pacem, para bellum; If you want peace, arm for war," -Flavius Vegetius Renatus. That is a truism that has remained constant since antiquity and will remain so until eternity.
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  4493. The copium is strong with them.
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  4494.  @cainabel6356  The Republicans have been content to allow it to arrive inch by inch. For all of the talk about repealing Democrat big government socialistic policies, they have been more than happy to fully fund it once they take power. Not a single program has the GOP ever repealed; the ones they claim to have abolished simply withered and died as per the sunset clauses already built into them when first passed.
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  4495. I am actually okay with in-person early voting provided that as you point out, you have ID to cast your vote. We do that here in Indiana.
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  4496. Dude, the American left is emulating pretty boy Tredeau. They admire what you guys are doing north of the nominally unguarded border.
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  4497.  Akilleus  Until they go full Bolshevik. Ever heard of the Cheka? They are the same kind of people as ANTIFA. You laugh at them now but they WILL become cold blooded murders eventually.
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  4498. The Great Granddaughter of Boudica proves the old adage that redheads have a temper to match their hair. And that is a GOOD thing.
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  4499.  @johnberkley6942  Indeed. When you start to believe your own lies, you have deluded yourself and so cannot differentiate between reality and fantasy.
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  4500. Overton Window.
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  4501. Accountability is revenge in the eyes of the corrupt.
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  4502. Because we live in a neo-feudalistic society I agree with you. it isn't that he is low on the totem pole(heaven forbid we "culturally appropriate" an apt analogy), it is that he is part of the elite liberal clique that he will receive "high justice" as opposed to the "low justice" that the rest of us are subject to.
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  4503. Yeah, kind of reminds me of the old saying "With friends like these, who needs enemies?"
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  4504.  @michaelconnor1542  Yeah, it has always bugged me that a person could run for and represent a district they don't actually live in. Here in Indiana we all it "The Lugar Problem" after Richard "Tricky Dick" Lugar who was our senior senator who for almost 20 years failed to maintain a residence in our state; DC was his only residence.
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  4505. But at what cost? The Russian war machines is being smashed by Ukraine. The Russian Bear has been revealed to be geriatric.
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  4506. Lop Nur in China.
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  4507.  @juicebox86  Then you don't believe in treaty negotiations. History has shown time and again that you DO have to sit at the table with an aggressor to officially end hostilities. The only question is, do you have the stronger position or do they?
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  4508.  @juicebox86  As George S. Patton famously said, "you are not defeated until you admit defeat". Ukraine refuses to admit defeat and why should they? The fact that they fought a numerically superior foe to an effective draw show that Russia is NOT in a very strong position. The author of the video is wrong about wars only lasting a few months. MOST wars actually last for at least THREE years. The Ukrainians are barely six months into this war. As many have pointed out, all of Ukraine was overrun by the Germans in less than six months during Operation: Barbarossa. The Soviets stopped them at the tractor factory in Stalingrad. And a little more than two years after that, the Third Reich fell. Try looking at the battle maps of WW2 in that part of the world. The Ukrainians today have defended a number of cities using almost the exact same strategies as the defenders did in WW2. In many cases, they have been MORE successful than in WW2. So, no. You are counting your eggs before they have hatched. This war is FAR from over and you need to open your mind beyond your flawed preconceived notions.
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  4509. Timmy was going to have him on the show a couple of months ago. I can't believe he has forgotten that already.
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  4510. On what charge? Most of the cases are imploding under lack of eviddence and prosecutorial misconduct.
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  4511. Iger has a hard on for the Chinese totalitarian system.
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  4512.  @mtlbstrd  No joke. The "Honorary Whites" was a talking point of both the Klan and the Nazis to justify in their minds the idea that East Asians, particularly the Japanese, were on part with many Western nations following the modernization under the Meiji Restoration. A further thought to add, recent immigrants from Africa such as Ethiopians are more successful than American born blacks. That further drives home the point that the success isn't unique to Asians and CAN be replicated in almost any cohort- provided said cohort puts in serious effort. But for too long, some have simply been sliding by on the soft bigotry of low expectations.
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  4513. Part of it is because Fox is run by the good for nothing Murdock sons who are flaming liberals. Rupert should have left Wendy Deng in charge instead of his wastrel sons.
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  4514. More like first class neck stretching.
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  4515.  @RichardPhillips1066  Indeed. Sunk cost fallacy drives a lot of that.
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  4516.  @danmayberry1185  Pence was Grima Wormtounge. He whispered poison into his ear.
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  4517.  @theoutlook55  Youtube/Google is notorious for shadow-banning people and stealth deletes of posts that don't conform to the official orthodoxy. And yes, outside links seem to automatically get dropped, so you have to be clever about sharing it.
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  4518. They learned nothing from the HIV/AIDS eppidemic.
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  4519. No, we cannot see the sun's core. What we can see and treat as "the surface" is called the Photosphere. But to your point, the Chromosphere and the Corona are transparent to visible light.
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  4520. It is almost as if the AIDS epidemic of the 90s is repeating. Oh, wait! Tony Fauci also screwed that one up as well!
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  4521. Live action was way too long. Should have been two at most.
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  4522. Hell, I would give San Fransisco for Hong Kong and Los Angeles for Macau in a trade with China. As for trading with Russia, I could be convinced to give him parts of California in exchange for parts of Kamchatka or Sakhalin Island.
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  4523.  @Loucfr  TDS is not a good look.
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  4524.  @Loucfr  Necrophillia is even more disgusting. My mother has been six feet under since 2011.
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  4525. Maybe with Anime News Network being owned by a Japanese Manga/Anime company, it will actually be focused on Anime instead of political agendas poorly disguised as pop culture reviews. I for one look forward to Kadokawa keeping a tight leash on the website and making it actually support the fan base instead of attacking it.
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  4526. Indeed. I am glad he pointed out the fuel and waste storage pools. Fukushima's leak came for those and NOT the reactors as the sensationalist falsely claim.
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  4527.  @Colin_Izer1111  Your petty need to make such statements reveals your existential nihilism. I pity you because men smarter and wiser than you have gone mad walking the path you insist of traveling. Interestingly, that spiritual emptiness is exactly WHY you seem so hell bend on destroying faith others hold. You are so miserable that you seek to make others just as spiritually miserable as you are.
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  4528.  @Juho221  It shows that the Russians blatantly lie about who is responsible for shelling. In the Azov POW case, how come only the prisoners died and none of the guards got a scratch? Same applies to shelling at the nuclear plant.
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  4529. Because they are collectivists. They don't believe in individualism, only in the greater hive mind. They are essentially the Borg.
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  4530.  @BetaGunslinger  Great, Youtube refused to post my reponse. Guess they don't like a particular word in it that "triggered" them. So I will sum it up here. You are using an aberration to push gun control. "Incels" as the left call them are NOT mentally slow, most of them are actually above average IQ. Prohibited possessors like the Texas Church shooter still got their firearms because gun control doesn't work. Background checks will not catch all prohibited possessors like the ones you listed. Background checks only stop the law abiding, not those who flaunt the law. So no, we are NOT on the same page. You are using classic leftist talking points to carry the water for the people you claim to disagree with, yet you make their argument for them.
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  4531. ​ @BetaGunslinger  And again with the "Incel" narrative which is a leftist anti-gun canard based on anecdote and emotion but not on empirical data. What historically was first called "retard" but now called "Incel" is better described as "socially awkward" or "loveshy". The Japanese often call it "Hikikomori". They are not mentally slow but rather socially inept and find it perplexing to navigate the treacherous waters of social interaction. Case in point is Asperger's Syndrome. While classified as part of the Autism spectrum, outside of social situations such people can be VERY successful and productive. They just find social norms perplexing and incomprehensible. Then you have other examples such as Howard Hughes, Albert Einstein, Nicola Tesla, Robert Oppenheimer , Werner Heisenberg , Richard Feynman , Gregor Mendel, Ignaz Semmelweis, and Ludwig Boltzmann all of whom people dismissed as "crazy", "insane", "moronic", or "incel". So no, you are perpetuating the gun advocacy position every time you generically apply the "incel" term improperly. It is like the boy who cried "wolf!"
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  4532.  @BetaGunslinger  Who is changing the meaning of words? Who is doing the gaslighting? You play right into their hands when you use their terminology. You do their bidding when you continue to perpetuate the leftist false claims about "Incels". And part of that myth is the idea that "Incels" are violent or get violent. No, use of that narrative and claims only deflects from the real issues of mental health and refuses to address the demands of the statists for conformity. "Incel" is just the modern day use of 1930s "Imbicile" to disparage those who do not conform.
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  4533.  @BetaGunslinger  Now who is deflecting and changing the subject? I never said anything about anti-Semitism though the left certainly is. And I am not changing the meaning of Invol Celibate. I am simply pointing out how the left is using it today. If anything, you are gaslighting yourself by playing the left's game. Don't let them set the rules; you are setting yourself up for failure when you do.
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  4534. Indeed. Since a verdict has already been delivered, it is too late for a mistrial. And Double Jeopardy is now in play. However, it is more than enough justification to invalidate and overturn the conviction on appeal.
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  4535. Cocaine Mitch only cares about one thing and one thing only: power. He stands for nothing except for his own prestige and authority and has no principles nor scruples. So in that regard, you are right, he IS motivated to pursue that goal and nothing else.
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  4536. Except, "Sins of the Father" is NOT a Christan Value, and it is very debatable if it is even a Jewish tenant. It very much is a tenant of CASTE based societies and cultures.
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  4537.  @1djbecker  Agreed. He seems to forget the Marshall Plan. Or all of that money we dumped into Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan to "modernize" them.
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  4538. Not just the FAA, but also the FCC. Didn't help that American politicians (namely Obama), sold off those frequencies to the highest bidder. The DoD has known about these issues for decades, but the politicians and Bureaucrats simply ignored the warnings.
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  4539. @jlm6448 Her message is hard to swallow when she refuses to admit her mistakes. Only when you own your failures does it become easier to hear your new perspective.
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  4540. Convenient excuses. They use discipline and training as a pretext for getting rid of people, because if they used the actual reason, they would lose in court.
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  4541.  @dennisholliday2454  Watch the pennies nickels and dimes, and the dollars take care of themselves." -William Lowndes "Those who wish to move mountains start by carry away the pebbles." -Confucius Author of "The Analects" "You let one ant stand up to us, then they all might stand up. Those puny little ants outnumber us a hundred to one. And if they ever figure that out, there goes our way of life!" -Hopper, "A Bug's Life Minor things add up, dude. It is called "Death by one thousand cuts". Grains of sand that add up to a heap.
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  4542.  @wabalaladabdab  Indeed. After pushing the Russians out of Luhansk and Donetsk, their targets should be as follows: reclaim Crimea, pacify Transnistria, liberate Belarus. After that, take a breath and see what develops next.
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  4543.  @aekanshaggrawal  The only people who believe that are people living off the misery of others.
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  4544. Nothing is truly private. As Dr. Sid said in "Spirits Within": lf you have any notes that could be used against you... ...destroy them. -Keep them up here.
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  4545. That is where I disagree with Mr. Pool. Those that got snookered are NOT innocent. They deserved to be abused for not doing their due diligence. If the media will not do proper reporting, then it is up to the people to do their own homework. If you rely on "experts" to inform you, then you are a puppet to their whims.
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  4546. Cronkite was a rabid partisan, but at least he had the good sense to not be overt about it. He also only had competition from two other outlets who were just as partisan as he was, not 100,000,000 channels with a vast variety of persuasions.
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  4547.  @shortyorc121  Thank you. It is refreshing to have a civilized rational conversation online these days. May the blessings of on high be with you on your journeys.
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  4548. The irony is, that the country music "industry" is who is leading the charge on this. Kid Rock is who made this go viral with his fellow country singers also signing on, giving it further credibility.
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  4549. What was it that Winston Chruchill said? "If you aren't a liberal before age 30 you have no heart, and if you are not a conservative after 35 you have no brain"?
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  4550.  @Jake12220  If the war in Ukraine has taught us anything, it is that Russia's military capabilities are GROSSLY overestimated. All of your points while based in merit do not comport with the level of competence displayed by the Russian military. Competent training is sorely lacking in the former Soviet State.
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  4551.  @paulcastle1718  The problem was that he was way too trusting. His first blunder was taking Mike Pence, the establishment golden child as his VP. Pence is who recommended Priebus as Chief of Staff(primary WH leaker), Dan Coats (DNI who ran cover for and protected Comey, Brenan, Mueller, and the rest), Elaine Chao as SecTrans, and many more. Pence was to Trump what Grima Wormtougne was to King Théoden of Rohan.
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  4552. Send them to Fort Leavenworth if not a first class "neck stretching".
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  4553. I like your nuanced perspective. Yes, I believe the people of the West still support Ukraine, but the political leaders of the West are looking for excuses to leverage the conflict to gain more power. Rather cynical that Western "leaders" are willing to gamble Ukraine's freedom from Neo-Soviet oppression just to score a few cheap political points. And this goes for BOTH sides of the equation, not just Republicans but the pandering to the anti-war left.
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  4554.  @Mr.Septon  I guess that is what is irritating me the most. The blasé attitude of Western leaders who care more about financing their little pet project (and laundering a cut off the top) rather than securing the liberties of their posterity. Again, I see Western leaders on BOTH ends of the political divide being spineless Jellyfish because posturing and grandstanding is easy when they are not the ones being fired at in anger. A bunch of damn peacocks, the whole lot of them. PS: thanks for putting up with my ranting and raving.
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  4555.  @besmartvoteblue2702  They said that in 2016. They said that in 2020. Keep drinking the copium dude.
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  4556. Youngkin is a late to the party GOP establishment hack. We need more governors like DeSantis not Youngkin.
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  4557. Indeed. Young Kim, an Asian Woman, won on election night with all of the early votes accounted for. And then two weeks later the harvested ballots showed up and her seat was given to a white man in a district with one of the highest concentrations of Asians in California. Think about that.
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  4558.  @ernestkhalimov1007  Yeah, it is easy to say that when you have the government effectively under your thumb.
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  4559.  @shaneb315  From the Kremlin no doubt.
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  4560.  @XyphonXero  I will agree that it is the age old struggle between the merchant class and the landed gentry. The problem today is that those who were once the merchant class have become the landed gentry. That is effectively what happened during Reconstruction. And when the two groups unite, slavery soon follows. Indeed, how do plantation owners get their slaves but from the merchants who sell them? And the freeholds (ie free soilers) suffer for it. Plague on BOTH their houses!
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  4561. Indeed. That is Keysian neo-Marxist economics. And just like its predecessor, does more harm than good. Art Laffer proved that. So did Karl Meneger, Fredric Hayek, and Fredric Bastiat Baistait.
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  4562. The problem with all of that is that Moscow has no authority to dictate to Warsaw or Prague whom they choose to enter into treaty agreements. Russia doesn't get to dictate to Eastern Europe who they get to associate with.
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  4563.  @LetholdusKaspyr  Love that analogy, I will have to use it.
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  4564. The Japanese did the same thing in WW2. The incendiary bombs started a number of forest fires.
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  4565. Agreed. Just another John Boehner.
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  4566.  @genkiferal7178  Yeah, and tell me they are not using some kind of supplement derived from animal products to compensate for the nutrient deficiency, specifically B12. Look, I am not saying you can't have a pure vegan diet, but there are nutritional reasons why it is not perfect. And to call the consumption of animal products unethical is based not on science but a theological argument. You are allowed to have such views, but use them only to guide your actions, not judge the rest of us.
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  4567.  @petercullen1624  If that is the worst thing you can attack him for, then he is doing pretty good.
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  4568. Situational irony (poetic justice) and gallows humor are two of the few things I find funny these days.
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  4569. Wasn't there a movie in the 90s about a deep-sea research team who found that at the bottom of a trench lead to a convergence between three different Earths?
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  4570.  @T-h-a-t_G-u-y  Yeah, I can find it, but the plot was that a deep-sea research team is exploring a trench when one of their members disappears into the abyss. Long story short, they find a black hole/ wormhole that connects three different versions of Earth. The climax of the movie has the lead researcher in a pressure suit meeting two other versions of himself down in the depths.
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  4571. Yeah, fearmongering around 3-mile Island and Chernobyl created hysteria over nuclear power. Fukushima gave that same anti-nuke crowd a booster shot. That stands in stark contrast to the history of the US Navy's nuclear power porgram.
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  4572.  @ssShockRyder  I can forgive you for not actually working in a franchise and understanding that the local managers have ZERO control. They are FORCED to only use corporate suppliers and distributors. They CANNOT change their menu without approval from home office (which rarely ever happens). And most of the profits go back to the corporate home office. So yeah, brand names are NOT local business genius.
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  4573. "because the military spent all this money building up the technology" Wow, complete ignorance. Try actually learning about WHY Hyman G. Rickover rejected Thorium reactors. For one, they use molten sodium/salt, which is an accident waiting to happen. Second, the USS Seawolf (SSN-575) WAS a Thorium reactor, and it NEVER achieved the results claimed by advocates of Thorium reactors.
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  4574.  @boxingfan2796  Probably in no small part to their gutting of classics like the Maelstrom in the Norway Pavilion at EPCOT.
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  4575.  @AmitCYT  That was not an argument, that was an ad hominin personal attack. It is the act of someone so desperate they have lost the debate. Saying someone needs to see a psychologist is a typical response from a petulant man-child (or woman child as the case might end up being). "When the argument is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser," -attributed to Socrates. "When your argument is weak, abuse the Plaintiff," -Marcus Tullius Cicero "I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher
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  4576.  @LauraBeeDannon  Ah, but they are earned and protected at the cost of blood. That is what separates citizens from serfs. Americans were subjects before the Revolution; after that bloody conflict we became citizens.
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  4577.  @CountDuckEgg  Perun, a defense logistic channel got into that very topic and if you actually watch his videos, he even cites the sources. Yes, Russia can produce shells, but even by Russia's own numbers, they are burning through shells faster than they can produce them. It nicely explains why the number of fires at the start of the war have now dropped to barely a thrid.
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  4578.  @TwistyMcFisty  First rule of Fight Club, nobody talks about Fight Club. Basically the same concept. Don't document because then you can't prove anything.
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  4579. High Fantasy can have a general audience as Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" proved. The problem is that the people in charge of the D&D brand don't have his ability to produce a good story. They are the spoiled rich kids that inherited the kingdom and then run it full speed into the ground. In aviation, they call it "controlled flight into terrain".
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  4580. And yet we do nothing. We have already submitted. The face diapers were the first act of capitulation. Agreeing to the lockdowns was the second act of capitulation.
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  4581. Indeed. They need to re-embrace the Imperial Germany Kaiser-Prussian heritage and return to SOME of the better elements of Hindenburg's era, but WITHOUT the rampant antisemitism and jack-booted fascism.
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  4582.  @beng7654  Indeed. Not many realize that Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank was a decorated officer in the Kaiser's Army and had endeared himself to the men who served under him. That made for something of an awkward situation for the Gestapo and SS who arrested him. As easy as it was for the Nazis to scapegoat Jews for the WW1 defeat, those who served with them knew the truth and could not be so easily fooled by the pogroms and libels.
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  4583.  @beng7654  I can trace my lineage to King Asa of Judea through my Pennsylvania Deutch Ancestors, the Schettles (anglicized to Shuttles). BUT I do NOT claim to be Jewish in any way. They fell away from the faith generations ago and so my family no longer has any right to claim to be a Jew. I bring this up because I am reminded of the promise given to Father Abraham that "through you a blessing to all the nations and families of the world". The Jewish people of Imperial Germany WERE a blessing on that nation, one that the leadership of the Weimar Republic chose to forsake. Men like your grandfather and Otto Frank who were loyal, patriotic Germans who happened to be Jewish. It is THEIR example to which I choose to honor Kaiser-Recht Germany.
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  4584.  @1233-d3h  The idea that you keep Serbians in Bosnia under a pro-NATO government is a pathetic justification. Again, it is predicted on 18th century chauvinism rather than reality on the ground. There is very little threat to European stability if Republika Srpska is annexed by the Republic of Serbia. If anything, it may actually bring MORE stability.
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  4585.  @1233-d3h  That would be the French you are talking about. Ever heard of the Vichy government?
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  4586.  @tomtom7955  Has to do with Vapor–liquid equilibrium. The larger the volume of air, the more gasoline "boils off" (ie dissolves) into vapor solution.
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  4587. Pripyat is a ghost town, and the reactor did melt down in 1986. The media is just hysterical because they are anti-nuclear and want another excuse to kill nuclear power.
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  4588. That is the smart move. But our power mongers just can't let go of that Chinese Gold. They have sold their country out for the sake of a cheap Ming Vase.
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  4589. Bradley Manning had access to high level stuff despite only being a private.
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  4590. What was it about living long enough to become the villain? Seems like Cameron is dead set on proving that.
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  4591. Yeah, Sweden and Finland tell another story. So does Poland and the Baltic States. On the surface, your contention sound good, but you conveniently ignore some dirty little details such as what Putin wanted from the West that made his offer of partnership untenable. Yes, post 9/11 was an opportunity to partner with the Russians against jihadism. But the asking price was more than the west could accept. And it was certainly beyond what the former Warsaw Pact was willing to stomach.
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  4592.  @thetruthsetsyoufree1492  Some truth to that.
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  4593. I agreed. Iger's villainous rant is about to bit him in the rear.
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  4594.  @annviolet4727  How? Specifics. I seriously doubt that Egypt allows Israel to dictate their border policies.
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  4595.  @a564-c3q  No joke. Most of them remember what the Palestinians did to Lebanon in the 1980s. And the Jordan before that in 1970. They are terrible house guests.
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  4596.  @patclark2186  Yeah, if only those same wargamers would pay attention to the warning by Michael Pilsbury about China. Much like how Erich Marcks played the Americans in Wehrmacht wargames and correctly predicted the Normandy invasion (and was ignored by German High Command), when Pilsbury plays Team Gold/Red (China) how the Chinese actually operate and behave, he NEVER loses. I fear American war planners have grossly mis-judged the Chinese almost as bad as Putin misjudged the Ukrainians.
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  4597.  @Eirik_Bloodaxe  That is one possibility. People forget, the Secret Service are government employees. The executive branch is their boss, which means that they can be pressured in a number of ways, least of which is withholding their salary.
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  4598.  @cnidsniffer  To quote Jim Rayonr to Matt Horner in Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty, "You'll see that better future, but it isn't for the likes of us,"
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  4599. Oh, it certainly comes right up to the line of what is not acceptable. I suspect that because they were not being made to make public statements beyond their unit and the condition of their capture is what puts it on the legal side of the line.
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  4600. Doesn't follow typical actions of western governments. It DOES comport with jihadi modus operendi.
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  4601. The Parcel Islands prove otherwise.
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  4602. @The Purge Post Election Year You don't seem to realize that the ONLY reason why Swing States are even competitive is BECAUSE of the inter-cites being solid blue. It is suburbia where swing state battles are decided. Case in point to prove why your proposal is folly is Illinois. Outside of Cook and Lake Counties (Chicago), and St. Clair County (East St. Louis), the rest of the state is solid red. Those three counties together account for over 55% of the state assembly.
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  4603. Art is art, but there is NO accounting for taste. I prefer Eastern classical art over the crap they pass off as modern art today.
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  4604. Morgan Freeman is "America's Grandfather". Seriously, a pasty white guy like me can look at him and consider him to be like the wise family patriarch.
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  4605. Pincer attack can be very effective.
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  4606. I watched that anime during the lockdowns. It and Legend of Crystiania was kind of meh compared to the fantasy animes that have come out since. That being said, the original by Madhouse was better than Chronicles of the Heroic Knight by AIC.
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  4607. And either Trump or Vance should quote President Lincoln when invoking the Insurrection Act.
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  4608. Don't forget Paramount/Viacom/CBS. That "company" needs to be alongside them.
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  4609. He does tend to get horse blinders on, doesn't he?
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  4610.  @kartikeyatiwari2502  How far away is Kursk City from the Ukrainian border? That was a big ask and not very practical. What they HAVE achieved IS comparable to the Kharkiv breakout in which Izyum fell and 1st Guard Tank Army, the Pride of Moscow was humiliated.
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  4611.  @kartikeyatiwari2502  Ukraine never stated that their goal was to take the City of Kursk. That is the Kremlin talking point you are regurgitating on cue like Palov's Dog.
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  4612. I think the flesh peddlers are a greater threat than so-called insurrectionists. And how we handle it is disappointing as well. The persons trafficked, particularly the girls if they were force into prostitution should be given amnesty for their crimes on the condition they testify in court against their pimps. Further, rather than deport them where the girls will just be picked up again and brought right back, better to give them asylum.
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  4613. Indeed. More George Carlin and Don Rickles.
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  4614.  @golagiswatchingyou2966  I would prefer "WEST-CENTRIC" rather than "Euro-centric". As an American, I have mostly contempt for Europe, save for the Baltic States and Poland. By saying "West-Centric" we are also including our East Asian allies Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan. I really wish the West and Europe would listen more to those Asian allies than some of the folks in Europe who want only capitulation to those who seek to destroy western civilization.
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  4615. Agreed.
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  4616. They would have done better if they adapted the apocrypha about the two Blue Wizards.
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  4617.  @bdk88  Are you going to ignore the fact that the concrete wall was but a mere 150 meters from the end of the runway? Most US airports have at least 610 meters of clearance.
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  4618. It should be but if you use those criteria to purposely select a "protected class" for employment over more qualified candidates, they turn a blind eye to the blatant violation of those statutes.
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  4619.  @itumo2645  Not entirely true. Many came into power with the help of the Soviets. Most of the ones since 2000 came into power because of the Chinese. Indeed, ALL of your anti-colonial despots came to power via communist revolutions because that anti-colonialism mantra was simply a vessel for anti-West resentment.
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  4620.  @onlyfacts4999  The two positions are NOT mutually exclusive. But I expect such shallow false choice thinking from rabid nevertrumpers. Nuance goes right over your head because you are rule by your emotions rather than by logic and reason.
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  4621. And how much are they hemorrhaging? Their last several films have been flops. Get Woke, go Broke.
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  4622.  @cameraredeye3115  Not if you get government immunity to lawsuits. You don't get to have it both ways
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  4623.  @darkbroth3rh00d4  Fair point. I am glad you are aware of that. I wish more people also knew what you and I know.
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  4624.  @Gamerguy826  "It is very cold, in space!" Khan was great! I don't care that Ricardo Montalban is/was Mexican, he was epic!
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  4625.  @joepetto9488  You are making a distinction without a difference. Most historians and military enthusiasts don't split hairs the way you are.
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  4626.  @joesantos7085  You do realize that every socialist government has had a Constitution? Try reading the 1939 Soviet Constitution under Joseph Stalin, it will be an eye opener. I don't disagree that our "leaders" in government desperately want to emulate the fascistic-socialist habits of Europe. Most of our ancestors got the hell out of that continent for a reason, so why are they dead set on duplicating its excesses here? We should be taking cues from our East Asian allies Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan who in the wake of WW2 experienced a renaissance of sorts by incorporating American values and influences into their societies. It would behoove the US to take their hybrid cultural elements into our own and continue that trans-Pacific cross-cultural pollination.
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  4627.  @joesantos7085  Good luck with moving to Japan. Unless you are ethnic Yamato, you will find it VERY hard to gain citizenship there. Marrying a Japanese national helps with that however. The sad reality is that Japan cannot stand alone against the tide of Communism. If we do not make the stand here in the US, retreating to Japan is like the last stand of the Protoss in StarCraft 2: "Wings of Liberty". And yes, it was pleasant to have an honest rational discussion. Such sanity is becoming a rapidly depleting commodity.
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  4628.  @joesantos7085  Fortunately, we don't need more than 50% of the population to win. During the First American Revolution, only at most 1/3 of the colonies were declared for either the Loyalists or the Patriots at a given time. The vast majority took a wait and see position. In the case of NYC, the Redcoats quickly wore out their welcome, driving many into the arms of the patriots. Let us hope the Commies are just as toxic to their "hosts".
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  4629.  @joesantos7085  Very little has changed in 10,000 years of human history. Social Media today is what the printing press was during the Colonial era. Brainwashing was going on then just as it is now. And I do see the masses being carried off to Beijing just like the Hebrews were carried off to Babylon in chains. I only hope that those of us who are true to the cause of liberty are among those left behind much like Jerimiah was left behind before fleeing to Egypt. There is nothing left to save in the US government, so the best we can do is to let it fall just like Jerusalem fell to Nebuchadnezzar. Or how Nanjing fell to Genghis Khan. Or Constantinople to Mehmed 2. Or the Visigoths coming over the Seventh Hill.
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  4630.  @jamesfarrell4929  Indeed. Socialism is simply feudalism and monarchism under a different name. And I agree, our children and grandchildren will grow up in a less free, less advanced society because those in power want the vast majority to be serfs to their whims.
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  4631.  @alexlaw1892  Acting like an old Soviet, eh? Then that should also tell you that there is no justification, only false flag pretext as per the doctrine of Maskirovka. You kill your own argument. And blaming this on Isarel when they do not have a dog in this fight shows your anti-Semitism. Why are you going after someone not involved in this conflict? You are no better than the Arab Jihadis when you do that.
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  4632. Please look at Pence's record as Governor of Indiana and reconsider. Bobby Jindal would be a better pick.
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  4633. Don't forget that the state courts are still subject to the Bill of Rights.
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  4634. "Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin good forces have invented or made” -J.R.R. Tolkien
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  4635. If that were true, Kiev would have welcomed the Russians with flowers instead of Molotov Cocktails.
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  4636. I come from an American Military Family, and we are all about punctuality. Hell, for us, to arrive less than 15 minutes before the appointed time is considered crass. All has to do with the idea that you do NOT want the miss the boat when it pulls out of port without you. In that regard, we are much like our Germanic forbearers. Ironically, during my time in Korea, I would often irritate potential love interests with my anxiety over timeliness. Even today, my Chinese Indonesia wife gets irritated with me when I am urging us out the door because we are 5 minutes past the time she said she wanted to leave.
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  4637.  @harbl99  Yeah, pretty much at this point Phub is a shill site for the paid subscription adult content sites. TLDR's Business channel's first video is on the whole economics and what happened. Something on the order of 2/3 of their entire video catalogue was nuked thanks to Discover and Mastercard pulling strings.
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  4638.  @Knight_Astolfo  That was always the reason I was told that they draw in blood into the needle before pushing everything it. And blood in the syringe is why you can't share injection needles afterwards. HIV among other things.
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  4639. Indeed. Most US Flag officers today are as worthless as a Russian General. There are not enough "mustangs" in the highest positions of the military. For those who don't know, a Mustang officer started out as enlisted, ie a Private in the Army or Marines, Airman in the USAF, or sailor recruit in the Navy.
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  4640. Considering the quality of their writing, I don't trust the quality of their welding.
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  4641. BINGO!
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  4642. Wishful thinking. Not surprising from people who listen to the legacy media.
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  4643.  @everydaydose7779  I tend to agree. But it was unfortunately the airport design failure that made it catastrophic. And THAT is where much of the criminal liability is going to fall.
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  4644.  @danielpacheco4821  I guess you have never heard of "CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE". Corrupt practices are what elevates it to criminal status.
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  4645.  Artoria Pendragon  Then you completely missed the entire Trump presidency. Putin was all set to annex Eastern Ukraine until Trump got elected and the fall out of Malaysian Flight 17. He is only acting now because of Bite-Me's weakness and people forgetting about that shot down plane.
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  4646.  @humankirk9196  Indeed. As Teddy Roosevelt said, "speak softly, but carry a big stick". Or as Clint Eastwood's character Dirty Harry asked, "are you feeling lucky punk?"
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  4647.  @davidgood840  I think you seem to miss the point that one nuclear strike, regardless of size or location can only be proportionally responded by the use of another nuclear strike. Hence why NATO nuclear doctrine says that regardless of size, ANY use of nuclear weapons prompts an immediate retaliation of strategic nuclear weapons. Morality has nothing to do with it. If you have to make a moral argument, then you have no business making wartime decisions. War is hell, and in time of war, the law and most morality becomes luxuries. In war, it is kill or be killed.
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  4648.  @davidgood840  To your first point, how do you think NATO would have reacted if the Warsaw Pact nuked Vienna as outlined in the 7 Days to the River Rhine plan? While I have no idea how Biden will react, knowing that Macron is more apt to follow FRENCH nuclear doctrine (dissuasion du faible au fort), I suspect that a Potsdam Ultimatum would be issued and then carried out, at least by the French. Your second point blatantly ignores the fact that had the Taliban simply handed over Osama, they would have been left alone. By refusing to even acknowledge that elephant in the room, you show that you are being completely dishonest in discussing Afghanistan. Competing gangs? Do you not realize that governments are basically organized crime? Tell me what the difference between a crime syndicate and government is beyond the appearance of legitimacy. Case in point: Narco-states. Civilians killed in war are unfortunate collateral damage. Bombing a factory that produces guns, tanks, uniforms, or packages food for use in the war effort will invariably result in civilian deaths. Civilian deaths will result from the targeting and destruction of power plants and farms, both of which are legitimate targets in war. And that is both legal (ethical) and morally acceptable, despite what bleeding hearts would tell you. And I would point out that the "morality of war" has already been debated since antiquity. I tend to agree with warrior cultures such as the Spartans or the Prussians (pre-unification Germans) on that.
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  4649.  @7F0X7  Everyone today calls their opponents authoritarian despots. Does not make it true through. I will agree that Democrats in the US today have gone full Bolshevik. And they have dragged the GOP into the socialist sphere as well. TORY socialists, much like the UK's neo-conservative party which has abandoned the precepts of Margaret Thatcher.
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  4650.  @maxhouse2409  Not as many as you think. Immigration officials know that marriage fraud for citizenship is the easiest of all the ways to cheat the system so the interviewers dig deep into the relationship. They interviewed both my wife and myself separately when we were applying both for her change of status as well as for citizenship.
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  4651. Indeed. The defendants need to demand that the courts hear their cases. Don't let the government walk away by dropping the charges. Force a precedent to be set making such actions taken without final ratification unlawful.
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  4652. Actually, his mother Wendy should be the one going after them first. She has a MUCH stronger case with regards to the lies about her helping him transport a firearm across state lines. Viva Frei and Robert Barnes dug into why her potential cases are very robust. Unlike Kyle, she is NOT a public figure and so that "exemption" does not apply. Further, she is MUCH more sympathetic than most of those folks in the media which will play well with a jury.
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  4653.  @ArawnOfAnnwn  Don't need to have the arming codes to be useful or threatening. The US designed those control mechanisms, so the Ukrainians could have asked for assistance in cracking them. Further, just because they could not be armed, doesn't mean they couldn't be dismantled for components, namely the cores to be repurposed. And for those throwing barbs at the US for ripping up control agreements, might I remind you of the failure of the Washington Naval Treaty attempting to do the same thing? The US was the LAST nation to stop observing it.
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  4654.  @Fedorevsky  Maybe. But I awlays pegged Stelter as the beta who watches in a netorare (NTR) scenario.
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  4655. Yes and no. The training of Ukraine has only gone on since 2014. And during the first two months Russia had both the numbers and the equipment to crush Ukraine but squandered it. You belittle Ukraine's comeback by claiming that the untrained Russian conscripts are anything like the professionals who lead the drive on Kiev.
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  4656. No joke. It was 10 years from Passage of the Stamp Act to Lexington and Concorde. It was 5 years from the Boston Massacre to Lexington and Concorde. It was 16 months from the Boston Tea Party to Lexington and Concorde. It was 7 months from the Powder Alarm to Lexington and Concorde. If conservatives really were true to the American founders, we would already be at the Battle of Brandywine, 2 years into armed conflict.
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  4657.  @sharpshiell  Indeed. William Henry Harrison had the shortest presidency at 30 days. Biden won't last that long before Pelosi and Jamaica Kamala invoke the 25th Amendment. THEN we will see a real revolution.
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  4658.  @r0b0coffee  False. "Wealth tax" just means legalized theft. It is more that confiscation of assets without compensation. And no, income inequality is NOT a destabilizing factor because not all work is equal. Trying to make unequal things equal IS the destabilizing factor. The reason being that if regardless of effort everyone gets the same result, then the incentive to work completely disappears. "They pretended to pay us, and we pretended to work," -Joke about the reality of Soviet Socialism.
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  4659. Japan was not permitted to own nor operate newspapers in the US between the World Wars. This is the same concept.
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  4660.  @minimaxi6173  Didn't the Japanese try that with their type-3 beehive shells? American pilots found them to be nice pyrotechnics, but not very effective.
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  4661.  @-whackd  Not entirely true. Achaemenid Empire was a very militaristic power, hardly the pacifists you claim they were. Four bloody long years and thousands killed to bring it into his dominion, culminating in the Siege of Sogdian Rock or the Rock of Ariamazes. The fact that you don't know those details shows you have zero credibility.
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  4662. They want their cake and eat it too. They just don't want to pay the costs for their poor choices.
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  4663. The Ukraine Air Force cannot go toe to toe with the Russian Air Force. And the fact that the Karkov and Kherson offensives occurred WITHOUT Air Power kind of proves that while Air support greatly helps, it is not the end-all be-all that makes or breaks ground operations.
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  4664. "Conspiracy theory" just means "spoilers" now.
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  4665. Forbidden fruit mentality. Also known as the Streisand effect.
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  4666. Indeed. People forgot the lessons of Munich. At least JFK didn't forget them during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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  4667.  @Rachel_M_  I cannot comment on the UK system, but I take you at your word as a matter of trust and faith in your sincerity. No, I don't think you are giving them too much credit. They are just not nearly as effective as they would like to be. As you point out, some of us are readers, and readers are thinkers. We do NOT always take things at face value(ironic considering my comment earlier in this post). If only more people had those critical thinking skills. Skepticism is a good thing and something that needs to be taught.
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  4668. I agree. Removing natives from our cultural icons is "genocide" by silence. Far worse to be forgotten than to be killed.
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  4669. I tend to think the latter. As a British flag officer, he KNOWS that there is zero difference between "tactical" and "strategic" nukes. ANY use of nukes is a strategic escalation resulting in launch of Trident ICBMs.
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  4670. How are tarriffs usually applied? You don't have free trade when only one side drops tarriffs and the other sides don't. That is Trump's point: to use the threat to enforce reciprocity.
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  4671.  @DwayneThompson22  Part of the problem with Confucius institute is that it has nothing to do with the ancient philosopher; they don't even teach his writings. His name is merely used as a false flag to get into American institutions which have a galling lack of tenured experts on Eastern History and Culture. Ironically, I could be a professor on Korean history as I know more about it than any non-Korean; even Korean Americans are not as familiar with their history as I am. I thank you for my two years in Korea with the USAF for giving me the opportunity to become so familiar with that country and its history. And you are correct, Confucius WAS one of the targets of Mao's Cultural Revolution, along with Sun Tzu, Dong Zhongshu, Laozi, Zou Yan, Lu Ban, and Zhaozhou among others. All of them provided for the foundations of traditional Chinese culture which Mao sought to pulverize. Only now is the Chinese CCP embracing them realizing it is easier to co-opt and pervert existing tradition rather than build from scratch. Sorry for my long-winded rant. It is not a topic that lends itself well to brevity.
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  4672. The funny thing is, the most effective parodies of Nazis are done by Jews. Case in point: Werner Klempner (Colonel Klink from Hogan's Heroes). The greatest victory over the Third Recht is for the people whom they tried to exterminate portraying and lampooning them.
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  4673. There is nothing stopping local and state officials from enforcing Federal Law. Now as far as prosecuting those crimes in a court of law, that is a different story.
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  4674. You are thinking of the Celtic Pagan Holiday named after Eosther the goddess of fertility which early Christianity tried to co-op by setting Resurrection Sunday in the Spring and calling it Easter. May Day was created by Vladimir Lenin to celebrate communism. It was no accident that it is on the opposite side of the calendar from the "Oktober"(actually November) Revolution.
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  4675. Cinder blocks filled with cement and rebar. Will survive anything except a direct hit from a nuclear device. That is what I would build my dream house with.
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  4676.  @voltinator  That is a very reasonable analysis and I am inclined to believe it. The only hole is that Anime seems to have stepped into the vacuum being created by Disney. Nature abhors a vacuum, and the Japanese have easily filled it. Not surprising since Japanese animators were heavily influenced by Disney during the 60s, 70s and 80s. It was in the 90s that they stepped out of the shadow and started to be trend setters.
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  4677. At this point I am glad that Japan is burying the American comic "industry". It put nepotism over talent or creativity and became bankrupt of ideas. Nature abhors a vacuum, and the Japanese are filling that void.
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  4678.  @Morec0  You are basically describing Fascism. No, there IS another option. Mr. Pool talks about it all the time: Stand Alone Complex. Individuals going out enmass and not specifically coordinated cannot be stopped. Your problem is that you think you have to become the very thing you are fighting to defeat it. To their credit, the American founders REJECTED collectivism and still managed to defeat the Lobster backs. "Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today there is little value in ensuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. " -President John F. Kennedy; Secrecy Speech at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; April 27th 1961.
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  4679.  @Morec0  You and I have VERY different standards of what defines "winning". Loss of civil rights, nay HUMAN RIGHTS is not victory no matter what you may claim. No, you are just apologizing for totalitarianism as long as it is YOUR tribe doing the oppression. What you want is to replace one set of dictators for a new set.
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  4680.  @Morec0  You have no honor if you become the very monster you are fighting. You have already lost if you implement the same polices you rail against. You are not offering an alternative; you are just advocating for vengeance. You are only serving to perpetuate the cycle.
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  4681. BBC and Disney, coming together. What could possibly go wrong? Namely, EVERYTHING!
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  4682. Don't forget, The good for nothing Murdock sons are who run Fox now, not Rupert. He really should have put Wendy Deng in charge of his media empire instead of his wastrel sons.
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  4683. No, not one on one. But they HAVE leveraged force multipliers such as equipment and training which offsets the Russian advantage in numbers.
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  4684.  @kenhamaker  No, where did I say I was? I am NOT advocating for the Ukrainians to brutalize the Russians with the same treatment they have received. In fact, I applaud the Ukrainians for first scolding, then feeding the Russians they capture. And allowing those prisoners to call home to their mothers? Propaganda gold! The demoralization of the Russian Home front will end this war faster.
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  4685.  @Zirilian  Fist, know that Merkel was a member of the East German Communist Youth League. That meant she was already favorably predisposed to Soviet Russia. For years, she put Germany further and further into a subordinate position to the Kremlin. The current budget crisis is a direct result of Deutchland's overreliance on cheap Russian energy to make up for their ill-conceived Green policies.
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  4686.  @tacticalcenter8658  I don't have to prove anything. The burden is on you, not me. Don't try shifting responsibility because you can't debate merits, instead relying on logical fallacies.
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  4687. If it was, I would love to know how to hack the game so that I can get the hot redhead I wish I met 20 years ago.
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  4688. Since when have the courts ever let that stop them from compelling people to break the law just to get the guy they are persecuting?
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  4689. I think Communist guerillas make closer to 15%(don't forget FARC's never ending war in Colombia), but otherwise you are spot on.
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  4690. Would be VERY interesting if stockholder lawsuits result in ESG itself being held liable. If nothing else, it will signal to corporations that their EGS rating is irrelevant, only their costumers matter.
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  4691.  @kuzindwight950  Let them have it. And let the Commies purge the organization. They would be doing us a favor.
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  4692. DEI "lawyer". That is almost self-explanatory. "Didn't Earn It".
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  4693. They also don't want to talk about how many of those gun deaths are self-inflicted.
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  4694.  @jamestinsman1603  And that is fine. But don't allow people to abuse that forgiveness. As JFK said, "forgive your enemies, but NEVER forget them."
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  4695.  @Potacintvervs  Yeah principles only matter when you are dealing with people who have scruples. Otherwise you are martyring yourself for nothing. Try reading Niccolo Machiavelli because his work, "The Prince" describes the situation much better than your naïve idealistic view of the world.
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  4696. How long until they decide to drop a nuke on the city?
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  4697.  @CarpeNoctem135  Hopefully there is someone with a conscience like Morgan Freeman on the inside willing to arrest Donald Sutherland.
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  4698. Russian paid troll.
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  4699. Because that is what it is. Repackaged bolshevism.
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  4700.  @RowanLovecraft2  There is a reason why Patrick j. Buchanan calls it "Soviet Canukistan".
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  4701. I am glad I am not the only one who remembers the drama Nick caused regarding the Culture War show.
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  4702.  @lazmanariffsulaiman7569  What? Holding grudges? As I recall, the Singaporeans and Hong Kongers tend to remember their time as British subjects quite fondly. And American pilots fought alongside the Chinese as part of the Flying Tigers unit. If there is any grudge to be held it should be against the French who managed to foul up most of their holdings around the world.
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  4703. Ew, gross! Now I need some brain bleach to get that out of my head.
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  4704. Military being a family business is the norm in most countries and throughout history. Perun looked into this in his video about US Military recruitment and retention.
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  4705. Guns behind every blade of grass as often misattributed to Admiral Yamamoto.
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  4706.  @anonkiddo  Now that context, I will accept. You presented a more nuanced analysis than your first post, and I have a much harder time disagreeing with the follow-up. I retract my accusation of Anglophobia.
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  4707. Longer than that. Haj Amin Al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, commander of the Bosnian SS, and chairman of the PLO called for "driving Israel into the Sea". They never renounced that demand.
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  4708. Are there two Korean nations or only one? Taiwan and mainland China have been separated far longer than the Koreans. That alone is reason enough to justify Taiwan's independence.
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  4709. Indeed. The "Professional industry" is creating a vacuum that Manga and Indy is filling.
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  4710. Only because you have yet to experience what happens when China comes to collect their "pound of flesh".
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  4711. They do have experience in amphibious assaults, it just isn't good experience. Hainan Island was a success, but Kinmen Island was a total disaster. I do agree with you that China would need quite a few boats to pull this off, and the Battle of Guningtou shows that wooden ferry boats will not cut it.
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  4712. I think the reason why the Taliban does not do that is that until the fall of Kabul, they didn't really control many hospitals. But their system of theocratic governance is very similar to both Hamas and Hezbollah.
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  4713. Antonovski Bridge says otherwise. THAT is the extent of the damage HIMARS could deliver to the dam.
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  4714. It isn't a good thing. Figment is a classic dating from Walt's time.
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  4715. Tell that to feckless Roberts who refuses to even put a stop to the proceedings. Simply refusing to sit in oversight is tacit endorsement of them.
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  4716.  @Mathew_Thomas  No, the rule of law disappeared the day Roberts refused to hear the election cases. At this point, the courts NEED to be packed so that the people realize there is nothing worth saving in this unconstitutional government.
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  4717.  @matttate920  Yes, but even Ben Franklin and John Adams who wanted to call out the institution of slavery in the Declaration of Independence knew that they would sabotage their cause if they insisted on it. Do you really think the American Revolution would have been successful if Lord Cornwallis didn't go south? Do you think Yorktown would have been possible if Virginia didn't join New England in rebellion against the crown? That is the problem with people like you, it shows total ignorance of history, cherry picking only those parts that you can make use of and ignoring anything that doesn't help your cause. "The worst readers behave like plundering troops: they carry off the few things they can use, dirty and confound the rest, and revile the whole," -Fredrich Nietzsche.
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  4718. How long do you think it took the Tsunami to reach Fiji? It is most likely that wave which damaged the communications cable connecting Tonga to the rest of the world.
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  4719. Yes, but that isn't what caused the fireball. Had the wall not been there, the plane would have continued into the bay, likely sliding along the surface much like what happened with the plane that landed in the Hudson River.
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  4720. I am no fan of an-cap, I tend to be a mini-archist. But I agree, this farce is showing how perverted the legal system has become. And why there really only needs to be two laws: murder and theft. All others are pointless attempts to violate self-autonomy and individuals rights.
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  4721.  @ronin4160  I agree that FREE markets are not violence or force. The problem is that time and again we see big business become a quasi-government unto itself. They so dominate the market with their size that they DO use force and intimidation to stifle competition. And failing that, the collude with big government and big religion to effectively do the same. British East India Trading Company is the architype of that. And yes, power DOES coalesce and attempt to centralize so there is nothing to check its growth. Which is why we the individuals have to "stand alone complex", uncoordinated but simultaneously act as that check on power.
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  4722. The conservative movement right not is more interested in holding onto power and grandstanding for influence than actually standing on principle. At a time when they should be sticking to their guns, they are looking to silence dissent, particularly from those calling out the failings of conservative leaders.
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  4723. US Military vessels were not in the Gulf of Aden before the Houthis started harassing ships. In that you are putting the cart before the horse. I do agree with you that there is no point wasting treasure and blood in Yemen. It is the Egyptians who should be invading Yemen, not the US.
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  4724.  @mustafahassan7781  Funny, because according to the American black community, Biden's administration IS the racist government and Trump is the underdog championing them with criminal reform of the justice system.
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  4725.  @EMendonca-mp2mf  What rock have you been under for the last 4 years?
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  4726. Makes you wonder about some of the other militaries. Namely the North Koreans and Chinese. Don't underestimate them, but don't overestimate either.
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  4727. Let us call these "no-go zones" what they are: Harems. The word is Turkish derived from the Arabic word Haram meaning a forbidden place, sacrosanct.
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  4728.  @jeffreyskoritowski4114  "Animezilla"? If you are referring to Japanese studios eating Disney's lunch, I welcome it.
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  4729. EXACTLY! They foolishly believed they could replace a knowledge(gaming) check with profession(business) skill. And then they rolled a natural 1.
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  4730.  @Agent-xX51Xx  Perfectly described! Yes, people way too often place the blame of GLUTTONY's sins on Greed and by extension capitalism. And you are correct, a good capitalist will offer an alternative to directly compete with a failing brand, benefiting the customer and consumer.
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  4731. Sad but true story. There is a reason why diaspora populations exist from Filipino to Chinese to Turkish, and everything in between.
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  4732. Indeed. This is a repeat of the 2008 crisis, with the EXACT same players being the major players.
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  4733.  @dadikkedude  Nitrogen in the soil doesn't cause it to lose live, it actual ENAHNCES it. Plants like Alfalfa have nodes on their roots that contain nitrogen fixing bacteria which helps to prevent depletion. That is why crop rotation is so important. The desire to reduce soil nitrates will actually cause it to become as barren as the Sahara.
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  4734.  @Bond047  And yet the defense contracts that Russia has violated with India tell a much different story. You can lie to yourself, but India knows how to smile and keep a pleasant face while internally fuming and raging. They call it "face".
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  4735. Put down the Sherry, you are drunk.
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  4736. If you think Japan or Germany operating Radio Stations in the US during WW2 would have been a good idea, then you don't understand why this ban was upheld.
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  4737.  @Rnankn  While I nominally agree with you. Your rejection of how the Indians see it shows a certain lack of historical understanidng. The Indians have always had more in common with the West than the Communist Block. But history as a colony of the UK has caused them to reject BOTH sides and advocate for the Third World movement.
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  4738.  @radagast7200  It predates that. Baphomet is a corruption of the name Bahamut, one of the titles of the Babylonian God Marduk, Bull of the Sun.
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  4739.  @PsychicAlchemy  Thanks for the clarification I appreciate it. My fear was that it was another clever ruse by the tax and spend crowd. I subscribe to miniarchism. I believe in fire protection and courts as arbiters of disputes but with very little power otherwise. Beyond that we need no other "government". And I subscribe to a simple flat tax of 1%. Drop the last two digits and it is easy to calculate. The "fair tax" crap is a bait and switch by fans of big government to fool small government folks into supporting what is nothing more than rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
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  4740.  @chrisdecokere2899  Or maybe his former advisors were all backstabbers. Everyone goes after the king if they see an opportunity to usurp his throne.
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  4741. If it was, then why are people not dropping dead like flies from radiation poisoning? Stop pushing hysteria.
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  4742.  @captmack007  I am familiar with the tungsten-carbide rods. And they have NOT been deployed as it would be a violation of the international treaty regarding the weaponization of space.
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  4743.  @RoshanKumar-br6op  Religious zealots often start out as revolutionaries. Iran for example was under the Shah until religious revolutionaries under Khomeini overthrew the government and instituted its theocracy backed by, yes, THE IRANIAN REVOLUTIONARY GUARD. Iran today doesn't just support anyone. The specifically back ISLAMIC resistance moments. So, while your contentions on the surface may be logical, they are predicated on false assumptions that blatantly ignore critical details and miss the bigger picture.
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  4744. That is what the Wokistas who has been extorting Hasbro want. Don't reward the people who are giving bad advice to WoTC. Incidentally, I have used some of the modules, but heavily modified them to remove the gender/intersectionality garbage. Which characters are bonking each other has no place at the table unless it directly serves to advance the story (and most players don't want it). That is what the 3rd party published "Book of Erotic Fantasies" was for.
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  4745. Except nobody is talking about eco-terrorism being a real possibility.
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  4746. Tolkein even said as much. Evil cannot create, only pervert and destroy.
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  4747.  @dabombdawg3033  English is NOT and never has been a derivative of Latin. It is of GERMANIC origin, more in common with Dutch or Scandinavian languages. American English may borrow heavily from the Latin languages, but it is still at its core a Germanic Language that follows Germanic linguistic rules. As for why Central and South America is called the "Latin world" goes back to the fact that Spanish is of Latin origin and historically peoples were grouped by Linguistics rather than genetics. That is why the Asiatic phenotype Central Asians are referred to as "Turks" rather than "Mongolic" despite having more genetically in common with East Asia than they do with the Arabic World.
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  4748.  @dabombdawg3033  Latin influences does not mean that it is a Latin Language. And I think you are conflating the written language with the spoken one. Nuances and distinctions you are choosing to gloss over in your vain attempt to clout chase.
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  4749.  @LRRPFco52  Yeah, these people don't like when hard facts prove them wrong about Trump and Biden.
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  4750.  @theredscourge  And when they call for the jailing of those whom they politically disagree with, they are no better than Putin. The lack of self-awareness is astounding.
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  4751.  @sabersz  Tony Starke first appeared in 1963. Vietnam war era, which also coincides with the original origin story of Iron Man. You just showed you are a total dilletante who doesn't know what they are talking about. Your anachronistic claim that Musk is who Stark is based on gave away your ignorance.
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  4752. Naw, the Russians are doing about as expected. The idea that the counter-offensive should be a Blitzkrieg is Kremlin gaslighting.
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  4753.  @scottwillie6389  Is the US enforcing law on the streets of Japan? THAT is what constitutes an occupation, genius. And since you are not paying attention, Japan IS an important player in world affairs. One cannot be the THRID largest economy in the world and not be one. Japan has already made security guarantees to come to the defense of Taiwan.
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  4754.  @crimsonsr20  Nationalism by itself is not a scary thing. FANATICISM driving ETHNONATIONALISM is scary. Putting the best interests of your people first, ahead of your own pride (true patriotism and nationalism) is an honorable and noble thing. What we saw in the Kamikaze and the Banzai charge is akin to Jihadism.
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  4755. It takes time for these rulings to have an impact. Google's team is going to be kicking and screaming refusing to change until they are forced to do so.
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  4756. I understand the concept of wholesaler vs retail, but I tend to agree with you that by and large there is very little reason for a middleman if all they are doing is converting from one to the other.
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  4757. Because these people are not smart. I find myself wondering if they were the people who got Ds and Fs in language arts class.
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  4758. Most farmers don't outright own their land; they have it on a mortgage much like a home mortgage. There is a reason why "bought the farm" is a euphemism for death; when a farmer finally is able to pay off the mortgage, they are almost in the grave.
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  4759. With the air defenses around Moscow and Petrograd completely dismantled and sent to Ukraine? Why would he do so while he is vulnerable like that?
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  4760.  @msaoichan  Except, the orange man has been correct more than twice a day. Practically every prediction he has made has come to pass. He didn't become a millionaire by dumb luck. The man knows how to read the situation like an open book.
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  4761.  @msaoichan  Not really. You clearly have never read what chapter 7 and chapter 11 bankruptcy law entails. The fact that a person CAN climb out of bankruptcy status several times is actually quite an accomplishment. It means that you WERE able to reconcile with your creditors and is considered a virtue. You just show your contempt for how business or the law works. Rather than faking knowledge, just admit when you have no clue about what you are talking about.
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  4762. Which is why the cases need to go to court. The defendants should force the issue and get a precedent set that any actions taken before ratification are unlawful and those who do will be held to account.
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  4763. Graham is just another big government totalitarian who tells conservatives what they want to hear while selling them down the river.
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  4764. Bring back the WASPs, WAVEs, and WAACs of WW2!
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  4765. Most expensive on the front end, but not on day-to-day operations. It very quickly balances out to become the cheapest per kilowatt hour.
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  4766. The fools don't seem to realize that by putting an "X" at the end for women, they are anglicizing (ie white washing) the term. They don't realize they are doing the very thing they accuse the right of doing. There is a reason why Hispanics never use that term.
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  4767. How hard it is to explore the bottom of the Ocean? It is easier to get into orbit than it is to get to the bottom of Challenger Deep (Mariana Trench).
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  4768. Sadly, they will end up being just like Teddy Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party.
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  4769. I'm actually shocked that China didn't make a stink about Jasmine not being Chinese. In the original tale from Arabian Nights, Aladdin's story is set in Gansu, China and Jasmine is a Chinese princess named Barabadour.
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  4770. It is. The problem is that the Feds are NOT properly enforcing the laws and regulations on the books.
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  4771. Didn't Mark Twain say something about that? He might have been echoing Patrick Henry though.
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  4772.  @actually_a_circle  This was the quote I was thinking of. And it is similar to Patrick Henry's observation about the sunshine patriot vs. the winter soldier. "In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.” ― Mark Twain
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  4773. There are a number of jokes out there regarding the sized of his kahonas. One joke has a plane crew removing him from the flight because they (his balls) put the vehicle over its weight threshold.
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  4774. Indeed. He is responsible for the safety of the flight and reserves the right to remove.
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  4775. Vote CONSERVATIVE, not red for ed as that is a communist slogan.
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  4776. Ye of little faith. You assume she speaks of the Christian God, but she could have easily been praising a deity of an Eastern faith. Your problem is that you hold in contempt that which has sustained people through trials and tribulations that people without faith would never have survived.
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  4777. And not all women can use a pump. My wife could never get enough into a bottle; our boys HAD to get it straight from the source.
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  4778.  @marcsman07  Would not surprise me. Which is why he should get one from another state. I think Utah's license is good in 30 other states. I do know that Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin "SHALL ISSUE" which means they cannot deny you one unless there is overwhelming evidence to reject it such as being a prohibited possessor.
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  4779. Because it doesn't fit the narrative.
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  4780.  @balaclavabob001  I think he prefers Vodka.
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  4781. Indeed. Anyone who thinks Blitzkrieg is the norm has never actually studied war in serious detail. When Germany did it, it was shocking because it defied expectations, being an aberration of war.
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  4782. "Inter arma enim silent leges; In time of war, the law falls silent" -Cicero
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  4783. False compassion unfortunately is the norm. All about virtue signally and nothing about actually helping people. It is all about "what can I get out of it" rather than common decency. And that is why we are likely headed to civil unrest.
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  4784. Similar with the phone calls home. Technically it comes right up to the line with regards to using prisoners for propaganda purposes. Yes, it is showing how gracious the Ukrainians are treating their prisoners, but it is also a devastating attack on the morale of Russian mothers.
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  4785. That explosion was orders of magnitude larger than Tsar Bomba. Don't fool yourself.
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  4786. No joke. He seems to forget that Trump can and HAS turned off the bombast at will. It is as if he forgot the debates against Hillary where he was calm and measured.
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  4787. I stand behind Baldwin.....becasue I sure as hell won't stand in front of him!
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  4788. Truns out that some folks don't like having their language Anglicized. I don't blame them, and I am a Gringo of "Anglish" heritage.
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  4789. The euphemisms were originally Russia making excuses. The Ukrainians adopted it to mock and disparage them.
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  4790. @janiax23 You can still have a two-communication wire into a faraday cage work perfectly fine. You just have to make sure it is properly insulated.
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  4791. Considering that much of his campaign staff is connected to the Veritas people going after James O'Keefe and suddenly everything makes a lot more sense.
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  4792. The UK and the US haven't had REAL conservatives in office since the Reagan-Thatcher era. The so-called conservative politicians of the last 30 years are all liberals pretending to be something they are not.
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  4793. That will NOT exonerate him. Reckless actions when you know said actions are dangerous still makes you responsible, cold gun or not. You NEVER point a firearm at someone unless you intend to kill them. Every court has rule that regardless of whether a gun is "hot" or "cold", you MUST assume it is ALWAYS loaded.
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  4794.  @augustinemadukwe9335  Like what? Didn't they waste Iksander Missiles going after the power grid in response to the first Kerch Bridge attack. I think the Ukrainians know what to expect.
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  4795. Was watching the 1963 film "Cleopatra" the other night. While it was quite risqué for its time, as you point out, today people would barely bat and eye at it.
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  4796.  @Brave_New_Tube  Funny, I thought it was Vlad Lenin saying that about his own supporters during the Bolshevik Revolution. But yes, you are spot on. Sooner or later, they will be dealt with as most of the Red Revolution's combat leaders were purged after coming to power. Sad that "Doctor Zhivago" is playing out right before our eyes. And the elites in Hollyweird fail to see it.
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  4797. General Frost favored the Soviet Red Army against the Wehrmacht, but I suspect he will favor Ukraine over Russia. Especially as Canada and Norway have been sending cold weather gear since August.
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  4798. On what charge? The Georgia case is imploding under prosecutorial misconduct.
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  4799.  @abelabner  I don't regret my service. But I very much am one of the ones who have slipped through the cracks. If not for the fact that I have a family, I would likely be one of those homeless vets living under a bridge.
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  4800. Part of the problem is that certain people on the left ENCOURAGED this kind of behavior and refuse to muzzle their attack dogs. Where is George Takei? He has rabidly attacked people for being transphobic, yet he refuses to call out these twitter freaks.
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  4801.  @crhu319  Dude, they just did. Turkey rescinded its objection. It is a done deal.
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  4802. So, we should declare victory and pull out of the city.
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  4803.  @andrewlechner6343  The Gripen is a 4.5 generation but its cost-value most certainly makes it a competitor. And the cost per flight hour completely demolishes the F-35. Just because something isn't made in the US doesn't mean it is automatically worse. That being said, you don't need to be the best, only good enough where numbers can make up the difference. That is how the allies on both fronts defeated individually superior German tanks and aircraft.
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  4804.  @shaltonwilson5992  That too. The little Stalinists can't stand that their ideology and propaganda pretending to be entertainment loses to a product of a nominally patriarchal and conservative-traditionalist culture. Though Anime tends to buck that in a certain sense.
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  4805. Maxwell is going to be their scapegoat so that the rest of it gets swept under the rug. And she is too arrogant to realize she is their sacrificial lamb.
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  4806. I completely agree.
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  4807.  @maritaschweizer1117  You are confusing Brandon with Orange Man. Everyone knows Trump is sharp as a tac while Joe Bite-Me is suffering from Dementia.
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  4808. Xiaoping had the humility to acknowledge weakness and when he or the CCP was wrong. Something both Mao and President Poohbear don't have.
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  4809. No joke. Gout is historically the illness of King and nobility. And yet it is quite common in the West.
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  4810.  @DadsCigaretteRun  I didn't think you were defending him. I think I was basically agreeing with you that, like the Honey Badger, he just don't give a shit. In this case, it shows his narcissism and psychopathy. He is the epitome of the race pimping grifters Mr. Pool slams. What is more disappointing is that after taking the abuse, Tim Pool is like "thank you sir, can I have another". Some people don't deserve your respect once you have burned it like that. You can appreciate someone's work while still holding them personally in contempt. I do all the time with many rock musicians; I like their music but hate their politics. "Shut up and Sing" as the Dixie Chicks cynically said.
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  4811. Could have been far worse. Krakatau has a nasty habit of killing thousands with its tsunamis. Tonga is fortunate that they did NOT get something that deadly.
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  4812. Indeed. When manga artists get shafted by Japanese publishers, they so solo as Doujinshi artists. The Japanese publishers learned quickly that it is better to lock up an artist with favorable terms rather than let them go solo. If only the American system publishers were at the mercy of the writers rather than the activists.
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  4813.  @jimlewis1332  I would agree, but the Japanese threw a temper tantrum when it was revealed that the Air Force placed Strategic Nuclear armed Bombers on Okinawa. While I trust the Japanese with nukes, THEY don't trust nukes.
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  4814.  @jerroldrieger5345  Funny how the Trump haters conveniently forget that little detail, isn't it?
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  4815. The biggest problem with Section 230's "objectionable content" is that it was a good-faith basis, which is NOT what is occurring. Good-faith says they only take down content that blatantly violates the law or solicits and encourages criminality. The "cannot judge moderators activities" guts the whole argument for why the law was even written and passed in the first place; to reconcile the two previous irreconcilable rulings on moderation of online content.
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  4816. I can believe that. They are notorious for claiming their mistakes are Ukraine's.
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  4817.  @Danger-six.  If you were looking at Ukraine's pre-war stockpiles alone, you might have a point. But they are being supplemented with both Warsaw Pact NATO surplus as well as Western equipment. You talk about wishful thinking while being guilty of the very same thing. That is called psychological projection.
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  4818. NATO war in Ukraine? Um, it was Russia that invaded. No NATO soldier had died in the fighting. The cost in blood is being paid by the Ukrainians. And as far as the weapons, most of the former Warsaw Pact has handed over their surplus stockpiles. As for Singers, they stopped making them in the late 90s because it is actually an obsolete system that has since been replaced in NATO arsenals. As for post war, I can assure you that once LONG-TERM stability has been achieved, the revenues from the oil and coal deposits in Donbas will ensure a steady stream of money for the rebuilding process.
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  4819. Indeed. The US government is infested by people who have a hard on for the Soviet system. "We live in a country when children have to die to save the life of their parent." -Ulana Khomyuk, HBO's Chernobyl.
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  4820. He sees it for what it is: Anglicization (ie white washing).
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  4821. I nominate Morgan Freeman to play Uncle Remus. I know of no other actor who could even remotely fill those shoes.
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  4822.  @ivan7453  Agreed. Historically Imperial China was just as aggressive and Belligerent as Imperial Japan in WW2. President Pooh-bear has been showing the same militarism as Tojo Hideki. "Let China Sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world” -Napoleon Bonepart.
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  4823. Indeed. The classic arms race in technology.
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  4824. Death rate as compared to what? Malaria, Tuberculosis, Ebola, Japanese Encephalitis, Cholera, Typhoid, Botulism, Yellow Fever (the virus, not the fetish), Bubonic Plague, Legionnaires disease, and Rabies all have much higher death rates than the Wuhan Flu and nobody bats an eye at them. Spare us your moral outrage.
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  4825.  @1charlastar1234  The South tried to claim it was "State's Rights" but the rights of the states to do what? That is the problem with your argument; the two issues are so intrinsically linked as to be conjoined twins. The only reason why the South rebelled was that they wanted the states to decide if slavery was legal or not.
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  4826.  @shade38211  Not in the least bit surprised by that. They hare done the same to me a number of times.
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  4827. Yeah, but they are also suffering from a bad case of sour grapes.
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  4828.  @embearasedbear3694  I fear you are correct. It would seem John Brown's words are just as true today as they were in 1859. "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, VAINLY FLATTERED MYSELF THAT WITHOUT VERY MUCH BLOODSHED IT MIGHT BE DONE."
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  4829. ICE isn't deporting them. They are simply moving these people to a different part of the country.
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  4830. Agreed. South Korean, Taiwanese, and Japanese students are a safer option as contrasted with mainland Chinese. Heck, even diaspora Chinese populations such as Indonesian and Malaysian Chinese are a safer option.
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  4831. Not even close. The US did NOT torture nor exterminate Japanese-Americans. And Chinese-Americans were not treated anywhere near the same as Japanese-Americans were in ww2. And your race baiting about African Americans blatantly ignores data showing otherwise. A better analogy MIGHT be how the Soviets and the Nazis treated the Poles in WW2.
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  4832. Not just LOTR, but also Star Trek and D&D as well. Originally in the US, copyright was only for just 14 years with only ONE renewal for 14 more years. if just shy of 30 years was good enough for the US fonuders, then there is ZERO excuse for the 100+ that is currently on the books.
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  4833. Anything less than the Korean DMZ is not a serious proposal.
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  4834. Angelina Jolie is a better Jones than Fleabag. Change my mind.
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  4835.  @sarahalderman3126  ​ @Crunchy Jello ​ @fishfood8719 Sarcasm rarely works the way you think it will online. For one, the lack of verbal infections does not get transmitted. Secondly, the lack of non-verbal cues. Finally, might I remind you of "Poe's Law"?
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  4836. The "shy" Trump voter is why he won the first time. It will be why he wins the second time.
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  4837. I think most Hoosiers are ashamed of him. Even Dan Quayle is less cringy.
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  4838.  @toddtravis2596  Yes it was a smart business choice. But Jordan himself even claims he was joking at the time.
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  4839. @Comabt_Veteran_Reacts Paul, dude, do you not realize that the Siege of Petersburg and the Weldon Railway during the US Civil War was basically Trench Warfare? The Battle for the Crater, Globe Tavern, Reams Station, New Market Heights, Peebles Farm ,et. al were all attempts to get out of the stalemate of the trenches. As an Army Officer, you should know these things.
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  4840. I really think the ONLY reason why VA is blue is because of the THREE counties adjacent to DC. If not for them, the rest of the state would be as red as Texas or Indiana.
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  4841. "Those who bless you, I will bless. And those who curse you I will curse. And through you, a blessing on all nations of the Earth" -Genesis. Indeed, that the Jewish members of society enrich their host culture through music, science, and yes by bringing wealth via the merchant class. Turkish Sultan Bayezid II was right when he called out nations like Spain who persecuted their Jewish population as fools.
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  4842.  @mitri5389  Useless fronts? The fact that Ukraine has managed to fight a numerically superior foe to an effective draw show that their actions are anything but useless. If anything, Russia is the one dividing its forces making them weaker overall.
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  4843.  @RandallBesch  Because SOMEONE has to pay for it. No such thing as a free lunch. In the case of Scandinavia, the OIL SALES are what pays for the gravy train. The rest of Europe gets away with it because they don't spend squat on their militaries.
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  4844. Force them to confront their own racism: That they don't think a young white boy can or should learn valuable life lessons from an older gentleman of color. if Morgan Freeman can be "America's grandfather" then so can Uncle Remus.
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  4845.  @bibothor206  Eliza Bleu had a hand in getting Twitter to Ban Jeremy from "The Quartering". And Jeremy has been going to bat for Tim on several occasions.
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  4846.  @charminsi  Ah, thanks for the update. When I saw it online, it was billed as "Netflix original". Kind of like "Mako Mermaids" was also billed as "Netflix original" when it aired for a time on Univeral Kids. And yes, I am glad that they have used the almost two-year hiatus to make sure they put together a quality product. I can delay gratification for a better payout later. And that mantra also applies to some of the popular anime that I enjoy. I hope the long wait for Overlord Season 4 is because they wanted to correct some of the production mistakes they made in producing season 3.
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  4847.  @wldr68  The concept predates the Red Hot Chill Peppers. It first appeared in a Time magazine article dated May 6, 1966. It became a popular meme in the 1970s.
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  4848. I think having experienced Iwo Jima and Okinawa, it was VERY easy to quantify the fatality rates on both sides.
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  4849.  @Lilhajxjk274  The Russian Soviet dominated the Union. Nearly all decision making came out of the Kremlin, not the local Commissariat. So, you are making a distinction without much of a difference.
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  4850. Indeed. The Donbas insurgency followed the exact same playbook as the one in South Ossetia.
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  4851. That dam is what ensures water gets to Crimea. They would be shooting themselves in the foot if they did.
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  4852.  @assertivekarma1909  What would it take to call them evil by your measurement? Was not the brutal crackdown of the student protests in Tiananmen Square enough? Was the disappearance of political dissidents not enough? Was welding people's doors shut and leaving them to starve to death in their apartments and home to prevent the spread of the Wuhan Flu not enough? Was the fascistic crushing of Hong Kong not enough? Is the forced sterilization of particular minorities not evil? What will the CCP have to do before you finally acknowledge that they are truly evil.
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  4853.  @Carabas72  The +70 years doesn't actually help the family. often, the children of the creator squander their inheritance and strip mine the IP to the same abusive degree as corporations. Don't tell me that Christopher Tolkien wasn't just as exploitative as Amazon.
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  4854. This time Russia doesn't have the US and UK providing them supplies to fight that battle like they did in WW2.
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  4855. Same here. They have a nasty habit of memory holing some of my posts.
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  4856.  @whiskeytangofoxtrot_001  As the second most severe Hong Kong curse goes, "May you come to the attention of those in power or who has authority".
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  4857.  @whiskeytangofoxtrot_001  Hong Kong(Chinese curses) Least: May you live in interesting time. Middle: May you come to the attention of those who have power. Most severe: May you get everything you desire (we know it as "be careful what you wish for, you just might get it). I have a fouth: May you fulfill your destiny. That is even more severe because those who come to prominence usually leave a wake of ruin and destruction in their rise. It is wishing a life of misery. And to cap it off, once one's destiny is complete, they die.
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  4858.  @PhoenixBlazer39  No joke. Deaths per kilowatt hour shows that nuclear is the safest while Hydroelectric is actually the worst. That being said, I am not against dams, but if we put as much focus on them as we did nuclear, we wouldn't have repeats of the St. Francis, Vajont, or Banqiao Reservoir Dam failure. And I acknowledge that dams are not viable in flat areas such as the plains of Holland.
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  4859. Except Atlanta is to Georgia how Chicago is to Illinois. A Mordor of Blue surrounded by Red.
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  4860. "Child nookie Network".
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  4861.  @s9ka972  Asia is not just the Central part of the continent. South Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Maylasia are also part of Asia. And India's relationship with Russia has soured, especially over the arms deals.
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  4862. They seem to forget that Neslon Mandela ran for office from a jail cell.
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  4863. With how much potang they likely get, I suspect you would pick up a venereal disease. Better to pass.
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  4864. Indeed. Korean men marrying foreign spouses (typically Vietnamese, Filipino, Thai, and Indonesian) is still something of a culture shock. And this is DESPITE there being a history of their nobles and monarchs bringing home foreign brides (notably Heo Hwang-ok or Suriratna of India).
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  4865. @lati long Sure, infantilize and trivialize key details that completely dismantle your argument. You can make a long decertation about why there isn't one, but that doesn't make it any less of a fact. Japan's willingness to go to war with Red China over Taiwan proves my point. Further, Taiwan inviting the Japanese to build a military base on one of their Islands south of Senkaku further drives home my point proving you wrong.
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  4866.  @Pierluigi_Di_Lorenzo  Would make sense to me. I suspect many of the Trans-Ural areas, such as Siberia, Irkutsk, Kamchatka, and Yakutsk are not particularly fond of Moscow. And I refer to the native populations, not the Russian "colonizers".
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  4867.  @prometheusjackson8787  Out of the mouth of babies. The Tartars are NOT Russian, they are not even Slavic but Turkic. The Koryaks are not Russian either, they are a blend of East Asian and Inuit/Eskimo. Buryats are not Russian, they are Mongolianic. Your problem is you are trying to be clever. There is Russian nationality, and then there is Russian ethnicity. With regards to what I said, I was pointing out that the ethnic minorities of Russia which would be majorities pre-Tsarist times don't particularly care for Moscow and its ethno-nationalistic policies.
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  4868. That reeks of rationalization and copium. When Manga IS selling more than Americans comics you are being completely disingenuous by lumping them in with American comics. "Figures don't lie, but liars figure," -Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain. "Lies, damn lies, and statistics," -Mark Twain.
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  4869.  @parmmohan4603  With regards to the "East Turkmenistan" movement? You bet. The Taliban already supports that Islamist revolution in Xinjang, it is only a matter of time before they drag Pakistan into the spat. And I hope both them and China choke on the sands of the Taklamakan Desert. Fitting that the Tarim Basin where Europoid mummies were found shall once again be the site of conflict between powers. PS: incidentally, the mitochondrial DNA of those mummies are East Asian meaning that their closest living descendants are Chinese and Korean, not Muslim-Turk.
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  4870.  @0utcastAussie  Why should Putin bow to EU or NATO when the EU is basically turning Western Europe into the Neo-Soviet empire that Putin wants?
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  4871.  @arty5876  "Volunteeers"? I guess you missed the mass FORECED mobilization back in September of 2022. Conversely, Ukraine was so overwhelmed with volunteers in 2022 they had to send many of them back home. Put down the Vodka Private Conscriptovich, you are so drunk you are hallucinating.
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  4872. Large Hadrion collider. We slipped into this Twilight Zone reality when they first turned on that machine on 10 September 2008
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  4873.  @DXD2004-  Ah, but the Taliban the US fought, and the Mujahadeen the Soviets fought were two different animals. The Muscovites lost far more men in Afghanistan than the US did.
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  4874. What ship? My father loved when his, the USS Elliot pulled into Pusan.
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  4875.  @NPC-HonoraryRooftopKorean  Some of the Protestant denominations have gone insane. Episcopal, Methodists, and Presbyterian (PCUSA) in particular have abandoned scripture to pursue false idols.
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  4876. Fortunately the Streisand effect went into overdrive and defeated their attempt to stifle the story.
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  4877.  @dogemccoin8318  Then why have they not used them again what Ukraine already has? You are begging the question for which the answer becomes painfully obvious.
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  4878. ​ @dogemccoin8318  Ukraine started the war with less that 400 tanks. But like ALL wars, there is never enough ammunition or equipment. But I don't expect an armchair quarterback to understand military history. Ask yourself WHY the US created so many Shermans for WW2. By your metric, the US made too many aircraft, Navy ships, and armored vehicles to fight both the Japanese and the Germans.
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  4879.  @dogemccoin8318  Your source for that number? Not even the Insitute for the Study of War agrees with your number. They agree with Oryx. You are engaging in hysterics and hyperbolae. It doesn't make your argument, it undercuts it.
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  4880. The US Air Force has known for decades it could be, which is part of the reason why the frequencies were reserved by the DoD. Unfortunately, Obama sold them off to the highest bidder.
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  4881.  @theobserver9131  Trump was simply better at playing the establishment's game than they were. Politics is always about capitalizing on the ignorance of the masses. You are just pissed he put your tribe to shame.
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  4882. We are doing both, sending old equipment AND pallets of cash. Victoria Spartz, the House Representative born in Soviet Ukraine, has been trying to get accountability for the money sent over there and so far has not gotten a straight answer from anyone.
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  4883. Indeed. The Solomons were a major campaign in WW2. With the Japanese based in Rabaul and gunning for both Guadalcanal and Port Mosbey, there was a serious possibility that the Land Down Under would be cut-off from the supply lines to and from the US. That context is critical with regards to China's current ambitions in the region.
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  4884. Yeah, the claim that it was a truck bomb ignores the damage patter which indicated that the explosion occurred UNDER the bridge deck.
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  4885. Hail Lord Dookcock, the future ruler of Earth!
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  4886. One can only hope that future generations of Russians remember it as such.
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  4887. You cannot possibly consider that eco-terrorism could be to blame?
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  4888. Neither of them want the Arabs who call themselves Palestinian. Both remembered how abominable they are as house guests.
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  4889.  @tlheingrunst  I don't disagree that faith isn't a bad thing, but when it makes you sit docile, then it is nothing more than wishful thinking. And wishful thinking is all of the Q folks have since they clearly have no will to actually take up arms.
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  4890.  @tlheingrunst  I completely agree with that. Place your faith in the divine and NEVER trust in government.
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  4891. It always irks me how California elitists think they can force their values on other countries. Then have the glad to lecture American conservatives like myself are doing it. If my time in the US Air Force has taught me anything, it is that each culture has different values and priorities. One size does NOT fit all; the customs of the US have no business restricting people in Brazil or Australia.
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  4892. You are the exception. It is not typical nor normal. Count your blessings and good fortune.
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  4893.  @Joe-gi3nj  The fact that you resort to a "what if" rather than actual facts speaks volumes. Theoretical are often NOT reflective of reality. (ie devil in the details)
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  4894. About the only thing that is objectively true is that Kiev and Kharkiv have not fallen to Russian control. Beyond that, nothing is to be believed in the Fog of War.
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  4895. Mr. Pool is not familiar with Flemming vs. Nestor, in that there is no legal right to the money paid in. The SCOTUS has declared that it is nothing more than an income tax on the front end and a welfare program on the back end.
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  4896.  @humananity  What conspiracy? The founding of Israel was open and in the public for all to see. The only conspiracy was that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem wasn't brought to trial for his collaboration with the Austrian Painter.
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  4897. Russia can't afford to cause mischief in Georgia, so why would they go after Poland? They already bit off more than they could chew with Ukraine.
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  4898. Yeah, DeGaulle and company have been ungrateful jerks since the ANGLO (US, UK, and the commonwealth nations) world rescued them.
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  4899. Five Armies should not have been a movie. At MOST the Hobbit could have been two movies, but that was a stretch. As others have pointed out, they could have done a series centered around the Two Blue Wizards in the East and the South. it would have given perfect excuse for "diverse" cast, and the titular heroes didn't even need to be white! Much like the minority Angels in Roma Downing's "The Bible" mini-series, the two blues could have been cast by literally ANYONE as they are agents of the Valar who transcend ethnicity.
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  4900. Political prosecutions are not doing their job. That is what Banana Republics do.
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  4901. How? Details. Don't just spew CCP talking points either.
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  4902. Exactly! In the eyes of the corrupt, accountability looks like revenge.
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  4903. No joke. The problem is, a judge will remove a juror if he gets any inclination that jury nullification is a possibility. They cannot abide the people overruling his authority.
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  4904. Because she is a bureaucrat. They care more about looking good rather than doing good.
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  4905. A bigger issue is if Ukraine choose to even let those areas go. They many not and may instead opt to fight for six or seven years in an attritional battle to gain them back. That is where the author miscalculates with his fancy lines on a map. Ukraine's yellow line may be at the original Russian-Ukrainian border. On another tangent, if their offensive in Kherson is successful, they may turn south to Crimea rather than north to Donesk. From a strategic point, Crimea gives Ukraine more strategic options than simply pushing into Donbas.
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  4906. The Anti-Asian hate crimes are not fake, but who is responsible for them is NOT who the media claims is doing it. The pattern of anti-Asian bigotry parallels and emulates that direct by anti-Semites against Jews in a startling similarity. And if is often done by the same people; leftists who envy the success of both Jews and East Asians. There is a reason why Chinese have been at times called the Jews of(or from) Asia.
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  4907.  @kevinmoffatt  Which is sad because as an American, I had high hopes for the QEs to be conventional back-up for our nuclear Carriers.
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  4908. How is Russia going to escalate? They already have been lobbing missiles at the power grid since the first Kerch Bridge attack.
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  4909. Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. Not everyone around you is a friend. Many enemies will put on a front to get close to you before striking you down. Hell, that is effectively what Luke did to the Emperor(though it was his father to struck the blow).
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  4910.  @chrischuba5037  Cope harder dude. The DPRK's stockpiles date from the 1960s. Also, HIMARS and Ukrainian counter-battery have absolutely demolished Russian Artillery, if you bother to actually talk to the Russians on the front lines.
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  4911. You mad bro? She wrote a series of books that sold. Most of her wealth comes from that. You just have sour grapes.
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  4912. Corregidor or Leyte Gulf? MacArthur should have been fired for his disastrous performance when Japan invaded.
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  4913.  @nik6759  Nice myth. Completely fabricated by Cathrine the Great. The Romavos were NOT Greek as they claimed, but GERMAN.
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  4914.  @irresistablejewel  Yeah, those referendums are just as legitimate as Saddam's election in 2002 or the Kim Dynasty in North Korea. What was it that Stalin said? "It is WHO counts the votes that matters"? The fact that NOBODY, not even India nor Red China consider them legitimate shows you have lost the plot.
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  4915.  @i4nix13  Confucius came up with what we call the golden rule, but the point is still well made. They would cut off their own nose just to spite their face. Sad that the left cannot see past their own ideology of diversity for its own sake to appreciate what it is in other cultures that is worth celebrating.
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  4916.  @Hereford1642  Putting crap out of your rear end? The Kremin doesn't get to dictate to Ukraine whom they can associate with. They are not slaves of the Russians.
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  4917.  @scottryals3191  True that. But at least some cultures ritualized it and attempted to channel it towards more productive ends. It is the Samurai of Japan in particular that I am thinking of, but you would be correct to point out how many chose to become ronin and act all the fool abusing the peasants and merchants.
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  4918. These people also forget that Guderian always called for a squad of infantry providing support for a tank.
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  4919.  @joshuacalkins  Rocks and Shoals was one of my top favorite DS9 episodes. The Jem'Hadar squad in that one really resonated with me, and while their deaths were necessary for the plot, it didn't make it nay less tragic. Remata'Klan, Lamra'Son, Yak'Talon, and the rest were well developed antagonist characters that could have and should have had more screen time as well as an "out" so they could challenge Sisko and crew. I am not against having B-plots and C-plots that stretch out several episodes. Much of TNG's 3rd season and beyond had such multi-episode arcs which were secondary or parts of the primary story while the A-plot was essentially single episode. And those secondary plots you didn't need to see every episode to understand full context; missing one didn't ruin the experience nor enjoyment. Michael Okuda had zero involvement with Kurtzman's Woke Trek, which likely explains a lot. The garbage about how it had to be different from classic trek likely was an excuse to keep excluded so they would not have to pay an additional consultant. One of the most blatant continuity blunders was very much the Klingons being more advanced than Humans. It flies directly in the face of Picard's words to Mirasta Yale in the TNG episode "First Contact" where he said first contact with primitive Klingons lead to centuries of war. T'Pol being commissioned in Starfleet contradicts the often-echoed point that Spock was the first Vulcan in Starfleet, the USS Intrepid's Vulcan captain apparently having joined after him. While some may call those throw-away lines, it is consistency those little details that makes world building possible.
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  4920.  @lobster8009  And how many more T-series tanks have been destroyed? Your argument can't see the forest for the trees/
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  4921. It may be risky, but Judge Jeannie Piero got a murder one conviction against an LEO in New York. THe kicker is, if Chauvin gets convicted on first degree, the three rookies walk.
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  4922. Term limits have been a good thing for the POTUS since FDR. Why would it not be the same for Congress? I agree with you on the 17th amendment.
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  4923.  @AmundHof  That isn't an argument, it is an emotional outburst by someone who can't debate the merits. Go touch grass. "I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." -Margaret Thatcher, UK's Iron Lady.
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  4924.  @benachiesween  Human waves is the WORSE attack one can make against a fortified position. You get mowed down in a shooting gallery. Just look at Vuledar.
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  4925. There were some prisoner abuses by the Ukrainians and Georgians early at the start of the war, but they quickly cleaned up their actions and put a stop to that behavior. The threat of withholding arms and aid was a major motivation to put a stop to the abuses.
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  4926. @ Nice apples to oranges false analogy. Tiktok is owned by a hostile foreign power (Red Chinese government), not an individual citizen. You are basically making the argument that Japan and Germany should have been allowed to own radio stations and newspapers in the US during WW2.
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  4927. I tend to agree with you about French Indo-China and West Africa. However, I will refute one point about former French colonies in the United States. My home state of Indiana was first colonized by France before it was captured by the British in the Seven Years War. We are most certainly NOT among the poorest. Fort Wayne (Fort Miami under the French) is one of the boomtowns of our state, having transitioned from an early tech factory town to a medical device city. Lafayette (Fort Ouiatenon) is the home of Purdue University, where many of America's Astronauts graduated. It is also at the forefront of bioengineering with regards to soy diesel and bee cultivation against varroa mites (Hoosier Ankle biter bees).
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  4928. Yeah, the idea that China's industrial and production capacity would not be targeted in a war with the US is naive. The video's assumption of that point is not based on reality.
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  4929. I agree that they should move to Zaporizhya and cut down to Melitopol to divide Russian forces in two and cut the land bridge.
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  4930. Because there is not logic behind it. They are acting purely on emotion because they want to be part of the "in crowd". This is exactly how the German Nationalist Worker's party came to power.
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  4931.  @jesselubberts1013  Indeed. The original 1948 resolution called for BOTH states to exist side by side, yet the Western advocates for Palestine blatantly ignore that part.
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  4932.  @williamdrum9899  Yes, we did. People make up their minds and no amount of evidence will convince them otherwise. There is a very good reason why opinions about the OJ trial are sharply divided along racial lines, and that is no accident.
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  4933.  @oldmanretro949  I hope you are joking. China would be to America what Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians were to Jerusalem. If you truly believe that China will be your savior, I hope you are one of the first ones they carry off to Babylon.
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  4934. The US fought on two fronts and won. Granted, the US of the 1940s is not the same as the US of today.
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  4935. "War cannot be avoided, only delayed to the benefit of one side," -Niccolo Machiavelli "War is the continuation of politics by other means," -Carl von Clausewitz. Sometimes diplomacy fails. This was clear with Japan's insincere attempts to reach out to the Soviet Union to negotiate peace during World War 2. Only the total defeat presented by invasion Codename: Downfall and the atomic bombs which made Operation Olympic and Operation Coronet unnecessary got the Japanese to capitulate.
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  4936.  @strategery101  "People seem to be fine with giving up all freedom and dignity just as long as they have a paycheck and can watch sports ball and eat wings." Yeah, Bread and Circuses ala Ancient Rome. And arguably the same was true in Persia and Egypt as well. Humans have never changed from antiquity. For all of our technology we as a species still live down to our animalistic natures and give in to a tyrant. who whispers sweet nothings in our ears
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  4937. NO, you made a very fair assessment. You picked a position (the firefighters) and defended it from a non-partisan perspective. Now if only more people would look at politics from that same logic and reason.
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  4938. I am all for the Indians taking advantage of Russia.
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  4939.  @Wolfen443  And how many agreements and treaties has Putin violated? Budapest Memorandum? Why should Zelensky trust that Putin will honor anything he signs?
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  4940.  @Wolfen443  The terms of the Budapest memorandum were that Ukraine would give its nuclear weapons to Russia in exchange that Russia would accept the territorial sovereignty of Ukraine in 1991. So tell me, how would the West or Ukraine violate those terms unless they refused to give Russia the nukes? Ukraine currently has zero nukes in its possession. Can't be bothered to know the facts or do your due diligence, can you? You just automatically assume that the West is to blame.
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  4941. Indeed. Anime high fantasy is doing great and is more faithful to Tolkien lore than this Amazon trash. I use that as objective proof of the truth you speak.
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  4942. Not quite accurate. While the HMS Britannic is at the bottom of the Mediterranean, that was as a result of WW1 when as a hospital ship, she struck a German Mine. Also, the Titanic never made it to North America, so your little sob story is a fabrication. How can a ship depart FOR Europe if it never arrived in North America? As for the RMS Olympic, she was called "old reliable" for a reason. Unlike her sisters, she completed NUMEROUS trips across the Atlantic. Almost half of the American "dough boys" either travel to or from Europe on the Olympic. After 20 years of service, she was SCRAPPED, not sunk.
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  4943. They voted for this. They WANTED this. Don't ask us to have sympathy for people who don't want to fix the very messes they created.
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  4944. I dig it. A few issues come to mind. First, unless it is built running from the Canadian Coast up to Baffin Island-Greenland-Iceland and then to Ireland, that is some seriously deep water to build under. Secondly, the greenies will have a cow over the environmental issues.
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  4945.  @DavidHalko  Indeed. Iraq should have been partitioned back in 1914 after the Arab Revolt. The European powers should have listened to TE Lawrence. The West had yet another opportunity when Colonel Lawrence's map showing the proposed borders based on HISTORICAL TRIBAL lines was rediscovered, but arrogance prevented that because we just HAD to not piss off Turkey by allowing an independent Kurdish state. Nevermind that the Turks could have deported all of the Kurds in their territory to that new state, solving their problem.
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  4946. General Frost has favored Russia in the winter. And the Soviet Red Army made its greatest gains against the Wehrmacht in the winter. Do bear in mind that Canada and Norway have been sending cold weather gear to Ukraine since August. Russia is having trouble equipping for summer combat operations. I agree with your assessment about Russia's gambit and strategy. But I think Putin will find that much like with the initial invasion and the subsequent "partial mobilization", he has grossly miscalculated.
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  4947. Jan 6th was the Democrat's equivalent of the Reichstag Fire.
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  4948. No joke, you would think after almost 200 years, they would realize that Joseph Conrad was correct in describing Africa as "The Heart of Darkness".
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  4949. Indeed. They have become mouthpieces for the power mongers and the legacy media.
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  4950. The problem is that their economic-political view is that of Bolshevism. They think you have to accept it and be happy (ala Stalin's USSR in 1931). If you dare criticize it, you are a "capitalist saboteur" who has to be silenced. I am not joking, watching some of the Soviet films from that era and tell me that it is not the same messaging strategy used today by "the industry".
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  4951. Or adapt the blue wizards since their adventures in the East and the South would give a justified pretext for a diverse cast.
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  4952. Yeah, considering that in capturing cities like Sevrodonesk, the Russians basically reduced it to rubble. Scorched Earth is they typical pattern of Russian forces. You do make a good point about possible third-party attacks. Would hurt Ukraine more if someone outside their control did the deed, but you are wise to keep that scenario in mind. I wish more people considered third party attacks being responsible for the Nordstream pipe explosion.
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  4953.  @underthetrees4780  Magnets don't have quite the same power as a good old combustion explosion in a piston cylinder. And you know why hybrids exist? Because you can't take an electric car up into the mountains. Think about that. Sure, you can try, but then you quickly lose efficiency and get into trouble.
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  4954.  @danielpurcell7395  Indeed. There is a reason why Manchin fled to the hills when Hildabeast said she would put coal miners out of business.
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  4955. Yeah, CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CIOs, CMOs, and CTOs are grossly overpaid. Too many golden parachutes rewarding people who crash companies into the ground.
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  4956. Japanese send bombs to the US via balloons in WW2. Started several forest fires.
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  4957. I think Ukraine should demand a return to the 1918 borders.
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  4958.  @edwinmartin9120  Poland and Czechoslovakia tried that in the 1930s. Didn't work out so well. Israel tried that in the 1990s and it also failed to bring peace. "Land for peace" is just another way of saying "appeasement".
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  4959. I am all for corporate extinction events. The wokistas love to say "evolve or die". Well, evolve to cater to your customers like anime has or go extinct. The irony is, anime wasn't even intentionally trying to cater to the Western audience, they just happened to be equipped (ie fit in a Darwinist way) to survive where others have failed.
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  4960. @Scott Bloss Indeed. Title 9 was set up specifically to prevent a situation like this. It is why Timmy is dead wrong and his pandering to youtube and the woke left over this isn't going to win him any converts.
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  4961.  @TechNinja_420  What, you mean how the PLA said that its goal is to drive Israel into the sea? How about calls by the leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah to finish the Holocaust? I think you need to re-evaluate your blood libels.
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  4962. Tytler was well versed in the history of the Greek Republics. He practically quoted Aristotle on the very same points.
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  4963. Captured T-90 tanks in Izyum prove that Russia is NOT holding back its best gear. Perun has a great breakdown debunking that myth, if you can spare 1 hour or so to watch it.
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  4964. Just like the Reichstag fire.
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  4965. So you agree with Nevile Chamberlain that appeasement is the best option?
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  4966. And vandalize in the process. Proves that they cannot create, only corrupt and destroy as Tolkien pointed out.
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  4967. Iran is doubtful. Especially as they have some hostile neighbors of their own (Azerbaijan in particular). China is more likely to use the opportunity to retake "Outer Manchuria" (aka the Amur Oblast which was once part of Imperial China).
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  4968. I agree about ending the handouts that encourage and reward large families. As for the world population, we haven't even come close to what the planet is capable of sustaining. That hysteria about overpopulation has been going on since the 1890s. And much like Peak oil hysteria, it has never come to pass because the doomsayers ignore technological innovation that changes the equation.
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  4969. Like a plague of locust going from franchise to franchise, consuming and destroying everything in their wake.
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  4970. No fan of the state asylums, but the mental health issues didn't simply disappear with their closures. There is no good answer to this problem which is why it needs to be handled at the local level, namely by the families. Unfortunately, help programs can be very reluctant to provide help when the situation is dire.
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  4971. And yet Ukraine rejects your notion and insists on continuing to fight. If they believed as you think, then they would have simply allowed Russia to capture Kiev without a fight.
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  4972.  @ryanorr5755  I didn't say ignore them. I am saying to not believe it. I also notice that you did NOT refute nor disprove any of my counter points which shatters Russian claims.
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  4973. At this point I find Disney to be like a patient that is brain-dead. Organ donation is the last act of charity. In this case, the IP are the organs that need to be sent to different owners.
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  4974. Only if Trump doesn't select a VP running mate. Or if the person he picks leave office. Wait until AFTER the election to do that.
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  4975. I think a better option is to simply let the country further divide into smaller countries rather than force everyone to be under one flag and government. San Marino, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, and Andorra all get to be independent countries, why can't the same thing occur in Bosnia?
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  4976.  @xt7519  For sake of argument? That is a fair point.
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  4977. The biggest problem is actually that expansion of the money supply. Simply printing money without a hard commodity to back it up devalues it to the point of worthlessness.
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  4978. The problem is that the feckless politicians on the right are supported by people like this. The "conservative activists" simply want to BE the establishment with their hands on the levers of power. We go through this cycle over and over where conservatives back politicians who talk a good game, but then get to DC and become part of the problem. This has more to do with campaigning for power than it does about stopping wokeness. Where were these guys in August of 2020 when this move could have actually made a difference? Yeah, they are a day late and a dollar short to the party.
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  4979.  @dakotadad8835  Unfortunately. We like to think that after graduation, people grow out of the high school cliques, but reality is, the stakes of that behavior simply get bigger. And instead of being just one age cohort or school, it is now the entire country (and possibly the whole world). Some people never become emotionally mature, and we are seeing that in out politics today.
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  4980. And yet they were part of the Central Powers in WW1 and the Axis in WW2 against Russia in both wars.
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  4981.  @moviesunified6746  Repeating the same disclaimer makes that hard to believe. "The Lady doth protest too much, me thinks," -Queen Gertrude; Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
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  4982.  @mazzaleen6091  Acting like a Broken Record doesn't make you right, it just proves you can't think for yourself. "Tell a lie often enough and people take it for the gospel truth," -Joseph Goebbels.
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  4983. Just like Germany in the 1930s. They made the exact same arguments.
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  4984.  @thundermarkperun1083  If you are talking about Russian conscripts, you would be correct.
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  4985.  @katarn848  That sounds like a false canard. Typical drivel you would expect from people who subscribe to Lysenkoism and Michurinism.
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  4986. NO joke. He should simply say they keep moving the goal posts which is but ONE factor as to why they don't work. It is the slow death of liberty by a thousand cuts.
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  4987. He was hamstrung by swamp critter Mike Pence who acted as Trump's Grimma Wormtounge from Lord of the Rings.
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  4988. No man, not the angels in heaven nor the son know the final hour of judgement. Only the father knows. It is foolishness to try and predict the end of days. William Miller made that blunder in the 1840s.
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  4989. That is possible. But there IS a ceiling to the number of aircraft and naval vessels they can field. Provided you know that absolute ceiling, underestimating the capabilities of individual vehicles becomes less of an issue.
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  4990. Megyn Kelly's Redemption arc was not on my bingo card.
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  4991.  @buffuniballer  Thank you. I posted your points about Vietnam earlier, but they got deleted because someone doesn't like the truth. I also pointed out that Only Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan managed to bring Afghanistan to heel.
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  4992. Japanese Isekai authors are more worthy heirs of Tolkien than the hacks of Hollyweird.
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  4993.  @polderrican  I think most of those, from population control and collective humanities are more of a Malthusian bent rather than a woke racial policies argument. Case in point is "peak oil" hysteria that originated in the 1910s but still hasn't occurred despite the predictions constantly being "updated" to "in the next 30 years" every ten years. Certainly, they are compatible with the Bolshevik-Soviet mentality. And the funny thing about science is that it is every "evolving" though that is not quite accurate. Much of the "Dark Energy" arguments of Astrophysicists today sounds much like the Aether Arguments of the 1920s which those authors would be very familiar with and were considered debunked. Funny how things like that seem to come and go in cycles.
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  4994.  @WingkKong  Funny, because America never colonized Central or South America the way the Spanish did. Every opportunity to do so and yet the US declined. Learn your history before you shoot off your mouth in ignorance. Interestingly, Korea has managed to survive being caught between both Japan and China. That kind of disproves your contention.
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  4995. State courts can't violate the Bill of Rights either. There are 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th amendment violations that will get this overturned at the Federal level.
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  4996. "Child Nookie Network"
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  4997.  @Joemantler  Sorry, I think the wrong person go tagged. You are correct that one should not judge the whole society based on the single issue we find intolerable. That absolutism is typical of authoritarian despots who want mindless drones rather than thinking individuals who can understand nuance.
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  4998.  @Jahn_Pah_Jonz  Well, the Asian nymph girl was kind of hot, but most of the materials were meh. For me it was the photography of cosplayers that justified the cost. One can do "tasteful nudity" and it be genuine art. Renaissance era art is full of it.
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  4999. Actually, the quote you attributed to Lincoln was from Mark Twain, but it is still astute. Here is another one you should add to your quiver: "There is very little that separates man from the animals, and most people throw that away," -Confucius, author of "The Analects"
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  5000.  @hopliteluke1452  No, you are conflating your opinion with verifiable fact and objective truth. But then moral relativist who only believe in power and not principle would do that because to you then ends justify the means.
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  5001. "This Harpy"? How sexist of you. Ad hominin insults like that don't make your argument, it discredits it.
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  5002. It is indeed. "A rose by another name" as Shakespeare so aptly wrote in his play about two star-crossed lovers.
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  5003. I chose Yevgraf's words in "Doctor Zhivago": "it was a war between the Allied and German upper classes - and which of them won was of total indifference."
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  5004. They have been saying tanks are obsolete since the end of WW2 and the development of the Helicopter. It wasn't true then, and it is not true now. These naysayers are making the same blunder as the "experts" then. Namely that as technology develops, so does doctrine. The idea of massed tanks was flawed in WW2 and still is. The Tank is SUPPOSED to be used in combined arms. Even Heinz Guderian said so in his book. The Blitzkrieg was combined arms, armor with air power supported with infantry.
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  5005. OR, James Cameron jumped on the woke bandwagon and people want to see him "Get woke, go broke".
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  5006. Which is why Jefferson warned about the dangers of banking institutions. It often becomes a glorified ponzi scheme.
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  5007. Picard's quip, "Shut up Westly!" comes to mind.
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  5008. I agree. Seniority should be what determines that spot.
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  5009.  @seantiz  Yeah, people have this weird idea that Blitzkrieg is the norm in War. WW2, even on the Western front with Patton at the head was not Blitzkrieg fast.
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  5010.  @neutralevil1917  The Crimea Reservoirs were down to 3-5% capacity when Russia invaded. The fact that securing the Dam was the FIRST objective of the invasion proves you wrong.
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  5011. Yeah, I think this guy needs to look at the reason why folks in Guatemala in the 1980s spent money as quickly as they got it; the value halved by the end of the day.
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  5012. I agree with all of that except for the "living wage" part. Yes, they value their employees and don't treat them like an expendable commodity the way western megacorporations do. Company loyalty is considered extremely valuable and as such one's coworkers become like extended family, a concept lost on American employers today. The "living wage" part is pure communist propaganda; they do NOT have minimum wage laws there anything like the US. They tend to let market forces drive labor costs which does more to reward the company loyalty and extended family and discourage the expendable commodity mentality; it behooves a company to on their own initiative property compensate their employees for their hard work.
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  5013.  @swinuyasha  I agree that multiple factors come into play. I probably should have prefaced my point about smoking by adding that those numbers out of China took into account age as well as smoking. Together those are devastating. But a smoker in their 30s or 40s likely would not have issues unless they already had Asthma, Emphysema, or Bronchitis.
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  5014. False flag. Militaries do it all the time.
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  5015.  @Lezzyboy87  Words are cheap. Actions speak louder.
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  5016. Perfect analogy!
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  5017.  @ajaykumarsingh702  When it comes to amphibious operations, it favors the defenders. Taiwan isn't trying to cross the strait.
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  5018.  @piotr7805  Abrams is no hero, but he may be the tool of their undoing. I am reminded of Charlton Heston's Moses' words to Nefertari in "The Ten Commandments". Up to that point she was sympathetic, but from that point on, she became the agitator who hardened (Yul Brynner) Pharaoh's heart.
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  5019.  @randommonkey4900  Ah, my mistake.
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  5020. Indeed. As George Carlin said, "The planet will shake us off like a bad case of fleas".
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  5021. You are not sadistic, you are experiencing Schadenfreude with a touch of catharsis, a natural reaction when watching despicable people get their just rewards.
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  5022.  @frankdwyer7051  T-90s only account for 10% of the tanks being sent to and lost on the front line each month. As for the Minute Man, the block 3 version is already being phased out. The LGM-35 Sentinel is its expected replacement.
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  5023.  @thekaiser1156  That is not a solution. That is what Sudan basically did (sending him to Afghanistan) and it achieved NOTHING. Your "compromise" was simply moving the deck chairs on the Titanic.
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  5024.  @thekaiser1156  Wow, you don't know anything about seaworthiness, do you? The Navigator at the helm SHOULD have run directly into the Iceberg; the ship's foreword compartment would have been smashed, but the rest of the ship would have been saved. IN EXTREMUS, you WANT to turn into the crash when in a ship on water. Your proposal is not serious, it is just an excuse to do nothing and dither. You don't want to face the problem; you would rather attempt to side-step it like the pilot on the Titanic did. And that cause more problems than it solves. You do NOT negotiate with terrorists. They are just as fanatical as the Japanese Kamikaze. How did the West defeat Imperial Japan? Same concept applies here.
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  5025. Mulvaney is the Typhoid Mary of wokeness.
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  5026.  @cashmoney2159  Not entirely true. That may have been the case in the 1960s and 1970s but since the 1980s Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand have experienced a better quality of life on par with the US making a green card irrelevant as a factor.
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  5027.  @arthurvandermark5397  They already do that. At least make them play musical chairs instead of being in the same office for 20+ years.
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  5028. Woe of the Pharisee. You accuse those you disagree with of the very blasphemy you are participating in. "Clean the cup out first," -Matthew 23:26
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  5029.  @johnsmith-cw3wo  You only THINK you did. You are like the pigeon playing chess: it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flies back to its flock to claim victory.
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  5030. @H N The biggest problem I see with abortion is that it is racist. When according to the CDC, 36.4% of abortions are performed on black women (blacks are 11% of the US population) and 24.6% are on hispanic women, we have serious issues. There is a word for such over-representation in Abortions: closet genocide, which is exactly what Margaret Sanger wanted with her positions in support of Eugenics. And then among the whites getting abortions, Jews are greatly over-represented.
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  5031. The best and brightest go through the legal process because they know it works. As you point out, the worst come hear sneaking in like a thief in the night under the cover of darkness.
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  5032.  @malcadorthesigillite2541  Please use that phrasing, "like a thief in the night" and "under cover of darkness". Throw the emotional arguments back in their faces.
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  5033. Ukraine has been rotating their troops on a faster schedule, one more akin to that of the US troop rotation period.
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  5034. I tend to agree. China has decided that they know they cannot surpass the US's technological edge. So, they will try to reach a certain threshold where numbers can make up for the deficiencies in technological edge.
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  5035. Indeed. Kyshtym was far worse than Fukshima. So was the Windscale Fire.
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  5036.  @faelirra  So, "Trust me bro"? Yeah, that doesn't give me confidence. Do keep in mind that Prigozhin had Putin's full interest, faith and confidence as you describe. How did that work out when it came to the field rations troops were supposed to be supplied with?
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  5037.  @selindenizcebi9952  Yeah, funny how becoming a shill for Putin suddenly makes the threats go away. There is a word for that: STOCKHOLM SYNDROME.
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  5038. X-men 97's creator was right, these people hate the source materail.
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  5039. Granddaughters of Boudica should not be trifled with unless you WANT to get burned.
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  5040. Perfect analogy!
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  5041.  @MrSergore  No, LOAC was NOT written by Americans, it was a collaboration of people who came together in the wake of WW2 to recodify what is and is not acceptable behavior in time of war. It is amazing your level of historical ignorance and chronological snobbery. But I get it, you can't defend your position because it is based only on emotion, not logic, facts, nor reason.
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  5042.  @userelle12  I agree. These "platforms" are acting like publishers, and they NEED to be held accountable. The are violating the terms of section 230 protection.
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  5043. Make Drawn and Quartered Great Again. Not serious, just trying to play a little gallows humor.
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  5044. Not really. Trump delivers. Putin makes empty threats.
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  5045. I see what you did there. The irony is, Amazon beat Sears at their own game. Sears may have buried Service Merchandise, but Amazon buried Sears.
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  5046. Indeed. Those whom the gods would destroy, they first drive mad. And one of the first signs of that madness is to fancy oneself a living deity among inferior mortals. The dangers of existential nihilism and then hedonism soon follow.
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  5047. Deutschland remilitarizing is a joke. The Teutonic Knights have forgotten their legacy and refuse to embrace the parts of their history which were NOT dishonorable (such as the Kreigsmarine, particularly the U-boat fleet).
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  5048. I don't know, they did pretty well for themselves during the first two months when nobody in the West believed they had a chance. One thing this war has taught is that you should never underestimate Ukraine.
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  5049.  @bang4buck326  Then explain China's invasion of Vietnam. How about their conquest of Tibet? And that doesn't even begin to discuss their violation of Indonesia, Malaysian, Philipine, and Brunei territorial waters, NONE of whom are part of the Quad.
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  5050. Wow, talk about not being able to see the forest for the trees. You do realize that in the US, the Koreans have the HIGHEST small business ownership of any ethnic group at about 30%? I would argue that we should want MORE of that and less of the woke shit.
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  5051.  @DavidHalko  Indeed. The Koreans, Japanese, and Taiwanese are filling the vacuum create by woke ideology. And I for one welcome their domination. May they be to the West what Greece and the Greeks were to the Roman Empire.
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  5052. Love "Grandpa Morgan". Don't always agree with his politics, but his words are worth listening to.
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  5053. As I like to call it, "The Samurai Mentality". You are less likely to either take or give offense when the other guy can kill you where you stand.
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  5054.  @TheWarmotor  You an me both, my brother from a different mother.
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  5055. And yet capitalism is also what lead to the explosion in population side. Have you considered that the system is simply self-correcting?
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  5056. Bloomington, Indiana liberals. Look up the Kinsey institute at IU. It will make your hair curl.
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  5057.  @christyb7455  I have heard some stories from the Tea Party group in Monroe County who sometimes come up to the North side of Indy, so I'm not really surprised.
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  5058. The US never withdrew from the Hauge and Geneva Conventions, so on that point you are completely wrong. As others have pointed out, while Taliban fighters up to the fall of Kabul had a legitimate claim, NONE of the Al Qaeda fighters were entitled to that status. Even the Conventions spell out that terrorists, insurgents, and other "unlawful combatants" are not entitled to POW status. That the US gave them such protections as well as holding them in Gitmo was extending a courtesy they were not entitled to. By all rights, Al Qaeda fighters could have and SHOULD have been treated like saboteurs and spies captured on the battlefield; executed on sight.
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  5059. And of course, the left claims it is a right-wing troll because they cannot possibly consider that their own side can go too extreme.
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  5060. How much intelligence do they have that they keep missing when it comes to terrorist attacks?
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  5061. Clickbait has almost run its course. You can't be the boy who cried wolf for too long before people catch on to the grift. I much prefer these straight and to the point videos.
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  5062. She is my Congress critter, and I can tell you from meeting her in person she is scared. She is scared to call the ACA what it is: Soviet medicine she grew up under. She refuses to call the leftist what they are: Bolsheviks. Just like everyone else who goes to DC, she got the frontal lobotomy and became part of the swamp.
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  5063.  @benghazi4216  Dude, your hyperbolae isn't making your point, it is showing your intellectual dishonesty. South Africans themselves would call your mischaracterization of Israel as an "apartheid state".
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  5064.  @TheSkyGuy77  Then explain why Putin never invaded Ukraine during Trump's presidency. Explain why he chose to steal Crimea when Biden was directing Obama's foreign policy. Biden is no hardliner, having dragged his feet since day one of the invasion.
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  5065. If a law school is ashamed of its public defenders, then that school is in the wrong line of work.
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  5066. So, what is the alternative? Solar and wind don't cut it. And they are trying to end coal, oil, and natural gas. Incidentally, most of the US Navy's capital ships, namely the subs and aircraft carriers are nuclear powered. Are you saying we should dismantle them because they might be legitimate target in combat? I will remind you that Navy nuclear power has never had a single reactor incident since its inception. Civilian nuclear operators take their cues from the US Navy.
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  5067. Wow. That is why adoption while private and confidential, should give the child the option to see their parentage and possible siblings once they come of age so as to prevent situations like that.
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  5068.  @JoRoq1  Indeed. Rich Burlew even lampooned that in his webcomic The Order of the Stick when Nale explained the backstory of his drow wizard (panel #44 ["They are all chaotic good rebels trying to throw off the reputation of their evil kin"]).
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  5069. Older tanks can be taken out by an RPG-7. That is significant.
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  5070. Indeed. Look at refugee acceptance, and the US is still far and away more open to taking in people fleeing than any other nation in the world. Always have taken in more than anywhere else. And yet we are scolded for not taking in enough.
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  5071. Agreed. After a certain point, you can't blame others for your own bad choices. That is where Mr. Pool is wrong; the people who blindly voted for Biden DESERVED what they got. You can't blame others when you failed to do your own due diligence. "Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome," -Marcus Tullius Cicero to Brutus.
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  5072.  @TheGreenKnight500  Indeed. They never read Doctor Zhivago. Or how the Soviet's disposed of their most effective revolutionaries like Strelnikov (aka Pasha Antipov in the novel) after they outlived their usefulness.
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  5073.  @zachsimmerock5257  Indeed. Way too many Steers, Geldings, and Eunuchs.
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  5074. Indeed. The Aussies and the Kiwis were kind of miffed that they didn't get to take the point and be the Vanguard during Coral Sea and lead up to the liberation of the Philippines. And when planning for Olympic began, they begged to be a part of the action. It was MacArthur who relegated them to "clean up" operations.
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  5075. Oil from Russia used to go through Ukraine. Me thinks that if the oil is still flowing, the Ukrainians are syphoning off a portion.
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  5076. "State Capitalism" ie, Soviet Communism under a different name. Capitalism by definition rejects centralized planning and control, favoring a decentralized framework.
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  5077. US DoD communications also cause issues in Japan and Korea. Which is why not all of the equipment used stateside can be employed in East Asia.
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  5078. The irony is that as bad as Diem was in Vietnam, the Commies were far worse to the Buddhists after the fall of Saigon.
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  5079.  @roronoazoro87118  You didn't even bother to read what I posted, did you? I applaud and cheer India for taking Russia to the cleaners.
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  5080.  @ontos9981  Yeah, at this point I am finding myself in agreement with Hajime Nagumo in "Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest". He has no compunctions with pulling the trigger once someone threatens him or his girls. "It’s my policy to kill anyone who becomes my enemy. Unless I have a good reason not to, I’ll make sure to kill them. It doesn’t matter whether they’re good or evil, or whether they can resist or not. The moment you show mercy is the moment you die. I learned that the hard way at the bottom of the abyss. Those are just my values though, and I have no intention of pushing them on anyone else. Still, if you plan on standing against me just because you don’t like that, then... Even if you are my former classmates, I won’t show you any mercy." -Nagumo Hajime to Kouki Amanogawa; Arifureta
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  5081. "Child nookie Network"
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  5082.  @juvezhang1715  That agreement isn't worth the paper it is written on. The Saudis are done with the Palestinians as are the other signatories to the Abraham Accords.
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  5083.  @thejfactor1  Were they detonations or simulated exercises? There is a MAJOR difference between the two. Do keep in mind that the West HAS obeyed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. While some have not ratified it, they have still held to its limits.
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  5084. There may be some truth to your suggestion. Look at how South Korea, Japan, Philippines, Singapore, Maylasia, and Indonesia deal with drug trafficking. They don't play around.
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  5085.  @marcbuisson2463  Oh, I am not saying that it isn't grown there. Only that the local authorities take it seriously and deal with it harshly.
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  5086. Blitzkrieg is NOT normal in war, it is an aberration. The idea that you have to advance 30 miles a day is pure gaslighting.
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  5087. The sad but true reality of the brainwashed. They don't realize that they have been conditioned.
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  5088. Yeah, I am of the opinion that they should have handed over Hong Kong to Taipei in the late 1960s. Basically, negotiate a new agreement by which the UK could have had free-trade with Hong Kong and other perks, but that control would revert back to the Republic of China (Kuomintang) as the crown would be terminating their original lease early.
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  5089. Agreed. The Two Blue were a perfect opportunity they passed on. I guess they don't like the "white savior complex". Never mind that the two blues didn't need to actually be played by white actors; they could have cast an Asian, Hispanic, or black for either role much like how Roma Downing cast a black and an Asian for the Angels in her Bible miniseries.
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  5090. Yup, I think the trope is called "Ass-kicking Christmas". And yes, Ukraine is ready for cold weather combat, unilke the Russians.
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  5091. Indeed. There is the constitutionality issue regarding the sovereign power of the state which Disney has been exercising with the consent of the state up to this point. I think the Federalist Papers are going to find themselves on the Best Seller's list after the trial.
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  5092. I am more worried about Ebola going airborne than I am about Monekypox.
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  5093.  @ItsDesm  I agree. As they have with previous conflicts, they use civilians as human sheilds.
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  5094.  @JoeyCap.  I cannot claim credit. I simply amalgamized the words of those who have come before me and pondered on the nature of nihilism. Interestingly, religious scriptures, from the Abrahamic to Buddhist, Shinto, Sikh, and Zoroastrianism all make the same dire warning as modern philosophers such as Emmanuel Kant.
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  5095. My guess is that they simply violated Ukrainian airspace to reinforce their forces in Transnistria. Before the invasion, who was going to risk shooting down an aircraft like that? Now however, there is ample justification by Ukraine to shoot down anyone who tries.
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  5096. She is Jamaican. Her claims to Indian heritage are weak at best. And no, half-casts are NOT Brahmin. Not even close.
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  5097.  @octoslut  You are just wildly speculating. The fact that US forces were fighting in both Afghanistan AND Iraq at the same time is proof that the US CAN fight a two-front war. The full might of the US military has not been brought to bear since Korea in 1950-53.
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  5098.  @octoslut  Logistics, dude. You can't fight a war on ONE front with bad logistics as Russia has shown. The fact that the US could even fight two against an inferior foe on two fronts already shows a capability that far exceeds any other power. What is it that US Generals love to say? "Amateurs talk tactics, but professionals talk logistics"? Guess who is an amateur? Cope harder.
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  5099. Numbers can defeat technological edge. The F-35 is what the F-4 Phantom was in Vietnam: master of none, sucks at everything. With only 6 rails on a stealth fighter, they cannot compete against 4th generation with 20 hard points. Hell, there was a Red Flag exercise where an F-16 killed several F-35s revealing to the Pentagon that they made the very same blinders that were made with the F-4 Phantom (why do you think Red Flag is even held?).
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  5100. Because no government office in the world is nonpartisan. Pretending there is no politics in law is refusing to acknowledge the blatantly obvious.
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  5101.  @TheAmazingAdventuresOfMiles  Judges have ALWAYS been political animals. You just chose to be ignorant of your own history. Who appointed the judges to the Admiralty Courts in the 1700-1800s? Those were POLITICAL appointments. And nothing has changed in the British system since that time. "A Judge is a lawyer who once knew a politician, " -English proverb.
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  5102. Oh, that is good! I like the cut of your jib!
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  5103.  @CatsJP  As if your tribe isn't doing the same. Spare us your moral outrage. Your boos mean nothing for we have seen what you cheer for.
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  5104.  @Starskream3030  Yes, he did mention left wing conspiracy theorists, but to equate then to Q anon is grasping at strings. He is basically trying to gaslight just like the media.
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  5105.  @Starskream3030  Yes, MSNBC;s Madcow is unhinged. And those on the left ARE dangerous BECAUSE they have institutional power. My point was that he is trying to morally equivocate the two and that is exactly what the radical on the left want; apologists who will equate their most violent actions to the least violent actions on the right.
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  5106. Yes, a tragic accident, but one compounded by poor choices when the airport was constructed. At most US airport, only a chain-link fence is used to separate the flightline from the perimiter road; such a fence easily breaks away in the event of an aircraft overrunning the end of the runway.
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  5107. "Five finger discounts" they call them in woke lingo.
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  5108. One should not have to ask that question as it should be irrelevant. But to your point, the fact that they would laugh rather than give an honest response is a serious problem.
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  5109. Don't forget, Tiktok is the equivalent of a radio station or newspaper during WW2. Does anyone think allowing Japan or Germany to own one on US soil during that time was a good idea?
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  5110. Keep holding your breath. No, please do so. They have been going after him for 7 years now and failed to get anything to stick.
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  5111.  @sncy5303  You don't know that. You are making wild speculations. The flight data recorders will confirm that. It has been pointed out that the datalink between the aircraft and the control tower failed before the plane made its final approach indicating a massive electrical failure, throwing a wrench in your whole THEORY.
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  5112.  @Undomaranel  My sympathies. Your national parks, particularly the Cascade Volcanoes are beautiful. The Cascadia mega tsunami can't come soon enough.
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  5113. Don't fool yourself, he is acting now. You are seeing him put on a performance. That is the problem with actors, isn't it? How do you know when they are being sincere and not putting on an act?
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  5114.  @pulpfiction1123  Yeah, there are many states that will need to be partitioned into much smaller states after the coming Civil War. California, Illinois, New York, Oregon, and Washington are just the most obvious examples of states that are too lop-sided in their state governments.
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  5115. Me thinks they may try to dump the Rupees on their Central Asian Partners or North Korea. Not much better, but then that still benefits India.
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  5116. She is the classic high school bully and drama queen. Some people never mature out of the sophomore phase.
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  5117. Indeed. I am all for "don't ask, don't tell" with regards to whether one is carrying concealed or not. In fact, I call it "American roulette": who is armed and who is not? Are you willing to take that risk?
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  5118.  @Goyimsagainstzionazis  They had many different options. Fatah, Arafat's old party now run by Abu Mazen is less radical. Your problem is that you lack perspective. And you apologize for Salafi extremism.
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  5119.  @Goyimsagainstzionazis  Who put those children in danger? Who REGULARLY uses children as human shields? Stop making excuses.
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  5120. I believe the birdstrike started the series of events. But that cement wall at the end of the runway was what brought it to a fatal conclusion.
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  5121.  @danielseelye6005  Indeed. They are like locusts that go from franchise to franchise, consuming everything and leaving devastation in their wake. Tolkien was right, these people are evil because they cannot create, only corrupt and destroy that which was good.
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  5122. No joke. The right talks a good game, but in the end, they are no different from the left. Where were these guys in August of 2020 when this move could have actually made a difference? This is all about having a ready-made campaign issue for 2022.
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  5123. Yeah, that is how Chicago basically made gun ownership unlawful. They only allowed city certified classes to count, and never certified any instructors. Hence why it was struck down alongside the Heller case.
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  5124. Iger is like Sauron the deceiver. And those IP are like the rings of power.
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  5125. The best "War stories" are always the ones where "we were young and stupid and got into all sorts of mischief".
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  5126.  @OregonOutdoorsChris  Still, it shows a level of political illiteracy.
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  5127. Name one. Specifics, not generalities.
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  5128. Considering that it didn't start under Turmp, but Ukraine DID under Biden, I think you are blaming the wrong person.
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  5129. The irony is that the Democrats who opposed it warned that this was exactly what would happen. Could it be that they were giving us fair warning about what they would do when the shoe was on the other foot?
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  5130. Your point? Some people CAN hold their liquor.
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  5131.  @jkee9760  Indeed. Folks don't actually look at what Russia proposed, which was never serious. The "compromises" were just window dressing for Ukraine being a puppet vassal micro-managed by Moscow.
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  5132. Kind of like a vampire exposed to sunlight catches fire.
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  5133. Indeed. Calling hard line Brexit conservatives "Hooligans" shows a blatant bias that discredits him. Name-calling isn't virtuous in debate; it is a sign of desperation and shows one cannot effectively argue the merits. "When the argument is weak, abuse the plaintiff," -Marcus Tullius Cicero "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser," -attributed to both Plato and Socrates.
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  5134. No, we don't. These guys do more harm to US standing in the world than anything the US military might do.
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  5135. That would be the ultimate victory. A Japanese studio making either a parody or mocumentary about the collapse of buzzfeed.
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  5136.  @MrMarinus18  Amtrak is the result of the US nationalizing passenger rail service. That part of rail service never recovered. Venezuela nationalized in the 1970s only to turn around and sell those assets to foreign investors (ie privatization) when they (the government at the time) realized it didn't know what it was doing and was losing money. Hugo Chavez re-nationalized taking the assets back from foreign ownership when he came to power. The wealth you point to is actually from PRIVATE FOREIGN OWNERSHIP. Norway is an aberration, not the norm. No other nation that nationalizes in that manner has succeed.
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  5137. They could and they have in the past. The problem is that now, that would be a declaration of War. In the Eyes of the CCCP, that becomes an occupying force that must be driven out.
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  5138.  @Sam-tt6oz  For one, you are not outsourcing your sovereignty and rights to the Fourth Reich. But then I don't expect you to understand why the American colonies felt a need to break with the Crown in 1776. England's break with the EU was for the same reasons.
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  5139.  @YuaTakahashi-m3e  When you lose power, you don't have much of a choice. "Give up halfway"? To do what you propose means doing a full 180 degree half circle orbit as runway 19 is facing only 10 degrees off from due south. while 01 would be 10 off from due north. And as far as departure, you can go in EITHER direction in calm winds. Air Traffic Control usually selects the direction based on the winds, with an aircraft ideally flying INTO the wind both on takeoff and landing. But in an emergency, you don't get that luxury. I know all of this as I was trained as a weather aviation forecaster for the USAF. All of our focus is on how to minimize cross-winds and other aviation hazards.
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  5140.  @jcvillecho  "Mate" planes can land in EITHER direction. It is merely a matter of wind direction that governs whether they come in from the north or the south.
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  5141. YOu have not been paying attention. They are moving forward slowly like a glacier. Their progress is actually significantly faster than the ww1 Battle of Somme.
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  5142.  @URMyNewTV  I am not against letting people use cannabis in the privacy of their own home. The problem is that it doesn't stay there. Cannabis pushers are just as reckless with their preferred intoxicant as alcoholics, smokers, or prescription drug abusers. And honestly, the people who stand to gain the most from legalization just want to use force of government to take away tobacco customers. But unlike the Temperance Movement, I do NOT want to mandate abstinence from the use of intoxicants.
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  5143. Villains think they are the hero of their own story. What does that say of the people who think they are heroically saving the country from Orange Man?
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  5144. Why does anyone in the UK vote Labour? Same for Australia's Albanese government. Answer that question and I think you will understand why Americans vote Democrat.
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  5145. And how does one fumigate for cockroaches? Asking for a friend.
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  5146. Yup. But, I will take it because as Thomas Sowell said, "create the conditions where bad men chose to do the right thing".
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  5147.  @MrRetluocc  I think Joe Bite-Me has already convinced them of that. Buyer's remorse is STRONG among independents.
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  5148.  @Andreas_42  Was is Fukushima or was it the Lucens Reactor Disaster in 1969 that killed the Swiss appetite for nuclear power?
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  5149. Indeed. Traditions are so for a reason; they save us the hardship of reinventing the wheel. Should they be regularly reviewed and updated as needed? Yes, but they should not be discarded entirely just because they are tradition. To do so in the anachronism of Chronological Snobbery.
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  5150. I would recommend Japanese Miso Soup. Always worked better for me than Chicken Noodle or Tomato Soup.
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  5151. Justice is perceived as vindictive to the wicked.
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  5152. "Child Nookie network".
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  5153.  @Judaism44  I think you are conflating socialism with social democracy. The two systems are NOT the same. And yes, the claims that "capitalims has failed and socialism has never been tried" is the classic "No True Scotsman" fallacy.
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  5154. @Nix91 Indeed. In EVERY module or adventure there is either a gay or trans NPC that is critical to the story. They are basically throwing the pronouns in your face. That being said, I simply modify the material to suit my adventuring group. For example, in their Wrath of the Righteous campaign Irabeth is a half-orc female Paladin married to a Human Female Ranger named Anevia. I changed the story so that they are half-sisters rather than lovers. The background being that Anevia is the older one who was adopted by Irabeth's Orc father when he married the mother of the two girls. "Orc daddy" very much is protective of BOTH his girls, always sharpening his double axe when one of them brings home a boy. "You kids have fun, I will be right here on the porch polishing my blade".
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  5155.  @zenobiaookpik  Innocent until proven guilty. You are arguing from Laverenty Beria's position of guilty until proven innocent.
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  5156. Or Stinger taking out Tupelov choppers.
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  5157. @ It's Latin genius. Also, the motto of the State of Virginia.
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  5158. Wow, racist much? The fact that you think you know a person's race simply from their comments shows you lack in the wisdom department.
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  5159. The sooner, the better. People need to respond to these raids with lead. Make the FBI fear the people.
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  5160. Chernobyl hasn't been in operation for over 20 decades. This is anti-nuclear hysteria.
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  5161. Indeed. People are acting like this is the Plague of Athens and those who refuse to wear masks as if they are Lepers. And to the point about HIV/AIDS, the hysteria over the Wuhan Virus is eerily similar to the AIDS panic.
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  5162. Deliberate attempt at suicide? If the hydraulics were damaged, that would prevent proper deployment, and it lost of power meant time was a limiting factor, they might not have had enough time to manually deploy.
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  5163. I'm sure he also enjoys "skeet" on his blackface too. And I am NOT talking about hunting "skeet".
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  5164. Never trust a scorpion.
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  5165. Agreed. She is merely the vessel for their activism.
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  5166. "Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man, "-George S. Patton.
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  5167.  @michaelmartinez9622  Funny, because that is exactly what the Kamala campaign is doing.
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  5168. Yes it is. It is hate by proxy. Fashionable anti-Jewish hate.
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  5169.  @mikecampos1193  More like dump while the getting's good. To hang onto it in the hopes of pumping it is like playing Russian Roulette with a semi-auto.
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  5170. They said the same thing about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and those cities were rebuilt after 30 years. Stop fearmongering and exaggerating the effects of nuclear fallout.
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  5171. Indeed. In many ways the Imperial Japanese soldier had much in common with a modern Jihadi.
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  5172. What was it that Erwin Rommel said about invading hell? Use the Aussies to take it and the Kiwis to hold it? Me thinks he would use today's Ukrainians as the quick response reserve unit.
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  5173. So is Dicktor Van Doomcock (Overlord DVD).
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  5174. If Ukraine becomes for Russia what Afghanistan was for the USSR, well then that is Putin's fault. There is a lesson to be learned: people defending their homes have the force multiplier advantage of terrain.
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  5175. Then why hasn't Russia steamrolled Ukraine yet? Spare me, Russia can't keep up with its losses. The Bear is geriatric.
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  5176.  @tbird4a  Prove it. The burden of proof is on those accusing Ukraine because the preponderance of evidence implicates Russia.
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  5177.  @kgjung2310  Two brush strokes as JFK observed.
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  5178.  @markushuguenin3500  And I would suggest they are about the only ones who can tell them otherwise it just comes across as incredibly ghoulish. More power to the Jews who can bring levity to an otherwise depressing subject.
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  5179. I need more cowbell was one of their few good skits.
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  5180.  @olafsigursons  BRICS nations are a basket case. Only India is the strong horse and in large part because they have been cleaning up the corruption.
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  5181. From the movie "Bridge on the River Kwai": Colonel Saito: A word to you about escape. There is no barbed wire. No stockade. No watchtower. They are not necessary. We are an island in the jungle. Escape is impossible. You would die.
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  5182. 2008 housing bubble redux.
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  5183.  @self-study3324  True. I was trying to use something a little more nuanced to describe his values. Pride in the image one projects to the world such as how one's community appears is to your point an example of having standards. As for Asians outperforming all cohorts, that has much to do with a little something called CULTURE. Especially in East Asia, scholars were considered just as important as warriors and soldiers. The Imperial Exams were a way commoners such as merchants could earn a place in the royal court and possibly outrank landed gentry or even blood relatives of the ruling monarch. In a highly stratified society, meritocracy was rewarded and gave opportunity for advancement. America USED to be a meritocracy up until the Progressive era. At that point, flawed ideas about racial superiority crept into our institutions and we became as obsessed with pedigree as feudal Europe. The civil right movement was to go back to that idea of meritocracy but unfortunately, the perceived gains were simply perverted into a new form of racial superiority.
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  5184.  @stormykobain  If she is a sweet soul, I hope she follows the old saying, "don't say anything at all".
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  5185.  @antonella6317  They are all in South America. How many nations in South America are there to compare against? Unless you only want to contrast it with is immediate neighbors and nobody else on the continent.
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  5186. Public domain would be even better, but creative commons is victory enough for me.
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  5187. Schadenfreude. They get what they f-ing deserve as Arthur Fleck observed.
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  5188. Indeed. The Ukrainians don't have to cross in Kherson, they can simply come down the East bank in Zaphoresia.
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  5189. So you are saying that the Russian Army is so blind as to not see Ukrainian Frogmen place demolition charges on the Dam? And that they were powerless to stop it? That level of damage can ONLY be done by demolition charges, not missile strikes.
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  5190. As one time president of the Screen Actor's Guild I can assure you he knows.
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  5191. Death by GPS. Happens every year in Death Valley, California.
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  5192. Amen to that. Take Jaleel White. Nobody does Sonic the Hedgehog like he did.
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  5193.  @yurikendal4868  Copyright protection means that creators who COULD build and expand on the IP are prevented from doing so, even if they don't monetize it. The holders of the copyright monopolize it. While that makes perfect sense for INDIVIDUAL CREATORS, corporations have exploited and abused that monopoly for the financial benefit not of the original creator but their own plundering selves.
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  5194.  @calexander7495  I tend to agree. People loved what he initially did with Armageddon (explosions and the like while Deep Impact was more cerebral). He is good at special effects and action but has very little depth when it comes to character development and interpersonal relationships between those characters and it shows. he has ruined franchises because as you point out, he shows a passing knowledge but no solid foundation of source material. It is charitable to describe him as a dilettante.
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  5195. Anschluss 2.0
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  5196.  @joaoroman9583  The stall speed for a 737-800 is 128kts in flight configuration. In landing, it is about 108kts.
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  5197. So it is okay to just accept the failures of autocracies but not the inherent weaknesses of capitalism? Nice to see you are not interested in honest debate.
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  5198. I think the wokistas just hate the idea that a young white boy can learn valuable life lessons from an older gentleman of color. Uncle Remus was like a surrogate grandfather to Johnny and the other kids. That is a BEAUTIFUL lesson on open-mindedness.
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  5199.  @classicalextremism  Wait until they watch the movie "Glory" about the 54th Massachusetts commander by Robert Gould Shaw. Denzel Washington and Morgan Freedman both play strong characters that on first blush seen stereotypical, but actually have quite a bit of depth. Oh, and they don't like the idea of white officers leading black enlisted fighting men, which was actually what happened back then. My ancestor Sergeant Johnathan S. Bishop was transferred from the 28th Iowa to the 11th Louisiana (Union, black) to train them on military disciple before typhoid claimed him at Vicksburg.
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  5200. Just like El Rushbo did.
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  5201.  @natedowns5  You realize how huge a loophole "religious exemption" is? You can drive an 18-wheel semi-truck through it.
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  5202. It is called a land-swap. Russia gets back Kursk while Ukraine gets back Kherson, Zaphoresia, Luhansk, and Donesk.
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  5203. State the crime. Even Merrick Garland chose to pass on prosecuting Trump.
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  5204. Their refusal to even take up the injunction against Merchan renders Presidential immunity non-existent.
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  5205. I was stationed at Osan when it happened. Ruined Thanksgiving, but then the Kims had a history of doing that.
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  5206.  @ishakkyusuf8784  Cleaner. We don't just butcher people on a whim. Kimmy had been known to do that. So has Putin, particularly with Polonium.
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  5207.  @alfredlear4141  First use of nukes has NOTHING to do with actually star6ting WW3. That is a red herring argument (logical fallacy) on your part. Do keep in mind, the US was dragged into both WW1 and WW2. We didn't participate because we wanted it, but rather because we were forced into it by one of the beligerants.
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  5208. Especially her bar tab on taxpayer dime.
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  5209.  @HalfwayHikes  She does, as Tim Pool cites in the article. The problem is that the media has had the courts actively protect them rather than let a jury weight the merits. Most cases, the judges simply throw it out before evidence is even presented to the courts. THAT is the problem with the Sullivan ruling.
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  5210. Mr. Limbaugh was a gem, and the world is worse off without him. Mark Steyn is about the only person I fell who can even remotely fill El Rushbo's shoes.
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  5211. As Tim points out, people fall into this positivity bias and deny that it is really occurring to them. Hijackers, kidnappers, and terrorists capitalize on that deer in a headlight response. And that response is precisely why Stockholm Syndrome is able to set in.
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  5212.  @Odah_  Phillipe Petain really did a number on France's military power in WW1 behaving much like a Russian general does today. I don't know how you can call that a victory for France.
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  5213.  @monkeydank7842  Look at the US states that have already legalized marijuana. Colorado Democrats have already admitted that they made a terrible mistake in legalizing it. In place of incarceration, they have drug rehab which is ironically MORE expensive. Do keep in mind that prior to this, the Department of Corrections was the biggest drug rehabilitation agency.
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  5214. Michael Crichton explains how they do it. "Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had." -Crichton's 2003 CalTech speech.
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  5215. You said the same thing about Bakhmut. And Advika. Pyrrhic victories are not the win you think they are.
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  5216.  @jwenting  They most certainly are. The UN soldiers that refuse to be repatriated after the Korean War were kept segregated in a village near the DMZ and were NOT provided women with which to start families.
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  5217.  @rugbeaters1  Howard Huges was an eccentric, not an evil man. His OCD made his harmless to others, but a great danger to himself. At least he was willing to provide some assistance to Project Azorian (recovery of K-129, Red Star Rogue) as one of his last acts.
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  5218.  @frankpaya690  Funny how most BLM protestors are white, isn't it? And you are correct, if you are jumping at shadows, you will see racism around EVERY corner, whether it is there or not.
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  5219. Because it is meant to be.
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  5220. Focusing on the popularity of the guy rather than more practical reason such as accusations of corruption? Just because Ukraine is fighting Russia doesn't mean the rampant corruption in Ukraine went away overnight. It may just be that the graft, fraud, and waste in the UAF finally caught up to the top general and it was time for him to step aside. A good battlefield commander does not mean than you can get away with having money laundering operations on the side.
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  5221.  @Rtg5637  They made territorial gains BECAUSE they destroyed the enemy. Grant PULVERIZED the Army of Virginia. Sherman Smashed the Confederate Army of Tennessee. Don't put the cart before the horse.
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  5222.  @Rtg5637  The territorial gains by Grant was because he PULVERIZED the Army of Virigina, particularly at Cold Harbor and the Wilderness. Sherman was able to take Atlanta because he basically mauled the Confederate Army of Tennessee, rendering it irrelevant as a fighting force. Kind of like what Ukraine did to both the 1st Guards Tank Army and the 155th Naval Infantry. Don't put the cart before the horse.
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  5223. I think this is actually youtube insiders who are against the war abusing their power, not outside hackers. Youtube/Google has always had it out for pro-Ukraine channels, now they are just being more blatant about it.
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  5224.  @nathanhollingsworth413  The .45 has stopping power, which is what was needed when you mortally wound an adversary, but he keeps coming at you. With the 9mm, he may have just enough left in him to kill you before he expires. .45 buys you enough time for him to die.
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  5225. First, you are conflating homicide with murder. One is simply a subcategory of the other. Second, killing in self-defense is NEVER murder. Murder requires malice of intent which self-defense fails to meet.
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  5226. Jan 6th was to democrats what the Reichstag Fire was to the Nazis.
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  5227. Left wing and right wing are part of the same bird. To quote Mercutio, "PLAGUE ON BOHT YOUR HOUSES!". The third party just adds Escalus to the Montagues and Capulets.
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  5228. Indeed. The generation who was never paddled or spanked as youths when they misbehaved.
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  5229.  @jasonlarsen4945  "Master's degree in environmental science"? You mean a degree in political activism pretending to be science. Biology degrees falls into two categories: Zoology and Botany. Earth Sciences typically fall into either geology or meteorology. Your "environmental science" is too broad to be a specific scientific discipline, hence it is political activism degree. It is also the appeal to authority logical fallacy, which is always used to stifle any discussion because those who invoke it know their position is weak on substance.
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  5230.  @michaeldeierhoi4096  "Fairy tale"? You are arguing with Sir Issaac Newton! Namely the second law of thermodynamics often invoked in chemistry. Namely you cannot create nor destroy matter, nor can you create nor destroy energy. It very much is a zero-sum game with regards to physics and chemistry. Any high school chemistry student can tell you that. But I get it, you are pushing your neo-pagan Earth mother (Greco-Roman Gaia) worship.
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  5231. Typical. Bind bills together in the very Omnibus that got McCarthy toppled rather than single-issue bills.
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  5232. Except the delta-velocity required to do that is extremely high. Easier to simply shoot it out of the solar system or crash it into Jupiter.
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  5233.  @derkleebaum  Yea, because Dingy Harry Reid was virtue signaling. Yucca Mountain is in the middle of the Nevada Test Range which is already contaminated and has restricted access. And then you have the fact that security is provided by the USAF. You know Groom Lake/Area 51? That is close by Yucca Mountain. So before you try and get all high and mighty, do your due diligence and research before you fire off in ignorance.
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  5234.  @arthurdent6256  The problem is controlling it. We can already create a fusion of Hydrogen into Helium by using a fission bomb as the kick-start. In both of those cases, it is an UNCONTROLED reaction. Controlling that amount of energy is currently beyond our capacity. The materials sciences have not reached that level of engineering to harness so much power at once.
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  5235. And I suspect that you have diversified your stock as well.
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  5236.  @mrconroy4672  No joke. Barney Frank who was the driving force behind the 2008 sub-prime mortgage loan fiasco is one of the controlling members of SVB's board of directors. He got bailed out of that only to repeat the same thing in the tech sector. The man should be in prison for his malfeasance.
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  5237. "When your argument is weak, abuse the plaintiff" -Marcus Tullius Cicero Thank you for proving you can't refute his points but instead attack the messenger. Your desperation is showing.
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  5238.  @Jack-e5t  Your are projecting. That is what leftists in the media do. You are projecting your own flaws onto the right. There is a very good reason why nobody in media actually wants to debate actual Trump supporters and instead bring in fake conservatives like Billy Kristol, Liz Cheney, or Chris Hayes. They want controlled opposition they can dance around. Anytime the left foolishly brings on someone like Ben Shapiro, Bill Whittle, or Matt Taibi, they get their butts handed to them. There is a reason for that and Bill Whittle explains it: the left have bad ideas that are indefensible and they cannot win on the merits. They resort to screaming racism because they need to discredit the messenger in a vain attempt to discredit the message. "We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien concepts and competitive values. For a nation afraid to let its people judge truth from falsehood in an open market of ideas is a nation afraid of its own people," -President John F. Kennedy.
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  5239. How?
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  5240. Partition it first. I would like to keep Yosemite, Death Valley, Joshua Tree, Lassen Volcanic, Shasta, Three Sister, Kings Canyon, and Sequoia National Parks.
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  5241. The problem is that a lot of these people unionizing think they are entitled to have a job. That the employer owes them it and therefore they have a right to dictate to their employer what they work on. It is part of the "everything is about me" generation and mentality.
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  5242. A retainer is NOT a Samurai. At best he was a novelty for Oda to parade out for the amusement of his guests.
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  5243. Have people so quickly forgotten that Nelson Mandela served time in Jail? So did the President of Brazil. These European Elitists have zero understanding of anything outside the borders of their own country clubs and gated communities.
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  5244. You remember all of those people who said they would leave the US if Trump got elected, but then didn't? Yeah, those are the people that are still at Twatter. Regular people are not losing their jobs because regular people don't bitch about the boss, they just go and find new employment.
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  5245.  @EraYaN  Just because the plans have been around for two decades doesn't mean they are actually good plans. Advances in agro-technology has made both animal and plant husbandry MUCH more productive, on the order of 5 to 10 times over "natural" farming. If you like having a full belly, thank a farmer. If you enjoy this modern lifestyle, thank a farmer for making it possible. Fact of the matter is, if you implement the polices you are advocating, you WILL cause a famine comparable to the Ukrainian Holodomor or the Chinese Great Leap Forward Plague. Don't bite the hand that feeds you. Don't engage in pseudo-science. Don't be Trofim Lysenko, the "expert" who is the cause of Soviet-Communist artificial famines.
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  5246.  @EraYaN  That "livestock is inefficient so we should abandon it completely" argument has been made since the 1920s. It was wrong then and it is wrong now and is predicated on a THEORY of land use efficiency that completely ignores the nutritional needs of the human body. It is the same kind of flawed logic behind Lysenkoism. In fact, the proposals are the very cause of the Chinese Famine, if you bother to actually look at the root cause. Meat from livestock gives us the Vitamin B12 we will NEVER get from either plants or insects. And that is not the only nutrient deficiency that will be caused by completely eliminating livestock as a food source from the human diet.
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  5247.  @EraYaN  You say that, but I know you have not considered the unintended consequences. And no, famines caused by technocratic bureaucrats are NOT a strawman argument. They are but ONE of the unintended consequences I described. Again, you really need to look into how such central planning fails spectacularly. Sri Lanaka's collapse is a direct result of your proposals.
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  5248.  @EraYaN  I don't think you actually understand how the farming industry actually works. I don't think you realize how your proposed polices will actually make artificial famine because you are NOT actually looking at the chain of impacts and how they WILL cause food shortages. The Un has already assessed that there will be massive starvation across the planet, and you want to make that worse by shutting down productivity. Sri Lanka is simply your policies on a local-national level. Taken to the global scale as you propose will not solve the problem, it will increase it by several orders of magnitude. Much like in Sri Lanka, you are completely ignoring actual human behavior, assuming the best case rather than a realistic outcome. Such idealism causes more human suffering than it prevents.
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  5249.  @EraYaN  And now you are engaging in the very same false choice dilemma you claim I was doing. Humans are OMINVORES which means we get sustenance for a variety of places. But there are some nutrients that can only come from plants, and there are some that can only come from animals. And Russia is an easy excuse. You seem to have forgotten that the UN was sounding the alarm back in 2020! And at that time, they were pointing to the supply chain disruptions caused by the Wuhan Virus lockdowns. And folks like you claim Americans have a short memory.
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  5250.  @EraYaN  Your first paragraph is moving the goal posts, a logical fallacy. The second paragraph shows that you know very little about economics or how international trade works. You very much use Russia as a convenient scapegoat so that you can avoid defending the repercussions of your ideology. In effect, you refuse to accept responsibility for the consequences of your disastrous policy proposals. Typical behavior of a religious zealot. As for your third paragraph, your words show you are in ivory tower elitist with very little ground level perspective. You think you know all the answer from on high when that just shows how out of touch with reality you actually are. You are as Marie Anntonette telling the peasants to "just eat cake".
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  5251. Don't forget two other factors: first, the Des Moine Register is a Democrat Shill paper and always has been one. Second, the poll had a 16% democrat favoring bias in the sample.
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  5252. The Russian Bear is geriatric.
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  5253.  @TheObsesedAnimeFreaks  Max of 30 years? You realize that means parole in just 10? And with high recidivism, you are basically guaranteeing another murder. People are given consecutive 100-year prison sentences to prevent those situations. Your "solution" doesn't even consider how it will play out in reality. Your claim of "mental instability" is a cop-out by someone who don't want to acknowledge that some of the worst murderess in history were very intelligent and well-adjusted except for the fact that they killed people. Case in point is the Nuremberg Defendants as well as the Tokyo Trial Defendants. And yes, it IS somewhat rational that people use violence to achieve political goals. The left, particularly ANTIFA does it all the time. The Soviet government did the same to keep their population in line. The Chinese CCCP uses violence to keep its citizens in check. Why? BECAUSE IT WORKS, sadly, otherwise they would not use those tactics. Now, just because it works to achieve a goal doesn't make it right. THAT is where you and I agree and is probably the only place we agree. Everything else you are arguing is a deflection because you don't want to admit an awful truth: that humanity is cruel and brutal. Thomas Hobbs was right; humans are both bastards and morons. We use the term "insanity" to artificially create a distinction between those we agree with and those we disagree with.
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  5254.  @TheObsesedAnimeFreaks  Cute, you fail to deliver, just assume that I can find it at a drop of the hat. Just like in previous debated, you fail to actually provide evidence and use logical fallacies to make your argument. And then you accuse me of doing exactly what you are guilty of.
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  5255. They learned nothing from the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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  5256. "Amateurs imitate, professionals plagiarize," -Attributed to Igor Stravinsky.
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  5257. Agreed. If RKF Jr. can keep the nevertrump GOP out of the Biden camp, that is a win for Trump.
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  5258. And if SS doesn't do anything, expect Trump supporters to break INTO Rikers to free their president.
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  5259. California in particular needs to be partitioned into smaller states along the lines of the Six Californias proposal. Illinois and New York also need their big cities partitioned off as well.
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  5260. Cope and seethe harder. They are living rent-free in your head. And the American people don't fall for character assassinations anymore. "Boy who Cried WOLF!"
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  5261. Agreed. Starvation and dehydration are bigger concerns than a virus with a 99.98% survival rate.
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  5262.  @chrischuba5037  I'm pretty sure Putin is cherry picking anything that supports his delusional fantasy. His claims on Crimea are those of Cathrine the Great who used Crimea as the pretext to claim that the Romanovs were descended from the Greek Byzantines.
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  5263. Oh, I agree with you about the exploitation for profit. The problem is less to do with normalizing to a broader audience and more to do with pandering to an overly vocal minority who care nothing for the IP.
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  5264. Indeed. Dodd-Frank repealed the Glass-Stegal protections creating the 2008 crisis for which the current one is a repeat.
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  5265. Berine cares more about advancing World Bolshevism than he does about Americans. After going to the USSR for his honeymoon, customs should have refused him admittance back into the country.
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  5266. The only GOP voters he will pull are the nevertrumpers who were not going to vote for Trump anyhow. This only helps Trump as it keeps them out of the Biden camp.
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  5267. The problem is the launch location. Would have to send it from Europe. But something tells me that Russia's central Asian allies would intercept it first.
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  5268. One can only hope. But they will get bailed out just like Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers.
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  5269. Was it Kyoto or Kokura? "Luck of Kokura" was with Ted Fujita.
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  5270.  @CostcoguyBoom  The Nevertrumper Republicans are more likely to vote for RFK than Biden as they will never vote for Trump. RKF Jr. keeping them out of the Biden camp is a MAJOR victory for Trump.
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  5271.  @Ryan-li8qc  Apples to oranges false analogy, dude. Why are the BLM rioters who burned down that cathedral not held to the same standard as the fools who were let into the capitol by the police? How about leftist agitators be incarcerated and have their rights abuses to the extent that the Jan 6th "mostly peaceful" protestors are?
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  5272. "If You Are Not a Liberal at 25, You Have No Heart. If You Are Not a Conservative at 35 You Have No Brain" -Winston Chruchill.
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  5273. I tend to agree. The former Warsaw Pact has shown to have more of a spine than the traditional members of NATO. And I am actually all for Poland becoming the new 800-pound gorilla in Europe keeping the peace.
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  5274.  @FlorinSutu  You consider the disastrous charge of the light brigade to be a "minor" participation? I think you need to recheck your sources.
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  5275.  @FlorinSutu  Almost 100,000 men and 20,000 dead British is not an insignificant loss. And those numbers being 1/3 and 1/5th of the French forces committed doesn't change that fact either. Seems to me that YOU need to put things into perspective.
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  5276.  @containedhurricane  What you fail to point out is that full 70% of those listed deaths are self-inflicted homicides. Mostly suicides. Nice try buddy.
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  5277.  @difficiliscarere9838  The only people really surprised by Russia's invasion were the people who thought that Putin was just a swell guy that you could buy gas from. Most folks who advocated for a strong European defense (namely Poland and the Baltic States) were not at all surprised. That is in fact WHY they joined NATO in the first place!
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  5278. Yeah, they got Sir Patrick Stewart and Jeri Ryans for Kurtzman's Shitcard and it was a hot mess. I hope Bacula has more dignity than them.
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  5279.  @meneither3834  When you are not counting the people who have stopped looking for work, sure. That is the dirty little detail people are not being honest about.
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  5280.  @antixocialman  You don't win the argument by name calling. You just proved you are as out of touch with the people as Marie Antonnette.
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  5281.  @guydreamr  Indeed. In most cases, DipImn covers minor infractions like jaywalking or parking fines. Most governments take a very dim view of their diplomatic agents engaging in serious crimes such as drug trafficking or manslaughter. Usually in those cases the host country declares them persona non-gratta and they are deported to prevent claims of hostage taking.
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  5282. Actually the logic has to do with a perverted form of kinship. The premise is that one's race is their tribe. And Tribes are made of clans, clans consist of related families. So the claim is that betraying your race is by extension betraying your family and kin. Of course, that whole argument falls apart when you have inter-racial marriages that produce bi-racial and multiracial mixed heritage children. There is a very good reason why these people HATE mixed marriages and discourage them at every turn.
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  5283.  @brandonr.7262  Well, sort of. We have gone around the barn ideologically. But then again, in practice there is zero effective difference between the Soviets and the Nazis. It is called Horseshoe Theory for a reason. As far as politics go, people falsely assume it is a spectrum or even a 2D graph. I liken politics to a tesseract (4D cube). And that only scratches the surface because I can name as many as 6 axis for which to measure one's values.
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  5284. One month life expectancy on the front line for Wagner.
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  5285. Except, that is still not in compliance with the Presidential immunity. There is only ONE resolution for this situation, and if it takes the SCOTUS to vacate it, so be it.
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  5286. Because people are fooled by poorly disguised Soviet propaganda plagiarized from the Third Reich. The origin of antizionism is found in the antisemitism of Joseph Stalin.
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  5287.  @goldenbear8250  The charges were in the pipeline. We know that because the Congress was already taking up articles of impeachment which would have been the basis for the criminal case. You are trying to be clever by half.
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  5288. The best thing he can do is drop out completely. This is just proof that the people urging him to run want him and Trump to mutually annihilate each other.
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  5289. The Fall of Kabul was basically the Fall of Saigon 2.0. And the ARVN fell for the very same reasons you outlined for Afghanistan.
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  5290. Indeed. Eco-terrorists are a more likely culprit.
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  5291.  @genedesalvo1120  These RINOs might as well be Democrats, dude.
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  5292.  Xavier Medina  I bet it was fun to throw their intersectionality garbage right back into their faces, wasn't it?
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  5293.  Xavier Medina  LOL! He must have been quite the character!
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  5294.  @theredscourge  That is true. The Molotov-Ribbentrop alliance was more than just a non-aggression treaty. It was also an economic, technology, and military collaboration. Poland's partition between the Nazis and the Soviets was but one facet.
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  5295. @Kale White Antinovski Bridge says otherwise.
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  5296. I want to see the house of mouse burn to the ground for all of the evil it has perpetuated in the last 20 or so years.
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  5297. It apparently hasn't occurred to Timmy that Fox News leadership itself may be responsible for the "leaks" (ie they purposely planted them). Getting your "opposition" to dispose of a nuisance keeps your own hands "clean".
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  5298. Completely out of touch with reality. That is why you are going to be in for a big surprise.
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  5299. What that means is, nobody is watching national networks anymore.
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  5300. He is a misotheist.
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  5301. "Practicing" Basically acting all John Wayne caviler (which is ironic considering that Wayne would never actually behave this way) thinking he was a cowboy. Ample evidence that his actions constitute VOLUNTARY manslaughter.
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  5302.  @paulrasmussen8953  Still, cross drawing like that, even for "practice" is still being pretty reckless. You can get permanently banned from a firearms range for "practicing" like that. And with good reason; too many things can go wrong. That is something you save for when you are alone in a remote place.
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  5303. @Bullfrog When fighting a numerically superior force, that is going to happen. The fact that Ukraine by itself can fight Russia to an effective draw is a victory on its own. Make no mistake, Ukraine NOT getting steamrolled by Russia shows that they are already winning.
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  5304.  @monaliza3334  Ad hominin personal attacks don't make your point, the just show you can't debate. “I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” ― Margaret Thatcher
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  5305.  @hibbo1351  Today the LGTBQ "activists" behave in the same way the brown shirts did. When you adopt the tactics of fascism, you become fascist.
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  5306.  @N20232  You are moving the goalposts. Gear and equipment don't fight the battles as Russia's 1st Guards Tank Army has proven. It is the people using that gear that fight the battle. While Ukraine is getting supplies for the West, it is the Ukrainians who are fighting the war. You belittle their efforts by claiming that only the equipment is making the difference; it is but ONE factor in a host of components of the greater result (victory has a thousand fathers).
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  5307. taking land isn't the metric you measure to know if you are winning. The Germans captured almost all of the Ukraine in 1942.
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  5308.  @liberTvalance  Yet the Ukrainians are inflicting 5 losses on Russia for every casualty they take. In urban fighting where they do take higher losses, the ratio is ten to one. That is devastating and unsustainable on Russia's part.
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  5309. Don't even need to go that far. Sovereign power of the state makes Disney's "contract" null and void. They cannot monopolize that which was granted to them by the government.
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  5310. Indeed, you are correct. it is sophomoric high school drama all over again. Probably explains the obsession with prom too.
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  5311. Had Trump and Vance walked out, likely half of the people in attendance would have followed them.
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  5312. Reading Michael Pilsbury, Gordon Chang, and Richard Murdock? Sound like it, and if you have then you are 100 times more qualified to direct a war against China than the Generals in the Pentagon.
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  5313. Well, it doesn't help that the US is still in bed with Pakistan, despite them being in the Chinese orbit. I would gladly trade the Mullahs of Islamabad for the Rajahs of India.
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  5314.  @JTLAMF  Do you really think Trump supporters would just stand by as he is sent to Riker's to get Epstined?
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  5315.  @venicebeachsportsnetwork6677  Again, you are not citing your sources and manipulating your data. It is well known that the high local taxes of blue states means that under federal tax law, they pay less into the Feds than Red states do. And that is NOT counted against the number you use. Nice try attempting to gaslight with arguments that have been debunked time and again.
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  5316.  @barba928  "Proud American and Republican"? The Lady doth protest too much. First, Republicans who do NOT support Trump are essentially RINOS at this point. Those GOP congressional candidates that throw him under the bus have basically ended their career in the party. What people like you fail to understand is what one Saudi prince observed: "people only respect a strong horse. The weak horse is held in contempt". Biden is a sickly horse. Speaking of Xi, have you forgotten that Hunter Biden was paid millions by the Chinese Communist Party? It is well documented which is why the Feds have been working overtime to bury his crimes.
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  5317.  @rice83101  Calling out logical fallacies is the second highest virtue in debate, right after quoting a well known source. Learn to debate. Yeah, your no true Scotsman fallacy doesn't apply here. He is saying thigs that just don't jibe with what is historically true about the US military. Namely that it overwhelmingly leans to the right. Try again. As for your populist argument, you fail to accept that the US is a REPUBLIC. Trump won 2016 because he worked the system as it was meant. Biden won 2020 because his team essentially did the same thing by changing the rules at the 11th hour in the states that Trump originally carried. And it may surprise you to know that sometimes a liar will actually tell the truth because it serves their purpose better that an outright lie. You are so caught up in the liars paradox that you have gaslighted yourself. And with your final point, you make the appeal to absurdity because you cannot effectively refute me calling out emotional arguments. Learn to Debate.
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  5318. Indeed. A Republic in name only. The SCOTUS is as worthless as the Roman Senate under the Julio-Claudian dictators.
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  5319. The Temple mount predates Islam. How can Israelis occupy the land they owned since antiquity?
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  5320.  @ArawnOfAnnwn  It is clear you are a mouthpiece of the kremlin because you regurgitate their disproven propaganda talking points on cue like Pavlov's Dog. When even the Indians don't believe your claims, you have lost the plot.
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  5321.  @aj9969  Nice strawman argument. This isn't the 1960s. And the US removed the nuclear missiles from Turkey in response to the Cuban missile crisis. Your selective cherry picking of information shows your intellectual dishonesty.
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  5322.  @aj9969  Lots of bloviation but little in the way of substance. For one, NATO was not a threat to Russia when Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia joined in 2004. That alone completely disproves your claims. Also, Joe Bite-me is hardly the paragon of virtue and honesty. His son was on the board of Burisma after all and was "getting a cut for the big guy". Instead of regurgitating Kremlin talking point on cue like Pavlov's dog, how about you actually look at the situation objectively and in full context?
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  5323. Indeed. The Fall Rasputitsa season continued into the winter. It remains to be seen if it last through the traditional spring mud season.
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  5324.  @popaog6786  Proof by verbosity is not an argument. And Ukraine is NOT shelling it because they gain nothing by taking the risk. However, the Russian General at the plant has unequivocally said that if they can't have it, they WILL go scorched Earth. You are an anti-NATO shill for the Kremlin, spewing their talking points on cue like Pavlov's Dog.
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  5325. No, but they sure can make it a costly and bloody affair. Look at the Eastern front in WW2 and you will see the Ukrainians are using tactics both the Soviets and the Germans used to defend those very same areas today.
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  5326. New lines where? If they hadn't built then during the last 6 months, they are never going to.
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  5327. The problem is that like most communists, he doesn't believe in private ownership. He believes wealth belongs to the collective and that money is just something toe government loans to people.
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  5328. And the nevertrumper votes. Keeping them out of the Biden camp is critical.
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  5329. Buffett has never produced anything of value in his life. He just knows how to pick winners and losers while extracting value from the system and not putting anything of value back in. He is EVERYTHING the Communists hater, yet they fully embrace him because he parrots their talking points. And before the Buffett defenders balk, I point out that liquidity is only a virtue when you deal with Usury and financial slavery, and debt servitude. In a frugal, cash up front system, it is considered predatory and sinful.
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  5330. And that is where it will probably be settled. And if the Federalist Papers, particularly on sovereign power are any indication, it will NOT be good for Disney.
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  5331. No, they don't. Because they have Trump Derangement Syndrome.
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  5332.  @davidty2006  Actually, Minoru Yamasaki, the architect of the original WTC OVER engineered the design. He anticipated them getting hit by a Boeing 707. They were struck by the much larger 757. It was actually the fires that weakened them to the point of collapse.
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  5333. Good is evil and evil is good. How Orwellian of you. But alas, it was warned in scripture that at the end of days good should be called evil and evil called good.
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  5334. @ He often acts as an apologist. "The Hottest Places in Hell Are Reserved for Those Who in a Period of Moral Crisis Maintain Their Neutrality" -JFK's favorite quote by Dante.
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  5335. And yet Johnson has been colluding with the Dems just like John Boehner, Paul Ryan, and Kevin McCarthy. With Republicans like him, who needs Democrats?
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  5336. Their (the woke crowd) problem with Rowling is that she is an apostate. She was one part of their faithful when she pandered to them by claiming that Dumbledore was gay. Now that she has spoken out against their blatant misogyny, she has been branded a heretic and they (the woke crowd) have issued a fatwah against her. And yes, I used religious terms because wokeness is a non-theistic religion, complete with its own version of the Spanish Inquisition.
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  5337. It will only get back to normal when the people who encouraged and pandered to the woke are held accountable for feeding the monster.
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  5338.  @annviolet4727  What invasion? Jew were NOT permitted to settle in JUDEA by the Ottoman Turks. It wasn't until after the British Mandate post-WW1 that Jews were allowed to settle in the area.
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  5339. Isn't it amazing how rapidly the Ukrainians have become a professional Western military? And the best part is, they are using the best aspects of both their former Soviet doctrine and NATO tactics into a highly effective hybrid.
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  5340. T-72As in storage are not being touched. But T-72B are disappearing. T64s are also untouched, but the T-62s are disappearing from artillery parks.
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  5341. Ukraine is also fighting for survival. But in this case, it is a fight for survival in their very homes. And that is what makes the difference.
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  5342.  @ericp1139  How much did the Russians control in the 1980s? We can go back and forth all day private conscriptovich.
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  5343. Agreed. Let the light of day be the best disinfectant to their toxic ideology. "Give a bad boy enough rope and he'll soon make a jacke-ass out of himself," -Evil Coachman, "Disney's Pinocchio."
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  5344. At this point the GOP and the Tories are exactly the same: big government hacks with no spine who regularly lie to their constituents just to maintain power.
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  5345. A couple of reasons for the younger age. One: most childhood diseases such as Scarlet Fever have been eliminated. Second: the high amount of growth hormones in our food.
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  5346. As opposed to the dementia patient currently in the White House?
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  5347. Some of the people who took photos of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens did not survive. The only reason we have their pictures is because they used their dying bodies to shield the film so that it would survive to be found.
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  5348. Historically Republics only last 200 years. We have been on borrowed time.
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  5349.  @Kamalatowing  I don't disagree that many of the abuses today can trace their origin to President Lincoln and his out of control administration. But the death of the republic really goes to the Woodrow Wilson years, particularly the 16th and 17th amendments.
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  5350. Yeah, that backstory? Not realistic. NOBODY with Two moms and was a sorority girl at a California college is going to join the military.
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  5351.  @TheFrankvHoof  You are trying to play semantics games. Another country can declare war on the US WITHOUT the US Congress declaring war. In that situation, Treason still applies because the OTHER nation has declared war and opened hostilities.
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  5352. Just like how the Reichstag fire was used.
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  5353.  @thetaexali9550  Russia doesn't actually care about the civilians. Them reducing Sevrodonetsk to rubble is proof of that. IF Kherson is to be flattened, they will use their artillery, not a nuke.
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  5354.  @typicalprocrastinator_1395  Why would the US bother with Sri Lanka when it is in India's backyard? American presence in the Indian Ocean Basin is much smaller than it is in the Pacific or Atlantic Basins. India is not the strategic threat that China is. In this, the US and India are natural if unlikely allies.
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  5355.  @user-jt3dw6vv4x  The Caribbean is America's backyard. The Yellow Sea is South Korea's backyard. The South China Sea is Maylasia's backyard. Perspective, dude. In lexicon, calling an area someone's backyard has less to do with exerting regional power and more to do with acknowledging the geographic location as being very close to them.
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  5356.  @user-jt3dw6vv4x  Your argument of "reeking of hegemony" is neo-Bolshevik, anti-West, Anglophobic hysteria. It is Marxist anti-colonialist dogma, light on substance but heavy on emotionally charged rhetoric. All of your arguments could just as easily apply to ANYONE. You are just reacting emotionally because you don't like the cold hard truth. We are using EXACT terminology that is quite descriptive. You just want to bloviate and whine. "When words lose their meaning, people lose their lives," -Confucius, author of "The Analects"
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  5357.  @user-jt3dw6vv4x  And again three posts one right after the other. You are proving that you are throwing a temper tantrum rather than actually making any rational point. Between your Gish Gallop, Proof by Verbosity, and appeal to emotions, your use of logical fallacies shows that you cannot actually debate the merits.
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  5358.  @user-jt3dw6vv4x  "Never underestimate the eloquence of brevity," -Marcus Tullius Cicero “Brevity is the soul of wit.” ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet. “It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.” -Fredrich Nietzsche “Be sincere, Be brief, Be seated.” ― Franklin Delano Roosevelt “If you can say it in a paragraph, don’t write a book.” ― Frank Sonnenberg "No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity." Katherine Cecil Thurston "The more you say, the less people remember." Francois Fenelon "If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought." - Dennis Roch "It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn." -Robert Southey "It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn." -Robert Southey If you need to write an entire dissertation to make your point, you have engaged in the logical fallacy of proof by verbosity. It shows that you can't actually make a coherent point because it lacks clarity and is not concise. And I have made substantive points, you just refuse to acknowledge them which discredits you. You however, engage in emotional guttersnping because you can't debate on merits. And of course, you are accusing me of doing exactly what you are guilty of doing. Typical Alinsky troll tactic. And unsurprising from someone who has Anglophobia. And I have made this post entirely too long. Each of the quotes was more than enough.
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  5359.  @user-jt3dw6vv4x  And you haven't many any single point either. You are bloviating about how you think referring to a geographic area as someone's backyard is colonialist and hegemonistic. Your arguments are predicated on emotion, not reason. But of course, you brush off our rebuttals as "never understanding" because you are guilty of the very myopia you accuse us. And yes, Arizona, Texas, and California ARE in Mexico's backyard. As is Belize and Guatemala. But you can't accept that can you? You are engaging in Anti-Colonialist rhetoric, rooted in Cultural Marxism of "oppressor vs. oppressed". Nobody is being oppressed when a region is accurately being called "backyard". Get over yourself.
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  5360.  @user-jt3dw6vv4x  Dude, touch grass. You are out of touch with reality.
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  5361.  @user-jt3dw6vv4x  Nothing I say will convince you because you are a zealot. You refuse to listen because you are close minded. THAT is why you need to touch grass. It is self-evident, and I was simply making a statement of fact. I understand perfectly the desire of isolationism. But that is NOT what we are talking about. You just want to virtue signal your moral superiority. It is a farce, and nobody is buying it.
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  5362.  @user-jt3dw6vv4x  You regurgitate Cultural Marxist talking points. You bloviate with anti-colonialist drivel. You falsely ascribe hegemonic implications to words which carry none. You are clearly a social justice keyboard warrior trying to convince yourself rather than anyone here. You need to get off your own high horse. You need to touch grass. "When words lose their meaning, people lose their lives," -Confucius, Chinese philosopher and author of "The Analects".
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  5363. And it has its own page on TV Tropes.
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  5364. The problem was that last year the ground didn't freeze causing the fall Rasputisa to be almost nine months instead of two. Let us hope that this next winter doesn't repeat that.
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  5365. You can still be a Jim Webb-John F. Kennedy Democrat. We need to be supporting more people like Webb and Tulsi Gabbard if we are to prevent this full nuclear meltdown by the woke leftist-cultural Marxist- Bolshevicks.
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  5366. Who?
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  5367.  @johnlocke5098  Leftist in his time. Today he is conservative because he is to the right of "main stream".
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  5368. What about the WAVEs, WASPs, and WAACs of WW2? Are you saying that women cannot support the war effort on the homefront? What about as quartermasters and nurses?
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  5369. Spoken by the globalist shill. "Free trade" is a myth pushed by the multinationals who care NOTHING about the little guy nor the common man.
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  5370.  @ALMAZ157  Cope harder Private Conscriptovich.
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  5371.  @jordanscherr6699  Strauss-Howe Generational theory (aka The Fourth Turning) says that every 80 or so years there is a major societal conflict. 80 years ago, it was WW2. 80 years before that it was the US Civil War. And 80 years before that was the American Revolution. And about 80 years before that was the English Civil War.
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  5372. What about Able Archer 83? Yuri Andropov was convinced on his death bed the West was about to invade. Then you also have the missile false alarm scare.
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  5373. Let the Japanese and Koreans move into the vacuum created by these spilled children. I welcome the creators of Asia for their products are far better than the garbage that has come out of Tinseltown.
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  5374. Just like what happened in 2008. And the cycle repeats. Bring back Glass-Stegal to prevent this.
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  5375. Indeed. Me thinks little miss anti-Fascist has never actually watched the Disney anti-Fascist short "Der Fuhrer's Face".
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  5376. Yeah, I don't pay attention to "Seasonal Anime". I generally wait for the entire run to drop before I try the first episode or two. Some I have lost interest in very quickly while others I binge watch in a day or two. And with so many older shows out there, I still have plenty of choices to pick from.
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  5377.  @crhu319  You have lost the plot. Nothing you have just posted has any data supporting it. There is no logic nor reason behind your rant.
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  5378. I certainly agree that we need term limits, even for those appointed by the state legislatures to serve as Senator should be limited in terms.
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  5379. BINGO! Google/Youtube is shilling for Legacy media because they are on the same political team.
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  5380. Consider this: the anti-air defenses around both Moscow and Petrograd have been completely stripped down and sent to Ukraine. If Putin were to use a nuke, his proverbial pants are down leaving him exposed to a conventional counterstrike.
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  5381.  @jordanmoir1076  That is not an argument it is a strawman you are beating brutally. Tell me, why are Japanese Anime doing so well? Or Korean Dramas? Fact of the matter is that Disney has lost its touch. So has most of Hollyweird. Or have you forgotten about that uninspired cringe attempt at "Imagine" by the actors?
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  5382. The power of nuke is in their deterrence. Once you use them, that effect evaporates. And in doing so, it WILL alienate the neutral powers, turning them against Russia.
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  5383.  @RepublicaSindicalista_doBrasil  You haven't been paying attention to Putin's speeches.
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  5384.  @RepublicaSindicalista_doBrasil  And sometimes they do. Putin believed his own lies. He has also said that the collapse of the USSR was the greats geo-political disaster in history. We may not be in the 1940s, but the fundamentals of that era still holds true. Your refusal to realize that is to prove George Santayana correct: that those who refuse to learn their history are doomed to repeat it.
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  5385. Voting with the pocket book. Sooner or later the invisible hand of the market will set things straight. Can't keep the unsustainable operating for long before something has to give.
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  5386. And that is why I have very little sympathy for the GOP at large. They are willing to play along with the corruption just to hold power. Hopefully the new MAGA term will put a stop to that way of thinking.
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  5387. Zelensky is a Jew. Anything else you say has no value.
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  5388. And Target along with Inbev-Anheiser-Bush is joining them.
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  5389. Thye couldn't take the capital during the first two weeks of the war, they sure as hell can't do it now.
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  5390.  @DannyB-cs9vx  What logic? By the simple fact that Russia's combat power is significantly weaker now than it was at the start of the war. Simple attrition explains it. The tip of the spear in the drive to Kiev was the 1St Army Tank Guards, the pride of Moscow. That unit was effectively eliminated as a fighting force when they fled Izyum. And that is not the only elite unit of Russia that has no remaining combat effectiveness. So, while you are correct that situations change, you are misapplying it here. The change that has occurred has been against Russia and in Ukraine's favor.
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  5391.  @DannyB-cs9vx  You clearly have zero understanding about combat, or even the situation on the ground. You are simply engaging in wishful thinking. Belarus did NOT join at the start of the war because Lukashenko had a serious threat of his armed forces defecting to the Ukrainian side. If they would not join then, why would they join now when opposition to the war by the Belarusian population is greater than it was at the start of the war? Second, most of those troops pulled out of Kherson will take time to relocate to the Norhtern Front. And intelligence would reveal that movement. And their actual combat effectiveness is questionable at best. Conscripts don't make for good soldiers. Saying something can't be done does make it so when the data points support that. I am not speaking in ignorance like you are, I am speaking with knowledge about the situation and not being fanciful and idealistic.
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  5392.  @DannyB-cs9vx  I never said I have all the answers. What I do have is enough conclusive evidence to definitively state that Russia CANNOT mount another attempt against Kiev. At least, not if they want any chance of success. It is a fool's errand to try now. You are just in denial of reality of the hard facts on the ground that prove Russia does NOT have anywhere near the combat power they enjoyed at the start of the invasion.
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  5393.  @DannyB-cs9vx  Wow, put down the copium dude. I gave you solid example when I pointed out the 1st Guard Tank Army. That is an irrefutable example proving how out of touch you are with reality. And nice red herring with the attack on Poland. Most folk think it was NOT intentional, simply a product of Russian incompetence because it is ample justification for Article V bringing all of NATO down on Russia. Putin is NOT that stupid; his subordinate certainly are though.
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  5394.  @DannyB-cs9vx  I guess you don't bother to actually read sources like the Insitute for the Study of War (ISW). They are NOT self-appointed experts; they ARE THE EXPERTS with retired general Jack Keane as the Chairman. When people whose business it is to know and understand warfare says your scenario is a pipedream and yet you still persist, then you have completely lost the plot.
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  5395.  @DannyB-cs9vx  And now you are moving the goal posts (logical fallacy). You are desperately trying to prove you are correct such that you are now in the original position fallacy. Your own argument can be used to reject your original premise.
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  5396.  @DannyB-cs9vx  Thank you for resorting to insults, it proves that even you know you have lost the debate. it is the last gasp of the desperate who have nothing else. "I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher
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  5397.  @DannyB-cs9vx  If you are done, then why do you keep responding. Your attempt to act superior only shows your lack thereof. "The lady doth protest too much, me thinks," -Queen Gertrude; Act 3 scene 2; Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. PS: and the quote you are looking for but failed to properly quote is by George Bernard Shaw: "I learned long ago never to wrestle with pigs, you get dirty, and the pig enjoys it".
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  5398. Cheap oil at a steep discount, which means India and the Saudis are ripping off Putin. That is still a net win.
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  5399.  @thequandlecultiston3157  Wow, really? Talk about racist canards. The Opium Wars which you allude to concluded over 100 years before Chairman Mao came onto the scene. No you clearly don't understand Recent Chinese history. You blatantly ignore the Civil War between Mao's Communists and Chain-kai Shek's Kuomintang Nationalist Party. You seem to forget that in CLASSIC Marxist theory China much like Russia was the LEAST likely place for a "worker's revolution" to occur. Imperial China was much like Tsarist Russia, which explains why Mao was able to make inroads much as Vlad Lenin did. Instead of race pimping, try making rational, coherent arugments.
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  5400.  @thequandlecultiston3157  "Smart-ass"? That is the best you can come up with? Insults and disparagements are not arguments but tacit admission you can't debate merits. When you make all of your arguments about the "evil white man" you are engaging in race pimping. Your arguments are poorly disguised Anglophobia and anti-Europoid racism. "When you argument is weak, abuse the plaintiff,," -Marcus Tullius Cicero "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser," -Attributed to Socrates.
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  5401.  @thequandlecultiston3157  "The debate is over" Yeah those are the words of someone who cannot argue and so tries to silence any further discussion because they know they are losing. Typical liberal woke scold behavior. Insults are an act of desperation because you have no valid argument. It is a logical fallacy called ad hominin. it also means you have lost the plot. You mischaracterize the Opium Wars to push an anti-Anglo (and in effect an anti-white) bigoted narrative. Do NOT conflate the actions of the British Indian Trading Company (and by extension the British government) with those of European Heritage. It belittles you and discredits anything you have to say.
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  5402.  @thequandlecultiston3157  No, you didn't answer ANY of my objections, merely presented logical fallacies. And if you are watching the clock for how long it takes to respond, then you really have no actual argument because you are simply trying to feed your own ego. And political spectrum has little to do with American or not. Looking at the politics of the UK, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan shows that the conservative-liberal split is very similar regardless of national affiliation. Once again you are using fallacious logic to make arguments because you lack substance. And saying I "deserved the insults" is only doubling down on your desperation. The more you lob insults at me, the more you prove my point. "The Lady doth protest too much, me thinks," -Queen Gertrude; Act 3 scene 2; Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
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  5403.  @thequandlecultiston3157  The fact that I am quoting men and women smarter than you shows my wisdom and your hubris. If you think that quoting others makes me look stupid, that speaks more about you than it does about me. "I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." -Margaret Thatcher.
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  5404.  @thequandlecultiston3157  Actually, properly quoting a well known source is the STRONGEST argument one can make in a debate. Just because you lack the humility to rely on the wisdom of men and women greater than yourself is why you lose. "Self-pride"? More like arrogance, narcissism, and self-aggrandizement. The fact that you have to put down and belittle others only goes to prove that you are trying to convince yourself.
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  5405.  @thequandlecultiston3157  Three posts in a row? You really are frantic. As Cicero pointed out, never underestimate the eloquence of brevity. Again, you are not debating, you are engaging in spurious personal attacks because you have been called out and you are panicking because your position and choice of words are indefensible.
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  5406. Minimum age is 45 years old for a reason. Life experience. Biden's problem is that he has too much life experience.
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  5407. I think it was less the normies and more the activists who thought they could hijack the fandoms to use as vehicles for advancing their agendas.
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  5408. Put down the vodka, comrade, you are so drunk that you are hallucinating.
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  5409. Face diaper.
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  5410. And that is okay? Don't rationalize child rape. Further, such a young mother is likely sterilized by the damage to the reproductive system.
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  5411. The irony is, McDs had an actual riverboat restaurant in St. Louis. The panic over 9/11 and terrorism forced it and the Lt. Robert Lee to leave. Sadly, the Robert Lee burned to ashes back in 2010.
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  5412. The correct term is "trespassing foreign alien national". The "immigrant" term is an attempt to gaslight people into thinking they have a legitimacy they are NOT entitled to.
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  5413.  @junegameart2866  Yeah, the violence only occurred on ONE side of the building, where ALL of the federal agents provoking the crowd were located. Ray Epps ring a bell?
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  5414.  @YamatoFukkatsu  It is cathartic, isn't it?
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  5415. Shale Oil is a bigger threat to them than green energy.
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  5416. ​ @nunyadambiznes675  More like Berber than black. North Africa (Barbary Coast and Egypt) may be from the African Continent, but they have historically been considered White or at least "Swarthy" to use the politically incorrect term of the past. But I do like your oblique reference to Fauxcahontas and her supposed Native heritage.
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  5417.  @nunyadambiznes675  Oh, I don't disagree that there was intermixing across the Sahara Desert. The Nubians for example, were well known in antiquity by the Greeks, Egyptians, Hebrews, Babylonians, and the like. Back to Lieawatha, funny how she has pretty much dropped off the radar? Once presidential contender isn't even considered to replace Joe Bite-Me. Two possible candidates that COULD go toe to toe with Trump are Jim Webb, former Virigina Senator, and Tulsi Gabbard. But the party won't let them go anywhere because they are not radical enough. "Too conservative" they falsely claim.
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  5418. "Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin good forces have invented or made” -J.R.R. Tolkien
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  5419. You can tell. The natural Asian beauty doesn't have the double eye lid. Ironically, cutting the face is considered a grave insult. I consider the eye surgery to be the same.
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  5420. Or a neck stretching.
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  5421.  @kimandre336  You think Americans really elected Joe Bite-me? When precincts report turnouts at 120% of voter registration, that is glaringly obvious what happened. Trust the American people, not our "rulers". Our rulers lie to us as much as they lie to you.
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  5422. Youd don't know if you conceived until after missing a menstrual period. Sperm may not fertilize the egg until as much as three days after copulation.
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  5423.  @Useracct-m9s  No, it would not. As Kevin O'Leary has pointed out, what they are criminalizing is standard business practice ACROSS THE GLOBE. You don't care about ANY of the facts in this case, you just want your political tribe to win, the consequences bedamned. "The Lady doth protest too much, me thinks," -Queen Gerrtrude; Act 3 scene 2; Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
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  5424. Ah, but the Ukrainians are inflicting more on the Russians than the Russians are on Ukraine. Also, Perun went into Russia's military production capacity and they are NOT keeping up. Only 10% of the equipment Russia sends to the front is new build. The rest is legacy Soviet stockpiles.
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  5425.  @cyruslupercal9493  Indeed. It is called "Dutch Oil Disease" for a reason.
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  5426.  @anacc3257  Then explain why Hannah Ardent and Eric Hoffer pointed out that the Nazis and Commies recruited from the same pool of people.
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  5427.  @anacc3257  Seems like Google/youtube is deleting comments again. Eric Hoffer and Hannah Ardent both observed that the "German Nationalist Worker's Party" and the "Russian Democratic Socialist Worker's Party" drew support from the same kind of people. They were competitors for recruits to their ideology.
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  5428.  @nobodyspecial115  I look at it a little differently. The Bolsheviks were equal opportunity mass murders. They would massacre an entire village just to get the one Kulak or Jew. The other team was rather selective when it came to their atrocities.
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  5429. @ "Cupcake", remember what Jesus also said? "Clean out the cup first". "Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean. 27 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. 28 In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness. -Matthew chapter 23
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  5430.  @JNYC-gb1pp  What is your point? Chinese women are gorgeous. Zuck's problem is that he is trying so hard to be "cool" that he is jumping the shark.
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  5431.  @stevenjames1138  He didn't need to ask Xi Jin Ping to give his daughter a Chinese name, his wife's family could have easily done that. But I agree that he is so busy dry-humping the Chinese Communist Party that he doesn't realize how he is effectively destroying his own brand. On a side note, who names their daughter "Maximillian"? That is a boy's name. Maxine would have been better as that is a woman's name.
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  5432.  @glitzerplastikchichi  The devil is in the details though. You don't get into debt, but unless you have the connections (ie nepotism), you don't get into the schools that will actually give you what you need to thrive. The vast majority are stuck going to third rate schools and then to dead-end jobs. As for "healthcare" the wait times are two to three years to get a major surgery. There is a reason why most people LEAVE Europe and come to the US for those kinds of treatments. Sorry, Soviet medicine is exactly what you guys have. And the rationing that is to be expected from such as system.
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  5433. Bullshit. That is disinformation by the anti-Semites who want Israel delegitimized. Your scenario would hurt the Ukrainian war effort. Such corruption has been played as hurting their efforts against the Russians by Zelensky's government.
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  5434. @ If you agree with her completely, then you are following a false doctrine. She wasn't glorying the Almighty nor the Son, she was chasing after her own self-aggrandizement. "The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like the other men—swindlers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and pay tithes of all that I acquire. But the tax collector stood at a distance, unwilling even to lift up his eyes to heaven. Instead, he beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man, rather than the Pharisee, went home justified. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” -Luke 18:11-14
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  5435. The average Russian citizen isn't stupid, and I think most folks in the West know that. It is their incompetent leadership that is dumb as a box of rocks. The day they get a George S. Patton or an Erwin Rommel leading them is the day Russia finally takes over the world.
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  5436.  @aleksabenovic6046  I seriously hope you learn that Putin and Russia doesn't really care about you. They are using you just like they always have in the past. Whether the Czar in WW1 or Stalin in WW2, the leadership of the Russian Empire views you and the Serbian people as nothing more than expendable proxies in their war with Western Powers.
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  5437. "Amateurs imitate, professionals plagiarize," -Attributed to Igor Stravinsky.
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  5438. Seems like this just proves an old observation about Hollywood: the more money that is invested in a project, the lower the actual quality of the story. Some of the most successful and memorable shows and movies operated on a shoestring budget. Lots of money does NOT equate to a good product. Ask yourself why Cowboy Westerns (typically consider B quality material) tend to me the more relevant movies some 20 to 30 years later. It has to do with focus on story instead of flashy gimmicks.
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  5439.  @zahrans  The plans for Germany, yes. In Turkey, no. Too many people embellish the Trukey angle, including Robert Kennedy.
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  5440.  @WHS_reviews  Most of them have not. They are ideologues who are wedded to theory rather than practical application. Most of them have never had to handle a gun in the defense of their homes or lives.
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  5441. They are getting some T-90s, but it is on the order of only 10% of the tanks being sent to the front. The vast majority is refurbished Soviet era. Russian production can't keep up with the attrition rates.
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  5442.  @dalebarrs297  And the DW isn't doing the same? Sorry, Ben Shapiro and company have shown time and again that they WANT to be the establishment. They want the same things as the left, just "kinder, gentler". What is the point of resisting one set of tyrants if we simply replace them with another set?
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  5443.  @Muck006  I agree. A true friend will tell you the cold hard truth and not sugar coat it, even if it hurts. A false friend tells you comforting lies.
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  5444. Indeed. How often over the last 8 years have new outlets cited "anonymous sources" with regard to the Russian and Ukrainian collusion hoax? You would think that people would be more skeptical.
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  5445.  @JinKazama1993  A solid case could be made that TWITTER engaged in market manipulation (ie insider trading). Elon simply feed them the rope they are hanging themselves with. Everything you and Twitter accuses him of doing, is rebounding.
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  5446. Jim Webb who ran against Hillary in the 2016 primary would be a better choice. He doesn't have the baggage that RFK Jr. brings with him to a Trump ticket.
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  5447. @ They exist at the whim of the Chinese Communist government. Don't fool yourself.
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  5448.  @bdcochran01  Yes, the problem with Russia has always been a LEADERSHIP issue. The Russian people have always been hearty and resolute, abused by their piss poor leaders.
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  5449.  @glellio88  Most of them are garbage push polls anyhow.
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  5450. My family was using LEDs when Obama was pushing the FCL bulbs. Who thought it was a good idea to put mercury back into lightbulbs after they removed it in the 1980s?
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  5451. He was making an allegory. That injecting bleach comment is not being repeated by the media anymore because it is easily debunked.
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  5452. Still pushing the fake story about injecting bleach? Even the media isn't talking about that anymore.
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  5453. He chose poorly and that was Harry's own fault. He should have married a Japanese or Thai princess instead. He is about the ONLY white guy their royal families would have permitted such an honor.
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  5454. While I am no fan of drilling in ANWR, I AM for the pipelines. I am also for more nuclear. My issue with ANWR has to do with how long it takes for the area to recover. Even a single dirt road will take centuries for the tundra grass to restore. Of course, I have zero issues with them drilling under ANWR from a location outside the nature reserve.
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  5455.  @kimfleury  He sounds like a man after my own heart. Oil and natural gas exploration on native lands puts food on their tables and that is a GOOD thing. But ANWAR is a wildlife refuge, not tribal land. It is there specifically to maintain its pristine state. As I said, I have no issues with drilling at an angle under the reserve as long as the surface is left undisturbed.
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  5456. SHE is an insecure little person with penis envy. Not that I agree with Sigmund Freud, but Page gives ammunition to some of Freud's outlandish theories.
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  5457. And THAT would be their salvation, a regional Peso fixed to a stable commodity likes silver as you propose. Hell, I would convert to using it if it was backed by Silver.
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  5458. Sic semper tyrannis
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  5459. Indeed. Aramaic didn't have a distinct alphabet of its own, it simply used Hebrew or Greek as its written form much like how many languages today share the same written script. Two things they should have added to that written part. The first is Egyptian Hieroglyphs as well as "vulgar" Egyptian both of which were not translated in the modern times until the discovery of the Rosetta Stone which allowed us to translate them first into Greek. The second is that Hangul, the Korean written script is the most recently created written language specifically for Korean and came into existence in 1443 at the direction of King Sejong the Great, 4th ruling monarch of Choseon Dynasty Korea.
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  5460. With Disney having owned both Lucusfilm and MGM, they legally could have cross-overs. Consider this: Mola-Ram in Temple of Doom is an Ashrak-Goa'uld, and the "magic" such as the blood of the Kali-Ma is the similar to Hathor's pheromonal potion("Hathor"). It changes the whole perspective of the movie from action-horror-adventure to a sci-fi adventure movie. It makes Mola-Ram's line to Dr. Jones "The stones will be found, you won't!" much more significant as he could change hosts. It also allows the villian to return as once the hose was killed by the crocodiles, the symbiont could jump into one of the crocodiles just like Marduk jumped into the monster entomed with him("The Tomb").
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  5461.  @lkklMakOffKa  Which doesn't discount the possibility of it being a false flag by the GRU or FSB.
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  5462.  @shashwatmaurya8599  Wow, talk about a response similar to petulant child. You would cozy up to China just to spite the West? Me thinks you are an Anglophobe. You gain nothing but doing that.
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  5463.  @sharathnair642  Wow, high and mighty yet completely ignorant of your own history. All of the little Rajah principalities fighting amongst yourselves is precisely WHY the British conquered you. The unity against Alexnader the Great having been lost forgotten. Yes, your values are different. But not so different that one cannot understand them clearly. Again, your own history has shown that when not presented with an outside threat, you are more than happy to fight amongst yourselves. As far as the "Third World", the video even points out that your own leaders coined that term to describe their position of neutrality. While I disagree with neutrality for its own sake, I can applaud the message of empowerment and self-determination that India has wanted to champion during the Cold War.
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  5464.  @mr.nobody125  You are fooling yourself if you think you can stay out of war forever just by staying neutral. Sooner rather than later Red China will decide it is time to pluck the feathers of the Peacock of South Asia. And no, you will NOT lose your momentum by picking a side, that is a strawman argument. "War cannot be avoided, merely delayed to the advantage of one side," -Carl von Clausewitz.
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  5465.  @50megatondiplomat28  The subs are a concern, but then American subs are even better at it than the Chinese. Between the Los Angeles and the Seawolf class, nobody can match the American Attack subs.
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  5466.  @fromfareast3070  You seem to forget that the Japanese have already promised to come to the defense of Taiwan. They WILL fire torps at the Chinese. And THAT WILL drag the US into the fight, regardless of what the politicians may try to do. The US Navy WILL respond to any reports of Japanese ships under fire or engaged in hostilities as a matter of standing orders and will NOT wait for Washington to grant permission to engage.
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  5467.  @hannibalbarca6308  Yeah, if Trump gets sent to Rikers and ends up dead and there is NOT a violent Civil War, then the slaves deserve to get slaughtered like lambs.
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  5468.  @gargoyle7863  Indeed. German industrial innovation is second only to the US. It is sad that the leaders of Deutschland care more about pandering to globalist ideologues rather than encourage the people of the Rhine to do what they do best.
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  5469.  @gargoyle7863  I cannot say that I am surprised. The education system in the West has been infested by the ideology of the old Soviet Union, substituting reason and hard data in favor of feelings and emotions. "The cause" is more important than producing results.
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  5470.  @krasserTerror  While Thyroid increased in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, the numbers in Germany did not. Anecdotes are NOT indicative of trends. You are using a sob story to make an appeal to emotions (logical fallacy). Yeah, most sources claiming man is the cause of climate change are sus. The data is circumstantial at best, and completely fabricated in others. Particularly when you claim, "consensus concludes". "Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists. Why do I say it’s a religion? Well, just look at the beliefs. If you look carefully, you see that environmentalism is in fact a perfect 21st century remapping of traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs and myths. " -Michael Crichton September 15, 2003 interview.
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  5471. On network TV? I tend to agree. Foreign studios such as the Koreans, Japanese, and Taiwanese have produced some very compelling works.
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  5472.  @kofia9716  More communist lies and propaganda by the anti-colonialist movement who wants to blame all of their woes on the US. China understands to "not interfere"? Tell that to ousted Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe. Tell that to the Solomon Islands. You are lying to yourself to justify accepting the chains of a new feudal lord.
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  5473.  @kofia9716  The attempt to oust Maduro was a domestic movement with ZERO support from either the US or any western power. I assure you, if the US had backed such as movement, it would not have failed. But that hadn't occurred to you, has it?
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  5474.  @kofia9716  If you are reading wikipedia for your sources of information, you are being gaslighted. That website has become a blatantly political propaganda outfit such that its founder has even called it out. As for Afghanistan, you are trying to blame America for a part of the world that has been in constant turmoil since the time of Alexander the great. You are just a blatantly anti-American, anti-west hack. You clearly fall for the original position fallacy.
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  5475.  @uydang9941  PLEASE TELL ME OF THE ARAB-MUSLIM EXPLOTATION OF WEST AFRICA THEN TALK TO ME ABOUT EUROPE's COLONIALISM. Spare us your racist anti-white moral outrage. Blacks in Africa sold their own people into slavery.
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  5476. Smart move. Dangerous to think you can send multiple rounds downrange from the same spot when acting as a sniper. More likely to get hit by a retaliatory strike if you do.
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  5477. I guess you have never heard of malicious litigation. Many nations have recognized it as a scourge on free and open societies.
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  5478. Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Philippines, and Taiwan are white? Dude, you need to get better talking points than just racism.
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  5479. Why? Cheap energy is the mother's milk of a thriving economy. All of the above is the best option, though I prefer the investment in nuclear power.
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  5480.  @azz2  That I can get fully onboard with!
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  5481.  @brianconn773  Dude, it is the megacorporations and transnationals that support the child groomer movement and Black LIES Matter. Your local breweries can't afford to piss off their local clientele. just ask that bar in Bloomington Indiana that is begging its customers to return.
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  5482.  Yedolf  No, you seem to conflate corporate oligarchy with capitalism and free markets. Free Markets is what is bringing down these woke corporations. Oligarchism HATES competition of true Laissez-faire capitalism. But sure, keep hating on the very economic policy that liberates you and shill for your corporate masters who HATE capitalism and seek to enslave you.
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  5483.  @PayneWewton  Depends on your location. In liberal cities I expect that. In flyover country, less so.
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  5484.  @smokedbeefandcheese4144  Oh, in practice Soviets and Nazis were not that much different. Which is why the Molotov-Ribbentrop Alliance was even possible. Oh, and the camps the "Third Reich" used for their "final solution" were modeled after Stalin's Gulag Archipelago.
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  5485. @Jay20431 Indeed. WHEN it gets to court, it may very well result in "gun free zones" being declared uncosntutional.
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  5486. Uh, you realize that North Africans are considered "Mediterranean" and hence white? it is when you get into sub-Sahara that a racial distinction is drawn.
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  5487.  @tutotutot5193  You are making a distinction without a difference, race baiter.
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  5488. Not their original plan, but still to their benefit. These guys are narcissists after all.
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  5489.  @merlingeikie  Yeah, didn't Nero send the Legions down to the beach to collect seashells as "tribute" from Neptune after he swished his sword in the Mediterranean?
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  5490. Timmy boy doesn't realize that if it wasn't Jan 6th, they would have another excuse or manufacture one. More and more Tim is sounding like someone with Stockholm Syndrome.
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  5491. Interestingly enough, it is having the side effect of encouraging MORE interracial marriage for white men with non-white women, particularly foreign born women. Pew Research data is startling.
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  5492. Sound like the Storm Z unit is the modern equivalent of the Soviet Prisoner Battalions, such as Shtrafbat.
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  5493.  @skp8748  "Force Imperialism"? I don't think you understand what empire building. entails. The Soviets built and empire of "Democratic Socialism" by the sword. The US built a free world through trade, not by the gun.
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  5494. ALL bullet exit wounds are lager than the entry wound. The grievous head wound was actually caused by the bullet leaving JFK's head.
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  5495.  @r6573  Hamas is essentially a theocracy.
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  5496.  @MrlspPrt  Fair point. In practice the two are not that much different. Except Bolshevicks are equal opportunity mass murders while the Nazis were discriminating mass murderers.
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  5497. And turn Colombia into Venezuela 2.0. Takes a sick mind to think that forcing people to go on the Hugo Chavez weight loss program is a good idea.
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  5498.  anthonytaylor7590  And how are the Ukrainians going to reach the Trans-Siberian Railway? Unless they get help from the Central Asian nations, that is not an easy task.
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  5499.  @JoshPhantom  Indeed. I am betting the folks who wanted to unionize with the Hollywood machine are glad they dodged a bullet.
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  5500. Like most PhDs. Mental masturbation with little practical experience.
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  5501. I think they want to maintain their cultural identity. The US is having a bi-polar personality disorder with regards to its cultural identity.
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  5502.  @ArawnOfAnnwn  You just hate the cold hard truth. Reality is, you yourself are judgmental and look down your nose at people you disagree with. You are doing it with your gutter sniping posts. But then that is typical of people who cry wolf on racism because they can't argue MERITS.
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  5503.  @ArawnOfAnnwn  The more you protest, the less believable you are. That is the problem with wokescolds like you; you seem everything as racist and cast it as such. Intersectional praxis drives your choice of words which betrays your true nature. Case in point is your getting triggered over the phrase "calling a spade(a type of shovel) a spade". Only racists automatically assume a spade is not a garden tool but instead a racial epitaph.
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  5504. And he seems to forget that nuclear arms control treaties are just as foolish as the Washington Naval Treaty of the 1920s.
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  5505. Someone who grew up in Emma's environment would have been bombarded with the message that the military is full of r-pists, baby killers, and war criminals.
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  5506. "I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it further," -Darth Vader.
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  5507. Touche!
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  5508.  @ramonandrajo6348  Anything written by a "mainstream journalist" or a "mainstream economist" is complete garbage. Don't be gaslighted by professional grifters.
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  5509.  @ramonandrajo6348  The media was wrong about Juicy Somlie. They were wrong about Nick Sandman. They Were wrong about Russian collusion. They were wrong about Johnny Depp. They were wrong about Kyle Rittenhouse. They lied about Amed Arbury. They lied about Huter Biden's laptop. How many times do they have to purposely get the story wrong for you to stop believing them?
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  5510.  @ramonandrajo6348  Mark Twain said it best: "If you don't read the news, you are uniformed. If you DO read the news, you are MISINFORMED."
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  5511. One month life expectancy once they are on the frontline.
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  5512. Same with China, I fear.
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  5513.  @shnorkeythefourth4572  Uh oh, the white boy is saying "hwat" (for those of you who don't understand, look up the Spooby skit by T-Rexx)
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  5514.  @presidentmerkinmuffley6769  More power? How is this any different that banning Germany and Japan from owning and operating newspapers in the US before and during WW2?
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  5515. @ Why are you defending a country that has clearly declare US their mortal enemy? Why would you choose to give a free hand to a clear belligerent simply because there has not yet been a formal declaration by Congress?
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  5516. @ Embassies and Consulates are NOT on American soil. Whereas American Embassies and Consulates in other countries ARE American soil. The fact that you don't understand that makes the rest of your argument irrelevant. Consistency has NOTHING to do with it.
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  5517.  @misterpinkandyellow74  How? Give details. The Ukraine is FULLY mobilized and on a war footing. Russia is not, pretending to not be and horribly understaffed because of that false pretense. The Russians are not fighting for their homes and livelihoods the way the Ukrainians are. The Ukrainians have much more at risk than Russia soldiers do. The Ukraine also has the supply lines that Russia does not. Those factors favor the Ukraine in the long game. Keep in mind, the Third Reich overran and occupied all of the Ukraine in just four months during Operation Barbarossa. They held it for just two years before the Soviets completely ejected them. The Ukrainians will do the same to the Russians. In three years' time, I predict that the Ukraine will have taken back the Crimea and will be marching on Minsk to liberate Belarus from Putin.
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  5518.  @hnorrstrom  Perhaps, but not always. How many times has the US chose to fight to a draw rather than an outright win since the end of WW2? How many engagements have been waged where American forces curb-stomped their enemy yet chose to relinquish the battlefield?
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  5519.  @allhopeabandon7831  "Trust but verify" -Ronald Reagan.
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  5520. Formosa was once the crown jewel of the Japanese Empire. The fondness still remains for its former colony.
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  5521.  @kenh758  Puerto Rico has on several occasions been given the option for either independence or return to Spanish rule. They continue to choose to remain in Union with the United States. Your example is an apples to oranges false analogy (logical fallacy).
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  5522.  @kenh758  I was talking about a historical truth. You chose to take it to mean that Japan wants to re-colonize which is so beyond the pale that it should not even be dignified with a response. I have no idea what you are talking about regarding "One China" and Christianity. That sounds like gobbledygook by someone who has no idea what they are even saying.
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  5523.  @attilamarics3374  25% kill rate is considered terrible and would immediately be removed from the inventory. You are just parroting Kremlin talking points.
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  5524.  @attilamarics3374  Again, I seriously doubt that was a real study but rather some hearsay and scuttlebutt. Such failure rates would never be approved for use on the battlefield, and certainly not at the expense that a Javelin costs. Those targeting sensors are too valuable for that level of failure.
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  5525. Indeed. The people preaching don't seem to understand that farmers will often plant Alfalfa to restore nitrogen to the soil. These city urban liberals think they know more about biology and botany than the farmers.
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  5526. How did that work out for Russia's Elite 1st Guards Tank Army? Lst time they were seen was with their tail between their legs graciously donating T-90s.
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  5527.  @jimyost2585  So you cherry pick your information? ISW is more credible than your preferred blogger. And THEY have well documented the obliteration of Russia's elite units. If you can't be bothered to read ISW's reports, you really don't have any business commenting on the Ukraine War.
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  5528.  @gamera5160  Except that "border bill" simply gives mass amnesty and codifies the complete demolition of any control over the border. It is a farce.
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  5529.  @АлексейЮтубов-ъ8л  "Those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it," -George Santayanna.
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  5530. Agreed. Feed them and arm them, but this is their fight, not ours.
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  5531. Indeed. The only reason for the lockdowns is so that the oligarchs can use force of government to crush their competition and further stratify society. This is classic Feudalism returning with a vengeance.
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  5532.  @Jbbles  You are correct. But there are some folks who would rather rule over rubble than to abide that someone could build themselves up to the same level as "the blue bloods". A tale as old as time of the strife between "old money" and "new money".
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  5533. "State capitalism" is merely Soviet Command Economics by another name.
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  5534. And the fools don't realize that "Latinx" is literally white washing. Putting an "X" on the end of a word is what is done to Anglicize a word. They don't realize they are guilty of what they accuse everyone else of doing.
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  5535. Indeed. For as corrupt as the Russian logistical situation is, they at least get SOMETHING at the end of the pipeline. The German administrative state prevents ANYTHING from getting to the Bundeswehr. Most German military hardware goes outside of Germany because the German government is a horrible customer, with payment for services being unreliable.
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  5536. The Russians don't have the proper gear for a summer/fall campaign, what makes you think they are properly equipped for winter combat?
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  5537. And yet Kiev still stands free of Kremlin control. They have already won, it is just whether a complete victory (1991 borders) or not.
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  5538.  @whatever8411  "Nuke will fly"? Even Red China, Russia's ally doesn't accept that. Referendums at gunpoint are not valid. 1991 borders are the ONLY acceptable solution unless you subscribe to right of conquest which would mean than Gaza and the West Bank are forever Israel's. It would also mean that Taiwan is forever a territory of either the US or Japan since Chang Kai-Shek's government is no more. Put down the Vodka private conscriptovich, you are so drunk you are hallucinating.
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  5539. I hope they are smart and use the revenues to first build that hydro-electric dam and then upgrade their medical system. They should then follow that up with sanitation and water purification so as to get a stranglehold on typical tropical diseases such as Malaria, Yellow Fever, Dysentery, Typhoid, and encephalitis. Once the water is safe to drink from the tap, then opening their beaches to tourism becomes a real viability, thereby diversifying their economy. There is great potential for Guyana to become the Singapore of South America.
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  5540. Elon would probably take your disparagement as a complement you never intended. But sure, keep coping and seething harder because the left lost horribly in November.
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  5541. @Lucas Lombardo Wrong. It was Mao's Red China that supporter Pol Pot. Vietnam was supported by the USSR. This was at the height of the Sino-Soviet Split. Add to that, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge was who toppled the American backed constitutional monarchy(actually a Republic). It was the Khmer Rouge who drove the US out during the fall of Phnom Penh. And then you have the Mayaguez incident which is when Pol pot's government attacked and seized a merchant vessel. The US NEVER supported Pol Pot nor Kampuchea, the US supported the Cambodian Republic.
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  5542. @Lucas Lombardo Copy that directly word for word from Wikipedia did you? You don't have a single unique idea in your head. That "support" as you put it is not nearly as significant as you make it out to be. It was less about encouraging Pol Pot and more about exacerbating the Sino-Soviets split which you conveniently ignore. Remember, all of this is in the aftermath of Project Azorian (the attempted raising of K-129) and Nixon along with Kissinger going to China. If the US could get the PRC and USSR to fight each other, so much the better.
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  5543. @Lucas Lombardo Neo Zeon is correct. The Vitecong was working hand in glove with Pol Pot. If not, then the Ho Chi Mihn trail in Cambodia bypassing American forces would never have been successful. The ONLY reason why the Vietnamese went into Cambodia was because they knew Pol Pot was embarrassing Asian Communism on the world stage and that it had to be dealt with before the blowback exploded on them with a vengeance.
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  5544.  @georgekaradov1274  You do realize that the first two months Ukraine WAS ALONE? Maybe they got some support from Poland, but with the exception of HIMARS and possibly the M777, the Kherson and Kharkov offensives were fought using only Soviet and Warsaw Pact equipment. NATO gear is only now getting to the frontlines in significant quantities.
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  5545.  @georgekaradov1274  Angela Merkel? You cite the woman who was a member of the East German Communist Youth League who sold her country into slavery to Russian oil? But I get it, you are so hard on for Putin that you would blatantly ignore that the US alone could wipe the floor with Russia if they wanted to. The thing is, American's don't have the imperialist mindset of Muscovites.
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  5546.  @georgekaradov1274  Once a communist, ALWAYS a communist. A Tiger does NOT change its stripes. Further, Ukraine has EVERY right to have a national defense force (ie Army). Belarus has one, but I don't hear you bitching about that. And the Minsk "agreements" were never valid to begin with. They blatantly ignored the Budapest Memorandum which had legal standing. The issue about wokism infecting the DoD is a red herring (logical fallacy) and is a deflection on your part because you don't actually want to debate the actual issue at hand.
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  5547.  @georgekaradov1274  Not everyone born under the communist flag is a communist. Ever heard of Ayn Rand? How about Victoria Spartz? No, once one has declared their allegiance to communist ideology, they have made a Faustian Bargain. As Yoda once said, "If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will". Funny how quick you are to bring up typical leftist talking points not mentioned on cue like Pavlov's Dog. Who is the Russian Asset now?
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  5548.  @WoolfJ35  Actually, He will not, the Twitter board will because they have clearly engaged in Enron style securities fraud.
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  5549.  @WoolfJ35  Actually, that IS how it works. Try looking up what securities fraud is genius. Any legal agreement becomes void if it is proven that such corporate fraud has occurred. If Elon can show solid evidence of insider trading by the Twitter board (and there is ample evidence of that) that alone is grounds for negating the final payments beyond what has already been transferred from bank account to bank account. Then you have the corporate misconduct where bribes were demanded in exchange for bluechecks. That also is grounds for punitive action against the Twitter board. Finally, you have the pump-and dump actions of certain agents work on behalf of outside interests to taint the deal. That also is legal grounds. Instead of reacting on emotions, try actually understanding business law and realize that Elon had everyone at Twitter over a barrel. He is in the strong position legally, and it is they through their malfeasance who are in legal jeopardy.
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  5550.  @WoolfJ35  Your "dude diligence" point is moot when the Twitter board was intentionally deceiving the court (that is called perjury). They can be misleading to him, but they cannot mislead the court. Withholding exculpatory evidence by the Twitter board obliviates your "due diligence" argument. Besides, criminal activity is NOT protected by the due diligence argument. No court has ever ruled against a plaintiff on that point. And as for the bribes, the company leadership IS responsible for that. If they were aware it was going on (and that is very likely), then they are accessories to the crime, further damning them under the law.
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  5551.  @WoolfJ35  You clearly have not been paying attention. It was Twitter who counter sued. The courts may have ordered him to close the deal, but that does not mean that the proceedings are finished, not in the slightest.
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  5552. Agreed. The NSA is SUPPOSED to get a warrant, but we all know they tap first and ask permission later. And the FISA courts are simply a rubber stamp subverting the "unlawful search and seizure" clause of the US Bill of Rights.
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  5553. That is how it used to be in Tinseltown. Before the abominable Paramount ruling by the SCOTUS.
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  5554. Keep dreaming. You cannot put a President in with the general population for that very reason. Also, if he dies in custody, you WILL see the right get MORE violent than the left at their worst.
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  5555. "Kenosha Kid" is a title and a badge of honor.
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  5556. And that whole case has brought the FCC in to look at their practices which may very well fall under the RICO statues.
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  5557. Not always. It was only during the late Ming Dynasty that mainland China first took control over the Island. Before then, the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty never controlled it. Neither did Song or Tang before them.
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  5558.  @eragonship4929  You are showing your Trump Derangement syndrome for all to see. Trump as a "coastal elite" infuriates his fellow elites. Ask yourself why the power mongers are trying so desperately to destroy him. Ask yourself why you are cheering on the Stalinist actions of the neo-feudal global elites.
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  5559. It is almost as if George Orwell was prophetic. Or this is just the very same kind of behavior he saw during the Spanish Civil War. NPCs on both sides of the divide. Hannah Ardent called it "The Banality of Evil".
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  5560. Early Xena and Hercules was great, but then they kind of went off the rails and I stopped watching.
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  5561.  @jerryhaun5994  What are you babbling about? The only hypocrisy you see is in your own head. My position is nuanced. Yours is black and white insanity (false choice dilemma).
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  5562.  @ThePoopsmith-12345  What do you think helped to bring about that innovation in fracking? High oil costs in the wake of 9/11 helped to accelerate that development.
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  5563. Biden's handlers are taking notes because they have called for doing this during the 2020 primaries.
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  5564. Hasn't gone to court yet. Never count your eggs before they have hatched. DeSantis has all of the cards.
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  5565.  @Saltedroastedcaramel  Apparently he also tried to get his son's girlfriend to have an abortion after his son knocked her up.
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  5566. Except, the SCOTUS HAS upheld Title 9 and constitutional. What they are doing puts them in a catch-22 where both Title 9 and equal protection come into conflict.
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  5567.  @pefo1674  The original John Jay court was five justices. It is the hyper partisans who want to pack the court like FDR did. So, I am going to have to disagree with you about more justices equating to less partisanship.
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  5568.  @pefo1674  There is no difference in that. You are trying to make a distinction where none exists.
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  5569.  @pefo1674  Splitting hairs like that doesn't make your point, it just proves you are gaslighting.
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  5570.  @pefo1674  Changing the meaning of definitions is what the leftists do to create confusion. You are purposely creating confusion to achieve the same result.
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  5571. Unfortunately, before that we would have to face the Post Atomic Horror and Q's court. Do we really want that?
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  5572.  @thebenc1537  In theory the technology already is self-sustaining and takes care of that. But I agree with you that there IS a seedy underbelly of "utopia". Huxley pointed it out in "Brave New World"; hedonism. I like to think that on "perfect Earth" drug abuse and sexual depravity runs rampant just under the surface. All because the bored spoiled citizens are looking for distraction from their irrelevancy.
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  5573.  @thebenc1537  You assume too much. Automation does not require gigantic machines. Hell, today people use small self-propelled vacuum cleaners the size of a small cat. And much of the sanitation and life support systems can easily be hidden behind the bulkheads of the ship. Hell, what do you think they mean when the life support or environmental systems go down? It is not just the air circulation they are talking about.
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  5574.  @milksterproductions  Nordstrom 2 pipelines' sections being lifted (before being reinstituted) proves you wrong.
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  5575.  @milksterproductions  When you argue exceptions, you are not being honest because you are employing a logical fallacy. Nord stream 2 sanctions is suicide? Now you are being hyperbolic. They have already sanctioned it. As others have pointed out, Europe can get energy need from other sources, they have just chosen to be stupid. And the rest of us are paying for that stupidity with higher prices.
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  5576.  @ML-sc3pt  What treaties? NATO never signed any treaty pledging not to admit Warswa Pact nations. That is just neo-Soviet propaganda. NATO never made any such promise. You are parroting Putin's empty rhetoric. Ask yourself why those nations did join during Boris Yelton's term in office. Why was it AFTER Putin came to power that they felt a need to join? You are gaslighting yourself.
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  5577.  @ML-sc3pt  More revisionist history from someone who has zero understanding. No, the Cold War came to an end NOT because of a treaty but because the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. The fact that you can't get that correct shows that you are speaking in complete ignorance of history. And the "Iron Curtain" was a result of Soviet policies preventing the free movement of people, particularly the German people from Soviet to Western territory. The greatest embodiment of the Iron curtain was the Berlin Wall. And that did NOT come down because of some treaty.
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  5578. Don't turn around, wa-uh-oh (yeah-yeah) Der Kommissar's in town, wa-uh-oh You're in his eye and you'll know why The more you live, the faster you will die
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  5579.  @timookello3822  1948, 1967, and 1973 all say otherwise.
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  5580.  @DSTKO-w7z  If it wasn't viable, then why were folks willing to finance it? That is the problem with you greenies; you don't have any understanding of how market forces actually work. If it wasn't viable, nobody would have even tried to build it.
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  5581.  @deinonychus3421  Wrong on ALL counts. Trump was able to fix the economy in a mere two months. Obama couldn't fix it in 8 years. And Biden crashes it just as quickly as Trump fixed it. There is an old saying, "shit or get off the pot". The only thing liberals do when they have the white house is change how numbers are tabulated to make thing appear on paper better than they actually are. "Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter (Barak Obama, Joe Biden) loses his," -Ronald Reagan.
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  5582.  @deinonychus3421  They changed how unemployment is calculated no less than five times in the last three years. They changed how inflation is calculated just as many times. You can't trust anything that comes out of a mouthpiece of the White House. "Figures don't lie but liars figure," -Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain. "Lies, damn lies, and statistics," -Mark Twain.
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  5583.  @TheObsesedAnimeFreaks  And if a jaywalker gets hit by an emergency vehicle, that is still obstruction of the roads. You are making a distinction WITHOUT a difference. Ask yourself what statute that obstruction of traffic falls under and you will find it is the very same ones that govern jaywalking. The two are one and the same thing under the law.
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  5584.  @TheObsesedAnimeFreaks  Try again. Here in my state of Indiana obstruction of traffic is specifically prohibited under the Pedestrian section- IC Title 9, Article 21, Chapter 17. Go look it up.
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  5585.  @TheObsesedAnimeFreaks  And you are trying to be clever by half. Making distinctions without a difference is not being honest, it is being deceptive.
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  5586.  @TheObsesedAnimeFreaks  Declaring I am wrong doesn't make it so. You obsess about a fundamental difference which not even the courts have recognized. And in legal matters, if the courts don't acknowledge a difference, then for all purposes there is none. You are making an academic argument which is nothing more than an exercise in mental masturbation.
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  5587.  @TheObsesedAnimeFreaks  pot meet kettle #confessionthroughprojection Hard to destroy words when the meaning of words changes over time. I have been quite clear on the matter of obstruction of traffic. Any person not in a vehicle is by default a pedestrian and hence are governed by pedestrian law. And even then, the laws still prescribe that pedestrians do NOT have a right to be in the road. The courts have without exception stated that first amendment gatherings can be restricted in this manner as an issue of public safety. "The lady doth protest too much, me thinks," -Queen Gertrude; Act 3 scene 2; Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
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  5588.  @mosh.4245  Yeah, i wasn't talking about the ship sunk at Midway. I was talking about the Izumo hybrid carrier. Context, dude.
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  5589. And they will be a waste of money. if green energy was truly profitable, someone would already be the John D. Rockefeller of green energy. Since there isn't one, that is evidence that the technology is a dead end. Even Warren Buffet has admitted that without government subsidies (ie Corporate Welfare for green energy), he would drop all of the investment in the sector.
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  5590.  @Coomamon_Memes  I tend to prefer Isekai, even the bland ones despite the MC not matching my particular phenotype. I just like the immersion in another word, one where the character actually has agency to change the world around them for the better (or worse as is the case in some). Slice of life isekai is a nice "breather" to more emotionally intense shows like Re: Zero.
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  5591.  @Coomamon_Memes  I tend to agree with you that Isekai seem to have most of the high fantasy stories these days, though some folks are lumping in NON-Isekai high fantasy into the mix. Kicked out of the Heroes' Party for example is a high fantasy that is not Isekai yet reviews incorrectly call it one. My favorite "bland" Isekai is Isekai wa Sumātofon to Tomo ni (aka Smarphone Isekai). Despite being overpowered, Mochizuki Touya is quite humble and doesn't let it go to his head. And the power dynamic of the Silhoueska twins, while cliched is still a good one, especially as Touya can relate to both of them and their areas of focus in combat, synergizing with each of them.
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  5592.  @egobrain6826  NO, they would not. These people will break any rule, ignore any regulation to achieve their goals. Loyal bodyguards are not going to stop these liberal zealots.
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  5593. Actually, we do. The US Navy's Baker test during Operation Crossroads.
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  5594. Funny because it is ANTIFA who are engaging in brownshirt tactics against the political right. As for Trump, he IS a populist which is why he won in the first place. The power mongers and establishment underestimated hi in 2016 and that is why he won. The whole reason for the political prosecution attempts against him is because the political class is terrified of him. He threatens their largess and corruption.
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  5595. Cope hard Private Conscriptovich.
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  5596.  @kerrymartin8323  And yet partisans like you give the Mayor of LA a pass for doing far worse.
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  5597. Operation Mincemeat. The Brits PURPOSLY leaked bad intel to the Nazis in preparation for the D-Day landings. It is amazing people haven't considered that possibility in this situation.
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  5598. I burst out laughing when she started transforming because the head-fake was so perfect.
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  5599.  @llewev  You are grossly overestimating Russian competency. Sergi Shoigu is no Gregory Zhukov. And this is NOT "The Great Patriotic War": the Russians don't have the same morale they did in WW2.
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  5600.  @llewev  Yes, it is a mistake, one that the Russians have done when they miscalculated Ukrainian resolve.
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  5601. Like a vampire, the recoil in horror from their own reflection.
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  5602. Yeah, he seems to forget the drama Nick caused regarding coming on the culture war show a few months ago.
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  5603. Sounds like a perfect Ponzi scheme. Just like what they did with the sub-prime mortgage loan "pump and dump" scam.
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  5604. @ Yeah, the same police who locked you down for Covid. The same police who take away your rights under English Common Law at the behest of political leaders who act on whims. THAT police, you chose to BLINDLY trust?
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  5605. Agreed. Ukraine "welcomed" Russia with Molotov Cocktails. The Russian citizens of Kursk Oblast have not.
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  5606. "Figures don't lie, but liars figure" -Mark Twain I guess you forget that the areas in those Red states with the highest poverty are DEMOCRACT CONTROLED CITES.
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  5607. You realize the areas in those states with the highest poverty are run by Democrats? Namely the cities?
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  5608. Was Japan or Germany allowed to operate newspapers in the US during WW2?
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  5609. Yeah, I think the Chinese are a bigger threat than the Russians. And have been since the fall of the USSR.
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  5610. Agreed. Controlled opposition.
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  5611. I think the US already has such an agreement with the Aussies and the Kiwis. But for the most part the US leaves everything south of the Equator to them making such stop-over mostly irrelevant.
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  5612.  @Kilthan2050  Alito and Thomas, who is number three? I guarantee you that Roberts WILL side with the left. He, like Kavanaugh has shown himself to be susceptible to terrorist threats.
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  5613.  @Kilthan2050  Same here, though Robert's little temper tantrum was not surprising. He showed that he will ALWAYS follow which way the wind is blowing rather than stand on principle (Bill Clinton philosophy).
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  5614. Selling people's metadata, just like Facebook does. When a service is provided for free, YOU are the product they sell for money.
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  5615. Well, and Tiktok is like a newspaper or radio station in the US owned by the Japanese or Germans during WW2.
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  5616.  @justmenotyou3151  Funny, because it is the American left who have a slobbering sycophancy for the old Soviet Union.
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  5617.  @davidjohn8889  Drunkenski isn't just a trope, it seems to be a common defining feature of Russia and Shills for Russia.
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  5618. Tell that to Obama and Biden.
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  5619.  @margaretha907  Operation Faustschlag says otherwise.
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  5620. "History shows again and again How nature points out the folly of men Godzilla!" -Blue Oyster Cult
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  5621. Because corrupt corporate leaders exploit the poor labor conditions in communist counties. They think that they can buy off the communist leadership. Do keep in mind that China's "State capitalism" is simply Leninist-Socialist oligarchism under a different name.
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  5622. When all you do is hammer, everything is a nail.
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  5623.  @redsamson0023  So is your contention about Uncle-killer Kimmy being a nicer guy than Trump. Pot meet kettle.
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  5624.  @redsamson0023  Spare me your moral outrage. The "Wrongs" of America are nothing compared to the evils done under the Red Star of communism. Oh, and Snowden lost all credibility when he got in bed with Kommissar Putin. You don't get to lecture America about censorship and spying when you ignore the former head of the KGB's totalitarian crackdowns.
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  5625.  @JohnnyUTAH1  Jihadis are not innocent, retard.
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  5626. Cope harder private conscriptovich.
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  5627. Yeah, I would not call Thomdril Merrilin "emasculated" just because he is a bard. "Fragile Speedster" IS a melee type that CAN be quite Macho and naturally fits the roguish type.
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  5628. You have so quickly forgotten how public the Ukrainians made the Kherson counter offensive. That you can't remember what happened six months ago shows you are as ignorant as a small child.
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  5629. What you mean is social democracy which is predicated on private property ownership while still having a public safety net. Socialism rejects ANY private ownership.
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  5630. "Hundreds of Years of Peace"? You do realize WW2 was less than 100 years ago? Further if by "peace" you mean under the bootheel of a dictatorship, you could be correct. But the Ukrainians have rejected that as a workable solution. They remember the days of the USSR and don't want to go back.
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  5631. Put down the vodka private constriptovich, you are drunk.
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  5632. Indeed. People don't realize how racist the North Koreans actually are. The prisoners who refused to repatriate after the end of the Korean War were kept in a village near the DMZ and were NOT provide women to procreate with.
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  5633. Nice "whataboutism". Nioh was based on historical FACT. This is NOT. Yasuke was merely a retainer and a novelty, NOT an actual Samurai.
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  5634.  @tnntaronewsnetwork4514  Your youtube "expert" is simply engaging in wild mass guessing (also called speculation.) At best, Yasuke was used as a novelty by Oda to entertain and amuse his guests. And while he MIGHT have been allowed to carry Oda's swords, he would NEVER have been allowed to draw the blade. Some of us DO understand the culture and you are just pissed that we are calling out your dilettante ignorance on the subject. Those who DO know can spot a fraud a mile away.
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  5635.  @tnntaronewsnetwork4514  William Adams was a real person and his story is documented in Japan. Not that you actually care about that. Continue to shill for the wokistas. You only prove that you are a tourist.
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  5636. For me she stopped being funny during her Hotel Sit-com show. Ironically, the Persian building maintenance guy was the best part of the show.
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  5637. That is true of all politicians. Elected office is simply a popularity contest, not a competition for the most qualified.
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  5638.  @oldmangreywolf6892  Exception rather than the rule. Those that are not making it about celebrity don't stay there long. There are very few long-term statesmen; they are vastly out numbered by the career animals.
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  5639.  @oldmangreywolf6892  Just because the media doesn't put them on TV doesn't mean they do not whore for a camera. Air time is a premium, one that Trump knew how to play for. Not everyone is photogenic nor persuasive, hence not every politician who wants to be on TV gets to be there. You are cherry picking your data points.
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  5640.  @oldmangreywolf6892  I can say the same thing about governors in flyover states. You are not making a point, you are just pushing tribalism. And in the game of politics, there is no such thing as bad publicity. Yes, dumb shit WILL get you the airtime you crave because you are choosing what your opposition is talking about. That is called getting them off message and distracted. You are clearly not cut out for politics; you don't know how to play the game.
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  5641.  @jasonscott6174  You mean like Joe Bite-me sexually abused his daughter Ashley? Or how Bill Clinton sexually assaulted women?
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  5642.  @marrchy2682  Autocratic dictators encourage strife in their own ranks in order to protect their position. They often fear the internal threat more than the external one. How about you look at historic examples such as Joe Stalin or Chairman Mao.
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  5643. Special attention needs to be given to your point as the Chinese military has the same Achille's Heel.
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  5644.  @AlejandroDiazadiaz201  Capitalists only care about profit, not political agendas. And Disney under Iger has sacrificed profits for politics. What was it that Vlad Lenin said? "A good capitalist will sell you the rope you hang him with?" Iger is learning that the hard way.
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  5645. He did have both sides; the problem was it would never satisfy one side. And now he has shown he will be another mouthpiece for the machine.
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  5646. Death by GPS is a real thing, especially in remote areas like Death Valley, CA.
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  5647. Coincidence is NOT a Kosher word. Twice is a trend. Three times is a pattern.
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  5648. Well, the probe IS impacting the plasma of the Corona, but that part of the sun's atmosphere is so thin and diffuse that it is not strong enough to destroy or deorbit the probe.
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  5649.  @9an13l  I am not sure if someone specifically said the observation about madness, but history is littered with countless examples that demonstrate its truth.
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  5650. Just like China's "State Capitalism" is just Maoist communism with accountability that punishes the nepotism that infests all systems. The end result is still the same: Soviet communism and all of its horrors.
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  5651. They learned nothing from the AIDS epidemic in the 90s.
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  5652.  @utley  Bulimia is not an American unique thing. Ever heard of the "vomitorium"? Yeah, that was a real thing back during the Roman Empire. The scene in Hunger Games about people in the capital taking a regurgitive drink so they can eat more is modeled after what the Romans often did.
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  5653.  @utley  Yes, I agree that it is a wealth thing. Case in point is DPRK where the Kim family and their close cronies are overweight while the people starve. As the line Mr. Pool likes to misquote from the movie Lawrence of Arabia goes, (Speaking of Brittan)"Is it a desert country?" -Tafas "It is a fat country with fat people" - T.E. Lawrence "And you are not fat?" -Tafas "No. I am different," -T.E. Lawrence
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  5654. I view hentai the same way I do a Rennaissance painting depicting nude minors: not my taste, but protected speech so long as an actual child was not involved in its production.
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  5655.  @DavidSmith-mt7tb  Yeah, the revelation of Sybok in "ST5: The Final Frontieer" went over poorly with most fans. I don't know why they thought a second go at that would work. It would have been a better story if she was adopted by Soval with the explanation that she was Maxwell Forest's only living relative, a niece.
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  5656.  @DavidSmith-mt7tb  See? Between the two of us we have already crafted a better story than Kurtzman and Abram's Bad Robot hacks. Incidentally, the best RPG sessions are when it is treated as interactive storytelling. The players effectively crafting a shared narrative with the dice acting as the randomizer to keep things unpredictable.
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  5657. It also takes a certain discipline to discourage wives from prying into the details of an upcoming or in progress mission. Not all units are good about that.
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  5658. INdeed. The media doesn't like to report on the studies that show they often have server social adjustment issues.
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  5659. And even makes Ralph Bakshi's version seem epic by comparison!
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  5660. Democrats complained for 4 years that Trump didn't win the 2016 election. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
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  5661. How about 20-year terms, staggered every 4 years? If you shrink the court to just five justices, then you would have one nomination per president, which isn't that much different than how it is now.
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  5662. Where have you been the last 4 years? Sucking at Biden's toes?
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  5663. It may have been bad, but it was far better than what most of the West did. Europe and the US should have followed Taiwan's example, NOT Red China's.
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  5664.  @elmohead  Actually, there is. The West foolishly followed Red China's directives via the WHO. Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea took a different path. I know because most Western media was slamming Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea for NOT following in lock step with Europe's disastrous policies.
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  5665.  @Gismo3333  "The idea that God may be approached and understood through intellectual analysis is uniquely Christian... IT IS PROBABLY NOT AN ACCIDENT THAT MODERN SCIENCE GREW EXPLOSIVLY IN CHRISTIAN EUROPE and left the rest of the world behind." -Freeman Dyson.
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  5666. Anime High fantasy is more faithful to Tolkien source material and as you point out, doesn't even try to pretend to be Tolkien. There is a reason why it is succeeding where Amazon failed.
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  5667. @ "Governed to drive no faster than 62" Yeah, by a regulator device. A diesel engine on a bus can go as fast as a semi truck.
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  5668. Indeed. Let the tyrant in the Kremin spew his vitriol. THINKING people can parse out valuable information from it and counter the BS with coherent rebuttals.
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  5669. Not really. Generals were boasting about how they could no longer safely walk the streets of Kabul because the Taliban were everywhere. They were PROUD of loosing!
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  5670. Russian collusion was a hoax. So are claims of Johnson being a Russia asset.
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  5671.  @markwalton8644  You realize that Putin jails those who politically oppose him? That you call for Trump to be jailed makes you no different than the man in the Kremlin.
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  5672. There was even a two-time survivor. He lived through the first bomb, was sent to Nagasaki, and lived through that one as well.
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  5673. May the Japanese bury the mouse.
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  5674. Kind of like how the Japanese, Koreans, and Chinese quibble over the name "Sea of Japan".
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  5675.  @julies9629  The problem is that all treaties signed before WW2 became moot. There is a very good reason why historically German Königsberg (now called Kaliningrad) was not returned to Deutschland after the break up of the Soviet Union. Don't point to anything signed before 1945 as having any legal relevance; the results of WW2 make them meaningless beyond historical footnotes.
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  5676.  @julies9629  There is a difference. Königsberg had a simple majority of ethnic Germans. When the Soviets came in in 1945, they expelled much of that population. Today Kaliningrad is majority ethnic Russian. And IF they were to leave it makes more sense that the city would be handed over to neighboring Poland or more likely Lithuania.
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  5677. Used and discarded like a condom is my preferred descriptor.
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  5678. The tentacle trope is because of Japan's strict laws regulating adult content.
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  5679. They exist, but most of China's neighbors don't want them and try to prevent them from fleeing.
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  5680.  @andrewy4761  More like the last of the John F. Kennedy Blue Dog Democrats. Right now, most would prefer 1 blue dog over 20 RINOs.
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  5681. That is exactly the problem. These economics PhDs with ZERO field experience that scientific degrees require you to have.
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  5682. "Amateurs imitate, professionals plagiarize," -Attributed to Igor Stravinsky.
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  5683. Because the Russians have been using civilian vehicles to move around troops.
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  5684.  @syko2164  You betray your heritage by rejecting the faith that makes it distinct. You are "fashionably Jewish" just like Mark Zuckerborg, while showing nothing but contempt for that same heritage. I CAN trace my lineage to King Asa of Judea and therefore could in theory claim to be of Jewish heritage. I do NOT claim to be Jewish because I have more respect for what it means to be a Jew than you do. Unlike you, I KNOW I am unworthy to wear a title I do not deserve.
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  5685. He may actually get the US back to the moon, unlike the feckless establishment critters who have squandered America's advantage in space travel.
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  5686. Red meat. Our flesh is more like beef, lamb, and goat.
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  5687.  @FUBARGunpla  Who wrote the laws of science? Ever considered the "great clock-maker" explanation? And if you know anything about clockmakers and engineers is that they are CONSTANTLY fiddling with their creation.
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  5688. The problem is that the SCOTUS by refusing to take up the issue rendered their presidential immunity ruling meaningless.
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  5689. The problem is that the House of Representatives never uses their power over the purse.
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  5690.  @Texas240  Apples to oranges false equivalence.
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  5691.  @Texas240  The thing with "stop loss" is that if you read the fine print of the contract when you enlist, there is a clause that says "needs of the nation" which allows them to extend it in certain situations. Yes, legalize speak, but it is how the DoD covers its ass. I doubt Wagner or the Russian MoD even bothers with it.
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  5692. Except, there are some folks such as those who believe in the 12th Mahdi that think it is their mission to cause as much chaos, violence and destruction to quicken his arrival. Do you really want people like that in control of nukes?
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  5693.  @observeut  Some people take the threat of Salafism very seriously. Some don't just consider their threats an idle bluff.
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  5694. "Amateurs imitate, professionals plagiarize," -Attributed to Igor Stravinsky.
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  5695. Indeed. They were being opportunists, not serious belligerents.
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  5696. Fascist bootlicker.
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  5697. Short answer: no, they don't. They only care about looking virtuous while being morally empty on the inside.
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  5698. Have you actually looked into their destroyer-escorts? The Kidd-class (aka Dead Admiral or Ayatollah class) is one of their best investments despite being a ship built in the 1980s.
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  5699. Agreed. This is no different than the Star Chamber proceedings that were typical in monarchal Europe.
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  5700. When they lied about Nick Sandman and the Covington Catholic students, when they gushed for Juicy Smolle's hate crime hoax, when they lied about Amed Arbury, when they covered up for Hunter Biden's laptop, when they shilled for Russian collusion, sooner or later people catch on to the fact that they are not news, they are a mouthpiece for the DNC.
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  5701.  @VladimirPutin-p3t  I see what you did there. My guess is that he honestly thinks Dihydrogen Monoxide is a poison.
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  5702. No, the US does care, it is the corrupt Kimmies who don't care about the suffering they inflict on their own people. Keep in mind, that in over 60 years, the US has NEVER violated the DMZ nor the Armistice despite ample justification by North Korean actors (Axe murder incident just to name one).
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  5703.  @1neer5op99  Abusing, oppressing and exploiting his people is the only way to survive? Wow, you really do have a hard on for jack-booted totalitarian despotism. Maybe you need to experience it firsthand.
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  5704.  @1neer5op99  "Every Dictator"? Ever heard of Park Chung-hee of South Korea? He WAS a dictator that managed to transition his country into a western Democracy proving you wrong. Then there was Ferdinand Marcos who was the dictator of the Philippines. The US harbored him after he was toppled from power. Then you have the Shah of Iran who was sheltered in the US after he was thrown from power. Augusto Pinochet was also a dictator and he managed to also transition Chile into a democracy, and he survived. So no, you are completely wrong.
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  5705. That is why they loved her, and now hate her. They cannot abide apostasy.
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  5706. Technically, Wagner as a mercenary group is NOT protected as POWs. That they are treated like regular military is a courtesy being extended. And yes, they SHOULD be brought up on charges. Or at least their leadership should be.
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  5707. @Lawofimprobability Always the problem with an economy based on debt rather than assets and capital. There is a reason why most major religions consider lending, usury and borrowing a major sin.
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  5708. Indeed. Streisand effect. These cancel folks don't seem to understand how that concept works. It failed against Scott Walker in Wisconsin; it is failing against celebrities who stand their ground against the mob, and it is failing against local businesses who don't care what out of towners think of them.
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  5709. Ah, but then there is a perverse problem in your proposal. By prioritizing mothers first and dads second, you actually DISCOURAGE proper child rearing. You actually destabilize the situation and make it worse. I don't fault you for trying to find a solution, but there are underlying factors that run counter to the foundation of your premise.
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  5710.  @maritaschweizer1117  Trump is sharp as a tac, but I get it that you can't tell the difference between Orange Man and the invalid currently in the Whtie House.
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  5711.  @wharfrat9707  Do you actually have something of value to add to the conversation or are you only here to troll and be tribalistic?
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  5712. I suspect the remaining operational M-60 are the Israeli "Super Shermans". Good luck getting the IDF to part with them.
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  5713.  @danieleyre8913  I think he is referring to abortion. It is a stretch, and something of a non-sequitur, but I understand his angle.
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  5714.  @danieleyre8913  After 24 weeks, it IS infanticide. And that is NOT Fundamentalist Christian, that is how Europe classifies it under their laws. So don't say it is not killing babies. I don't disagree that he is choosing to side with Salafist Wahhabism, but they are NOT allies of fundamentalist Christians. If anything, the hard-core left is who regularly allies with the Jihadis.
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  5715.  @danieleyre8913  In Europe, that is correct. In the US, late-term, is the norm in States like Illinois, California, New York, Viriginia, Massachusetts, and Oregon. Don't forget the Ralph Northam (aka governor Blackface) said that abortionists should let a fetus from a botched abortion die on the table. Then you have the fact that Robert Gosnell was actually the norm, not the exception when it comes to abortion.
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  5716. Yeah, Biden is lower now than he was when he was declared the winner in 2020. Trump hasn't lost a single voter from either 2016 or 2020 while Biden HAS lost voters over the abominable economy. Further, the way the 2020 election was held means that a Biden vs. Trump showdown will be a referendum on Biden and the electoral process. Last time such a showdown occurred was the rematch between Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleaveland. Guess how that rematch turned out?
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  5717.  @Hartley_Hare  What does Trump have to do with this? Oh, that's right, he lives rent-free in your head.
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  5718. Just to thumb their nose at the west. NATO is burning equipment stockpiles supporting Ukraine, which actually benefits China in their plans to take Taiwan. The more gear sent to Ukraine, the less that is available for Taiwan.
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  5719. The states cannot violate the Bill of Rights. They are still subject to the SCOTUS.
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  5720.  @freetolook3727  Indeed. Reminds me of some funny insults to WW2 German vehicles: A Mess of Messerschmitts. A Junk of Junkers. A Putridity of Panzers.
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  5721. CIA, yes. Mossad, no. Israel LOVES Trump. They despise the Jamaican-Indian.
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  5722.  @charlottemajewski5992  Agreed. The only time you see them is when they want you to see them like they did in Dubai.
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  5723.  @Langermar  The Indians investigated those claims about Ukraine shelling the Donbas and found them to NOT be credible. What they did note was that civilian casualties increased by 400% AFTER Russia invaded, and that number never went down. If anything, RUSSSIA has been bombing civilians in the Donbas
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  5724.  @mcrand7887  India investigated those claims and found ZERO evidence to support them. When you can't convince either them or the Chinese, you have lost the plot.
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  5725. Indeed. Some of the most successful game sessions don't use a single die roll because the players are so confident and have a good relationship with the DM that the actual role playing obliviates the need for a charisma check.
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  5726. Bob Paycheck was strongarmed by the wokistas that Iger put in positions of power within the company. This is a spanner in the works that Iger set in motion back when he empowered KK to vandalize Lucus Film.
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  5727. It always has been. heck most social media is just high school drama for people who should be mature adults.
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  5728.  @meetstepsisalcoholicdouche6167  Indeed. Most of those "Venture capital" investments were nothing more than money laundering Ponzi schemes. Companies like Buzzfeed and Vox who have lots of staff but very little intrinsic value.
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  5729. I still tell people I am a registered Democrat and get some really interesting responses. From the party partisans, they call me a fake and a fraud. From the GOP, they call me a unicorn: the last of the JFK Blue Dog Democrats. I REGULARLY trash both parties. I am harsher on my own BECAUSE it is the party I ran as for Congress. They have betrayed the legacy of the men (my maternal grandfather and JFK) who I looked up to as the ideal Democrat.
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  5730.  @superphi  No joke. The only real value of Tiktok is the name (ie brand).
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  5731. They learned nothing from the AIDS epidemic of the early 90s.
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  5732.  @Frank_inSA  The point of all that was to demonstrate that by contrast, the entitled woman-child makes his behavior seem mild-mannered by comparison. Yes, an absurdist argument, but that is how far our society and culture has fallen.
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  5733. The closets Arab country to Isarel is Trans-Jordan. And they would be the first to tell you that they chose the Israelis over the Arabs who call themselves Palestinian. Most of them still remember the Dawson Field Hijackings of the 1970s.
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  5734. Did blacks have representation in the Apartheid South African Government? Muslim Arabs have no fewer than FIVE elected members of the Knesset. Your argument has no merit.
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  5735. Don your tricorn, adjust your eye patch, adopt a foul-mouthed parrot, raise the Jolly Rodger, and sail the High Seas.
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  5736. Indeed. I suspect the old-fashioned alibi is going to be in vogue again.
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  5737. The Mustang Officer is the greatest treasure that Western Militaries have in their inventory. Sadly, not enough of them rise to the top levels where they are really needed. Too many of the Academy Ring dominate and it shows in the revelation of the West's UNPREPARED state revealed by this war.
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  5738. "Evil" crusades? Don't make me laugh. The crusades were in response to raids by Islamic slavers on Mediterranean coasts. But the Islam apologists ignore those dirty little details. Ironically, Richard Lionheart and Saladin came to mutually respect each other. Makes you wonder how much different the world would be had their two houses been united as proposed before a sniper's arrow killed the King of England.
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  5739.  @michaelmarino1420  Avatar or Puss in Boots?
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  5740.  @thegatewaytoprestige  Is that before or after inflation? Thanks to the Feds just running the printer, everything today cost TWICE as much as it did just 5 years ago. "Figures don't lie, but liars figure," -Mark Twain.
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  5741. Putin did not fool around when Trump was in office. He stole Crimea while Biden was directing Obama's foreign policy. Putin invaded Ukraine when Biden was in the Oval orifice. Putin knows Trump is the real deal.
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  5742.  @TheBandit7613  Putin has been given NUMEROUS off-ramps. He has rejected all of them. Stop trying to appease a bully. The 1938 Munich Conference should make it abundantly clear that such actions only embolden the aggressive.
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  5743.  @michaelmazowiecki9195  I never directly said it was a bluff. Only that Putin has chosen not to call it as if it was one. What happens in Poker when you call someone's bluff, and it turns out they were not bluffing?
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  5744.  @theengineerguy1485  I agree. Trump supporters who voted for McConnell Sycophants shot themselves in the foot and own this just as much as the left. I have said for several years that McConnell was more dangerous to Trump than the Democrats.
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  5745.  @digitalis2977  Most of the GOP incumbents are like that. Everyone wants to be the Emperor on the throne. The only trustworthy people are the ones who let go of power like Jim Webb who refused to run for re-election despite being a shoe-in for Virginia Senator.
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  5746. Tobacco originated in South America and was introduced to Mesoamerica before eventually being brought to North America.....by the "Natives".
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  5747.  @mjross007  You are conflating Marijuana with tobacco. It is the THC plant that is old world dating at least back to early Silk Road as the Mummies of the TARIM BASIN had it buried with them. The Nicotine plant is from the New World.
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  5748.  @deebil8099  So you think Fu-Go balloon bombs are a joke? Let us see if you laugh when one starts a fire at your place.
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  5749. Indeed. I have seen a similar thing for Azerbaijan. Azeri refers to the ethnicity while Azerbaijani refers to the nationality.
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  5750.  @Watcher-in-the-Dark  Sure, because calling someone an idiot somehow makes your argument. Name calling shows you have lost the plot.
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  5751.  @BlyGuy  Ad Hominin attacks like you just used only shows you don't have anything worth saying. He is clearly a more gracious person that you will ever be. You assume too much. Brevity while eloquent as Cicero observed also goes hand in hand with being concise. High context societies like the Japanese can get away with not bein particularly concise because the few words they speak or write come loaded with volumes of extra information not spoken or written. English in general, and American English specifically lacks that. The Japanese can say with one sentence what takes Americans an entire dissertation to explain.
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  5752. @Grim FPV Thank you sir, you are a most gracious conversationalist.
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  5753.  @BlyGuy  You attacked my reading ability. That is a classic personal attack. And as I said, he is a most gracious conversationalist as we reconciled. You instead choose to continue. But I am not surprised since you first comment you acknowledged that have no qualms about "kicking someone when they are down".
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  5754.  @Watcher-in-the-Dark  Yup. You have. All of that you just posted is not an argument but a poor attempt to remain relevant when I have shot you down. But then again only people with nothing of substance engage in petty name calling and personal attacks. "I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." -Margaret Thatcher.
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  5755.  @Watcher-in-the-Dark  To quote Ronald Reagan, "And there you go again....."
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  5756.  @Watcher-in-the-Dark  Actually, I am. You are just not saying anything of value. And you are throwing a temper tantrum because you don't like my responses which treat your bluster with all the appropriateness it deserves. As Macbeth said, "A poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more."
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  5757.  @Watcher-in-the-Dark  Pot meet kettle.
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  5758. Prisoner battalions have never been the most effective use of troops. And the use of them is of questionable ethical and moral value.
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  5759.  @cameraredeye3115  There are a number of reverse harem isekais that have caught on. But unlike the wokescolds in Hollyweird, the Japanese make a compelling and believable story instead of ham fist it like the West does.
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  5760. Probably when they send that "Terminator" platform.
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  5761. The neo-feudalist global elites believed they knew better than the "unwashed masses". Now their chickens are coming home to roost.
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  5762.  @zonzillamagnus5902  Nice strawman argument (logical fallacy). "Time exists regardless of anything"? The same could be said about the divine, you are just engaging in circular reasoning, not an actual argument. Incidentally, Time has different meanings depending on context. I was using time in the cosmological sense which not even the great Dr. Steven Hawkings could not adequately explain.
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  5763.  @zonzillamagnus5902  Yet again you engage in appeal to absurdity and strawman because you cannot debate merits. Existential nihilism clings to you like a corpse shroud. The death of faith in anything greater than you has led you to attack those for whom faith still lingers and with an envious rage, seek to snuff it out in others. Nietzsche warned that people like you who reject spiritualism cut yourself off from any understanding and condemn you to forever be ignorant towards explanations of it. I am NOT arguing that you should worship a particular deity or follow a specific faith. What I am asking you to do is turn away from existential nihilism. Faith in a greater power or force than yourself doesn't diminish you in any way. Yet you seem to persist in walking the path that has led better men than you towards madness and insanity.
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  5764.  @zonzillamagnus5902  You are not making an argument; you are engaging in logical fallacies foolishly thinking it makes a point. I pity you that you are so bigoted that you can't tolerate a perspective that doesn't comport with your misotheistic nihilism.
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  5765.  @zonzillamagnus5902  Pot meet kettle. Projection is the typical response of someone who has lost the plot.
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  5766.  @zonzillamagnus5902  Again, that is not an augment, that is a strawman logical fallacy. Here is a hint: when you find yourself in a hole STOP DIGGING. Employing logical fallacies means you have lost the debate.
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  5767.  @zonzillamagnus5902  No, you did not ask a simple question, you asked a nuanced question and didn't like the answer. So, you engaged in logical fallacies in a vain attempt to try and prove a negative. And opinion does NOT constitute fact, despite what popular OPINION would have you believe.
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  5768.  @zonzillamagnus5902  "Authoritarian oppressive reigion" And with that you engage in ad hominin attacks rather than debating merits. Keep it up, you are only discrediting yourself. You have zero interests in honest debate and instead are acting in bad faith to push your existential nihilism. If you were sincere, you would accept the answer I gave you even if you did not personally agree with it.
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  5769.  @zonzillamagnus5902  Pointing to people who said "worship Christ or die" does not an argument make. Most of those people were Christan in name only because they reject Christ's call to "love thy neighbor and LOVE THINE ENEMY" (Matthew 5:44). Or have you not heard that part of the Gospels? Once again you are using strawman arguments rather than making a coherent point. For someone complaining about me using "word salad" you are doing a pretty good job of that yourself. Psychological projection is typical of people who can't argue their position effectively.
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  5770.  @zonzillamagnus5902  And again with a strawman. You are only making yourself look foolish.
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  5771. As do the French. The fact that THREE NATO members have independent nuclear arsenals means that you have to avoid pissing off not just one but all three.
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  5772. You just love Soviet KGB/ East German Stasi tactics, don't you? Lavrentiy Beria loved bootlickers like you.
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  5773.  @KB-bh9hp  I would say that you being concerned about bringing harm to others makes you more even keel and trustworthy than most of the freaks out there.
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  5774.  @jeffjefferson2853  The problem is that many of the churches have fallen on the sword of wokeness. How many of these "mainstream faiths" such as Presbyterians put out the rainbow flag beside the cross? They have become the very false teachers the Jewish carpenter from Nazareth warned about.
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  5775.  @npcimknot958  Because they take what used to work, put their own spin on it, and create a gestalt that is greater than the sum of its parts. An example of cross-cultural pollination. Now if only the West would take more elements of Japan, Korea, and Taiwan and incorporate it. Let Japan and Korea be to the West what the Greeks were to the Romans.
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  5776. Same here. At first, I viewed Stiller as obnoxious. But the skill he demonstrated in this movie made me go back and reassess his performances. My eyes were opened.
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  5777. I tend to agree. SAAB with their Gripen has shown to be a very viable alternative to the F-35.
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  5778.  @dwaynekeenum1916  You don't know that. You are just wildly speculating base not on facts but emotion. Do keep in mind that Washington was one of the richest land owners today. If anything, Washington would be rejecting the treatment of Trump as being no different than the Star Chamber Admiralty Courts. 6th amendment due process and 8th amendment cruel and unusual punishment were to address the very same treatment that Trump is now facing being done by the crown then.
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  5779.  @senatorjosephmccarthy2720  Nice hyperbolic over the top hysteria. Russia has already bit off more than it can chew with Ukraine. THEN Russia has to go through Poland, Germany, France, and the UK. And in doing so, Article V gets triggered bringing the US in at that point. So tell me again how Russia is directly threatening the US?
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  5780.  @GuyShōtō  Wow, complete historical revisionism as well as goal post moving. I guess you don't seem to realize that the conflict with the Barbary Coast corsairs was a direct result of kidnapping and piracy committed against AMERICAN flagged ships and AMERICAN CITIZENS. Part of the reason why the US went to War with the UK in 1812 was for the very same reasons. Those conflicts DIRECTLY involved us. Now where we stayed out was that we did not directly support Napoleon's European conquest despite sympathy for him.
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  5781. I know who will win: The Algerian Muslims.
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  5782. ANd a sign of mental illness.
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  5783. Taiwan can't fight without US support. Do you really think the Kiwis and the Aussies can seriously supply Taiwan?
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  5784.  @chris0000924  Make a deal like was made in Munich on September 30 of 1938?
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  5785.  @chris0000924  The Chinese have been separate entities longer than the Two Koreas have been divided. The idea that they are one entity is a delusional fantasy. And the fact that you assume I am a neocon shows your political myopia. It is the neocons who want to maintain the status quo.
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  5786.  @chris0000924  Taiwan is ALREADY independent. This whole "declare independence" thing is simply a charade. Kuomintang refused to accept that they lost the Civil War. Mainland China doesn't want to accept that Formosa was never theirs to begin with. The whole situation is a farce. THERE ARE TWO CHINAS!
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  5787. I tend to agree. I see it more likely that eco-terrorists inspired by Greta Thunberg are more likely to do this than Russia.
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  5788. Brave? Where were they when the Taliban drove the Americans out? It was the blood of Americans who gave them their liberties and they didn't lift a finger to help preserve them.
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  5789. It is, when even the Queen doesn't think she can save him.
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  5790. Don't forget that they have pulled out the lessons from WW1's trench warfare (Bite and Hold ala Battle of Broodseinde), which has been much more effective than the media wants to admit.
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  5791. Calm down. First you analogy is pathetically ignorant of history. Qing imploded under the weight of its own corruption, NOT because it was isolationist. Japan was isolationist for 300 years before Commadore Perry arrived ending the period of Dutch exclusivity. And Japan ROARED back onto the world stage after that.
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  5792. Considering the poll was 16% oversampling of Democrats, that should tell you something. Also, the Des Moine Register is a Democrat Shill Paper and always has been.
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  5793. Patreon is still settling the legal dispute with Carl Benjamin (Sargon of Akkad) and Mark Meechan (Count Dankula). Anyone who sends money via Patreon is basically funding the legal liability they are still paying over their loss in court. I don't really know why you were even using them when it is well known that they regularly engage in what amounts to banking fraud when they suspend accounts and pocket all of the money.
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  5794.  @seekrengr751  Most American munitions have flexible targeting systems. Heat seekers can often change to visual targeting if it recognizes that flares or chaff has been deployed for example.
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  5795.  @efxnoise  NASAMS can use ANY aircraft based munitions. So yeah, in theory a HARM can be launched from the ground if someone reports jamming and once in the air, the HARM can independently find and target a jamming source.
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  5796.  @DH-xw6jp  No worries. I suspected it was. Just wanted to clarify as social media does not transmit certain verbal cues such as voice inflection.
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  5797. No joke. She echoes her puppet master Saiket Chakrabarti exactly, all the way down to the very same pregnant pauses and vocal inflections. Almost makes you think that telepathy is real.
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  5798.  @justicedemocrat9357  They(corporate executives) think that pandering to woke will get them profits. They haven't yet realized that every company that has gone woke has been cooking the books to hide the fact that they are going broke.
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  5799. I would insist that she HAS to wear the revealing outfit from the anime. And mandate it in her contract that she has to flash the cleavage and maybe her pantsu in every episode.
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  5800. Babylon Bee stole their mojo. Or rather, Onion forgot how to be funny, and the Bee picked up the torch.
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  5801.  @HollywoodConnection_LA  Huckabee is a partisan, which leads him to ignore certain things which don't advance his premise. But then most political commentators are guilty of that.
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  5802.  @switchhit3774  Test NORAD's response to blatant violation of American airspace. Observe the American populace's response to such provocation. Judge whether the White House has the balls to actually take action. Pray for Taiwan because the message is clear: the US is a paper Tiger.
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  5803. Thomas Jefferson warned us about the dangers of banking institutions.
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  5804. Yeah, I would bet on Florida, especially when they argue about the Constitutionality of the sovereign flow of power. Disney cannot assume powers they have not been granted without the consent of the state government. Only the SCOTUS can override the Florida law abolishing the power that Disney has exercises all these years.
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  5805. The T-72 ambushed the Abrams. That wasn't a head-to-head match.
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  5806. "The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire, the roof, the roof, the roof is on fire....." -Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic Three "Round and Round, let the city burn, we can party in the hills, we can party in the 'burbs. Roof on fire, let it burn. Champaign in my hand, I'm not concerned," -Pearl's Rap song by MKatwood.
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  5807.  @Cynddelw  So he faces exposure to the risk of life and limb again? Sorry, but double Jeopardy applies to both exoneration and convictions. There are a few rare situations were a re-trial doesn't occur after a declared mistrial, but that is the exception, not the norm. James Arthur Williams was tried four times by the government before he was exonerated on the grounds of self-defense. Can you really call that justice?
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  5808.  @SlickBlackCadillac  Try looking up the statute and federal rulings. It also applies once one is convicted.
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  5809.  @SlickBlackCadillac  Read that from wikipedia have you? You realize that quoting it practically word for word gave you away? Interestingly enough, the page they cite for that claim is another wikipedia article, not the actual case it purports to cite. Which means that it is circular reporting, proving Tim Pool's point about that website laundering opinion as if it were fact.
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  5810.  @leonardwei3914  Yes, more oil and gas domestically produced does mean less consumption on the world trade of oil. I do agree with that. I think most of the oil that the US could export comes from the Gulf of Mexico.
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  5811. Agreed. The ASEAN members need to temporarily set aside their disagreements among themselves and present a united front against China, preferably in the Parcel Islands. Stop the Chinese there with a joint coalition force consisting of Philippines, Vietnamese, Malayans, and Indonesians and it would force the Chinese completely out of the area.
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  5812. But have been updated over the years unlike these tanks. The moder F-16 is a far cry from the original A block.
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  5813. The problem is that these agencies INCLUDING the FAA have been LOWERING standards so as to meet those diversity "goals". And THAT is why it is so toxic.
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  5814. The more unrealistic part is that a California college student is going to be taught that the military is full of war criminals and baby killers. THAT is why the story is unrealistic.
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  5815. AI would write a better story. Tim Pool has used ChatGPT to make a better script.
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  5816. This is what war looks like, unlike your sanitized Hollyweird fantasies. General William Sherman was right: War is Hell!
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  5817. I think Ukraine has already factored that into their deployments. The fresh recruits back from basic training in Poland are likely manning and further training in the trenches along Belarus learning the ropes before being sent to the Eastern Front.
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  5818.  @no-oneinparticular7264  Marie Anntonette has entered the chat.
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  5819. To paraphrase Winston Chruchill, "capitalism is the worst form of economics.... except for everything else that has been tried from time to time"
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  5820. Wishful thinking. The war in Ukraine was a foregone conclusion after Russia stole the Crimea.
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  5821.  @sextwister  Certainly safer than transporting it by rail. THAT is why Warren Buffet is against the pipelines; he owns the biggest interest in rail shipping of oil.
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  5822.  @daggerin4life726  Sounds to me like you are engaging in wishful thinking yourself. Russia is finished as a world power. China is unreliable and treacherous as an ally, just ask the Solomons or Sri Lanka. And you would drink the water straight from the river? Who is joking now? You clearly have never heard of Cholera, Giardia, or Dysentery.
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  5823.  @rockets4kids  Yeah, spare us the "peak oil" hysteria. Advances in technology has made previously unreachable sources of oil viable. Case in point is the Shale Oil deposits thanks to fraking. Incidentally, much of the nuclear fuel in use today by the US was once part of the USSR's nuclear arsenal. Think about that: nuclear bombs used instead to make electricity.
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  5824.  @rockets4kids  No, it is NOT exactly as predicted, it is anything but. "Exactly as predicted" would have meant that the price of oil would vastly exceed the price of gold for the same mass unit. You are moving the goal posts just like all of the charlatans in the past that predicted societal collapse should peak oil be reached. ALL of those predictions failed to account for technological innovations. it is predicted on the same junk THEORY as Soviet Socialism.
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  5825.  @rockets4kids  You are still moving the goal posts (logical fallacy). "Using the technology of the time" is tacit admission that the predictions didn't come true because you had to caveat it.
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  5826.  @rockets4kids  By a strict definition, that MIGHT quality. But good science also takes into consideration other factors and variables, sometimes making estimations. What is leading to a great contempt today is when those "experts" refuse to acknowledge they were wrong. Admitting that they don't know or have a hard answer would maintain trust. And such is the case with your moving of the goal posts. The advocates refuse to admit that their predictions were wrong. Again, you are moving the goalposts.
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  5827. As has EVERY elected official in the world, so what is your point? You get mad about "orange man" but then give a complete pass to the very liars you voted into office. "How do you know a politician is lying? His lips are moving."
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  5828. The "Professionals" sure. Not the prisoners and conscripts. There are really two tiers of Wanger fighters: those who are free men and under contract (professionals), and those who have been forced to be part of the organization (prisoners).
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  5829.  @off6848  Put down the vodka Colonel Kleptovski, you are drunk. The alcohol is making you hallucinate.
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  5830. Because the elites are ethno-centrically bind. They are so myopic they believe only the view from America, particularly their supreme perch is the only perspective out there. I would call it chauvinism, but that would assume they had loyalty and pride in the US, which they don't.
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  5831.  @dominusvolpus8031  More likely we would have dropped the third one on Kokura, the original target of Bockscar and Fatman.
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  5832. How did that work out for them in 2016?
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  5833. "high justice" for the feudal lords and "low justice" for the serfs. There were several great lines by Sand and Callum in Neverwinter Nights 2 regarding "high" and "low justice.
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  5834.  @wellplayed6061  Not really. Putin is behaving NOT as a rational actor but as a typical authoritarian despot with delusions of Tsardom. He fancies himself Peter the Great despite the fact that the world is vastly different.
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  5835.  @Iv4Bez  Not really. WW2 made it quite clear that when you do business with people who engage in war, you are financing the War machine. The West's support for Ukraine mirrors the US support for the UK. Or the American support for the Chinese against the Japanese in the Pacific. There is historic precedent that justifies it.
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  5836.  @Iv4Bez  Why should the West be assisting Russia? Putin made it clear years ago he is absolutely against everything the West represents. The opportunity for reproachment ended when Putin replaced Yeltsin. That being said, Bush Jr. helped to slam that door shut when he rejected Putin's offer of assistance with Islamic Terrorism.
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  5837. Fu-Go balloon bombs are no laughing matter dude. They caused a number of forest fires.
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  5838.  @gregorylayne9044  Japan sent incendiary bombs to the US during WW2. Look it up. China just proved that it is still a viable vector of attack.
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  5839. Because it is Anglicizing the language.
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  5840. And yet Bulgaria sides with the Germans against Russia in both WW1 and WW2.
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  5841. You realize that the US is not the only country to start wars? Hell, when has sub-Sahara Africa NOT experienced a Bush War? That continent is in perpetual conflict since antiquity.
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  5842. "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable," -John F. Kennedy.
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  5843.  @privatebandana  Considering that Oryx geolocated the pictures to confirm that they are actual kills and not duplicates or from Syria or Chechnya Wars, I think the burden of proof is on you, and you have failed to meet it.
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  5844.  @Lipi19821  Soviet Pravda used "fact checkers", and yet people in the USSR still knew that Prava told nothing but lies (vranyo). Your "Western Fact Checkers" such as Snoops have been proven time and again to be wrong, often mischaracterizing the question to push an ideological goal. They were recently forced to admit that the Ashley Biden diary was real. Same with Hunter's Laptop. In short, if you have to use "fact checkers", then you are already proven to be a propagandist. The truth doesn't need to be "fact checked" as it can stand on its own.
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  5845. You are trying to apply Western thinking to a communist totalitarian. Xi views the word through the same lenses as Joseph Stalin, not Winston Chruchill.
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  5846.  @SlashDrago  While they tear up the country? While they burn down immigrant centers? I think you overstate how helpful that so-called second class citizen population is.
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  5847.  @KolyaUrtz  Cope hard private conscriptovich. To the OP's point, Ukraine giving it up would be the same as Czechoslovakia giving up the Sudetenland at Munich.
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  5848.  @KolyaUrtz  That isn't an argument, it is a logical fallacy, namely appeal to novelty. Or have you forgotten that in 1918 Kursk, Belgorod, AND Rostov-on-Don were all part of the Ukrainian Republic?
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  5849.  @Fordo007  Sad but true. Then again, that is the whole point of cultural Marxism; to tear down society.
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  5850.  @DjMaxi005  But then come general election, he will still vote for the DNC nominee. My point still stands.
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  5851.  @DjMaxi005  Yeah, you and him keeps saying that, but like all good partisans, the truth is much different. Tulsi is basically a female version of Jim Webb in 2016. And after dropping out, Webb said he was thinking of voting for Trump because Trump was basically running on the same platform. That was a green light for many conservative and moderate John F. Kennedy Democrats. Many Bernie Supporters also crossed over to support Trump as Mr. Pool points out. And yet he still voted for Hilrod. What does that tell you? "The Lady doth protest too loudly, me thinks," -Queen Gertrude; Act 3 scene 2; Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
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  5852.  @DjMaxi005  What someone says, and what someone does are two different things. He may have laughed, but did he say he voted for Gary Johnson? Or Jill Stein? There were other options, yet he did not exercise them. Both you and him fall for the false choice dilemma.
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  5853. Considering that Bibi came to power with the religious right, perhaps the lesson that should have been taken is that the opposition should have been more thoughtful than just "anyone but Netanyahu". Be FOR something, not simply against. Bibi was pushed into the hands of the religious faction by the actions of his opponents.
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  5854.  @somerandomguy4919  Funny because the bulk of the military draws from traditionally conservative areas. Liberals servicing in the military are the exception, not the norm. Consider this: legacy military families are generally of the nationalistic bent, a hallmark of conservatism.
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  5855. Just like Grima Wormtongue, Pence spoke poison into the President's ear, allowing Sauron and Saruman's forces to run free in Rohan.
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  5856. One, the Red Chinese government has failed to effectively use soft power. The South Koreans and Japanese have made complete fools of China on that front. As for Taiwan itself, they could adopt Erwin Rommel's proposed defense plan for Normandy which the German High Command rejected (much to their later chagrin). Once they pull back to the mountains, adopt the WW2 Japanese strategy of digging in.
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  5857. Yeah, he is completely off the mark today.
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  5858.  @koushikdas1992  Their corrupt leadership is doing that, selling their fellow citizens into financial slavery to the Chinese government.
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  5859.  @dzonikg  "US Crimea"? Nice hyperbolic and unhinged claim. Put down the Vodka, you are so drunk you are hallucinating.
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  5860. I suspect the Chinese CCCP is run very similar to how the North Korean "Worker's Party" is run. They are just more open about it than the DPRK is.
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  5861.  @JohnnyKaw11B  Not really. But it doesn't surprise me that you would reject example after example without actually providing a concrete example proving your argument, instead acting like chalkboard theory is reality. Thank you for proving both C.S. Lewis's point about chronological snobbery as well as Detrich Bonhoeffer's Theory of Stupidity. Incidentally, I AM going to address the ONE SINGLE example of a "peaceful divorce" and that is Slovakia and the Czech Republic splitting. They were a singular aberration and NOT the norm. The breakup of Yugoslavia is the archetype for which all other partitioning are compared and with good reason.
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  5862.  @JohnnyKaw11B  I could try to explain it but you would refuse to accept it. You have already shown you will not even consider anything that is outside your myopic view of the worlds and the biases of your own desires. Human nature has not changed one iota in over 12,000 years of history. Regardless of race, religion, or national affiliation, humans react in VERY predictable ways. Those in power will NEVER let people leave their dominion without a fight.
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  5863.  @JohnnyKaw11B  I have explained it, but as ai pointed out, you refuse to look outside of your horse blinders. The location and the culture are meaningless when it comes to civil strife. Whether they are African or American, people WILL behave almost exactly the same way. You are proving it right now with your refusal to accept the evidence presented before you.
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  5864.  @JohnnyKaw11B  And there you go again with absolutes. I haven't lost the plot, you are jumping to conclusions and using logical fallacies to brace up your lost argument. You are doing mental gymnastics to try and discredit men rather than accept that your position is untenable.
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  5865.  @JohnnyKaw11B  Actually, I DID make an argument and I provided evidence. You failed to provide ANY evidence to support your theory. I listed concrete examples of the scenario you described and how they actually support my point that a "peaceful divorce" is impossible. My evidence and your lack of any shows you have conclusively lost the debate. But you still cling to your belief despite the preponderance of evidence clearly proving you wrong. That is psychotic delusional fantasy. And yet you employ logical fallacies such as moving the goal posts and pointing to red herrings which have zero impact of the sociological dynamics which underpin my position, and which clearly debunk your theory. But sure, persist in this face you call a debate as you are convincing nobody, and only making yourself look foolish. "Better people THINK you a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt," -Mark Twain
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  5866.  @JohnnyKaw11B  Yes, it is. You don't get to reject evidence just because it doesn't EXACTLY fit perfect with your false narrative. You are desperately trying to revive your argument like a zombie If you are too lazy to understand the dynamics of the Breakup of Yugoslavia (for which Bosnia was but the fourth area to break away) and expect me to specifically spell it out in exacting detail, then you have basically thrown out the towel and admitted that you are child debating in complete ignorance and without any knowledge of the topic. Most people don't need Bosnia nor Dafur explained to them as if they are a juvenile.
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  5867.  @K.emperorx  Because you accused me of being a Russian. It just goes to show you have no interest in facts, only in your tribe winning, facts and reality bedamned. No better than a Jihadi, really.
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  5868. The golden age of Hollywood died after the abominable Paramount ruling by the SCOTUS. After that, the studios had zero reason to care if a movie bombed at the box office or not.
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  5869. Well, that area of the Pacific is usually patrolled by the Aussies and the Kiwis. The US Navy Pacific fleet rarely goes south of the Marshall Islands.
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  5870. Free JUDEA!
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  5871. They are not. The IAEA's report blew holes in the Russian claims. Particularly the bizarre claim about rockets changing directions at the last second before impacting the ground.
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  5872. I tend to agree. These are theatrics by crisis actors who are being forced to do an honest day's work. "Potemkin Village" comes to mind.
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  5873. Potemkin Village. The systemic and targeted destruction of historical buildings is a crime against humanity.
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  5874.  @Werrf1  Don't be too sure. The Soviet Red Army made its greatest gains against the Wehrmacht during the winter. And in Ukraine, no less.
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  5875. Unions have been unreasonable in their demands and hyper political since the 1920s. Just look at the efforts of Teddy Roosevelt trust busting. He went after the unions as often as he did the corporations. It was just around the time of FDR that union leadership realized they would be more successful if they did NOT kill the golden goose.
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  5876. Free JUDEA!
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  5877. I would say Gamergate was when wokeness went to the epidemic stage. Then 2016 it reached pandemic stage.
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  5878. If by "assault weapons" you are referring full auto and select fire, then I am in full agreement.
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  5879. Agreed. They are conditioned, not inspired. They regurgitate, not compute. They are basically well-trained monkeys with a piece of paper but lack any cognitive skills. All the more reason why I keep telling young men to go to VOCATIONAL training. Thye can make a great living becoming a mechanic, electrician, or plumber. And if the Dems bothered to consider it, many of those jobs tend to favor unionization, the historical backbone of the party.
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  5880.  @Trollificusv2  I agree with you on all of those points. "Correct think" in American "entertainment" is as methodical as a production that came out of Stalin's "Ministry of Culture" circa 1932. And just as predictably boring as a result.
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  5881. State crimes are not covered by the presidential pardon. Of course, if that bubblehead Hocle was smart, she would pardon him.
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  5882.  @leslie-annmills-gomez8763  There were no Palestinians before 1948. There were ARABS who welcomed Jews. "Palestinian" as a word was coined in 1948 to describe the ARABS living in the British Mandate. Culturally and genetically, the "Palestinians" are indistinguishable from the Jordanians, Syrians, Lebanese, and Saudis.
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  5883. @mraza497 And those that stayed in 1948 and refused to obey Gamal Abdel Nasser's order to evacuate are STILL there. The ones who fled did so fully expecting to take possession of what the Israelis built. They chose their fate.
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  5884.  @JonySmith-bb4gx  I fail to see what being Chinese-American has to do with the topic. My wife is Chinese-American. As for Unit 731, most of them were captured by the Soviet Red Army. While their flag officers were convicted at the Tokyo Trials for crimes against Humanity, the men who actually carried out the experiments were never handed over by the Soviets to face trial. More than likely, they were sent to some Gulag in Central Asia.
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  5885. Nuremberg Trials for Judges.
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  5886.  @jorgecarrejo  He already has ethics complaints filed against him to the New York Bar. Judges are NOT invincible.
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  5887.  @jorgecarrejo  Yes he has. Violation of Sixth Amendment due process. He denied Trump the right to call witnesses in his defense. He has NOT upheld the obligation to CLEARLY define the accusations against him. Your claims "he did nothing wrong" is simply empty words of your feudal masters at the DNC.
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  5888.  @trainandmore  Twitter was at its core a communication tool. NOTHING is too big to fail. The world existed before these tech giants existed, and it will continue long after they are forgotten.
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  5889. I don't think Ukraine could annex Kursk. But they COULD help them to form a "Volga Republic" in opposition to Putin's "Russian Federation".
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  5890.  @Рашка-у8й  Actually, it DOES work that way. Peace can RAPIDLY deteriorate in the face of weak leadership. Economics is the same way with good or bad policy. Trump turned around an 8 year bad economy in just three months. Nobody is buying the delayed reaction argument anymore.
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  5891.  @Рашка-у8й  What "mechanism"? You are imagining things. Peace can VERY rapidly deteriorate in the face of weak leadership. Just ask Neville Chamberlain. Same for economics. Trump turned around a bad 8-year long economy under Obama in just three months. Cavlin Cooledge did the same thing. Nobody believes the delayed response argument anymore. Fish or cut bait.
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  5892.  @Рашка-у8й  There is no mechanism genius. And nobody believes the delayed effect claim anymore. Not after Trump turned around the bad Obama economy in just three months.
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  5893.  @memesofproduction3  You forget the secondary sanctions that get the rest in line. Your naivety is astounding.
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  5894. I tend to agree. If the people don't want this, they would not be electing these anti-law enforcement politicians. Let the cities burn because the people keep rewarding the politicians who pander to domestic terrorism.
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  5895. Who, what an rabidly anti-American way of looking at the world. Tell me, how does India play in that Hegemony? How about Brazil? Or Africa? And you blatantly ignore both Russia and China's own hegemonic moves. Spare the moral outrage, if it wasn't the US, you would be complaining about France or the UK if they were the big dog in NATO.
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  5896. The only way a Latin regional Peso would work if it was fixed to the price of silver.
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  5897.  @Rjsjrjsjrjsj  New Spain is not modern Latin America. I fail to see how Age of Sail applies to today.
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  5898. The bitter irony is that the KGB archives proved Joe McCarthy was absolutly correct. Where senator Joe went wrong was that just because the Soviets took an interest in you does NOT automatically make you one of their agents. Case in point is J. Edgar Hoover's recordings of MLK's conversations with KGB agents: MLK rejected and rebuffed them every time they tried to make contact.
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  5899. And Usury is warned against. Yet today's society is built on it, and not in a good way.
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  5900. Firearms safety is not a bad thing. In fact, it is good for self-defense (2nd amendment?). First aid is also useful in the event of an auto accident or natural disaster. It is the use of hand grenades that is more troubling.
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  5901. No, it would not. It simply trades in one set of problems for an entirely new set. Also, the violence would not stop as the cartels will still murder their competition to maintain their monopoly.
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  5902.  @monkeydank7842  Yes, they would. Legalizing it doesn't change that fact. It just makes it easier for them to conduct their business without worrying about the government actively shutting them down.
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  5903.  @monkeydank7842  Bootlegging Alcohol still occurs. The media just doesn't report on it. NASCAR in fact is a direct result of bootleg culture. Eric Garner was killed by police for selling cheap cigarettes across state lines subverting the taxes on then. But the media wanted to only focus on his race, not WHY the police were really busting him up. Then there is the issue about Cuban Cigars. They can be made by Cuban expatriates in Florida, but big tobacco makes a stink about it not being "the real thing" and hence they can't sell or advertise them as Cuban Cigars. Hence the whole thing with smuggling them in from Cuba despite having a legal alternative that is exactly the same thing.
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  5904.  @monkeydank7842  As I said, you don't solve the problems by legalizing, you are simply papering over the underlying problem by creating an entirely new set. The problems society has with Alcohol and Tobacco shows that legalization only creates more problems. Data out of Colorado prove this with regards to marijuana legalization. You haven't made any coherent arguments for legalization. And my points only reinforce that.
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  5905. Probably Jameica Kamala.
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  5906. Indeed. The US military historically has had standards by which certain behaviors (ie morality) was required to be empowered to use lethal force. Some people are NOT moral enough to join the Army and be a Joe because they would abuse the power invested in them. Case in point: look at the behavior of the Russian Conscripts and "prisoner battalions". Now contrast that to an all-volunteer force where not everyone is accepted into the ranks.
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  5907. But State laws are still subject to Federal oversight. Lee vs. United States (1883) makes what the State of New York is doing unconstitutional.
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  5908.  @stevengoldstein114  Nice deflection. You clearly did not read the case. Nor have you read further Federal cases that uphold the supremacy of the Federal courts over the state courts. And that doesn't even begin to even touch on the fact that this case has no merits to begin with. The ruling was a summary judgement, which mean Trump didn't even receive an actual trial meaning that due process was violated.
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  5909.  @stevengoldstein114  Supremacy of the US Constitution, Article 4 section 2. Your argument has no merit. Or as you said, "deal with it".
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  5910. Yeah, the hysterical and hyperbolic statements about "extinction" is over the top to the point of farcical. The population will decrease to an equilibrium point. Either the system will implode FORCING people to have more children, or the pressures discouraging people having children will self-correct.
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  5911.  @GothPaoki  Funny, because their attempted invasion of Kinmen Islands shows that mainland China had zero capabilities of invading Taiwan. They have yet to show any improvement in amphibious operations.
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  5912. Just like Occupy walls street was correct? Blatantly ignoring the rapes that occurred in the "women's tents".
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  5913.  @bennybundi9671  The clock has always been political grandstanding, which is why it is just as worthless today as it was in the past.
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  5914. Lost support with independents? You have not been paying attention. Turmp got MORE votes in 2020 than he did in 2016. Biden however, has only gone downhill since his inauguration. Buyer's remorse is strong among independents.
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  5915. As long as he keeps the nevertrumper voters out of the Biden camp, that is a net victory.
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  5916. @Guvv_iyulg To answer your question, the Jewish people have a history in the land call JUDEA. The word" Palestine" was created whole cloth by the Romans in AD73 in an attempt to erase the history of Jews in the region.
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  5917.  @guvviyulg4821  Israel and Hebrew claims to the area is much older than that, closer to 7,000 years. Your Africa comment is pure hyperbolae and does not help; it shows insincerity and intellectual dishonesty.
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  5918. "Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt, and ruin good forces have invented or made” -J.R.R. Tolkien That they vandalize great cultural mythos for a quick cash grab shows you how vile people in Hollyweird have become.
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  5919.  @dacianbonta2840  What they don't also like to talk about is that the European slavers who arrived in West Africa purchased their slaves from black Muslims who enslaved their own people.
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  5920. Yes and no. I agree that the only way to meet tyranny is with the second amendment. However, that does NOT mean we need to become fascist to fight fascism. "Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it." -President John F. Kennedy's secrecy speech at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
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  5921. But at what point do you move? If you stay in one place too long after you send the round downrange, you risk a retaliatory strike from an RPG.
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  5922.  @StephenBoothUK  Try separating that entire paragraph down into bite-size pieces. Doesn't take much to send in an artillery barrage when it comes to the Russians. They would simply shell the entire area just to get one sniper.
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  5923.  @irocksup123  Indeed. They want to just be a cog in the machine. The banality of evil which exemplified certain Germans in the 1930s.
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  5924.  @christophersmirnoff5222  First, most Zoomers are not yet old enough to have kids. Secondly, not having kids isn't the solution, it actually contributes to the problem; it plays right into the hands of the feudalists who want the "poor unwashed masses" to die so that they can continue to exploit the world and not feel guilty about it.
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  5925.  @10speed4  Conservative Boomers were complicit. They never held the line, they just wanted to be the ones with the power. Every "conservative" boomer in Congress voted FOR more government, more of the DIE policies, more of the largess at the expense of the younger generation's future. Don't fool yourself. Oh, and I am sure this will absolutely piss you off, I am a JOHN F. KENNEDY CONSERVATIVE BLUE DOG DEMOCRAT. A dying breed, to be sure.
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  5926.  @10speed4  Clearly you are projecting because you don't listen to anything that does not comport to your myopic view of the world. Try LISTENING and using reading comprehension instead of acting like you are a know it all progressive. "Better people THINK you a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt," -Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain. Liberals don't quote "old white men" genius.
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  5927.  @10speed4  And yet again you open your mouth and prove to the world that you are guilty of exactly what you blame everyone else. I WILL STAY THIS AGAIN: LIBERRALS NEVER QUOTE OLD WHITE MEN. Nor would they ever quote Iron Maggie Thatcher. "I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher (mic drop)
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  5928. I tend to agree. Most social safety nets in the West are glorified Ponzi schemes. Japan has come to terms with their stagnant population and have accepted austerity, unlike the spoiled adult-children in the EU and the US.
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  5929.  @70dreadnought  The Davos group isn't even hiding it anymore. You are like the ostrich with its head in the ground. But I get it, you are a good little lickspittle for your feudal masters, regurgitating talking points on cue like Pavlov's Dog.
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  5930. USS MAINE. Don't forget the "E" at the end.
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  5931. After ejecting the Russians from both Crimea and the Donbas, they should consider marching on Minsk. With the Belarusian partisans who fought alongside them taking the point, of course.
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  5932.  @deplorablefederalist7908  No joke. When they can't win the debate on the merits, they deflect with red herrings and strawman arguments.
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  5933.  @deplorablefederalist7908  Well, I am going to surprise you. I am a John F. Kennedy Democrat. Only Jim Webb is anywhere close to the positions of JFK in the Democrat side. But I agree with you that most of the people who call themselves Democrat today are no better than lemmings. I know this because they have said that the party has "moved past JFK". And as you point out, there is not a single original idea in their heads.
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  5934.  @TheSkyGuy77  Oh, the Bourbons were great. The French Republic, especially under DeGaulle's leadership leaves much to be desired.
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  5935.  @MN-vz8qm  DeGaulle was replacing one tyrant (Petain) with another. Not much different than replacing king Louie with Robespierre.
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  5936.  @DaDa-ui3sw  Ifr you are going to ritique my spelling, then you don't actually have much of an arugment. As for French history, well, the French love to rewrite their own history much like the Bolsheviks. "Year One" is emblematic of that.
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  5937.  @DaDa-ui3sw  No, you are being patronizing and condescending like a typical French snob. For someone who thinks France has great historians, you are particularly ignorant of your own history. And people call Americans dense.
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  5938.  @seanburke997  Don't be too sure. When you make assumptions, that is when you get owned.
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  5939. @Justin 7 No joke. The Tea Party movement was a failure because we are worse off now than in 2010 when they got started. All they did was replace John McCain and Dick Cheney with their more radical and leftist daughters. Just goes to show conservative "activists" are just feckless cowards who want to bitch but not actually do anything.
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  5940.  @CharDhue  Debt is the chains of slavery by other means. Don't think that there is any actual difference between the two examples you used.
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  5941.  @ernestkhalimov1007  That is a false choice dilemma you present along with a strawman arugment. I am for a third option: namely empowerment of the locals. They can self-finance WITHOUT needing to submit to a foreign colonizing power. But the only reason why that won't happen is because of corruption in local leadership, which has been a problem since antiquity.
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  5942.  @maccurtis730  Nice copium. Woke is a LEFTIST ideology. Mindy Kaling (Velma showrunner) is a leftist. Most of your dictators in the world today are leftists. The right does not have the institutional power your ideology has enjoyed over the last three decades. If people are being driven to the right, it is because your ideology's failures have been exposed for all to see.
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  5943. Most expensive? Then why is it so profitable? Green energy has failed to produce a John D. Rockefeller that oil created. Only Coal and nuclear are cheaper sources of energy than oil. And all fossil fuels are more economical than renewables. if the reverse were true, oil would never have come to dominate the market nor remain in that dominate position.
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  5944.  @markdowding5737  Yeah, I find myself wondering why they didn't reach out to Kazakhstan or China to help mediate the dispute. China isn't any better than Iran, but at least they have more credibility in guaranteeing the peace.
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  5945.  @markdowding5737  Fair points. A real mess indeed.
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  5946. I would prefer we serve it up Peking style, as Denis Miller suggested we do with Big Bird in 2012.
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  5947. Because self-awareness has never been a job qualification for propagandists, aka news talking heads.
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  5948. Benedict Arnold was wronged by Congress. Pence is simply a Grima Wormtongue. Arnold is more respectable than Pence.
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  5949. They would not fix the problem either. These Senate Dinosaurs cut their teeth in the state assemblies.
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  5950. "The state legislators will correct these problems." No, they won't. Federal officer holders cut their teeth in the state Assemblies. The corruption at both the state and federal levels are part of the same machine. As Tip O'Neill famously said, "ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL".
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  5951. Death by GPS is a real thing, particularly in Death Valley, CA.
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  5952. The US has already experimented with "adventurism" in Africa, namely the nation of Liberia. After Doctor David Livingstone's misadventures, there has been little appetite in the US for playing around in the "Heart of Darkness".
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  5953. Weather balloons don't usually carry a gondola the size of three city buses.
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  5954. They also tend to be what makes or breaks a story. Heroes are defined by the villains they oppose. They nastier the villain, the greater the heroics.
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  5955. The problem is that calling them immigrant gives the a legitimacy they are not entitled to. The correct term is "trespassing foreign alien national".
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  5956.  @Akehiko_Urabaya  Sure, dude. The US plays just as fast and loose as everyone else does. There are still French Generals that have outstanding warrants for their participation in the Rwandan Civil War.
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  5957.  @ShockStormwing  I tend to agree. I also think that since people view him as a generally nice guy, he could actually play the "villain with good publicity" trope quite well. Subverting the traits people typically associate with the roles he plays would make for quite the effective bait and switch.
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  5958. 'Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt, and ruin good forces have invented or made” -J.R.R. Tolkien
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  5959. The problem is that the Greenies are also anti-nuclear.
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  5960. Yeah, the story sounds similar to one from before the Wuhan Virus insanity.
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  5961. "Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome," -Marcus Tullius Cicero.
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  5962. Indeed. it should have been shot down as soon as it entered the US economic zone. The remote Alaska wilds would have been another safe place to bring it down.
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  5963.  @blackbass4315  Cope harder Jihadi Jonny.
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  5964. A man seemingly with a Napoleon complex.
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  5965.  @SpartanTrigger  There are many factors that play into it. It isn't that they prefer white men, it is that they don't discriminate against white men the way they do Black or Hispanic. On the flip side, white women of the modern "feminazis" are outright man haters creating a "marriage squeeze", something that black women have been experiencing for decades. Asian women actually like the western chivalry shtick. They like when men (of any race) treat them as ladies.
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  5966.  @dawnfire82  If that was the case, I would rather Trump picked Bobby Jindal. Haley's problem was that she would not stay in her lane when she worked for Trump. She couldn't resist sniping her boss.
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  5967. Apples to oranges false analogy. Russia loves to claim to be a superpower with global reach. Ukraine has never even attempted to be a regional influencer. South Korea has some of the more advanced weapon systems that even Poland is getting in bed with them. North Korea's most advanced tech is Soviet made from the 1980s. Domestic production is 1960s at best.
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  5968.  @tbird4a  That is what Russia keeps doing.
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  5969.  @directordigitaldiscoursefo4171  A mud volcano is different than a magma volcano. And in that particular case, it was completely different mechanics than your typical mud volcano. Heck, there is still doubt as to the actual cause because the data is not entirely conclusive, merely circumstantial. Will Hunga Tonga's eruption cause a volcanic winter? No. But it WILL have a noticeable impact on temperatures.
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  5970. They did during the Soviet era. How many deaths at the hands of communist guerrillas and revolutionaries do you think are acceptable just to spite the US and the West? You are sick in the head.
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  5971. Yeah, that Hanoi Jane movie grossly exaggerated much of the real science all in the name of anti-nuclear hysteria.
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  5972.  @dragosstanciu9866  As George Carlin pointed out, it is all a farce. The people whining about climate change were saying global cooling in the 1970s only to change their tune to global warming in the 1980s. Truth is, they are pushing neo-pagan Gaia worship.
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  5973. "Innocent"? I guess you think that Islamic terrorism is a nothing burger. Taquiyya, Tawriya, Kitman, and Murna.
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  5974.  @danilolabbate  Again, you are just making excuses. Like a typical cultural Marxist, you blame a perceived "oppressor" rather than admit that there are internal, domestic problems. And in doing so, you completely buy into the racist "noble savage" stereotype. When you have Generals like Zho Zongtang, the Marquis Kejing putting down the Taiping Rebellion, you can't claim that it was the Opium Wars keeping China down. Indeed, all of the Rebellions against the Manchu Qing Dynasty shows how corrupt and terrible their rule was. And as far as Japan's invasion of China, do keep in mind that Chairman Mao cut a separate peace with Japan such that they could move through each other's territories unmolested. It was only the KMT who was seriously fighting the IJA as Mao was more interested in fighting his fellow Chinese. My perspective isn't strange, it is taking all of the facts into consideration, not cherry picking what you like to confirm your own biases.
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  5975.  @tryscience  DEI is discrimination, PERIOD. Put in practice, it IS Jim Crow.
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  5976. Indeed. They have become sycophantic lickspittles to the globalist elites.
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  5977. The problem is that to enforce a "no-fly zone", requires NATO aircraft to fire on Russian aircraft, an act of war.
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  5978.  @timtrewyn453  Ah, but in NONE of those cases are they wearing the uniform or flying the colors of the United States or NATO. THAT is the major difference. No, the foreign volunteers in Ukraine are more akin to the French Foreign Legion.
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  5979.  @apsurd.apsurda  If over a thousand days go by of active combat, it is likely the UAF will be at the doors of Moscow. The elite units of Russia such as 1st Guards Tank Army and the 155th Naval Infantry have been ground to dust.
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  5980.  @apsurd.apsurda  Nice appeal to emotion logical fallacy. Also, Russia and the US are NOT the same. Apples to oranges false analogy. For one, Russia forbids private ownership of firearms. Second, the fact that Wanger got so far down the highway unopposed shows that not even the Russians are willing to defend their own territory.
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  5981.  @AndyNYouTube  Wrong. You can't win the popular vote WITHOUT getting a simple majority. And Trump's margin of victory was over 3 million. You need to touch grass.
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  5982.  @malcolmxivm  Yes, you are reading leftist propaganda.
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  5983. The temper of a redhead is justified. Grand-daughters of Boudica
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  5984. Azerbaijan is a Russian ally? I thought they were in bed with Turkiye. They certainly have no love for Iran, who IS Russia's ally. And they have been at war with Armenia who was begging Russia for aid.
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  5985.  @j.m.palacios5318  "Failed" because they can't control their finances and have to rely on an outside force to keep them in check. Keep in mind that national banks are directly controlled by the governments that sponsor them. Often those nations simply print money until it is as worthless as the Weimar Deutschmark or the Zimbabwe banknote. ""The issuing power of currency shall be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." -Thomas Jefferson
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  5986.  @lewisbaitup6352  See, your logic is how you get incompetent leftist leaders like Biden after populists like Trump. And the result is ALWAYS the same: a complete disaster.
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  5987.  @lewisbaitup6352  Biden's policies are NOT moderate. he may have been a moderate 30 years ago, but today his policies are neo-Bolshevik. Even James Earl Carter is to the right of Biden.
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  5988.  @lewisbaitup6352  "Also idk anything about jimmy carter, all i know is that jim is extremely old. " If you don't bother to understand history of events before you were born, then you have zero reason to even comment. When you speak in total ignorance, you reveal yourself to be a child or a fool. Let the ACTUAL adults discuss while the children like you keep silent in your ignorance. "Better people THINK you a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt," -Mark Twain. "To be ignorant of events that occurred before you were born is to forever remain a child," Marcus Tullius Cicero; Roman lawyer and politician, 45 BC.
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  5989.  @lewisbaitup6352  It is not bad character to tell a child they should listen twice as much as they talk (two ears, but only one mouth). Making excuses as you have only shows that you should stop talking. I suspect in your culture as it was for me growing up, that children are to be SEEN and NOT HEARD.
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  5990.  @lewisbaitup6352  You choose to respond. Poke the bear and don't be surprised when he eats you. Also, if you have to say "it was only a joke", you are in damage control mode because you failed to read your audience. it isn't what you say, it is what the audience hears. That is something adults understand and children learn the hard way.
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  5991. With time yes. But in the near term the Crimea is screwed.
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  5992. Let China invade them. I would love to see how they react under they very totalitarianism they adore.
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  5993.  @hamzabajwa1960  Same could also be said of the leaders of the DNC. But then folks rarely understand how POPULISM actually works. Populism doesn't recognize ordained offices.
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  5994. Not always. Don't be the foolish frog that let the scorpion ride on his back.
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  5995.  @Mark5mith  Criminals can use knives to kill. Just look at Londonstan.
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  5996.  @supergamergrill7734  that is a red herring argument (logical fallacy). I do agree that "no tolerance polices" make the situation worse by empowering the actual bullies.
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  5997.  @supergamergrill7734  Whether the stabbing results in death or not is irrelevant. That is a red herring argument. A murderer is still going to murder whether it is with a gun or a baseball bat. And I would argue that bludgeoning someone to death or stabbing them over and over is far more brutal than getting shot.
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  5998.  @supergamergrill7734  You are deflecting. You somehow act like a POSSBILE higher chance of survival somehow makes things better. it does not. But I post this for you. Plano, Texas, the "gun nut capital" of the world with the highest gun ownership has the LOWEST homicide rate in the world. Now contrast that with "gun free-zone" cities like Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, Stockton, Kansas City, St. Louis, Newark, Philadelphia, Memphis, and Atlanta where most of the killings in the US occur. Each of them by themselves would occupy one of the top 10 most deadly if they were their own country. Incidentally, Honduras and Venezuela have the highest per capita murder rates in the world, and BOTH have made gun ownership unlawful. The problem isn't gun ownership. The problem is politicians who take away gun rights.
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  5999.  @supergamergrill7734  Again a false narrative based on feelings and not on facts. Straw purchases are already unlawful, which is why most gun sellers will not permit them lest they lose their FFL. Second, it is unlawful to carry a firearm across state lines without an FFL. The problem isn't lax gun laws, it is that those laws are useless and would do nothing to actually prevent violent crimes. Again, you are blatantly ignoring cold hard facts because they run counter to your narrative.
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  6000.  @JKK_85  Keep dreaming. The Germans were only stopped at Stalingrad which started in August of 1942, almost a year after the US had joined the war. Germany was FAR from defeated at that point. And to the Original Poster: Almost one year of supplies running to Murmansk and Arkhangelsk before Stalingrad kind of demolishes your claim.
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  6001. It could be due to how he got roasted by the president of Ukraine on Twitter. His Munich 1938 proposal to end the war did not go over well with many people so the best way to bury that embarrassment is by deflecting with this stunt.
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  6002. Lack of corporal punishment, namely spanking is part of why we are in this mess. The children who were spoiled and never disciplined grew up to be these adult babies today who push this psychosis. As for "Conversion Therapy" that is a a strawman argument. Unless you believe in exorcism, conversion therapy isn't even a serious consideration.
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  6003.  @mattc2582  Except, they are not. The hard core leftists, the true believers never get their hands on the levers of power. The establishment doesn't actually believe the leftist propaganda, they simply use the left as a vehicle to take power. Ask yourself why the DNC leadership fails to actually implement Bolshevick proposals. It is because those proposals would hurt their campaign donors. When all is said and done the establishments of both the GOP and Democratic party are not left nor right, they are Plutocrats who love feudalism and serfdom. As one local Indianapolis commentator said, the are monarchists of a different breed.
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  6004. Indeed. Where in Mayor Pete Buttplug? He HAD to have signed off on this.
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  6005. Back when Democrats actually cared about people. The Partry of John F. Kennedy is dead.
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  6006.  @shueyk2320  Put down the Vodka Private Conscriptovich, you are so drunk you are hallucinating.
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  6007.  @mario7501  Not as high as you think. Many of the "cheap foreign goods" are as Timmy points out; slave labor. Or because the foreign government subsidizes the company to give it an unfair advantage over American producers.
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  6008. @ The problem is that China sells their widgets for LESS than cost of production. If a US company did that, they would be hit by anti-competitive lawsuits under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Tariffs are the ONLY way to stop foreign nations from subsidizing their businesses against American competition. PS Google/Youtube keeps deleting my posts pointing this out.
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  6009. Water vapor in the stratosphere still creates clouds, though typically they are thin Nacreous ones. They still have the effect of reflecting incoming solar radiation.
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  6010. OPEC nations are universally authoritarian dictatorships, not democracies. They don't stand up for the people, they rule over them with an iron fist.
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  6011.  @ibrahimhassan711  Trading one tyrant for another one that is closer and shares your same face isn't an improvement. All you are doing is creating a local "fat pig" who is exploiting the locals. Stop trying to justify despotism just because you can't succeed in a capitalist free market system. Just ask Venuszela how well their nationalization policy has worked out.
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  6012. The problem is that there is no independent third party. The legacy media has an incestuous relationship between each of the big names.
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  6013. Russia would take that as escalation. Stupid excuse, I know, but then we are dealing with someone who acts just as triggered as a SJW.
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  6014. Those "Slay Queens" have burned the bridges for future COMPETENT women to cross. Sad. Just proves that a woman's worst enemy.....is another woman.
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  6015.  @Richforce1  The unions should have adapted to the times. Become something akin to the trade guild of old: an agency for connecting people with skills to jobs that need to be filled. And to provide legal advice for workplace situations.
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  6016.  @zacharyellison4189  Take the wikipedia article with a grain of salt because the people managing it have sanitized Chakrabarti's positions so as to not to seem as radical and inflammatory as they actually are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saikat_Chakrabarti
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  6017. Unlikely when the air defenses around Moscow and Petrograd have been removed and sent to Ukraine. Putin's proverbial pants are down.
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  6018. Because there never was a "lockbox". That was a myth told by FDR to fool people into consenting to his theft of wages. Look up Helvering vs. Davis (1935) and Flemming vs. Nestor (1960). SSI is nothing more than a tax on the front end, and welfare program on the back end.
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  6019. Because Hollyweird has zero creativity. This is the direct result of diversity hires: unqualified people with zero talent ruin legacies that other people built.
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  6020. They don't trust the US because we have weak leadership. People respect a strong horse. The hold weak men in contempt.
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  6021.  @parthparekh9924  Elected or installed? "Shadow campaign" ring a bell? Chaning the election rules one month before ballots are cast (11th hour rule change) is one example of cheating and stealing an election. But I get it, you folks in Europe are used to the parties picking who will rule you long before your ballots are even printed. Illiberal Democracy is what that is. And the reason why the world's problems are America's problems is that TWO world wars started because of American isolationism. You people can't keep your continent from exploding in violence without America's presence. The recent war in Ukraine is just further proof of this.
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  6022.  @_Mohit_Joshi  I as an American don't like nor trust the Pakistanis. They are two-timing, double dealing hacks. They sheltered Bin-Laden and lies about it. They regularly deal with China, subverting US interests in the region. I very much prefer the land of Rajahs over the land of Jihadis. It is a shame that our mutual history as a colony of the English Crown isn't a stronger starting point for a better relationship.
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  6023.  @parthparekh9924  Nice job cherry picking your information (logical fallacy). But I get it, you resent that we kept the peace for 80 years. You resent the fact that you can't keep your own house in order so you blame the very people you would otherwise demand to fix your problems because you are too stubborn to fix them yourself.
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  6024. Make sure to make lots of mixed kids when you find her.
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  6025. @jacquesdemolay4516 Blaming Poland for ww2 is victim shaming. But then that is typical of Kremlin shills.
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  6026. @tekinfomedi Nice revisionism. German-Polish relations from 1934-1939 is a joke. The Poles knew they were walking a tightrope between two behemoths that were out to obliterate them. If you think Józef Beck was liked by either the Germans or the Soviets, you have been drinking some really powerful vodka.
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  6027. @tekinfomedi The two tyrants of Eastern Europe were more alike than they were different. Strongman totalitarians usually get along and even cooperate on a regular basis. "National Socialism" and "Democratic Socialism" are simply two sides of the same coin, and their representatives are also mirror reflections of each other. As for the dissolving of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Alliance, only Der Furher was for that. Most of his field marshals and civilian government were against abolishing it because it was too lucrative to simply trash on a whim. The Soviets were fueling their war machine against England and they were exchanging military technology.
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  6028. He has stated on other videos that it isn't disrespect, but so that he is not covering up any of the text.
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  6029. The greatest revenge would be for them to eventually buy the D&D IP after it has cratered in value and officially put it into public domain.
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  6030. "Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin good forces have invented or made” -J.R.R. Tolkien
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  6031. Indeed. In fact, TOS's pilot episode "The Cage" was TOO progressive for network television as having both a woman First Officer as well as an alien third in the chain of command was too much for them. Reality is the children of those 1960s corporate bigots are the ones now running the show and making the exact same blunders but in the opposite direction.
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  6032.  @ThunderAppeal  Getting in front of a camera or telling Tea party folks what they want to hear is all talk. Marjorie Taylor Greene HAS been doing something, namely FORCING the Congress to actually follow proper voting procedure. I don't see Spartz causing as many headaches for the establishment as MTG.
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  6033. The US has a bill of Rights which protects due process. China doesn't have that. This spying law is no different than the ones King George III used to incarcerate people on a whim.
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  6034. LIBERATE JUDEA!
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  6035. Like the vampire who sees its own reflection, they recoil in horror.
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  6036.  @jimschuster8166  I am reminded of Morgan Freeman's quote in the Batman movie: "good luck with that".
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  6037. Sure, because they are basically continuing much of what Trump started. Save for the fact that Biden basically invited Putin to invade with his "limited incursion" statement. Was just as much of a strategic blunder as Dean Acheson excluding South Korea from the Pacific Defense Perimeter, thereby inviting Kim Il- Sung to invade South Korea in 1950. And the administration's flip-flopping over whether they will defend Taiwan is only inviting Red China to call their bluff. But I guess "mean tweets" is worse than destabilizing the globe with uncertainty. Try to learn from history instead of relying on your feelings.
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  6038.  @brandonhernandez116  Sure, keep lying to yourself, you are convincing nobody. People know how feckless Joe Bite-Me really is.
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  6039. Sisko was the George S. Patton of Star Trek. Much like the General, Sisko always leads from the front and is not afraid to get his hands dirty.
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  6040. Really? Details, please. She won't even call out the ACA for what it is: Soviet Style medicine.
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  6041.  @BonnieBlue2A  Yes, she was born in Nosivka, Soviet Ukraine. And yes, she is the incumbent for Indiana 5th Congressional District.
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  6042.  @bigmoe9856  It was unlikely they would attack into Kherson anyhow, so that argument is moot.
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  6043. Because these idiots don't realize that putting an "X" on the end is Anglicization or white-washing of the culture. They lack any understanding of history or linguistics.
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  6044. Tower shortage caused by DEI hiring requirements doesn't have anything to do this this crash?
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  6045. I disagree about cutting the canal being a war crime. Nothing obligated them to provide water for farms in 2014 when Russia stole Crimea.
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  6046. But there is nuance. SOME of these tanks are getting modernized. But most are not. Many are sent in "as is" so long as they can move and fire.
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  6047. Wagner is Kaput without Utkin leading them in combat.
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  6048. The irony is, they are making the very same arguments as the advocates of the Burka. They lack the self-awareness to realize what they are doing.
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  6049. The Caucuses beg to differ.
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  6050. Look at the stock price. It is cratering. THAT is why Twatter is screwed.
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  6051. All of the polls are biased towards democrats. Don't forget the "shy Trump voters" from the 2016 polling. That is still in play.
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  6052. Child actors. They always end up a mess because their parents exploited them.
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  6053.  @kolerick  What territories has the US colonized in the 20th century? Have you forgotten that the Philippines was given its independence after WW2? Vanuatu and Palau were US territories that were emancipated. Purter Rico so far has chosen to remain a territory and refuses independence. Guam and the Marianas likewise refuse independence.
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  6054.  @kolerick  And yet the US has held fewer overseas territories than France yet has "de-colonized" more of them than France. You just don't like the fact that France is the world's biggest hypocrite. Nor that it is getting called out for it.
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  6055. We let career politicians take control of the levers of power. And much like with the Roman Republic, they drove the ship of state into terrain.
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  6056. Indeed. More people should read Heinz Guderian rather than Georgy Zhukov.
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  6057.  @artisan_james  Making films doesn't mean you remain good at it. 8 successes but how many failures? I guarantee you he made quite a few flops in-between those hits.
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  6058. Have you not heard of the public beheadings in Saudi Arabia? They happen daily.
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  6059.  @TheSandkastenverbot  It isn't just WW2. Dien Bien Phu. The French were embarrassingly pathetic in Vietnam showing how much of a paper Tiger they truly were. Getting back to WW2, there is NO excuse for the French leaving the Ardennes undefended. Guderian was able to flank around the French because he had successfully marched a unit through the area in WW1. Further, the French put so much stock in the Maginot line, that ley left the low countries woefully undefended. The Dyle River Plan was spectacularly bad in that they overcommitted with no reserve.
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  6060. No, most people in the west are oblivious to the oil and Gas deposits off the coast of Crimea. Or the Coal and oil deposits beneath Donbas.
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  6061. Bourgeois capitalism is what created the computer you are using right now. Bourgeois capitalism expanded on the DARPA program to give you the internet you are enjoying. If you hate capitalism so much, I invite you to move to North Korea where the ruling Worker's Party shares your ideology.
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  6062. While the White Husband-Black Wife cohort is one of the SMALLEST interracial marriage cohorts, I find it incredibly telling that those marriages are THE MOST STABLE, edging out White Husband-Asian Wife and White-White Marriages for most successful.
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  6063. The state, naturally. And they have the Constitution on their side. Sovereign power of the State as described by the Federalist Papers is why Disney is going to lose; they cannot monopolize power that was bestowed on them by the State of Florida.
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  6064.  @leno1er  Black people disagree with you. When even THEY are calling out Obama for failing them, shills like you have lost the plot.
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  6065.  @DiviAugusti  TPP isn't a self-own, it was acknowledgement that the agreement was basically giving the store away to China. Keep shilling for the globalist elites who think of you as nothing more than chattel.
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  6066. So far it hasn't happened. France didn't use nuke in Vietnam, nor did the US. Either the USSR nor the USA use nukes in Afghanistan. And Nukes have yet to be used in Ukraine.
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  6067. I'm inclined to believe it is a bad case of sour grapes.
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  6068. Or any combat related game for that matter.
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  6069. And this is why the US constitution's Bill of rights exists. China is doing today what King George III and his courts often did. Arbitrarily jailed and punished people on flimsy charges of treason (espionage is China's favorite crime to prosecute). Read the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th Amendments because they were written for this exact reason.
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  6070. The problem with this guy is that he would censor and silence reporters like those at WION.
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  6071. I was hoping Putin would clap back at him. Alas, it didn't happen.
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  6072. Alito is still too flakey. Alito could have issued injunctions in 2020 but chickened out. I guarantee you that had the shoe been on the other foot, Kagan, "The Wise Latina", and Breyer would have most certainly issued injunctions.
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  6073. Begging for help? What rock have you been hiding under? Put down the Vodka comrade.
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  6074.  @dal6984  Copium. Pure copium on your part. Of course Ukraine needs weapons. They cannot rely on Warsaw equipment forever. And if they want to retake Crimea, they will need the heavy armor and vehicles to do it. You are just making excuses like a typical hyper partisan, and the hard facts bedamned. You will make a mountain out of a molehill to deflect from the details that shatter your narrative.
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  6075.  @classygentlemangaming8400  When we were united against a common foe, whether it be the Crown in 1776 or the Japanese in December of 1941.
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  6076.  @classygentlemangaming8400  E Plurbus Unim is the motto of the US for a reason. The idea was that DESPITE those differences we were united in a common cause. That there were and are existential threats that rise above petty differences. Today we don't have that united cause. Our leaders are intentionally setting us against each other to defeat us in detail.
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  6077. Probably because people actually looked at the cross-tabs and realize the poll had a 16% bias in favor of the Democrats making it completely worthless.
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  6078.  @WangAiHua  All things being equal, you would be correct. Except, all things are NOT equal. Russia has shown time and again that between equipment and training they are not the same as Ukrainian forces.
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  6079. Just like what the dictator of Belarus did.
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  6080. Cost of living is too high. Better to bring her here. Though I think you will have a hard time finding one. There are still certain negative connotations and pressures in their culture against a Japanese woman marrying a Gaijin.
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  6081.  @arslanrauf3641  It is funny how you choose to blatantly ignore anything that does not comport to your myopic view of the world.
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  6082.  @start3215  Yeah, on paper that might be true, but theory is not always reality. Case in point is the sinking of the Moskva. On Paper there is no reasonable possibility of her being sunk by just two Neptune missiles. And yet sunk she was. Same with the Russian Air Force. It should be the second strongest in the world and yet their birds keep crashing due to poor maintenance.
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  6083.  @start3215  Wow, pot meet kettle. Rather than debate merits, you just engage in logical fallacies such as non-sequiturs. That proved you know you have lost the plot. PS, your copium over the loss of the Muscovite Flagship shows that you can't accept the fact that the Russian Navy is so incompetent that they can't be bothered to do proper maintenance, much less effective damage control. There is ZERO excuse for that ship now imitating a submarine.
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  6084.  @start3215  Hyperbolae doesn't make your argument, it is yet another logical fallacy, this time appeal to emotion. When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
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  6085.  @start3215  Clearly I am living rent-free in your head because you have provided not a single counterargument of substance, only engaging in ad hominin personal attacks and logical fallacies. You have lost the plot and you know you can't argue the merits.
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  6086.  @start3215  You can't argue the merits so you attack the Messager. Typical response from an unsophisticated troll pushing ideology rather than truth. You wouldn't know truth if it bit you on the nose.
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  6087.  @start3215  Pot meet kettle. Accuse your critics of the very things you are doing to cause confusion. Also known as psychological projection. I aggregate data points from various sources and then run it through logic and reason. You chose to cherry pick your information and filter it through emotions. Which one cleaves closer to the truth?
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  6088.  @start3215  "To be ignorant of the past is to remain always a child” – Marcus Tullius Cicero And with that, your claim that only personal experience is the only truth is debunked. "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest." -Confucius, author of "The Analects"
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  6089.  @start3215  Yeah, quoting yourself doesn't count in debate. For one, it is blatant hubris and narcissism. But thank you for admitting that you can't defend your position and instead resort to self-aggrandizement.
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  6090.  @start3215  Learn to debate. Quoting a well-known source is the HIGHEST virtue in debate and is practically unassailable. But you, however, chose to upend the table and throw a hissy fit like a child because you are losing. You have lost the plot.
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  6091.  @start3215  Dudem you keep digging yourself into a deeper hole. Some people don't feel a need to feed your narcissism.
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  6092. Lebanon seized a Russia ship suspected of carrying stolen Ukrainian grain. You don't think that ALL Russian shipments would not also be impounded?
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  6093. The US has supported Israel since its founding in 1948. The idea that the US's standing in the Middle East will suffer because of support of Israel blatantly ignores that historical fact. As far as accusations of genocide, the Indians sent in investigators, and they failed to find any evidence of those claims. Also, it was the US that pressured the South African government through sanctions to release Nelson Mandela and end Apartheid. Your rewriting of history shows you have no clue about what you are talking about.
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  6094. "If you don't read the news, you are uniformed. If you read the news, you are misinformed," -Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain.
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  6095.  @PlainOlPatty  First reason is that most childhood diseases which delay puberty have been eliminated. For example, scarlet fever. Secondly, there are lots of growth hormones in our food.
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  6096.  @davidr2299  That is a strawman argument that will never come to pass, and you know it. Stop arguing from absurdity. The government has no business regulating condoms. That is unless you believe in government totalitarianism, which I suspect you do.
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  6097. What if they hold him at Rikers? You know how often the prisoners end up dead under dubious circumstances.
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  6098.  @Jahn_Pah_Jonz  Are you trying to make a point or just showing that you don't have an original idea in your head, and hence, not really suited for role playing games?
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  6099. Agreed. If the court declares that NONE of the votes out of the county are valid in the next election until they fix their shit, you WILL see them get thing in order post-haste.
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  6100. Because the wokeistas think that those "species" are stand-ins for midgets, Asians, blacks, Hispanics, et al. They are jumping in fear of phantoms created by their own delusions.
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  6101. Page is the Boy who cried "WOLF!"
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  6102.  @tikifreaky5204  Possible, by highly unlikely. Occam's Razor says that too many variables exist for that to be the most likely scenario.
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  6103. Keeping the nevertrumpers out of the Biden camp is critical to a Trump victory.
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  6104. May the Japanese, Koreans, and Taiwanese bury Tinsel Town.
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  6105. Or the Soviet Commissariat Courts.
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  6106. Agreed. Putin ironically is getting the Neo-Soviet empire he always wanted, only he isn't the one running it.
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  6107. Indeed. A number of the minefields may now be rendered inert because of the flooding.
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  6108. They realize this will be remembered alongside the Reichstag Fire which put a particular National Socialist Party into power.
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  6109. What you consider "proper alternatives" is not necessarily what they consider acceptable alternatives. LNG for the US is a viable one for many nations in Europe. Only Germany is against it because their insane green movement is also against nuclear power.
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  6110. Not really. It is the vultures, jackals, and other carrion eaters that benefit from the carnage of war.
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  6111. Pot meet kettle. It was previous leadership that crushed dissenting views and shadow banned people. If you think that the despots are wining on Twitter, then you need to get more convincing arguments. The best answer to bad speech is MORE and BETTER speech. "When you tear out a man's tongue, you don't prove him a liar, you simply show the world you fear what he has to say," -George R.R. Martin, author of "A song of Fire and Ice" more commonly known as "A Game of Thrones".
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  6112.  @waywardlyfe3092  Stop apologizing for violations of section 230. "When you tear out a man's tongue, you don't prove him a liar, you merely demonstrate to the world you fear what he has to say," -George R. R. Martin.
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  6113. Annyo haseyo!
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  6114. But what constitutes "minimum amount"? Each person will have a different answer to that question.
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  6115.  @shadowbanned636  Or people have more important things to do that simply attend a really that they know will be the same as every other Trump rally. Also, NOBODY attended Biden's rallies and he still somehow won the 2020 election.
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  6116.  @shadowbanned636  They occurred, but like a typical propagandist, you simply ignore that they occurred. I guess you don't remember, Trump was mostly self-financed in 2016, having run the CHEAPEST campaign in American history save for George Washington's in 1788. Hillary had one of the largest campaign collections in American history and it didn't do her a damn bit of good. Money doesn't buy elections; it simply facilitates a good message. All the money in the world will not save a failure of a campaign. Just ask Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, or GEORGE MCGOVERN.
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  6117. Not quite. The SCOTUS is NOT fixed by the Constitution though it was proposed at the Philly Convention of 1787. The ONLY reason why it has not been expanded is simply tradition. Nothing else has limited the number of justices.
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  6118. This is the New York SLIMES we are talking about. They have always been a surrender monkey rag.
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  6119. Agreed. When his critics are parroting the propaganda leaflets that DPRK are accusing him, there is more to the story.
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  6120.  @Diggnuts  These anti-Zelensky guys are obessed with Jewish conspiracy theories. They read Czar Nicholas 2's fiction book "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" too many times.
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  6121.  @Diggnuts  If you think Hitler's Holocaust is the answer, you are sadly mistaken. Nations that held their Jewish populations in esteem have prospered while those who revile them have invariably degenerated into barbarism. Incidentally, most of the banking industry is NOT dominated by Jews. WW2 basically drove them out of the business and back into their traditional roles as merchants and innovators. There is a very good reason why only Israel challenges the US as far as technological break throughs. "Those that bless you, I will bless. And those that cruse you I shall curse. And through you, a bless on all the nations and families of the world," -Genesis 12:3
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  6122. Or Jim Crow, but over medical issues rather than race.
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  6123.  @David-rv6dn  Put down the Bourbon, you are drunk. BTW, Vichy France under Philippe Petain were enthusiastic collaborators. But you don't want to talk about that, do you? Don't care to address the RAMPANT antisemitic history of France because it is easier to throw stones at the US. Marquis de Lafayette was too good for you and you betrayed his legacy.
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  6124.  @vaccinatedanti-vaxxer  Yeah, Suncheon has a very stable population with plenty of young folks. I almost married a girl from there, but she wasn't ready. Most Korean wait until their late 20s, early 30s and she was just getting out of college in her early 20s.
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  6125.  @philippebrehier7386  Yeah, and the people who you are complaining about not obeying the law are the ones going after Trump.
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  6126. Yea, a completely unrealistic backstory. Someone who grew up in that environment of activism HATES the military. Often thinks they are all baby killers.
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  6127. And he had quite a wit too! "You are drunk, Mr. Churchill!" "Yea, but in the morning I'll be sober and you will still be ugly!"
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  6128. The problem is that the people complaining about it are neo-Bolshevicks whose ideas suck and so blame capitalism for their own failures.
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  6129. Ukraine is not so stupid as to shell a nuclear power plant. Unlike the Russians, they will NOT use it as an ammunition dump.
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  6130. So you believe in typecasting? A great actor can play both roles very effectively.
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  6131. Or possibly Dicktor van Doomcock, aka Overlord DVD.
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  6132. Proof of concept is not the same as combat operations. Japan learned that the hard way in WW2 at Midway.
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  6133.  @bink  Intent only matters for murder, NOT for manslaughter. And he can clearly be bagged for VOLUNTARY manslaughter because he knew pointing a gun at someone was dangerous.
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  6134.  @windywednesday4166  You are blame shifting. First rule of gun safety is to treat ALL guns as loaded and to never point it at anyone unless you fully intent to discharge the weapon. Baldwin is who held the gun when it went off. All other considerations are irrelevant.
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  6135.  @shaynegadsden  Yeah, your example of the car mechanic is just wishful thinking. It is the responsibility of the driver for the condition of his vehicle. Even if the mechanic is negligent, it is the operator who holds the primary responsibility for choosing to operate the vehicle in that condition, knowingly or not. The point is, while you can put SOME blame on the armorer, the Lion's share rests solely with Baldwin, the man who was holding the weapon when it went off. All other considerations are secondary at best, and making excuses (ie rationalization fallacy) and victim blaming at worst.
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  6136.  @shaynegadsden  If you actually look at those cases, you are greatly overstating the responsibility of the mechanics. SOME culpability is not PRIMARY responsibility. Who is responsible for hiring that mechanic and who is responsible for not checking that they did their job correctly? Again, that is the obligation of the person operating the vehicle. Then there is the dirty little detail that there was live ammunition in Balwin's gunbelt. Ask yourself why! It only further drives home the point that Baldwin was acting with willful and reckless disregard for safety. Again, all I am hearing is excuses (rationalization fallacy).
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  6137.  @shaynegadsden  Again, I hear excuses, not actual justification. Yes, the owner IS responsible for the condition of his vehicle, even if the mechanic screwed up. There is no getting around that. Nor is there getting around the obligation of the vehicle operator for the condition of the vehicle. Again, all of this is just a poor attempt by you to deflect blame for Baldwin who is absolutely and fully responsible for discharging his firearm and his reckless actions resulting in the death of Hutchenson. Gun Laws and Gun Cases have unambiguously made it clear that the person holding the firearm is fully responsible for any discharges of that weapon. Once it was in his hand, Baldwin assumed full responsibility for what happened with that weapon.
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  6138.  @shaynegadsden  You cite a case regarding an incompetent mechanic as applicable to gun law and case law involving firearms shows a gross misunderstanding of how law actually works. Time and again the courts have stated that the person in possession of a firearm is responsible for the disposition of that firearm. You are not showing proof, you are engaging in logical fallacies to absolve Baldwin of responsibility. Precedent in gun case law will not be ignore just because you think an armor is to blame. Having an armorer does NOT absolve the person holding the firearm, and never has.
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  6139.  @shaynegadsden  It does not apply to gun case law. Case Law regarding guns takes priority over your example EVERY TIME. An armorer is not responsible when someone acts irresponsibly with a firearm. And armorer's primary job is STORAGE of said firearms, not their disposition once in the hands of another. Case law has NEVER absolved the person holding a firearm of their responsibility for the disposition of said firearm. Your refusal to acknowledge that shows you are not acting in good faith. Hence why you are just making excuses.
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  6140.  @shaynegadsden  WRONG. Baldwin's actions have EVERYTHING to do with this. Hers is only tangentially related. Again, you blatantly ignore case law involving guns which clearly refute your statements. Federal and state statutes do NOT get superseded by Hollywood set regulations. Nothing about Gun Law gets abrogated by the rules on set. Learn how gun laws actually work before you pontificate in complete ignorance.
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  6141.  @shaynegadsden  Actually, there are NUMEROUS cases involving accidental discharge of a firearm. This subject has been WELL tread. Your "legal experts" are like most lawyers; they are paid to claim practically anything and everything in court. But that doesn't mean they are correct. Try watching Robert Barnes and Viva Frei. They have much more practical experience than hacks like legal eagle.
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  6142. @R The problem is that the big tech are the ones causing it by pushing the liberal platforms in states like California. And then they try to import them to red states. Make no mistake, they will play BOTH sides of the aisle much like Komarovski in the movie "Doctor Zhivago".
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  6143.  @chillchinna4164  Your lack of foresight is astounding. The war in Ukraine is the very War NATO has been expecting to fight for the last 70 years. Only, it is being fought on former Soviet soil rather than on German soil. And even better, we have the former Warsaw Pact on our side instead of against us. Further, American blood isn't being shed. The Ukrainians are spilling their blood on OUR behalf to keep us safe and to wear down the Russian Bear.
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  6144.  @TaxMan1776  Thank you for conceding that you can't actually refute anything I said. Your childish temper tantrum shows that you should let the adults talk.
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  6145. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. And Geeky is a FIRE REDHEAD to match that temper. She truly is a granddaughter of Boudica (fiery warrior queen of the Celts).
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  6146. I second that recommendation.
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  6147.  @thefool1086  Why? That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence (Hitchens's razor).
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  6148. So is term limits for the POTUS unconstitutional? Why not repeal that? If it is good enough to limit the POTUS, it is good enough to apply to Congress as well. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
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  6149. @ "It takes away the choices of the people." You presume that they actually have a choice under the current system. They do not. That is a strawman argument on your part. "Washington volunteering stepped down after 2 years" Which Washington? President Washington did, but FDR DIED IN OFFICE. NOBODY in DC voluntarily leaves; they "step down" because they are forced to do so.
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  6150. I chose Yevgraf's words in "Doctor Zhivago": "it was a war between the Allied and German upper classes - and which of them won was of total indifference."
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  6151.  @CatsJP  Get over Trump, he and Musk are living rent free in your head.
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  6152. Agreed. The fact that they ignore how many Haley voters in New Hampshire were cross-over Democrats explains why there was lower numbers of gun owners in her voting block. They are cherry picking their numbers to push an agenda. "Figures don't lie, but liars figure," -Mark Twain.
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  6153.  @tedmarley4341  How about the fact that they blatantly ignore that only 30% of the Haley voters classify themselves as Republican while the other 70% call themselves "independents"(which means most, but not all were cross-over Democrats). These numbers come from CNN!
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  6154. All three issues (border, Israel, and Ukraine) should be separate single-issue bills. Yet BOTH sides are playing games to posture and grandstand.
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  6155. Best description I have heard for the D&D movie.
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  6156.  @Marvlesz  Wrong. In the 1948 partition, the Arabs got all of the good farmable land and the Jews were given the swamp and desert. In the time since, the Israelis turned the desert into a pastoral paradise while the Arabs polluted and spoiled their land.
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  6157. EXACTLY!!! They are trespassing foreign alien nationals. Any other description is a gaslighting attempt.
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  6158. Actually, American banking is more like Alexander Hamilton and Henry Knox's vision. Andy Jackson HATED central banking which is why he abolished Hamilton's National Bank.
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  6159. Does that professor talk about the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository?
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  6160. Indeed. The Berlin Wall wasn't to keep people out, it was to keep them in. Complete inverse of the Wall on the US southern border.
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  6161. Ironically, the media created him. The Apprentice gave him the experience to handle media. And the monster they created has consumed them. I am loving it!
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  6162. Apples to oranges. Farming is not as intensive as munitions production. And Russia does have lots of land to farm.
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  6163. WRONG. The USSR didn't declare war and invade until TWO DAYS AFTER Hiroshima. They continued pushing on Japan taking the Kuril Islands long after Japan had surrendered.
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  6164. @MI6 I never said that YOU insinuated that. Try actually reading what I wrote rather than just jump to conclusions.
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  6165. Up, a bad case of sour grapes on their part.
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  6166. Indeed. In 2016 he should have been supporting Jim Webb. He effectively got on the Trump train after dropping out of the race.
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  6167. He is a typical banker that Tommy Jefferson warned about. All interested in playing a numbers game with inflation and deflation to erode buying power and enslave the grandchildren of the men who built this country.
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  6168. NOT good. They have an obligation to do their job to the best of their ability. They are suppose to act with upmost professionalism. All their actions have done is to UNDERMINE faith and trust in the system. That isn't good, that is counter productive and makes the situation worse. Prosecutorial misconduct is NOT something you should be cheering.
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  6169.  @octoman_games  You are rationalizing his actions. it isn't enough to win, it HOW you win. And in the courts, purposely violating Constitutional rights IS NEVER HONORABLE. Lie, cheating, and stealing are the actions of a villain, not a hero. There is NOTHING appropriate about Binger's behavior. Men of character and principle stand up to a mob. Dirty cowards pander to mobs. Your whole contention is predicated on the myth that appeasement works; it never does.
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  6170. The banality of evil.
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  6171. NORAD learned NOTHING from Japan's Fu-Go balloon bombs.
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  6172. Don't forget Stalin's hand in the situation. The exclave of Naxçıvan was specifically his creation.
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  6173. There is a better term to use for a male who removed the frank and beans: a Eunuch. Or a Gelding.
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  6174.  @richspeck8932  "Chest feeding" sounds way too much mike "chestbuster" from the Aliens franchise.
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  6175.  @hb9145  Yeah, so did Lyndon Banes Johnson. He called his "jumbo" and claimed that was why the US was in Vietnam.
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  6176. Agreed. What is the point of the GOP approving all of the left's Judge candidates, yet the left CONSTANTLY "Bork" the candidates the right puts up and blocks them?
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  6177. Funny how the Democrats ALWAYS get their candidates confirmed, yet the GOP candidates regularly get "Borked"? (Look up Robert Bork)
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  6178. Bugs and Daffy. Always a classic.
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  6179. Word is, his "doctor" isn't even an MD, just like Jill isn't an MD. Another member of Biden Incorporated crime family.
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  6180. And Glass Stegal was put in place to prevent it. That was until Dodd-Frank repealed those protections.
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  6181. Yeah, some folks don't understand why Steelmanning your opponent can actually cause the ENTIRE LINE to collapse. If you shatter the strongest point on the line, the rest will realize they have no chance when the steamroller turns towards them.
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  6182. Just another disparagement from politically illiterate internet personalities. The GOP is not monolithic as they would have you believe.
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  6183. Indeed. Religious conservatives don't have a monopoly on faith. And their blind zealotry often does more harm to their cause than they care to admit.
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  6184. Yet the Kaiser's army under Hindenberg humiliated both Tsarist Russia AND Soviet Russia. Putin's leadership is as effective as The Soviet Red Army was under Leon Trotsky.
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  6185.  @rejvaik00  The Greeks whom the West love to claim descent from are who arguably pioneered both modern Democracy and Republican governance. And as Aristotle pointed out, they invariably degenerate into despotism. Even the Hebrews who started out as a decentralized confederation of tribes eventually became a dictatorship under an absolute monarch.
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  6186.  @rejvaik00  Where did I defend Russia? I didn't. You simply jumped to that conclusion because I offered a different perspective. I was simply pointing out that as much as the West like to hubristically praise its form of government, it is not the typical state of human existence. I agree that Russia needs to break the cycle. But them breaking that cycle will not matter if the West degenerates into the very same despotism as the old Soviet Union.
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  6187.  @Tespri  You are making a distinction WITHOUT a difference. And those who cause the descent into despotism are WORSE that the despot himself.
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  6188.  @Tespri  That is NOT what I said, and you know it. How about you actually read what I said instead of trying to twist and contort meaning that doesn't exist in what I said. I said those who CAUSE the fall into despotism are worse than the tyrant. Why? Because they are slavers on a national level, having sold their own people into slavery to the whims of an autocrat. An inherited despotism, whether Monarchy or Shogunate is less terrible. "Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome. Julius was always ambitious, but he was just one man," -Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator, lawyer, and politician: 45 BC.
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  6189.  @Tespri  Again false narratives, strawman arguments and blatantly disingenuous claims. Much like Nicolo Machiavelli, I am pointing out the blatantly obvious, but rather than see it for the critique it is, you improperly see it as a tacit endorsement. Such is typical of the worst readers as Fredrich Nietzsche observed. Actually, I did if you bothered to even pay attention. Cicero was highly critical of the people who empowered first Pompey, then Julius Caeser then finally Mark Anthony before the last one had him put to death. "So mass murdering people on basis of their ethnicity/class/opinions is less bad than "selling of own people". Yet another strawman argument and a non-sequitur. But I get it, you are trying to act virtuous while achieving nothing. "A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." as Shakespeare aptly said.
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  6190. His campaign folks are connected to the Veritas case against James O'Keefe. That should tell you something about the people getting behind DeSantis.
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  6191. There were anti-tank guns in WW2, Korea, and Vietnam. It isn't that the tank has outlive its purpose, it is that the people using them have forgotten how they are best employed. More people should read Heinz Guderian who always advocated for combined arms.
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  6192. We had the infamous "Demon Core" ready to go into a weapon. The only reason why Louis Slotten was able to "tickle the dragon's tail" was because it was not used in the war. But I agree that another three to five more years of fighting was possible to pacify the islands.
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  6193.  @gifthorse3675  The only GOP votes that will go to RFK Jr. are the nevertrumper votes that would not vote for Trump anyhow. The rest of the GOP voters, even the reluctant voters are NOT going to vote against Trump.
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  6194. Soviet Pravda. That is how one can be both. And considering how much these uranliaists have a hard of for the USSR, it kind of makes sense.
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  6195. Does the job description include facilitating human trafficking? CBP is actively aiding and abetting human smuggling.
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  6196.  @nocturnalverse5739  That isn't an argument, it is an ad hominin (logical fallacy). It also shows that you can't refute my point. "When the debate is lots, slander become the tool of the loser," -attributed to Plato. "When your argument is weak, abuse the plaintiff," -Marcus Tullius Cicero.
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  6197.  @nocturnalverse5739  I do have a point, but you refuse to even address it. The fact that you think you have to respond saying that you don't betrays your claim. Learn to debate. Your problem is that CBP's collaboration with cartel engaging in human trafficking is an indefensible position. So, knowing that, you try to delegitimize it by attempting discount it out of hand. That just serves to show your insincerity.
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  6198.  King Of Dust  No, the myth YOU have bought into is that in order to be equal you have to be exactly the same. That is the bigotry of the left. In effect, you agree completely with the leftist premise that only by being exactly the same can you be equal. That is a logical fallacy.
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  6199.  King Of Dust  Just because you declare it so does not make it so. You need to stop accepting the premise that only by being exactly the same can we be equal. That is short sighted and bigoted. That is the exact line of thinking behind racists, sexists, and other folks who have superiority complexes.
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  6200.  @WeAreHere-42  "Gaslighting"? How about pot meet kettle. You just don't want to admit that you have completely bought into the narrative of the left and simply taken the "controlled opposition" position of their false choice dilemma. Try thinking outside the box instead of the yes/no or black/white absolutism. Only the Sith deal in absolutes.
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  6201. Why? It is a tool of the Red Chinese govenrment.
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  6202. Nice job victim blaming. Russia didn't have to invade. Don't make excuses for unjustified military incursions.
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  6203. Indeed. Had they simply handed over Bin Laden as we demanded, we would have left them alone. But of course, their Islamist ideology won't let them abandon a fellow Jihadi, even if doing so would spare the rest of them from annihilation.
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  6204. Yeah, I just don't see that play to be realistic. I am glad it made you think though. And that is the point of speculative fiction.
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  6205. An Asian girl would have done a better job.
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  6206. Indeed. They have become globalist shills.
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  6207. And that is the sad irony, isn't it? The people who whine most about racist and istaphobia CREATE the very monster they crusade against by turning people off and insulting them.
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  6208. Yeah, their lost decade seems to be the one thing the West has become really good at emulating. And that is NOT a good thing.
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  6209.  @theoc007  Who thinks that capitulating to totalitarian despotism is a good thing? If you would rather live on your knees as a slave rather than die on your feet as a free man (or woman), then you do NOT deserve the rights you now currently enjoy. Yours is the words of Nevile Chamberlain who chose dishonor over war.....and will still get war.
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  6210. Vulgar and repulsive, but a spot on analogy.
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  6211. Milley should be court-martialed and sent to Leavenworth for his gross incompetence. Worse, he has sabotaged the combat readiness of the military by playing woke games.
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  6212.  @commiemeth  How about you actually make a relevant rebuttal?
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  6213. So, what is the alternative? Solar and wind is NOT viable without massive government subsidies. Only Nuclear is a realistic alternative for cheap energy. And without cheap energy, your economy collapses.
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  6214. Free JUDEA!
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  6215. Except the Salton Sea was created artificially, and completely by accident.
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  6216.  @petem.3719  Sure, you keep telling yourself that. Photo evidence says otherwise.
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  6217. Taiwan doesn't have the resources to maintain a supercarrier. Japan might, and I would be okay with them having a couple.
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  6218. Considering that Patreon is going to be shelling out big cash in a settlement with both Owen Benjamin and Count Dankula, nobody in their right mind would put money through that laundering system.
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  6219.  @elliekwong3180  Pure delusional psychotic fantasy. But hey, if that helps you sleep at night, that is your problem.
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  6220.  @jeanmoke1  Free JUDEA!
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  6221.  @casualsuede  And that is the kicker. Everyone wants to live in Seoul hence the high rates. Costs in smaller towns like Pyongtaek, Suncheon, and the like are much lower.
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  6222. You realize that Putin stole Crimea when Biden was running Obama's foreign policy? When Trump was in office, Putin didn't dare cause mischief. It was not until Brandon was in the Oval Office that Putin attacked Ukraine.
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  6223. "Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin good forces have invented or made” -J.R.R. Tolkien.
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  6224. And a favorite quote of president John F. Kennedy, the last good Democrat.
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  6225. Californication
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  6226. It could be a British one. Look up Operation: Mincemeat. That was one truly bizarre counter-intelligence plot.
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  6227. Liz is a washed up has-been. A product of nepotism and she is angry that upstarts like Trump "stole" her "birthright"(ie inherited feudalism).
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  6228.  @RasCricketSmallAxe  Funny, because Vladdy Daddy Putin endorsed Harris.
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  6229. Liz Cheney is a washed-up has-been from a dying breed of political feudalists.
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  6230.  @mr.m2659  I know that the Chinese, like most Asians a great at putting on a smiling face while secretly in their minds they are wishing daggers in your back. There is a certain nuance in the eastern mentality that you do NOT complain about a bad situation. Unlike people in the west, they keep most of their grievances to themselves. As to my original point, the media in the west are obsessed about InCels, but that is with a population that is nominally more women than men. What do you think is going on when the men out number the women? Do you really believe they are NOT frustrated young men unable to get some? There is a very good reason why non-Chinese women are trafficked INTO Red China from places like North Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines, and elsewhere. In short, try digging deeper rather than take things at face value. What you see on the surface is glitz and lacquer. The Chinese have a word describing gold on the outside, but rot and decay on the inside.
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  6231.  @mr.m2659  Dude, I know that Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Fillipeno, and Hmong are all different groups. But they do share commonalities much like how Latin countries (France, Spain, Italy, etc), Germanic Countries (Deutchland, Austria, England, Denmark, etc), and Scandinavian countries all share similar values. In the case of the East, they all share Buddhism and Confucianism as common influencers on values. Taoism has lesser influence on Japan but Taoist influence is seen on China's neighbors Korea and Vietnam. Fajia, or Chinese Legalism also has a major but more subtle impact on Eastern culture. Your problem is that you are trying to highlight differences that actually have very little bearing on the issue. Your problem is that you are using appeal to experience as if somehow only those who have been to mainland China have the only valid arguments. That is a logical fallacy and only proves you cannot debate the merits. I have made valid points you cannot refute and so you seek to attack the messenger to discredit the message.
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  6232.  @mr.m2659  Repeating yourself is not an argument. It is a broken record. You have made no valid point nor rebuttal to my argument. You are effectively throwing in the towel by resorting to logical fallacies. Debate me. Make an actual argument because "you have to go there" isn't an argument.
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  6233.  @mr.m2659  What do I think might happen? Well, the June 4th Tiananmen Square Protests for one. Another Cultural Revolution like the 1970s for another possibility. Seriously, you are ignorant of recent Chinese history. And your second comment only proves that you are closeminded and unwilling to even consider anything that does not confirm your own biases.
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  6234.  @mr.m2659  Spouting communist propaganda on cue like Pavlov's Dog. The party NEVER represents the people's will. And your claims that the people are happy smiling citizens is a Potemkin Village . But then you already knew that considering you try to pass off blatant lies as if they were fact.
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  6235.  @mr.m2659  And it is amazing how gullible you are, taking things at face value. But then again, people like you who throw around the terms "Yank" and "Yankee" fail to realize your perceived insults are a badge of honor we wear with pride. Oh, and I have spent several years in East Asia, thank you very much. My wife happens to be Chinese. It is a shame you let your chauvinism blind you to the perspectives of others; you are often guilty of the very same sins you accuse Americans.
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  6236.  @mr.m2659  You experienced a sophisticated Potemkin Village. You saw exactly what the Communist Party wanted you to see. But unlike "Worker's Paradise" of DPRK, they are not so blatant about it.
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  6237.  @mr.m2659  And that is not relevant to the issue. Nice job trying to move the goal posts. Whether someone has been to Mainland China or not does not in any way invalidate the points made. Once again you are resorting to a logical fallacy rather than debate the merits. Shall we continue you exposing how shallow your debate skills are?
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  6238.  Sc0ut Op  China is a VERY patriarchal society. The men are expected to take care of their parents; the girls are expected to take care of her husband's parents not her own. You demand people accept the girls? How about you learn about the culture and what makes them tick. Stop judging other societies by Western standards and values.
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  6239.  @HydratedBeans  My wife is Chinese Indonesian. My two sons are bi-racial white-Hakka Chinese. I served two years overseas in Asian and had an absolute blast. Unlike most "little America" people, I didn't stay cloistered in a cosmopolitan ghetto and instead went out into the countryside. No, I just actually happen to understand Eastern culture and their values. A Western-centric person like you doesn't even bother to learn about other cultures and consider what it is that makes them see the world from a different perspective.
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  6240.  Sc0ut Op  Ask the Chinese that question. It is a dilemma of their own creation, after all.
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  6241.  Sc0ut Op  Well, there you go trying to apply western values to another culture. How chauvinist and Euro-centric of you. Incidentally, the problem is less to do with culture and more to do with the PRC government's Stalinist control over a woman's reproductive rights. I don't see feminists in the West protesting the sexist polices of the PRC.
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  6242.  @HydratedBeans  Being married to someone is NOT the same as simply have a friend from that race/culture/ethnicity. Seriously, how can one be married into a culture they hate? How can one have mixed-race children with a person they are bigoted against? Or is that why you removed your comment? Because after posting it in an emotional outburst, you realized that it lacks any coherence? Cries of "racist!" and "bigoty!" have lost their meaning. At this point any wokescold who makes the accusation is just showing that they have lost the debate and cannot argue rationally. Ever heard of the story of "They Boy who Cried Wolf"? Yeah, that is you now. You know what is the biggest problem with your accusation of racism? It lacks long-term perspective. The reason why mixed-race marriages were unlawful in many cultures had to do with property inheritance. Especially in Antebellum Southern US, the power mongers didn't want the colored children of white fathers to become land owners and become part of the landed gentry. They did NOT want the situation that developed in French Creole New Orleans or former Spanish colonies where the mixed races population eventually came to hold most of the power and much of the wealth. Someone like me with mixed-race children has made a conscious choice to have the family legacy becoming less white and more mixed heritage.
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  6243. And what role would China have in either maintaining or destabilizing the region? Kazakhstan may want to attempt a balancing act between Beijing and Moscow, but Kygrgystan might decide to get in bed with the Chinese if they can guarantee that the Tajiks and Uzbeks not trouble them.
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  6244. They said the same thing about Helicopters after WW2. Wasn't true then and is not true now.
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  6245.  @DigitallySaved  The charges were pending the expiration of presidential immunity. Ford's pardon only covered those specific crimes and nohthing else.
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  6246. Agreed. I feel better when I eat mostly meat. This veggie diet crap just makes me miserable. The dirty detail that folks don't like to talk about is that you CAN substitute meat for bread/starch on a one-to-one basis. And the protein is BETTER for you than the empty carbs; the protein doesn't covert to fat as easy as carbs and so is more likely to be burned off than stored.
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  6247.  @christopherpittman8054  I do like bread, I just prefer it in MODERATION. But we should eat to live, not live to eat. Most people eat to the point where they are miserable. They don't seem to realize that gag reflex is the body telling them they have had enough.
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  6248. Koreans will not go extinct. The authors of this video are being hyperbolic to the point of being a farce. The population will decrease to an equilibrium point, then stabilize.
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  6249. Trump, yes. Biden, no. Biden's policies are basically a repeat of the Obama policies.
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  6250.  @johnmuthan286  Wow, completely off base. The Franking boom was a result of $100 a barrel oil. Franking stops being affordable when oil drops to about $50 a barrel. Interestingly, that is also the price where Russian oil breaks even. You want to know who is the biggest rival to franking? Look no further than the gulf states. The slowdown of the franking boom is to their benefit. Most of the anti-fracking campaigns were financed by the gulf oil states.
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  6251. "In a time of universal deceit, speaking the truth becomes an act of revolution, " -George Orwell. The problem is that this madness is a result of cultural marxism and moral relativism(with a healthy dose of existential nihilism). This same radical ideology is present in almost every country in the world. What is different is that some nations actually value their culture and heritage and so reject the underlying ideology that gives birth to the insanity.
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  6252. I don't think people would have had issue with an Asian girl in the role. The raven hair, ivory skin is actually a beauty ideal of Japan, Korea, and China (think geisha with the white face makeup). But no, they HAD to race swap the character for DEI clout. May the house of mouse burn to the ground for their stupidity.
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  6253. EEEXCCELLENTTTT!!!!!!! (in Montgomery Burns voice)
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  6254. @mark Mierzejewski When was that? You realize the media completely fabricated that just like they did with Nicolas Sandman and the Covington Catholic kids? Just like they lied about Kyle Rittenhouse. Just like they pushed the Jussie Smollett hoax.
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  6255.  @paladro  Are you shill for the neo-feudalist global elite?
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  6256. Just like with the AIDS epidemic, there is no coincidence.
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  6257.  @papabetadine724  I was not contradicting you, I was in agreement and providing more evidence in support of your position. And you are completely correct about the Chinese Communists in WW2. They NEVER fought the Japanese. In fact, they signed a secret protocol with Japan wherein the Reds could evacuate through Japanese controlled areas. It was Asia's version of the Molotov-Ribbentrop alliance.
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  6258. With how unhinged they are, how can one NOT be feeling schadenfreude? You get what you deserve, especially when you blatantly ignored the warnings not to do it.
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  6259. And so you engage in a number of anachronistic fallacies. You can only judge it by the information of the time, not what is revealed after the fact.
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  6260. HIMARS can only pockmark the dam, not structurally damage it. This was caused by Demolition charges.
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  6261.  @timber750  You are grasping at straws. HIMARS cannot do that kind of damage. Only directed charges from demolition explosives can do that.
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  6262. I don't know about and EMP. But I HAVE saved classic Trek material for my archive. I plan on reviving the franchise in a manner similar to that seen in the Babylon 5 episode "Deconstruction of the Stars" where Earth is bombed back into the stone age and the Rangers introduce the legends of the B5 crew to the local population.
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  6263.  @CoreyANeal2000  “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist”—Charles Baudelaire Those who apologize for evil by pretending it doesn't exist are the favored servants of the card-carrying villain. They are the "useful idiots" that Vlad Lenin talked about.
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  6264. Indeed. The worthless sons of Rupert are to blame for this. Had Wendy Deng been put in charge instead of them, Fox would never have gone to the dogs. She was a Media Mogul in Hong Kong and Taiwan after all.
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  6265. Remind people that by putting an "X" on the end, they are basically Anglofying it. In essence, the wokistas are white-washing Latin culture when they use that epitaph.
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  6266.  @chrisbova9686  Early on yes. But after he invaded Poland, that came to an end and Hitler was getting his supplies from The Soviet Union thanks to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Alliance. What support he lost in the US was replaced by support from Stalin. Or have you forgotten that little piece? With the exception of the Poles, most people overlook the "Pact of Blood" wherein the two dictators carved up Poland.
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  6267.  @Christmas-dg5xc  They were not "dumb enough" to attack Poland before the USSR. Had it not been for the Molotov-Ribbentrop alliance, neither Germany nor the Soviets would have invaded Poland. Seriously, you need to actually do some basic research. Part of that alliance was Hitler "allowing" Stalin to take what was left of the country in addition to the Baltic States. I suggest you read the book "Deadly Embrace" by Arthur Reed and David Fischer. It uses Germany and the USSR's own correspondence to disprove your contentions regarding the carving up of Poland.
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  6268.  @geraldcouture5319  I have no idea what you are talking about. I am being critical of that Quack, Tony Fauci and the hacks who blindly listen to him. There are too many people in the medical profession that don't have the balls to defy those in power. Such people should NEVER be trusted to make life and death choices over a person's health. When you put politics ahead of the well being of your patients, you cease being a doctor and become what the "doctors" at Nuremberg were.
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  6269.  @Christmas-dg5xc  Yeah, Youtube/Google has a bad habit of deleting my posts as well. I am glad that I could enlighten you and point you towards a good source on the Molotov-Ribbentrop alliance. Modern socialists don't like to talk about it as it proves there is very little difference between Soviet Communists and Fascist Nazis.
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  6270.  @Christmas-dg5xc  Hitler attacked first because Stalin insisted on it. Hitler's original plan called for Germany and the USSR to attack simultaneously, meeting in the middle to shake hands. It is all in the details of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, particularly the "secret protocol" that Lavrentiy Beria himself helped to craft.
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  6271. @Chthonic Look up the Nuremberg Doctor Trials. Don't take my word, do your own research.
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  6272.  @Christmas-dg5xc  Stalin's reasons? So that he would not look like the aggressor, obviously. He was trying to play the German belligerence against the French and British to increase he own influence. "Russia rescuing British Chestnuts from the fire" is the phrase he was said to have responded favorably to. There were many other concessions such as technology exchanges as well as diving Eastern Europe between the two from the Baltic to the Aegean. The point was that the Soviets were still very irritated over the loss of territory to the Poles in the Peace of Riga and wanted to see Poland obliterated for the embarrassment they suffered in the Polish-Soviet war of 1919-1921.
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  6273.  @coldwater5707  Oathbreakers, the whole lot of them. The only good soldiers in the US military today are the Field grade officers (O-3 to O-5s) and the mid level NCOs (E-5s to E-7s). The Senior Enlisted are just as corrupted as the flag officers. and both the junior enlisted and the junior officers are too wet behind the ears and naïve to understand what is an unlawful order.
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  6274.  @Christmas-dg5xc  Why did he take the risk? Because England and France had chickened out all those previous times. They did nothing when he first took the Sudeten, then taking Danzig from Poland and the rest of Czechoslovakia. They capitulated all of those previous times, why should it be any different this time? Even Stalin and the Soviets were shocked when France and the UK declared war after the invasion of Poland. Not even the NKVD under Beria expected the reaction of the Western Powers. Practically everyone except for Stalin and Hitler wanted to avoid a repeat of World War 1. THAT was why Hitler felt confident in his gamble, and why Stalin played along. Hindsight is 20/20. it is easy to look back and be critical of Hitler today, but at that time Winston Churchill was about the only person in Europe who took Hitler seriously. Try looking at it from the perspective of the 1930s rather than from the 2020s.
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  6275.  @janbaer3241  Parental rights is GOP kool-aid? Okay Bolshevik. The Kibbutz was an abject failure for a reason: no parental oversight, among other things.
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  6276.  @AlejandroDiazadiaz201  16 year old marrying an 18-year-old is NOT child marriage. Stop being intellectually dishonest. No state permits marriage under the age of 15 under ANY circumstance.
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  6277. He has already cut off his own balls, so it would not surprised me.
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  6278. Paul, you need to get out of your echo chamber. Tim Pool formerly of Vice and Fusion has been covering this for years now. He correctly points out that CBP has become a criminal enterprise facilitating human trafficking. Just because they have a badge doesn't mean they get to break Federal Laws.
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  6279.  Redbo Black  Walling it off will result in the exact same thing. You haven't really made a distinction.
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  6280.  @csharpe5787  Why is that? Is it because Hamas once they took power refused to let go of it or hold new elections? Elections have consequences as Barak Obama infamously said.
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  6281. The more things change, the more they stay the same. In 12,000 years of history, we are making the exact same blunders that were made in ancient Egypt, Ancient China, Ancient Persia, Rome, and many other examples. Technology only makes it easier for us to live down to our base animalistic natures.
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  6282. So you are saying that the Russian Army is so blind as to not see or stop Frogmen from placing demolition charges?
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  6283. And yet she refuses to call out the Bolshevism in our own country. She refuses to call the ACA what it is: Soviet Style Medicine. She refuses to call the left what they are: Communists. Just like everyone else who goes to DC, she got the frontal lobotomy and became part of the swamp.
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  6284.  @wharfrat9707  Hardly. But then such weaksauce arguments are typical of people who don't want to address the merits. Make an actual argument and refute me rather than act like a liberal leftist who attacks the messenger rather than the message.
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  6285.  @lyndsaymacdonald2486  So great that she is becoming a clone of RINO Susan Brooks, the woman she was elected to replace.
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  6286.  @dudeinanofficechair7662  They have amphibious tanks for landings, but they don't need many. And those are only meant to be used in a VERY specific situation, not as general-purpose tanks.
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  6287. Same here.
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  6288. White savior indeed. Some people don't want their words Anglicized (ie white washed).
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  6289. Indeed. By blowing the Damn, they have written off Crimea.
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  6290. Indeed. How often have "anonymous sources" proven to be completely fabricated stories? Russian Collusion in particular comes to mind. You would think people would learn to be skeptical, but alas, Mark Twain was correct when he said it is easier to lie to someone than get then to admit that they were lied to.
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  6291. They believed it was dead with the advent of the helicopter after WW2. Wasn't true then and is not true now.
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  6292. "Dust off, nuke it from orbit. only way to be sure," -Ellen Ripley, "Aliens".
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  6293. Something tells me that the non-woke writers don't even need union protections; their performance alone would protect them from the pink slip. Of course, that was before the rise of cancel culture.
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  6294. The Poll had a 16% Democrat sampling bias. That explains the numbers. And the Des Moine Register is a Democrat Shill Paper.
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  6295. The Japanese in WW2 were able to turn the Islands they held into warrens capable of housing tanks and artillery pieces. Taiwan being so much bigger can just as easily be a maze of tunnels and pill boxes against an invasion force.
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  6296. Indeed. Where is Mayor Pete Buttplug? He HAD to have authorized this.
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  6297. Tarriffs don't apply to domestic and locally produced products. If the Subaru plant in the US sources its parts from American manufacturers, then it becomes a domestically produced, foreign branded product and is not affected by tarriffs. Stop making the strawman argument of the globalist elites who want you to live in the pod and eat the bugs.
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  6298. Domestically sourced and produced isn't affected by tariffs. Hence the poor buying local don't ever pay tarriffs. Stop using the globalist elite's favorite strawman argument (logical fallacy).
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  6299. Considering that these wokistas are like the plague of locusts, that is a rather apt description.
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  6300. Wow, completely oblivious as to how nuclear energy actually works. You do realize that much of the fuel used in the west comes from dismantled Soviet nuclear weapons?
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  6301. Indeed. As Confucius said, "The superior man thinks of virtue, while the inferior man thinks only of comfort".
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  6302.  @goblin6587  Cultist calling other people cultists. Your behavior betrays you. By your own words you have outed yourself.
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  6303. @zappadallure Orange man lives rent-free in your head.
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  6304.  @AndyNYouTube  Cite the specific passage in the gospels. You can't because you know you are lying. "I never knew you, begone from me you workers of lawlessness!" -Matthew 7:23
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  6305. @ Cite the passage in the gospels. You can't because you don't know them. You teach a false doctrine. "I came NOT to overturn the law, but to fulfill it," -Matthew 5:17 "I never knew you. Begone from me you workers of lawlessness!" -Matthew 7:23
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  6306. NPR is the American version of the BBC: a mouthpiece for the government. No different from Soviet Pravda in practice.
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  6307. Shocked! Shocked I tell you! Here's your winnings, sir Oh, thank you. And they should be called "Child Nookie Network".
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  6308.  @jameslove5457  You realize it is the Biden administration that has been dragging its feet since day one? There were calls to send F-16s and Abrams after the Russians retreated from Kiev. It wasn't until the BRITISH gave Challenger tanks and their own aircraft that Biden finally relented. It doesn't take an act of Congress to release those assents, it takes a Commander in Chief to do that.
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  6309. Skynet is coming.
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  6310. The problem with Fukushima was not the reactor core but the cooling pools. Same with Zaporizhya. It is the pools to store the waste that pose the biggest threat.
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  6311. Nuremberg Trials for judges.
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  6312.  @jorgecarrejo  You don't understand how Federal Civil Rights cases work.
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  6313.  @JesusSaysMAGAtrashMAGAfilth  Grover Cleaveland rematch against Benjamin Harrison. Who won? Trump IS going to repeat Cleeland's feat for the very same reasons; buyer's remorse. Learn your history.
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  6314.  @jimhalpert0  Too bad most Muslims in the Middle Wast don't share your view. Neither do many of them in Europe. Unless and until reformation movements like Zuhdi Jasser's American Islamic Forum for Democracy or the Ahmadiyya movement (which REJECTS the violent Hadiths and are persecuted for it) become dominate, you are in the minority.
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  6315.  @jimhalpert0  Muslim Majority countries don't share your views. Until reformation movements like Zuhdi Jasser's American Islamic Forum for Democracy or the Ahmadiyya movement (which REJECTS the violent Hadiths and are persecuted for it) become dominate, you are in the minority.
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  6316. The media is gaslighting as usual. Take anything that "official" sources such as Rolling Stones say with a hefty dose of salt.
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  6317. Leif Erikson got to America before Columbus did. And St. Brendan of Ireland made it before either of them. In fact, Columbus may have been using St. Brendan's notes when he sailed West.
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  6318.  @aballofgrime7273  You might be surprised. Viking stories did eventually make it to Catholic Italy, from where Columbus originally made his pitch to sail West.
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  6319.  @aballofgrime7273  Columbus never actually landed on the North American continent. If anything, his voyages prompted the other European powers to colonize the New World. You are grossly overstating his "contribution to starting our nation". And no, this is not a woke argument, I am simply pointing out historical fact. I do NOT want to rename this day "Native Day" as there is nothing significant to Native American populations about this day to justify it.
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  6320.  @alphagamer9505  Tell that to Commodore Matthew C. Perry
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  6321. Indeed. Take one or two of the highest rated episodes and run that as a full feature Pixar CGI movie. The script would already be written for them!
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  6322.  @paulgibbon5991  Indeed. And Vranyo is a word that EVEYRONE in the world should become familiar with. For my own opinion, I think if Russia tried to launch nukes, they would detonate in the silo just like they did on K-129.
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  6323. Sadly, that is not how the court of public opinion works. People always assume the worst unless they have a personal stake in seeing it succeed.
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  6324. Their case of sour grapes is so obvious now, isn't it?
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  6325. Israel hasn't occupied Gaza since 2005. And Palestinians refuse to accept Israel's right to exist.
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  6326. They also detest apostasy. NOBODY is allowed to renounce wokeism.
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  6327. Tony Starke was right; you need to use a doomsday weapon AT LEAST ONCE to put the fear of God into everyone so that you never have to use them again.
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  6328.  @yellowcard7139  You are making a distinction without a difference. Who provides security for the State Department? The DoD and State Department in some ways are independent of each other and in other ways act in unison. As for the withdraw of armed forces, that was entirely DoD.
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  6329.  @yellowcard7139  Embassy security is provided by the United State Marine Corp, a part of the Department of Defense. The fact that you don't know that shows your ignorance on the subject. And the State Department RARELY uses PMCs in no small part because of the grey area they fall into regarding Mercenaries under the Geneva Convention.
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  6330.  @yellowcard7139  The USMC has ALWAYS been responsible for Embassy security. Consulates, however, are a different matter. I can forgive you for not knowing the difference between the two. If you find yourself in a hole, STOP DIGGING. "Better people THINK you a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt," -Mark Twain.
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  6331.  @yellowcard7139  You didn't teach me anything. You conflated the two to try and move the goalposts (logical fallacy). And whether I have worked at an embassy or not is an irrelevant red herring that has no bearing on the topic. It is an emotional appeal. My quick response leading you to make assumptions is yet another logical fallacy, this time an ad hominin personal attack. Either way, your use of those fallacies shows that you are desperate because someone debating merits would not need to resort to them to "win". Learn to code and debate.
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  6332. And the fear of nuclear winter is predicated on junk science. Michael Crichton among others have disproven that by pointing to the firebombing of both Japan and Germany as well as volcanic eruptions. Volcanic eruptions in particular need to be on an order of magnitude far greater than is possible by humans to even start to cause havoc on the climate.
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  6333.  Lisa Gentile  How? You realize that most public hangings were of white men? While lynchings were real, those were EXTRA-Judicial, not actual lawful hangings. Don't fall for the myths America haters perpetuate. "The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." John F. Kennedy
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  6334.  @rolandscales9380  Two words: Legacy media. The machine protects its own and crushes the competition.
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  6335.  @ShokujiAkai  I agree. Politics is not a linear spectrum as the intellectually lazy claim. I would argue it is better described as a tesseract (4 dimensional cube). And yes, the only simplification should be that authoritarians in practice are not that much different. Conservative or liberal shouldn't matter when it comes to the loss of freedom. Sadly, tribalism is preventing people from finding common cause against an existential threat.
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  6336. @Daniel We already have permanent Democrat rule with RINOS constantly shilling for the left, so what is the point? Stop lying to yourself and admit that we are already there.
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  6337. What says it hasn't? Afghan poppy farmers were growing it for the Talban and Al Qaeda, yet the US government turned a blind eye.
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  6338. Cope harder private conscriptovich.
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  6339. Cope harder. You can't fake the leaks from the Russian side that confirm much of what is reported in the West.
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  6340. Only Joe Manchin. The rest of the blue dogs were purged thanks to the actions of Obama and his ilk in conjunction with the Tea Party's blind sycophancy to RINOs.
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  6341.  @deltazeta9712  Not to mention the abuse of patients. "One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" greatly resembles what state mental hospitals were like. Nurse Ratchet (Louise Fletcher) was extremely common.
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  6342.  @therealajnelson  Hospice was a life saver for my family once my grandmother started losing her marbles to Alzheimer's dementia. Mental health hospitals should be run similar to elderly hospice, but with more oversight.
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  6343. Agreed. She foolishly believed that by giving into the freaks, she would be spared. But now that she has outlived her usefulness, they have turned on her.
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  6344. Pure delusion. Those 300k "fresh troops" are just barely trained conscripts in no way equal to a six-month trained Ukrainian. Slaves and non-volunteers make for poor soliders.
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  6345. Eco-terrorist logically ALSO have much to benefit from Nordstream going down. "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, stated by Sherlock Holmes
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  6346.  @gamerfortynine  Militant Greenies don't care. They think ANYTHING that produces carbon dioxide as a byproduct should be stopped. Recall, that Greta Thunberg demanded an end to ALL fossil fuels, including natural gas.
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  6347. You would hope, but more than likely they will simply be thrown out just like the election fraud cases were rejected.
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  6348. May the "Let it burn" parodies of Frozen commence. No, seriously, they are as humorous as they are dark.
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  6349. "True evidence" of Iraqi chemical weapons? You do realize that Saddam used Sarin gas on both the Kurds and the Sunnis? You do realize it was France under Jacque Chirac who sold Saddam those weapons on orders from the White House? Then there is the Sarin Gas shells used on American Troops during the Battle of Bagdad. There is also the convoy that famously fled the capital for Syria the night of the invasion. The US Air Force was ordered to stand down and NOT attack it despite surveillance showing it WAS the trucks Collin Power described at the UN. Finally, where did Assad get his chemical weapons used in the Syrian Civil War? Both Saddam and Assad were Baathists. Their public spat was a spectacle for the international audience.
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  6350. People have forgotten that the Japanese used balloons to send bombs to the US during WW2.
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  6351.  @stevedenis8292  Indeed. I am less worried about such a balloon crashing in remote Alaska than I am about it going over the ICBM silos. The Pentagon's cowardice has only emboldened China to move forward with its plans to invade Taiwan.
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  6352. And they should be blaming the insurance company for writing and signing that policy, not Trump. Insurance is a scam. I do not blame Trump for taking advantage of those scabs.
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  6353.  @lyampetit144  At this point, I would the US was like Belgium. A few months WITHOUT the US government operating would do wonder for us. "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." -Thomas Paine.
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  6354. Because there is no disincentive to NOT take risks. When government covers your losses, there is no reason to NOT take the big risk. If you have to eat the loss yourself, you are less likely to take the risk. Nothing ventured, nothing gained, as the saying goes.
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  6355.  @Potato-ru8nh  Dude, that is the cost of doing business. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Seriously, you need to understand how business works, and why your thought process actually rewards bad behavior and encourages more of these bank collapses.
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  6356. Sure, and let us ignore the irrefutable fact that Hunter Biden was a board member of Russian controlled Burisma. The GOP isn't controlled by Russia, the White House is. "If you have a man's brother, you are halfway there," -Yevgraf Zhivago, "Doctor Zhivago" (1965 film)
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  6357. How is it moderated? As I recall, it is molten Salt with graphite shell to reflect the neutrons. The major difference between thorium and uranium is the decay series; uranium decays into radon gas while Thorium is part of the Neptunium series and always decays into solid products.
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  6358.  @solaroid4442  How? That does not tell me anything. The reason why water moderated reactors are fail-safe is because when you boil off the water, the neutrons are no longer slowed and so escape ending the reaction. The water acts and the catalyst for the reactions. In graphite and molten-salt/molten metal reactors, you remove the moderating fluid and the reactions goes prompt-critical(thermo-nuclear detonation). High temperature does not stop reactions, it actually makes it MORE likely to detonate.
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  6359.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  You and I are not talking about the same thing. Look up how pressurized water reactors work. Water serves the same purpose as the graphite or a beryllium sphere in the "dragon's tail" experiments which killed Louis Slotin. But then again, you don't actually understand how nuclear reactors actually work. The fuel by itself should never be in a critical state. And placing it directly into the reactor should not directly put it in a critical state either. Seriously, you are nowhere near as smart as Admiral Rickover. That man knew nuclear power like nobody else in history. He actually surpassed Oppenheimer when it comes to expertise in the field.
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  6360.  @georgewashington1621  Yeah, that conventional hydrogen explosion prevents a thermonuclear detonation. That is actually a sign that the safeties are working. The fuel reacting with the casings of the fuel sticks and the control rods renders the nuclear reactions inert. Hydrogen is the by product. But sure, keep parroting the talking points of the anti-nuclear crowd. The technology of the reactor design selected by Admiral Rickover has only gotten better. Now contrast that to the abandoned reactor design they pulled out of the USS Seawolf.
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  6361.  @georgewashington1621  Only because the costs presented are based on retrofitting existing plants. The push for Thorium Salt reactors are making the same wild and outlandish claims that were made about Solar and Wind. Seriously, if the cost-benefit were there, it would have already been implemented decades ago.
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  6362. 2021 is the year of the Metal Ox or Steel Bull. According to ethnic Chinese, that means it will be a stubborn and troublesome year. Can you say 2020 redux?
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  6363. Name one SPECIFIC thing he was wrong. Generalities don't count.
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  6364. Actually, it was very rare to burn people at the stake. Most "found guilty" of witchcraft were convicted on other charges such as theft. You would have to do something very shocking to get the fire. Usually, it was women burned because drawn and quartering a woman was considered indecent.
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  6365.  @civicsr2cool  Yeah, and who was negligent about the proper maintenance on it? Just like with the pipes in Flint, the Democrats intentionally allow infrastructure to deteriorate so they have a ready-made crisis they can exploit.
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  6366.  @yusefdelacruz4811  Yeah, how many times have claims that something is non-toxic turned out to be incorrect? Just because people claim it is so is not always true. Some folks simply lie. This is especially true among the American leftists who push neo-Pagan Gaia worship disguised as climate activism.
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  6367. Top ranks are the ones responsible for creating the conditions where situations like this happen. Remember the Minot-Barksdale B-52 nuke incident that got Genral Mosby fired?
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  6368. Spoken like a shill for the corrupt DC machine.
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  6369. Depends. Short of blasphemy, repentance and remorse will bring mercy. What she did was the Woe of the Pharisees.
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  6370. How big is Central and South America? After Africa, Latin America taken together is the fastest growing part of the world, rivaling even India.
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  6371. The AI is only as smart as the people who program it. Ask Colonel Stanislav Petrov how reliable such missile identification programs are.
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  6372. Those over age 60 or with compromised immune systems might need it. The rest of us with strong immune systems don't.
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  6373. What logic? That men are expendable? That it is logical to keep 1/2 of the entire population out of the mobilization footing? Here is where your logic falters: the WASPs, WAVEs, and WAACs of WW2. And most of them were on the homefront. Don't forget, the USSR's most deadly snipers, pilots, and tank drivers in WW2 were women.
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  6374. But can he afford to simply hand over free weapons? The USSR believed they could but got out competed by the US.
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  6375. I'm hoping the hive acts more like a hornet's nest. Bees only sing once and then die. Hornets sting multiple times.
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  6376. These cultural vandals picked the wrong franchise to mess with. The Fans KNOW their source material.
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  6377. Smaller countries like Finland and South Korea are under existential threat from their neighbors, which justifies it. What existential threat faces the US?
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  6378.  @finnishview2933  Wrong on both counts. On paper it might appear that conscripts and non-volunteers are cheaper, but one must realize that to pay them requires taking from those who are NOT in the military via taxes. And even if you put them to work doing manual labor, they are less productive than non-conscript labor. Perun did a great video on this topic. Secondly, Vietnam was during the draft and HIGHLY divisive. And it was quickly learned that you waste manpower and resources on people who don't want to be there and will actively sabotage if you don't watch them.
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  6379. All dictators claim to be democratically elected. Just look at Alexander Lushenko of Belarus. The problem with Erdogan is that he has purged his political opposition and subverted the system of checks and balances that Mustafa Kemal Atatürk put in place to PREVENT a dictatorship.
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  6380. That was the Dilemma of US and Commonwealth soldiers in the Pacific theater. The Japanese were blatant in their violation of the rules governing the treatment of prisoners. Ironically, Admiral Karl Dönitz was exonerated on the charge of prisoner abuse at Nuremberg. Despite his personal and public statements on NOT following the Geneva convention, he scrupulously obeyed them.
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  6381.  @danieleyre8913  Militant atheism shares many of the same values and fatal flaws as religious fundamentalists. Don't pretend that only the religious has a monopoly on incoherence.
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  6382. Ukraine was expected to fall withing three days. It has now been three months. While I don't disagree that there are domestic issues on Formosa that can cause problems, the same thing was going on in the Ukraine. The people of Ukraine stopped bickering amongst themselves and united against an existential threat. Taiwan could theoretically do the same and set aside their internal squabbles in the face of a greater threat once the lead start flying.
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  6383. Until the Obama-Biden team, most terrorists didn't bother taking American hostage because they knew that any demands for ransom would be answered with either Seal Team, Marine Corp. strike team, or the US Army Rangers knocking on their door. Since 2010, Americans ARE taken hostage because they know a Democrat president WILL pay the ransom.
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  6384.  @Souls7908  Nice Strawman argument. Now how about you make a REAL point instead of engaging in hyperbolic hysterics?
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  6385.  @Souls7908  Strawman arguments are easy to knock down talking points you set up when you don't actually want to debate the merits. It is what propagandists outfits like Pravda loved to use. The "beating your girlfriend" is the CLASSIC example that the MeToo leftist cult loves to use.
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  6386.  @Souls7908  "Do you still hit your girlfriend" is the favorite strawman argument of the metoo movement. Learn to debate with REAL points, not emotional hysterics.
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  6387.  @Souls7908  No, you are engaging in logical fallacies instead of debating. You are doing classic social engineering to set up. You insert a conclusion outside the conversation so as to anchor a footnote outside of the conversation. It is a classic gaslighting technique used by intellectually dishonest propagandists.
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  6388.  @Souls7908 '"u cant hit ur girl friend and tell the police that "she started by tearing up about getting yelled at!" Those are YOUR words buddy. And it is also a strawman argument. If fails completely to even address my point about Nixon and how he dealt with the USSR. You are deflecting. I am in no way making excuses for Putin and his belligerence towards his neighbors for which he has a pattern (2008 Georgia invasion). YOU are making EMOTIONAL arguments, not ones based on objective facts. STAY ON THE POINT. PS, it doesn't help that my posts keep getting deleted and shadow banned.
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  6389.  @Souls7908  You clearly need to look up the meaning of a strawman argument because you have no freaking clue what it means. And you need to learn to debate.
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  6390.  @Souls7908  And right there you again set up another strawman argument. You can't help yourself, can you? My point is yet again proven that you don't want to debate, you just want to grandstand for clout by using easily knocked down strawmen.
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  6391.  @Souls7908  And yet again another strawman. You are not debating in good faith; you are engaging in classic social engineering. You may succeed in gaslighting some people, but it won't work on me.
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  6392. And Alexander Frasier Tytler. The words of both men are eerily similar.
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  6393. I await the point where Gorkon's(Rodenberry's) honor is restored. And Kirk's son David's (the fans) honor is also restored.
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  6394. What crime did he commit? That you don't even know shows that you don't care about justice, you only care that your tribe wins, even if it buns the country to ashes.
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  6395.  @LordKalerran  Classic deflection. Rather than actually debate the merits or any of my points, you try to grandstand as if you are accomplishing something. Incidentally, it is your side who has a hard on for totalitarian dictators such as Xi. “I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” ― Margaret Thatcher
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  6396. Accountability, not retribution. Vengeance is how the corrupt view accountability.
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  6397.  @hemaccabe4292  Oh, I agree that Axanar is more faithful to Rodenberry's vison than Kurtzamn's corporate fan-fiction. But money talks, BS walks. Only when these IPs are in public domain will we the audience and fans truly have control over what is canon and what is not. Public domain is our only hope for our beloved mythos.
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  6398.  @hemaccabe4292  "Word of God" (ie the original creator) as the trope is called is the highest authority on canon. Below that on the totem is the owners of the IP and their control only lasts until copyright expiration puts it into public domain (provided the creator doesn't do so sooner). On the death of the creator, the IP holder becomes the highest authority. While I don't disagree with you that fans and supporters do play a factor, again, they only gain power with public domain. I highly recommend looking into the discussions surrounding Wimsatt and Beardsley's "The Intentional Fallacy" and Barthes' "Death of the Author" essay. Both make for good philosophical reading.
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  6399. Part of the problem is that the good for nothing sons of Rupert Murdock are as flaming liberal as they come. They are the ones that drove off Wendy Deng, who was a media mogul in Hong Kong and Taiwan. If Rupert had put her in charge instead of his worthless sons, Fox never would have gone to the dogs.
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  6400. Naw, most western men are looking to Asian women because Western women are certifiable.
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  6401. I think men are looking to foreign brides, particularly from Asia instead of Western women who have lost their minds.
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  6402. Whether Elon fixes Twitter or burns it to the ground is a matter of apathetic disinterest. (Paraphrasing Yevgraf from "Doctor Zhivago")
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  6403. And America's financial feudal lords are emulating the Chinese.
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  6404.  @ThundersMcCoy  If Trump suffers the fate of Epstein, that will change.
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  6405. What was it that General Sherman warned the South? Do not test their anger as once riled, it is a terrible to behold?
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  6406. Illegal ALIEN, not immigrant. Don't give them legitimacy they are not entitled to. My wife, before she took the oath of citizenship was legally classified as a "Resident Foreign Alien National". Let's use the correct terminology and stop letting the hacks define the terms which seek to confer legitimacy where it does not exist.
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  6407. Trump pulling a Winston Chruchill. “Bessie, you are ugly. But tomorrow I will be sober, and you will still be ugly.”
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  6408. Go read your Bible. What she said was warned against in Mark 12, Matthew 20, and Luke 11.
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  6409. @ Funny, because that is NOT what she was saying. If anything, she was being the Pharisee on the corner boasting of her righteousness. "I will tell them plainly, I never knew you. Begone from me you workers of lawlessness!" -Matthew 7:23 "It is said my house shall be a temple of prayer, but you have turned it into a den of thieves!" He then made a whip of cords, overturned the tables, and chased out the money changers. -Luke, Mark, Matthew AND John. "“Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you." -Matthew 21:31
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  6410.  @ibrahimhassan711  Didn't even bother reading anything I posted did you. You are just a bigot against westerners. Oh, BTW, you Arab Muslims have treated sub-Saharan Africans FAR worse than King Leopold. They would consider him a far more benevolent tyrant than Musa ibn Nusayr.
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  6411.  @ibrahimhassan711  You keep telling yourself that. I actually HAVE read about the brutality Arab Slave trade (maiming and disfigurement being commonplace) and the exploitation of the Ghana and Mail Empire by the Sultans of the North. It was the Muslims themselves who sold blacks to Europeans during the age of Sail. Often kept them in cages on the beach just waiting for the ships! You speak on hypocrisy and yet you blatantly ignore your own. Try looking in a mirror for once and realize that if you chose to cast stones, expect to be on the receiving end yourself.
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  6412. @Zaydan Alfariz Liberia was not colonized, but it was America's first attempt at "nation building". The results are still up for debate. While the Germans did TRY to colonize Africa in the mad scramble, they were not very good at it and so their nominal territories (Togo, Namibia, Cameroon) were effectively uncolonized. Even the German attempts to hold Pacific Ocean possessions were ineffective (with Japan collecting all of them after WW1). And you are correct that Thailand is an odd ball. Nominally they were occupied (and colonized) by the Japanese in WW2 but were left to their own devices. And that does not even get into Chinese colonization before the European Age of Discovery.
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  6413.  @hallelbimpong1901  Point out the logical fallacy in your argument IS a concrete defense, because it cuts the legs out from your position. Your use of emotional outbursts and logical fallacies is a cardinal sin in debate, something you should actually learn how to do.
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  6414. Arguably, he submitted to the crucifixion. He could have used his power over creation to stop his death but instead chose to accept it all onto himself for the sake of others. That is humility.
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  6415. Tom Hank was once the President of the Screen Actor's Guild (just like Ronald Reagan). He knew fully well why, but is PLAYING STUPID. Even Forrest Gump isn't that dense. "Never go full retard," -Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder.
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  6416. The kicker is when they use for to try and stop you from ignoring their sign.
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  6417.  @ivrearde3236  What Ukraine waned was for Russia to keep its nose out of their country. Now tell me, how did they get what they wanted? Russia blatantly violated the terms of the nuclear weapon hand-over.
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  6418.  @billjane5522  It is the Russians who are engaging in Genocide against ethnic Ukrainians in the Donbas. Ukrainian authorities have had zero control over the area since Russia used proxies to invade in 2014.
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  6419. @denisovansdna Spare me your woke outrage. I have seen what you people cheer for, your boos mean nothing to me. By the way, Miss Frizzle from the Magic School Bus had frizzy hair and it is implied she is an Irish redhead.
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  6420.  @365ral  The problem is that NOBODY in the Hispanic community uses that term. Putting an "X" on the end to denote female is ANGLICANIZATION. Yes, you hear that correctly, using an "X" is white washing.
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  6421.  @scarlett19b  That is a distinction WITHOUT a difference.
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  6422.  @scarlett19b  You are grasping at straws.
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  6423. Supposedly Q's court was of 2079, but the Bell Riots Sisko experienced did occur in the 2020s. "Sanctuary Districts" was part of that.
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  6424. The problem is that Hollyweird hates East Asian Heroes who are not a Jacke Chan clone.
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  6425.  @oxtailsoup6493  I agree. It was a lost opportunity in Crystal Skull to not have him. Especially if he would be the dutiful step-son who went to college as contrasted to the delinquent son.
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  6426. Remind them that their hero Nelson Mandela also spent time in prison. They are just giving Trump street credit among the Hood.
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  6427.  @subversclothing535  Because he hates what the GOP stands for: Big government in bed with big business. Not much different from the Dems in practice. Timmy is what would be called a CLASSICAL Liberal, not a conservative. He has NEVER subscribed to conservative values such as tradition and religious lifestyle.
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  6428.  @tusk3260  France won WW2? Have you forgotten that German Tanks rolled through Paris in only six weeks? And as a military power, France NEVER recovered from it. If they did, the US and UK would not have been the ones carrying their lazy butts during most of the Cold War (Dien Bien Phu).
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  6429.  @tusk3260  Wow, you are clearly triggered so you engage in a Gish gallop (logical fallacy) rather than actually acknowledge historical facts. France was SHATTERED by WW2 and the bitter animosity between Vichy and DeGaulle's forces are evidence of that.
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  6430.  @brucegordon9007  The Senate acquitted him of insurrection during the January 6th Impeachment attempt.
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  6431. All of one or all of the other as Lincoln said in his House divided speech.
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  6432. The backstory doesn't add up. Someone who grew up in that environment would have been constantly bombarded with the message that the military is full of baby killers and war criminals.
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  6433. How many people are convicted on circumstantial evidence? That being said, it is smells fishy, it probably is. Appearances are 9/10ths of appropriateness.
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  6434. Most socialists think that way. They think that wealth is just on loan to individuals.
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  6435. He won't have anything if Disney goes belly-up. But like a pilot in a "Controlled Flight into Terrain" he has lost situational awareness and is effectively flying blind.
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  6436. What is the old saying? "If you encounter heavy flak, you are over the target"? I suspect that is why the trolls are acting so desperate.
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  6437. @ Tell that to Vichy France. That nation got to collect spoils in 1945 despite losing to the Germans in 1940.
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  6438. Yeah, I love pointing out how irate the Indians are over the Kuznetsov-class carrier that Russia built for India.
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  6439. "Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin good forces have invented or made” -J.R.R. Tolkien.
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  6440. Can't possibly consider that maybe the Greenies might have the motivation to blow up a gas pipeline?
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  6441.  @johnmuthan286  Your myopia is blinding you to other possibilities. "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." -Sherlock Holems by Arthur Conan Doyle.
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  6442. They are the very colonizers they accuse everyone else of being.
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  6443.  @crhu319  That isn't an augment, it is just an emotional outburst.
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  6444. Same with Bergdahl.
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  6445. "Any sufficiently advanced extraterrestrial intelligence is indistinguishable from God," -Arthur C. Clarke, futurist and author of "2001: A Space Odessey" .
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  6446.  @216trixie  "Better people THINK you a fool that to open your mouth and remove all doubt," -Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain. Philosophers since antiquity have refuted your existential nihilism. Try reading Fredrich Nietzsche or Emmanuel Kant. Even Carl Sagan challenges people to look at the beauty and complexity of the universe and try to deny that there is a higher power at work.
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  6447.  @216trixie  Wow, triggered. Clearly you have deep seated spiritual issues and so you lash out reflexively at that which reminds you of your cognitive dissonance.
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  6448.  @216trixie  I pity you that you had a bad experience. But that you think you are "Saving people" from the faith only shows that you never actually knew Christ. I have more respect for one who converts to Buddhism or Hinduism from Christianity than I do one who goes atheist. Ponder on this passage from the faith you claim to have once followed: "Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ THEN I WILL TELL THEM PLAINLY, 'I NEVER KNEW YOU; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’ -Matthew 7:22-23.
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  6449.  @216trixie  In this case, the No True Scotsman fallacy doesn't apply. The scripture I point out proves exactly why those who killed in the name of Jesus may have CLAIMED to be Christian, but never actually understood any of the teachings of the man they claimed as their savior. "I've read the Bible more times than you can count"? Ah, so we are going to employ the holier than thou argument. Seriously, you prove Timmy's point about people who don't know, don't care and care only about grandstanding and moralizing. But sure, keep being intellectually dishonest. The more you pontificate, the more you reveal your hypocrisy and condemn yourself with your own words. You are your own worst enemy.
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  6450.  @216trixie  "your imaginary god requires human sacrifice to satisfy its blood lust" You clearly have not actually read ANYTHING in the Torah nor the Bible. Nor do you care to learn. Just as Tim Pool said, you are a tribalist and a cultist because you blindly believe what your feudal masters tell you and refuse to listen to anything outside your bubble. Your words reveal that you are guilty of the very behaviors you accuse me and those who disagree with you. You are NOT righteous; you are a pathetic little person who is so threatened by people of faith you seek to destroy them. Your nihilism and spiritual death is like a viral plague.
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  6451.  @216trixie  More blood libels and disparagements instead of facts. You truly are a lost cause. Nothing I can say or do will convince you because you refuse to acknoledge anything that does not comport with your preconceived notions (ie prejudice). "Belief in myths allows for the comfort of opinions WITHOUT the discomfort of thought," -President John F. Kennedy, America's FIRST CATHOLIC PRESDIENT.
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  6452.  @216trixie  Namely, everything. And disparaging the Talmud shows your blatantly contempt for Jews.
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  6453. Eh, the Koreans are the same on both sides of the DMZ and yet they are still at each other's throats.
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  6454. Nice revisionism. When traditionally natural Sweden and Finland want to join NATO in response to this, your narrative falls on deaf ears. Not even the historically neutral Swiss believe your story.
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  6455.  @_Mohit_Joshi  I don't disagree that Putin lost the influence war over Ukraine and decided to use force instead of continuing to lose the soft power game. HOWEVER, the reason for Poland and the former Warsaw Pact joining NATO was precisely BECAUSE of Russia's history as the preeminent force in the USSR. In the 90s under Boris Yeltsin, there was an opportunity to bury the past and start anew with their former satellites. Russia could have rejected the Soviet past and sought to repair the relationship with its neighbors. Chechnya and Georgia's breakaway provinces showed them that the Bear was up to its old habits.
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  6456.  @_Mohit_Joshi  The Bidens and Burisma? I can agree to that. Then there is Joe Bite-me's comment about "minor incursion" that was basically an invitation to Putin on par with Dean Acheson's blunder with the Pacific Defense Perimeter excluding South Korea thereby inviting Kim Il-Sung to invade the South.
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  6457. I think most folks in the west don't really care if India is ripping off Russia that the pump and then turning around and selling the refined oil products to them. As long as it is India making the profits while Russia get little to nothing, then it is victory enough.
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  6458.  @dive2drive314  The irony is that under civil rights law, one CANNOT deny access to services for any reason. Not that these leftist "politically correct" statists actually care about such details.
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  6459. They blew up other dams after their retreat from Kherson city.
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  6460.  @Pangora2  Which battle of Kiev are you talking about? As far as pauses in conflict, that is actually quite common after a major engagement. Gettysburg in the US Civil War was followed by a long pause. Battle of the Bulge was also followed by a pause before the allies resumed the drive on Berlin.
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  6461. The problem is, the cancel culture folks are the same whiny moms of the 90s or at least the people who pretended to be concerned mothers in the 90s. They are just older now.
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  6462.  @darkness138  Who dominates Twitter? Media. Who dominates media? Boomers. Don't have to be tech savy to be able to use twitter.
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  6463. A Gephardt, Bofors, Oerlikon, or ZU-32 alongside a tank makes the drone merely annoyance.
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  6464.  @harleyquinn8202  Then you have not been paying attention. Anti-Air Machine guns ARE the viable counter to drones. Up to now, the preferred anti-air asset was missile, but you cannot justify that against drones.
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  6465.  @harleyquinn8202  Absence of video is not proof that it isn't happening. Forbes, Business Insider, Newsweek, and many other news outlets have been reporting for months about the use of Gephardt as an anti-drone weapon.
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  6466. Because butch want to be male. Now don't get me wrong, there are some short haircuts like the bob that are cute, particularly on Asian women. But most of the woke crowd take it MUCH shorter than that.
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  6467. Yeah, those fools don't seem ti realize that by using an "X" at the end of Latina, they are anglicizing the word; literally white washing it. Shows you how out of touch these people are.
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  6468. Death by GPS. No joke, a lot of people die in Death Valley, CA because of it.
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  6469.  @user-pn3im5sm7k  Yes, they overstate their capabilities. But as Stalin said, "quantity has a quality all its own". The Chinese fighters only need to be good enough such that their numbers can overwhelm the F-35. There are only so many AtAM that a fighter can carry; the Chinese can put up more planes than the west has missiles to shoot them down.
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  6470.  @songhan1586  Indeed. It is the opponent you underestimate that defeats you and cleans your clock. So, it is better to assume they are more competent than they might actually be so that the only surprises are good ones.
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  6471.  @user-pn3im5sm7k  You missed my point. You don't have to be the best. You just have to be good enough and then numbers make up the difference. You also don't seem to understand that the Chinese have more bodies than we have bullets. The CCCP doesn't care about taking massive casualties. To them life is cheap and expendable so long as the goal is achieved. You would think their lockdown policies that starved people to death would make that abundantly clear. And as far as 1940s strategies being obsolete, might I remind you that in the 1980 Iran-Iraq war, the Iranians used human wave attacks and almost overwhelmed the then Western backed Saddam military?
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  6472.  @user-pn3im5sm7k  Texas has 2 million bullets. And how many bodies does China have? Something on the order of 1.5 BILLION. Almost three orders of magnitude larger?
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  6473.  @user-pn3im5sm7k  How do you get from Texas having 2 million bullets to all 50 states having over 12 billion? Your math does not compute, for it is off by 900 million. Or are you having difficulty with the zeros and commas? If you are trying to use Texas per capita bullets, I would remind you that states like California, Illinois, and New York are effectively gun-free states so you cannot honestly apply the numbers for Texas to those states' population.
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  6474. Or that they arbitrarily censor people on the right without recourse. Only leftist views are allowed to post with impunity.
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  6475. They were always malignant. It is just that they let the mask slip, showing their true colors.
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  6476. As opposed to Weekend at Bernie's in the White House?
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  6477. Something tells me the Bofors and Oerlikons are going to make a comeback.
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  6478. Indeed. She has shown she is a hypocrite as are her followers. It would be poetic justice if she found herself doxxed in response. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
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  6479. Very well described. I wish more people realized what you see.
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  6480. The Pharisee standing on the corner boasting about faith as contrasted with the tax collector who humbled himself begging for forgiveness.
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  6481. The only thing that alliance is missing is big religion. Oh, wait, leftist ideology IS a religion. Big Government (the Crown), Big Business (British India Trading Company), and Big Religion (Anglican Chruch) is the trifecta of tyranny that sparked the American Revolution. Maybe the current trifecta of tyranny will spark another one.
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  6482. Germany does have a military tradition that it should be proud of. Sadly, in the wake of WW2, it seems German political leaders have chosen to piss on the legacy of Prussian greatness. The Kreigsmarine has NOTHING to be ashamed of. The U-boat fleet in particular produced men of honor and valor such as Gunther Prien, the Bull of Scapa Flow.
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  6483. I think a more nuanced perspective is better than an absolutist approach you are taking. While I agree that the French is Africa has been an unmitigated disaster, the American presences in Europe has kept the peace for almost 80 years. If not for the US, most of Europe would be speaking Russian today.
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  6484.  @robw6954  Yeah, and who was causing death and suffering before the US got involved in the Middle East? Ever heard of TE Lawrence and the Arab Revolt? Sorry, the Muslims have been fighting among themselves since antiquity, so you cannot place all of the blame at the feet of the US.
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  6485. Yeah, the idea that China's industrial capacity will remain intact after a conflict with the US over Taiwan is kind of naive. The whole purpose of strategic bombing campaigns in WW2 was to demolish the ability of the Axis to manufacture their war materials. I doubt that China has hardened their infrastructure to the degree that Ukraine has.
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  6486.  @LONEWOLF-rq5tl  You have no understanding of how either amphibious landings or airborne assaults work. China has shown zero capacity to do either effectively.
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  6487.  @olderchin1558  India and China are ripping off Russia, demanding a 30% discount on oil and gas. Don't pretend it is any way helping the Russians. If anything, it is hurting them. You are grasping at straws.
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  6488.  @k.k.c8670  Didn't bother to read my other posts, only the first one huh? I addressed that. Power of Siberia is NOT connected to the oil and gas infrastructure that connects to Europe; they are two separate systems. The Trans-Siberian Railway has pittance as far as cargo delivery and completely incapable of fully replacing the sea-based transportation. Try do a little more research before you open your mouth in complete ignorance.
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  6489. Yeah, the fools don't realize that the best spies and partisans are the ones that do nothing but observe and listen, sending the information to military intelligence. You NEVER want to put those particular assets at peril by having them engage in sabotage or assassination activites.
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  6490. So you think that Japan and Germany should have been allowed to operate newspapers and radio stations in the US during WW2?
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  6491. @ Yeah, google/youtube has been nuking my responses as well. I don't disagree with your argument, nor your proposal. But at the same time foreign governments, particularly hostile ones should not be allowed to operate with impunity on US soil.
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  6492. So you don't think that the US election could be the straw that broke the camel's back? Is it not possible that the ruling coalition knowing that Trump will require Deutchland to pony up to the table regarding NATO and the Ukraine war will blow up the delicate budget negotiations that had deadlocked? Much like the Eschede train disaster in 1998, a single factor doesn't cause a collapse, but rather a sequence of events in a chain lead to a catastrophe.
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  6493.  @superomegaprimemk2  Same with the Trek fandom where shills for wokeness falsely claim that Star Trek was progressive while ignoring the difference between EGALITARIANISM and woke. And they blatantly disrespect Rodenberry, Shatner, Nimoy, and the like for being "sexist old white guys".
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  6494. Terrain, tactics, morale, and equipment all perform as force multipliers.
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  6495.  @lehoang3532  If you don't put stock in it, then why are you here except to troll on behalf of your propaganda ministry?
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  6496. Did you conveniently forget that the Japanese government was forcing the civilians to manufacture parts for the war effort in their homes? That makes those homes valid targets under the Geneva and Hauge conventions. It is why using civilians as human shields for any war related activities is a Crime against Humanity.
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  6497. No, but to accept blatant lies against Israel at face value without looking deeper IS antisemitic. Antizionism is simply fashionable antisemitism.
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  6498. What is the old saying, lie down with dogs, get up with fleas? Starbucks got down with the stray dogs.
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  6499.  @Ajourneyofknowing  See LittleSweetHeart141's comment above. That is case in point about what I am talking about. Not that you care to be educated on what everyone else is talking about.
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  6500. Hiroshima was the location of an Army Base. Its destruction did nothing to weaken their fighting morale. Further, the Japanese government forced the civilians to manufacture vehicle parts in their homes, a clear war crime that turned those homes into legal targets for bombing campaigns.
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  6501. Yeah, I wish the ASEAN nations would temporarily put aside their disputes and present a united front against China, preferably in the Parcels and Northern Spratley. Once China has been disabused of their claims then they can hash it out.
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  6502. The signers of the Abraham accords do not support Hamas. They put out statements condemning the violence.
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  6503. Because they are feckless cowards. Just look at how they are dithering on the presidential immunity case.
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  6504.  @meandyou2046  There were Earthquakes, the media just didn't report them. The eruption from the day before cause a Richter scale 4 tremor. As for the plastic, you are grasping at straws. Plastic BURNS at levels far lower than molten rock. Stop listening to the environmentalist grifters.
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  6505. But which one is more effective? People chose Trump because they KNEW from his first term that things got done.
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  6506. Indeed. They are just wishful thinking and fail to consider that Ukraine's line may be nothing less than all of the occupied territories, while Russia's line may be all of Ukraine.
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  6507. Ukraine has the West who hasn't even geared up for wartime production backing them up. Russia already at full wartime production is like the Japanese at full production in 1942 after picking a fight with the US.
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  6508.  @cooldudecs  Independents are having buyer's remorse over electing Biden. Further, they see this as a political witch hunt and are NOT impressed, further hurting the Dems. You are only making him a maryter. "Strike me down and I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine," -Obi Wan Kenobi, "A New Hope".
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  6509. They would have you believe in the "Stand Alone Complex". Except, that is something out of Japanese fiction, not reality.
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  6510.  @SteinlichStein  What is happening in North Korea is exactly the same as what happened in the Soviet Union, and Maoist Red China. There is a reason why Ukraine, the Baltic States, and the former members of the Warsaw Pact vehemently reject communism.
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  6511.  @HappyHighwayman  Alcohol and Marijuana is an apples to oranges false analogy. Nice try buddy. Now if you were to have compared it to Tobacco, then you would be onto something. But ironically, the similarities to Tobacco reveal uncomfortable truths the marijuana lobby doesn't want to talk about.
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  6512. "Bottom of the barrel" is not a specific, quantifiable number. it could mean anything from 30 shells to 30,000 depending on consumption rates.
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  6513.  @Obscurai  And yet most of the people holding the power in government are boomers, not the yougner generation. Boomers have held the levers of power longer than any other generation in history. They were the first of the silver spoon cohorts who never actually had to struggle just to survive unlike their predecessors.
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  6514. Breaking them up under the Sherman Anti-Trust Laws would go a long way.
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  6515. I agree with the first aid and firearms operation. I wish the US would teach those as part of graduation requirements alongside the citizenship test. The use of grenades I find more troubling. Do we teach the use of Molotov cocktails?
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  6516. Accountability looks like revenge to the corrupt.
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  6517. We do. The Criminals are UNLAWFUL TRESSPASSING FOREIGN ALIEN NATIONALS. Those here legally to work are either LEGAL RESIDENT ALIENS or TEMPORARY WORK VISITORS.
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  6518. The reason is that those ridged airships has several separate gas bags so if it was punctured, it would not catastrophically fail. The reason why the German ones exploded was because they used Hydrogen rather than Helium.
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  6519. True that. Parícutin in particular is a cautionary tale.
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  6520.  @Winterascent  It is because of the good for nothing Murdock sons. They WANT Fox to be another MSNBC carbon copy. Rupert Murdock should have put Wendy Deng in charge of his media empire. She was a media mogul in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
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  6521.  @seriouslyshortofnormal925  Yeah, the "charitable industry" is basically a cottage business of money laundering and tax evasion.
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  6522.  @RUTHLESSambition5  You went to China and only saw what the CCP wanted you to see. Ever heard of a Potemkin Village? While not as overt as North Korea, you saw a carefully cultivated mirage. Laowhy86 LIVES in CHina and tells a much different story. He also explains point by point why your arguments are carefully scripted.
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  6523. Japan sent bombs to the US via balloons in WW2. Started a number of forest fires.
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  6524.  @rhythmicmusicswap4173  Yeah, keep up the petulant child act. You deserve to live under the bootheel of Putin, begging for his mercy. Incidentally, it is entirely possible that eco-terrorist sabotaged the pipeline, but you Anglophobes automatically blame the US and UK because you have unhinged derangement against anything English or American.
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  6525.  @theshimario253  On what charge? The Georgia case against him is imploding under the weight of the prosecution's own corruption and malfesance.
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  6526. And yet Hiroshima was rebuilt in less than 30 years. The fears about radiation are overblown. The danger is real, but greatly exaggerated.
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  6527.  @thurin84  When all is said and done, I would not be the least bit surprised if Fauci's death tally exceeds that of the Nazi Death Angel.
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  6528. Better that it becomes a shill for Kadokawa products than what it is now attacking fans and trashing the medium.
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  6529. They are making the argument of the advocates of the burka. Ironic.
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  6530.  @goldengryphon  Trump passed criminal justice reform. Obama and Kamala simply left out inmates WITHOUT fixing the underlying problems. Major difference.
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  6531. Disney isn't even the biggest part of tourism in the State. Miami, Key West, Pensacola, and Sarasota could all reasonably claim to provide more tax revenue than Disney.
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  6532.  @kimandre336  It isn't that Western media censors what is going on in East Asia, it is just that they don't really care. APATHY is more dangerous that outright censorship. Why? Streisand effect. Censorship paradoxically gets the message out BECAUSE it is censored. As far as "rose colored glasses", I don't disagree that Japanese leadership has screwed the pooch with regards to their lost decade. I also agree that their currency manipulation at the behest of Washington elites is also ruinous. If the Yen is strong against the dollar, that is the fault of the Federal Reserve, not the Japanese economy. That being said, I much prefer the leaders of East Asia's economic Tigers over the feckless cowards of Washington who kowtow to the totalitarians in Peking.
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  6533.  @ArawnOfAnnwn  Nice revisionist history. More people have died at the hands of the Russians in the last three months than have died in the entire 20 years of the US in the middle east. But I get it, you are a rabid partisan who refuses to acknowledge hard facts which contradicts your religious-political view of the world.
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  6534.  @absolootely2571  Complete delusional fantasy on your part. You clearly haven't visited either of those cities, only watch the propaganda from Jihadi videos. "Those who can make you believe in absurdities can make you commit atrocities" -Voltaire
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  6535.  @ahmedlusajogibbonsmwaikamb6099  Wow, nice apples to oranges false analogy (and a logical fallacy).
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  6536. Just like the Checka/NKVD/KGB before them. They don't exist to protect the state, they exist to protect the leadership cabal, much like the Praetorian Guard of Rome.
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  6537.  @pflernak  That is why you need strong contract laws. Signing one should be as airtight as a Faustian Bargain with Satan himself, to use an analogy.
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  6538. Do you count the almost year long build up for the Normandy Landing part of the European offensive? That is what you do when you claim that the two months of prepatory fires are part of the official offesnvie. Ukraine has had all of a month and a half of dedicated engagement. It took 5 months from the Allies to get very far from the beaches (in part because Bernard Mongomery was a sloth).
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  6539. And yet James Madison, the father of the US Constitution disagrees with your assessment. The 1st is to protect the CHRUCH from government, not the other way around. "The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded." -James Madison.
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  6540. Yeah, why they didn't use Short Round in Crystal Skull is beyond me. They could have easily set up a sibling rivalry between the two "sons". One who went to college and the other who didn't.
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  6541. "Smoking accidents".
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  6542. I think the phrase you are looking for is "Gone Horribly Right".
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  6543. The cost of the TVs in the room should be part of building maintenance accounting. You are paying for facility Maintenace as part of your stay, so there is no justification for nickel and diming people like this.
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  6544. Indeed. While Nike and the rest have not felt it, AB going belly up WILL cause all of these woke corporations stock value to fall. In finance and banking, they call it "contagion". But that will only happen WHEN Anheiser's scalp is on display for all to see.
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  6545.  @ts109  That is a lie, and you know it. They had FULL statehood and franchise in Gaza. And they did exactly what one would expect with it. An analogy example in the US is what happened when Korean business owners handed over the hard work they built in Koreatown to blacks after the 1992 LA Rodney King Riots.
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  6546.  @ts109  Nice revisionist history. Rabin may have signed them, but it was Bibi who had to carry it out after Rabin's assassination. Or have you forgotten that awkward handshake between him, Arafat, and Clinton? Also, if you think Bibi supported Hamas or has any influence over them, you are giving him too much credit. If he did have the kind of power over them, this biggest Massacre of Jews since the Holocaust would never have occurred.
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  6547.  @mokiloke  Not really. It would force the West to restart production in their own countries. Yes, it would hurt for about a year, maybe two, but you badly underestimate how motivating need can be to gear up a society for drastic change.
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  6548. Training, yes. NATO special forces actively participation, not so much. Make no mistake, this is a Soviet-Ukrainian miliary fighting a Soviet-Russian military. Only, the Soviet-Ukraine military is being augmented with NATO technology and tactics. But the grand strategy is still very much Soviet doctrine.
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  6549. ANY use of nukes is a STARTEGIC escalation that WILL result in Trident missiles being fired in response. Western nuclear doctrine does not make ANY distinction between "low yield" and "high yield". Using a tactical nuke is crossing the Rubicon, which is why Putin, while threating it, has not done so.
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  6550. The problem is that he keeps trying to upchuck that red pill.
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  6551.  @thomassecurename3152  Yeah, it is sad that the members of ASEAN would much rather squabble among themselves rather than present a united front against China. If they agreed to temporarily set aside their individual disagreements and mutually agree that China has no claims, they could present that united front in the Parcel Islands and effectively push China out of the area.
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  6552.  @rationalfox7736  The Second largest military in the world is doing well against what was the 29th rated in 2020? Okay bro. That is the definition of punching down. The fact that Ukraine has fought Russia to a draw is the underdog story of the century. Put down the Vodka, you are so drunk you are hallucinating.
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  6553.  @S.M.E.A.C  If your claims were true, then why did Kiev not fall? Why is it independent of the Kremlin's influence? The feint argument is sour grapes copium. You have lost the plot.
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  6554.  @S.M.E.A.C  Pure Kremlin coupium. The Butchery of Buca proves your wrong about mass casualties and genocide. And IF Russia could crush Ukraine, then why does Kiev stand independent from the Kremlin? The battle of Hostomel was where Russian power was broken. Claims of a feint were conclusively proven wrong when Parade Uniforms were found among the equipment Russian left in their retreat. Continuing to claim there was not intention of taking that city is sour grapes.
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  6555.  @truthseeker_1776  Grenada mean anything to you? How about Gulf War 1? Pick up a book and stop listening to Communist Propaganda.
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  6556. The monstrous Sullivan case needs to be overturned. That is why they think they can get away with such flagrant malice.
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  6557. The worst part is, when faced with these realities in practice, they NEVER change their tune. They double down on stupid because they have become as invested in them as a religious zealot.
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  6558. Going to make Detroit under Coleman Young seem tame.
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  6559.  @chrisr1226  So? You are bloviating, not making an argument. Also, most of the judge appointemnets by Trump came at the behest of Mike Pence, and deep state hack and the Grima Wormtongue of the Trump White House.
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  6560.  @jasonfuller1001  You are moving the goal posts. You don't redact entire sentences. Only one or two words at a time. You are simply justifying malfeasance.
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  6561.  @jasonfuller1001  Sycophants never consider the actions of their feudal masters to be sinister. "The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions." -President John F. Kennedy's Address before the Americans Newspaper Publishers association, APRIL 27, 1961
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  6562.  @jasonfuller1001  Troop movement, sure. Affidavits are NOT the same. The only reason why they would be is nominally to protect the privacy of the person they target; NOT protect the government form scrutiny. It is all supposed to come out during the trial anyhow as it is exculpatory, and they are REQUIRED to share it with the defense counsel. Reality is, secrecy is used by the government to cover up corruption and criminality by those in power. Secrecy is the favorite tool of totalitarian despots. "The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness" -Niels Bohr.
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  6563. I agree. Bring back Glass-Stegal Act.
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  6564. Flag officers never really leave active duty when they retire; they get full pay as if they were still on duty.
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  6565.  @TheUnholyPosole  That will only hurt them in the long run. Printing money devalues ALL the money, and if the masses don't care because their money is worthless already, then it is only the powermongers who get burned.
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  6566.  @beejcarson  "or whatever it is called?" The fact that you don't care about using correct terms and are so cavalier about it shows you don't have a clue about what you are talking about. You are simply regurgitating the talking points of your feudal masters because you don't bother to do your due diligence. How about you try reading both the original Reedy Creek statute as well as the bill repealing it before you fire off your mouth in ignorance (like most people did about the anti-groomer bill).
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  6567.  @beejcarson  Talking about yourself are we? You are guilty of that which you accuse me, but that is to be expected of liberals like you. I did argue the merits, but you refuse to even acknowledge the points, which is your failing, not mine. Reedy Creek was basically allowing Disney to ignore local ordinances and some state statutes. It actually had very little to do with tax burden which was still being shouldered by the local governments WITHOUT the oversight of the local electorate. But that dirty little detail doesn't matter to you. All you care about is your tribe winning with a sob story that has little basis in fact. You don't actually care about the locals nor the taxpayers. Hell, you don't even care about Floridians as you moved the goal posts, first claiming it was affecting the entire state populace when it clearly was not. All you care about it scoring cheap political points against DeSantis. Guess what? The voters of Florida disagree with you. Between them and you, clearly, they are more correct, and the electoral results show it.
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  6568.  @beejcarson  Does the state government answer to the local county governments or to the voters themselves? Considering that the Reedy Creek district was a state government statute, the state has every right to revoke it. There is nothing stopping the local governments from implementing a local ordinance that reinstates much of its provisions pertaining to local issues so long as it does not contradict state issues. Seriously, try to learn the meaning of FEDERALISM and how the philosophy also applies to how state and local governments interact. Understand how jurisdiction works and that the state does NOT need to consult local government with regards to repealing STATE laws.
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  6569.  @beejcarson  Funny, because there has been plenty of evidence showing that the locals were, particularly many of the Florida employees of Disney who didn't like how the company was sticking its nose into politics. Don't bit the hand that feeds you. You are just pissed that since Disney's board of directors stepped into it, that the company is now suffering the consequences of getting political, which their FLORDIA employees warned them not to do. You are making the argument of California liberals who don't even live locally. You don't like that Florida clapped back. And it is fully how you complain about debt when you also forget that there was no tax on the company either. All this talk about liability and yet you miss that such liability was always going to exist, it is just the people were passing around the blame. Most of that debt was created by Disney, NOT the government. And Disney was exempted from taxes so that they could deal with it. The tax burden can be completely covered by property and sales taxes that Disney has not had to pay in 50 years. So that in a classic example of original position fallacy on your part.
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  6570.  @uria3679  Are you joking? Biden's administration has been dragging its feet since day one. They expected Kiev to fall in just two weeks!
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  6571.  @uria3679  Biden's team has been slow-walking and dragging their feet since day one. Remember, it was TRUMP who sent Javelins and Stingers to Ukraine while Obama and Biden only sent blankets.
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  6572.  @theartguy6776  When Hunter Biden was on the board of RUSSIAN energy company Burisma, I think that is clear evidence that the Bidens are in Putin's pocket. Everything Trump was accused of doing, the Bidens have done to a greater degree.
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  6573.  @timothygibney159  Physical size doesn't mean anything. Russia has to guard its ENTIRE border, to include China, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Azerbaijan, the Baltic States, and even the Arctic. Ukraine doesn't need to garrison its border with Poland as the Pole will provide the security along that border.
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  6574.  @engliterra355  You haven't been paying attention. Stop burying your head in the sand like an ostrich.
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  6575.  @ccruler  So you are just going to ignore how Danzig lead to the invasion of Poland? Or how ALL of those steps, from Anschluss through Sudetenland and Danzig were part of a pattern? A pattern that Putin is emulating?
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  6576.  @bassbuffricky  Yes, it is.
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  6577. Star Chamber Trial. And it will get overturned because of the SCOTUS ruling.
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  6578. Also, it is a propaganda tool of the Red Chinese government.
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  6579.  @moiseshuerta3984  Yeah, I think Russia has shown that they don't know how to do combined arms. Hell, they are not even using the same tactics that the Soviet developed with the T-34 at the end of WW2. Ironically, it is Ukraine who is employing the Soviet idea of infantry riding on top of the tanks.
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  6580.  Yedolf  Thanks for showing that you don't actually haver anything of value to say. Your incredulousness only shows that you yourself are as out of touch as you accuse your opponents.
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  6581. Fortunately, most of the reactors have been in cold shutdown for months. You cannot just start one up without days to get it in standby mode. Only one Reactor is in a state to create a prompt critical situation.
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  6582. Because they don't know that putting an "X" on the end is how you Anglicize a word. They don't realize it is white-washing.
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  6583. What search engine has successfully challenged Google? Beside Duck Duck Go which doesn't even track data, none have.
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  6584. Something tells me that most of Twatter's employees already work from home. Putting out a memo that everyone will be in the physical office on Monday morning after the deal closes is a good way to separate the competent from the worthless. Those who seriously want the job will find a way to be there. After that, Elon can be more accommodating.
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  6585. China does NOT have a market economy; the government still controls everything. All business assets can be confiscated by the CCP without due process. And the implosion of the financial system in China only drives home that fact. Secondly, reason has nothing to do with invading Taiwan. It is about PRIDE. Xi thinks he is the reincarnation of Mao, and wants to forcibly reunite Taiwan for his ego and vanity.
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  6586.  @vincegoupil  If it were not for double standards, you leftists would have ZERO standards. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
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  6587. I agree. This was a waste of perfectly good art that could have been an interesting ORIGINAL character instead of this asinine race-swapping fiasco.
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  6588. Great line in that movie. And one underappreciated. "Would you like to play chess?"
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  6589.  @leonardwei3914  Indeed. Putin knew that both Obama and Biden were pathetically weak, as were their White House staffers. The world only respects a strong horse. Trump for all of his flaws was viewed as a strong horse.
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  6590. I wish they would "peacefully protest" at her house for once. If she like it so much, she needs to host one at her place.
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  6591. Your point? As long as they move after firing and remain under cover, the artillery can't get a fix on their position. "Rattling the rubble" is a waste of munitions.
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  6592. Need them for both. I want to see the judges serve 20-year terms instead of lifetime. Shrink the court to just five members and stagger it every four years and a president would get to nominate one justice each term.
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  6593. Being used as a novelty to amuse guests is NOT what a Samurai does. You are falling for the gaslighting by the colonizers who push that myth.
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  6594.  @NullVoid-rm7jm  I'm am glad you are not buying a trash game from a trash company. You are correct that there is little information on Yasuke. But there IS enough to make educated guesses as to why Oda would keep him around. The ONLY black man in Japan? As a white guy in Korea, I STILL got the locals gawking at me despite their exposure to Americans. Even more so when I went to Indonesia to meet my now wife for the first time.
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  6595. @ I guess you missed the part where China has been engaging in overly hostile and belligerent military actions against US allies Japan and Phillipines.
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  6596. @ Sounds like bloviation to me. Oh, and the Philipines reinstated the defense treaty under Marcos Jr. Seems like they had second thoughts in light of the actions of the PLAN in the Spratleys.
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  6597. @ Good that you understand the terms of the treaty. But that still doesn't prove your point nor disprove mine. Just accept the L.
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  6598.  @presidentmerkinmuffley6769  War Declaration by Congress amounts only to the use of armed force by the Executive and the limit of its use therein. It does NOT limit the executive in any other capacity against a hostile nation. Face it, you have lost the plot, contorting yourself into a pretzel to rationalize collaboration with a hostile government.
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  6599. You are using logic and reason. The people WoTC are pandering to are ruled by their emotions. They are as banal as Adolph Eichmann.
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  6600. Two days afterwards. A lot of the anti-use folks blatantly lie about that.
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  6601. Russia's economy is barely the size of Italy. Throwing them out of Swift hurts Russia more than it does the rest of the World.
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  6602.  @igory3789  You are grasping at straws. An economy barely the size of Italy doesn't change global trade as drastically as you claim.
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  6603.  @igory3789  Nice gish gallop there. Big on fancy words but lacking in any depth nor actual understanding. Most of your talking points are the same ones used by the "White Monkey" shills that China's CCP regularly employs .
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  6604. Because you have principles, they do not. You live by the mantra "live and let live". They live by the premise "everyone will participate, no exceptions".
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  6605.  @ManCheat2  If I can close my eyes and the voice from the character SOUNDS like Mr. Lincoln, then I will have less of an issue if his eyes are almond like an Asian. Hell, with the top hat and beard done properly, ethnicity becomes less of a factor.
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  6606.  @ChickenPermissionOG  I'm sure you are away of how some folks bend over backwards creating new terms to move the goal posts and make things seem less severe. Lawyers and politicians are masters of the craft of gaslighting through new terminology. And the Hollyweird types are their salesmen and distributors of those new terms. But yes, I think we are no the same page about his negligence NOT absolving him of responsibility as involuntary manslaughter would have people believe.
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  6607.  @weirdo1060  Not really. The Russians have been too busy in Ukraine to bother with the Azeri-Armenian conflict. And in that vacuum, Azerbaijan acted proving the CSTO to be completely worthless.
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  6608.  @NameRiioz  Considering that Azerbaijan is effectively in NATO's camp, the ultimatum to Armenia was that if they wanted protection, they had to give up on Nagorno-Karabakh. Only then would NATO consider them from membership.
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  6609. Sad that the Chinese succeeded where Japan failed. Fu-Go balloon bombs are now a viable threat.
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  6610.  @TheAmbientMage  How about every case where justice Thomas dissents? That is the problem with people like you who worship government. The courts have an obligation to strike down the excesses of the government, not rubber stamp them like the Soviet Courts did. The courts have an obligation to arbitrate disputes, particularly between the states. Dereliction of duty applies to ALL people in government, to include those in the Black Robes. Judges, particularly SCOTUS judges are not infallible. And every time they fail to do their job, they discredit the courts and inch us closer to anarchy. "Which injustice become law, rebellion becomes duty," -Thomas Jefferson
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  6611. TLC has become the channel glorifying degeneracy. And to think my wife use to enjoy 90-day fiancé.
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  6612.  @IHavent82Day  My wife is a foreign bride who became naturalized. I understand why see was drawn to the show. But it is tragic that they did not choose to follow up the success stories like Olga and Steven. They would rather profit off the carnage of drama like vultures than celebrate the successes and tribulations of those who made it work.
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  6613.  @eduardazo  The positions are NOT mutually exclusive. Your absolutism is blinding you to the nuances of the situation. The US does NOT want hostility with Russia. The era of Boris Yeltsin was one of opportunity and cautious optimism. Many folks in the US expected to make a friend and ally with Russia on the assumption that much like the former Warsaw Pact, they were turning away from the Soviet-Totalitarian past. Then Putin came to power and brought back the ideology of Yuri Andropov, closing the door on the Détente between Russia and the West. The murder of critics like Alexander Litvinenko showed that Putin very much wanted confrontation with the West.
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  6614.  @Bitchen1  Could say the same thing about you and MSNBC or CNN. Tell me, how often does the establishment have to lie to you before you will stop letting them exploit you for power? What do they have to do to you before you realize that everything you think you know turns out to be a lie?
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  6615.  @Bitchen1  Maybe you should stop listening to "official sources" that have been approved by your feudal lords. Open minds listen to EVERYTHING. Closed minds refuse to consider anything that does not validate their own biases.
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  6616. What is the old saying? "The bigger they are, the harder they fall?" Why didn't anyone use that as a retort to "too big to fail"?
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  6617.  @bhaashatepe5234  "Internationally recognized peace keepers"? BY WHOM? Who recognized them? NOBODY. You are ret-conning history to support Kremlin fictions.
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  6618. The problem is that those idiots will harm the rest of us while going through their death throes.
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  6619.  @bradevans7935  Which part of the Kerch bridge did you put your starting point? I placed mine on the arch just below where the bridge was damaged and got 80.4KM to the beach at Stepanivka Persha. From that same arch span to the beach at Kyrylivka I got 79.5KM. I find myself questioning your methodology. Did you pick the farthest distances between? Did you measure it from Taman on the southeast Russian side to the center of Melitapol? Now, I will admit that I confused GMLRS with the ATACMS missile. But my point that what the Ukrainians have right now still stands. GMLRS is MORE than capable of striking the Kerch bridge from the beaches at Melitopol.
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  6620.  @prometheusjackson8787  "Higher Wages"? You realize the minimum wage in 1950 was $0.75? Not all of that 2,000% increase is attributable to inflation. For someone who claim to be intelligent, you show a distinct ignorance of objective hard fact.
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  6621.  @prometheusjackson8787  "Not relevant for 30 years"? The Chinese Communist Party begs to differ. But keep putting your foot in your mouth, please. It only makes you a laughingstock.
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  6622.  @baronvonlimbourgh1716  Yeah, but how much of those business taxes were covered by TARIFFS? That is the dirty little detail you left out. Tariffs don't cover domestic business transactions, only international trade. And repeating your same slogan doesn't make you educated, it makes you a broken record (logical fallacy). You are guilty of what you accuse the rest of us. You are the one re0writing history according to your neo-communist THEORY which fails when it meets hard economic data.
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  6623.  @prometheusjackson8787  And you are too foolish to realize that just because China claims to have "free trade zones" doesn't mean that they are. It is a gimmick referring to tariffs, not actual free markets. When 90% of the companies are "State Owned Enterprises" that means they are effectively organs of the government. Basically, Soviet Communism by another name. Good job, you have just proven to everyone you are a good little soviet that regurgitates talking points on cute like Pavlov's Dog.
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  6624.  @baronvonlimbourgh1716  ​ Yes, they are. Tariffs are NOT placed on individual people bringing their possessions across national boundaries. It is levied on corporations carrying bulk good across boundaries. Congratulations, you show you have zero knowledge on the subject. You clearly have no economic experience because you are regurgitating Debunked Keynesian platitudes on cue like Pavlov 's dog. Karl Menger, and Fredrich Hayek completely disprove all of your theories and is backed up by hard data. Indeed, Art Laffer confirmed everything they described and time and again it is validated.
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  6625.  @baronvonlimbourgh1716  Not everything you read online is true. Any smuck can post anything. Go to the original paper sources. Anyone someone says "I read it online" I automatically discount it as hearsay and with good reason. A physical copy of Encyclopedia Brittanica is more reliable than anything you find online.
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  6626. FDIC is obligated to protect the account holders, not the stockholders.
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  6627. But why wait till now? Further, are you implying that the Russian Army is so blind as to not see Ukrainian Frogmen place demolition charges?
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  6628. The US is the ONLY way Taiwan can stand up to Red China. And Taiwan is NOT Ukraine. The US has a vested interest in Taiwan that doesn't exist for Ukraine.
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  6629.  @JackHankeAnd  Which means the whole affair is politically motivated.
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  6630.  @JackHankeAnd  Except, if it WAS worth pursuing, then why did the Feds decline when they have sole jurisdiction? You blatantly ignore critical details which shatters your narrative.
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  6631. Me thinks they have always hated it and were simply looking for an excuse to stick it to the people who built the empire they are now demolishing.
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  6632. Not going to happen while the Kims still rule DPRK with an iron fist.
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  6633. Solar will not work under an ash cloud. Adn the abrasiveness of the ash means it would damage the solar panels when you are trying to clean them off.
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  6634. They also assume that Russia doesn't also have to watch its back door with China and Kazakstan. Those borders are NOT like the US-Canada border.
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  6635.  @sillysad3198  China want "outer Manchuria" back. Publicly they may say otherwise, but Chinese memory is long. And they may support an independence movement within Yakutia if that region shows evidence of wanting to move closer to Beijing.
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  6636.  @sillysad3198  Vladivostok is the home of the Russian Pacific fleet. That is why China doesn't have influence over it. I can believe you on Habarovsk as it is on the border between the two countries.
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  6637.  @sillysad3198  There are undeveloped resources under the ground that have not been developed because of the remoteness of the region. China's proximity makes them better situated to exploit them than Moscow.
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  6638. Except, "migrant" is a gaslighting attempt to give them legitimacy. The correct description is "trespassing foreign alien national".
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  6639.  @shadyhaze1559  Except, the damage patter doesn't indicate that it was a truck bomb. The fact that portions of the deck were lifted UP and sideways indicated that the explosion was UNDER the bridge, not on top of it.
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  6640. They should, but RINOs like Lindsay Graham Nasty will break ranks.
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  6641.  @yelenashishkina8804  The only enemy of the Russian people is the Kremlin. Under Yeltsin, there was reproachment and a possible new future between Russia and the West. Putin slammed that door shut.
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  6642. Yeah, our adoption system needs a major overhaul across the board. Your suggestion is but one piece to that. Mine is putting children in the custody of next of kin or extended family, where possible.
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  6643. Huxley predicted it in "Brave New World". Drown the world in frivolousness to distract the people from the easily accessible knowledge about what is really importaint.
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  6644. I think you need to refresh your understanding of War Plan Orange, which was essentially the US's blueprint for fighting WW2. It was predicated on the concept "tyranny of distance". I guarantee you that the Pentagon has already made several battleplans for the defense of Taiwan/Formosa.
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  6645.  @Buckeye6161984  Today's DoD, you would be correct. They care more about pandering to get promoted rather than actually doing their job. HOWEVER, there ARE some brilliant planners in the company grade ranks who ARE gifted and know what the hell they are doing. Once the lead starts flying, THEY will be the ones to replace the pieces of shit who currently run the Pentagon.
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  6646.  @pauldillingham6316  Not true. Her family's company has many ties to the Red government. Hell, that is how they are able to even do business in mainland or in Hong Kong. Not all Taiwanese are nationalists. There are communist sympathizers in Taipei just like everywhere else.
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  6647.  @pauldillingham6316  You said she only has ties to China because of ethnicity. THAT was not true. You are trying to be clever by half. Engaging in half-truths is lying by omission. It also destroys your credibility. Their business dealings with mainland China are well known.
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  6648. TLC is the channel for glorifying degeneracy. I agree with you that, keep your dirty laundry in the privacy of your own home, and you do you. Just don't rub it in my face.
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  6649. In many ways it is. Even Cicero knew this back in 45BC. Throughout history law has been nothing more that a tool for the powerful to control the weak.
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  6650. Kind of hard to get anything done when your Vice and nominal deputy is actively sabotaging you. Seriously, Mike Pence was to Trump what Grima Wormtounge was to King Theoden of Rohan in Lord of the Rings.
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  6651. Funny, because that is the very thing that Democrats have been doing to conservative business owners in blue states. "Bake that gay cake you fascist!" Does that ring a bell?
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  6652.  @ttrev007  You are worried about Democrats getting the same idea? The HAVE been doing the same thing for decades! Forcing conservative Chirstian businesses to bow to government. This has NOTING to do with discrimination and has everything to do with forced participation.
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  6653. @ "Amen I say to you, the Harlots and Tax Collectors are entering heaven before you," -Matthew 21:32 Funny how you people forget THAT part which comes after the eye of the needle. Because it doesn't fit your self-righteous and hypocritical narrative.
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  6654. @ "Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ THEN I WILL TELL THEM PLAINLY, ‘I NEVER KNEW YOU; DEPART FROM ME YOU WORKERS OF LAWLESSNESS!’" -Matthew chapter 7, 22-23 She doesn't worship the almighty, she worships liberal-progressive theology.
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  6655. @ Matthew says otherwise. She is an idolator. Her "God" is liberalism.
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  6656. Nate Silver lost all of his credibility in 2016. He tried to claim he was correct, expecting people to simply ignore what he was saying before two weeks prior to the election which was completely off the mark. Predicting a result the day before the election is what we call "Nowcasting" in meteorology.
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  6657.  @Vaeldarg  Wow, historically revisionism. You seem to ignore the cynical actions of Emperor Constantine and the Council of Nicene. You fail to realize that they were just using the popularity of the faith to grow their own base of power. Constantine continued to make burnt offerings to the Greco-Roman pantheon long after supposedly converting in flagrant defiance of Christian precepts. How about you ACTUALLY READ SCRIPTURES from an academic perspective. The gospels and the words of the Nazarene are VERY anti-establishment. They are HIGHLY critical of government and organized religion. "It is said my house shall be a temple of prayer, but you have turned it into a den of thieves!" -Jesus of Nazareth; Matthew 21:12, Mark 11:15;' Luke 19:46; John 2:13
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  6658.  @Vaeldarg  I am asking you to think outside of the box instead of simply accepting an misotheist perspective. Religions do not exist to enslave people; they act as guard rails to prevent societal collapse. But sure, show your contempt for the anti-religion "humanist" movements are responsible for some of the worst atrocities in the 20th century.
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  6659. "Reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated," -Smauel Clemens, aka Mark Twain. "Don't count your eggs before they have hatched," -old proverb. "I have not yet begun to fight," -John Paul Jones, father of the US Navy.
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  6660. Fu-Go balloon bombs are no laughing matter.
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  6661. And how many senators have gotten busted for DUIs but because they are elected officials, got those charges dropped? As Markwayne Mullin pointed out, the members of the committee themselves are guilty of the very same things they attacked Hegseth for.
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  6662.  @Pantera_NP  Hero with bad publicity and villain with good publicity are both classic tropes. And TV Tropes page has numerous examples.
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  6663.  @kaitan4160  The sociologists have been changing the terminologies every two years to make the data fit a narrative rather than let it speak for itself. Until 2010, people described both Generation Y and Millenials as separate and distinct. Now they have decided to combine them for some strange reason. And Pew jumped on board with this bizarre change. I am tail end of Gen X along with Dana Louche who was born only a few years before me. My sister 4 years younger than me was called Gen Y while my baby sister born almost 11 years after me is Millenial. While it made sense in post world war 2 to class cohorts in 20 year groupings because that is how the birth patters resulted in the post-war years, that measurement device is no longer applicable as the children of the Lost Generation and the Boomers are so blended though they arguably should be separate cohorts. Measuring in 5-10 year groupings with allowances for bleed-over is a more accurate way to classify age groups.
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  6664.  @thumtlnguyen3626  Do you remember the name of the ship that rescued you? Your story, particularly the part about setting the boat on fire sounds very similar to my father's experience rescuing boat people on the USS Elliot (DD-967).
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  6665.  @thumtlnguyen3626  Ah, different vessel then. Thank you for sharing your story. I was hoping to connect my father to some of the people his ship rescued.
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  6666. Then why not shoot it down over Alaska where there is nobody around for miles? Or over Kansas or Nebraska which are also sparsely populated. Don't make excuses for incompetence.
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  6667. Because they are not so ham-fisted or in your face going on a tirade that distracts from the story. The Japanese have figured out the finesse of subtly.
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  6668. Keep dreaming. He has already rejected offers of evacuation. In that he is more heroic that cowards like Charels deGaulle.
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  6669. 70 Million against 20K? Yes, but that would be a very mess affair.
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  6670.  @ArchonLicht  Governments who seize private assets invariably destroy them. Or have you forgotten what Hugo Chavez did in Venezuela?
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  6671. To what goal? The elites in the US WANT China to take over the world.
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  6672. I agree that they should be more specific. I refer to it at either "Northwest" Bank or "Southeast" Bank. The line is a diagonal, so using the secondary compass directions is more accurate.
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  6673.  @Soldmysoulforablurayplayer  Because that is not an effective use of nukes. As a weapon, you either use it in conjunction with an offensive to exploit the gap it creates in the lines, OR you use it as an area denial, i.e., to block an avenue of attack or operation. If you want to wipe out a concentration of troops. there are more effective conventional bombs that can do the same thing.
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  6674.  @Soldmysoulforablurayplayer  Ah, but that's the kicker. If they are NOT scared of it, then using it becomes pointless. An opponent unfazed by threats of use will not be dissuaded after it actually is used. The effect is expended.
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  6675. Might just be better to come down the East bank of the Dnipro from Zaphorizia. No need to cross the river under fire when you can do it from an area already under Ukrainian control.
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  6676. The problem is that the ARABS claiming to be Palestinian have NEVER negotiated in good faith. They have ALWAYS violated the peace terms they agreed to. much like Putin.
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  6677. Considering the number of fraudulent investigations and court cases against Trump, I'd say his concerns are justified.
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  6678. There was not any need to dig up dirty in Biden as his son Hunter and Burisma is the dirty laundry air itself.
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  6679. For the longest time, the left was the creative types. They knew how to adopt new ideas and new messaging. But under Obama they got complacent and forgot how to be creative. They got drunk on their own self-importance.
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  6680. "Five finger discounts"
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  6681. I suspect she was also a graduate of IU's Kinsey Institute, aka the School of Sex.
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  6682. Asymmetric warfare. That is how all great Empires were defeated by an inferior foe. Much like with the Matador, you don't stand right in front of the bull; you let him pass just off to the side and wear himself out charging at a distraction.
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  6683.  @Scuba_Tim88  Samurai was a hereditary CASTE. At best, Yasuke was a curiosity that Oda brought out to amuse his guests.
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  6684. When I was in uniform, they made a big deal about not "duck hunting" (ie not letting the barrel point up in the sky). That is actually another sign of their discipline; what goes up must come down, so it is better a bullet ricochet off the ground than go on a ballistic track.
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  6685. @Aditya Chavarkar Land wise, yes. Population wise, not so much. The bigger issue is the legacy of the old Soviet Union.
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  6686.  @ricochet2977  And how much worse would it be without guns? Do keep in mind that Tsarist Russia was more armed and had higher per capita gun ownership before the Oktober Revolution. First thing the Bolsheviks did was institute 100% gun registration. Guess what happened next?
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  6687. Indeed. he thinks that China will simply launder the oil and gas? China is the #1 oil and gas IMPORTER!
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  6688. Tru dat. "Vengeance is MINE saith the Lord, I WILL repay."
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  6689.  @SBU_007  Just wait. The Ukrainians are chomping at the bit to take it back.
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  6690. A-10 is specifically a close air support platform. The F-16 is an air-to-air interceptor. Both are better in their respective roles than the F-35 is.
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  6691.  @xxLAKOTAxx83  No, I mostly agree with your assessment, but an air interceptor like the F-16 can still kill ground support aircraft like the Su-25. An A-10 pilot would still like to have F-16s protecting them from Mig-29s and Su-27s. Not that the A-10 couldn't handle them in a dogfight, it just makes it easier to focus on the ground support mission when you don't have to worry about the interceptors.
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  6692. The wokistas don't like the idea that a young white boy can learn valuable life lessons from a gentleman of color.
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  6693. And yet several more signed an affidavit saying that Trump was a Russian agent and that Hunter Biden's laptop was a hoax. I am waiting to see them go to prison.
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  6694. My proposal is 20-year terms staggered every 4 years. Shrink the court down to just five justices and a president would get to nominate one justice per presidential term which is not too far off from what it is now.
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  6695. Remind the Russian partisans that their most elite units, 1st Guards Tank Army, and the 155th Naval Infantry both no longer exist as a serious fighting force.
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  6696.  @wumaobot  Not really. It fails if it is easily identifiable. Even Gorbbels admitted that nobody does propaganda like the US. Even Lavrenty Beria had to admit that too.
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  6697. Taipei has never acknowledged the Red Government as legitimate.
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  6698. Chomsky isn't entirely correct, though. NAFTA has empowered the "workers of the world unite" unionist movement. In particular, his complete embrace of Marx's labor theory of value is rather bizarre considering that it has been completely disproven by the likes of Carl Menger, August von Misses, and Fredrick Hayek.
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  6699.  @paranoidpanzerpenguin5262  The Red Chinese government owns everything. "State Capitalism" is still central planning by the central party committee who just happen to be the managers of said "companies". Don't fool yourself. Hong Kong and Macau are rich and productive because they are capitalist which until recently the Chi-Coms left intact. The reason why the Red government's attempt to make Shenzen a rival to Hong Kong and Macau fails is because they don't allow private ownership, the foundation on which capitalism exists.
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  6700. There is a more pragmatic reason: Nuclear weapon cores can be reprocessed into power core rods. Swords into plows as described in scripture, ironically.
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  6701. Indeed. The Earth experiences cycles regularly. I have a serious flem issue due to my time in South Korea. The air at times got so bad that just breathing felt like you had laundry detergent in your throat. We don't have that nearly as bad in the US, but there is always room for improvement.
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  6702.  @AM-cm2kj  What Anglo-Soviet Alliance? Or do you mean after Hitler betrayed Stalin and invaded? Yeah, the Soviets were out for revenge, not any sense of justice as the KGB archives show, documenting medals handed out to soldiers who raped German women. And a lot of help they were in the Pacific theater; they only declared war AFTER Nagasaki.
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  6703. If you think replicating Venezuela's dire situation in Colombia is a good idea, then sure it probably is based.
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  6704. Russian nukes will detonate in the silo rather than actually launch just like they did on K-129. The Moskva and Admiral Kuznetsov are proof of the poor maintainace of Russian weapon systems.
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  6705. Agreed. Johnson is just another John Boehner and Kevin McCarthy.
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  6706. 'If You Voted For Biden And Don't Regret It, You're The Problem' - Jake Paul
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  6707. Yeah, the interest rates are 3% while the TRUE inflation value is closer to 12%. The people who put money away into savings are seeing their nest egg being pilfered by the banking system.
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  6708. They don't believe in "voting with your wallet". These guys are cut from the same cloth as the Soviet Commissars who would arrest people for having a Beetle's record.
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  6709.  @Professor__S  And woke women are wondering why more and more American men are opting to find foreign brides, particularly from East and Southeast Asia.
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  6710.  @conorbuttimer6243  Lost of words, but little in the way of substance. Even CNN says these charges are a joke. Alexander Lushenko of Belarus loves people like you.
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  6711. Russia is sending its oil to China and India while getting ripped off at the Pump. Not even OPEC can save Russia's energy industry.
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  6712. They keep making up these words to keep people off guard. They are purposely muddying the water so that their critics can't properly respond in a timely manner.
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  6713. Basically, anyone to the right of Joseph Stalin. At least to these rabid ideological leftists.
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  6714. She embarrasses Asians everywhere.
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  6715. Russian collusion WAS A HOAX.
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  6716. Indeed. Everyone knows he is a grifter yet the establishment hacks at Fox can't help themselves.
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  6717. How? Details. Be specific.
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  6718. And Russia has failed to do any of that in twice the time. So what is your point?
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  6719.  @eltonmuchemwa2276  And Ukraine is doing the same in Zaporizhian. It is like two snakes trying to eat each other from the tail up.
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  6720. Indeed. As Confucius observed, the strength of the nation comes from the integrity of the family.
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  6721. What happens when one party refuses a peaceful solution? What happens if one side will accept nothing less than the complete subjugation of the other? A peaceful solution is no possible when those preconditions are in place.
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  6722.  @stephan2wolf  You are trying to apply logic in a situation dominated by emotions and passion. Wisdom has nothing to do with war and battle. You are engaging in an act of futility to try.
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  6723. The irony is, the Vietnamese boat people are the ones keeping California financially solvent. Seriously, they are among the MOST productive citizens of the state. Too bad they are outnumbered by the draft-dodgers in that state.
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  6724. I just don't see someone in that environment joining. The college alone would have bombarded her with the message that the military is full of war criminals and baby killers.
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  6725. Which results in a Trump victory by a significant margin. It was the nevertrumpers that facilitated Biden's victory. RFK jr. taking those votes away torpedoes them more than it does Trump.
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  6726. Actually, most Vietnamese vote GOP. They are the most reliably Republican voter block, edging out even Evangelical Christians. Not that a partisan hack like you would bother to even research.
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  6727.  @epramos6800  Basically you are a Rockefeller-Romney Republican. You hold zero in common with the RNC's national platform. Sorry, a "California Republican" outside of either Orange County (Aka Saigon City USA) or Northern California is a liberal Democrat in a Republican state. So tell me, how has being part of the establishment worked out for you? You are a collaborator with the people who bend over and take it from their political opponents like a three dollar street walker. Supporting people who capitulate to political Stockholm Syndrome is not a good look.
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  6728.  @epramos6800  And yet you do when you support establishment types against populists like Trump. Believe you me, I know first hand how Democrats pretend to be Republicans. That is how they get elected in Indiana. Mayor Brainard of Carmel Indiana is case in point. He is Obama's favorite Republican Mayor after all.
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  6729.  @epramos6800  You didn't get into my head, that is just you acting like a pigeon playing chess. You didn't make any points other than to prove you are a shill for the establishment. And a bigot to boot since you cannot tolerate populist perspectives.
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  6730. "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing." -Macbeth, by William Shakespeare.
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  6731. Because some people would rather rule over rubble than allow people to rise above them. It is the famous crabs or lobsters in the tank. Rather than work together to easily escape, the would rather pull each other down.
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  6732. They are not the existential threat the USSR was. But they are certainly a threat to regional peace as we have seen in Ukraine.
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  6733.  @OnTheSpotsilver  Putin is a third-rate tin-plated dictator. His actions in Ukraine have shattered the image of Russian invulnerability. At this point he is as impotent as Saddam Hussein or Hugo Chavez. Yes, a threat to immediate neighbors, but not much beyond that.
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  6734. She was less popular than Biden before the announcement. And people are not going to like that the first candidate to drop out before the Iowa Caucus in 2020 is being coronated without having won the primary.
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  6735.  @911WASanINSIDEjob420  Oswald was the hapless trigger man, spun up by the FBI/CIA. Ballistics prove he fired the three fatal shots. The "intelligence agencies" used him much as they did the Garland Texas terrorists.
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  6736.  Alex Blazquez  Denying scientific reenactment of the single bullet theory? And you respond by calling me subhuman? Thank you for proving that you will believe anything that your feudal masters tell you. And the single bullet does not discount the idea that Oswald was the gunman for the FBI/CIA. But you don't want to consider a third option that takes into consideration the forensics. Proof positive that the single bullet is real. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZRUNYZY71g
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  6737. They want him in Rikers WITHOUT Secret Service so that he can be Epstiened.
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  6738. Delusional. The ONLY way the Kimmies will allow the two Koreas to unite is under their totalitarian bootheel. If that sounds like a good idea, then I invite you to move to DPRK.
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  6739. Semper Fi, Der Teufel Hunden!
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  6740. Europe with original ideas? Surely you are joking. The last time Europe had an original idea was when Otto von Bismark united Germany.
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  6741. I think Chairman Mao also said something to that effect; that authority is found at the barrel of a gun.
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  6742. 15-year-old American equipment outperforming the best that Russia has. What does that tell you? The Russian Bear is Geriatric.
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  6743.  @BlyGuy  Blago was a crook. But to your point, Obama hung him out to dry. Me thinks that Obama wanted to hand select his replacement and Blago refused to play ball.
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  6744.  @_Alfa.Bravo_  From what? That is the same kind of justification all traitors make.
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  6745.  @_Alfa.Bravo_  That isn't an argument, that is making excuses.
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  6746. Because they are ruled by their emotions rather than by logic and reason. "Guns are scary" so that makes them bad. No better than animals when people let their emotions dictate their actions.
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  6747. An irony would be if it was marginally successful, much like Springtime for Hitler in the movie "The Producers". That would cause even more problems for them when the audit comes to check their books.
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  6748. Tinseltown at one time had that power. But they have squandered it over the past decade. When ideology and "correct think" take priority over producing a quality product, you get something akin to the Soviet "ministry of culture" in Stain's 1930s USSR.
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  6749. Indeed. Most units down to the company level in the Civil War were from the same town or county. The Pennsylvania Bucktails for example, each of the letter companies was from a specific county, with my ancestor Wallace Mordechai Moore part of the Taioga Rifles company (from Taigoa county, PA)
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  6750. Let us hope so, because the J-16 was purposely designed to be a 4th generation hunter of 5th generation F-22 Raptors. They planned on using numbers to defeat the American technological advantage.
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  6751.  @FeatheredDino  MiG-29 has the worst record of all? Apparently, you are not familiar with how it is SUPPOSED to be used (which the Russians are terrible at). In engagements of less than 5km separation, the MiG-29 is VASTLY superior in terms of maneuverability and targeting. The problem is that it does NOT have the staying power nor stand-off capabilities of the F-15. Most Western fighters are predicated on the doctrine of distance fighting, not dogfighting at close range. The whole reason for the Red Flag exercises is to prevent the atrophy of those skills which would otherwise be ignored because of Western Chauvinism towards close aerial combat. Vietnam's air campaign highlighted that critical weakness in Western Air doctrine.
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  6752. That is the goal. The 25th amendment talk was not about Trump, it was about Joe Bite-Me. I am just surprised they let this go on as long as it has. I figured his term in office would have been shorter than William Henry Harrison.
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  6753. All of you folks saying that Chia can't win a war against the US have conveniently ignored the War Games the Pentagon has ran since the 90s. Michael Pilsbury plays team Gold (China) much like how Erich Marcks played the Americans in German War Games. And BOTH of them playing the aggressor squad ALWAYS WIN. Pilsbury plays the Chinese how the Chinese operate and he never loses. The ONLY time Pilsbury loses is when he is constrained by what American planners will not permit him to do because they refuse to even conceive of the possibilities Pilsbury comes up with.
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  6754.  @mattbarker1411  Yeah, the are called MIRVs (Multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle). That is how you defeat missile defense systems. It is why MIRVs are suppose to be banned under the SALT and START treaties the US signed with the USSR. Treaties I might add, that China has refused to sign.
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  6755.  @edwardjmayer87  You are correct. As many outside observers have said, the US ALWAYS fights with its right hand tied behind its back, never going all in the way other countries do. But, I WILL remind you that China has more bodies than we have bullets. And that is counting the stockpile of privately owned munitions as well. They can use the Marine Corp. mentality against us to devastating effect. And unlike Xerxes at Thermopylae, their slave army IS trained and disciplined.
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  6756.  @edwardjmayer87  Not battle-hardened? America's piss poor attempt at war in Afghanistan and Iraq can hardly qualify if you discount China's foray in Vietnam in the 80s. While I am not discounting the experience of America's fighting men, our "adventurism" in the Mid East is not war but politicians playing tin-soldiers. And battlefield superiority comes from the wise application of FORCE MULTIPLEIRS. The problem is that training, technology, and terrain can only account for so much before the tsunami of bodies overruns your position. American military planners have become complacent and spoiled relying almost solely on technology and training while ignoring how terrain and raw numbers play out. American military planners only know how to fight an inferior foe, not one that is just as capable as them in other areas. THAT is why the collapse of the USSR has been just as bad to the US as it was to the former Soviet bloc.
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  6757.  @chefmarcos  Tell that to Stanislav Petrov. The reason why he did NOT order a Soviet counter-strike to the false nuclear missile alarm in 1983 is BECAUSE he expected a real strike to consist of hundreds of missiles at once rather than one at a time. Seriously, go look up the history of the US-Soviet Cold war, because that blueprint for escalation of force is how a PRC-US conflict would play out. And yes, the DoD DOES spend billons of dollars furiously. Anyone who has held a government purchase card can tell you that. Hell, the way contracting is handed out, they government WILL pick the most expensive option if the person bidding for it is female, minority, disabled, a military vet, and half a dozen other "qualifiers" that "compensate" and "adjust" the cost factoring down.
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  6758.  @chefmarcos  "Largest Navy wins huh?" That is what both the British and the Japanese said leading up to WW2. One required the US to pull their bacon out of the fire, and the other was defeated by us. You are gloating like the school bully who is so sure of themselves until they get punched. You GROSSLY overestimate American Chances. Michael Pilsbury, Gordon Chang, and Richard Murdock are much smarter men than you and have looked at this for over 20 years. I take their dire warnings over your pathetic boasting any day.
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  6759.  @chefmarcos  Wow, three responses? I think I hit a nerve. Your continual declarations sound more like you are trying to convince yourself. The more you have to affirm something, the less true it becomes. With the focus on social justice and fear mongering about phantom "white supremacists" evidence shows otherwise. When the top brass are more concerned about diversity in the ranks than they are about combat effectiveness, well, that means the Sukhomlinov Effect is in full force. The strong don't have to gloat. It is the weak who boast and brag because they have something to prove. It is the behavior of schoolyard bullies. Me thinks you KNOW the US is weak because of incompetency among the top brass who have betrayed their oaths. That is why you feel the need to make macho boasts. "When strong, appear weak. When weak, appear strong," -Sun Tzu, the Art of War.
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  6760. I thought she said KUNI, but I guess that is a Mondegreen on my part.
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  6761. ICBMs may have global reach, but zero staying power. Blue Water Navies are mandatory to be considered a Superpower, and Russia hasn't had once since the collapse of the USSR. China wants one, but still isn't there yet. The UK and France have one, but theirs are not nearly as powerful as the US Navy. India COULD build a blue water Navy but has no aspirations hence no desire nor need to build one.
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  6762.  @Boretheory  Wrong on BOTH counts. First, China has had numerous famines almost like clockwork. Globalization is not really a new thing. Ever heard of the Silk Road across Asia? The Greco-Roman world was trading with India and China since the time of Alexander the Great. Ever heard of the Tarim Basin? The blonde and Redhead mummies found there have genetic markers and technologies from both the Rhineland as well as China and Korea. As for the technical progress, that is a DIRECT result of capitalism. Only capitalism rewards creativity and innovation. All other economic systems punish those who would disrupt the status quo. There is a very good reason why only Israel is in competition with the US when it comes to breakthroughs in science and technology, though Japan and Korea are catching up BECAUSE of their embrace of free market capitalism.
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  6763.  @alexanderballa6152  Chicken and the egg conundrum. It is easy to ascribe to technology that which is made possible by good economics. All modern technology does is facilitate ease of that which already exists; how many times has plumbing, and sanitation been reinvented over the centuries?
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  6764.  @theburgerexperience  It is not moronic. The most rapid advances in technology and science are a direct result of American capitalism. Indeed, most industrial revolutions only occurred BECAUSE of capitalist principles driving them. "Socialist Industrial Revolutions" only happen because those societies plagiarized from the societies that had already developed the technology. I agree that we have NOT hit the maximum population capacity of the planet. The New World became more agriculturally productive in no small part to both Western technological innovation as well as the humble honeybee. And socialism is NEVER a steppingstone to a post-scarcity society because it REQUIRES the stagnation of technology to even function. Innovation is the bane of socialist economic order because it upsets the delicate math of centralized planning.
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  6765. Shale oil will upstage that though. It is MUCH cheaper than the money pit that has been renewables. The ONLY "renewable" energy source that is financially viable is hydro-electric dams.
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  6766. The greatest lie ever told was that Satan doesn't exist and that he has no power. He has only as much power as we give him. And it is clear that these folks have very much let him control them.
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  6767. Admiral Yamamoto and a few others who served alongside Americans before the War knew better. But their concerns were ignored by Tojo and company.
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  6768. @MI6 Not really. It has since been assessed that FDR's policies only prolonged the Depression, not end it. It was WAR production that pulled the US out of the Great Depression. And that can be seen with the Leand-Lease policy that started the gearing up for wartime production.
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  6769. @MI6 Try UCLA and George Washington University. They both concur on that point. You can easily find this information if you bother to do your due diligence. But alas, you clearly do not.
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  6770. That is a strawman arugment.
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  6771. Hey Jose, I think your nose is brown from kissing Putin's hind end.
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  6772. That exactly part of why people are making a stink. Trans people get thrown off tall buildings in Muslim countries.
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  6773. Don't forget Israel. They have been in a state of readiness since 1948 while still being a democratic society.
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  6774. Shale oil will dampen that though.
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  6775. Except, they do NOT have any legal status. It is an attempt to confer legitimacy where none exists. The correct term is "trespassing FOREIGN ALIEN NATIONAL".
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  6776.  @WestCoastVisitor  And those not here lawfully by definition are trespassing. They do NOT have a right to be here. Don't be disingenuous.
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  6777.  @kevinhayes9787  Orange man lives rent-free in your head.
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  6778.  @GaryGraham-sx4pm  Not while Russia is in bed with Iran. Try as hard they have, the Israelis can't stay out of the Russo-Ukraine conflict BECAUSE of the Iranians. and their logistical support to Russia
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  6779. May the Japanese bury Tinsel Town. The Daimyos of the East make for better lords than the wokistas burning down the West.
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  6780. Are you joking? RFK would take the nevertrumper votes away from Kamala. By joining Trump, RFK hands them back to the Dems.
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  6781. It is up to us to make sure that Tony Fauci is remembered as the Jospeh Mengele of the 21st century.
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  6782.  @LibraritheWizardOfficial  I totally agree. When the Gospels describe that Satan laid out the nations before Jesus while on a tall mountain, that can accurately mean that a map of the known was placed before him while observing from a high vantage point. The nations being shown on the map make it possible. With my example of Gehanna, it could either be a rite of walking between lines of fire, jumping through fire, or throwing said child into a fire. The vagueness leaves many possibilities. All of the situations do not speak well of the scenario, however.
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  6783.  @LibraritheWizardOfficial  Again, I am in complete agreement with you on those points.
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  6784. I'm not sure I can call those folks driving out others the fandom. Trek had a unifying philosophy: IDIC Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations. Driving out "unbelievers" flies in the face of that philosophy.
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  6785.  @sigmacademy  I as part of the "old guard" DID call it out. So no, those people who hijacked it for political ends are NOT in any way fans. They are posers and dilettantes. And that is being charitable.
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  6786. And Joe Bite-Me isn't?
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  6787.  @nomanor7987  Is that what the Kremlin has told you? IF YOUR claims were true, then Russia should have overran Dnipro last week. The lack of much movement shows that the Russians are shattering themselves on Ukrainian defenses much like Pickett's charge shattered itself on Cemetary Hill at Gettysburg.
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  6788.  @nomanor7987  You keep telling yourself that Private Conscriptovich. The complete and utter defeat of the 1st Army Tank Guards, the Pride of Moscow, shows who is really winning the battle of attrition.
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  6789. It is also racist that these people think that a young white boy cannot or should not learn valuable life lessons from a gentleman of color.
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  6790. No joke. Numerous studies have conclusively linked single parent families to a rise in crime, lower education and employment opportunities, teen pregnancy, societal collapse. It is a truism that Confucius knew from personal experience and warned future generations not to repeat.
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  6791.  @Obscurai  And yet again you engage in intellectual dishonesty. You conflate recent developments with historical norms and pretend that they are one and the same. You are NOT debating in good faith but instead engaging in moral relativism to push an ideology of destruction and devastation.
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  6792.  @steven4315  That only works if the bare minimum of quality is achieved. Below that threshold, numbers become meaningless. Case in point is the lop-sided engagement between the Spartans and the Persian Immortals on the first day at Thermopylae.
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  6793.  @aeroprime3322  The Nazis were also the instigators of the Reichstag Fire, so it does not surprise me that the left would agitate people into acting.
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  6794. What aggression? NOTHING justifies what Hamas did. NOTHING justified the 1948 invasion of Israel. Nothing Justified the 1967 and 1973 wars which were all a result of ARAB aggression. Stop blaming the victim.
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  6795. Don't give them that kind of publicity. It will become a media circus and humanize them.
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  6796. You really think he would tell NBC?
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  6797. How many US soldiers are stationed in Israel? Now how many are stationed in Germany and South Korea? I'll wait.
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  6798. The real war criminals are Hama who uses children as human shields and hospitals as ammunition dumps. Stop blaming the victim. Stop apologizing for the abuser.
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  6799. Sure, blame the victim (Ukraine). Even the IAEA during its visit disproved the claims that Ukraine was shelling the plant. The rockets changing direction 180 degrees at the last minute is too preposterous.
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  6800.  @syedaslam2780  LIBERATE JUDEA from ARAB-MUSLIM OPPRESSION!
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  6801. EXACTLY! It is just repackaged bolshevism. "Stakeholder" is the new "proletariat".
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  6802. Yeah, it irritated me how blatantly bad he mispronounced it. It's not like we in the West has had some 20 odd years of familiarity with the word.
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  6803. Sounds to me like Kiril has done what the Kims have done in North Korea: perverted faith into a cult of personality. In North Korea, they believe in the Trinity: Kin Il-Sung the Father, Kim Jong-Il the Son, and the Holy spirit of Juche (Korean Communism).
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  6804. @Bryan Gillis Agreed. They want to become the machine, not abolish it.
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  6805.  @Day.Of.The.GroundBreaker  Apples to oranges false analogy. Nobody forced Poland, Czechia, the Baltic States, Croatia, and Slovakia to join NATO, they joined of their own free will. Sweden and Finland joining NATO was a direct result of Russia's invasion. The expansion of NATO was a direct result of just one man-Putin.
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  6806.  @georgewhite2469  Putin is a fascistic dictator who murders his critics and political opponents. If that is your idea of a hero, then you clearly love totalitarian despotism.
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  6807.  @eduwino151  And rural parts of the US are also third world. Hell, the state of California is more third world than most of China now! So that argument doesn't cut it. PS, it isn't your wifie and cell phone coverage that makes you a modern country, it is the plumbing and sanitation that does. Can you safely drink the tap water?
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  6808.  @user-jt3dw6vv4x  Back for more trolling I see. You blatantly miss the point that money wasted on a space program could be better spent to improving the economy and the livelihood of the citizens.
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  6809.  @2KSnSLifestyle  Yeah, up from what? Near zero in 2021 because of their zero Covid lockdown policies? Don't forget that the port of Shanghai was practically closed for almost an entire year. You are making a mountain out of a molehill. "Figures don't lie, but liars figure" -Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain. "Lies, damn lies, and statistics," -Mark Twain.
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  6810.  @user-jt3dw6vv4x  "It was a mistake for me to reply to you. I should have known this man doesn't have it in him to move on." Sour grapes dude. learn not to poke a bear unless you want to get mauled. Touch grass.
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  6811.  @2KSnSLifestyle  Not really when you are starting from next to zero. Percentages are meaningless. What really matters is the raw numbers. Again, China's ports have been closed to outgoing trade for over a year now, and your numbers do NOT reflect that.
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  6812.  @2KSnSLifestyle  Yeah, and how much of that product was delivered BEFORE China shut down their ports? You clearly don't understand how logistics and delivery works. Closures of the ports have a delayed reaction. Waldo, do keep in mind that Russia used to be SECOND World order. The only reason why they are third world status now is because of the collapse of the old Soviet Union, something they never truly recovered from. And @K ', I have clearly triggered you. That fact that I got under your skin so easily shows how superficial you and your arguments are. Your problem is that you don't realize when you are wrestling with pigs; you get dirty, and the pig enjoys it.
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  6813. Neilsons also said that TOS Trek viewership was in the pits and yet it came back with a vengeance in syndication. And that is not the only show that they completely missed the actual audience numbers on. Their methodology is dubious at best.
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  6814. Because Russian success in those areas was so rapid as to make supporting the resistance not with the effort. Ukraine's first two weeks defying all of the expectations made supporting them a more viable prospect.
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  6815. I think JFK had a quote about that, businesses being motivated by tax avoidance rather than investing in productivity.
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  6816.  @themittonmethod1243  Because there are enough people with no self-respect to quit. Don't go whining to a union just because you don't have the wherewithal to go find another BETTER job.
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  6817. Indeed. Japan, Korea, and Taiwan are filling the vacuum they created with their bankruptcy of ideas.
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  6818. Wealth redistribution never works. Giving something for nothing kills productivity and stifles economic growth. Japan was badly mismanaged in the 80s due to corporate cronyism, and the government intervening hasn't helped the problem, only prolonged it much like FDR's policies prolonged the Great Depression. Keysian economics is just Leninist-Marxist theory repackaged and rebranded. But it still failed spectacularly as Art Laffer's curve has proven time and again.
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  6819.  @futureshocked  First, economic analysists have confirmed that FDR's policies made the Great Depression worse, not better. Government NEVER creates anything except debt. FDR's government spending only took resources from productive areas and wasted them in places that produced very little return on investment. It was World War 2 that brought the US out of the Great Depression, that is a FACT. The 1980s prosperity is fake? Art Laffer again proves you wrong. As does Fresrick Hayek. The Reagan tax cuts, modeled off the JFK tax cuts prove beyond a reasonable doubt that LESS government taxation creates wealth while more taxation kills it. And the Trump tax policy confirmed and validated the Reagan-JFK economic policies. I agree that debt-based economics made BANKERS and SPECULATORS wealthy because they were extracting and pillaging the economy without actually adding anything of value. That has nothing to do with less government, that is actually a result of MORE government reward such behavior via bail-outs and printing money. Read Thomas Jefferson and the problem with banking institutions. There is a reason why most cultures consider Usury to be an evil practice. Killing the golden goose NEVER pays out in the end. Sure, it may make you feel better depriving the Zaibatsu or Chaebols, but it only makes things worse in the long run. Why? Because those oligarchs end up controlling government when the government tries to take their assets. This is just as true of Japan as it is in the US. Oligarchism only exists BECAUSE governments regulate. Without government regulation, there would be no need for oligarchs to seize control of the government.
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  6820. No joke. Shouldn't incarceration reflect the fact that the vast majority of murders are black on black?
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  6821.  @CoffeeAndPaul  And yet Paul shills for the deep state and the status quo in government. Spare us. Most of Tim Pool's critics don't even watch his show and only read what media matter falsely claims he says. Ask yourself why Timmy is suing the Kamala/Waltz campaign.
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  6822. Have you actually read the law or are you just engaging in wishful thinking? Even CNN admits that this is a weak case. PS, there is a little thing called the 6th amendment which means you cannot create charges for a crime to go looking for another crime.
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  6823. Yeah, they don't seem to realize that by boosting Trump, he WILL defeat Biden because of buyer's remorse. This is going to play out much like the election of 1892 where Grover Cleaveland won in a landslide because the electorate was infuriated by the previous election' fiasco.
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  6824.  @abcdedfg8340  Indeed. The numbers are juiced and manipulated. In many ways the Chinese system emulates the Russian/Soviet one where they simply pencil whip the numbers without actually checking.
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  6825. Weather balloons don't usually carry a gondola the size of three city buses.
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  6826. They didn't learn a damn thing from the AIDS epidemic.
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  6827.  @prettitalented  Only from your limited perspective. You need to take the horse blinders off and look a little wider. The fact that Russia loses an entire generation of men (who won't have children) to the meat grinder of war coupled with the cost of paying the bill to rebuild Ukraine should be enough of a lesson to discourage future leaders in Moscow or Petrograd from ever again trying to subjugate the Ukrainian people.
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  6828.  @prettitalented  Pointing out your myopic disregard for hard facts is absolutely appropriate in debate. You are just getting pissy that your position is becoming untenable. Again, RUSSIA paying for the rebuilding of Ukraine from their gas sales very much is possible, especially if it is Western banking institutions who process the payments. Keep in mind that since the start of the war, Russia has had great difficulty with foreign trade BECAUSE they were cut-off from the banking institutions. While Russia tried to create an alternative infrastructure, both the Indians and Chinese have since pulled out of participating in it. Your problem is that you lack imagination, much less creativity. And you show a blatant ignorance of historical conflicts. Status quo ante bellum is a much more common outcome than you admit. Examples include the War of 1812, The Korean War, The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, and the Iran-Iraq War.
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  6829.  @hamfistsman6267  If their roadblock keeps Brandon and the Dems from making the situation worse, that is actually a good thing. Gridlocked government keeps it from getting into mischief.
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  6830. @Imbecillissimus I think you and I are on different pages. Republicans and the congress have very little control over foreign policy beyond the power of the purse strings (which they never actually use). I am referring to domestic policy which they CAN greatly affect.
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  6831. Japan sent bombs to the US via balloons in WW2. Started a number of forest fires. This is not a joke.
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  6832. Oswald was the hand that pulled the trigger. But who were his FBI and CIA handlers? I would be they spun him up just like they did with the Garland, Texas terrorists.
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  6833.  @georgiagirl2329  Just like the Garland, Texas terrorists were patsy. One can be used by the CIA or FBI and still be guilty of pulling the trigger. Or have you learned nothing from the Whitmer assassination Hoax?
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  6834. He pulled the trigger, of that there is no doubt. My question is who were his FBI and CIA handlers? Did they spin him up like they did with the Garland, Texas terrorists who were going after Pam Gellar?
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  6835. Or put it into public domain and let the populace take up the banner.
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  6836. "Pretending to be retarded" huh? I wonder if someone will remind them that you NEVER go full retard.
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  6837. Fukushima was nothing compared to the Windscale Fire in England. Or the Swiss Lucens accident. Or Kyshtym disaster in the USSR. Stop the anti-nuclear fearmongering by people who have political agendas.
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  6838.  @wroughtforge7547  I seriously doubt you are Japanese. You are pushing hysteria and hyperbole which only serves to create anti-Japanese bigotry.
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  6839. I hope so. She really burned herself during the 2016 primary debates when she chose to fall on the sword for the establishment. She didn't have to pick an unnecessary fight with Trump. In that regard, Chris Wallace was more professional (at least in 2016).
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  6840. Yeah, I think that is already happening. Or have you not been paying attention to the flood of illegal aliens flooding into but the US and the EU?
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  6841.  @kalliaslands9938  You may be surprised to hear that there actually ARE Palestinian members of the Knesset. They refuse to work with anyone, with the only time they formed a coalition was to oust Bib Netanyahu. But then they were the first to withdraw causing the collapse of that government opening the door for Bibi to return to office.
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  6842. Fu-Go balloon bombs. Look them up.
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  6843. Indeed. The two have been separated far longer than the Koreans have and there are two Koreas today, not one.
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  6844.  @jonye7511 They have been doing that since the first attack on the Kerch Bridge. What more can the Russians do beyond the attacks on civilians they have already done?
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  6845. Kamala is the sacrificial lamb. The DNC knows she is going to lose, so they are going to let her fail to preserve Newsome and Whitmer for another election cycle.
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  6846. And most of those union members are in public sector jobs. Private sector union membership has been in collapse over the last 30 years because the organizations take and give back very little to their members.
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  6847. Givesendgo.
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  6848. Well, South Korea is already getting in bed with the Poles regarding arms exporting. Not too far for Poland to then hand those Korean weapons over to the Ukrainians.
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  6849. Sovereign power of the state. You have read the Federalist Papers, I see. Now if only more people would do the same.
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  6850. People won't blame Trump because he isn't responsible for this. The Democrats are. It is THEY who will feel it from the voters. Too bad you are so obsessed with Orange Man that you can't figure that out.
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  6851. Yeah, the frontline survival rate of only one month is discouraging further volunteers.
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  6852.  @dexgrease5820  Anti-Zionism is nothing more than repackaged antisemitism. Holding Israel to a completely different standard than anyone else isn't virtuous, it is bigoted.
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  6853. Indeed. Way too many of the disaster proposals I have seen simply punish those who prepare and reward those who do not make preparations and throw caution to the wind.
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  6854.  @raymisuto9872  You are trying to use logic on people ruled by emotions.
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  6855.  @raymisuto9872  Good questions to ask, and one intrinsically tied to gun ownership. Several precincts have guidelines on who constitutes a "prohibited possessor". One could argue that if you are not of sound mind to have a firearm, then you should not be allowed to vote. The dangerous part is that you have crooked politicians who seek to disarm certain segments of the population who disagree with them on the grounds of "mentally unfit". The Obama administration tried to do this to military veterans. And to this day there is still an ongoing fight about whether those discharged medically(honorable conditions) from the military should be prohibited from owning a gun or firearm. The same argument WILL be used to deny people the right to vote.
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  6856. Mogadishu was basically imported to Minneapolis after the Back Hawk Down incident. And people wonder why it suddenly starts happening here.
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  6857.  @Svveet69  About the only part of Russia I would be interested in visiting would be Yakutia for the reindeer sled rides (and maybe the cute Asian-Russian girls). Beyond that I have little intrest.
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  6858. Agreed. Boy who cried "WOLF!"
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  6859. And when "journalists" today cite "anonymous source", they are really saying that they made it up whole cloth. How many of these "anonymous sources" proven to be completely wrong during the last 8 years? Russian collusion hoax in particular comes to mind.
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  6860.  @simonsda  Tim Pool formerly of Vice News is NOT propaganda. But when he sorts through all of the data, it is pretty telling. Do keep in mind that in Nazis Germany, so long as you were not Jewish, you were living the good life and had nothing to worry about. Heck, the Nazis even made the trains run on time! I am seeing two narratives being put out. One by the government which says lockdowns, but everything is otherwise okay and running smoothly, and the other says there are no lockdowns and everything is all Hunkydory. No, everything is NOT all Hunkydory in the Land Down Under. Both narratives are a denial of reality, much like the Germans were in denial of the Holocaust.
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  6861. No they do not. Sovereign power of the State means that Disney CANNOT monopolize the authority bestowed onto them by the government of Florida. Try reading the Federalist Papers because they describe this exact situation and the remedies for it, none of which are in Disney's favor.
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  6862.  @Brolli106  Not according to Ukrainian born House Representative Victoria Spartz.
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  6863. Death by a thousand cuts. Sure, most will simply get thrown out, but the whole process of fighting off each and every one will drain them enough to achieve the intended result.
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  6864.  @verdict2602  It is sad you are blind to how much the US government under Biden resembles Stalin's Soviet Union. Political prosecutions of rivals were typical of Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria's NKVD/KGB.
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  6865. Indeed. Unemployment doesn't take into account people not looking for work. Considering that the MOD is issuing draft notices to places of employment, that is an incentive by Russian men to NOT hold a steady job.
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  6866.  @j.k.1239  Put down the vodka, Private Conscriptovich, you are so drunk you are hallucinating. Have you forgotten the mass exodus of Russian men to avoid the conscription (ie Putin's draft order)?
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  6867.  @freetolook3727  It has been a popular idea since the 1800s, particularly in fiction (specifically steampunk fiction).
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  6868. Because the Sulivan case gutted English Common Law standard that had previously been the norm.
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  6869.  @jwc1772  No law was broken. The prosecution has failed to even state the underlying crime which is required under 6th amendment due process. You don't actually care about law and justice, you believe that law is simply a tool to control people you disagree with.
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  6870.  @seanbowe5529  Didn't Venezuela do that? How did it work out? Nationalization NEVER solves the problem; it simply puts the power in a never smaller cadre of power-hungry despots.
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  6871. Oh, Aber-Toril? Yeah, the nuked their world to force players to move from 3.5 to 4th edition. Incidentally, one of my favorite homebrew campaigns involved some humans NOT native to the world prevent the Spellpauge catastrophe. After that, Toril existed in a parallel timeline, one that never saw the insanity of the goddess of magic's murder.
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  6872. Ironic that China is now finding itself in a similar position as Japan did in the 1980-1990s.
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  6873.  @freeman10000  The party elitists, particularly around Beijing and Shanghai got to that modern and wealthy status. But you are correct that the rest of the countryside did not. And China wants to claim they have the advancements and prestige of being a first world developed nation while demanding third world developing country status in regard to IMF, international trade, "climate change" agreements, and what have you. I wish more people would call them out on that.
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  6874. NPC theory is basically a plot thread plagiarized from Babylon 5. Namely the Minbari.
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  6875.  @Buzzillus  I think you are conflating the Warsaw Pact plan "Seven Days to the River Rhine" with NATO defense plans. The US and by extension NATO was committed to NOT being the first to launch nukes, only in retaliation. It is the Soviets who wanted to turn West Germany into a glass parking lot. To which NATO would have responded by nuking Communist capitals.
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  6876. Many of those systems are able to lock on jam.
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  6877. We can thank Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, the father of US Navy Nuclear for why the west has not had anywhere near the number of accidents that the old Soviet Union experienced. Nuclear is the safest form of electrical power thanks to his leadership.
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  6878. Reminds me of Larry in the 1977 Ralph Bakshi movie "Wizards".
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  6879.  @iamaloafofbread8926  And "Cheeto dictator" is living rent free in your head.
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  6880. Bloated like a fetid corpse, no doubt.
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  6881. Bugged or full of bugs?
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  6882.  @mlconley  I can believe your story. I don't believe Twatter's. These people are likely staging those photos in an example of crisis acting.
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  6883. I saw that in FYE just last Sunday. Just goes to show that KK and Disney care more about pillaging the IP for cash than actually being good stewards.
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  6884.  @Bobby-rq5pe  Not really. When you make everything about George Soros about his Jewish heritage, you are being an antisemite. There is plenty to despites him for OTHER than his heritage, such as his support for neo-communist policies. I am not making assumptions; you are simply acting like a typical liberal anti-Jew socialist.
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  6885.  @johnsavage7507  Anti-Zionism is simply fashionable anti-Semitism. There is zero difference. And Soros hates Israel just as much as he hates the west, if not more so.
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  6886. Hey now. That gives people like Clint Eastwood in "Grand Torino" a bad reputation when you associate him with them.
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  6887. The difference between the Western Boiling and Pressurized Water moderated reactors vs. the graphite moderated reactors. One goes promp-critical (nuclear fizzle) when you remove the water, while the other automatically shuts down due to the particle physics involved. Also, Admrial Hyman Rickover, father of Nuclear Navy Program set such exacting standards that the US Navy have NEVER had a reactor related incident. There is a VERY good reason why civilian nuclear agencies in the West take their cues from the US Navy Nuclear program.
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  6888. When they are fighting over the sovereign authority of the state, you bet they are going to lose. Disney can't monopolize power that was bestowed on it by the government.
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  6889. Taiwan should be worried. The Chinese just proved that the US is a paper Tiger.
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  6890.  @Delgen1951  That is a red herring and you know it. American blood and treasure have NOTHING to do with the incompetence and corrupt system of procurement regarding the Bundeswehr.
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  6891. Or like you, he is taking a nip at the drink of defeatism. By that same logic, the US should have surrendered to the Japanese after Coral Sea.
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  6892. "Nothing to do with it" when the ballistics and forensics which are unassailable say he was? Chief Justice Warren is a smarter man than Jim Garrison.
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  6893. And that is what should be taken from studying the American Civil War. Early on, Union Generals were focused on holding territory and constantly got defeated by General Lee. Only when Grant came in and chose to make the destruction of the Confederate Army more important than capturing territory did the South start to break.
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  6894.  @worsethanjoerogan8061  Well, not quite true. Revenues increase when you DECREASE the tax rates. It is called the Laffer Curve. And John F. Kennedy is the archetype for why it works. The productivity and wealth generation these liberals point to is actually a result of the JFK taxes LBJ got passed using Kennedy's legacy.
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  6895. The Apelet court is running cover for Merchon. Every appeal has been struck down. Because of that, he is allowed to act with impunity.
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  6896. The Indians have gone into Gaza and have not found any evidence substantiating the claims of Genocide. And of course, the IDF doesn't tell the full story because you NEVER tell your opponent what you are up to if you intend to win.
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  6897. Thankful for simply doing the bare minimum of his job? Stop making excuses for people like Cocaine Mitch who are derelict in their responsibilities.
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  6898.  @barrywhitley7492  Yeah, bother were wrongfully prosecuted by a corrupt government. It is just as shame you people don't realize that this just gives Trump street credit among the black community.
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  6899. Funny, your first part of the UCJM is correct, but everything else is complete fantasy. The veterans didn't change their positions, YOU changed while they remained exactly where they have always been.
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  6900. How about the damn the Russians destroyed just months prior? The blew up a few after the retreat from Kherson.
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  6901. They can't be specific because all of their claims can just as easily be laid at the feet of others. They are suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome.
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  6902. Chaos is believing anything reported by MSNBC or CNN. You parrot their talking points on cue like Pavlov's Dog. Who is the Russian asset now?
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  6903.  @zelenskyy-the-blackmailerh5920  Antinovski Bridge says otherwise.
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  6904. In the heart of winter, tanks are actually MORE effective than they are in summer. The Soviet Red Army had some of its best tank battles during the winter counter-offensive.
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  6905. That is probably the best explanation I have heard which fits the data points. And it is one that neither the Ukraine shills, nor the Russian Bots want to acknowledge.
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  6906.  @Rjsjrjsjrjsj  And yet your slobbering sycophancy over James Earl Carter proves my point. You are not grounded in reality because all of your pints and arguments are based exclusively on emotions, not data, logic, nor reason. Your "anyone who says otherwise is living in a fantasy world" is proof of that emotional derangement because it rejects the empirical data refuting your contention.
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  6907. Yeah, Israel tried that with the Kibbutz system. It failed spectacularly, in no small part because the lack of genuine parental figures in the lives of the children. Further, the children raised communally failed to develop adult relationships within their cohort, treating them as siblings rather than potential partners.
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  6908. Boy who cried wolf.
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  6909. Only if you are "good enough". Failure to achieve even that means numbers are meaningless. The Persians found that out the hard way at Thermopylae.
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  6910. "Who runs Barter town?"
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  6911.  @kanedNunable  He is speaking to the lowest common denominator. Politicians HAVE to if they want to win a large portion of the electorate.
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  6912. She PADNERED to them with Dumbledore. But then she dared to utter a heresy to their ideology and now they view her as an Apostate who must be silenced. Their behavior is no different than that of a Salafist in Islam.
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  6913. Yeah, the Soviets did implode under their own weight. Since 1955, a majority of the Soviet GDP came from oil and gas sales to Western powers like the Federal Republic of Germany (west Germany). It was Western Europe propping-up the Soviet Economy all of those years. Hell, the ONLY reason why they were able to defeat the Nazis in WW2 was BECAUSE of American supplies to the USSR. Ask yourself why for 50 years all of the trucks in the Mayday parades were of American manufacture.
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  6914.  @hughmungus2760  Is it a flaw of capitalism or is it a result of unscrupulous local governors and bureaucrats who took kickbacks to look the other way when they saw the money laundering going on? Those same politicians and bureaucrats were obligated under Chinese law to put an end to it. Much of that "private speculation" was encouraged and rewarded by the local municipalities who were incentivized to accelerate it. Now, I do agree that it may very well lead to more top-down authoritarianism, but then that is often the whole point of the exercise: create a panic and crisis so as to clamp down and centralize power.
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  6915. We used to deal with these jackals appropriately in the past, like the rabid dogs that they are. Now, they are coddled, I fear.
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  6916. Or she is the banality of evil. Just like the enablers of the Holocaust.
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  6917. God, the HOAs NEED to be put in their place. If this is how that comes about, all the better.
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  6918. "Everything is unfolding as I have foreseen," Emperor Palpatine.
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  6919. Agreed. The Washington Naval treaty failed to prevent WW2 as its advocates claimed. The balance of nuclear power has kept the peace like no other treaty before or since. And arms control agreements paradoxically degrade that peace quotient.
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  6920.  @goldbullet50  The 50 years of relative peace during the Cold War occurred specifically BECAUSE of the threat of nuclear annihilation. The world you know today would not exist had that not been the case.
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  6921. Ask the Japanese how they held out against the Americans during the Pacific theater. Bloody Tarawa was but the beginning of the blood bath.
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  6922.  @alex4863  You clearly missed the point. How long did Okinawa hold out? Or the Defenders of Iwo Jima? How many Japanese soldiers continued to fight long after Japan surrendered? Siege warfare takes YEARS to break the defenders. The Islands that fell fast in WW2 only did so because the US was willing to spend lives to take those mission critical Islands and bypassed the ones that didn't directly contribute to the war effort.
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  6923.  @RoseKindred  At think point I think nothing short of being dumped in public domain will save the IP.
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  6924.  @Sparks95  "You have the choice between dishonor and war. You chose dishonor and so you shall have war," -Winston Churchill. Hitler was furious after Munich. He was purposely trying to provoke France and the UK to start a fight by being outrageous in his demands. The German diplomatic correspondence is quite clear on that.
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  6925. Moder Liberals subscribe to the ideals of the 1920s and 30s "progressives": Communist and Racist in once package.
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  6926.  @dianamcfarland1997  South Asia Indian. Meaning Hindu/Pakistani.
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  6927.  @DundG  First, Wikipedia is a horrible source as it is often used to launder OPINION pieces as if they are objective statements of fact. Again, you failed to address the point made by Dr. Metzger that "clear the orbit" criteria is based on disproven THEORY, not hard science. And the persistence on using that flimsy justification can only be explained by an emotional rational rather than one based on logic and reason. Finally, don't respond to an argument if you are not willing to back up your position. "I don't want to argue" is an appeal to emotion logical fallacy, one that is used when the argument is weak and indefensible. Debate me or keep your opinions to yourself if you can't defend them.
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  6928.  @JeremyCaron  Was that a joke? Dewey's system was hardly scientific. It was an example of 1930s socialist ideology. There is a reason why most libraries have dumped it since going to digital card cateloges.
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  6929. It wasn't the prisoners who reproduced. It was the guards who had families. Think about that.
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  6930. "n bourgeois terms, it was a war between the Allies and Germany. In Bolshevik terms, it was a war between the Allied and German upper classes - and which of them won was of total indifference." -Yevgraf, "Doctor Zhivago In Suburbia terms, it was a war between Free Speech and Hate Speech. In Blue collar terms, it was a War between leftist and right elitists, and whether Elon fixes it or burns it to the ground is a matter of apathetic disinterest.
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  6931.  @TheMastertbc  The current Beijing Olympics are already over. Putin specifically waited until AFTER the closing ceremony to make his move.
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  6932. Because they are TRYING to play the neutral third world position as they always have since WW2. Recent developments are making that more and more untenable.
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  6933. Glad more people are listening to Cassandra's warnings about the wooden horse.
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  6934. "I hear ya, Tychus. But I was bankin' everything on that I'd be quit already. 'Cause here we are in the mouth of hell, an' we made it this far by leanin' on each other." -Jim Raynor, Wings of Liberty.
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  6935.  @itchyvet  Forbidden by the US? What kind of Schnapps have you been drinking? That may have been the case in the immediate aftermath of WW2, but by the 1960s, it was clear that George S. Patton was right: "rehabilitate" the Germans(sic) and use them against the Soviets.
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  6936.  @DaikenSeige  Those who forget their history are condemned to repeat it. These people are trying to rewrite history much like the Soviets tried. It doesn't work.
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  6937.  @DaikenSeige  Video games can be a tool to teach about history. You know why Azur Lane is so popular? Because the girls are based on real ships in WW2. And the character personalities are driven by the experiences of those ships and their crew. What Ubisoft and Sweet Baby Inc are doing is hijacking a real person's story and parading him around like a draft horse to push their agenda. It comes straight out of the playbook of the Soviet Ministry of Culture circa 1930s.
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  6938. The politicians and Demagogues must always have a villain so they can exploit the masses. George Orwell predicted this perfectly. No surprise considering, he saw it play out in Communist controlled areas of Spain during the Spanish Civil War.
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  6939.  @SWOTHDRA  Because they have zero self-reflection.
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  6940.  @GreyM900  "Don't say gay" was the leftist lie to disparage the bill and its supporters. But in a turn of events, it became something of a rallying cry to MOCK the left for their contempt for the truth and for the people whom they view as too ignorant to actually read the bill.
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  6941. Ever heard of discovery? The dirty details could turn this completely on its head.
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  6942. Fu-Go balloon bombs are no laughing matter. Besides, weather balloons don't carry gondolas the size of three city buses.
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  6943. More like beat it with a sledge hammer because it wasn't creating money fast enough for them. Concussive repairs rarely work long.
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  6944. And that is why they have turned on her. They cannot abide apostasy.
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  6945. His policies are a continuation of the Obama years. The difference is, the Democrats don't have the GOP blocking them like Obama did. When ALL of the White House staff under Biden are the same people as Obama, you can't claim that it was a lack of foresight. The problem is more that the polices are just abominable, and that was the goal. or have you forgotten Obama's "energy will necessarily skyrocket" quote?
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  6946.  Hecktor RhyanM  Indeed it does because nothing of value backs it up. That devaluation on occurs faster when they simply print more money like they did with "quantitative easing".
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  6947. How long did the Normandy invasion take? Six months? Blitzkrieg is not the norm but rather an aberration.
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  6948. And promptly brought in Swamp critter Mike Pence who was to him what Grima Wormtounge was to King Theoden of Rohan in "The Two Towers".
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  6949.  @Tha3rdworldghost  So you are saying that those who perpetrated the holocaust are not objectively evil? You are saying that the Holodomor which killed so many Ukrainians is only subjective? Stop embarrassing yourself. You are trying to rationalize your indefensible position.
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  6950. It was written by someone who never learned about WW1 trench warfare. Typical of an Ivory Tower elitist. There is a reason why many call them the "New York SLIMES".
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  6951.  @oohhboy-funhouse  Agreed. All things being equal, 3 to 1 is the norm. But the US NEVER relies on things being equal, choosing to leverage FORCE MULTIPLIERS. Training and Tactics coupled with technology and equipment can go a LONG way towards tilting the battlespace.
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  6952. Perun calls them "assault sheds".
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  6953. Then why did Putin wait until Trump left office to invade? He stole Crimea while Biden was in charge of Obama's foreign policy.
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  6954.  @timherrmann2079  If you are going into precious metals, PLATINUM is the one to choose as it has much more stability that gold or silver. And you should have the actual bars in your possession, not just portfolio options". Too often, most of the "precious metals" are simply IOUs similar to stock that people trade around with the actual commodity not really changing hands. As to my original point, the power mongers are trying to mitigate the damage to them by directing it towards the people they have difficulty controlling in the first place. Why destroy your enemies when you can get them to fight each other through misdirection? And the point as Mr. Pool brings up in the 1Pm segment, is that they are selling their assets to cover the GME losses, fully expecting to buy back the silver at a later date. By buying silver, you are bailing them out so they can do this all over again. DON'T BAIL THEM OUT, because if you do we will be right back to square one.
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  6955. Then explain why the region has always been called JUDEA. The Romans tried to change the name to erase the history of the region.
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  6956. What complete drivel. Eye for an Eye was a rejection of the Code of Hamurabi which stated that a noble's eye was more valuable than a slave's eye. Hence you put out the eye of the noble's slave instead. Try learning your history instead of such sophomoric responses.
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  6957. Poe's Law.
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  6958. Indeed. It is amazing how many people blow off the truism that EVERY tank needs an infantry squad to act as cover as well as an extra set of eyes for the crew.
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  6959.  @honestdon1772  Put down the Sherry and touch grass.
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  6960.  @honestdon1772  Thank you for proving that you are a basement dweller.
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  6961. It has always been a way to politically grandstand by people with no other influence on policy making.
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  6962. Only because the good for nothing Murdock sons are flaming liberals. Rupert really should have put Wendy Deng in charge of his media empire instead of them.
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  6963. Would have Zero difference. The White House staff (aka Biden's hospital orderlies) would not change.
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  6964. Was it the UK or was it an evolution from the Arab Slave trade? Not everything is the fault of the English.
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  6965. He is only telling half the story. He is blatantly ignoring how hyperinflation is devastating the actual value of the money in people's bank accounts.
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  6966. And yet he is a retired general. Western Generals have to at least be competent, unlike Russian generals.
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  6967. "Critics" today are just paid propagandists.
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  6968.  @rogerstarkey5390  Look up the Siege of Lenningrad. The defenders outlasted the attackers.
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  6969. Okay wise guy, how many wars has the US pulled European power out from? How many messes have irresponsible Europeans created that we have had to clean up? You are just pissed that the US is the responsible parent telling you when you are wrong.
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  6970.  Diego Lima  Yeah, you are making a distinction without much of a difference. Most comments on youtube videos become debates, particularly on ones involving politics.
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  6971.  @messire9837  Dude, you assume I share the same values as the Bolsheviks just because I am a Democrat. Further from the truth. Democrats are NOT monolithic as you think. Just the the GOP establishment and most conservatives are not the same thing. Yes, there was much overlap between Ike and JFK. Keep in mind that president Kennedy served in the US Navy during WW2. Back in his time the DNC and RNC were a lot closer politically than they are today. Today even Harry Truman would be call a conservative. It is Lyndon Banes Johnson who supercharged the liberal ideology into the monster it is today, and even JFK didn't trust his VP.
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  6972.  @CatsJP  The data coming out of Europe proves otherwise. There is a reason why the EU has take a LARGE step back and has banned the use of puberty blockers. You have lots the plot.
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  6973. "Si vis pacem, para bellum: To prepare for peace, arm for war" -Roman adage.
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  6974. Yup. It would be no different than Germany or Japan running newspapers and radio stations in the US between the World Wars.
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  6975. @ The SCOTUS made it clear that it is.
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  6976.  @jfast8256  I was think more than a white parent will slap or paddle a child in public and CPS goes nuts, while a black parent will "discipline" their child much harsher, possibly leaving bruises and they don't bat an eye. Between your example and mine, it is clear that CPS is a corrupt government institution that needs to be overhauled.
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  6977. The only way to save D&D now is public domain.
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  6978. Pence is Grima Wormtongue.
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  6979.  @jeremypuckett9533  Ukraine tried to set expectations low. The Russians will try to claim anything less than a rapid breakthrough is a failure. The Land battle for Guadalcanal in WW2 was several months long.
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  6980. How about Hunter Biden's laptop? How about Hillary's destruction of government records? Geta grip on reality.
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  6981. That, along with "Puff the magic Dragon" by Peter, Paul and Mary would have been the best scenario.
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  6982. They should have learned the lesson from the AIDS epidemic. Clearly that was not enough.
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  6983. Well, the Filipinos sometimes nail themselves to a cross as a show on faith on Good Friday. Most only hang for an hour or two. The Catholic Archdiocese highly discourages it though. I however, choose to give the men who do it mad props that they are brave enough to share in their savior's agony.
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  6984.  @GaryGraham-sx4pm  Yeah, that will not solve the issues of "From the River to the Sea" and "Drive Israel INTO the Sea". The leadership of the Palestinians have time and again called for the total annihilation of Israel. As for the Golan Heights, that is a strategic issue. Syria had previously used them as high ground to shell Israel. That won't happen again while Israel controls them. Further, the Druze population in the Heights WANT to remain under Israeli jurisdiction. The Knesset has given the residents of the Heights all of the benefits of citizenship, so why would they turn down those entitlements?
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  6985. The F-16 today is NOT the same as the A block. These tanks have not been modernized the way the F-16 has.
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  6986.  @Thorn_N_Yor_Side  Trump had made bad deals in the past. And he has lost money on failed ventures (Atlantic City Casinos ring a bell). The man is savvy, but not perfect. He knows Putin is in his words, "a stone-cold killer", yet he is once again underestimating the Kremlin. This will be just like Grozny.
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  6987.  @AndyG45  OR the people that urged DeSantis to run wanted him and Trump to destroy each other.
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  6988. As if the Democrats don't do the same when the shoe is on the other foot.
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  6989. Flemming vs. Nestor (1960). You have no right to anything you paid into SSI. There is no lockbox, and there never was. It is nothing more than an income tax on the front end, and a welfare system on the back end. The sooner people stop believing in the myth of SSI being a lockbox, the sooner we can actually fix the problem and restore the paid receipts into the system back to those who contributed to it.
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  6990. Part of the problem with Thorium reactors is that they are molten salt/sodium moderated which make them an accident waiting to happen, much like the graphite moderated reactors. The USS Seawolf (SSN-575) was a Thorium reactor, and it NEVER achieved the results claimed by advocates of Thorium power. There is a reason why Admiral Hyman G. Rickover rejected Thorium in favor of uranium water moderated reactors.
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  6991.  @wtfbros5110  You are confusing THERMO-nuclear bombs with radioactive "dirty" bombs which are simply conventional explosives. Waste from a nuclear reactor is not very useful within an actual nuclear bomb.
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  6992. And it is all a farce. Isostatic Rebound is causing places in Scandinavia that were previously covered in ice to become higher elevation. Parts of Finland for example were completely underwater 500 years ago but are now high and dry.
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  6993.  @justmenotyou3151  Storm surge has been around forever and known since antiquity. If people didn't build on stilts, that is on them. You would think people would have learned from Galveston, Texas after their 1900 super Hurricane.
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  6994.  @missmaddy  That does not surprise me. I am amazed at the number of people making excuses justifying the mooching by Transnistria off the Moldovan people. There is no such thing as squatter's rights.
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  6995.  @prometheusjackson8787  Again, Israel has nothing to do with this conversation, you are just crop-dusting anti-Semitism like Ilhan Omar does.
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  6996.  @prometheusjackson8787  Middle East Wars have nothing to do with the conflict in Ukraine possibly spilling into Moldova. You are deflecting again like a typical propagandist. Nobody is falling for your red herrings.
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  6997.  @prometheusjackson8787  More Protocols of the Elders of Zion garbage. Zelensky's religion is Judaism, but he can't even convince the Kisanet to support him. It goes to show that you have lost the plot and are following fringe psychotic beliefs.
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  6998. Nevertrumper voters were not going to vote for Trump anyhow. And NONE of the people who voted for Trump in both 2016 and 2020 are going to vote against Trump this time. It is highly unlikely Trump will loose any of the voters he picked up in 2020. Even they know what is at stake.
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  6999. Because when your balance sheets become red, you cannot remain progressive and "compassionate" for long. Going broke puts an end to the gravy train.
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  7000. I tend to agree. Under Yeltsin, there was a real possibility of engaging Russia in a meaningful way and help transition them away from their centralized command and control out of the Kremlin. Putin, unfortunately, went back to the very same system under Brezhnev, undoing the reforms started under Gorbachev. Islamic terrorism was yet another area that Russia and the West could have allied, especially in the wake of the Beslan School Siege. That should have been the moment when Bush and Putin locked hands and made the effort to put down radicalism. Russia's long history with central Asia would have been of great value to the West.
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  7001.  @FlamingBasketballClub  Put down the Vodka, Comrade. For one, the US didn't provide direct military aide to Ukraine until two weeks AFTER the start of the Invasion when it became clear that Ukraine was not going to be overrun. Secondly, Zelensky IS A JEW! Nazis would NEVER support a Jewish leader. Conversely, the Wager group are unrepentant Nazis, if you bothered to pay attention. Your claims are easily debunked, and you are not convincing ANYONE.
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  7002.  @FlamingBasketballClub  Pot meet kettle dude. But then what should I expect from a Troll with zero original ideas in his head? Learn to debate. You are only making yourself look foolish. "Better people THINK you a fool than to open your mouth a remove all doubt," -Sameul Clemens, aka Mark Twain. "I learned long ago never to wrestle with pigs. You get dirty and the pig enjoys it," -George Bernard Shaw.
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  7003.  @FlamingBasketballClub  I DID make legitimate points, you just refuse to accept them. You think that by not even dignifying them that it somehow renders them irrelevant. I got news for you, it does not. If Zelensky is a Jew, why the hell would Nazis in Ukraine support him? They would not, disproving your claims about Nazis in Ukraine. Even the Kremlin has dropped that blood libel. American support for Ukraine's resistance didn't start until almost a month AFTER the invasion. It was POLAND and the Baltic States that were supporting Ukraine exclusively during the first month. ANWSER THAT POINT! The EU's fast tracking of Ukraine's application does not in any way abrogate the fact that Ukraine has to first meet all of the requirements of a member, something they still have not achieved. You seem to ignore that their previous applications were rejected. It being considered now is a direct result of Russia's invasion. Hell, just you pointing it out is a red herring (logical fallacy) meant to distract rather than make a coherent point.
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  7004.  @FlamingBasketballClub  You are not making any logical argument, only words salad in an attempt to claim that correlation is somehow causality. Yet again you are pointing to events that occurred AFTER the invasion to justify Putin's invasion. That is called putting the cart before the horse and is an example of intellectual dishonesty and anachronistic fallacy. And you thinking you repeating my snide little remark makes you smart only shows once again that you do not have a single original idea in your head, instead parroting others in a poor attempt at mimicry. Every time you repeat it, you are praising me and engaging in a self-own.
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  7005. And there are NO brains among the Dems. Or rather, they have people with broken brains like Biden and Fetterman.
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  7006. Only one man is responsible for this war and he is in the Kremlin. Make no mistake, it Putin gave up his ambitions, this would be over before the end of the month. Don't blame the people who are fighting back against an aggressor.
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  7007. Unpopular Biden got 3 million more votes than rockstar Obama's first run? "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" -Horatio, "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare.
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  7008. Pot Meet Kettle. You sure are doing your part in the battle for clicks and likes.
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  7009. @ lol. Nice. I see what you did there.
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  7010. Stop shilling for Russia. Truth doesn't care about your feelings.
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  7011. The problem is that since Socrates was a Greek, that makes him white and therefore evil in the eyes of the left. Further, the Greeks as being an inspiration for Western civilization, has to be disparaged and denigrated. I agree with your premise, but it is a hard sell to the people who know what it is and whose agenda is threatened by it.
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  7012. The classic throw down between the free peoples of the West (Greeks then, Ukrainians now) vs. the slave armies of the East (Persia then, Russia now).
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  7013. Indeed. Reminds me of Cicero's quote about not blaming Caesar but the people of Rome for applauding and empowering him.
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  7014. No joke. The US and Israel together account for 98% of the medical breakthroughs in the world.
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  7015. Indeed. The "Potsdam ultimatum" was a warning they knew the west COULD deliver on, especially since the Doolittle Raid showed we could pull off the seemingly impossible.
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  7016.  @hmq9052  Yeah, and when Trump supporters do protest, you people call in an insurrection to overthrow the US government. Your hypocrisy is showing.
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  7017.  @RicardoZ590  The Cheneys are the War Mongers who bamboozled the West into invading Iraq. You think they have anyone but their own pocketbooks at the forefront of their concerns?
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  7018. All of Asia? Surely, we can spare East Asia?
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  7019. "The Democratic Party has gone so far left, they have left the country," -Ronald Reagan.
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  7020. They are flirting with the legal definition of insurrection and Rebellion. Trump or Vance NEEDS TO QUOTE LINCOLN when invoking the insurrection act.
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  7021.  @HappyTime08  No joke. For all of the fuss about Persian Gulf Oil, most of it goes to Asia, typically China, not Europe nor the US.
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  7022.  @EugeneKhutoryansky  That is rationalization fallacy (ie making excuses). Don't try moving the goal posts, because it won't work.
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  7023.  @robo5013  Touche!
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  7024. Yeah, they had much potential for Stargate-Indiana Jones crossover when Disney bought Lucusfilm. But that was never taken advantage of. Shame really, because the idea that Mola-Ram could have been a Goa'uld Ashrak in the service of System Lord Kali had great potential.
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  7025.  @wannabeangus7105  What is popular is not always right. We found that out in the wake of the Wuhan Virus outbreak; while masking and lockdowns were popular, they were the WRONG response.
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  7026. The US fought a multi-front war and won. Granted, the US of the 1940s is not the same as the US of today.
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  7027.  @unitedwestanddividedwefall3521  Japan wasn't exhausted until Midway and the loss of four of their fleet carriers. Before then they were running uncontested in the Pacific. Yamamoto had a rather accurate prediction about that.
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  7028. Agreed. His testicles have been removed. Perhaps only metaphorically, but the result is still the same.
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  7029. The screwing around with language has been going on since antiquity. It is when people stopped using empirical data to make arguments that this crap began. "When words lose their meaning, people lose their lives," -Chinese philosopher 551–479 BC.
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  7030.  @spongeintheshoe  People already have that power with their hands. You do know you can use human hair as a garrote to strangle someone? How many stories have you heard of a jilted lover using a kitchen or butcher knife as a murder weapon? Then there is the humble Louisville Slugger which is a glorified club. As Sam colt pointed out, guns simply level the playing field because not everyone has the strength to strangle another person.
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  7031. Insurance? Probably. I blame the insurance for making and signing the policy that he benefits from. It is not the president's fault, it is the insurance for playing a betting game that they will eventually lose.
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  7032. They have the humor of a Bolshevick from 1930 Russia.
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  7033. "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable," -President John F. Kennedy,
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  7034.  @kain0m  Yeah, I think the Russians failing to cross the Severodonetsk River while the Ukrainians could proves that it advantages Ukraine.
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  7035. "Peaceful Divorce" was what the Confederacy claimed they wanted. As Lincoln said in his house divided speech, "It will be all of one or all of the other". Those in power NEVER allow people they subjugate to leave freely. Just ask East Timor.
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  7036.  @ravioli_826  I agree. But much like during the American Revolution, too many would rather sit back and watch. "Wait and see" may be expedient, but it also shows a level of cowardice and willingness to submit to slavery. Conservative talk a good game, but when push comes to shove, they are unwilling to be Samuel Adams. Or Ben Franklin. Or John Hancock. They find any excuse to not escalate when everything shows that they should. To call it Stockholm syndrome is being charitable.
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  7037. Muchos Gracious, Amigo! Preach!
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  7038.  @Sanakudou  Nominally I agree with you. Unfortunately, in today's day and age, that is more difficult that shooting for the moon.
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  7039. Looking at the historical record, Bulgaria was at best an unreliable ally. Whether WW1 with the Central Powers or WW2 with the Axis, their forces were usually among the first to break or switch sides.
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  7040.  @pwillis1589  "Facts" are not open to interpretation, which is what they narrative driving push polls are. "Figures don't lie, but liars figure"- Mark Twain "Lies, damn lies, and statistics," -Mark Twain.
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  7041.  @pwillis1589  "Figures don't Lie, but Liars Figure," -Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain "Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics," -Mark Twain. Don't conflate opinion with facts. Those "polls" are simply confirmation bias if you bothered to actually look at the questions they asked.
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  7042. And I accept that. You don't have to like the guy to call out the hypocrisy.
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  7043.  @xiahan1698  Sure buddy, keep drinking the poison laced Kool-Aid from the Kremlin.
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  7044. Blatatnyl ignoring the NATO requirement of not having a disputed border or territorial disagreements huh? THAT is why the Georgia application failed. That is why Putin invades Ukraine.
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  7045.  @GolfNut867  How many proxy wars were fought from 1950-1990 that did NOT escalate into nuclear war? If anything, proxy wars PREVENT nuclear arms exchange. Get your head out of your rear and actually crack open a history book on 20th century warfare.
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  7046. No joke. Not that I advocate for colonialism, but the thrid world nations who were never colonized are nowhere near the level of those that were. And those that drove their conquerors out have performed far worse than those who were emancipated by their colonizer. Thomas Sowell pointed this out. Ironically, the East Asian nations put to bed the arguments of the thrid world.
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  7047.  @RRaymer  Communists always called themselves "Democratic Socialists". Hell, even Valdimir Lenin admitted that the end goal of Socialism is communism.
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  7048. The US still uses the U-2 Dragon Lady to gather intelligence. A balloon has longer loiter time over the target than a satellite. Better resolution too.
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  7049. There are Arab Muslim members of the Knesset. Apartheid South Africa didn't have a single black member of that government. On that alone your claim is nothing more than an antisemitic blood libel.
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  7050. Have you asked people who go to the VA what they think of such "government health coverages"?
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  7051.  @nathanl4083  Wow, what rock have you been hiding under? The Biden White House has been the antithesis of stability, and I will list exactly how. The War in Ukraine is directly Biden's fault. Remember his January 19th "minor incursion" comment? It basically invited Putin to invade just like Dean Acheson's Pacific Defense Speech invited Kim Il-Jung to Invade South Korea starting the disastrous Korean War. Putin NEVER troubled Ukraine while Trump was in office. Or have you forgotten that the Donald threatened to nuke Moscow if he did? The price of Gas was $1.86 when Trump was in office. The $4 a gallon gas today is directly Biden's fault as he has been waging an economic war on the fuels industry. And that was LONG before Putin invaded Ukraine. Inflation was under control with Trump but under Biden we are experiencing Jimmy Carter's Stagflation and flirting with HYPERinflation. Hell, the attempt to claim that the SSI payment increase was a self-own of how terrible he has been for the US economy. So, no, everything you accuse Trump of doing, Biden has done ten times over. Every good thing that Biden claims was his doing was delayed result of Trump's policies.
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  7052.  @cossaizy6309  Wow, shifting the blame rather than accept the truth of reality. But sure, ignore the fact that left learning governments create instability by their very nature while right leaning governments are more stable. Ignore the fact that leftists want radical change for its own sake while rejecting what is proven to work.
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  7053. The fact that the media says there is no connection makes me start to believe there is a connection. And it is not without president. Polio Vaccines contaminated with SV-40 HAS been linked to a rise in cancer, despite what the media claims.
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  7054. More like Anglicization than demonization, but the point is still valid.
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  7055. Merkel was a member of the East German Communist Youth League. Making Germany completely dependent on Russia for energy wasn't madness, it was by design. A communist is like a tiger; it never changes its stripes.
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  7056. That has never been Trump's style. And why he was reelected; he gives it to you.
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  7057.  @adamdonovan4071  He is 45 years old. Ever heard the old saying "can't teach an old dog new tricks"? Some people get so set in their ways that they never change. The closer you are to 50, the hard it is to change your views. And some people NEVER learn from their mistakes, insisting on doubling down (sunk cost fallacy). Dorsey has shown time and again that he falls for that particular one.
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  7058.  @adamdonovan4071  Nice ad hominin attacking me rather than my message on the merits. That being said, I do agree with you that HE is the lesson for others and will not learn a damn thing from this.
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  7059.  @adamdonovan4071  Not really. It was very much a personal attack. Claiming it is an assessment is a deflection (ie making excuses) typical of someone who will not own up to what they just did. Rather than simply say that we are likely on the same page, you chose to make it personal by resorting to insults. Making unnecessary enemies like that is an unforced error. Let us stay on merits, not gutter-snipping like liberals do when they don't have an argument. "I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." -Margaret Thatcher.
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  7060. Democrats HAVE done the same thing and nothing happens. Chappaquiddick ring a bell?
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  7061.  @peterflavian-ov4sh  The Arabs who call themselves "Palestinian" already have a country of their own in the Gaza. They have ruined it just like they did when they lived in Jordan or Lebanon. They can't blame Israel when it is their own rulers who have misused the foreign donations to wage war on their neighbors.
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  7062. I hope DeSantis finishes his term as governor. They need him for the FULL term.
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  7063.  @nobblkpraetorian5623  Didn't actually read my post, did you? What part of "AFTER HIS TERM" did you not understand? An honest reading of what my post was would assume that I was equating to Washington's presidential term and NOT his tenure as General of the Continental Army.
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  7064. Socialism is predicated on the REJECTION of private property. The Old Soviet Union was a "Socialist Democracy". Don't conflate that with SOCAIL Democracy which still respects property rights. The two are clearly differentiated on that key element.
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  7065. And Market Garden was a complete disaster. The French and Belgians told the Brits that they were walking into a trap, but Monty and company was so overconfident that they ignored the warnings.
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  7066. You do realize that it was the Biden White House that was dragging its feet in regard to Abrams and F-16s back when the war started? Don't blame Republicans for the dithering of the Biden administration.
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  7067.  @williamchamberlain2263  Who is Ray Epps? Nobody gets off the FBI's most wanted list unless they are dead or a federal agent.
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  7068. Sovereign Power of the state. Constitutionally Disney is going to lose, and HARD. They are going to wish they had negotiated in good faith with DeSantis.
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  7069.  @dusanpiscevic6213  And yet people like you NEVER cast disparagements at the French, Spanish, Dutch, nor Portuguese. Your drivel filled rant just proves my point that you are simply a hater of all things English.
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  7070. The elites are scared. The American people are angry.
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  7071. I "hate watched" Star Trek Enterprise to laugh at the canon violations. I "hate watched" Jar Jar Abrabs 2009 Trek Movie for the same reason. I stopped after that because I didn't want to empower the monstrosity. "The hate is swelling in you now. Take your Jedi weapon. Use it. I am unarmed. Strike me down with it. Give in to your anger. With each passing moment, you make yourself more my servant." -Emperor Palatine, "Return of the Jedi".
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  7072. Israel has free and open elections. Hell, there are even Arab Muslim members of the Knesset. It is a shame you don't hold the Arabs who call themselves Palestinian to the same rigorous standard. Hamas has refused to hold an election in over a decade.
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  7073. Yeah, when someone wants to criminalize being wealthy, that is a good sign you are talking to a Bolshevik. And we all know what those guys did when they took control of Russia in the 1920s.
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  7074. Well, there is a catch about governments fearing people. Stalin, Mao, and the rest did actually fear their people, hence they crushed them under the precept of state terror before the people could act against them. But an armed population don't fear their government they way unarmed subjects do.
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  7075. Sure, you keep telling yourself that as you guzzle down the vodka to cope with the cruelty of reality. Numbers are easily defeated with force multipliers.
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  7076.  @3o3tigger  NATO didn't supply a 700,000-man army. There is no independent third-party organization that can confirm that. Winter has not always favored Russia, or have you forgotten the Finnish Winter War? Or how about Operation Faustschlag where the Kaiser's Imperial Germany Army just annihilated the Soviet Red Army? This time it is Ukraine with the winter gear while the Russians die of frostbite hiding in the trenches. By Christmas you will be eating your hat as once again you have underestimated the Ukrainian underdog. Ukraine is no Vietnam nor Bactria.
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  7077.  @MrB00mbang  Indeed. The reason for the lack of creativity in Hollyweird is the rampant nepotism. And they will continue to be bankrupt of fresh ideas until they stop hiring the people they are porking.
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  7078. Putin didn't need to invade Ukraine. If it was so pointless, why did the citizens of Kiev "give" Russian soldiers Molotov Cocktails when they arrived?
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  7079.  @jasonarcher7268  They were neutral. But that wasn't enough for Putin. He wanted a puppet in Ukraine just like Alezander Lukashenko. That is exactly what Yanukovych was, and why he was ousted not once but TWICE.
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  7080.  @jasonarcher7268  From the Ukrainian perspective, Russia invaded when they stole Crimea. This war didn't start in 2022, it started back in 2014.
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  7081.  @jasonarcher7268  I am no fan of Obama, but if you think it is only okay for Putin to interfere, then you clearly have no principles. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
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  7082.  @jasonarcher7268  So you think it is okay for Putin to interfere in Ukrainian elections but nobody else? How SOVIET of you.
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  7083.  @StratumPress  You would be surprised at how often politicians do just that, particularly on the municipal level of government. Public land gets turned into private property with shocking regularity.
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  7084. Reminds me of SV-40 in the Polio vaccines.
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  7085.  @Prof_Bort_Yammy  The jump to censorship and banning IS the slippery slope. No, people are not talking about renaissance painting because they have not even stopped to ponder or consider that their proposed law would go after owners of those classical pieces of art. That is called unintended consequences and is a result of short attention span culture. You are making the very same assumptions that Ashcroft in that case made which the SCOTUS judges rightly slammed.
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  7086.  @sgtherk5432  Except, you have not actually read the court ruling have you? It specifically addressed that very point, if you bothered to do your due diligence. Not insanity, it is called considering the unintended consequences of good intentions (and the road to hell is paved with good intentions).
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  7087. I think you forgot to count the infamous Demon Core which killed Louis Slotten.
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  7088.  @JJTWrites  Considering how immigration fraud is occurring on our southern border, I suspect USCIS is not following procedure because of political motivations.
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  7089. Fairly typical Muscovite mentality. The world revolves around RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA. Muscovites have earned the "Orc" disparagement. Sad really, as there are so very lovely Slavic and Asian women in Russia.
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  7090.  @MrBeagleblue  How are you defending your country when you send you young men to die in pointless mass attacks? Marhsall Zhukov did that in WW2 which resulted in the very demographic crisis Russia is suffering today!
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  7091.  @KittyKittyCat-vf8zd  Wishful thinking. Pure copium. T-55s are not being automated.
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  7092.  @MrBeagleblue  Sure he is. That is why he is doing to Russia's population what Marshal Zhukov did to the Soviet population by obliterating an entire generation thereby making the demographic crisis worse.
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  7093. Military service didn't open any doors for me. The training they gave me is worthless in the civilian job market.
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  7094.  @raytaylor3077  True, but not at the rate that MiGs and Sukhois fall out of the sky. No aircraft or tank is invulnerable.
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  7095. No joke. Technologically, the Russians have always been behind the US, playing catch-up.
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  7096. Those nukes are more likely to detonate in the silo like they did on K-129 than they are to actually launch. The sinking of the Moskva puts into question the condition of Russian nuclear forces.
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  7097. Yeah, I don't know why they didn't immediately relocate after he took the shot. You risk retaliatory strike when if you stay in place after sending that round downrange.
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  7098. I heard the same said about Kurtzman Trek, particularly ST:LSD. So if true, that means they are throwing good money after bad into a total Money Pit.
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  7099. Tell that to the WASPs, WAVEs, and WAACs of WW2. Hell, some of the best tank drivers, pilots, and snipers of the USSR in WW2 were women! My point is that for every women in a support role puts another man on the front line.
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  7100.  @thefool3424  And discovery will reveal that they failed in their fiduciary duty by not upholding their obligation to hand over everything Elon wanted. This is something of a cathc-22 for them, one of their own making.
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  7101.  @thefool3424  Twitter bot confirmed.
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  7102.  @Shiftinggers  It was NOT wrong to invade Afghanistan. Had the Taliban simply handed over Bin Laden immediately, we would have left them alone. The Taliban make their own choice to harbor terrorists in violation of international law. Don't morally equivocate these two situations.
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  7103.  @Shiftinggers  When WMDs won't work, they switch to oil. They will ALWAYS have a pretext for interventionism.
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  7104.  @MorganJ  Working hard, or hardly working? It is well known that Japanese and Koreans take "Cat naps" at work. Yes, they spend long hours, but that is because subordinates are expected to be at work longer than their boss. If the guy at the top is in the office for 12 hours, everyone below him will be there before he arrives and stay until after he leaves.
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  7105. Then how do you explain that the DoD is a very accurate cross-section of the US population at large? The whole "blacks make up the military" is a myth from the 1970s that wasn't true then and isn't true now.
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  7106. Electric cars run on coal power. The ONLY way electric is greener is if you are at 70% or more of your power coming from nuclear.
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  7107. No, the F-22 and F-35 are not useless, but both are grossly overbudget. The F-35 was supposed to be the cheap and affordable version of the F-22 much like the F-16 was the cheap version of the F-15. but that has completely been ruined. In that regard, the Saab Gripen fighter is the better bang for your buck. And I agree with you about a War with China. Their j-16 interceptor was designed to be a F-22 Raptor killer. And the goal wasn't a one-on-one fight, but rather a 4 or more on one raptor fight. As you correctly point out, it would be a VERY messy fight for both sides.
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  7108. Consider Tim Pool. He is also pushing back with alternative culture to woke.
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  7109. The State Department is only responsible for the Embassies and Consulates. What the Generals did on the ground is NOT subject to the State Department as they take their orders from CENTCOM and from there, the Joint Chiefs under Miley.
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  7110. Funny because the weaponization of the legal system, a hallmark of fascism is being done by the leftists in the Democrat party. @SwiftJustice 
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  7111. AIDS epidemic 2.0. Oh, and Tony Fauci screwed up the AIDS response too!
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  7112. I'm not sure Betty White would agree with Seinfeld or Grammer. That being said, she was wise enough to know you do NOT say anything that could alienate potential audience (and the "modern audience" demands that you alienate everyone).
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  7113. Says the keyboard warrior who is being paid to shill for the Kremlin.
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  7114. The problem which both Broe and Paul ignore is that the "Border Bill" is nothing more than a codification of the invasion on the southern border. Tim Pool has dug into the actual details and exposed the fraud and farce that the bill actually is.
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  7115. I agree. They wanted this, now let them have it. Let these shithole cities burn to the ground. They voted for this.
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  7116. And how often do these "public meetings" get scheduled on the very same day they occur? Yeah, that will not hold up in court if there was not at least one week prior notice.
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  7117.  @23libra  Again, I seriously doubt that. Just because Disney said they did doesn't make it true. The mouse is a pathological liar.
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  7118. How? Turkey under the Montreux Convention had already limited both Russia and non-Black Sea powers as to how many ships of military purpose could travel into and out of the Black Sea. Only members of NATO WITH a Black Sea Coast could have conceivably enforced such a blockade.
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  7119.  @TheJeffL  I guess you are not aware that Judges and Lawyers were prosecuted at Nuremberg for their participation in the Holocaust.
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  7120.  @TheJeffL  It is the left that is ALWAYS violent, not the right. You are psychologically projecting your own crimes. And look up the judges trials at Nuremberg.
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  7121. Remind the left that their hero Nelson Mandela was also convicted and spent time in Prison. The left is just given Trump street credit in the Hood.
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  7122. RINO, that's why.
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  7123. Indeed. Angela Merkel was a member of the East Germany Communist Youth League. Once a Commie, always a commie.
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  7124. Typical of those who subscribe to Lysenkoism.
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  7125.  @jendoe9436  Let us not forget, the power Disney exercises is on loan from the State of Florida. The sovereign power of the state government overrides anything that Disney may think it can do because the authority Disney wields is derived from the state.
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  7126.  @MikJames-d1g  Tell that to the MiG pilots in the Korean war.
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  7127.  @MikJames-d1g  You completely missed the point. At the start, the MiG-15 was more advanced than anything the UN forces could field, acting with impunity in the air. Then the F-86 Sabre showed up and drastically turned the tables on the war. So, yeah, the analogy is very much appropriate.
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  7128.  @MikJames-d1g  "Those who refuse to remember their history are doomed to repeat it," -George Santayana "War never changes, it's exactly the same, no matter which era it happens upon," -USS Enterprise, Azur Lane the Animation. Congratulations, you just engaged in the logical fallacy of chronological snobbery. The fact that the War in Ukraine resembles WW1 trench Warfare despite advances in technology shows that your contempt for events from over 50 years ago is completely short sighted. "To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to forever remain a child," -Marcus Tullius Cicero.
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  7129.  @MikJames-d1g  More logical fallacies by someone with zero experience. "Peace at any cost" was the mantra of Nevil Chamberlain at Munich in 1938. JFK understood that in 1963 with the Cuban missile crisis. Appeasement NEVER works, and peace treaties only exist if there are weapons to back them up. That is why the Budapest Memorandum failed; the Russians were not punished for violating their agreements. Peace is impossible if one side refuses.
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  7130.  @MikJames-d1g  The Munich Conference of 1938 proves you wrong. "Peace in our time" is exactly what you are advocating. It failed then and it fails now. But I guess that is expected of a spoiled child of the First World who has never actually had to experience the horrors of conflict and why your "peace at any cost" mentality actually makes armed conflict more likely.
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  7131.  @MikJames-d1g  Funny, because your argument is exactly the same one used by Nevil Chamberlain at Munich in 1938. Peace at any cost only makes war inevitable. You have been spoiled living in the modern west only experiencing First World Problems. You haven't had to struggle to survive.
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  7132. Indeed. And when you break down much of it, you find some very sobering statistics the SJW and "justice reform" folks refuse to address. They make excuses but don't actually want to solve the problem.
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  7133. Yeah, it is like people have no understanding of WW2 history. And how it is NOT a good idea to let your adversaries have a free hand to operate newspapers and radio stations on your territory.
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  7134.  @Sheriffryewhiskey  There was no agreement. That is just Kremlin wet dreams.
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  7135.  @nobodyshome6792  Because NATO does not consider Membership action Plans, nor Partnership for Peace to be full membership. Those are simply candidate application processes. That is where you are being intellectually dishonest.
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  7136. Well, and India is ripping off Russia by demanding a 30% discount, so they are clearly not doing Russia any favors. The way I see it is that by India taking Russian oil at a discount rather than from other oil producers, it is effectively just moving around the deck chairs. The added benefit is that Indian demand being removed from the equation helps to keep things form being FAR worse.
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  7137.  @garyish  Except, they ARE ripping off the Russians. The buyers' market is just a flimsy excuse by people who are not looking at the whole picture. Russia should be getting a premium for their oil, but they are NOT. Anything less than full price on the open market is a net loss for Russia.
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  7138.  @garyish  You have never heard of Rabbit Starvation, have you? Sometimes nothing at all is better than a sub-par diet. India buying Russia oil at a steep discount is just that, rabbit starvation. The prices that India is demanding is just barely above cost of production. And bulk will NOT make up difference because as the video points out, the gains selling to India does NOT make up the losses from elsewhere. Seriously, did you even watch the video in its entirely or are you just commenting to troll because you have nothing better to do?
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  7139.  @garyish  Wow, the analogy went completely over your head, didn't it? I didn't call Russia a rabbit, I was saying that its oil revenues were akin to eating rabbit. And no, some revenues is NOT better than no revenues. As you even concede, they could refuse to sell if they are taking a loss. You in effect proved my point.
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  7140.  @garyish  Just because YOU don't think it is an appropriate analogy doesn't mean I am wrong. The parallels are undeniable. Again, you have not even bothered to watch the video and EVERYTHING I have said is pointed out. And all of your talking points are debunked if you even bother to watch and do your due diligence.
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  7141.  @garyish  Starting at 8:30 in the video, they cover ALL of this. Again, you prove that at best you were not paying attention and at worst not even bothering to see what the video even had to say. And yes, Russia being the beggar can't be choosy. Which is why the Indians are taking them to the cleaners.
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  7142. Seriously consider marrying an Asian or Latin woman. They appreciate being treated like a lady. Chivalry works with them and they love it. Let these Feminazis look on with hate and envy.
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  7143.  @SerendipityChild  US's pledge to send more aid ended in October. That doesn't mean the stuff already in the pipe won't be delivered. Nice try being disingenuous on that. Ukraine still has about one year's worth of material in backlog. While I have little issue sending the GEAR, I take MAJOR issue with sending them pallets of cash. The country is still as corrupt as it was in the 2000s. While Zeleksy is making progress, companies like Burisma are still operation, acting as money laundering fronts pilfering aid money to line the pockets of corrupt politicians like Hunter Biden.
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  7144. Economy is the engine that powers and runs a war machine. Civilians are who keep that engine running. Bombing a clothing factor is a legitimate target in war because said plant can create uniforms and cold weather gear for solider. But I do agree that individual citizens should not be targeted by these sanctions. Russian nationals conducting personal business outside of Russia should not be sanctioned.
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  7145. They need to get rid of that German Soyboy WEF shill.
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  7146. Stakeholder is the new proletariat.
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  7147.  @Raximus3000  That is exactly what it is. Neo-paganism that doesn't want to admit what it truly is. Now keep in mind, I am not inherently against pagan beliefs. I just want people to be honest about it, not try and deceive people and exploit them for personal gain.
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  7148.  @johnathanx  The British lost the Revolution at Saratoga and Yorktown yet King George kept fighting on despite that. Putin is doing the same thing.
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  7149. He also ignores that the Russian trenches are BEHIND Bakhmut. The Russians don't even consider the rubble to be part of their defense line.
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  7150.  @rickpilhorn  Same reason why they can't really push in Andrivka. Zaphoresia was about the ONLY place they could make a push other than north of Luhansk, which wasn't useful other than swinging wide behind Russian lines. Paul even talked about that six months ago.
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  7151. That is like saying that FDR's polices helped with the Great Depression. Honest economists will tell you ONLY WW2 wartime production pulled the US out of that. FDR made it worse. Likewise, there was ZERO reason for the lockdowns. And there was ZERO reason to put over half the population out of work. The bankruptcies were a direct result of top-down fascistic government policies.
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  7152. You have more grace than I. I respect you for your portion in heaven will be greater than mine as I cannot pray for those who are NOT repentant.
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  7153. Agreed. MAD has never been tested in a serious way. One side may simply play up the aggrieved and NOT retaliate instead relying on the nuclear taboo being so toxic as to turn the world against the first to use them. An example is the fool who goes into a gun store in Texas trying to rob the place. Not going to work the way people think.
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  7154.  @notastone4832  Considering that Poland is now a part of NATO, do you really want to call that bluff? The agreement has already been made and the die is cast. Putin doesn't think it is a bluff otherwise he would have already invaded the Suwałki Gap.
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  7155.  @pennyhardaway7491  Venezuela is a resource rich nation yet it is also a failed state. The problem goes down to the fact that strongmen (ie dictators and despots) tend to ruin their nations either through war or gross mismanagement. And while Putin was initially a good manager, since the start of the invasion, he has proven to the West that it was simply a shiny facade.
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  7156. Nero did something similar. Had the Legions collect seashells on the beach as "tribute" from Neptune after swishing his sword in the Mediterranean.
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  7157. Yeah, it is like Timmy boy got amnesia after the drama Fuente cause with his show.
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  7158. Hence why the US founders REJECTED direct election of the president.
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  7159. Ukraine will not stop being a country. Poland will see to that, even if nobody else will.
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  7160.  @Nothingcomestomind124  That isn't an argument, it only shows you are self-reporting (ie psychologically projecting).
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  7161. Russia already lost when they failed to capture Kiev. They failed to prevent the expansion of NATO since both Sweden and Finland are now members. By and REASONABLE metric, Russia has already lost as thoroughly as the Japanese did at Midway and Guadalcanal.
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  7162.  @johnmcevoy3598  The Georgia case is imploding. Keep dreaming buddy.
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  7163. The man who wants to invade every country in the middle East? If you love to send your own sons to die for John Bolton's ego, that is on you. Don't waste the lives of other people's children just for one man's vanity.
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  7164.  @TheAmazingAdventuresOfMiles  Trump fired Bolton, remember? Have you asked yourself why? Could it be due to the fact that Bolton tried to get Trump to invade Iran and Trump refused? Your Trump Derangement Syndrome is blinding you to hard facts that shatter your own narrative.
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  7165. Everyone is motivated by money in some fashion. Some are just more honest about it than others.
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  7166.  @jont2576  I think you greatly underestimate the love of gold. Mammon's charms make even the most reasonable and principled men succumb. Just look at Washington DC. Rand Paul is about the only man in that city to remain untainted by the corrupting influence of money.
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  7167. They why didn't they do something 2 decades ago when it first started occurring?
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  7168.  @tcortez  I'm all for breaking up Disney at this point and selling off the IP assets. As for the Parks, spin that off as a financially separate entity with the legal rights to the Disney exclusive IP. And follow that up by franchising it. I'm sure Lotte group in South Korea would LOVE to make Lotte World an "official" Disney Park.
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  7169. Indeed. They blatantly ignore the history of brushwars. Odd considering that they have discussed them in previous videos, but not here.
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  7170.  @assertivekarma1909  Indeed. My understanding is that while the Ukrainians have been shelling Belgorod, they have been VERY surgical in their strikes, hitting only obviously military targets and choosing to forego striking valid non-military targets such as power stations and war production factories. Me think the Ukrainians (with Western prodding) are trying to make it abundantly clear to the Russian people that their beef is with the Kremlin, not the population.
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  7171. Uh, Chernobyl meltdown occurred in 1986, long before the deep state could ever operate in the Ukraine.
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  7172. Wishful thinking. You simply make yourself dependent on TWO masters. And you know what they say about someone who has two masters: he loves one and despises the other.
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  7173.  @SamtheBravesFan  That is not what he said. Or have you forgotten how much it has to make to just break even?
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  7174.  @dbreiden83080  In what? 200 years? With hyper-inflation that just might be possible.
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  7175. But that retainer was never a Samurai. He was at best a "pet" to Oda.
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  7176.  @ab-hv8qs  Don't hold your breath. Sweet Baby Inc is involved with this production. It is going to be as much of a disaster as Kill the Justice League.
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  7177.  @ab-hv8qs  Are you familiar with Sweet Baby INC and what they have done to the canon of other games? They have a track record of ruining what they touch. "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, but three times is enemy action," -Ian Flemming.
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  7178.  @ab-hv8qs  First, it isn't blind bashing. When you have a reputation for ruining things, it is really hard to get rid of it. That is why so many companies will rebrand. Second, game journalists have zero credibility. It shows with the fiasco involving Stellar Blade, Kill the Justice League, Star Wars Outlaws, and now Assassin's Creed. That you think they have any legitimacy only ruins your own. Third, the criticism against Assassin's creed DO have legitimate gripes. That you refuse to even acknowledge it shows you are just parroting the talking points of the discredited game journalists. Yes, decide for yourself, but keep your expectations LOW and don't be surprised if warnings turn out to be true. And don't EVER give Sweet Baby Inc and those they work with the benefit of the doubt; you will ALWAYS be disappointed if you do.
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  7179.  @blackonblack...9244  Funny, because her friends are almost all Indonesian and many of Chinese-Indonesian heritage. If anything, they praise me and encourage us. Sorry you have a bad experience but negativity bias means people overlook the success stories and only look at the failures.
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  7180.  @IronskullGM  It is a diesel-electric, not a nuclear powered.
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  7181. Japan used "Weather balloons" in WW2 to deliver bombs to the West Coast. Started a number of forest fires.
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  7182.  @enriquelaroche5370  You realize that Russia using nukes isn't the "I win" button, but rather an admission of utter defeat? If Putin uses them, then even the Chinese will turn completely against him.
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  7183. "A rising tide lifts ALL boats," -President John F. Kennedy.
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  7184. They did it to themselves, so they have only themselves to blame. Of course, it also helped Putin that Angela Merkel was a member of the East Germany Communist Youth League. Once a Commie, always a commie.
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  7185. I think the biggest reason is because off the inbred retards at WoTC. They don't know how to find the right people to make such a movie. They are too cheap to hire Peter Jackson, the guy who arguably succeeded where all others failed: brining LoTR to the silver screen.
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  7186. Yeah, he is starting to sound like someone with Stockholm Syndrome. When will he stop caring what the leftists think? When will he stop playing their optics game?
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  7187. Because it is easier to fool people by claiming politics is a linear spectrum rather than a tesseract.
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  7188. The result of parents not spanking nor paddling their children. Prior generations didn't hand out participation trophies.
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  7189. No joke. Reminds me of Margaret Thatcher's quote about personal attacks.
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  7190.  @genxer74  Indeed. For all of the flaws of the British Empire during the age of Discovery and the Colonial period, one thing that stood true was to judge one based on the merits of their actions. The American Revolution was a painful reminder to the Empire of why it should not judge one based on pedigree rather than actions.
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  7191. When you know how connected Epstein was to industry insiders as well as politicians, you start to realize that we are indeed living in Rome at the height of its excesses under Caligula and Nero.
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  7192.  @Chris_Garman  Walmart sources almost all of its food from China.
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  7193.  @gingernutpreacher  Oh, I agree that Obama was an Anglophobia. That was in part because of his man-bitch father and floozy of a mother who was just as rabidly anti-west. My point is that Biden is Obama's third term will ALL of the Obama activist radical staffers carried over. I also agree that the nations of the English Commonwealth ARE natural allies because of our shared heritage. Sadly, the precepts of English common law have fallen by the wayside.
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  7194. I would have more respect if he used the nickname "figlettes". Most sea dogs know what that means.
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  7195.  @Ryan125y  Not with the jury instructions given by this judge. He only needs for guilty votes on three separate charges for the judge to declare Trump "unanimously guilty" on ALL charges.
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  7196.  @Ryan125y  That isn't a rebuttal, it is an emotional outburst. Nick Sortor broke it down.
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  7197. Operation Barbarossa was complicated, to say the least. The Ukrainians viewed the Germans as liberators from the USSR in the wake of the Holodomor famine. That was until the Germans started butchering, they alongside the Russians. At that point the Ukrainians figured that they were going to be occupied by either Germany or the Soviet Union and so chose to be on the winning side in the vain hopes that the Russians would remember that.
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  7198. Impeachment never works. What we need is a Nuremberg Trial for Judges.
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  7199. Exactly. They have proven why Bolshevism never works. Had they bothered to read a book about 1930s USSR, they would realize they are making the EXACT same kind of "entertainment" as came out of Stalin's "Ministry of Culture".
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  7200. Remember the Gold King Mine spill in 2015? I'll bet the same folks at the EPA who botched that were involved with this.
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  7201. DeSantis will be corrupted by the Washington Swamp, which is exactly what George Soros wants.
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  7202. I think you got that bass ackwards. Much of the Arab world was willing to engage with the Houthis after Saudi Arabia decided they were not succeeding in Yemen. Now, the Houthis have managed to piss off the Arab world, especially the Arab Oil states who are directly threatened by Houthi actions. And the Houthis have been indiscriminate in their targeting.
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  7203.  @Knights_Oath  I don't doubt that he is too old for the job. But he COULD be an advisor in a hands-off role. Someone you go to when you have a really hard dilemma and need a second opinion.
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  7204. She was real? Something about that story doesn't add up. I just don't see a girl from an activist household who attended a libera college in California joining the military. Someone in that environment would be constantly told by the people around them that the military was full of war criminals and baby killers.
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  7205. You mean occupied. But I get it, you are a shill for Putin. Joeseph Stalin would love lickspittles like you who propagandize for the glory of the Bolshevik Revolution.
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  7206.  @rogerdodger8415  Keep acting like an elitist snob. Most of the prices are not justified.
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  7207.  @GillfigGarstang  Grass/pasture grazing beef tends to be very lean and lest fat in the meat. Grain feeding is how you get a lot of the marbling in the meat. Indeed, the Japanese Kobe beef not only grain feed them (rice and sake), but also massage them to further improve the marbling quality. Personally, I prefer the leaner pasture grazing meat. Kobe and Waygu Beef are grossly overrated.
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  7208.  @Latinoamerica837  Yeah, Partick J. Buchanan made a similar observation in his book "Suicide of a Superpower" which got him fired from MSNBC. He notices that orthodox and traditionalist families in Israel have 8-10 kids while the liberals rarely have 2 kids. That invariably means that in such a nation, the trend will be towards to politics that creates the most offspring. In Israel's case, that means the future belongs to Netanyahu's coalition.
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  7209. "Figures don't lie, but liars figure," -Mark Twain.
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  7210.  @danghoangluong2942  Yeah, I am no fan of them either. They have proven time and again to be dirty cowards fleeing at the first sign of trouble. And yes, the US did initially help Ho Chi Mihn which is why his early works drew heavily from Thomas Jefferson.
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  7211. Considering how many civilians they killed with their artillery shelling, I don't think civilian casualties matter to the Russian Army.
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  7212. "You should have stayed dead!" -Elrond to the Nine.
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  7213. The problem is that DeSantis campaign team is closely connected to the folks destroying Veritas with this foolish case again James O'Keefe. DeSantis is being used by the machine to destroy Trump.
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  7214. I love those Jokes about the Soviet Premier and his "chest candy".
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  7215. While taking Melitopol may create a Salient, it makes it entirely possible for the HIMARs to target the Kerch Bridge directly. That is in addition to cutting the Landbridge. Russia cannot support an attack from the West towards Melitopol or Mariupol they way they could at the start of the war.
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  7216.  @obstreperous1113  Indeed. Jet fuel has higher octane so burns hotter and longer. Which means that on a full tank, the Abrams can go MUCH farther with jet fuel than with diesel.
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  7217.  @joydeepghosh9215  Your point with Sloviansk and Kramatorsk only made sense when the Russians held Izyum. Without Izyum, there is no point in driving towards those two cities.
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  7218.  @joydeepghosh9215  You are grasping at straws. If Russia did as you suggest, they will be caught in an enfilade crossfire.
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  7219.  @maryginger4877  Not, cope, reality. Ukraine has been given TRUCKS, something the Russians have NOT invested in. Unlike the Russians, the Ukrainians know how vulnerable Rail is as the primary logistical supply line. Ask yourself how the Ukrainians were able to resupply when they cut their own rails to prevent the Russians from being able to use them? Ukraine is having problems redeploying their forces? That sounds more like gossip and rumor mongering by pro-Russian shills than actual reality.
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  7220. BINGO!
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  7221. And you would be praised by the other convicts for doing so. Even the criminals have their standards.
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  7222.  @KonstantinValentix  Even CNN admits that these charges are weak. They even point out that the Feds refused to pursue this case.
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  7223.  @ivanmonahhov2314  Actually, it is cheaper now than it ever has been. The estimated costs given for building a new one assume you build the reactor first, then re-fit it with modern safety and containment features which is how they tabulated the cost for nuclear in the past. It is an apples to oranges analogy as the US Navy can bring a nuclear reactor for a ballistic submarine or an aircraft carrier for very cheap.
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  7224.  @ivanmonahhov2314  Somehow I seriously doubt your claim. While the power needs of a Nuclear Boomer or an Aircraft carrier may be smaller, that doesn't change the PHYSICS. Reactors large or small still need the minimum necessary to sustain a reaction. That value can be lowered by the use of neutron reflectors to make the neutron emissions more efficient, but it does not change minimum values for criticality. If anything, enriched fuel means smaller fuel rods, and hence a smaller safety margin. The point still stands that if you can create a small reactor for a Naval ship, you can easily repurpose it for civilian use.
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  7225. Only in your wet dreams. Kherson and Karkov prove you wrong.
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  7226. Barney Frank was involved with both this AND the sub-prime mortgage loan debacle. You can bet they will absolutely be bailed out and continue to repeat this cycle again.
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  7227.  @ivayloaladzhov9476  While it is true that the West is not keeping up on the ammo production, the Idea that Russia can as well is also delusional. Perun dug into this on his video about Russian defense production and it is clear that by mobilizing, Russia actually hamstrung its production capabilities. Hence why they are begging North Korea for munitions.
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  7228.  @ivayloaladzhov9476  New York SLIMES. Those guys have zero credibility, especially when they were purveyors of the Russian Collusion Hoax.
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  7229. Agreed. I would love to hear his mother relate her experiences as a Hafu in America.
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  7230. Because they are not doctors, they are quacks.
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  7231.  @meyou9369  It is NOT insane to say Kemo is poisoning the patient to the edge of death; that is literally what is being done. HOWEVER, the point is that it kills the cancerous cells faster than the normal cells thereby giving the chance for recovery. THAT is the rationale for the process. With regards to the genital mutilation, you are correct that it CANNOT be justified nor rational or reasonably be explained why the procedure is necessary. In that you are absolutely correct.
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  7232.  @economiccrisis9267  Sure, blame the people who speak truth to power. Keep parroting the talking points of your feudal masters on cue like Pavlvo's Dog. Who is the Russian assent now?
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  7233.  @dickbakker1035  "Figures don't lie, but liars figure" -Mark Twain. "Lies, damn lies, and statistics," -Mark Twain. Your metrics are a sham, just as the metric system is.
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  7234.  @sillysad3198  I agree that Putin fears Trump getting into the White House. That is why he is pushing so hard now; he wants to be in a better position should Trump play hardball. It was Trump who sent LETHAL aid, unlike Obama who only sent blankets.
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  7235.  @charleshixon3558  Yeah, looking at just the numbers is meaningless without context. Inflation, U6, and debt means that you are living in a delusional fantasy if you believe the US is better now than it was 6 years ago.
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  7236.  @kylie_h1978  Considering that Trump entering office cause an economic recovery Obama could never address, and the fact that it slumped as soon as he left and Biden reinstated Obama's polices is proof positive that the actions of the President has a MASSIVE effect on the economy.
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  7237.  @charleshixon3558  Art Laffer proves you wrong. Even Paul Krugman has been forced to admit Laffer was correct.
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  7238.  @outdoorolli5754  A bigger problem is that Angela Merkel was a member of the East German Communist Youth League. You know, the guys who trained the Munich Olympic Terrorists? Once a communist, always a communist. Merkel prostrating Germany to the Kremlin was no accident; it was planned with the malice of forethought.
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  7239.  @juergenernst1320  I am actually surprised by that. The way Germans seem to avoid the topic I come away thinking that denialism caused Nazism to be forced underground where it can fester like black mold. I am of the opinion that you let the fools who subscribe to that ideology speak their vulgar mind so that we can all laugh, ridicule, and mock them. Making them a joke or look like fools as the sitcom "Hogan's Heroes" did does much to disarm the toxic ideology. Even better, in Hogan's Heroes, the Nazi characters were played by Jews, the ultimate victory over the Third Reich. Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Leon Askin, and Howard Caine took it as a point of pride that they could effectively play and make fools of the people who tried to kill them (and did murder members of their family).
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  7240. Indeed. Most who did take the China route would go on to Cambodia or Thailand and THEN turn themselves in to the authorities. The South Korean government already has agreements with those two nations that they will cover the costs of having them sent to ROC rather than back to DPRK.
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  7241. Yeah, the legal experts at Disney are dunces if they think this will stand in court. They apparently never read the Federalist Papers.
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  7242.  @Melikebutter  So you are going to ignore the Biden administrations culling of almost half the chickens in the US?
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  7243.  @loredanalopez4462  I never said she was not unbiased. But contrasted to the people who call themselves reporters over at the Child Nookie Network, she is. Old school liberal as compared to current liberals.
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  7244.  @bipslone8880  Jamaica Kamala paying for their release bail for one. Mr. Pool has documented extensively the connections, just do a cursory review on his videos on ANTIFA and you will see the connections you are looking for.
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  7245.  @Rivenburg-xd5yf  Then he picked the wrong place. As George Bernard Shaw observed, it is foolish to wrestle with pigs; you only get dirty and the pig enjoys it. I am enjoying making them get dirty.
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  7246. I think Winston Chruchill said it best: " I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped inside a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest." -Radio broadcast, 1 October 1939
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  7247. No alternative platform has succeeded in challenging Twitter and Facebook. Many have tried, all have failed, sadly.
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  7248. Yes, but the left will try to cast it the same way they did Katrina. I hope Trump was paying close attention then and does not allow his subordinates to make the same mistakes.
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  7249. Indeed. If he is just going to declare an opposition government, he should just go about doing it. Hell, solicit the states to send Senators their assemblies select as per pre-17th Amendment provisions.
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  7250. The problem is that the original Civil Rights law under JFK has been perverted beyond what it was meant for and is now a cudgel for the "protected classes" to silence anyone who disagrees with them.
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  7251.  @princeobah7995  Sure, parrot the talking points that are not actually based on science but political activism. I acknowledge that Downs has three Chromosomes on the 23rd pairs. But that is a minority. You are arguing from exception, which is a logical fallacy. You don't actually care about science nor nature because it does not comport with your feelings which are out of touch with reality.
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  7252.  @princeobah7995  Again, you are pointing to examples that are less than one THOUSANTH of a percent of the population and demand that the rest of us conform to that. Again, using the exception doesn't make your point, it just proves you are out of touch with reality.
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  7253.  @ckm-mkc  Isolationism had nothing to do with the cause of the Great Depression. That had more to do with fractional banking, bad credit policy, and disastrous monetary policy. Add to that, DC trying to overregulate the agricultural sector. What is causing today's economic problems? Many of the same things.
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  7254.  @ALXM1  "Local traffic"? I think a lot of Disney's clientele is the out-of-town folks. Rich, snooty, coast elite types, but hardly local. Remember, Iger doesn't like the passholders.
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  7255. Exactly. Follow the money and you understand 90% of the motivation. The ONLY reason for opposition to Keystone is that Buffet HATE competition.
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  7256.  @LuigiTheMetal64  But it has no place in everyday conversation. Average people don't talk like that. Not even scientists use that in regular conversations.
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  7257. They same reason why Epstein got away with what he did for so long; the establishment is in on it and is providing cover.
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  7258. Open market of ideas as President John F. Kennedy advocated in his February 26, 1962 speech.
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  7259. Oh, he did. People just didn't take him seriously. It is all in his books. Add in a dose of Huxley's Brave New World and everything makes sense.
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  7260.  @johnhobbes2268  Don't forget that Angela Merkel was a member of the East German Communist Youth League, the same folks who trained the Munich Olympic Terrorists. Once a communist, always a communist.
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  7261.  @LasseEklof  You keep jumping to false conclusions and it is blinding you. I find it interesting how you try to use scripture to defend your position, particularly your antisemitism. That is blasphemy. Also, not all laws are just. Do keep in mind that the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 in Germany or the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 in the US were both unjust. And inconsistent enforcement of the laws onto one side, but not the other is a further miscarriage of justice. You are calling for blind obedience which is WORSE. You are contorting yourself into a pretzel to justify your indefensible position with classic soviet "whataboutism". When you find yourself in a hole STOP DIGGING.
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  7262. 2d6 is how I started playing D&D. I salute you!
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  7263. My opinion is that they should actually up it to at least 5% GDP.
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  7264. "Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?" — Obi-Wan Kenobi, A New Hope
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  7265.  @unclebuck4046  I tend to agree with you. Hence the old saying "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me." if you get fooled a third time, then you are willfully stupid and deserve to be abused.
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  7266.  @silentvoiceinthedark5665  That was just as much to the US as it was to foreign powers. And they assassinated him for it. Lee Harvey Oswald was the hapless trigger-man spun up like the Garland Texas terrorists by the Deep State. The CIA and FBI both knew exactly who LHO was. You as an American citizen don't visit the Soviet or Cuban Embassies in Mexico City without the US government knowing about it.
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  7267. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God -Thomas Jefferson.
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  7268. EXACTLY! The twatteradi calling anime pedo bait is doing just that, purposely crying wolf so that people are desensitized for when the real crime occurs. Your example is just an outgrowth of that mantra.
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  7269. I tend to agree. Redeploy the Kherson forces on the East side of the Dnipro in Zaphorezia and cut down to Melitopol before the Russians can reinforce that front.
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  7270. Planes don't usually fly that high unless they are going over the poles. Flights over land have little to fear as they rely more on air traffic control than compasses. It is the over open ocean flights that concerns become valid.
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  7271. As bad as Chapek was, he was trying to make the company profitable. He hated being called a "bean counter", but that is EXACTLY what you need when hemorrhage money. Iger is just a hammer that smashed everything without plan or reason.
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  7272.  @LordEjnar  Tell that to the CBP who is blatantly ignoring federal law and engaging in human sumggling.
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  7273.  @MelissiaBlackheart  And what says they are not upholding the law and serving the people? Just because YOU disagree with them doesn't mean they are not acting with the will and mandate of the people.
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  7274. Perfect analogy.
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  7275. You realize it was DEMOCRAT governors who locked you down, not Trump? And there were NO victims in this case. "Orange Man Bad" is not an augment, it is a mental psychosis.
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  7276.  @rafaelmauricio8000  And of the two, ridiculing is the more effective tactic. But it requires an iron will to pull off, something that most people lack.
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  7277. Only when these companies file for bankruptcy will it finally stop. The woke cult is scorched Earth because they were never paddled for bad behavior as children.
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  7278. JUDEA. Palestine was a made-up name by the Romans to erase Jewish history.
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  7279. Don't let them drop the charges. Force them to defend those charges in a court of law. Demand that the cases be heard in court so that a precedent is set that such actions are unlawful until after final tratification.
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  7280. But vote out the RINOs while you are at it. Hell, vote Democrat Or Libertarian INSTEAD of the RINOs because they WILL stab Trump in the back.
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  7281.  @garyclark6727  Liberate JUDEA!
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  7282.  @unduloid  Russian Collusion was proven to be a Hoax. Do keep in mind that it was Trump who sent Javelins and Stingers to Ukraine while Obama and Biden only sent blankets. Also, Putin Stole Crime while Biden was directing Obama's foreign policy. He waited until Biden was in the Oval Office to invade Ukraine.
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  7283.  @unduloid  Russian collusion was proven to be a hoax.
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  7284. Trump didn't threaten the members, he called out the leadership for supporting the policies that put UAW members out of work. Stop parroting the establishment propaganda.
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  7285. More evidence because it is easier to collect than the same information from Russia. Sampling bias, look it up.
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  7286. The best comeuppance would be for the courts to rule that everything WOTC is trying to claim as IP is in fact public domain because it predates D&D.
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  7287. Not all Democrats, just liberal-progressive ones like him. There are a few John F. Kennedy COSNERVATIVE Democrats like Jim Webb and Alan Dershowitz who are trying to take back the party.
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  7288. I agree. A MILITARY target such as that bridge, but not an exclusively civilian target.
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  7289. Ah, yes, always the "trust the government" argument. I got news for you, governments are corporations of a different kind, and often not interested in efficiency, only in protecting the status quo and nepotism.
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  7290. What is scarier is that "clussy" is a thing these days.
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  7291. It wasn't Yasuke. And there were a number of WHITE men shipwrecked who eventually became Samurai.
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  7292. Yeah, the Ukrainians very quickly cleaned up their act within the first two months, while the Russians have been horrifically bad about it.
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  7293.  @lehoang3532  Sounds to me like you just want to lick the boot of Beijing. You cannot have an alliance with Japan and Australia without the US. It just isn't going to happen, particularly when the Japanese are so reliant militarily on the US. Second, do you really trust that the Indians would come to your rescue? Just because you may share a common enemy in Red China doesn't mean that they will risk nuclear war on your behalf.
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  7294. "Fool you"? Ukraine CHOSE to fight, otherwise they would have let the Russians take Kiev without a fight. Also, the US has already worked out how to supply Taiwan. US war planners in the 1920s called it "The Tyranny of Distance". That is how they came up with War Plan Orange. And I guarantee you that modern war planning follows a similar formula.
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  7295.  @analienmango8756  Actually, it is true. The depth of the area is comparable to the area around Beringia, Doggerland and the Sunda Land Bridges.
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  7296. In New York? Do not hold your breath. Even if one man is righteous, the court is run by an evil man who will accept nothing but guilty.
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  7297. Quorum. Even with a 70% yes vote, if less than 50% of the people participate, you don't have a simple majority of all residence agreeing to it. At best you have a plurality. Quorums are just as if not MORE important than having a simple majority.
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  7298. What is there to hold back? 1st Army Tank Guards, the pride of Moscow is effectively no more. The 155th Naval Infantry Brigade, the most elite Russian infantry unit got butchered at Vuledar. What is there left of Russian elite units?
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  7299.  @leonhardthomasius8872  Paul explains that to you if you bothered to actually listen to his commentary.
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  7300.  @Poly-ticks-pv6ro  In the Israel-Palestine conflict, the Palestinians have ALWASY exercised their veto power over peace. Likewise, both Russia AND Ukraine have a veto over any settlement. The idea that Ukraine will just accept dictates from the US ignores what happened in 1938 with the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.
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  7301.  @Poly-ticks-pv6ro  Yes I do, because Russia is NOT a sincere party to such negotiations. No agreement or treaty signed by Russia since 1991 has EVER been honored.
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  7302.  @Poly-ticks-pv6ro  Why does it have to be the US? Why can't EUROPE fight that proxy war? Poland and the Baltic States are already 100% on board with that option.
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  7303.  @rushprimed5  And your would be correct. The problem is that Pew Research and the like grossly misunderstand the Howe-Strauss generational theory. It is NOT hard 20 years per cohort. Some can be as short as 10 years and others as long as 40 years. What defines a generation is how they react to stressors and situations. They like to claim that Gen Y is millennial, but then ignore that Gen Y describes those born from 80s until mid 90s with much overlap with Gen X. Gen X also technically extends to people born in 1985. While they like to claim that Millennials is anyone born after 1980, the reality is the defining psychological profile of Millennials is centered on those born around 1995-2000. I was born in 1984 and I completely identify with the "Pepsi Generation"(ie Gen X, aka Generation Next). In that I agree much with Dana Lousche who was also born in the early 80s and rejects the Millennial title. PS final thought, most of the Millennials were raised by the Boomers, not Gen X. The Gen X who did raise Millenials were either born in the late 60s, early 70s and had kids in their 30s or they were born in the late 70s and had children really young such as in their late teens, early 20s. My first child was at 28 which means I am raising one of the late Homeland Generation kids (so-called Gen Z), if not one of the cohort that follows the Homeland Crowd.
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  7304. Copium. what is the old saying? "Never poke a sleeping bear"? Twitter did that when they silenced the Babylon Bee, one of Musk's favorite satire sites.
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  7305. So you blame the victim? You are an appeaser no better than Nevile Chamberlain.
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  7306. The trick is that once the pendulum returns to center, to KEEP it there. The swinging has only gotten more extreme over the years. And what happens when the pendulum goes too far in one direction?
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  7307. Because Western media doesn't want the Communist take-over broadcasted.
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  7308.  @SA-ff9uc  He meant the conversation. Use a little common sense.
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  7309.  @ootmaster1  Yes, Winston Churchill, George S. Patton, and many other knew fully well that the Soviets were just as bad as the Nazis. They did NOT forget about the "Pact of Blood" in which the two dictators carved up Eastern Europe between them. The issue is that Western Allied leadership felt they could deal with the Soviets better than they could with Hitler and the Nazis. Lenin's leadership had communism inward looking while the Nazis were outward expansionist. THAT was the calculation made by the West. The miscalculation was that Stalin was no Lenin. Stalin very much was an outward expansionist.
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  7310.  @ootmaster1  Yes, expansionist. The Nazis wanted to expand German territory into the Ukraine. The Soviets under Stalin wanted to expand communism to the world (which ironically was the original goal of Trotsky and the Trosky-Stalin split). Red China today is expansionist in both Southeast Asia as well as Africa. Try actually looking up definitions instead of making asinine responses.
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  7311.  @ytho95  Actually, there is. People are just too wedded to collectivism to accept that they do NOT need the government to be their parent. IN 5,000 years of human history NOTHING has changed when it come to human nature. While technology may advance, human failings stay the same. All technology has done is make it easier to live down to our most base instincts. Technology is NOT going to fix human nature. Not now, not ever. So your argument that we need government more than ever due simply to the size of our population and technology is an anachronistic fallacy known as Chronological snobbery.
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  7312.  @mikeb5664  And how much of that is self-inflicted gunshots? That is the dirty little detail that gun violence advocates fail to acknowledge.
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  7313.  @navinkv7024  Vassals, or equal partners? That is the problem with Americaphobes like you. You cannot possibly contemplate that Americans view the Brittans as half-brothers and the Norwegians as first-cousins.
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  7314.  @MelissiaBlackheart  Nice emotional outburst. You have done NOTHING to disprove my contention. YOU have simply engaged in name-calling which is an act of desperation by someone who has lost the debate and they know it.
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  7315.  @fearthehoneybadger  I wasn't talking about Barbarossa, I was talking about Putin's invasion.
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  7316.  @TimPool.BeanieCivilWarlord  "Holding maneuver"? Keep coping harder. Yanukovych was with the invading forces fully expecting to be reinstalled by Putin. The battle for Hostomel Airport was no holding maneuver, it was to create an air bridge so that Putin could fly in reinforcements. But keep parroting the sour grapes claims of the Russian copium brigade.
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  7317.  @TimPool.BeanieCivilWarlord  I have to piecemeal these responses because Youtube/Google loves to shadow delete Ukraine war related comments.
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  7318.  @TimPool.BeanieCivilWarlord  Hostomel Airport was no holding action. That was an attempt to create and air bridge to bring in reinforcements.
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  7319.  @TimPool.BeanieCivilWarlord  The fact that Yanukovych was with the invading Russians showed that both he and Putin expected Kiev to fall and that he would be reinstalled as president of Ukraine for a third time.
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  7320.  @EgoBrain1  If they have what they wanted, why are they continuing to push? Why are they talking about retaking Kharkiv? Why do they say they are going to take Dnipro and Kherson City? You are drinking Kremlin Kool-Aid. Putin wants ALL of Ukraine. He has stated several times that he intends to rebuild the old Soviet Empire.
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  7321. Compare this to the Opium Wars between the UK and China. It is as if the Chinese have taken the role of British traders and the US has assumed the role of China.
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  7322. That is a false canard. The US has been all volunteer since the end of the Vietnam War and the end of the draft. An all-volunteer force IS possible, but it requires a cultural change. The bigger point for South Korea has to do with making sure their male population is capable of taking up arms should the North march across the DMZ. German hasn't had the Sword of Damocles over their head that South Korea has.
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  7323.  @rockyoh  Finances do NOT equate to personnel issues regarding volunteer verses non-volunteer. That is yet another red herring. The transition from compulsory military service to all volunteer is not an issue of finances unless you are purposely ripping off your young population by using them as a cheap labour pool below market value in the military. And Germany clearly doesn't have that problem as the military pay clearly shows, though Russia certainly does.
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  7324. @ Police had no reason to lock down perfectly healthy people during the Wuhan Virus insanity but yet they did.
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  7325. "Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin good forces have invented or made” -J.R.R. Tolkien
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  7326. Agreed. The Japanese show in anime how such characters are done correctly. My favorite example is Alice Naga in Chivalry of a Failed Knight. Don't particularly care for the character, but they presented it in the most palatable way I have seen.
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  7327.  @10-eproductions25  Yeah, I can see how that reveal could create an "Oh Shit, our plan is shot to hell!" moment of drama. But the wokistas don't know how to write like that because they have zero world experience. Nor are they very well read on other who have set up such narratives.
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  7328. Munich 1939. You are parroting what Nevile Chamberlain was saying. Appeasement NEVER works. That is why Poland and Czechia were so adamant about backing Ukraine.
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  7329.  @joeb.6831  Funny because you don't actually refute anything I said. You just jumbled together word salad much like Joe Bite-Me. How about you explain WHY the Ukraine situation is not the same as when Germany Annexed Czechoslovakia. Or invaded Poland.
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  7330.  @embershadow2239  Because in the first week of the war, the Russians engaged in Blitzkrieg rather than artillery barrage. They rolled over Melitopol and Kherson because there was little in the way of opposition. As for Donetsk and Luhansk, they had effectively occupied those two cities since 2014 when they annexed Crimea. Seriously, are you just now learning about the war? Folks who have been paying attention since 2014 could have told you all of this. Even those only following since February could point out the difference between the Russian Blitzkrieg and the more typical artillery style.
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  7331.  @embershadow2239  The claims of Ukraine shelling of Donetsk is pure bunk, just like everything else the Russians claimed about the Donbas. De-Nazification operations? hogwash. How would I capture a city filled with enemy troop? It is called a siege; I would STARVE them out. Frontal assaults with building-to-building fights are the LAST thing that any western military wants to engage in. And considering that Ukraine has greatly strained the supplies across the Dnipro River, I think starvation is a very real possibility for the Russians trap in Kherson.
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  7332.  @embershadow2239  Fallujah was not the norm, it was the exception. The fall of Baghdad was nothing like the fight for Fallujah. As to the point about civilians, you do realize that most innocents flee the city before the fighting starts? Usually those who stay are often collaborators. Usually, the besieging force will negotiate to allow any remaining civilians safe passage out. We saw that several time during the first months of the war. Only a dirty coward refuses to left civilians evacuate and instead use them as human shields.
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  7333.  @embershadow2239  Wow, you are clearly a paid Russian Troll. Third party observers such as the Indians have rejected Russian claims against Ukraine of using human shields. Ukraine is not perfect, but their behavior is in complete compliance with the Geneva and Hauge conventions unlike the Russians who blatantly massacre civilians (Butchery of Bucha) or engage in looting and pillaging (notice how they get caught stealing washing machines?)
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  7334.  @embershadow2239  No, you become a Kremlin shill when you take their talking points as truth without any critical analysis and thinking. And funny you should mention Tolkein because Mordor was supposed to be Kaiser Germany. And as much as I dislike people calling Russians orcs, the Russian military have very much earned the disparagement with their behavior. Even the Mongolian hordes acted with more professionalism. And dude, the Russians have been documenting their atrocities just like the Nazis did. They have not been shy about boasting about the war crimes they have committed.
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  7335.  @embershadow2239  Really? Nothing that has come out of the Kremlin remotely reflects reality on the ground. "More Truthful"? Only if you believe in Lysenkoism. Orwell pegged people like you perfectly. "Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right." -George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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  7336.  @embershadow2239  Not at all. Ever Hear of WION News? They are out of India. How about CaspianReport? He is out of Azerbaijan. DWNews, which is German, and of course all of the Ukrainian citizen journalists which you will simply discount out of hand automatically. But sure, stay in your little bubble of anti-West propaganda. When the South Asian Indians are not buying your claims, you have lost the plot.
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  7337. Nobody who voted for Trump in 2016 voted for Biden. And RFK Jr. taking the nevertrump Gop voters away from Biden is a net positive.
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  7338. An interesting example of this involves CITGO and the Venezuelan connection to the refineries owned by that company.
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  7339.  @richdobbs6595  I was more or less agreeing with you. Venezuela has a certain type of oil that has limits on how it can be processed and how much effort is needed to refine it into other products. They bought CITGO specifically so they could have access to those technologies. After the sanctions, they were put in a pinch having ownership of CITGO, but no practical way of using the assets for refining those various products.
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  7340.  @stephengerena8848  Need to learn your history. The US has engaged in nation building since its founding with mixed results. The first attempt was Liberia in the 1790s, nominally giving emancipated an opportunity to leave America. I grant you it was a mixed result. But despite that the Liberians still hold an affection for the US that is not entirely justified. The next Major attempt was with Panama in the 1920s. That one was a MUCH better result, and the stability of Panama today speaks volumes. Then you have the Philippines which were on their way to emancipation before the Japanese invasion postponed that. Not as good as Panama, but again another success that kind of predates Japan and Germany. The problem with Afghanistan is that only TWO people brough the region to heel. Alexander the Great of Macedonia, and Genghis Khan of the Mongolian Empire. The West does NOT have the stomach to go to the extremes they did to pacify the region. Iraq's problem stems from the failures of the British and French after WW1. They ignored T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) proposal which drew lines based on historical tribal divisions. Much like with Africa, the European powers put historic blood enemies within the same governing areas.
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  7341. Trump was trying to make NATO members live up to their obligations. If you call that collapse, then you have a very odd definition. There is a direct correlation between NATO members who kept up with their commitments to the alliance and the amount of equipment those nations supplied to Ukraine.
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  7342. There is zero accounting for taste. Especially when it comes to Hollyweird and their cult followers.
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  7343.  @jonesy19691  Well, keep the functional parts and send the rest to the scrapyard.
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  7344. Their betrayal of Marquis de Lafayette's legacy and memory is why I have little sympathy for France.
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  7345.  @Likeaworm  And even the Nuclear threat is dubious now. Will they detonate in the silo like they did on K-129?
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  7346. They are connected to the folks at Veritas going after James O'Keefe. Is it clear now that the people urging DeSantis to run are establishment critters trying to destroy both men?
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  7347. You repeat exactly what Partick J, Buchanan points out in his book "Suicide of a Superpower". He got fired from MSNBC for making the same points you have.
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  7348.  @dantespicysausage9615  Is that the one where Phillip Metzer is a professor? His arguments debunking the IAU's demotion of Pluto from full Planet status is epic!
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  7349.  @jeffupton8898  Willful ignorance. She knows much of it, but choses to pretend she doesn't. Hanah Ardent called it the "Banality of Evil".
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  7350. Source for that claim? Kremlin bots regularly say he said something that never came out of his mouth.
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  7351. Indeed. They should temporarily table their disagreements over the islands and present a united front against China in the Parcel Islands. Stopping China there together secures their collective claims against China's aggression.
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  7352. Ukraine's rail gauge is NOT the same as the West. Also, kilo for kilo water travel though slower and longer is VASTLY cheaper than rail transit. it is why shipping via rivers and locks is still widely in use around the world. Indeed, the largest transportation of Goods in the US is up and down the Mississippi River.
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  7353.  @edwhite7078  Uh, dude, you clearly don't understand that the cars themselves can't change gage unless they have been specifically built to operate on more than one. And even then, the wheels take time to be adjusted from one to the other. Oh, and since you don't actually understand what gauge is, it is the length of the space between the rails. In the former Soviet bloc, the gauge is 1,520 mm. In Western Europe, the space is 1,435 mm. The best thing Ukraine can do is simply lay down an extra rail so that Western cars can run on their rails. And while yes, you COULD unload from one car to another, that take time and time is money making the transition across the border more expensive in terms of labor costs. It is quite clear you have no understanding of logistics much less the economics of trade. Speed of delivery has a cost. Volume has a cost. Trucks are the fastest, and most versatile, but also the most expensive per kilo. Shipping via water is the cheapest per kilo, but also the slowest in terms of delivery. Rail falls somewhere in between those two extremes. And Air delivery is its own separate category.
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  7354.  @edwhite7078  Calling me a bot means you don't have an argument; it is just tacit admission you can't argue the merits. I am talking about transport of one thing and one thing only: the wheat and grain which was the original point of discussion. You, however, are trying to move the goal posts (logical fallacy) by trying to make it about arms imports which was NOT part of the original discussion. But I get it, you are making excuses because you can't defend your position. You engage in ad hominin attacks (logical fallacy, again) because you know you are wrong and so attempt to discredit the messenger because you can't debate.
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  7355.  @edwhite7078  I am not missing the point, you are moving the goal posts because I refuted your argument and now you can't defend your position. By saying you don't want to argue about certain things, you are basically admitting that you know you have lost the debate.
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  7356.  @edwhite7078  I have clearly "triggered" you with you putting three posts one after other. Once again that shows you are making an emotional outburst rather than a coherent logic based argument. mic drop.
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  7357.  @edwhite7078  Triggered again. Calling someone a bot doesn't make your argument, it is just another ad hominin logical fallacy. Here is a hint: if you find yourself in a hole, STOP DIGGING. "I learned long ago never to wrestle with pigs. You get dirty and the pig enjoys it," -George Bernard Shaw.
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  7358.  @lawr5764  Shadowcat. The "little girl from Illinois" as Professor Xavier mentioned.
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  7359. I think the phrase is "Gone Horribly Right".
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  7360. Almost like the HIV/ADIS epidemic of the 90s is repearting itself.
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  7361. @ Online is the WORST place to use sarcasm. Poe's Law.
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  7362. Part of the problem in the US is the abominable standard set by the SCOTUS in the Sullivan case. Completely gutted the English Common Law standard that had up until that point been the norm.
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  7363.  @AntonioCunningham  So basically, you are to blame for Biden in office. With Republicans like you. who need Democrats? You carry the water for them and do their bidding.
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  7364.  @potcrak1  The problem is that many of the incumbent GOP governors are RINOS. Case in point is Indiana governor Eric Holcomb. He runs my state the way Dems run Minnesota or Kleptofornia. During the lockdown protests in 2020, he called them all "petri dishes".
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  7365. And most of the politicians in the US. Power is a corrupting influence, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. NOBODY can wield Sauron's Ring of Power.
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  7366. Italian is vulgar Latin.
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  7367.  @RogerMiller-td5yc  On the local level, it is. Here in Indiana the local GOP pushes the same policies as the Democrats, only they have a larger tax base to pull from. Why should the liberals vote for a Democrat when the local GOP will carry their water for them?
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  7368.  @austincrouch2019  They Californicated the doughnut counties around Indy. The State Party gets its power from those counties and they have become just as liberal as inside the beltway. Look at Carmel and how Mayor Brainard has turned it into a Eurotrash carbon copy.
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  7369.  @cjlooklin1914  And your point? Wealth is not something to be ashamed of. As Confucius observed, in a country poorly managed, wealth is something to be ashamed of, while in a country wisely managed, it is being poor that is shameful.
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  7370.  @cjlooklin1914  Yeah, and you seem to forget that there were numerous loopholes that made those claimed tax rates effectively lower than they claimed on paper. Ben Shapiro has time and again debunked your false claims about the 90% corporate tax rate. You are pushing the same great lie that all neo-socialists claim. For one, only people who made over $200,000 (1950s, not adjusted for inflation) paid that rate. The UK tried doing that in the 1970s and it practically demolished their economy. When effective taxes rates are greater than 50%, NOBODY works. Art Laffer and the Austrian School of Economics has been proven correct time and again, and not just with the US economy.
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  7371.  @6thsense79  And you are not telling the full story. Investments, particularly capital gains are DOUBLE TAXED. First when the company makes the profit, then again when those profits are distributed to the shareholders. In effect, the government gets TWO bites at the apple. So, stop complaining about the very tax system you and yours demanded and got not producing the very revenues you foolishly believed it would produce. Your math never takes into account the human reaction to your attempts to steal their money via taxation. "It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, AN ECONOMY HAMPERED BY RESTRICTIVE TAX RATES WILL NEVER PRODUCE ENOUGH JOBS OR PROFITS" -President John F. Kennedy.
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  7372.  @6thsense79  Pot meet kettle. It is clear you subscribe to the neo-Marxism of Keynesian economics which has time and again been proven wrong. I however am a follower of the Austrian school of economics pioneered by Karl Menger and confirmed by the likes of Fredric Hayek, Ludwig von Misses, Art Laffer, Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell. You accuse me of not understanding and yet you keep parroting the talking points of theorists who have ZERO experience in economics. Your small business owner knows more about economics than your college professor. It doesn't take an "expert" to understand tax law and know that the bureaucracy which you are defending and the high tax rates that go with such a machine of government is what destroys an economy and a society.
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  7373.  @RepublicaSindicalista_doBrasil  The fact that Ukrainian soldiers found parade uniforms among the abandoned Russian gear and equipment after they withdrew from the Kiev front speaks volumes.
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  7374.  @A-15-v2c  "Attacked for decades"? You realize the IDF completely pulled out of Gaza in 2005. And since then nearly non-stop rocket attacks fired from schools and hospitals. You don't care about the people, you only want justification for your anti-semitism.
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  7375. I was thinking it was an Apple commercial using 1984 as the framing, but you point is still valid.
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  7376. They very much want to Epstein Trump. At this point, I think the inmates are more trustworthy than the guards when it comes to the safety of the POTUS.
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  7377. They had years to help the Afghan government stabilize the country while the US was there. Why did they not lift a finger to help keep the Taliban from retaking power? Why did they stand by as the US was driven out? They made their bed.
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  7378. Yeah, and woke Hollyweird called Joker an Incel's wet dream. That tells you quite a bit about how out of touch these people are.
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  7379. Nominally, yes. But you a re taking your life into your own hands. Remember, this is the same Mexico that rolled up several US service members rather than let them turn around and return to the US. Then let us not forget about the rash of cartel related murders. Mexico is a narco-state.
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  7380.  @chuapg1518  Considering that the Minsk PROPOSAL was never actually signed by the participants, you are using a strawman argument and a talking point of the Kremlin. And I find it quite telling that you blatantly ignore Russia's violation of the Budapest Memorandum which WAS signed by Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, United Kingdom, and the US. When are you going to demand that Russia be invaded for violating that international treaty?
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  7381. Chernobyl hasn't been in operation for over 2 decades. Calm yourself. This is just hysteria from the anti-nuclear crowd.
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  7382. You are talking about a luxury that comes after the war ends. Right now, they need everything and anything they can get. They can worry about standardization when their equipment is not being shot at and destroyed by the Russians.
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  7383.  @arturobianco848  I did read. And I am telling you, they are not at the point where they can afford to start doing that. It is a luxury of peace time that a nation cannot afford during active hostilities.
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  7384.  @arturobianco848  And you can't see the forest for the trees. To quote the line from Apollo 13, "There are thousand things that have to happening order we are on number 8, you're talking about number 692."
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  7385.  @arturobianco848  Your problem is that you are neglecting the here and now so focused on standardization. If you are paying more attention to what is down the line rather than what is in front of you, you will end up tripping over your own feet.
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  7386.  @arturobianco848  Nice proof by verbosity. (logical fallacy) I get the point, you are just trying to act superior rather than acknowledge someone else's point. I acknowledged your has merit but that now was not the time for it. Why is it so hard for you to acknowledge my point?
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  7387.  @arturobianco848  Writing a long dissertation doesn't make your point, it only serves to show your own lack of confidence in your argument. When you employ logical fallacies like the Gish gallop, you only discredit yourself.
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  7388. Because he is.....to their grooming, indoctrination and neo-feudalist power.
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  7389. Because he is.....to their power. They don't like that he can put a stop to their indoctrination.
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  7390. Yeah, calling people insult's doesn't make your point, it just proves you have lost the plot. “I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” ― Margaret Thatcher
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  7391.  @sarahhillary7698  And with that, you just proved her point. Thank you for throwing in the towel and admitting that she was right.
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  7392. Reward Japan, Korea, and Taiwan with your entertainment dollars. Give not a single shilling to Tinsel Town.
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  7393.  @msaoichan  How is that any different that the leftist hero Warren Buffet?
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  7394.  @msaoichan  And yet they are more than willing to do his bidding. Who benefits most from the Keystone XL pipeline not getting built? Buffet because he owns most of the oil by rail transport contracts.
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  7395. Indeed. As much as Colorado Springs is owned by the Air Force, San Diego is owned by the US Navy. That is a military "town" with lots of families whose major breadwinner is likely somewhere in the middle of the Pacific ocean.
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  7396. Indeed. The greatest victory of the Jewish people is when Jews like Werner von Klemperer, John Banner, Leon Askin, and Howard Caine played Germans to mock and ridicule the Nazis. To make a farce out of those who tried to kill you isn't belittling the horrors, it is showing how much greater you are than those who seek your obliteration.
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  7397. Indeed. Domestic policy tends to drive US elections, not foreign policy. That being said, the guest is intellectually dishonest in calling Trump a friend of Putin. it that were true, the Putin would have invaded during Trump's time in office, not in 2014 when Biden was leading Obama's foreign policy, nor in 2022 after Biden's disastrous withdraw from Afghanistan.
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  7398. If your "friend" is behaving unethically and immorally, you confront them privately. If they still persist, you confront them openly. If they still refuse to change, then you shun them. The problem is that Daily Wire WANTS TO BE THE ESTABLISHMENT. Crowder likely called them out privately. They are being called out now because they refuse to admit that they are becoming the very thing they have been railing against.
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  7399. Collaboration on a project is NOT competition. The two are actually diametrically opposed. Right now, the only real competition with the F-35 is the SAAB Gripen. Not even the MiG-35 nor the Su-57 are in serious competition as their performance in Ukraine has greatly reduced their image.
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  7400.  @Intelligence_History  The Su-57 HAS been used in this conflict, but only over Russian controlled areas like Luhansk because they don't want the propaganda coup of Ukraine shooting one down.
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  7401.  @sirdo946  And you have drank the military-industrial complex's kool-aid if you take their claims at face value. The F-35 is NOT as cheap as they claim as accounting gimmicks have been used to artificially reduce the numbers on paper. And yes, the Grippen is being seriously considered by Brazil, Ukraine, India, and Indonesia. and the Swedes and Fins have no intention of replacing theirs with the F-35 anytime soon.
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  7402.  @sirdo946  Don't conflate facts with OPINIONS. Truth of the matter is that Finland IS doing performance testing of both F-35 and Gripen as are a few other nations, not simply taking the hype at face value. While the results are not yet in, the F-35 is not doing anywhere near as well as the advocates claimed.
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  7403. Yeah, you people said the same thin in 2016. how did that work out?
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  7404.  @JesusSaysMAGAtrashMAGAfilth  Grover Cleaveland's 1892 rematch against Benjamin Harrison. Trump WILL repeat that, and for the exact same reasons.
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  7405. Well, there is also the issue that South Vietnamese leaders were complete dogshit. Diem was more interested in fighting the Buddhists than the Commies. And those that came after him were pathetically weak, unlike Zelensky.
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  7406. I agree on all except Russia's goals. Their march on Kiev was clear that at a minimum Putin wanted a puppet government much like in Belarus. It is an open debate as to if he would have simply annexed the entire country.
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  7407. And arguably, the throwaway line about the Two blue wizards was something of a liberty as Tolkien himself went back and forth about them. Interestingly, those two characters could have given the creators of this hot mess the excuse to have a majority non-white cast. Their adventures in the East and the South would give ample opportunity for natural "diversity" in middle Earth.
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  7408. Agreed. You don't have to personally like the person to agree with their message.
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  7409. She was a party to it for years. She got smart and retired before the blowback.
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  7410. Georgians Soviet Officers were pretty effective too. Funny how the best leadership in the USSR wasn't the Russians themselves.
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  7411. Indeed. The former Warsaw Pact members of NATO know what is at stake, and they have ALWASY been appreciative to the US. Can't say the same from Western Europe who have freeloaded off the US and been derelict in their responsibilities to NATO (save for maybe the UK)
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  7412.  @sonneh86  Yeah, that number includes the material that POLAND provided to Ukraine. That is the dirty little detail that you chose to ignore. Take the Poles out of the equation and your number falls painfully short.
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  7413. Doesn't matter. You don't give a pass to someone who capitulates to terrorism.
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  7414.  @succatash  You are not listening at all are you? No, you are so stuck on your woke ideology and identity politics that you would put the defense of Europe at risk because diversity is more important to you than showing a united front against an aggressor. It is people like you who break ranks and display cowardice before the enemy. It is people like you that use Americans as cannon fodder with no gains on the battlefield. YOU are the cause of strife that weakens the NATO alliance because your identitarianism takes priority over the lives of the men in the field.
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  7415. I want cultural vandals to suffer the consequences of defacing our pop culture icons. Let Hollywood reap the whirlwind for their actions.
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  7416. You mean the same administration that dragged their feet on day one? Keep in mind that Tulsi Gabbard knocked Kamala out of the 2020 race before the Iowa Caucus. NOBODY likes her.
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  7417. Taxation is legalized theft.
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  7418.  @ImGodSoAreYou  Wow, triggered huh? Keyboard warrior, pot let me introduce you to Kettle.
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  7419.  @svanimation8969  Actually, pointing out KONIGSBERG IS an appropriate analogy. In both cases Russia (because the Russian SSR dominated the whole of the USSR) forcefully ejected local populations and replaced them with colonists. Then you have other examples such as the forced expulsion of Poles from the areas annexed by the USSR under the Molotov-Ribbentrop alliance. Same goes for Romanians in certain annexed areas such as Moldova. Likewise, the Baltic States had lost of their population deported by the Russians after WW2. The point is, Russia and its various governments have a history of doing the very thing you accuse the Ukraine, yet the Ukrainians have NEVER done the same. You are a Bolshevick propagandist who is pathetically trying to rewrite history.
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  7420.  @ekaterinalokshina2043  You think democracy under the USSR is legitimate but that recent elections that reject a return to the old Soviet system are not? And with that you show your true colors. You don't actually care about the will of the people; you only care that elections act as a rubber stamp to legitimatize tyranny.
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  7421.  @ekaterinalokshina2043  Proof by verbosity is not an argument, it is a logical fallacy. You are not convincing anyone; you are just putting them to sleep with the trite Kremlin talking points.
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  7422.  @ekaterinalokshina2043  Good, so don't conflate OPINION and wishful thinking for facts, which is what many propagandists do. The best (ie most effective) lies and myths contain half-truths to give it the appearance of legitimacy. Your is just that, partial truth surrounded by missing context and misrepresentations to make the preposterous components seem reasonable. "Tell a lie often enough and people will take it for the gospel truth," -Joseph Gobbels
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  7423. The problem is that there are lots of people around him, particularly nevertrumpers who want him to run.
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  7424. "When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. That's why we'll win." -Kirk Douglas as Spartacus.
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  7425.  @skp8748  Yeah, I suspect your "Crimean celebrations" were staged just like Russia was going to do when they marched into Kiev. Look up what a Potemkin Village is.
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  7426. They are not run by rational people but cult members. They are run by people who are driven not by profit motive but by non-theistic religion.
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  7427.  @danishmandi4134  You can't count the prepatory fires with HIMARS as part of the Offensive. It only counts when they are fully engaged, which didn't occur until mid-July. Are you going to count the nearly two-year strategic bombing campaigns before D-Day as part of the Normandy Invasion?
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  7428. We used to put people like them in mental hospitals. Now, they are given posh jobs in Tinsel Town or in government.
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  7429. And that is the kicker. Tarriffs are the correct response to foreign governments subsidizing their businesses to give an unfair advantage against American producers.
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  7430. Basically "stakeholder" is the new "proletariat".
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  7431.  @nayslayer2563  The bourgeoisie are capitalists. Remember, these wokistas HATE capitalism. Klaus Swab and the WEF also hate capitalism. They believe in an aristocratic plutocracy which is anathema to actual free market capitalism.
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  7432.  @nayslayer2563  The problem is that Bolshevik propaganda and completely destroyed the meaning of capitalism. Elitists are NOT capitalist; they are oligarchist. And Socialism is just oligarchism under a different name.
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  7433. Legally, that may be the case, but it also forces them to admit their cynical and unprincipled stance. Personally, I hope the courts say, "use it or lose it!"
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  7434.  @joeramirez6126  Except that is a strawman argument that can easily be disproven in a court. There are numerous examples where such claims have failed to stand up to scrutiny in court.
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  7435.  @joeramirez6126  Again, let's see it play out in court.
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  7436.  @user-pn3im5sm7k  Declining population makes it impossible to get out of debt. It makes defaulting a dangerous possibility. Or are you one of the Klaus Schwab acolytes who believes in population control?
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  7437.  @user-pn3im5sm7k  I vehemently disagree with the mass migration argument as a solution to any nation's demographics problem. That is NEVER a workable solution. What I DO wish the Japanese would consider is to allow the naturalization of those who marry a Japanese national. Expedite the process should the couple actually produce half-Japanese children.
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  7438.  @user-pn3im5sm7k  Have you considered that they are only counting those who stayed in the country? Many Japanese who marry foreign spouses LEAVE the country. And considering how Hafu children have historically been treated, even since the end of WW2, I don't blame them. What Japan needs to do is NOT castigate their "half-caste" children and instead embrace them as one would a prodigal son who has returned.
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  7439.  @BasedInBrazil  Except, that is a crime against humanity punishable under the UCMJ as well as several national and international statutes. Look at the Nuremburg Code; a number of German Doctors were hanged for doing exactly as you described. Besides, it violates the Oath of Hippocrates which demands that you treat people consistently the same regardless of allegiance.
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  7440. In every war, there is never enough equipment and ammunition. But you are correct that it is a logistics blunder that folks on the front line don't have enough bullets. They should not have to be asking for more as proper leadership would be sending it expecting the soldiers to burn through it like a chain smoker does a pack of cigarettes.
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  7441. Judge Jeannie Piero was able to get a murder one conviction, New York's first even on a similar situation. The kicker is, if Chauvin goes down for murder in the first, the three rookies walk. Robert Barnes made this point in a discussion with Viva Frei, the Canadian VLAWG guy.
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  7442. Which is short sighted. People will ALWAYS form into factions. This is true since the time of China's Warring States Period and Egypt's earliest Kingdoms. The problem is us the people letting the power mongers use that factionalization against us, rather than us using the factions to further OUR goals.
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  7443. Whether Elon Musk fixes Twitter or burns it to the ground is a matter of apathetic disinterest to me. (Paraphrasing Yevgraf in "Doctor Zhivago")
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  7444.  Joseph Jones  Apparently not.
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  7445. If the New York Courts want to retain their credibility, they will strike it down at the appeals. If it has to get to the SCOTUS, then there is just cause to declare the state in open insurrection and rebellion.
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  7446. And that is the goal, to completely obliterate the petite bourgeois(kulaks). This is Bolshevick class warfare being conducted by the plutocrats rather than the proletariat. The fools think that they will be spared once the natural allies of the progs(the rising middle class) are eliminated, not realizing that by destroying the middle class, they are only creating more progs.
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  7447.  @OffMetaGang  I hate to admit that 20 years ago I could, today not so much. Military service allowed my survival skills to atrophy.
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  7448.  @user-fb2me3th6z  You are falsely attributing to Joe Bite-me what is really Trumpian policy. Don't forget, Hunter Biden, the president's son is bought and paid for by the Chinese communist party to the tune of $31 million dollars.
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  7449. Case in point: Bernie stopped demanding millionaires be taxed once he became one.
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  7450. There is, but it is minor before 1991. The Russian Soviet dominated the Union until the collapse. Decision making was in the Kremlin, not the local Commissariat.
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  7451.  @alekxcrafter  Sure, that is a real mature response. Name calling doesn't make your argument, it just proves you have nothing of value to say. "I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher
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  7452. I am going to try this again because Youtube/Google called it "hate speech". Agreed. This guy is a typical investment banker of the kind Thomas Jefferson warned about when he said that lending institutions were more dangerous than standing armies. While the image of the "Evil banker" is still true, the one part that isn't is ethnicity; today they are all IRISH, ironically. And shalom and blessings on you and your house. (nesiat kapayim or "vulcan peace sign")
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  7453. And that is anachronistic fallacy. You can't judge it based on knowledge revealed after the fact, only by what was known at the time.
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  7454.  Handsome T  Most freedom loving people were against the Wuhan Virus lockdowns. Only the jack-booted totalitarians and wannabe despots and their apologists believed that locking people in their homes was a good idea.
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  7455. Indeed. President John F. Kennedy warned about what happens when peaceful revolution becomes impossible.
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  7456. A supreme deity by whatever name one identifies him as. I agree we need to bring back spiritualism. But I am not so quick to alienate the Buddhists, Sikhs, Hindus, Shintos, and Jews. I am for religious pluralism, something that the left claims to support but actually despises.
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  7457.  @unknownpersonofinterest  Founded on Christian values, receptive and open to Judaism. Remember, there were MANY Jewish founding fathers. So you want to drive out Buddhist, Hindus, Sikhs, and Shintos? You realize you are making the same blunder as Ngo Dinh Diem? We should be uniting with natural if unlikely allies, not making unnecessary enemies. The nihilistic militant atheists (nay, god hating misotheists) WILL go after them after they have oppressed us. So why not make common cause against a common foe? Don't be foolish.
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  7458. MythBusters showed you actually could polish a turd; it just happens to be a very shiny turd and still worthless.
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  7459. Apparently, they got bored of watching "Cuties".
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  7460. I agree. Replace them with Brazil.
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  7461.  @drzavnalutrija  Russia isn't the USSR. And PRC is not the China that signed the UN treaty.
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  7462.  @drzavnalutrija  That isn't really a legitimate argument. Ukraine could easily claim to be the successor state to the USSR. And originally with possession of over half then nuclear arsenal, they had strong legitimacy. Hell, the last Soviet Republic to even officially still remain part of the Union was actually Kazakhstan. Just because the US and others choose to recognize the Russian Federation doesn't make it true. The government in Taipei is the actual successor state to the Qing Dynasty despite having been toppled by Mao's communist movement in 1949.
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  7463. I think Top Gun Maverick proved that conclusively. People WANT 80s nostalgia.
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  7464. No joke. He doesn't realize that the face mask are the modern day slave collar.
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  7465. True, a vote for Trump in 2016 was a middle finger to the establishment power mongers. It just happened to result in one of the most productive and economically saucerful periods in American history until it was killed by the liberal establishment regaining power. And the backlash against that will be even greater than the one that originally put Trump in office. "I fear our efforts are for naught, for we have awakened a sleeping giant, AND FILLED HIM WITH A TERRIBLE RESOLVE," -Admiral Yamamoto, "Tora, Tora, Tora".
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  7466.  @vorynrosethorn903  Well, there is a very good reason why most of the ancestors of Americans today got out of Europe. The Feudal families who ruled back then are still effectively running things today with very little change in the stratification of society.
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  7467.  @vorynrosethorn903  The nobility lost everything or they simply married into the "new money" so as to maintain the status quo? The dirty little secret is that marriage among the nobility was never about love, only about power. The nouveau riche wants the legitimacy of noble status, even if titles are meaningless, while the old guard landed gentry view such marriages as a way to maintain their lifestyles. When push comes to shove, nothing has really changed.
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  7468.  @mortisgentem492  This generation certainly is. The Boomers failed to take the threat that the Greatest Generation and Silent Generation faced seriously.
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  7469. Medal of honor is only for those who wear the uniform. But the civilian equivalent is the Medal of Freedom.
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  7470. The Fourth Reich already rules in Brussels.
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  7471. Brussels is where the 4th Reich currently rules.
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  7472. Agreed. You can't negotiate with zealots and fanatics.
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  7473.  @Mortablunt  Dude, the NATO weapons didn't arrive until two months after the war started. And as far as numbers of troops, the Russians have ALWAYS enjoyed at least an 8 to 1 advantage. The Ukrainians are lucky when they are fighting at 1 to 1 parity.
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  7474.  @Mortablunt  Calling people names doesn't make your argument, it is an act of desperation. Ad hominins such as the one you just used are logical fallacies when one cannot win the debate on the merits.
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  7475.  @LasseEklof  Funny, because you are only looking one-sided at the conflict over that very same time period. You blatantly ignore the terrorism of the PLO under the leadership of Haj Amin Al-Husseini and later Yaser Arafat. Back in the 1980s, most Westerners would avoid Jerusalem because Palestinians bombings occurred on a daily basis. That stopped once Israel built their wall. NOTHING justifies ANY of their actions since 1948. You are making excuses for jihadism.
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  7476. Because the media has spoken, and the power mongers have decreed it. We don't have a Republic, we have a Kleptocracy run by the most devious and Machiavellians in politics.
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  7477.  @matthewrawlings1284  Fair point. I actually found the story minus the gratuitous sex scenes to be quite interesting. The power struggle between the Hero Clan, the Moderate Demons, and the Militant Demons to be a novel concept.
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  7478. Governor "Moonbeam". Keep in mind he is the same twat that claimed the Vietnamese boat people would ruin and trash his state. Joke is on him as they are the ones paying for his socialist utopia.
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  7479. Yeah, funny how Hollyweird and the anti-gun crowd ignore the fact that the Plains Tribes took firearms and modified them to be more efficient and effective than what the Union Army used. I am glad that you are encouraging your next generation on the importance of guns and their proper use.
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  7480. @Ghost Rider "Looking at someone wrong gets you shot"? Nice strawman argument. "Gun nut capital of the world" Plano, Texas is THE SAFEST city in the world BECAUSE of all of the guns. But I get it, you prefer the comfort of slavery over uncertain liberty. You would rather submit to a fascistic dictator rather than trust in free will. As for Singapore, only its history as a former Crown colony prevents it from becoming just as monstrous as the Tyrants in Beijing.
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  7481. That is so on point. Fight or flight. Avoid or confront. And with a mob like that, discretion is the better part of valor. Better to move on and stay away from potential problems.
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  7482. And folks don't seem to realize that actual anti-personnel mines are a FAR greater threat than bomblets from cluster munitions. Southeast Asia is still recovering from the ones planted by communist forces during Vietnam War era. Ukrainian fields are littered with the mines the Russies placed to slow them down.
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  7483. Yeah, I think they will get more of a revolution than they can handle if that happens. Nothing more dangerous than a mob of villages with pitchforks who believe they have nothing left to lose.
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  7484. Sic semper tyrannis
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  7485.  @vietucofficial5813  Yeah, Vietnam after WW2 was one country just like Korea is just one country. Sit down and let the adults talk.
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  7486. The problem is that the left takes itself too seriously that it CAN'T laugh at itself. Now in fairness, elements of the right can't laugh at themselves either, but it is the exception on the right while that is the norm on the left. And no surprise when you realize that the left idolizes the USSR, and Russian jokes often make fun of how the Soviets lack humor.
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  7487. Putin is a old school Soviet. So to him, an Armenian is just another Soviet citizen.
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  7488.  @stevelozevski8151  Jews are not the source of the world's problems. People like you who hate them are a different story. It is the Jew haters who have caused much of the world's problems.
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  7489. @ Yes, both areas are essentially terror states run by Jihadis. And it is VERY easy to contrast that with the Israeli-Arabs who have a much better standard of living under Jewish rule.
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  7490.  @frankblangeard8865  Stop making excuses for criminally incompetent airport design. There is no "right direction" when it comes to landing as planes will ALWAYS trying to fly INTO THE WIND, even if that happens to be towards the wall.
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  7491.  @frankblangeard8865  There is no "right direction" to land. It is WIND that determines direction as planes want to take off facing into it. Which means this idea that the wall is at the start of the runway is DEAD wrong.
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  7492.  @alanstevens1296  I guess you haven't looked at the airport on google. After the wall, it is another 1.07KM before the plane would have entered the bay. Also, the antennas at the end of the runway are SUPPOSED to break away, as does a chain-link fence used at most American airports. Indeed, in the US, it is a minimum of 610 meters of clearance free of ANY obstruction.
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  7493.  @NonsenseFabricator  Several in fact. Just take a look at the wikipedia page for runway excursions.
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  7494.  @NonsenseFabricator  Then you are not looking hard enough.
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  7495. Get woke go broke. I hope the loose BILLIONS on this fiasco.
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  7496. Because race color being used as a bludgeon is why Chiraq is the mess it is. People in that slimehole need to stop thinking that skin color is a job qualification.
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  7497.  @jimgaston9863  He is talking about the Holocaust and the sneak-attack on Pearl Harbour. Or did that not come to mind when talking about World War 2?
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  7498. Titktok is the WORST when it comes to censorship. Worse than Google/Youtube and Facebook/Meta combined.
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  7499. "Unnamed sources" basically means the "journalist" completely fabricated the story. Time and again over the last 8 years "anonymous sources" have been completely wrong. Especially with regards to the Russian and Ukrainian collusion hoaxes.
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  7500. The people running twitter before Elon WERE the vigilantes metting out justice as they saw fit. It is only now that they are behind held accountable for their actions.
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  7501. So, you would rather see the country burned to the ground. There is a reason why the Dems are in a panic, because you do NOT represent a normal rational thinking person.
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  7502. Depends. There was worship of Kali the Destroyer. But they were very particular about who they killed and what they destroyed, looking at it from the perspective of balance between creation and destruction.
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  7503. If You Are Not a Liberal at 25, You Have No Heart. If You Are Not a Conservative at 35 You Have No Brain -Winston Chruchill.
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  7504. I suspect that the Taiwanese would use Erwin Rommel's plan for the defense of Normandy that Hitler rejected. The Taiwanese would make Bloody Omaha look like an elementary school slap-fight.
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  7505. Heh, the last mission in the Azur Lane event "Khorovod of Dawn's Rime" is called Vox ex Machina.
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  7506. Don't forget the Russian pilot in "Hogan's Heroes". Everything was invented in Russia.
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  7507.  @DayZElitist  You think Biden is going to puncture his lung before fighting Trump in the arena? Yeah, I have seen how the movie Gladiator ends.
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  7508.  @magneric  Funny, because the scenario you provided is similar to mine, except for the suicidal part. There ARE mental health professionals in the service. They made a big deal about in starting at the turn of the century (beginning of 2000s). I was seeing a mental health counselor for almost a year before it was decided that my generalized anxiety was too severe for me to continue. I too was treated like garbage by the senior enlisted in my chain. I was fortunate to have a flight commander who looked at the whole situation and pushed for medical RETIREMENT rather than just a discharge. And the VA surprisingly agreed. Took going before a medical review board at Randolph AFB almost two years later for it to become a permanent 50% disability rating.
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  7509.  @garyfredrickson2301  What Himmler and his crowd did has no bearing on what came before them. You let them win even beyond the grave by shunning that which they stole from others.
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  7510.  @antel704  Your thinking that Biden fixed the problem completely misses the point that he is part of the leftist order trying to bring down the freedom, peace, and stability that the West has enjoyed for 77 years.
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  7511. I am all for sending them the old equipment that would otherwise be trashed or disposed of. What I take issue with is the lump cash payments which are supposed to be going to pay salaries for the soldiers and government employees but instead are being laundered. Victoria Spartz, who grew up in Soviet Ukraine has been digging into this and nobody has been able to adequately answer her questions.
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  7512.  @robertpatrick3350  I don't disagree on both it taking time and them cracking down. However, the corruption is STILL rampant. Holding Hunter Biden accountable for his actions with Burisma will send a VERY strong message to the rest that they better clean up their act.
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  7513.  @Mogadypopz  Wrong. He was cutting through her propagandistic prejudice and cutting to the heart of the issue. If anyone was making strawman arguments it was the political activist pretending to be a journalist.
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  7514. Washington Naval Treaty shows the folly of such thinking.
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  7515. No Fly zone means NATO planes shooting down Russian planes, an act of war. Unless you want to bring the West directly into conflict with Russia in a shooting war, you don't fool around with "no fly zones".
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  7516. Never heard of false flag, have you? The Nazis did it quite often to justify their actions leading up to WW2.
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  7517. If Trump gets sent to Rikers, they could very well be a riot. If he dies in custody at Rikers, then what justification is there for NOT overthrowing the government?
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  7518. Among other thinks. Remember, the company is woke as a joke.
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  7519. When 90% of incumbents are re-elected, your argument carries no water. If term limits are good enough for the president, they are just as appropriate for Congress.
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  7520. Most media hates Donald Trump. Consider that factor.
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  7521.  @Jon962-h4i  True. I just wanted to point out that the media doesn't like to give the man a victory even when he earned one. Crossing unguarded into a hostile nation where they could have easily snatched him was significant.
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  7522. American Imperialism is the reason why Europe is so peaceful. But I get it, you are like a spoiled child when the responsible parent cleans up your mess.
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  7523. And if he returns to the White House, hold Judges trials like they did at Nuremberg.
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  7524. Thye are NOT doctors for they have violated the FIRST rule of medicine: DO NO HARM. They are quacks no different that the charlatans of yore who sold snake oil.
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  7525. "Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated," -Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain. I remember you people saying the same thing in 2016. How did that turn out?
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  7526.  @danstrayer111  You forget 2016, dude. Trump is going to repeat Grover Cleaveland's feat of being defeated in a midterm only to return to the White House the following cycle.
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  7527. The M113s are surplus the US was going to get rid of. At first the Ukrainians were not pleased with them, but they have since grown on the UA as a decent personnel carrier. They become even more useful when you bolt a ZU-23-2 making them a good anti-drone platform.
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  7528. Nuremberg Trial for Judges, redux.
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  7529.  @flynick  Bayonets are not unlawful, that is just wishful thinking on your part. Clearly you have little understanding about firearms accessories. I bet you think that a pistol blade or an arm brace is a buttstock making an AR-15 pistol a "short barreled rifle".
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  7530.  @flynick  Funny, because the standard issue bayonets of both the People's Liberation Army (China) as well as the Soviet Red Army was and in China's case, still is the three sided "blade". While the west does not use them, the communist block still does. And both the Geneva and Hauge conventions do not cover civilian use. That is why police can use tear gas and other tools explicitly banned for use by the military.
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  7531. @H J DANGER as well as opportunity. Destruction is part of the nature of chaos. And without that destruction there would be no opportunity. Now, I do agree that pure chaos (ie entropy and enthalpy) is nobody's friend and is truly an "equal opportunity" agent. But one can take that into consideration when planning and minimize the harm as best they can while capitalizing on the opportunities.
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  7532.  @108chapin  Funny how she lives in a nice warm home and expects the rest of the world to live in misery.
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  7533. The Israeli "Super Shermans" might be useful, but good luck getting the IDF to part with them.
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  7534.  @williamjones7821  That was James Lafayette Armistead, wasn't it?
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  7535. Yeah, and that is called a fool's errand. Nobody respects a martyr in that fashion. It wins no converts while they are alive.
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  7536.  @BelleMort6  That is a very fine example of rationalization (ie making excuses fallacy). You are holding onto positivity bias ignoring that history is littered with examples proving your narrative wrong. Thomas Hobbs was right, humans are both morons and bastards.
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  7537.  @tsinestexicthdauwraum9082  Address to the Knights of Columbus New York City- October 12th, 1915 If that helps you to find it.
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  7538.  @liambowbrick3917  The 1948 invasion and rejection of the UN Partition.
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  7539. Except there is historical precedent for Nioh, but not for this. Don't make excuses for the blatant pandering by Ubisoft and Sweet Baby Inc.
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  7540.  @Starvin_Marvin138  Slow down Tiger. I never said you were stupid. The fact that you jumped to that shows you know your argument has no merit. William Adams was a REAL person with DOCUMENTED EVIDENCE of him being a samurai. The ONLY documentation for Yasuke was that he was acquired by Oda Nobunaga from Jesuit priests and that Oda used him as a curiosity to amuse and entertain his guests. How about you make a REAL argument instead of pandering and grandstanding for clout.
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  7541.  @animezilla4486  Yeah, he can make big explosions and special effects. But he is terrible when it comes to character development. He has very little talent in actually telling a story beyond things blowing up or getting destroyed.
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  7542.  @CoreIation  The problem is that most Asian countries still hold ethnic identity as defining part of what it means to be a citizen of that country. Years ago, there was a push in South Korea to adopt military service for citizenship, which the Korean population balked at. Even if you married a citizen of that country, there is no guarantee of citizenship. For my own part, they need to get out of the ethnic purity garbage and embrace the mixed children of their citizens who procreate with foreign spouses. Let the children born to a member of the US military and a local citizen have the choice of becoming a citizen of said country.
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  7543.  @IaconDawnshire  VTubers are based chads. Hololive is dubious for how quickly the "graduate" talent with controversy. I chose not to comment on Nijisanji.
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  7544. I think Winston Chruchill gave us the best way to understand Putin in his famous "Myster, Puzzle, Enigma" quote.
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  7545. I don't know about Dagestan, but I would like to see an independent Sahka Republic in the Far East. Maybe even a Kamchatka Republic as well.
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  7546.  @omarrawashdeh6021  The funny thing is, the 1970s oil embargo ended because members of OPEC broke ranks. They may put on an act of being unified, but under the table they will undercut each other.
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  7547. Agreed. Government programs are NOT charity, they simply replace actual charitable organizations with what amounts to dependency and slavery. Get government out of the business of regulating charitable organizations via tax laws which govern what they can and cannot do. PS, when the CEO of a charity is getting a multi digit salary, they are actually a fore profit; namely the profit of their administrative employees. When "administrative overhead" (ie paid salary) is more than 30% of the expenses, they are clearly abusing their tax-exempt status. Of course, if you simply remove such regulations and let the people know the operating expenses, then the hacks will get out of the "business" of charity.
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  7548.  @Nicholas_Terry  Oh I absolutely agree that government needs to wither and die for the most part. I support fire protection, and the courts as neutral arbiters of disputes and nothing more. I subscribe to Minarchism.
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  7549. Havana Syndrome has been known about for years, why is it only NOW that it is being attributed to Russia?
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  7550. This has been known for years, almost 2 decades, yet only now are the starting to publicly accuse Putin. Only two reasons for that: Casus Belli and Rally around the Flag.
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  7551. They are like the vampire recoiling in horror from its own reflection.
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  7552.  @williamforbes6919  Nemesis was an attempt at having Picard look inside himself when presented with an "Evil Clone". There WAS an attempt at inter-personal storytelling. JJ Abrams sucks at that.
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  7553.  @chetopuffs  Because they are pushing the same social justice wokeness with Discovery that Kathleen Kennedy is doing with Star Wars. Rather that tell compelling stories, they are pushing identity politics.
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  7554.  @chetopuffs  It is who is pulling the strings and calling the shots. Who empowered Abrams? I blame the executives at CBS who are trying to slaughter the cow now that she is not producing the milk of profits. There is a reason why the merchandising folks took a hard pass since the Second Abrams movie. They expected Discovery to be the same train wreck as Into Darkness. And they were right.
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  7555. Most likely. A woman's worst enemy is another woman. Once men fight, the spat is over an done. But with women, it just continues to fester and rot like gangrene.
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  7556. Oh, make no mistake, Kurtzman trek plagiarized almost everything. Despite Google's attempts, you can still find videos and images memeing the blatant theft of IP by Bad Robot.
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  7557. Wow, chronological snobbery is strong with you. No problems with slavery and human rights abuses? Have you not heard of the Arab Slave trade? No enemies before Israel? Have your forgotten the Western Power's Mesopotamia Campaign of 1917? How about the American presence in Iran in 1942, running supplies to the Soviets via Persia? Keep parroting anti-West hatred.
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  7558.  @shockadelic  Indeed. The book "Dr. Seuss goes to War" is great. Many of those cartoons are appropriate today, especially the GOP-Ostrich cartoons.
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  7559. The leftist are being foolish by going after the Catholics like this. I get it that they think if they can cow the Catholic Chruch, they can get all the other religious institutions to fall in line (shatter the strong point, and the rest scatter). The problem is, it may very well backfire and awaken the sleeping giant and fill it with a terrible resolve.
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  7560.  @KazzArie  Nothing "mansplaining" about your observations. That is just an ad hominin personal attack by people who don't want to engage the merits of your position. Incidentally, I read a similar story around that time about a nun who was raped and chose to carry the child to term. She was fired for doing so. And that is wrong as well. Regarding the issues of taking vows and such to join the sisterhood, they should have praised her for choosing life. To stay true to her vows, the child could have been put up for adoption so that she could remain in the sisterhood.
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  7561. Isn't Segal now a Russian Citizen? I think I heard that it was Putin who personally conducted the ceremony.
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  7562. Gal Gadot should have been cast as Snow White. They could have even tapped an Asian girl to play the part (and go full in by having her wear the geisha makeup and an East Asian inspired dress that used the color palette from the original). Instead, they chose to go with the racial-Marxist "brown-washing" of the character in a pathetic attempt to pander. Burn the house of mouse to the ground.
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  7563.  @q-_-p.d-_-b  There is already a tax on stock investments. It is called capital gains tax, and it is on top of the already existing income and business taxes paid out by the companies BEFORE they hand out the dividends. What the left, particularly Warren Buffet doesn't tell you is that most if not all of their income comes exclusively from capital gains and stock dividends. They want the capital gains and investment taxes raised to comparable to regular income tax so as to discourage private investment from middle income America in start-ups and competition. The goal is to stifle innovation and protect the status quo.
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  7564.  @pystonge  That may have merit and is worth discussing at length. But I do NOT trust anyone in DC nor on Wall Street to make that call. They REGULARLY cook their books, skewing up or down the reported value based on the situation. Just look at how property taxes are calculated with regards to your local county assessor and you start to scratch the surface about how crooked all of it is.
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  7565. Agreed. A show or movie's endearing success is predicated often on the re-watches and nostalgia. Hating on the fans of the franchise is the quickest way to scuttle the long-term viewership.
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  7566. Still won't stand. Constitutionality it won't stand up to sovereign power of the state as defined by the Federalist Papers.
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  7567. Just ask the Cambodians what they think of Marxist Guerillas.
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  7568.  @Student0Toucher  Foreign nationals who serve in the US military DO get citizenship. It has been a law on the books since the 1970s at least. And it arguably goes back to the Irish who fought in the Civil War. This myth that military service doesn't equate to citizenship for foreign nationals is a lie told by the left to fool folks on the right to agree to something that is already in place. Further, the naturalization process is not only fast tracked (2 years instead of ten), BUT ALL OF THE REGISTRATION FEES ARE ALSO WAIVED.
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  7569.  @dylanwight5764  Indeed. At that point the enemy at the doorstep makes all other considerations fall by the wayside. Further, very quickly the incompetent politicians in uniform will find themselves either forced out because of their lack of effectiveness, or they will find themselves among the list of casualties. War when one's homeland is threatened weeds out the weak and what remains can become a very effective force as we are seeing in the Ukraine. The wokeness will evaporate in the face of an opponent who doesn't give a damn about feelings.
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  7570.  @Student0Toucher  Wow, can you actually name a specific example or are you simply parroting what the media tells you? AFN makes commercials specifically about military service and citizenship, ones that are VERY easy to look up if you bother to actually search for them. And they make a big deal about talking to base legal office for the details on how to go about it. No, those "veterans" that you claim get deported, IF THEY ACTUALLY EXIST, didn't bother to do the bare minimum of simply filling out the paperwork to maintain their status. If you can't be bothered to actually do that, then it is clear that citizenship doesn't mean anything. If anything, your example proves that they have only themselves to blame for not doing their due diligence. It is clear you know NOTHING about the process. My wife is a naturalized citizen, and she can tell you how obnoxiously easy it is. to do the paperwork. The hardest part is actually the interview process.
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  7571.  @Student0Toucher  I have done some of that research for you. Here is one of those commercials I pointed out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11NMhVdbD0E
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  7572. Or just any Asian woman. My wife is Chinese-Indonesian. But Japanese think she looks Japanese.
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  7573. Indeed. They are coming out of this battle tested. A military with actual combat experience is a force to fear.
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  7574.  @graham1034  You realize that the US has not had to mine uranium for decades because our power plants are running off the uranium and plutonium from dismantled nuclear bombs?
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  7575.  @brandonstanley9125  Ukraine is receiving shells produced in Czechia and Hungary within the last year. Ukraine doesn't need to produce its own so long as the west is proving it for them. And you are only parroting the Kremlin's talking points on Bakhmut. Insitute for the Study of War gives a more nuanced analysis and they tell a much different story. Ukraine isn't using combined arms correctly? You clearly have not been paying attention. Combined arms is EXACTLY how the Kherson and Karkov fronts were spectacular victories for Ukraine. Russia does NOT have another mobility pool despite the claims. The last attempt was an unmitigated disaster that Putin is in no condition to duplicate. Yes, he got his body boost, but it was a short-term gain and a long-term loss.
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  7576.  @brandonstanley9125  Nice proof by verbosity (logical fallacy). While the Hungarian government is unreliable, it does not negate the fact that munitions they produced within the last year ARE in Ukrainian hands. Western Generals today have never fought a near peer adversary. Most of them are armchair quarterbacks who have consistently been wrong about Ukraine. They were wrong about Kiev falling in 3 days. They were wrong about the fighting retreat from Severodonetsk. They were wrong about Kherson. And now they are wrong about Bakhmut. Kherson didn't have a river crossing because the Ukrainians did NOT want to be in the very position, they had put the Russians. With the bridges across the river blown, the logistics were not possible. Only within the last two months have they been able to secure a beachhead on the East side. As for Karkov, they likewise did not want to overextend themselves. You are correct that it is two soviet armies duking it out. However, the Soviet-Ukrainian Army is being supplemented and augmented by NATO weapons and training which IS making a decisive difference, otherwise the Ukrainians would not have been so successful.
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  7577.  @brandonstanley9125  You think Iraq was a peer adversary? That is some really strong Vodka you are drinking. Iraq never was a peer. Next you are going to tell me that Grenada was a military peer. Oh, these are the same fools who allowed the Islamic State to organize. They are the same guys who let Afghanistan degenerate to the point that it became a repeat of the fall of Saigon. They never learned from the failures in Vietnam when they were Lieutenants and repeated them when they became generals. So tell me again how these guys are experts in the field? The Majors and Colonels such as Alan West are the true master strategists, not the flag officers who are nothing more than politicians in uniform.
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  7578. Locusts is EXACTLY what these wokistas are.
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  7579. So is the Gephardt, but it is getting a new lease on life.
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  7580. Because the doctor was a flaming liberal in Bloomington, Indiana. And she was likely a graduate of the Kinsey Institute (aka School of sex) at IU.
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  7581. If the USAF is do dead set on retiring the A-10 Warthog, I'm sure the Ukrainians would LOVE to acquire them.
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  7582.  @charlesrichardson8635  S300 and S400 make for some nice AGM-88 HARM anti-radiation missile targets. And Ukraine is already using the HARMs on their MiG-29s, courtesy of the Poles and Czechs.
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  7583.  @Pystro  Then how do you explain the lack of scorching? I am focusing on the damage patters which do NOT line up with the use of a truck mounted explosive. Further, there are actually TWO separate collapsed sections with a completely intact section between them? The security footage doesn't show it, but the video of the aftermath shows a collapsed section further down where the bridge section sheared off cleanly.
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  7584. And likely a teacher because she couldn't hold down a REAL job in the private sector. Government truly is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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  7585.  @livingtribunal4110  Sorry, my bad. So many people here are exactly what George Orwell described. Particularly with regards to blindly accepting what the inner party tells them to think. Again, I apologize for lashing out.
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  7586. Do you follow Tim Pool formerly of Vice and Fusion? Skinsuit is the exact description he uses for what has become of our cultural institutions.
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  7587. Canada and Norway have been sending winter gear since August. That puts Ukraine in a good position to exploit the cold, unlike the Russians who don't have proper gear for even summer/fall.
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  7588. What is the crime? Even the Judge himself admitted that paying hush money isn't a crime.
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  7589.  @DavidNull5  And they failed to prove that BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT. Also, it is not the judge's place to make that argument. There is a reason why ethics complains have already been filed against him to the New York Bar.
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  7590. The great irony is that they are proving the misogyny of Burka advocates correct.
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  7591. Georgia case against him is imploding under the corruption and malfeasance on the part of the prosecution.
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  7592. Why? Putin's invasion is what cause NATO to expand with the addition of Sweden and Finland. And it validated the former Warsaw Pact members joining.
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  7593. Funny, because Trump has made those inroads WITHOUT Tim Scott. Picking him becomes just as blatant pandering as Ubisoft making Yasuke a Samurai in Assassin's Creed Shadows. The WORST thing to do in making inroads with minority groups is by engaging in tokenism like the left does.
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  7594. Does Trump really need to pander to the black community like that? Seems like he has already made inroads WITHOUT having to tokenize by picking Tim Scott.
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  7595. Those minerals are under the Donbas, meaning the ONLY way the West can collect is if Ukraine ejects Russia from the territory.
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  7596.  @jonnysilia5740  No joke. I am reminded of the line in Lawrence of Arabia: "Is it a desert country?" "No, it is a fat country with fat people". "And you are not fat?" "No, I am different."
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  7597. Failed huh? Perhaps you need to read about WW1 engagements like the Battle of Somme. Blitzkrieg is an aberration, not the norm.
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  7598.  @chickenmom720  Most rapes are done by someone the victim knows. The "mysterious stranger" rapist is less than 20% of rape cases. It is a strawman that the activists love to beat with the ugly stick.
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  7599. Agreed. As soon as the war started, the DoD should have ordered an audit and inventory of all armories and artillery parks. The stuff that is nearing or past expiration date could then be sent to Ukraine.
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  7600. Because post Civil War Deep South. That's it, no other valid reason. Tells you how much they need to touch grass.
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  7601.  @Xenphier  I hope so. The left loves to collect scalps, but if Anheiser becomes the first company scalp the right claims, it WILL impact the stock value of all the other woke companies.
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  7602. Because she is making one of those "holier than thou" arguments not realizing that she revealed how vapid she really is.
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  7603. Soros wants DeSantis and Trump to annihilate each other. That should make anyone not part of the DNC cult worry.
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  7604.  @A_Jeff  You don't really understand how these wrongful termination cases word, do you? No court or jury thinks that a person who wins it will ever go back to their abusive employer. The point of the case is to punish the company so as to discourage such behavior going forward lest it bankrupt them. In Disney's case, this is more about breaking the kneecaps of a company already lying on its back. It is about claiming a scalp as a trophy the way the left regularly does. By completely pulverizing Disney, it sends a message to all of the others that their days are numbered if they shart on the customers and the people those customers support.
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  7605. Last winter was a fluke, being a continuation of the fall Rasputisa into the Spring mud season. Don't forget that the Soviet Red Army made its greatest gains during the winter.
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  7606. "War is the continuation of politics by other means," -Carl von Clausewitz.
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  7607.  @marcofava  When one is trying to engage in neo-colonialism as France has in Africa and the Pacific, yes you would need to have a large force to project power. However, having a large force and actually being competent are two different things. France only just edges out China and Russia in that ability. And they do in large part because of their Blue Water Navy. Land forces still leave much to be desired.
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  7608. Indeed. They wre playing down the threat so as to not cause a panic or tip their hand to the Russians that they knew what was coming.
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  7609. Cope harder dude. The Kharkov and Kherson offensives showed that the Russian Bear is Geriatric.
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  7610.  @nevig6557  Nice deflection buddy. You don't want to argue the merits of Ukraine's battlefield successes, so you bring up a non-sequitur (logical fallacy).
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  7611. They probably realized he was not worth wasting a bullet.
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  7612. She has clearly never watched the 1943 short "Der Fuhrer's Face". It would make her realize what an actual anti-Fascist really is, not just some poser like herself.
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  7613. The Murdock sons are flaming liberals who destroyed their father's marriage to Wendy Deng. Do YOUR homework.
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  7614. I hope they do and then hold those people accountable. It is not good for business when your subordinates are trashing the product the company is trying to sell.
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  7615.  @gonzalos4379  I am not against European nations putting their own interests first. I actually sympathize with nationalist movements and sentiments. The nationalist mentality is VERY easy to understand. The problem is that American elitists and European Elitists are both globalists that don't actually care about what is best for their people. For 80 years Europe benefited from American might being projected on that continent. If Europe doesn't want the US there, I am okay with that. They just should not come begging the US to save them should their bad choices result in the Russian Bear marching through the streets of Paris.
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  7616.  @junkeatng  Again, you grossly underestimate the power of Eurasia as a market. Its size has NOT increased much since the 1980s when contrasted with the West. It will simply return to the same system that existed during the Cold War.
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  7617.  @oblivionsa7973  That is exactly what it is. Only "Jews" have been replaced since it is not fashionable to go after them anymore. So they simply expand the drag net wider.
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  7618. What man wants to get in bed with that? Who could put up with it?
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  7619. Pure copium. If the King of Artillery was a great as you claim, there is no reason why Russia is not in Kiev right now.
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  7620. The lawmakers are a reflection of the people in a Democracy. Which is why the American founders advocated for a REPUBLIC. In a republic, you don't get put a person's rights or property up for a vote.
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  7621. Nobody elected Fauci. Nor Miley. Nor Brennan. Or ANY of the staffersin the Obama and Biden administrations. Go touch grass.
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  7622. The irony is that this is NOT Cracker Barrel's first rodeo with the cancel crowd. The Duck Dynasty motivated boycott of the restaruant after the patriarch said something about gay-sex failed, so what makes these woke scolds think it will work now?
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  7623. Don your tricorn, adjust your eye-patch, adopt a foul-mouthed parrot, raise the Jolly Rodger, and Sail the High seas, me hearty!
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  7624.  @mya4126  Israel didn't exist until 1948, genius.
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  7625. Is that ironic though? The want to claim that it is the "degenerate" Japanese, yet the Japanese only "borrowed" it from Western animators.
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  7626. He tried to do the same in Jordan. Had assassins try to murder King Hussein (House Hashim, the only living descendants of the prophet Mohammed). After the Dawson's field hijackings he kicked them all out.
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  7627.  @kasper2970  Yeah, why is it that for all of those supposed "research" subsidies, very little in the way of actual innovation occurs in EU countries? Why is it that the US and Israel dominate with the South Koreans and Japanese a distant third? Actually, goes to a very simple answer, one explained quite well in the book "Wealth of Nations". It is the top-down model which stifles creativity and innovation because it upsets the status quo. You can make excuses and use all the deflections and verbosity you want, Europe just isn't competitive against the US without the local governments putting their thumb on the scale.
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  7628. Considering that he was playing the wokista race card, it is absolutely fair to mock him.
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  7629.  @davebleamwa2bxy799  I could see the Lotte group wanting to franchise their park Lotte World as an "official" Disney Park. It is the Korean knock-off version of Disneyland already.
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  7630.  @dallasstudent1605  Indeed. There is a reason why Western men, American men in particular, are seeking wives from Asia and Latin America. Western women have gone psychotic. Foreign women have their problems, but they are tame contrasted with woke white women.
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  7631. No joke. These wokescolds only really represent at best that 4%, not half the country. The other 46% they claim support them are simply cowards toeing the line like good little progs.
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  7632. Yeah, these urinalists don't realize they created the very sexism/racism/istaphobia in a place where it was already dead for some time (at least 2 decades). They incorrectly think it is still the 1970s and the "golden era" of college gaming groups for which their parents (mostly male, but not exclusively so) made today's gaming culture possible.
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  7633. Then why wasn't the Antonovski bridge destroyed to the same degree?
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  7634.  @reasonvoiceof  Nelson Mandela won the Presidency of South Africa after being convicted. Trump would be no different.
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  7635.  @profbbfab6211  It is funny you think that simply being accused of a crime makes you guilty. It also shows you don't actually believe in the rule of law, only that your political tribe win, even if it means burning the country to ashes.
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  7636. Thorium reactors are overhyped. The US Navy experimented with them on the USS Seawolf and found they NEVER produced the predicted output. There is a reason why Admiral Hyman G. Rickover rejected Thorium reactors in favor of water moderated Uranium and Plutonium reactors.
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  7637. They want to strip him of Secret Service so that he can suffer the same fate as Epstein.
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  7638. Without a buttoned up amphibious Armored Troop Carrier, I certainly wouldn't try it.
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  7639. Plastic explosives? I think you greatly underestimate what kind of weapons exist for underwater demolitions.
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  7640. It does seem like he has as Napoleonic "Little Man" Complex.
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  7641. Indeed. Putin managed to unite almost all of the Slaves.....agianst HIM!
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  7642. And the rest of the wokistas.
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  7643.  @Rtg5637  Sure Negative Nancy. You are the kind of person that said Zelensky should have fled on day one.
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  7644. And it is artificial inflation, with the goal of obliterating savings of the responsible. It is simply a shell game because the value of the labor doesn't change whether it is $10 and hour or $15 an hour when inflation makes them the same.
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  7645. Which means we revert back to the old-fashioned evidence: witness testimony and alibis.
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  7646.  @alexmanzanares200  "TERF" IS a sexist misogynist term used by your political tribe. it is no different than using the infamous "N" word towards blacks or the anti-gay word that sounds like maggot. The only people who use it are hateful bigots like you. Speaking of strawmen, you use a lot of them yourself. Spare me your moral outrage, you have no standing nor foundation. And yet again you show intellectual dishonesty with regards to association. By your own definition, anyone who enjoys games based on WW2 is automatically a Nazi. But then that is the whole point of your Hogwarts Legacy obsession, isn't it?
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  7647.  @alexmanzanares200  Klansmen don't think the "N word is a slur, so your argument has no merit just because you think it isn't a slur. You are guilty of the very things you accuse Rowling and the right of doing. Check your own privilege.
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  7648.  @alexmanzanares200  I haven't conceded anything. I have pretty conclusively refuted your baseless claims through logic and reason. You are just throwing a hissy fit because you can't actually debate merits. You try, but all your points get completely repudiated.
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  7649.  @ethandtheangryenglishguy8253  What alternatives are not under financial attack? That is the kicker, Big Tech gets their friends in the "Finance Industry" to blatantly discriminate when it comes to banking services and loans to nuke conservative and libertarian alternatives.
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  7650. The KMT of today is not the KMT of 1950. Chaing Kai-Shek and Sun Yat-Sen are rolling in their graves at what it has become.
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  7651. Poland has been Ukraine's greatest benefactor. People grossly undervalue their contributions to the war effort.
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  7652.  @bretrudeseal4314  I tend to agree. CAS is artillery delivery by other means.
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  7653. "Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated," -Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain. Yeah, i think people like you said the same thing in 2016. How did that go? Underestimate the man at your own peril.
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  7654. Villians often think they are the hero of their own story. The rare exception are the villains who embrace their evil after being driven to misanthropy (then let me be evil).
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  7655.  @harrymills2770  No joke. I almost never use the overhead because of that. I tend to keep my carry-on in my lap. Most of the time it is just my lap-top.
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  7656. Tell that to Nelson Mandela.
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  7657. Doctor Patrick Shatar is burying the important part regarding the cases against Trump: they were all politically motivated. THAT is why the American people became MORE sympathetic to him when the Dems started calling him a "convicted felon". These cases were no different than what you would and have seen in Banana Republics (how about Putin jailing his opponents?).
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  7658. @solaroid55 That is mere opinion, not fact. Yes women ideally want to marry up. But when the pickings are slim, they may not have much of a choice. This is even more pronounced among insular populations such as those marooned on a island. The truth is, a blue collar worker with a trade like auto mechanic or electrician can pull in a decent and respectable income and lifestyle today. And in terms of NET wealth, they are able to build a nest egg sooner than those with a college degree (Hard science and engineering can get there faster). So your comment about "marrying down makes them dirtier" is pure inflammatory rhetoric with no basis in fact.
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  7659. @ Check your fire. I was comparing ABC (Australia) to Soviet Pravda, not Sky News. For that matter, the CBC (Canada) is no different. BTW, Rupert Murdoch is no surrogate of Trump. To claim Sky News is Trump's mouthpiece is an absurdity that only discredits you.
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  7660. Germany today is not the Germany of even 30 years ago. Time to put the past in the past.
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  7661.  @Jay...777  Something tells me the devil is in the details. Certain critical pieces of data that completely undermine your claims. "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money," -Margaret Thatcher.
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  7662.  @LibertyFirst1789  Funny, because dictatorship is exactly what we have under a judiciary that doesn't respect its own rules of decorum. When trust in the legal system implodes because of political prosecutions, you get civil war. This is what the left has called for (no justice no peace, remember?) and when you plant the seeds of conflict, expect to reap the whirlwind.
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  7663.  @TomTomicMic  How would this help Ukraine? It anything, it would turn the West against them. Then you are forgetting the fact that the Ukrainian partisan actions have been VERY scrupulous as to avoiding civilian casualties. This was more typical of jihadi actions.
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  7664. The Japanese used balloons to deliver bombs to the US during WW2.
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  7665. Indeed. That is why I am cheering for Japanese Anime, South Korean Dramas, and Taiwanese sit-coms. The Asians are filling the vacuum created by Hollyweird's bankruptcy of ideas.
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  7666. Military tech can often have a significant role after a conflict has ended. I am wondering how this drone technology is going to change space exploration. The Soviets had Lunokhod and the US has the Mars rovers. How would this military innovation be leveraged into programs like those?
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  7667.  @shorgoth  And I blame Youtube for making a politically motivated algorithm rather than honestly doing manual verification.
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  7668. Because they are "racial arsonists". Some people just want to watch the world burn.
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  7669. The old saying "if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all" was promptly forgotten over the last 30 years. I KNOW most of the haters were told that by their parents as they would regularly use it against me. How ironic that the "right wingers" are who typically follow it these days.
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  7670. The Ukrainian withdraw from Soledar was a complete screw-up. The Russians were able to use that blunder to gain momentum and pour through the gap in the lines.
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  7671. Details justifying your claim please. Do keep in mind that Putin stole Crimea while Biden was running Obama's foreign policy. Putin never bothered Ukraine during Trump's presidency, only attacking AFTER Brandon entered the oval office.
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  7672.  @cheftekniqakabuletteborn8127  How about you not cheer on this STALINIST political prosecution? "Show me the man and I will show you the crime," -Lavrentiy Beria, Stalin's head of the NKVD/KGB
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  7673. I tend to agree. Cutting down to Melitopol via Tokmak is strategically the better move. And if they can get to the coast, then the GMLRS rockets fired from there can easily reach the Kerch bridge.
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  7674.  user  I don't blame the people of Turkey for the crimes of Erdogan's government. He has subverted the system established by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk to become a dictator not much different from Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko of Belarus.
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  7675.  @askosefamerve  Calling someone you disagree with a racist is not an argument, it just proves you cannot debate the merits. Further, I seriously doubt that you are from Turkey as your gay pride flag profile image calls that into question. The Muslims in that part of the world are well known for throwing gays off the top of buildings. And Erdogan is very much part of the Salafist take on Islam. "I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." -Margaret Thatcher.
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  7676.  @askosefamerve  Salafists ARE Islamists, the only difference is degree of violence. You are making a distinction WITHOUT much of a difference. "Soft" or "Moderate" jihadism as contrasted with total war militancy.
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  7677.  @iihamed711  JUDEA, not Palenstine. That word was made up by the Romans to erase Jewish history after the revolt of 66-73 AD and the deportation of the Jewish people.
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  7678.  @Thorsten_Wiegand  I pray that you are correct on this point. You used an EXCELLENT analogy.
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  7679. Yes they do. And it is a major staging area for US forces in the Middle East and Indian Ocean theaters.
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  7680. Controlled opposition.
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  7681. I agree, but not because of the degree. More because a California state funded college is going to indoctrinate the students into thinking them military is a bunch of war criminals and baby killers.
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  7682.  @vez3834  Harris is the better choice? Boy are you smoking some strong marijuana. The fact that Ukraine even got invaded was BECAUSE of the Harris/Biden White House.
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  7683.  @SOKT8  Indeed. The folks who for years went on and out "no justice no peace" have no idea what it means when men across ALL creeds and persuasions actually agree and show their contempt for the system abusing them. It will NOT end well for anyone. Who will protect the women now when men don't feel they will be given a fair shake?
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  7684.  @jeffmancuso2715  And that is the whole point of the tax carveouts in law. To use tax policy to crush their competition.
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  7685. Well, the Mouse already owns the 1980s D&D cartoon. They might just want the game IP to go with it to have a full set. I would rather see Toei take it back since they are who animated it.
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  7686. Which one? They legalize that Disney is trying to pull, or the argument that Disney's power only exists because it flows from the sovereign authority of the State?
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  7687.  @bigredwolf6  I do too. The "grand old party" is just as corrupt as the Democrats. The two parties are like Lancaster and York fighting over the throne. PLAGUE ON BOTH THEIR HOUSES!
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  7688.  @bigredwolf6  You realize a colony drop cases just as many deaths as a plague? Maybe more so since a plague can be partially contained (the incompetence of Europe, Canada, and the US not withstanding) as the Japanese, South Koreans, and Taiwanese have proved. There is no such containment when an large object from space falls from the sky.
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  7689.  @bigredwolf6  Fallout. Have you seriously looked at what an asteroidal impact entails? Mega Tsunamis, widespread Earthquakes, and a dust cloud that would replicate a nuclear winter. Take a look at the Chicxulub impact event.
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  7690. The power of nukes is in their deterrence. Once you use them, that effect is expended. Further, it would guarantee that India and China would throw him under the bus, wanting nothing to do with a first-strike nation. Why do you think that China has never let North Korea nuke Japan?
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  7691. Wishful thinking. Kiev will never agree to that proposal.
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  7692. Indeed. They don't actually dig deeper into the issues and the history of the region. They just take left-wing talking points at face value and ignore the nuance.
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  7693.  @bil8647  Because the west walked away from capitalism in the 1950s and chose to embrace "soft communism".
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  7694.  @SouthoftheHill  Indeed. Same goes for Indiana. Republicans who run the state as if they were Democrats.
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  7695.  @randynelson3867  And you don't think that is their endgame? People need to stop being scared of the left getting their "moral justification" and simply oblige them with what they want and everything that goes with it. They might find it is more of a revolution than they can handle.
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  7696.  @Webbman76  Which is something a little bit better than how Paramount treated Trek novels. Trek novels only got "canonized" if specific elements made it on screen, which Paramount usually refused to do. Lucas to his credit was keeping the door open to cross-pollination between canon and non-canon.
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  7697. Just like the Reichstag Fire. A pretext to push for totalitarianism.
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  7698.  @zerotodona1495  Except Oliver and company is essentially an anthromophic version of Dicken's "Oliver Twist". To the OP: I think it is pretty racist that these people think that a young white boy can't learn valuable life lessons from an older gentleman of color. Uncle Remus is a mentor or surrogate grandfather to Johnny.
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  7699.  @jonmolina948  You realize that Spat with Conan O'Brien was purposely manufactured by the network? They WANTED the audience for both men to feud with each other.
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  7700. Indeed. At least with western REPUBLIC governments, there is a relief valve that can allow pressure to release before the whole thing goes up in flames. Sometimes that valve works, sometimes it doesn't release the built-up pressure fast enough.
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  7701.  @gardenchums9625  He won't preside, which means he will consent to the Kangaroo court and do nothing to actually stop them from acting outside of the law. Roberts is a hack who deserves to have his court packed so that his voice is drowned out.
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  7702.  @vjetar2822  Grozny is why you never trust Putin.
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  7703. @ PUTIN violated the Minsk agreement. Which shows that NOT treaty, even one favorable to Russia is worth the paper it is written on.
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  7704. This was worse than the Bird-dog deserter. They could spin and sugar-coat someone walking outside the wire. They can't spin an obvious defection.
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  7705. If the Monarchy is dissolved, it will be Charles who caused it. Elizabeth 2 should have named William the heir on her deathbed and abdicated so as to place her grandson on the throne. A wasted opportunity.
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  7706.  @sherlockhomo-ph4su  You will find yourself in one of those eventually. After you have outlived your usefulness to the left.
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  7707. Ukraine would have had to employ Frogmen to place demolition charges. That does not speak well for the Russian Army's ability to stop Ukraine.
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  7708. OperationFaustschlag, the Germans mauled the Russians in WW1.
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  7709. Rail lines that supply the main areas DO make it more valuable than it first appears.
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  7710. Law of unintended consequences.
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  7711.  @KainaX122  Whether killed for meat or consuming those who die from other means matters not. Only that the defective prions in the flesh are transmitted is what matters.
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  7712.  @KainaX122  No worried. Incidentally, my wife is from Pontianak, Indonesia on the Island of Borneo. The Chinese and the Dayaks have an uneasy peace because the Islamists threaten them both. And the Dayaks are know throughout that part of the world as heat-hunters and cannibals. That being said, most are aware of Kuru and a such usually do not engage in the practice except in extreme situations such as tribal war. And usually it is only the elders who do so for ceremonial purposes.
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  7713. A woman whose entire career involved being on her knees.
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  7714. Government is organized crime by other means.
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  7715. Clown show on the US right? Surely you jest. Most of these economic policies are what the GOP BASE actually supports. It is the GOP establishment who is economically left-wing along with the Dems.
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  7716.  @WildWolfheart23  Unless the Feminazis pervert them via the school system. That is the dirty little secret: they don't want to have children of their own, but they want to take the children of others. Reminds me of the Greek legend of Lamia. Or Semitic Legend of Lilith.
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  7717.  @strategery101  My point was that the people obsessing about "cultural appropriation" are the same folks glorifying rap culture. And they have zero clue about its actual origins.
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  7718.  @Sakattack2023  Look it up. Don't take my word on it. Or are you too lazy to understand or even look up that rap and hip-hop is based on Skel tonic verse? Stop assuming you know simply because the left says so.
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  7719. Considering that the anti-air defenses around both Moscow and Petrograd have been completely removed and sent to Ukraine, that leaves Putin open for an unopposed counterstrike. Tell me, why would he use a nuke when his proverbial pants are down?
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  7720.  @TheLordFrog  Indeed. Neo-pagan Gaia worship. And while I have no issues with people worshiping that Greco-Roman goddess, they should at least be honest about it rather than try and force the rest of us to participate under false pretenses.
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  7721. Russian military occupying that power plant is a war crime. Even the UN, particularly the IAEA has called it out for being verboten.
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  7722.  @khaleesid5285  That is not an argument, it is an emotional outburst. Try actually looking up the Law of Armed Conflict. While power stations ARE legitimate targets for military strikes, using them as munitions dumps and supply locations IS a war crime if done by individual units and a crime against humanity if done broadly by military leadership. The nuclear component only further reinforces the fact that what Russia is doing occupying it as a strong point is criminal. It is no different than the Nazis in World War 2 using Catholic Churches in Italy as defensive positions.
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  7723. The Drone was just outside of Turkish airspace, so you are making an apple to oranges false analogy. Not even North Korea has the balls to shoot down a U-2 over the East China Sea.
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  7724.  @user1qaz2wsx3edc  Keep dreaming dude. Russia's dreams ended with the Kharkov and Kherson offensives. China's ambitions ended about that time as well because their entire plan to invade Taiwan was predicated on a swift Russian victory. Without Russia to support them, the Chinese are fracked.
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  7725.  @pariah_carey  The problem is that these people don't want to commiserate in mutual misery so as to help lift each other up as the "loves company" implies. They want to make everyone around them MORE miserable than them and keep them down.
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  7726. Self-awareness is not a strength of the left.
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  7727. It comes from President John F. Kennedy.
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  7728. A Rassmussen poll in 2016 asked who they believed a person's neighbor would vote for. It was THE most accurate result, very closely mirroring the actually results of the election. When your own reputation is not on the line, you tend to get a more honest answer. Sadly, they did NOT repeat that question in 2020.
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  7729. Funny, because for the longest time, the media and Europe were hating on Israel. I guess Hamas so overplayed their hand that they turned even there most avid supporters in Europe against them.
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  7730.  @ashvio  You don't even know what a Nazi is. You realize that Hitler's heir was Haj Amin Al-Husseini, the first Chairman of The Palestinian Liberation Organization?
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  7731. George Soros WANTS DeSantis and Trump to mutually destroy each other in the primary. Also, DeSantis has publicly said he would not run if Trump did.
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  7732. I think the MythBusters DID manage to polish a turd and make it shiny. But to your point, it was still just a turd.
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  7733. Liberate JUDEA!
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  7734. Biannual Oscillation. The Winds up at 30,000 feet altitude change directions from an Easterly flow at the surface to a Westerly flow around 20,000 ft. This is the natural dynamics of the Hadley circulation cell. But above that, stratospheric winds change direction over a four to five year cycle from Westerly to Easterly. When the winds up there are Westerly, hurricanes are stronger because of less shear. When they are Easterly, then hurricanes are weaker because those winds aloft tear it apart.
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  7735. Bob Iger is the Sauron of big media. It was Sauron who bought all of those IP, and in the darkness, bound them.
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  7736. Agreed. This benefits Trump more because it keeps the nevertrumpers out of the Biden camp.
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  7737. "Butter is $7" was their Marie Antoniette moment and they still haven't gotten out of that bubble.
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  7738. Before Israel built the walls, something like 100 terrorist attacks occurred daily. They ranged from stabbing sprees to suicide bombing. I think you need to look at the behavior of the Palestinians before you criticize Israel.
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  7739. I like the quote from the previous movie, "I won't kill you, I just won't save you."
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  7740.  @theiberianbadger0123  Why are you going to nitpick over exact wording? Both mantras are astute.
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  7741. Putin didn't fire Shoigu, he promoted him out of the MoD. Don't play the propaganda line. If Shoigu was fired, he would very quickly catch one of those infamously fatal "Russian Colds".
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  7742. Agreed. He was played by the establishment to run against Trump. The only way to save himself is to return to Florida and finish out his term as governor.
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  7743. Sadly, I fear you are correct. Long past are the days when the most thoughtful, most considerate rulers of nations. Instead, the world is ruled by petulant children who have grown up with a silver spoon in their mouth. World rulers today are weaklings who have never personally experienced hardship and difficulty.
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  7744.  @ttrev007  Having a father is not what wokeism is about. Wokeism is about anti-colonialist arguments. It is about grievances for "oppressed native peoples", which is why folks think Cameron has gone "white savior complex".
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  7745. He tried that at the start with his Blitzkrieg. It failed spectacularly.
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  7746.  @dragosstanciu9866  Only because Putin can't accept that his dreams of imperial conquest are over.
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  7747. He feels guilty because he didn't work with his hands to earn his wealth. He got it by gaming the system. He picks winners and losers while using debt and Usury to bilk people out of their hard-earned gains by claiming "liquidity" is a virtue and asset. It is nothing more than extracting without putting back anything of value. He is EVERYTHING the communists and socialists hate, yet they love him because he parrots their talking points.
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  7748. Because the French don't know how to wage war. Look at how quickly they capitulated in the last several wars they attempted to fight. "How many Frenchmen does it take to defend Paris? Nobody knows, it has never been attempted."
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  7749.  @cincoy3679  An orgy of violence? Sure. A French victory over the Moors? Hardly. More like Umayyad conquest of France as opposed to Iberia.
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  7750.  @MarvinWestmaas  Wow, completely off-base. You do realize that Europe and those "socialized medicine" countries greatly benefit from America's "best healthcare money can buy"? Or have you forgotten that those same countries extort and threaten to engage in corporate espionage violating international patent agreements should they not play ball? As for the obesity problem, that has more to do with the Health and Human Services Department (the wannabe NHK in the UK) along with the FDA playing favorites and pushing the medically dubious "recommended diet" programs. I never blame all of this on China. You jumped to that conclusion because it makes for a nice strawman argument you can beat mercilessly. How about you actually make coherent arguments instead of appeals to emotion (logical fallacy). "Rampant capitalism" and price gouging? You realize that true Laissez-faire capitalism hasn't occurred in the West since Calvin Cooldge? You are using a typical communist disparagement because you can't actually argument the merits. Price controls NEVER work, only creating artificial and entirely avoidable scarcity. As for companies acting more "socially", well, they already do if you have been bothering to pay attention to the wokeness. In practice the difference between a socialist oligarchy and a corporate oligarchy is purely academic.
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  7751.  @MarvinWestmaas  And oligarchy isn't socialist? Then what the hell was the Kalashnikov company in the USSR? Or how about "state owned enterprises" in Red China? You are not debating, you are trying to deflect.
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  7752.  @rring44  When the government nationalizes healthcare, you have communistic medicine. Also, Demark, Norway, and Sweden REJECT the idea that they are socialist. They will point out that they are SOCIAL DEMOCRACIES. That unlike those who clamor for nationalization of medicine, they still have a private sector. "The end goal of socialism is communism," -Vladimir Lenin.
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  7753.  @joellemaster998  Yes, Americans pay for the astronomical R&D costs because the rest of the world won't. They WILL steal it causing a stagnation in development. Ask yourself why in the last 80 years very little innovation occurs in Europe.
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  7754. If that were true, then Kiev should have fallen the first week. The fact that the current was has gone for almost three years says otherwise. By your "unwinnable" logic, the American revolution was doomed to failure. As was Communist Vietnam's war against both the US and then Red China. or the Taliban's war against the US in Afghanistan. History is littered with underdogs who have won against a superior foe. Russia IS defeatable by Ukraine, but as pointed out, the West doesn't want to defeat Russia, simply grind it down by only providing "just enough" to Ukraine.
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  7755. @ The first six months of the war, Ukraine was completely on its own save for the Javelins Trump sent. You grossly underestimate Ukrainian resolve, the same blunder as Putin.
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  7756. Not necessarily. Did the Germans disband the local police after the fall of Paris? Petain's Vichy government were willing collaborators with most of them being members of the previous government that fought the Germans.
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  7757.  @dbird1356  Yes, much simplified, but keep this fact in mind: French Jews suffered fatality rates at the same rate as German, Polish, and Czech Jewish populations. That was in no small part due to their willing participation in the Holocaust. Vichy France was actually MORE dangerous for Jews than Eastern Europe was during that same time period.
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  7758.  @fingal113  I wasn't disagreeing with your assessment, and I apologize if my comment came across that way. My vitriol was because the behavior of the French during WW2, particularly the anti-Semitism is often overlooked.
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  7759.  @fingal113  That is true. The problem is when they are allowed to have power. Even scarier is when the population agrees with them. Also, the term Fascist has been so deluded over the years that most don't know the meaning. I assume you are referring to Vichy Franch, Duce's Italy, and of course the Third Reich.
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  7760. Indeed. Almost all of the leakage from Fukushima came from the cooling pools, not the reactors themselves. That is the dirty little detail people don't like to talk about.
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  7761. But who programs the AI? That is the danger. Do you trust Big Tech who is in the pocket of these freaks?
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  7762. Which would not hold up in court.
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  7763.  @Carabas72  Contracts signed in bad faith are not upheld in court. Furthermore, the Sovereign power of the state means that such an agreement is null simply because the state retains the power, not Disney.
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  7764.  @Carabas72  Sovereign power can't get struck down except for the SCOTUS. Try actually reading the Federalist Papers which explicitly lays out this situation and the remedies for it, none of which favor Disney. US Constitution as well as the Constitution of Florida trumps your arguments on this matter.
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  7765. The only way to do that is fire everyone and bring back legends like George Lucus and Steven Spielberg. Clearly diversity hires are no substitute for talent or skill.
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  7766. If the public doesn't support it, then why have the governments not been voted out of office or toppled? Unless you believe in the same autocratic despotism of Putin, the answer points to itself.
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  7767. Which begs the question: who is defending their borders? Particularly the Far East district around Amur.
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  7768. Yeah, Perun was noticing them way back in 2022.
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  7769. Democracy doesn't mean you get to let another country DICTATE policy to you. That is the crux of the Euro-Skeptic argument.
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  7770. You can only last 3 days without potable water. Crimea's reservoirs were down to 3-5% capacity when Russia invaded. It is unrealistic to think that they were refilled in just 1 year.
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  7771. Not while Sundar Pichai is still running the show.
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  7772. Copilot is programed by woke propagandists.
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  7773.  @The104th_Wolf_Pack  You do realize that most lobbyists and Super PACs fund the left? One only needs to look at the FED to know that it is the Dems who have benefited the most from the Citizens United Case.
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  7774. Liberalism IS a non-theistic religion.
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  7775.  @ronwinkles2601  The problem is that the women are nursing their children on the very same hate that Hamas cultivates.
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  7776.  @CruWiT  I tend to agree. A good portion of the Pacific campaign was conducted from logistical hubs down under. China knows this from studying WW2 and as such eliminating that vector is critical to securing the South Pacific.
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  7777.  @georgekaradov1274  Yeah, where have I heard that story before? Oh yeah, the Russian pretext to invade Ukraine. Put down the vodka comrade, you are so drunk you are hallucinating.
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  7778.  @s0ycapitan  "Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated," -Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain. "Sir, I have not yet begun to fight!" -John Paul Jones, father of the US Navy.
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  7779. Accountability looks like revenge to the corrupt.
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  7780.  @Arcayenneist  Really? Because the release of diatomic hydrogen is one of the byproducts of the reactor fuel chemically bonding with the casing and rendering the fuel inert. Basically a conventional hydrogen explosion was evidence of the safety designs preventing a nuclear fizzle. I am not disagreeing that the Japanese are notorious about violating established protocols. Hisashi Ouchi's tragic example is case in point. But don't feed into the hysteria and misinformation that Fukushima was anywhere near as bad as either Windscale Fire the Kyshtym Disaster, or even Chernobyl. In a side by side, it is worse than 3 Mile since there was a leak from the storage pools. But it didn't release nearly the level of radiation that Windscale did.
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  7781. @ Properly maintained buses should have a limiter device. But it is also very easy to disable or tamper with that device.
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  7782.  @pwillis1589  Posting the exact same post over and over again is the very definition of trolling. The ONLY reason why it isn't auto deleted by the youtube shadow banning algorithm is because it supports their agenda.
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  7783.  @pwillis1589  "Figures don't lie, but Liars Figure," -Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain. "Lies Damn Lies, and Statistics," -Mark Twain. He was refereeing to snake oil salesmen like you peddling your polls to drive a narrative rather than gauge the pulse of the electorate. You are doing the exact same things as the lead up to the US Civil War.
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  7784.  @pwillis1589  "Figures don't lie, but Liars figure"- Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain. "Lies, damn lies, and Statistics," -Mark Twain. He was talking about people like you who use garbage surveys to push snake oil onto the unsuspecting.
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  7785.  @joshuareed6894  The "old model" was what the Tea Party tried to do with the GOP for the last decade. Things have only gotten worse. The cancer has metastasized. The "old guard" conservates WANT TO BE THE LEFT.
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  7786.  @joshuareed6894  And both go co-opted by Establishment wannabes like those working at Daily Wire. With "conservatives" like these, who needs liberal Democrats? They talk a good game, but they constantly support the very people who facilitate the mess we are in. They keep shilling for the likes of John Boehner and his carbon copies like Paul Ryan and Kevin McCarthy.
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  7787. Is there feedback on Geeky Sparkel's mic? Her voice on the last few videos sounds electronic with a reverberation. I can understand her just fine, but the anomalous distortion is a little distraining.
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  7788. Indeed. They will cause the very Charles Mason Helters-Skelter race war they claim they want to prevent. But then I think that is their goal.
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  7789. The "X" comes from anglicization of words. They don't realize they are white washing.
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  7790. There is a limit. They have already exhausted ALL of their T-80s from storage. They are down to about half of the T-72Bs and T-62s. But there are still plenty of T-64 and T-72As that haven't been touched yet.
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  7791. I agree. This could have been one of the heroic and honorable men from the south, the land of the Oliphants. They wasted it on this stupid attempt at blackface.
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  7792. I think the trope is "protagonist centered morality". Does not bode well when the "hero" of the story can do no wrong.
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  7793. Just outside of Turkish Airspace?
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  7794. And even if Rasputisa sets in, they can roll up the trenches to destroy Russian units in echelon. Shattering their combat power is more important than capturing territory in the long run.
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  7795. Then explain why the plane didn't explode until it slammed into the wall.
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  7796. I doubt any labour party has been for the working man. The Russian Labor party of the 1910s was run by "intellectuals". The German Labour of the 1930s was run by petty criminals who were good at rabble rousing a book burning. Modern labor parties are run by people who haven't punched a timeclock in decades, if ever.
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  7797.  RAGman  "Now I regard it as a collective work of historical fiction literature." So Cyrus the Great was not a real person, much less a King of Persia? Nebuchadnezzar didn't actually conquer Jerusalem? Apries, Necho II, and Taharqa were not Pharaohs of Egypt? Cesar Augustus was not actually an Emperor of Rome? And Pontius Pilate was not a Roman Governor? That is where you lose credibility. You cannot refute parts of the Bible and the Torah that are confirmed by externa sources. Add to that, the Nag Hamadi, Dead Sea Scrolls, and several other texts found buried in the deserts clearly show that very little has changed in over 2 thousand years. That is why likewise I cannot discount out of hand the Texts and Sutras of Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoharastrism, and many other Eastern faiths. There IS secular historical value in all of them. Hell, when the Epic of Gilgamesh was found and reassembled, it was considered a significant historical piece of work, giving insight into ancient near-east culture. While I don't expect you to believe in the same deity as I do, I find your contempt for religious texts of any kind to be deeply disturbing, and evidence of at best existential nihilism and more likely misotheism.
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  7798.  RAGman  Yeah, again burden of proof is on you to make the case it is fiction. Your problem is that you cannot differentiate parable from historical documentation. In most religious texts across the world, historical documentation is written differently than parables are. Both context and style of the writing is how you tell the difference. But existential nihilists and cultural Marxists like you conflate them all in your misguided attempt to destroy that which you cannot understand. "The worst readers behave like plundering troops, they carry off the few things they can use, dirty and confound the rest, and revile the whole," -Fredrich Nietzsche.
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  7799.  RAGman  You don't understand how burden of proof works. And when it comes to historic documents, typically they are treated as factual unless there is outstanding reason to think they are not. Legends are told by the ancients as if they are fact, not fabrication because as far as they are concerned, they were actual events. The idea of "historical fiction" is a modern concept that really has only existed as recently as the Renaissance. Again, you show a distinct lack of understanding and instead display myopia and bigotry. But then I expect that from people who employ anachronistic views of history and tries to judge the past based on today's standards rather than on their own merits.
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  7800.  RAGman  And again with the anachronistic logical fallacies. Sure, ignore the preponderance of archaeological evidence. You are moving the goal posts.
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  7801. The FBI and CIA knew all about his little trip to Mexico City to visit the Cuban and Soviet Embassies. That made him the perfect catspaw for trying to provoke a war with the communists.
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  7802. Crimea's Reservoirs were at 3-5% capacity at the start of the invasion. it takes YEARS to refill them.
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  7803.  @christianmeinert8806  I fail to see the point you are making. It takes lots of water to sustain both Sevastopol and Kerch. Those cities cannot be naturally sustained by Crimea's local water sources.
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  7804. Yeah, he is playing fast and loose with the categories in the Geneva and Hauge Conventions. He also blatantly ignores that there IS a category of unlawful combatants who are NOT entitled to POW status.
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  7805. Indeed. Change is the only constant in the universe. Why is it so hard for some people to accept that?
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  7806. Why? To what gain? Further, are you implying that the Russian Army is so blind as to not see Ukrainian frogmen place demolition charges? Or was powerless to stop them?
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  7807. Liberate JUDEA! Gaza is occupied by HAMAS, not Isarel.
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  7808. Part of the problem with Vice was its imbecilic leadership. Tim Pool told them what they needed to do to remain relevant. They ignored him and "golden handcuffed" him. His Timcast media empire is now booming while Vice has gone bust.
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  7809.  @lexluthor9509  And some think that Orwell's dystopian novel was a blueprint rather than a warning. Are you one of those who idolizes Stalinism?
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  7810.  @lexluthor9509  Nice Strawman argument. Now how about you actually debate the merits instead of resorting to logical fallacies like the intellectually lazy do? "I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” ― Margaret Thatcher
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  7811.  @wackywarrior001  Funny, because that wasn't an actual trial, it was summary judgement. Which means it was nothing more than a Star Chamber proceeding no different than a Kangaroo Court in a dictatorship. I have been in court to defend myself. And neither the prosecution against me, not the judge presiding acted as unprofessional as Letisha James and Arthur Engoron did. Both of them acted with prosecutorial misconduct which WILL get this overturned in the SCOTUS if not sooner.
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  7812. @jerryjerry7561 You have no idea what you are talking about. Kevin O'Leary has even said that it isn't possible.
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  7813.  @KillerofGods  The Bill of Rights should be that, but since when have the totalitarians ever let that stop them from violating constitutional (nay human) rights?
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  7814. Don't forget that the power Disney exercises is derived from the sovereign power of the State of Florida. They CANNOT legally exercise that power without the consent of the state. Only the SCOTUS can overrule the supremacy of the State government.
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  7815. You can be critical of Israel. The problem is that most people use it as a cover for hatred of Jews. Anti-Zionism is simply repackaged and fashionable antisemitism.
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  7816.  @nirit1ngr  Preach! Anti-Zionism is simply repackaged and fashionable antisemitism.
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  7817. The Japanese sent hundreds during WW2. Started many forest fires.
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  7818. Operation Faustschlag says that Russia CAN be defeated in the winter. And that was the SECOND time the Imperial Kaiser's Army defeated Russia.
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  7819.  @Saltedroastedcaramel  Which is odd, because I was under the impression it referred to the Islamic Stans. The people who cut your head off just because you don't worship the same god as them.
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  7820.  @Saltedroastedcaramel  How are Kpop stars Stans? I get that the unhealthy obsession of their fans can certainly make the fans Stans. Same goes for the fans of Japanese idols, particularly the Gravure and AV idols. And they very much come across as possessive as an Imam or Sheik.
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  7821. Nice false dichotomy logical fallacy. Just because one prioritized the US doesn't mean they are for Putin and Russia. Some of us have a more nuance view and don't fall for the black and white insanity of propagandists.
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  7822. @ It is one of the enumerated powers under section 2, presidential powers. It is clear you have absolutely no clue as to what "Presidental Powers" are.
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  7823. @ It is a specific power of the presidency, under "enforcement of Federal Laws". Your problem is that you don't care about the law or the constitution. You believe that ends justify the means and so are perfectly okay with rule by fiat.
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  7824. @ You nevertrumpers have lost the plot. Even your own media talking heads like Joe Scarbrough have gone to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring of the man you call "The Austrian Painter". I never changed ANYTHING I said, you just don't know how to read a document. That is a YOU problem. But then you didn't care this much when Obama said he had a phone and a pen. All you care about is your tribe winning, and you would bush the world to ashes if you can't have your way.
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  7825. ​ GNnisa orobo  I don't know why google/youtube deleted my comment with the link to the website I use other than they don't like competition. While there are a few pop-up ads and lots of flashy page ads, once you start the video and maximize to the full screen, you can watch most of them without interruption. I will link you directly to the dub list, but they also have a subtitle list as well as a database of American cartoons. I don't pay a subscription, so that may help if you are worried about your money going to a woke company. https://www.wcostream.com/dubbed-anime-list
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  7826.  @tigervalley62  Hollywood loves and greatly desires emulating European culture, particularly the feudalistic aspects. A lot of the ideology being pushed in Hollywood was birthed in Europe. "Progressivism" came to prominence because of the Fabian Society in England. Socialism in its various forms got its quickening in Europe before spreading to the rest of the world. "Social Justice" is an ideology birthed in Europe and pushed by Fabian Socialists. Hollywood is simply sending back to Europe that which Europe holds dear taken to the extreme.
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  7827.  @tigervalley62  If you go back far enough, Cro-Magnon colonized Europe and outbred Neanderthal(if we can't drive them out, we'll breed them out- Edward Longshanks). Hell, Normandy in France was settled by the Visgoths after they sacked Rome. Then William the Conqueror went from Normandy into the British Isles. There is also the Viking Invasions as well as the Angles and Saxons moving from Germany into England. And then of course the Romans were notorious colonizers of Europe, North Africa, and the Near East. So your argument falls apart with a little digging. As to your third point, yes the Bolsheviks have subverted the US as Krushev warned. But your claim that America is trying to impose American values on Europe ignore the fact that Soviet Union did the same thing in Eastern Europe. Totalitarianism is ALWAYS global in scope. And yes, I hold France in utter contempt. I have MUCH more respect for the Czechs, Romanians, Poles, and Hungarians because they at least tried to throw out the communists before Stalin and company sent in the Red Army to crush the rebellions. Modern Europe has fallen to Bolshevism by electing stealth Marxists like Angela Merkel. She was a member of the East German Communist Youth League (Communist version of the Hitler Youth)
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  7828. Agreed. Reciprocity is the only thing they respect. Tit for tat as it were.
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  7829.  @PaulVandersypen  So what is the 1.5 generation? And where would my sons be considered as their mother was naturalized, but my ancestors have been here since before the Revolution of 1776?
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  7830. "I fear our efforts are for naught, for we have awakened a sleeping giant, AND FILLED HIM WITH A TERRIBLE RESOLVE," -Admiral Yamamoto after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Putin BADLY miscalculated Ukrainian resolve. Whether the West continues support or not, the Ukrainians will NOT give up the fight.
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  7831.  @rh3309  That is practically a perfect analogy. In the Disney Pocahontas, the medicine man described the English colonists as ravenous wolves consuming all in their path. But whether wolves, Locust, Crabs, or even Army Ants, they destroy everything around them.
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  7832. I would rather see "Convince your friend to trade in his d20 for a pair of d6s".
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  7833. Then they should have let that happen. It would have only further discredited the legitimacy of the New York courtroom.
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  7834. The problem was that she as blatantly pandering to that crowd. When you cultivate the radicals, don't be surprised when they turn on you as soon as you deviate from their orthodoxy.
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  7835. Trump Derangement Syndrome is toxic.
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  7836. Exactly, which is why the Baltic States are so full throated in ramping up the support. Many of them have completely empties their stockpiles knowing full well what is at stake.
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  7837.  @jeffpkrueger  I think you grossly misunderstand the GOP. Joe Bite-Me and his Obama staffers can't understand Putin at all, which is why Putin stole Crimea while Obama was in office but did nothing while Trump was. It wasn't until AFTER Biden came into office that Putin decided to act in Ukraine.
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  7838.  @jeffpkrueger  "Russian collusion was a hoax. Even the Grey Lady has admitted that. KGB asset? Stop listening to unhinged delusional fantasies. Now, if you want to talk about how Hutner Biden is owned by both the Chinese CCP and the Russians via Burisma, then you have something with HARD DATA to back it up.
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  7839.  @jeffpkrueger  Where did that come from? Christopher Steele is under criminal prosecution in the UK for his fraudulent dossier on Trump. Hunter Biden's laptop has been confirmed by the Bidens themselves, otherwise they wouldn't even dignify it with a response. When you parrot debunked DNC talking points on cue you are no better than Pavlov's Dog. Who is the Russian asset now?
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  7840.  @jeffpkrueger  You didn't read the Muller report, you simply read what MSNBC told you was in it. But I get it, you are suffering from Trump Derangement syndrome. "Orane Man Bad" is not an argument, it is a mental health sickness.
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  7841.  @jeffpkrueger  That has NOTHING you do with Russian collusion, it is pure whataboutism again from MSNBC who is gaslighting you. You are parroting Rachel Maddow's words. Oh, and you don't love me, you love yourself. You are posturing and grandstanding for clout. Yuri Bezminov was right about people like you, the hard irrefutable facts can hit you in the face and you still refuse to accept it because you have already been conditioned like Palvov's Dog. The more you protest, the more you are guilty of the very thing you accuse your critics and opponents of doing. "The Lady doth protest too much, me thinks" -Queen Gertude, Act 3 Scene 2, Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
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  7842.  @jeffpkrueger  More of your patronizing and condescending attitude. Your false compassion is as transparent as glass. You don't love anyone but yourself, chasing clout by pretending to care for others. IF Trump was as guilty as you claim, then were is the prosecution? Burden of proof is on the accuser, not the accused. INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT. Mueller report have ZERO actionable evidence, only hearsay and SPECULATION. The John Durham report on the other hand DOES have actionable evidence of criminal malfeasance on the part of Mueller and his Clitonista Andrew Weissmann.
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  7843.  @jeffpkrueger  Wow, again more deflections and ad hominins. Keep it up, you are only making yourself look foolish and driving other people away with your unhinged derangement. "I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher
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  7844.  @jeffpkrueger  Yeah, that is called the "Rachel Maddow" defense. You know, the one made famous by the slander and libel cases brought against her. You are basically admitting that you know the legacy media is nothing but opinion and gossip mongering. Tabloids have more credibility.
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  7845.  @jeffpkrueger  Prosecutorial is the rule of the day for your hero. Fruit of the poison tree is grounds for complete dismissal of a case and overturn on appeal. ALL of the supposed crimes you list are tainted by that which is why most of it is getting wiped out in the appeals process. But then that is the deal isn't it? Since you can't actually make anything stick, you abuse the process as punishment in violation of the US Constitution. You don't care about Due Process. You don't care about "cruel and unusual punishment" You don't care about unlawful searches (4th amendment). I HOPE you get to experience firsthand the treatment you demand for your critics and opponents/
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  7846.  @jeffpkrueger  Cognitive dissonance? Pretty big words from someone who clearly lacks the self-awareness to realize he is suffering from it. But again, you are only making yourself look foolish, and I am enjoying your emotional outbursts. "I learned long ago never to wrestle with pigs. You get dirty and the pig enjoys it," -George Bernard Shaw.
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  7847.  @jeffpkrueger  Again with your false compassion, false love. Nobody believes your clout chasing posturing and grandstanding. As for Trump's lawyers, defending the man for using the legal system for a redress of grievances is NOT a crime. You are basically cheering for the criminalization of legal defense. That is what tyrants do. You call me a Putin supporter yet you are engaging in the same behaviors as the dictator of Russia.
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  7848.  @jeffpkrueger  "It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes." -Joseph Stalin. The numbers just do NOT add up. When precincts report 120% of registered voter turnout, that is irrefutable proof of fraud. Do keep in mind that the court have NOT actually heard the merits of the case, merely dismissed them on technicalities which means NOTHING HAS BEEN LEGALLY ADJUDICATED. That is where you are gaslighting yourself.
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  7849.  @jeffpkrueger  More of your MSNBC myths because you refuse to actually read the legal documents. And you call me a cultist. You are guilty of the very thing you accuse us. Your Saul Alinsky "Rules for Radicals" won't work anymore.
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  7850.  @jeffpkrueger  Stop believing fringe conspiracy theories from MSNBC. You are not proving anything other than that you are an unhinged tribalist who believes whatever his feudal master tell him. George Orwell pegged you perfectly. "It is easier to deceive people than it is to convince them they have been lied to," -Mark Twain.
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  7851. If Russia could have ended the war, Kiev would not still stand. Putin could call home his forces and end it all but he won't. He is hurting Russia more than he is Ukraine's allies.
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  7852. Yeah, I don't think that the power mongers in the DNC will opt for him. If they eviscerated Mike Bloomberg in 2016, what do you think they would do to Iger?
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  7853. The reason for their existence is predicated on reciprocity. The idea is that we will follow these standards in the expectation that the other side will abide by them as well. Many of Japan's and Germany's documented war crimes were or were not prosecuted based on the individual officer complying or nor complying. Admiral Karl Dönitz for example was actually exonerated on a war crime charge at Nuremberg because he scrupulously obeyed the treatment of prisoners despite his personal and public sentiments arguing against it.
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  7854. If you have learned anything about communist, it is that they ALWAYS re-write history. "Good facts" which uphold the fictions of the CCP are always more correct than "real-facts" which contradict the narrative.
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  7855. The problems Russia had reinforcing Zaphoresia and Kherson says that they can't so quickly redeploy forces to Kursk.
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  7856. Nobody forced former members of the Warsaw Pact to join NATO.....except for maybe Putin himself driving them that direction. If you want to blame anyone for NATO's expansion, look no further than the Kremlin.
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  7857.  @RedHatRoast  Was Jospeh Mengele just doing his Job? How about Adolph Eichmann. Fauci has engaged in the same kind of "science" as those who ran the camps in 1940s Germany.
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  7858.  @nickporter4853  Perjury before congress. Medical Malpractice, Fraudulent expenditure of funds. Violation of the Nuremberg Code for ethical experimentation. The preponderance of evidence speaks for itself.
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  7859. With the Judge who has a history of Trump Derangement Syndrome? With a Jury from rabidly liberal NYC? It will take a Federal appellate or Circuit court to get them voided.
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  7860. Got that Bass ackwards. It is Hamas who is the bully that cries "oppression" when he gets popped in the nose after trying to steal lunch money.
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  7861. Yup, Commissar Putin has delusions of Stalin-hood.
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  7862.  @nathanaelsmith3553  Who was persecuted by the Trump administration. Provide names, dude. Secondly, you have not made any coherent argument is name-calling and gutter sniping insults. You are showing classic Trump derangement syndrome.
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  7863. I see it being one of the Baltic States that drags NATO into this conflict.
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  7864. Make "Potemkin Village" a well-known meme again.
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  7865.  @worldwidewonders681  No, you are correct that the Russian Bear is now Geriatric. But that doesn't mean that China and the US can't be in a new cold war.
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  7866.  @sirgaz8699  That is socialized medicine for you. Canada is proscribing assisted suicide for depression.
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  7867.  @dalekrenegade2596  Pot meet kettle.
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  7868. "Fiscally conservative" activists are certainly catspaws for the elites. Why? Because many of those activists want to be invited to the GOP Christmas Party. When push comes to shove, they are content to government spending on their programs, but not someone else's. As far as fiscal restraint, the elites hate it. Why? Because they want US to pay for their largess. They don't want to pay for it themselves.
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  7869.  @robertpatrick3350  Not acting without air cover is NOT a generalization, it is a specific weakness in NATO doctrine. How about you learn what the definition of a "glittering generality" logical fallacy is before you misapply it in a debate?
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  7870. There is a limit to the deep reserves of Legacy Soviet systems. The production rates of T-90s CANNOT keep up with the loss rates, holding steady at about 10% of all losses.
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  7871.  @discombubulate2256  When you can't keep up with the loss rates, you are running out. There WILL come a point when the tank that rolls off the line is the ONLY tank left.
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  7872.  @discombubulate2256  My point went completely over your head. When you only have two or three tanks in the field because that is all you can produce in a month, you are out of tanks.
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  7873.  @discombubulate2256  Yes, from a military and effectiveness standpoint it is being out. To claim you have not completely run out because you have even one tank in the field is intellectually dishonest. That is what propagandists would argue.
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  7874.  @discombubulate2256  It would be dishonest to claim that ONE nuclear weapon constituted a credible threat, much less deterrence. Thank you for nicely proving my point.
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  7875.  @discombubulate2256  And yet another apples to oranges false analogy. It is Anachronistic to compare the US's three nukes in WW2 to the nuclear weapons of today. Thank you for proving you can't debate without resorting to logical fallacies and improper comparisons.
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  7876. A villian almost always thinks he is the hero of his own story. The rare exception are those who embrace it after being driven to misanthropy (then let me be evil).
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  7877. Paul, stop holding Israel to stricter standards than Hamas. That is gross antisemitism when you blame Israel but give Palestinian guerrillas who hide among civilians a pass. As to Biden supporters, of course they are anti-Israel, but that does NOT mean they represent the majority of Americans. Dearborn Michigan is majority Muslim, so it is no surprise that Biden it trying to pander to that crowd. The fact that you fail to parse out the nuances of the electorate shows at best incompetence.
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  7878. Fedsurrection. Your hoax has been exposed. Ray Epps was a plant.
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  7879. Hollyweird keeps racebending Velma, typically as an East Asian, but the most recent attempt was to make her black.
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  7880.  @EL_Duderino68  Not paying attention are you. It is a collusion between companies to hurt him which is a violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law.
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  7881.  @EL_Duderino68  Forming a cartel to control advertisers so as to hurt a business is called a Trust and is monopolistic. Just because you don't like Elon doesn't mean he is wrong.
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  7882.  @EL_Duderino68  In this case it isn't that simple. The fact that they organized into a body to leverage power is what makes it a cartel and in violation of Sherman Anti-Trust law.
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  7883. Depends on the route, but you are probably correct that some of the trans-Pacific flights will be disrupted.
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  7884.  @SP-qo3pd  Not entirely true. You do realize that clothing factories, food production facilities, and fuel processing plants are all legitimate targets under the Geneva and Hauge conventions? Further, the Japanese government was forcing civilians to manufacture vehicle parts in their own homes. That is a War Crime. It also makes those home legal targets. Try actually reading about the Law of Armed Conflict before you start lecturing others about what is spite, cruel and cowardly.
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  7885.  @comacollosasa6282  That is the kicker, THE ENTIRE RESIDENTIAL BLOCK AROUND NAGASAKI was used as a small parts production factory for the main plants inside the city's industrial center. It wasn't just one house, but nearly all of them. Would be easier to point out the ones that were not.
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  7886. Have you considered a foreign spouse. The fact that marriages to a foreign-born spouse are MORE stable than the average American marriage tells you something.
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  7887.  @stinkfinga4918  Did you ever hear Theodore Roosevelt's quote about foreign born Americans? He believed that many of them were MORE patriotic than those who were citizens by birth. Why? BECAUSE THEY EARNED IT. So yes, I am fore marrying foreign nationals. My wife is a naturalized Chinese-Indonesian. American women today are certifiable. Asian women fit the CLASSIC mold of an American than those who were born an American woman.
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  7888.  @stinkfinga4918  You are thinking of his cousin Franklin D. Roosevelt. Teddy was anti-union while Franklin was pro-union. Teddy distrusted the leadership of unions as being agents of bolshevism and in practice no different from the exploitative leadership of big business.
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  7889.  @stinkfinga4918  You are making stuff up and confusing yourself. I never said anything like that. You are simply trying to make a strawman argument (logical fallacy) because you don't want to debate the merits.
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  7890.  @maxcream6726  At this time, perhaps. But there is discussion of it becoming a free trade union among its members.
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  7891. I tend to agree. Thought I think China would be the biggest danger for them. Out of the Russian orbit and into the Chinese.
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  7892. Indeed. They want to Epstein him.
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  7893.  @wigletron2846  Indeed. They want to Epstine him. But I think the inmates are likely to protect him from the guards knowing he will remember them.
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  7894. And I suspect that like a Zeppelin, there are several gas bags so if a few are punctured, it does not catastrophically fall to the ground.
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  7895.  @Born_Stellar  The pumping of a shotgun is a clear and concise sound that NOBODY will mistake(click hello: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ClickHello). That is all the warning they need.
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  7896.  @rferg1533  But those dollars are worth significantly LESS. Which means the buying power and value of people's savings is LESS than pre-pandemic. He pointed out the spending, yet ignores that the reason for it is because people want to convert their currency into something of value before it depreciates. Guatemala experienced the same thing in the 1980s where people wanted to be paid in the morning and buy their groceries early before the hyper-inflation cut the value of the peso in HALF by the end of the day.
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  7897.  @blondelion7918  Yeah, inflation has caused the buying power to be as much as HALF of its pre-pandemic value. That is where this guy is lying through his teeth.
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  7898.  @dambrooks7578  Did you enjoy putting the desires of foreign bureaucrats ahead of the needs of your own country and people? I know it is easy to blame people you disagree with politically, but it is quite clear that the citizens of the UK vehemently disagree with you. The biggest problem with the Tories is that they are just as corrupt as any other political party, holding populists in just as much contempt as the labour party leadership does. The Tories should have actually pulled Margaret Thatcher out of the grave rather than put up that faker Theresa Mary who was unqualified to wear the mantel.
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  7899. Bread and circuses. Caeser was right, the people are sheep.
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  7900. The US Patriot Act is still NOMINALLY limited by the 4th, 5th, and 6th amendments as much as they have been curtailed. China has not such due process protections. In China there is not Supreme Court to overrule the government.
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  7901.  @mojewjewjew4420  That isn't an argument, that is an emotional outburst. Xi believes and Mao that Law comes from a gun (might makes right). US tradition rejects that.
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  7902. We live in a retarded world where the stupid are not just coddled but rewarded for being a dumbass.
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  7903. Both Hilrod and Quemala outspent Trump and lost. Just proves that money can't buy votes. It can only buy name recognition.
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  7904.  @cryptochicano8212  Funny because Trump's instincts are usually correct. It is NEVER too soon to talk about an issue that puts lives at risk. DEI causing a manpower shortage in the tower cannot wait.
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  7905.  @voyager7  I think we are in agreement. Zhesi L is a Chinese Communist Propagandist and apologist for the wrongs of the CCCP. My words are more for everyone else here by countering the lies.
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  7906.  @xhesil8848  PREACH!!!
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  7907.  @cantnevercould9660  Hence the term "Feminazi".
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  7908. And not let the wokescolds get pissed for calling a garden shovel a spade. For some reason they assume you are using a racial slur rather than referring to a tool you use to move soil.
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  7909. Sovereign power of the state makes this a moot point. Disney cannot monopolize power that was granted to them by the State of Florida. it will fail on Constitutional grounds.
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  7910. Why? The world was safer under Trump. As Osama Bin Laden said, the world respects a strong horse, and Biden is a weak horse.
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  7911.  @dominicpelle7841  Cope harder. Musk is not the president, Trump is. You people are simply in the denial phase.
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  7912. Why? They left it in 2005 and had no desire to return. No, this was just an intelligence blunder much like the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.
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  7913. Not with the anti-air defenses around Moscow and Petrograd stripped bare and sent to Ukraine. Putin's proverbial pants are down.
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  7914. The problem is their stupidity is going to get some innocent bystander killed.
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  7915. Indeed. Sovereign power of the state, which you summed up nicely in an analogy. Disney only has said power in Reedy Creek because the state gave it to them in the first place. The Federalist Papers describe such as situation which provides the legal basis for this whole dispute. It also clearly defines what the remedy for such as spat, and it is NOT in Disney's favor.
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  7916.  @seanwallace89  Sounds like you are projecting your own insecurities onto me. I am absolutely sure of my perspective. It seems to me you are trying to convince yourself of your own claims. Joe didn't cut me because I couldn't care less about his beliefs. What I do care about is when people make excuses to justify their own bad choices.
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  7917.  @scooter21ba  And now you are making the argument of Putin about Ukraine and Kazakhstan and applying it to Bosnia and the former Yugoslav constituent nations. It is also the same argument today as for why Poland and the Baltic States should not be independent nations but part of the Russian Empire. Most would reject your argument as denying the right of autonomy and self-determination.
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  7918.  @scooter21ba  You are morally equivocating without actually addressing the question nor debating the merits. You are only reinforcing my point, not refuting it.
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  7919.  @scooter21ba  Nice bloviation and appeal to the extreme. I never said to dissolve Andorra, Liechtenstein, or the rest. I was simply pointing out the hypocrisy that you can rationalize those nations as being Sovreign yet Bosnia becoming several smaller nations isn't acceptable. And as far as the natives, might I remind you that many of them have their own local governments on reservations that while nominally subject to the US Constitution are effectively their own autonomous countries? You are making a red herring argument (logical fallacy) bordering on a non sequitur.
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  7920. Asian countries like Korea, Japan, and Taiwan, I agree. I am a little more wary of Africa. I need to see some authentic material from there before I make a decision.
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  7921. Weather balloons don't carry gondolas the size of three city buses.
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  7922.  @Jabber-ig3iw  Considering that in post-production you can remove the plastic orange ring from the barrel of a gun, why not? While an argument can be made about realism, Hollyweird regularly suspends realism in the name of storytelling all the time.
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  7923.  @Chaynepierce123  Be glad that AmusedChild has finally woken up to the realization that the "capitol insurrection" was a false flag operation meant to consolidate power just like the Nazis did.
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  7924. There already is one. It is the Convention on the High Seas with 63 nations having signed it as of 2013. China, OPEC, North Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Syria refuse to acknowledge it.
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  7925. Operation Faustschlag says otherwise. Russia CAN be defeated in winter. And that was actually the SECOND time the Imperial Germans owned the Russians.
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  7926. You, me, and the taxpayers. Yeah, that is how fouled up beyond all recognition (FUBAR) the system is.
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  7927. His cult of personality. Mao himself insisted on the title.
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  7928.  Maxxxie Lorenzo  Not BS, absolutely true. His is the textbook definition of a cult of personality by which all others save for Stalin's are measured. The worship of Mao follows similar to Jim Jones, Marshal Applegate or David Koresh but on a much grander scale. Another good analogy for Mao is the deification of Kim Il-Sung in North Korea.
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  7929.  Maxxxie Lorenzo  And you are regurgitating CCCP talking points on cue like Pavlov's dog. Spare me your moral outrage, you will not accept self-evident and irrefutable facts because they do not comport with the official party line.
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  7930.  Maxxxie Lorenzo  Wikipedia is HARDLY a reliable source, at best only useful as a first pass. They have been caught red-handed time and again passing off and laundering propaganda and opinion pieces as if they were hard objective facts. The most effective propaganda involves Half-truths. They use a kernel of fact to carry the fabrications. But often it lacks the proper context of full details that reveals reality. Your points contain at best only half the story, while ignoring the inconvenient parts that disprove your claims. And case in point, there is even a Wikipedia article detailing Chairman Mao's cult of personality. But you blatantly ignore that dirty little detail, don't you? You are not very sophisticated.
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  7931.  Maxxxie Lorenzo  Wow, ad hominin personal attack huh? Thank you for effectively throwing in the towel. Lobbing insults like that doesn't make your argument, it is an act of desperation. "I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left," -"Iron Maggie" Thatcher.
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  7932.  Maxxxie Lorenzo  And yet you are choosing to continue to respond. It is not I who is agitated, for I am the pig you are wrestling with, and this pig is completely enjoying it. My responses to your logical fallacies are allowing me to live rent-free in your head.
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  7933.  Maxxxie Lorenzo  Yeah, laughing isn't an argument, it just shows than since you can't make an effective counterargument, you are attempting to trivialize or infantilize it. Typical response of a propaghandist. "When the wise man points at the moon, the fool examines the finger," -Confucius, author of "The Analects".
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  7934. Most folks among the Vtuber and Anime community would say that he probably deserved it. Rev Says Desu has covered Sneako's drama career picking fights with those fanbases.
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  7935. Indeed. Even the TV show character stayed true to that.
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  7936. I don't think you understand the definition of "Fascist". Disney's little set-up in Reedy Creek DOES fit the description of Fascistic.
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  7937. Indeed. She pandered to them, and they were not satisfied. Worse, she dared to utter a heresy and now they treat her like a zealot reacts to apostasy.
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  7938. Immigration is only a solution when assimilation into the host culture is mandatory. That is why the East Asian immigrant populations are so successful in Western nations: they adopt the culture they move into, not try and completely replace it.
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  7939.  @jamesng7320  "Russia isn't going to be weak anytime soon? Have you not heard of the Kharkov and Kherson counter offensives which pushed back the Russians? What about the much-vaunted Moskva? It is now pretending to be a submarine. Or how about the issues with the Admiral Kuznetsov? Not only does it have to have a tug following it wherever it goes, but its air wing also had to fly home on its own without the carrier in disgrace from Syria.
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  7940.  @jamesng7320  Your premise assumes all thing are equal.....which they are not and never are. Ukraine fighting against a numerically superior and nominally better equipped Russia and fighting to a draw is itself a victory. That they can retake lost land from a superior foe IS text book definition of winning. Lines on a map are NOT everything. By your own assessment, The USSR should have simply surrendered in 1942 after Germany completely overran Ukraine. Guess who was beating down the door in Berlin in 1945.
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  7941.  @jamesng7320  Pyhrric victory dude. Look up what that means. And no, not all wars are fought over territory. That is simply your myopic view. What territory did the US gain in the Civil War? Or how about WW1? Oh, and if Ukraine can survive the current Russian offence, it WILL be all downhill from here. The Russian war machine is spent. And no amount of bodies for the meat grinder will fix that. As for the nukes, they are more likely to detonate in the silo than actually launch like they did on K-129 when the KGB hijacked that sub and tried to nuke Pearl Harbor.
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  7942.  @jamesng7320  You are grasping at straws now. You have lost the plot.
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  7943.  @jamesng7320  It is what I say when I am counting coup against someone who refuses to admit defeat even though they know they can't win. You are now just like a pigeon who think he is playing chess.
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  7944.  @jamesng7320  Says the pigeon who thinks he has accomplished something by knocking over the chess pieces.
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  7945.  @jamesng7320  I did refute and disprove your arguments. You just didn't like the answers BEACUSE they debunked your claims. You don't care about the facts, you care only about your tribe winning.
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  7946.  @jamesng7320  You don't want to be convinced as your mind is closed to anything that does not confirm your biases. My rebuttals are not necessarily for you. It is for the audience that MIGHT be listening (highly unlikely at this point). I pointed specifically to the AMERICAN civil war, not the Chinese one. And even there your example failed to prove your point, only reinforcing mine. Yet again you are moving the goal posts to try and claim something I never said. If the West was scared of Russia's nukes, the West would have never even armed Ukraine in the first place. Every red line that Putin has threatened to escalate with nukes has not actually triggered the use of nukes. Russia's saber rattling is all bluster and no bite. And yes, you ARE grasping at straws because you can't make a coherent argument that comports with hard OBJECTIVE facts. You have to rely on emotional appeals to back up your claims.
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  7947.  @negirno  Indeed. Some have described leftist-liberalism as Christianity but reversed. They have their own "original sin" (born white male), their own sacrament (abortion), and a path to salvation (reparations).
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  7948.  @19TheFallen  No disagreement. First thing on that road to do is completely repeal the "consumer protection" act which helped to create this situation.
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  7949. The problem that Timmy boy ignores is the old saying in marketing that there is no such thing as bad publicity. There is and we are seeing exactly WHY.
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  7950. I agree with an ISW article that said Ukraine should fight like Ukraine. The idea was that they should play to their strengths and supplement (NOT replace) it with NATO doctrine and equipment. They seem to have done that becoming a hybrid of Soviet and NATO. The author of that article further said that it is NATO who should be learning lessons from the Ukrainians.
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  7951.  @danieln6700  More like the mental patients are now running the asylum.
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  7952. It is how you act on it that can make it unlawful. If it is not based on merit but immutable characteristics, then that is where it is unjust.
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  7953. @ The spelling is the same, the pronunciation is different. Only those who speak "The King's English" pronounce it as "al-you-mini-uhm".
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  7954. I don't know about kicking them out, but Hungary and Turkey's membership should be put in either a "suspended" or "probation" status. In that they cannot block entry of a new member, nor can they have a representative as the chairman. The latter point also driving home the point that their ability to direct or have a say in strategic goals and objectives is also suspended.
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  7955.  @diktrejsi8214  Tade and commerce isn't stealing. The US hasn't stolen anything. Unless you believe in unhinged and psychotic cultural Marxist strawmen claims.
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  7956.  @LoveFactorySweatShop  Nelson Mandela proves otherwise. "Strike me down and I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine," -Obi-wan Kenobi, "Star Wars: A New Hope".
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  7957.  @LoveFactorySweatShop  So you are suggesting that the US is as autocratic under Biden as Russia is under Putin?
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  7958. 1: Machin is thinking about his constituents, certainly more than most of the GOP and all of the Dems. Those policies he blocked would have hurt the people hurt the citizens of West Virigina. You are just pissed he is actually being a statemen unlike most of the DC critters who are only out to line their own pockets. 2 Inflation occurs when there is more currency in circulation than there is goods. This massive printing of money with nothing to back in by the US Fed is devaluing the Dollar, which is the world's reserve currency. 3 Just because the treasure says so doesn't make it true. They have changed the inflation index no less than FIVE TIMES in the last ten years to hide how bad it really is. 4 Taxing the rich will never produce the revenues you think it will. Paradoxically lower rates INCREASE revenues. John F. Kennedy proved this. Reagan confirmed it. Trump codified it. Taxing the rich will only cause the rich to move to another country with a lower tax rate. 5 The child tax credit is just glorified welfare. And the purpose is nominally to encourage people to create MORE tax slaves (which is how the government views children who become adults). The system is a giant Ponzi scheme and the only way to keep it going is to create more suckers paying into the system (ie growing population). 6 I agree that Afghanistan was a debacle and there was not point to the waste of money we sunk into it. 7 COVID relief and infrastructure bills is just more graft and corporate welfare under the guise of an emergency. Never let a crisis go to waste.
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  7959. Well, and the irony is, used of those weapons actually prevented the total annihilation of the Yamato people. An unintended side effect, but one that has since paid dividends in the decades since.
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  7960. 'If You Voted For Biden And Don't Regret It, You're The Problem' - Jake Paul
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  7961.  @tsuchan  Then you are looking at presidential elections the wrong way. And that is YOUR problem, not mine. I HAVE voted FOR a candidate like liked. I have voted for a candidate that I didn't like but felt was more qualified for the job. That you choose to throw away your franchise is your loss, not mine.
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  7962.  @tsuchan  Your choice of words made it self-evident that you thought it was everyone's problem, INCLUDING MINE. But I get that you don't understand the very words you type and the unintended meaning you communicate when you speak in haste. To your second, while it may be true that your OPINION is subjective, presidential elections are anything but. And you choosing to look at them subjectively rather than objectively shows a certain flippancy. And don't move the goal posts about needing to agree on everything, that is a strawman argument used by apologists to justify their objectively bad choices. Nobody said you had to agree on the irrelevant issues. What matters is that you DO agree on the critical issues. Too many people say "I agree 80%" while blatantly ignoring that the 20% they disagree with is much more important than the 80%. As in fatal failure importance.
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  7963.  @tsuchan  Pot meet kettle. Just like a good acolyte of Saul Alinsky, you accuse your opposition of the very thing you are guilty of doing. Here is a hint: if you are attacking a person's cognitive abilities, you are engaging in an ad hominin logical fallacy, and it is tacit admission that you have lost the debate. "When your argument is weak, abuse the plaintiff," -Marcus Tullius Cicero.
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  7964. The problem is that most people don't understand the distinction between Atheist, Agnostic, Deist, and Non-Denominational.
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  7965. The media doesn't actually want to report that American opinion on Ukraine is nuanced. Most don't oppose sending OLD and soon to be retired equipment. What they are absolutely adamant about is putting boots on the ground in Ukraine. And most Americans are skeptical about sending cash, whereas medical supplies are much harder to launder.
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  7966. Hey now, they are into that cuckold fetish. The cultural vandals I mean.
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  7967. The press is a bunch of Ivory Tower elitists who can't be bothered to study warfare.
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  7968. @Stone Beetle 006 🏳️‍⚧️ Because it rewards the people who caused the problems and punishes the taxpayers who had nothing to do with it.
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  7969. @Stone Beetle 006 🏳️‍⚧️ Yes, they did. Why should the populace who are NOT responsible be forced to cover the losses caused by greedy bankers who extract from the system and put nothing of value into that system?
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  7970. @Stone Beetle 006 🏳️‍⚧️ Oh, I agree that those who foolishly invested in the banks should lose their shirts, but not the individual depositors. Do keep in mind that a nationalized bank does NOT prevent all of this, it simply means unaccountable and unelected bureaucrats are the ones making these very same bad choices. And yes, the taxpayer ALWAYS loses money because the bailout NEVER get repaid.
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  7971. There was an opportunity for that under Boris Yeltsin. But then Putin came to power.
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  7972.  @V01DIORE  You may have read my comment, but you didn't comprehend it. Soviet Pravda was the mouthpiece of the Kremlin. BBC is the mouthpiece of the British government. ANY government funded media is nothing more than an organ of pollical policy. And the American media are also no different than political organs with their incestuous relationship with politicians and elected officials. Putin is NOT stupid as Paul pointed out. He knows the game, being a old school Soviet. He knows that those legacy media are nothing more than propaganda outfits much like how he and his buddies use RT or Russian Pravda. So, with that context, your comment about Putin and legacy media sounds immature and naïve.
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  7973. @ Not really. Cruz's name came up as early as Gorsuch's nomination to replace Tony Scalia. The RINOs were all for it if only to get rid of Cruz from the Senate. Who is sounding ignorant now?
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  7974.  @LynetteFloyd  Of course Google/Youtube deletes my post. So let's try it again. Not really. Cruz's name came up as early as Gorsuch's nomination to replace Tony Scalia. The RINOs were all for it if only to get rid of Cruz from the Senate so they would not have to deal with him.
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  7975. Maybe thrid time trying to post is the charm. Cruz's name came up as early as Gorsuch's nomination to replace Tony Scalia. The RINOs were all for it if only to get Cruz out from the Senate.
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  7976.  @rjframe4410  Dodd-Frank CREATED the 2008 financial crisis, and this is a repeat of that. Glass-Stegal was put in place to prevent it until Dodd-Frank wiped out those protections.
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  7977.  @rjframe4410  No, it would not. It actually caused it. SVB is simply a repeat of the 2008 crisis due in no small part because the primary actors and players are the exact same people. Dodd-Frank is the cause of the problem. Before Dodd-Frank there were MUCH fewer bank failures, and they NEVER got this big. Glass-Stegal Act. Look it up and why Dodd-Frank demolished the protections that prevent these kinds of collapses.
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  7978.  @triggerwarning5762  Actually, I do. I know for a fact that it is a formulation first document and advocated for by Confucius, the Chinese philosopher and author of "The Analects". It is basically tit for tat. Pay good unto good done for you, but also pay evil unto evil done to you. Even TV Trope's page "Pay Evil unto Evil" acknowledges it as such.
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  7979.  @triggerwarning5762  First line of the page "Pay Evil unto Evil": The dark, logical corollary to The Golden Rule. Try to think outside your little cubicle in the matrix instead of just regurgitating platitudes like a good little prog.
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  7980.  @triggerwarning5762  "Deeper"? You realize that tropes are a storytelling device? And that the stories a society tells are a reflection of the culture? The entire field of anthropology is built on studying the stories and writings of cultures to glean useful information. In studying tropes, you study society. You may look down your nose, but that website has a better and more accurate take on the human condition than you will find on Wikipedia or in the Encyclopedia Brittanica. You learn more from people watching than you do in a classroom. TV tropes is basically people watching. You WILL learn more from that website than you ever will at a college or university. But, please, continue your elitism and goal post moving. It only discredits yourself.
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  7981.  @triggerwarning5762  I have made a case. You, however, are just acting like a contrary and petulant child.
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  7982. Which is funny because Trump IS Dave, going to Washington and actually making a difference, shaking up the establishment. Too bad most people would rather live in comfortable slavery to the feudalism of global elitists rather than the uncertainty of essential liberty.
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  7983. And when the SCOTUS and the Congress are united, the POTUS can't do a thing about it.
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  7984. Yeah, I stopped paying attention to her after her sit-com show's jokes stopped being funny. The Persian maintenance guy was the best part of that show.
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  7985. Funny how the dud rates are assumed to be the same when they are not. It is generous to give the Russian rate at 10% when I have seen evidence of it being as high as 40%. Contrast that with the US having it in the range of 2%. The US makes a point about having high reliability (ie low failure or dud rates), unlike some other defense industries.
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  7986. The housing bubble of 2008 plus what is going on now has artificially inflated the value of real estate. In the 1980s on your income you could afford a comfortable 4 bedroom home. But because of overpaid white collar tech "professionals", they have forced the blue collar out of the home owner cadre.
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  7987. Money doesn't buy votes. It buys name recognition. That is why Trump won in 2016: he didn't need the doner class. He really only needs them now to assist in the lawfare side.
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  7988. Putin wants ALL of Ukraine. His NovoRussiya philosophy proves that.
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  7989. There is a reason why Hoosiers insultingly call him "Mayor Buttplug". When he thinks his most important job qualification is his nocturnal bedroom activities, it made mockery of that fair game.
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  7990. Funny how quickly that people calling for disarmament conveniently ignore the failure of the Washington Naval Treaty.
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  7991. That is exactly what it is. Big Oppai envy.
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  7992.  @Zuluknob  Zelensky is a Jew. Nazis would never fight for a Jewish leader. Nobody is buying your Kremlin propaganda.
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  7993. Funny how that works these days doesn't it? The elites of socialist dystopias get fatter while their people starve to death. There was a line in the movie Spartacus about the worst dictators being skinny. They apparently never met the Kims of DPRK.
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  7994.  @Eric-jh5mp  Fair point. And I agree that a good patriarch (or matriarch is she was the brains behind the business) should teach their heir how to property manage the system. Even better when it is the grandchildren who are trained to run it and eventually inherit it directly.
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  7995.  @aoh4905  Funny how greed gets blamed for the evil of GLUTTONY. Consumption culture isn't greed, it is gluttonous. And for those who don't know the difference, the greedy tries to maintain value so will eat the oldest product first (even if it really should be thrown out). Gluttony hoards to the point of allowing perishables to go to waste (rot) just because they can.
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  7996. Mike Pence. He was actively sabotaging Trump much like Grimma Wormtounge in Lord of the Rings.
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  7997. And yet, Putin stole Crimea while Biden was directing Obama's foreign policy. Putin waited until Joe Bite-Me was in the White House before he invaded Ukraine. If Trump was Putin's agent, then why didn't Putin do ANY of that while Trump was in the White House? You don't have a rational answer that.
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  7998.  @Jeromeeb  So basically it was PENCE, not Trump that said it. Considering that Pence was to Trump what Grima Wormtongue was to King Theoden of Rohan in Lord of the Rings, that tells you how credible Pence is. And explains why NOBODY in the GOP likes him anymore.
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  7999.  @Ghoxtfire  Jeb was a Bush, DeSantis is not. Nobody wanted a Third Bush. Also, DeSantis said he is not running. Only nevertrumper RINOs are trying to get him to run in 2024. With how much money Disney is hemorrhaging, can you really claim that they are paying a billion in taxes? They have so many loophole in the tax law that they effectively pay zero. If WDW closes, it will be due to bankruptcy, by poor management not because of DeSantis.
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  8000. Or Sovereign power of the state. The fools at Disney seem to forget that DeSantis' lawyers have actually read the Federalist Papers.
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  8001. Some already have. Can you say, "The Orville"?
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  8002. Yeah, they don't like to talk about that being exactly what happened in the UK when they went to 90% marginal tax rates.
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  8003. "Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin good forces have invented or made” -J.R.R. Tolkien
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  8004. Indeed. That is where the SCOTUS failed under Roberts and Barrett. They basically sanctioned and endorsed it by permitting the cases against Trump to go forward after the November Election.
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  8005.  @anonymousone2843  Sad how they treat you like a leper. Or an AIDS patient during the 90s. These hacks don't seem to realize they are repeating recent medical discrimination.
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  8006.  @johnsavage7507  Yup, I am aware of that. And it was Tony Fauci who coined that term.
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  8007. Please keep in mind that Canada and Norway have been sending cold weather gear to Ukraine since August. I don't think the fighting will stop when the snow starts. If anything, it may actually increase. The Soviet Red Army made its greatest gains against the Wehrmacht during the Winter months. General Frost may very well favor the Ukrainians as the Russians are not properly equipped for even summer operations.
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  8008. Yeah, Hollywood studios are notorious for fraudulent accounting. Just look at the audit done for Star Trek 2: the Wrath of Khan. They tried to use the full cost for reused stock footage from the previous movie as an expense and got called on the carpet for it.
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  8009. Or gun ownership. I don't trust a foreign national to turn them on us on the orders of their government.
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  8010. The sad truth is that War is the continuation of Politics by other means. Your points are valid, but that means nothing to the man in the Kremlin. His ego is why this war is continuing. If he recalled his dogs of war, it would be over by the end of the month.
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  8011. If Grozny and the two Chechnya Wars are any indication, that is EXACTLY how the Kremlin view it. An opportunity to rearm and come back at Ukraine in 10 years.
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  8012. Seems that Google/Youtube doesn't like me pointing out the Chechnya Wars and why they prove Russia will reinvade Ukraine in 10-12 years.
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  8013. Indeed. Which is why the defendants still need to take their cases to court even if the government tries to drop the charges. Set the legal precedent that nothing is lawful until the act has been ratified.
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  8014. Bored housewives with nothing better to do that gossip like hens.
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  8015. I wish they would "peacefully protest" at her house.
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  8016.  @UnaliverOfChildren  The CIA is too busy going after American citizens to be bothered with attacking Russia. Besides, they are both too stupid and too incompetent at this point.
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  8017. Pence is Grima Wormtongue.
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  8018. Not that it is the same, but Hanja and Kanji are variations of the same pictographic script. An analogy is English and German.
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  8019. Indeed. And I bet they did not even touch on the sovereign power of the state. Namely, that Disney cannot monopolize authority granted to them by the government. Federalist Papers describes this exact situation, and the remedies for it. None of which are in Disney's favor
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  8020. Nope. Thye just resort to classic Soviet tactics and strategies, which are VERY easy to predict and hence defeat.
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  8021. Welcome to the party. Now convince your other friends to stop hating the man who stood up to the warmongers.
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  8022. Really? Because this Australian division is actually politically to the right of FoxNews. They are closer to One America News, Tucker Carlson, and Bill O'Reily.
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  8023. And that is the point. These people WANT to collapse the system because they think they will be able to seize power. They are no better than the Robespierre faction, and when you realize that Jacobin Magazine, which they regularly read, is named after the Robespierre faction, it starts to make sense why they do what they do.
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  8024. If sanctions don't work, then why has it been relatively successful with neutering Iran's Airforce? The point of sanctions is to make the cost of doing business more burdensome. It is basically economic warfare.
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  8025. Indeed. Classi example of an out of touch elitist. At least William earned the trust and loyalty of the men he served with.
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  8026.  @deedeemerry1295  Some truth to that. Ben Shapiro wants to BE the establishment. He is no different that Boromir trying to take Sauron's ring of power foolishly thinking he can control it.
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  8027.  @HaartieeTRUE  And yet Gypsies are only mostly in Europe with a diaspora population in the Americas. They are a subset of the Romani people who were wanderers within Europe in much the same way the Hakka were a wandering population within China. As pointed out elsewhere, their genetics are Indo-Ayrian. And while they do have many markers from India, by and large there has been so much Eastern European (ie Slavic) admixture, they are effectively a Europoid population.
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  8028.  @iamaloafofbread8926  Like what? Details, not bloviation. And "restore respect" is not a valid answer. Respect is EARNED not given. "Better to be feared than to be loved if you can't have both," -Niccolò Machiavelli.
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  8029.  @sthubbins4038  And then Obama continued that war. How about the Libyan airstrikes? Or demanding we go into Syria? Yeah, they only vote against it because they are not the ones with the power.
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  8030. What crime was committed? The banks got their money back. No victims here. You don't care about justice, you only care that your tribe wins at any cost, even if it burns the nation to ashes.
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  8031. Peter Schiff is part of the cabal that created the problem, so of course he has a solution. Only his solution doubles down on the problem. Glass Stegal is the ONLY solution that actually fixes the problem.
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  8032. The problem goes into the same reason why you don't use raw seawater to cool down a submarine or aircraft carrier nuclear reactor: corrosion. You NEED clean water to prevent build-up in the pipes. But I agree that if you can solve that problem, recirculation becomes a viable option.
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  8033. That is a major improvement over what it is now. Can you seriously claim that attacking the fans and trashing the medium is preferable to the website being a shill for Kadokawa products?
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  8034.  @ShadowAimai  I trust their greed to motivate them into doing right by the customer more than I do ideological zealots using fandoms as a skinsuit to push political agendas. For all if its flaws, greed is much more predictable and consistent than the alternatives.
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  8035. I seriously doubt you ever voted for Trump in the first place. I guarantee you that Every 2016 Trump voter voted for him again in 2020. How else would explain Trump getting MORE votes the second time around? Doesn't explain the Clintonflation though.
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  8036.  @danielch6662  You are delusional. China wants the whole pie and does NOT want to share. They have proven time and again with actions that they ARE willing to kill to take possession of those Islands.
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  8037.  @skgfuryf4569  The Kharkiv Plant. Same with the T-80s
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  8038. 60,000 feet is well above the operating height of a drone.
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  8039. That has a bigger impact than folks want to admit.
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  8040.  @michaelpettersson4919  Staged. Keep in mind that the Russians invented the term "Potemkin Village".
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  8041.  @amandaslough125  Are you only looking at the Anime or are you including the Manga? As is usually the case with most TV/Movie adaptations of print media, much of the world building details get condensed or left out. Such is the case with Demon Slayer, as well as many other fantasy anime such as DanMachi. I do agree that Tanjiro and Zenitsu are whiny little man-babies. But I think Tanjiro's relationship with his sister as well as the friendships he builds are deeper than you are giving credit. And his willingness to defy the Slayer Corp. leadership is more than just you classic rebel with or without a cause. And thank you for making a coherent rational argument based on merits as well as acknowledging the infantile behavior of alkk oor.
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  8042.  @quiz45bixx  Trump didn't mandate the vax. That was the states and the private businesses.
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  8043. Yeah, how many people has Disney already laid off? That threat is not nearly as powerful as you make it out.
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  8044. If the policy was drafted on his direct orders, then he needs to be held to account.
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  8045. I agree with roads along with that hydroelectric dam. I also believe that after upgrading their medical system, they should also invest in water purification and sanitation. Doing that will put Guyana in a position to become the Singapore of South America.
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  8046.  @joshjwillway1545  Evidence? Source of that claim? More KGB/Kremlin propaganda ala Operation: Infektion.
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  8047.  @Bolsonaro_em_Haia  You are conflating Theodore Roosevelt with both Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt.
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  8048.  @absolutegalaxybrain4274  I don't disagree with you about the mistreatment of the enlisted corp by both this administration as well as the flag officers. That being said, there ARE way too many greenhorn troops that are just naive about the oath to the constitution. They haven't yet internalized that some orders are meant to be defied. They have not yet realized that there are some issue where one should demand to be court-martialed rather than obey. Even the NCOs have become corrupt and are unwilling to demand a court-martial for disobeying unlawful and unconstitutional orders.
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  8049. They are a bunch of Ivory Tower elitists with no real-world experience. Nor can they be bothered to do their due diligence regarding studying warfare.
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  8050.  @andrewlaake6189  You are falling into the false choice dilemma that communists want you to believe. Fascism is NOT right of Communism, it is right beside it on the horseshoe of politics. In practice there is ZERO difference between Nazis and Soviets. Indeed, Auschwitz was modeled after Stalin's Gulags.
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  8051.  @thomaslunde5014  Got to love how these woke activists and anti-colonialist don't think out their arguments. Nor the fact that they are direct beneficiaries of that which they complain about. Further, it is funny how the supposed crimes of an Italian (Columbus) working for the Spanish Empire are placed at the feet of America. It shows intellectual laziness on their part.
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  8052.  @GerrardPique2010  WRONG. Slaves are NOT settlers. Get your facts straight. And yes, the IRISH were slaves, particularly the ones who fought against Cromwell and were captured at Dunbar. It was YOU who chose to engage in the Anglophobic anti-colonialist arguments. Konigsberg has ALWAYS been German, It was Stalin who evicted the German population of the city just like he did the Tartars of Crimea that turned the city Russian. Stop being intellectually dishonest.
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  8053.  @danielallan8061  I'm not advocating for the city to be given back to Germany. Either Gorbachev or Yeltsin offered to give it back in the last 80s/early 90s but the German government declined. What I would rather see is it become the Singapore of the Baltic. Singapore is an independent city that blends Chinese and British culture and is a trade city. Konigsberg could likewise be a trade city combining German, Russian, Polish, and Lithuanian culture yet being outside of the jurisdiction of any nation. Think Luxembourg or Lichtenstein.
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  8054.  @engliterra355  If Russia implodes and balkanizes like Yugoslavia, do you really think Moscow can maintain control over the city?
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  8055.  @tilapiadave3234  See? Now you are just as racist as those who put out signs that said, "Irish need not apply".
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  8056.  @zoranilic9450  To you have a point or are you just going to troll?
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  8057. The BBC is basically the mouthpiece of the British government. So in effect, she would be suing the government itself. I do agree with you though. Make the people realize they are paying for this madness with their taxes.
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  8058.  @Cortalpsychmajor  You are making a distinction WITHOUT a difference. Do keep in mind that shrapnel in the face is VERY common these days. I can't go into a Starbucks without seeing at least one barista with either a Cow ring in their nose or a lip ring.
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  8059. Always at to deflect from the failing domestic agenda. What better way to cover up your own incompetence than to create an "other" enemy you can rally the people against?
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  8060. Free Trade is the Globalist's wet dream. Globalism cannot occur without it.
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  8061. Tell that to Trump. Tell that to Todd Akin. Tell that to Dan Rather.
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  8062. Liberate JUDEA!
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  8063. His hospital orderlies, I mean staffers are the ones calling the shots.
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  8064. They won't. He doesn't fit their communist agenda.
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  8065. Indeed. Aramaic didn't have its own script, it used either Greek or Hebrew for writings.
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  8066. Yeah, he is kind of myopically focused on that, not considering the possibility that the "leaks" may be intentional on the part of Fox News leadership in a poor attempt to destroy Tucker.
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  8067. Yeah, there were fifth columns in the west during WW2, but they were not Japanese. Most were German and Italian but were quickly identified by intel such as MI-5. Western counterintelligence puts former KGB to shame. Only Mossad is better at that game than the West.
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  8068. Biden's first term was Obama's third term. Biden's entire White House team worked for Obama. This time people go to see what Obama's policies were WITHOUT being blinded by the race card.
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  8069.  @williamalexander9485  Actually, it does. You just refuse to accept reality. Time to put down the Vodka.
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  8070.  @williamalexander9485  It took Russia 10 years to take Advika from Ukraine after the UAF retook it in 2014 from Putin's "Little Green Men". Tell me again how Ukraine is losing, and Russia is winning.
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  8071. Biden is Obama's third term.
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  8072. Operation Ketsu-Go. It rarely gets talked about.
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  8073. I think that was the episode "Peak Performance", and it was to Data who had a crisis of confidence after losing a game of Strategema.
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  8074. Exactly. The people who cause the 2008 financial crisis orchestrated this current banking crisis. They are like locusts who devour everything, moving from one institution to another leaving disaster in their wake.
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  8075.  @graemepeters5717  NONE of those things you listed as pilot error caused the plane to shatter like glass. ONLY THE WALL caused that fireball and turned this accident into a deadly disaster. Stop trying to deflect from the one factor responsible for the fatalities.
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  8076. They didn't learn a damn thing from the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the 90s.
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  8077. It is funny how you think white as the only colonizers. Japan was a colonizing power in the 1920 and 30s. China was a colonizer in antiquity. Ever heard of Zheng He's treasure Fleet? They demanded tribute from East African kingdoms before the Age of Exploration.
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  8078. Fortunately, UAE has condemned Hamas. And many of the other Abraham Accord signers are done with the Palestinians. Jordan certainly wants nothing to do with them since the Dawson Field Hijackings of 1970.
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  8079.  @glitchinthematrix9306  Put down the vodka comrade, you are so drunk you are hallucinating.
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  8080. My guess is they actually looked at the data in the polls and noticed the 16% bias in favor of democrats in the sample.
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  8081.  @thefool3424  They have a fiduciary duty to hand over everything Elon asked for. You seem to forget that the fiduciary obligation works both ways.
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  8082.  @thefool3424  You didn't actually read the agreement did you?
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  8083. The problem is that ESG is now tanking these companies. Bud Light and Target swallowed the EGS pill and now they are choking on it.
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  8084. Unfortunately, the Japanese are not very open to giving citizenship to people who are not ethnically Japanese. Take a look at how they treat their Zainichi Koreans. Your best bet is to marry a Japanese national.
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  8085.  @cluppip  Best of luck. I am not knocking the Japanese, I actually have great respect for them and their culture. As far as protects themselves, do keep in mind that their national defense, particularly against Chinese and North Korean aggression relies heavily on the US. The JSDF is not nearly as strong as some might think. And that has more to do with their Constitution hamstringing them and public opposition to military spending.
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  8086. Indeed. Destroying Russian combat power is a greater long-term success than simply recapturing land. They failed to destroy it during the Kherson advance and so are facing it now in Zaporizhia.
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  8087. I have heard about delusional fantasies, but Iger's hallucinations take the cake.
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  8088. False flag operations, just like they did when they murdered the Azov steel plant POWs.
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  8089. Russian leadership certainly uses their troops as if they were roaches. I pity the enlisted man and the conscript.
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  8090. North Korea isn't going to mess with China's balloon. Neither would Russia. As long as it remained West of Japan as it traveled north with the Jet Stream, it can get to the US without crossing hostile territory.
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  8091.  @Doubleranged1  I seriously doubt that there is too much nitrogen in the soil. Alfalfa is planted specifically to INCREASE soil nitrogen and prevent depletion; the node in the roots contain nitrogen fixing bacteria. It is clear that the politicians and bureaucrats in Brussels don't have a clue about farming nor basic botany. Again, city urban liberals trying to tell farmers how to do their job. And the results are always the same: from China's Great Leap Forward Famine to the Ukrainian Holodomor. Never dictate to a farmer how to do his job.
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  8092. "Very little separates man from the animals. And most people throw that away," -Confucius Author of "The Analects". Yes, that is a dangerous mindset. But when you act like a rabid dog, don't be surprised when you get treated like one.
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  8093. Unlikely that they would use the names of their Super Battleships for mere destroyer-escorts. I could see them using those names for Heavy Command Cruisers (which have basically replaced the WW2 battleship).
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  8094. Asians are "white adjacent" in the eyes of these people.
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  8095. Wow, really? Watching a little too much RT News? You do realize that Ukraine's president is a Jew?
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  8096. F-117 nighthawk has been out of service for over a decade now. I doubt there are even any still in flying condition.
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  8097. I especially love the one with Pharaoh Rameses frowning at us thinking the Wuhan Virus is as bad as the ten plagues.
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  8098. Yeah, cutting your nose off despite your face doesn't solve problems, it makes it worse. Just because US companies leave doesn't mean that a viable domestic one will spring up in its place. More likely than not, a government financed replacement with all of the associated nepotism and corruption will replace it.
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  8099.  @miroslavhoudek7085  "Every GOP administration"? Spare me, the GOP doesn't dismantle government, they merely hold the growth of those ABC agencies where they are at the time they take power. Not ONCE has the GOP EVER disbanded or abolished a single government agency. Not Reagan, nor Trump. And the reason why private sector union membership have collapsed is because of the corruption. Those organizations have become more concerned about power than actually serving their members. What happens when you achieve all of the stated goals? Does the organization fade into obscurity? No, they find another reason to justify their existence. If they don't have one, they make one up.
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  8100. And it is about to get worse with the Crimean Bridge out of commission.
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  8101. Indeed. I disagreed with most of what he believed. I was willing to stand with him because his critics were a far greater danger (enemy of my enemy is a natural ally, but not a friend). His capitulation to the mob shows that he doesn't deserve any support now.
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  8102. Exactly! This is pure bluster on Iger's part.
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  8103. I prefer to call her the Aryan Princess. After all, the Jew haters of the 1930s loved using Blonde, blue eyed, rosy cheek girls like her to push their propaganda.
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  8104. More like Aryan Princess. She matches the preferred phenotype of 1930s German National Socialists.
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  8105. Keep dreaming. The Russians have spent months trying to take the city. It will not fall so easily.
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  8106. Funny how the European elites hated Bolton in the 2000s, but now that he is anti-Trump, they just love him.
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  8107. Do keep in mind that Pathfinder can also be woke. But fortunately, you can choose to ignore it in your game. Don't believe me on Woke in Pathfinder? Look at the campaign path "Wrath of the Righteousness" and tell me that the NPCs are not pushing elements of queer lesbian/bi-sexual ideology. Hell, every adventure or campaign has at least one character shilling the ideology.
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  8108. Nothing in business ever sells for original asking price. Do you ever pay sticker price for your car? How about sticker price for your home?
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  8109. The UN is a playground for tyrants and despots. The last time they ever did anything of consequence was in 1950 during the Korean War. After that it became nothing more than a symposium for grandstanding by world leaders.
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  8110.  @sabbasdsouza  China does as well. Beijing and Moscow are cut from the same Marxist cloth.
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  8111. That landing aside from not having landing gear was practically perfect. It was the cement wall a mere 150 meters from the end of the runway that turned it into a deadly crash.
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  8112. Russia can produce shells but not at the rate of consumption. THAT is why they are begging for ammo from North Korea. Compare munitions expenditures from the first year of the war to now and it has dropped to less than a third.
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  8113.  @MelissiaBlackheart  No it isn't. Democracy is the tyranny of the majority WITHOUT any respect for the rights of the minority with the smallest minority being that of the individual. A Repulic respects the rights of the individual and protects them from the whims of the fickle mass.
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  8114.  @alexlarsen6413  I don't disagree about the unconstitutional actions of the US government. And yes, the military is corrupted because all of the Flag officers are just as shit as Russian generals (both Tsarist Russia and Putin's Russia). The whole "Democratic" is an obfuscation that demagogues love to use to muddy the water.
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  8115.  @alexlarsen6413  I agree that the US government is acting completely unconstitutionally. I also agree that the Army is corrupt because the flag officers are all as worthless as a Russian general (Both Tsarist Russia and Putin's Russia). As far as "democratic", that is an obfuscation by demagogues who want to muddy the water. Republic by definition means laws that protect the minority, specifically the smallest minority: the individual.
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  8116.  @emmettkeyser1110  Don't need parity for MAD. The fact one side of the cold war outnumbered the other by a factor of ten (the US initially, the USSR towards the end) makes "parity" in number of weapons pointless. The real factor to make MAD credible is the ability to ensure a fatal counterstroke. That is where nuclear boomer subs really shine. You only need ONE to survive the first strike and it will guarantee that the survivors don't get to enjoy their victory for long. That is where the UK's nuclear deterrence really shines.
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  8117.  @bkh8528  Dr. Strangelove IS satire. It is a shame YOU don't understand that. The whole part about selecting those with the best "sexual characteristics" to be given priority in shelters should have been a dead giveaway. Kubrick may be a good storyteller, but he is hardly an expert on the topic. A Dilettante at best. The poster who said "satire I hope" was referring to the OP's "more the better".
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  8118.  @emmettkeyser1110  You don't need parity to achieve MAD. You just need to have the ability to guarantee a successful counterstroke. That is where the nuclear ballistic submarine fleets come into play. They have the best survival in a nuclear arms exchange. And nuclear subs are the primary component of the British Nuclear Deterrent.
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  8119.  @emmettkeyser1110  Now you are just pulling out terms to try and sound smart without actually succeeding. It is clear you are a dilettante on the subject. Nuclear Triad is a doctrine regarding deterrence, NOT Mutually Assured Destruction. The concepts are NOT exclusive to each other. You can have MAD without a Triad and you can have a Triad without MAD. Yes, the UK and France work win concert with the US, but they are NOT subject to the POTUS regarding their use. In that Russia has THREE people to worry about, not just one. Just because you placate the US and UK doesn't mean that France is dissuaded from using theirs. Also, the UK doesn't need to completely destroy Russia as you falsely assume. They just need to have enough to cut the head off the snake. It is clear you have never played actual wargames such as Risk, Axis and Allies, or War in the Pacific (board game). Your knowledge is limited to pop culture interpretations which fall far short.
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  8120. Japan sent bomb balloons towards the US in WW2.
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  8121.  @highcouncil1302  actually, it does. It proves that a certain group of people didn't learn a damn thing from the AIDS epidemic in the early 90s. The similarities between the spread of Monekypox today and HIV has some glaring parallels that certain people don't want to acknowledge.
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  8122.  @highcouncil1302  How? By engaging in the EXACT SAME BEHAVIORS? No, nothing was learned because HIV rates in that particular community is just as high as they were in the 90s at the high of the AIDS epidemic.
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  8123. My father A SAILOR also described the same situation when he was standing on one of the wings of the bridge on the USS Elliot.
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  8124.  @rejvaik00  Something tells me it is the word describing the action of rotating the card that is patented/copyright. Many other card games rotate cards to signify they are no longer usable during a game round.
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  8125. Remind the left that their Hero Nelson Mandela was also convicted and sent to Prison. The left is just giving Trump street credit in the Hood.
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  8126. Apparently, you not aware that Arab Muslims are part of the ruling coalition government in the Israeli Knesset.
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  8127.  @brunolima7402  Considering that most Italians think they are too good to make Pizza, it is actually Libyan chefs in Italy catering to American tourists who make the pizzas there.
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  8128. I agree. The only "ex-marines" are the ones kicked out for bad conduct such as theft. All others are "former"(ie honorably separated) or "retired".
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  8129. Because government is the last refuge for the incompetent whose ideas would never carry on their own without the implicit threat of force.
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  8130. There are two critical flaws in BRICS that people fear mongering don't care to acknowledge: First is that major members such as India and China are geopolitical rivals who don't particularly like each other. Second is that aside from India, most of the members are economic basket cases with unstable economies. And some of them also engage in currency manipulation which undermines the purpose of BRICS.
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  8131.  @vinct7023  Indeed. It is NATO that effectively enforces compliance with the Montreux Convention; anyone who violates the rights of Türkiye invites the country to invoke article 5 of the NATO charter. That and the threat of Stalin putting pressure on Turkiye for special rights to the straits for the USSR is why they joined NATO.
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  8132.  @dr.bobhumfree1371  Trump didn't set the cities on fire, the left did in their unhinged derangement of him. That isn't Trump's fault, that is exclusively theirs.
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  8133. Name one. You can't because there was no crime. Paying hush money is something politicians do all the time and are NEVER prosecuted for it. Even Fareed Zakaria acknowledged that this is a farce.
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  8134. Oh, but that is where you got it backwards. It could be easily argued that by not complying with their side of the agreement, Twitter was in breach. That is why discovery in court is so critical. Evidence may come out showing insider trading on Twitter's part which absolves Elon of guilt and puts it back on the board of directors.
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  8135.  @lucariomew358_2  Wow, proof by verbosity huh? And I think you are making a lot of assumptions. When the Twatter defenders were hemming and hawing about he wouldn't buy, then he would, now they are demanding that he pay? It is clear that they are over a barrel and the know it. Their desperation is plain for all to see.
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  8136.  @lucariomew358_2  Corporate games of chicken happen all the time. Or have you forgotten the Cola Wars? Or the Fast-Food Wars for that matter?
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  8137. Part one was very interesting. It would be nice to contrast China's boom with Japan's boom in the 1970-80s before their "lost decade", especially as the Japanese went through something of a real estate glut much like China. A video showing where the two countries differed in their approaches would be greatly appreciated.
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  8138. Not just military. Being called a giga-Chad in the anime community is a major complement.
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  8139. Something tells me they do NOT want to go through what Jordan did in the 1970s and Lebanon in the 1980s.
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  8140. Not even "jokes". Though that would mean the end of gallows humor.
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  8141.  @faustsin9366  I think alkk oor is something of a troll. All he can talk about is that Ufotable owns it. Can't come up with any other possibility.
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  8142. Indeed. She rode the tiger, and now the tiger is trying to eat her.
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  8143. The idea that only the poor serve in the military is a gross misunderstanding of the US military. It is actually a VERY accurate cross-section of the US both ethnically and socio-economically. But I do agree with you that politicians who vote to send soldiers off to war should have their own children be part of the vanguard that leads the charge into the fight.
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  8144. Government is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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  8145. Agreed. Too many freeloaders in NATO. Poland and the former Warsaw Pact members are the only ones honoring the obligations of the NATO charter. The only non-Warsaw Pact nation(not counting the US) that even comes close is the UK.
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  8146. And it probably always will. Confucius said that life is very simple, but people keep insisting on making it overly complicated. The convolution in the CCCP system is by design.
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  8147. Yeah, and we are just going to ignore the cement wall a mere 150 meters from the end of the runway? Had that not been there, the plane could have slid another 1.08KM until it entered the Bay.
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  8148. Folks in the West DID say it would not happen. Putin never believed them.
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  8149. They simply add zeros to bank accounts. Not much different than what Weimar Germany tried to do to settle its accounts. And we all know what happened next.
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  8150.  @teaser6089  Warmonger Nikki? You have to be joking. You want more of the same Bush era policies?
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  8151. Didn't even bother to do your due diligence. Elon Musk isn't even censoring them instead allowing Hamas to hang themselves with their foolish broadcasting of their atrocities.
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  8152. Indeed, That flag officers push diversity sensitivity programs to cover their blunders and buck for promotion has had a deleterious effect on the military.
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  8153.  @maloted1111  I hope you are being sarcastic about actually liking that. It is stuff like that which cause me to realize the real enemy wasn't Haji in the Middle East but our own leadership.
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  8154.  @ДанисСкорыга  Learn and adapt? You mean like they did at Verbote doing into the same ambush five times with the same result?
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  8155.  @ДанисСкорыга  And discounting a source just because it is pro-Ukrainian is also a bad idea. Don't fall for the "shoot the messenger" fallacy.
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  8156. Hence why NATO is a thing. NATO allows non-nuclear nations to not fear a nuclear power because the US, UK, and France all have nukes to answer for them.
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  8157.  @MrDevDkn  No, the Ukraine is not, but they wanted to join at one time. NATO members dragged their feet because they didn't want to provoke Putin, kind of like how they didn't want to provoke a certain German Chancellor some 90 years prior. Which goes back kind of to your point, either a country joins a nuclear armed defense organization or they develop their own nukes. One is much easier to do than the other.
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  8158. We didn't. The government simply gamed the numbers and changed how they are recorded in order to pretend that there was a recovery.
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  8159. To quote Megyn Kelly, "She is a Pig!".
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  8160. The Biden administration has been slow-rolling Ukraine since day one.
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  8161.  @jdad39  If it was over on day one, then why does Kiev still stand independent of the Kremlin?
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  8162.  @eeegon  Nice thought, but totally naive. Arguably ALL Slavic peoples are cousins. yet Putin has managed to unite almost the entire Slavic world (sans Russia itself) against him. Yes, people in the Balkans who has historically fought each other are united for the first time in centuries, and NOT under the bootheel of a dictator like Josef Broz Tito.
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  8163. So many witch and hag jokes there. Too little time.
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  8164. Because no side wanted to escalate to an eventual conclusion. They forgot how to WIN wars.
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  8165. Which is really sad because I have seen some really heroic and dare I say, macho versions of both classes (Gandalf or Thomdril Merrilin respectively). It is all in how the role is used. Play it for a farce and it will be a farce. Play it for greatness and it may just surprise you.
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  8166.  @skytiger23  My point is that a good story doesn't let arbitrary rules and expectations define them. In the Legend of the 5 Rings, the Ikoma Bard school produces what could be martially inclined warrior-poets in a manner similar to the Celtic tradition. Then you have the Viking Skalds who were also warriors that also chanted and sang epic stories on the battlefield to encourage their comrades in arms. The point is, the misconception about Bards being spoony and weak is WoTC pigeonholing them based on their own myopic idea of what constitutes a Bard. As for the Wizard, there are entire pages on TV Tropes dedicated to maritally inclined spellcasters from the Kung-Fu Wizard to the Mage Knight. Odin of Norse Mythology is great example.
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  8167.  @skytiger23  That is merely opinion. And opinions are like buttholes.
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  8168. All the more reason why copyright protections are way too long. Ironically, Public domain is the ONLY way to protect them as when was the last time you saw Dr. Frankenstein (and his monster) or Dracula as an ethnic minority and not Eastern European?
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  8169. Indeed. Thye ignore all of the forensics and ballistics data that conclusively prove the origin of the bullets.
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  8170.  @JC-ql3ld  While I agree with most of your positions, the WASP part was completely uncalled for. White Anglo-Saxon Protestants tend to be MORE favorable to Taiwan. It is the militant atheist elites who are favorable to Red China and would leave Formosa out in the cold.
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  8171. I suspect they are trying to bank on the Streisand effect to GET views. Only it will blow up in their face the way a listeria contaminated food product does when the distributor doesn't recall.
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  8172. Alibis are going to become the gold standard again. Which is more believable: five witnesses swearing under oath and threat of imprisonment that the accuse was with them at the time of the crime or the doctored photo?
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  8173. Well, the logistical factors for a Russian win have been grossly overblown. The failed siege of Kiev revealed to the world how terrible the Russians are at supplying their forces. And Demographics can be countered with force multipliers such as equipment, tactics, terrain, and morale.
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  8174. At first I was worried that sending Trump to Rikers would be an attempt to Epstein him. I think at this point, the inmates would be defending him from the corrupt guards.
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  8175. The problem is there are too many squishy RINOs who will defect to the Democrats.
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  8176. Describing what we call "Californication" here in the US. When lefty Californians bring their deleterious politics to flyover states.
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  8177. Washington Naval Treaty tried to do the same with Battleships and Cruisers. Failed to prevent WW2.
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  8178. You have pathetically low standards to like her. The Aryian Princess look is so 1930s Germany.
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  8179. Pepperidge Farm Remembers. So do elephants, because they never forget.
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  8180. Don't forget the old-fashioned alibi. For the longest time, a photo could prove an alibi was false. But in an era where pictures themselves can be faked; the alibi once again becomes the iron-clad evidence.
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  8181. Didn't even bother to watch the whole video huh? It is reported that there will be no white males and the lead is also non-binary. If that doesn't scream woke as a joke, you need to get your head examined.
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  8182.  @mrjerzheel  Because the US doesn't manufacture Soviet caliber munitions. The US doesn't make replacement parts for Warsaw Pact equipment. Try to keep up.
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  8183. And they will get litigated to hell if they do. Trying that will get "gun free zones" struck down as unconstitutional when that one gets to the SCOTUS.
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  8184. All 50 states have exemptions for rape and incest, even Ohio. The reason for crossing state lines was to avoid a police report; they were trying to cover up a crime.
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  8185.  @CaballusKnight  Yeah, wikipedia has been caught red handed laundering opinion pieces as if they were objective facts. Just look at their treatment of Santorum or Tim Pool.
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  8186. She represents the mental deficiency of the electorate that voted for her. What should be embarrassing is that it humiliates Asians everywhere.
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  8187. Sure, blame the victim for being a vicitm.
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  8188.  @vze23b6p  And look up the flag of 1932 Palestine. It has the Star of David. We can go back and forth all day.
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  8189.  @vze23b6p  You told me to look the history of that slogan, so I countered by pointing out something similar. If you think I wasn't making a point, then by your own metric neither did you. Learn to debate. And to code.
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  8190. The real person was a retainer, not an actual Samurai.
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  8191.  @ShapeshifterOS  But this is based off of NOTHING. They took the name and skin color of a real person and then completely fabricated everything else. There is a word for that: cultural appropriation. Even the Japanese are calling this out.
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  8192. Delusional fantasy. The Dems want Jameica Kamala to replace Biden.
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  8193. "Revenge is a dish best served cold. And it is very cold IN SPACE!" -Ricardo Montalbahn as Khan Noonien Singh; Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan. Accountability looks like revenge to the corrupt.
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  8194.  @richardlafleur8389  Indeed. As he clamped down in Ottawa, Quebec City and Toronto spurn up. Then Calgary. I would say he is playing whack a mole, but then that is insulting to moles.
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  8195. Indeed. The power Disney wields in Reedy Creek is derived from the sovereign power of the state. They WILL lose on Constitutional grounds.
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  8196.  @samiam4544  That was the FBI and DOJ breaking federal law by even taking pictures. You don't even realize when you are witnessing a crime in front of you!
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  8197. Agreed. Stakeholder as it is being used is simply the new proletariat under Leninism.
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  8198.  @sommebuddy  Bui doi. Literally "dust of the Earth". And yes, the half-black hapas in Vietnam had it FAR worse than the half white kids. It is why the critics of Operation: Babylift are dead wrong. Those that got to be adopted in the West had a MUCH better life than those who didn't get out.
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  8199. I don't think she is a real person. A California college would teacher her to hate the military for being "baby killers". I'm sure you as a vet know exactly what I am talking about.
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  8200.  @ricardoospina5970  No, but "if it bleeds, it leads" IS the media's doom and gloom.
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  8201. Hamas controls Gaza. Fatah controls the portions of the West Bank inhabited by Palestinians. The two are effectively as separate as East Pakistan was from West Pakistan after the first war with India.
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  8202. "Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin good forces have invented or made” -J.R.R. Tolkien.
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  8203.  @dragonesryan282  I was stationed in South Korea from 2009-2011. I saw a much different presentation of Korean history than you imply. Yes, they are obsessed about the 35-year brutal occupation by Japan. But beyond that, there is a certain pride, not victim mentality in Korean history. particularly their defeat of the Japanese in the Imjin War over Hideyoshi.
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  8204.  @stevenx399  The Chi-Coms have already declared they will reunite Taiwan with the Mainland before the 100th anniversary of the conclusion of the Chinese Civil War. It is not a matter of if but WHEN.
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  8205.  @stevenx399  Taiwan is never going to conquer the mainland. That is a fool's dream. Why it IS our concern has to do with our number four trading partner (number one before our politicians sold us out): Japan. If Taiwan falls, South Korea and Japan soon follow. If you don't think that the loss of them won't have a major impact on the US economy, then you don't know who supplies your fancy technology.
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  8206. Yes, we win the logistics/attrition war, but that doesn't help if the generals don't know how to fight. Logistics didn't win Vietnam nor Afghanistan.
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  8207.  @f1champ551  Until they Californicate Louisiana. I say let them rot in their cesspool.
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  8208. @ Apple is already banned in China, so what is your point? And before you bloviate, products that resemble Apple are permitted, but only under strong controls by the CCP.
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  8209. Equipment, training, terrain, and morale will act as force multipliers that make those greater numbers meaningless. Particularly in winter when the Russians are not properly equipped for cold weather combat.
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  8210. Paul, I think you are grossly underestimating the Ukrainians. If the guys on the ground think they can hold the line, let them. This whole "the experts say Bakhmut should be abandoned!" sounds an awful lot like the claims that Kiev would fall in three days. While I understand the concerns about getting overconfident, the fact that greenhorn Ukrainian troops are holding off what is left of Russia's elites and exacting a 7 to 1 kill ratio means that even with heavy casualties, they are still pulverizing the Russian War machine.
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  8211. @HanselManCan Sure, that is what they all say.
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  8212. Most didn't really care as they were the unactivated, uninterested neutrals. But you can bet now that after the double wham of Wuhan Lockdown insanity and liberal scolding they WILL vote for him just to spite the people who chastised them.
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  8213. Russian nukes are more likely to detonate in the silo like they did on K-129. The sinking of the Moskva calls into question the legitimacy of the Russian nuclear threat.
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  8214. I really like the historic dramas, which draw on good source material, namely Korean history and real people with real motivations and goals. That being said, my wife got me into the shows "Descendants of the Sun" and "My Princess".
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  8215.  @NickSteffen  Which isn't socialist. It is right wing capitalism. Socialism by definition is centrally controlled and planned command economy, while free-trade and Laissez-faire is capiitalist.
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  8216.  @wh34t_  You have clearly never read Karl Marx, Vlad, Lenin, Chairman Mao, or Pol Pot. Socialism by definition REJECTS private property ownership. "Workers seizing the means" is just a fancy way of saying theft of property which is the lynchpin of a successful economy. Without property rights, NOTHING can function properly. Instead of simply repeating empty slogans, how about you look at the country who have "Socialist" in their name. Most of the ones in Central and Eastern Europe will tell you EXACTLY what Socialism is because they lived under it. Incidentally, the Trucker and Farmer protests ARE the "workers revolution" you call for, but one that REJECTS your ideology and proposals.
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  8217. Indeed. Operation Faustschlag and the Battle of the Bulge both occurred in winter.
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  8218. Then why were they not there in Kursk to being with? Putin got caught with his pants down!
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  8219.  @georgesibley7152  It would appear that Putin ended up out playing himself. He tried to pull a Patton Fake Army complete with inflatable tanks in Kursk only for Ukraine to take it so seriously, they went on the offense in a preemptive strike.
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  8220. That will not solve the problem, it will simply make the government become the biggest drug dealer.
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  8221.  @b12n23  Is it? You have no idea how deep the NATO stockpiles actually are. And when Russian stockpiles pulled out of deep storage are 80-90% unusable, that makes your claims about Russia farcical. Also, Russian has proven times and again that they absolutely SUCK at logistics. Yes, when they have rails they can keep up, but as the channel PERUN has demonstrated, the rot and corruption in the Russian military combined with their inability to properly equip those on the front lines with what they really need and suddenly the Russian Bear looks Geriatric.
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  8222.  @levelazn  You mean the ANTIFA folks who were the ones who busted windows? Doo keep in mind, the capitol police LET THEM IN. Hell, the officers were even posing for photos until one of them murdered Ashli Babbitt. But once again, you prove that you believe in psychotic delusional fantasies. NOBODY besides the ANTIFA activists saw themselves as rioters. They were simply citizens exercising their first amendment right to assemble and protest, not that you actually care about those rights.
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  8223.  @levelazn  Pot meet kettle. You keep parroting the completely debunked myths of the liberal progressive establishment. But that is typical. Tell me, how much money is Georgie Boy Soros paying you? Your lack of creativity in your arguments shows you are using one of his canned scripts rather than coherent throughs.
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  8224.  @levelazn  No, you can't admit that you are clinging to an urban legend created by the power mongers to fool you into submitting to their fascism. But then that is to be expected from a good Soviet lickspittle.
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  8225.  @simonjones9455  The US NEVER controlled China. Mao was always his own man. If the US really did control "The Middle Kingdom", then it would have been Chaing Kai-Shek and the Kuomintang that won the Chinese Civil War in 1949. We don't hate the Chinese people; we just detest the totalitarianism of the Red Government. I think you are conflating Greed with GLUTTONY. The two while similar are NOT the same. Gluttony is about consumption while greed is about hoarding. Greed seeks to maintain value and so tries to be efficient while gluttony is wasteful. Why you are correct that the US is choking on its own vices, that doesn't mean we are finished. And by racism, if you mean liberal-progressive racism fanning the flames of strife, you are correct. If you mean racism against minorities, then you are clearly suffering from a psychotic delusional fantasy.
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  8226.  @simonjones9455  And your anti-white bigotry is blatant for all to see. For all of your arguments of colonial domination, you are just as guilty of it but in reverse direction. Anti-colonialism is simply fashionable racism against whites in exactly the same way anti-Zionism is fashionable anti-Semitism PS, my wife is Chinese-Indonesian. Which means my sons are bi-racial. Wokescolds like you don't have a response to the fact that my heirs are NOT white. But I expect you to make yet another racist disparagement about white men marrying Asian women.
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  8227.  @simonjones9455  Except, your own words betray your true colors. Anti-West IS anti-White. You talk about not dominating other peoples and yet it is the West and western ideals of liberty and democracy that sets people free. To be anti-West is to be against liberty and self-autonomy. It is to advocate for totalitarianism. Oh, and my wife speaks Hakka, not Mandarin. Though she is also fluent in Teochew. "The lady doth protest too much, me thinks," -Queen Gertrude; Act 3 scene 2; Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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  8228.  @isomerize  Funny, because the SOCTUS is NOT infallible as you would pretend. The SCOTUS ruled on Dred Scott case denying him personhood. The SCOTUS ruled under Plessy vs. Ferguson that segregation was legal. Also, the CBP Union has said they will not oppose the Texas Guard. Biden has already lost control of his subordinates.
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  8229. Yeah, she should have known better than to pander to the freakshow crowd who just wanted to use her for their own selfish ends.
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  8230. I knew it sounded vaguely familiar.
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  8231. That is Kremlin propaganda not supported by anything. Even the Indians don't believe those numbers.
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  8232.  @jp1431  Funny, because Palestinians are just Arabs no different from the Syrians, Jordanians, or the rest. And not even their Arab brothers like them anymore.
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  8233.  @jp1431  Wishful thinking. Bibi has been the most consistent leader in Israel aside form Ariel Sharon. The opposition that ousted him couldn't survive long enough to keep him out of office.
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  8234. He is a rabid dog. Deportation will not stop him. He wants to act like a rabid animal, then he should be treated like a wild animal that has killed and consumed a human.
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  8235.  @Anothet4  Agreed. KK is his fault. He is directly responsible for allowing his baby to be gutted like a fish.
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  8236. And like roaches, they scatter once exposed to light.
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  8237. Europe can survive without Russia. Russia cannot survive without Europe. The Shale Oil revolution which exploded under Trump threatened both OPEC and Putin. If the West is smart, they will unleash the franking industry and completely liberate themselves from the Oil Robber Barons. Interestingly, the Shale Oil revolution made Ukraine possibly the third largest oil Reserve in Europe after Norway and Russia, most of which were located under Donbas. This war is ALL about oil, namely Russian theft of Ukrainian reserves.
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  8238. Tony Fauci screwed up that epidemic too!
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  8239.  @bunnywithakeyboard7628  Was it? Or was it based on the West African story of Brother Rabbit and Brother Lion?
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  8240.  @ICreatedU1  You haven't actually addressed any of my points. You chose instead to engage in ad hominins (logical fallacies) LEARN TO DEBATE. "When your argument is weak, abuse the plaintiff," -Marcus Tullius Cicero "When the debate is lost, insult becomes the tool of the loser," -attributed to both Plato and Socrates. "If you can't win the debate, attack the messenger," -Saul Alinsky.
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  8241. Damn fools think that a Rembrandt depicting a nude child is CP. When they leave zero room for classical artwork to exist, then they have lost their standing to judge what constitutes CP.
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  8242. Don't forget Short Round. But sadly, Hollywood hates Asian heroes who are not Jackie Chan clones.
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  8243. Most people using them to describe him don't know what they mean. BTW, many people called Joseph Stalin a Fascist despite him being the leader of a communist country.
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  8244. Yeah, people grossly underestimate the immense requirements to conduct amphibious operations. And the Chinese have proven to be terrible at even small-scale attempts.
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  8245. @ Jordan doesn't want them either. Ever heard of the Dawson Field Hijackings and Black Tuesday of 1970?
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  8246. @ The Jordanians don't want them. They still remember Black September of 1970.
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  8247. She is doing everything she accuses her critics of doing. It is call psychological projection and is a sign of mental illness.
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  8248. Don't need to subsidize shale oil. The high prices alone are enough to kick-start the boom.
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  8249. Heck, the Mage could be the leader, but often preferred to simply be the advisor. Easier to stand back and analyze the situation if you are not the one everyone is looking at to make a snap decision.
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  8250. That's Poe's Law for you.
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  8251. Evil capitalism has raised more people out of poverty than any other economic system. Hate it all you want, but profits are what drives innovation and technological advancement.
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  8252. No joke. Havanah Syndrome has been known for almost 2 decades now. Why is it only now that Russia is being accused in an official capacity?
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  8253. Is that what the Russian Ministry of Defense claims? You realize that everything they claim is complete hogwash?
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  8254. Sure, the "collective good" is the favorite claim of tyrants and despots the world over. ALL genocides are done in the name of "the greater good". Don't even TRY to defense a Stalinist system like China's. More people have been murdered by the Red Chinese government than were killed in the Holocaust. "Great Leap Forward" famine and the Cultural Revolution both disprove your claims.
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  8255.  @liljaygray  More people died by communism than any other ideology, even Nazism. And you cannot count PREDICTED deaths against ACTUAL deaths. Why? Because they haven't occurred. It is clear you are living in a delusional fantasy because you engage in the typical bigoted talking points of cultural Marxism which blatantly ignores historical facts in favor of false narratives based on emotions rather than reason. More people have been lifted out of poverty by capitalism than any other economic system. Communism has created more poverty than any economic system. Those are irrefutable facts.
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  8256.  @liljaygray  It has, as Pax American has proven. Almost all technological and scientific advancements have come out of the Capitalist West, unlike the Communist Block which simply plagiarized and stole from their competition.
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  8257. If there are creepy-crawlies roaming around, it hasn't been cleaned out regularly enough. Further, that is more than ample reason for the health department to close them down permanently. Your example is a straw-man argument.
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  8258.  @jimbaker8243  Nice job moving the goal posts there buddy. For someone who claims to know a lot about food service, you seem to be blatantly ignorant as far as health inspections go. It is Howard Huges levels of obsession with cleanliness, and if you fail to pass one, those folks WILL close you down.
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  8259. Yes, we NEED Nuremberg Judges Trials here in the US for these out-of-control Black Robe Tyrants.
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  8260. And that is one of the strategies for Taiwan. Scorched Earth to deny China those factories. It acts as something of a deterrent.
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  8261.  @elmohead  I think you are selling Taiwan short. They are more that just their silicon chip factories.
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  8262. They would be doing the US a favor by fumigating the cockroaches.
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  8263. NORAD's job is to protect the North American airspace from unauthorized entry. They failed in their mission spectacularly. "99 red balloons Floating in the summer sky Panic bells, it's red alert There's something here from somewhere else The war machine springs to life Opens up one eager eye Focusing it on the sky The 99 red balloons go by" -99 Luftballons by Nena.
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  8264.  @jasonmcduffie160  Eh, your loss. I think you are making a mistake by assuming that foreign women are as self-aggrandizing as Western women. You might be surprised by an Asian or Latin woman.
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  8265. All the more reason why the copyright laws need to go back to just 30 years under the 1790 statute. If they are going to bastarized them, it is better for the IP to be in public domain.
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  8266.  @-Faze-  "Lost more land"? You haven't been paying attention, only listening to Putin's propaganda machine.
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  8267.  @praetoriancorps  Nukes are overblown. And to use them in Taiwan is self-defeating for both sides.
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  8268.  @praetoriancorps  You clearly don't understand nuclear doctrine, particularly the how, when where, and why factors. Both examples are NOT justifiable employments of weapons, not even on a tactical level. Nukes first and foremost are an area denial weapon. Ideally, they also "salt the soil" as it were.
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  8269.  @Jake12220  I tend to agree, but I point out that the biggest opponents of both Hydro-Electric power and nuclear have been the greenies. THAT is why both has languished over the last four decades.
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  8270.  @baronvonlimbourgh1716  Sure, the best economy the WORLD had ever seen. But you don't care about that because you are a hyperpartisan tribalist.
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  8271. But look at their actions. Carville only turned on the Dems when the writing was on the wall and it was blatantly obvious Que-mala was going to lose. As for Fetterman, he is telling people what they want to hear. Look at his voting record, and he is in lock-step with Pelosi.
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  8272. DeSantis running against Trump in the primary means Joe Bite-Me wins re-election. Anyone who doesn't know this isn't paying attention.
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  8273. They are not just on life-support, they have mortgaged the future of the franchise just to buy a single extra day.
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  8274. Because the Mary Sue is run by woke activists, not actual journalists. Hence why people call them URINALISTS.
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  8275.  @Cataclysm-08-36  As opposed to the Muslim Conquests of the past? How about the sacking of Constantinople? How about the Moorish invasion and occupation of Iberia? For all of the charges you throw at the west, I can point to five in the opposite direction.
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  8276.  @Bond047  Not if the Russians continue to disappoint the Russians. Unlike the US, the Indians have a long memory and WILL remember how the Russians screwed them on their arms deals, particularly the defective aircraft carrier.
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  8277.  @tahaddi2005  And ignore the fact that despite every land for peace deal, the Arabs who call themselves Palestinian have violated those agreements? They get the land they want and STILL attack and murder Jews. To this day they have not renounced Haj Amin Al-Husseini's call to "drive Israel into the Sea".
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  8278.  @LibertyFirst1789  Pot meet kettle.
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  8279.  @Jonny-uu7wf  Then why didn't Putin invade Ukraine while Trump was in office? Why did he wait until AFTER Trump left the White House? We can wait for your answer.
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  8280. Shows you how pathetic American "news media" is that Australia and India are more reliable sources.
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  8281.  @Fairred6507  I'm guessing you were trying to respond to my comment which Google/Youtube deleted. Their "fact checkers" hate the truth.
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  8282. Not really. Russia didn't need to get aggressive towards its neighbors. Putin didn't need to invade Ukraine. Nato's expansion is a result of Putin's own bellicosity.
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  8283. Hence why the voted for the bull in a China shop in 2016.
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  8284. The power of nukes is in their deterrence factor. Use them and you lose that effect. Further, first-use WILL turn neutral powers like India against Russia.
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  8285.  @JohnDoe-hf4te  You give me WAY too much credit. I just happen to have a father who handled what the US Navy called "nuclear shapes" (ie simulated nuclear devices). To your first question: it is hard to say. if he thinks he has nothing to lose, he very well might (especially true if he thinks a coup from within is in progress). He also knows that he cannot afford to alienate folks like the Indians by using them. To your second question, it depends on what the target is. Should Putin nuke London, Berlin, Paris, or any American city, I guarantee you that Trident Missiles will be launched against Moscow and Petrograd. If not by the US, then by the British or the French (if Paris is nuked, they WILL do it). A Polish city will also likely trigger such as response, though at a slower pace. Ukraine being struck by nukes is a harder call. There WILL be a response, but not an automatic one. It could end up being something of a Potsdam Ultimatum. Third Question: The Indians will most certainly condemn their use immediate, the Chinese will be more reluctant, but will eventually also condemn the use but more likely several days later. India will find itself forced to act on sanctions or other economic means, but China will try to drag their feet like they always do. I hope that enlightens you.
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  8286.  @rob-8928  Seriously doubtful. All of the activation and authorization codes were in Moscow so barring Western intervention in arming/disarming, there was no value in holding any in hiding.
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  8287. I have no qualms against India plundering Russia at the pump. Good for them.
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  8288. Lisa Murkowski, whom Alaska GOP can't get rid of despite her primary defeat. Many other states have "sore loser" laws to prevent what she did. Susan Colins is from Maine which is deep blue. So she is basically a Democrat pretending to be a Republican.
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  8289. That was Google. But to your point, when you engage in moral relativism, you have no solid grasp of what is good or evil. A bastardziation of Nietzsche's " Jenseits von Gut und Bose".
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  8290.  @unfairlive2  Because you are putting blame on the wrong party. What you call "modern capitalism" is essentially corporate oligarchism. And that oligarchy only exists with government protection in the form of bailouts. Try looking up the Glass-Stegal Act and how the Dodd-Frank Bill basically abolished those restrictions put in place to prevent another Great Depression.
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  8291.  @unfairlive2  That is a deflection and doesn't really address my point.
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  8292.  @unfairlive2  Your words remind me of a quote from the game Shadowforce: Archer by AEG. "It is getting harder and harder to tell where the enemy ends and we begin,"
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  8293. They have a border with Egypt. It is a prison of their own making. And NOTHING justifies murder when breaking out of prison. Even the Law of Armed Conflict forbids escaping POWs from killing anyone while escaping.
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  8294. Still too little too late. A Day late and a dollar short.
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  8295. "Without respect, we reject. But with respect, we accept," -Dicktor Van Doomcook, aka Overlord DVD.
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  8296.  @Conclusius68  Because they are pathetic. Seriously, how many Frenchmen does it take to defend Paris? Nobody know because it has never been attempted.
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  8297. What genocide? Isarel is NOT rounding up nor exterminating the ARABs in Judea. On the contrary, it is the Arabs who want to "drive Israel into the Sea" as Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini said he wanted to do.
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  8298. With the amount of money PBS gets from Sesame Street merchandise, it should be completely self-funded.
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  8299. One would hope.
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  8300. Nobody ever accused the GOP establishment of being smart.
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  8301.  @pond_people  The Japanese celebrate Christmas, and most of them are not even Christian, they are Shinto. Get a grip. You are just an anti-Christan bigot.
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  8302. I agree with Yevgraf Zhivago in the movie "Doctor Zhivago": in a war between Western and German aristocracy, apathetic disinterest in who wins.
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  8303.  @benotsilent6703  My point was that you could chose to side with neither and stay out of the conflict. Between Putin and his cronies or the Western NWO elites, I chose to stay on the sidelines.
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  8304. Classic tactic of Communists. The Soviets engaged in whataboutism in the aftermath of Chernobyl. And that was not the only example.
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  8305. Supplies from the West are on a six month to one year delay. How long was the turnaround time between the pledge of Challenger Tanks and them appearing on the Battlefield?
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  8306. If they were promised in March and arrived in August, that is 5 months turn-around which confirms my point that there is a backlog. Meaning that even with supplies theoretically ending now, they still have about another year's worth of material that is still flowing in.
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  8307.  @limedickandrew6016  Sound like you are parroting Kremlin talking points. Same claims were made about Himars being destroyed before the first one even arrived in country. Also, it takes time to repair a tank that has been taken out of service. That is the major difference between Western Tanks and Soviet Legacy tanks which toss their turrets.
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  8308.  @limedickandrew6016  Your "facts" are poorly disguised opinions. ISW and Oryx refute your claims. And if you want to argue with them, then that only discredit you, not them.
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  8309.  @limedickandrew6016  Your timeline is as dubious as the Russians claims about HIMARS. It follows the EXACT same formula that the Kremlin used. It does NOT take 5 months from Tanks delivered to Ukraine to show up on the front lines. The training on those tanks was already occurring BEFORE they were promised. Same goes with the F-16s. In both cases, Ukraine can and DOES deploy them almost as soon as they get them.
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  8310.  @limedickandrew6016  The Ukrainians delayed their spring/summer offensive specifically so they could get those Western Tanks. So, your claim of them arriving in March is just as bogus as Russian claims of HIMARS destroyed months before they actually arrived.
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  8311. @ckandrew6016 Russian claims on HIMARS is the analogy for claims about Western tanks. And claims that they arrived in March are dubious at best. To use your standard, where was the photo evidence for them in March if their first appearance on the battlefield is not until August? Why is this an issue you ask? Because you keep making wildly absurdist claims about Ukrainian capabilities. The naysayers are notoriously bad about using only Russian sources and blatantly ignoring sources like ISW, Oryx, and War Spotter. And it is funny that you only served to prove my original point that the turnaround time for Western supplies is no less than 6 months.
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  8312. Indeed. The survival rate on the front lines for Wanger is about one month, so they don't have to worry about paying them after that.
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  8313. Murdering women and children indiscriminately and taking hostages is NOT legal. NO LEGAL SYSTEM IN THE WORLD ACCEPTS THAT.
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  8314. His campaign are connected closely to the Veritas folks going after James O'Keefe. When that is taken into account, things suddenly makes a lot more sense.
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  8315.  @Aristocles22  It isn't hard to create something better than what the groomers and wokistas make. In Bluey's case, it is a product of Australia which despite their hard turn towards autocracy still have traditional English values, being part of the Commonwealth.
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  8316.  @Aristocles22  Hard to argue against that. It is as if the West has forgotten the very principles that created the freedom and prosperity we enjoy today.
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  8317.  @cmdrmikolazic  Or Trotsky. Or the people Mao purged during the cultural revolution.
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  8318. Nukes are overblown. And their use in a tactical environment is dubious at best. There is a reason why most "tactical" nukes have been removed from the NATO arsenals.
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  8319. I hope so. That is the only way to take it back from the Bolshevicks who have hijacked it.
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  8320. I'm game for that. Lincoln tapped his major primary rivals to be part of his executive team. Trump brining RFK Jr. as AG and Jim Webb as SecDef would be a major "up yours" to BOTH parties.
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  8321. Graduating from a California college I seriously doubt would join the military; those institutions teach that the military is a bunch of baby killers after all.
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  8322. Nothing because they agree with this flagrant racism.
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  8323. And they say readers are thinkers. I agree with you that too many people today don't have the strength of their own convictions to bother reading something they may not entirely agree with. "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -Aristotle
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  8324. The breakdown of military cohesion in the Russian army coupled with the impotence of local law enforcement is eerily similar to the French Army Mutiny in 1917 and the collapse of the Germany home front in 1918 in WW1.
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  8325.  @brokeandtired  And word is that those conscripts are already being rushed to the front with barely three days of training. We are seeing a repeat of the Russian Front during WW1.
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  8326. Or they are simply making excuses for their incompetence. Sour Grapes is what they are displaying.
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  8327.  @chucksneed2945  I noticed how you didn't actually provide a coherent argument refuting the Molotov-Ribbentrop Alliance. You simply make an emotional outburst (ie temper tantrum or hissy fit).
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  8328. Not really. The planet can actually sustain MORE people because we have no gotten anywhere near full agricultural capacity.
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  8329. And all the nevertrumpers are showing their derangement for all to see.
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  8330.  @haraldhardrade7539  Don't need to. The facts on the ground speak for themselves.
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  8331. If we have to draft men, it IS a dire emergency. And if we have to wait until the war comes to our home soil, then it is too little too late.
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  8332. Article V is the biggest hurtle. Namely, that they cannot be in active border disputes.
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  8333. Okay, so why not fill in the land? That is what the South Koreans are doing to the areas of the sea they are targeting for reclamation.
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  8334.  @drudru5992  Pure delusional fantasy on your part. if the ones fighting now are professionals, then why did Putin need the Mobilization last winter? Why is there talk of him doing it again? The cold hard truth is that both the 1st Guards Tank Army, the Pride of Moscow, and the 155th Naval Infantry Battalion, the Pride of Vladivostok have both attritioned to the point that they no longer exist. THAT proves your narrative wrong.
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  8335.  @Kiamors  Those foreign nationals who serve in the US military already can get citizenship, with most if not all of the fees waived as well as the residency requirements. Indeed, if one wants to re-enlist for a second 4 or 6 year term, they HAVE to have become a citizen. And with the exception of the US Civil War under Lincoln, EVERY draft was instituted by Liberal Democrats from Woodrow Wilson to Franklin Roosevelt, to Lyndon Banes Johnson.
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  8336. Tell that to the late Dr. Steven Hawkings, the foremost "atheistic cosmological expert". He has a documentary where he claims to have proven the universe is pure chance. I will say that having watched it, he made some GLARING and flawed assumptions, and not just in his interpolation of the data.
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  8337.  @hoosier_turtles_and_tortoises  Indeed. They have become part of the machine by kowtowing to them. How cheaply people sell themselves as Mephistopheles observed in that famous play.
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  8338.  @Chou-seh-fu  Red China is an ethno-nationalist society despite their claims otherwise. Taiwan's Han Chinese population has evolved over the last 75 years into a distinct sub-culture much like the Hakka, Teochew, Hokkien and Tanka are a subset of Han.
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  8339. Putin is trying to stir up trouble in the region. Just like the Tsars did in the lead-up to World War 1.
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  8340. I saw it too. Are they implying that the giant of South America condones piracy?
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  8341. I would not with that on the Rajahs. They deserve better than Russia or India. Now if only the US would dump the Imams of Pakistan in favor of the Rajahs.
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  8342.  @Damien1_1  "Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas". You will find that the Russians will choose the Chinese communists over India in EVERY dispute. Pick your friends wisely, because the US has chosen so terrible ones in the past. Don't make our blunders.
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  8343.  @Optimegatrongodzilla  Liquidity for companies typically refers to a company's ability to use its current assets to meet its current or short-term liabilities.
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  8344. No, the West does NOT need to get involved. However, I do think that the Baltic States and Poland should be allowed off the chain. They should be allowed to send in their troops to reinforce Ukraine but make the strict stipulation that they are NOT to set foot into Russia. As such, Article 5 can still be invoked if Russia attacks Polish and Baltic forces anywhere except on Ukrainian soil.
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  8345.  @bigmoe9856  Wow, projecting your own use of logical fallacies onto me because you can't debate the merits. I gave examples proving your argument wrong. You then move the goal posts further proving my point with your own argument about proxy wars. You are now in the original position fallacy.
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  8346.  @bigmoe9856  All you are doing is pointing out how you moved the goal posts, thus proving my point. Your contention was that nuclear powers cannot loose. I pointed out historically that is false. You then contort yourself into claiming otherwise. You then go to change the parameters of what you claimed (goal post moving). Just admit that you are wrong.
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  8347.  @markspott1741  I am NOT saying that Operation: Downfall consisting of Coronet and Olympic were better options that the nukes. Are you suggesting that? The war planners at the time knew the horrific cost for both sides should that amphibious landing plan had been carried out, hence why they wisely chose to use the nukes.
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  8348. Normies are just as put-off by the wokeness. The issue is that the activists believed they could use geek and nerd culture as a vehicle to push their ideological agenda. The geeks, nerds, and dorks refused to cooperate and so they (the wokescolds) went on the attack.
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  8349. They were too busy busting up Americans who were entrapped into entering the Capitol.
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  8350. Indian propaganda? I highly doubt that Gurkhas are susceptible to that. Putin BETTER be paying them, because he does NOT want them marching on the Kremlin if he knows what is good for him.
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  8351. They can, but it is NOT recommended. Girls young as 14 who give birth have been sterilized by the trauma of the process. There is a very good reason why the age of consent is 16.
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  8352.  @coffee_sploosh  Well Timmy boy didn't do his due diligence, which is not very surprising. While he does more of his homework than the leftists in media, he lets his bias cloud his reasoning.
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  8353. Go I hope not. He was a disaster as the governor of Indiana. If he could not stand up to a one party GOP supermajority in the Indiana general Assembly, what makes anyone think he can stand up to a Democrat Congress?
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  8354.  @john26razor  Look at Religious Freedom Act (RFRA). He completely waffled on that. Showed that he won't stand for anything, not even his claimed principles. And there were other examples such as property tax law changes where he let the State Assembly walk all over him. The man has no spine; his "confidence" is because he is hiding in Trump's shadow. Get him in direct sunlight by himself and he withers faster than a vampire.
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  8355.  @nunyabizness4926  Yeah, but unscrupulous politicians who care nothing about actual health and safety, but only about power and control. We have seen it with these pointless shutdowns. County Health Departments need to be disbanded.
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  8356. As would allowing a hung jury. He must dismiss it in such a manner that the charges can never be litigated again.
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  8357. Considering that these people are those who would burn everything around them to ashes rather than let go of power, I would say it probably is a threat.
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  8358. Progs never grow a sense of humor. That is how pathetic they are. Old Russian/Soviet Joke meant to lampoon the USSR just as readily apply to cancel culture folks.
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  8359. Because this is NOT self-defense. With a car you can flee or retreat much faster than on foot with a gun. Nice apples to oranges false analogy.
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  8360. The States can also initiate an Article V convention. They don't need Congress's consent.
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  8361. Yeah, but at what cost? Keep in mind that Alex Hamilton, Henry Knox, and their stock gambler buddies are who caused Shay's Rebellion in Massachusetts. Then Hamilton repeated it with his tax on whiskey leading to the Pennsylvania Whiskey Rebellion. It took Andrew Jackson following Thomas Jefferson's policies to finally retire the debt. Unfortunately, presidents after him repeated Hamilton's blunder leading to the American federal debt crisis we see today. The debt to GDP ratio is unsustainable.
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  8362. Indeed. It is as if they blatantly ignore the fact that the Abraham Accords was on Trump's watch. They want to pretend it never happened so they can incorrectly attribute it to Joe Bite-Me.
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  8363. Audelos Huxley was right.
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  8364. I tend to agree. Let Europe handle this mess of their own creation. The US should focus on protecting our Asian allies Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.
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  8365. I would argue that once you get government protections from litigation, you become an extension of the government and so are constrained by the Bill of Rights and the Consitution just like the government is.
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  8366. After the Ukrainians expel the occupying Russians from their territory, including Crimea, they should support the Belarusian rebels and dissidents with supplies and arms without going into the country themselves. Allow those dissidents to operate from their territory but do noy actively participate as it should be the Belarusians themselves that liberate their country from Putin's puppet.
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  8367. Yeah, Bush Sr. was no Ronald Reagan. Bush Sr. was the precursor to what is today a RINO. Get over yourself, Bush defeated himself. Ross Perot wasn't even on the ballot in most places because he dropped out.
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  8368. You forget who holds the power and the position of strength. Yours is the foolish and myopic view that lacks understanding of how trade ACTUALLY works.
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  8369.  @lilsmoke5999  How many Muscovites are now pushing up sunflowers?
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  8370. It is well documented that Hama uses schools and hospitals as ammunition dumps. Stop letting yourself get gaslighted by anti-semitic blood libels.
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  8371.  @mormacil  Indeed. These fools in government don't seem to realize that farmers will often rotate with Alfalfa to replenish the nitrogen in the soil, thereby preventing soil depletion.
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  8372.  @tetraxis3011  Except Indian observers have confirmed it. ISW even cites them.
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  8373.  @someguy3766  You are talking about MRVs, and I guarantee you that the US has already addressed that dilemma and that Patriots are more than capable of handling that threat. Your problem is that you are engaging in hyperbolic doomsday scenarios that are just no longer possible. The USSR may have had the capacity you outline, the modern Russia and China do not. Right now, the ONLY country with the capabilities you describe is the US, and I assure you that the US knows how to defeat its own systems.
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  8374. Indeed. The T-72Bs are being pulled out of storage but the T-72A are almost completely untouched.
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  8375. Making Aragon black is simply modern-day blackface. It is the same racist caricature of the past, but with a new spin.
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  8376. More likely the results of eco-terrorists.
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  8377. He has a domestic audience to consider. The international audience is secondary. And what foreign politicians think about how he looks is irrelevant.
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  8378.  @matthiasmuller7677  RUSSIA USES CONSCRIPTS. Most of Ukraine's frontline fighters are volunteers. Or have you forgotten that at the start of the war the Ukraine government was turning away volunteers? Funny how you accuse Zelensky and his government of the very things Putin and his government have been doing. Perhaps you need to reassess whom your vitriol is directed at.
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  8379.  @matthiasmuller7677  Typical response of an armchair Quarterback general who is completely ignorant of military history. Why do you try picking up a book about the Pacific Campaign in WW2 or the Battle of Verdun in WW1? Or even the costly battles of the US Civil War such as Cold Harbor or Stones River? "One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic," -Jospeh Stalin. "In him I found a man who can stomach the awful arithmetic of War," -Abraham Lincoln when he refused to fire Ulysses Sam Grant.
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  8380.  @matthiasmuller7677  That you think this is unwinnable for Ukraine shows your complete contempt for what they have already achieved. Takes a troll to know a troll dude, pot meet kettle.
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  8381.  @matthiasmuller7677  Wow, that whole post was nothing BUT emotion and lacked any logic. Your strawman about measuring territory in bodies is a logical FALLACY. That you keep clinging to it in the fact of data that disproves it is an emotional appeal. The fact that Ukraine successfully fought off the siege of Kiev against a better equipped and numerically superior foe is already a victory. That they fought the nominally 2nd strongest military in the world to a draw for three months is also a win. Your problem is that you are a defeatist and a negative Nancy. You are the kind of person that thinks the UK should have surrendered to Nazi Germany after the Battle for London. You are the kind of person who believed that after Coral Sea, the US should have gone to the negotiation table with Japan in the Pacific.
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  8382.  @matthiasmuller7677  Your logic is fatally flawed. Your claim that it is a moral issue is emotional argument. And your use of insults and ad hominins only shows you cannot debate merits and is a tacit admission that you have lost the plot. "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser," -attributed to Plato. "When your argument is weak, abuse the plaintiff," -Marcus Tullius Cicero "I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” ― Margaret Thatcher
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  8383. They only care about the courts when it rubber-stamps their agenda. Otherwise, they refuse to acknowledge it.
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  8384.  @ĐoànĐạiDương-f1n  China is spectacularly bad at amphibious operations. Any attempt to take Formosa would require one so big that it would dwarf the proposed Kyushu Landing of Operation: Olympic. And all of those troop transports would be easy pickings for allies Subs because China's ASW capabilities are equally terrible.
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  8385. Ambulance chasers. Just goes to prove that litigators are parasites who provide nothing of value but extract from society. Shakespeare's play "Henry VI" had a good solution to the problem; kill all the lawyers.
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  8386.  @crocodileguy4319  I do watch TLDR News. I am not a fan of their left-wing bias particularly with domestic US and UK issues, but on international issues, they tend to be more even keel.
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  8387.  @Gumpmachine1  I tend to agree. About the only Shermans that might be useful would be the Israeli "Super Shermans" aka "Isherman". Good luck getting the IDF to hand those over.
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  8388. That is quite surprising. Then again, DPRK equipment is much older than the Russia arsenal. While the Russians are fielding the old T-72, the North Koreans are fielding the even older T-55!
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  8389.  @stunimbus1543  Thank you for sharing!
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  8390. Anglicization, and they don't realize it. Or they do and they don't care.
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  8391. Apparently, they don't know how that actually blew up in the face of Octavian Cesar Augustus when he paraded Cleopatra Selen and her brother Alexander Helios through Rome in chains of gold.
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  8392. And there is a lesson there. Romney refused to go on the attack against the lies. And that is typical of the GOP. Feckless cowards that just roll over and take it like a $3 prostitutes. Trump to his credit, fought back. And like lobsters in a fish tank, the GOP pulled him down with them.
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  8393. The problem is when they start causing problems for the non-users while experiencing withdraw. Have you had a drug addict going through withdraw harass you for cash for their next fix? Scary.
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  8394. Using experimental medicine on your own troops is both a War Crime and a Crime against Humanity. And the oath OBLIGATES YOU TO REFUSE AN UNLAWFUL ORDER. Just because your superior officer gives you an order does NOT automatically make it lawful. Some orders should be rejected immediately, and if you do NOT insist on a court martial, then you are no better than the German Soldiers who "just followed orders".
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  8395. And this is the crap that precipitates civil wars. When people have no faith in the legal system, it become open season for there is no justice nor repercussions for one's actions.
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  8396. At this point, yes. Blame the flaming liberal Murdock sons. Rupert should have left his media empire in the hands of Wendy Deng. She was a media mogul in Hong Kong and Taiwan before she married him. It was the two sons spreading rumors about her having an affair with Tony Blair that split them.
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  8397. Because the Russians veto every attempt to build a pipeline across the Caspian Sea. Moscow doesn't want its former subjects to enjoy independence.
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  8398.  @mazzaleen6091  Nice galloping Gertie (proof by verbosity). Mr. Pool explains it perfectly in the video how short selling works. And these guys are doing the exact same manipulation games that Alex Hamilton and Henry Knox did that lead to both Shay's Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion. It is why Tommy Jefferson absolutely hated banking institutions, because they encourage this reckless behavior by people who don't produce a product, but extract wealth from the market without putting anything of value back in.
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  8399. Considering how racist China and North Korea are, I am not surprised they didn't want to put up with his entitled woke attitude.
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  8400. She is the typical narcissistic high school bully and drama queen.
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  8401.  @ttemp2631  That is a bloviation. One can value hard work and merits but still be fascistic and authoritarian. For all of its flaws, the US has the Bill of Rights as part of the Supreme law of the land. China has no tradition. THAT is the actual difference.
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  8402.  @ttemp2631  China upholds its inherited traditions? May I remind you about the Cultural Revolution where Mao's Red Guards destroyed that history wherever they found it? Communists don't take care of the poor, they exploit them for personal gain while claiming to act with compassion. it is all a sham.
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  8403. Why? Good old fashion nepotism. Who you know and who you blow. If Jar Jar Abrams got them the gig, you have to ask, who did they have to f(ire tr)uck?
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  8404. Transnistria? They can't even hold Snake Island, let alone capture Odessa. Keep drinking the vodka buddy, it is the only way you can keep from facing reality.
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  8405.  @annewhitney8809  Yeah, I think it is clear that the Indians are a bigger military power than Russia.
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  8406. You have been gaslighted. The SCOTUS didn't legalize bribery, they scolded the prosecution for using the wrong statute. Illegal gratuity which was the ACTUAL crime is still unlawful.
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  8407. Everyone said that in 2016. Care to repeat that upset?
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  8408. Yes, CEOs are grossly overcompensated. That is part of why their going belly-up. The best thing union members can do is allow those corrupt corporations to collapse and form their own competitive company to challenge them. But they don't and you have to ask yourself why.
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  8409. And they are doing that in South Africa too. These are the policies of the American left as well.
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  8410.  @Zuluknob  And Russia is facing a demographic catastrophy because of that. When you lose 4 out of 5 boys from an entire age cohort, you get the situation Russia was in during the 90s where birth rates can't maintain population growth. Putin's War is going to do the same thing on top of the disaster of Stalin's "Great Patriotic War".
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  8411. Indeed. You don't get to be president of the Screen Actor's Guild and NOT know what the hell is going on.
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  8412. And it can also act as an inoculation.
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  8413. I am actually inclined to agree with you. While I detest theft, I find snootiness even more offensive.
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  8414.  Matt Peterson  Netflix, the same company that brought you "Cuties" the glorification of paedofilia. Yeah, keep digging yourself into a deeper hole.
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  8415.  Matt Peterson  Old news but they are still exploiting children. Bad old news doesn't get better with time, it gets worse.
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  8416. As Ukraine has proven, technology, training, and terrain are force multipliers. The North may have the numbers, but the South has the same advantages that Ukraine is enjoying over the Russians.
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  8417. Indeed. The Beachheads that Ukraine achieved were simply opportunistic situations, not dedicated landings. They will likely now abandon them rather than charge into the teeth of Russian defenses.
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  8418. Free JUDEA!
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  8419. Wow, talk about drinking the Kremlin kool-aid. The US didn't force China and Russia together. China is simply taking advantage of a weakened Russia. For someone so worried aobut American Imperialism, you seem to ignore Russia's Czarist Ambitions in Eastern Europe and China's expansionist moves in Asia.
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  8420.  @khai96x  That is not an argument, that is an emotional outburst typical of a myopic and childish mind.
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  8421. We in the west have enjoyed the comforts of a peacetime military. They fully expect to return to the fight and so are not there to piss around.
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  8422. The Sulivan ruling makes that difficult. The media are basically untouchable thanks to the SCOTUS. Hopefully Alan Dershowitz's case can get it overturned.
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  8423.  @geoffreyward2945  How long did Kherson take to liberate? That is the problem with you shills. Anything less than a Blitzkreig is a failure.
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  8424.  @dedefazer  Corporations, yes. Capitalist, no. Corporatists are oligarchs, not capitalists. Can you truly claim that Russia is capitalist? The people in charge of the US are just as corrupt as those in Russia.
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  8425. The Wagner monsters certainly are Orcs. But allow those surrendering the dignity of being the Sergeant Shultz of "Hogan's Heroes".
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  8426.  @HgHg-yp6ft  Russian nukes are more likely to detonate in the silo than actually launch. Ever heard of K-129? It was a nuclear ballistic sub that tried to attack Pearl Harbor in the 1960s. The missile blew up in the silo sending the ship to the bottom of the Pacific. So, your nuclear threat is meaningless at this point. Putin has already threatened the West with Nukes for sending weapons to Ukraine. They threatened to use nukes if Russia was attack and nukes were NOT launched after the attack on the Kerch Bridge.
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  8427.  @danielhutchinson6604  Have they now? What is your source? RT? India and China have been buying up oil at a steep discount, much lower than the cap price set by international agreement.
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  8428.  @joseraulmiguens6699  That they were trying to reach out to the Soviets to negotiate peace instead of the Allies showed a complete insincerity. You don't go to a neutral power to ask for terms.
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  8429.  @justjustjustify  The Rajahs of India are more civilized than the rabid dogs who call themselves "Palestinian".
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  8430. Make no mistake, removing the dislike button had nothing to do with protecting creators. It had everything to do with protecting legacy media whose videos are getting downvoted into oblivion. Timm Pool as well as Kneon and Geeky have pointed out this, particularly in regard to the Star Wars channel. And Doomcook has pointed it out with regards to Woke Kurtzman Trek.
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  8431. Indeed. Nobody is talking about the elephant in the room, namely that there are more US dollars put into circulation in the last ten years than the entire history of the country proceeding that. We are talking about Weirmar Germany and Zimbabwe levels of insane monetary policy.
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  8432. Indeed. I think these photos are staged in an example of hysterics in a vain attempt to garner sympathy.
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  8433. India is demanding a 30% discount on oil from Russia. And since Russia has no other options, they comply. India is NOT experiencing the oil price crunch the rest of the world is experiencing.
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  8434.  @adurpandya2742  And you think Putin cares about any of that? It is Putin who chose to invade Ukraine. It is Putin who chose to engage in oil brinksmanship. It is Putin who could end all of this today if he just pulled back his army. Put the blame for all of those deaths squarely on whom it belongs: the Napoleon Complex in the Kremlin.
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  8435.  @adurpandya2742  There you go again shifting the blame. Exxon leaving was a direct result of Putin's war of aggression. He is responsible, not western companies. Also, there are NOT billions of people in Russia's Far East territories, much less Sakhalin. There isn't even a billion people in all of Russia! Nor is there a billion in the US. Your hyperbolae undercut your argument. Further, it is quite clear from the conscription and mobilization that Putin doesn't give a dead rat's butt about the people of Sakhalin. He is clearly an ethno-nationalist and couldn't give a damn about the Asiatic peoples of his Far East territories. I will point out that those people would be living a VASTLY different lifestyle if Sakhalin Island was under either Japanese or South Korean jurisdiction
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  8436. So, speaking the truth creates hesitancy? Sorry, it is the blatant dishonesty and withholding of information that causes hesitancy. If the doctors were honest about their lack of knowledge, people would not hesitate as much.
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  8437. Do they have the upper hand? No. The power Disney has in Reedy Creek is derived from the sovereign power of the state of Florida. Which means on Constitutional grounds, there is nothing Disney can do as any "agreement" is subject to the whim of the state legislature.
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  8438. Yeah, but they should have had Short Round in the movie. Play up sibling rivalry.
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  8439.  @brianvance1178  Chop your dissertation into smaller bite-sized pieces with paragraph spacing. It is completely unreadable when it is one large body of text. As for the first point about Short Round being an adult, that is kind of assumed, especially when you play the idea of him being the dutiful son who went to college as opposed to the delinquent son. He also had a given name mentioned when he first appears.
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  8440.  @LasseEklof  I tend to agree. It is disinformation on the part of Hamas and the Kremlin to demoralize the West.
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  8441.  @danlove3635  Indeed. VOLUNTARY manslaughter as it is quite clear that he knew gun s were dangerous and that the first rule of gun safety is that you never point a gun at someone unless you intend to kill them. Him pretending to be all John Wayne cowboy with his cavalier attitude shows he is very much culpable and it is NOT involuntary by any stretch.
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  8442.  @trevorshea1930  Put down the Vodka comrade, you are drunk and having hallucinations.
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  8443.  @trevorshea1930  OPINION is NOT fact. Don't conflate the two. Sorry Private Conscriptovich.
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  8444.  @trevorshea1930  Delusional fantasy and wishful thinking on your part.
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  8445.  @trevorshea1930  Complete and total fabrication. Stop watching Russian State TV. They are gaslighting you.
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  8446. How? The Corium has been solid since 1987. There is no risk of a meltdown at Chernobyl.
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  8447. @ What is that supposed to mean?
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  8448. Tell that to the slacktivist members of Congress who think that border patrol is the same as the KKK.
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  8449. Yup. What is politics but a continuation of the old feudalist systems under a different name? Meet the new boss, same as the old one. A tale as old as history itself.
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  8450.  @davegoldspink5354  Welcome to the counter-revolution.
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  8451.  @ericpratch9760  Agreed. Paid leave is basically company compensated vacation.
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  8452.  @larryalvares1369  So you should be disbarred from office simply because of being accused? That sounds like election interference. Also, it would disbarred EVERYONE from ever running for office. There is a reason why English common law rejects Guilty until Proven Innocent.
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  8453.  @lukilladog  Violence is in human nature. Refusal to accept that is to deny reality. Yes, even the great physicists can be wrong. Pure pacifism is to accept the fate of the Dodo Bird as your own.
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  8454. They are like the vampire who recoils in horror from its own reflection.
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  8455. The US isn't the country who invaded Ukraine, Russia is. Russia didn't have to violate Ukrainian sovereignty.
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  8456. The problem is that they elected them.
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  8457. The key point is that he would keep the nevertrump GOP out of the Biden camp.
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  8458. Because an Abrams tank is not the same as a Sherman. It is like comparing an economy car to a high-performance NASCAR vehicle.
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  8459. They said the same thing about the battle for Severodonetsk. Turns out that the Russians burned too much taking that city, being a factor in the Karkov breakout. Ukraine used Bakhmut to grind down the Russians much like how the Soviet Red Army used Stalingrad to pulverize the Wehrmacht. Or US Grant did to General Lee at Richmond in the US Civil War.
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  8460. "Amateurs imitate, professionals plagiarize," -Attributed to Igor Stravinsky.
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  8461. Fu-Go balloon bombs are no laughing matter.
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  8462. And as AG, I hope it is part of a greater push to overturn the Sullivan Case.
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  8463. And they forget that appeasement doesn't work. There is a reason why the Czechs, Poles, and Slovaks are so adamant in supporting Ukraine.
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  8464.  @denisavdeev8148  K-129 proves you wrong. So does K-171. The difference is, the West owns up to their nuclear accidents while the Communist Bloc attempted to conceal them.
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  8465. Until someone loses their head. Seriously, this is how Robespierre 's French terrors began.
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  8466.  @everettsmyth2650  I really DON'T want that to start, but it may very well require such escalation to put an end to this insanity. Incidentally, Jacobin Magazine which many of these wokies read is named after the faction in France that gave rise to Robespierre and the widespread use of the Guillotine. When they choose to honor the folks who regularly beheaded people, that tells you much about their desires.
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  8467. Explain to me why Putin stole Crimea when Biden was running Obama's foreign policy. Explain why Putin didn't invade Ukraine until AFTER Biden took the Oval office. Trump's boast about threatening to nuke Moscow may have had truth.
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  8468. They don't realize that using an "X" is actually Anglicization, meaning that they are literally whitewashing the words.
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  8469. Except, the KGB archives revealed during Glasnost and Perestroika proved that EVERYONE on McCarthy's list WAS a person of interest to Soviet intelligence. However, just because someone has the attention of the KGB does not make them an asset. THAT is where McCarthy was wrong. MLK was approached by them three times and each time MLK repudiated them and refused their assistance.
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  8470.  @zachdonaldson4848  You keep telling yourself that. The prices have already spiked 40%. THAT is the boycott in action, just like it was during MLK's boycotts.
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  8471.  @bmacaulay18  The irony is that T.E. Lawrence had the best solution, but the Brits refused to listen to him. Take a look at his map which was released around 2004. It would have divided the region along historical tribal boundaries which had more or less stabilized by then.
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  8472.  @bmacaulay18  Agreed. That is why the globalists who look down their nose at nationalism will always repeat the same blunders. Ironically, they promote that very ethno-nationalism when the push grievance culture with the Marxist "oppressor-oppressed" argument.
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  8473. They already do that. You spamming the same post doesn't convince anyone.
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  8474.  @Authentyc  Prove me wrong with DATA. I have provided you with examples. The ball is in YOUR court to refute me as I have made my case.
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  8475.  @dann285  How long was the Pacific Campaign in the 1940s? From Pearl Harbor to Midway was almost exactly 6 months. The Liberation of Kherson was almost 6 months after Russia retreated from Kiev. After Midway and Guadalcanal, the Japanese were defeated, and they knew it but still fought on. At Kherson, the Russian MOD was likewise defeated but still fought on. Russia's collapse will be in about 10 months IF the fighting continues at current pace. That would be similar to the Japanese last stand at Okinawa.
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  8476.  @salogenosse  Nice apples to oranges false analogy. Such logical fallacies are tacit admission by the desperate who know they can't defend their position on the merits.
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  8477.  @nerdTimmyswork  You really think that Trump or the Rest of Europe can rearm Ukraine so that Russia won't think to violate the ceasefire? Putin will claim that rearming Ukraine is violating the terms of the ceasefire. Negotiating with Putin is like trying to ask the crocodile to eat you last.
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  8478. Or the other way around. These guys are sickos. No depravity is beyond their perversion.
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  8479.  @SomeDude-gn8kc  And maybe they didn't do squat with the land. Why is it that "native peoples" ruled over regions for centuries but didn't develop advanced societies? Why did it often take foreign influence for the area to finally become more productive than basic sustenance survival?
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  8480. @ Environmentally worse? That is debatable. Western technology is FAR cleaner than that of the Soviet bloc, despite what the greenies claim. Just look at the mines of Africa where cobalt is sourced for "green energy" and you will see the truth.
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  8481.  @SomeDude-gn8kc  Are there intestinal parasites in these rivers? From worms to bacteria and Protists, you create a catch-22. BTW, if waterborne parasites can infect you, the water is NOT as polluted as you claim.
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  8482. @ Because Google/Youtube deleted my previous response I have to post it again. Just proves I am over the target. Giardia and Cyclospora cayetanensis are human intestinal parasites you can get by drinking water from Australia's Rivers. That such water borne diseases can still survive proves the water is not as polluted as you claim.
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  8483.  @SomeDude-gn8kc  Giardia and Cyclospora cayetanensis are human intestinal parasites you can get by drinking water from Australia's Rivers. I am pretty sure that if they were polluted, you would not be able to catch those water borne illnesses.
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  8484. Agreed. Why could the Dems not pick more reasonable folks like Jim Webb and Robert Kennedy who know that picking a fight with the electorate (and their chosen champion) is NOT a smart move. The best way to defeat Republicans is NOT by subversion and deceit, but by winning over the hearts and minds through convincing arguments. Something Disney has clearly forgotten.
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  8485.  @Ncyphen  You do realize that line of thinking is exactly why conservatives have been losing the last 20 years? That mindset that we do NOT hold the left to their own standards and games is why conservatives keep setting themselves up for failure. If someone wants to deprive you of your rights, don't defend their rights. it is called reciprocity. Also known as "The Golden Rule" taken to its extreme. If you want them to stop, you HAVE to let them experience the consequences of their own actions. Don't save people who would turn around and throw you over the cliff after you have pulled them up to safety.
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  8486.  @davidjanuski  No, he is NOT 100% correct, you have simply been drinking the liberal propaganda Kool-Aid without any critical thinking or skepticism. Disney' statement about becoming active in Florida politics to repeal the bill passed by the legislature is dated March 28th of 2022. The fact that you couldn't be bothered to ever read their statement shows you don't care about the facts, you only care about your faction winning at all costs.
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  8487.  @Shadowalchemist1  Citizens united HELPED Democrats, genius. The top 50 superPACs direct their money to Democrat candidates, particularly the hard left George Soros ones.
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  8488.  @charliespurr7325  And you haven't provided a coherent counterargument to refute me. No, you are just throwing a hissy fit.
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  8489.  @charliespurr7325  If you can't make a good argument, then it isn't a lie, it is truth. "The Truth points to itself," -Ambassador Kosh, Babylon 5.
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  8490. Because there is an intrinsic connection between the two. While not all Hebrews are Jewish, ALL Jews are Hebrews. The portion of non-Jewish Hebrews is painfully small compared to the number of Jews.
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  8491. Grammer and Spelling Nazis don't make a strong argument, it just shows that you cannot debate the merits of their point.
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  8492.  @PonutsAreGreat  Nice ad hominin. It shows that once again, you can't debate the merits and are deflecting. Speaking and proper pronunciation of a radically different language than your own is not something easy to do. Most native speakers are surprised when people actually do get it correct. And Cyrillic languages such as Ukrainian and Russian are radically different than English.
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  8493.  @PonutsAreGreat  So basically you want a raw, unprofessional, and prone to errors feed? All while complaining about mispronunciations which WOULD occur in such an unscripted process? You are barking up the wrong tree. Worse, it shows a certain myopia on your part. "The Lady doth protest too much, me thinks," -Queen Gertrude; Act 3 Scene 2. Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
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  8494.  @PonutsAreGreat  Again, you are showing that you can't refute his points, so you attack the messenger. That show how pathetically weak your complaint about pronunciation really is. "When your argument is weak, abuse the plaintiff," -Marcus Tullius Cicero.
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  8495. Chernobyl hasn't been in operations for over two decades. This is anti-nuclear hysteria.
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  8496. Monopolies stifle creativity and innovation, even "natural monopolies". Hell, even the term "natural monopoly" is an aberration because those are often created under government interference.
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  8497.  @derrick_v  Again, a strawman argument. Every "natural monopoly" had a beginning and hence can have an ending, often as a result of technological innovation. Case in point is the "natural monopoly" regarding communications, whether mail, phones, or now internet, those "natural monopolies" only exist so long as government protects them.
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  8498.  @derrick_v  One transmission line. Whether power lines or analogue phone lines. More recently, it is about fiber optic lines for cable and internet. That is the argument of the "natural monopolies" crowd. And as far as all of them, the government is who choses when and where those are allowed to be installed. Many could be built, but government often forbids it. As far as analogue phones, the advent of cellar phones have busted the "natural monopoly" of Bell Telephone (now called AT&T). Confession through projection? How am I projecting when I don't own one of those companies? How about you actually argument the merits instead of engaging in logical fallacies.
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  8499.  @derrick_v  Debate the merits instead of engaging in ad hominins. You have not once refuted my points, only engaging in attacking the messenger. "When your argument is weak, abuse the plaintiff," -Marcus Tullius Cicero.
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  8500.  @derrick_v  That isn't an argument, it is an emotional outburst. Refusal to debate is tacitly admitting that you have lost. BTW, pointing out logical fallacies to knock the legs out of a flawed argument is the second highest virtue in debate. The highest virtue is quoting a well-known source such as Cicero or Magaret Thatcher. "I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." -Magaret Thatcher, UK's Iron Lady.
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  8501.  @derrick_v  I encourage you to read the Netscape-Microsoft lawsuit. That is more perinate to the situation in this video than a discussion about how monopolies worked in the 1920s-1940s. Again, time and recent developments have provided counter examples to refute Mr. Rothbard's contention on "natural monopolies". His is THEORY, while I am talking about practical application (ie devil in the details).
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  8502. They don't realize that they are engaging in Anglicization.
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  8503.  @digitalis2977  538 has had zero credibility since the 2012 election.
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  8504. Effectively quoting Tommy Jefferson there, though our Third President was talking about the ability to print and lend money but the concept is still the same.
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  8505. It is a nice idea, but you have to keep in mind that the people helping them to unionize have deep pockets and their own team of lawyers. It is a proverbial game of chicken which will only end with the company demolished.
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  8506. I would take a traditional Environmentalist over the Green cultists of today. The green movement now is basically neo-pagan Gaia worship.
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  8507. And that was the point. A bait and switch by the power mongers to subvert the electoral process.
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  8508. Look up Japan's Fu-Go balloon bombs from WW2. China just perfected that weapon. And with the tacit assistance of New Zealand, no less.
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  8509. "Five Finger Discounts"
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  8510. I agree with you that we need to go back to the gold standard, though I don't think the Petro-dollar is truly dead.
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  8511. "When words lose their meaning, people lose their lives," -Confucius.
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  8512. Free JUDEA!
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  8513. Yeah, there has not been much progress and development of former Soviet technology since the 1980s. The fact that the MiG-31 and MiG-33 are not that much different from the 29-Fulcrums is not a good sign for Russia.
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  8514.  @daivdsmith3746  We are only able to say that because the Russian Air Force turned out to be a joke. Before the War in Ukraine, NOBODY discounted post-Soviet equipment from the Communist world.
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  8515. No, the Russian government is NOBODY's friend. But if you love reading the talking points from government mouthpieces, that is your prerogative. "If you read the news, you are misinformed, "-Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain.
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  8516.  @elmohead  Forgotten the Chinese invasion of Vietnam in the 1980s? China is not the peaceful country to pretend it is.
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  8517. @timcast ANY use of a nuclear weapon, even a low yield "tactical" is considered a STRATEGIC escalation and WILL result in NATO launching ICBMS. That is in NATO nuclear doctrine, something Tim Pool is completely ignorant of. There are no "low yield tactical" nukes in the US inventory for this reason. ALL nukes are strategic weapons in NATO.
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  8518. Because some people have an unhealthy obsession with it, particularly those who benefit from policies directed towards the issue.
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  8519. I tend to agree Leavitt is classic textbook example of a professional grifter. I also agree with you on the art. It was wasted on this endeavor. It should have been used to create entirely new and original characters.
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  8520. Like playing chess against a pigeon. He knocks over all of the pieces and craps on the board strutting about as if he has accomplished something. Then flies back to his buddies to brag about it.
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  8521.  @styracosaurusqvt4841  Which is why Thomas Jefferson warned about them and why he clashed with Alex Hamilton. "“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property – until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.” -Thomas Jefferson to Secretary to Treasury Albert Gatallin, 1802.
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  8522. Jolly Rodger Games has a number of board games based around historic events. "Founding Fathers" and "13 Days" are two of my suggestions.
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  8523. Only one man can stop this war, and he refuses.
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  8524. Jenner isn't a woman, IT is a Eunuch. As are any others who cut off their frank and beans.
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  8525.  @looseycanon  Certainly not all of the lines, but most definitely the major ones such as to Kiev as you point out.
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  8526. No, not really. The Bridge is still a legitimate target.
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  8527. I am for 20-year terms staggered every 4 years on the midterm cycle. Shrink the court to just five and a president would get to nominate once justice per term. That is not much different than how it is now, but at least it would be codified.
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  8528. And much like the superhero movies, it will be overdone and suffer from franchise decay because the executives and script writers lack any original ideas and instead rehash the same story over and over until it resembles a cardboard cutout of the original.
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  8529. As I recall, Cracker Barrel had its sales go up when the left tried this during the Duck Dynasty bruhaha. Did not work then, so what has changed that they think it will work now?
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  8530.  @RMGCBG  Dude, not funny. It wasn't funny when the wokescold liberal made the claim in his ridiculous tweet, it is not funny now. And yes, you can blame the left for killing humor because they are simply emulating their Soviet heroes.
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  8531.  @RMGCBG  Fair point.
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  8532. Reminds me of the line Jim Raynor says in Wings of Liberty. "I should cut back.....or maybe up the intake?"
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  8533. It is possible when you are hit by a bus traveling at 110 kph at moment of impact.
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  8534. @ I guess you have heard about rapid transit busing. Or how Diesel engines which power buses can actually attain speeds FASTER than most cars. The ONLY reason why buses go slower is because of a limiter device.
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  8535.  @martin_9774  The "Far Right" are not the ones rioting across France. It is the leftist-communist and the Islamists who are rioting.
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  8536.  @martin_9774  It isn't the "far right" who are rioting in France. It is the Islamists and leftist-communists who Macron allied with to deny Nationale Rally ANY say in the French government. Stop apologizing for the people who refuse to accept that their own actions are the cause of social unrest in France. The "Far Right" boogieman isn't convincing anyone anymore.
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  8537.  @Delilah-zd3em  It can be. And the best way to counter it is with BETTER speech. Which is exactly what the people criticizing it are doing.
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  8538.  @martin_9774  You are bloviating. Stop defending the indefensible. The fact that the IOC is slapping people with infringement take-down notices in an attempt to hide it speaks volumes.
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  8539.  @Delilah-zd3em  The Jewish Carpenter from Nazareth was NEVER a socialist. The early church experimented with it and quickly repudiated it. Now you have committed your own blasphemy.
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  8540.  @Delilah-zd3em  Spoken by someone who reads CliffsNotes instead of the scripture itself. You know NOTHING about the Christian faith. You misquote the scripture as it was about the sin of MATERIALISM, not wealth. There were many rich people with whom Jesus gave praise. The Centurian in particular who asked for Jesus to heal his servant for example proves your false claims wrong.
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  8541.  @Delilah-zd3em  No he did not. There you go again preaching false doctrine. You don't know him because like a bad reader, you take things completely out of context to push a temporal agenda. That is a blasphemy for which even he called out the Pharisees for. "On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness!" Matthew 7:22-23
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  8542.  @Delilah-zd3em  I have, you just don't like it because it takes away your attempt to use religion as a tool of control. Communism is antithetical to the teachings of Christianity. There is NOTHING charitable about the use of government force. "Render unto Caesar what belongs to Caesar, render unto God what is God's," -Mark 12:17.
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  8543.  @Imissnormal  Indeed. Folks don't want to admit that among a certain community, it is almost as bad as it was in the 90s.
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  8544. Where is Mayor Pete Buttplug?
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  8545. Most of his campaign staff are connected to the Veritas folks going after James O'Keefe. Coincidence? I think not.
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  8546. Yeah, their Trump derangement Syndrome makes the blind to critical details which completely shatters their narrative.
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  8547. AGREED! It infuriated me how Korean women destroy their beautiful eyes with plastic surgery. This "cosmetic" procedure should only be used in serious disfigurement issues such as a person's face being ripped off in a freak accident.
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  8548.  @kostaanestopoulos5189  Put down the vodka private conscriptovich, you are so drunk you are hallucinating. ISW rejects your Kremlin wishful fantasy.
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  8549. I think they were pragmatists who realized that the ideological purists like Mao were threatening to destroy the very thing they were trying to create. They had the foresight to moderate the unworkable ideas and modify the ones that could be made workable.
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  8550.  @Stanley-px3bt  Yeah, you have the perspective of a coastal elite who has never visited "flyover country" (namely the Midwest). The whole Bud Light Debacle over Dylan Mulveni is but one symptom of that elitist tone-deaf mentality.
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  8551. Reminds me of many of Michael Crichton's quotes about how often "experts" are wrong because of groupthink and consensus contaminating good science and objective analysis.
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  8552.  @hadtrio6629  Agreed. HISTORIC China first controlled it during the late Ming Dynasty. But the current Red Government is NOT the successor state to the Qing Dynasty despite their claims. That honor would fall to the Republic of China currently residing in Taipei.
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  8553.  @hadtrio6629  "Mandate of heaven" is anathema to China's official atheist stance. "Mandate of Heaven" is monarchal doctrine and runs counter to the official ideology of Communism. So, no, but the CCP's own standards, they do NOT nor cannot claim to be the legitimate successor because they reject on principle that which would give them such a claim. And no, it is NOT hypocritical of the West to point this out. It is holding them to their own standards.
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  8554.  @hadtrio6629  Apples to oranges false analogy. They are NOT the same and it is intellectually dishonest to claim that they are.
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  8555.  @hadtrio6629  Wrong. For one, the "independence movements" of Doneski and Luhansk is nothing more than what Russia did in Georgia with Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Nothing more than a pretext for stealing territory and rebuilding the old Soviet Empire. Your blatant disregard for that shows you are not acting in good faith. And for Catalonia, their beef with Madrid is NOTHING like the spat between Taipei and Beijing. But i get that you are completely ignorant of Franco's Spain and the history of that country since WW2. In short, you are guilty of doing exactly what you accuse me of doing. Your chronological snobbery makes your perspectives infantile and irrelevant.
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  8556.  @hadtrio6629  Again with more false analogies (logical fallacy) comparing apples to oranges. Typical response from an ideological partisan who doesn't actually care about facts. Oh, a Moor huh? Don't get me started on the brutal Invasion of Iberia by the Muslim Moors.
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  8557. Yes they will, because he keeps them in the elite position and the rest of us in poverty as serfs.
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  8558.  @StephanieTruelove-z5n  Indeed. The policies of Biden entrench the elites and keep the little guy down. So of course, the neo-feudalists will vote for him.
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  8559. He got that frontal lobotomy. The Miasma of Congress is more virulent than Ebola, Bubonic Plague, Tuberculosis, Malaria, and Smallpox.
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  8560. There are benefits as well as drawbacks to a parliamentary system which you advocate. One only needs to look at the fiascos of Canada recently under Pretty boy Trudeau to see how a Parliamentarian fails spectacularly.
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  8561. How has Russian Artillery helped during Kherson and Kharkov? They are using significantly less of it than they did even 6 months ago. Also, you chose to quote Petraeus? A man with zipper problems and whose judgement on the War in Afghanistan contributed to the fall of Kabul??? I think the Ukrainian general staff knows better than the NATO generals who have never actually fought a near-peer adversary in any serious capacity.
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  8562.  @johnwebster5005  Rounds that don't hit their target is just wasted ammunition. If you were making a point, all it achieved was to point out how pathetically bad the Russians are with what limited munitions they have. Again, you are using Petraeus as a strawman argument. He has never actually fought a real war against a near peer adversary, merely pretended to be a gentleman solider while diddiling his biographer. And how many times must it be said? BLITZKREIG IS NOT TYPICAL. It is an aberration that rarely reflects actual combat.
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  8563.  @johnwebster5005  Nice ad Homin attacking my intelligence rather than debating the merits. Perun did a fantastic job debunking your claims about massing artillery barrages being more effective than targeted munition strikes. The fact that Ukraine is NOT trying to replicate Russia's artillery war and instead saving most of their shells for counter-battery fire speaks volumes as to why numbers alone don't mean a damn thing beyond consumption rates. As for alternatives, what alternative is there? None as Russia certainly isn't capable of providing one. China is greatly reassessing theirs in light of Russian deficiencies. And India has come to realize that Russia can't be trusted to honor any agreement.
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  8564. Same here. I joined the USAF in October of 2005 and already saw the wokeness and political motivation for promotion erode combat effectiveness. Our flag officers are all as worthless as a Russian General.
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  8565. They won't. Sovereign power of the state is where Disney gets the power the wield in Reedy Creek. Ask your lawyer friend about it and the Federalist Papers should be the first place they cite.
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  8566. But how many Russians were "settlers" (ie colonized) during the Soviet era?
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  8567.  @iplaygames8090  Advisors are not the same as combat troops genius.
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  8568. That is a cheap cop-out to cover the actual reason. If they have millions to throw at bombs like this movie, they could have easily afforded him. Letting him ad-lib would have actually saved money on the writing staff.
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  8569. The investors are responsible for this! They are who brought back Iger not once but THREE TIMES to triple down on the woke garbage.
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  8570. And if there is a Jack Ruby situation? What do you think happens if some deranged leftist assassinates Trump?
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  8571. When the price of goods spikes 40%, that IS the effect of the boycott. That is how they work; just like the Russian sanctions.
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  8572.  @ErnestClary  Laugh it up. This is how the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia.
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  8573.  @beanMcboi  I never said it was. I was cautioning those who cheer this because they will be the next targets.
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  8574. There is a reason why union bosses are often synonymous with organized crime.
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  8575.  @marcogenovesi8570  Only in right to work states do you enjoy that freedom to quit the union. Most blue states are closed door, which means you MUST join the union, or your employment will be terminated. I know how that works because my mother was forced to join the Teacher union which she absolutely detested. You accuse me of making a strawman argument when you yourself are doing just that. You don't actually want to debate merits, only shill for your political tribe which just happens to be pro-union. And if I seem skilled, it is because I have had LOTS of DEBATE practice against more sophisticated trolls than you. Get better talking points and learn to debate.
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  8576. On what charge? The Georgia case is imploding, and even leftist lawyers admit that thew New York sham trial is beyond the pale.
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  8577. You misrepresent Ceasefire for surrender. The two are not the same thing. Further, they reached out to the Soviet Russians dictating terms of the ceasefire showing how insincere they were.
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  8578.  @keithmilne4971  And the Japanese had zero interest in surrender. That is my point. What you claim is surrender was nothing more than a desire for a ceasefire. A gross mischaracterization of the situation.
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  8579. @MI6 You have zero understanding of the mentality of the Japanese leadership and it shows. Rather than engage in unsupported speculation, you acknowledge that your position and claims have no merit. The Japanese didn't want to surrender on ANY terms and their overtures to the Russians prove that. Stop fooling yourself into believing things that just have no data or evidence supporting them. That is called wishful thinking.
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  8580. @MI6 You seem to forget that until AFTER the bomb was dropped, the civilian ministers were still on board with continuing the war. Don't forget, a number of them eventually faced trial for Crimes against Humanity in Japan's version of Nuremberg. Civilian government officials convicted include: Kōki Hirota (Prime Minister and later foreign minister), Hiranuma Kiichirō (Prime Minister), Naoki Hoshino (Chief cabinet secretary) Okinori Kaya (Minister of Finance) Kōichi Kido (Lord Keeper Privy Seal) Shigenori Tōgō (foreign minister)
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  8581. I agree. Emancipate Yakutia!
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  8582. The Ukrainian collusion hoax. And the Russian collusion hoax before it.
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  8583.  @ZHOUKINGS  Nobody is buying the Kremlin propaganda. Put down the Vodka Comrade.
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  8584.  @ZHOUKINGS  Thank you for infantilizing me by accusing me of being fatigued. it shows that you have lost the plot and cannot argue the merits. The most effective lies use elements of the truth to appear legitimate. While some of your point have historic evidence, you grossly mischaracterize them and put them out of context to drive the bigoted anti-West narrative of the Kremlin.
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  8585.  @ZHOUKINGS  Yeah, okay Vladmir Conscriptovich. Or is it Sergi Kleptovsky? You keep telling yourself the same comforting lies and myths if you think it helps you sleep at night. If the West and the US in particular is so bad, then why are so many people from the former Soviet bloc trying desperately to become like the West? Why are ethnic Chinese trying so hard to get out of the mainland and become US citizens? The truth points to itself.
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  8586.  @ZHOUKINGS  More copium? Boy you can't even bother to make a coherent point without engaging in another logical fallacy, this time apples to oranges false analogy. But then that is typical whataboutism from shills who are bigoted against the West.
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  8587. I would never push those two like that. However, having both of them on at the same time would put the crones of the View in their place.
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  8588. "It is said my house shall be a temple of prayer, but you have turned it into a den of thieves!" he then made a whip of cords, overturned the tables and chased out the money changers. Seems you forget that part because it run counter to your fake narrative about the Nazarene.
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  8589.  @JamesCrackethCorn  So give it to them; let them have more of a revolution than they can handle. Why are people so worried or fearful? At this point the battlelines are drawn and there is nobody left to convince. Why should you care what they want anymore? To allow them to control you like that is to surrender without even trying.
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  8590. And now you understand Teddy Roosevelt's contempt for both sides of the Coal Miner Strike of 1902.
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  8591. Red Pills now are too late. Only the black pill will save us now.
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  8592. Anschluss 2.0
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  8593. Doesn't matter. Incumbents are retained at 98%. Only term limits or death will remove them from office.
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  8594.  @kenjues1594  India, THE LARGEST DEMOCRACY IN THE WORLD, banned Tiktok, so what is your point?
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  8595. How one treats the staff is often an indication of their true character.
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  8596. The generals forgot what the proper priorities are. They are more concerned about pandering to "two mommies" crowd rather than actually ensuring the combat readiness of the force.
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  8597. Distinction without a difference. Even if it was as you claimed, the fact that they did not see a single patient for even something as routine as cancer screening means they were playing politics at the expense of people's lives.
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  8598.  @PlayaSinNombre  What is disingenuous is you trying to defend a man who engage in eugenics by deflecting on nuance and trivialities that get people killed. Look, those hospital ships run by the Navy are DESIGNED to give pandemic relief. Usually they are deployed to Cholera, Malaria, and Typhoid outbreaks in Africa. So if you want to talk about being dishonest, your who argument is predicated on a lie.
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  8599.  @PlayaSinNombre  And with the ad hominin personal attacks because you cannot refute my points. Thank you for throwing out the towel in tacit admission of defeat. " I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." -Margaret Thatcher
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  8600.  @PlayaSinNombre  And all you care about is your tribe winning. If that means equivocating, moving the goal posts or rationalization (ie making excuses) you will do it.
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  8601.  @PlayaSinNombre  And you know nothing about me either. But your decision to attack the messenger rather than debate the merits reveals your true colors. What one choses to say, and how they go about it speaks much. There is a reason why ComSec is such a big deal. We expose much in the choice of words we use. And your tribe is exposed in your choice of words.
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  8602.  @PlayaSinNombre  Learn to debate. You have lost the argument because your position is untenable and so you are trying to infantilize it by engaging in logical fallacies of ad hominin attacks.
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  8603.  @PlayaSinNombre  And again with the insults and personal attacks. You are desperate because you have not valid argument. You refuse to address the valid points I made and so you seek to discredit the message by attacking the messenger. Thank you for showing the world that you have lost the plot.
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  8604.  @PlayaSinNombre  Thank you once again for proving you have left rational thinking by engaging in petty insults. "I learned long ago never to wrestle with pigs. You get dirty and the pig enjoys it," -George Bernard Shaw.
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  8605.  @degg1887  I don't disagree. Their persecution of Falun Gong, a local and distinctively Chinese faith shows their claims of preferring "local religions" like Buddhism and Daoism over "Western faiths" like Christianity betrays their lies. One of my greatest frustrations is how conservative Christians pay lip service about freedom of religion and yet here in the US they are unwilling to reach out to natural allies against Marxist Wokeism. Such allies include, but are not limited to Sikhs, Buddhists, Shintos, Jews, and Zoroastrianism. The latter two are the most frustrating as Cyrus the Great, patron of the Jews in exile was himself a high priest of the faith.
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  8606. There is also the Constitutionality of it. Disney only has that power in the first place BECAUSE THE STATE GAVE THEM THAT POWER. Which means as the sovereign power, the state can take back that power at will (ie subject to the legislature). People need to read the Federalist Papers.
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  8607. "If we burn, you burn with us! Fire is catching!" -Katniss Everdeen, Mockingjay.
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  8608. With the exception of the UK, are they also not a part of ASEAN? You would think that particular economic forum would be the perfect avenue for a Southeast Asian equivalent of NATO.
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  8609.  @eibenstr3  Too diverse politically and economically? Might as well be describing the allied powers of World War 2. Or World War One for that matter. While I don't disagree that Burma is a basket case, having oscillated between military Junta and civilian rule under Aung San Suu Kyi, that does not mean the others could not do so. Politics and War makes for some REALLY strange bedfellows.
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  8610. Foreign alien national. And a trespassing one at that. Stop calling them immigrants because that is an attempt to gaslight people into thinking they have a legitimacy the are not entitled to.
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  8611.  @DannyPhantomTax  Tiktok IS government controlled: RED CHINESE GOVENRMENT. Go touch grass.
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  8612. While I agree with your premise about a strong country, the problem is that Russia has ALWAYS had bad leadership. Stalingrad had more to do with the NKVD (KGB predecessor) shooting anyone who tried to retreat. Seriously, go read Kruschev's accounts of the battle.
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  8613.  @scottwillie6389  Pure copium. Either that or you are a paid shill for either the Chinese CCCP or the Kremlin. China wants Outer Manchuria back. And the fact that they have reinforced their border to prevent Russians from fleeing Putin's conscription only drives home the point that they are NOT friends, merely "business partners" with no love lost between them.
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  8614.  @scottwillie6389  I agree that normal countries don't allow unauthorized entry. So tell me why Joe Bite-Me and his cabal are allowing that on the US-Mexico border? Those Russia ex-pats don't support US, genius. They just don't want to die in a pointless war started by a man who has a "Short Man" Napoleon complex. Just because Beijing CLAIMS their disputes are settled doesn't make it true. To this day there are still spats between Pakistan and China over their border, you just don't hear about it because neither side wants to talk about their embarrassments.
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  8615. Who has the motivation to rob a Trump campaign office? Your "own" is not the victory you think it is.
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  8616. It should be remembered in shame alongside other evil ideologies such as Communism and Naziism.
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  8617. First wave Feminism with Susan B. Anthony was. Feminism after that became something else entirely.
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  8618.  @cjlake5754  Yeah, now that you mentioned it, I think they did say that it was her heart that gave out. Either way, you have enlightened me, and I appreciate it.
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  8619. They are not doctors for they have violated the first rule of medicine: DO NO HARM. They are quacks no different than the charlatans of old who sold snake oil.
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  8620. No dam not water for Crimea and the area becomes untenable. You need water for troops to drink and Russia shoots themselves in the foot if they do.
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  8621. Liberate JUDEA!
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  8622. It is the result of megacorporations trying to protect their oligopoly. In try to keep the little guy down domestically, they created an even bigger threat. One they foolishly think they could control or reason with.
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  8623. @Chad Zues It isn't stealing when you pay for it dude. But you have clearly never heard of "highway robbery".
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  8624. He said the video was watermarked by RT (Russian television).
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  8625. Name one specific. Generalities don't count.
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  8626. Timmy doesn't seem to want to consider the possibility that Fox News leadership might be the ones "leaking" (ie intentionally planting) these videos in the hopes that Media Matters destroys Tucker for them. A classic example of the "right-wing" colluding with the left to crush voices of dissent.
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  8627. Or the cowardice of American leadership.
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  8628. Nelson Mandela became president of South Africa after serving an unjust prison sentence. The President of Brazil also spent time in prison.
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  8629. Should being the operative point. They only care when they are not the ones calling the shot. But when they have the power, they think they can do no wrong. The dark triad of narcissism, Machiavellianism, and sociopathy.
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  8630. Yeah, how long after that comment before the crash in PA? Not saying that the two are related, but it shows a clear obliviousness on her part.
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  8631. Yeah, there is a reason why people are paying attention to what North Korea is sending to Russia.
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  8632.  @Pyrate_Of_Las_Vegas  Just take practice. I have worn it in my belt loop in the house and you get the hang of it.
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  8633. Indeed. Folks have forgotten the old saying "the bigger they are, the harder they fall".
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  8634.  @madpete6438  Oh, they ARE doing something, just not as loud and boisterous. They are demanding a 30% discount on Russian oil. They are ripping him off at the same time they are throwing a life-line.
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  8635.  @madpete6438  Does not surprise me. I have found that Indians have their own haughtiness, though they try to deny it. It just manifests in a way less obvious to Americans or many Europeans. If one is familiar with East Asian concepts of "saving face", it becomes MUCH easier to spot Indian arrogance.
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  8636.  @mcnultyssobercompanion6372  Nice false choice dilemma on your part. It is NOT a simple yes/no situation. We "helped" our allies in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan and what did it get us? Ukraine may turn out like South Korea, but the probabilities are NOT in the favor of the West. I believe in REPUBLIC governance, not Democracy which is mob rule. as freedom of speech, it is non-existent in Ukraine, especially when Zelensky jails his critics. Ukraine has a LONG way to go before it is even remotely similar to the West in terms of civil rights and individual liberties. As far as "only caring about myself" is myopic on your part. Martyring yourself for others achieves NOTHING. If the US balkanizes and implodes, then we are of no use to anyone, least of all Ukraine.
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  8637.  @mcnultyssobercompanion6372  Nice proof by verbosity (logical fallacy). No, Zelenksy is jailing ANYONE who is critical of him or the war effort. Even people pointing out the corruption in the hopes of Zelensky acting to put an end to it is being jailed. Stop apologizing for that. What is laughably mystifying is how you think securing Ukrainian borders is more important than securing America's. We have to put our own house in order before we can do anything about Ukraine.
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  8638. If Trump is Putin's ally, then why did Putin not invade Ukraine while Trump was in office? Why did he steal Crimea while Biden was directing Obama's Foreign Policy? Why did he wait until Biden was in the White House to invade?
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  8639.  @TonyM540  Then why didn't Putin attack Ukraine while Trump was in office? If they were buddies, why did Putin wait until AFTER Trump left office to attack Ukraine? And don't go into that copium argument about "losing influence". He stole Crimea while Biden was Obama's Vice.
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  8640. Not used all of the toys? You realize that thanks to Russia's rout in Izium, they are now the largest supplier of tanks, artillery pieces, and bullets to the Ukrainian Army? 1 Guard Tank Army, the pride of Moscow gave away most of their equipment!
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  8641.  @juanchirino4900  That is a strawman argument. Nature abhors a vacuum. SOMETHING will replace it.
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  8642. Disney is run by people who idolize Stalin's Ministry of Culture circa 1930s.
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  8643. Indeed. Making the exact same blunders as Michael Crichton pointed out about Pellagra and post-partum mortality in his epic 2003 rant at the California Institute of Technology.
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  8644.  @dunkdamonk  Yes, it takes one generation to ruin another generation. And two of them working in concert can destroy a nation totally and completely. Yeah, you are looking at pay, but currency is about the WORST measurement you can use. Try reading Hayek and Carl Menger. The value of labor doesn't actually change. Bankers and politicians simply use manipulation of currency to fool the people into thinking it does. Too many people are stuck on Karl Marx's debunked labor theory of value which Karl Menger and Fredrich Hayek completely obliterated.
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  8645.  @GeorgeMonet  That is not how tax law is written. Taxes are usually assessed in percentage. Which means that the government still takes the same cut of your earnings and wealth as they always do. Your tax burden doesn't change as far as the government is concerned. And before you get started about tax brackets, the people who right them have already put into the law adjustments for inflation. So your whole argument about paying less taxes is moot.
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  8646. The problem with all of these "tanks need to be reinvented" is that it completely misses the point of WHY tanks are most effective. They excel when they are used in combined arms, as Heinz Guderian observed. The idea of massive engagements of armor is a Soviet Red army wet dream.
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  8647. Most of the officers don't deserve on either. Too many with "zipper problems".
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  8648.  @Chevelle602  Russia during the reign of Czar Nicholas the 2nd had just as many guns if not more than the US. It is estimated there were as many as 3 guns per person at that time. Gun ownership doesn't stop totalitarians from taking power.
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  8649. And NATO expansion was more of Putin's doing than anything else. The former Warsaw Pact do NOT want to return to the 80s.
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  8650.  @tetraxis3011  Amd the Palestinians regularly target schools and hospitals for their terrorist attacks. Save your moral outrage for people who have chosen killing over letting their neighbors live in peace. “When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons. Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.” ― Golda Meir
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  8651.  @tinymike318  While ignoring Jihadism from the PLO. Yeah, anti-Zionism is simply repackaged anti-Semitism.
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  8652.  @TheDotBot  Not really. The meticulous records kept by the organization is solid proof that would hold up in a court of law. And my "theory" as you put it has a preponderance of evidence supporting it that you would rather just blatantly ignore. If one is to judge a person by their actions, hers by Occam's Razor actually supports my contention.
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  8653.  @TheDotBot  That is not an argument. You are simply in denial and refuse to accept the cold hard facts that support my position. “I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” ― Margaret Thatcher
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  8654.  @truckwarrior5944  Sure you have. Just like every tom dick and harry will claim. Appeal to authority or accreditation is a logical fallacy and is a sign of desperation because you can't win the debate on the merits. And try looking up what Occam's Razor is, but I doubt you will.
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  8655.  @truckwarrior5944  I fulfilled the burden of proof. You just refuse to accept the evidence. That is a failing on your part, not mine. Learn to debate. And understand what it means to be ratioed. Liking your own posts doesn't count.
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  8656.  @TheDotBot  Naw, that would be you. But again, you can't argue the merits so you engage in personal attacks and logical fallacies like a typical propagandist. "I always cheer up immensely if one is particularly wounding because I think well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left. That is why my father always taught me: never worry about anyone who attacks you personally; it means their arguments carry no weight and they know it." -Margaret Thatcher.
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  8657.  @truckwarrior5944  Thanks teach, I think I know that already. Now how about you actually try practicing what you preach.
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  8658.  @truckwarrior5944  Sure dude, you keep telling yourself that if it helps you sleep better at night.
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  8659.  @thomasl.6960  Pot meet kettle. I debated merits. You are gutter snipping.
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  8660.  @mikekraut7643  You are making a distinction without much of a difference. The net result is still the same.
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  8661.  @kintothewind  People didn't "go down to Africa". Try look up "out of Africa" theory. The Human Genome Project has supplied ample evidence supporting and reinforcing that theory.
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  8662.  @mikekraut7643  Fossil evidence and burial remains are hard evidence to fake. But sure, don't believe your lying eyes.
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  8663.  @mikekraut7643  Out of Africa predates the 90s. It goes to the 1970s with the discovery of Homo Bodoensis and the separation of Homo Ergaster as distinct from Homo Erectus. But of course, you ignore the timeline of the discovery of fossil remains that challenge your narrative. Just like the power monger who push an agenda do.
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  8664. The pipe is in water less than 300 feet. You could scuba dive down to it. You don't need a sub for that.
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  8665.  @CakeofWisdom  He means the Russians marching across the open fields south of Bakhmut towards Chasiv Yar is eerily similar to Pickett's Charge up Cemetary Ridge.
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  8666. Because these people have no principles. They are effectively religious zealots who care more about you repeating their religious mantras about wokism rather than being genuine believers. It is all about the influence and power to them.
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  8667. I am embarrassed to say that my household income us just north of $25,000 a YEAR, and that is with TWO working parents. This FEMALE lives better than my family. No sympathy from me.
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  8668.  @UnaliverOfChildren  Spare me, jihadism has existed since the 15th century. The movement for a global caliphate has been around since Saladin sacked Jerusalem.
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  8669. Should have shot it down over Alaska.
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  8670. Also proved that Fu-Go balloon bombs are still viable.
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  8671.  @michaeldy3157  Demining is more effective when you are not being fired on. Ironically, these same cluster munitions at a 2% dud rate actually make for an effective demining tool, though not originally designed for it.
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  8672.  @LloydBrodrick-ne5ei  Depends on the mines. Do keep in mind that some of the demining vehicles are not much more effective than using cluster munitions to detonate mines. Ultimately, NO demining procedure is going to be 100% effective. As the Dutch poster mentioned above, they are STILL finding WW2 mines in Flanders some 80 years later.
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  8673.  @harrymills2770  Indeed. The use of almost religious doctrine and orthodoxy to protect the institutions of power goes back at LEAST to the Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt. The priests were often arbiters of the law, using torture and public flogging to get confessions and otherwise enforce the rule of the supreme monarch who was perceived as the physical incarnation of Amun-Ra. That is of course so long as the Pharaoh played his own role in the charade. To draw parallels, when Amenhotep IV adopted monotheism and the name Akhenaten, the priesthood revolted, practically "un-personing" him after his death. Same with Nefertiti, his queen who took the throne after his death. She too was "canceled" and "un-personed" by the priesthood for defying their power and influence.
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  8674. Yeah, but HAMAS using human shields. By taking civilians hostage. By using hospitals and schools as ammunition warehouses. Stop making excuses for Jihadism.
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  8675. Sic semper tyrannis
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  8676. And yet he has allowed Pelosi to effectively run the House. Johnson is no different than John Boehner, Paul Ryan, and Kevin McCarthy.
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  8677. Johnson colludes with the leftist Democrats just like John Boehner, Paul Ryan, and Kevin McCarthy before him. The Dems effectively control the House under Johnson.
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  8678. It should fall under existing cyberbullying statutes, but of course the local DAs are not enforcing it. And when you consider who financed most of those DAs that are asleep on the job, you start to understand why.
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  8679.  @mochithepooh5368  That is the liberal left you are describing, not conservatives. Conservatives don't believe in changing them meaning of words like the left loves to do. They tend to CONSERVE the meaning of words resisting change. "When words lose their meaning, people lose their lives," -Confucius.
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  8680.  @thomasravard7127  I think you are putting the cart before the horse. Truth creates proof, not proof defining truth. Truth is unchanging. Proofs as defined by evidence do change according to perspective. Truth is objective. Proof is subjective.
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  8681.  @merafirewing6591  Ismay was one of the first off the ship. When it comes to expected behavior of "British Gentlemen", he failed spectacularly. You want to talk about gaslighting, William McMaster Murdoch's reputation was tarnished by James Cameron. THAT man did more to get survivors into the lifeboats than Ismay.
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  8682.  @merafirewing6591  And you are painting him in the very best light possible, exaggerating his actions. It wasn't just Hearst. Many of the passengers who survived were highly critical of him, particularly his caviler behavior once aboard the RMS Carpathia.
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  8683.  @lv3609  The original plan was always unworkable. The war in Ukraine simply revealed the fundamental flaws in that plan. Not plan for ending fossil fuels is viable without civilian nuclear power. It is the ONLY carbon neutral energy source that is both cheap and efficient. Solar and Wind create more carbon on the front end than they ever save during its entire lifecycle. And that is not counting the carbon footprint from maintenance.
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  8684.  @lv3609  Yes it is their choice whether to open or close their nuclear power stations. But it is quite clear that by doing so, they made themselves completely dependent on Russia since Solar and Wind fail to meet their needs. I'm, sure you disagree with the assessments about the carbon footprint regarding wind turbines or the environmental costs of strip mining for the rare Earth metals used for solar. Because the advocates of it always misrepresent the actual costs, particularly for the Cobalt used in lithium-ion batteries. Take a look at Belgum Congo aka Zaire and you will find the horrible human cost to "green energy". And no, the infrastructure for green energy is NOT itself green. Again, that is the fallacy of circular logic. If it was truly economical, then governments would never need to invest in it because rich business tycoons would have already made millions doing so already.
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  8685. I care enough about Hollyweird to want Korean, Japanese, and Taiwanese studios to bury Tinsel Town. I gladly side with the Hwarang (Koreans), Samurai, and Shaolins against the wokistas.
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  8686. They have blended both equipment and tactics from East and West into an amazing Hybrid War machine. NATO should start taking notes.
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  8687. I agree. The big ones must innovate or die. "Creative destruction" as one anthropologist described it.
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  8688. In medias res. it is a rather common trope used in the past, but completely forgotten by modern Hollyweird.
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  8689.  @glenforde6558  Then explain why she lost her primary bid? Most other states have "sore loser" laws to prevent write-in campaigns like the one she did to defy her own party.
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  8690. Indeed. The Chinese play the long game. They have simply shifted their animosity towards the Anglo-world from the UK to the US.
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  8691. The indie producers will keep it alive in the niche market.
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  8692. Soviet legacy tanks, sure. Western tanks, not so much. Armor was never suppose to be used in mass engagements, but instead in combined arms supported by an infantry squad at all times. That is what Heinz Guderian advocated.
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  8693.  @AmaterasuOjo  I think you are projecting. if the US wasn't top dog, you would be bitching about the British. Or the French, or whomever was the strongest nation out there.
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  8694. I tend to agree. If people can hate watch when there are so many classic alternatives, it tells you how far we have fallen.
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  8695. Mike Pence was to Trump what Grima Wormtongue was to King Theoden of Rohan, speaking poison into the ear of the King.
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  8696.  @davidjanuski  You are defending grooming. You have ZERO moral standing when you defend the indefensible. No, Disney pushing for the sexualization of children is NOT the right thing, and you are a sick person who needs help.
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  8697. Right now, the ONLY way one can become a Korean citizen is if they are ethnically Korean. That kind of discourages any immigration. They should at least allow a foreigner who marries or is married a Korean national to have a path to citizenship. Fast track it if the marriage produces mixed children.
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  8698. Toy Story Three should have had the ending song be "Puff the Magic Dragon" by Peter, Paul and Mary. In doing so, Woody metaphorically becomes Puff, and Andy is Jackie Paper. "A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys Painted wings and giant's rings make way for other toys One gray night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more And Puff, that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane WITHOUT HIS LIFE LONG FRIEND, PUFF COULD NOT BE BRAVE So Puff, that mighty dragon, sadly slipped into his cave"
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  8699. Mayor Buttplug.
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  8700. That sounds like copium.
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  8701.  @billywatts4689  False reports will only get yourself banned from Google/youtube. Don't waste their time or they WILL waste yours.
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  8702.  @thetrist333  How many Frenchmen does it take to defend Paris? Nobody knows, for it has not been attempted.
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  8703.  @thetrist333  And yet it has always been the US pulling France's bacon out of the fire. For someone who claims to be well verse in history, you sure are ignorant of it. ""To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?" -Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45BC.
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  8704. It is because these people are neo-Bolsheviks whose ideas suck and rather than admit that they could be wrong, they try to tear down the things that were successful. Their hate is driven by ideology bordering of religious zealotry.
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  8705. Seems like the US learned nothing from Japan's Fu-Go balloon bomb.
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  8706.  @manguanxu3612  Oh, I agree. China has historically been a colonizing power. Zheng He's treasure fleet was all about exerting colonial power over subject and vassal nations. And of course, Japan in the 1930s had colonialist expansionism, though they were quickly broken of those ambitions.
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  8707.  @manguanxu3612  Yeah, the classic deflection and logical fallacy of communist governments such as Red China's.
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  8708. Indeed. I think Putin's bluff was just called.
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  8709.  @stewartkingsley  Putin didn't invade Ukraine under Trump, he waited until Joe Bite-Me was in office. If anyone has started WW3, it is the Biden team because of their fecklessness.
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  8710. That has always been the case. Even Heinz Guderian believed that tanks should be supported by a squad of infantry.
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  8711.  @brobro1659  Nice attempt at gaslighting. Neo-Nazis are defined by their unhinged hatred of Jews. Hence the etymology neo(new) Nazis.
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  8712. THIS. It was the feminist ideal before they got power. But reality turned out nothing like they expected.
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  8713. And be willing to fight. The fall of Saigon and the Fall of Kabul both occurred because the locals refused to step up to the plate. Kiev and Seoul both stand free because their populations DID fight for their country.
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  8714.  YouTubeDweller8008  Indeed. They want validation for the psychosis.
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  8715.  @TheTyrial86  Indeed. People misconstrued TR. He was just as much of a union buster as he was a big business buster. His threat to send the army into the coal mines was targeting the unions just as much as the mining companies. Sadly, his cousin FDR bastardized his philosophy by perverting it into the very same policies of Woodrow Wilson whom TR ran against(and lost because of the split with President Taft).
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  8716. BINGO!
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  8717. Make Nuremberg Trials for judges great again.
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  8718.  @honestdon1772  Touch grass.
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  8719.  @lv3609  I wish American journalists would do that. Less talking, more listening to their guests rather than leading them with loaded questions.
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  8720. Unless discovery proves that it was them who was in breach of contract. The problem with taking someone to court is that ALL your dirty laundry gets put out for everyone and their sister to see. This isn't a smart move on their part. All of their skeletons in the closet will be revealed.
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  8721. Yeah, he chose poorly. He is about the ONLY white guy that the Thai or Japanese royal family would have let marry one of their daughters or cousins.
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  8722.  @tyquonjackson7728  Except, the UN is NOT a world governing body. Its "laws" have zero force backing it beyond those willing to use armed conflict.
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  8723.  @gruntgamer4204  Busy vandalizing world cultural heritages sites like Stonehenge.
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  8724. Are you kidding? KK and her cabal would LOVE to have a union. It would give her more power to bully the board of directors into kowtowing to her woke ideology.
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  8725. He was saying the quite part out loud. Namely, that the fix was in with the Star Chamber Proceedings.
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  8726. It would be great comeuppance if the courts ruled that everything, they claim is IP infringement is in fact effectively public domain.
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  8727.  @waywardlyfe3092  Antisemitism is not a good look. It puts you in the same boat as the Austrian Painter.
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  8728. Because the power mongers are of the view that it takes a village to raise a child. To assign blame to parents would be to undercut that narrative. Ironically, the Israeli Kibbutz proved exactly why "communal child rearing" is a spectacular failure.
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  8729. A study of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 is a good example as to why disarming and regulations will not work. The Washington Treaty was the arms control treaty of its time.
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  8730. It was reported very early on that the DNR and LNR had force conscripted the local population to fight and that those were the cannon fodder that the Russian leadership was using for them most hazardous frontal assaults. And that is why the population in the Donbas has effectively turned AGAINST the Russians and have been surrendering to Ukraine, the phony referendums, notwithstanding. So as far as "force conscripting" Ukrainians into the Russian military, well, that has already been done and there are very few able-bodies men left in the Donbas for the Russians to press-gang or shanghai for their cause.
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  8731. Loiter time. Balloons can hover over the target longer than a Satellite. Better resolution as well.
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  8732. Not likely with the Moscow and Petrograd air defenses having been dismantled and sent to Ukraine.
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  8733. Transgenderism denies nature and science. Which shows you what the "trust the science!" crowd really is: theologians pretending to be something they are not.
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  8734.  @republica843  North Korea is not going to send soldiers to Ukraine. It is too great of a danger that they would defect like the guy who dashed across the DMZ. Further, once those soldiers saw what Russia and Ukraine was like, the Kimmies could never let them return home. It would shatter the lie told to the people that North Korea is the most technologically advanced society in the world. Those soldiers would return home knowing that their entire perspective of the world is a complete fabrication. Kind of like what happened with Soviet WW2 veterans who were all sent to the gulags after the war. Also, North Koreans love Choco Pies, and will gladly defect for them.
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  8735. There already is a viable competitor: Japanese Anime, Korean Dramas, and Taiwanese sit-coms. The East Asians are filling the void created by Tinsel Town's bankruptcy of ideas, and they are too stupid to realize it.
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  8736.  @DrPoorsight  Exactly. The WANT the Epstein scenario. What they fail to realize is they will be consumed by the very revolution they are trying to precipitate.
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  8737. So long as Russia holds Crimea, they threaten Odessa. That makes it a non-starter to any peace deal.
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  8738. Putin accusing his hypersonic missile scientists and technicians of treason is exactly what Stalin did. Lysenkoism is alive and well in Russia. What is more troubling is that Lysenkoism is infecting the West.
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  8739.  @Somajsibere  Yes, if you are trying to hint at Russia's liberalization, might I remind you that it was NOT in any way true capitalism but merely the continuation of the Soviet oligarchy under a different name? And Putin's rise to power just confirms that nothing really changed in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Central Government. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
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  8740.  @1mlister  Russia joining the war immediately was a direct result of the bombs used. Stalin said at Yalta that he needed 30 days before he would join. He only sped up his timetable because the second bomb made it clear that it would be over before the USSR could gobble up war spoils like they did in Europe. Further, the "immorality" argument never came into play until the 1970s when it became fashionable to criticize the US. And incidentally, it was Soviet agents and sympathizers who advanced that, not the Japanese. You premise is predicated on an anachronistic fallacy.
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  8741.  @znail4675  You conveniently forget that Stalin asked for 30 days before he would enter the war against Japan. Those bombs forced him to join sooner if he wanted war spoils before the Japanese surrendered. Any value the Russians added to Japan's surrender is a direct result of those bombs.
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  8742.  @znail4675  Which means any claims that it was the Russians who convinced them to surrender instead of the bomb is completely bunk.
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  8743.  @znail4675  Actually, it does. You are just moving the goal posts (logical fallacy).
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  8744.  @znail4675  Learn to debate. pointing out logical fallacies IS a legitimate critique of a flawed argument. And you moved the goal posts yest again. You are misattributing cause and effect, ignoring critical factors that change the equation.
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  8745.  @znail4675  Just because YOU don't think you are moving the goal posts doesn't mean that you have done just that. And like a good Alinsky acolyte, you accuse me of that which you have been doing. Here is a h int: when you find yourself in a hoe, STOP DIGGING. Your protestations only prove your insincerity. "The Lady doth protest too much, me thinks," -Queen Getrude; Act 3 scene 2; Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
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  8746.  @znail4675  I did prove my point, you just refuse to accept it. The burden of proof is now on you, not me.
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  8747.  @transmeeshax6872  Mein Kamp is where Hitler spelled it out. Incidentally, in practice there is very little difference between Soviets and Nazis. That is part of why the Molotov-Ribbentrop Alliance was even possible. The ONLY thing that sunk that profitable arrangement was that Hitler got too greedy.
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  8748. Or to Shale oil. That is the bigger threat than green energy.
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  8749. Nevel Chamberan capitulation huh? I guess that means you should just roll over when Red China comes for your country.
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  8750. Yeah, much has been made about the population advantage, but that assumes that everything else is equal. Russia has MORE than three times the land territory to defend. Do you really think China is just going to give up its claims over Outer Manchuria? Russia HAS to defend that as well as their other rebellious areas such as Dagistan and Chechnya.
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  8751. The GSA and government Purchase Cards are a money laundering scheme. But if you try to report it, they prosecute you for false reporting. And if you try to bring it to the attention of your Congressman, they retaliate against you.
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  8752. Funny thing about millionaires, most of their wealth is locked up in assets. yeah, that TRUCK is the million-dollar asset that makes them millionaires.
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  8753. They can try. But I want to see the courts tell them "use it or lose it!"
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  8754.  @arabiannights5301  For whatever short life it is. He is effectively Yuri Andropov on his death bed. Though that is likely giving Biden more credit than he deserves as Andropov was still mostly in possession of his faculties even if he was seriously out of touch with what was going on.
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  8755.  @arabiannights5301  Not disagreeing with that. They successfully staged a coup d'état and got away with it with the collaboration of the feckless GOP after all. We don't have a Republic anymore, it is a Feudalistic Plutocracy that pretends to have elections. A Banana Republic, as it were.
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  8756. They are already out there, interestingly enough. Perun has gone through the documentation and Oryx has compiled the number lost.
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  8757. They don't realize that they are not wielding a surgical knife, they are swinging around a nail studded club. Or they do know and don't care, not realizing that it can easily rebound off a hand enough surface.
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  8758. Didn't they try that with Arnold Schwarzenegger? He was doing great until the state assembly called his bluff and he blinked. The problem is way too many "squishy" Republicans. Need to get someone from Orange County California (maybe a child of the boat people) to become the face of the GOP in California.
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  8759.  Pisces West  Don't get me wrong, I love California's national parks, particularly Yosemite, Death Valley, and Sequoia. I would love to see the state partitioned under the SIX Californias proposal. But I fear that will not happen until something major happens. The power mongers will never permit the state to split.
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  8760. Nuremberg Trials for Judges. We need that here.
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  8761.  @TheBigfattuna  Article 3 and Sixth Amendment to the Constitution, due process. Namely, refusal to allow him to call witnesses in his defense. Failure to clearly state what the criminal accusation against him is. Try reading legal documents instead of just parroting what your feudal masters tell you.
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  8762. Geothermal power plants do harness the power of volcanos, but the amount of energy released in this one event was too much to collect by any human means.
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  8763. My Arse Rides In Navy Equipment
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  8764.  @chuckchalmers4960  Shame you don't have any real argument besides logical fallacies and personal attacks. Resorting to insults is the tool of the loser.
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  8765. Yeah, funny how they ignore that dirty little detail. Or the fact that it was Biden who was directing Obama's foreign policy when Putin stole Crimea.
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  8766. I hope the new Daimyo of ANN cleans house.
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  8767. NPC theory is basically the Minbari soul plot from Babylon 5.
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  8768. Indeed. The fourth turning has already begun. As this is the 13th generation(third cycle) since the American founding.
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  8769.  @lingricen8077  They have their own problems. The Russian Bear is geriatric and is about to implode. China is a paper tiger with a house of cards about to come crashing down. India, well, they have their own issues to deal with. The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence.
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  8770. And they will say that Ralph Bakshi's version was a better product.
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  8771.  @cheshirekat3050  Not really. You realize that many of the leaders of the current feminist movement want to exterminate men? Look at the ideology and you will find it has MUCH in common. So, no, this is NOT a Godwins Law situation, nor is it Reductio ad Hitlerum. Try actually debating the merits instead of screaming "you are insulting Jews!".
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  8772. Wrong. Every vote for Robert Kennedy is a vote takes away from KAMALA. Trump won't lose a single voter to RFK Jr. Trump supporters should want him in the race.
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  8773. Jews are the proverbial canary in the coal mine.
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  8774.  @Pikawarps  Then he had no room to complain about this. He is basically asking for this to happen more often if he does NOT tell the police to stop.
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  8775.  @exnihiloadnihilum5094  So you just capitulate to what amounts to domestic terrorism by proxy? Stop rationalizing this. Oh, and it is not Timmy who is crying wolf, it is the person who keep calling in the false reports.
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  8776.  @exnihiloadnihilum5094  That sounds like someone living in fear. As pointed out, if you are armed, you don't really need to police except to take the incident report. I suspect the response time for the police to get to his property is in excess of 15 minutes which means that they are worthless when it comes to responding to an active shooter situation. So tell me again, why they need to show up every time?
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  8777. Don't forget France, The Franco-German alliance is what keeps it afloat as Deutschland itself can't do it alone. if those two turn on each other, then that is the end of the EU.
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  8778. I tend to agree. That being said, as far as Ukraine or Russia, I agree with Yevgraf in the movie "Doctor Zhivago": " In bourgeois terms, it was a war between the Allies and Germany(Russia). In Bolshevik(trucker and working man) terms, it was a war between the Allied and German upper classes - and which of them won was of total indifference. "
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  8779. More likely to appear on Skinimax.
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  8780. Yes, the Murdock sons are flaming liberals. The ironic thing is, Rupert himself isn't. If he had been smart, he would have NOT listened to the rumors about Wendy Deng and put her in charge of his media empire instead of his good for nothing sons. She was a media mogul in Hong Kong and Taiwan before she married Rupert.
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  8781. @ Done nothing wrong but grandstand and posture for attention and clout. She isn't doing it for the Almighty's glory but for her own, the very reason why the Nazarene chastised the Pharisees. Making it about herself by going on the media circuit is where she DID do wrong, and her actions became indefensible.
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  8782.  @ernestkhalimov1007  Russian nukes are more likely to detonate in the silo than actually launch. Get over yourself.
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  8783.  @ernestkhalimov1007  Michael Crichton demonstrated why "nuclear winter" is an unsubstantiated myth unsupported by ANY hard data. Further, the rebuilding of Hiroshima and Nagasaki after only 20 years shows that the radiation left after the detonation is significantly lower than predicted. The reason is that most if not all of the fuel is consumed, and the daughter products have only moderate duration hazards. For further proof, look no further than Bikini Atoll where people are able to dive on the wrecks of the Operation: Crossroads test subjects.
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  8784.  @ernestkhalimov1007  ALL talk of nuclear war invariably degenerates into hysteria over a nuclear winter. You refusing to acknowledge that only discredits you, not me.
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  8785.  @williamsherman1942  I never said anything about Georgian chances against Russia in a conventional war. I was pointing out that fear mongering over nukes is just that: fear porn based not of fact but emotional blackmail. Looking at the Moskva, Admiral Kuznetsov, 1st Guards Tank Army, and now the 155 Naval Infantry Marine Brigade, it casts great doubt on the state of the Russian nuclear arsenal. if the most elite units of Russia's military are having a pathetic showing, then what builds confidence in the nuclear forces?
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  8786.  @ernestkhalimov1007  Make a coherent argument. Your appeals to emotions show that you have nothing to back up your empty boasts. 1st Guards Tank Army, the Moskva, and now the 155 Naval Infantry show that the Russian Bear is geriatric.
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  8787.  @seanlander9321  I think you completely ignore historical context. Look up the history of the Antarctic treaty.
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  8788.  @DogSpeak  ALL social media auto-deletes such videos. Or have you not actually read the user agreement for Twitter, Youtube, and Facebook? Sure, the terrorists don't care if they violate the terms, and the tech company oligarchs ignore when they do, but when you or I try, they come down on us like a ton of bricks.
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  8789.  @Chepicoro  I think he needs a bigger boat.
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  8790.  @taoliu3949  And yet Western tanks PRIORITIZE crew survivability while Soviet T-series never did. Just because the T72s had higher survival rates does NOT mean that it was a priority. Your claims that it was better than the west is pure propaganda. I am reading Steven J Zaloiga's Tank books as well as John Milsom's book "Russian Tanks 1900-1970" if you are looking for a source for my information.
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  8791.  @taoliu3949  Survivability of the tank is not the same as survivability of the crew. And THAT is where you are moving the goal posts.
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  8792. Sure, as if just laying down and surrendering would spare them. You have never had to fight for your home, so I don't expect you to understand. Pray that you never have to experience what the Ukrainians are living.
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  8793. The dehumanization is the point. This is societal deconstruction straight out of Europe's Frankfort school of thought and social theory. Cultural Marxism at its core.
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  8794. The thing is, the power the exercise is on loan from the government. Which means legally they can't do anything without the consent of the state of Florida. Federalist Papers lays out the example for how the original agreement was legal, and how the state can revoke it in much the same way the Feds and the local government interact.
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  8795.  @ProlificInvention  Trolling and hijacking a thread on a non-sequitur isn't virtuous, it is a mental derangement.
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  8796.  @uriahthehittite2309  I will use a different explanation. "Equal but different". Taken as a whole we are equal, but our strengths and weakness are individually tailored. Men and women are made different, but that does not mean we cannot achieve similar if slightly different goals. Only the nihilists insist that men and women must be exactly the same.
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  8797.  @raumograeywolf5477  Matriarchy is not inherently bad. As I said, the problem is the nihilists who are so miserable, that if they can't rule, they would rather see the world around them burn. Kind of like Arcturus Mengsk in StarCraft.
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  8798.  @uriahthehittite2309  You missed the point. Groups of inter-related families had to keep track of matrilineal relations so as to prevent incest and inbreeding. Ever heard of parallel cousins? Clans tracked matrilineal lines so as to prevent one from marrying the daughter of the mother's sister.
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  8799.  @freddysauce  I agree, though it still makes him a coward for not putting at stop to it immediately.
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  8800.  @kalford4909  Don't worry, the ban WILL apply to them. They just haven't gotten the attention yet.
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  8801. Did the US permit Japan or Germany from operating radio stations or newspapers in the US during WW2?
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  8802. Considering that the two countries having enclaves and exclaves in each other's territory is a direct result of Stalin, it is fair to say that the Russians do hold some of the blame. And while Stalin was ethnic Georgian, he was the head of the Russian dominated Soviet Empire.
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  8803.  @SithicusPL  Than you, I should remember her better. She did honor John Paul Jones, father of the US Navy by Commissiong him an Admiral in her Navy. It is sad that Russia and the US cannot come together over that shared history.
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  8804. "More food available"? You realize that the West has NEVER reached peak production capacity with regards to food production? And you are sounding an awful lot like Mao Zedong and Pol Pot. They got rid of several million people as you propose. Was that really a good thing?
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  8805. Rank choice and Biden still wins. Rank choice is how you get national leaders who do NOT have a simple majority but instead the most fanatical of core support. Rank choice is basically how the Austrian Painter became Chancellor of Germany.
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  8806. Yeah, but do keep in mind that the Ukrainians initially welcomed the Germans as liberators......until the Germans started butchering them alongside the Russians.
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  8807.  @SterileNeutrino  The US Navy is specifically designed to project power across the Pacific. It is how we won WW2 against the Japanese.
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  8808. Same here. I am a JOHN F KENNEDY Democrats like my mother and grandfather before me. But now JFK has become a hero to the right since the DNC has betrayed his legacy.
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  8809. It is like we are seeing the solution to the Fermi Paradox right in front of our eyes. Society is destroying itself before it has a chance to spread beyond the solar system.
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  8810. Yeah, but they ignore details about winter fighting in Ukraine during WW2. Winter does not stop combat on the plains of Ukraine.
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  8811. You are assuming the Russian MOD is using logic. They have been wasting precision weapons on civilian targets instead of military ones. Blowing up the dam follows this short-sighted thinking.
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  8812. Sometimes. We have seen too many examples where women do NOT have wits nor intelligence (Liz Warren, Maize Hirono, Kirsten Gildrebrand, et. al). History has FEW examples of women rulers. There is no room for mediocrity in women; they are either a Nefertiti, Boudica, Seondeock of Shilla Dynasty Korea, Tamar of Georgia, OR they are total disasters like Mary Queen of the Scots, Jinseong of Shilla Dynasty Korea, and Wu Zetian of China.
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  8813.  @sillysad3198  Touche! But the point is the same: too many people (both men and women) let hormones and libido drive them to do stupid stuff.
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  8814.  @citytianyu  Throwing in the towel? While I WILL acknowledge that youtube auto-censors outside links, you should actually try debating the merits instead of lazily posting links so that others can make your arguments for you.
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  8815.  @Smegmatician  Spoken like an ignorant child. The Torah has been independently confirmed by outside sources. Are you accusing Cyrus the Great of being fictional? How about Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon? What about Pharaohs Shoshenq I, Taharqa, and Necho II? And don't give me this "historical fiction" garbage. That concept is only as old as Victorian Era. Before then, playwrights such as Shakespeare and Homer were considered historically accurate. Indeed, most of Shakespeare's plays are consistent with Tacitus.
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  8816.  @Smegmatician  You don't have to because truth and facts don't care about your feelings. Opinions are like buttholes: everyone has one and they all stink.
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  8817.  @ranjava5550  You don't have to do the deed yourself to be prolific. Having many sons and daughters who themselves had many children is how one becomes the grandsire of an entire population.
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  8818.  @ranjava5550  More empty bloviation and propaganda by cultural Marxists who believe noting is real. DNA testing actually proves you completely wrong.
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  8819.  @pomperidus  French Foreign Legion, I would agree are loyal as they are earning citizenship via service. Some of the other folks I would not be so confident with.
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  8820.  @MN-vz8qm  Wow, racist much? YOU chose to bring up skin color, not I.
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  8821. Isn't there already a Neverwinter MMORPG? Even if they did launch a Baldurs Gate, unless it was game console exclusive, it would be in direct competition with the already running Forgotten Realms games. PS I loved Mask of the Betrayer. Safiya was very much a Western Waifu.
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  8822. Perun did a deep-dive look into both Russian and Ukrainian logistics. Ukraine is essentially wholey dependent on Western resupply. Russia is only able to meet 10% of the loss rates with new builds. Something like 70-80% is legacy Soviet stockpiles with the remainder being what Putin can beg/borrow/steal from Iran, North Korea, and covertly from China. The million dollar question is which will give out first?
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  8823. Bad leadership has always been the problem for Asia, particularly China. Good people, bad governance.
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  8824. Anti-Zionism is simply fashionable antisemitism. Don't pretend the roots of anti-Zionism are not found in Soviet propaganda which simply repackaged the very same hate that Gobbels spread.
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  8825. Even Ralph Bakshi was more faithful to the source material.
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  8826. There is a great scene in the BOOK "Contact" where the preacher makes a demonstration about faith using a pendulum. He poses the question "is it possible that a deity created the universe and the laws of physics, then purposely left very little evidence of his existence"? The question goes to "The Great Clockmaker" theory about the divine.
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  8827.  @eurobonapartiste  "First Democracy in the modern world" huh? Yeah, I think the French Terrors under the Robespierre faction shows us exactly what "French Democracy" entails. As far as Poland goes, I think the Lithuanian-Polish Commonwealth predates "The Litte Corporal". All he did was to reestablish it as the Dutchy of Warsaw. As far as his "progressivism", it was also predated by the American Revolution. Much of what you attribute to Bonaparte finds its origins not in him but other people and movements. All he did that was good was to empower the average man. "In every private's backpack is a Marshall's baton" was his words. Words that simply echoed that of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
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  8828. I kind of agree with this. I also think he SHOULD hold elections and step aside. If he didn't have such as contentious relationship with the mayor of Kiev, I would think Vitali Klitschko would have been the natural successor, with Zelensky taking a step back to be a mover and shaker behind the throne.
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  8829. It is, but the left is using him to send up trial ballons.
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  8830. When "free trade" partners are subsidizing their local industries to complete with foreign companies, that is NOT free trade.
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  8831. I thought it was the Vietnamese who did it. Though I can believe the Tibetans did do this a time or two during the 1950s occupation by the Maoists.
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  8832. Shows that Iger is not as smart as the thinks he is. A classic business strategy, and one that Iger should have seen if he was the business genius everyone claimed he was.
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  8833.  @Bob-nk6ts  Poland's Donald Tusk is already jailing journalists and political opponents much like the Soviet controlled Polish government did during the Cold War. Only difference is, Tusk is controlled from Brussels rather than Moscow.
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  8834. Agreed. They are trespassing foreign alien nationals. That they were trafficked only makes their trespassing crime the fault of the coyotes, but it still does not change the facts.
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  8835.  @Stefan_Payne  Not exactly. Militant Secularism and atheism which is what the USSR and the Warsaw Pact represented caused plenty of their own problems and human rights violations. The repression of anyone who disagreed with them tended to focus on religion but were nominally "equal opportunity" mass murderers. The Holodomor in the Ukraine was NOT religiously motivated but enacted by the Secular Soviet government.
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  8836. Me thinks they will not pull the trigger on the 25th until February of 2022 so that Jamaica Kamala can hold office for 10 years.
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  8837. Trust me, the Ukrainians will NOT stop for the winter, they will press on. The Soviet Red Army made its greatest gains against the Wehrmacht during the winter. Then you also have to consider that Canada and Norway have been sending cold weather gear since August. The Russians have been having great difficulty equipping for summer operations. That is going to make for a VERY Red Christmas (aka and Ass kicking Christmas).
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  8838. "Show me the man and I will show you the crime," -Beria, Stalin's head of the KGB/NKVD.
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  8839. Agreed. And you share Theodore Rosevelt's perspective of "plague on both their houses". People forget that he went after both the Employer as well as the unions.
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  8840. If they capture Melitopol, then the HIMARS rockets can strike the Kerch bridge directly from the city.
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  8841. Yeah, the keep doing business despite knowing the risks. THey have only themselves to blame. A scorpion can't change its nature.
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  8842. They hate hearing it, but Joseph Conrad was correct when he called Africa "Heart of Darkness".
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  8843. Funny how they don't want to acknowledge that French, Italian and a few other Romance languages are also derived from "Vulgar" Latin.
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  8844. Japan was not particularly good with anti-air defenses. Further, there was an Army Base in Hiroshima. And Nagasaki was a military supply depot as well as a munitions production site.
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  8845. Arguably, many of the superhero movies in the 2000s were recruitment ads. The C-17 used in those movies is on display at Wright-Patterson UASF Museum in Dayton, Ohio. They even painted a movie camera on the side for each one.
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  8846. Have you not heard Tim's warning about that? He quotes from the Patriot often. "This war will be fought not on the frontier or on some distant battlefield, but amongst us -- among our homes. Our children will learn of it with their own eyes. And the innocent will die with the rest of us."
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  8847. GITMO is in compliance with Geneva and Hauge. You don't know what you are talking about.
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  8848. Considering how the waster precision weapons on civilian targets, you are not wrong that Russian leadership is dumb.
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  8849. Yeah, the whole "just end the war" is gross naivety. Unless the underlying issues are addresses, it is simply banking the coals until the right conditions occur for it to come roaring back to life.
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  8850. Pure bullshit. The airframe is 20 years behind schedule. There are supposed to be in excess of 1,200 airframes in service, yet only 360 are currently flying, mostly of the B configuration when they should already be on the F configuration.
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  8851.  @JoelSalazarM  Yeah, no other military project in history has been given the indulgences that the F-35 project enjoyed. If we went by the 1970s or even 1940s standards, it would have long been abandoned in favor of alternatives that actually delivered. Hell, numerous WW2 era and Cold War airframes and ship designs were abandoned because of the cost overruns and delays that the F-35 was permitted.
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  8852. "War is good for business," -Ferengi rule of Aquisition #34.
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  8853. Indeed. Where is Truck-kun so that I can be reincarnated into a fantasy world?
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  8854. Well, BLM and Antifa did deface the 54th Massachusetts monument a few years ago.
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  8855. @SoundwaveSinus9 No, I am saying that taxevasion here is trying to blame "de jew". He is exactly what Tim was talking about the other week regarding Nick Fuentes and company.
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  8856.  @adfdasdfadfadsfareae  "they" so you are assuming that taxevasion here is one of those alphabet people? Are you assuming gender? What do YOU think that person meant by "still supporting the tribe" when in the same sentence with the Talmud, a clearly Jewish holy text? Stop and think instead of shooting your mouth off half-cocked.
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  8857.  @thegreatdane3627  "If it bleeds, it leads". That is the mantra of gossip mongers who call themselves "news reporters".
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  8858. If the left can boycott, why can't the right. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
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  8859. Yeah, Kind of funny how Hitler blew up the VERY lucrative Molotov-Ribbentrop Alliance. NOBODY in Germany actually wanted to end that agreement. Only the fool at the top did.
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  8860.  @OLDACCOUNT740  You realize that any correlation IS an association? That doesn't immediately make it a fallacy. I did NOT make the insane troll logic argument that because Stalin liked dogs, that dogs are evil. What I DID point out is that ALL over the world's worst atrocities were caused by people who claimed they were on the right side of History, from Robespierre's Jaboins to the Third Teich, to the Soviet Union, to Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge. And the connecting thread is NOT a logical fallacy. So, learn to actually debate the merits. And touch grass while you are at it.
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  8861. @@user-sm5qt1sn7s Nice chronological snobbery on your part (logical fallacy). And your "nobody has a clue what is going on" is you simply admitting that you can't actually argue the merits. It IS possible to know what is going on as Perun takes a look at the logistics, particularly the consumption of armor and artillery on the Russian side, which is unsustainable.
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  8862.  @oliveryt7168  I never claimed to own it, much less have a monopoly as propagandists often claim. That was you making a false assumption. I am simply dispelling myths and comforting falsehoods. And it would seem I clearly triggered you.
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  8863.  @msimon6808  I don't disagree that Russia is worse. But that is no excuse for the largess in the West.
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  8864. Until Oryx or War Spotter confirms it, that is just rumor.
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  8865. Yeah, Market Socialism is even less successful. How many examples of centralized planning and control do you need before you realize that it is just a pathetic pipe dream? Oh, and don't conflate Nordic SOCIAL DEMORACY with socialism. The two are NOT the same thing.
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  8866.  @pebblepod30  No, you are using those terms in the cultural Marxist perspective, not in their actual context. You accuse me of propaganda and yet you are guilty of doing exactly that, regurgitating Bolshevik talking points on cue like Pavlov's Dog. Your definition of capitalism is NOT free market but oligarchism which in practice has very little difference from Soviet Socialism. Just like Deng Xiaoping, you create oxymoron terms to "put lipstick on a pig".
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  8867.  @pebblepod30  " to the best of my current knowlwedge." Well, your knowledge is fundamentally flawed and woefully inaccurate. "I think you will find" is merely an OPINION, which is like an arsehole; everyone has one and they all stink. I do not disagree that the feudal elites are quite often the cause of many societal problems, and you would be correct in claiming that this has been the case since antiquity (going all the way back to ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia under Hammurabi). But unlike you, I view them as a necessary evil; you don't kill your golden goose, even if he does crap all over the furniture. "Your "freedom to exploit" claim is the quintessential strawman argument that comes straight out of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, and Chairman Mao's little red book of Communist, hence why I call you are Marxist. Your "maximize power and profits" is yet another Bolshevik strawman argument. Capitalism Free Markets simply acknowledge basic truisms, one in particular being that centralized planning and control never works EVER. it also accepts that you CANNOT use force when engaging in trade. It also stipulates "buyer beware": you are responsible if you voluntarily enter into a bad transaction without doing your due diligence.
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  8868.  @pebblepod30  Some truths are self-evident. That socialism is a failed ideology is proof of that with the millions dead by the Bolsheviks in Russia, Ukraine and Poland stand as mute testament to that. As do the millions butchered by Pol Pot in Cambodia or starved by Mao in Red China. I find it very telling that you think you have experienced more than I have. Unlike most Westerners, I HAVE traveled abroad. I have seen the brutality and starvation of North Korea firsthand. I have seen the squalor in Indonesia. I have been exposed to the crime in Mexico. I have enjoyed the hospitality of Singapore and Japan. I will humor you and say that the US is the only country that I would want to live in though South Korea has a VERY special place in my heart. I would be content in Japan PROVIDED that I had a decent job and steady income. Having been outside the US, I understand that most Americans and by extension most EUROPEANS are spoiled children. I credit the Japanese and Koreans for being the most worldly of the Western nations. It should be to them that the West takes its cues, not Europe.
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  8869.  @willoem2  "our crime is simply not agreeing with Trump... ITS SAD THAT WE CAN'T AGREE TO DISGREE. PEOPLE BEING PROSECUTED FOR DOING THEIR JOBS. " That is called psychological projection and is EXACTLY what the Biden administration has been doing by prosecuting whistleblowers. Engage in a little self-reflection because you are the pot calling the kettle black.
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  8870.  @willoem2  Funny, considering that the Biden administration has done EVERYTHING you accuse Trump of doing. We have seen 4 years of Trump and NOTHING of what you claim EVER came to pass. You are the boy who cried "wolf"!
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  8871. Funny, because ALL news agencies are by definition propaganda. Some are just more overt than others.
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  8872.  @MentallyLibtarded  What is even more ironic is that the quote they love to plagiarize is actually from Thomas Sowell, a conservative thought leader. It was to the effect that equal treatment looks like discrimination to the privileged. But as is typical, they lack the self-awareness to understand he was being critical of them.
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  8873. If they had let him ad-lib, he could have made it workable. Half of Robin William's lines were off the cuff, they could have done the same with Allen as he was also a stand-up comedian.
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  8874. You sound like a 5-year-old who snickers when someone uses the word "but" in a sentence.
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  8875.  @TileBitan  By "paraphrase" you mean "misquote" and "take out of context".
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  8876. And the GOP will provide enough support to make it happen. As is always the case, the GOP gives the left all of their appointment confirmations, yet the left never reciprocates.
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  8877. The dumb thing is, you CAN have a melting pot non-colonial high fantasy and have it actually work. Japanese Iseaki Anime shows how it can be done, but Hollyweird refuses to listen and learn. I've seen fantasy stories written by people who have actually traveled the world tell a better story and if often uses culture clash as part of the drama.
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  8878.  @taylorjames14  I stopped watching after season 2. They pissed me off when they started killing off characters for no purpose other than to troll the audience. If you are going to kill a character, make it have a good reason. Case in point is the death of Lavitz in "The Legend of Dragoon". People loved that character and his dead acted as a major catalyst for the MC's development.
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  8879.  @hunn20004  Don't forget the Post Atomic Horror of Q's court.
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  8880. @Paul I know you like shilling for the incumbents, but be honest, BOTH sides are guilty of this posturing and grandstanding. Further, "Biden is working tirelessly?" Spare us the hyperbolae. The Biden Administration is basically the same as the Obama team. They had no clue on how to react to Putin stealing Crimea, and they have no clue on how to deal with the current threat. As Osama bin Laden observed, "When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse". Everyone knows Biden is a weak horse.
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  8881. I agree. It smells like a Potemkin Villiage act.
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  8882. The Lawyers are who created much of this mess. Think about this: 90% of America's election officials have law degrees. 89% of Chinese political leaders have engineering degrees. There is a reason why China is on the rise while the US is in decline. Shakespeare said it best in Henry VI: "Kill all the lawyers".
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  8883. I think they started calling them CBERN in the mid 2000s.
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  8884. Disney's actions have always been anti-competitive. Especially the way they have abused copyright, particularly in its unreasonable extension.
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  8885.  @With2sULose  They, the government, already escalated it with their unlawful mandates. When you use the threat of government violence against the people, don't be surprised if the citizenry pushes back. The truckers are being AMAZINGLY restrained in their response to the government's threat of violence against them.
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  8886. Dictators don't step down from power like he did in 2020. Try again genius.
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  8887. Securing the American southern border is MORE important than Ukraine. Russia isn't going to invade the US, but the cartels engaging in human trafficking ARE invading us. Blame the Dems for not doing a single subject bill; they refuse to even contemplate doing such legislation.
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  8888. Yeah, even Alan Dershowitz has explained why those 34 charges are complete hogwash.
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  8889.  @Sol-ps8ox  Omnivores tend to be apex predators. However, the shift towards herbaceous heavy diets means that the classic predator pyramid doesn't apply anymore. We have become more like foraging herd animals: dumb and stupid as a group. You know how that population is kept healthy?
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  8890.  @divx1001  Increased productivity occurs whether governments want it to or not. Innovation occurs DESPITE government attempts to stifle it. And no, you thinking that a smaller tax base will produce more revenues is a misapplication of production formulas to fiscal policy. Increased productivity doesn't inherently increase the tax base as the pay compensation doesn't directly correlate. And no, you are completely wrong about government investment. Government doesn't do ANYTHING correctly, not even national defense which IS the one thing it is good at. Government is destructive force and the taking from one to give to another. Free Markets are ALWAYS more efficiently than top-down command ecnomics.
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  8891.  @JassZoigel  No, you don't want a legal answer, you want to score cheap political points for your tribe. You are posturing and grandstanding and you don't care who gets hurt so long as your side wins. I haven't lost the plot, you just don't have a plot other than tribalism.
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  8892.  @JassZoigel  Rittenhouse isn't a public figure. And your ad hominin personal attacks show you have no argument. “I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.”- Margaret Thatcher And with that quote, it should be perfectly clear that I am no supporter of rabid leftism. Nobody on the left would ever quote the UK's "Iron Lady".
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  8893.  @JassZoigel  You don't know who Margaret Thatcher is? Then sit down and let the adults talk. Your ignorance of a world leader and a legend shows you have no business commenting on public issues. If Rittenhouse voluntarily chose to enter the public arena, they your point would have merit. Since he was dragged against his will, he has much more standing. You don't lose your legal standing just because the media decides to plaster your face across the front page. If that were the case, then I could easily defame you with impunity just by making a youtube video.
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  8894.  @JassZoigel  Running for public office makes you a public figure. Being a political activist that goes out before large crowds makes you a public figure. Performing at a concert makes you a public figure. Going on trial does NOT make you a public figure. Having a news article written about you assassinating your character does NOT make you a public figure. Your absolutism is typical of totalitarianism and collectivism as well as the rejection of individual rights. Europe is big on the right to privacy; it is a shame you don't believe in the right to be left alone and not have your personal reputation destroyed by professional smear merchants.
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  8895. Israel is everyday fighting for its very existence against hostile neighbors (Jordan has made peace and wants to keep it while Egypt is quietly undermining their official peace). Survival is a significant motivator for innovation.
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  8896. "If we burn, you burn with us!" -Katness Everdeen.
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  8897. All of the decisions in the old USSR were made out of the Kremlin, NOT the local Commissariat. So yeah, when Moscow was calling the shots before 1991, that means it was the Russian Soviet's fault.
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  8898.  @anthonycicero6102  Cherry Picked data. Truth of the matter is that the EU has NOT been particularly good for the UK. Turns out that the oil and gas industry was hurt by the EU's green policies which stifled them. And don't get me started on how the EU allowed weaker Southern European nations to enjoy largess off the backs of productive Northern European nations like the UK and Denmark.
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  8899.  @anthonycicero6102  Nice rainbows and unicorn argument. There is no such thing as a free lunch. SOMEONE has to pay for it.
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  8900. Blitzkrieg is an aberration, not the norm. It took the Allies six months to advance beyond Normandy in WW2.
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  8901. ​ @grahampaterson4368  When you parrot ONE of the talking points of the DNC you tacitly endorse ALL of them. Your problem is that I am calling your hypocrisy and blatant biases which you refuse to acknowledge yourself. Kagan was called on to recuse herself from the Obamacare mandates on the grounds that she originally argue for them in court before getting confirmed to the bench. Surprise, surprise, she did not step away. In the Penguin Random House case, all three times it went to the court, Sotomayor refused to recuse herself despite her 3-million-dollars from that company in a clear conflict of interest in the case. Justice Jackson only recused herself from the Harvard Affirmative Action case BECAUSE of the outcry of blatant bias if she didn't. When even folks on the left said she should step aside, she had no choice but to comply. Ball is now in your court. I have proven my point now it is time for you to pony up to the bar.
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  8902.  @grahampaterson4368  Kagan was called to recuse herself over the Obamacare mandates because she was the one that initially argued for them before it went to the SCOTUS. CLEAR conflict of interest. Sotomayor was called to recuse herself over the Penguin Publishing House because she had received over 3 Million dollars from them, yet she refused to step aside. The ONLY reason why Jackson stepped aside on the Harvard Affirmative Action case was because even folks on the left were calling her to stand down. Now that I have proven my position, the burden is on you to explain why those are acceptable.
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  8903.  @grahampaterson4368  And there you go moving the goalposts (logical). You asked for ONE example, and I provided three. You then proceed to trivialize the examples I provided. You just lost the argument and now you engage in logical fallacies thereby tacitly acknowledging that I am correct. Keep digging yourself into a deeper hole because normies can see right through you.
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  8904.  @grahampaterson4368  Dude, I met your request, and you reject it. That is YOUR problem not mine. You don't get to change the criteria AFTER the fact. At this point I am counting coup against you because you chose to act like a petulant child.
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  8905.  @grahampaterson4368  Keep lying to yourself. You only prove to everyone else how delusional you are. All you care about is your tribe winning. Vlad Lenin described you people perfectly.
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  8906.  @grahampaterson4368  Didn't meet your request? I more that EXCEEDED IT. You refusing to accept it only shows you have lost the plot. And you are correct, their situations are WORSE than Alito's, not that you care. All that matters to you is that your tribe wins, facts bedamned.
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  8907.  @grahampaterson4368  You are the one choosing to respond. But alas, you don't care about justice, you only care that your tribe wins, even if it means burning the nation to ashes around you.
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  8908.  @grahampaterson4368  And yet you keep responding. You don't care about justice, you only want your tribe to win, even if it means burning this country to the ground. You are neither moral nor just. And you don't care about facts.
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  8909.  @richardwendt9266  And yet you people have zero issue with Sonia Sotomayor doing the same. You don't care about truth, you only care about power and your team winning, even if it demolishes the nation in the process.
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  8910. That is what command and control economies like Chiha does. Guess what? China's banks like Evergrande are in collapse.
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  8911. Judge Jeannie Piero got New York State's first LEO murder one conviction with a similar case. 18 minutes is a long time, especially as the other three officers were pointing out several times that they should turn Floyd over on his side. But as Robert Barnes discussed with Viva Frei, the Montreal VLAWG guy, if they go for murder one on Chauvin, the other three go free. If they only go for murder two on Chauvin, then the other three officers could still get convicted on murder two as well. That is the dilemma the prosecution faces when they up the charges.
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  8912.  @michaelscott-joynt3215  I agree that this looks like a repeat of the Boston situation. But as I said either here or somewhere else, Judge Jeannie Piero got an LEO convicted on Murder one in New York for a similar situation. The first time in that state's history as she likes to point out. It can be done, but I don't disagree that it is a MAJOR uphill battle to do so. And it would require the prosecution to forego convicting the rookies in order to get them to testify against Chauvin.
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  8913. Kneon, you said that the toys feel like Chinese knockoffs? That is probably because they WERE made in China (mainland). The South Koreans and Taiwanese (Chinese who fled communism) at least have pride in their work and so while cheap, is of higher quality.
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  8914. Wow, listening to propaganda again huh? The media lied about everything he said. Inject bleach? Completely fabricated.
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  8915.  @YouYou-sm8tf  You completely missed the point. It isn't about foreign vs native. The issue is that government subsidies is NOT the correct answer to single mother's financial problems. It only encourages MORE of them. And there IS a measurable correlation to single parent children and higher rates of poverty and crime in adulthood. This isn't new; it has been well known since antiquity.
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  8916.  @YouYou-sm8tf  The US National Park service warns NOT to feed the wildlife for it makes them dependent on humans and both a nuisance as well as a danger to themselves and the park guests. Same logic applies to welfare programs.
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  8917.  @YouYou-sm8tf  Your proposals are not actually solving the problem, just putting a new bandage on top of the dirty bandage. It isn't solving the underlying societal problem. If anything, it is at best treating the symptom. Worse, it is only covering up the problem.
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  8918.  @YouYou-sm8tf  Putting forward proposals that only exacerbate societal problems is NOT the answer; it only doubles down on those problems. Stop making excuses for policies that make the situation worse.
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  8919. Harry chose so poorly for a spouse. He is probably the ONLY man in the West who would have been permitted to marry one of the Japanese or Thai princesses (connecting the Eastern Dynasties to Europe in a way not seen since Queen Victoria). Hell, if he had married a daughter from the Korean Royal house of Yi, she could have carried the title "Princess of Choseon", a title that would have been unique to her as a show of respect to Korea.
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  8920. Easier said than done. Even the US is having issues automating tanks.
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  8921. Exactly. DW wants to BE the Establishment Left.
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  8922.  @lexluthor9509  So do the Democrats. Do keep in mind it was the Democrat states who kept the worthless and fascistic lockdowns in place the longest.
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  8923. You have hooked my curiosity. I am most certainly interested in hearing more.
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  8924.  @winstonmaraj8029  Cool!
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  8925.  @MrAntice  And I think that analysis is more realistic than the folks who think there can be a negotiated peace.
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  8926. Yes and no. State run asylums are horror shows for a reason. One of Tim's favorite descriptive terms is "Bedlam" refers to the mental hospital in the UK where the hospital orderlies regularly abused the patients. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is based on reality. Nurse Ratchet was the norm, not the exception. That being said, PRIVATE mental hospitals run in the same manner as hospice could work just fine.
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  8927.  Angry Combat Wombat  Have you looked around recently? Between our litigation obsessed culture as well as the court of public opinion, where do you go to get your good name back after you are falsely accused? The law may say you are given the presumption of innocence, but our culture very much believes in assumed guilt.
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  8928.  Angry Combat Wombat  Not really. You are just living in denial. Case in point about what I am talking about is Johnny Depp. Why did it take so long for him to finally get his name cleared? Still doesn't fix the damage that has occurred to his career.
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  8929.  Angry Combat Wombat  Not really. You conflate wishful thinking and opinion as if they were facts. Just because you wish something was so doesn't make it true. Again, how Johnny Depp was treated by Amber Herd and the media is proof of what I am talking about. And I find it quite telling that you refuse to address that example.
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  8930.  @Grinchy123  And with that you proved otherwise. People who voted for Trump know that he is unfiltered and accept it as part of who he is. Only the TDS nevertrumpers that have never voted for him who obsess about what he is about to say. "Trump's supporters take him seriously, but not literally. Trump's critics take him literally, but not seriously," -The Atlantic, September 23, 2016.
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  8931.  @Grinchy123  No you didn't. People who voted for him know that he is unfiltered and so come to expect it rather than fear it. Only the TDS and nevertrumper crowd obsess about what he says or is about to say. "Trump's supporters take him seriously, but not literally. Trump's critics take him literally, but not seriously," -The Atlantic, September 23, 2016.
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  8932.  @StanHarvey-c5j  Supported Red Flag laws to disarm otherwise law-abiding Americans.
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  8933.  @donaldcarey114  Was that a Daewoo Bus you just ran him over with? That's going to leave a mark. Brutal!
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  8934.  @johnshite4656  Happens all the time in blue cities. Indianapolis, the heard of Democrat Power in Indiana is rampant with that kind of victimhood mentality.
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  8935.  @johnshite4656  I think I did. You just didn't like the answer. Just because you know black people doesn't mean your anecdotes reflect the vast majority. I used to play tabletop games with a gentleman of color. Even gave him free rides to the tournaments because I valued him as a fellow player and his participation was worth it to me. He cut off participation and communication with me because he got flack for a white guy giving him a ride. I was actually told in his neighborhood to get the f*ck out of there because I didn't belong there.
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  8936.  @johnshite4656  No, he does not participate anymore, despite me more than willing to give him a ride to the games. And this is in Indianapolis, Indiana, heart of the Midwest. it isn't unique to the deep south. I have also encountered this when I visit St. Louis or Chicago.
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  8937. Yeah, and the Constitution of the United State is an even bigger contract that supersedes anything Disney thinks it can hide behind. Sovereign power of the state as defined by the Federalist Papers makes it clear that the authority the state bestows can be revoked at pleasure. Disney cannot monopolize that which was granted to them by Florida.
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  8938.  @jkl9984  A Main Battle Tank needs its turret to have wide swivel range. Turtle Tanks don't have that. A Tank needs to be able to maneuver quickly. Turtle tanks sacrifice that for armor. It no longer even classifies as a traditional tank and is more like an Assault Gun such as the Sturmgeschütz III. Those are NOT tanks and should never be used as such. Girls Und Panzer treating it as one is anachronistic.
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  8939.  @NK-ne9uf  Got a source to refute his claim? Most of the stuff showing up in Ukraine (body armor, small arms, etc.) is already past the use by date and would be criminal to send US forces into combat with. But that expired gear is better than nothing for Ukrainian forces.
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  8940.  @NK-ne9uf  Ever heard of Forbes? How about the US Department of Defense itself in their official press releases which are then echoed by Newsweek and the Hill (establishment rags). While previously it was given to police, in the slimming down of police budgets and the urgency of the situation in Ukraine, they have been redirected.
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  8941. "Democracy consists of choosing your tyrants after they have told you what you want to hear," -Alan Cohen, 1975.
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  8942. @dlairdiablo Indeed. Hence why I insist on the fan service in a live action.
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  8943.  @tobiwan001  US banks WERE regulated under the Glass-Stegal Act. But Dodd-Frank repealed those regulations and restrictions. The people in the White House are the very same people who wrote Dodd-Frank and orchestrated the 2008 financial crisis.
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  8944. "The great problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of OTHER people's money," -Margaret Thatcher. Debt sharing is simply Soviet Socialism by another name. It has never worked because it rewards the lazy and irresponsible while punishing the productive.
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  8945. Agreed. Too much like a boy who cried wolf scenario.
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  8946.  @worldwar208  Yes, they ignore visual evidence if it is the same tank they have already counted but from a different angle. They Geolocate those photos to make sure there is not duplications in the counts. If anything, Oryx UNDER reports the loss numbers for both sides.
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  8947. Fu-Go balloon bombs are not absurd. That is why this is a big deal.
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  8948.  @MrSladej  I guess you have not considered a foreign bride? Woke women insultingly call them "mail-order brides".
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  8949. The irony is, they are driving American born men into the arms of foreign women. If their goal was about dominating men, all they are doing is putting that power into the hands of their rivals and competitors in the biological game of reproduction.
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  8950.  @Suriyakeng  Who? The ones that marry foreign wives? As for that particular group that have XY chromosomes but pretend to be female, there is a word for them :Eunuchs.
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  8951.  @UnKnownv5  So the EU is just supposed to roll over as Russia waltz to the Rhine River? Put down the Vodka private conscriptovich, you are drunk.
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  8952.  @shadowpoet4398  Yes, one nominally has to be born to a Jewish mother to automatically be a Jew, and yet Matrilineal Mitochondrial DNA is much more varied that the Y chromosomal DNA within the Jewish population. And yet those who hate the Jews, particularly the infamous German Worker's party, were just as willing to persecute the Mischling children of Jewish men who took foreign (Shiksa) brides. Could have something to do with historical examples such as Joseph and Aseneth, Rahab of Jericho, and Ruth with Boaz among others who married into the Jewish community.
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  8953.  @skye.325  Try actually reading instead of making assumptions. I never claimed to be a Jew despite being able to trace lineage. And yes, I AM a gentile. The bastard grandson of a foreign bride. One who acknowledges the rights of the first born, pays respect to the second born (as the younger child should to an elder sibling) and considers himself fortunate to even have a place at the table with the family. Perhaps you shouldn't take your position for granted, for the father can disown his wayward and disrespectful heirs.
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  8954.  @skye.325  No, just showing that you prove Fredrich Nietzsche's point about bad readers. "The worst readers behave like plundering troops; the carry away the things they can use, dirty and confound the rest, and revile the whole." -Fredrich Nietzsche, "Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None"
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  8955.  @Ranger1PresentsVirtualRealms  There is a difference to wisdom and intelligence. While I agree with you that a high school dropout can have more wisdom than most PH.Ds, they can also be easily fooled by quick wits and a sharp tongue. Mr. Pool talks about universal healthcare without realizing that was a core component of the Soviet Socialist System. And his refusal to connect the two shows which is what Daniel Forrest was pointing out.
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  8956. Perfectly stated.
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  8957.  @ĐoànĐạiDương-f1n  Quantity is NOT quality. Lots of little fishing boats are NOT the same as a Ticonderoga-class missile cruiser.
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  8958. Yeah, not joke. Parents shouldn't be worried about what their kids are accessing online? Then don't give them access in the first place! That is called BEING A PARENT. This lady is yet another "big government is your sugar daddy" liberal.
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  8959.  @erynlasgalen1949  Agreed. Good fanfiction is a labor of love. Corporate fanfiction is nihilistic destruction.
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  8960.  @armandomercado2248  Yes, you have been gaslighted by political activists who call themselves journalists. Your narrative has as much truth to it as the claims made against Nick Sandman and the Covington Catholic Students. Or the claims of Jessie Smollett.
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  8961.  @armandomercado2248  That is what the activists who want you to think. These are the same people who lies about Russian collusion. The same people who falsely claimed that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation. You haven't actually listened to the phone call. You don't care about the facts or the truth. All you care about is your tribe winning. George Orwell pegged people like you perfectly. You do EXACTLY as your feudal masters tell you to do and what to believe without question.
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  8962. As if that stopped the tyrants in government so far. No, the peasants need to be abused even more because they continue to consent to this madness. As Sam Adams observed, the people would chose comfortable slavery over uncertain liberty. Only when the slavery is intolerable will they finally fight back.
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  8963. The American populace who is paying attention is not buying the bravado and pompousness of either Congress or the panty waste generals in the Pentagon. For years folks who follow geopolitical issues have warned about American Air supremacy being eroded by foolish decisions such as Robert Gates cutting the F-22 raptor fleet to HALF of what the USAF at the time said it needed to maintain dominance. But the generals and Admirals who followed the likes of Norton Swartz cared more about getting promotion than doing their actual job.
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  8964. Yeah, you would think after two world wars and almost a century of peace under the US's defense umbrella, they would learn not to bite the hand that feeds them.
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  8965.  @guyman1570  The fact that I take flak from both the Ukraine shills and the Kremlin bots must mean I am over the target. That is the problem with "useful idiots" as Vlad Lenin called them; they can't think for themselves and instead regurgitate talking points on cue like Pavlov's Dog. Who is the Russian asset now?
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  8966. Then why hasn't it happened yet? The fact that Putin is buying back equipment from India, North Korea, and sub-Sahara Africa tells you that the wheels are coming off the Russian war machine.
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  8967. The world is a truly ugly place. And it takes good men willing to pay the highest price to keep monsters like them in check.
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  8968.  @sasobrume6866  Apples to oranges dude. When was the last time Bush killed someone with Polonium? Or when did Blair execute someone by using them for artillery practice?
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  8969.  @McClane4Ever.  Republicans still oppose abortion, and LEGAL immigration. The party base hasn't changed, its leadership has gone further and further left, abandoning the values held by the people they are supposed to represent. What has changed is people like you have moved the Overton Window far to the left.
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  8970.  @JT.Pilgrim  Wrong on BOTH counts. The DNC is LEFT of Justin Trudeau.
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  8971.  @JT.Pilgrim  The DNC is left of Justin Trudeau. Don't fool yourself.
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  8972. Bread and Circuses. Where is Alaric I to come over the seventh hill and sack Washington DC? Or Atilla the Hun to do the same?
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  8973. Both Beijing and Pyongyang are Communist and effectively joined at the hip.
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  8974. 80% of twitter accounts are owned by corporate media employees. it is an echo chamber for the ignorant.
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  8975.  @viewer-of-content  And yet the nevertrumpers like you are losing left and right. The ONLY reason why the GOP didn't take the house in 2016 was because of people like you.
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  8976. Russia and Ukraine DID settle their issues with the Budapest Memorandum. But then Putin tore up that settlement. I don't mind sending Ukraine our surplus and out of date equipment. But there is zero reason for us to send any troops.
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  8977.  @neilchapman5145  Wrong. You have zero knowledge of the situation, and it shows. NATO members signed the Budapest Memorandum promising to support Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus should Russia renege on the agreement to guarantee borders. But you chose to ignore that because you can't be bothered to do your due diligence. You don't care about the facts, only that your emotions are validated.
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  8978.  @joeb.6831  You clearly have zero interest in a rational debate and are just here to troll. How about you stop wasting everyone's time?
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  8979.  @zorkwork3841  The whole organizations should be disbanded. Remember, its founder J Edgar Hoover used the FBI to gather blackmail on politicians and bullied presidents; no president was willing to fire the man.
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  8980. I love that you know the proper term for man-hate.
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  8981. No, they do NOT. The ONLY "mercenary" group that is allowed is the French Foreign Legion (FFL), and for two big reasons: First it existed for decades before the Conventions, and secondly, because it is treated as an auxiliary to the French Military and as such is held accountable as any other uniformed military would. There is a reason why the Georgian and Belarusian Legions (and other foreign volunteer units in Ukraine) have modeled themselves after the FFL.
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  8982. Minerals that are under the Donbas. How are they going to collect if Ukraine is forced to hand over Donbas to Russia? It is like the agreements Shell made to drill for oil in Crimea.
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  8983. Indeed. I want the party of John F. Kennedy back.
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  8984.  @jimmyw7291  Except that is EXACTLY what they did in New York. Invented no existent crimes to extend an expired procedural crime in a way that has NEVER been prosecuted before. Put down the alcohol, you are so drunk you are hallucinating.
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  8985. And they don't realize they will be consumed by the very monster they are helping to create. They think they will have a monopoly, but what will really happen is nationalization and loss of private ownership.
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  8986. The Banality of evil. People wondered how the Nazis could have come to power? We are seeing it occur right before our eyes, only the "master race" is not blonde and blue eyed.
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  8987.  @911WASanINSIDEjob420  You really believe in a Jewish conspiracy? You have lost the plot. "Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a work of FICTION written by Czar Nicholas the second.
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  8988.  @911WASanINSIDEjob420  You clearly haven't read the Talmud. You are just repeating Nation of Islam propaganda (which is basically repackaged Nazi talking points). And telling me to get bent isn't an argument, it is an ad hominin personal attack that proves you can't debate the merits. “I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” ― Margaret Thatcher
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  8989.  @911WASanINSIDEjob420  I WISH I had the training of the IDF. Or Mossad for that matter. Both of those organizations give US Marines a run for their money But keep it up with the ad hominin personal attacks, it proves you have lost the plot. "“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” ― Margaret Thatcher
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  8990.  @jc3drums916  "Highest rates"? As compared to what? Total or just at that time? The fatality rates of that Virus are only marginally higher than the seasonal flu. Pharaoh of the 10 plagues and the Exodus is laughing at us.
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  8991.  @maityman317  So you basically admit that you are a shill for the Chinese CCCP. Nothing the PRC government said can be trusted.
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  8992. JRR Tolkien has been dead since 1973. His son Chris passed in 2020. That is why they are doing this now: nobody is going to stop them since the hold the copyright licenses. This is why IP should be automatically put in public domain no later than 20 years after the death of the original creator.
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  8993.  @kcx1588x  That is the big problem with copyright laws. It protects the corporations instead of the creators as originally intended.
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  8994.  @ChainsawGenie  The original 1790 copyright statute was for 14 years with only a single renewal for another 14 for a total of 28 years. We absolutely should go back to that.
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  8995. At least bring in Jet. Two guys and a dog, nobody else.
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  8996.  @ianmoone1412  Spike and Ein together is not a bad idea. But adding in Jet makes for a power trio.
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  8997. Angelina Jolie is a better Jones than Fleabag, Change my mind.
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  8998. Yeah, I think most of the nevertrumeprs went over to the Democrats back in 2016. Trump hasn't lost a single vote. He got MORE votes in 2020 than he did in 2016.
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  8999.  @Danny451  You would reject the preponderance of evidence even if presented before you. Nothing will convince you because you have closed off your heart and your mind. Nietzsche talked about the death of faith and spiritualism in people like you. Notice, I am not trying to convert nor proselytize to you. But you are so dead set in you mesotheism that you have made it your mission to covert others to your faith hating non-theistic religion. That speaks volumes.
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  9000. Same here. Strip out the mechanics if they must but keep going with the lore and worldbuilding. I suspect going forward, a lot of publishers are just going to do strictly world building material.
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  9001. First line is the prisoner battalions. Second line is the conscripts who have orders to shot those who retreat from the first line. Third line is the career/professional contract soldiers who have orders to shoot those who retreat from the second line.
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  9002. Same could be said about the Biden appointees. Just because a judge does not agree with you doesn't mean they are wrong. Look up the meaning of "fruit of the poisoned tree".
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  9003.  @ArawnOfAnnwn  Sure, you keep lying to yourself about that. The Kuwaitis vehemently disagree with you.
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  9004.  @ArawnOfAnnwn  Sure, blame the Brits for the Persians and the Arabs fighting each other since antiquity. Blame the Brits for the Arabs finding any pretext to fight among themselves over water, land, or even which Imam is the true successor to the Prophet. About the ONLY thing the Brits are guilty of is ignoring T.E. Lawrence's proposals. Even he knew that dividing the region along tribal lines was no guarantee for peace. The Howeitat and Hashims had plenty enough reasons to fight.
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  9005.  @ArawnOfAnnwn  If you want to talk about British colonialism, then it is fair game to bring up Turkish-Muslim colonialism. Shall we discuss the Moorish invasion and colonization of Iberia? What is good for the goose is good for the gander. And as far as drawing lines, if it wasn't the British who drew them, someone else would have drawn lines, and you would still be bitching about it. Spare me your moral outrage, you are the emperor with no clothes on.
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  9006.  @robwongls4948  That is not a rebuttal if you fail to provide evidence or rationale to back up your contention. I used an analogy, but if you don't understand what an analogy is, that is your problem. "Life is VERY simple, people just insist on making it overly and needlessly complicated," -Confucius, author of "The Analects".
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  9007. The problem is that over 2,000 candidates who COULD make the cut were rejected simply because they were not diverse enough.
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  9008. Mr. Pool doesn't seen to realize that electric cars run on coal. The ONLY way they are "green" is if the power comes from nuclear. So having an electric car Daytona or Indy Brickyard is MORE polluting than using diesel or gasoline. Nice try Mr. Pool.
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  9009.  @albertroberts5929  Yes, and the Palestinians threatened to drive Israel into the see first in 1948, then again in 1967. They have NEVER renounced that and have ALWAYS rejected Israel's right to exist. Also, the IDF pulled completely out of Gaza in 2005. So calling that area "occupied" is totally disingenuous.
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  9010.  @albertroberts5929  Nice Strawman argument. Israel has spent six years fighting for its very survival against people who want to wipe them off the map. Your "occupation" claim is hogwash because there are Muslim Arab members of the Knesset. Occupiers don't allow those they are subjugating to have representation in the government.
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  9011.  @domehammer  The problem is that these neo-Bolsheviks at Blackrock think that economics is a zero-sum game. They don't believe that people will build something entirely new instead of going back to the polluted trough.
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  9012.  @Steven9567  They don't understand money. Hating white people is just a deflection they use to deflect their true agenda.
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  9013. Actually, my explanation is more accurate than yours. I know from firsthand observations in the Indianapolis area. The Hoosier GOP purposely sabotages conservative black candidates like Donald Eason Jr. who try to take on the likes of Democrat Andre Carson. The Hoosier GOP gets must of its financial support in Indiana from the doughnut counties around the city to the order of several millions laundered for the party. But by the same token, those same counties are run by RINOs like Obama's favorite GOP mayor Brainard of Carmel who runs his city exactly like the Dems run Detroit.
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  9014. Not really. He has them over a barrel because of the bot issue.
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  9015.  @SergioLeonardoCornejo  Do you really think he cares about his account on Twitter? That is such a flimsy issue to decide critical choices on.
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  9016. They WANT some deranged person to assassinate him for them. Think Lee Harvey Oswald or Jack Ruby: patsies used by the intelligence agencies to do their dirty work.
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  9017. US presence in the Philippines? Not since they kicked us out after Pinatubo and closed down both Clark AB and Subic Bay Naval Station.
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  9018. Except, the AK-47 was never meant to be used for targeting. It followed the philosophy of "spray and pray". It was always nothing more than a buttle hose for the Soviet solider.
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  9019.  @keyfitter  You are engaging in the logical fallacy of presentism. Namely you are trying to apply today's mentality to when it was created. Jungle Warfare had NOTHING to do with the AK-47's production. It was made in response to Soviet performance in WW2, in the Ukraine, ironically enough. Now, I agree that today, the philosophy no longer applies because personal targeting systems have rapidly advance to the point that spray and pray is an ineffective tactic on the battlefield.
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  9020.  @PerceivedREALITY999  Wow, got under your skin did I? Also, you seem to forget that Putin himself violated the terms of Minsk, assuming that they had any legitimacy (and they didn't because NOBODY actually ratified them).
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  9021. You realize that Putin stole Crimea while Biden was directing Obama's foreign policy? Putin didn't invade Ukraine until AFTER Biden took the Oval Office. Trump threatened to nuke Moscow if Putin invaded Ukraine while he was in office.
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  9022.  @godiswatching9501  You are either trying and failing to be facetious, or you are completely out to lunch. Inglorious Bastards is pure fiction by those in Hollyweird who have this sick obsession with Nazis.
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  9023.  @howard6433  Funny you say that about Boeing because the East Asians passenger carriers have invested more in Boeing aircraft than they have in Scarebus. The A380 has NEVER delivered on ANY of its promises. And while the 787 has also failed to meet expectations, its immediate predecessor, the Triple 7 has become quite the ubiquitous airframe with its only accidents being exclusively operator errors. No other airframe can match the 777's safety record.
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  9024.  @tbyte007  Yeah, you are talking about an attempt to modernize a proven design that first flew in 1967. What is the old saying? "If it isn't broke, don't fix it?" I noticed you didn't bother to even address the Triple 7's safety record, unmatched by any other airframe in history. It truly is the Magnum Opus of aircraft.
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  9025.  @tbyte007  WH o care about the triple 7? Only because it has become THE choice replacement for both the 737 and the 747. it is rapidly replacing the previous workhorses because it has found the near perfect balance of capacity, range, and efficiency.
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  9026.  @tbyte007  You are obsessing over a 55-year-old airframe and its recent modernization. And you blatantly ignore the much younger 20-year-old airframe with zero design flaws.
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  9027.  @tbyte007  Yea a dirty little detail you are overlooking is that the existing 777 frames have NOT been decertified. It is the modernization elements of the 737 that they are trying to put into the tiple 7 that are not getting approved. Which means it isn't the airframe but the upgrades that are causing issues. Keep in mind that the 767 shares the same cockpit and nose as the 777 and it has not been having issues.
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  9028. If they can retake Melitapol, then the HIMARS can strike it with impunity.
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  9029.  @kolerick  Yeah, Papa Doc and Baby Doc really screwed up Haiti.
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  9030.  @CIA-gs2os  Faustian Bargains. There is a reason why the devil is associated with courts and legal proceedings.
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  9031. The problem is that Beijing is in no mood to negotiate. War occurs because diplomats fail to properly assess the situation. The brilliance of Reagan at Reykjavík was that he was not going to piss around knowing full well that the Soviets had no intention of negotiating. Him walking out on them FORCED them to actually negotiate rather than play games.
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  9032. But the man isn't perfect. How many of his companies have gone bankrupt (Atlantic City Casino ring a bell)? He HAS made bad calls in the past (hiring Amarosa, Priebus and Mike Pence?"). He is underestimating Putin and ignoring what happened to Grozny.
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  9033.  @tonytonychopper5177  That is what I am thinking. it was all staged by crisis actors.
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  9034. Blitzkrieg is an aberration. not the norm. Stop expecting the Ukrainians to emulate WW2.
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  9035.  @chinguunerdenebadrakh7022  They never should have been given those bailouts. This is just throwing away money to like the pockets of the people who orchestrated the crisis.
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  9036. And that is why the West will lose to Red China. Much like the Soviet Red Army, the military is more interested in pandering to "the Boss" rather than being competent. It remains to be seen if there is an American Gregory Zhukov who will turn the US military around.
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  9037. The ironic thing is that it is mirroring the 2008 sub-prime mortgage loan debacle. And all of the people responsible for that fiasco are directly involved in this one. You would think that such people would be avoided like the plague, but they just keep getting rewarded for their criminal malfeasance.
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  9038. Why did Russia need to invade Georgia in 2008? You do realize that Sweden and Finland, historically neutral states only joined BECAUSE of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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  9039.  @magicwandstudio3141  I hope the Japanese and Koreans bury Hollyweird.
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  9040. Cost per megawatt hour, Nuclear is CHEAPER than the next cheapest Hydro-electric by a wide margin. You are just looking at the up-front cost of construction, not the long-term savings.
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  9041. Agreed. The CEO boasted about how he was going to change the culture of biking. Until this German spawn of Soros is ousted, there is no sincerity in that company.
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  9042. France is no superpower. Their defeat at Bien Dien Phu was the end of France as a major global player. Even the UK was more significant until the Falkland's War.
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  9043.  @EclipseDGreat  Agreed. In this War, the Ukrainian Soviet Army has incorporated Western Tactics and technology to create a very effective hybrid-fusion of both East and West.
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  9044. I am all for sending military equipment and physical aid. I am NOT for sending pallets of cash. That is essentially what Hunter Biden was doing before the invasion. Victoria Spartz, who grew up in Soviet Ukraine has been asking for accountability on the money being sent and so fan nobody has given her a straight answer.
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  9045.  @kerstas10  So did the Ukrainians.....until the Germans started slaughtering them alongside the Russians. When it became clear that Stalin's Red Army was going to be unstoppable, they quickly changed back to the Soviets (begrudgingly).
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  9046. The Chinese are likely to launder through DPRK. Kimmy will give Putin his old stuff while keeping the newer stuff from China. At least until his local stockpiles have been completely cycled out, then he might start sending new items.
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  9047. Students emulating the German Nationalist Worker's party in the 1930s.
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  9048. There is a major difference between Japan and Nordic countries. Namely, Japan doesn't have the oil deposits the Swedes, Danes, and Norwegians have. Or have you forgotten that they fought WW2 because of their lack of native oil sources?
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  9049.  @vorynrosethorn903  I am inclined to agree. Both the American Right and American Left care more about holding onto power than to right by the people. And while I cannot speak for Europe's left-right dichotomy, the fact that the same selected few families running the country in dynastic succession despite having an electoral process, I am also inclined to view those hereditary Republics with the same skepticism.
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  9050.  @bringbackthefruits3281  That may be true, but the fact is, the Russians are NOT demonstrating en-masse. The Ukrainians showed in 2014 what real resistance protesting is.
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  9051. Yeah, those balloons carried incendiary bombs which started a few forest fires. If you were trying to make a point, you basically proved the counter-position.
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  9052.  @tloutlou2655  That is simply trading one master for a different one. China very much has a history of colonizing and enslaving other peoples. Just ask the Vietnamese or Koreans.
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  9053.  @AKATenn  I hope Japan buries Hollyweird.
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  9054. Simple. The Taliban and Al Qaeda had NO air support. No air cover. No Air Force, PERIOD. Don't conflate the ground battle incompetence with the air campaign. The A-10 warthogs were the ones getting the confirmed kills.
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  9055. Hurts the Dems more. They only got Joe Bite-Me in office because of the nevertrumpers. RFK jr. taking those votes away torpedoes them.
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  9056. But once every building has them, they will no longer protect those buildings. It is basically asking the crocodile to eat you last.
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  9057.  @Winterascent  And once those homes are burned to the ground, they will return to the only things still standing and set those on fire. As Alfred observed, "Some people just want to watch the world burn".
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  9058. British Colombia has numerous volcanoes. Ruby Mountain, Heart Peaks, Level Mountain, Mount Garabaldi, Hoodoo Mountain, Mount Meager, and Mount Baker just to name a few.
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  9059. That is basically NRP. Government funded opposition "news" (ie propaganda).
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  9060.  @peterbeer8657  Laws are only as strong as the force of arms that impose them. For a shill of the PRC, you should be familiar with What about Mao about Law at the end of a gun. Applies in this case, if Beijing wants that resolution (which is NOT a law) enforced, then they have to be willing to fight.
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  9061.  @peterbeer8657  Rules vs. Law? You are trying to make a distinction where none really exists. You aren't familiar with Mao and yet you are shilling for his government? Not surprising for a blind partisan. And as far as bullying and threats, well, people like you are VERY familiar with it because that is what government is all about: the threat of violence against their own people. "All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party." -Chairman Mao Zedong, August 1927.
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  9062. Among other things. The ATACMS should have been given early on as well as tanks (FINALLY being deployed) and other equipment that there has been a reluctance to release.
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  9063.  @theobserver9131  MetSat doesn't emit signals, it collects them. It is a passive system. So, the sensors can be washed out with signal interference, kind of like how light pollution in the night sky interferes with stargazing.
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  9064. Just like they did in 2016? Hall of the Mountain King, baby.
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  9065.  @funldn193  Lots of rationalizations there. Sure Chinese products may be cheaper, but what is the point if flooding the local market demolishes local businesses? And China is very much engaging in neo-colonialism. You are making an argument for trading one slave overseer for a new one. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Ask the Vietnamese, Laotians, Burmese, Cambodians, and Thai about their historic experiences with Chinese colonialism.
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  9066.  @PavorVenetor  VOX has an article dated February of this year by Irina Wang detailing exactly what I am talking about.
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  9067.  @gregorymalchuk272  "10 years ago, we were turning nuclear bombs into nuclear energy. We can do it again." Vox article Feb 14, 2023 by Irnia Wang.
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  9068. The problems is that she has been trying to pander to both her entire life.
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  9069. He also said "I came NOT to overturn the law, but to fulfill it." He was liberal insofar as he opposed the corruption of hierarchy in religion. He gave much praise to those of faith and sincerity.
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  9070.  @bfa-xi1py  That isn't an argument it is a logical fallacy of Reductio ad Hitlerum. it is also admitting that you have lost the plot. PS, there are VERY lovely Asian Russians (Yakut for example). But the Muscovites look down on them as sub-human.
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  9071. If you take Russian TV at is word, I have a bridge to sell you. They are only saying that to purposely muddy the water and cause confusion.
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  9072. @ Munich 1938. Any "agreement" with Putin is not worth the paper it is written on. Putin invading Ukraine was the terrible deal. Stop victim blaming Ukraine. territorial conquest being rewarded DESTABLIZES the world.
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  9073. @ Russia has no interest in peace, only conquest. Grozny in the 90s shows EXACTLY what Putin is about. Stop victim blaming Ukraine. Stop making excuses for territorial conquest which destabilizes the world.
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  9074. The problem is that the current people in charge at the FDIC are going above and beyond that limit, rewarding the people who caused the crisis.
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  9075. Wikipedia launders opinion pieces as if they were objective fact.
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  9076. There are plenty of Iraq and Afghan War vets. However, I will agree that ALL of the US flag officers are shit and should be replaced with SNCOs who have actually been in combat.
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  9077.  @michaelfaraday8391  Depends on who you talk to. Yes, there were a lot of green zone "secretaries" who were basically enjoying a taxpayer financed vacation. Then you have the guys who pulled convoy duty outside the fence and were actually shot at.
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  9078.  @peterlangan1181  Nice proof by verbosity. Your "logic" is mostly emotional arguments and predicated not on hard facts but wishful thinking. The objective facts and data points do not support your contention. You make too many assumptions. Occam's Razor says it was the Russians, not the Ukrainians.
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  9079. You guys said the same thing about the Kherson offensive. You were wrong then, and you are wrong now.
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  9080. It was doubtful Russia was even observing them in the first place.
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  9081. Or learn the lesson of the Cabrini Green projects of Chicago. Namely, that government subsidized housing invariably becomes ghetto slums. It has nothing to do with ethnic background and has everything to do with the deleterious motivations created by handouts and "freebies".
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  9082. They don't want them either. Most still remember the Dawson Field Hijackings and the attempted coup lead by Arafat against King Hussein.
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  9083.  @TiaraAngelina-co4sj  Apples to oranges. The Arabs were relocated there after the Romans deported the Hebrews from JUDEA.
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  9084. Since the sinking of the Moskva, the threat of Odessa being invaded from the sea evaporated. And the Kherson retreat closed the door on a land invasion of the city. So, to answer your question, there isn't even a reason to ask.
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  9085.  @coderentity2079  The Russian Black fleet has essentially retreated to Novorossiya. Sure, they can lob missiles as Odessa, but the possibility of capturing it is astronomically small and would first require a complete collapse of Ukrainian morale.
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  9086.  @coderentity2079  Why is it that people think Trump wouldn't support Ukraine? Putin didn't dare do anything while "orange man" was in the White House. He stole Crimea while Biden was directing Obama's foreign policy. He invaded after Joe Bite-me got elected. If anything, it is the Bidens who have been Putin's greatest ally. It has taken the Brits to brow-beat the White House into getting off its duff. While the US has been supplying the most, it is only because the UK and the Warsaw Pact NATO members have shamed the White House into doing so.
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  9087.  @zachn5529  And even being a mentor would have been fine. Hell, Uncle Remus in Song of the South was a mentor archetype. But that is not good enough for the woke scolds.
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  9088. Under NATO doctrine, there is zero distinction between a tactical or artillery nuke and a Strategic or Ballistic nuke. The people talking about the specter of low yield nukes have to realize that ANY use of nukes is an automatic escalation and will NOT stop the fighting but instead result in vaporized cities.
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  9089. @UCisVv1XfV7rW6VAhc1RZEzg Clearly you are being a stereotypical "RUSSIA! RUSSIA RUSSIA!" partisan. Your first point falsely assumes that the Ukrainians would not bring in outside experts. It would not even have to be NATO, they could have brough in the neutral Swiss or Sweds. Your refusal to consider that shows your intellectual dishonesty. Your second point assumes that the US would retain that cold War mentality. History has shown that after the breakup in 1991, the US very much changed its thinking and calculus. Case in point is the Baltic States and Poland. So your premise is predicated on bad assumptions reddening it nothing more than wishful thinking. Your third point while initially has SOME merit, again fails to consider that the US, UK, France, or Japan would not effectively outbid anyone else who wanted to get their hands on those lose nukes. They all have a vested interest in acquiring them if for no other reason to keep them out of the hands of terrorists. Your arguments are nothing more than shilling for the Kremlin, not predicated on hard data. Your logic is weak and fatally flawed because of the glaring holes in your arguments.
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  9090. And yet legal experts in Florida tell a different story.
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  9091.  @jeanmoke1  Free JUDEA!
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  9092. Interesting as Pluto hadn't yet been discovered them.
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  9093.  @MartinMaarva  Are you referring to the Russies? Because you basically described what happened in Kharkov.
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  9094. They know she is a money maker. They are just followign the greenbacks.
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  9095. Indeed. The Kentucky long rifle was more deadly than the flintlock and never restricted it.
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  9096. "Five Finger Discount" is what they call it.
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  9097.  @vrado441  That isn't an argument, that is a logical fallacy. Try using hard data instead of emotional appeals.
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  9098.  @em3sis  Yeah, and some of those charges could have CONCURENT rather than consecutive jail time. Mandatory Minimums are a joke by corrupt lawyers and politicians. Mandatory minimums are why the prisons get overfilled. This isn't about sensibilities; it is about proportionality. You are not advocating justice, you are advocating VENGENACE. Vengeance is NOT justice. Vengeance solves nothing.
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  9099.  @orcvsivstitia7608  A better analogy is trying to hammer in a screw. I can't tell you how many times I have told people that is not how it works. And yet people still try to do it.
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  9100. Russia today has the same problem as Tsarist Russia: bad leadership. If one day the people of the Volga River had a leader like George S. Patton, then not even the USMC could stop them from taking over the world.
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  9101.  @propagandasheep  Pot meet kettle. The Russian Duma is nothing more than a rubber-stamp on Putin's agenda. Putin is an absolute dictator in the mold of Jospeh Stalin.
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  9102. But the law DOESN"T come for some, only those who have the wrong political views.
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  9103.  @redsamson0023  Not even remotely the same thing. But not surprising from a rabid leftist.
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  9104. Yup. I think the actual racism is that these people think a young white boy can't or should not learn valuable life lessons from an older gentleman of color. Uncle Remus is like a mentor or surrogate grandfather to Johnny.
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  9105. Yup, you basically described the Erwin Rommel defense plan for Normandy which the German High Command rejected. Something tells me that Red China would be repeating the blunders of the Battle of Guningtou at Kinmen Island as they do NOT have the amphibious landing craft to handle all of the troops needed to take the island. And using wooden ferry boats to supplement their numbers would be a recipe for disater.
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  9106.  @squarerootof2  Wow, you really did misunderstand Vladimir Lenin's Oktober Revolution. He was not controlled by anyone. Neither was Stalin, Trotsky, Mao, Pol Pot, or any of them. The "rulers behind the scenes" are neo-feudalists who THINK they can buy out people like a good capitalist. The problem is, you cannot buy off revolutionaries. They never controlled the USSR. And if you think they control the PRC, well, that is what the CCP wants you to believe. "A good capitalist will sell you the rope you use to hang him with," -Vladimir Lenin.
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  9107.  @squarerootof2  No, just being historically accurate. You however, are pushing the same anti-Jewish myths about Communism that Vather Charles Coughlin perpetuated in his periodical entitle "Social Justice" as well as on his radio program until it was dropped at the outbreak of WW2.
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  9108. The GOP never had ANY power. It was an illusion crated to make people THINK they did. In really, they were willing collaborators with the left.
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  9109.  @Bass_attack7755  The damaged Leopards have already been repaired and returned to the front line. Can't say the same about turret tossing Russian Tanks.
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  9110.  @Bass_attack7755  Lost a bunk of Leos? Only in your wet dreams. And most of the losses Ukraine has suffered are recoverable. Very few of the Russian losses are. After all, Ukraine can scavenge parts from the wrecked hulls that the Russians leave behind when they retreat.
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  9111.  @Bass_attack7755  You clearly can't argue the merits because you have zero source of data supporting your delusional fantasy. So, you engage in ad hominins. That is a sign of desperation on your part.
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  9112. "Tyranny of Distance". The US Navy already figured out how to do it during the 1920s, coming up with "War Plan Orange" for fighting Imperial Japan. A modern war with China will play out very similar, which is why the Chinese are so keen on securing allies in the Solomon Islands.
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  9113. Should be Wormtongue Pence.
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  9114.  @BigJonkulous  Old picture from when I tried running for Indiana's 5th congressional district in 2014. I didn't think it was right to wear my uniform as other candidate blatantly do in violation of the Hatch Act of 1939.
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  9115. And you are going to ignore how Justice Sotomayor took money from a publishing company who brought a case before the SCOTUS? You are a hypocrite.
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  9116. It is an attempt at Anglicization (ie white washing). I'm not surprised that it is not well recieved.
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  9117. If Belarus wouldn't join in the fight at the start, they wouldn't be able to do a damn thing now. For one, Russia has been stripping Belarus of its supplies for months now.
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  9118. Perun has done at least TWO analysis of Russia's military production. They are NOT keeping up with the losses and are burning through the legacy Soviet Stockpiles. When T-90 production can only cover 10% of the loss rates for tanks, that is unsustainable. Putin WANTS a ceasefire so he can rearm and re-equip over the next 5-10 years before going back on the attack.
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  9119. Is it the "Sea of Japan" or the "East Sea of Korea"? It is the same kind of squabble.
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  9120. OPEC isn't as powerful as you make them out. For all of their grandstanding over the oil cap, the actions taken by OPEC to "cut production" didn't actually move the needle because most of them were not even meeting those quotas to begin with.
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  9121. "Child Nookie Network"
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  9122. How? With Frogmen placing demolition charges? That would imply that the Russian Army is both powerless and blind to stop them.
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  9123.  @AdamMaxx  Turkey is an autocratic dictatorship. Sweden has rule of law. Turkey is demanding that Sweden act as capriciously as them with regards to the rights of political asylum seekers.
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  9124. You got it bass ackwards. Politics are to be kept out of the church, not the other way around. Read the Federalist Papers on the subject.
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  9125. @TNerd The sad reality is that Venture Capital is just a fancy way of saying "money laundering". I have yet to see one of these venture capital start-ups actually make a profit.
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  9126. Indeed. The Russian citizens could stay IF they accepted Ukrainian sovereignty and jurisdiction. Assimilate and become citizens of Ukraine that just happen to be of Russian heritage and I'm sure the Ukrainians would not have a problem.
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  9127.  @svanimation8969  You have that bass ackwards. Most of the atrocities in Donbas were the RUSSIANS. They were purging the people sympathetic to Ukraine. It was ethnic Ukrainians who were being "cleansed" from the Donbas. Do keep in mind that since 2014, Ukrainian authorities had zero control over the area; it was Russian agents who were in charge. Kind of like Transnistria.
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  9128.  @svanimation8969  More hyperbole from Pravda. Spare me. The deaths in Odessa were solely because of Russian artillery and airstrikes.
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  9129.  @svanimation8969  Russia unofficially occupied Donbas in 2014. Ukraine had ZERO influence in that area. Further, the Finns, Swedes, Austrians, and Swiss don't believe your claims. The fact that both Russia and the local rebels in Donbas refused outside NGOs from investigating both those claims as well as the Malaysian Flight 17 crash site and debris further puts to lie your false claims.
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  9130. Des Moine Register, a Democrat shill paper. And the sampling was 16% democrat favor. The poll is garbage.
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  9131. Cope harder.
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  9132.  @markhepworth  You realize that Putin's greatest benefactor in the US was Joe Biden, not Trump? Putin didn't steal Crimea while Trump was in office, he did it while Joe Bite-Me was directing Obama's foreign policy. Putin attack Ukraine AFTER Trump left office. The idea that Trump is a Putin agent is Kremlin disinformation paid for by the Hillary campaign.
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  9133.  @dimesonhiseyes9134  Development Hell. There WAS a playable engine and assets but was never finalized.
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  9134. Don't give them the chance. Better to dust off and nuke the site from orbit. Only way to be sure.
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  9135. Indeed. I think many are looking for that breakout similar to what happened in Kharkov. This time, if the Ukrainians can push, it may very well become a three-pronged push to Mariupol, Berdyans'k, and Melitapol. Just getting to Berdyans'k would sever the land bridge to Crimea.
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  9136.  @WatcherCCG  Indeed. The Beach outside Melitopol puts the Kerch Bridge easily in range of the GIMLRS they have now.
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  9137. Turning Russia into a serious threat? The Russian deep material reserve is being burned away. Russian's air power can't compete against the patriot systems. They are relying more and more on T-72s and T-62s because the T-80 is going extinct and they can't produce T-90s fast enough. The Russian Bear is Geriatric!
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  9138.  @vania7302  Most who have not watch anime think the Harem genre is exactly as you described. But it is often anything but. Mostly it is the girls trying to earn the affection of the main male lead, and the male lead agonizing over which girl to choose, not wanting to hurt any of them since he appreciates and cares for all of them. But I get that you are time constrained. I tend to favor the fantasy as well, with my favorite being "In Another World with my Smartphone"
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  9139.  @MartinEden-dq7mi  Um, the Russian Soviet dominated the USSR. Most of the decision making came from the Kremlin, not the local Commissariat.
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  9140. No, he didn't kill it, but if he is pissed about them vandalizing and bastardizing it, then he absolutely take the blame. Don't be surprised if people ruin your intellectually property once you sell it off.
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  9141. Wow, Trump derangement syndrome is strong with you. You realize the Share Revolution was in full swing under Trump? That seriously threatened Putin's near monopoly on European energy. Trump didn't shut down energy production, that was Obama and later Biden with the EPA mandates.
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  9142. To be fair, Gene Rodenberry and D.C. Fontaina came for the era that knew the horrors of WW2. The hacks today who call themselves "Trek writers" on Kurtzman's abomination have zero world experience and hate the nuanced philosophy of TOS and TNG.
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  9143.  @darkestbooks  Oh, Wrath of Khan made it absolutely clear how militant the Federation was. Rodenberry himself wore the uniform in WW2, serving in the Pacific theater. While TOS was loosely based on his military experience, he was not pleased with how Nicholas Meyer took it up a notch.
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  9144. Indeed. Always make sure you are a good house guest lest you find your accommodations to be quite uncomfortable. PS I was in Korea for two years and I ALWAYS kept in the forefront of my mind how I was perceived by the locals. Most of the time when they actually engaged with me, they found I was very polite and respectful. It was often observed how I did NOT act like an obnoxious tourist they expect from most Americans.
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  9145.  @wallace44able  Yes, I have gone outside the US. My wife is from Indonesia and left that country for the first time in her life to come to the US to marry me. I was stationed in South Korea for two years with the USAF. Unlike most stationed there, I went out and fully immersed myself in the local culture. I can confidently say that I know more about that society than anyone in the US baring South Korean expats and a few professors who specialize in Korean history. As to your points, you are making THOEIRTICAL arguments which while they make sense on a chalkboard, fail completely when put into practice. The devil is in the details, dirty little details you choose to blatantly ignore. The reason why fuel is more expensive in Europe is a direct result of VAT tax. European rulers mark up the cost on the order of 300% of wholesale cost. But I get it, you are an ideologue clinging to your agenda like a religious zealot. Indeed, your ideology IS your non-theistic religion. And much like the Spanish Inquisition, you demand blind obedience.
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  9146. Little miss anti-Fascist has clearly never watched the 1943 short "Der Fuhrer's Face". I guarantee you that he put his full support behind that project which MOCKS the ideology she falsely claims (without evidence) he believed in.
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  9147. Spoken like a tourist. You can have levity in a D&D story WITHOUT it being a farcical story. Konosuba is fantasy comedy done right, but Hollywood doesn't understand the kind of nuance that goes into a show like that. Konosuba is likely one of the few exceptions rather than the norm in fantasy adventure.
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  9148.  @deenaprice1524  Yeah, a tourist calls something a comedy without actually understanding the context of the humor. D&D as a game is NOT supposed to be a farce. That it is perceived as one and a movie supposedly based on it is accepted to be one without question is hallmarks of dilettantism. Kind of like how people complain about vtubers using loli avatars.
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  9149.  @deenaprice1524  You basically describe what a dilettante is. And confirmed for everyone that you are just like all those other folks who come into a fandom and try to change it to fit you rather than accept it for what it actually is.
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  9150. Who Framed Rodger Rabbit is now rated-R because of the smoking and drinking. And as a 5-year-old, that was one of my favorite movies alongside "The Little mermaid".
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  9151. It worked well in 2016. Further, it was essentially the same message Biden ran on for the Democrats.
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  9152. Yeah, apples to oranges comparing this to Iraq. While I agree that the Russian military is indeed holding back, they are still much more indiscriminate than the US in Iraq. For example, Russia is using "dumb" bombs and missiles. The US used GPS JDAMS which are precision strike weapons.
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  9153.  @UnknownUser-rb9pd  Wow, you have taken myths about Islam hook line and sinker. Try reading the Hadiths. The Kafirs and Infidels are considered no better than animals and are to be treated as such. And your claims about Muslims being more tolerant is yet another myth. The Moorish invasion of Iberia has lots of examples of Muslim barbarity. And the Crusades were actually a response to Islamic aggression.
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  9154. I don't think it did. The radicalism simply went underground to fester just like European Nazism had gone to ground.
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  9155. Yeah, the US is precisely why you have enjoyed 50 years of peace in Europe. Instead of spending money on weapons and defense, you spend it on social programs. Now the bill has come due and like a spoil child, you are pissed that you can't have that second scoop of ice creme.
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  9156. @St S The Spoiled European man-children. I agree with you that the America haters are all the same: all emotions and no logic. It is if they have read from the same script, written by the Kremlin in the 1960s.
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  9157. I tend to agree. If it is revealed that an accusation was a hoax, then the punishment that the accused would have received is instead applied to the accuser who fake it. There needs to be a DISincentive to making false allegations.
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  9158. You are no independent, you are a liberal who just can't bring themselves to vote for the party. Until now, because your cult has told you to drink the kool-aid.
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  9159.  @AKATenn  Indeed. While you can write a book that nobody reads, that is not the case with TV and movies. Those HAVE to sell to keep it going while a book can be a one-off thing.
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  9160.  @LuigiAzsassin  Your boos mean nothing for we have seen what you cheer for.
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  9161.  @Catmint309  "Making shit up"? That is what nevertrumper like you have been doing since 2016. Get a new script. You are as predictable as Pavlov's Dog.
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  9162.  @The_king567  Leaving the White House was conceding. If he really believed that he won, he would not have left.
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  9163.  @jc3drums916  And ALL of the prosecutions are falling apart because of prosecutorial misconduct. And funny how you obsess about Jan 6th, but blatantly ignore the May 29 riot that resulted in St. John's Cathedral being burned. Where was the investigation for that Democrat instigated acts of violence and arson?
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  9164. They are going to try and Epstine him. What will people do if they succeed?
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  9165. @Jason Ah yes, the classic totalitarian strawman arugment. You realize you are making the exact same claims as Mussolini? "What is the harm of losing your freedoms so long as the trains are running on time?" Yeah, no, we can have most of what you claim comes from the government done better by private investors. Government doesn't do anything right. Government is just a legal form of organized crime. "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. Every one is, more or less, for profiting by the labors of others."- Fredrich Bastiat
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  9166. Indeed. They are trespassing foreign alien nationals.
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  9167. They could have cast either a Jewish girl or an East Asian as snow white. Instead, they specifically went out to find a "brown" girl. Tells you how racist these people are at Disney.
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  9168. Nobody accused liberals of being smart, only emotional.
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  9169. And the Dems are not? Spare me your moral outrage, the left is all about political retribution.
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  9170. Because the Russians drove out anyone with overt Ukrainian sympathies after the stole in in 2014. You are blatantly ignoring how Putin has deported "undesirable" people just like Stalin deported the Tartars from Crimea before him.
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  9171.  @gavinsmith9871  I wish the government would get out of the business of regulating marriage. It is an institution of the Chruch, and the ONLY reason why gay marriage is a thing is because of government regulation via tax law.
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  9172. Another possibility is that the Greenies saw it as the best opportunity to get the West off fossil fuels. But nobody wants to talk about eco-terrorism because it is not as sexy.
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  9173.  @bobshelton37  The thing is, there ARE other fossil fuel sources other than Russia and the Arab Gulf states. Africa (Nigeria) and South America (Guyanna) have recently discovered deposits that can be utilized.
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  9174.  @LUCHO12407  No, NONE of those accusations were proven. But as typical with you partisans, just being accuses makes you automatically guilty. As far as ethics, the reason why the power mongers in DC hate him so much is that he is CLEANER than any of them. They hate that he looks like a choir boy compared to them.
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  9175. Yeah, sure. Make up any excuse you can to justify your irrational hate of Bibi.
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  9176. That has alwasy been the problem with the "diplomatic corp". Most of them today are hippy-type peaceniks who look down their nose at the military and those in the profession of arms. They don't actually understand the cost of MAINTAINING the peace.
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  9177. I agree. If he really had any balls, he would have told them "if she goes, I go" and encourage others to join him. They can't make the series if over half the cast leaves.
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  9178. Backwards. It makes it easier for UKRAINE to cross since Russians have shown to be terrible at amphibious operations.
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  9179.  @Taletad  There is no reasoning with a madman. You would have better luck trying to convince a Jihadi to lay down his weapons and disarm the bomb strapped to his chest.
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  9180.  @Ranyick  I don't consider these things to be tanks anymore. It is the Kremlin shills with delusions of Stalin's massive battles that are making that claim.
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  9181.  @tristanyoung9673  I don't need to be. I just need to be willing to depend on the wisdom of people who have learned lessons the hard way and trust that experience. You might try doing the same. "By three methods we may learn wisdom. First, by reflection, which is noblest, second, by imitation, which is easiest, and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” – Confucius
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  9182.  @taoliu3949  Russian Partisans allied with Ukraine are NOT Ukraine itself. That is where you are intellectually dishonest. Right there you discredit anything else you have to say. But I will still address the rest because it amuses me to do so. Ukraine DOES have Defensive positions otherwise Russia would already be on the outskirts of Kharkiv, ready to assault the city like they did with Sievierodonetsk, Lysychansk, Bakhmut, or Advika. They are not. And that is because there ARE defensive positions, though I grant they are not as extensive as they COULD have been. Again, you are showing intellectual laziness and dishonesty. Nice job trying to rewrite history. The Kamikaze and Banzai charges were acts of desperation by an opponent that had already lost. As far as achieving their goal, well, the battle of Iwo Jima where Banzai Charges were forbidden stands in stark contrast to Saipan, Attu, and Makin Island. The Kamikaze attacks were supposed to check American advances, but they failed to do so. The loss of the USS St Lo and the USS Franklin stand as the high watermark for Kamikaze which is pathetic when you account for the thousands of attempts. American adaptation quickly rendered the tactic pointlessly futile. Stop trying to rationalize (ie making excuses fallacy) ineffective tactics. It only makes you look foolish trying to justify the indefensible.
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  9183.  @taoliu3949  Aircraft is not the same as PILOTS. Major difference. Coral Sea Japan lost at least 90 veteran aviators to 35 Allies aviators. As pointed out elsewhere, equipment is easy to replace, but PEOPLE are hard to replace. While Zuikaku and Shoukaku along with numerous light carriers, their pilots were considered third tier to the First and Second Carrier Divisions which were wiped out at Midway. You are looking only at equipment, not personnel which makes ALL the difference. Again, those are significant distinctions which you blatantly ignore. And you are cherry picking your information regarding the deployment of Kamikaze. The suicide runs of pilots such as Lt. Fusata at Pearl Harbor is NOT Kamikaze. That is where you are once again being intellectually dishonest. It also shows that it does NOT in fact support you but rather contradicts what you claim. The drones used to attack oil refineries don't have the ranges you think they have. They MUST be launched from Russian soil by partisans behind the lines to reach their targets. Again, you are NOT giving the full context but cherry picking your data and ignoring the details which contradict your claims. And your last statement shows complete incoherence. Zelensky being vague and cagey does NOT confirm anything and does NOT constitute admitting responsibility in any way. You clearly have been watching too much MSNBC where they think guilt is assumed until proven otherwise. Those strikes are "plausibly deniable"; hence they are not directly under the control of the UAF.
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  9184.  @taoliu3949  While there is correlation, it is NOT a one-to-one ratio as you fallaciously imply. Pilots can survive a crash or land a plane that would otherwise never fly again. Again, you are being disingenuous. Further, not all pilot and aircraft losses are the same. Japan did NOT rotate its pilots the way the US did, which means that your core elites were obliterated FIRST. That means smaller losses early on are more devastating than lagers losses later. Hence earlier engagements are more significant to the outcome than later ones. In that, the Russian MoD is experiencing the exact same problem. Again, just because Zelensky mentioned those attacks doesn't automatically mean he is responsible. Stop lying about that. It is the same false logic behind claiming that Trump is directly responsible for Michael Cohen's actions. STAND ALONE COMPLEX. Look that up. "Oh, would someone rid me of this troublesome priest?" Look that one up too.
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  9185.  @taoliu3949  Did you not heard the part about a pilot surviving where the aircraft does not? At Coral Sea, the US lost 69 aircraft but only 35 pilots, clearly disproving your one-to-one ratio. Yet again you show a lack of abstract thinking. Correlation does NOT equate to causality. Both to pilot loss and to the oil refinery attacks. You are only showing your ignornace. "Better people THINK you a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt," -Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain.
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  9186.  @tristanyoung9673  Nice ad hominin (logical fallacy). Try actually making a point instead of engaging in gutter-sniping. Also, "War never changes, its exactly the same, no matter which era it happens on," -USS Enterprise, Azur Lane the Animation.
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  9187.  @tristanyoung9673  Did you leave your brain in Oz, or did Dr. Ben Carson remove it for you? Yes, I can engage in such childish volley of insults too. LEARN TO DEBATE. And touch grass while you are at it.
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  9188. Nor have they heard of the term "pyrrhic victory".
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  9189. Flemming vs. Nestor (1960), Hevlering vs David (1935). There is not SSI lockbox and there never was. The SCOTUS has made it clear that it is nothing more than an income tax on the front end, and a welfare tax on the back end. Once people stop believing in the myth of the lockbox, then we can finally fix the problem of returning the receipts to those who paid into it.
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  9190. Ah, but who is the bougies class? If you live in suburbia, you are part of that class. What is going on today from the rejection of cancel culture to the trucker and farmer revolt is very much a Leninist-Maoist revolution, but one that is REJECTING the tenants of those Marxist derived ideologies.
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  9191.  @ssuwandi3240  Tilted up and do WHAT exactly? As soon as the belly was on the ground and the engine nacelles were grinding, there was NO WAY TO LIFT OFF AGAIN. This was NOT a touch, and go scenario; the engines no longer had the power to keep that plane in the air.
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  9192.  @jonathanparle8429  Nice apples to oranges false analogy. Yeah, let us blame a Deadman rather than poor construction planning. Tell me, have you seen the runaway truck rams along the interstate in mountainous terrain? The end of the runway should be treated exactly the same.
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  9193.  @jonathanparle8429  Nice Apples to oranges false analogy. A better analogy would be like a car colliding with a bridge piling at 200 MPH, if you were trying to be intellectually honest. And speaking of freeways, many in mountainous terrain have what are called "runaway truck ramps" specifically to avoid serious crashes by arresting the movement of an out-of-control vehicle. The end of a runway should have enough clearance to serve the same purpose for a crashing airplane.
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  9194.  @ADreadBellow  Who is "They?" The NTSB? Or the local Korean Aviation authorities? Appeal to authority is a logical fallacy and one you are using to deflect from a VERY VALID observation. One you cannot deny: it did NOT catch fire until AFTER it impacted the wall.
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  9195.  @jonathanparle8429  Nice apples to oranges false analogy. It shows intellectual dishonesty. Incidentally, highways in mountainous terrain have runaway truck ramps. Why couldn't something like that be at the end of a runway to stop a plane that has overrun the end?
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  9196.  @Blackjack_Official  If you stack up all the nuclear waste created since 1940, it would not even cover a cricket field one meter deep. And to your question of where the waste would go, Japan was going to send it to Yucca Mountain nuclear repository in the US. But then Dingey Harry Reid along with Dan Coats of Indiana killed the facility only days before it was to receive its first shipment.
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  9197. But did Ghandhi kill women and children when he resisted British rule? You spit on his legacy when you compare India's past with Hamas.
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  9198. Isn't Justice Thomas in an interracial marriage? Why would he vote to nullify his own marriage? That is how out of touch with reality these people are.
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  9199. Indeed. How many times did Arlen Spector change parties?
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  9200.  @juanchirino4900  Perhaps, but the Hobo at least has a motivation to learn what works and what doesn't in order to keep his job.
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  9201.  @juanchirino4900  I think you are grossly over-exaggerating and broad brushing. Sure, those under 30 are as you describe. But most of those older than 30 are often people who fell on hard times. Do keep in mind there IS a distinction between the age cohorts when it comes to the homeless.
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  9202.  @juanchirino4900  Funny, because most of the panhandlers I have seen are UNDER age 30. And I know they are posers because their bags and backpacks are some pretty fancy designer brands. To further drive home the point, they only want money, not extra or left-over food. In that, John Stossel's segments on panhandling freeloaders is spot-on.
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  9203. He will not step down. And the Queen is unwilling to use her power to tell him to stand down.
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  9204. I would have LOVED to cosplay as Picard when Galaxy's Edge first opened. it would have been quite the troll.
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  9205. The fact that Ukraine has consistently been outmanned and outgunned by Russia 5 to one and STILL manages to fight to a draw is actually a victory. Your problem is that you use the "pop culture" measurement for victory rather than look at the whole situation. If Ukraine has already lost, then why is Kiev only occupied like it almost was at the start?
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  9206.  @avengerpz  Nice proof by verbosity. Too bad it is just words salad that Que-mala Harris would say.
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  9207.  @avengerpz  I don't need to prove you wrong, the preponderance of evidence collected by Royal United Services institute, Insitute for the Study of War, Oryx, and many others completely obliterated your Kremin narrative.
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  9208.  @avengerpz  You make a post and then delete it because it contradicted itself within your word salad? Does the Ukrainian government lie? Absolutely. The first victim in war is the truth. The Ghost of Kiev for example. I may support Ukraine's War of independence from Russia, but that doesn't mean I believe everything they claim. Hence why Oryx RUSI, and ISW only use photo evidence when assessing loss data. Because both sides grossly exaggerate their success numbers while downplaying their own losses.
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  9209. Al Jazeera is still heavily bias towards jihadism, though.
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  9210. Sic semper tyrannis
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  9211. "Some people just want to watch the world burn," -Alfred, "The Dark Knight".
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  9212. Seems like a counter-intelligence operation much like Operation: Mincemeat.
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  9213.  @Roger_Gadd  I don't doubt it, all as a false flag as the ISW points out.
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  9214. Nor was he worth the bullet.
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  9215.  @llywrch7116  He spent time in a SOUTH Korean prison. He was convicted of assault TWICE. That isn't just being a jerk. And the reason he ended up in that prison is because the US government allowed the ROK to prosecute him under the Status of Forces Agreement.
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  9216.  @llywrch7116  Fair point. Got to get creative in avoiding the censors.
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  9217. They are. NATO forced them to clean up their behavior during the first two months. Then the Ukrainians realized it was an opportunity to demoralize the enemy by feeding them and then letting them call home to momma.
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  9218. The defendants should still demand to have their cases heard in court so as to set a precedent that such actions taken before ratification are unlawful and those who do so will be held accountable.
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  9219.  @PratosKS  The problem is that their puppet masters will simply import new marionettes to keep voting them into power.
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  9220.  @Kalbuir66  You clearly missed the quotations around the first sentence. The second sentence basically sums up Bill Whittle's point about the left: that their ideas are so bad violence IS the only way to get them implemented because they convince people on the merits.
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  9221.  @walkingcarpet420  "The Poles are oppressing Germans", they cried right before the 1939 invasion.
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  9222.  @TheRomanianRegent  How did Ukraine poke the Russian Bear? You are blaming the victim.
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  9223.  @kenh758  Apples to oranges false analogy. But that is to be expected by products of a failed education system that doesn't actually teach history.
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  9224.  @kenh758  European schools are not much better. Only the politically connected actually get the privilege to go to the prestigious schools.
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  9225. Exactly. Just like every person fired by Trump, they have an axe to grind.
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  9226. The Russian Bear is GERIATRIC!
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  9227.  @greenliongirl07  Yup, one of those infamous "Russian Colds" that have a 100% fatality rate.
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  9228. Indeed. The hacked details of the F-35 are showing that it is the modern equivalent of the Norden Bombsight: overblown and its failures classified to protect the corruption in the industry.
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  9229. Some people are not worth what they are demanding. You know those self-service kiosks? Those were specifically field tested in Seattle BECAUSE of the $20 an hour demand by fast food workers. All of your calls for "better pay better benefits" for low skilled labour is doing is to price those workers out of the market and speed up the technological innovations to replace them.
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  9230. Well, and Japanese women today have larger bust sizes than their grandmothers did. Between better nutrition and exposure to the Western diet, their cup sizes keep getting bigger.
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  9231. And the longer it drags out starting it, the worse that conflict is going to be. I am starting to wonder if that stand-off at the Bundy Ranch SHOULD have escalated into an arms exchange. By talking down both sides, the Fox Reporters simply caused the conflict to be delayed to the benefit of the government. "War cannot be avoided, merely delayed to the benefit of one side or the other," -Carl Von Claueswitz.
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  9232. National divorce automatically means civil war. You think the left is just going to let you leave with the children? They WILL fight you to maintain control.
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  9233. The court cases are getting overturned. He should be in prison but survived an assassin's bullet. Put down the sherry you are hallucinating.
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  9234. Put down the copium. Remember Putin's "Not one Step back" order?
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  9235. Barnes and Viva Frei would be my legal dream team.
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  9236.  @Echo4Sierra4160  They have an obligation to uphold the US Constitution. That is the whole purpose of judicial review. "Saying No" as you describe is refusing to do their Constitutionally obligated job. And if they don't do their job, what is the point to their existence? Why are we even paying them?
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  9237.  @Lord_technofascist_nepobaby  Which is sad considering that the Chinese way of anti-capitalism authoritarian coupled with nepotistic corruption has fatally infected the West. In many ways, the US government has become a mirror image of the Chinese CCCP.
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  9238.  @Lorenz1973  WRONG. You are making the argument of despots and tyrants. And armed society is a polite society. Plano, Texas, the gun nut capital of the world with the highest per capita gun ownership happens to also be safer than any European city. If it was its own country, it would be safer than Switzerland (whose population is mandated to own and maintain rifles for defense). Don't believe me? Look up Bill Whittle's video "Number one with a Bullet".
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  9239. Gas produces less emissions than coal. If you are all for coal, then there is no excuse for being against gas.
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  9240.  @fifi23o5  The 155th Naval Infantry Brigade IS from Kamchatka, genius. And they got demolished in Vulhedar several times over.
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  9241. Everyone but the most obvious suspect. Occam's Razor refutes your claims.
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  9242.  @friendlylaser  Seems like you do not know the difference between Intelligence and Wisdom. Don't need intelligence to get through life, but without wisdom, you will end up in an early grave.
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  9243.  @richardgray3112  And if Russia using a nuke, you can be guaranteed that Moscow will become a radioactive crater. Try playing the game "13 Days" based off the Cuban missile crisis. It will give you a better understanding of why such idle threats are just that. The first person to fire a nuke will be forever remembered and the person who alone caused nuclear apocalypse and the Post Atomic Horror.
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  9244.  @thegreatdane3627  Trump has been correct about LOTS of things. Obama doesn't have an original idea in his head, particularly about geo-political factors, relying entirely on Joe Bite-me's "expertise" in 2014. Tell me, how has Biden's foreign policy acumen worked out?
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  9245.  lolikbolik4818  Angolphobe.
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  9246.  @Bolsonaro_em_Haia  They don't. Unlike the West, they are more than happy to do business with strongmen.
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  9247.  @happyjoy338  How is Ukraine the aggressor when they never entered Russian sovereign territory? Stop parroting the talking points of the Kremlin. It makes you Pavlov's Dog.
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  9248.  @postmodernmining  India investigated those claims and found they were baseless. If anything, Russia's invasion of Ukraine INCREASED civilian deaths in the Donbas by 400%. When even the Rajahs of South Asia don't believe you, you have lost the plot.
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  9249.  @postmodernmining  Yeah, RUSSIAN MILITARY illegally occupying Sovereign Ukrainian territory. As for genocide, the Indians investigated the claims and found no evidence supporting those accusation. When the Rajahs of South Asia who don't have a dog in this fight don't believe your claims, you have lost the plot.
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  9250.  @myview5840  So do you believe that Texas has a right to leave the US? Does Chechnya have a right to leave Russia? Because if you support one, you HAVE to support the other two.
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  9251.  @egobrain6826  Speaking Russian doesn't make someone Russian. If they don't like living under Ukrainian jurisdiction, they should move back to Russia. The only people doing any attacking was the Wagner PMC, just like they did in Crimea.
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  9252.  @myview5840  A referendum at gunpoint is not legitimate. There is a reason NOBODY outside of DPRK, Syria, and Iran recognizes the Donbas annexation. When you can't convince India, you have lost the plot.
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  9253.  @myview5840  A referendum at gunpoint is not legitimate. The ONLY countries who recognize the annexation of the Donbas are North Korea, Iran, and Syria. When even the Indians, Brazilians, and Chinese don't consider that vote legitimate, you have lost the plot.
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  9254.  @Evirthewarrior  So you are just going to ignore the fact that Sarin gas shells were used on US troops as they entered Baghdad? I agree with you that Russia is the aggressor and that Ukraine is defending itself from Putin's Stalinist invasion. But to claim that Iraq didn't have them after both the Shias and the Kurds were killed by Chemical Ali is being intellectually dishonest.
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  9255.  @myview5840  Sarin gas shells were used on US troops as they entered Baghdad. That is IRREFUTABLE. But like a good prog, you believe what the propagandists at the Bush Derangement Syndrome networks tell you to believe,
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  9256.  @egobrain6826  My ancestors didn't have a choice. They were sent to the New World as political prisoners, exiled from a nation that considered them sub-human (as Irish were often treated for centuries). My ancestors also tried living peacefully with the natives. However, they killed the men and kidnapped the women and children. After playing native for about two weeks, Hannah Duston scalped the braves and went home. They never bothered my ancestors again.
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  9257. Trump is not going to lose a single voter he had in 2016 or 2020. The only GOP votes RFK Jr. will take are the nevertrumpers who were not going to vote for Trump anyhow.
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  9258.  Lego Bossk  Agreed. Those things only indicate that one is a well-trained monkey.
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  9259. No joke. They could have been a Bruce Wayne or Tony Starke, but instead chose to be Lex Luthor or Victor Von Doom.
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  9260. And Florida has constitutional lawyers who will argue the sovereign power angle. Namely, Disney's authority in Reedy Creek only exists with the consent of the State Government which can be revoked at will (namely with an act of the legislature).
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  9261. Ubisoft collaborated with Sweet Baby Inc on this project. If you know anything about SBI, then your claims that this is not woke become moot.
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  9262. The problem is that airframes are easy to identify. Russia is never going to be flying a Boeing aircraft. Nor would they fly a British Tornado fighter. The inventories and operators of the various airframes are well known. The stickers are more to prevent "friendly fire" accidents.
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  9263. A city of 25,000 pre-war is not small by Russian or Ukrainian standards. But I get that you have Western bias. Everything is big in the West making the cities of Eastern Europe seem small.
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  9264.  @emsnewssupkis6453  Are you looking at the pump price or are you looking at the actual tax rate on the gas? The pump prices are AFTER the taxes are accounted for. And yes, Indiana has among the highest gas tax RATES. Don't believe me? Just look at conservative sources such as Americans for Prosperity who originally lobbied AGAINST the "Road Funding Bill" before they fell down on the job in the following session of the Indiana assembly. You want to call me a liar? And yet you choose to parrot the talking points of the GOP establishment. Yes, Indiana's gas prices are just as bad as those in Kleptofornia and the People's Republic of New York.
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  9265.  @emsnewssupkis6453  Reports of $8 a gallon in California and New York are overblown. One or two gas stations in Los Angeles or San Fransisco is not indicative of the rest of the state. Yes, it is bad, but it is also got-cha reporting by tabloid media looking for clicks. And I notice that you didn't actually address any of my points, you just look at the price of the pump, not the actual taxes themselves. That makes you what Lenin called a "useful idiot". Stop defending and deflecting from the bullshit of RINO GOP incumbents.
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  9266. I kind of hope he does. Make one about the Two Blue Wizards just to thumb the nose at Bezos and his cronies. The best part is, it would have natural diversity on account that the Men of the East and of the South are not specifically Europoid. Hell, make the Two Blue have appearances that change based on what the people who meet them perceive (kind of like the Angels in Roma Downing's "The Bible").
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  9267. @ Considering the metric used lumps the entire state together, yes. Who isn't trying? Seems to me you can't get your story straight. Maybe you need to touch grass.
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  9268.  @Michael-ex8lk  Not a bad comparison, especially as President FDR wanted to get the US into WW2 just like the Biden admin and the EU is trying to get us all involved in WW3. If Timmy can screech to the heavens about WW3, then using analogies to WW2 similarities is fair game.
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  9269.  @Michael-ex8lk  When Timmy screeched to the heavens about WW3, using WW2 analogies is absolutely appropriate. Especially as FDR wanted to drag the US into WW2 just like Biden, Macron, and the EU want to do pull us into WW3. Also, you didn't fully read my comment, did you? I said, and I quote, " I take issue with the American government doing so."
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  9270.  @Michael-ex8lk and you blatantly ignored my point about taking issue with the US government financing it. Who is being intellectually lazy now? I already addressed your point, why won't you address mine?
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  9271.  @tavish4699  No, Russia was NOT the best option. You complain about American liquified gas so you would rather put a Russian leash around your neck? There ARE other options, you just refuse to consider them. How about the energy deposits under the Netherlands that were shut down? How about those oil deposits in Norway? Your problem is that you lack the creativity to think outside the box, instead following what the feudal elites in Europe tell you.
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  9272. "Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin good forces have invented or made” -J.R.R. Tolkien
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  9273.  @libertylivesin1776  Sadly, I fear you are correct. Or rather, Biden's "hospital orderlies" pretending to be WH staffers would not allow the US to assist Taiwan.
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  9274.  @andia968  The Ukraine never had a defense treaty with the US. Taipei DID. Major difference buddy. Ask yourself why the Communists attacked in Korea but not Taiwan. Dean Acheson's Pacific Defense Perimeter INCLUDED Taiwan, but not South Korea.
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  9275. Always have been since the 1920s. Only difference is, the employers and managers have cleaned up their act and their image while the unions have not.
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  9276. He also like to talk about the positivity bias, not realizing that the article against quarantine is predicated on that very bias. His arguing against quarantine that people are more likely to trust you if you don't lock them down assumes the best when reality is further from the truth. People will NOT go and seek medical help because they will pretend that they are healthy when they are not. You see this behavior in alcoholic of substance abusers.
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  9277. The old-fashioned alibi is going to be in vogue again. When you have three to five witnesses who testify that the accused were with them at the time of the faked photo, then which is more credible?
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  9278. You understand basic supply and demand economics. Too bad most of the strikers and union shills are closet Bolsheviks who have little understanding of reality.
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  9279.  @nottodisushttoagen1309  "Democracy is the single worst form of government. Except for everything else tried from time to time," -Winston Chruchill. Yes, REPUBLIC style governance is full of laws. But on the whole, it is better than any other system attempted. As John Adams observed, it works for a MORAL and just society. It fails in a culture divorced from those principles. The elected officials of the West are a reflection of the rot and decay that has been allowed to fester in Western society.
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  9280. At least you are aware of it and acknowledge it. That is the first step towards solving a problem.
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  9281. What is the "most modern" tank in the West's arsenal? Later models of the same series is moving the goalposts.
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  9282.  @1337flite  You listed modernized versions of the older tanks. I had already pointed out that it didn't count. T-72s Russia is using are NOT modernized. Apples to oranges false analogy.
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  9283.  @keaganthegreat  Yeah, because talking nicely has worked out so well so far. No these corporate executives don't care about civility, they only care about being liked. And as Machiavelli said, "better to be feared than loved".
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  9284.  @ClownfishTV  "Smart companies" being the operative point. These wokistas are hardly the logical or smart kind. They let emotions and ideology drive them to make bad chocies.
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  9285. One can be a CIA asset and still be guilty of the crime. Just look at the Garland, Texas terrorists.
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  9286. Did Japan get to exercise that right in WW2 by being allowed to operate radio stations or newspapers in the US?
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  9287. If find it questionable that they would even join. Someone in that environment would be constantly told that the military is full of war criminals and baby killers.
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  9288. Indeed. Their hard-on for top-down command economics blinds them to the invisible hand of the market.
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  9289. Kremlin propaganda will make you think the sky is green. Oryx tells a vastly different story. One that makes me ask where you even get your statistic of 30% from. BTW, Oryx uses visual confirmation, so your "Russian sources" unless they have photo evidence is just embellishment (vranyo).
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  9290. The problem is, the regulators are industry insiders who have lunch with the people they are suppose to be watchdogs for. That is the problem with government; it has an incestuous relationship with the people it is suppose to be at odds with.
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  9291. I would hope that you chose to award anime studios. While they have to cut material form the Mangas and light novels, they tend to be pretty faithful to the source materials; what you see on screen very much occurred in the book.
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  9292.  @gregbradshaw3410  No, I am not talking about Dis-woke. I am talking about the stuff put out by White Fox, Kadokawa, Kodanshi, Madhouse, J.C.Staff, Ufotable, and Toei Animation just to name a few.
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  9293. I hope so. There is a demand for an actual free speech commons, and as a Businessman he should be creating a product to meet the demand.
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  9294. Agreed. My medical discharge doesn't mean crap to any company.
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  9295. Indeed. Your Chromosomes define male or female. All others are constructs of emotions (and perhaps a brain chemistry imbalance).
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  9296. He puts too much editorializing into though.
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  9297.  @dellseasandoval8187  His editorializing puts a political spin on it. That isn't on youtube, that is on him.
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  9298. I wish more people were aware of the Israeli Kibbutz.....and why it failed spectacularly.
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  9299. @ That is what my father said of my service. Interestingly, most of my comments point out the inconsistency of her environment and how anti-military it would be keep getting deleted. I guess they don't like the descriptors that were used to slander Vietnam Vets.
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  9300.  @captainvanisher988  Don't forget that Ashli Babbitt, one of the protestors was murdered in cold blood by capitol police.
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  9301. Indeed. Kokura was supposed to be the second city bombed. It would have been number three had they not capitulated.
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  9302. Funny, because Putin didn't steal Crimea while Trump was in office, nor did he invade Ukraine. Both of those happened while Biden was directing America's foreign policy.
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  9303. The US is a Republic. Vote CONSERVATIVE, not Republican or Democrat.
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  9304. Hey now, that parody was actually creative. Goodgolf and Legalamb? Hilarious!
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  9305.  @BringerOfD  Where is Morgan Freedman's character Brigadier Ford to arrest Dr. Fauci (played by Donald Sutherland)?
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  9306. Kind of reminds me of Sparta's retort to the Athenians about never having the chance to dislodge the latter from the Eurotatus River (the river just outside Sparta).
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  9307.  @ashlibabbitt8609  Mitch activitly collaborated with the people ruining this counrty. You are attacking the man trying to fix it. YOU are part of the problem.
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  9308. And Glass-Stegal was put in place to prevent it. That was until the Dodd-Frank bill demlished those protections.
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  9309.  @goblin6587  Not all cults have a designated leader. Some are decentralized in their zealotry.
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  9310.  @goblin6587  No, they do not all follow a single leader. MANY religious cults are decentralized and without such leaders so as to avoid the authorities coming down on them (Kakure Khristans of Japan for example or early Catholicism in Korea). That you blatantly ignore that fact shows your ignorance on what constitutes a cult.
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  9311.  @goblin6587  You are moving the goalposts so that you can "win" regardless of whether you are correct or not.
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  9312.  @goblin6587  I did engage your argument, you just don't like the answer because it doesn't validate your myopic world view. Yet again cult behavior which you accuse those you disagree with. Calling me an NPC? Talk about pot meet kettle. I have debate far more sophisticated liberals than you. Lean to actually debate. And touch grass while you are at it.
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  9313. Indeed. If the actor or actress nails the role, I could care less about their ethnicity.
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  9314. Lisa Murkowski and Susan Colins are Democrats pretending to be Republicans. They have always been frauds.
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  9315. The Chinese were testing the theory behind Japan's Fu-Go balloon bombs.
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  9316.  @dambadaniel4389  Russia's arugments are essentially the same ones that the Germans claimed about the Jews. "Stop oppressing me!" while they are beating people.
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  9317.  @avarion9538  You realize that Naval Aviation in WW2 was doing all of that as well? The principles don't change despite technological advance. And you didn't even touch on me pointing out that MiG Pilots should have little difficulty in switching over. It is simply a matter of familiarizing oneself on the new airframe. Thank you for proving that you don't actually have a substantive rebuttal.
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  9318.  @patrickdkingjr  No, they don't. The planes can be service in Poland by NATO maintainers, allowing Ukraine to prioritize manpower on their own Legacy Soviet aircraft. Training Ukrainians to maintain NATO aircraft can occur AFTER the war is over when they are better able to spare the manpower.
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  9319.  @TenylegMinekez-uc7co  The Mig-29 really came into its own when the Warsaw Pact joined NATO. Being able to use superior Western Munitions allowed it to gain the best attributes of both East and West.
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  9320.  @TenylegMinekez-uc7co  Calling me a clown isn't an argument, it is you tacitly conceding that I am correct. Learn to Code. "When the debate is lost, slander become the tool of the loser," -attributed to both Plato and Socrates.
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  9321.  @TenylegMinekez-uc7co  Okay Private Conscriptovich. Explain to me why NATO POLISH MIG-29s exist. You can't. Because you are living in denial (which is not just a river in Egypt).
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  9322.  @TenylegMinekez-uc7co  Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Romania, and Albania prove you wrong. ALL were Warsaw Pact members who defected to NATO.
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  9323.  @TenylegMinekez-uc7co  Loner range, better accuracy and resistance to countermeasures such as chaff and flares prove you wrong. Try again Private Conscriptovich.
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  9324.  @TenylegMinekez-uc7co  Talking about yourself now? You are clearly drinking Kremlin kool-aid and can't even be bothered to read actual analysis of military systems of the west. Put down the Vodka, you are so drunk you are hallucinating.
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  9325.  @craigkdillon  Devil is ALWAYS in the details. Infantilizing them like that is exactly how socialist utopias degenerate into kleptocratic banana republics.
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  9326. Japan wasn't allowed to operate newspapers in the US during WW2. Same concept.
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  9327. They believe in peace the same way that Islam means peace: Submission beneath the bootheel of a despot.
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  9328. Most of your Democrats in the military are senior officers who don't go into combat themselves but send others. Not much different than the politicians when you think about it.
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  9329.  @moiseshuerta3984  One hundred thousand? Boy you have been drinking too much vodka. Those numbers out of the Russian Ministry of Defense are grossly overestimated.
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  9330.  @moiseshuerta3984  Hardly, unless you are watching pirated RT propaganda. But then again, most legacy media in the west have zero difference from Pravda or Russian State TV.
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  9331. Fiji also experienced a significant tsunami, though not nearly as bad as Tonga.
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  9332. EXACTLY! More people need to read up what Confucius said about the strength of the nation being directly tied to the integrity of the family.
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  9333. There is already enough evidence of misconduct to get this overturned on appeal. Merchan is just trying to cover his arse now.
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  9334. Trump was that man. Putin certainly is not because he is inadvertently empowering them.
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  9335. I would mandate that if she wants to play Faye, he HAS to wear the revealing outfit from the anime. Mandate that she has to flash her cleavage and possibly pantsu in every episode.
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  9336.  @ltipst2962  Stealth aircraft can still be seen on air traffic control radar. The significance of Stealth technology is NOT that it can't be seen, but that its signature is too weak to get an effective weapons lock on it.
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  9337. Many went to the central Asian Republics where they were NOT particularly welcome.
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  9338. Want a mind screw? Most of those characters were whitewashed. Princess Jasimine was actually a Chinese princess names Barobudor. But the toy companies refused to market toys under that name.
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  9339. Compared to Russian tanks acting like Roman Candle fireworks when their ammo cooks off, the Western tank is far and away better.
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  9340.  @theo3030  The idea that arms control treaties work is a delusional fantasy. The Washington Naval Treaty of the 1920s was the precursor version of nuclear arms treaties. Italy, the UK, and Japan all flaunted and violated the treaty with only the US truly abiding by it.
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  9341. Indeed. He practically invited Putin to invade with his "minor incursion" comment.
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  9342. Really? How about East Asians? They tend to assimilate quite well with Western-American culture. Indeed, Roof Koreans prove that Asians appreciate gun ownership like no other group.
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  9343.  @ethandollarhide7943  Funny, because the opponents of 2025 idolize Communist dictatorships like Red China and North Korea.
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  9344.  @ethandollarhide7943  You realize that Communism is also a religion? One that worships the state? All of the evils you ascribe to Christianity are perpetrated by "atheistic" communist dictatorships.
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  9345. Oh, but according to the leftists, you are a racist right-wing Nazi for quoting Ronald Reagan.
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  9346.  @gerhardk98  That is not an argument, that just proves you are repeating theological mantras. The Green movement is just modern-day Earth Goddess worship. I have no problems with neo-paganism. What I DO take issue with is when people demand that I change my lifestyle just to satisfy their ego. Your religion does not get to violate my right to self-determination.
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  9347. Have been since they fired up the large Hadron collider in 2010.
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  9348.  @smkh2890  Civil Servants which you erroneously call essentials produce exactly NOTHING to sustain a society. The "continuity" you claim is so essential only rewards incompetence. No, STABILITY is not cause by incumbency, it is caused by consistency in the application of law and trade. The American colonies revolted against the Crown because of the very system you claim is so critical to order in society. Take a look at the Patronage system of Parliament and you will see it has changed very little from the 1770s. For a time, the UK actually learned something from Edmund Burke and William Pitt the Younger, but those days are gone, not seen since the time of Margaret Thatcher.
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  9349. There is an off-ramp for Moscow, it is just that the man who occupies that building refuses to take it.
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  9350. Indeed. All they really had to do was foreword the complaint to local law enforcement or the FBI. Instead, they decided to act like vigilantes on the internet.
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  9351. Japan already beat them with Fu-Go balloon bombs.
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  9352. Deng Xaiopeng. HE is who made the Chinese system work once Mao's totalitarian control was revoked. Xiaopeng was a pragmatist with the wisdom to know that an ideological zealot like Mao would smash they very thing they were trying to create. And the Cultural Revolution proved that.
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  9353.  @klarkewang  Not really. or rather, there would be no COMMUNIST China without Mao. Taiwan and the KMT formed REPUBLIC of China shows EXACTLY what mainland China would be WTIHOUT the Communist party. But then that is why you CCCP shills want so desperately to deny Taipei's existence.
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  9354.  @klarkewang  North Korea and South Korea are also small nations, and yet they also very clearly demonstrate the difference between Communist Bloc centralized control and Western Free Markets. If not for Deng Xiaoping, mainland China would be no different than DPRK (North Korea). The fact that South Korea and Taiwan are both strong and free Western societies proves that you claim is completely bunk. Size and culture matter not. The Two Chinas have been divided longer than the two Koreas, further discrediting your contention. And I could go on for hours punching holes in your arguments with examples like these.
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  9355.  @klarkewang  You ae deflecting again because you cannot actually address the points I made about how both South Korean and Taiwan prove that Communism has demonstratable hamstrung both Mainland China and North Korea. For a paid CCCP shill you are not very sophisticated. I have debated better advocates. Oh, and take a dose of your own medicine and read history.....UNAPPROVED history that the Chinese government doesn't want you to know about.
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  9356.  @klarkewang  Wow, strait to the scripted talking points and canards on cue like Pavlov's dog. You really are a paid propagandist for Beijing. For someone worried about American genocides, you seem to turn a blind eye to China's genocides of non-Han ethnicities. Don't throw stones when you live in a glass house.
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  9357. @ Funny, because most of the PhDs "Pile it Higher and Deeper". They lack PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE. Ask yourself why most successful business owners don't have a PhD. And why most PhD CEOs cause the company they manage to go bankrupt.
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  9358. Which is still an infringement but try getting any court to realize that.
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  9359. You bring a very good point. While the West WOULD respond with an overwhelming retaliatory stroke should a member of NATO (or even a non-NATO neutral like Switzerland or Austria) was nuked, how would the west respond to nukes in the Ukraine? Hard to say. For my own opinion, I would issue Putin the "Potsdam Ultimatum": immediately disarm and cease all hostilities, or as Harry Truman said, face a firestorm of utter destruction from heaven.
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  9360. You realize the Tongan's already knew there was a threat of a tsunami from the eruptions earlier in the week. They were already on high alert which means that when the boom went off, they already knew to run to high ground. it is actually a credit to their disaster preparedness that the body count is so low. They did practically everything right.
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  9361. The Leaders of Europe are hand-picked by the WEF. France, Italy, and Poland voted AGAINST the leaders who run those countries, yet the election results gave a result that was NOT the will of the electorate.
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  9362.  @markfergerson2145  Indeed. ANYONE who supported those insane lockdowns is the totalitarian Fascist.
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  9363. Sure. Go to great expense and blowback to fake something when an actual phone call will achieve the same result. You clearly have thought this one through, have you?
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  9364. The problem is that MAD was always an idealist's dream. It only works with rational people who place a high priority on survival. It is completely worthless against a man with nothing to lose or religious zealots who believe that widespread destruction is their divinely mandated goal.
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  9365.  @gregorymalchuk272  Agreed. And of course, Saint Greta is now against wind farms. There is not satisfying these theologians pretending to be scientific. Michael Crichton very accurately called them out for their behaviors which emulate zealots and fanatics of yore.
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  9366. I tend to agree. Defying expectations can make for a great villainous character, especially if they are playing up the "villain with good publicity" trope.
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  9367. YES! i wish more people brought that point up. It was a cynical ploy to get out of paying the family.
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  9368. Well, if the WASPs, WAVEs, and WAACs are reintroduced, that is one way to get around the "pregnancy exemption". Those on the homefront can still fulfill many duties and obligations while carrying.
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  9369. And yet their stock value is not what it once was. Their subscriber numbers are also falling for a variety of reasons.
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  9370. It is the Ukrainains who are choosing to fight. The US is simply proving them the tools to continue that fight. You seem to want to ignore Ukraine's own agency in this matter. They DO have a say, and they WANT to fight.
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  9371.  @UncleStepon  Sure, discount the Ukrainains. Pretend that they have no choice in the matter when in fact it is ONLY because of their choices that the war is continuing for as long as it has. The fact that the Russians were NOT welcomed into Kiev as liberators proves you completely wrong. But sure, keep drinking Putin's tainted Vodka, because your intoxication induced hallucination is quite powerful.
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  9372. The guys who protected the railroads from robbers and desperados. They also protected the bankers and the mine owners in the west at the expense of the prospectors. Then in the 1920s they were the main street opposition that fought the labor unions.
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  9373.  @sthubbins4038  Wow, took that straight from media matters huh? You know they are gaslighting you? But that is to be expected from someone in the leftist cult.
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  9374.  @sthubbins4038  You realize those corporations you hate are doing the bidding of your party? You are bitching about the people who are pandering to you. I have ALWAYS held big government in contempt. You are complaining about the people who are giving you exactly what you want! Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. I hope YOUR feudal masters don't abuse you too much.
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  9375.  @MmntechCa  Don't forget that Stalin's Soviet Union is often called Fascistic. Hell, most of Hitler's polices were inspired by how Stalin ran his country. Auschwitz? Modeled after the Gulags of the USSR. Just goes back to the point that in practice the two ideologies are more similar than they are different. Only major difference is that Commies are "equal opportunity" mass murderers, while the Nazis were rather discriminating as to whom they murdered.
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  9376.  @enki6676  Actually, it WAS an ideological alliance. Both the Nazis and the Soviets wanted to see the end of Poland for various reasons. Add to that, they both were vehemently against Western ideals of individualism and self-autonomy. Hell, Hitler wanted to get the Soviets to join the Anti-Comintern Pact Pact to modify it to be anti-Democracy as bizarre as that sounds. Then you have the fact that Hannah Ardent, Eric Hoffer and many others who observed that the German Communists and the Nazis recruited the exact same kinds of people to their cause, only disagreeing on what tribe they belonged to. In fact, the Hammer and Sickle Marches alongside the Swastika in Weimar until only those to factions remained; they willfully and gleefully worked together to crush anyone who opposed them. And yes, there are MANY over communist shills in the US government. They have infected and infiltrated since the days of FDR, for whom over half of his cabinet were avowed and unrepentant communists. Hell, Hunter Biden is an agent of the Chinese CCCP! Now you are correct that Conservative ACTIVISTS have much in common with Marxists and socialists in that they WANT to be the ones with the power. But as Tim Pool points out, it is tribal affiliation which causes them to fight, not ideology. Conservative ACTIVISTS are grifters cut from the same cloth as liberal Democrat operatives. Plague on BOTH their houses!
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  9377. Agreed. They fancy themselves America's feudal lords and are pissed upstarts like Trump would take away "their birthright".
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  9378. Agreed. Neo-Feudalists who take Umbridge that political upstarts would "steal" their "birthright". As if holding onto power was an inheritance.
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  9379.  @Shiva99333  Hence why NATO fixed defense spending to GDP and not to a dollar amount. Poland, Czechia and the Baltic States have ALL been in compliance since joining NATO. Interestingly, while the EU like to claim they provided more support than the US, 60% of the number they use is because they factored Poland, the Baltic States, and Czechia's contributions. Take them out of the equation and it doesn't look good.
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  9380. And both organizations have been abject failures. WW1 led to the Washington Naval Treaty in an attempt to limit the number of battleships and heavy cruisers. It failed to stop WW2. The problem is that no world government will ever be truly successful. There will ALWAYS be some band of backwater farmers that will take it down just like the American Patriots took down the great British Empire.
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  9381.  @thing3125  That 78 years of RELATIVE peace is called PAX AMERICANA. Aks yourself why. It has NOTHING to do with the UN as that organization failed to stop the Korean War.
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  9382. But the context they are using it is "the proletariat". This reads just like Lenin's book of communism, but "workers" being replaced with "stakeholder".
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  9383. More meat for the butcher's bill. Putin doesn't care about having effective, quality troops, only that he has the bodies to replicate General Zhukov's waste of manpower.
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  9384. Turkyie is trying to play both sides. They won't go to war with the West for Putin's pride.
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  9385. Yeah, the terms of 230 are not actually being properly enforced. The courts need to stop giving the companies the benefit of the doubt.
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  9386.  @komocakeps527  I don't disagree with that assessment. More and more I am coming to the position that law is simply a tool the powerful use to control the weak.
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  9387. And that is fine. You don't have to like his style to acknowledge that he has valid points. Mostly, his boorishness is an act to tweak the nose of the establishment media in the US; he is trolling them.
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  9388.  @quadq6598  Learn the lessons of the 1939 Munich conference. The Brits have vowed never to repeat Chamberlain's blunder again.
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  9389. Don't be so sure. You haven't read about the Warlord era immediately after WW2 have you?
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  9390.  @NyCardConnect  Don't conflate truth with opinion. You are clearly being ratioed and are drinking some very strong copium to compensate for the harsh reality hitting you like a ton of bricks.
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  9391. Yes, because karma has a funny way of coming back to hurt those people who wish evil on others. "Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it (and EVERYTHING that comes with it)"
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  9392. India, the world's largest democracy banned Tiktok years ago, so what is your point?
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  9393. @ "We can do better?" Oh, so you are going to look down on them from you high and might first world privilege? Thank you for proving that your argument is NOT based on logic but rather an emotional appeal. Incidentally, India nominally shares similar values as the US. It is the fact that we have historically been allied with their rivals (first the British Empire, then Pakistan) and adversaries is why India has kept the US at arm's length.
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  9394. And people using them need to realize that they are ALWAYS supposed to have an infantry squad backing them up. That is what Heinz Guderian observed.
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  9395. The problem is that the "American model" wasn't even a plan. It was a half-baked, ill-conceived, and not at all thought out wish by people who foolishly though they could do better than the British did after WW1. Ironically, if the political leaders had actually read T.E. Lawrence and followed his proposal to divide the region along historic tribal lines, the situation could have stabilized. But that would require an independent Kurdistan and the splitting of Iraqi into separate Sunni and Shia states, none of which was desired by outside powers.
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  9396. I actually applaud them training both firearms and first-aid. The use of grenades is a bridge too far though. If only our own schools taught firearms safety as a requirement for graduation.
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  9397. Paul, don't pretend that Putin is being honest about which US presidential candidate he supports. Look at his ACTIONS during the last two (three, really) presidencies and ask yourself who has really facilitated the Kremlin. Crimea was stolen in 2014 when the current occupant of the Oval Office was calling the shots on foreign policy for Obama. The Russian invasion of Georgia also happened during that same presidency.
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  9398. You don't like being called out for your hypocrisy on what Putin says so you delete my comments? Why is it that the ONLY thing you take Putin at his word is his claimed preference for Orange Man? Why should that be accepted at face value without question when everything else he says is considered complete hogwash?
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  9399. You don't trust Putin's word except for whom he claims to want in the White House? That is the one thing you actually believe him? Could it be entirely possible that he is lying about that too?
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  9400. Most of those should be in public domain. They are not because Disney has bought off Congress. In 1790, copyright only last 14 years with only ONE renewal. It was Disney that got it changed to over 100 years.
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  9401. Which sadly only accelerates the collapse.
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  9402. He has in the past. But being reminded of the 1939 Munich agreement tends to shut down any discussion, and rightly so.
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  9403.  @majormoolah5056  May 13-14. It is not hard to find.
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  9404.  @majormoolah5056  Why is it so hard for you to find it yourself when it is so easy to use a search engine? I am not your wetnurse. PS: Google/youtube automatically deletes outside links so if I was to provide one, I would have to put in spaces to get around the censors.
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  9405.  @majormoolah5056  Clearly you haven't though. Even the video calls out Macron. Just because YOU declare something isn't so, doesn't mean it is not true. How about you actually watch the video rather that going off half-cocked.
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  9406.  @chrisdt2297  American service members, even the ones sent into a combat zone rarely get to fire off 300 rounds. I agree with you that they should. The funny thing is, many observers have noted that when a firefight occurs, the American side is rather quiet. Those with AKs often engage in "spray and pray" while the US forced show discipline and control by making sure every shot counts.
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  9407. There was material evidence showing Huawei was engaging in corporate and industrial theft. China simply took Canadian citizens hostage so as to pervert Canadian law. Such behavior is expected of criminal syndicate, not legitimate governments.
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  9408.  @lv3609  Not really. You are engaging in classic whataboutism typical of communist regimes who can't otherwise defend their position. Industrial theft and corporate espionage ARE international recognized crimes covered by reciprocity clauses in treaties. The Huawei executives arrested in Canada clearly violated those statutes. You are rationalizing (ie making excuses) to justify hostage taking and kidnapping by governemnts.
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  9409. Not really. Occam's Razor says that the scenario with the fewest assumptions is the most likely. And Putin doing it has the fewest assumptions.
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  9410. They have gone full throttle so far, why would they stop now?
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  9411. The territorial dispute was specifically to PREVENT the alliance from being dragged into an ongoing conflict.
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  9412. "Less is more" right there.
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  9413.  @wallyhackenslacker  Red China is something of an aberration. From a historical standpoint, they have NEVER experienced true liberty the way the West has. Even Czarist Russia had more individual liberty than the typical citizen of Imperial China. What sets Red China apart is that they LEARN from the mistakes of others, playing the long game. Deng Xaiopeng correctly identified the fatal flaws of Leninist-Stalinist USSR and modified Chinese Communism after the death of Mao. The average Soviet citizen knew that their government was crap. The average Chinese citizen is raised to worship the government as if it was a deity. And unlike with the USSR which was reviled by foreign nations, the PRC is admired and so there is very little desire to undermine it the way the West regularly used radio broadcasts to undermine the USSR and Nazi Germany.
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  9414. Yeah, I am wondering when the cost of that doing is going to come due. Maybe this was one symptom? Planes crashing mid-air would be another.
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  9415. You realize that people who make that much usually collect it in assets rather than hard currency? We are talking about commodities brokers who buy and sell container ships worth of goods. And each of those transactions count as profit. So, it is VERY easy to make $10 million on a balance sheet despite having less than about $10K cash on hand at any given time. Both Elon and Bezos are examples of this.
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  9416.  @rodchester3  Not as niche as you may think. That is just ONE example and shows a certain lack of imagination on your part. I use general terms but almost any business of industry can operate in such a fashion. And yes, most people do use LLCs to protect themselves from the very tax liability you propose to create. Indeed, the whole point of "charitable organizations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is to launder money and avoid paying taxes. "“The present tax codes… inhibit the mobility and formation of capital, add complexities and inequities which undermine the morale of the taxpayer, and make tax avoidance rather than market factors a prime consideration in too many economic decisions.” -President John F. Kennedy to Congress, January 23, 1963.
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  9417.  @rodchester3  I think you are confusing the fact that taxation is glorified theft. It is a shakedown no different than extortion. Government is organized crime by other means.
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  9418.  @d3faulted2  Indeed. Why shells from even Russia's nominal allies in the CIS is not often commented on.
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  9419. Who currently owns/runs Neverwinter Online? While I agree that Forgotten Realms has great potential, so long as Neverwitner MMORPG keeps going, any new project set in Faerun will be in direct competition. PS I absolutely loved Mask of the Betrayer. Safyia was a legit Western Waifu.
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  9420. I hope so.
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  9421. The Somalians they imported.
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  9422. The Nazis loved to claim that THEY were the ones being oppressed by the Jews. And so, the banality of Evil continues.
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  9423. Don't conflate Saint Basil's Cathedral with the Kremlin. You displayed the Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed (Basil) when you referred to the Kremlin at 3:28.
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  9424.  @adrien5834  Your refusal to acknowledge JFK's points about taxes and your obsession with tax haven shows you are not debating in good faith. Debate the merits, of which my point did NOT take GDP into consideration. You are bloviating because you hate people wisely investing their wealth in places that will not simply steal it via force of government. Taxation is legalized theft.
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  9425.  @adrien5834  Neoliberal? I think you are describing yourself. Neoliberalism is just repackaged Marxist-Leninist-Maoist ideology. I am describing sound economic tax policy, one that has been proven time and again. And you reject it simply because you detest the idea of people keeping their own money, even if that means moving it to places with lower rates.
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  9426.  @adrien5834  Pot meet kettle. Typical leftist.
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  9427. Got proof of that? Do keep in mind that Putin stole Crimea while Biden was running Obama's foreign policy. Putin didn't invade Ukraine until AFTER Biden took the Oval office.
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  9428.  @steveb796  After it has already dropped its payload. Seriously, look up the Japanese incendiary Fu-Go balloon bomb. The Chinese just proved that it is still a viable weapon.
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  9429. My ancestors were among those who paid the price. And they were active members of the Abolitionist movement before the war, so the naysayers can't claim that it was only about preserving the Union. Now I ask, where were the slaves when John Brown marched on Harper's Ferry?
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  9430.  @FazeParticles  My point was that those who start revolutions eventually become consumed by them. That is precicely what will happen to these hacks.
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  9431.  @billtheunjust  And what would she accomplish in just one term? Probably very little. You are like an abused spouse, apologizing for the actions of your husband or wife beating you. You are so scared of what Democrats MIGHT do to you that you blatantly ignore what RINOs like Cocaine Mitch HAVE done to you, which is often far worse. Stop making excuses for rewarding Turtle-man Mitch.
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  9432.  @uglystupidloser  In practice, the Nazis and the Soviets had much in common despite what leftists today may claim. There is a reason why the Molotov-Ribbentrop Alliance was even possible.
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  9433. Every time the algorithm tries to pre-empt me, I purposely use a different set of words to say the same thing. I am all about jacking with the machine.
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  9434. You realize that it will be a referendum on Biden and the 2020 election? Last time such a rematch occurred was the election between Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleaveland. Guess how that turned out.
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  9435. The New York SLIMES are ivory Tower elitists who can't be bothered to do anything more than a cursory look at military history.
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  9436.  @harun776  And the Baltic states of Poland joining did present a security threat? Spare us the Kremlin drivel. The ONLY reason why Finland and Sweden abandoned their historic neutrality was BECAUSE of RUSSIAN aggression, not NATO expansion.
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  9437.  @Crow22Darkness  ​ @MrMalicious No the Fist on the heart then extended out is NOT Roman in origin. That is what Mussolini(the Duce) and the Italian Socialists(Fascists ) wanted you to believe because they believed it gave them legitimacy. And the progressive left continues that lie because it benefits them to perpetuate it. No, the salute did NOT originate with the Romans, it predates them. There was a variation the Romans "adopted" when they conquered Anatolia (modern day Turkey) . And those folks were introduced to that salute via Alexander the Great and the Silk Road. Look up the history of Greco-Buddhism and you will find it follows and almost mirror image of movement along the Silk Road as that salute.
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  9438. Nobody believed the Iraqi Olympic Stadium built by slave labour under Saddam was a good thing.
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  9439. Yes and no. There is certainly a connection and correlation. But ask the actual members of the Second Wave Feminist movement, and while they THINK third and fourth wave is on the same page as them, react with total shock at the claimed values of the third and fourth wave. Tim Pool had a great interview with such a second wave feminist. My grandmother was part of the post-WW2 wave. But she was NOT a man-hater. Today's feminists detest all men.
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  9440. I love your reference to the Bolshevick split between Joe Stalin and Leon.
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  9441. Won't happen with the NDP collaborating with the Liberals. Have to wait until the balance of power changes.
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  9442.  @sooperdude22  Indeed. The people who control it now, didn't build it and they squander it like the wastrel children of nobility.
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  9443.  @heralds5662  Just wait. A good commie will eventually act like the Venice Banker demanding that pound of flesh. And they will ALWAYS demand the most valuable cut.
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  9444. Yeah, the definitions today are jacked compared to WW2 standards. The retired Spruance-class Destroyer was easily TWICE the displacement of a Fletcher-class of WW2. In the wake of WW2, the Frigate/Destroyers and Light Cruisers became one mission profile while the Heavy Cruisers took over the role of Battleships as artillery platforms.
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  9445. Indeed. Many fans want that Behind-the-scenes production book. Or the companion encyclopedia. Or any number of other related materials.
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  9446. That is the goal. But as Ronald Reagan said, If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. So to your point, they ban it if they cannot control it(ie regulate it).
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  9447. Put down the vodka Private Conscriptovich, you are so drunk you are hallucinating.
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  9448. Please don't include me. If I don't hear someone who speaks Japanese as their first language, I will likely not properly say it either. Phonetics was not one of my strong areas. Ironic as I HATE romanization and much prefer phonetic spelling.
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  9449. Oh, but that is racist according to these hacks. Nevermind that pygmies are actual group of people in several parts of Africa and Southeast Asia.
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  9450.  @SiFiFreak  Again with that militant egalitarianism. No women and men do NOT wear pants the same way. You assumption is predicated on the myth that men and women are exactly the same. We are not. Equal BUT DIFFERENT. Taken as a whole we are equal, but our strengths and weaknesses are in different areas. Even the Greeks understood this. And of course, Da Vinci's codex on human anatomy points it out.
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  9451.  @stevekane4922  Pot meet kettle. Europe has had over 60 years to build and maintain itself, but instead acted like a wastrel noble's son, squandering his inheritance on wine and women. But then there is also the little issue where TWICE the US has had to save Europe from itself because the continent can't stop from acting like quarreling children. Part of why there is a War in Ukraine is because Europe refuses to clean up a mess they helped to create by appeasing Putin just like Chamberlain did to the Austrian Painter at Munich in 1938.
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  9452. Unions never adapted to the changing times. With right to work, they should have restructured into something similar to the old trade guilds: acting as a clearing house connecting workers with jobs. Employers comming to them for people with the skills they need and the employees going to them to find jobs to work. Connecting people with needs. Tood bad the leadership can't be that visonary.
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  9453. And the Japanese between their JRPGs and fantasy anime have been better stewards than Hollyweird. Many of today's popular Isekai high fantasy are highly influenced by Tolkien via classic Dungeons and Dragons.
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  9454. And you are in a world of hurt when big government and big business are joined by big religion. It is the tyrannical trifecta that sparked the American Revolution.
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  9455.  @GodwynDi  Pyle compiled the various ballads. Not all of them are synchronized or consistent with each other, but he managed to put the majority of the legends into a single book. Most of what people think today of Robin Hood is a result of Hollywood embellishments. The whole "rob the rich to feed the poor" is a slogan from the silver age of Tinseltown when the Communists started infesting the studios.
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  9456.  @GodwynDi  Howard Pyle compiled most of the legends and ballads, many of which contradicted each other. It is arguably the most consistent collection of stories. What most people today think of regarding Robin Hood is a fabrication of Hollywood. Many of the ideas such as "rob the rich to feed the poor" are slogans developed by Tinseltown as it was being subverted by communists in the wake of McCarthyism.
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  9457. They clearly believed it was not worth it to waste a bullet on him.
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  9458. Makes the power mongers money, while the people suffer in serfdom.
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  9459. Or American politicians just don't give a damn, selling off the frequencies to the highest bidder. The DoD has known about these issues for years, but their warnings have been ignored.
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  9460. Which is why the court cases should still proceed. Don't let the government drop the charges. FORCE them to face legal proceedings and set a precedent so that there is no legal authority until AFTER the act is ratified by both chambers.
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  9461. When talking about fuel consumption, do keep in mind that jet fuel has a higher octane which means you can go father distance and idle the engine longer on one liter of jet fuel as compared to one liter of diesel.
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  9462. Which is a big slap in the face to actual mixed heritage people. How many Blasians, Eurasians, Latinos (Native-Hispanic mix), and Mulattos (Historic term for half-black, half-white) have they basically dehumanized and unpersoned? Full disclosure, my two sons are half-white, half-chinese (Hapa or Ameriasian).
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  9463. OR, you just have not given them enough time. The Kherson Offensive was no less than three months of slow slog against a numerically superior foe. This Offensive has barely had over a month of serious engagement. The prepatory period is often misconstrued for dithering.
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  9464. And he didn't lose a single 2016 nor 2020 voter. Biden on the other hand has buyer's remorse among his voters.
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  9465. He recognizes the need to balance both. The most successful diplomacy is "Gunboat Diplomacy". People respect you more when you have the force of arms to back up your position. Trump's mantra is similar to Teddy Roosevelt: "Speak softly, but carry a big stick". he may be bombastic, but I suspect behind closed doors, he is quiet and soft spoken. Seeing that after his bombast in public is likely to unnerve people. Beware the ones who go quiet when they get mad.
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  9466. I think it is MUCH deeper than just 30 meters otherwise nuclear supercarriers would not be able to travel through it. Nor would nuclear boomers.
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  9467. Because they think they will personally benefit from government intervention.
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  9468. The Russian Bear we all feared is Geriatric.
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  9469.  @michaeldunham3385  Because that General is being dishonest. Under NATO doctrine, there is absolutely NOT distinction between the use of artillery delivered nukes and ICBMs. ANY use of nukes is a strategic escalation with a reciprocal response, meaning a "tactical" nuke is answered with Trident ICBMs. Your "expert" is using his rank to act as an authority on the matter (logical fallacy), while he is misleading you by intentionally giving false information.
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  9470. Even the companies turning decommissioned Soviet bombs into reactor fuel? That kind of undermines non-proliferation.
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  9471. "Amateurs imitate, professionals plagiarize," -Attributed to Igor Stravinsky.
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  9472.  @RH-cv1rg  The classroom teachers are underpaid. The administration staff "teachers" are grossly overpaid. Especially the superintendents.
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  9473. If he was in uniform, but he was a civilian contractor at that point. However, he COULD be recalled to active duty to face a court-martial for this so that he is demoted and lose his pension.
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  9474. Of course the problem of a five year old playing with the father's gun was because the parents never taught them how to property treat such a tool. These woman-child wokescolds never learned how to be responsible with their words. That something spoken in haste can cut deeper than a knife. If only people learned to treat all things as if they were a sharp tool, useful when property used but dangerous when handled recklessly, the world would be a better place.
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  9475. Emma's story is not realistic. Someone who grew up in an activist household and attended California college is going to hate the military because she would have been bombarded with the message growing up that the military was war criminals and baby killers.
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  9476. Don't forget that the wokescolds call Attack on Titan a fascistic/Nazi glorification. Anyone who has actually watched the series would tell you it critiques fascism.
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  9477. Indeed. The Ukrainians are extending a courtesy they are not entitled to.
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  9478. @ That is no justification for putting someone who is not qualified into that position. Jobs don't exist to give you a paycheck. We are all trying to make ends meet, so that appeal to emotion doesn't fly.
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  9479. I like to counter their shilling for Islamic terrorist slogans with "LIBERATE JUDEA!"
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  9480. Have you forgotten the Korean War? No, the problem isn't the American GI not wanting to fight. The problem is feckless cowards among the flag officers and politicians who abandon allies at critical moments.
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  9481.  @nonyabisness6306  Except, most of the radiation leaks at Fukushima was specifically FROM the waste storage pools, not the reactor cores themselves. The reason why the pools exist is because the waste WILL get hot much like corium and melt through the bottom of the containment when the water is removed.
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  9482.  @samuelkorger3567  Yes, the vaccine is suppose to be, but there are caveats. When I was sent to Osan AB, Korea with the USAF, they make all personnel get the smallpox vaccine. I did not because of head sores/seborrheic dermatitis(aka cradle cap). You apparently shed viral particles from the infection site as well as any open sores.
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  9483. No joke. And Glass-Steagall was put in place after the Black Tuesday Stock Market crash to prevent those from ever happening again. Dodd-Frank basically repealed Glass-Steagall and put the crash scenario back into play.
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  9484.  @DrDoomsd  So Ukraine doesn't have any say in its own destiny? How SOVIET of you to assume that they belong to the Kremlin.
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  9485. Indeed. He is putting on a performance and thinks we are too dumb to see through it. He doens't understand that our suspension of disbelief only applies to the movie screen or when he is in a role.
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  9486. Merchan already accepted the jury's verdict. So, mistrial is impossible because it has already concluded. Sentencing is separate from the trial process. Double Jeopardy is now in play.
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  9487. Abraham Lincoln was removed from the ballot in the state that would later rebel as the Confederacy and still won the election. You don't think that history might just repeat itself?
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  9488.  @abrakadavra3193  Agreed. When the leadership of the US starts acting like the very autocrats, they accuse Trump of being, you know they are terrified of losing power, just like in those dictatorships.
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  9489. I agree with your characterization of Maher. He is very much a misotheist.
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  9490. "Amateurs imitate, professionals plagiarize," -Attributed to Igor Stravinsky.
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  9491. I'm more inclined to believe it is insiders at Youtube/Google who are using the cover of hacking to deflect from them purposely going after pro-Ukraine channels.
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  9492. Where is the dividing line between the two? As the smallest Continent, it arguably blurs the line.
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  9493. President of the Screen Actor's Guild. That is too big of a badge to play the stupid card.
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  9494. Jambalaya, Creole Louisiana's equivalent of fried rice. Interestingly, the Creoles of Louisiana prove that it IS possible to have mix-race, mixed culture that thrives. But the power mongers can't abide that blending of people and traditions. They have to shoehorn us into the monochrome divide of black-white or colored-European. Antebellum South has come back with a roaring vengeance.
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  9495. The power of nukes is mostly in the threat. Once they are used, they lose much of that power. And enemy unfazed by threats of use will not be stopped once they are used.
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  9496.  @Rtg5637  The half-way point between Kam'yans'ke and Novoukrainka may be the weak point. When they break through, split forces both east and west to drive behind the Russian defenses and push towards BOTH Melitopol AND Mariupol.
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  9497.  @Rtg5637  Again, I would say somewhere in between like at Hulyaipole or Malynivka. Nobody is talking about activity at those locations.
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  9498. Just about every Western nation has some form of mandatory service. The Swiss for example require you to maintain the rifle you are issued long after your two years of service is over.
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  9499.  @sshender3773  Please parse down your points into bite sized paragraphs that are easier to read. I agree that there was at one time an attempt to establish a socialist utopia (the Kibbutz), but that was hardly the majority view and more a result of misguided idealism. The fact that they collapsed in no small part to their "it takes a village to raise a child" and the collectivist approach to rasing children showed its folly. I do agree that the demographics have changed, especially with the Sephardi, Ethiopian, Bene Israel, and as you point out Mizrahi being allowed to hold citizenship has brought these groups into a cosmopolitan and eventually mixed heritage pool. It is kind of interesting that Patrick J. Buchanan pointed out much of this and almost all of your points in his book "Suicide of a Superpower". He predicted these results back in 2011.
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  9500.  @cthoadmin7458  Funny you mention paper because every peace agreement Israel has made with the Arabs has been shredded by either Fatah, Hamas, or Hezbollah. Not once has the international community punished them for breaking the land for peace agreements.
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  9501. I'm glad that 8 years and a medical retirement makes me ineligible to be drafted.
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  9502. And send him to Rikers. If he ends up Epstined, then we will know who are the true patriots, and who are the feckless boot lickers.
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  9503. "Peace will come when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us.” -Golda Meir Perhaps you should contemplate those words before speaking in complete ignorance.
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  9504. There is no statute of limitations on plagiarism beyond the expiration of a copyright.
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  9505.  @FatboyMcfat  Ad hominin attacks like that don't make your point, it proves you can't defend your position. "I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher
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  9506. They can still roll up the trench lines once they make a breakthrough. Destroy the Russian forces in echelon and enfilade.
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  9507. The Russian Soviet dominated the old USSR. It is a distinction without much of a difference.
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  9508. So explain to me my the Antinovski bridge was not destroyed in a similar fashion?
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  9509. Venezuela did that. How did it work out for them?
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  9510. Ally with China? Have you not seen how Chinese back governments in Europe abused you with the Wuhan Virus lockdowns? A deal with China is a Faustian Bargain.
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  9511. Agreed. Rove "the architect" is directly responsible for creating the conditions that allowed the Obama-Biden Mafia to come to power.
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  9512.  @floridaman7  No, that is what the corporate shill wants you to believe. The collapsing ticket sales tells otherwise. Don't fool yourself; don't huff your own farts.
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  9513.  @floridaman7  "I'm speaking from experience. I have minorities in my life who talk about seeing these movies. " Personal anecdotes are NOT representative of the whole. You are experiencing confirmation bias.
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  9514. As far as "leaks" go, it is up there with Operation: Mincemeat. There can be some truly bizarre counter-intelligence activities.
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  9515. I see you have read your Bible. Now if only more people trying to defend her would do the same.
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  9516. Most of us did, and he was never a Samurai. Only a retainer and a novelty that Oda brought out to amuse his guests. Stop gaslighting.
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  9517. Or Erwin Rommel's proposed defense of Normandy that the German High Command rejected.
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  9518.  @scooter21ba  That is not an argument, it is ad hominin personal attack. And for the record, my ancestors are Lorraine- German, thank you very much. My ancestors fled Europe for the very reasons now threatening to tear apart the Balkans yet again. Namely feudal elites who think they can dictate to the locals which flag they have to prostrate themself to. Incidentally, some of the Slavic girls in my middle and high school years were quite the lookers. Sadly, they would not give me the time of day on account of my strongly Anglo-German looks.
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  9519. Blame the good for nothing Murdock sons who run the place. Rupert should have put Wendy Deng in charge instead of them.
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  9520. Year of the metal ox (steel bull), Can you say 2020 redux?
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  9521. Word games are what propagandists do to muddy the water and cause confusion. In effect, the Chinese CCCP is trying to pull a "rebranding" bait and switch. "The beginning of wisdom is to call thing by their proper name," -Confucius, author of "The Analects".
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  9522. Little miss anti-Fascist should watch the 1943 short "Der Fuhrer's Face" and realize that Uncle Walt was no supporter of the ideology she claims he believed in.
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  9523.  @attilamarics3374  Israel has had to protect their tanks from RPG-7s and they don't use these turtle tan designs, though they DO use the slat armor cages.
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  9524.  @attilamarics3374  Except it doesn't. Slat armor and turtle tanks are NOT the same thing. You are moving the goal posts.
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  9525. Arguably, if a prisoner does not get a say. If his nation wants him forcibly repatriated, the incarcerating power is not obligated to act one way or another. But typically, if they can trade for higher value prisoners or a larger number, they will do so. Examples to look at is the POWs who crossed the Bridge of No Return in Korea. Some of the allied held POWs were forcibly sent back while others were not. Likewise, some NATO POWs held by the communists were not repatriated.
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  9526. No proof of that. You are showing that Orange man lives rent-free in your head.
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  9527. Yup, basically a Russian equivalent of the Kaesong Industrial Complex where the South was exploiting their norther cousins.
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  9528. Yeah, had a similar problem in Indianapolis when a local brand, 88 foods closed up. They whined about Meijer coming in. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
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  9529. lol! I like the cut of your jib!
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  9530.  @20quid  So when are the indictments against every sitting member of congress and EVERY former president going to come? Never? Then it is clearly political persecution much like what Alexander Lushenko of Belarus does.
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  9531. Russian collusion hoax proves you wrong.
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  9532. Angelina Jolie is a better Jones than Fleabag. Change my mind.
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  9533. Better it becomes a shill for Kadokawa products than a dumpster fire that attacks the fans and trashes the medium.
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  9534.  @sharjiljafric-3184  One is more sincere and honest. The other is a con-job. I prefer the "universal way of saying you don't like someone"(Geordi LaForge) over the smiling banker.
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  9535. As I recall, Galileo said that.
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  9536. Nuclear Armageddon is overblown. Humanity will find a way to survive. The fact that wildlife thrives in the Chernobyl exclusion zone shows that the fears are grossly exaggerated. Keep in mind that most of the radioactive products in nuclear weapons have a short lifespan as contrasted with the long decay products in a fizzle of a reactor core accident.
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  9537.  @ericp1139  Yeah, the "science" behind the claims is suspect at best. Emotional appeals (logical fallacy) like the one you are employing is what people do when the data doesn't support their contention. You chose to call Chernobyl one exception, yet you also ignore the fact that both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were rebuilt within 30 years when original expectations were that they would be uninhabited for 500 years. Again, the hard data disproves your hyperbolic claims.
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  9538.  @lesdavies6846  You haven't made an augment. You just prove my point. All you have is emotional outbursts.
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  9539.  @lesdavies6846  Only in your mind have you proven anything. A typo in my post doesn't make your point. You are now like the pigeon who thinks it is playing chess.
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  9540. "History shows again and again How nature points up the folly of man Godzilla!" -Blue Oyster Cult
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  9541.  @sessy01  And nominally a minority one at that. But of course, they will use that as the justification for her retaining power for as long as possible, competency bedamned. Call it the "Obama Standard"(ie can do no wrong because he/she is black).
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  9542. Something tells me that Japan is insulated from the backdraft that would be cause by the inferno.
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  9543.  @peterpanini96  But it is going far worse for Russia. Bakhmut and Advika are what is called a pyrrhic victory.
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  9544.  @ajaykumarsingh702  When the Russians are losing 7 men for every 1 Ukrainian killed, that is NOT victory by ANY measure. And don't get me started on the rapid attrition of their armor.
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  9545.  @ajaykumarsingh702  And how did that work out in the long run? The USSR was LOOSING until the US joined the fight and started sending them supplies via Murmansk and Arkhangelsk. Without those American supplies, the USSR would not have even been able to launch their counterstroke. Russia is facing a demographic collapse today which is a direct result of 80% combat deaths of all makes born between 1920 and 1930. That is an entire generation that never hand children. And their grandchildren don't exist today either to fight Putin's war.
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  9546.  @ajaykumarsingh702  The USSR had more production capacity in the 1940s than Russia does today. if you were trying to make a point, you failed spectacularly. "Backed by China"? China is doing the bare minimum they can without getting blowback from either side. If China really was supporting Russia, then Russia wouldn't be begging North Korea for shells. Sanctions are not an overnight defeat. It took months to years for economic sanctions on Japan and Germany to actually start making an impact on their WW2 performance. Yes, the West is facing a birthing crisis, but in this race to the bottom, Russia is ahead of only South Korea, Japan, and China. And as far as population, I don't think you are comparing the entirety of the EU with Russia.
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  9547.  @ajaykumarsingh702  Put down the vodka, you are drunk. Russia has already maxed out its production capabilities. Only 10% of the stuff getting to the front line is new build with 80% being refurbished Soviet legacy equipment and the remaining 10% being recovered salvage front he battlefield. The West is only now starting to ramp up its production lines. Until now, defense production in the west has been bare minimum to maintain the technology, not to actually fight a protracted war. There is LOTS of room for expansion. After 2022. Europe has completely weaned itself from Russian energy. Only scabs like Hungary are still getting it from Russia. As for the "secondary means", even those are easily replaceable. And you got the trade issue backwards. Most nations are NOT helping Russia lest they get hit by secondary sanctions and feel the backlash of loosing trade with the West. Russia meanwhile, is begging China, North Korea, and Iran for supplies. Even the Indian's are reassessing their trade with Russia. They take the oil and gas because they are ripping off Putin.
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  9548. Put down the vodka private conscriptovich, you are so drunk you are hallucinating.
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  9549. The irony is that Ukraine is winning a modern war against a nominally superior foe WITHOUT air supremacy. If anything, this war has DISPROVEN some faulty assumptions by Western War planners. PS Japan and the US were counting on "Decisive Battle" to resolve WW2's Pacific Theater. It never happened, at least not in the way that War Plan Orange predicted off the coast of the Philippines.
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  9550. Living beyond their means. Iger is like the woman who keeps maxing out the credit card.
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  9551. I wonder if that is worse than "Rejected by Somolians"
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  9552. Bread and circuses. It is how the Julio-Claudian dictators were able to keep power in Rome despite the damage they were doing to the country.
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  9553. Nothing since the 2000s, anyhow. The problem is that they will burn down the IP just like how the Library of Alexandria was burned.
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  9554.  @potatofuryy  Can't possibly consider that the greenies could be to blame? The followers of the Chruch of Greta Thunberg have ample reason to sabotage that pipe.
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  9555. They are not doctors, they are quacks no different than the hacks of yore who sold snake oil.
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  9556. Yeah, that is what always confused me about mandatory reflector belts in Afghanistan. Might as well be wearing a giant "shoot me" sign.
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  9557.  @vohloo9797  Indeed. These "celebrities" pandered to this crowd, and they are now surprised it has turned on them? As Arthur Fleck said in Joker: "You get what you f(ire tr)ucking deserve".
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  9558.  @jont2576  So 94 million people murdered by the Soviets is justification for spiting the US? You have lost the plot. You might as well be arguing in defense of Nazism and their policies. Soviets killed more people than the Holocaust.
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  9559. Ah, but the North had both foreign and domestic markets to sell to. The South didn't. Hell, during the first year, cotton was being burned by the south because they believed that it would get Europe to back them if there was a shortage. Turns out that Europe was already flooded by cheap cotton from elsewhere.
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  9560. Slow down there, Amigor. Latino culture is the result of Spanish colonization of the new World. That being said, using the "X" IS Anglicization of the culture which you are absolutely correct that it is an "gentrification" of the culture. In effect, they are "white-washing" it.
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  9561. Indeed. Most of these venture capital start-ups were nothing more than money laundering operations anyhow.
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  9562.  Louise Bozagie  Spare me your moral outrage. I will NOT apologize for speaking the cold hard truth. You are simply being emotional like a classic Karen.
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  9563. Haven't learned anything from history, have you? Did the German Blitz on London break the English? Ukrainians are used to cold winters; they will not break.
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  9564.  @djames693  Yes we will. One thing this war has taught us is to NEVER underestimate the Ukrainians. They were supposed to capitulate in a mere two weeks. It is now 9 months into the war.
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  9565.  @gnubbiersh647  No it is not. You clearly have zero clue about what you are talking about. Your theories have been empirically disproven by the UK's own attempt at 95% tax rates. You are just another entitled Bolshevik who can't run a successful business, so you use the government to engage in legalized theft b because you cannot otherwise take it by force. "The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first." -Thomas Jefferson.
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  9566.  @D1991-r3n  Not really. Flordia's law doesn't cover this kind of legal chicanery. If anything, it only empowers the state to come down harder on them.
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  9567.  @D1991-r3n  Yeah, lawyers today don't have the greatest reputation. Particularly with regards to prosecutorial misconduct and withholding exculpatory evidence. There is a reason why they are considered the rot that destroys a Republic and no better than vampires and leeches. “Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.” —Jeremy Bentham
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  9568.  @D1991-r3n  Nice Gish gallop. Like a classic example of a crooked litigator, you engage in logical fallacies and red herrings without actually debating the merits. You live down to the negative reputation and reinforce the stereotype. "Silence is a friend that never betrays," -Marcus Tullius Cicero.
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  9569.  @D1991-r3n  Yeah, the funny thing about lawyers? You can ask ten different ones and get ten different answers. I take Viva Frei, Alan Dershowitz and Robert Barne's word over yours. They are saying something radically different. And they have a record of being correct to back them up
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  9570.  @D1991-r3n  Lawyers twist the law, not state the law. They make it mean everything and nothing at whim. "The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. – Henry David Thoreau
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  9571.  @D1991-r3n  “A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.” —H. L. Mencken No, you are only proving the old axiom that Lawyers make their own rules and are accountable only to themselves. Why is it that the law "profession" is the ONLY unregulated job in the country? “How lawyers make work for one another! You’re all priests, worshipping the same god. No wonder you adore one another.” -Joyce Carol Oates.
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  9572.  @D1991-r3n  “Lawyers are just like physicians: what one says, the other contradicts.” —Sholom Aleichem My logic isn't flawed. You have just been in the swamp so long that your proverbial Malaria infection has metastasized. lawyers contort the truth so much that they can't tell truth from fiction anymore.
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  9573. Word is that after the fall of the USSR, most of the plants were refit by the IAEA to western safety standards. But saying they are and whether they actually are I concede to your point.
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  9574. The South Koreans have confirmed Ukraine's claims about the DPRK soldiers.
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  9575. The HIMARS can reach the Kerch bridge if they capture Melitopol.
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  9576. Russia has violated every treaty they have signed. No peace treaty with the Kremlin is worth the paper it is written on.
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  9577. Just like they always do.
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  9578. Nothing on Tiktok is proprietary; they plagiarized all of it. That is what Red China is known for.
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  9579.  @russianbot4418  Have you actually looked at who made up the Bolsheviks? 90% of them in Russia were factory workers who lived in cities. Almost none of them were farmers which is why collectivizing the farms after taking over was so difficult. Seriously, if you are going to troll the left by claiming to be a Russian bot, at least be knowledgeable about the old Soviet Union.
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  9580. I guess you have not heard of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem? He was good pals with the Austrian Painter and is directly responsible for the creation of the PLO.
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  9581.  @ross3022  That is the story that is being told. Yet videos from the cockpit of Ukrainain MiGs and Sukois show that the HARM is spoofing the Soviet R-27 anti-radiation missile, indicating that it has much more capability than is being told. I suspect that the Poles have already figured out how to get the two platforms and the munitions to talk to each other so that the pilots DO have full range of capabilities. They have had 25 years now to work that problem.
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  9582.  @gogudelagaze1585  Vidoes from inside Ukrainian Sukois and MiGs show that the HARM is spoofing the Soviet R-27 anti-radiation missile. It very much CAN communicate with the pilot and is NOT self-contained. That is just the story that is being told so as to downplay its abilities. Do keep in mind that the Poles have had 25 years to work this problem.
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  9583. As Hannah Arendt and Eric Hoffer observed, the Fascists and the Stalinists recruit the same kind of people. BOTH ARE SOCIALISTS. And socialist by definition is antithetical to capitalism and free markets.
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  9584. He is giving Obama too much credit. The president's unwise withdraw from Iraq allowed for the Islamic State to fill the vacuum.
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  9585.  @brooklynlass2196  AH, fair point.
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  9586. And by doing that, you make yourselves subservient to China just like Germany was to cheap Russian energy. Don't be that daft.
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  9587. Indeed. He morally equivocates when it comes the the very real issue about OpsSec and ComSec.
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  9588. Indeed. 5 times before should make it clear deportation is not working. He is a rabid dog and so should be treated like one, if you get my drift.
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  9589. The Des Moine Register is a democrat Shill paper. Also, the poll had a 16% democrat favored sampling bias.
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  9590. I would suggest scrubbing toilets , but I don't think she is even qualified to do that.
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  9591. Lysenkoism is alive and well, sadly.
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  9592. How? Seems to me that the leftist leadership of Europe caused this by importing people from countries that hold incompatible values.
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  9593. Agreed. They are parroting propaganda leaflets of DPRK on cue like Pavlov's Dog. There is more going on than the media is admitting.
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  9594.  @jeffsong5653  And yet there are thousands of SCUD missiles pointed at Seoul. There have been a number of infiltration and assassination attempts over the years. And you also have the uncounted number of skirmishes. If anything, YOU are underestimating the DPRK. The idea of engagement was attempted with the "Sunshine Policy". It failed spectacularly.
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  9595.  @jeffsong5653  The South tried engagement with the North during the Sunshine Policy from 1998-2008. All it accomplished was to finance the North's nuclear program. That is the very definition of spectacular failure. There is ZERO benefit for the South to assist the North in any capacity. Also, their VX and Sarin gas laced SCUDs are not to be ignored. Neither is the largest collection of artillery assembled in the world; enough to make Russia and China's seem like an "also ran".
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  9596. Putin didn't invade Ukraine while Trump was in office. It is no coincidence Putin stole Crimea while Biden was in charge of Obama's foreign policy.
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  9597. The problem is that most of these writes HATE capitalism. They have the entitled mentality of a communist.
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  9598. Because of their critical overreliance on cheap Russian energy. That is a direct result of Angela Merkel's pro-Russian policies (she was a member of the East German Communist Youth Leauge).
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  9599. There is one good upside to having these videos demonetized: NO IRRITATING COMMERCIAL ADS! For me that is a major boon.
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  9600. All wars have been over resources. WW1 was a direct result of the mad scramble for Africa's resources. WW2 was Germany gobbling up the resources of its neighbors. Same goes for Japan in the Pacific Theater. This war is about the coal and gas deposits under Donbas. And the oil just offshore from Crimea.
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  9601.  @fauxque5057  The biggest problem with child labor is the high fatality rates, higher than if adults were doing the same job. Stop justifying exploitative practices by neo-feudal elites.
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  9602. The pardoning of the Turkey was funny when Reagan did it. Now it is just an overused joke that has long past its expiration date.
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  9603. They didn't control the south side of the Damn. And most of those Kherson bridgeheads were not permanent locations. The flooding now renders them untenable.
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  9604. Yeah, but Saint Peter had a special place.
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  9605.  @TheGreenKnight500  Sorry that you view the almighty as a petty and capricious entity. While it is true that many of the deities of the various pantheons from Greece to Egypt, to Shinto very much had human emotions, I tend to view Yahweh/Kami-sama (as the Japanese call the God of Abraham) as being above human failings and shortcomings such as emotion. I tend to take the great clockmaker perspective; he is simply tinkering with his creation like all good engineers are apt to do.
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  9606.  @TheGreenKnight500  The fact that you admit to your own personal shortcomings is not a bad thing. According to some, that humility is a sign of your salvation. He doesn't pick the worth to be his elect, he makes those unqualified he has chosen worthy. If the words of the Jewish carpenter are to be believed, you are like the publican who stood at a distance and said, "have mercy on me, a sinner". Those who humble themselves and feel they are unworthy of forgiveness are the ones who receive it while those who think they are entitled to forgiveness are the ones damned for their hubris. This may surprise you, but while I profess affiliation with Primitive Baptist (foot washers), I care less about others following Jesus and more about them having faith in SOME power, ANY power greater than themselves. I cannot simply reject outright Shintoism, Hinduism, Buddhism, or Sikhism. There is something of value in those faiths that cannot be ignored. If that makes me a polytheist, then that is a sin I will own up to if I am held to account before Saint Peter.
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  9607. Then what is the 1.5 generation? Not that I am a fan of their Definitions, but PEW research states that naturalized citizens constitute the first generation.
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  9608.  @tarik6990  That is a strawman argument (logical fallacy). You would punish the people who did NOT participate in the crimes against humanity for the actions of those who did? That itself is fascistic. You don't oppose fascism with more fascism.
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  9609.  @tarik6990  No, it is not common sense to become the very monster you are fighting. For one, the fascists don't actually care about the country being partitioned, they just want to be the ones with the power. So, that fear of giving them what they want is not occurring and will not occur because you don't even know what they really want and that is power and control. "As long as they live there and actively support their fascistic entity while threatening non-Serbs with new war crimes and massacres, to me they are just as guilty. " And that is guilty by association, a hallmark trait of fascism. For someone who is worried about fascist, you are certainly acting like one yourself. Perhaps YOU are the actual fascist. What is madness is your myopic and obsessed desire to control people you disagree with. You don't even see that you are advocating for the policies of the very ideology you claim to fear.
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  9610.  @juicebox86  You clearly have zero idea about what you are talking about. Russia will only have that power if they crush Ukraine, which is highly unlikely at this point. I would compare it to the jingoist boast of Admiral Yamamoto saying he would dictate terms from the White House, but then that is not being entirely honest about what Yamamoto meant.
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  9611.  @alechorn1109  The think is, neither of those situations are actually crimes. This is all procedural, not principle.
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  9612. Even the companies that are turning Soviet bomb cores into reactor fuel? Don't tell me that you would rather Russia sent those bombs to Iran or North Korea.
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  9613. My father was Presbyterian as was his father going back just as far. But he left the church for the very crap this "Bishop" pushes being sanctioned by PCUSA. I hate to say it but these organized churches are lost. Only by walking away and reforming associations from the group up can restore faith in America.
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  9614.  @Polygon-yug-9581  Common sense also says that False flag attacks are a great way to blame your opponent for what you are guilty of doing. You have been sold a bill of goods.
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  9615. Switzerland requires mandatory two-year military service. And you are required to possess and maintain a rifle in your home at all times. How successful do you think Congress mandating small arms ownership would be?
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  9616. Don't fool yourself, the North Korean nuclear program was encouraged by both the USSR and PRC. In China's case, the Kim dictator can't fart without Beijing's permission.
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  9617. @Lawofimprobability Babylon 5 had issues with casting which dragged it down, but at least J.Michael Straczynski had the whole series planned out with the exception of season 5 which was a tag-on to his original 4 season arc. DS9 had the benefit of the Trek fanbase built in but plagiarized a lot of ideas from the Babylon 5 bible pitched to Paramount by Straczynski. In both cases, most of the episodes could be watched as stand-alone pieces which is what was the hallmark of broadcast TV. You could miss an episode and not get lost.
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  9618.  @TimeFadesMemoryLasts  I WORKED in fast food, specifically for a local McDonalds. I KNOW first-hand because I listened to what the store managers talked about, and it was often about corporate leadership choices for which they had little say in the matter. While I agree with you on capitalism, your knowledge of franchise is clearly lacking, perhaps because of personal experience in the subject matter.
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  9619. Putin is NOT our friend. But he does not have to be our enemy either. We can have a "friendly" rivalry much like in sports where we try to outdo each other without getting violent (basically counting coup, but without militarily provoking each other).
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  9620.  @grymmgaming7035  Josephus proves you wrong. If you chose to argue with people like him, Tacitus, Cassius Dio, Pilny the Younger, and the others who set the standards of historical record used today, then there is no hope for you.
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  9621. If Perun's analysis of Russia's military production is any indication, once the Soviet Legacy stockpiles run out, Putin will be up a creek without a paddle.
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  9622. Ironic considering that the Ideology of European Fascism is currently in the White House under Obiden.
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  9623.  @papakael8247  The thing is, the fall Rasputitsa never really ended. Mid to late February is when the ground is supposed to be frozen solid, yet just like last year, it never really did. Remains to be seen if the current mud situation continues into the spring of if this is going to be a dry one allowing for an out of season drive.
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  9624. Charity for the poor is NOT coerced. THAT is where your boos have no power. Compulsion is anathema to charity which is given freely and WITHOUT manipulation.
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  9625. North Korea has had ICMBs for quite a while. They just have a nasty habit of breaking up mid-flight before reaching their target.
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  9626. Twatter is a mess, but that was a result of previous leadership before Elon. The tide is turning against the corporate woke.
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  9627.  @mikewilkerson936  Yes, go woke, go broke, which was what was happening to Twatter before Elon purchased it. "Everything woke turns to sh*t" -Donald J. Trump.
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  9628. Western aid is on a three-to-twelve-month delay. The stuff promised a year ago is only now arriving on the frontline. A sudden end to the aid will still give Ukraine about a year to take action before it dries up. And as far as Russian breakthrough, why didn't they achieve it during the early summer? If it didn't happen then, it will not happen now.
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  9629. I agree. They MIGHT have gotten away with casting an East Asian girl in the role as snow white (raven hair, ivory skin is an ideal in East Asia), but that doesn't cut it for race obsessed Tinseltown.
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  9630.  @whitehorsemilitia  Bingo. They whine and bitch about red states supposedly taking out more than they put in, but those same people making that claim ignore that fact that blue states get to pro-rate their federal taxes based off what their state income tax is. Which means that blue states pay less going into the pot than red states. It is all a shell game.
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  9631. How do they get past the Great Firewall of China?
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  9632.  CipiRipi00  Did you hear the "hello asshole" in cypher joke? The punchline from the Aussies was epic!
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  9633. "War is the continuation of politics by other means," -Carl von Clausewitz. Also, WW2 proves you wrong.
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  9634. It is hard to find any Democrat who is not in the pocket of Red China.
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  9635.  @s0ycapitan  He is saying that the power mongers will try to have him assassinated. Too bad that will just make him a martyr just like Jullius Caesar was for Octavian.
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  9636.  @BigFists2024  I would choose freedom loving Chinese over Pinko Commies here in the US. There is nothing weird about that at all. You just lack perspective.
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  9637.  @ayoCC  No, but one invariably leads to the other. "Republics degrade into democracies, and Democracies always degenerate into despotisms, "-Alexander Frasier Tytler.
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  9638. And what does that have to do with anything? Don't start with the anti-Zionism crap.
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  9639. You realize that farmers plant Alfalfa specifically to restore the nitrogen depleted from the soil?
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  9640. Indeed. The Russians are notorious for "rattling the rubble".
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  9641. No joke.
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  9642. Indeed, Soviet Russia under a different name, but all of the same Hallmarks of what Reagan called "The Evil Empire".
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  9643. Because the media has no creativity. They have to be as melodramatic as they can so as to sell clicks and advertisements. it is a sloppy business strategy.
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  9644. The Blue and the Grey all over again.
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  9645. Roof Koreans! They can tell you exactly why, and it has to do with the 1992 LA Rodeny King Riots.
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  9646. Because the expense and blowback from trying to fake them just doesn't justify it. Why create a fake when you can use the real thing?
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  9647. Why would a disgruntled Belarusian General attack Poland when that would be tantamount to suicide? There are better options than provoking a fight with the Poles.
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  9648.  @conceptx6965  There are better ways of doing that than starting unnecessary conflict between Poland and Belarus. I'm sure both Poland and Ukraine would be MORE than happy to support a domestic Belarusian Military coup against Lukashenko. Hell, I wouldn't even put it past the Baltic States to get in on that, particularly Lithuania.
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  9649. And yet both the pushes in the northern Kherson front as well as the liberation of Izyum and Lyman prove that Ukrainian momentum is NOT an illusion.
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  9650. Just like the Reichstag Fire.
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  9651. Yeah, except that means it will burn bright and hot before going out prematurely and forever forgotten.
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  9652. Actually, the two go hand in hand. This isn't free-market, it is corporate oligarchism, the anthesis of free-markets.
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  9653. Because some people hate the US and want China to take over the world.
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  9654. This was an andesite rather than basaltic lava. You are thinking of basaltic lava flowing. Strato volcanos rarely have that kind of lava. Typically, they have the dome building lava like Mount St. Helens, Mount Unzen, La Soufriere (Monserrat), or Vesuvius.
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  9655.  @Loucfr  You are just digging your own grave dude. But sure, keep acting like an Edgelord. it only shows your immaturity.
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  9656. The gun was stolen from all places, a Department of the Interior truck.
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  9657. Agreed. Most people don't realize she was a member of the East German Communist Youth League.
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  9658. Because he is a feckless coward. Stockholm Syndrome is strong with him.
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  9659. They tried with Lisa Murkowski. But the Dems backed her write-in campaign.
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  9660. He may be trying to bushwhack the ambushers.
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  9661. Funny how that doesn't apply to them. We are too stupid, but they are not? There is no difference biologically. But then that is typical of elitists isn't it? The same BS flawed logic that drives race politics.
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  9662.  @Theranthrope  And yet their products not only succeed but THRIVE where Amazon's Rings of Power failed. That alone means they are better than woke corporate America. In the end, results matter. So long as they are outperforming Hollyweird, their business practices become minor issues.
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  9663. Sadly, they will go just like the election court cases; thrown out by activist judges.
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  9664.  @atownofbigheads  Considering that it was organized under the auspices of the WEF, that is clearly a violation of Sherman Anti-Trust Statutes. Stop parroting the talking points of the people who hate free speech.
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  9665.  @atownofbigheads  The fact that the organization disbanded only days after the filing is tacitly admitting that they know they violated the law and would lose in court.
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  9666. She is an apostate, having pandered to them previously. THAT is why they have gone so insane. In that regard, the wokistas are not much different than the Salafists in Islam.
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  9667.  @UnDEADToutom  "Christians in the middle east left because of conflict" So basically, you admit that they left because of violence from Muslims. If anything, you killed your own argument about generalization as you did exactly just that by making excuses.
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  9668.  @crusaderboi9659  Nice apples to oranges false analogy. The fact that the Muslim word has NOT advanced at all regarding civil rights since the 14th century means your contention has zero merits. Don't make excuses by point to Christianity's past when we are discussing Islam's current behavior. Unless you want to first acknowledge cultural and legal stagnation in the Muslim world during that same period.
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  9669. I guess you missed the part where he read the hiring stipulations regarding the mentally impaired?
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  9670.  @jxz107  You are probably correct on all of those counts. Sakhalin Island is the more intriguing issue. As per the Treaty of San Fransisco, the Japanese have zero legal claim at this time because its southern reaches were capture in war, even though those conquests predate control of the Kuril Islands. And when Japan did occupy it, Koreans were settled there. South Korea and Japan together taking that Island from Russia would be quite the odd-couple situation. That is assuming that Red China doesn't try to take it first since it is considered part of "outer Manchuria".
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  9671. Oh, How I miss the days of Ringo Starr as Mr. Conductor. George Carlin was okay, but everyone narrating after him was pathetic.
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  9672. "Current ones"? The only thing the Congress investigated were the very same ones the DOJ looked into and chose not to pursue.
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  9673.  @denningmp37  Spoken with the ignorance of a child. MAN caused this with bad choices, not the Almighty. You better hope you don't have to face him and account for your contempt. Even I do not dare blatantly insult and disrespect Shiva despite being a Christian; I just don't want to tempt fate like that.
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  9674.  @cjay2  You don't know that. And you "Deal with it" is just the emotional outburst of someone who is spiritually bankrupt and wants to make others as miserable as you are.
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  9675. Touche! So many witch and hag jokes, too little time.
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  9676. False flag, just like when they murdered the POWs they captured from the AZOV steel plant.
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  9677. Oh, it gets better. While they used Uncle Ben and Auntie Jemima, they were paying royalties to the families for using the likeness. Since changing to "Pearl Milling" they don't have to pay the royalties anymore. Talk about a cynical way to get out of paying what is due. And yes, even a pasty white guy like me can think of Uncle Ben, Auntie Jemima, and even "Grandpa Morgan" Freeman as if they were family. That shows you how much America HAS gotten past its historical bigotry. (of course, it helps that my family were members of the Abolitionist movement leading up to the civil war, not to mention the veterans of that war who lost their lives for the cause)
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  9678. Oh, I am SO going to wear a monocle when I need glasses. And pair it with an aristocratic British accent.
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  9679. Heh, I suspect simply keeping your change of clothes up in your helmet could act as extra padding.
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  9680. Soviet Canuckistan as Pat Buchannan observed.
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  9681.  @rwxstudio7173  When you stew in the swamp, don't be surprised when you catch a swamp disease. That is king of our point. Canada's trucker protest was the last gasp of a dying society.
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  9682.  @yam2050  You don't have to live in Russia to know what is going on inside the country. Information OUTSIDE of official mouthpieces of Putin's government is filtering out.
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  9683.  @russellinator  Grozny and South Ossetia are why Putin's words are worthless.
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  9684. Even FDR was against public sector unions.
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  9685.  @WastdTrashPanda  No they don't. Congress and the Pentagon specifically denied anyone from purchasing the F-22. The F-35 is basically the cheap version of the F-22, so there isn't really any new technology since the 22.
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  9686. Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas. Anyone who got in bed with the Chinese Communists Party should not be surprised that they caught the legal equivalent of a venereal disease.
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  9687. The Gephard anti-air gun of Germany has been given new life. We might actually see a return of the Bofors and Oerlikon AA guns of WW2, but with upgrades.
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  9688.  @pokey5736  Sure, because Putin didn't invaded Ukraine between 2016 and 2020. He invaded while Biden was calling the foreign policy for Obama when Putin stole Crimea, and again when Biden became president. Do keep in mind, Trump threatened to nuke Moscow if Putin attacked Ukraine.
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  9689. @Devonta Cosby 11 jurors do NOT constitute a fair trial. And for those of you calling for a re-trial, can you really consider the four trials of James Arthur Williams over the death of Daniel Lewis Hansford before self-defense was accepted as actual justice?
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  9690. That would be comeuppance.
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  9691. Das Kapital was a piece of wishful thinking that led to the horrific bloodshed under communist Ideologies. Ironically, Marx was debunked and discredited by Karl Menger some 20 years before Das Kapital was written. Further, the likes of Fredrich Baistat, Fredreck Hayak and August von Mises also disprove point by point the labor THEORY of work. The Bible on the other hand has independently confirmed sources. The Torah (Old Testament) is conclusively confirmed by Persian, Egyptian, Babylonian, Assyrian, and Greek sources. As for the New Testament, Josephus, Pliny the Younger, Suetonius, and even Tactus have written about Christianity. You trying to refute them shows intellectual dishonesty and an insincere look at what constitutes history.
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  9692.  @NisuUuno  "only become popular by luck" You sir, have ZERO understand as to why religions take root. It is precisely BECAUSE of Roman persecution that Christianity took off. Today you find that Christianity gains the most followers in parts of the world where it is actively persecuted. There is a reason why the Chinese CCP is desperately trying to crush the faith. As to your other drivel, Dyson has the best counter-argument: "Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible. Religious creationists and scientific materialists are equally dogmatic and insensitive. By their arrogance they bring both science and religion into disrepute." -Freeman Dyson
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  9693.  @kaleknelson8429  You are conflating original sin with sins of the father. The two are NOT the same thing. That shows intellectual dishonest on your part.
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  9694.  @kaleknelson8429  That is a completely dishonest explanation of original sin. "Original sin" describes the act of fornication and that being "born in original sin" is that our existence is tainted by that fornication. Sins of the father argues that the crimes of one generation are to fall on future generations, thereby demining them BEFORE they were born. I don't expect someone who doesn't even bother to actually read scripture to understand what they are talking about. A Shinto or Buddhist critiquing Judaism or Christianity would have more legitimacy on the simple fact that priests of those faiths would bother to actually read what they are criticizing.
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  9695.  @kaleknelson8429  There is, you just refuse to accept it because you are NOT making an intellectually honest argument but instead engaging in strawman arguments to push a bigoted message. Smarter men and women than you have already debated the difference and have completely disproven your contention. At this point you are only embarrassing yourself.
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  9696.  @kaleknelson8429  People engaging in strawman argument rarely think that is what they are doing. Your "reasoning" is flawed and based on incorrect assumptions, most of which are based in emptions rather than hard OBJECTIVE fact. Try employing some of Tim's beloved philosophical razors.
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  9697.  @kaleknelson8429  You clearly don't want to understand nuance. The two are NOT the same thing. Two different things can have similar results. In biology it is called convergent evolution. Original sin only applies to the individual, not the entire population. Proof of this is with immaculate conception as it LACKS original sin. But then that is yet another thing you are going to try and refuse despite parthenogenesis being a real thing.
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  9698.  @kaleknelson8429  And yet again you misconstrued what original sin truly is. You are only digging yourself deeper in a hole. Invitro fertilization by definition would constitute immaculate conception. Further, it also side-steps original sin. That is where your whole premise falls apart, cut off at the legs.
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  9699.  @kaleknelson8429  "original sin" refers to carnal knowledge, genius. It is where the idea that sex is sinful comes from. Maybe I should have made that clear from the start. The point is, you have no freaking clue what you are talking about, instead making a word salad of things that you have heard of in passing but never actually bothered to understand the meaning. Bringing this back around, sins of the father has NOTHING to do with original sin. The two are completely different. And sins of the father in particular is NOT a Judeo-Christian value as it condemns the innocent and rejects the idea of forgiveness which is the crux of Christianity.
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  9700.  @kaleknelson8429  Being born with original sin is NOT the same as inheriting the sins of your forebearers. That is what I was pointing out, but you refuse to acknowledge.
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  9701.  @kaleknelson8429  Now you are just moving the goal posts. And that is yet another logical fallacy.
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  9702.  @kaleknelson8429  You get close, and then you miss. Original sin does not transfer from parent to child. It never has. The premise behind it is that if you are never conceived, then there is no sin (internal or inherent). Sins of the father is a transfer of the sin from one generation to the next, with the chain breaking should the child never have children of their own. The "crime" of the sin exists regardless of the child's existence (external). If you can't understand that fundamental difference, you are completely dethatched from any understanding or reasoning. Might as well be an animal driven by pure emotion an instinct.
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  9703.  @vincentlee7359  Wrong perp dude. Trump was trying to bring people like these to justice. Your guy Biden let Epstein's handler, Ghislaine get away.
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  9704.  @vincentlee7359  No, you were falsely trying to connect Trump to Epstein when in fact, Trump's Justice Department was the one trying to bring Epstein to justice. That was until he was murdered in prison by Mueller and company.
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  9705. And that is the kicker isn't it? Charles Payne regularly gets attacked for "growing up white" despite being a black man.
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  9706. Obama. Most of the Biden White House staff worked for "Big O".
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  9707.  @MilanTheMan69  Yeah, and how many of those who joined ISIS were from Muslim dominated areas? How many were already radicalized in their local Mosques? Oh, and have you ever heard of the Bosnian SS? Lead by Haj Amin Al-Husseinini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, they did things that made even Himmler blanch.
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  9708.  @FarnhamJ07  Yeah. part of the problem was the Diem was more interested in fighting Buddhists than Commies. The Buddhists should have been natural allies, not enemies. President Pak of South Korea did NOT make that blunder.
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  9709.  @5552-d8b  You do realize that it was the US backed government in Phenom Pehn that the Khmer Rouge toppled? No, the US NEVER supported Pol Pot or his terrorist movement.
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  9710. Ah, but that is the rub. if you are running against something, that does not automatically mean you are for something. It is the danger of running a negativity campaign; when the other guy is out, only you are to blame for what happens next. In this case, buyer's remorse means that if Trump runs again, he is practically a shoo-in against Biden because it will be a referendum on Biden and the Democrats, one that Trump can easily contrast with his own term. "If you won't stand for something, you will fall for anything," -Attributed to Peter Marshall.
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  9711.  @fooo2241  People underestimated Trump in 2016. He lost in 2020 because the establishment GOP DID finally take his seriously and colluded with the Democrats to change election laws after early voting had already started (that IS a form of cheating, changing the rules mid-game). I think the thing most hamstringing the Democrats is that they never analyzed WHY Trump defeated Hilrod in 2016. Nor did they actually look at WHY people voted against Trump in 2020. Just because they vote against a candidate does NOT mean they are voting FOR your guy. Jake Paul said it best when he said that those who voted for Biden and don't regret it are part of the problem. And Jake Paul is a rabid leftist.
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  9712.  @fooo2241  Changing the rules at the 11th hour after early voting has already begun IS a form of cheating and stealing an election. Say you are playing a ball game and the other side changes the rules mid-game. Don't tell me you would not call that out as cheating. What the GOP establishment in conjunction with the Dems did to change election laws is exactly the same thing.
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  9713. @Asif Iqbal Stop listening to Kremlin propaganda. Reality is vastly different than what you wish it was. What I stated in independently verifiable FACT. Don't believe me? Even Al Jazeera confirms it.
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  9714. @Asif Iqbal I never said you were from Russia. Only that you are being what Lenin called a "useful idiot" by repeating the Kremlin's talking points, all of which are bunk. And you want to talk about hypocrisy, there is plenty of it in your neck of the woods. The entire Gulf Petro-area is a living contradiction and hypocrisy.
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  9715. India doesn't like being bunched in with them. They are particularly irritated with how Russia is failing to meet its obligations. And the aircraft carrier has been a complete disappointment.
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  9716. The Communist Party has always been paranoid and distrustful of others, this is nothing new. Companies who are lamenting the situation have only themselves to blame. A Tiger doens't change its stripes, and communists are ALWAYS going to act in a VERY predictable manner, namely censorship and top-down totalitarian control over others.
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  9717.  @anastasiab9506  Wow, parroting Putin's talking points about Ukrainians not even existing by applying it to the Baltic States? You really are a Bolshevik. Lithuania, one of the Baltic States was part of the great commonwealth of Eastern Europe. But ignore the historical documentation all you want; it doesn't make your delusional fantasies true.
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  9718.  @mrmr4622  Why does it have to be the US? The UK has Trident ICBMs. With the promises to Ukraine, THEY could easily be the one to retaliate. That being said, to enforce the nuclear taboo, there HAS to be a price paid, a response delivered otherwise NOTHING will prevent another nation such as North Korea from using them.
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  9719.  @shortyorc121  Denial. Positivity Bias. Slothfulness. Contempt. Take your pick. Why didn't people act sooner to prevent the American Revolution? Why did people act to prevent the American Civil War? Why didn't people act to stop the remilitarization of the Rhineland? Questions like these have plagued historians for generations, and yet when presented with a similar scenario, they freeze. And when someone DOES sound off like Jerimiah the weeping prophet, the majority attempt to silence them. Call it human nature or what you will, but they cycle repeats itself over and over again. The more technology changes, the more humans stay the same. It is Chronological Snobbery to assume that as a species we have advanced at all since the dawn of civilization. We are just as petty, cruel, and venal as the ancients.
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  9720. They WERE on the same side. Now, not so much. Those who wear silk(old money, landed gentry) despise those like Trump who wear cotton(merchant class, new money). And they cannot abide the fact that those who wear hemp(laborers, serfs, farmers, tenants, etc) are allied with him against the aristocracy.
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  9721. Loiter time over the target. Satellites only have a short window, even with multiple vehicles moving over the target
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  9722. The fact that Ohio DID have a carveout for rape and incest makes the reason from crossing state lines a hoax. If anything, they were covering up a crime by crossing state lines to get an abortion.
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  9723.  @jackode7923  The Constitution doesn't apply? Dude, Trump could have declassified them on the very day he left office! If he said they were declassified on that date, the burden of proof is on the feds to prove he didn't declassify them. They can't because it is trying to prove a negative.
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  9724.  @alex369likesTesla  I agree. But when even the commandant of the USAF academy falls for hoax hate crimes, the burden of proof is now on the senior leaders.
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  9725.  @MatthewChenault  That is a nice idea, but completely misses the point that the so-called Donesk and Luhansk "Armies" are simply Russian military wearing civilian clothes. This isn't new, during the Korean war, North Korean MiGs were flown by Soviet Pilots. Same situation in the Arab-Israel wars when Soviet pilots were flying Egyptian aricraft.
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  9726.  @MatthewChenault  Wow, triggered are we? But then that is typical of a Putin shill and mouthpiece for the Kremlin. When Finland, Sweeden, and Switzerland all reject your narrative you have completely lost the plot. Donetsk and Luhansk have NOTHING to do with the Russian people and have EVERYTHING to do with Ukraine having large proven reserves of oil and natural gas that threatens Russia's European energy monopoly. Make no mistake, Putin is trying to steal Ukraine's rightful gas, oil, and coal deposits.
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  9727.  @MatthewChenault  Or those are all fabricated sob stories that have zero basis in fact. Have you considered that? Tell me, why has Putin not taken the same steps to protect the Russian speaking people in Kazakstan? Or Uzbekistan? Or Azerbaijan? This is a land grab pure and simple. This is no different than the Japanese going into Sakhalin in 1905, Germany going into Polland in 1939, or Russia into Finland in that same year. Again, when historically neutral states like Switzerland, Austria or Sweden have now taken a hard stance AGAINST Putin and Russia, you have lost the plot. When you can't convince those nations of your argument, your claims are invalid. Have you considered that?
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  9728. @Thanos Dione That is a Nazi lie. Stalin PURGED Jews from the Soviet government during the Molotov-Ribbentrop Alliance. But good little anti-Semites like you conveniently ignore those dirty little details. The "Zionist Congress" crap is the exact same blood libels the Nazis used.
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  9729. How will they get past the Great Firewall?
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  9730. The problem isn't capitalism. The problem is CORPORATISM and especially, Oligarchism. Capitalism rewards innovators and creatives. Oligarchism beats them down and uses the courts to stifle the completion rather than win on the merits.
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  9731. I think Tnajiro and Zenitsu re both whiny man-babies, but at least they are proud of their Japanese heritage and are loyal to their family and friends. They at least stand for something unlike the "citizen of the world" woke characters who don't stand for anything and fall for every woke scam.
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  9732.  @markF0601  Agreed. To sacrifice his own happiness for the sake of his sister is to be admired and respected. Such Filial Piety is lost on the West today.
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  9733.  @Jake12220  True, but REACH and capability factor into it. Russia has shown in Ukraine that their reach only goes as far as their artillery can reach. Even their strategic rockets have failed to deliver effective results.
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  9734.  @Jake12220  NATO and allies such as Australia, Japan, Israel, and South Korea are not going to attack their own infrastructure. I think you need to step back and look at the whole picture. Sure, Russian assets are VERY vulnerable, but the West is NOT going to cut its nose off despite its face. And crippling strike by the West will be very surgical and attempt to minizine the damage, unlike how the Russians have been operating.
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  9735. Nevertrumper voters were not going to vote for Trump after the primary, so RFK Jr. taking them away from Biden doesn't hurt Trump at all. It only hurts Biden.
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  9736. I agree. More likely to detonate in the silo like they did on K-129 than actually launch.
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  9737. Most of them don't even know what the ruling actually meant. They just go off what their feudal lords tell them without actually bothering to read what the justices had to say on the matter.
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  9738. I would agree with you on South Korea. Not so much on China. Even the Chinese themselves will admit to you that their "national skill" is copying, plagiarizing, and reverse engineering.
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  9739. The irony is that while those companies used Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima (and the Butter Indian), they had to pay royalties to the family for use the likeness. Since dropping them, the royalties stopped being paid. Talk about cynical.
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  9740. And the Russians are not? Have you forgotten that it was the Donbas separatists who shot down Malaysian flight 17 with an SA-2 missile? Civilians don't have easy access to such sophisticated weaponry.
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  9741. And that is where Timmy boy is regurgitating Kremlin talking points. He seems to blatantly ignore that joining NATO in VOLUNTARY, unlike when the USSR forced Eastern European nations into the Warsaw Pact.
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  9742.  @sasquatchIRL  Agreed. People don't become appeasers overnight. It is a slow death by a thousand cuts. It is also why you don't give into a bully.
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  9743. If greenies like Greta Thunberg can't convince people to give up on fossil fuels, they will not hesitate to sabotage oil infrastructure.
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  9744.  @AizenVonKleiss  Yeah, Japan's problems today are very much in large part a result of their titanic rise. Much like with WW2, they advanced rapidly only to be undone by their own hubris, resulting in the "Lost Decade" and the collapse of their workforce. Yes, Japan has great potential, but they need to find a way to moderate the excesses that have led to unproductive behaviors.
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  9745.  @NewTypeDilemma01  Exactly! I have made that same analogy. Grant had both Mark Twain(Samuel Clemens) and William Tecumseh Sherman warning him about the dangers of politicians. Trump was also warned, but ignored them. His loss in 2020 had just as much to do with getting rid of the team that helped him win in 2016 as it did with election fraud. His team from 2016 would not have let 2020 election go without a serious fight.
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  9746.  @DuchessofMar7987  No joke. I value loyalty, but as part of that requires one to be brutally honest; I want to be told what I NEED to hear, not what I want to hear. Without sincerity there is no loyalty. Too many of these people told Trump what he wanted to hear, not what he needed to hear. They were being dishonestly sycophantic to benefit themselves, not do what is right by the American people as you so succinctly pointed out. Part of what has frustrated me to no end with the conservative movement since I ran for office is that as a John F. Kennedy Democrat, I would tell them cold hard truths that they NEEDED to hear, but they chose to ignore me in favor of the "lies, tell me sweet little lies". And time and again I am vindicated when the local GOP candidates sent to the state house or DC behave exactly as I warned. Not that it matters, because being invited to legislative breakfasts or GOP Christmas parties is more important to them than supporting candidates of principle regardless of political affiliation. Likewise, Trump allowed establishment operatives into his camp and the behaved exactly as many of us such as Steve Bannon had warned. He was far too trusting of people who are in the business of deception to defraud the people. "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." -Fredrich Bastiat Anyhow, sorry for my rant.
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  9747. Can they be trusted? Well considering they have experience first-hand nuclear weapons; I trust them more with nukes than I do the French.
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  9748. The fact that you immediately jumped to the race card shows you can't actually debate the merits.
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  9749. I find myself asking why people don't consider eco-terrorism.
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  9750. Ex Post Facto. They can't retroactively apply this to anything. US Constitution won't let them.
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  9751. Look up Jonn F. Kenney's observations about taxing the rich. Your country, the UK tried taxing people at 90% during the 70s. How did that work out?
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  9752. And try to Epstein him. God help us if they succeed.
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  9753.  @chickenfishhybrid44  While I agree with your sentiment, it does us no good to be sniping at each other. That is exactly what Putin wants: for citizens of Western Nations to be at each other's throats with recriminations and accusations. Oh, and let us be clear, the Poles have far and away outdone the US as far as support to Ukraine. And while the total value is smaller, what the Baltic States have given Ukraine is essentially total commitment at the risk of Russia invading them while they are waiting for NATO equipment to replace their depleted Warsaw stock. Let's keep things in context.
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  9754. Indeed. The US needs to return to the tax rates John F. Kennedy advocated.
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  9755. Quantity only has merit if it meets minimum quality requirements. 10 million flintlock guns are not going to be of much use against 1,000 M1 Grands.
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  9756.  @a.r.stellmacher8709  Because Hitler made it about the German people. You seem to ignore something called CONTEXT. National Socialism made German Identity a foundation of their ideology. So, by breaking the strength of the German people, it would cut the legs out from the ideology. Try to look at the bigger picture instead of jumping on deconstructionist revisionism.
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  9757.  @UncleEbenezer77  Trump never actually said that. The media lied about that just like they lied about Nick Sandman and the Covington Catholic students, like they lied about Kyle Rittenhouse. like they lies about Jussie Smolette. Soviet Pravda has more credibility than the legacy media.
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  9758.  @coderentity2079  Which is more apt to energy blackmail? Depending on Russia or trusting the Spanish?
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  9759.  @johnmuthan286  You keep telling yourself that. Truth is that your freedoms and liberty is protected by American hegemony. Don't believe me? Just ask the Baltic States and the Polish who lived under Russian Hegemony. Oh, and tell me, when was the last time the British, Canadians, Australians, Japanese, or South Koreans felt like they were being extorted by the US? Yeah, that's what I thought.
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  9760. You do realize that Taiwan and Mainland China have been divided far longer than the Two Koreas? Unless you are advocating for the immediate union of the peninsula, I don't think you can deny Taiwan the same independence that South Korea enjoys.
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  9761.  @JohnCSmith-lp1qr  No, they don't. That is pure Kremlin propaganda. Most of the civilian casualties are a direct result of Russian artillery.
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  9762. The sad thing is, many will. Red Flag laws are case in point.
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  9763. Agreed. The Hardcore survival stuff that a solider in combat needs.
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  9764. Loiter time over the target. Also, resolution is higher at lower altitude.
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  9765. Mr. Tim Pool warned them about giving into the siren song of the left's activism "journalism" which is why he left. And that was effectively the death knell for them; they have been the ambulatory dead (walking ghost phase of radiation poisoning) ever since.
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  9766. That is exactly what it is. Securities and banking fraud. And Iger in his arrogance just gave the DeSantis folks the lynchpin to tie it all together.
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  9767. Islamophobia is the disparagement used by people who refuse to accept the truth. It is slander meant to scare people into silent obedience. How often do you hear Christans, Jews, Buddhists, Sikhs, Zorastrists, or Hindus screaming "Allahu Akbar!" ?????
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  9768. But the F-16 has been modernized over the years. These legacy tanks have not.
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  9769. What was it that Patton said about fixed positions?
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  9770. WRONG. It was Dodd- Frank bill repealing the Glass-Stegal Act protections put in place to prevent another Great Depression. Orange Man is NOT responsible for it, the people currently in the White House who orchestrated the 2008 collapse are who is to blame.
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  9771.  @ernestkhalimov1007  Will they be able to again after Ukraine has mauled them?
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  9772. Larry in the 1977 Ralph Bakshi movie "Wizards".
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  9773. THIS! Throw it back in their faces that what is good for the goose is good for the gander.
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  9774. Agreed. Roberts and company deserve this for failing to do their duty.
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  9775.  @XyphonXero  "Big Cotton" as you describe it was only possible with Eli Whitney's cotton gin. While he created it nominally to replace slave labor, if anything, it made slave labor even more efficient as profitable. "Big Cotton" was in a decline until that device. But sure, parrot the talking points of big business "carpet baggers" who profiteered off the war.
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  9776.  @astrahcat1212  Agreed on almost all of those points. And Thomas Jefferson warned about the bankers acting like gamblers. He saw Alex Hamilton (father of the US Federal Bank) doing exactly that in conjunction with Henry Knox in Massachusetts sparking Shay's Rebellion. And then repeating that same dirty game in Pennsylvania with the Whiskey Tax, begging "big Daddy Washington" to save him. Same story since antiquity; wannabe feudal lord abusing the peasants and merchants who butter their bread by manipulating currency and the markets.
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  9777. Then why did Putin not invade Ukraine while Trump was in office? Why did they steal Crimea while Biden was directing Obama's foreign policy?
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  9778. Agreed. Government intervention is only prolonging the agony and rewarding the people responsible.
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  9779.  @English_Dawn  Indeed. And Ukraine having lived under Soviet Socialism along with Poland would quickly put a kibosh to the neo-communist policies of the Franco-German block.
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  9780. Yeah, it is like they don't understand WHY the US did not allow Japan or Germany to operate radio stations or newspapers in the US before and during WW2.
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  9781.  @abc-coleaks-info  So you are basically advocating for appeasement. How did that work in 1938? Stop apologizing for Neo-Soviet tyranny.
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  9782. Indeed. The results of the One Child Policy are just as drastic as the impacts of WW2 on Soviet Russia.
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  9783. Which is why the government must be deprived of as much power as possible. As Thomas Paine said, "government at its best is a necessary EVIL".
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  9784. Indeed. There may very well be a de-Jingpinging purge in much the same way the USSR was "de-Stalinized" after Stalin's death.
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  9785.  @edhargquest8710  "Way more troops"? Dude, the conscripts that Putin drafted were already in Kherson before the Russians fled across the Antonovski Bridge. The Russian "surge" has had very little effect beyond adding more bodies to the pile of corpses.
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  9786.  @sofronijelehorn9440  Yeah, most of the trenches the Russians built in Zaphorisia and on the East side of the Dnipro in Kherson run parallel to the roads and are of dubious defensive value. Most can be outflanked quite easily by going offroad. And offroad is what tank warfare is all about. Hence why the wait for the mud season to end.
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  9787.  @sofronijelehorn9440  Thunder Runs. It is ENTIERLY possible. The whole point of mobility in war is to get around trenches and evade artillery (artillery has trouble hitting a moving target). "Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man," -General George S. Patton.
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  9788.  @sofronijelehorn9440  Drone simply replace people as far as artillery spotting goes. Drones have not actually changed the equation beyond making the target identification process safer (and perhaps faster). And you grossly misunderstand how the Kherson offensive was conducted. It was a slow squeeze and positioning unlike the Thunder run of Kharkov. To claim that they used the same tactics shows ignorance of the situation.
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  9789.  @sofronijelehorn9440  First you say that Ukraine can't advance across open fields because of Artillery. Then you say that they are spread out making that same artillery ineffective. Pick your story. I take not that the Russians take as long as three days to lay down fire on a target once identified. And the follow up fire mission hitting that same spot can be as much as five days later. In that situation, the Ukrainians CAN use mobility to get under Russian guns. Conversely, the Ukrainians will act very quickly to bring down fire on a target after it is located. The follow up strike can be as little as one hour after the first volley because of rapid post fire mission damage passements. With those major disparities, advancing under fire very much favors a more mobile Ukrainian force than it does the Russians. Patton's quote is still very much valid. And Kharkov proves it.
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  9790.  @sofronijelehorn9440  Cherry picking your data point and ignoring the full context doesn't lend credibility to your contention. And claiming that Patton never really fought the Germans blatantly ignores the fact that His primary opponent on the battlefield was Erwin Rommel.
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  9791. It is just a fancy way of saying "The proletariat" this is simply repackaged Bolshevism. Seriously, it reads just like Vald Lenin's book of communism, but "stakeholder" instead of "workers".
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  9792. They are run by ideologues, not businessmen (and I use that in a gender-neutral sense). They don't care about making money, only advancing their political goals.
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  9793. Indeed. We don't need their defective genes contaminating the DNA pool any further.
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  9794. Washington COMpost? You realize those guys are anti-war negative Nacys? They have NEVER been correct when it comes to war. They were the same people that said Ukraine would fall in just two days and should just surrender the Donbas without a fight.
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  9795. @ While I agree that Christians should be more active in politics, the Pulpit is NOT the place for it. The Fellowship Hall AFTER services where people mingle IS the appropriate venue.
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  9796. Yes, liberalism is a perversion and inversion of Christian precepts and doctrine. They have their own original sin (born white), a path to salvation (reparations), and sacred sacrament (abortion).
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  9797.  @jeffwebster9036  That isn't an argument, it is an emotional outburst. Trump Derangement syndrome.
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  9798. The USSR was dominated by the Russian Soviet. Nearly all decision making came from the Kremlin and not the local Commissariat.
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  9799. And yet Trafalgar says otherwise. You clearly have never actually met a MAGA person.
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  9800.  @G_Demolished  Good, because foreign nationals don't get a say in American politics. And as for the American people, buyer's remorse over Biden is strong.
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  9801. Indeed. The Daily Wire is becoming the very same elitists that they claim to oppose. They want to BE the Establishment left, with all of the power and control.
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  9802.  @genkiferal7178  And once again you show your myopia. Just because you declare something doesn't make it true. If Vitamin B12 comes from bacteria, why does that nutrient come ONLY from the consumption of meat? And don't conflate emotional wishfulness with thinking, the two are not the same. "Those whom the gods would destroy, they first drive mad," Sophocles,
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  9803.  @endangerdenglish  Predation, as in one organism consuming another, not predate as time. Read context. And as to why the two Sky News are different, I suspect has to do with local politics.
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  9804.  @Gerber-tq3vp  4,026 killed LEOs? That is a VERY specific number. Oh, and there were actually only 5 fatalities on the 6th. The one and only police death was a result of heart disease. The rest were demonstrator deaths. You can stop parroting Pravda now. Nobody is buying your fabrications.
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  9805.  @xendordawnburst9969  Poe's Law is in full effect. Your claims of "it's sarcasm" falls flat because the media and the left fully believe the most outrageous claims. This is not hyperbolae in their eyes. And your infantilizing of their dead seriousness only aggravates the situation.
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  9806. Indeed. I could see the Canadians simply building the infrastructure to pipe their excess supplies to American facilities rather than build their own.
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  9807.  @thegreatdane3627  And with that you prove that you never learned a damn thing. Obama in 2014 was telling the EU exactly what they wanted to hear. Mostly about how America is bad, and Europe needs to pay reparations to the third world.
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  9808.  AGoodGuy76  Words salad regurgitated on cue like Pavlvo's Dog. Who is the Russia asset now?
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  9809. You don't seem to understand do you? When the right becomes unfettered, they will NOT play with kid gloves like they did on Jan 6th. They will go Cliven Bundy Ranch on steroids.
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  9810. Yeah, something tells me the Ukrainains have not pushed in Zaporishiza for a reason. They may have purposly let it stagnate in the hopes of returning to it later in the hopes that much like in Kharkov, the Russians have allowed the defenses to atrophy.
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  9811. The Russians are, the Ukrainians are not. Why would the Ukrainians use mines in the field they intent to plant with wheat?
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  9812. Indeed. We NEED an American Color Revolution like they did in Romania, Ukraine, Tunisia, and many other nations.
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  9813.  @The_Primary_Axiom  When all you do is hammer, everything looks like a nail. You are correct, these guys are so obsessed with race that they have become the very thing they claim to detest.
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  9814.  @stavrosaristidou5779  They "got defeated" because they realize it was becoming a pointless quagmire. Even the US gave up in the 1980s. it isn't that they couldn't annihilate the terrorists, it is that they chose not to kill innocents being used as human shields.
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  9815.  @Kristof1  If you have learned anything about the War in Ukraine, it should be that the Russians are pathological lairs.
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  9816. The Russian Soviet dominated the USSR. Nearly all decision making came from the Kremlin, not the local Commissariat.
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  9817.  @prague7706  Did Princess Diana get to still claim to be a member of House Windsor after she divorced Prince Charles? Same concept.
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  9818. Inde Daily Wire wants to BE the establishment. And they will become the very thing they claim to be opposing so as to replace it.
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  9819. Agreed. Daylight is the best disinfectant. “The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions." -President John F. Kennedy.
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  9820. And not force out the good ones just because they fail to run fast (PT test) or have been in too long.
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  9821. Liberate JUDEA! Palestine is a word invented by the Romans in 74AD in their attempt to erase Jewish history.
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  9822. Liberate JUDEA!
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  9823. The SCOTUS are cowards, save for Clarance Thomas. He is the ONLY person there who is worthy to stand as an equal to the likes of Deborah, Giddeon, Ehud, and the rest.
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  9824.  @jorgecarrejo  Yeah, every one of those cases are imploding under the weight of prosecutorial misconduct. This case is NOT convincing the American people of anything other than the New York Judiciary is a Soviet Kangaroo Court. It WILL get overturned in the Federal appeals courts.
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  9825. More like it is Anglicizing (ie white washing), but the point about it being cultural appropriation is still valid.
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  9826. Kneon and Geeky, I do recommend visiting South Korea. I was stationed there for two years with the USAF and had a blast visiting so many historic sites. And the Korean historic dramas, while taking certain liberties, are faithful to their history (ie source material).
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  9827. And we see before our eyes how the horrors of the 1930s in Europe in both Germany and Russia came to pass.
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  9828.  @ArthurCSchaperMR  Because this channel are true believers in man-caused climate change. And I say believers because climate activists are theologians of neo-pagan Gaia worship.
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  9829. The infamous food desert situation. They bitch about it not realizing that their actions contributed to it.
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  9830. I think Disney has stolen Standard Oil's crown for the most hated company. Kind of like how Hitler stole Pharaoh's crown for the icon of tyranny and antisemitism.
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  9831. The modern supercarrier is the most expensive naval ship, eclipsing the WW2 Iowa-class Battleship. And despite China's claim, their anti-ship missile actually needs to track its target during flight if it wants to actually kill a carrier.
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  9832.  @johncogswell715  There has been lots of discussion on China's kill-chain. China has yet to demonstrate an ability to track and hit a moving target in the middle of the Pacific. The US has proven to have that ability.
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  9833.  @vinniechan  The regional banks have been absorbed by the bigger banks. That was the result of the Feds bailing out Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers. And all of this was precipitated by the Dodd-Frank Bill which completely repealed the Glass-Stegal protections put in place during the Great Depression to prevent another one.
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  9834.  @boxingfan2796  For all his flaws, I was willing to credit Chapek for at least TRYING to make the company profitable. But alas, he didn't have the balls to stand up to the wokeistas the way Zazlav has.
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  9835. "Edelweiss, Edelweiss Every morning you greet me Small and white, clean and bright You look happy to meet me Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow, Bloom and grow forever Edelweiss, Edelweiss Bless my homeland forever" -ANTI-Nazi song.
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  9836.  @nishantmaderna6295  More lies and myths to sooth your own ego huh? The easiest person to fool is yourself. "Belief in myths allows for the comfort of opinion WITHOUT the discomfort of thought," -President John F. Kennedy.
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  9837.  @AmitCYT  Not really, Sure you can attempt to turn it in your favor all you want, but I am pointing out objective facts, while you are engaging in guttersniping. But then that is not surprising considering the cultural Marxist ideology you are espousing.
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  9838.  @prajjwal1010  When someone makes a moral argument about and against the West, don't be surprised when the response (ie clap back) is in kind. If you can't understand that, then you have lost the plot.
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  9839.  @shobhanamishra8259  And the details of that case showed that he had a lethal dose of fentanyl intoxication and recent methamphetamine. Your narrative is a complete lie.
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  9840.  @harshdata5784  And your post shows you are a pigeon knocking over the pieces of a chess board thinking it is accomplishing something. The highest virtue in debate is by quoting a well-known source. If you can't understand that, then you have no business even trying to engage in a debate.
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  9841.  @akarshchandrashekar552  American has gotten over its historic exploitation of minority populations. Yours has not. Even the Japanese treat the former burakumin "untouchable" populations better.
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  9842. And yet those very same proposals have resulted in the US beating out Europe every time. President John F. Kennedy pointed out that both taxation and regulation take away resources better used on research and development. But ignore his warnings all you want.
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  9843. OPEC isn't don't a damn thing to help Russia. That agreement to cut production? They weren't even making their quotas! The new figures the agreed to were simply a reflection of what they were actually producing. There was no actual reduction.
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  9844. The dumb thing is, had it been Whoopie coming back, they might have given her a discount for the inconvenience. But she chose to make it personal.
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  9845. Communist dictatorships always claim to be the "People's Republic". It is so cliche that it is a trope in fiction.
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  9846. @Reeshi Tas Considering that India is demanding a 30% discount on oil from Russia, I don't blame them for ripping off Putin. Further, if India takes Russian oil at a steep discount, it relieves pressure on the price of oil from other locations.
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  9847.  @Me-bt4ye  Best outcome but unrealistic. Czechoslovakia splitting was the rare aberration. Yugoslavia is the norm. Even William Tecumseh Sherman warned that the south's call for "peaceful divorce" would only end in blood on Christmas Eve of 1860.
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  9848.  @Me-bt4ye  I am inclined to agree. But I also acknowledge Lincoln's house divided speech where he said it will either be all of one or all of the other.
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  9849.  @silverx_1848  Yeah, and how many Jews in Germany supported the Nationalist Worker's party before it turned on them?
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  9850. Yeah, they do have their problems. But those are preferable to the lunacy that has swept the US.
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  9851.  @1233-d3h  It also says that foreign outsiders can dictate to them their lot and denies them agency and self-determination. Yes, crimes against humanity are bad, but if you use that as justification for forcing them into a union, they don't want to be a part of, you are no better than the butchers. America's biggest mistake in Iraq was not letting the Sunnis and Shias get the fight out of themselves. Probably in no small part due to the fighting in Bosnia. Yet the same interventionism was not done in Darfur. Nor was it engaged in Cambodia during Pol Pot's reign. The cynic in me thinks that NATO members care more about Slavs than they do sub-Saharan Africans or Southeast Asians.
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  9852.  @1233-d3h  Your point being? So, the Serbs are aligned with Putin, so what? Keeping them under a government and system they don't particularly support nor care for is just as tyrannical and despotic.
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  9853.  @williamthebonquerer9181  I have a sneaking suspicion that very few of the villages and communities are ethnically integrated, especially AFTER the genocides of the 90s. I am rather confident in saying that you CAN partition out individual hamlets, so they are NOT in the same counties, which are nothing more than lines arbitrarily drawn on a map anyhow. All I am hearing is excuses from people who foolishly subscribe to 19th century collectivist arguments about national boundaries.
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  9854.  @williamthebonquerer9181  Apparently you have not heard of Baarle-Nassau and Baarle-Hertog in Belgum. Nor the crazy border of Cooch Behar district between India and Bangladesh. You just lack creativity and imagination, as well as knowledge of examples that have come before of how it is possible.
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  9855.  @yolson2376  Possibly. What I know is that the "experts" often times have no clue how things will play out because they can't properly account for the unpredictability of human behavior. "Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system." — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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  9856. Africa's problems have always been with their own leadership. Before the mad scramble for Africa, the tribes were fighting each other and selling their fellow Africans into slavery (typically the Arab Slave Trade). And when the European power left, it once again reverted to those very same bush wars. Don't blame outsiders for the sins of the locals.
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  9857.  @ZamraHh-y3t  The Rajahs have been developing their own domestic defense industry and compared to Russia's it is much more reliable. As far as China goes, their little border clashed with India have proven that they don't even have the military discipline to attempt what Russia tried to do in Ukraine.
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  9858. Because the Iger woke activists still infest the company like a colony of cockroaches. They often act like them as well (roaches act with a collectivist mob mentality).
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  9859. Men can cook too. But I agree that women should be women and NOT try to be men. As for the men who think they are women, well, maybe the do NOT need to reproduce and remove their defective genes from the genetic pool.
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  9860. I agree, though on a sister channel to Astrum, maybe under the name Gia or Gaia?
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  9861. In theory, yes. But The House has long given away the power over the purse to the administrative state.
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  9862. Indeed. Both the Tejanos and the recent LEGAL immigrants of Hispanic heritage are pretty conservative. And the Dems take them for granted. The media puts them in the same pigeon hole, yet ignore the dynamics that make them anything but monolithic.
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  9863. That is a good point. Will the river shift such that the area immediately below Kherson is now a flood plain, with the river further south?
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  9864.  @f1aziz  The Baltic States, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic don't matter? Wow, are you out of touch with reality. Where do you think a fight between the US and Russia will happen? Who do you think they would rather be a junior partner to after the dust settles? And as far as Russia being a land power, well that is clearly a gross exaggeration. Putin with his miscalculation has revealed the Russian Bear is in reality a paper Tiger. You talk about ground realities, try actually taking the situation on the ground into consideration. “You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.” ― Winston Churchil
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  9865.  @EMendonca-mp2mf  Trump in his first term had the same problem as Ulysses Sam Grant: he was too trusting. Keep in mind that Wray was vouched for my the likes of Pence, Preibus, and the rest of the GOP establishment swamp critters.
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  9866.  @st.m7865  How? Details. Incidentally, Joe Bite-me through his son Hunter clearly undermined the US. As Yevgrav said in "Doctor Zhivago", if you have a man's brother, you are halfway to controlling him. Hence, if you have a man's son, you are likely 80% of the way to controlling him.
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  9867. It also shows that they don't understand fleeing FROM danger which is not the reason for the border crisis. Those people are ECONOMIC migrants, not refugees.
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  9868.  @PaulLefebvre  Russian collusion hoax was based on anonymous sources. So was "Ukrainian collusion." No, journalists today do NOT because "journalistic ethics" is DEAD. The idea that you need three independent sources is considered "antiquated". What you see in media today is circular reporting bases on gossip and scuttlebutt.
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  9869.  @PaulLefebvre  MSNBC, CNN, and ABC have ALL been caught peddling hoaxes. They lied about Kyle Rittenhouse. They lied about Covington Catholic and Nathan Phillips. They lied about Russian Collusion. How many times do you have to be bamboozled before you will accept that your "trusted sources" are nothing more than America's version of Soviet Pravda?
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  9870.  @flapdrol  It means they were powerless to stop Ukrainian Frogmen from placing demolition charges.
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  9871. And that whole litigation is what's bringing the FCC in to investigate their practices. Patreon is flirting with RICO violations for simply pocketing Sargon's frozen donations.
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  9872.  @EricaGamet  And that was never demonstrated. THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF AN UNTERLYING CRIME. But keep parroting the talking points of your master's on cue like Pavlov's Dog. You are the banality of Evil.
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  9873.  @EricaGamet  But the underlying crime has NOT been explained, demonstrated, much less proven. As Fareed Zakaria stated, the ONLY reason why this went forwards is because the defendant is Donald Trump. NEVER has this kind of crime been prosecuted in this manner EVER.
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  9874.  @EricaGamet  The problem is that the underlying crime has not been defined much less proven. The ONLY thing that has been proven in this case is that Cohen is a pathological liar. That the ONLY person who was defrauded was Trump himself. And that this novel application of the law has NEVER been attempted in court before. Also, SCOTUS case has said you HAVE to be unanimous on the underlying crime, for which the judge's instructions to the jury are unconstitutional under the 6th and 7th amendments and WILL get this completely overturned when it gets to Federal Court.
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  9875. "You're getting older, but not bolder," - Elinore "THEY KILLED FRTIZ! They've killed Fritz! Those lousy stinking yellow fairies! Those horrible atrocity-filled vermin! Those despicable animal warmongers! They've killed Fritz! Take that! Take this! Take that, you green slime! You black hearted, short, bow-legged....."
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  9876. And the people responsible for the 2008 crisis are the same people who orchestrated this collapse. The Feds need to stop bailing these people out.
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  9877.  @Carabas72  Iger. It is Iger who keeps poking the bear rather than just taking his licks. Do keep in mind that DeSantis was duly elected by the people of Florida: he represents their will.
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  9878.  @Carabas72  First, it is the ANTI-GROOMING bill., not "Don't Say gay". You use of that description of the law not only discredits you, it shows you actually have no idea what you are talking about (intellectual laziness). it also shows hyperpartsianship and an insincerity to actual discussion. Secondly, Chapek was bullied into making those remarks by the activists Iger had put into position of power within the company. Iger taking up the mantel of their cause is him not hiding behind others anymore. Make no mistake, this was a spanner in the works started by Iger's own actions. It is only now that the effects of the snowball he started rolling have come to fruition.
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  9879.  @Carabas72  That isn't an argument, it is an emotional outburst. And it proves my point perfectly. You don't care about facts, only about your tribe winning, truth bedamned.
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  9880. Cope harder Private Conscriptovich.
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  9881. Russia had all winter and most of the summer to "dig in". If they are not dug in now, they never will. As soon as the Ukrainians break through the line, it will be a repeat of the Kharkov blitz.
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  9882.  @jansix4287  Look at you, you are not actually debating merits, you are only attacking the messenger. That is the logical fallacy of ad hominin and only proves you don't have anything worth saying. "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser," -attributed to Socrates or Plato. "When your argument is weak, abuse the plaintiff," -Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Orator and statesman 45BC.
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  9883. Always was. They just let their mask slip for all to see.
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  9884. How is the price of goods? If it is up 40%, that isn't nothing.
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  9885. As if the board of directors didn't also do the same?
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  9886. Soviet legacy tanks, yes. Western Tanks, not so much.
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  9887.  @rick-be  Wow, I think you are triggered. How many more Soviet Tanks have been destroyed as contrasted with Abrams again? Put down the vodka, you have had too much.
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  9888.  @rick-be  You haven't been paying attention. Despite all the western tank losses, not a single crewmember from those tanks had been killed in their tank. Crew survivability is the single most important requirement under NATO doctrine.
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  9889.  @rick-be  Not useless as the battle of Verbote proves. You are just another dilettante making a declarative blanket statement without any nuance or understanding of the situation.
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  9890.  @rick-be  Sure you did. You can claim to be anything behind the anonymity of a profile. Your problem is that you don't talk nor act like a Vietnam veteran. It is a pretty dead giveaway. People who are in the know can easily spot a fraud.
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  9891.  @petergerdes1094  Make no mistake, the North Koreans and North Vietnamese using captured Americans to make public statements WERE war crimes. As were the attemps by both the Japanese and Germans to do the same (they typically had to resort to fakers like Lord Haw Haw putting on a falsetto voices). Fortunately, some of the prisoners were able to subvert that, particularly the Pueblo crew with the "Hawaiian good luck sign" or John McCain naming off the defensive line of the Pittsburg Steelers as his squadron mates.
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  9892.  @Vigriff  Yeah, the most evil organizations ever concocted. The SCOTUS needs to take up a case slapping down their unconstitutional usurpation of governing power.
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  9893.  @mtnregnar198  What is so complicated about Hama storing guns, missiles, and bombs in hospitals?
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  9894. The problem is that Navy command won't let them take action. It would literally have to be a mission of mercy S.O.S. to force their hand. International Law of the High Seas trumps orders from Navy command.
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  9895.  @williamshanks8959  Cow are actually one of the more sustainable foods, unlike pork and chicken. They are basically domesticated buffalo or bison.
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  9896. @ Cope harder. Red meat diets are the healthiest for humans. Your vegan diets are nutrient deficient necessitating the use of big pharma supplements. BTW, meat consumption is MORE efficient than plant-based carbohydrates for the body to use. But don't "trust the science" as your liberal side demands. Pick and choose when you want to listen to it as your neo-pagan religion demands.
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  9897. Hell, the three cartoons based in Middle Earth are already compared to Peter Jackson instead of the other way around.
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  9898.  @industrypools4063  Yes I did, and he was right. His was the PERFECT response. Which only reinforces my point that he is EVERYONE's "Grandpa Morgan".
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  9899. Never. I don't want the mouse to be a tool of the Federal government. Better to let it go into bankruptcy and be bought up by foreign companies like Lotte (which would make Lotte World, the Disney knock-off in Korea an official Disney park).
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  9900. "The people flatter themselves that they have the sovereign power. These are, in fact, words without meaning. It is true they elected governors; but how are these elections brought about? In every instance of election by the mass of a people—through the influence of those governors themselves, and by means the most opposite to a free and disinterested choice, by the basest corruption and bribery. But those governors once selected, where is the boasted freedom of the people? They must submit to their rule and control, with the same abandonment of their natural liberty, the freedom of their will, and the command of their actions, as if they were under the rule of a monarch," -Alexander Frasier Tytler, Lord of Woodhouselee.
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  9901.  @ghostwhite1648  And that is the kicker, the oath of Hippocrates has been violated on a massive scale by the American health "industry". Clearly the original Greek oath needs to be made a legal statute by which they are held to account.
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  9902. Hopefully her mouth gets her blacklisted going forward.
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  9903.  @superomegaprimemk2  Exchanging Wars and Trek would not fix anything. Kurtzman and Kennedy are cut from the same woke cloth. As far as understanding Gene Rodenberry, they NEVER agreed with him. The man was fighting with CBS and Paramount executives his whole life over the direction of his all of his IP.
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  9904.  @Develpup  Propaganda hit piece no different that the Russian Collusion Hoax.
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  9905.  @BIGDaddioJohnB  Year and a half is hardly a long time ago. While a year is a lifetime in politics, it is but yesterday in the lifetime of a person. Your infantilizing of it shows you are actually okay with it so long as it is not immediately in your face. That is called empowering of the problem
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  9906.  @BIGDaddioJohnB  Proof by verbosity is not an argument, it is a logical fallacy. The fact that you know Cuties was wrong and yet still support the company when they are supporting OTHER overt sexualization f minors such as the Show BigMoutn just goes to sow that your cognitive dissonance is so strong that rather admit the truth, you attack the people who call you out in a vain hope that it just goes away. And as George Santayana said, those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it. Your refusal to accept RECENT history shows you insist on making the exact same blunders.
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  9907. Most US munitions don't rely soley on GPS. If they lose signal, they would switch to other targeting sensors such as radiation seeker (mimicking a HARM).
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  9908. Moscow and Petrograd's anti-air defenses have been completely removed and sent to Ukraine. Why would he use a nuke if his proverbial pants are down leaving him exposed to a counterstrike?
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  9909.  @mikepatrona472  Agreed. The timing is way too convenient.
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  9910.  @EduardO-gm7hx  You are counting your eggs before they have hatched. Kursk is a trap for Ukraine? That is copium. If it were true, then Ukraine would not have run roughshod over Russian troops and captured so many POWs. That proves you wrong automatically. The Russian push in the East STOPPED. That means the goal of diverting troops from the East was successful. And as far as barganing chip, they have even gotten to the table yet and you are already counting the poker winnings before the hand has even been dealt on the table. Put down the Vodka Private Conscriptovich, you are so drunk you are hallucinating.
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  9911.  @vivrowe2763  Palestina was a word invented by the Romans to erase the history of JUDEA.
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  9912.  @benjaminsmith3843  One way I get around the youtube censors is to put spaces in the hyperlinks. Particularly so that .c om and ht tp s// don't auto highlight. That is how they get you.
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  9913.  @Aenarion28  Indeed. As my father who is a "spark chaser" engineer often says, engineers are first and foremost problem solvers. That they take scientific theory and make it into practical application is secondary.
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  9914. If that happens, expect Columbia to become Venezuela 2.0
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  9915.  @leftistadvocate9718  Bolivia is just 10 years behind Venezuela. Make no mistake, Bolivia is well on its way to where Venezuela is now. And for all of his flaws, Pinochet was far better than any Marxist-Leninist leader.
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  9916.  @leftistadvocate9718  More historical snobbery. Just because you THINK things will be different doesn't mean they will. "No True Scotsman" is a fallacy that people like you constantly use because the hard objective facts prove you wrong.
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  9917.  @leftistadvocate9718  It is ALWAYS the same with Marxists. They ALWAYS claim it will be different, but when they get into power, they implement the EXACT same policies, and the results are always the same. The problem is that the ideology is fatally flawed and there is no way to fix it or "do it better". One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting the same result. Hence, "No true Scotsman" fallacy.
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  9918.  @Canoby  There is truth though. If one can't deal with a Drill Sergeant 2 inches from your face, how will you handle a firefight with ordinance exploding all around you?
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  9919.  @Canoby  The fact that you can't see the correlation is a YOU problem. How about you actually debate the merits? For someone worrying about repeating talking points on cue like Pavlov's Dog, you seem to be doing that yourself.
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  9920.  @Canoby  I did serve, and DEI was already on its way in as I was leaving. Foreign Cultural Sensitivity training was replaced with "Diversity and Inclusion" under the guise of Equal Opportunity training. You have failed to provide ANY proof to back up your position, instead resorting to logical fallacies such as ad hominins. How about you make an ACTUAL argument instead of emotional appeals (logical fallacy)
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  9921.  @Canoby  More word salad by someone on the outside looking in. Yeah, on the way out as in waiting for my time to end before my medical discharge was approved. Funny how you call everyone else a troll when you are engaging in that very behavior. That is called psychological projection and is typical behavior of a leftist propagandist.
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  9922. "Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin good forces have invented or made” -J.R.R. Tolkien
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  9923.  @alexanderpepkin4110  "Ethnic Russians"? From 2014-2022 a grand total of 5 civilians were killed per month. Since the invasion, the number of civilian deaths in the Donbas increased by 155%. Under "Russian protection", MORE people have been killed. Even the Indians don't believe the myth of Ukrainian oppression of Russians.
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  9924.  @Ramiiam  Indeed. Part of what I loved about Rickles (and he hated) was the art of the heckle. As good as his stand-ups were, when he was heckled, that was when he was REALLY great. That on the fly response and retort to those who would try to bully him was epic. That art is lost on today's comedians who want scripted responses. I would argue that is what separates the real comedians from the political hacks who are only good at snark.
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  9925. Actually, there is not that much difference. The 30 year old is simply trying to find an excuse to stay when everything is telling them they should leave.
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  9926.  @sh-qd7cu  It is an illusion. That time invested is for nothing if your home or business burns down anyhow. Stop trying to make excuses for moral cowardice.
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  9927. Apples to oranges there. The Serbians were trying to EXTERMINATE the Bosnians. Same with the Ottomans trying to EXTERMINATE the Chirstian Armenians. Israel is NOT trying to exterminate the population of Gaza, and to imply that they are shows gross intellectually dishonesty.
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  9928.  @borhanuddin9715  Nature abhors a vacuum. what do you think will fill it if Western dominance disappears? Considering what most of the world was before Western dominance, I suspect that your proposed alternative will be harsh and brutal. "Human Rights" is a direct result of Western Hegemony.
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  9929.  @golagiswatchingyou2966  America is not the cause of the worlds problems. In fact, we solve more of them than we make, despite what you may claim. Ever heard of "The Great War"? We ended that. Ever Heard of World War 2? If not for the US, you would be speaking either German or Japanese. As the Billy Joel song goes, "We didn't start the fire, no we didn't light it but we tried to fight it"
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  9930.  @golagiswatchingyou2966  Wow, Nazi apologist now huh? You are defending the indefensable now. Oh, and I take the word of the Flanders over you. if they say the Butchers of the Rhineland violated their neutrality just to defeat France, I believe them.
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  9931. He is. There is a reason why the activists keep trying to slience Alveta King.
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  9932. Indeed. That photo screams "Potemkin Village" (ie staged).
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  9933. Cookie Monster who became president of France. Sorry, I couldn't help but make a joke about it.
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  9934. Amen. The Bonus Army Stands ready to march again.
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  9935. If she was smart, but her comments about the NYC subway shows she is not the sharpest tool in the shed.
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  9936.  @zerotodona1495  And if you go back far enough, all of us came out of Africa.
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  9937. It means that the folks trying to enforce it can be resisted; they don't have any legitimate standing to stop you. And if they try to stop you, well, then they have to use violence to do so (and further delegitimize their actions turning the people against them).
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  9938. Indeed. The focus on holding territory is the same mistake made by most Union Generals in the US Civil War. Grant went against the prevailing wisdom by focusing on the destruction of the Confederate Army instead of holding territory.
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  9939.  @onlyfacts4999  Always the CIA's fault isn't it? You folks are just as paranoid about the West as the Arabs are about Mossad(though Mossad's reputation is well EARNED). You realize that most of those regime overthrows are being backed by RUSSIA? Yeah, Putin is the one choosing to check Chinese power in Africa, not the US or Europe. And more power to them. The Fait accompli he accomplished in Ukraine with the GRU was a result of backing similar actions in Africa against Chinese bought puppet governments. Seriously, you give the CIA too much underserved credit. They couldn't pull off toppling the Castros in Cuba. Nor could they dislodge Pol Pot in Cambodia. No, the CIA is spending most of its time spying on American citizens overseas and at home (in flagrant violation of US Law) than they are in messing with African governments. The CIA has become just as incompetent as the KGB was in the 70s and 80s. Maybe more so. If you were to blame Mossad instead of the CIA, I would be more inclined to believe you.
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  9940.  @onlyfacts4999  What world are you living in? 1942? Putin considers China a close ally. About the only thing that would turn Putin against China would be if they tried to take back Outer Manchuria (Amur Valley and Sakhalin Island) and everything south of the Stanovoy Mountain Range. You have been listening too too many people pushing the Russian Collusion Hoax. Christopher Steele and his Russian "source" are both under indictment for perjury.
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  9941.  @andysol.4593  Wrong. Putin's GRU was able to pull off the Fait Accompli in the Ukraine because they got their practice supporting guerrilla movements in Africa. Keep in mind that during the 1970s and 80s the KGB was a joke, but under Putin, the successor to the KGB, the GRU has become the effective force that Putin had always wanted while running the KGB during the Soviet era. And much of that is because they learned from watching others in action as well as practice doing it themselves. No, the CIA is too busy spying on American citizens overseas and at home (in flagrant defiance of US law) to be bothered to overthrow Africa governments. Since the 90s and the break up of the Soviet Union there has been no need for that kind of activity. Start thinking things through logically instead of reflexively blaming the US for Africa's woes. There is absolutely no gain for US interests overthrowing sub-Saharan African governments, certainly not when American politicians are in bed with the Chinese.
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  9942.  @ankur.mahajan  Preach it brother!
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  9943. The Nazarene warned against the Woe of the Pharisees which is exactly what she did. Try actually reading the gospels instead of lecturing from ignorance.
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  9944.  @Defensor314  Big tech is already an organ of the DNC much like the legacy media is. You worry about nationalization and yet we already have that under this fascistic system that is already in place.
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  9945.  @InvincibleSol  What have you even argued? Seems to me like you are just trolling.
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  9946.  @InvincibleSol  How can I dishonestly respond if you are not even making an argument. You cite some "essays" yet don't give specific sources for looking up and reading. That is classic appeal to authority logical fallacy and is tacit acknowledgement that you can't debate the merits..
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  9947. Remains to be seen. Ukraine caught Russia with its pants down.
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  9948. Sure, blame the victim for being a victim.
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  9949.  @titus_philemon  You seem to forget that the Catholic Church is anti-gay. So, in Catholic dominated Latin America, being pro-LGTBQ is VERY progressive and left leaning. There was a time in the not so distant past when gays in the Latin community were persecuted and, in some cases, murdered and the government simply looked the other way.
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  9950. There is still a role for battleships as artillery platforms for shore bombardment. But the need for entire fleets of them has indeed passed. If anything only one is needed to play escort for the carriers in the event that someone gets past the sentry pickets and trys to melee the carriers. Likewise, the Tank is suppose to be used in combined arms, backed up at all times by a squad of infantry. People need to stop fanboying over massive armor engagements and realize that Guderian advocated combined arms, not mass battle.
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  9951. The GOP has not shifted to the right, they have actually shifted left over the years. It is the LEFT who has gone full Bolshevick. Trump on social issues was left of Both Bushes and Reagan. He was actually left of Bill Clinton on a number of issues as well. But starting with Obama, you had Democrat candidates who make Leon Trotsky look like a conservative.
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  9952. They seriously don't understand that by putting an "X" at the end of Latina, they are literally whitewashing the word.
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  9953. I'm surprised the grammar teacher didn't point out that it is an attempt to Anglicize the language.
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  9954.  @joepetto9488  Then which was the largest? Most historians consider Kursk to hold that distinction. Battle of Prokhorovka is considered a part of the greater Kursk engagement.
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  9955.  @joepetto9488  Brody only had 750 German Panzer against 3,500 Soviet Tanks. Kursk had over 7,500 tanks against 3,200 German Panzers.
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  9956.  @allonelife699  That is NOT how criminal trials work under Article 3 and Sixth Amendment to the US constitution. Those jury instructions are NOT correct and WILL get the whole conviction nullified when take to Federal Appellate Court.
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  9957. To quote Megyn Kelly, "She's a pig!"
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  9958. That is what drove the shale oil revolution. Ask yourself why Shale oil is more productive than solar.
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  9959.  @Yeomen1986  Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, father of US Navy's nuclear program disagrees with you. There is a reason why even the IAEA takes their cues from his legacy.
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  9960.  @Yeomen1986  Wrong on ALL counts (sans Rickover's passing). Your claims show you know NOTHING at all about nuclear power. Don't try relying on the Gleman-Amnesia effect, because it is easy to debunk your claims.
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  9961.  @razeka62  Yeah, and most nevertrumepr opinions stink like they never wiped in their life; the dingleberries are still hanging.
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  9962. Put down the vodka private conscriptovich, you are drunk.
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  9963.  @Dethflash  Sometimes the rot and infection is so severe you HAVE to amputate. That hospital is clearly gangrenous and so shutting it down completely is the only way to save the patient.
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  9964. FREE JUDEA.
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  9965. Ah, but therein lies the problem: the French and Red Terrors where ANYONE who disagrees with Robespierre loses their head. We want the American Revolution, not the French revolution.
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  9966.  @joesantos7085  I don't disagree that we are in the middle of a Maoist Cultural Revolution. But it is nowhere near the horrors of the Soviet Union when the Cheka operated with impunity making "subversives" disappear.
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  9967. More than that, he goes on about how dangerous guns are so he KNEW his actions were reckless and he chose to do it anyhow. That makes it VOLUNTARY manslaughter.
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  9968.  @jamesfarrell4929  Indeed. We live in a neo-feudalist society where the elites get "high justice" while the rest of us are subject to "low justice". Our legal system have become the very thing that started the original American Revolution.
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  9969. So why are the Russians having such a hard time taking the Ukraine? Something doesn't add up if Russia is the aggrieved party.
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  9970.  @alexlaw1892  And with that post, you have completely discredited yourself. Your anti-Zionism is simply fashionable anti-Semitism and comes straight out of Czar Nichola's 2's debunked book Protocols of the Elders of Zion", a favored text of a certain WW2 German Chancellor. Jews and Israel are NOT the cause of the world's woes. Take your Islamist-Nazi propaganda elsewhere.
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  9971. There are women writers of Japanese manga and anime that are more successful in the West than her revenge fantasy.
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  9972. @Raylan Givens My father loves his "Golden Boy" rifle.
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  9973. Not really. The ONLY reason Russia is using them is because they have such a surplus. The T-90 production lines can't keep up with the attrition. If it could, then you wouldn't see anything else.
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  9974. Where have I heard that before? Oh yeah, the presumed fall of Kiev. Just like then you people vastly underestimate the Ukrainians.
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  9975. The world has always hated the US, even with presidents you think make the US favorable. Everyone hates the top dog.
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  9976. 2,000 Control Tower candidates rejected because they were not diverse enough causing a manpower shortage? And you don't think that doesn't connect DEI policies to this crash?
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  9977. Why? Because Ukraine ASKED for weapons to fight. You seem to think that the Ukrainians have no agency or say in whether this conflict continues or not. Their defense of Kiev made it quite clear that they will NOT roll over and surrender to Russia or the Kremlin.
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  9978. Indeed. Does he think we do not know that he was president of the Screen Actor's Guild? That position comes with a lot of insider knowledge.
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  9979. I agree. Tuva and Yakutia should be independent nations.
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  9980. Didn't Reagan say that??
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  9981. No joke. My Navy Commander father prefers his M1911. And many Marines prefer M14 because it is more reliable than the M16.
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  9982. First, Western equipment didn't arrive until almost two months into the war. Before then, most of the resupply was from Poland with former Warsaw Pact stockpiles. And even the Western gear sent is not the best, but rather gear that is at least 20 years old. When the best Russia has is being defeated by gear created and optimized in the 90s, that is devastating. As for the nukes, why would he use them while the air defenses around Moscow and Petrograd have been stripped bare and sent to Ukraine? Putin's proverbial pants are down.
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  9983.  @deadmanwalking2572  Yeah, creating a "nuclear buffer zone" is not how nukes are used or actually work. As an area denial weapon, the effect is only good for about one month (Rule of Sevens).
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  9984. Some of the munitions can lock onto the thing trying to jam them.
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  9985.  @hanshansen3885  Promotion among the general ranks has nothing to do with performance and EVERYTHING to do with politics.
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  9986.  @hanshansen3885  Is the Pope Catholic?
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  9987. Yeah, I'm thinking it is like trying to take the German Kamphwagon II up against a T-34.
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  9988. Or a smug snake right before their plans fall apart.
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  9989.  @legrandfromage6450  The Russian Bear is Geriatric. They are throwing 60 year old equipment against NATO's second and third tier gear and are losing them after than Ukraine is.
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  9990. Well, there are also other factors that come into play. Men and women who marry with a significant age gap (May-December Romance, typically 7 or more years) is considered creepy. There is pressure for women to not marry men too much older than them which then forces women to wait for the men to get settled. Then Japan has what is called "Christmas Cake" philosophy, where in a woman's marriage prospects greatly diminish after she turns 25.
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  9991.  @jeffreyrye7691  Flemming vs. Nestor(1960) and Helvering vs. Davis (1935), the SCOTUS has declared it IS an income tax on the front end and a welfare program on the back end. There never was a lockbox; that was a lie told by FDR to fool people like you into believing his government theft of wages.
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  9992. Helvering vs. Davis (1935), Flemming vs. Nestor (1960) SSI is nothing more than an income tax as per the SCOTUS. PS, Google keeps deleting this TRUTH.
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  9993. Look up the SCOTUS cases regarding SSI. It is nothing more than a welfare program on the back end and a tax on the front end. Google keeps deleting my posts pointing out the three 1935 cases and the 1960 case.
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  9994. Belarus?
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  9995. At a minimum, there should be a strong Securities fraud case against the Twitter board. This is just like Enron.
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  9996.  @zounds010  Yeah, they tend to put out much more sulfur-dioxide (SO2). And the sulfur output is far and away more than humanity produces.
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  9997.  @danielpacheco4821  You are trying to make a distinction WITHOUT a difference.
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  9998. And they should be rewarded as traitors deserve. When the time comes, they should be treated no different than the radical communist lefitsts. "You stood up to be counted with the enemies of everything the Grail stands for. Who gives a damn what you believe?" -Indiana Jones to Elsa for working with the Nazis.
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  9999. And a lot of people would have wanted it like that. That he would be an ally to the MC.
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  10000.  @EdDiaz-fz4kj  You do realize that Sarin gas was used on US troops as they entered Bagdad. That was the irrefutable proof. And then there is the issue that Saddam used chemical weapons on both the Kurds and the Shias. Or have you never heard of "Chemical Ali"?
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  10001. They learned nothing from the AIDS epidemic of the 90s.
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  10002. Do you really think you can answer the phone while under continuous fire? Try looking at it from his perspective. You can't just stop a war to take a phone call from your wife when you are getting shot at.
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  10003.  @peterharrell7305  I don't know. Didn't Germany do that to Poland in 1939?
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  10004. I don't know if that is art imitating life, or life imitating art.
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  10005. How will they get past the Great Firewall?
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  10006. Wow, what rock did you crawl out from? The facts don't support anything you imply.
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  10007.  @jeffersonwright9275  Yeah, none of those will actually solve the problems they claim to address. ALL of them are giveaways of tax payer money to campaign doners. Stop making excuses for the people stealing from you. Stop rewarding your abusers.
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  10008.  @davidgood840  Ah, the classic "who started it?" circular augment. Sorry, when NATO made it clear and under no uncertain terms that "an attack on one is an attack on all" you can hardly call it an "overreaction". And you also cannot say that it does not threaten the US to attack a NATO member. When the Warsaw Pact (for example) knows that but choses to ignore that treaty obligation that all NATO members have pledged, then it is dishonest to claim that the US is the one initiating MAD. Incidentally, Article 5 of NATO HAS been invoked, or have you forgotten that the allies DID respond to 9/11 by pledging support in prosecuting the War in Afghanistan against the Taliban government which harbored Bin Laden and refused to hand him over. While it did not escalate to a nuclear arms exchange, just from that one example, it can be safely assumed that a nuclear strike on a NATO member WILL play out in a similar fashion. And considering how quickly even reluctant NATO members such as Germany and France quickly signed onto Russian censure, I seriously doubt ANYONE would object to responding in kind to the use of nuclear weapons on another NATO member.
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  10009. The Kharkiv plant? They were switched over to the T-80 before the fall of the USSR. For decades that plant has not been producing much of anything.
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  10010.  @Radagast49230  Exactly! The appearance of favoritism and bias will poison trust.
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  10011. I hope so. Grant the local affiliates a 30–60-day grace period to file new ones if they were only operating under the corporate umbrella.
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  10012. Hirono brings shame on Asians everywhere.
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  10013. In the US Air Force our "nom de guerre" was known as the person's "callsign". Usually, it was some kind of trait that they displayed early on at the assignment. In Korea, mine was "Juicy D" because I frequented the bars with the Juicy Girls hard during my first month. Ironically, after I got that callsign, I stopped frequenting them as it became pointless trying to develop a relationship with any of the girls. One of the A-10 pilots I regularly briefed was called "Warble" because his voice sounded warbly over the coms. Another was called "Butters" because his speech pattern sounded like the South Park character.
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  10014. Marxists do, but only because they both oppose the West in general and Anglo-Saxon culture specifically.
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  10015. Indeed. Sovereign power of the state makes this Constitutionally a moot point; Disney cannot monopolize powers that were bestowed onto it by the State government.
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  10016. Funny the marriage data Pew Research compiled from the census data. Seems like white men marrying women of color have MORE stable marriages that white-white couples. White women who out married have LESS stable marriages. The disparity was more pronounced if the spouse was foreign born. One of those "makes you think" moments.
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  10017. Indeed. There is a reason why the "probies" are not given free reign but instead kept on a tight leash before they have proven themselves responsible enough to be left to their own devices. The young bucks should have been made to shadow a veteran until they have learned what is considered responsible journalism and what is not.
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  10018. He was the shooter, but who was his FBI and CIA handlers? I think they used him like the Garland, Texas terrorists who tried to murder Pamela Geller and the draw the prophet participants.
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  10019. @ Ballistics prove that is physically impossible. Using the Zapruder film, it is possible to recreate the exact moment, and the trajectory from the single bullet goes in a straight line back to the window of the book depository. Put down the Sherry and sober up. A more realistic scenario is that the FBI and CIA knew he was a lose cannon and purposely spun him up to do their dirty work just like they did with the Garland Texas terrorists.
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  10020. @ The physics for that are impossible. However, the Zapruder Film makes it clear that the single bullet is FACT, as when you take into account the president and government's positions, the wounds make a perfect line going back to the window of the book depository. Oswald WAS the triggerman, but who was his FBI and CIA handlers? THEY were the ones who spun him up to do the dirty deed.
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  10021.  @dave.p153  Yeah, funny how ALL of those school shootings occur in gun free zones. And in BLUE STATES with the strictest gun laws. You don't see school shootings in red states where the gun laws are less restrictive. A disarmed population is easy to massacre. An armed population can never be subjugated.
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  10022.  @searose6192  Denying people their gallows humor only hastens the descent into madness.
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  10023.  @searose6192  Some people refuse to return to reality. Some people would rather live in the Matrix instead of accepting the harsh reality of life. "Get busy living or get busy dying," -Steven King in "The Shawshank Redemption".
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  10024. Both cities would have been firebombed if we didn't use nukes.
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  10025. Any shadier that James O'Keefe and Project Veritas?
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  10026.  @mustachadon  I used to watch Glenn Beck but I can't stand how wrong and out of touch he has become since running the Blaze. Power, fame and wealth tend to do that to you. Yes, people change. I myself hold views that only 10 years ago I would have thought were unthinkable. Why? Because that is how desperate the situation has become. Crowder is properly calling out the people who want to simply replace one set of tyrants with a new set that are just as bad. What is the point of getting rid of the wokistas if we replace them with different moral authoritarians?
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  10027. So is MSNBC because they know their fraud is not fooling the American people.
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  10028. Kicked American butt or Kick South Vietnamese butt? The problem with the Vietnam War is that LBJ and Nixon refused to invade North Vietnam and capture Hanoi. Had they done that, things would have been much different.
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  10029.  @EHlovenothate  Not really. They only allowed Trump back on the platform when it became obvious that he was going to win the 2024 election.
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  10030. @ ",giving people information direct information that’s not tampered with" You realize that tiktok is the WORST platform when it comes to censorship? Stop shilling for a CCP propaganda tool.
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  10031. Agreed. Timmy seems to forget, the Koreans fought alongside us in Vietnam not more than 10 years later. Vietnam is a better analogy to Afghanistan.
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  10032.  @zonzillamagnus5902  Wow, pot meet kettle. People being oppressed and slaughtered do NOT have access to SA-2 anti-aircraft missiles used to shoot down Malaysian Airlines flight 17. Your narrative is just as broken and flawed as the media's. Only, you are regurgitating the talking points of the Kremlin because you are rabidly anti-West.
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  10033.  @zonzillamagnus5902  You still have not answered WHO shot down M17. You want to imply it was Ukraine, but even Putin reluctantly admitted that it was his patsies in Donbas who did it. How else do you explain him ratcheting down the rhetoric after that plane was shot down? You are hyperventilating over Nazism. NOBODY with power or influence in Europe supports that ideology. The Azov Brigade is a boogeyman you are using to rationalize (ie make excuses) for Putin's strongman tactics. Your narrative just dose not have any merit. Nor does Putin's claims. You have drank his KGB propaganda hook, line, and sinker. Also, more people were killed under Putin's watch as head of the KGB under Yuri Andropov, than the US has killed since the fall of the USSR, not that you would bother to do your homework.
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  10034. A big payout over a slander and libel sue would go a long way.
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  10035.  @bradhombre6912  Allowing Trans into women's sports defeats the whole purpose of having Title 9 in the first place. If biological men who think they are women are allowed in, then why even have a women's division at all? Look beyond simply the chronological timeline and at the REASON for the program's existence.
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  10036.  @taz09216  More blood libels? Hamas was created in opposition to Israel genius.
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  10037. @M W Nice Anglophobia there. You do realize that the former Warsaw Pact VOLUTARILY joined NATO? Hell, when DeGaulle pulled out of NATO, American troops left France. Not that you would bother to actually know that dirty little detail. Your whole argument is based on a hysterical hatred of English culture.
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  10038.  @bastisonnenkind  The problem with Democracy is that it is a hydra whose heads are trying to kill and devour each other. There is a reason why even Aristotle held it in certain contempt. As for Angel Merkel, she knew exactly what she was doing by prostrating Germany before Putin and making her country almost entirely dependent on Russia. She was an active and enthusiastic member of the East German Communist Youth during the 1980s, so it is hard to claim her actions were not by design.
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  10039.  @tacticalcenter8658  Yeah, the Russians, particularly Putin. Ask yourself why so many Putin critics end up dead under suspicious situations.
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  10040.  @tacticalcenter8658  You don't see both sides either. You reject anything that clearly disproves your myopic narrative. Learn to debate rather than use emotional appeals (logical fallacy).
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  10041.  @tacticalcenter8658  You would know, considering that you are a victim of the Kremlin's lies on a daily basis.
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  10042.  @nobutseriously764  It is because Europe is too immature to act responsibility. Every major war since the 1700s has been due to Europe's childish behavior.
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  10043.  @nobutseriously764  In the 230 years of US history, we have accomplished more than Europe did since the Fall of the Roman Empire. First nation to set foot on the moon, a dream of Europeans since antiquity. Age means nothing.
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  10044. The doctor is a flaming liberal in Bloomington, Indiana, the most liberal city in the state. No doubt she was also a graduate of the Kinsey Institute (aka School of Sex) at IU.
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  10045. Ralph Bakshi was more faithful to Tolkien than Amazon's woke retard staff. It can be honestly said that his cartoon adaptation is better than Rings of Power. As to your question, I think the work you are looking for is "Apathy".
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  10046. This is exactly what happened after the sub-prime mortgage loan fiasco. The big banks gobbled up the small ones with the collaboration of the Feds. "Too big to fail" became the justification for oligarchism.
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  10047. His wig? You realize that even the worst Trump critics in the media stopped with the Toupe jokes after Jimmy Fallon messed with it.
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  10048. And as time goes on, you come to realize that there was a certain foresight in some of the cringe of the "Greatest Generation". They saw what would become of the path things were following, but were not afraid to call it out.
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  10049. They could have gone with the apocrypha around the two blue wizards to justify a "diverse" cast. I guess they don't like the "white savior complex" which is ironic considering that those two wizards don't even need to be White/European. The two angels that visited Abraham in Roma Downing's Bible mini-series were black and East Asian. The two blues could have been similar.
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  10050. My father thinks it should be "Gulf of NORTH America". I think it should be "Gulf of THE Americas".
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  10051.  @pauldillingham6316  Look at the business dealings of Mr. Chao and his company. Just because one flees from the Communists doesn't mean they are not willing to do business with them. Remember Vladimir Lenin's famous quote? "A good capitalist will sell you the rope you use to hang him".
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  10052.  @pauldillingham6316  Repeating yourself isn't making an argument, it is making a logical fallacy of the broken record. And you would be surprised at how often people who fled a nation only do so because they are not part of the ruling cabal; quite often they actually agree with the same ideology that they fled from. Again, the business dealing of Mr. Chao and his import/export business with the Red Government speaks volumes. And it is impossible to do business in Red China if you are not controlled in some fashion by the CCCP. Business with Mainland China is literally like signing a Faustian Pact.
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  10053.  @pauldillingham6316  "WITHOUT EVIDEINCE" huh? You realize with that one phrase you have discredited yourself. There is evidence and I have provided it, you just refuse to acknowledge it. By refusing to acknowledge it, it further discredits you because it proves to everyone that you are NOT arguing in good faith, but rather arguing FROM a conclusion rather than to a conclusion. There is a word for that: political activism. And it reveals you to be a hack and a fraud. You call me a liar, well your own words just proved you are exactly what you accuse me. Classic Saul Alinsky.
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  10054.  @pauldillingham6316  Ask and you shall receive. Refute these and you prove my point that you are not interested in discussion, only that your tribe(the corrupt establishment) wins at any cost. https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/03/politics/elaine-chao-china/index.html https://www.pacificpundit.com/2020/12/15/crook-elaine-chao-mcconnells-wife-under-investigation-for-shipping-business-with-china/ https://www.politicususa.com/2019/05/28/mcconnell-chao-russia-china.html https://nationalfile.com/china-mitch-mcconnell-has-family-ties-to-bank-of-china-top-chinese-shipping-firm/
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  10055.  @pauldillingham6316  Yes Biden is a crook. On that we agree. So is Mitch McConnell and all of the establishment GOP. Plague on BOTH their houses as Mercutio cursed the Montagues and Capulets. Be warned, when you use the mantra of the "main stream media" (aka Pravda, a propaganda outfit and mouthpiece of communist parties) such as "Without Evidence" you become no different from them. "Those who fight monsters must take care that they do not become they very thing they oppose," -attributed to Fredrich Nietzsche.
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  10056.  @ruthhopfe7912  Yeah, that tends to happen when the media is funded by the government; it invariably becomes the mouthpiece of the government just like Soviet Pravda. The US Constitution's First Amendment about freedom of the press was supposed to put a clear divide between the two so that one would not become the tool of the other.
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  10057. One of several great lines uttered by RDJ. The whole movie is full on memes.
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  10058. "Trans-women" are basically just eunuchs. Or Steers. or Geldings.
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  10059. Indeed. Putin simply reinstated the very same system they had under Leonid Brezhnev.
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  10060. And the fact that America's elites have benefited while allowing foreign interests to rip off the country hasn't helped either.
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  10061. @Kam Exactly. The most vocal advocates of socialism have never actually had to live under it. And they contemptuously dismiss the experiences of those who have. Yeah, the Tytler cycle you quoted reminds me of George S. Patton's speech to the Third Army about how the cowards will breed like rats.
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  10062.  @kasper2970  The grass isn't greener on the other side of the fence. For one, your "universal medicine" is abominably bad. Zero innovation and breakthroughs. You have to wait as much as six months to see a doctor. Affordability is NOT the same as accessibility; you experience medical rationing. As far as education, yet again you are being dishonest. The elites and well connected do get good education, but the regular citizen does not. You hide it behind testing that skews in favor of the elites at the expense of the working class. Education is treated just like medicine: those with power can get it, but the commoner doesn't. And don't get me started on the abuse of labor with regards to doing the bare minimum. When you can't get fired for incompetence, there is no accountability and much graft and corruption. "They pretended to pay us, and we pretended to work," -joke about the "workers' paradise" of the USSR.
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  10063.  @jeffreyschnedar8020  And yet again with the false narrative. You are only looking at the top 100 companies, not the vast majority of businesses. Trying to compare the Fortune 500 to the rest of the business world is apples to oranges false analogy. MOST small business CEOs are also the principle investor. Which means if the company loses money, THEY personally lose their shirt. If the business folds, the employees lose their job, but the CEO loses EVERYTHING. Again, don't pretend that the top 100 in any way represent the rest of the world.
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  10064. Indeed. These vultures act like Locusts, consuming everything in their path.
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  10065. Indeed. The audience reviews are no longer believable anymore after the data manipulation they pulled in the aftermath of the critical Star Wars reviews which ratioed the Disney movies.
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  10066. "Amen I say to you the harlots and the tax collectors will enter heaven before you," -Matthew 21:31 How about you look at the ENTIRE chapter, not just pick and choose that which supports your political agenda.
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  10067. Nelson Mandel was in prions before holding office.
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  10068. And yet outside observes like India have concurred with much of their assessments. When neutrals have their confidence, that should tell you something.
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  10069.  @johncasilli849  India has been playing neutral third party since WW2. This is nothing new. In fact, the US relationship with Pakistan poisons any relationship the US could have with India. Personally, I would ditch the Muslims to ally with the Rajahs.
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  10070.  @remy12  Keep dreaming. The Black Trump voters want money from work, not from hand-outs. They know under Trump they can earn more working than they ever could from sucking "Uncle Sugar's" teat.
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  10071.  @archeopterix22  Desert Storm/Desert Sheild doesn't ring a bell does it? Nor does Grenada? Your ignorance of recent history is astounding. Stop listening to neo-Soviet propaganda.
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  10072.  @prometheusjackson8787  Sure, because instead of actually fighting the enemy, the American generals were more interested in a body count; they made the exact same blunder as the Soviets did 30 years prior. Your explanation is just like the empty claims about the US losing the Tet Offensive. Words of an arm-chair general who actually has zero understand of battlefield tactics. The problem with Afghanistan is that Western powers refuse to emulate the two men who DID bring Bactria to heel: Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan.
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  10073.  @prometheusjackson8787  First, there was no reason to bring up Israel except to show you are a raging antisemite. Anti-Zionism IS Anti-Semitism no matter how much you try to pass it off otherwise. Secondly, you grossly mischaracterize the US. Neo-liberalism is simply a by-word for Soviet Fascistic Totalitarianism. America pushes CLASSICAL liberalism. And the fact that countries that previously lived under communism prefer America today over their past which you advocate for them to return to speaks volumes, Iran calls the US "The Great Satan" because our ideas and philosophies win the battle for the hearts and minds of the people. You hate that because your ideas are not convincing, just like Joe Biden's defenders are unconvincing. In short, you are engaging in sour grapes.
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  10074.  @prometheusjackson8787  Sure, because picking on someone who was not part of the conversation is so mature on your part. You engage in a logical fallacy of non-sequitur: does not follow. It does not follow for you to bring Israel into the conversation except to crop-dust anti-Semitism just like Ilhan Omar does. No, Iran hates the US because the paedo Ayatollahs tell them to hate the US. You clearly don't understand Salafism. You don't understand how religious zealotry from the followers of the Twelfth Imam is what drives Iranian politics. You are precisely the kind of people they first throw off a tower when they get power. Learn a little about Islamic Conquests before you push infantile drivel about so-called interventionism by the west. That part of the world has been constantly overthrowing their local governments since antiquity.
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  10075.  @prometheusjackson8787  Palestine or JUDEA? Use the proper name for the region, not one given to it by the occupying British. The Turks NEVER called it Palestine when it was part of the Ottoman Empire.
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  10076.  @prometheusjackson8787  Palestine was a word the Roman invented after they expelled the Jews following the revolt in 73 AD. Jews never stole land because it was already theirs to begin with. If anything, it was the Romans who stole it. But then again, you are pushing the same false narrative as the "Give back Texas" folks who themselves stole the land from the people before them. You are not an honest debater; you are a hack pushing political agenda. If anything, Moldova and Ukraine are as the Jews, defending themselves from the actual oppressor, namely their neighbors who refuse to let them live in peace.
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  10077.  @prometheusjackson8787  More Kremlin lies. You are not convincing anyone, you are only showing you are a tool of Putin.
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  10078. hey have always been nevertrump establishment shills.
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  10079. When you lose power to your vehicle. you don't have time or altitude to divert. Look at what happened after the bird strike when Sully Sullenberger landed on the Hudson River.
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  10080. I have always had difficulty with Chinese pronunciations. Peking or Beijing? It is not as crisps as a hard "P", but not as soft as a "B". And likewise, not a hard "K", but not as soft as a "J" either. For the longest time I mispronounced the j as a hard "Z". My time in South Korea fixed me of that.
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  10081.  @chrissegee  Indeed. In DIE culture, land whales are the standard for "beauty".
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  10082. If only that were true. Australia is "little brother". And I say that with great affection. The relationship between America and the Land Down under is closer than the much talked about "special" relationship between the US and UK. In EVERY war the US has engaged in, Australia has ALWAYS been there watching our six.
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  10083. Europe is regressing into the very same cesspool that colonists to the new world fled from. Look into why people left Europe in the 1700 and 1800s and you will see a similar pattern developing.
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  10084. Hamas was elected by the people of Gaza.
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  10085. And that is the beauty of Public Domain. One can write niche stories and pander to the niche audience and others can write a story based on PD characters that has broad appeal. Guess which one will survive the test of time?
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  10086. Or Bergdahl?
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  10087. Clout chasing is not a real job. Also, the "money" you were making was what the Red Chinese government was paying you, not what advertisers or subscribes provided.
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  10088. @ Billions as claimed by Bytedance.....which means it is fabricated numbers that the Red Chines government want you to believe. The money you get from tiktok isn't from advertisers, it is from the CCP.
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  10089. In WW1, French and British Generals did exactly as you suggest, and the results were catastrophic. Ukraine is NOT going to repeat those foolish tactics. They are being wise in their employment of their units.
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  10090. Indeed. Too many "Five Finger Discounts" and they close because they ran out of money.
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  10091. Oh, I have no doubt that China desires "Outer Manchuria". The bigger question becomes Sakhalin Island.
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  10092. No, they are not. The only exception is the French Foreign Legion (FFL). Two reasons for this are that the organization has existed for decades before the conventions, and the second reason is that they are treated as an auxiliary to the French Military and are held to account as if they were a uniformed military. There is a very good reason why the Georgian and Belarusian Legions in Ukraine are modeled after the FFL.
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  10093. Indeed. Distract the people from failing domestic agenda that makes the lives of regular people worse. People will put up with a lot if they think that an "other" is the cause of their problems. Classic tactic of despots in the 1930s.
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  10094. Indeed. Shtrafbat from WW2.
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  10095. Microchips are made almost exclusively in Taiwan.
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  10096.  @Fantastika  I seriously doubt that the Taiwanese would only source that from a single supplier. If that was truly the case, Red China would not be so focused about capturing the microchip foundries on Formosa intact when the opposition can simply cut the supply lines for them from Europe. Think about their Achillies Heel regarding oil and the Strait of Malacca, and then remember that the Suez Canal as a second choke point makes it even worse.
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  10097.  @Fantastika  Again, I just don't believe you. I have a sneaking suspicion that there ARE other sources, it is just that they don't have the market dominance that Holland has. Having 80% of the market doesn't mean you are the only source.
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  10098. Indeed. Narco-States are active participants in pushing the drugs as the politicians are often on the payroll of the cartels. Mexico better fits that description than Belgium.
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  10099.  @edwinrodeo  Yup, that is the main reason why Trump is threatening tarriffs-to stop people from ripping off Americans. And the VAT tax is often used as a stealth tarriff.
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  10100. And so does the Biden family who used their position to enrich themselves. "The Lady doth protest too much, me thinks," -Queen Gertrude, "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare.
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  10101. I think 1816 was the year without a summer caused by Mount Tambora. But you are correct that 935 was a significantly colder year because of Mount Paektu's humongous eruption.
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  10102. The Soviets did that. Zhivago: I saw some of your 'manhood' on the way at a place called Minsk. Pasha: They were selling horses to the Whites. Zhivago: It seems you've burnt the wrong village. Pasha: They always say that, and what does it matter? A village betrays us, a village is burned. The point's made. Zhivago: Your point - their village.
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  10103. Ever heard of the U-2 Dragon Lady? Spy vehicles don't need to be undetectable to still be effective.
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  10104. "Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system." -Marcus Tullius Cicero.
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  10105.  @bigbird2240  A Federal court recently ruled in favor of a southern border state, chastizing the Federal government stating that the Feds do NOT have the right to simply refuse to enforce the laws on the books, and upheld the state enforcing the federal laws on immigration.
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  10106.  @drowe2  Ah, but there is the rub. This is called retaliation and is a FELONY under federal law.
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  10107. No joke. Not two months ago they were calling him a klansman and white supremacist. They are getting desperate.
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  10108.  @yellowtunes2756  You assume everything is linear. That is a classic false assumption by amateurs who have zero understanding. But the fact of the matter is, the last 27km is not nearly as strongly defended as the first 3km. As they advance, the resistance becomes weaker and the progress speeds up.
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  10109.  @yellowtunes2756  Nice proof by verbosity. It just proves my point that you have no idea what you are talking about. You are just using word salad to try and sound smart. As for the multiple lines, there is a VERY simple explanation. 1st line is the prisoner battalions. 2nd line is the conscripts with orders to shoot any of the prisoners who try to retreat. 3rd line is the professional and contract soldiers with orders to shoot any of the conscripts who try to flee.
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  10110. Israel is acting to protect its people like it always has. Hamas is exploiting theirs, like they always have. Don't be disingenuous.
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  10111. "Bravely ran sir robin, Sir Robin bravely ran"
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  10112. "Form your own studio". That is exactly what they should do. Don Bluth did it forcing competition against Disney. All Dogs Go to Heaven upstaged The Great Mouse Detective because disgruntled Disney animators jumped ship.
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  10113. Or put more simply, "a fool and his money are soon parted".
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  10114. Shouldn't even be calling them "migrants" because that bestows a legitimacy on them they are not entitled to have. The correct term is "UNLAWFUL TRESSPASSING FOREIGN ALIEN NATIONAL".
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  10115. Yeah, NPC theory is basically the Minbari soul arc from Babylon 5.
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  10116. Indeed. The litigation between Sargon and Patreon has brought some dirty details to light that has forced the FCC to look into their business practices. Misappropriation of funds, and theft of donated money to banned users runs afoul of the money laundering statues. This is the kind of organized crime laws such as RICO were established to prevent.
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  10117. And put other people at risk because of those policies? How many more crashes due to lowered standards caused by DEI stipulations need to occur before it becomes unavoidable?
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  10118. @ An not even 48 hours later we have another crash. How many more fatal crashes have to occur before it gets addressed? The truth doesn't care about your feelings. And allowing more deaths to occur simply because someone thinks it is insensitive to talk about it is morally wrong.
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  10119.  @bachelor3846  Can't possibly consider that it was done by eco-terrorists?
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  10120. Yeah, I don't understand why people can't be bothered to read the Federalist Papers, particularly the part about the flow of sovereign power. The Authority wielded by Disney is on loan from the State of Florida and can be revoked at pleasure by the government.
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  10121. More like Yangire.
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  10122. Then and now Schultz is eating crow because he is stuck holding the bag of feces that Angela Merkel left for him.
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  10123.  @Macheako  Yeah, I see you have been reading Jubal Early's Myth of the Southern Cause. You realize that entire narrative is predicated on the claims of unrepentant racists? "The War of Northern Aggression" is a Klan narrative.
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  10124.  @louissteyn6871  Yeah, that is already happening. Innocent people are already being harassed by the Doxxers. The ONLY way to put at stop to it is if the people doing it are themselves targeted. And yes, the innocent are going to suffer regardless of whom is doxxing whom.
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  10125.  @bigbangrafa8435  There is one word that concisely sums up what you just articulated: NEPOTISM. Whether Jar Jar Abrams or Killeen Kennedy, they are all products of good old fashion nepotism. Who you know and who you blow.
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  10126.  @pwillis1589  And all of them are biased towards the left. Further, if you actually look at the question they ask, they are skewed to drive a narrative rather than actually get a pulse on the electorate. Civics in particular has been really bad about that as of late which is why I stopped participating in their questionnaires.
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  10127.  @pwillis1589  They were acknowledging what they could no longer deny. Keep in mind that before the disastrous debate, they still had Biden leading. Shows you how worthless they really are.
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  10128.  @pwillis1589  Don't confuse opinion for objective fact. Everything I said is objective. And no, the preponderance of evidence doesn't prove you correct, it actually refutes you. I have your plate of crow ready for you to eat.
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  10129.  @pwillis1589  Again you accuse us of doing exactly what you are doing. That is call psychological projection and is a classic tactic of a Saul Alinsky disciple. Go touch grass.
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  10130.  @pwillis1589  Lean to code. And don't quit your day job.
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  10131. Indeed, the closest one COULD claim that England had one would have been Queen Victoria. Of all the British Royals, I think she could have claim to be Empress and it would have been acclaimed.
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  10132.  @OrochiCr  Funny, because that is exactly what your feudal masters want you to think. They want you to forever live in ignorance.
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  10133.  @troyamandajames1416  So you would burn your country to the ground just to spite people you don't like? Nice to know that you are that petty.
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  10134.  @EMendonca-mp2mf  Trump was too trusting in his first term. You think he is going to make the same mistake twice?
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  10135. @ You are moving the goalposts. Interestingly, Trump got flak for firing people in his first term. That was him holding bad hires accountable, something that DC seems to have a problem with doing, and which you are strangely silent on.
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  10136.  @wolfwind9658  They are not. Gary Johnson and Bill Weld are GOP rejected because they EXPANDED GOVERNMENT when they were state governors. The ONLY thing that made them libertarian was legalization of drug use. Their supporters engaged in a Stalinist purge of the Libertarian party after Austin Peterson lost their primary.
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  10137. @Nate G. Not really. That is what the power mongers WANT you to think. Especially the RINOs who bank on that false choice dilemma. When Libertarians get at best 10% of the votes cast, they are effectively a non-factor in elections. Big L Governors are a RARE exception, not the norm. Stop shilling for the people who abuse you by telling you to pick the lesser of two evils; they are deceiving you into affirmatively picking evil and legitimizing their bad behavior.
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  10138. Prices spiking 40% isn't nothing. That is the boycott working exactly as it is supposed to. Just like the Sanctions on Russia.
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  10139. No joke. Most women today pile on the makeup with a trowel. Fortunately, my wife is one of those all-natural girls.
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  10140. Actually, it is classic saver rattling. Nixon would send out the nuclear bombers on attack runs, recalling them at the last minute every time a Soviet general simply sneezed.
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  10141. Yeah, something tells me you have zero knowledge about the Korean war and why your proposal is intellectually lazy.
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  10142. Most people in power are psychopaths. So it should come as no surprise they get their kicks from abusing such power.
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  10143.  @embreis2257  Too bad both China, all of sub-Sahara Africa, and much of South America disagree with you. Too bad that "decarbonization" is just a pretext for neo-feudalism because "green energy" is NOT financially viable. Cheap energy is the lifeblood of economics, no exceptions. Without economics, everything else is just a wishful fantasy.
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  10144. Maybe because left wing politicians and policies never deliver on their promises? And don't say it has never been tried, because Biden is just continuing the disastrous left-wing policies of Obama and Carter.
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  10145. Communist Dictatorships LOVE to claim they are the "People's Republic" when they are anything but. It has become so cliche that it is now a trope in fiction.
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  10146. It is insane to defend yourself from people who want to drive you into the sea?
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  10147.  @eyewideopen9083  You are making a distinction WITHOUT a difference. Stop engaging in the bait and switch of the left. Only the corrupt play word games. "When words lose their meaning, people lose their lives," -Confucius, author of the Analects.
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  10148.  @kenhamaker  Oh, I agree. We should have allowed them to use the weapons we sent against legitimate military targets ON Russian soil.
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  10149. Nobody who voted for Trump in 2016 voted against him in 2020; they went out and voted to keep him in office. They will NOT vote against him in 2024, and neither will the voters he picked up in 2020. The ONLY GOP voters that RFK Jr. might pick up are the nevertrumpers. And if he keeps them out of the Biden camp, that is victory for Trump.
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  10150.  @robertmusil1107  And get invaded next. Cope harder private conscriptovich.
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  10151.  @tacticalcenter8658  And you are a Russian troll.
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  10152.  @tacticalcenter8658  Talking about yourself again? You clearly lack self-awareness.
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  10153.  @theghostofmaximumvolume3414  "I think, therefore I am". I am not an NPC: I don't follow programing like Pavlov's Dog. I would think my unique responses are evidence of that. AI is not sophisticated enough to make such replies.
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  10154.  @theghostofmaximumvolume3414  Wow, talk about unhinged, psychotic, delusional fantasy. You do realize the simulation idea only became mainstream because of the 1999 movie "The Matrix"? While not a new idea, normies such as you think that you are hip by referencing it. For someone calling other people "bots" you sure do display your own programed behavior.
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  10155.  @theghostofmaximumvolume3414  Wow, talk about the pot calling the kettle black. You lack self-awareness of your own bot-farm behavior. And like a typical normie, you think the 1999 movie "The Matrix" was the first iteration. Got news for you, such encephalon concepts date back at least to the 1950s with Heinlein, Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and other great futurists who were years ahead of their time.
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  10156.  @theghostofmaximumvolume3414  Wow pot meet kettle. PS, no few than FIVE of my response to you have been deleted by Google/Youtube. The machine doesn't bother censoring itself because it doesn't need to.
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  10157.  @keepgrindingup7661  So you are just going to take what government mouthpieces tell you at face value? You are not going to actually LOOK at the google Maps satellite image of the end of the runway? From that godforsaken wall to the next structure was 444 meters (1,456 freedom units). More than likely, it would have slid into the bay at 1.08KM from the end of the runway.
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  10158.  @StandStrong614  What makes you so confident about that? Remember, the Secret Service is part of the executive branch. Which means they are government employees. And who controls the detail assignments of the Secret Service?
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  10159. Yeah, DoD leadership is not the brightest bulb in the package. They fouled up in canceling the F-22 prematurely. They screwed up in sending unarmored Hummers to Iraq. They fled from Afghanistan like dirty cowards (the men at the top, not the enlisted on the ground). The entire Pentagon needs to be cleaned out.
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  10160. Indeed. Many similarities to a Jihadi. You would think we had learned something from WW2. Ironically it may have been fighting the Moro Jihadis in the Philippines that "conditioned" Americans to fight zealots.
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  10161. Because the GOP establishment wants the same things as the Democrats, just with the "R" rather than the "D". There is a reason why the GOP never Trumpers like the Lincoln Project got in bed with the Democrats.
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  10162. Hell, I was hoping for Short Round to be the next Jones. But Hollywood hates Asian Heros who are not Jackie Chan clones.
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  10163.  Sigkim  Too late for that. Double Jeopardy is in play since a verdict has already been delivered.
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  10164.  Sigkim  Indeed. That seems to be the point people are missing. Once a verdict is rendered, mistrial no longer becomes an option. The four trials of James Arthur Williams should have been TRIPLE Jeopardy. At least he was eventually exonerated on the grounds of self-defense, but it should have NEVER gotten that far. 8th Amendment for cruel and unusual punishment applies to the accused, not just the convicted. And many times, the exonerated have had that right grossly abused.
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  10165.  @Mr.Monta77  And you think Trum derangement syndrome is a good thing? Nevertrump is synonymous with fanatical cult zealotry.
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  10166. The problem is that social media is a dark reflection of the real world. Namely, it is what people keep hidden behind a face of collegiality when in person. The toxicity exists, but people think that when they are online, they can be anonymous and not accountable for their words and actions. I have always stood by my words IRL. What you see online is what I would say to your face and vice versa.
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  10167. The BBC is basically the mouthpiece of the British government. Namely the bureaucracy.
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  10168. Belaus' artillery supplies and tanks have been stripped and sent to Ukraine. They can't launch an offensive because they have no gear. Further, if the fool in Minsk does send his troops into Ukraine, they are more likely to defect to the Ukrainian side than the Russian conscripts.
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  10169. "The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire, the roof, the roof, the roof is on fire....." -Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic Three "Round and Round, let the city burn, we can party in the hills, we can party in the 'burbs. Roof on fire, let it burn. Champaign in my hand, I'm not concerned," -Pearl's Rap song by MKatwood.
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  10170. Same with Kurtzman Trek. Good money after bad on the beneficiaries of nepotism who have zero creativity. These corporations need to be burned to the ground for their incompetence.
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  10171. "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges; In times of war, the law falls silent" -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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  10172. Count your blessings. I have wanted to wash that abomination of a word of of my ears for two years now.
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  10173.  @Potacintvervs  Hardly. That disparagement just shows you can't argue merits. There is NOTHING Satanic about reciprocity. Indeed, true justice is predicated on reciprocity since antiquity. Keep in mind, reciprocity is predicated on PROPORTIONALITY, rejecting the idea that you inflict a greater injury to the one you received.
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  10174. Refusing to save people from the monster they created does not make you like them. Refusing to save people from the consequences of their actions does not make you like them. To claim so is not only intellectually lazy, it is engaging in moral equivalency(a logical fallacy). Those that say we should defend them even if we disagree with them on this are the foolish fox allowing the scorpion onto their back before starting to swim across the river in that old fable.
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  10175.  @StixFerryMan  That is again foolishly naïve. Again, your "teach by example" and "be a better person" only works with people who are NOT Machiavellian, and who have a conscience. Otherwise you are simply setting yourself up to fail. And don't give me that sanctimonious "but muh principles!" That is just making yourself feel good about being foolish.
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  10176.  @TheRhino-27  Clearly you are not on the same page, or worse, you are being blatantly dishonest. Stockholm Syndrome is rewarding your abusers. Namely, protecting and defending the people holding you hostage. When you defend the people who try to silence you when they are being silenced, that is no different than Patty Hearst situation.
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  10177. Indeed. Since when does a Japanese now count as white? These people who claim to believe in intersectionality and minorities are themselves the actual racists to assume the main character is white.
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  10178.  @CarpeNoctem135  No, no primates in my backyard, playing with my kids. What odds do you lay that our conversation is over the heads of the NPCs? I suspect folks younger than us have never seen the movie.
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  10179. @A B That is not how the law works, dude. You can only get the RICO statute to stick with federal felonies, not state misdemeanor crimes.
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  10180. The mole is the man he refuses to throw under the bus: Barak Obama.
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  10181.  @Jkim890  I tend to agree. What China has that Russia does not is sheer number of bodies they can throw into the fight. Much like Wagner did in Bakhmut, or the People's Liberation Army did in 1951, they can mass force in such volume that the west runs out of bullets before they run out of bodies. And yes, the PLAAF can also do that, even with cheap, less than competitive 3rd Generation fighters.
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  10182.  @Jkim890  PS, I had the privilege of being Stationed at Osan AB, Korea and had a blast visiting numerous historic sites. Protecting the history and culture gave me a reason to fight for the Korean people. My favorite city was actually Suwon followed by Suncheon because they were NOT as cosmopolitan as Pusan or Seoul. Those cities retained an authentic Korean character that is diluted in more touristy places like Pusan.
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  10183. Sounds like Joe Bite-me is about to come down with one of those infamous "Russian Colds" politicians in the Soviet Union would catch from time to time. They have a 100% fatality rate, you know.
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  10184.  @ky6632 Yeah, their Trump derangement syndrome is blinding them to accurate analysis.
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  10185. More like Paul von Hindenburg. Russia HAS lost before. TWICE to the Kaiser's Army.
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  10186.  @robertjamesonmusic  Says the democrat shill. The fact that Biden is being replaced on the ballot only shows that America has truly had enough of the DNC.
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  10187. Needs to happen. Maybe this will finally get people to act.
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  10188. Yeah, that already irritates me. I drive a 12-year-old Ford Fiesta which is already having transmission issues. I qualify for food stamps (with two sons I am below the poverty line) but refuse to accept them because I have a little thing call "dignity".
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  10189. Indeed. Krakatoa volcano is about the only appropriate comparison/analogy we can make with the Hunga Tonga Volcano. Even if the sizes are not the same, the mechanics, physics, and fundamentals should remain the same.
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  10190.  @ehmjay2892  Wow, seriously? You didn't read my post did you? Yes, I mislabel the Tohoku Earthquake as 2013 rather than 2011 when it did occur. I was at Osan AB in Korea when that happened. I saw the reactions of the Koreans. While those under 30 were sympathetic, those over 30 were still very bitter towards Japan and cheered. And apparently you overlooked my point about the aid the Park Geun-Hye offered to send which caused outrage in Korea.
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  10191.  @ClownfishTV  Better it shills for Kadokawa than what it currently is attacking fans and trashing the medium.
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  10192. Touche! I tend to agree.
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  10193. If the war was lost on day one, then why does Kiev still stand? You are drunk private conscriptovich.
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  10194.  @youruncledarnell  Thank you for proving Confucius's point. "Better people THINK you a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt," -Mark Twain.
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  10195.  @youruncledarnell  Spoken like the fool. The fact that Kiev is still a free city not occupied by Russia is proof that you have lost the plot. "When the wise man points to the moon, the imbecilic examines the finger," -Confucius Author of "The Analects."
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  10196.  @YoungWildShottas  And so you show how infantile you are, throwing a temper tantrum without actually debating merits. You are like a pigeon playing chess.
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  10197. You would be surprised how many MiG spare parts foundries sprung up in Poland and Czechia after the fall of the USSR.
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  10198.  @Battlenude  You would be surprised how easy it is to use alternative components in Soviet equipment. MacGyvering is practically a Polish tradition. The fact that MiGs are even able to equip NATO AGM-88 HARMs is proof of that.
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  10199.  @Battlenude  " But what has this to do with Polish migs. They are not flyable. End if story" Just because you say that doesn't make it true. If anything, you bringing up India's MiGs only further proves my point. Polish MiGs ARE flyable otherwise they would never even be offered. That you can't get that basic fact shows a clear disconnect of logical thinking.
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  10200. A lot of so-called experts not thinking things through these days. "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should," -Jeff Goldblum as Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park.
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  10201. Actually, freedom of speech is being eroded by the antisemites who don't broker any criticism of their cause. Ask yourself why Islamists parties are for passing blasphemy laws in Western societies?
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  10202. That is always their boogieman now since Orange Man is no longer around.
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  10203. I think that is their goal. To increase domestic strife with roving bands of armed groups engaging in vigilantism.
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  10204.  @thisguy5017  The way they contort themselves to claim forced labor is NOT the definition of slavery is cringe.
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  10205.  @thisguy5017  I'm not sure if your first paragraph was sarcasm or serious. I took your previous post to be sarcasm. I do agree with your second paragraph. While SOME volunteered service for travel to the new world, that was hardly the norm. And what the wokeistas refuse to acknowledge is that most of the deaths during indentured servitude occurred during the very last year of their service. They were often LITTERALLY worked to death. Slaves don't get worked to dead because a dead slave has no value; it is a lost of investment.
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  10206. Considering that DeSantis' campaign folks are connected to the Veritas folks attacking James O'Keefe, this is actually par the course for them.
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  10207.  @A_Jeff  Don't believe you lying eyes huh? You are guilty of doing that which you accuse us. That makes you what Vlad Lenin called "a useful idiot".
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  10208.  @ЭЮЯ-о3к  That facts speak for themselves. Threatening to nuke Sweden or Poland is a clear act of aggression and escalation. Invading Georgia in 2008 was an act of aggression. Their theft of Crimea in 2014. was an act of aggression. You are drinking neo-Soviet kool-aid.
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  10209.  @wolfgangpagel6989  Indeed. They violated every accord they have ever signed. And those hacks like this Russian troll will never admit they are wrong. The Russian people deserve better. Hell, the ethnic minorities in Russia deserve even more.
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  10210.  @internetzenmaster8952  Nice whataboutism. The problem is more about frequency and degree. The left far and away is worse than the right when it comes to wishing ill will on their opponents. Don't try and claim they are the same with moral relativism.
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  10211. @PunyMonkey You are conflating activation with escalation. Tit for tat is NOT escalation as you falsely presume. Tit for tat is reciprocation. You are advocating appeasement while presenting a false choice between that and escalation.
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  10212.  @decepticonxhunter4850  That is precisely the mantra of Neville Chamberlain appeasers. It is also how Stockholm Syndrome justifies itself. The logic of your premise dictates that there is no right to self-defense. Stop making excuses for capitulation and submission. Reciprocity is NOT escalation, it is appropriate proportionality.
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  10213.  @drakron  Didn't read the entire Wikipedia article, did you? They were sold off to Cognizant in 2015 and ceased to exist. Open mouth, insert foot, you did.
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  10214.  @FiveStringCommando  Now if only Taipei would acknowledge the merits of this an allow their population to arm themselves in the same way.
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  10215.  @fransdebruijn6763  The best answer to a deranged gunman is an armed population. By your logic, a semi-auto pistol is more dangerous than a revolver. And yet, a revolver with a smaller number of shots and slower reload time is often able to defeat a semi-auto in a fire fight. Also, the class three full auto weapons are NOT banned in the US. It is just so prohibitively expensive that most don't bother with it. The fact that those folks who have them have NOT gone on a killing rampage is proof that your fear is unjustified.
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  10216. Capitalism and free markets have raised more people out of poverty than any other economic system. Even the Keynesians now admit that. You can't steal your way to national prosperity.
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  10217. Wow, talk about an Anglophobic perspective. Purchasing power is only part of the equation. You seem to forget that in the trade, the partner nations DOES get something of equitable value DESPITE the purchasing power disparity. Where you are taking issue has more to do with the ruling elites of said trade partner not sharing the wealth with their laborers who are exploited.
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  10218. "Cold hard fact" huh? I think you conflate opinion for fact. Do keep in mind that Japan has NOT always been in agreement with the US. There have been numerous situations when the Japanese have stabbed the US in the back (selling of the F-15/F-16 to unapproved third parties such as the Chinese). You calling the Japanese puppets effectively denies that Japan has any agency to make its own choices. That is a very myopic perspective and frankly, a lazy infantile one.
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  10219.  @eirikarnesen9691  Wow, seems like I triggered you. You are clearly an Anglophobe pretending to be an anti-colonialist (which is just fashionable anti-European racism)
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  10220.  @eirikarnesen9691  You are correct. I mistakenly tagged you instead of rsuriyop. My apologies.
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  10221.  @rsuriyop  Japan's economic downturn has NOTHING to do with the US and everything to do with their own bad economic choices. When the Yen is typically strong against the USD, your claims of America keeping the Japanese on a leash is utter garbage born of Ameriphobia. Incidentally, since Anime is eating Disney and Hollywood's lunch, that is further evidence that Japan is its own master.
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  10222.  @rsuriyop  More drivel from someone who thinks word salad is "educated". Some of us have actually been to Japan and South Korea and know the truth having experienced it firsthand.
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  10223. Chechnya and Dagestan together could make for an Independent Islamic Republic.
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  10224.  @allenk6373  Russia doesn't like that Ukraine and the Baltic States are independent, so what are you complaining about? The bigger issue is the local's willingness to engage in an insurgency to achieve independence.
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  10225.  @allenk6373  That isn't an argument, that is a deflection because you don't want to debate the merits. The fact that you chose to ignore my examples of San Marino and Lesotho shows your insincerity. But I guess for someone who complains about Americans being ignorant of Alaska, you have never heard of those two countries. Pot calling the kettle black.
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  10226.  @FalconfromRF  Funny you mention the Armenians because the Azerbaijanis are curb-stomping them. That province they have been trying to "liberate" has remained tightly under the control of Baku. Russia is MUCH larger and more spread out. The ONLY reason why China or the other Islamic Republics haven't invaded is because of the blow back if they did.
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  10227. The problem is that "Progressive" has really changed one iota from their roots in the 1930s. Seriously, look at the ideology of 1930s "Progressives" and you will see disturbing parallels to today. Policies that we rejected in the 1960s.
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  10228. With the Petrograd and Moscow air defenses having been stripped and sent to Ukraine? Why would Putin use nukes when he is vulnerable like that?
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  10229. "Amateurs imitate, professionals plagiarize," -Attributed to Igor Stravinsky.
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  10230. One of the solutions to the Fermi Paradox is the "great filter" in which a culture destroys itself before making contact with other extraterrestrial intelligence.
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  10231. Heinz Guderian, the father of tank warfare had ALWAYS advocated for tanks to be but a part of a larger combined force. In "Achtung Panzser", he said that every tank should be escorted at all times by an infantry squad.
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  10232.    I love your breakdown of the "third parties". Only, it is missing the Socialist and Communist party's response.
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  10233. Yeah, I was wondering why they didn't take the opportunity to expel the Russians in the middle of 2022. Now that I know they have a compliant government, it makes more sense.
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  10234. SHOULD being the operative point. Sadly, the jokes have only gone in one direction since Obama. Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien were the only ones willing to take jabs at the left's "sacred cow" president.
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  10235. Anti-Zionism is simply fashionable antisemitism. It is hate by proxy.
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  10236. In the Gladiator Arena of Pompeii. DURING the 79 AD Eruption. Sorry, couldn't help myself.
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  10237. Breaking it out of spite, or revealing that it was a Ponzi scheme from the start? That the ONLY reason why it was even solvent was because the CIA was propping it up.
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  10238. Belarus is a puppet of Russia. But a good question has been asked: how much of the Belarusians will defect? Can The leadership of what remains of the Warsaw Pact risk this conflict spilling into Russia and Belarus proper? Who would happen if Minsk found itself under siege?
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  10239. Wasn't there a typhoon or tropical storm to the East of Tonga?
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  10240. "Five Finger Discounts" they call it.
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  10241.  @iv6123  Wow, chronolectal snobbery huh? As pointed out, ritualized dueling has existed since antiquity. Hell, the Spartans were well known for it, and they used the humble spear to spar.
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  10242.  @iv6123  "It was a joke" is ALWAYS the defense of someone who knows they are wrong and are trying to save face. Few people are buying that excuse anymore: it has been grossly overplayed.
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  10243.  @iv6123  Thank you for showing you have nothing of value to say and that you have thrown in the towel.
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  10244.  @iv6123  And yet again you show you are flailing in desperation. Here is a hint: if you find yourself in a hole, STOP DIGGING!
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  10245.  @alexanerose4820  Ah, but where did that polite society first come from? Chicken and the egg. The answer is that an armed society created the conditions for that polite disarmed society to exist. "Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; AS THEY ARE IN ALMOST EVERY KINGDOM OF EUROPE. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States." -Noah Webster
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  10246.  @kristopherjon6496  The DNC was the party of obstruction during both Bush and Trump so you have no room to be throwing stones when you live in a glass house. And the DNC paying lip service is nothing more than empty rhetoric, also known as posturing, grandstanding, and virtue signaling. That is neither honest nor respectable. Your problem is that you are NOT holding both sides to the same standards. You are in fact NOT holding them to account but apologizing. That is called hypocrisy. You are part of the problem by engaging in the very hyper-partisan tribalism that President Kennedy was chastising. "The Lady doth protest too much, me thinks," -Queen Gertrude; Act 3 scene 2; Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
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  10247.  @Jake12220  There are MANY life hacks that you can employ to prevent pipes from freezing. For one, you can keep your sink cabinet doors open to let heat from the rest of the home circulate around the leads to the faucet. Further, even with heating particularly cold snaps can still freeze the pipes even with regular heating. Some people PURPOSLY allow the faucet to slowly drip as a nearly continuous flow through the pipes helps to prevent the water from freezing.
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  10248.  @Jake12220  Well aren't you just the Debbie downer?
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  10249. Because doctors don't bust up their fellow doctors. Just like cops don't bust their own fellow cops. The institution protects itself at all costs.
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  10250. They are "community organizers" not businesspeople. So it is redundant to say they are not smart
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  10251.  @mythoceanas8874  Yeah, something tells me that "diversity hiring" priorities already caused the competent folks you referred to be shown the door.
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  10252. Free JUDEA!
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  10253. Considering Capitol Hill is a nest of preening Peacocks, that is a low bar to overcome.
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  10254.  @erynlasgalen1949  The problem is that the Boomer Generation has done little to nothing to change the course once they got the power. it is easy to blame those who were in power before you, but if you simply continue those same polices, you own it as well. Most of those who have held the levers of power since the 90s HAVE been the Boomer Generation. Blame the World War 2 generation all you want, but the 80s and early 90s were a period of prosperity brought to an end by Boomer Generation politicians.
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  10255. Oh, it gets better. Miley CAN'T refuse to be recalled because when they retire, they never really take off the uniform; they get full pay as if they were still on active duty. THAT is why he needs to be court-martialed. Take away his pension; no rewards for criminal incompetence if not outright malfeasance.
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  10256. Was greatly changed in South Korea after those two school girls were run over by a tank. The fact that he ended up in a Korean prison instead of being sent back to the US immediately is because of that.
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  10257. Agreed. May their scalp be a warning to other brands that decide to go woke. Nike and DIsney will see Anheiser-Busch's corpse and tremble in fear.
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  10258. Trump isn't the president, Biden is. It is his Biden-Obama White House that have been dragging their feet by not emptying the armories of the old and soon to expire gear. Don't need congress to approve that. Congress's only part in this is to finance the replacement of that gear.
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  10259. Also, the "five finger discounts"
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  10260.  @JerehmiaBoaz  You are focusing on the wrong country if you are worried about a new military powerhouse. POLAND is the military superpower of Europe, not Ukraine.
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  10261.  @JerehmiaBoaz  That is some insane troll logic on your part. It blatantly ignores the facts on the ground is purely an emotional argument. Don't conflate opinion with facts and realize that facts don't care about your emotions.
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  10262.  @JerehmiaBoaz  The first point is true. The second one his hogwash. Political grandstanding is typical in international relations, and you fell for the classic example of it. The hard empirical data does NOT support your claim. Youi have been bamboozled by your own biases.
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  10263. As I recall, there was a Nick cartoon with a female dwarf. And of course, the movie Willow had female dwarves (of a kind).
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  10264. And the Russians are absolutely bad at tank combat. Maybe if they actually read Heinz Guderian, Erwin Rommel, and George Patton instead of holding them in contempt.
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  10265. I find myself asking why the media needed armed security when they haven't used them before at left wing "protests"(ie riots). The whole thing is fishy. Richard Randall, a Colorado Springs radio hose was 10 yards away and had numerous photos of the event as it went down. The guy who died used bear spray to protect himself and was then shot.
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  10266.  @braveheart4603  Dude, your country (the UK) created a lot of this mess in the wake of WW1 and the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turks. If only they had just listened to T.E. Lawrence (aka Lawrence of Arabia).
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  10267.  @braveheart4603  Dude, YOUR COUNTRY (the UK) CREATED THIS MESS! Or have you forgotten the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turks facilitated by your government? If only they had listened to and taken the advice of T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), quite a bit of this mess could have been avoided.
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  10268.  @braveheart4603  And yet YOUR country created this mess by instigating the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans. They should have listened to T.E. Lawrence instead of acting like they knew better.
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  10269.  @JohnRebel-k4j  That basically is an act of war. To enforce it requires shooting down Russian aircraft, which WILL provoke a response. That is the problem with you people, you have zero understanding of how these things work. You try way too hard to "sanitize" war and blur the line between peace and declared hostilities.
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  10270. The point they are making is that early on the Brits did develop their colonies while the French dithered. Yes, you can say that the Brits had a head start, but that misses the point they were making in that you have to consider the respective timelines of the colonizing power. Compare 20 to 30 years into the endeavor as a side-by-side comparison and the difference is stark.
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  10271.  @M-J-qn8td  Yeah, I am calling BS on your claims. French Africa had its own resources (oil for example), otherwise the French would not have bothered with it.
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  10272.  @M-J-qn8td  Yeah, I see lots of Anglophobic attacks and zero acknowledgement of France's own culpability. Were the British perfect? Hardly. But the record DOES show that the French were far worse. And they were just as exploitative as the Brits. Don't make excuses for French colonial atrocities and exploitation.
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  10273.  @samsmith4242  As originally envisioned, yes, the Ferengi were supposed to represent the worst of capitalism. But with Quark they ended up becoming the heroic aspects of capitalism. And yes, replicators as the wonder tech effectively eliminated scarcity. Housing is solved if you can use replicators to create the materials to build a shelter (industrial replicators ring a bell?) And the energy requirements to run means the energy "scarcity" had to be solved first. On a starship, that come from the warp core output. Planeside, it comes from implied fusion power. So, you completely missed the point. Communism is an economic system for dealing with scarcity and the distribution of limited resources. In a post scarcity society, communism is irrelevant. But I get it, you don't actually understand what communism really is. As if example of it in practice from the USSR to Cuba, Pol Pot's Cambodia, North Korea, Red China, and Venezuela. You also seem to forget that the TOS Klingons were basically the stand-in for that ideology.
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  10274. And now you see what Martin Luther saw when he nailed his thesis to the door regarding the "indulgences".
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  10275.  @catou060195  Water vapor injected into the stratosphere can still cause a cooling effect. And the plume going as high as 55Km means there was ample water vapor to take the places of ash and dust particulates.
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  10276. Ironically there is a word in Chinese that means "gold and lacquer on the outside, rot and corruption on the inside".
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  10277. Fu-Go balloon bombs are no laughing matter. The Chinese just proved their viability.
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  10278. Far right and far left are two sides of the same coin. Horseshoe Theory.
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  10279. Indeed. The so-called "experts" always claim that inflation is good, and deflation is bad. But that is only the case if you are a banker or market and currency manipulator who games and extracts from the system without producing anything of value. Reality is, deflationary periods are actually the markets and the system correcting for artificial inflation and speculators pumping and dumping the system. To avoid huge deflationary depressions and recessions means more fiscal control and less inflationary policies during good times. Less government controls on the economy, particularly rejecting "quantitative easing" will do more to curb the highs and lows than the gas-break-gas-break policies of technocrats.
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  10280.  @rcbrascan  I'm sorry but China cannot claim to be a "developing country" when they have been leading in manufacturing for the last 20 years. They are no longer developing and are instead a fully developed country when they are fielding 5th generation interceptor fighter craft. They are not longer a developing country when they are in a position to pass in the US in creating AI technology. It is time to stop pretending that China should get special treatment just because they were at one time behind everyone else. Japan and South Korea have not been considered "developing countries" since the 80s. When China is in direct competition economically with those two nations, it has fully matured into a modern developed country.
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  10281. Don't play the blame shifting game or whataboutism.
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  10282. Only when it is not them. "Rules for thee, but not for me".
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  10283.  @skincareforme  You don't know that. There is discussion that the nose landing gear WAS deployed but fell off before they touched down. But that has not been confirmed.
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  10284. You assume all things being equal. But your numbers are just a shell game with now objective validity, nor any solid data supporting them.
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  10285. Indeed. What kind of positive press would she have gotten by offering to assist them in their difficulty? Too bad she doesn't have a little something called COMPASSION. Something the left claims to have a monopoly on but rarely displays.
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  10286. Considering the Japanese propensity to adopt new technologies quickly and maximize their efficiency, I have no doubt they would quickly be on par with the best of the NATO block.
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  10287. The left praised draft dodgers of Vietnam. Perhaps turnabout is fair play; should the left institute a draft, the right should encourage draft dodging and the refusal to answer such summons.
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  10288.  @samthesuspect  Token concessions are grasping at straws. The Kaesong industrial complex was a sham that allowed the Kims to get hard cash to finance their weapons programs. And that is but one example of them playing people for fools.
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  10289. Indeed. Politics has so corrupted the military that it has become easier for foreign actors to penetrate deep into national Defense.
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  10290. "Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin good forces have invented or made” -J.R.R. Tolkien.
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  10291. Indeed. Vanelope went Turbo. Basically broke the core theme of the first movie. But that is okay because Vanelope has a vagina and that makes everything acceptable.
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  10292. Kamala is SOUTH ASIAN INDIAN, not black. The black community rejects her as a fake.
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  10293.  @besmartvoteblue2702  What journalists? In court filings, MSNBC has basically admitted that they are nothing more that opinion tabloids. And CNN is reality TV with the Cuomo brothers.
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  10294. Wow, wrong on so many levels. if what you are saying is true, Kiev would have fallen in the first three days. The fact is, Central and Western Ukraine will never again fall under the sway of Russia.
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  10295.  @nebula1931  Starting up his own rival social media empire. He has the followers and supporters to either take over an existing pro-conservative forum or to create the infrastructure from scratch. He is a businessman, he should step up and create the desired product to meet the demand.
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  10296.  @bradpolmateer4266  Just opposing them. That is how flimsy their claims are.
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  10297.  @nebula1931  Parler was nuked because the servers which hosted it were not their own. That is what I am talking about when I say infrastructure. The physical devices on which the platform is stored. He could easily invest in the routers, servers, and other physical components as well as the programming. The only question would be if the Feds would come down on it claiming it was a vertical monopoly.
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  10298.  @tussoon1390  Yes, Hamas are the modern Nazis and Israel is the Allies. Do keep in mind that Haj Amin Al-Hussein, chairman of the PLO was a member of the Swastika Party.
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  10299. I tend to agree with that. As an American, I am irritated that the US government continues to stay in bed with the back-stabbing and double dealing Pakistanis. I would gladly dump the Imams of Islamabad for the Rajahs of Mumbai and New Delhi.
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  10300. I hope the Japanese and Korean studios bury Hollyweird. Get woke, Go Broke happens because our East Asian friends can provide us the product to meet the demand for quality entertainment. Nature abhors a vacuum and woke propaganda poorly disguised as "entertainment" is creating a vacuum.
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  10301. Because the Holocaust DID happen and is a direct result of NOT stopping this kind of hate. Jews have always been the proverbial canary in the coal mine.
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  10302. Oh, that Billon dollars goes both ways. If he pulls out and the fault of him backing out is theirs, THEY pay him the billon.
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  10303.  @FrontLinePub  Nobody is forcing the Ukrainians to fight the Russians. They chose to fight when Putin marched on Kiev. If they didn't support this war, they would have simply rolled over and let Putin march in just like the French allowed Hitler to waltz into Paris in 1940. As to volunteering in Afghanistan, that is a strawman argument. I served 8 years and several times offered to be the next in the queue to deploy, but my leadership ALWAYS denied my request. You can imagine the frustration when the guy who has already been on three prior tours gets sent instead of me. I agree that Europe needs to learn to fix their own problems, yet two world wars started because the US felt it was not our business. Like it or not, we are there because we are the responsible parent to the spoiled children of Europe. In that I respect the Japanese and Koreans much more; they are worth defending unlike Europe.
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  10304. Paul, you think this was conservative bill? You clearly didn't read it at all. Tim Pool went through the bill and confirmed that it took the asylum decision making out of the hands of the courts and placed it into the hands of unaccountable functionaries. It didn't stop the flow, but simply redirect people picked up by CBP and send them to crossing checkpoints instead of the detention centers as they are supposed to be process under current rules. This bill basically codified the human trafficking by CBP.
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  10305.  @vladthecon  I agree with you that EUROPE needs to be picking up the slack for Ukraine. While I have little issue cleaning out the Armories of out-of-date equipment and handing it over to Ukraine, that is a long way away from paying for the rampant graft and corruption (Hunter BIden and Burisma?) that occurs daily over there. And the "border bill" was nothing more than codifiation in federal law CBP's actions of facilitating human smuggling. Tim Pool dug into the bill and exposed the bait and switch farce. Gaslighting is what the advocates of the bill are doing. "Have to pass it to find out what is in it" as Nancy Pelosi infamously said.
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  10306. My comments keep getting deleted! Tim Pool dug into the actual bill and it is NOTHING close to what conservatives wanted. It does NOTHING to secure the border and instead facilitates the inundation of unlawful entry.
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  10307.  @pliashmuldba  Same here. I post 10 times just like you making many of the same arguments only to have them deleted.
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  10308. What if it was intentional counter-intelligence? It looks to me like it was cooked up by the same kinds of people that implemented Operation: Mincemeat in WW2.
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  10309.  @liquidluck711  I'm not sure about inflationary cycles being tied to the solar cycle. Indeed, the recent solar "maximums" have been the quietest in well over a century
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  10310. Well, they seem to hate when a female lead is race-swapped from white to Asian. Nevermind that WM-AF has become the most common interracial pairing since Loving vs. Virginia.
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  10311. Inflation won't ever get under control until the Federal Reserve stops printing money. The interest rate is less of a factor that "quantitative easing" (ie Weimar German monetization of debt). It is impossible to simply print your way out of debt without making the currency completely worthless. Just look at Zimbabwe.
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  10312. Short answer, no. Look at where union political campaign contributions go, and you get your answer. Interestingly, the coal miner's union is one of the few that have traditionally donated to Democrats now throwing their support for the GOP. Same with the oil drillers unions.
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  10313. Yeah, the people defending it are essentially claiming that Japan or Germany had a right to own and operate radio stations and newspapers in the US between the World Wars.
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  10314. You are conflating Japan with China. Japan is Western, nominally market capitalist and Jeffersonian Democracy. You are thinking of Mainland China with its Maoist-Totalitarian neo-communism under the guise of "State Capitalism".
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  10315. You just like Stasi/KGB tactics, don't you?
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  10316.  @elijahbethea6313  Pot meet kettle. These are not acts of someone ahead of their opponent, they are acts of desperation because they know they are losing. If they were three steps ahead, they would not need to use such extreme Soviet-Totalitarian methods, they would just sit back and let things QUIETLY proceed. FEAR is what drives their actions.
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  10317. How? The Nevertrumper Establishment was never going to vote for Trump and instead support Biden like they did in 2020. Do you think they would vote for Biden when they can sooth their conscience by voting RFK Jr. instead?
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  10318. It is just sad that Disney/Pixar could not be bothered to get the rights to use "Puff the Magic Dragon" as the ending theme playing as Andy walks away as Bonnie plays with Woody. The feels would have been epic! "A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys Painted wings and giant's rings make way for other toys One gray night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more And Puff, that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane Without his lifelong friend, Puff could not be brave So Puff, that mighty dragon, sadly slipped into his cave" -Third Verse of "Puff the Magic Dragon" by Peter, Paul and Mary.
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  10319. Not correct. Baphomet is a corruption of the name Bahamut, one of the names attributed to the Babylonian god Marduk, the Bull of the Sun.
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  10320. The problem is that Marxists always take "the people" to mean "the government" on the flawed claim that the people make up the government, which the last election showed was clearly not the case.
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  10321. "Land Value Tax"? You mean the property taxes most home owners pay to the county governments? Here in Hamilton county Indiana, they charge a 1% service fee if you wish to pay electronically. When most of the properties in Carmel are worth 2-3 million dollars, you see how that becomes quite the money laundering scheme. And the rich fools pay it!
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  10322.  @PsychicAlchemy  That is an interesting idea, but it also rejects the idea of private property ownership. That is one issue I cannot abide. One of the key points of the American Revolution is property rights, something the crown held in contempt. And socialism also rejects the idea of property rights. Without the right to your own property (which includes the fruits of one's labors), nothing else is possible. Property rights along with right of self-defense is the foundation for all other rights.
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  10323. China's hawkish actions in the South China Sea and against Taiwan are NOT the fault of the US. That is President Pooh-Bear acting like a Chinese Emperor. And your claims about balloons are NOT supported by any hard data. When retired DoD officials come out and refute that claim, the burden of proof is on the people making those outlandish claims to provide hard evidence. The "feeding false intel" is just a sour grapes cover your ass excuse.
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  10324. I am all for KONIGSBERG becoming the Singapore of the Baltic.
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  10325.  @nsevv  You didn't read the part "OF THE BALTIC"? Basically, the city should be for that region of the world what Singapore is for Southeast Asia.
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  10326.  @maritaschweizer1117  You are confusing Trump with Biden. Trump is sharp as a tac. Joe Bite-Me is clearly suffering from Dementia.
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  10327.  @masterprick1  Did she? Or was that simply an afterthought on her part? Remember, Woody was "babysitting" Forky the whole time.
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  10328.  @suzukisixk7  Except, Violence IS the option of last resort, and it DOES work, but comes at a terrible cost. If violence didn't work, then what was the point of WW2? Or the US Civil War? Or the American Revolution. But to your point, the feckless cowards, both politicians and "normies" will simply go quietly into the night (or the cattle cars as the case may be).
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  10329.  @davidcleveland-yv6my  Or the money realizes that they are the next target after Trump. What do you think happened to the money after the Bolsheviks took power in Russia in 1917?
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  10330.  @captmack007  Why? To what purpose? There is no logic in what you propose. It is just hysterical delusion.
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  10331. @grey momo If you think I was justifying it, you were not actually reading my post. I was providing context, something you are oblivious to. And if you truly knew your history, you would be aware of said context. Japan has done little to address the War Crimes of the Military Leadership under Tojo. It is actually a credit to the Koreans and Chinese who chose to forgive and move on rather than perpetuate the cycle of recrimination. For that I am pleased to hear that many South Koreans called out their own countryman for his actions.
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  10332. @grey momo Speak for yourself. You seem to downplay and trivialize inconvenient parts and embellish the ones that fit your narrative. In the clash between the Japanese and Koreans I don't have a dog in the fight beyond wanting them to come together against a greater threat from Red China and their puppet in DPRK.
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  10333. @grey momo I will repeat from a Facebook post because it needs to be repeated here. The American chauvinism is well earned. Who liberated the European continent not once but TWICE? Who made all of the technological advancements of the 20th and 21st centuries? Not Europe. Only Israel and the Asian Tigers(South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore) can match the US for technological innovation. All others simply plagiarize. World War 2 was a direct result of how badly Europe concluded WW1. And World War 1 was because a bonehead monarch got himself assassinated in Sarajevo, a city he had no business visiting. And the US had to save Europe both times because that continent can't keep its house in order without outside intervention. As for POST WW2, if it was not for American GIs holding the line in West Germany, most of Europe would be speaking Russian today. France can't defend anything; not Paris, not Dien Bien Phu Falls, NOTHING. The last time the Brits fought a War on their own was over the Falkland Islands. So again, how am I misconstruing history? As Bill Mahar said, you guys were the ones asleep during history class. You may hate and despise the US and Americans, but that hate is born from envy, jealous, and a little bit of an inferiority complex. You want to be top dog, but only under the US's hegemony has the world experienced true peace. Without the US, the world would be a FAR more violent and chaotic place.
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  10334. @grey momo It is only megalomania if it is delusional. American might and the fact that we save the world from itself justifies American arrogance. It is you who harbors psychotic fantasies. Admiral Yamamoto, General Kuribayashi, Colonel Baron Takeichi Nishi, and many others who served with Americans in WW1 came to understand and appreciate Americans and our fighting spirit. They knew first hand that war with the US was a fool's errand that would only bring destruction on the Japanese Empire. I find it disappointing you, much like Togo and his cadre, refuse to learn the lessons they learned.
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  10335. @grey momo Mock me all you want. When your arse finds itself in trouble, you will be begging my country to save you and yours. We go above and beyond. Just ask the Koreans; ours was the only army that came to town and did NOT enslave them and force them to adopt our culture. Instead, we came in, did what was needed, then (mostly) went hope. THAT is why you find that Koreans have more affection for the US than many other countries. It also explains why most of the Vietnamese Boat people came to the US rather than remain in southeast Asia.
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  10336. @grey momo And there with the very same ethno-nationalism that fueled the Imperial Japanese. You are making the exact same blunder as them. You know who else shares your hatred of the West and western culture? The Ayatollahs of Iran. Let's face it, you are just as much of a tin-plated Stalinist as Mao, Pol Pot, Lenin, Tito, Franco, Pinochet, and yes even Joseph Stalin.
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  10337. @grey momo "Whataboutism" is a deflection and a tacit admission you cannot debate on the merits of the argument. Pointing to bad behavior does NOT justify anything.
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  10338.  @elcidgranada3549  Actually, much IS known. The Samguk Sagi records the three Kingdoms period which predates the Mongolian occupation by a good 600 years. The native royalty Goreyo Dynasty was allowed to continue on the conditions that they not only pay tribute to the Khans, but that the sitting King had to marry a daughter of the Khans. That is part of why Admiral Yi Seong-gye's rebellion which lead to the foundation of the Choseon Dynasty was both popular and successful. After all of those years, the Goreyo royal family was more ethnically Mongolian than Korean.
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  10339.  @elcidgranada3549  I don't disagree that Communism has killed more than the Imperial Japanese. As for the Moros in the Philippines, well, their actions speak for themselves. "Blackjack" Pershing was able to deal with them effectively. The Pig's Blood story was his predecessor, Colonel Alexander.
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  10340.  Rogin  1911 Japan dispense with any pretense and brutally occupied the country for 35 torturous years. Don't pretend that the first 10 years of the 20th century was all smiles and unicorns. The Koreans were very much oppressed.
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  10341.  @roccoanthony8930  Wow, revisionist history. You are a good little Soviet Prog. Don't call force conscripts collaborators; they are victims who would have been murdered if they did not comply. And spare me your moral outrage and equivocation. European powers were NOT engaging is methodical genocide like the Japanese did. That is Marxist-Soviet lies.
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  10342. Cope harder.
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  10343. I am all for Japan colonizing the US with their culture. May they be to America what the Greeks were to the Romans.
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  10344. My guess is they have a video recording of their "practice session" on the casting couch. I will let your imagination fill in the details.
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  10345. Her one count against his means that her victory is meaningless. When you look at PUNATIVE DAMAGES, Depp got no punitive, but she got the maximum allowed by the state. This was no victory for her. That one count means nothing.
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  10346. LIBERATE JUDEA!
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  10347. The teleprompter was in front of him and undamaged. You are delusional.
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  10348.  @andrewc318  With the US supplying most of the fuel and food to keep the Russian war machine going. Look up the Arkhangelsk supply runs.
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  10349.  @SerafineSilverstream  And keep on the rot and corrutpion? Sometimes you have to cut your losses. And in this case, Twitter is a lost cause. Whether Elon fixes it or burns it to the ground is a matter of apathetic disinterest. (Paraphrasing Yevgraf in "Doctor Zhivago)
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  10350. Don't forget the collapse of the Japanese Empire. However, the fall of Imperial Japan as a military power ushered in a mercantile Japan very reminiscent of the Dutch during the 18th century. Probably not surprising since before Commadore Perry's expedition, the only outside contact was with the Dutch.
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  10351. Kavanaugh is clearly suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.
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  10352.  @ryker3508  Funny, coming from someone who has zero understanding about supply and demand, much less actual economics. You want to talk about slave wages? Government Welfare is the wages of slavery. But instead of a planation owner, it is uncle same who is holding the whip.
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  10353. High Latin may be a "dead langugage", but Vulgar Latin still exists in the Romance Languages of French, Spanish, Italian and a few others.
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  10354.  @dabombdawg3033  Again, English is NOT a derivative of Latin. While it may borrow words and some phrases, its structural and grammatical arrangement is Germanic. At best, American English is a creole language, but one that is still Germanic at its core.
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  10355.  @dabombdawg3033  You clearly don't understand what the root word DERIVE actually means, because you are misusing and misapplying it.
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  10356.  @dabombdawg3033  The vocabulary, sure. The grammar, which is the heart of the language, not at all. Vocabulary is what makes it a creole language at best, but not a derivative. Again, you are misapplying the definitions and contorting meaning just so you can sound smarter than you actually are. "When words lose their meaning, people lose their lives," -Confucius, author of "The Analects".
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  10357. And promptly Californicate those states with the same garbage ideology that demolished the West Coast. There is a reason why Floridians don't want New Yorkers or Californians moving in.
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  10358.  @ningzhang3282  It is a difference because the CCP controls Bytedance. They only allow things on Tiktok that advance their agenda and deplatform people who they disagree with.
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  10359. @ And all of that only exists at the whim and pleasure of the Red Chinese government. Don't fool yourself, the Tiktok economy is as ephemeral as morning mist.
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  10360.  @hellgates_javed6451  Better than the turret tossing Russian tanks.
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  10361. The Lower Planes Blood War between the Baatorians and Tanar'ri.
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  10362. Free JUDEA!
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  10363. Teddy Roosevelt's "Square Deal" vs. FDR's "New Deal". One Roosevelt was for individual negotiating, the other was for collectivist (ie mob) thuggery.
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  10364. Sure, and you probably believe in the Trump pee tapes. People like you will fall for anything.
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  10365.  @cactusjack1943  It is certainly a Crime against Humanity. But ask yourself why the International Court didn't actively pursue the case. Ask yourself why they only opted to start pushing Putin's War Crimes until AFTER the invasion of Ukraine. Europe is feckless, and it shows when the global south chose to blatantly ignore and defy the International Court with regards to bringing Putin to justice. Yes, I can be pro-Ukraine and America First at the same time. They are NOT mutually exclusive positions despite what the progs who shill for the globalists may think. False Choice Dilemma is a favored logical fallacy of the intellectually lazy.
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  10366. More like oil and the energy demands. They are burning through their coal deposits like nobody's business.
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  10367. Quisling. It is a major insult in most Nordic counties and in the English-speaking world for a few decades. Bud Light should be remembered in the same way.
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  10368.  @tuseroni6085  I suspect that they started allowing trans participants AFTER he had ended his association with the organization.
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  10369.  @andypeutherer4218  Who? BoJo or Corbyn?
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  10370. The Jordanians don't want them either. Many still remember Black Tuesday of 1970 when Yaser Arafat tried to assassinate King Hussein and seize power.
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  10371. Yeah, something tells me her college professors taught her that the military is full of war criminals and baby killers.
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  10372. Oh, they celebrate them if they defend murders, arsonists, and paedos who advance their agenda.
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  10373.  @DanDanJanJanJP  Yeah, I don't think Dugin is as influential over Putin as the media likes to pretend. Dugin is simply a Russian talking head, not a policy advisor. To the more to the original point, it is highly unlikely that Japan would trade the US for Russia if only on the grounds that the US supports Japanese claims over ALL of the Kuril Islands. By joining Russia, they would relinquish their claims over any of the Islands.
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  10374. Do you know WHY that is? MIDWAY. Japan's best pilots who could train the next generation were lost when the Fleet Carriers Akagi, Kaga, Soryuu, and Hiryuu went to the bottom of the Pacific. "The Five Minutes of Fate" which changed the war. After that, they knew they had lost the war, but refused to stop fighting. So no, it is NOT under false premise, it is putting things in their proper context.
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  10375.  @davidogundipe808  The only reason why people call it evil is because they can't control nor manipulate it. Just because it is an easy concept to understand doesn't mean the people who subscribe to it are simple people with simple thinking. The power mongers get angry because it often goes hand in hand with populism, something that is a direct threat to them. And, because they have great difficulty trying to deceive people who subscribe to nationalism.
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  10376. Boy who cried wolf.
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  10377. Ignoring the fact that every member of the DNC and incumbent Democrats are also listed as riding on Lolita Express?
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  10378. Oligarchism and Plutocracy. To claim that it is Fascism shows a clear misunderstanding of what Fascism is. Italy under Mussolini was Fascistic. Spain under Franco was Fascist. Germany under that Austrian Chancellor was NOT Fascism, it was "German National SOCIALISM".
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  10379.  @DanSolowastaken  Calling people who disagree with you fascist only proves you don't even know the meaning of the word. Kind of like how calling someone racist has lost its meaning. Name calling doesn't make your point, it simply proves you know you have no argument left to make. "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser," -Attributed to Plato "When your argument is weak, abuse the Plaintiff," -Marcus Tullius Cicero "I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher
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  10380.  @DanSolowastaken  Wow, take a dose of your own medicine.. Putin combines the WORST elements of every totalitarian dictator. But that does NOT make him a Fascist by precepts laid out by Giovani Gentile. Tell me, are you aware of the Molotov-Ribbentrop alliance? It was only possible because Stalinism and Naziism have so much in common. But of course, leftists like you want to ignore that alliance of the Hammer and Sickle to the Swastika because it reveals leftist ideology for what it truly is. And funny you accuse me of ad hominins when you do exactly that. Again, you throw around the term Fascist with the same intellectual dishonesty as those who accuse black conservatives of being White supremacists.
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  10381.  @DanSolowastaken  ​ @Dan Herr Clown boots? You resorting to insults makes you guilty of the very thing you accused me of doing. it is also a sign of desperation showing that you know you have lost the debate. Thank you for effectively throwing in the towel and admitting you have lost the debate. Yes, Putin is an ethnonationalist, but that does NOT make him a conservative by American standards. But considering that the Euro-Centric view of conservatism has been skewed by a bias towards monarchism, I can understand your confusion. Oh, and Religious supremacy may also be a Euro-centric view of conservatism, it also happens to be the preferred position of Islamists whom the left on BOTH sides of the Atlantic love to apologize for. Are you referring to Giovanni Gentile or Mussolini? Because Gentile is the FATHER of Fascism. Any definitions that deviate from his principal points is Soviet-Communist disinformation to hide from the fact that they share much in common. So, are you going to actually debate merits or are you going to continue to parrot leftist talking points on cue like Pavlov's Dog?
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  10382. @Ovis Militaris And you think that anyone in that chain has the balls to defy the God-Kings of North Korea? Seriously, they worship the Kim family as if they are living deities.
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  10383. Free JUDEA!
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  10384. The only ones who do usually had a career as a stand-up comedian. Robin Williams and Tim Allen for example.
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  10385. She a typical communist pretending not to be.
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  10386. "John Brown’s body lies a-moldering in the grave. His soul is marching on....."
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  10387.  @msaoichan  You are infantilizing my point which is not surprising from someone with Trump derangement syndrome. How often is it that those who inherit wealth squander it quickly? The fact that Trump did NOT squander it but instead leveraged it to make more money shows his business acumen and general competency. But I get it, you can't actually debate the merits and instead resort to scurrilous neo-Bolshevik talking points and disparagements (ie ad hominin logical fallacies). "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser," -attributed to Plato. "I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” ― Margaret Thatcher
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  10388.  @msaoichan  "Those close to him"? You mean those "unnamed sources"? That basically means it is worthless gossip and scuttlebutt. If the man was terrible with money, then why is he still a millionaire? "A fool and his money are soon parted". That truism proves your premise is complete garbage. And as many folks have pointed out, there is nothing wrong with Turmp wisely using bankruptcy law to close down a business venture that is losing money. Do keep in mind the was the first person to abandon the casinos in New Jersey when they became unprofitable. You know the old saying, "never bet against the house, for the house ALWAYS wins"? I don't know why people like you keep trying to bet against a casino owner.
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  10389.  @DollfaceKim  Stealing a Presidential election should be insanely difficult, but they did it. Don't fall for that positivity bias.
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  10390. What coherence? The Biden folks have been completely flip-flopping on whether they would defend Taiwan from an invasion. Biden effectively invited Putin to invade Ukraine with his "limited incursion" statement. Trump emulating Richard Nixon's sending out the nuclear bombers every time a Soviet General sneezed did more to maintain peace and stability than Biden's James Earl Carter policies. But I guess mean tweets is more harmful to you than causing instability across the globe. The world respects a strongman and holds a weak one in contempt.
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  10391.  @iamaloafofbread8926  And Biden is the hang-over with the ugly bedmate surprise in the morning. If you think 2016 was the American people throwing a temper tantrum, you have yet to see what will happen in 2024. "I fear our efforts are for naught, for we have awakened the sleeping giant, AND FILLED HIM WTIH A TERRIBLE RESOLVE," -Admiral Yamamoto after Pearl Harbor.
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  10392.  @terrestrialextra4790  Indeed. He came in there like a bull in a China shop, and then promptly acted like one (seriously, this has been tested, they act timid). But you are correct that most of the career politicians are basically copies of each other regardless of party. Which is why the American people will NOT be so kind next go around.
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  10393. Hell, it has been reported that the US used cell phone spoofers in Afghanistan. The idea was that they would intentionally support jihadi phone calls with these spoofers so that they could track both the source and the destination.
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  10394.  @davidhowse884  I think it is pretty clear that international law only applies when nations chose to observe it. Russia and China have shown that they will ignore it when convenient.
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  10395.  @McCoy-j2w  You clearly are not a Republican, and that you support this show that you have a hard-on for jack-booted totalitarian despotism. But then that is typical for folks with middle east heritage, isn't it Haj?
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  10396. Well, besides the fact that every time they have been implemented, Bidens proposals have failed spectacularly? Take a look at James Earl Carter's policies and they are to the right of Biden and they failed miserably.
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  10397.  @muellersgame8001  You seem to forget that every Republican presidency ends with e Democrat controlled Congress. Nice job passing the blame. The president can only apply law, not write it. CONGRESS is who is responsible for bad economic policies. And EVERY Democrat run Congress has resulted in recession. Republicans are only guilty of being incompetent, Democrats are guilty of economic sabotage. Only JFK's economic policy which Republicans after the fact adopted has been successful. But then again communists like you conveniently ignore those dirty little details.
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  10398. Which is why there is no excuse to not draft women. For every woman in a rear position, it puts another fighting man on the frontline. Bring back the WAVEs, WASPs, and WAACs of WW2!
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  10399.  @EL_Duderino68  Only people who hate freedom of speech call corporate oligarchism "free-markets". Musk while not a free speech absolutist, is the closet thing to it in Big Tech. The fact you chose to attack him says more about you than him.
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  10400. I like the cut of your jib!
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  10401. That is exactly why I get a hard copy of an anime I like after watching it on a streaming site. I want to know that I can watch it anytime without having to worry about connection or censorship.
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  10402. The "moder audience" they are chasing doesn't exist. It is a fantasy born of bot accounts and misanthropic internet behavior.
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  10403.  @Crashandburn999  The problem is that we DID go to war with China in the 50s. It was call the Korean Conflict. Battle of Chosin Reservoir is why we have never attempted to fight them directly again.
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  10404.  @Crashandburn999  You missed my point. Red China WAS all in when it came to the Korean War. But yes, Truman was chickenshit. You know what DID end that conflict? President Ike threatening nuclear war. The Chinese blinked.
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  10405. Worse than Lincoln.
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  10406.  @RobertStewart-i3m  More like Stalin and his hatchet man Beria.
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  10407. The enemy of my enemy can be an ally. if China chooses to go to war with India, it would be of great benefit to India if the West opened a second front with China to divide their power. India cannot face the Dragon on its own and hope for a certain outcome.
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  10408. Then why didn't they do so at the start? Why does Kiev still stand? The Russian Bear is geriatric.
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  10409.  @MrJonathanainsworth  Finland and Sweden joining NATO means that goal is an abject failure. Those nations had zero reason to join until AFTER Russia invaded. NATO wasn't deterred, it was expanded.
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  10410. No person who ever runs for a third term in office retires. They either die in office or get thrown out, often by force. Claims of only doing three terms are a farce.
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  10411.  @potato6785  The Ottomans NEVER ruled Xinjang. That is East Turkmenistan movement propaganda. While the Muslims may have conquered the Khetans, their claims are flimsy as the Chinese had made Khotan a vassal state centuries prior during the Eastern Han Dynasty. The blonde and redhead mummies of the Tarim have closer genetic connections to modern Chinese and Korean populations than they do to the Uygyrs.
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  10412. Ukraine has needed TWO calibers of shells. 155mm for their Western systems, and 152mm for their legacy Soviet guns. The two shells are NOT interchangeable. When people say Ukraine was short of shells, it is usually referring to the 152mm since it is NOT produced in the West. When people say that the West has to beg for shells from Africa, South America, and Southeast Asia, it is because they are looking for the 152mm Soviet shells.
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  10413. Same here. I was like "what is going to happen?" and then when she transformed, I burst out laughing so hard I got a lot of weird looks.
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  10414. Same article he pulled up but overlooked.
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  10415.  @magicbeans1975  I don't know about torture, per se. But you are correct that they are NOT given the protected status of a POW, namely the legal immunity to killing in a combat situation.
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  10416. That is the problem. They would rather rule over rubble that accede to the will of the people. I believe Milton talked about it in "Paradise Lost" when Satan preferred to reign in hell than to serve in heaven.
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  10417.  @not_want4203  Love the Icarus reference there. One can only hope. The problem is that the masses (ie mob) are easily swayed the the most honeyed words. Julius Caesar knew this all too well. As did Mark Anthony and Octavian Caesar Augustus.
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  10418. Or perhaps he KNOWS it is a trap and intends to bushwack the ambushers.
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  10419.  @badlourising  While I agree that RFK Jr. is better than most of what the Dems are offering, the fact that he defied the lockdowns, and the vaccine mandates and was fighting against his own party on those issues means the DNC will NEVER let him win.
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  10420.  @randalsaladbar  Trump is alive today by the grace of the almighty. Anyone who says that voting for him is satanic after such divine intervention shows their contempt for divine grace.
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  10421. Exactly, the power mongers are trying to change the definition to mean "the proletariat".
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  10422. So you are spamming Clownfish TV with the exact same copy paste post every 10 minutes? I think I found the bot account.
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  10423. So anyone who opposes trans-national megacorporations that act like governments unto themselves is anti-business? I think you need to do a re-evaluation.
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  10424.  @brownbuter  Miami and Sarasota prove otherwise. Then there is also Key West. There is more to Florida than just Disney. it is clear you are simping for Iger having never actually visited the state of Florida.
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  10425. They plann for 5, but have not even finished the season they are working on. Seriously, the Jar Jar Abrams endorsed projects make the shit up as they go having no long-term plan at all.
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  10426.  @mysticmama_3692  It doesn't. He is just coping and seething like a typical liberal with an unhealthy obsession with "Orange Man".
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  10427. True. Mr. Lincoln's "coffee grinder" gun was not the first attempt, it was simply are more successful version.
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  10428.  @knghtcmdr  That is what "spookey dude" George Soros wants you to think. Are you sure you are not shilling for the establishment?
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  10429. Agreed. DIE is a false Idol he warned about.
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  10430.  @humanseeksjustice8830  To your first point, you don't need to refer directly to Christianity when the context makes it quite clear what you were insinuating. Nuance is something you think you grasp and then pretend ignorance of it when you get caught. Oh, and the Japanese refer to the God of Abraham in the Christian and Jewish context as either "Kami-san" or "Kami-sama". Allah NEVER receives neither honorific; to do so will get you looks of anger by Muslims in Japan and skepticism by everyone else. As to Eastern faiths, you once again pretend knowledge but show ignorance. Your dilettante understanding of Hinduism, Buddhism, Zoarastrism, and Sikhism is pretty glaring.
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  10431. "If You Are Not a Liberal at 25, You Have No Heart. If You Are Not a Conservative at 35 You Have No Brain" -Winston Chruchill.
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  10432.  @devinrichards4559  Manchin survived his last challenge. And part of that was him distancing himself from Hilbaeast and her calls to put coal miners out of business. So long as he at least tacitly support Trump's policies, he will maintain the working class base as well as successfully woo the Trump voters(Trump's voters are NOT republicans despite what many want you to believe).
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  10433. Indeed. The biggest draw of a module is NOT the stats, but the story nuggets. Good DMs can create the stats they need on the fly.
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  10434.  Michael Mathes  I am aware of that, but not all states observe constitutional carry as Missouri does. It is still a good idea to get one so that you can carry across state lines without needing an FFL to do so.
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  10435.  @johnmcevoy3598  Troll.
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  10436. Indeed. Which is why NATO War Planners need to stop wagging their fingers at the Ukrainian General Staff and instead start taking notes.
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  10437. The power of nukes is in their deterrence factor. Once you use them you lose most of the strength of the weapon. Someone unfazed in the face of first-strike use against them is not going to be stopped once it has been used.
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  10438.  @grilloyoo  The SCOTUS already struck down most of the attempts. He could still run for office from a jail cell just like Nelson Mandela.
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  10439.  @feydrautha191  Oh dear, you are psychologically projecting. Put down the Sherry, you are drunk.
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  10440.  @grilloyoo  SCOTUS slapped down the attempts to prevent Trump from running. Try to keep up.
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  10441. You do realize that unlawful combatants IS specifically spelled out in the Geneva and Hauge conventions? Bush didn't make that up, it is in Article 4 of the Geneva Convention. Ironically, Bush gave them POW protections most were NOT entitled to receive. Gitmo prisoners should have been shot as saboteurs, not held as prisoners.
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  10442. Spare me. Most of the products imported into the US are heavily subsidized by the nation of their origin. THAT is why Trump is threatening tarriffs; to ENFORCE reciprocity.
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  10443. Accuracy is more important than the number of shells fired. Even Russian Mill Bloggers are lamenting at how much better Ukrainian counter-battery fire is contrasted with Russia's own fires. If anything, you have been drinking the Kremlin's vodka. And it is making you hallucinate.
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  10444. In other times that would have been an excellent solution. With the war in Ukraine, that is a less viable option.
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  10445. Part of the problem is that Trump stopped listening to Bannon and instead put blind faith in Mike Pence, a product of the Swamp. Pence was to Trump what Grimma Wormtounge was to Theoden of Rohan in "The Two Towers".
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  10446. Get woke, go broke. I think those on strike are going to learn that lesson the hard way.
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  10447. You can always draw lessons from the experience of others. But I will agree than the crossing of the channel is the first hurtle the PLA needs to surmount before any of the lessons from Ukraine come into play.
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  10448.  @shanayacarriere926  The original source material has the title character commit seppuku when she realizes she cannot be with the man she loves because he doesn't love her. That alone shows that Disney will change stories on a whim. And don't get me started on Aladdin. Princess Jasmine was actually Chinese and Agrabah was a city in Gansu, China.
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  10449. I agree. Get the courts to say "use it or lose it!"
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  10450.  @willjapheth23789  Intellectual laziness I take it? The Great Depression was caused by out-of-control banking institutions, not trade tariffs. Try reading the Glass-Stegal Act and you will understand the WHY that created the Great Depression.
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  10451. Indeed. How quickly they forget that Hillary claimed the 2016 election was stolen.
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  10452.  @doujinflip  When? The entire 2020 Biden campaign was that the 2016 election was stolen.
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  10453.  @tombuilder1475  And how many countries have the Democrats attacked? Libya, Syria, and Serbia just to name a few.
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  10454. Yes, the Ukrainians are better at crossing rivers than the Russians. That being said, I don't think the lower Dnipro is a good place to cross. Use the ones around Zaphorizia and come down the East bank.
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  10455.  @seanblankenship5404  Yeah, the minority said what the Nazis were doing in Europe was wrong. What is morally correct is not always popular. What is popular is not always morally correct.
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  10456.  @seanblankenship5404  That is merely your OPINION. And opinions are like buttholes; everyone has one and they all stink. I actually made a coherent argument. You simply engage in emotional outbursts.
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  10457. How much of that is actually STAGFLATION? Before the Carter years, inflation and economic stagnation were considered opposing factors. But then the two started to occur in tandem defying the common wisdom of economics up to that point.
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  10458. Wow, that is a stretch. Putin is outplaying Trump, that is true. And it is also true that the two sides NEED to fight to exhaustion. But it was Trump who kept the peace before Biden set the world on fire.
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  10459. Because he is explaining to people who are no initiated into the details of the profession of arms.
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  10460. Don your tricorn, adjust the eyepatch, adopt a foul-mouthed parrot, and raise the Jolly Rodger!
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  10461. If you are referring to the Israeli politician's claims, you have been completely bamboozled. Nothing in his story comports with either Putin's motus operendi, nor does it check out with Ukrainian sentiments. A cursory examination will reveal fatal flaws in the entire story that causes it to come crashing down.
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  10462. Yeah, but who will get injured in the collateral damage when it goes off? It doesn't stop here; it WILL get violence just like it has historically. What is the saying from the 30s? "Life's a Cabaret"?
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  10463. He could also stop gaming the system and bilking the taxpayers by "investing" in scams to launder government subsidies. The man is the very caricature that communist and socialist have on capitalists, but they LOVE him because he parrots their talking points.
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  10464.  @JA-yx9mq  Everyone parroting the same things you are saying swear up and down that all BLM protestors in Kenosha that night were black and that Rittenhouse murdered two black men and injured a third. THAT is why I brought it up. Because you are taking your cues from people who are completely out of touch with reality.
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  10465.  @yakovdan  What part of "gun free cities" do you not understand? The problem isn't gun ownership, the problem is politicians that disarm their citizens so that criminals can butcher them much like Hamas did to the unarmed Israelis. Try looking up Bill Whittles" Number One with a Bullet" video. He goes point by point why your anti-gun positions are false and why "gun nut capital" Plano Texas is the safest city in the US.
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  10466. Because there is no logic. It is pure emotion. "If it feels good, it is right", that is their ideology.
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  10467. Agreed. It just happens that the wokistas almost exclusivly identify as leftist which has made the battlelines easy to define. Not all leftists are woke, but al wokistas are leftist.
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  10468. Well, and it mocks the absurdity of absolutism in political thinking.
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  10469. Indeed. Ukraine and Russia have yet to see which side General Frost favors. Then you have the fact that Western production rates are vastly outpacing Russia's. WW2 was won by and large because the US outproduced not just the combined Axis powers, but also the other Allies COMBINED.
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  10470. I would have recommended a website called "The Trove" if you wanted to sail the high seas, but they apparently were forced to shut down.
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  10471.  @Mr.Monta77  Russian collusion was proven a hoax. Further, Putin didn't invade Ukraine while Trump was in office. Putin stole Crimea while Biden was directing Obama's foreign policy. He invaded again while Biden was president. Seems to me that Biden is Putin's greatest asset.
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  10472.  @captainblacktail8137  Biden is just a marionette no different from Walter, Peanut, or Achmed. He is just an empty mouthpiece for his VP and her handlers.
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  10473. Is it? I can't really tell. As someone once said, with mono-chrome, what a person's perceived skin color says more about the viewer than the thing being viewed?
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  10474.  @SamtheBravesFan  And yet it is still true. Cope harder.
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  10475.  @jilp2002  The culmination of leftist intersectionailty and identity politics. It is very easy to identify but as typical people like you obfuscate. You foolishly think that if it cannot be quantified, it doesn't exist. Most of us can see through that nihilistic relativism. And no, not everyone who disagrees with you is a Trump supporter. That you jump to that conclusion shows your own fanatical non-theistic zealotry.
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  10476. "Figures don't lie, but liars figure," -Mark Twain, aka Samuel Clemens Yeah, these investment bankers are looking at the raw numbers but ignoring the context. Inflation halving the value of money means that the buying power is LESS despite having more currency in the bank.
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  10477. Don't forget that the Soviet Red Army made its biggest gains against the Wehrmacht during the winter months. I can easily see Ukraine doing the same, especially when you consider that Canada and Norway have been sending cold weather gear since August.
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  10478. Better than me. I got out with a medical retirement after 8 years and am still struggling after 10 years trying to get a new career. My training as a Weather Forecaster for the USAF has done NOTHING of value for me. Nobody wants to hire one.
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  10479. If it keeps the nevertrumpers from voting for Biden, that is a net positive for Trump as they far outnumber the reluctant Trump voter.
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  10480.  @dpelpal  F-35s? No, they can't carry enough ordinance. A-10 Warthogs? Absolutely!
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  10481. That pretty much describes ALL politicians.
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  10482. Consumption rates. Are the Russians using artillery the same as they were 9 months ago? That alone speaks volumes.
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  10483. World of Warships often collaborates with Azur Lane. The Research ships listed below are WoW designs incorporated in the Azur Lane. PR1: HMS Neptune(CL), HMS Monarch(BB), IJN Ibuki(CA), IJN Izumo(BB), KMS Roon(CA), FFNF Saint Louis(CA) PR2: USS Seattle(CL), USS Georgia(BB), IJN Kitakaze(DD), IJN Azuma(CB), KMS Fredrich de Grosse(BB), MNF Gascogne(BB) PR3: HMS Cheshire(CA), HMS Drake(CA), KMS Maniz(CL), KMS Odin(BB), FFNF Champaign(BB) PR4: USS Anchorage(CA), IJN Hakuryuu(CV), KMS Agir(CB), KMS August von Parceval(CV), RN Marco Polo(BB) PR5: HMS Plymouth(CL), KMS Prince Rupprecht(BC), PLAN Harbin(CL), SN Chkalov(CV), FFNF Brest(CB) PR6: USS Kearsarge(BBV), IJN Shimanto(CL), KMS Felix Shultz(DD), KMS Hindenburg(CA), MNF Flandre(BB) PR7: Coming Soon!
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  10484.  @mitchyoung93  So you are implying that the Russian Army is so blind as to not see UK or UR frogmen placing demolitions on the Dam? Nor do anything to stop them?
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  10485.  @Soipelez  All indications say otherwise.
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  10486. Sic semper tyrannis
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  10487. At what overbudget cost and how far behind schedule? It is still a boondoggle, especially as there is very little reason why they could not have simply sold the F-22 Raptor to the Aussies and the Kiwis. In many ways, the Grippen is a better airframe.
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  10488.  @andrewlechner6343  6 to one is nice, but the Chinese are planning on throwing 20 of their J-16s at each. F-22 or F-35. They will use the "throw bodies at the problem" mentality. And I guarantee you that American war planners are grossly underestimating Chinese capabilities. There is a reason why Michael Pilsbury playing as the Chinese in American wargames ALWAYS wins (just like Erich Marcks who correctly predicted the Normandy Invasion).
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  10489.  @ClockworksOfGL  Just because propaganda says it has been debunked doesn't mean it is true. The F-35 has never been in actual battle conditions, unlike the F-22. And the few times the F-22 has seen combat, serious issues have come up, particularly with regards to potential "friendly fire". Truns out the stealth creates ambiguous situations were non-stealth airframes mistake allied stealth fighters as hostiles.
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  10490. And they conflate CEASEFIRE with surrender. The two are not the same thing.
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  10491. And eco-terrorists also have ample reason to want to blow up fossil fuel infrastructure. Why do very few people consider that possibiltiy?
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  10492. Excellent analogy!
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  10493. More like the Ukrainians scuttled their own to prevent its capture. Much like the German Fleet at Scapa Flow, the Scuttling of the Peruvian Fleet at Callao or the French Fleet at Toulon.
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  10494. Part of the problem is that the Zaporizhian front is more like WW1 rather than WW2 warfare. In WW2, there was a disincentive by both sides to dig into fixed positions. Patton famously quoted as saying that they were monuments of Man's stupidity.
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  10495.  @marcoszavala8435  CNN and NBC? That is your problem right there. They are America's equivalent of Soviet Pravda. Case in point is Nicholas Sandman and the Covington Catholic Students.
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  10496. Two snakes eating each other.
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  10497.  @haraldhardrade7539  Not really. You are living in Putinland.
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  10498. A better thought-out plot than anything that Ubisoft could come up with.
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  10499.  @PhycoKrusk  I would be VERY wary of Wikipedia. They have a record of laundering opinion as if it was fact. And the edit war over Yasuke's page only reinforces that. You did your due diligence, something that these wokistas refuse to do.
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  10500.  @AlmostSawtooth  Well, I am actually FOR women being drafted. Remember the WASPs, WAVEs, and WAACs of WW2? There is absolutely no reason women cannot serve in non-combat roles such as quartermasters and supply officers for example. As for 16, I would be for it provided that they pass the same citizenship test required of naturalized citizens. Considering that many over age 24 cannot pass that test speaks volumes. The whole point about public education is to create model citizens, which it has failed. The whole purpose of reading, writing, and basic arithmetic was so that people could understand and properly comprehend the US Constitution.
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  10501.  @AlmostSawtooth  And a husband is also often a father. If you are going to make the argument about children need their mother, then you also have to address the need for the father as well. The are already examples of married military spouses with children; it is not just a what if scenario. While an argument can be made about the merits of volunteer versus conscripted, that has nothing to do with the point you were making about drafting women. The DoD has already found solutions to having both parents on active duty.
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  10502.  @AlmostSawtooth  You realize you basically parroted most of my points about the WASPs, WAVEs, and WAACs of WW2. Except, you are using it to justify the liberal-feminist position. As those organizations proved, every state-side position filled by a woman frees up a male to fight overseas. Your flawed assumption is that drafted women would be sent into combat roles. That is blatantly false. If with a volunteer force we don't send women into the fight, what in the world makes you think we would in a mobilized footing? You know what is worse that being parentless? Being dead. In time of war, we do NOT want the war to come to American soil. When that happens, even our children will be caught in the crossfire. If you think that is preferable to drafting women to fill the non-combat roles, you need to get your priorities straight.
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  10503.  @AlmostSawtooth  And I am a veteran as well, so if that was suppose to make a point (it wasn't, it was a logical fallacy called appeal to authority or accreditation), you failed to make it. You make glaring assumptions about what would result from drafting women. Oh, and your "Yeoman" comment makes me question your actual military experience. "Yeoman" could mean a hunter or tracker from the medieval period, but most people today associate the term with Star Trek's Yeoman who were glorified bridge bunnies. I got news for you. When the fight comes to American shores, women will NOT have a choice in the matter as to if they participate in combat or not. But I see you would rather see the fight come here than make use of our female manpower assets for homeland war effort to forestall that possibility. The fact that you did not know that registering for the selective service is part of the voter registration process shows you have zero knowledge about ANYTHING you are talking about. Call of Duty Modern Warfare and any number of other first person shooters does not make you a combat veteran.
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  10504.  @AlmostSawtooth  Wow, reduced to calling people names because you can't debate the merits? That is a sign of desperation and typical of someone who knows they have lost the argument. You killed anything of value you had to say when you used disparagements like "idiot" and "ass"(also know as an ad hominin logical fallacy). You say I don't act like a veteran? Look in the mirror. #confessionthroughprojection "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser," -Socrates. "When your argument is weak, abuse the plaintiff," -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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  10505.  @turnerfamilyinozi  They restarted work on it, but the media isn't reporting on it. Or have you forgotten the whole part about Biden trying to sell of the pieces of the wall? Go touch grass.
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  10506.  @Geraduss  Kill the Justice league has similar preorders. What happened after the game actually released? Do keep in mind that Sweet Baby Inc is consulting Ubisoft on this project.
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  10507.  @destinjones6624  "Some dorks" are who got Shift up to relent on their censorship of Eve. "Some dorks online" just happen to be by and large the major reason why the gaming "industry" even exists. But sure, keep shilling for the people who hate you.
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  10508.  @destinjones6624  Yeah, that "tiny minority of online dorks" managed to get Shift up and Sony to backtrack on censorship of Eve in Stellar Blade. THEY are the customer base, not wokistas like you shilling for your corporate feudal masters.
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  10509.  @destinjones6624  Yet that "tiny minority" was able to get Shift-up and Sony to backtrack on Stellar Blade. The fact that Assassin's Creed is a huge franchise is the ONLY reason why the OLD games are getting a boost right now. Except for Valhalla; that one has the SMALLEST boost, and you have to ask why.
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  10510. The Russian Bear is Geriatric!
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  10511. Schadenfreude. They get what they f-ing deserve as Arthur Fleck said.
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  10512. Quote them Micahel's Crichton's famous quote about consensus in science.
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  10513. Considering that deep fakes use existing vocal material, it is entirely possible to do that.
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  10514. And CNN or MSNBC isn't one sided? Spare me.
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  10515. Indeed. JK Rowling and Jack Dorsey encouraged and rewarded this behavior. They deserve it when the mob they empowered comes to collect their scalp.
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  10516. All the more reason why copyright laws need to revert back to just 30 years as they were under the original 1790's statute.
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  10517. Because they are bankrupt of ideas and have no creativity at all. The people running the show got their positions from nepotism rather than any actual talent. Let Japan bury them for nothing of value will be lost.
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  10518.  @OmmerSyssel  Yeah, a continent that waged near-constant war until the US came in and kept the peace for 80 years. As soon as the US looks to Asia, you guys manage to find yourselves in another land war. It just so happens that the Ukrainians are the ones dying for you instead of your own citizens.
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  10519.  @Arcaryon  What is the assumption? Her membership in that organization is not disputed as the meticulous records kept by the organization and released after unification have proven. As for her motivations, well, it is pretty clear that once a commie, ALWAYS a commie. Her actions to make Germany cripplingly over-dependent on Russian cheap energy IS the evidentiary proof.
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  10520.  @uschurch  Then why did her policies effectively act to assist Russia in rebuilding the Eastern Bloc power base? Poland and the Baltic States were warning for years against the actions taken by the German government. ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS. Merkel's actions betray her true motives.
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  10521.  @Arcaryon  Yeah, more whataboutism and deflections. Typical talking points one would except from people who shill for the old Soviet system. You have not refuted nor debunked ANY of the points I have made. Here is a hint: when you use the arguments and tactics of Bolsheviks, it tends to suggest that you yourself are one.
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  10522. They will point to the fact that the guy killed used bear spray, ignoring that use of bear spray is NOT a justification for escalation to lethal force.
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  10523. If the was war over as soon as it began, why does Kiev still stand? Besides, appeasement NEVER works; not in 1938, nor today. Put down the vodka private conscriptovich, you are drunk.
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  10524. Then explain why Kiev still stands. Explain why Russia retreated across the Dniper with its tail between its legs. Explain the defeat of the 1st Guards Tank Army, the Pride of Moscow at Iysium.
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  10525.  @DougAldrichFan  It took them over a year to take Bakhmut. It has taken them over FOUR years to simply surround Advika. They still have yet to reclaim Isyium after their pathetic and panicked flight which resulted in the T-90s of 1st Army Tank Guards in the hands of the UAF. So tell me again how Russia is regaining lost ground in a matter of days.
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  10526. The West didn't have the example to follow that everyone else does today. You are making the presentism chronological fallacy.
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  10527.  @Defensor314  Actually, there is. Namely, you are not being blatant about your partisan and biased actions which IS an objectively measurable metric. If it could be considered an "in-kind donation" under FEC rules for example. Don't make excuses for indefensible behavior.
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  10528.  @Defensor314  "Cite authority" That is the logical fallacy of "appeal to authority". Disregard me all you want, but it only shows you are throwing a temper tantrum like a spoiled little child. Learn to debate and code. Touch grass while you are at it.
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  10529.  @Defensor314  WRONG. Law is NOT always correct. That is why we have the appeals process. By your logic, the law says Trump is guilty simply because the law as passed deems it so. SCOTUS disagrees. For someone who is obsessed with the law, you sure are ignorant of it. Your interpretation of the Law is Fascistic.
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  10530. And a lot of folks don't realize he was calling for genocide of blacks in the Americas.
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  10531. And the sad thing is, with all of the poorly written female and minority characters (bonus points if the lead is both), the backlash going forward is contempt for characters that just happen to be minority and female. It is as if Hollyweird is PURPOSLY sabotaging those kinds of characters.
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  10532.  @logixxt9097  And new war will occur BECAUSE you won't let the area further balkanize into smaller local states. The Cantons are already effectively smaller states, so why not make it official? If you bother to even pay attention, NOBODY really likes nor wants the system in place, and it represents nobody except the interests of the power mongers. Your insistence on they are remaining under such as tyrannical governing body is no less wrong and evil as the bloodshed that preceded it. Perhaps YOU don't understand that you are using one tragedy to justify another tragedy. That is despotic and dictatorial, just as evil as the one you are moralizing over. Trading one evil for another evil, one dictator for another is still affirmatively choosing evil.
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  10533.  @logixxt9097  Calling me a bot isn't an argument, it is an ad hominin (logical fallacy). It is also an act of desperation because it means you know you cannot argue the merits. How can you use genocide as justification for tyranny and despotism? How can you use the dead to justify doing the same thing to the other side? You clearly don't understand that MORE government and MORE centralize authority is precisely what causes crimes against humanity such as genocide. As for nations, built on ethnic cleanings, EVERY NATION has at some point engaged in ethnonationalism at the expense of minority populations. Don't pretend that Bosnian Muslims did not engage in the very same acts during WW2 as part of Haj Amin Al-Husseini's SS brigade; it is very well documented.
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  10534.  @logixxt9097  All of that is needlessly over complex. LESS government and centralize authority is ALWAYS the correct answer. Centralized power and control is NEVER the correct answer. You insist on upholding an overly complex system that disenfranchises EVERYONE. That is the textbook definition of tyranny.
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  10535.  @98091238  Simplistic, perhaps, But hardly propagandistic. And the only reason why it is so complex is because people insist on making it needlessly more complex than it has to be. "Life is very simple, people just insist on making it overly complex," -Confucius, author of "The Analects"
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  10536.  @Danger-six.  Only in your and Putin's wet dream. Russia is LOSING territory in Zaporizhia. Robotyne, Verbote, Andrivka, Novoprokopivka, Kopani.
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  10537. Indeed. The sooner people realize this is a non-theistic religion, the sooner it will be that it will be put to a stop.
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  10538. Youtube hates tim too. He gets very little money from them for his videos. His business is mostly supported by Timcast memberships.
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  10539. The enemy of my enemy is not always my friend. WW2 proves this time and again. The USSR may have been at war with Germany, but that hardly made them good friends to the Western Allies. Especially after the war ended.
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  10540.  @BrianBarsuhn  You realize that part of the reason the USSR was able to even challenge the West was because of all the supplies delivered to them during the war? Much like with the Germans leading up to WW2, the US has a nasty habit of creating the very enemies they later fight. Back to the issue, what is the point of assisting establishment wannabes like DW? Replacing one set of tyrants with another doesn't solve the problem, it doubles down on it. ALL businesses record conversations, or have you not called a help line recently? "Your call may be monitored for quality assurance." sound familiar? Then you have the fact that Project Veritas regularly secretly records people. Sorry, this "it's dirty" argument is a logical fallacy known as appeal to emotion. Emotions do not overrule cold hard facts.
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  10541. He was never a Samurai, only a retainer. You are being gaslighted by the colonizers at Ubisoft and Sweet Baby Inc.
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  10542.  @williamshanks8959  There is a protein that only animal fat provides to human that CANNOT be acquired from any plants. And the bacteria produced version in pills is NOT particularly healthy.
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  10543. Sovereign power of the State. Disney' only has power in Reedy Creek because the State government grants it that authority. The authority Disney exercises is on loan and can be revoked at pleasure.
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  10544. Japan converting hulls into aircraft carriers is not a new thing. That being said, I would love to see a modern IJN Akagi, IJN Kaga, and IJN Shinano nuclear super-carriers.
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  10545.  @ivan7453  The problem is that the age of battleships is over because of guided missiles. Between ship-based rockets and carrier-based aircraft, engagements are at distances well beyond the horizon and outside the range of cannons. In fact, the last time ships did engage in a direct fire-fight was in the Battle of Samar which featured Yamato being dueled by tin-can destroyer-escorts that fought as if they were battleships. It resulted in about the only carrier ever sunk by naval gunfire: USS Gambier Bay. Now, I DO believe there is a place today for battleships as a mobile artillery platform, especially for shore bombardment and close support (think USS Nevada during Normandy). But Heavy Cruisers fill that role on the rare situations it comes up. Battleships could also serve as a command and control (ship version of an AWACS ), but today Cruisers also tend to fill that role. Finally, they can also act as an anti-aircraft platform to protect the carriers on the off chance that enemy planes do get past the Combat Air Patrol. But since US doctrine calls for air dominance, it is not considered a justified use of resources.
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  10546.  @unklmonk651  Fishing, and natural resource rights. If they can claim the Island, then everything between it and the home Islands can be claimed as sovereign Japanese territorial waters.
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  10547. Agreed. Only when the EGS bankers don't have any options to finance because nobody will play ball will this plague truely be put down.
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  10548. Put down the Vodka private conscriptovich, you are so drunk you are hallucinating. Russia's best chance to capture Kiev was at the start of the war. It is now impossible for them to ever get as close as they did then.
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  10549.  @aeroprime3322  Indeed. Some of these people actually need to read the Federalist Papers regarding the exercise of sovereign power and authority. As the power Disney exercises is derived and on loan from the State Government, the state can revoke it at will. Disney cannot monopolize authority they do not originally own. The ONLY way the supremacy of the state governments' can be overruled is by the SCOTUS.
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  10550. And "economic refugees" are simply migrants. Refugees are fleeing political persecution, not poor economic conditions.
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  10551. "Then let me be evil" is an appropriate response to people who call you the devil.
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  10552.  @lp2042  So you just let the government kidnap your children? if you believe that you should just allow that to happen without a fight, you have already lost. There IS a point when you HAVE to fight. I will not tell you when that point is, but it WILL come. And if you are unwilling to, then you might as well put your wrists out for the physical manacles and chains of your slavery.
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  10553.  @1charlastar1234  Nice revisionism. The Southers state didn't even allow Lincoln on the ballot. South Carolina declared secession on December 20th almost as soon as the results of the election were known. You are moving the goal posts because my point cuts to the heart: all of the claims of the southern cause lead back one way or another to slavery. You need to stop parroting Jubal Early who perpetuated those myths.
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  10554.  @1charlastar1234  I can see you have also been programed. Only yours is by the myths and legends of people who refuse to admit that they are unrepentant Johnny Rebels. I have READ the letters of my ancestors who were active members of the abolitionist movement. You disparage real people with your empty accusations. You discredit yourself by parroting Jubal Early. Look up Joanathan Strange Bishop, 28th Iowa and later 11th Louisiana (Union, Black). He would not have been attacked to such a unit if he did not believe that the cause was to end the scourge of slavery (his own words to his wife).
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  10555.    I would not say that. They are just dangerously naïve. I like the Libertarian philosophy, but the "Big Ls" have become the party of GOP and DNC rejects; they engaged in a Stalinist purge of the Austin Peterson folks after Gary Johnson got the nomination.
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  10556. @Mainely Blind faith in government which you demand is a non-theistic religion itself. Government is not the answer, it is often the cause of the problems. History is littered with totalitarian governments, the end result of your ideology. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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  10557.  @DarkMatterX1  Some of the background matte paintings were used in other shows such as Star Trek. https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/inconsistencies/reused_planets.htm
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  10558.  @hardworkingcriminal4873  They are not even allowed to move around their own country without special permission of the government.
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  10559.  @johnserosanguineous1886  Sadly, history doesn't have room for mediocrity in women leaders and rulers; they are either great like Nefertiti of Egypt, Tamar of Georgia and Queen Seondeok of Korea or they are abominable like Cleopatra, Wu Zetian of China, Queen Mary I of England, or Jinseong of Shilla Dynasty Korea. And history remembers the bad ones more readily than the good ones.
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  10560. You said the same about Kherson. And just like then, you count it a defeat before the die is even cast.
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  10561. GITMO complies with Geneva and Hauge. Jacque Chirac and the French sold Saddam his mustard and Sarin Gas as well as the VX chemicals. Also, there were a number of Sarin Gas attacks used on US forces during the assault on Bagdad, but the media and the DoD covered it up.
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  10562.  @kennethli8  The problem with that though is you get Weimar Germany or Mugabe's Zimbabwe. Just printing money with nothing to back it up makes the currency worthless.
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  10563. Yeah, he has an anti-GOP, anti-Trump bias while ignoring facts like Putin stealing Crimea while Biden was directing Obama's foreign policy. The fact that he boasts about working for the Department of Homeland Security after getting out of the military tells you he is a shill for the DC machine.
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  10564. From your mouth to Putin's ear. Only one man can stop this and he refuses.
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  10565. like a vampire that recoils from its own reflection in horror.
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  10566. You really trust them to protect the POTUS? They will conveniently disappear if he is sent to Rikers.
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  10567. Funny how technology changes, but this war is essentially emulating WW1 trench combat.
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  10568.  @lukabosanac2671  Funny, because the Japanese and South Koreans actually like the US. Unlike the Chinese, the US is the only country that came in to fight a war, and then went home. Even the Japanese were shocked at the magnanimity of the US, having helped to rebuild them after practically bombing them back to the stone age.
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  10569. Yeah, TLC has become the channel for degeneracy. My wife originally watched 90-day fiancé, but it quickly turned into immigration scandal and marriage drama instead of celebrating trans-national marriage.
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  10570. The Rosenbergs are who got Oppenheimer's weapon to Stalin. One has to wonder when they started leaking that information.
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  10571. Perun has a great video digging into German readiness or lack thereof.
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  10572. A slavery of their own making, as it were. Worse, much like lemmings, they push down those who try to buck the trend. A slave overseer's greatest asset is the slaves who police their own. There was a word for them in WW2: Kapos.
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  10573. Ask the Chinese how that worked out with Opium in the 1840s.
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  10574. Indeed. Those among the minority population calling for Charles Mason's Helter Skelter will find that only the Jackals and buzzards truly win in that scenario.
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  10575. Yeah, gender studies and ethnic studies degrees. Exercises in mental masturbation because they don't have any practical skill or ability. Some people read a message that doesn't actually exist because they are simply projecting their ideology.
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  10576.  @costakeith9048  In the cold war, that was true. But today Russia is NOT the power it was as the Soviet Union. At this point I don't really think that Putin has the grand globalist conquest ideas that Yuri Andropov, his mentor possessed. I suspect that Putin is much more practical. His leadership style on the world stage is more nuanced than what was seen during the Stalin, Krushev and Brezhnev years.
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  10577.  @costakeith9048  You are correct on most of those. The part you are wrong about is that Russia is the only nation that can take the US. RED China can. They have the numbers to bury the US. They are quickly catching up on the technology front, and they have been spending the last 30 years on the training. As Mr. Pool points out, Thucydides trap is in play. And if you read Michael Pillsbury, the odds are not good for the US. In half of the war games, the conflict escalates into thermonuclear war. When Mr. Pilsbury plays the Chinese in the war games as the Chinese actually behave, he ALWAYS wins. Think Erich Marcks in "The Longest Day" predicting the landing at Normandy. Michael Pilsbury is America's Erich Marcks.
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  10578.  @costakeith9048  You greatly underestimate the Chinese. It isn't about nuclear warheads in the arsenal. And as far as the logistics to mount and invasion, well, they are working on that. Today they are MUCH better able to wage war with the US than the Imperial Japanese Navy ever was. And if you think for one minute they even care about the deaths of a few million due to strategic nuclear bombing, you don't understand the Chinese. Life is cheap to them. The Soviets cared about making sure the Bolshevik Revolution continued. The Red Chinese don't have that concern. The Great Leap Forward famine shows that they(the party) don't care how many of their people die. Chairman Mao himself said several times that there are too many Chinese in the world. Killing several million of them only solves their population oversupply. So when fighting the Chinese, you are using the same flawed logic that Michael Pilsbury so easily defeats. Stop using "conventional wisdom", it does not apply to the Chi-Coms.
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  10579.  @costakeith9048  Forgot the former Soviet Carrier Varyag have you? Forgotten that they do have 8 nuclear boomers have you? Forgotten that they HAVE developed 5th generation fighters? In every capacity they are rapidly gaining ground in no small part to collaborators in the US giving them the knowledge via industrial espionage. You are grossly underestimating the Chinese, and that will doom us all. If you think modern warfare is only about nukes, you are ignoring recent history. You are making the exact same blunders Washington made in 1941. To quote the US Army, "You can shoot down all the MiG's you want, but if the enemy tank commander has a beer in your officers' club, then you lost the war."
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  10580.  @costakeith9048  It is not just one carrier anymore. They have at least two fully operational and more in the works. And while they are untested in combat, they ARE more capable than the Russians. Or have you forgotten that the Russian Carrier group went home in shame after its embarrassing performance in Syria? The Chinese have clearly and undeniably surpassed the Russians in that area. You do realize number of warheads doesn't matter if you have the initiative of first strike? That's right, you even mentioned first strike capability yourself. In that regard, numbers fired is less important that getting in the first hits. And with Multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle vehicles (MIRVs) the number of launch subs is even less important. Do keep in mind that China is NOT bound by the Start treaties like the US and Russia are. Speaking of subs, since the Kursk disaster the Russians have show a distinct lack of competency with regards to sub operations. While the Chinese initially trained with the Russians, at this point they have surpassed them as the Chinese have put more focus on proper training than the Russians Then you have the Chinese space program itself. Between the anti-satellite tests and the remotely operated vehicles they have used in lunar survey as well as near Earth environment, they are easily a match to the West. If you claim that the Russians are a Blue water Navy, then you HAVE to concede that so are the Chinese. In every factor, the Chinese have surpassed the Russians.
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  10581.  @costakeith9048  I never said that manpower was the only factor, merely one of many. YOU however, are grossly miscalculating force multipliers. American does NOT have the technological advantage it once enjoyed. The Chinese have quickly closed the gap thanks to their "Thousand Talents" program that uses students as well as the tech industry to engage in industrial espionage on behalf of the communist party. It is foolish to assume that technology will remain the US's strongest trump card. Then you have the Chinese engaging in training particularly in combat tactics and field leadership while the US military is more focused on social justice, intersectionality, and minority grievance. Rather than have their people read memoirs by Patton, Stromin' Norman, or Ulysses Grant, they are making "White Fragility" mandatory reading. That is not a recipe for success. You say I am trying to fight the last war, yet you are still stuck in the mentality of NATO in June of 1990 before the breakup of the Soviet Union. Russia is NOT the power it was under the Hammer and Sickle. It is delusional paranoia to believe that it is anywhere near that powerful. You are completely wrong about Russia being our equal as they cannot even maintain the tools and weapons of the former Soviet military; most of them are rusting and rotting in the hangars and drydocks. And those that are not rusting, Putin is selling off to China and India to cut expenses and preserve what he can. China IS a very real threat as the Japanese, South Koreans, Taiwanese, Indonesians, Malaysians, and Vietnamese would tell you.
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  10582.  @RobertZdarsChin  Most boomers such as my father born in 1958 don't have the patience to watch anime. They have this certain elitist contempt for anything made in Japan. Remember the Scene in Back to the Future where 1955 Doc Brown says "no wonder if failed, it says made in Japan" to which Marty responds "All the best stuff is made in Japan". Doc responds "unbelievable". You sir, I would hazard are actually a member of Gen X. Marty McFly in Back to the Future represents Gen X. I am the tail end of Gen X having been born in 1984. I remember in the 90s having to buy VHS for anime. Was a pain to collect the entirety of "Vision of Escaflowne".
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  10583.  @RobertZdarsChin  Yes, the Japanese miracle occurred in the 1960s with South Korea's miracle in the 1980s. And indeed it took 20 years for the Japanese to work all of the bugs out of their systems to finally be competitive with the US. Part of the problem is that people like Pew Research don't actually understand the Howe-Strauss generational theory. They incorrectly believe that generations are based on hard 20 year cohorts when the actual theory is much more fluid with some generations as short as 10 years while others are as long as 50 years. it is all about how that age cohort reacts to crisis that defines a generation. While I am glad about the advent of DVDs, I wish the Japanese would start doing their own in-house English dubbing to bypass the wokescolds at Funimation and Crunchyroll. I am okay with listening to a heavy accent if it means I get a more honest translation. Japan doesn't need California as their middlemen. They should release their productions directly to the American audience and bypass Hollyweird.
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  10584.  @RobertZdarsChin  Again, as I said, being sympathetic doesn't make you an agent of the KGB. And just because the Soviets have an interest in you doesn't make you a threat. J. Edgar Hoover's unlawful recordings of MLK's phone conversations proved that while the KGB had great interest in the man, he refused to ever work for them. And I agree with you that it is refreshing to see the Japanese push back against the woke/cancel culture. I wish more in the US would join them in that.
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  10585. Sic semper tyrannis
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  10586.  @prasantpandey4057  What country ever championed the Klu Klux Klan? You are totally out of touch with reality, simply vomiting word salad because you THINK you know what those words mean.
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  10587. I tend to agree with you about the allies of the NAZIS (rather than Germany per se). Petain's "French State" (aka Vichy) was a WILLING collaborator with the Third Reich. The French Maquis underground represented a very small fraction of the French population though in post-war France everyone claimed to be a member. France doesn't get near enough criticism for what they did to their Jewish population.
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  10588.  @FrederickJohnSebastian  Wikipedia regularly launder political OPINION pieces as if they were objective fact. Take a look at which pages are open for public edit and which ones are locked. The ones locked out are very likely to be propagandistic and not actually factual.
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  10589. Prosecuting defense lawyers for doing their job is what corrupt Banana Republics run by dictators do. Don't defend Soviet Style "justice". Don't apologize for the indefensible malicious political prosecutions of Trump supporters. You will not like it when the shoe is on the other foot. "Today, you sentence me! Tomorrow, the Bolsheviks sentence you!" -Emil Hahn played by Werner Klemperer; "Judgement at Nuremberg" (1961 film).
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  10590. Indeed. And the F-35 has quickly become what the F-4 Phantom was belatedly realized in Vietnam: jack of all, master of none, sucks at everything.
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  10591. Yeah, but was the girl sterilized by the process? Most girls under 14 who give birth are reproductively damaged beyond recovery from the process.
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  10592.  @HikmetDemirci-l9y  Like they did in Izyum?
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  10593. Nevertrumpers are about the only GOP votes he is going to pick up.
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  10594. The F-22 line was cannibalized to make the F-35s. And it has been reluctantly admitted that Robert Gates made a strategic blunder in reducing the size of the US F-22 fleet. So no, not a single F-22 can be spared. If the hacks in the Pentagon and Congress hadn't been so stingy, they could have sold some to Australian and New Zealand thereby preventing this very problem.
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  10595.  @zonzillamagnus5902  "It was a joke" is the deflection of someone who knows they have gone too far and are trying to save face. it has been so grossly overplayed as a defense that most people are not buying it anymore. Further, online conversation is the WORST place to be using sarcasm or cracking jokes like that. Poe's Law, look it up.
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  10596.  @zonzillamagnus5902  Just because something is obvious to you doesn't make it self-evident to all people. Look up Poe's Law. Online discourse is the WORST place to be cracking jokes or using sarcasm if you are not intimately familiar with your audience. "It isn't what you say, it is what your audience hears," -proverb on public speaking.
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  10597.  @zonzillamagnus5902  Calling someone dumb doesn't make your argument, it is an ad hominin attack and a sign of desperation. it also shows you have lost the debate. The fact is, you failed spectacularly on communications because you forgot the cardinal rule: it is what your audience hears. "It isn't what you say, it is what your audience hears," -proverb on communication.
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  10598.  @zonzillamagnus5902  Nice Apples to oranges false analogy. For one, the Babylon Bee makes no pretense about being anything other than satire. Secondly, it is not what you say, it is what the audience hears. If the audience takes your message the wrong way, that is YOUR fault, not theirs.
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  10599.  @GenericProtagonist7  Online discussion is about the worse venue you can choose to crack a joke. Without both verbal inflections and non-verbal cues, much of the humor is lost. First rule of communications: It isn't what YOU say, it is what your audience hears. Know your audience before you go off half-cocked.
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  10600. Disco inferno!
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  10601. That is assuming that there is enough to dilute it with. Problem is, there is not enough solution to get rid of it all.
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  10602. The Palestinians have NEVER honored their peace agreements. Every "land for peace" treaty signed by them has been violated, time and again. There is ZERO justification for the unprovoked attack against Israel. Hamas and Hezbollah are finances and supported by Iran.
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  10603. No joke. Both are mischaracterized and used to subvert the rule of law and usher in totalitarianism.
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  10604. I like the cut of your jib!
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  10605. Shell Oil signed contracts to drill for oil in Crimea right before Putin stole the peninsula from Ukraine. Donbas has most if not all of the minerals in the agreement Trump demanded. The whole war is about Putin trying to protect his monopoly on Europe's market.
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  10606. I think I remember seeing that video by Rev. And you are a person of culture, Flarestorm. Dare I say, a total Chad.
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  10607. Yeah, someone who grew up in an activist house and attended a California college is going to be taught to hate the military and consider them war criminals and baby killers. That is what makes that ad so unrealistic.
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  10608. Then explain genocide. Some people don't want your biology to perpetuate. That being said, I am all about making love instead of war, where possible.
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  10609. Well, and they are trying to shoehorn modern politics into it. Peter Jackson several times stated that it was inappropriate to inject modern "sensibilities" into Tolkien's Magnum Opus.
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  10610.  @lewiselliott9038  Everyone has bias. The issue is whether they admit it. Most of the West will acknowledge they are rooting for Ukraine. Simply acknowledging that means the bias is neutralized.
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  10611. @mark Mierzejewski Be pragmatic as to why you would choose the Communist Republicans of Spain over Franco. Have you even bothered to ask WHY the Spainards chose to back him? Have you even bothered to ask why Franco REFUSED to join the Nazis during WW2? No, because you are acting EXACTLY like Stalin's dupes in Spain.
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  10612. Ironically, he is probably more knowledgeable about agriculture than most professors teaching at colleges and universities today. Even agriculture institutions like Purdue University, Indiana has tarnished when it comes to the caliber of instructors.
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  10613. Yeah, because capitalism is so bad, it has raised more people out of poverty than any other economic system. It is even responsible for the computer you are using right now. The problem behind why there is so little investment in green energy aside from nuclear and hydro-electric is that they are just not viable on their own. If they were, then someone would already be the John D. Rockefeller of Wind and Solar.
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  10614.  @michaeldavid4572  So was Nelson Mandela. Black America is already calling Trump "America's Mandela".
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  10615.  @ajaykumarsingh702  And yet on the ground more and more they are self-identifying as Taiwanese. It is only among the over 50 population that has a majority who consider themselves Chinese.
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  10616. Funny, because most of the "America First" folks thinks the US should stay out of the Israel-Arab conflict. Yes, they support Israel, but they don't see a reason to join the battle.
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  10617. Indeed. Forgiveness is pointless without REPENTANCE. Grace is wasted without remorse.
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  10618. "Scorched Earth"
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  10619.  @Thorsten_Wiegand  Who would have guessed a year ago? You guys laughed at Trump when he warned you THREE years ago about this very issue. Part of your problem is that Germans kept telling themselves that Angela Merkel was no longer a member of the East German Communist Youth League (the same folks who trained the Munich Olympics bombers). Clearly a Tiger does not change its stripes, so she was more than willing to serve her country up on a silver platter to the Russian Bear (a geriatric bear it turns out).
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  10620. They also ignore that the Shale Oil revolution came about because of higher oil prices. And Shale oil swallows up any potential that green advocates claim will come their way.
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  10621. Cope harder dude. A force fighting on its home soil has the ability to take on as much as ten times their number. History is littered with examples of invading armies limping home in disgrace.
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  10622.  @andyabuteo6084  Nice job Cherry Picking there. Kievan Rus and Muscovites are NOT the same. Just because they were under one ruling family during the era of the Czars does NOT mean they particularly like each other. Just ask the Poles. Yes, this war is about the Donbas. And the coal, gas, and oil deposits under them. Putin does not want Ukraine to be competition for the energy market. But of course, you don't want to talk about that because it lays bare Putin's cynical reasons for invading Ukraine.
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  10623. Indeed. The Washington Naval treaty, a precursor to nuclear arms control treaties failed to prevent WW2 for the same reasons.
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  10624. And half of the people there would have followed them out if he had.
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  10625.  @robendert7617  Ever heard of a pyrrhic victory? You can win the battle but lose the war. That is the kind of "victory" that Russia is earning. The fact that Kiev is still independent of the Kremin is already a Ukrainian victory regardless of the Donbas.
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  10626.  @robendert7617  Zelensky is acting the Der Furher? I think it is PUTIN who is giving the orders that the Austrian Painter issued to the Wehrmacht. For someone who claims to understand history, you are applying the lessons to the wrong scenarios.
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  10627.  @UncleEbenezer77  Nelson Mandela served time in prison. So did the president of Brazil.
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  10628. Yeah, the energy crunch proves that renewables are a pipe dream.
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  10629. And yet taking his vote out of the equation, it is still 5-3. Kavanaugh's objection is as worthless as Steven Breyer's dissent.
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  10630. There was much opportunity in the Gorbachev/Yeltsen era. Sadly, that was lost with Putin's arrival in the Kremlin.
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  10631. Well, and in anime, the politics takes a back seat to the story rather than the reverse.
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  10632.  @ahapka  Only telling half the story I see. The case actually went to the issue of loyalty oaths and eligibility to run for office, not the actual pardon power itself. Also, you are citing the dissent, not the majority opinion. Major mistake by the intellectually dishonest.
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  10633.  @enriquelaroche5370  Yeah, the first one ever. No tank is invincible, and there is something as "acceptable casualties", which is usually on the order of 1 in 3. Again, looking at how many T-72 kills as contrasted with Challenger and you are clearly grasping at straws to make a mountain out of a molehill.
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  10634.  @enriquelaroche5370  More bluff and bluster from someone who has checked out from reality. Using nukes will only guarantee that Moscow becomes a glass crater. Even China won't stand for Russia using nukes. "The lady doth protest too much, me thinks," -Queen Gertrude; Act 3 scene 2: Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
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  10635.  @enriquelaroche5370  You are panicking with hyperbolic and hysterical what if scenarios. The louder you whine, the less believable you are. Your desperation is showing.
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  10636.  @maritaschweizer1117  Considering you believe fringe conspiracy theories like Russian collusion, that explains why you will never understand.
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  10637.  @maritaschweizer1117  Putin didn't invade Ukraine on Trump watch, it occurred on Biden's. Putin stole Crimea when Biden was Obama's foreign policy "expert". Hard facts prove you completely wrong. You a relying solely on the discredited Chrisotpher Steele dossier which was nothing more than Russian disinformation.
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  10638.  @spendor9377  I agree that Putin is the culprit, and I am in NO way attempting to minimize or trivialize that. But you cannot deny that Putin took his actions when Biden was the one calling the foreign policy shots for the US. Putin viewed Biden as pathetically weak. Dictators only respect someone who projects a strong image.
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  10639. Would have been safer to use the apocrypha around the Two Blue Wizards and run with that.
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  10640.  @mitri5389  Boy you have that bass ackwards. Your description applies to Russia, not Ukraine. It is Putin who is getting desperate to find recruits. Russia has been stopped dead in its tracks on the Kharkiv front, and they are boxed in at Kherson; there are no more intact bridges that can sustain heavy vehicles. Then you have the fact that bases in Crimea are now under fire.
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  10641. If they want me to use "proper pronouns", I can use the historically correct terms, but they will not like them. Those who cut their frank and beans off are Eunuchs.
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  10642.  @debbielee2621  It was an official statement from the Ottawa police's own official social media account. Who is spreading misinformation? Are you not going to believe your own eyes?
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  10643.  @debbielee2621  Where have I heard "they are not going to..." before? You are lying to yourself. "Where they begin by burning books, in the end they burn human beings," -Heinrich Henie.
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  10644. 20 years ago, you would be correct. But Obama and Biden paid the ransom for Bergdahl and now terrorists everywhere know the US WILL paid ransom if a Democrat is in the White House.
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  10645. There is a major difference between the Russians and Hamas. At least the Russians PRETEND to abide by the Law of Armed Conflict and do NOT stockpile their guns, missiles, and mortars in hospitals. The Russies DO use schools as barracks much like Hamas does.
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  10646. I am okay with drafting women.....Into the reconstituted WAACs, WAVES, and WASPs of WW2. Every woman manning the short batteries here on the home front puts another man on the front line.
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  10647. Interesting that Netflix squanderd so much money on a failed Cowboy Bebop and yet they have done nothing on "The Dragon Prince" which was pretty successful until the Wuhan Virus insanity started.
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  10648. 'If You Voted For Biden And Don't Regret It, You're The Problem' - Jake Paul
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  10649. Because the tech giants are all in collusion just like Huxley's Brave New World or Orwell's 1984.
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  10650. But what if they owned stock BEFORE running for and assuming office? Are they to just sell them all off at a loss?
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  10651.  @user-pn3im5sm7k  Negative population growth is NOT fine. You need two babies per woman to break even and maintain a stable society. Demographic collapse leads to societal collapse.
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  10652. Good luck with that. My experience is that Korean women think they are too good for Western men. In many ways, they are just as picky as Western women, only they are not nearly as obnoxious.
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  10653.  @Balenza345  I guess you have not heard of mutually assure destruction? If a NATO capital is nuked, you can bet that Moscow will become a radioactive crater.
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  10654. Look up JFKs quotes about taxes. It will add arrows to your quiver.
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  10655. Yeah, Putin could have let Mendeleev have a second term and continue as Putin's Puppet. But "Mad Vlad" couldn't tolerate being the power behind the throne; his ego demanded he rule openly.
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  10656.  @LittleNoiseBoy  The Baltic States and Poland would point to the invasion as specifically WHY the joined NATO. Hell, the leader of Lithuania even said that they would be occupied by Russia now if they hadn't joined.
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  10657.  @CatsJP  "cramping your lifestyle"? If that is your concern, then maybe you should take your own advice and not reproduce. The number one rule in parenting is sacrificing of yourself for THEIR future. Most of these transitioner parents are destroying the future of their offspring in defiance of that number one rule.
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  10658. The State government has a Trump card: Sovereign power of the state. The Reedy Creek board only exists at the pleasure of the State Legislature. The moment the Reedy Creek bill was signed into law, the previous board lost its authority. No agreement made after the signing of the law has any legitimacy unless the state government consents to it.
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  10659. This. Why anyone thinks the CCP would allow a sale is baffling.
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  10660. There are really only three people who have a good understanding of the Dragon known as China: Michael Pilsbury, Gordon Chang, and Richard Murdock. All three have played as team Gold in Pentagon War games, and much like Erich Marcks in "The Longest Day", they ALWAYS win.
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  10661.  @LordEjnar  Sounds to me like you don't actually want to debate the merits. BTW, you did respond, thereby legitimizing me. How about Paul refusing to address the human smuggling component? How about the fact that there are legal crossing points these people REFUSE to cross at? How about the fact that Mexico is a "first port of refuge" meaning that most of these people are obligated to stay in Mexico rather than come to the US. But sure, act high and mighty. You only discredit yourself. That I acknowledged my hyperbolic comment when I made it actually mitigates any damage it may have caused to my credibility.
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  10662. What is bad for men is also bad for women. It takes two to tango. It takes both genders to sustain the species. Kill all of the men and the women will not have breeding partners, and vice versa.
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  10663. Claiming that Korea will go extinct is hysterical to the point of being a farce. The population will decline to an equilibrium point and then stabilize.
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  10664.  @Lilhajxjk274  And how much representation or influence did they actually have? Not much, really. Most of the "representation" was for optics and appearances.
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  10665. Almost like they want to repeat the AIDS crisis of the 90s. Oh, And Tony Fauci screwed that one up too!
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  10666.  @matineyang  Fauci didn't do a damn thing to find a cure for either HIV/AIDS nor the Wuhan Flu. The man is a quack and should be in jail for willful and intentional medical malpractice.
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  10667. Face diaper.
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  10668. Arab NATO would fall apart without Israeli support. The Arabs fear the Persians more than they fear the Jew.
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  10669.  @vonshayne5316  Liberate JUDEA!
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  10670.  @prettitalented  Well, the US, Canada, Australia, and News Zealand WERE part of the British Empire. One fought a war of independence. The others were granted their autonomy almost a century later.
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  10671. @ Prices are already starting to go down if you are paying attention. Trump has given the markets a confidence that better economic times are ahead, and that IS trickling down. But Debbie Downers like you can't give him one single victory, which is why you lost in November. The populace have had enough of your Trump Derangement.
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  10672. Calling them? Probably calling for their heads. If he gets Epstined and there is no Civil War, then we are all just lambs to the slaughter.
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  10673. Ah, but what constitutes "insane content"? That has been Twatter's problem since the start. Arbitrary fiat is empowered by nebulous definitions of "insane content" and "hate speech". Better to just forward it to the FBI.
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  10674. Uncle Remus was a surrogate grandfather to Johnny. How does that make him racist? Can an older gentleman of color not impart valuable life lessons to a young white boy?
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  10675. Look at the context of how it is being used. They are misusing the word to include people not normally part of its definition. They are using it the way Vlad Lenin used the term "proletariat".
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  10676. I think we are making a chicken and egg argument. Some have described the event similar to Mount St. Helens. Did the eruption of Helens cause the landslide, or did the landslide uncork the volcano allowing the eruption to take place?
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  10677. It can, but it takes someone with vison and actual creativity, something that woke Hollywood is in short supply of.
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  10678. Maybe not in his pants because Ukraine caught him with his pants DOWN.
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  10679.  @CakeofWisdom  What was it Lincoln said of Grant? "In him I found a man who can stomach the awful arithmetic of war".
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  10680.  @Carabas72  Have I? Just look at how the corporates like Paramount/CBS and Disney has vandalized IP. As far as moving overseas, well, they have already done a lot of that. It is called "corporate inversion". Burger King in particular bought a Canadian franchise so they could move their headquarters north of the border. So, everything you are fearmongering about has already come to pass. I am putting up a solution because the status quo is only doubling down on the problem.
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  10681.  @Carabas72  One can only strip-mine an IP while they have exclusivity. In the process they prevent new ideas and new takes on an old concept. Tell me, how much abuse have public domain IP suffered? Does that material get subject to litigation or corporate malfeasance the same way copyrighted material over 30 years old is? And as far as Chris Tolkien, I assure you that there was very little reason for him to publish the "not ready for primetime" materials his father had not yet published. The Silmarillion is one thing. The alternative versions of the Hobbit never needed to see the light of day.
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  10682.  @Carabas72  You are asking me to prove a negative. Nice logical fallacy on your part. Absence of evidence does NOT mean absence of harm, particularly when that harm comes from acts of what effectively are censorship. And the examples you just used only prove my point about creativity and is exactly WHY public domain exists. Your refusal to acknowledge my point about exclusivity with regards to IP strip-mining shows you a4re NOT debating in good faith, you are shilling for the monied interests.
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  10683.  @Carabas72  But it is. You just refuse to admit it. Look up the definition of that logical fallacy, and lean to debate.
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  10684.  @Carabas72  A claim about a negative is not automatically in error as you assume. Nor is it unsounded. Analogy often becomes the method for supporting it. Your defense of copyright extension 70 years after an author's death is the same premise that religious fundamentalists use to justify that their version is "the true, correct, and ONLY version" all others being heresies that must be silenced. Only the original creator has that kind absolutist authority and on their death that authority expires and does NOT pass to anyone else. Now, I am okay with an author retaining rights until their confirmed death (not just mysterious disappearance). But then they should NOT have any power to transfer that copyright to anyone else. OR if they wish to transfer that IP ownership, then it MUST expire 30 years after the date it was published with NO extensions. The ONE and only exception I have is Peter Pan. J. M. Barrie specifically willed his ownership of that IP to a children's hospital on the grounds that the facility continues to exist. My justification is that it DOES follow his last intentions and the beneficiaries are NOT monetizing it but instead using the proceeds for humanitarian purposes and not for personal gain. I have put up now a second solution. The ball is in your court to provide a justification for the status beyond simply emotional appeals. OR provide an alternative solution that addresses the issues I pointed out.
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  10685.  @Carabas72  I did you chose to ignore it because you don't want to admit that you are wrong. An example of this is the abominable CBS/Paramount case against the Anaxar Project.
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  10686.  @Carabas72  He HAS been dead for 30 years, which very MUCH puts it in my suggested duration. You are moving the goal posts because you don't want to argument the merits. You are proving exactly everything Kneon and Geekey have been talking about.
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  10687. The dumb thing is, the people clamoring to stop this are the same people who repealed the very laws that prevented it in the first place: Glass-Steagall was put in place during the Great Depression to prevent another Black Tuesday crash. Dodd-Frank obliterated those protections.
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  10688. There are easier targets to pursue than Taiwan. The Amur Valley and Outer Manchuria for example. The ONLY reason why China puts Taiwan first is because of national pride.
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  10689.  @yelenashishkina8804  Yugoslavia was never really a viable country, simply a collection of mutually antagonistic ethnic groups kept together under the bootheel of Jozef Tito. And comparing Gaza under Hamas to Ukraine is apples to oranges false analogy, typical of propagandists being intellectually dishonest. Keep coping Private Conscriptovich.
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  10690. Best economy since Ronald Reagan. Peace in the Middle East with the Abraham accords. But if you actually bothered to look at Jamecia Kamala's record in California, you would see she used black prison inmates as slave labor.
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  10691. Kill the Justice League also had lots of preorders before it released. How did that work out?
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  10692. Because the writers of those crime dramas have very little imagination. I saw one about three months ago which was basically the Maxwell/Epstein case. And this was BEFORE Maxwell was convicted.
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  10693. Or "proletariat" under Leninist ideology.
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  10694. He doesn't mean a single word of it. The man is a sniveling coward (aka lickspittle) and is only telling you what you want to hear.
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  10695. And arguably, it was laundered by the CCP. The advertisers gave it to Red China, who then decided how much they wanted to share with creators.
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  10696. Mandate that the actress HAS to wear the revealing outfit from the anime. And also put it in the contract that she has to flash her cleavage at least once an episode. Bonuses for a pantsu shot.
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  10697. Three hots and a cot is part of why the prison system is a mess. Time to stop rewarding lawbreakers with a full belly.
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  10698.  @Ahabite  Agreed. There are no good solutions, only the least of several bad options. While I am willing to be gracious to FIRST TIME non-violent accused, habitual offenders no longer get that benefit of the doubt. And violent offenders don't get any luxuries in my book.
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  10699.  @Ahabite  It is. Look up the negative feedback cycle of mandatory minimums. Activist judges abuse their authority leading to minimum incarceration statutes. This leads to overcrowding in prisons because responsible judges have their hands tied. This then leads to activists pushing for "reform" causing the very thing that the minimums were put in place for. And the purpose is to destroy faith in the system to collapse it. This is exactly what happens with the legal systems in countries that fell to communism. From Tsarist Russia to French Vietnam to post-Qin Dynasty China to Cuba and Venezuela, the playbook is exactly the same.
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  10700.  @Ahabite  To your first paragraph, that is EXACTLY what German ANTIFA was in the 1930s. Stalin's street muscle, the miscreants whom the state was supposedly going to protect you from. To your second, it is indeed. But it was either Brezhnev or Yuri Andropov who said that they would infiltrate the west and bring it down from within. One of them said that it was our own extravagance and bourgeois lifestyle that would create the very conditions for their ideology to thrive and come to overthrow the west. Without monarchism, the original villain of "Democratic Socialism" (aka Bolshevism), our own Everday convivences became the "enemy of the workers" (aka proletariat). Ironically, the Trucker and farmer protests in Canada and Holland are the very Maoist-Leninist revolution they had hoped for, only this time the "worker's revolution" rejects the tenants of the Red Revolution. They want nothing to do with the "dictatorship of the proletariat" because they know that centralized power is the enemy of the working class. Anyhow, sorry for my tirade. There is hope, but the darkness is always the deepest right before the sunrise.
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  10701. Every treaty Russia has signed under Putin, he has shredded. Anyone who thinks you can negotiate with the Kremlin in good faith is blatantly ignoring history. There is a reason why many members of Russia's "Central Asian NATO" are seeking closer ties with the west, snubbing Putin in the process.
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  10702. That is still no justification for his actions.
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  10703. It is for grateful folks like you that the US military is willing to help. The rest of Europe is like spoiled children who hate the responsible parent that keeps them out of trouble.
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  10704.  @thenameisx  Sure, because a treaty signed by a dictator installed by the Kremlin is legal and binding. Spare me. No democratically elected government is bound by agreements made in bad faith.
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  10705. Agreed. Comeuppance.
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  10706. The idea is that it increases in value as the children add to the legacy. Unfortunately, between the "Death Tax" and inflation by banking institutions, that wealth gets whittled away with each transfer. Thomas Jefferson was right when he worried that the grandchildren of the men who conquered this continent would wake up one day and find themselves enslaved by the bankers.
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  10707.  @andrewnicholas9079  Yeah, a lot of that is happening at the hands of the Russians. As much as I hate the dehumanizing moniker, Russian soldiers have earned the disparagement "Orcs".
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  10708. I would not get rid of all of them. Hold onto just a few and use them like MI-6 did to German spies in WW2.
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  10709. Illusion of competition. When the government owns everything, you are not competing to provide the best product, you are competition to win the approval of your superiors. Case in point is the Trabant of East Germany.
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  10710. Garland has EVERY reason to bring ANY case against Trump forward. The fact that he and the Feds chose NOT to go forward on the finance case shows that there was no case to be made. Yeah, the president has original authority to declassify any and all documents. Biden as VP at the time he removed classified documents did not, nor did Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. The Marilago documents were kept in a safe AND LOCK provided by the National Archives, so that alone blows up their case against Trump. January 6th is also proving to have been a false flag just like the Reichstag Fire. Federal agents have been proven to be among the primary instigators of the violence. Further, almost all of the people who actually made it into the chambers WERE ESCORTED BY CAPITOL POLICE. GA election is yet another nothing burger because it is NOT a crime to work the legal system if you have a complain about the election process. Criminalizing opposition is what they do in Belarus, not the US.
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  10711. That proposal was presented in 1948. The Arabs rejected it. You can't negotiate with someone who wants to completely wipe you off the map.
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  10712. Actually, quite common. Their promotions are directed by the Congress. If you have the connections, you get promoted quickly in no time once you put on that first star.
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  10713. And that will practically guarantee a Trump victory. Keeping the nevertrumperrs out of the Biden camp is paramount.
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  10714. The problem is that Disney's power in Reedy Creek is not theirs to exercise. Sovereign power of the State is what gave Disney that authority, and since the power flows form the state, it can be revoked at the whim of the legislature. Constitutionally, Disney is going to lose.
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  10715. With Moscow and Petrograd's air defenses having been removed and sent to Ukraine? Why would they drop a nuke when they are vulnerable like that?
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  10716. Only in the last 20 years or so.
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  10717. I tend to agree. There is no reason why they all have to be under one flag and in one country. If San Marino, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, and Andorra can all be independent nations, there is no reason why the same can't occur in Bosnia.
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  10718. Indeed. There ARE great female business managers and storytellers out there, but these "Slay Queens" (REEEEEHHHHHH!!) are basically blowing up the bridge preventing future COMPETENT women from being able to step up to the plate. Hiding behind their genitals only adds salt into the wounds of the women they are sabotaging.
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  10719. Ballistic tests to include the mythbusters conclusively proved Oswald pulled the trigger. I want to know who was Oswald's FBI and CIA handlers. They spun him up just like the FBI did with the Garland, Texas Terrorists who tried to assasinate Pamela Geller.
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  10720. It is because of the good for nothing murdock sons who are flaming liberals. They have often stated they want to make Fox another MSNBC. Rupert should have put Wendy Deng in charge instead of his wastrel boys.
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  10721. Those in power will never allow a peaceful divorce. As Lincoln said in his house divided speech, "it will be all of one or all of the other".
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  10722. I hope so. I hope that the court case results in hi taking it without paying a single penny.
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  10723. You remind me of the line from 300 where the queen mentions that real mothers are Spartan Women. Or was it the other way around?
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  10724. Only one man is insisting on this conflict continuing. Blaming everyone BUT the Kremlin shows either gross naivety on your part of outright shilling for Putin.
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  10725.  @scetchmonkey007  I hope you are correct. However, it WILL take an exchange of lead for that to happen. They will NOT stand down as nothing has yet stopped them. And they won't stand down until the lead starts flying.
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  10726. Klepto Kamala.
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  10727.  @MattSpoon07  Yeah, and who was the beneficiary of NATO? Not eh American taxpayer. Europe got more out of NATO than the US ever did. Now ask yourself, why did almost all of the former Warsaw pact nations, from Poland, the Baltic States, Slovkia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Croatia, Albania, and Romania join in the period from 1999-2009?
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  10728. And yet history has proven that is not the case. The Greek city-states only lasted about 200 years before they individually imploded due to corruption. Same case with the Roman Empire. "Republics degrade into direct Democracies, and Democracy invariably degenerates into despotism," -Alexnader Fraiser Tytler.
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  10729. Take up arms and start dealing with rioters and looters as you would a rabid dog. When the law fails its job, vigilantism becomes the name of the game, with all of the horrors that come with it.
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  10730.  @backflipsaresweet  I am afraid I can't help you there.
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  10731. Because it is in human nature to hoard resources and control those weaker than them. Think about how certain animals fight for mating rights such as Buffalo. Now apply that to humans.
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  10732.  @a.r.stellmacher8709  Nuclear holocaust is grossly exaggerated. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were supposed to be uninhabitable for 200 years. They were rebuilt in just 30. Prypiat was supposed to be a wasteland after the nuclear accident and yet nature is thriving, with many animals near extinction now at stable populations. Even the concerns about nuclear winter from dust particulates was later found to be based on fraudulent data. Now, I am not dismissing nor trivializing the horrors of a nuclear detonation, far from it. The sterilization of the Hibakusha is terrifying as is some of the descriptions of skin peeling off. But the scare tactics of the anti-nuclear crowd is based more on hysteria rather than hard facts.
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  10733. @Clownfish_TV Kneon and Geekey, this is a direct result of IP copyright being too long. This is only allowed to happen because the courts protect the vandals simply on the ground that the company owns the IP when it should have entered public domain decades ago. You NEVER see this kind of thing happen to Public Domain characters like Dracula or Frankenstein's' monster. Why? Because attempts to do so are allowed to fail instead of being propped up by copyright "protection".
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  10734. Megyn Kelly said it best (about Rachel Zegler, but it also applies to them): "She's a pig!"
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  10735. As was one time the president of the Screen Actor's Guild. You don't get that job and not know what is going on.
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  10736. Donny boy doesn't like being henpecked. Maybe he should not have been simping for them.
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  10737.  @sticksnstuffguy93  Indeed. First he is a white supremacist and a klansmen, now he is a police informant? Even organized street gangs don't mix up their messages and information like that. While criminals are not particularly bright, they are not as stupid as the media and power mongers think they are.
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  10738. Poor man's JDAM. Word is the tactic of strapping bombs on the rails of a helicopter or drone and then using a retail GPS was first done in the Lebanon conflict of 2008. Of course, many American military folks just scoff at it, but desperation and need are the mother's milk of innovation, so it is not surprising that the Ukrainians are doing marvels with the inferior (to Western standards) they have. I just hope after this is over, the Ukrainian veterans train what they have learned to the enlisted of the West.
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  10739. "Rules for the, but not for me" That is why they are doing this. You and they both know that Joe Bite-Me has so alienated the populace that they have to resort to these desperate Stasi tactics to win. When you have lost the support of the "normies" you have completely lost control.
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  10740. Because they are spoiled entitled trust fund children who have never experienced true hardship like the boat people have. They have never experienced life outside of the US and so are ignorant of what the rest of the world is really like.
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  10741. One can only hope.
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  10742.  @stavrosaristidou5779  Israel defeated in Lebanon? More like they tired of pissing around and rather than wipe out the innocents being used as human shields, they chose instead to go home.
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  10743. Indeed. To use an example, Han Chinese has MANY different subgroups within the genetically homogeneous population. From Hui to Hakka, Min, Hunan, Techew, and Cantonese each has different dialects, food preferences, and values despite all sharing a common lineage.
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  10744. When you compare this to the WW1 Battle of Somme, the Ukrainians are actually moving FASTER.
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  10745. Indeed. Graham Nasty fails to realize that the best solution to big tech is to REMOVE their government protections from litigation. The courts will regulate them much better than any alphabet agency. Government created the problem.
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  10746. @lati long Wow, no concept of history, do you? You think that anything before August of 1945 never happened. You ignore anything that does not fit your myopic politically driven narrative.
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  10747. @lati long Keep repeating to yourself your fictions that reinforce your delusions. Facts on the ground matter, and indisputable fact is that Japan and Taiwan's economies are intertwined in a way that the Chinese CCCP envies and detests. That would not happen if not for the population being closer to Tokyo than they are to Beijing.
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  10748.  @leihtory7423  China hasn't invaded in 40 years? May I remind you of their invasion of Vietnam where Charlie kicked their ass? Then there are the numerous border fights China has picked with India. Don't fool yourself, the Chi-Coms are just bad at War. The ONLY thing going for them is their superior numbers, but as Ukraine has shown, that can easily be overcome.
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  10749.  @leihtory7423  The CCCP telling you they are peaceful is like asking a shark not to take a bite of something in the water. China has not fired a single shot? India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, and Tajikistan would disagree with you. They have ALL had incursions by China. ALL of them have traded lead with the "People's Liberation Army" who have acted like petty thugs rather than a professional military force. You are just an anti-West troll who cares nothing about actual facts, only what the CCCP tells you to believe. Gobbels would love people like you.
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  10750. Best policy in my opinion. Those who really need it will come early and wait in line to make sure they get served.
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  10751. Ross Perot. Ron Paul. Ralph Nader.
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  10752.  @prometheusjackson8787  Pot meet kettle. The fact that you cannot differentiate between nationality and ethnicity shows you have no interest in truth only in pushing your agenda and then accusing others of doing what you are guilty of. But then that is typical of Kremlin stooges.
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  10753.  @prometheusjackson8787  Talking about yourself again are we? Like a good little propagandist, you qualify what I say so you can claim victory when I never said what you claimed. You are trying to be clever by half and nobody is buying it. People see through your poor attempt at moving the goal posts.
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  10754.  @prometheusjackson8787  No, you claim I said that. You put words in my mouth that I never uttered. I simply said that the ethnic minorities East of the Urals are not fans of Moscow. Everything else is your delusional fantasy. But then that is typical of people who believe their own lies.
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  10755.  @prometheusjackson8787  And again you are talking about yourself. The more you protest and try to affirm, the less believable you are. "The Lady doth protest too much, me thinks," -Queen Gertrude; Act 3 scene 2; Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
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  10756.  @prometheusjackson8787  "Figures don't lie, but liars figure" -Mark Twain. Again, you are trying to be clever and not telling the full story, cherry picking your data.
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  10757. If they can get to Melitopol then the HIMARS rockets can reach the Kerch Bridge.
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  10758. Yeah, because the powers that the GOP grants the executive, are ALWAYS used by the Democrats. Obama and Biden are simply using the powers that the GOP gave Bush Jr. under the "Patriot Act" to go after their political rivals. In practice, the two parties are reverse sides of the same coin.
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  10759. Needs to be taken to court. Don't let the government simply drop the charges. Force them to defend their actions and set a precedent that such actions are unlawful until AFTER final ratification.
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  10760. Going after Bin Laden was wrong? The failure was that the Bush neo-cons lost sight of the real mission and got distracted with pissing around like the British did before them.
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  10761. Wasn't Oliver Stone the one who pushed the Grassy knoll argument? Ballistics and acoustics debunked that theory. Oswald was who pulled the trigger. My question is, who was his handler? Who at the CIA spun him up like they did with the Garland, Texas terrorists?
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  10762. Look at where the oil deposits in Ukraine are located. Look at where the coal deposits are located. Follow the money (or energy) and you understand 90% of the motivation.
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  10763. I love to counter them with "LIBERAL JUDEA!"
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  10764. That prediction has been made since the 70s and still has no panned out. If "renewables" really were viable, someone would have already dominated the market and build a fortune like Rockefeller.
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  10765.  @winstonmaraj8029  Famous last words, dude. Men and women smarter than you have said the same thing and have been wrong. All of the advocates of "green energy" for decades before you were wrong, and NOTHING has changed since then. If "Renewables" really were as you say, then someone would have already cornered the market and become the John D. Rockefeller of green energy already. It hasn't happened and is not likely to happen anytime in the near future.
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  10766.  @winstonmaraj8029  I have, much Adu about nothing. These are the same empty headlines as the ones in the 1970s about the same topic. Almost word for word exactly the same, in fact. You are being sold a bill of goods. "A sucker is born even minute," -P.T. Barnum
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  10767.  @winstonmaraj8029  I would take the bet, but you will never pay it out. Again, the advocates of green energy made the same prediction in 1970 and 50 years later it still hasn't come true. You will never admit you are wrong because this isn't about environmental protection, this is poorly disguised neo-pagan Gaia worship.
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  10768.  @winstonmaraj8029  Apples to oranges false analogy. But then that is typical of con artists and snake oil salesmen. "Tell a lie often enough and people take it for the gospel truth," -attributed to Joseph Goebbels.
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  10769.  @winstonmaraj8029  That is a religious prayer based on wishful thinking and no objective data. You are a religious zealot.
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  10770.  @animezilla4486  Promised Lucus to use his production notes and guidance, then promptly threw them in the toilet. KK's vandalism of Lucasfilm is because Iger empowered her to do so.
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  10771. Eh, it is kind of par the course. Bulgaria was an unreliable ally to the Axis in WW2. They were also not very dependable to the Central Powers in WW1.
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  10772. LOL! Nice!
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  10773. US agents bride Putin? That is some really strong Vodka you are drinking. Putin's Invasion of Ukraine is no different than the German annexation of Czechoslovakia in the 1930s or their invasion of Poland shortly thereafter. The biggest advocates for Ukraine have been the Poles because they know firsthand what happens when you appease a dictator.
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  10774. The funny thing is some of the best shows and movies ever made were done on shoe-string budgets. When your finances are tight, you are forced to rely on good storytelling to carry your show or movie.
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  10775. Except for your sources, almost nobody is talking about the logistical issues being faced by Russian forces.
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  10776.  @joshuapaul2022  You made that up. While your quote from the BBC about Russian numbers is what the RUSSIANS report, that doesn't make it true. Conversely, the numbers about Ukraine are completely fabricated by you and you are trying to pass them off as if they were from the same source. The BBC NEVER made that claim. Your poor attempt at propaganda is fooling nobody.
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  10777.  @boink800  Laughing is not a response, it shows you cannot actually debate the merits, so you attempt to infantilize it with emotional outbursts.
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  10778.  @boink800  I call it debate practice. And I have faced off against better. "I learned long ago never to wrestle with pigs. You get dirty and the Pig enjoys it," -George Bernard Shaw.
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  10779.  @boink800  Quoting a modern internet personality doesn't make a point, especially if nobody has ever heard of him. Try quoting people who ARE known. As to his quote, it is incoherent babble. Word salad that may sound intelligent but lacks any coherence. Hate is a VERY power emotion that is part of human nature. Hate is what drives blood feuds that last centuries.
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  10780.  @boink800  Quoting a TV personality? You realize they are fake? As is most of their so-called wisdom as it is often written by people smarter than them. Seriously, you need to actually study human emotion and how it drives history. Hate, like Anger is one of the intrinsic facets of human nature. Yes, it is often destructive, but that doesn't make it any less a natural part of human existence.
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  10781.  @boink800  Much better quote source. Now you are starting to build credibility. "If you don't read the news, you are uniformed. If you read the news, you are misinformed," -Mark Twain.
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  10782.  @boink800  "It is the sign of an enlightened mind to entertain an idea without embracing it," -Aristotle.
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  10783.  @boink800  "Summum ius summa iniuria; More laws equal less justice" -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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  10784.  @boink800  "Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious. Jullius was always ambitious, but he was just one man" -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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  10785.  @boink800  "Very little separates man from the animals, and most people throw that away," -Confucius, author of "The Analects". "Democracy consists of choosing your dictators after they have told you what you want to hear," -Alan Cohen.
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  10786. To a point. Do keep in mind that Vlad Lenin said a good capitalist will sell you the rope you eventually hand him with. Taqiyya, Tawriya, Kitman and Muruna philosophy in Islam teaches something similar. Expect an eventual betrayal.
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  10787. That is how he operated about two years ago, but then cut down to two on this channel. It seems like he is going back to the original set-up.
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  10788. The Chinese have long memories and play the long game.
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  10789.  @kiprotichngetich8490  Nowhere near as long.
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  10790. Indeed. Production can't keep up despite what the Kremlin shill claim. New T-90 builds only account for 10% at best of the "fresh" equipment being sent to the front line. And all the other categories show similar numbers. Perun went TWICE into the numbers for Russian military production.
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  10791.  @arty5876  "Fighting with only volunteers"? NONE of those forced mobilized were allowed to leave the front lines genius. Right there you show intellectual dishonesty of a Soviet propagandist. Everything you accuse the UAF of doing, the Russian MOD has done is spades. That is called psychological projection and is the sign of someone who is either drinking their own kool-aide, or is living in an unhinged psychological delusional fantasy. And Russia is outnumbered? You have that completely bass ackwards. Go touch grass keyboard warrior.
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  10792.  @europeets  I don't read Cyrillic, Kremlin stooge. I hope the Rubles Putin bribes you with are worth it.
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  10793.  @arty5876  Repeating the same lie to yourself doesn't make it true. It only proves you are no better than Pavlov's Dog.
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  10794. I agree with nuclear, though the benefits of Thorium is oversold. And you are absolutely correct about this being manufactured (ie artificial) scarcity.
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  10795. No, inflation is cause by more paper money in the system than there is product to buy with it. In this case, the "Quantitative easing" (ie just printing money with nothing to back it ala Weimar Germany or Zimbabwe) programs in conjunction with the Covid stimulus checks put money in the hands of people not producing anything. Then you have the issue of people getting paid more to NOT work than they would by returning to their jobs.
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  10796.  @lSeKToRl  "Needs" like a Netflix or Amazon streaming subscription? Spare me. Yes, big business took advantage of the carveouts meant for small businesses. But then that was the point, wasn't it? It was corporate welfare for the campaign donors of the politicians who passed it. I agree with you about the market correction part though. And the more the government tries to interfere with that correction, the worse the rebound is going to be. Deflationary periods ALWAYS occur after artificial inflation caused by government and hedge funds manipulating the system to extract wealth while putting nothing of value into the system.
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  10797.  @CGplay186 "Win the battle but lose the war" Ever heard of that saying? The US has rarely lost any major engagement since WW2. The problem is that feckless politicians and Miles Glorious Generals sabotage the men on the ground, then cut and run at the first sign of trouble. They waste lives and resources just to look good on camera.
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  10798.  @yahyaelmi8435  Yes results matter. It should be clear from Afghanistan and Iraq that Richard Nixon's "Vietnamization" policy doesn't work, particularly if the locals have zero interest in fighting for their own country. It should also be clear that America's flag officers are all guilty of treason and are as worthless as the Russian MOD flag officers because they put their own promotion and prestige ahead of combat readiness. Pursing DIE quotas rather than Jihadis is why Kabul fell just like Saigon did.
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  10799. Funny how everything the conservative right warned about has come true. The "old fuddy duddies" were not speaking in ignorance, they have the example of the Germans in the 1930s to point to.
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  10800. I know of another delivery system that a former hostile power considered. Look up the Fu-Go balloon bomb.
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  10801.  @CatsJP  Cope and seethe harder. And touch grass while you are at it.
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  10802. Nelson Mandela served time in prison before becoming president of South Africa. So did the president of Brazil.
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  10803. @mark Mierzejewski How can he have zero understanding of geopolitics when he has business ventures ALL AROUND THE WORLD? Do keep in mind that most world leaders knew what to expect from him as president because they had already interacted with Turmp the businessman. Your problem is that DESPITE having it explained, your fanatical mind refuses to process basic facts and details. You refuse to acknowledge critical details that compeltel undermine your preconceived notions. "For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. WE SUBJECT ALL FACTS TO A PREFABRICATED SET OF INTERPETATIONS. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -President John F. Kennedy; Yale Commencement Speech; June 11th, 1962
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  10804. I have great faith in the parishioners and the sisterhoods (particularly the Little Sisters of the Poor). But the Priesthood is as corrupt as any political system. Power corrupts and the hierarchy of Catholicism is no different.
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  10805.  @marcelkurz134  Yeah, had almost any one of them taken Italy's initial route and chosen to stay neutral instead of going to war, things would have turned out much differently. The Germans could have chosen to not assist the Austro-Hungarians and considering how poorly they performed, it would have been justified. The French could have refused to aide Russia in her actions in Serbia and Germany would have smashed itself trying to occupy western Russia after the pasting Hindenburg delivered. The UK could have also stayed out of the fight and not much would have changed as the French basically left the British Expeditionary Force under Lord John French hanging and often outflanked during the war before trench warfare dominated. Any number of things could have completely changed how "The Great War" ended.
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  10806. Yeah, so they claim despite the fact that none of them have even arrived yet. Nice anime reference too! You are a person of culture.
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  10807.  @dogemccoin8318  "Thousands of tanks" is just not true. That is pure propaganda from the Kremlin. Oryx will give you an accurate account only 450 tank losses by Ukraine. Your using hyperbolic numbers that just don't hold up to close scrutiny.
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  10808. And if Iger takes the helm again, I hope he crashes it into the ground at full throttle. Maybe then the IPs can be sold off to people who WILL do something creative with them.
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  10809. Indeed. The people complain about "cultural appropriation" fail to realize that they are often the worst offenders. Never mind that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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  10810. People seem to forget that. It will reach a new equilibrium level and then the river will stabilize back to what it was at minus the reservoir.
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  10811. Ah, but healthcare is NOT a right. If it were, then people of Africa would be able to enjoy it without leaving their continent. Rights are inherent to people, not entitlements handed down from government. Rights granted by government can easily be taken away at the snap of the fingers.
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  10812.  @GothPaoki  World Health Organization? The people who lied about the Wuhan Flu? The same organization that covered up a cholera outbreak in Ethiopia? THAT WHO? And you trust them to know what human rights are?
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  10813.  @TheRealZeke2003  If you think "Human rights" are simply something that bureaucrats can legislate, you would be correct. But then what is the point of trials for crimes against humanity?
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  10814. And that is the kicker, it should be the person who makes the choice and assume the risks. You weighed the risks and chose not to take it. I respect that. Now if only more people would honor that right of self-determination.
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  10815. Bakhmut is in front of Russian Trench lines, not behind them. Paul seems to ignore that dirty little detail.
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  10816.  @hendrikvanleeuwen9110  Yes, Pallets. Just like the ones that Obama sent to Iran before he left office.
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  10817. Chernobyl proves the claims of uninhabitability bunk. Nuclear weapons produce short decay products unlike the long decay products of fizzle caused by a reactor core accident. Further, life is THRIVING in the exclusion zone despite the radiation.
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  10818. Or to play them knowing they had a Trump card: Sovereign power of the state. Disney cannot monopolize power that is not theirs to exercise in the first place. There is a reason why attempts to sue the state over the bill that passed in the legislature have failed.
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  10819. An apt description, but the model also applies to politicians in Western Republics as well, sadly. The major difference is that China has had over 2,000 years of totalitarian rule under an Absolute Monarch while the West began to dispose of Monarchies about 200 years ago.
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  10820.  @jwillsher80  Well, President John F. Kennedy disagree with you on corporate rates. And most HONEST economists agree with him and Art Laffer.
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  10821.  @jwillsher80  Keynesian economics is NOT honest, nor is anyone who claims to subscribe to it. It is very much a form of top-down economics of the Soviet Command-control type that pretends to be market driven. Austrian economics, conversely, disproves the false assumptions of Keynesian. Carl Menger, Ludwig von Misses, Milton Freidman, Fredric Baistat, and Fredrick Hayek have all been proven right time and again.
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  10822.  @bourbon4033  That isn't an argument, it is an emotional outburst. Also, you clearly don't understand the Laffer Curve which proves that raising taxes ALWAYS decreases revenues. It becomes something of an economic deathspiral when you try to raise taxes.
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  10823.  @bourbon4033  Yes, seriously. And your three posts one right after the other just further prove it. You are desperate and it shows.
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  10824.  @bourbon4033  Wow, accuse me of what you did previously? You are only digging yourself into a deeper hole and convincing nobody. Now you try to act morally superior by saying you won't waste any more time. You are showing classic sour grapes.
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  10825.  @davidtaylor351  Yeah, it is just a shame that MacArthur was such a prick that he didn't let the Aussies and Kiwis form parts of the vanguard during many of those battles. In particular, had Operations Coronet and Olympic been carried out, they would only have succeeded with the critical participation of Commonwealth troops. As Erwin Rommel said, if he was to take hell, he would use to Aussies to capture it, and the Kiwis to hold it.
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  10826. The Black Sea Fleet has already essentially relocated to Novorossiya. What remains there now is just a token force just to say that they are still there.
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  10827. And that is the point. They WANT to demolish established insitutions so as to replace them with their own version.
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  10828.  @tacitplague7079  Indeed. The Ukrainians reconnaissance in force beachheads are now untenable. While they were something of a surprise at first, this basically ensures that those forces have to pull back as it is unlikely that they will drive INTO the teeth of the Russians to hold a new position.
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  10829.  @Mr.Nichan  It is called basic structural engineering. A downward blast would have separated the collapsed bridge section in the middle, not folded it and shear off at the ends.
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  10830. People always forget that last part. He even warned that the harlots and tax collectors would enter the kingdom of heaven before the Pharisees BECAUSE THEY REPENTED.
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  10831.  @XxBloggs  This is the French we are talking about. The bloody cowards have still not handed over the French officers who activily participated in the Rwandan genocide.
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  10832.  @PNH-sf4jz  It is a pity you refuse to debate merits. I was on topic; you just can't argue against any of my points.
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  10833.  @Raximus3000  That happens with moral relativism which is what these cultural Marxists subscribe to. Hannah Ardent called it "The Banality of Evil" in her book about the Eichmann trial.
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  10834. The Russian Bear is Geriatric! Spread that meme around.
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  10835. Which is why voting in November is important. If we want this ruling enforce, we want an administration that is hostile towards Google.
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  10836.  @gogereaver349  On their platform, sure. But that is the same argument that Microsoft made in their case with Netscape. The fact that the courts specifically pointed out the previous example is telling. The fact that the Netscape ruling didn't change much in practice gives the court motivation to be HARSHER in this case so as to reinforce the Netscape ruling.
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  10837.  @kentershackle1329  The PLAAF is untested in combat. And Chinese ASW is pathetically bad. Both of those facts means that China could very quickly loose the battle for control of the seas.
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  10838.  @patrickn3595  What happens in New York has ramifications across the entire United States.
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  10839. Ukraine is a playground? So, you think that Ukraine doesn't have any agency of its own? The defense of Kiev was 100% a Ukrainian effort with ZERO Western support.
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  10840. I hope in the war of culture, the Japanese defeat the wokescolds and conquer the rest of the West. It would be quite humorous for Japan to be to the US what the Greeks were to the Romans.
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  10841. wokeness perfectly encapsulates what Tolkien warned: "Evil cannot create, only pervert and destroy".
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  10842. Indeed. It is as if they forgot that the Soviet Red Army made its greatest advances against the Wehrmacht during the winter. With all of the cold weather gear Canada and Norway have sent, I see Ukraine doing the same.
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  10843. Look at the Opium Wars between China and the UK and ask yourself why there seems to be a number of similarities between that crisis and the current Fentanyl crisis.
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  10844.  @jean-pascalesparceil9008  Remember Dien Bein Phu?
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  10845.  @jean-pascalesparceil9008  "I am a historical researcher and hold a NATO 4444 english qualification for both British and US forces." So you have a fancy piece of paper that tells everyone you are a well-trained monkey. You are engaging in the appeal to accreditation (variation of appeal to authority) logical fallacy. I am not going to defend the hubris of Arthur Percival who disgraced himself by surrendering his men. His blunder was no different than MacArhtur at Corregidor. But that was BEFORE France blew it in Indochina, not after. And BTW, the French didn't do any better against the Japanese either. In fact, France was a non-factor in the Pacific theater.
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  10846. They give redheads a bad name. Even Boudica would be embarrassed by them.
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  10847.  @frankmanning3815  Exactly. Celtic girls, whether Irish or Scottish are cute. These wacko-birds are scary.
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  10848.  @pokerdealer2003  The fiery tempers of redheads is due to the legend of Boudica. In her case it was well earned (hell hath no fury like a woman wronged in Boudica's case). Griffin's rage is because she is such a flaming liberal snowflake.
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  10849. And with that, Kavanaugh shows he does not believe in "innocent until proven guilty".
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  10850.  @AngryAlfonse  Agreed. Get rid of ALLL of their "diversity" hires. Only those who have proven records of actually being competent at the job should get hired back.
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  10851. Has as much self-awareness as Grima Wormtongue.
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  10852. Don't forget, while Trump was in office, Putin didn't dare mess around with Ukraine. He stole Crimea while Biden was directing Obama's foreign policy.
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  10853. "Lastest technologies"? Have you not seen how Russia's most advanced MiGs and Sukhois have performed? Have you not seen how their beloved T-90 has fared? And as I recall, India is greatly disappointed in the carrier Admiral Gorshkov they received. Make no mistake, with Russia you get complete garbage.
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  10854.  @tomservo4president61  There are significant differences between Joe Bite-Me and FDR. For one, FDR despised public sector unions while Bite-Me and Obama's staff who basically run the White House Love public sector unions. Secondly, FDR was all about unleashing American production. FDR was pro-industry, pro-mining, pro-oil, pro-cheap energy. He didn't let a little thing like the environment get in the way of winning a war. Joe Bite-Me and his buddies are doing everything in their power to destroy the US and sabotage our ability to mobilize for war.
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  10855. I suspect that nepotism played a major factor as well. Incompetence tends to follow where nepotism rules.
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  10856. Why were they not willing to risk their lives while the US military was there? Why were they not willing to defy the Taliban before this? Why is it only now when the US is gone that they now suddenly have buyer's remorse?
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  10857.  @1defowning  Liberate JUDEA!
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  10858.  @1defowning  Liberate JUDEA!
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  10859. Yeah, it is like they don't know that only 12% of the US population is actually black. Whites make up at least 60% of the national population.
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  10860. That is the colloquial definition that NORMAL people use. But the way the power mongers are using it, they are basically saying "proletariat".
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  10861. It isn't a competent enemy you should fear but an unreliable ally. It is the people who you put trust in that become your undoing. In this case, the Daily Wire are the unreliable allies because they want to BE the Establishment. What is the point if DW becomes the new tyrants that replace the old ones?
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  10862. Which make the whole premise absurd. Nobody who grew up in that kind of an environment would join; they would be constantly bombarded with the message that the military is full of r-pists, baby killers, and war criminals.
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  10863. Because "cysgender is a slur used by the trans and alphabet crowd. And trans is just someone who is confused about who they really are. Rapid onset gender dysphoria is a real thing.
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  10864. Like a vampire, they recoil in horror at their own reflection.
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  10865. Trash taking out the trash, kind of like the Eastern Front in WW2.
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  10866.  Joe Biden is Your President! Get Over It!!!  Some of us CAN differentiate between the Red government and their people, unlike racists such as yourself who can't make such as distinction. Also, many Taiwanese are not ethnic Han Chinese. There is a sizable aboriginal population as well as many mixed Japanese-Taiwanese. But that detail is lost on hacks like you.
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  10867.  @EverybodyEverywhere  I agree with you about Mr. SladeJ being respectable. I too came from a bitter divorce family, which is why I will NOT give up on my marriage despite my Asian wife being petty and abusive at times. It also helps that my father has been documenting her behavior.
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  10868. Well, and MAD doesn't take into account lose nukes or madmen with nothing to lose. MAD is predicated on survival of the state or ideology. Religious zealots don't particularly care about survival if mass destruction is their goal.
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  10869.  @darmorel549  I am going to stop you on the ecological damage. The Pripyat area has seen an unexpected resurgence and recovery DESPITE the radioactive contamination. It was merely the removal of humans that allow such an ecological recovery to occur. Secondly, nuclear weapons don't leave nearly the amount of radioactive fallout that a reactor accident creates. A properly configured weapon will consume nearly all if not all of the radioactive material in the detonation; the radioactive by-products of the explosion tend to be the short-lived rather than medium- and long-term type. Further, Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been rebuilt and repopulated a mere 30 years after getting nuked as contrasted with the 200-year uninhabitability initially assumed. Even the Bikini Atoll test site today is not nearly as contaminated as original projections forecast, and that is with the unexpectedly large detonation of Castle Bravo. So, while I am in agreement with your anthropological assessment about how devastating it would be to the global economy, your environmental assessment needs re-evaluation.
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  10870.  @Tyler.Rude.  Indeed. Just look at the Reichstag Fire in Germany. A false flag to justify their power grab.
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  10871. Grover Cleaveland vs. Benjamin Harrison rematch of 1892. Trump WILL repeat Cleavland's feat of getting re-elected after being defeated. And it will be due to the very same reasons why Cleaveland won after loosing.
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  10872.  @Polygon-po6wf  It is mind boggling how many people thin ANY politician or elected official cares about the country. It is mind numbing how many people continue to support people who purposely gut the US to line their own pockets then complain when someone like Trump comes along and actually TRIES to work the problem and find a solution.
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  10873. When you prosecute lawyers for doing their job, you live in a Soviet Dictatorship.
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  10874.  @YZ250W1  All lawyers lie, even the one you hire to defend YOU against false charges. So what is your point? No, your problem is that you don't actually have a valid reason to justify this. You just want to watch the world burn to feed your vanity.
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  10875. Just like in Nazi Germany. Children turning their own parents into the authorities.
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  10876. Blaming the parents is fine, but it is NOT the legalization of guns that is the problem. People will resort to knives in the absence of guns. Stabbings are five times higher where guns are unlawful.
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  10877.  @Tropxxxx  You would be surprised. My grandparents got me a knife for Christmas when I was 9. I turned around and had my parents hold onto it because I did not trust myself at the time. I was afraid I would cut my own fingers off with it.
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  10878. @ They are quite lovely ladies. Sad to find out that Thai princess Bajrakitiyabha has been in a coma since Dember of 2022. Yuko and Akiko have also been having it rough as Yuko has been going deaf and Akiko's asthma has gotten worse.
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  10879. Until the business don't reopen and thing are worse. The fools don't realize their own actions are what creates the "food deserts". They never learned the hard lessons after Koreatown closed up after the LA riots.
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  10880.  @МаксимСоколов-д4я  Funny, because the deaths of civilians are a direct result of Putin's "little Green Men" entering the Donbas. Further, the casualties quadrupled AFTER the Russian drive to Kiev. If anything, that is the Russians fault, not the Ukrainians.
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  10881. Large Hadrion collider, my friend.
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  10882. I am more than happy to sign onto Japanese anti-piracy streaming services provided they cut out the middlemen and tell Hollyweird to go eff itself. But if they source it to the local wokescolds in the US, count me out.
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  10883. Wow, seems like my comment about DeGaulle's France being ungrateful got deleted.
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  10884. One could argue that it is the pipeline that first feeds into college football and then professional Football such as the NFL. So, he is effectively ragging on woke NFL who is already pandering to his ideology. These people really are that dense.
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  10885. Indeed. Among the US prison population, it is considered a badge of honor to kill a paedo.
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  10886.  @ANoidAwkward  Don't let the judge get any inkling of your intentions. They HATE the idea of jury nullification and have dismissed jurors for even suggesting it.
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  10887. Nothing to be ashamed of Der Teufel Hunden!
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  10888. And who honestly thinks that Russia is really the good guys? Tell me, how much do you know about the oil deposits just off the Crimea? How much do you know about the Coal deposits in Donbas? Or the Shale Oil deposits in that area? Before 2014 Shell Oil was going to exploit those fields and make Ukraine into the third largest energy producer in Europe after Norway and Russia, threatening Putin's near monopoly on oil and natural gas in Europe. Make no mistake, this war is all about oil and coal.
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  10889.  @danutarzymkiewicz6423  "Victim precipitation theory" is just a fancy way of saying "victim shaming". It is the aggressor and bully trying to justify their actions.
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  10890.  @TiggerTheRed  If that were true, how come Trump got MORE votes in 2020 than he did in 2016? You have no clue about what the American electorate thinks.
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  10891.  @tommyliu7020  You don't know very many Republicans. The average GOP voters is MORE engaged in culture war issues than the average Democrat voter. Your assessment of Republicans is fatally flawed.
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  10892. Sneding men in their 40s means they have already had children. Can't say the same for men killed in their 20s. Look at the butcher's bill Marshal Zhukov inflicted on the Soviet population and its direct correlation to Russia's demographic crisis and you understand why Ukraine is NOT sending men to the front until AFTER they have reproduced.
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  10893. And in the mid 1990s they were less than $1 a gallon. Hell, back in 2018 it was hovering around $2. "Never settle for less than you deserve. Demand the best, accept nothing less.” -Thomas Morton.
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  10894. Trying to hold off a weekend riot. Too bad it has already started early.
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  10895.  @neoepicurean3772  They may rule that way, but it will not stop the mob. And it will only result in the law-abiding people to stop trusting in the judicial process. Reminds me of Mark Anthony's "Cry Havoc" monologue.
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  10896. Putin has been given NUMEROUS opportunities to exit the situation. He has rejected all of them. Stop appeasing fascistic leaders like Putin. You would think the Munich betrayal of 1938 would be a lesson conclusively proving that.
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  10897. The obsession with Nitrogen fertilizer causing climate change is just repackaged Lysenkoism.
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  10898. Iceland did that to disastrous results.
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  10899.  @antoinefdu  No, the US did not. Free markets would me no bailouts EVER. The fact that there have been numerous bailouts means that they were NEVER allowed to fail as they should in an actual free market.
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  10900.  @antoinefdu  Again, that is only possible with government intervention at which it is not in any way resembles capitalism. At that point it resembles communist central control and planning. Laissez-faire capitalism REQUIRES such "too big to fail" institutions to implode under their own weight with the resulting consequences being part of the system correcting itself.
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  10901. As long as the anti-Trump voters pick RFK Jr. instead of Biden, that is a victory for Trump.
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  10902. China's ASW is pathetically bad. The subs would wreck Chinese shipping just like WW2 against the Japanese. USS Albacore is the record to beat and against China, there may be enough for several subs to beat it.
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  10903.  @MrPeng-yg9iz  Sounds to me like it was the lap dog Hong Kong government that escalated things, not the population of Hong Kong. And yes, the Hong Kong government is run by Beijing Sycophants who were basically appointed by the CCP. "Elections" in Hong Kong is basically the people voting yes or no to whom the CCP choses to lord over them.
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  10904. Or incendiaries like the Fu-Go balloon bomb.
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  10905. Yeah, it is kind of funny how much of the crap regarding Democrats can be traced back to him. Chicago style politics in DC? Thank you to Obama.
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  10906.  @PartisanHypocritesEverywhere  Yeah, I hope that slow train colliding with a propane factory creates a BLEVE that completely consumes and incinerates the woke cult (metaphorically, of course).
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  10907. Yeah, that tells you what kind of people get into politics. Human lives are expendable to them.
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  10908. Not really that hard. Most of Russian neighbors have always detested it. So have many of the endemic populations.
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  10909. Well, the Germans did just let the Holocaust happen without much opposition. And the Russians allowed the same in 1917. Truth is, people are sniveling dirty cowards. Mark Twain said it best: "The more I learn about people, the more I like my Dog".
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  10910.  @DrSpooglemon  Tells you much doesn't it? The longer we put off the deflationary correction, the worse it is going to be when it finally hits.
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  10911. Then why have they not done so already? The Russian Air Force has been conspicuously absent so far.
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  10912. They are, it is just buried in the replies.
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  10913.  @canadaphil6068  The ones that remain have been more or less co-opted by the Kremlin connected groups such as Shogu's outfit.
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  10914. The thing with jamming is that it makes it easier for a radiation seeker to target. That is what the HARM missile is for.
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  10915.  @kemarisite  Almost all of the GPS JDAMs have visual or infrared back-up targeting systems. Some have that radiation seeker in the event they get jammed. As for the HARMs on Soviet aircraft, the Poles and the Czechs had already figured out how to get the MiG-29 and HARM to talk to each other years ago. Essentially, the HARM spoofs being a Soviet R-27 anti-radiation missile. It is only a recent development that the Sukoi-27 can now use them also believing that they are R-27 missiles. Interestingly, most US munitions do have the flexibility to be programed to "talk Russian" to Soviet aircraft if said aircraft cannot be programed to talk "NATO". It may limit their capabilities, but that is just one package of software "upgrades".
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  10916.  @nuclear1617  I will agree with your second point. The Boomers have held onto power far longer than any other generation in American history. it is long past time they hand over control to someone OTHER than their own kids.
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  10917. "Loose lips sink ships"
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  10918. Nobody actually knows how nuclear wat will turn out as the variables are too unpredictable to even quantify. What IS known is that fear of nuclear winter are hyperbolic fearmongering based on junk science. Both Freeman Dyson and Michael Crichton demonstrated that the ash in the stratosphere theory should have been demonstrated during the firebombing of Japan and Germany, but the results of those didn't produce what folks like Sagan claimed should have happened.
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  10919. Nobody knows how nuclear war will turn out as there are too many variables to make a reasonable prediction. The fear mongering over nuclear winter is hyperbolic hysteria. Freeman Dyson and Michael Crichton both demonstrated why it is predicated on junk science.
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  10920. Nobody knows how nuclear war will turn out because there are too many variables to quantify. That makes predictions about it nothing more that wild speculation. Nuclear winter for example was proven to be a hoax based on bad science by Michael Crichton and Freeman Dyson.
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  10921. Nobody knows how nuclear war will turnout because there are too many variables to make a reasonable prediction. What IS known is that fears of nuclear winter are predicated on junk science. Michael Crichton and Freeman Dyson disproved it by pointing to how the "science" fails to show any significant effect from the bombings of Japan and Germany in WW2.
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  10922.  @aravgoel  That isn't an argument, that is an emotional outburst. It is also tacit acknowledgement that you can't back up your disparagement with facts. The truth points to itself and doesn't need your whinging to support it.
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  10923. Yeah, American "news" is in the tank for the Davos power mongers.
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  10924. Even black gamers are calling this out as a blatant pandering. While they did want Yuske's story to be told, they didn't want it done line this.
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  10925.  @cortholiopezorama8879  Not R. A. Salvatore?
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  10926.  @jammer682  You seem to be conflating terms. Double Jeopardy prevents a retrial which is usually the result of a declared mistrial. There are rare situations where a mistrial prevents a retrial, but that is the exception, not the norm.
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  10927.  @johnhobbes2268  But both of them pale compared to Poland.
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  10928.  @internetzone165  Spare me. Even the French didn't think the Ukrainians had it in them. And the French are often the contrarian in the NATO alliance.
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  10929. And the ending song should have been "Puff the Magic Dragon" by Peter Paul and Mary. Woody metaphorically becomes Puff and Andy becomes Jackie Paper. "A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys Painted wings and giant's rings make way for other toys One gray night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more And Puff, that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane Without his lifelong friend, Puff could not be brave So Puff, that mighty dragon, sadly slipped into his cave" -Puff the Magic Dragon third verse.
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  10930. All the data points show that Ukraine has the upper hand. All the data shows that Russia is NOT the military powerhouse it wishes it was. The Russian Bear is Geriatric.
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  10931. Yup. He has the same problem as President Ulysses Sam Grant.
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  10932.  @jettrd_utilitychnl4230  BRICS is a complete joke. India is the only real strong horse of the group. China is a house of cards about to implode as Evergrande has revealed. Brazil was on its way to being a regional economic power until they voted in the neo-communist. Now they are going back to their basket case economic polices that hamstrung them for decades. South Africa is not, never has, and is unlikely to ever be even a regional player in Africa. They take the regressive economic ideas of Brazil and double down on them. The idea that BRICS will ever compete with the Euro-American economic bloc is just a wet dream of communists and rabid anti-colonialists who have nothing viable to offer. ASEAN has more credibility than BRICS.
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  10933. It was reported stolen from a Dept of the Interior truck. His whole story never added up.
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  10934. Because the perpetrators are of a "protected class".
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  10935.  @marioformosa4259  When was the last time the US started a nuclear arms exchange? Who was it that invited NATO to station nukes on their soil? Who is it that is saber rattling about using nuclear weapons? You want to talk about "Divine Right", Russia does NOT have a divine mandate over the Ukraine.
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  10936. Double Jeopardy. They can't legally hold a retrial since a verdict was already reached and accepted by the court. 5th amendment prevents that, not that the New York courts actually care about the Bill of Rights.
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  10937.  @FreeMenDieFree  I disagree. They saw the right cringe in fear at the mere thought of the government come crashing down on them. Contrast Jan 6th's reaction with that of the Cliven Bundy Ranch standoff. At Cliven Bundy's ranch, the right was ready to fight. At January 6th, the right threw their own under the bus.
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  10938. Yeah, the mob mentality is that silence is tacit agreement or consent. Sad that people make such assumptions.
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  10939. Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system. -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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  10940.  @ivrearde3236  How many times must it be repeated? "The present tax codes inhibit the mobility and formation of capital, add complexities and inequities which undermine the morale of the taxpayer, and make tax avoidance rather than market factors a prime consideration in too many economic decisions." -John F. Kennedy
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  10941. Indeed. Fukushima is grossly overblown. More people were killed by the Windscale Fire than Fukushima. More people died from the Kystim Disaster than from Fukushima.
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  10942. I think most Americans are embarred by the government's lack of response.
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  10943.  @Geminiiiiiii  But you are okay with the Red Chinese government controlling Tiktok. Yeah, nice to see you are just grandstanding for clout.
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  10944. Russia doesn't like competition. Ukraine's oil, gas, and coal reserves threatened Putin's Europe monopoly. Get you head out of your rear; this war is all about oil.
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  10945. @Wilhelm Eley Is that what the Kremlin told you? The oil deposits off the coast of Crimea alone would make Ukraine the 6th largest proven reserves in the world, just behind Norway. Shell had signed contracts in 2012 with Ukraine to exploit the fields under Donbas before Russia instigated rebellion in that area. Or have you forgotten those dirty little details?
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  10946. Your thing about the hospitals treating Taliban fighters requires a nuance that is not understood by the average person. Namly, that under both the Law of Armed Conflict, AND medical Triage rules that medical personal are REQUIRED to treat the most injured REGARDLESS of whose side the patient is on. There is a famous example in WW2 during the African campaign where Rommel was SO scrupulous about following those rules that many of the patients and doctors didn't actually know whose hospital they were in at the time of their treatment. Even the doctors at one point didn't know who controlled the hospital they were working in. Bringing that to the current conflict, Hamas has shown a willingness to use hospitals as ammunition dumps in clear violation of Internationa Law (ie a War Crime). With that context, do you really believe they will give Jews the same unbiased medical treatment that they would an Arab or Muslim?
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  10947. How? Putin didn't invade Ukraine while Trump was in the White House. He stole Crimea when Biden was directing Obama's foreign policy. He invaded Ukraine AFTER Trump left and Biden was in the Oval Office.
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  10948. I agree on Finland and Estonia. As for Germany, they are the epitome of bureaucratic monstrosity. The reason why the Bundeswehr is in such a decrepit state is BECAUSE of the bureaucratic bloat.
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  10949.  @maritaschweizer1117  Everything. Not a single "fact" of theirs told the WHOLE story. Context matters.
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  10950. The Hanja script written all over it.
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  10951. They already did with the live-action movies.
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  10952. "Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin good forces have invented or made”- J.R.R. Tolkien
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  10953. As long as that takes votes from Joe Bite-Me, that is a net win for Trump.
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  10954. Anglophobia is just as irrational, yet it is quite fashionable these days.
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  10955. To quote Ron Paul, "What do you replace cancer with once you cut it out?" You don't NEED an alternative to the IRS.
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  10956.  @nik6759  Still doesn't change the fact that all of the claims of Moscow over Ukraine are complete fabrications. Ukrainians themselves reject Putin's arguments that they are not a separate ethnicity, one that they even rejected during the Tsarist era.
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  10957.  @nik6759  Sure he does. Many mythical figures exist on early coins. Still doesn't change the fact that Moscow's claims on Ukraine are just as fake as Gregory Potemkin's Villages.
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  10958.  @nik6759  Kiev predates the Muscovites. And only propagandists claim that Kievan Rus was part of the Russian state. Especially considering that much of the area was once part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Again, you are parroting the Potemkin Village claims of Cathrine the Great.
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  10959.  @nik6759  Words have meaning. You are purposely mischaracterizing to push Muscovite racial supremacy. "Only a German can be a Czar of Russia," -approbation told to Napoleon.
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  10960.  @nik6759  Wrong again dude. There are MANY Slavic groups. And all of them have been turned against Putin and the Kremlin BECAUSE of the ethno-nationalistic chauvinism of the Muscovites. Ukrainian culture is just as distinctly separate from Russian as Serbians, Slovaks, Czechs, Croats, Macedonians, and Belarusians are from each other.
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  10961.  @nik6759  You are not a specialist either. In fact, you're using the logical fallacy of "appeal to authority" when you invoke specialists. The Ukrainians people have ALWAYS been distinct from Russians. If they weren't then the USSR would never have allowed Ukraine to be a separate Soviet. Under the rules of the Soviet Constitution, in order to be a separate Soviet Republic, it has to have a simple ethnic Majority. Hence why Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Tajikistan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, and Moldova were all distinct instead of simply "Autonomous Oblasts" of the Russian Soviet.
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  10962.  @nik6759  More bloviation by a Kremlin propagandist. You are not proving anything other than you are well trained like Pavlov's Dog.
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  10963. All hail Lord Doomcock, the future ruler of Earth!
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  10964. If that is the worst thing you can say about him, he is in good shape.
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  10965. Good for you. The planet can sustain more people and doesn't care about your feelings. As George Carlin quipped, "the planet will shake us off like a bad case of fleas".
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  10966.  cubefreak123  The SOCTUS is NOT infallible. Nor it is absolute. The logic in the ruling makes as much sense as the Dred Scott decisions, or the Plessy vs. Ferguson case.
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  10967.  cubefreak123  "Conservative supermajority"? Don't make me laugh. Justice Roberts is a flaming liberal who carefully cultivated a false image to fool conservatives. Don't forget, he was appointed by Bush, big government liberals who happen to be Republican. Amy Barrett was the same, always endorsing the expansion of federal power in every case she handled. The only justices that can truly be called conservative is Thomas and Alito. Gorsuch and Kavanaugh have proven to be moderates. In Kavanaugh case, he was selected by justice Kennedy as part of Kennedy agreeing to retire.
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  10968. I tend to agree. "Never let a good crisis go to waste" as Rahm "Dead Fish" Emannuel famously misquoted Churchill.
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  10969.  @bobjones-bt9bh  You are simply inverting the numbers you have heard from independently confirmed sources. Put down the Vodka comrade, you are drunk.
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  10970. Columbus was NOT the first to sail to North America from Europe. Leif Erickson beat him by three centuries. And the Irish may have beat the Vikings by another four centuries. There is more to the story that is not being told.
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  10971. Napoleon is not the same as De Gaulle's modern France.
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  10972. Trump didn't lose a single 2016 voter to Biden in 2020. Trump WILL have those same voters this time around. The only GOP voters that RFK Jr. will take are the nevertrumpers would weren't going to vote for Trump anyhow.
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  10973.  @somethingelse9535  That is the logical thought process, but those who often start wars rarely use logical reasoning. They often think it is simply easier to conquer and steal by force than it is to trade. Just look at Russia's actions in its former colonies (namely the Central Asian States)
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  10974.  @isaiahwelch8066  It was in the 2011 documentary where Bill Shatner interviewed his fellow captains that apparently Bakula walked away from acting for a while because of Enterprise and returned to equestrian training for a while.
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  10975. I always figured it referred to the Islamic Stans. You know, the ones who cut your head off just because you don't share their religion?
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  10976. Or put it into public domain thereby immortalizing it and placing it out of reach of corporate vandalism.
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  10977. The problem is that the robot was pushing a young boy to transition into a girl. Got the young boy to take puberty blockers by offering a lolipop. Now tell me that is appropriate.
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  10978. Pyrrhic victory maybe. And is that truly final victory?
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  10979. WASPs, WAVEs, and WAACs of World War 2. Yes, that was the US, but the concept can be employed almost anywhere.
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  10980. Tinsel Town's miasma is just as bad as DC. More virulent than Ebola, Tuberculosis, Marburg, Bubonic Plague, and Smallpox.
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  10981. That is the point. They think they are "robbing the rich to feed the poor" with their social justice activism. They don't realize that Robin Hood didn't take a single shilling from the nobles who took care of orphans and widows. Hence why these fools should NOT be trying to pervert charity with their ideology.
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  10982. Depends on where you build it. As the crow flies would put it under seriously deep water like the Laurentian Abyss (Transformers, Hunt for Red Oktober). But if you ran it along the Canadian coast to Baffin Island-Greenland-Iceland and then to Ireland, it might be more workable.
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  10983. I can agree with that nuance. I wish more people would think outside the box like you do instead of making declarative blanket statements.
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  10984.  @animezilla4486  The bad far out numbers the good.
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  10985. Yeah, but those reused scripts are often some of the worst rated episodes. There is a reason why TNG season two is considered the worst, even when stacked against the difficulties of season one.
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  10986. Because if he does use them, even Red China will turn against him.
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  10987. No, he is a corrupt politician and a nevertrumper. The man is only out for himself.
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  10988. I would wear their insults and disparagements as a badge of honor. Call me a racist and I will say "thank you for proving you have lost the plot. BTW have you met my biracial children?"
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  10989. Indeed. What is so troubling is that it took Youngkin three days to realize that it is unlawful to protest outside a SOCTUS residence. Obstruction of justice, intimidation of court officials. et. al.
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  10990. Yeah, I have ALWAYS hated to saying. it basically means giving up on your future by putting it in the hands of the incompetent. There is a reason why historically the most successful American pilots rarely got more than about 10 kills. Those skills were considered too valuable to lose and the pilots were rotated back to be instructors and trainers. If only the business, industry and financial sectors practiced that same logic.
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  10991. You would be surprised. When my wife was carrying our first child in 2013, they were actually able to identify the exact date of conception based on the ultrasound and I will confirm that we were busy in the bedroom the night before.
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  10992. Just like the Nazis did during the Reichstag Fire.
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  10993.  @chinguunerdenebadrakh7022  So you are saying that every time the left goes out to "protest" it is an insurrection because people are murdered by the mob and arson is committed. St. John's Chruch arson during the BLM riots of May 29th, 2016.
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  10994. Indeed. Trump's solution would likely infuriate BOTH sides. The hacks at Time Radio fall into the false choice dilemma to make people assume that if you do not agree with one side, that automatically puts you on the other. There is ALWAYS a third option.
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  10995. Team colors. It is a quick way to ID friend from foe.
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  10996. Tell that to the Czcehs and Slovaks in 1938.
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  10997.  @scottrauch1261  There are lots of nevertrumper and Lincoln Project GOP who are desperately trying to get him to run. The purpose being that they WANT Turmp and DeSantis to mutually annihilate each other.
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  10998. Are you not aware the Nagasaki had the largest population of Christians in Japan? I suspect you were not aware of that little fact. Have you forgotten the ethnonationalist policies of Imperial Japan, particularly their treatment of Chinese and Koreans? Or their horrific abuse of POWs? Before you start throwing around the race card why don't you actually become knowledgeable about the situation.
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  10999. Thucydides Trap. Look it up.
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  11000. "Russia doesn't have gulags, they have Siberian labor camps" Penal Labor Camps, mostly located in Sibera ARE what the Gulags were. You are making a distinction WITHOUT a difference.
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  11001.  @myopinion2733  Yeah, Putin's election has the same legitimacy as when Saddam got 99% of the vote. Or when Kim Il-Sung got 100% of the votes.
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  11002. Indeed. More likely to be eco-terrorists inspired by Greta Thunberg than Russia.
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  11003. I remember when they insisted, we all had to use plastic "recyclable" bags to save the trees. I always preferred the paper bags BECAUSE they were BIODEGRADABLE. These "climate activists" are simply followers of Lysenkoism.
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  11004. Except it can go to the SCOTUS for being in violation of a number of issues, least of which is contempt of the SCOTUS's remanding regarding presidential immunity.
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  11005. Indeed. Market pervasiveness effectively renders it public domain now.
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  11006.  @LuigiTheMetal64  "Karen" refers to the mouthy in your face, holier than thou mentality. In the anime/otaku crowd, we call them THOTS (That Hoe Over There).
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  11007. Not just anti-White. They are also rabidly anti-Asian, the one minority group that doesn't fit the narrative.
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  11008.  @NathanCassidy721  It was President John F. Kennedy who said that. And while it was directed towards Soviet backed communist governments, those words are just as applicable to Western "leaders".
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  11009.  @RenneDanjoule  Indeed. Justin "Truedick" is acting just like Robespierre. And while he is not putting anyone in the Guillotine (yet), his calling anyone who disagrees with him "enemies of the people" echoes those of Robespierre.
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  11010.  @NathanCassidy721  I am well aware of Cassandra and her role in the fall of Troy. How she tried to take an axe and torch to the horse before being stopped. And how Ajax violated her in the temple of Athena, causing the statute of the goddess to be knocked over. Cassandra is to Greek mythology what Jeremiah the weeping prophet is in the Torah.
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  11011.  @Rathkryn  Don't forget that the spat with Conan O'Brien was purposely manufactured by the Network to get both of their audiences to feud.
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  11012. Of course my point about the spat between Leno and O'Brien gets deleted. Big Tech doesn't like when folks point out their bait and switch fake narratives. The O'Brien-Leno beef was a result of the network PURPOSLY creating a conflict.
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  11013. And it is NOT homophobic to call them by their proper names: Eunuchs, Steers, Geldings, Stags, or Barrows.
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  11014.  @Garth-l5s  Bytedance isn't a private individual; it is an organ of the Chinese Communist Party. That is where your argument implodes.
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  11015. Debt and financial obligation are the first links forged in the chains of slavery.
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  11016.  @ralegade7710  Why should I, the descendants of UNION SOLIDERS who paid the price in blood to set free the slaves be forced to pay reparations? That is just slavery of a different kind. And before you try to be glib about "they only fought to protect the union", I will point out that before the war, my family was VERY active in the abolitionist movement.
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  11017. Lisa Murkowski in Alaska keeps getting Democrats voting for her despite the GOP's best attempts to primary her. Colins comes from Deep Blue Maine so she is basically a Democrat pretending to be a Republican.
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  11018.  @jackdenihan5333  That assumes there is credibility to go with it. Soviet Pravda had zero credibility which was why it was irrelevant after the fall of the USSR. Russian and Ukrainian Pravda are simply the remains that nobody trusts, engaging in the same gaslighting as during the USSR.
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  11019.  @TheMrgoodmanners  I was not trying to get into a pissing match with Alabama, or Crimson Tide for that matter. As far as Redstone goes, where do you get the technical knowledge to design and test those rockets? My point about Purdue still stands. And you trust US News? That legacy rag who hasn't published an accurate report in almost 20 years? How often have they had to issue a correction or retraction again? Only establishment shills read their publications. Also, I find it interesting that you only compare Indiana to other Midwest States and not the entire US. Contrasted to the Deep South, Indiana is luxurious.
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  11020.  @deanzaZZR  Garbage in, garbage out. The numbers that the IMF uses is based on the worthless numbers that China gives it. Money spent on bridges to nowhere may raise the GDP and LOOK like growth when in fact it does nothing of value.
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  11021. Because they are the very bigots they claim to oppose. They are projecting their own failings onto others to make themselves feel good about it.
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  11022.  @mrmr4622  Nothing suggested that the Ukrainians were going to make such an effective push in the Kharkov region, and yet they did, capturing Izyum. A major part of war is deception. D-Day was only possible because of a brilliant plan by the British to fool the Germans into committing their forces at Calais. Ukraine did pretty much the same thing, getting the Russians to commit their forces in the south. Keep in mind that the Zaporizhian front has been quite for some time now. Not even probing attacks by the Ukrainians which leads me to believe they are planning to open a new front in that area once Kherson has been pacified.
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  11023. PP is engaging in an actual genocide unlike what the left claims. More black fetuses are aborted each year than Palestinians killed in the Gaza conflict.
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  11024. Put down the vodka. Biden is responsible for Putin stealing Crimea and getting away with it in the first place. it was Trump that sent lethal weapons when Obama and Biden only sent blankets.
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  11025. Tell that to Czechoslovakia in 1938.
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  11026. RFK running could keep the nevertrump GOP out of the Biden camp which is a win for Trump. After the election Trump could then bring RFK Jr. onto his team as a giant "up yours" to the power mongers.
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  11027. @jormungand72 "Give up all the land" basically means a denial of Israel's right to exist. It means finishing the Holocaust. Your proposal is NOT sincere, but a dishonest call for extermination.
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  11028. Yeah, India is ripping off Russia by demanding a 30% discount on oil. Energy security has nothing to do with it, they are being opportunists, not that it is a bad thing. I actually applaud them for ripping off Putin.
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  11029. Muchos Gracious, Seinor/Seinora
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  11030. A lot of people would have preferred if he was an ally or recruitable cohort.
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  11031. Was she sterilized by the process? Not recommended for extremely young as the trauma can cause serious lasting reproductive damage.
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  11032. And as Thomas Hobbs observed, if they didn't have one group of people to blame, they would find some other reason to fight. Humans are both bastards and morons looking for any pretext to cause strife.
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  11033. The doctor is a flaming liberal from Bloomington, Indiana. No doubt a graduate of the Kinsey School of Sex at IU. Kinsey engaged in all sorts of depraved deviancy including the underaged.
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  11034. First class "neck stretching".
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  11035. I hope Japan, Korea, and Taiwan bury Tinseltown.
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  11036. 4 months? Put down the Vodka private Conscriptovich, you are so drunk you are hallucinating. it has been just over a month into the operation. You don't get to count the prepatory fires as part of the offensive.
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  11037. I love all of the nicknames for him. Butt in a Jug Booty Call Booty Gig
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  11038. He won't. These people are petty and vindictive. They WANT him to suffer Epstein's fate at Riker's.
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  11039.  @itsasecrettoeverybody  "D&D is a lifestyle first and game"? That is the same woke trash mentality that has put WoTC is such dire straits in the first place.
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  11040. Sic Semper Tyrannis
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  11041. It would be a mythology gag if Tom Felton was cast as Lucius Malfoy in the remake.
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  11042. Only one person can put an end to this war and he is in the Kremlin.
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  11043. Technology changes, but the basic fundamentals of war never change. And you have no idea what Ukraine has in the pipeline. Just as you underestimated them during the Siege of Kiev and the Kherson offensives, you are underestimating them now.
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  11044.  @bjornregts8202  "Fading rapidly"? More wishful thinking. The stuff promised almost a year ago is now arriving at the front. The supply line is on about a three to six month delay. This was evident with the Kherson and Karkov offensive which was made WITHOUT Western gear or equipment. They only had access to HIMARs, Javelins, Stingers, and little else.
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  11045.  @bjornregts8202  You are falling for the classic example of posturing and grandstanding. People put on a show to make you think something is greater than it actually is. Poland for example already gave as much as 30% of their stockpile to Ukraine. They are waiting for resupply from the US and South Korea before they send the rest of their Soviet era gear to Ukraine. They are just putting on a show pretending to stop the flow so as to gain more political clout.
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  11046.  @Kunfucious577  No joke. This generation has never really experienced real Laissez-faire capitalism, only plutocracy and corporatistic oligarchyism. And they are not taught about the Holodomor Famine nor the Chinese Great Leap Forward Famine caused by the very ideology they espouse. And of course none of them know about Pol Pot's Killing Fields as part of his "Year Zero" policies they so desperately want to implement.
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  11047. I guess you forget that Putin stole Crimea while Biden was directing Obama's foreign policy. I guess you also forget that Putin didn't mess with Ukraine while Trump was in office; he waited for Biden's blunder in Afghanistan before he made his move.
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  11048. Heck, in about 10 years they just might make that show.
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  11049.  @crocidile90  JFK was assassinated by the power mongers. He dared to defy the Deep State by refusing to authorize Operation: Northwoods. For that, they used disposable patsy Lee Harvey Oswald to do their dirty work of eliminating the POTUS. Yes, the intelligence agencies knew full well about Oswald's communist activities which made him the perfect tool: they got plausible deniability, and his actions would give pretext for war with the Soviets and Cuba. Too bad for them, Chief Justice Warren saw right through their plans and refuse to play ball. He let the have their deniability for the sake of preserving the nation but refused to give them what they really wanted: perpetual war.
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  11050. "You will own nothing and be happy," -WEF slogan. "Live in the pod and eat the bugs," -Tim Pool describing the plans of the globalists.
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  11051.  @kubauhlir1730  All things being equal, you might have a point. But not everything is equal. And Russia has proven that both equipment and training is inferior to Ukraine. The Advantage goes to Ukraine.
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  11052.  @kubauhlir1730  I think we are on the same page, but different paragraphs. I agree with you that Ukraine didn't have a good way to demolish the dam (I keep making the Frogman argument to the Russian shills). I also agree that they want to force the Russians to disperse their forces so as to make a breakthrough. However, sometimes you DO want your opponent to concentrate their forces so you can either encircle them or smash them to pieces.
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  11053. Wow, you have no concept of nuance do you? "If you are not with us, you are against us". Isn't that what Bush said?
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  11054.  @sora6748  The problem is that he kept Bolton on too long. Like many people, when they realize they have outlived their usefulness, they try to burn their employer on the way out.
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  11055. DeSantis has said he will finish his term as governor of Florida and will not run for President when Trump is running. Do keep in mind that this spat with Florida is free campaign advertisement in flyover country where they ARE paying attention to Disney's grooming agenda.
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  11056.  @joekopsick1540  Yes, Juicy Smolle DID claim that they were white. Doesn't matter what the "First" report said. He engaged in a classic example of the boy who cried "WOLF".
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  11057.  @leviwarren6222  No it won't be on his conscience. It will be on the people who brought harm to the elderly. Don't trying shaming people who care speaking the truth just because you want to pander to the lynch mob. And incidentally, most of those hospice/nursing homes are NOT in the intercity; they are located in suburbia. But once again you show your complete ignorance of the situation. You just engage in appeals to emotion to drive a political agenda. You are a grifter.
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  11058. They did, and didn't care. Look at the makeup of the SCOTUS when the Sullivan Case was handed down.
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  11059. Nagorno-Karabakh is not Armenian. Sto pushing fictions.
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  11060. @Scott Berg He would be a natural ally of the so-called "Dirt-Bag Left" of Chapo Trap House, but as he has pointed out, they seem to want to fight with everyone even Mr. Pool whom they can't help but trash for not being left enough even though he agrees with most of their positions.
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  11061.  @strategery101  The sooner the "Media Extinction Event" occurs, the better.
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  11062.  @bastiaan7777777  Tactical nukes are pointless which is why NATO doctrine eliminated their use in artillery and treat ALL use as strategic weapons. There are better uses that simply salting the soil.
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  11063.  @bastiaan7777777  Under NATO doctrine there is no such thing as a tactical nuke. Only low yield and high yield. ALL nuclear weapons are strategic escalation regardless of size.
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  11064. Yeah, something tells me that "Orange Man" will return to the White House with a landslide the likes of which has not been seen since the Reagan blowout of Mondale in 1984.
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  11065.  @kazeryu4834  Decent people DID support Trump. It is the radical and violent leftist who oppose him. He said it himself; they are only after him BECASUE he is in the way. Elitists HATE populists like him. Are you an elitist who hold the "unwashed masses" in contempt? Me thinks you are.
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  11066.  @kazeryu4834  "Treason" is the favorite crime of tyrants and despots. It is funny how easily you throw that accusation around....much like a dictator does to dissidents. "Enemy of the state" are the words of villainy and evil. Seriously, you have an astounding lack of self-awareness. Support for the state is by definition support for fascism and totalitarianism. Your blind acceptance of the "official state narrative" speaks volumes about you. You are the very kind of person George Orwell was talking about in his famous novel. The only thing I DO agree with you on is that Trump was advised by some really bad people. Mike Pence was to Trump what Grima Wormtongue was to Thoden of Rohan in Lord of the Rings. And Jared Kushner was not that far behind.
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  11067. "Adult human female"? I chose to call you a classy woman. Those THINGS that pretend to be women are freaks. Cutting one's penis off doesn't make them a woman, it makes them a Eunuch, Gelding, Stag, or Steer.
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  11068.  @arielsea9087  Little miss anti-Fascist has clearly never watched the Disney short "Der Fuhrer's Face" which MOCKS fascism.
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  11069.  @banjiman9869  Yes, but don't conflate socialism with social democracy. The two are NOT the same. Social Democracy works because it recognizes private property ownership, something that socialism flat out rejects. Social Democracy acknowledges that capitalist free-markets are what works, not centralized command economics which is what socialism is. While I agree tacitly with "social safety nets", the problem is that many of the people who use them don't actually need them. It is like the person who decides to sit in the net rather than get out. Further, non-profit charities, particularly religious affiliated ones ARE the social safety nets which predate 1930s Germany. If they were good enough for Europe in the age of Sail, then they are good enough for us.
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  11070. Appeasement NEVER works. Munich should have taught people that.
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  11071. Not really. These people are narcissists who love attention. Their claim that it is part of their plan is just a case of sour grapes.
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  11072.  @minerran  You are just wildly speculating there. Turns out that infantry that is situationally aware is actually quite effective against drones. It is the people in fixed positions that are susceptible to drop drones.
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  11073.  @anguswilliam2141  Wow, drinking the Beijing Kool-aid huh? China has not demonstrated any ability to hit a moving target in the middle of the Pacific. Even the US has difficulty in doing that. In no small part because satellites at that level of detail are not real-time; the best coverage you can get in about 30 minutes with polar-orbiters. Geostationary can give real-time, but you don't get the resolution needed to track a moving ship. Like a typical dilettante, you spout off nonsense thinking you sound smart, but those who actually understand how the kill-chain works can spot the fatal flaws in your argument.
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  11074. They had one in Gaza but gave control of it over to Islamic terrorists.
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  11075. That would have been in violation of the NATO Charter.
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  11076. @Darth Revan More like twats, but I don't think folks would understand what I am talking about if I called them twatteradi.
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  11077. @BlueSkiesDay If you only buy local, you don't pay tariffs. But sure, keep parroting the talking points of the globalists who care NOTHING about your standard of living, only about how they can extract from everyone just to line their balance sheets.
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  11078.  @bologna3048  I know. Won't have nearly the horsepower nor torque. AND since most of America's electricity comes from coal, it is LESS environmentally friendly that diesel or gasoline. Only if we go full nuclear does electricity become a clean technology.
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  11079.  @danielpurcell7395  I don't disagree that politicians are often only in it for themselves. But if you think the "green new deal" is anything other than an attempt to pillage the country to line the pockets of special interests no different from the oil and coal folks, then I have ocean view beach in Colorado to sell you. Nuclear power is the only viable "green" energy followed distantly behind by geothermal. And cheap energy is the fuel that drives economies. Without it, only poverty and unemployment occurs. You may hate fossil fuels, but "green alternatives" have failed to bear fruit after more than 20 years of taxpayer funding. The physics just don't support it as a viable, reliable source of energy.
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  11080. Because he is being empowered by the duly elected president to audit these organizations. Why does a nobdy career beuracrat have access to that inforamtion? What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
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  11081. Notice how the "stop Asian hate" crowd conveniently ignores where most of the violence against Asians actually comes from?
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  11082. Indeed. The Post Atomic Horror and Q's Kangaroo court of horrors came before Warp Drive and First Contact with the Vulcans.
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  11083. 'If You Voted For Biden And Don't Regret It, You're The Problem' - Jake Paul
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  11084. Agreed. They WANT some deranged loon to pull a Jack Ruby.
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  11085.  @tilltanky5367  Yeah, I sent a letter package to him last summer to the Fredrick, MD mailing address on the Timcast Website. I paid tracking as well as signature verification, so I know someone with access to the Timcast mailbox did received it on July 7th. I took those extra steps in the hopes that they would take our information seriously.
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  11086. Because much like has been the case in history, those in power refuse to let go of it. They are like drug addicts.
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  11087. @ What part of "suck born every minute" do you not understand? Chief Justice Warren could examine the data and destroy people like Stone pushing hearsay and speculation.
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  11088. What is the point? They will change the rules of how votes are counted to steal an election. We live in an illiberal democracy where the results are know long before the ballots are even printed.
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  11089. Yeah, in many ways their political system is similar to the UK's Constitutional Monarchy. Though unlike Queen Elizabeth, I don't think the Emperor has the power to dissolve the government and force the Prime Minister to form a new one with new elections.
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  11090. He is a real gasshole isn't he?
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  11091. The Nazarene REGULARLY quarreled with the religious leaders of his time.
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  11092. Indeed. Most socialists subscribe to Lysenkoism. Look up that and you will understand a lot of what they have planned for us.
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  11093. Universal Healthcare is basically Soviet Medicine. The problem is, conservatives won't call it what it is. And the GOP wants to be the one with their hands on the levers of control of that system.
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  11094. Nature abhors a vacuum, and the Japanese, Koreans, and Taiwanese are filling that void created by the bankruptcy of creativity by establishment "entertainment". The great irony is that those Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese productions from dramas, rom-coms, and anime are NOT specifically targeted to the West, the American audience is simply an incidental market.
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  11095. The only white males who get DEI points is if they are gay/bi.
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  11096. You will get it with the Democrats. And what is the old saying "be careful what you wish for, you just might get it"?
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  11097. Same here. More unfiltered tirades, please!
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  11098.  @Martincic2010  I would not be so proud to declare your support for communism. You ideology murdered more people than the Holocaust. And ask the Colombians how many people FARC murdered for your goals.
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  11099. Indeed. If they can cut to the coast, then the HIMARS can reach the Kerch bridge from Melitopol.
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  11100. Yeah, but I think he is underestimating the potential for a winter campaign. Canada and Norway have been sending winter gear since August, so that means Ukraine will be in a good position to capitalize on the cold weather.
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  11101. They always have been. People just gave into them like Stockholm Syndrome instead of telling them to bugger off.
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  11102. Not with the Petrograd and Moscow air defenses having been removed and sent to Ukraine. Why use nukes when Putin is vulnerable like that?
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  11103. The story isn't even realistic. A California college graduate is NEVER going to join the military.
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  11104. Yeah, funny how it is now thew left engaging in the "Satanic Panic" that the right was blasted for.
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  11105. I guess you don't understand how manipulation works. Do you think Islamic terrorists can be controlled? Apparently, the FBI were able to direct some to do their dirty work in an attempt of Pamela Gellar during the Garland, Texas terrorist attack. Or think about the Whitmer assassination hoax. Oswald could have been spun up in a similar manner.
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  11106. Unions have always been political and about since the 1920s at least.
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  11107. One of those infamous "Russian Colds". They are known to have a 100% fatality rate.
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  11108. Agreed. Truth is OBJECTIVE and remains consistent from antiquity until eternity. And you used an appropriate word. She dared to utter a heresy or blasphemy and so they are treating her as an Apostate. They are not different than the Salafists who kill those that renounce Islam.
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  11109.  @JosephofWalton  How about you get better talking points? Or just not white knight and shill for people who don't deserve what they are demanding. PS, the strikers and unions don't give a dead rat's butt about you. Find a new line of work while you still can.
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  11110. Azov is an inland sea. Russia is in Ukraine because the Donbas has gas and coal deposits that would make Europe energy independent from Russia. Same goes for the oil deposits off the coast of Crimea.
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  11111. Funny how people conveniently ignore that Russia has violated every agreement it ever made with independent Ukraine.
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  11112. And yet you still have groups like "Chinese for Affirmative Action" even though affirmative action programs systemically disadvantage East Asians in favor of less academically qualified candidates.
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  11113. Last year was an aberration. The Fall Rasputisa never ended instead merging with the Spring Mud season. Nobody was expecting that, not even the Russians.
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  11114. Yeah, and this one came across as a revenge fantasy. Never mind that she enabled Weinstein's predatory behavior just like Ghislane Maxwell did for Epstein.
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  11115. And someone who attended a California college would join after graduation? After their professors taught them that the military was full of war criminals and baby killers?
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  11116.  @AlmightyNOG  Where are the NATO troops deployed on the front line? The ONLY thing from NATO that Russia is fighting is the equipment, not the personnel. Put down the vodka, you are drunk.
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  11117. No joke. This has been known about for years, almost 2 decades and they are only now pointing the finger at Russia? This is sus.
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  11118.  @simonacerton3478  Except, that was already the case. State Asylums WERE operated and ran by the government, and the staff and orderlies were state employees paid by the taxpayers. And as with most things run by the government, they fail spectacularly. "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" is an example of art imitating life. There are NUMEROUS horror stories about orderlies abusing the patients. "Bedlam" is lexicon in English vocabulary precisely BECAUSE of Bedlam Mental Hospital in the UK was such as nightmare.
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  11119. They tried to substitute a knowledge(gaming) check with a profession(business) check and then rolled a natural 1.
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  11120. The Kentucky Long rifle was more advanced than the flintlock, having rifling vs smoothbore. And private merchants had cannons (the nuclear bomb of its day) to defend themselves from pirates. I think that very clearly defines the US Founder's intentions.
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  11121.  @ryanorr5755  So, don't let him join. And if they try to draft him, resist. Didn't the leftists now calling or war praise the Vietnam draft dodgers? You don't have not support Ukraine, oppose Russia and also be for war. Stop falling for the false choice dilemma. That is what the power mongers calling for war WANT you to do. Don't give them that kind of control over you mind. Look for a third option.
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  11122.  @Berryations  I don't disagree that Putin made them stronger, but to what purpose? What these Putin apologists blatantly ignore is that Russia under Putin did NOTHING to build a better rapport with its former satellites. If they felt threatened by Russia, then it is because Putin was sending them signals that he had every intention of restoring the Evil Soviet Empire.
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  11123.  @ryanorr5755  Yes, the Russians and Ukrainians are settling their differences. Russia could stop this at any time. They won't. Fear of "losing face" has caused Putin to double down (sunk cost fallacy). As far as now having the resources, Putin has been planning to do this since 2014. He stopped in 2016 because Trump was willing to call his bluff and back it up. He knows Joe Bite-me is an invalid and that it is Obama's staff who are running the White House and that they are all incompetent fools as evidenced by the slow collapse of the US economy. So yes, I will agree that Putin knows it is now or never. Problem is, we now know the capabilities and extent of Post-Soviet Russian power. Before the invasion, it was feared that the Russian military had the power to walk all over Europe. That fear has been proven unfounded with the trouble the Ukraine has given them. And that is why NATO will not get involved even though the political leaders of NATO want to. Russia is not the threat the Soviets posed so long as the NATO members properly maintain their militaries.
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  11124.  @ryanorr5755  Considering that the Ukrainians are already doing that, i think your point is moot. And no, Putin does NOT have a say in what other sovereign nations can and cannot do. They cease to be a sovereign nation and instead are a vassal satellite (ie puppet).
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  11125. How so? Details please.
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  11126. Same with some of the true Trek fans. Sadly, too many posers who claim Trek was "progressive" fail to actually understand TOS and TNG and why they were EGALITARIAN, not woke. Any self-proclaimed "woke Trek fan" is a dilettante at best and a fan-baiter more often.
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  11127.  @deadpoolwolverine9331  Some of us are purposely trying to break the algorithm bot. Timmy boy was talking about it the other day on one of his videos.
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  11128.  @feydrautha191  Lock up political rivals? How STALINIST and Putin like of you.
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  11129. 2021 is the year of the Metal Ox (steel bull). According to the Chinese that means this will be a stubborn and troublesome year. SO I would agree that they are going to reap the bitter rewards of their actions.
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  11130. Impeachment doesn't work. What we need is a congress who uses the power of the purse to hamsting the executive.
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  11131. Yeah, and the State of Florida has an even stronger case that the power originally granted to Disney comes from the Authority of the State of Florida. Hence, any and all power Disney exercises can only occur with the consent of the state government and can be revoked at will. Try reading the Federalist Papers as it explains how such a sharing of sovereign power operates.
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  11132.  @aceboog4546  Actually, it was your leftists friends in the DNC who repealed Glass-Steagall which was suppose to prevent this crap. But then you never take responsibility for your own side's wrongs. And when you cry racism, you are just proving that we are right. Didn't your mother tell you the story of the boy who cried wolf?
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  11133. Yeah, but if he and Vance had, I would bet over half of those in the sanctuary would have followed them out, humiliating that "Bishop".
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  11134. Not as cold as in Siberia.
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  11135.  @jebablessysalomi3451  Look at Heaven Lake on Mount Paektu on the Chinese- Korean Border. It is about 4 km across. Crater Lake, Oregon is 8km across. Honga's caldera is at least 3km across. There are many others like that.
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  11136. Museum campus is about the ONLY reason to go. Even my Chinese-Indonesian wife has no desire to go back to the local Chinatown.
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  11137. The world respects a strong horse. Putin caused mischief during Obama because Biden was a weak foreign policy lead.
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  11138. Because Putin's mouthpiece calls her extreme, you take that as an endorsement? Trump supporters mocked his critics by saying that if "Orange Man" said he was for oxygen, those who oppose him would suddenly be against breathing. You have fallen into that trap if you think Putin's criticism of Kamala is an endorsement. If anything, he is counting on that kind of a response.
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  11139.  @jamesSmith-im5jo  It might have been youtube/google who loves to monitor this channel and delete comments that run counter to the establishment narrative.
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  11140.  @ChicagoDB  And they forget that some of these systems have lock on jam, meaning that they convert to a psudo-HARM in flight.
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  11141.  @nolanarmstrong2458  He got the frontal lobotomy just like the rest. The Miasma in DC is more virulent than Tuberculosis, Ebola, Bubonic Plague, Smallpox, and Malaria.
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  11142. Don't forget that the Japanese put bombs on balloons during WW2. Started a number of forest fires with them.
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  11143. @ " good diplomatic terms with them" I guess you missed the part regarding their hostile military activities. Namely their belligerence towards American allies Japan and the Philippines. And yes, the US DID trade with Germany up to December 7th 1941. You need a formal declaration from Congress to acknowledge something before you will accept what is blatantly obvious? Nice to know you need to be lead around by the nose ring like an Ox.
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  11144. Agreed. I am all for encouraging the Chinese students to defect to the West. But to do that something needs to be done about the CIs. So long as they operate with impunity, it will be impossible for the dissidents to live without having to watch their backs.
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  11145. There is a president for this. Polio vaccines contaminated with SV-40 HAVE been linked to a rise in cancer despite the claims of the media.
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  11146.  @AlexsaurusRex  That the media has been lying about the connection between cancer and the SV-40 monkey virus. There was even a book published lining up the details. But because it is vaccine skeptical, even Wikipedia and Google pretend it doesn't exist.
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  11147.  @AlexsaurusRex  And yet again another post got deleted. I am NOT ignoring you. Dig into the similarities between SV-40 and the Human Papilloma virus which is known to cause certain "medical complications".
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  11148. The only GOP voters RFK Jr. is going to pick up is the nevertrumpers who will not vote for Trump anyhow.
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  11149. Some truth to that. But then again, that is why they sit in government than actually play the markets themselves. They don't have what it takes to actually be a mercantilist. An interesting analysis of economics can be understood by watching the Anime "Spice and Wolf", which despite having a medieval fantasy setting, the plot is driven by trade and economics. For bonus points, the author of the light novel and manga used he earnings from the series to get into the Japanese stock market and has done really well for himself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imejnozdcuI
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  11150. Just going to ignore the fact that Biden was directing Obama's foreign policy when Putin stole Crimea?
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  11151. As resourceful as an Orc. And just as wasteful too.
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  11152.  @armacham  And that is where you are misguided. Communist Countries regularly have rigged elections. The issue isn't whether they matter, the issue is the APPEARANCE of legitimacy. It is all a shame to claim the moral high ground and justification for their actions.
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  11153.  @armacham  So wat what point do you give up? How many elections to they have to blatantly steal before you admit it is a farce? The Romanians, Ukrainians, Lebanese, Tunisians, Egyptians, Czechs, Georgians(central Asia), Kyrgyz, Belarusians, Bolivians, and Armenians staged Color Revolutions for less in their elections.
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  11154.  @armacham  On principle, I agree. But the Tea Party movement has been doing your strategy for going on 12 years now and we are actually in worse shape. One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result. The time for talking and voting is over. It is time to be the well armed sheep contesting the vote for Lunch as Ben Franklin observed.
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  11155.  @armacham  The problem with the Tea Party is that they became a cheerleading squad for the GOP establishment. They pissed off disgruntled Democrats (the crossover Trump supporters BTW) by refusing to support anyone but a Republican. They empowered the RINOs Nothing bad came out of that? How about causing the Democrats to go full Bolshevik by purging the Blue Dog Democrats. How about empowering Cocaine Mitch by putting in sycophants who follow his orders. They replaced Dick Cheney and John McCain with their younger, more liberal progressive daughters Liz and Megan. They replaces one set of tyrants with a newer, younger, more radical and liberal set. For a movement to bring about less government and lower taxes, they failed spectacularly. We have MORE government and HIGHER taxes; the Trump tax cuts were not permanent. We are actually in WORSE shape now than we were in 2009. And why? Because of blind GOP sycophancy by the organizers and leaders of the Tea Party. Had they crossed over and supported people like Jim Webb, things would be different. There is a reason why that movement is effectively dead.
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  11156.  @wigletron2846  Indeed. I can't help but believe that it is Fox News leadership who "leaked" the videos to Media Matters in the hopes of the left destroying Tucker. An example of the "right-wing" collaborating with the left to crush dissenting voices.
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  11157. Apples to oranges false equivocation. Nice try.
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  11158.  @sharwama992  And what is wrong with a nation concerned with its own national interests? The problem with globalists is that they don't understand that natural allies are people whose national interests coincide. When you have common, or at least parallel goals that don't directly conflict, it can make for a VERY strong friendship. That is how the US and the UK or France and the UK were able to put their past animosity aside.
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  11159. Indeed. Militant atheism (aka misotheism) is a religion unto itself.
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  11160.  @directeducation2890  That would be existential nihilism you described. Misotheism is hate for a deity.
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  11161. The US would not need to fight though a Taiwanese defense. But I agree with your assesment.
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  11162. Because of their infestation of militant greenies.
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  11163. Part of the problem is that current day "science fiction" writers HATE the founders of the Genera. They consider Arthur C. Clarke, Issaac Asimov, and Robert Heinlen as "racist old white guys". Heinlein in particular they accuse of being a fascist because he wrote "Starship Troopers", never mind that it was the director, Paul Verhoeven who vandalized the IP because he could not be bothered to actually read the book. The point of my rant is that the writers today can't be bothered to do their basic homework regarding the subject matter on which they are writing. They think they know better than the pioneers who set the foundations.
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  11164.  @tauceti8060  Minimum is 45 years old. The US founder set it at that for a reason. Anyone younger doesn't have the life experience to be the executive of a country. Interestingly, GOVERNORS make the best presidents. Probably because the tow offices have many of the same responsibilities.
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  11165.  @johnmyster  Why? What is the rational? What is the reasoning? I have news for you, the average age for the Delegates to the Constitution Convention of 1787 were under 35. Those men were much smarter than you or I. You ignore them at everyone's peril.
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  11166.  @LuigiAzsassin  An atheist has no moral authority to lecture to Christians on their faith. Your boos mean nothing.
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  11167. Reagan was a John F. Kennedy Democrat. Ask the rabid party partisans today and they say "we have moved beyond JFK". And they wonder why they have lost the middle.
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  11168.  @schumanhuman  Why doesn't supply increase to meet demand? Simple: governments prohibit further construction of housing. California is particularly bad about that. And when they do allow for building more, it tends to be high cost/low-density single-family homes rather than affordable high-density high-rises.
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  11169.  @yui-anarcomunist  My wife is Chinese-Indonesian. My children are bi-racial. The problem isn't Asian, the problem is bad leadership. Your bigotry against ethnic East Asians is not something to be proud of.
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  11170.  @yui-anarcomunist  Wow, seriously? There is nothing wrong with East Asians, the problem is bad leadership. Asians are some of the most productive members of society. Just look at Japan and Korea.
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  11171. Indeed. Sovereign power of the State for which the Reedy Creek board derived its power is where Disney will lose on Constitutional grounds. They seem to forget that DeSantis' people actually did read the Federalist Papers.
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  11172. Yes and no. They are narcissists, so they will try to spin it in the best light regardless.
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  11173.  @seanld444  Remember the pallets of cash the Obama White House sent to Iran in 2016? Where do you think it went? Hamas is a proxy of Iran.
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  11174.  @donaldcarey114  There is a lot of that among the commenters of this channel.
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  11175.  @Rjsjrjsjrjsj  He is just showing Anglo-American phobia.
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  11176. Yes, reciprocity is the ONLY way to discourage it. Trump chose the path of mercy in 2016 and how did that work out? Tit for Tat (returning evil for evil and good for good) has been shown in almost every social experiment to be THE most effective strategy.
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  11177. Don your tricorn, adjust your eyepatch, adopt a foul-mouthed parrot, raise the Jolly Rodger and sail the high seas!
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  11178. I hope the CCP is paying you well for your shilling.
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  11179. The trans community is confused, so they want all of us to be just as confused as them. That is the whole point of this exercise in "new definitions".
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  11180. No, not likely. Dean Acheson's infamous "Pacific Defense Perimeter" included Taiwan but not South Korea. Guess where the commies attacked?
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  11181.  @ДанисСкорыга  Thank you for proving my point. What Russia has taken is of no strategic value, much like Bakhmut. When you find yourself in a hole, STOP DIGGING.
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  11182.  @ДанисСкорыга  Few in the West ever claims that Bakhmut was strategically valuable when the Ukrainians held it. That is just revisionism by Kremlin shilling, which you are blatantly doing. Yes, the West has a goldfish short memory which irks the hell out of me. And propagandists like you are counting on that to attempt to gaslight those of us who know better. it is funny how you chide me for the very things you and yours are just as guilty of doing. Classic Soviet whataboutism.
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  11183. As an accelerationist, I agree. Better to come to a head now and resolve the problem of too much government rather than drag it out and make the authoritarianism worse by prolonging the agony.
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  11184.  @hopliteluke1452  No, morals are NOT subjective. Murder is OBJECTIVLY wrong, and that is a MORAL value. Theft is OBJECTIVLY wrong and is also a moral value. You are advocating that might makes right, and that those who have the power define morality.
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  11185.  @hopliteluke1452  Nice strawman argument. The right to self-defense is an OBJECTIVE argument, not subjective. Why? because killing in self-defense is NOT murder but justified homicide. Major difference. Subjective morality would say that there is no right to self-defense because to moral relativists, ANY killing is murder. Unless said murder advances their political goals. I didn't walk into a corner; you are simply using logical fallacies to defend your untenable position. Use of logical fallacies show you don't have much merit to your arguments.
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  11186.  @hopliteluke1452  Again more strawman arguments. Theft and murder are CLEAR moral values that cut across ALL cultures. As does the right of self-defense. You haven't proven your point; you have instead chosen to engage in scurrilous anti-religious disparagements. You point to one example and then pretend that is the norm rather than the exception. Your problem is that you can't accept that there are very few absolutes in the world. And those that have been so since antiquity and will remain so until eternity. Those few absolutes DO make up the objectively verifiable morality. But because everything isn't black and white to you, you assume nothing is. That is the problem with your moral relativism argument. It is the false choice dilemma taken to the extreme. PS, the Categorial Imperative formulated by Emmanuel Kant conclusively proves you wrong.
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  11187.  @chrisfournier6144  I think you need to re-read my post again. Just because I reject Hoplite Luke's moral relativism augment does NOT mean I agree with Truedick. If you actually look at the nuance, I am in agreement with you that Turdeau subscribes to Chairman Mao's mantra that power comes from the barrel of a gun.
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  11188. No kidding. Trump CAN be calm and measured and it has NOTHING to do with the gag order. This guy is just another neo-fascist Rockerfellar RINO.
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  11189. Something tells me if Canada does have a civil war, they will find assistance from sympathetic folks in the US.
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  11190. Oh, it very much is an attempt to confuse people. They are using "Stakeholder" in the same way Lenin used the term "proletariat".
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  11191. No, but the Japanese effectively occupied it during WW2. They didn't depose the monarchy because it was not worth the trouble when the throne of Thailand wasn't going to rock the boat.
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  11192. And who wants to be the first to violate the agreement on non-proliferation of space weaponization? The costs of getting caught red-handed far outstrip the benefits.
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  11193. Double minority ticket? You know the racist party elites of the DNC won't support that.
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  11194. MSNBC's Joe Scarborogh didn't believe butter was $3 and then got corrected that it was $7. That was their "let them eat cake" moment. Of course they haven't learned how expensive a Turkey diner really is.
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  11195. Seems like google/youtube doesn't like me mentioning Marie Antoinette.
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  11196.  @2017NationalChamps  Yeah, it is a cool story because you are cherry picking your data points. Taken in the aggregate, the picture is drastically different than you pretend to think.
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  11197.  @zjpdarkblaze  I never said that they did not. But they cannot expose those assets to the level of danger that close-air support requires. Only now that F-16s are on their way have the Ukrainians started being more aggressive and taking risks with the airframes they do have. And if the USAF is so hell-bent on getting rid of the A-10 Warthogs, I'm sure the Ukrainians would LOVE to make use of them.
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  11198.  @zjpdarkblaze  The current Ukrainian Air Force consists of 1980s Warsaw Pact airframes. It is near impossible to replace those or find spare parts to keep them flying. The East German MIG-29 Fulcrums were first handed over to Poland in the mid 90s. And then the Poles started transferring those same German MIGs near the start of the invasion. F-16s while from the same time period are VASTLY better than their Soviet counterparts. Only now is Ukraine getting access to them, and it WILL show in the air campaign going forward.
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  11199.  @zjpdarkblaze  I didn't say that. Again, you are jumping to false conclusions. With the Soviet equipment they do have, they have fought Russia to an effective stand-still. Both sides have achieved air-denial to the other, but otherwise the air campaign has not been the decisive factor that NATO doctrine assumes. Knowing that NATO aircraft are in the pipe, Ukraine can now afford to take greater risks with the Soviet Equipment they have because BETTER equipment is on its way to replace any losses. And when that equipment finally makes it to the battlespace, it will tip the balance in Ukraine's favor, breaking the aerial gridlock.
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  11200.  @zjpdarkblaze  I didn't imply anything. That is you reading into something that just was not there. As for the Western Tanks, the UAF forces LOVE them, especially the crew survival rates. They HAVE made a difference. The offensive didn't make the breakthroughs last fall was not because the tanks didn't make a difference, it was because combined arms was missing the air component. And that just circles back to the original point.
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  11201.  @zjpdarkblaze  Nice, resorting to ad hominin (personal attack) logical fallacy. I never said Ukraine didn't have an air component. Only that it was barely keeping up with the Russians, in no small part because it cannot afford to engage in the attritional battle that Russia insists on fighting. NATO aircraft, however CAN engage in that fight for a whole host of reasons.
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  11202.  @JL-tm3rc  I don't disagree that the MiG Fulcrum is the superior fighter in a DOG FIGHT. And that assumes the MiG can achieve an ambush. But that is not what Ukraine needs right now. What they need is airframe numbers and stand-off distance.
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  11203.  @JL-tm3rc  Yea, do the math. Western Pilots fly more hours in one month that Soviet Air Force Pilots fly in their entire career. That has ALWAYS been the difference between NATO pilots and Communist Block Nations. It is why Chuck Yeager was able to do things in a MiG-15 that were believed impossible by Soviet Pilots.
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  11204.  @JL-tm3rc  Spoken like a child. Soviet Pilots exist. Thye just now claim Russian, Ukrainian, Kazakh, Uzbek, of Tajik nationality. The breakup of the Soviet Union did NOT change the fact that they were Soviet Air Force. But you clearly just want to "win", regardless of the facts or details. The fact that I am getting flak from BOTH the Russian bots and the Ukrainian Shills tells me I am over the target.
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  11205. Part of the problem with history teachers is that they are so focused on dates and names rather than the WHY and HOW. I was fortunate to have a 6th grade history teacher who made a dry topic interesting by making it personal. When history often rhymes, the lesson that should be taken is what are the commonalities (getting to the WHY) and the results (HOW).
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  11206. Good because the globalists don't actually care about you. You are what they call "useful idiots". But if you want to live ion the pod, eat the bugs "Own nothing and be happy," then that is YOUR problem.
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  11207.  @FinianLohbar  Funny because that is exactly how the German National Socialists talked about those they politically disagreed with. When you dehumanize those who oppose you, it makes it easy to engage in pogroms and gulags.
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  11208.  @Jamie_Johnson  At what cost? Famine of biblical proportions? That is the problem with you neo-Pagan Gaia worshipers (aka climate activists), you don't care about the suffering of humans so long as your goals are accomplished. Never mind that during the Mesozoic era the Earth was TEN DEGREES CELCIUS WARMER. You blatantly ignore the laws of thermodynamics, namely the conservation of matter and energy.
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  11209.  @parthparekh9924  Yes, the "American Century" is basically a continuation of the Royal United Kingdom's prior Century. The US does indeed owe much to the Crown for without them, there would be no United States. Oh, and before you whine about Columbus, he was following the legends that the Vikings told of Vinland. And the Vikings were themselves preceded by the Irish with Saint Bartholomew. And before you bloviate about the "Natives" who crossed Beringia to the New World, there is discussion that Clovis people who preceded them by as much as 1,000 years may have followed the ice shelf along a similar route as the Vikings.
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  11210.  @parthparekh9924  Where did I say it did? That is the problem with America haters like you. You are so blinded by your zealotry that you jump to foregone conclusions and engage in broad generalities without actually looking at the merits in their proper context.
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  11211. And then the Constitution serves eviction notice papers. Sovereign power of the State will bite Disney in court.
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  11212. Don't need dirt on willing accomplices to treason.
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  11213.  @darthmada9574  Most folks who engage in high treason don't do it for the money; they do it for ideological reasons. Hence, my point still stands.
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  11214.  @sterlingarcher81  I don't disagree that we should be like the bridegrooms with the lamps full of oil. However, your hyperbolae echoes that of Miller's whom I mentioned before.
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  11215. You are completely correct. He doesn't get to be president of the Screen Actor's Guild and not know what is what.
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  11216. Funny, because Putin's two incursions into Ukraine occurred on Biden's watch, not Trump. When Trump was in office, neither Putin nor President Pooh Bear dared to mess around. Dictators only respect a strong horse. Weakness in a president invites aggression. John F. Kennedy learned that the hard way.
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  11217. Yeah, I found myself wondering why they didn't take the opportunity in mid 2022. Finding out that there is a compliant government in Tbilisi explains much.
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  11218.  @2211gk  No, but if the Kharkov and Kherson offensives have shown, the residual forces there are a paper tiger.
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  11219. "Amateurs imitate, professionals plagiarize," -Attributed to Igor Stravinsky.
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  11220. Got proof of your claims? The Indians who have no dog in this fight send observers to verify your claims. They have found no evidence supporting claims against Ukraine, nor have they found the Ukrainians obstructing their investigation.
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  11221.  @nikolay9584  Yeah, I am not a fan of calling them that either, but many have EARNED that disparagment. Those Russian conscripts that surrender to Ukrainian forces I am willing to give the benefit of the doubt. But the looters stealing washing machines and microwave ovens very much are Orcs.
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  11222.  @boris8577  How many of those videos actually come from Syria? The "Palestinians" are notorious for using videos out of Iraq or Lebanon to falsely accuse the Israelis. I suspect Russia is using the same propaganda tactic.
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  11223. I was going to say it looks like the undershirt most associated with Soviet and Russian soldiers, whether Army or Navy. Edit: I didn't realize he changed out of his tank-top. I agree it kind of looks like a hula/luau shit.
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  11224. The progs are as humorless as the old Soviet Union. Most of the old Russian jokes could easily apply to the left today.
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  11225.  @u2beuser714  And that is why this happened. Hell, the US was warned by Putin and Israel both that Al Qaeda was going to attack before 9/11. Just because you're in conflict doesn't mean your enemy isn't being truthful.
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  11226. Misaimed Fandom. They never seem to understand why villains such as Darth Vader are so popular and why some hero antagonists are so reviled.
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  11227.  @economiccrisis9267  What were the objectives of both wars? Vietnam failed LJB was more interested in getting into a dick measuring contest rather than defeating the Communists. The war would have ended if the US had marched on Hanoi. Afghanistan failed because the DoD forgot how to actually fight a war. If the goal was to bag Bin Laden, then mission accomplished, and all of the time after his death was waste. Only two men have EVER brough Bactria to heel: Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan.
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  11228.  @mzansiwhatshappening8015  Germany is overrun with TURKS as in from Turkey, not Iraqi or Afghani refugees. And that was because of Angela Merkel's own policies encouraging them to move. Unsurprising as her pals in the East German Communist Youth League trained the Munich Olympic Terrorists.
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  11229.  @edwoo1005  Coming in too fast. Too high on the approach. Any number of things. Doesn't obliviate the fact that the cement wall is what brought it to a fatal conclusion.
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  11230.  @hectoralejandro9883  I guess you don't understand how "nose up" is what you are SUPPOSED to do when you land without deployed undercarriage. Sully Sullenberger put the plane nose up before his aircraft landed in the water. As for the road beyond the wall, that is MEANINGLESS. EVERY AIRPORT HAS A PERIMETER ROAD around the runway. Without the wall, the plane would have had almost 1.08Km of open field to slide across before it entered the bay.
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  11231. On, Ukraine did not, it was the Russians who chose to use the plant as a military strong point. In that, they are just as bad as the Germans at Monte Cassino in Italy during WW2.
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  11232. In part because the government is going to take everything after 90 years. There is no incentive to build things to last.
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  11233. Most of the bigots are in the Democrat Party. The GOP is way too pragmatic to be bigoted. To be a bigot you have to hold a particular world view and the GOP won't even hold onto a flawed ideology.
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  11234.  @Nick-vw1lm  Context, dude. It is the elites who view us as "unwashed, uncouth peasants and serfs". I am using their terminology, the words of feudal elitism in an ironic fashion to mock the establishment and their enablers. It is just too bad that you are so shallow that you cannot see the nuance so plain to others.
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  11235. And that is why the Sherman Anti-Trust laws were suppose to be enforced. Those who say "vote with your wallet" conveniently ignore than when everyone in business is doing the same thing, you have no alternative. And attempts to create a start-up gets crushed by the oligarchy.
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  11236.  @notmousse  Yeah, at this point, male feminists are the beta male womanizers who simply use the movement to prey on vulnerable women.
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  11237. Gotham City was based on NYC at night during the 1920s and 1930s. Metropolis was based on 1950s NYC during the day. Metropolis and Gotham are the same city!
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  11238. Push it back a bit. The wheels were already starting to come off in the 1970s. It was the 1960s when the DPRK was riding high. Communism isn't sustainable long term, even with outside support.
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  11239. The irony is that it was never designed to be a tank killer and yet here it is doing what nobody on its design team anticipated.
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  11240.  @polderrican  Thank you, I often butcher his name and probably should have looked it up rather than rely on my poor memory. Also, most of them were NOT woke, they were egalitarian. There is a difference. Woke according to Robin DeAngelo (author of White Fragility), is addressing past discrimination with present discrimination in the other direction. Egalitarianism rejects that favoring a meritocratic assessment, judging based on results.
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  11241.  @lisal9829  Your pity and boos mean nothing to me because I have seen what you cheer for. Your false compassion is nothing more than clout chasing.
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  11242.  @lisal9829  Considering how many "Trump staffers" are willing to throw him under the bus as well as perjure themselves on the stand just to get clout, I think you hold a skewed idea of what constitutes credibility.
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  11243.  @lisal9829  What does it say about you that you regurgitate disproven talking points on cue like Pavlov's Dog? I have debated more sophisticated liberals than you. Learn to code, and touch grass while you are at it.
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  11244. If Disney loses, they are going to be on the hook for ALL of the legal fees. That is usually how it works when you fight the government.
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  11245. Hell, I wouldn't mind seeing Mask of the Betrayer become a live action movie. I would cast Brenda Song as Safiya, the Red Wizard.
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  11246. How massively publicized was the Kherson counteroffensive?
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  11247.  @Bizzare77777  You don't understand the Law of Armed Conflict. You are a moral equivocator with zero experience on the battlefield. There is a word for people like you: CHIECK HAWK. Try putting on a uniform and understand that the Uniform Code of Military justice WILL hold you to account. Just take a look at what they tried to do to Lt. Colonel Alan West.
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  11248. Don't downplay the fact that Angela Merkel was a member of the East German Communist Youth League. Know that, and suddenly her actions enslaving Germany to Russia makes perfect sense.
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  11249.  @hyhhy  Yeah, you "deal" is just wishful fantasy. The Soviet Union had zero power after 1991 and their collapse. There was NO obligation for NATO to honor ANY under the table dealings. And the members of the Warsaw Pact who joined NATO is proof that your claims are false.
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  11250. Yeah, no. Ecological catastrophes by the Soviet Union dwarf even the worst caused by the US. Why? Because the Soviet government never cared about public outcry the way the US government does.
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  11251.  @calitaliarepublic6753  You realize that the American Bison recovered, and in numbers today not seen since BEFORE human migration into North America? Seems to me you chose to ignore that dirty little detail which shows that we HAVE corrected that particular issue. As for the Dust Bowl, that had quite a bit to do with government intervention in the markets creating the economic conditions that lead to the crisis. And it was also resolved in larger part to actions in the private sector rather than the government. Again, you are only telling half the story. Deepwater Horizon still has yet to be fully assessed, and like most things, you hypochondriacs assume the worst and refuse to adjust your stance when later data disproves your hysterics. Nuclear Weapons testing contamination? That is NOTHING compared to the Kyshtym disaster (aka Mayak Disaster). I can forgive you for not being familiar with that incident because it occurred in the 1950s-1970s under the veil of Soviet censorship. Sure, you can go on, but I suspect that like the example you used, they are overblown and exaggerated for propagandistic reasons.
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  11252.  @calitaliarepublic6753  Wow, triggered much? And I love how you use the racist "noble savage" to argue your position on the American Bison. Pointing out that the full magnitude of the effects from Deepwater Horizon is not fully known is NOT a non-sequitur, it is pointing out the obvious gaps in the data sets. How about you actually learn what a non-sequitur is instead of trying to use fancy words that you think make you sound smart.
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  11253.  @calitaliarepublic6753  And again you bloviate and use your own non-sequiturs to say, "America bad". I got news for you, the fact that the US is the top destination for migrants completely disproves your anti-US narrative. Yes, the US is flawed, but it is far and away better than every other example you could possibly hold up.
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  11254.  @calitaliarepublic6753  And again another proof by verbosity and gish gallop But thank you for once again proving that you are just spewing neo-Soviet talking points about "evil capitalist America". Nobody is buying your drivel.
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  11255. And yet despite the devastation from the tsunami, there were very few deaths. When Indonesia experiences a Tsunami, it often results in hundreds to thousands of fatalities. At least give the Tongas credit for their quick response even if their preparations were lacking.
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  11256. Knowing how to properly handle a rifle is actually good skills that everyone SHOULD know for self-defense (think 2nd amendment). First-aid is useful in an auto accident, and not just on the battlefield. I will agree that teaching the use of hand-grenades crosses the line. I don't know how I feel about teaching the use of Molotov cocktails.
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  11257.  @stefansekulic7903  Didn't they say the training was going on in high school? Also, children with responsible parents can handle firearms as young as 9 years old. The maturity of both the child and the parent are the deciding factors.
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  11258. Sure, because in the absences of guns, knife stabbings simply replace it at a rate of 4-5 times. Just take a look at Londonstan.
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  11259. That sounds like rationalization. Don't make excuses for corporate malfeasance.
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  11260. Red Star Rogue by Kenneth Sewell. Russia's K-129 sub tried to launch a nuclear strike on Pearl Harbor using nukes with Chinese made core with the goal of provoking nuclear war between the US and PRC. Rumor is, Kissinger and Nixon made Mao aware of the details of what they really found(not the cover story about "losing the sub") during Operation: Azorian.
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  11261.  @Akehiko_Urabaya  The Interational Legion of Ukraine specifically modeled itself after the French Foreign Legion and with good reason. The FFL is specifically addressed by the Geneva and Hauge conventions and elaborates on WHY it is permitted under Law of Armed Conflict.
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  11262.  @Akehiko_Urabaya  It doesn't hurt to have supporting details buttress your argument. Most people are not aware of the significance of the French Foreign Legion's carve out in the Law of Armed Conflict. Or of how it sets a precedent for similar groups that scrupulously emulate it.
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  11263. Indeed. Nobody wanted to ally with the Arab party in the Knesset because of the rabid anti-Semitism. In ousting Bibi, this was the first time they EVER allied with anyone. That should tell you how rabidly jihadi they are.
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  11264. They know the collapse is coming. The US economy is in a death spiral, but nobody wants to admit it.
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  11265.  @dunnowy123  Not denying that the US was a bridge. Simply pointing out the fallacy that peace is not possible between Israel and the Arab states. UAE, Bahrain, Egypt and Trans-Jordan ALL have formalized relations with the Jewish state.
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  11266.  @puntmannoor3403  Wow you ignore history. But I get that as you don't want peace, so you ignore the data points that refute your claims. Jordan and Lebanon have made peace with Israel because they have learned first-hand that Israel is no greater enemy, no better friend. Having been crushed by the IDF, they opted for trade instead and have flourished. Now contrast that to Iran who nominally does have a say in their government. How great have things really been for that nation? Your problem is that you refuse to accept living alongside the Jews because you refuse to let go of the legacy of Haj Iman Al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, commander of the Bosnian SS, and first chairman of the PLO. As Golda Mier pointed out, peace will only come when Arabs value their children more than they hate Jews.
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  11267. The only ones not hit with strikes are the ones by legacy media. The power mongers and political insiders ALWAYS get a free pass. "Rules for thee, but not for me!"
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  11268. Israel is way worse? Israel has ALWAYS fought with one hand tied behind its back. If they were as bad as you claim, then the Arabs who call themselves Palestinian would have been wiped off the map decades ago.
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  11269. The Japanese used balloons to send incendiary bombs towards the US in WW2.
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  11270.  @Joemantler  No, actually, the Spartans did NOT go extinct. You are just being hyperbolic. The city is still inhabited by Leonidas's descendants to this day. Now, if you wanted to be historically accurate (and by using hyperbolae, you are not), the Spartans were conquered by Rome in the Laconian War of 195 BC and were eventually incorporated into the Roman Empire. Granted, the Visgoths under Alaric I also conquered them and sold many into slavery, but that was not the end of them.
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  11271. I have always been irritated by "romanization" of words not native to English. Much like you suggest, I prefer phonetic spelling. American phonetic of Korean place names are actually pronounceable unlike the official Romanization where they add in so many silent letters.
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  11272. Also used the wrong skill check.
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  11273. Writing a blank check WITHOUT oversight is aiding Putin more as it undercuts the war effort. Victoria Spartz who grew up in Soviet Ukraine has been asking for accountability and NOBODY has given a straight answer.
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  11274. Or his advisors. Do keep in mind that the campaign staff of DeSantis is connected to the Veritas folks going after James O'Keefe.
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  11275.  @BLUEYGILA  False revisionist history? You need to actually do your homework. All of the Canaanites were put to the sword. Not a single one survived. The Arabs who lived in the region before 1948 were of Bedouin heritage most of whom were settled there by the ROMAN EMPIRE after the Jewish Revolt of 73AD. The region has ALWAYS been called JUDEA since antiquity. Even Egyptian documents dating to the Pharaohs refer to it as such. "Palestina" was a work invented by Emperor Vespasian Caesar in an attempt to erase the Jewish history of the area.
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  11276.  @BLUEYGILA  They are not descended from the Caanites. They are Bedouins settled there by the Romans after the Jewish Revolt of 66-73 AD. PS, my previous post refuting you got deleted. Apparently youtube doesn't like when people talk about "inconvenient history".
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  11277.  @BLUEYGILA  The Arabs in JUDEA were put they by the Romans after the Jewish Revolt of 66-73AD. "Palestina" was a made-up word by the Romans to erase the history of the region.
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  11278. Amen! A tool for control by the world communists to blackmail entrepreneurs.
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  11279. And the dumb thing is, people are okay with inequity as long as it is consistent. The problem with these equality activists is they don't want consistency, they want power. And poverty not only is the only true equalizer, it makes it easier to lord over the masses.
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  11280. I hope Japanese anime buries Hollyweird.
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  11281. Your first mistake is that "Evangelical Fundamentalism" is NOT monolithic. Secondly, it does NOT the institutional power that either the Eastern Orthodox Chruch, nor the "Western Orthodox" (ie Catholicism) has enjoyed. But as typical, people like you grossly misunderstand nationalism and patriotism. Just because the philosophy is simple doesn't mean that its adherents are simple minded. Sometimes a simple concept can have vastly nuanced interpretations.
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  11282.  @joeybwalsh  That is not an argument, it is a logical fallacy. And it is you tacitly conceding that I am correct. Learn to debate and make better arguments. "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser," -attributed to Plato. "When your argument is weak, abuse the plaintiff," -Marcus Tulliuc Cicero "I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher
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  11283. Russian collusion hoax all over again. Put down the Vodka, you are drunk.
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  11284. I would say politics is in at least six dimensions as I can count at least that many axis issues. But the power mongers love to use the false choice dilemma when they deceive people into thinking it is a linear spectrum.
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  11285.  @attilamarics3374  And promptly squandered those advantages in the Bakhmut meatgrinder. Pyrrhic victory at best.
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  11286.  @attilamarics3374  "Without evidence" Except that Oryx visually confirmed a lot of it. If you have to use the qualifier "without evidence" you have tacitly admitted that there actually is evidence. "Without evidence" has been proven conclusively true so many times now that it has lost its meaning.
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  11287.  @attilamarics3374 Oryx requires photo or visual confirmation before they count a loss or gain. "Don't believe you lying eyes" I guess. When the South Asian Indians consider Oryx a trustworthy source and you don't, then you are clearly out of touch with reality.
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  11288.  @attilamarics3374  You are moving the goal posts. Oryx is VERY scrupulous about what they confirm from video and photos to make sure that there are not cases of double counting.
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  11289.  @attilamarics3374  That isn't an argument, that is an emotional outburst. India confirming Oryx IS independent verification which means the burden of proof is on you to now prove that they are not. And you have presented NOTHING to prove their unreliability except empty declarations. "That which is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence," -Hitchens's Razor.
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  11290.  @attilamarics3374  FALSE again. Confirmation of Ukrainian losses actually comes for RUSSIAN sources. It just happens that a lot of the videos coming out of Russia happen to be images of either already accounted for equipment or the Russian's own equipment they are claiming is Ukraine's. Ukraine has a motivation to downplay their losses, and Oryx don't play that way.
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  11291.  @attilamarics3374  You are conflating Russian milblogs with Oryx. Again, actual pictures and videos, REGARDLESS of twitter can very much be hard evidence. No, you just don't want to admit that you are wrong because it means your whole identity which you have stakes on being a shill for the Kremlin will be shattered creating an existential crisis for you. So you double down on your fictions in a vain attempt to keep convincing yourself of your own deception.
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  11292.  @attilamarics3374  "Better people Think you a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt," -Mark Twain. And yet again you prove you are guilty of the very thing you accuse me of doing. You are not a very sophisticated troll. I have debated better.
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  11293.  @attilamarics3374  You have made zero points, and when you claim that you have checked, you prove to everyone that you have not. You are convincing nobody here, only trying to convince yourself of your own deceptions since nobody else believes them.
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  11294.  @attilamarics3374  Except, you have NOT actually made arguments, you have engaged in logical fallacies. And your continual use of insults and disparagements only shows your desperation as you are flailing. Your problem is that you conflate opinions with hard facts and play fast and loose with both to push a partisan agenda. You don't care about facts, only narrative so long as it advances your tribe. Nothing will convince you because you are beyond the realm of reason. You are so invested in your narrative that irrefutable evidence smacking you in the face would not make you admit defeat. "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." -John Adams
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  11295.  @hellothere4765  Yes, a number of RINOs got through the cracks. Don't vote for them just because you fear the Democrats. Yes, support the MAGA Republicans, but do NOT reward the RINOs EVER.
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  11296.  @fedexpress14  Not really. That is the problem with you globalist folks who detest nationalism and patriotism. You have no loyalty to your own people or to a homeland. And you hold in contempt people who do value such ties of kinship (since nations are made up of clans and clans are made up of related families).
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  11297.  @fedexpress14  The accusation of racism today just means you can't win the argument. It is the same as the boy who cried "Wolf!". Thank you for effectively telling the world that you have lost the debate.
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  11298.  @fedexpress14  When everything is racist, nothing is. It has lost its meaning. That disparagement has been so overused that it is now a meme: "I won a debate against a Liberal; he called me a racist".
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  11299.  @TheDynamicmarket  Wrong. You do realize that Estonia, Lithuanian, and Latvia ALL share a border with Russia? And that NATO troops ARE already on that border and have been since their ascension? Your argument ignores hard facts which eviscerates your claims. Putin very much DID care about all of those former Warsaw Pact nations joining; it removed the historic buffer that the old Soviet Union enjoyed. You want to accuse NATO of belligerence and yet NATO HAS NOT invaded any country. And before you go "but Afghanistan!" I will remind you that the Taliban was given the option of handing over Bin Laden and could have avoided the hammer. By harboring an international terrorist, they violated the UN charter.
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  11300.  @kubauhlir1730  Didn't even read what he said did you? The Russians blowing up the damn is them shooting themselves in the foot, which is what they did.
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  11301. Vote CONSERVATIVE, Trump supporting candidates. Too many RINOs are trying to ride the wave into office only to collaborate with the left.
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  11302.  @neutralevil1917  I have read what you wrote, and it is all hogwash. You are spewing the Kremlin narrative point by point showing your insincerity and intellectual dishonesty.
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  11303. 'If You Voted For Biden And Don't Regret It, You're The Problem' - Jake Paul
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  11304. Indeed. What a wonderful turn of events if Guyana can avoid the curse of other oil-rich nations and becomes the Singapore of South America.
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  11305.  @shauncameron8390  I will not, but maybe they will surprise us. Best to keep expectations low, sadly.
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  11306. At the squad level, I think it is the platoon leaders on the ground making the tactical choices, not some fancy hat well behind the lines. What you are describing is the OPERATIONAL (mid-level) or Strategic (high level) choices.
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  11307.  @bachelor3846  Actually, there ARE institutional restrictions on the use of nuclear weapons. Anyone who has handled nuclear authorization codes will tell you that they are OCD when it comes to following protocol. Even a known test exercise with nuclear dummy rounds is treated with an almost fatalistic-religious reverence to said protocol.
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  11308.  @maritaschweizer1117  Russian collusion was proven a hoax beyond a reasonable doubt. Even the media who pushed it have given up on those claims. You are in complete denial.
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  11309.  @OnlyTheTrutha  I agree that the hacks are manipulating the numbers to drive a narrative. But isn't comparing age (65 and older) to ethnicity (Latinos) an apples to oranges false comparison? There IS some overlap between those two groups.
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  11310. Yeah, kind of reminds me of Mark Twain's quote about it being better people simply THINKING you are a fool rather than opening your mouth and removing all doubt. These people insisted on proving his point.
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  11311.  @jimbobeire  Yeah, and the USGS is politically motivated just like all of the other executive branch agencies. Truth of the matter is that the numbers they put out are estimates, not actual numbers. Incidentally, no new carbon is being created as it has been here since the formation of the planet 4 billion years ago.
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  11312. Indeed. When they banned guns in London, murders started using kitchen knives. When they ban those, people will start using Louisville sluggers.
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  11313. Ah, but there lies the rub. NATO has become so spoiled with air cover, that they will not move at all without it. These skills are not useless, they could be quite critical in a war on the Korean Peninsula when the local airfields are incapacitated by DPRK shelling.
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  11314. The writing fails because they prioritized "diversity" over talent or ability. This is the result of nepotism.
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  11315.  @kimandre336  Democracy is a multiheaded hydra that is constantly trying to kill its other heads. REPUBLIC governance which the West has forgotten, works when people respect the rules of the system. As far as the UN, it is the playground of dictators and tyrants, so anything they say has zero value.
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  11316. If Ukraine did it, why did they wait? What is the null hypothesis?
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  11317. Yeah, but the issue goes to the 1991 agreement by which we pressured Ukraine to hand over their nukes to Russia.
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  11318. The kicker is, WITHOUT US SUPPORT OF TAIWAN. Yes, Taiwan on its own cannot hold out forever against a giant, just like Poland could not against Germany in 1939. But China has not shown particular advancement in military doctrine. Innovation includes adaptability, which is not really something is known for.
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  11319.  @J_X999  The Pentagon was completely wrong about Ukraine. The Pentagon blundered in Afghanistan last year. American intelligence has no intelligence. I trust their analysis about as much as I trust gas station sushi. If it were Gordon Chang, Richard Murdock, or Michael Pilsbury who made that assessment, then I would be much more concerned. They HAVE played team China in wargames. And when they have been permitted to play the Chinese how the Chinese would fight, they ALWAYS win.
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  11320.  @shueyk2320  Sure, private Conspritovich. When even the South Asian Indians can confirm the casualty ratios in favor of Ukraine, then you have lost the plot.
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  11321. Yeah, it is a shame we don't have a better relationship. I get that India wants to be the champion of the third world/independent movement. But that doesn't preclude the US and India having a closer relationship.
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  11322. Calling someone you disagree with Hitler is the Goodwin Fallacy. It doesn't make your argument; it actually discredits it.
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  11323. They will just turn the places they move to into a copy of the slimehole they left. Consider what happened when Dailey tore down the Cabrini Green Projects.
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  11324. That isn't Trump's style.
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  11325. Or the left doesn't understand Poe's Law
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  11326.  @randommonkey4900  Israeli Army has time and again defeated numerically superior foes. They are about the only Western Nation that can truly claim to be battle tested.
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  11327.  @jimjones9239  Or incendiaries like the Japanese tried with their Fu-Go balloon bomb.
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  11328.  @dswynne  Those two points are something of a red herring, often used by the leaders of Arab countries as a strawman argument to distract their own domestic populations. To the first one, the "Palestinians" (really just Arabs in Judea) already have their own territory and government in the Gaza and what have they done with it? The Saudis, Lebanese, and Egyptians are getting tired of both Hamas and Hezbollah, especially as they have effectively become proxy agents of Iran. As for Fatah, they have shown to be just as corrupt and so the other Arabs have chosen to no longer waste money on them. As for the Al-Aqsa Compound, Israel has had ample opportunity to dispose of it yet have chosen not to do so. Time and again they have allowed it to remain unmolested, and it is likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. So, no, those two issues are NOT obstructions but merely distractions and excuses.
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  11329. What was it that PT Barnim said? "A sucker born every minute"?
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  11330.  @eldrenofthemist2492  Ultimately, the one most responsible for Star Wars going Woke is George Lucus himself. When you sell off your intellectual property (ie the copyrights), don't be surprise if the people who take control of it vandalize and bastardize it. When he sold off Lucusfilm, he should have put an executive veto stipulation in the contract by which he could override a project.
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  11331.  @dreamingmusic3299  No,, it was not. The fact that you claim it was sarcasm is admission that you know you went too far and are trying to walk it back. Besides, it isn't what you THINK you said, it is what the audience hears. And when it comes to sarcasm, online conversations are the WORST place to attempt it.
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  11332.  @dreamingmusic3299  Your trolling makes you entirely predictable. Your lack of sophistication makes it as easy to read you as an open book. And your smarmy response only reinforces that.
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  11333.  @Lancetdrone  1983 updates is not the same as the 2010 version of the T-90s. Nice try. A 1983 update is still 50 years old.
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  11334.  @frankdwyer7051  Nice apples to oranges false analogy. Those 1980 Abrams designs have been updated within the last 10-15 years, unlike the T-72s which haven't been in 50 years. You are coping Private Conscriptovich.
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  11335.  @Lancetdrone  Every weapon has a weak point. That is the engineer's dilemma. There is no such thing a s a "perfect" weapon. And many of the most effective designers simply accept a certain level of vulnerability lest their design never actually makes it into production. So if you were trying to make a point, you failed.
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  11336. What rock have you be4en hiding under? Four Year of Trump meant NO NEW WARS. Remember, both of Putin's incursions into Ukraine occurred on Biden's watch. It meant the best economic conditions in 40 years. More of Biden means more of the graft and corruption that is tearing the West apart.
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  11337. The only one worth of the title "Judge". Only he can be considered the equal of Deborah, Ehud, or Gideon.
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  11338.  @thekaiser1156  Actually, it shows that you have no business commenting on something if you are not knowledgeable about it. It shows that in trying to "own" me, you simply stuck your foot in your mouth for all to see. Here is a hint: don't try to be clever with an analogy if you have no clue about the fundamentals behind it. And your bloviation and whataboutism is typical tactic of anti-American, Anglophobic, burn the world down and rule over rubble mentality of Communist/Islamist apologists. It is what you do when you can't defend your position. Funny how you throw stones at the CIA yet blatantly ignore the NKVD/KGB. Or the East German Stasi. Or Mossad, though I have more respect for the Israeli organization than I do America's "intelligence" agencies.
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  11339.  @swankydanky8025  Why should the US give money to people who hate the Us and want to kill Americans? Some people do take Vladimir Lenin's quote to heart and will NOT finance their enemies. "A good capitalist will sell you the rope you eventually hang him with," -Vladmir Lenin.
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  11340. As if the Democrats don't do the same thing. Who is it that holds military pay hostage during EVERY government Shutdown?
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  11341. Or Titan Armin. I think of Paul being more intellectual and thinking on his feet like Armin rather than Erin's emotional outbursts. Makes me wonder if that makes Dana Louche Mikasa Ackerman. Or maybe Michelle Malikin is Mikasa.
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  11342.  @rageinbull  90% of incumbents are re-elected. There is no voting them out once they get in.
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  11343. This explosion was several orders of magnitude larger than the most powerful nuclear weapons.
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  11344. Which basically means the Virus is just the seasonal flu since the vaccine's effectiveness is as pathetic as the flu vaccine.
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  11345. Don't forget that those companies paid royalties for using the likenesses. When they stopped, there was no legal obligation to pay the royalties anymore. Think about that.
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  11346. Where is Mayor Pete Buttplug? He HAD to have signed off on this.
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  11347. Territory that Russia stole from TUkrey, who stole it from Kevian Rus. We can play the very same game that La Raza loves to play regarding Texas and California.
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  11348. Fu-Go balloon bombs are no laughing matter.
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  11349.  @Homer-OJ-Simpson  You didn't even watch the video did you? At 15:25 they address all of that under the WTO's Favored Nation clause. But like a typical America hater, you chose to ignore the dirty little details that destroy your narrative.
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  11350.  @Homer-OJ-Simpson  Wow, you just proved Perun's point about Russian propagandists. You fill out all of the checkboxes: 1: Lack of commitment of Objective Reality: you hold emotional claims that you agree with as automatically correct regardless of facts. 2: Unilateral Thinking: You cite as evidence things that directly contradict your narrative. 3: Lack of commitment to consistency: You will make contraditory and conflicting claims that are mutually exclusive. You ignore nuance in favor of absolutism. And the goal is to chaff the information space and create just enough confusion to make people simply disengage rather than debate.
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  11351.  @johnsmith-cw3wo  Nice job attacking the messenger rather than debating the merits of the message. Thank you for essentially tacitly admitting defeat.
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  11352.  @johnsmith-cw3wo  Learn to debate. You haven't proven anything except that you are ruled by emotions and can't be bothered to do your due diligence.
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  11353. @H N Why are minorities over-represented in abortions? That is not a choice. If it turely was, then abortion statistics would be a cross section of US society. It is not. You are rationalizing Margaret Sanger's Eugenics.
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  11354. @H N There is NOTHING simple about abortion. You are being dishonest. Coercion comes in many forms. Just ask Steven Tyler's former fiancé.
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  11355.  @wigletron2846  Slow burn. The American revolution didn't happen overnight, it was some ten years between the Stamp Act with Lexington and Concorde. It was 5 years between those battles and the Boston Tea Party. The Lockdowns were merely the mask coming off. It was much like the Powder alarm of 1774 which acted as the dress rehearsal for Lexington and Concorde. Make no mistake, they WILL do that again and should be resisted with the same enthusiasm as the Patriots did in 1775.
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  11356. Yes, it is only now we are getting footage. OPSEC would be compromised if they had released these any sooner.
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  11357.  @limedickandrew6016  Actual testimony or just Russian milbloger claims?
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  11358. And we all know how that worked out for Gondor.
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  11359. And the Vichy were enthusiastic collaborators with the Third Reich. Macron thinks he is DeGaulle, but he acts more like Philippe Petain.
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  11360. With the air defenses around both Moscow and Petrograd removed and sent to Ukraine, why would Putin use a nuke while exposed to counterattack like that?
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  11361.  @samsungtv4u  Wow that Vodka you are drinking must be pretty powerful for you to hallucinate. Being occupied by the Muscovites does NOT mean that they own Ukraine. But then someone completely ignorant of history wouldn't bother to know that. PS, Mexico stole Texas from Spain, so no, Texas does NOT belong to Mexico.
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  11362.  @sandromain  Yeah, the Ossetia insurgency has about the same legitimacy as the Donbas one. Namely NONE. Putin's "little green men" are who most of your Abkhazia fighters actually are. Oh, and your long dissertation posts are not an argument, they are proof by verbosity (logical fallacy). Brevity is the great eloquence of charm.
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  11363. People who say "compromise is not a dirty word" forget that there are THREE definitions to compromise, and only the first definition is neutral. The other two definitions ARE a disparagement.
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  11364. Charity is NOT compulsion. And the Nazarene even said "I came NOT to overturn the law, but to fulfill it!" "I will tell them plainly, I never knew you. Begone from me you workers of lawlessness!" -Matthew 7:23
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  11365. I tend to agree. It is foolhardy to think that wars in any war are "rational". WW1 was started because of pride. Pride of an Archduke who visited a city he had no business in. Pride of a man who believed assassinating a monarch would somehow liberate his city. Pride of the Triple Entente Alliance that believed it was their business in intervene in an internal affair of another country. Once war starts, leaders can become so caught up in the weeds, they lose sign of the bigger picture. Case in point is Russia's fixation first on Bakhmut, and now Advika. Or McClellan's fixation on thinking he didn't have enough troops to take Richmond during the first peninsula campaign of the US Civil War. When peace does come, it is usually because one side or the other is pushed far past their breaking point and the whole thing comes crashing down.
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  11366. Donbas IS Ukraine genius.
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  11367.  @Bass_attack7755  Put down the vodka private conscriptovich, you are so drunk you are hallucinating.
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  11368.  @ColourRevolution666  By that logic, then Mexico is part of Spain. Bill Whittle did a video carrying that insane troll logic to its extreme conclusion. Yeah, don't be a retard.
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  11369. In Greco-Roman Mythology, that makes a lot of sense. In the 90s movie, it could simply have been that Ursla was Triton's Major Domo until her side deals came to light resulting in her exile.
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  11370.  @levikaysan6150  Liberate JUDEA. Palestine is a word the Romans made up in 74 AD to try and erase Jewish history.
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  11371. And it also follows that law throughout history has merely been a tool of the strong to control the weak. And yes, we ARE going back to those dark days.
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  11372. Welcome to Huxley's Brave New World where participation is mandatory.
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  11373.  @MrSergore  Actually, nuclear weapons are still sanctioned as legal under the Hauge convention. it is clear you don't actually know what constitutes a War Crime or Crime Against Humanity. Try reading about the Law of Armed Conflict before you lecture others about war crimes.
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  11374. Harold is proof of why politicians care more about power than principle. And why Sharespeare was right about abolishing all lawyers.
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  11375. Not just the Soviets. The Red Chinese under Mao did the same thing. As did Ho Chin Mihn in Vietnam, Pol Pot in Cambodia, and the Castros in Cuba.
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  11376. First they call him a white supremacist and a klansman, now he is a police informant? When are people going to realize the media is the boy who cried wolf?
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  11377.  @thosdot6497  You realize all of those things make the situation WORSE, not better. When you cap prices all you do is create artificial scarcity. When you raise wages you artificially create inflation and devalue the currency. Everything Marx claimed was debunked by Menger, Misses, and Hayek.
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  11378. Would you trust a child with a loaded firearm? THAT is what differentiates who should and who shouldn't have them. Some are mature and responsible. Others are not.
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  11379. It is, but nothing will come of it. Lawyers are who decide if a lawyer has acted unethically.
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  11380.  @karilang9377  Then explain why Putin didn't fool around with Ukraine while Trump was in office. Why did he steal Crimea while Biden was directing Obama's foreign policy? Why did he wait until Biden was in office to invade Ukraine? And what about Hunter Biden being on the Board of Directors for Burisma?
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  11381.  @karilang9377  Then explain why Putin stole Crimea while BIDEN was directing Obama's foreign policy? Why did Putin wait until Biden was in the Oval Office to invade Ukraine? And are we going to simply forget Hunter on the Board of Russian Energy Company Burisma?
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  11382.  @karilang9377  Since this is now the FORTH time Youtube/google keeps deleting my posts, I will have to piecemeal it.
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  11383.  @karilang9377  Hunter Biden on the board of Russian energy company Burisma is a proven FACT. But I guess you will simply ignore that.
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  11384.  @karilang9377  Putin Stole Crimea while Biden was directing Obama's foreign policy. That is an irrefutable FACT.
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  11385.  @karilang9377  Putin waited until Biden was in the White House to invade Ukraine. He didn't fool around and find out while Trump was in office.
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  11386.  @karilang9377  Trump told Putin he would nuke Moscow if he invaded Ukraine.
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  11387. Which would mean there should be a really strong securities fraud case against the Twitter Board.
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  11388. I love watching the arrogant eat crow.
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  11389. Yeah, if they go murder one on Chauvin, the three rookies need to be let off WITHOUT disciplinary marks. Robert Barnes made that point to Viva Frei recently. If you get Chauvin for premeditation, then the defense on the rookies becomes much easier. The mob has to realize you either get them all on murder two, or only one on murder in the first.
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  11390. Yeah, If I was one of the major shareholders in Disney, I would immediately move to split the company into constituent parts: Parks, Studios, Distribution, et. al. The only way to save the company is to break it up so that the viable components can survive and eventually re-acquire the parts that implode. And separating the parks from the Studios insulates each from the others.
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  11391.  @KevinLyda  "Renewable energy" is a sham. If it was truly profitable, there would already be a John D. Rockefeller of green energy. That there is not one shows that it is a boondoggle.
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  11392.  @Daniel-ty2ke  If Poland wants to enter the war alongside Ukraine, nothing is stopping them. They won't because they know that if they do, then they can no longer call on Article 5 to protect them.
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  11393.  @MnemonicHack  Merkel is a German communist. Her party labeled their political rivals "domestic terrorists", but fell short of using the anti-Nazi laws because she knew that would be a bridge too far(see what I did there?). Trudeu IS blackface Hitler, having passed into law statutes that would euthanize "mental disorders" JUST LIKE HITLER DID with the 1 September 1939 Memorandum authorizing involuntary Euthanasia. You need to do your research instead of blindly assuming things are not as bad as they are.
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  11394.  @Daniel-ty2ke  Not is really stopping Poland from entering the war. If they do, they lose the Article 5 guarantee. William Spaniel broke that down in a video that explored the possibility of France entering the war.
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  11395.  @MnemonicHack  Boy have you been living under a rock. Angela Merkel IS A GERMAN COMMUNIST. Before she got into politics, she was a member of the East German Communist Youth League, the organization that not only was training the next cadre of East German rulers, but also trained and equipped the 1972 Munich Olympic terrorists. While she was in office, her party declared the folks who recently won a plurality in the European Parliament "domestic terrorists", stopping short of using the anti-Nazi Laws because that would have been a bridge too far (see what I did there?). Trudeau is called "blackface Hitler" for a reason. he recently signed a law that required euthanasia for "mental disorder" just like Germany did in September of 1939. And he is pushing a law to make political dissent a mental health issue just like the Germans. Both Viva Frei and Yellow Flash 2.0 have documented this.
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  11396.  @MnemonicHack  Trying this for the fourth time because the posts keep getting deleted. Did you see the new law Trudeu passed that make euthanasia the preferred treatment for "mental disorders". The German Chancellor signed a memorandum in September of 1939 doing the same thing. And don't get me started on how Merkel has had her political rivals declared "domestic terrorists" when she was part of the East German Communist Youth Leauge.
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  11397.  @MnemonicHack  Okay, for the fifth time since Google/youtube keeps deleting my posts. Trudeau passed a law mandating euthanasia for those with mental health issues. That is exactly what the German Chancellor did in September of 1939.
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  11398.  @MnemonicHack  I have to piecemeal this to get around the censors. Merkel was a member of the East German Communist Youth League. And when she was in office, she got her political rivals declared domestic terrorists, stopping short of using the laws against Nazism because that would have been a bridge too far (see what I did there?).
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  11399. He has had an entire year to rebound, and he still continues to drink the establishment Kool-Aid.
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  11400.  @realdonaldtrump8833  Have you forgotten him reaching across the aisle with Occasional-Cortex? All of the "good" he does gets wiped out when he joins forces with neo-communists.
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  11401.  @realdonaldtrump8833  Remember in 2019 when he wanted to work with her on Birth Control? Do you really have that short of a memory? The actual King of Real Estate would not have been successful without remembering little details like that from over 2 years ago.
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  11402. Further, some folks acknowledged they were too quick to accept the establishment lies about January 6th. Lying Ted Cruz has chosen instead to double down on all of it. To continue to claim that protestors entering the capitol just like the anti-Kavanaugh protestors did was an act of terrorism is to ignore the evidence provided by video recordings that completely disproves what the media and the establishment claims.
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  11403. Strawman argument. Madison tried and failed to impeach a SCOTUS justice. While the power to do so still exists, nobody has ever attempted it since. So aside from amending the Constitution, there is ZERO check on the SCOTUS. I am for making the justices ser 20-year terms rather than lifetime. Stagger then every four years, shrink the court down to just five and a president would get to nominate one justice every term which is not much different than what it is now.
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  11404.  @elonever.2.071  Micro-breweries made those too. An Indiana local example is Sun King, though they have branched out into Florida.
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  11405.  @RoseBaggins  Yeah, what they don't realize is that those future generations may simply say "I don't ow you a damn thing!" and let the bond markets and the feudal lords who bought into it fail and rot.
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  11406. Indeed. What is not being talked about is how Patreon's actions conflict with the FCC's regulations on misappropriation of funds. When Patreon bas someone and simply takes all of the contributed funds, that is money laundering and theft.
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  11407. While that description may have been true if this was the 1980 or 90s, I bet you good money that the writers have a liberal arts or gender studies degree. Doesn't mean that they are smart, just that they are a well-trained monkey with a piece of paper.
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  11408.  @fortisrisuspater  That is always the claim by progressives, that "it want's done right, we will do it better this time!" and proceed to make the exact same blunders. At a certain point, one has to simply accept that some ideas which SOUND good are in fact disastrous when implemented and will never deliver on their promises. Another word for that is honey-trap.
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  11409. Johnson is just as worthless as John Boehner, Paul Ryan, and Kevin McCarthy.
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  11410. The banks should worry. Let them collapse for capitulating to the Fascist dictator.
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  11411. The problem is that the term "migrant" or immigrant is an attempt to gaslight people into thinking they have legitimacy. The correct term is "trespassing foreign alien national". See also: Personna non-Gratta.
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  11412. Great analogy.
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  11413. Newsweek has been a rag for snobbish elitist "intellectuals" since the 2000s. It is no surprise that they as dilettantes wouldn't understand the nuances of warfare.
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  11414. And he will find himself litigated to hell if he does.
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  11415. The problem is that the GOP establishment was sheep, not activists. So long as "Turtleman" Cocaine Mitch McConnell is calling the shots, the GOP will continue to surrender to the left.
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  11416. You realize they already did with the live-action movies?
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  11417. Not exactly true. They despised Christianity only appreciating its ability to unite people, but holding the precepts in utter contempt. Michael Knowels explains at 2:55 in this Prager U video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHXL00wY3nY
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  11418. Sovering power of the state. Disney only gets to exercise power because that power was granted to it by the state. They cannot take back that which was not theirs to being with.
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  11419. It doesn't make sense to me because someone in that environment would have been taught that the military is evil, full of baby killers, r-pists, and war criminals.
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  11420. If Trump's Trade war was not well thought out, then why has the Biden administration continued it? Most of the targeted restrictions you attribute to Biden were proposed during Trump's time but were not executed because of pushback in the Congress.
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  11421.  @deezeed2817  The US doesn't want War? Then why were wars ended under Trump and not a single new one started with him in office? Why did Putin wait until Obama's "foreign policy expert" Biden was in office to invade? Why under Trump Xi don't DARE threaten the US or Taiwan? The world respects a strong horse, and the US is lead by cowards and panty wastes. When the US is perceived as strong, the world has been at peace. When the US appears weak, the world explodes with violence.
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  11422.  @peekaboopeekaboo1165  Then prove it. Explain exactly WHERE my information lacks proper context. "What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence" -Hitchens's Razor.
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  11423.  @peekaboopeekaboo1165  Tibet was an independent country until the Chinese invasion of 1950. The Warlord era that the PRC loves to ignore was when Tibet gain their independence. Nice try attempting to rewrite history. As for the Khymer Rouge, Pol Pot was a commie just like Mao and Ho Chi Mihn. But like all good communist leaders, they turn on each other when the opportunity arises. When they are not murdering "bourgeoisie swine", they are more than happy to butcher each other.
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  11424.  @peekaboopeekaboo1165  The Communists were just as active during that period. Only difference is that they didn't have the international support from Lenin yet.
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  11425.  @peekaboopeekaboo1165  Only because the Warlords were too powerful to crush and the CCP (a rebranding won't change who they are) didn't have the support to seize power yet. No, they waited until the Japanese did their dirty work for them.
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  11426.  @peekaboopeekaboo1165  I get that Bejing is paying you to shill for them, but at least get your facts straight. The US under Roosevelt gave Mao's forces the same weapons that were given to Chaing Kai Shek's forces. But unlike the Chinese Nationalists, the Commies used those weapons against their fellow Chinese instead of the Imperial Japanese Army. And during those 4 years, the Commies never stopped fighting the nationalists. The KMT was never given any time to rebuild. A good way to describe WW2 in China is a three-way Mexican Standoff between the Chinese Communist Party, the Kuomintang, and the Imperial Japanese Army. Only, the IJA and the CCP agreed not to shoot at each other.
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  11427.  @peekaboopeekaboo1165  "The lady doth protest too loudly, mee thinks" -Queen Gertrude, Act 3 scene 2, Hamlet by William Shakespeare. Yeah, move the goal posts because you don't want to address the points I have made. You propagandists are not very sophisticated, regurgitating talking points on cue like Palvo's Dog.
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  11428.  @user-jt3dw6vv4x  Your point? And yes, I DID marry an Asian girl. And have two mixed Hapa sons. To the operative point, I am VERY much a fan of cross-cultural pollination. It makes the gestalt greater than the sum of its parts. Modern Asia shows what the best of East and West can achieve when they play off each other.
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  11429.  @user-jt3dw6vv4x  Wow, prance around the issue without actually addressing the elephant in the room. My flesh and blood heirs are mixed race. Fetishism only cares about sexual gratification, not about procreation, legacy or inheritance. I am glad we see eye to eye on the issue of open markets of ideas. John F. Kennedy was absolutely right that the American people CAN be entrusted with foreign ideas and alien concepts. And be able to judge truth from falsehood. (basically restructured his quote there) You touched on Greco-Buddhism wish is one of the great stories of antiquity that most people are not aware of. While I have no doubt that Buddhism did make it to the near East in Antiquity, I find myself wondering how much different the world would be if those Eastern philosophies had taken root in the West. A final interesting point relating to Greco-Buddhism is that Raiden(Rajin) in Japanese Shino myths is basically Zeus and Fujin is Aeolus/Zepher. Both evolved on their trip west to the land of the rising sun to what the Japanese remember them.
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  11430. And yet it already has. Put down the Vodka, it is pickling your brain.
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  11431. Yeah, the Hobbit was way too long. That being said, i would very much be interested in them adapting the apocrypha regarding the two Blue Wizards. Since Apocrypha isn't strictly canon, it becomes safer terrain.
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  11432. Command economies always end up a disaster. Cuba, Venezuela, USSR, DPRK, et. al. Soviet Central Planning NEVER achieves what true open markets accomplish.
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  11433. The point is cysgender is in fact a disparagement by the trans crowd. It is a joke that they think only they know. But people are already onto them and how petty and vindictive they really are.
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  11434.  @kenh758  How easy do you think it is to transport billions of tons of food across the trans-Siberian railway from European Russia to China? It isn't the slam dunk you think it is.
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  11435.  @ninglu4846  How can China do that? Specifics and details please.
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  11436.  @motowntaiwan9079  Not with a Green water Navy, they can't. Russia has a better claim to Blue Water Navy capabilities than Red China does. Just because you have nuke subs and Aircraft Carriers does not a blue water navy with global reach make. You have to be proficient with the use of those tools. Part of having that proficiency is a PERMINANT on-station presence 24/7/365. Only the US, France, and the UK have that kind of sea power.
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  11437.  @k.k.c8670  The PLA may have shiny toys, but that doesn't mean they know how to use them. China's combat effectiveness is as trustworthy as claims of the Russian military in 2020.
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  11438.  @ChristofferViken  You are assuming that the members of the court have scruples, much less ethics. It should be abundantly clear that with the exception of the judge, that is not the case.
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  11439. He seems to not understand the distinction between atheist, agnostic, deist, and non-denominational.
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  11440. Logistics. While on Russian soil they can rely heavily on trains, they do NOT have the trucks to support operations much beyond 30 miles from their supply depots.
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  11441. It isn't just anti-white. As Timmy boy points out, East Asians are discriminated against as well for being "overrepresented". Part of the reason why these cases striking down affirmative action are succeeding is because an ASIAN is the face of the case.
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  11442. You are correct that abominable monetary policies by the Fed are the main reason for American economic woes. Thomas Jefferson warned us about the dangers of banking institutions and those institutions taking control of the money supply. It is the same system manipulation that Alex Hamilton and Henry Knox engaged in that lead to Shay's Rebellion.
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  11443. No joke. When one country is in debt to the other, the debt hold often comes with soldiers to collect their "pound of flesh".
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  11444.  @hloc  IMF has other ways of forcing compliance, ones that don't need the sword. And if you think Chinese bases in Sri Lanka are not in fact Damocles Sword hanging over their head, then you have very little understanding of international affairs.
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  11445.  @hloc  There was only a "possibility" that Poland would be invaded in 1939. The funny thing about extortion is that it typically starts out with a voluntary agreement. If you think the Sri Lankans could ask the Chinese to leave that they would you are fooling yourself.
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  11446. Their demand for royalties only proves why copyright laws have become a mockery of their original purpose. D&D should be in public domain if we go by the original Copy Right Act of 1790 which prescribed only 14 years with only ONE renewal. The 120 years on the books today is a direct result of Disney corporation buying off politicians to pervert the laws to benefit them at the expense of new talent and creativity.
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  11447. Humans are creatures of conflict. We thrive in adversity and stagnate in periods of absolute harmony and cohesion. It is why when all of our needs are met, we STILL find trivial reasons to fight.
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  11448.  @robderich8533  "Ability to cooperate"? Eusocial creatures include bees and ant colonies. One could argue that they display MORE altruistic and cooperative behavior than humans. But humans are NOT insects in a colony as socialists would have us be. Your argument is fundamentally flawed.
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  11449. Yeah, the fall Rasputitsa season never really ended, running into the winter season. Remains to be seen if this is a dry spring allowing for an out of season drive.
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  11450. The possible with these wokistas is that they don't think a young white boy should learn valuable life lessons from an older gentleman of color.
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  11451. Years ago, when the first Pirates movie came out, i wanted a Big Thunder Mountain as a cowboy western. Now with how insane wokeness has taken over, I DON'T want it. I suspect they will try to make it all about the "evil white man" stealing Native American land, exploiting Chinese railroad builders, and make the hero a black buffalo solider (which is not a bad idea, think Danny Glover's character in Silverado) with zero-character development, obsessing about race. There IS great potential for a movie based on BTM, but they WILL ruin it.
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  11452.  @cagnazzo82  Nice copium buddy. Put down the sherry and stop simping for woke companies that hate you.
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  11453.  @Not_Always  Didn't even watch the video at all did you? You just came on here to troll without even realizing that Keno addresses all of the Twatter talking points you bring up.
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  11454. Cheap has always been the Soviet way.
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  11455.  @nortonnevis7252  Yeah, some of what you read in books is complete fiction. Capitalism, for all of its flaws has improved the human condition in ways that no other economic system has. More people have been lifted out of poverty by capitalism than ever were lifted out by socialism/communism.
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  11456.  @bobjohnson1633  Indeed. Bolshivicks are going Bolshivize.
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  11457.  @chrisoakey9841  Yes the US was doing them a favor. Keep in mind that some of the countries that we did send their citizens back to executed them as soon as they returned. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Oman in particular are known for putting terrorists to death. Don't tell me that is preferable.
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  11458.  @chrisoakey9841  " the US were not were selective on the people they grabbed. things like wearing a casio watch was reason enough in some cases." Got proof of that? No, you don't. That is just pure wishful thinking and hysterics on your part. But I get it, you are a chickenhawk who has never worn a uniform and presume to lecture people who HAVE what the Law of Armed Conflict entails. People like you are who create the conditions for terrorism to thrive and succeed.
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  11459.  @chrisoakey9841  You trust the CIA? The professional, pathological liars? Do keep in mind that when government officials lie to Congress, they never get punished.
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  11460.  @chrisoakey9841  "facts are facts." That is the favored line of propagandists. You discredit it yourself by using that line. Military tribunal? Again, you show a complete misunderstanding of how military law and the Law of Armed Conflict operates. You are no soldier; you are a civilian who thinks they are morally superior to people who actually wear the uniform. All of your arguments are emotionally based. And no, OPINION and emotions do NOT an objective fact make.
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  11461.  @chrisoakey9841  Yeah, the thing about the media.....THEY LIE ON PRINCIPLE. They almost NEVER give the facts that would contradict their political narrative. I would think that the behavior of the legacy media over the last 8 years would have made that abundantly clear. "If it bleeds, it leads" -Matra of the Media.
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  11462.  @yakov95000  I think he means separate that into digestible bits. Put some paragraph spacing so that it does not cause readers to get glass-eyed.
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  11463.  @yakov95000  Thank you. That made it much easier to read.
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  11464. You were never a Republican in the first place. RINO at best.
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  11465. As I recall, the Eastern Chruch views St. Mark as the founder of the faith rather than St. Peter.
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  11466.  @victoriahaque5519  And yet Putin regularly murders Russian dissidents in London. Alexander Litvinenko ring a bell to you? How about Sergei and Yulia Skripal? If Putin and Russia took the Uk's nuclear threat seriously, they would not be so brazen as to use such exotic poisons to murder people on British soil.
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  11467.  @Cibershadow2  Sounds to me like you have Sour Grapes. The world was MUCH safer under Trump. That is an undisputable FACT that you cannot deny.
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  11468. lol
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  11469. Yeah, there is that point. Holding off having kids because you want to provide a stable environment for them to grow in is a valid concern and reason. Fearing "climate change" is NOT a valid concern because it does not compare to the issues of being homeless or in a broken family.
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  11470.  @riel0563  There is nothing wrong with the extended family option. Previous generations had the grandparents helping to raise the children.
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  11471.  @benghazi4216  Israel is NOT like Nazi Germany. The Arabs in Judea are NOT being exterminated, though the Arabs would love nothing more than to complete Grand Mufti Haj Amin Al-Hussein's promise to "drive Israel into the sea".
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  11472.  @benghazi4216  You didn't but the narrative quickly becomes that and thank you for proving that. There is nothing funny nor joke worthy of casting blood libels at Israel. Jews are treated FAR worse in Arab states than Arabs are treated in Israel. That is a provable, objective fact.
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  11473.  @benghazi4216  Israel's neighbors better fit the description of apartheid and regularly engage in the very behaviors you accuse Israel, but of course you don't care because the truth doesn't matter to antisemitic bigots like you. Again, you show you are not interested in truth, only in pushing blood libels and hatred against Jews. Jospeh Gobbles loved people like you.
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  11474.  @W4lt3r89  Yes, Putin stole Crimea from Ukraine while Biden was directing Obama's foreign policy. That Putin acted when Biden was calling the shots is no accident.
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  11475.  @ActionAlligator  You realize people call Trump "The God-King" to troll you people? And you fall for it everytime!
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  11476. They hate the idea of a young white boy learning valuable life lessons from a gentleman of color. Throw that in their face next time they call you racist for liking Song of the South.
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  11477. "Ratigan, no one can have a higher opinion of you than I have. [furiously] And I think that you're a slimy, contemptible sewer rat!" -Basil of Baker Street, "The Great Mouse Detective".
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  11478. Programed into our DNA. Goes to childbearing and rearing. Big boobs are at least a biological indication of health and reproductive fitness. Firmness/sagginess also plays into that.
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  11479. Weather balloons don't carry gondolas that large.
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  11480. Round 2 of Simian Virus 40 in the Polio vaccine.
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  11481. Kind of like in WW1. Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago : [narrating; on World War I] By the second winter, the boots had worn out... but the line still held. Even Comrade Lenin underestimated both the anguish of that 900-mile long front... as well our own cursed capacity for suffering. Half the men went into action without any arms... irregular rations... led by officers they didn't trust. Officer : [to soldiers] Come on, you bastards! Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago : And those they did trust... Pasha : [leaps out of the trench and begins leading his men in a charge] Come on, Comrades! Forward, comrades! Earth-shakers! [an artillery shell explodes in front of him; he falls to the ground, and the soldiers retreat to their trench] Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago : Finally, when they could stand it no longer, they began doing what every army dreams of doing... [the soldiers begin to leave their trenches] Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago : They began to go home. That was the beginning of the Revolution.
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  11482. THe ballot box is stolen, the soap box is being censored, the jury box is being denied to us. There is only one box left to us for redress of wrongs.
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  11483. Wow, never actually read a book, have you? Israel accepted the 1948 partition of the British Mandate. Gamal Abdel Nasser and Haj Amin Al-Husseini rejected it and acted to "drive Israel into the Sea" (Husseini's own words). The Arabs who did NOT obey Nasser's order to flee were left and their children are STILL on the same land that their grandparents owned in 1947. They are represented in the Knesset by the Muslim Arab block. Your claims of "illegal occupation" flys in the face of objective facts and is predicated on a myth.
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  11484. Grooming. They are groomers.
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  11485. Part of the problem is that the "reclassification" is based on bad science. Dr. Philip J. Metzger (Ph. D.) of the University of Central Florida located the source of the criteria "clear the orbit" is comes from a single publication dated 1802 and that it is based on a since disproven THEORY of gravity. Further, he has demonstrated how Pluto around a Red Dwarf like Proxima Centauri would meet those criteria, but Jupiter around a star like Sirus or Vega would not.
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  11486. And polling data have historically had a leftwing bias, so what is your point?
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  11487.  @blackoak4978  En Tu Brute? You don't seem to realize that making Trump a martyr will not help your cause.
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  11488. Fauci is the Joseph Mengele of the 21st century.
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  11489. Or that insiders at YouTube/Google are responsible for this, pretending to be hackers when in fact this is a company directed actions to silence the pro-Ukraine creators.
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  11490. I want ALL of the term limited. For SCOTUS, make them 20 year terms, staggered every four years. Shrink the court down to 5 and each president would get to nominate one during the middle of their term.
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  11491. Indeed. The Uyqers are in bed with the Taliban (East Turkmenistan movement is an internationally recognized terrorist organization), but the Red Chinese government is just as abominable. it is like choosing between the Soviets and the Nazis. Best choice is to simply back away quietly and wash your hands of the whole affair.
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  11492.  @vinniechan  That is a red herring. Don't conflate local credit unions with corporate banks. Big banks DO NOT create competition, they stifle it. Thomas Jefferson warned about the dangers of banking institutions getting as powerful as they are today.
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  11493. Because she once parroted their ideology. She pandered to them by making Dumbledore gay in a vain attempt to get more clout. Now they have turned on her because she dared to speak truth to power AGAINST them and their non-theistic religion.
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  11494. Indeed. No different than the "People's Courts" of the Soviet Union.
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  11495.  @Farhan917  QUALITY is more important than Quantity with regards to supporting population. Japan's soils being volcanic in nature are VERY fertile. Can the same be said of areas of Africa? Something tells me the answer for most is no. There is a reason why the British Empire's Tea Plantations were in India rather than Africa.
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  11496.  @samanth.  "Most fertile lands in the world"? I think you are sorely mistaken. It is a well-documented fact that volcanic soils are among the most productive rivaled only by the Chernozems of Ukraine and Russia. As for Rhodesia, I seriously doubt that they ever outperformed the Assam Tea plantations of India. Something tells me that those areas were growing cacao rather than tea.
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  11497.  @matthewmosier8439  I appreciate it. While I was not close to my sister, the fact that she chose suicide rather than reach back to my father and I shows just how toxic that community really is. I hope nobody else loses a family member to these people. And yes, it IS personal.
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  11498. Yeah, I think most of them remember how obnoxious the Palestinians were when they lived in Jordan and Lebanon. Hamas and Hezbollah are simply proxies of Iran, and the Arabs don't trust Persian puppets.
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  11499. To bad rubbish, as the trains on the Island of Sodor often say.
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  11500. Manpower shortage leaving the tower understaffed connects DEI to this disaster. That makes it a MAJOR contributing factor.
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  11501. And yet the WW2 battleship still played a role in WW2 despite the prevalence of carriers. Surigao Strait. Look it up.
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  11502.  @nickjohnson811  Wow, you just showed complete naivety on the subject. Japan was the MASTER of night engagements. They had practiced it so well that nobody could match them. The four Savo Island Engagements more commonly known as the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal were unmitigated disasters for the US Navy, only managing to win the last one by the skin of their teeth. If anything, it was the relentless Marines abandoned by Jack Fletcher are who made further engagements by the Japanese meaningless. Surigao Strait was a turkey shoot because Admiral Nishimura foolishly sailed his Southern Force right down the middle of the gauntlet Rear Admiral Jesse Oldendorf set up. ALL of the American ships were in perfect formation with their guns, both from the Destroyers in the front to the Battleships in the back were lined up in the perfect crossfire such that nothing could move without getting hit. Further, there was almost no air power involved in the Surigao engagement.
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  11503.  @nickjohnson811  Completely missed the context huh? The loss of IJN Hiei was because the Benson Class USS Laffey (the War God of Solomon) engaged her at point blank range, something that is NEVER supposed to happen with battleships. And that was more because the skipper got stupid lucky, no thanks to the incompetence of Daniel Callihan (his posthumous Medal of Honor was basically to cover up his criminal incompetence that got him and Norman Scott killed). The Destroyers of Taffy 3 would do the same in the Battle off Samar. As for IJN Kirishima, she almost took out USS South Dakota before being sunk herself. USS Washington was able to attack with impunity because she had concealment protecting her from reprisals. Don't pretend that the US battleships and their escorts didn't come out of that unscathed. My father was a Pacific Sailor, and I am invested in a game that is based heavily on the WW2 Pacific campaign and the lore around it.
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  11504.  13ased_American  NATO didn't invade Ukraine, Russia did. NATO merely provided the weapons and training. ALL of the fighting and heavy lifting is being done by Ukraine. Get your facts straight. So long as you refuse to acknowledge that Russia is the sole aggressor, you will continue to be living a delusional psychotic fantasy.
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  11505. And yet he completely stripped the air defenses around both Petrograd and Moscow. Why would he leave himself vulnerable to retaliation like that if he intends to use nukes?
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  11506.  @arwenstrong2818  "Conservatives didn't care about the environment?" You realize that the father of the US National Park Service was Theodore Roosevelt, a Republican? It isn't that the right doesn't care, it is that the right takes a more hands off approach to environmentalism. A "let nature take its own course" perspective and almost always have. They believed then as now that the liberal approach was a waste of effort and resources chasing a phantom. No, the problem with centrism is that the "center" is a phantom. Heard of the story of the frog that only jumped half the distance towards the edge of the table? He never actually makes it. The "center" is pretty much the same when BOTH political parties are moving to the left.
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  11507.  @raggedybritches5798  You realize that Biden's White House team are the same people who ran Obama's White House? Biden is Obama's third term as they are simply reinstating the very things they were doing under Obama.
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  11508. Polls are crap. The 2016 election proved that beyond a reasonable doubt.
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  11509.  @AndyM_323YYY  And then there is the Biden voters who can't even locate Ukraine on a map of Europe. Keep your pissing match to yourself. There are low information voters on both sides of the aisle. The career political class counts on the serfs being too dumb to walk off the plantation.
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  11510. Corporate backed fanfiction. Just more proof why copyright laws need to revert back to their original 1790 statute. The laws meant to protect IP and creators from moneyed interests stealing their work now protect the very thing they were meant to oppose.
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  11511. The T-34 surprised the Germans because they didn't pay attention to what the Soviets said during the Tank factory inspection in 1940. The Soviets didn't believe the Germans were showing them everything. THAT should have been a cue that the Soviets had something MORE advanced than the Wehrmacht.
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  11512. Yeah, and he was not particularly fond of blacks. A lot of people don't realize that he was a raging racist.
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  11513.  @LC-fe7be  " some incel American libertarian loser virgin pos" And with that you just proved that you are NOT here honestly. Calling someone an incel just proves you are yet another woke scold anti who can't debate but has to resort to insults because he has lost the plot. BTW, I have two biracial sons. How is that for a virgin incel?
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  11514. Tell that to FDR. He didn't permit the Japanese or Germans running newspapers in the US during WW2.
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  11515.  @halsgotrhythm  That isn't an argument, it is an act of desperation by someone who can't argue the merits. "When debate is lost, insult becomes the tool of the loser," -attributed to Plato.
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  11516. DeSantis surrounded himself with nevertrump hacks who sabotaged his campaign. Add to that, he showed that just like Mike Pence, he would abandon Florida for a political promotion. That shows bad judgement. He would have been better served by waiting in the wings.
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  11517. Putting it into public domain would be the best option, but these greedy hacks will never do that.
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  11518. I would NEVER trust something they built. They think calculus is racist after all. Nor would I trust them with disaster relief. When they think that medical triage and food supplies should be distributed based on protected status rather than actual need, you get Nuremberg level Crimes against Humanity.
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  11519.  @colonelklink9911  October 7th was a disproportional response. Spare us your moral outrage, you don't give a damn about those people, you are just clout chasing.
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  11520. @ You are sick, and you need help. Touching grass is not enough to cure your aliment.
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  11521. "Duck hunting" is unprofessional. Bullets that go up still come down at ballistic speeds. Better for a misfire to ricochet off the ground than to still be at lethal speeds.
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  11522. He is trying to remain relevant.....and failing miserably.
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  11523. Indeed. Cut down to Melitopol to sever the land bridge and divide Russian forces.
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  11524. "Chariots of the Gods"? Or "John Carter of Mars"? Me, I would have rather they adapted the apocrypha about the two blue wizards.
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  11525. Boy who cried wolf. You leftists have sounded false alarms so often people don't believe you anymore.
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  11526.  @Shortfusefilm  Israel has never confirmed nor denied that they have weapons. Most assume they do though it has never been independently confirmed. Yes, you can say the same about Iran, except Israel isn't threatening to wipe anyone off the map as Iran has.
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  11527.  @Shortfusefilm  Do what? Invade another country? Threaten to finish the Holocaust? Promise to drive the Palestinians into the sea? For its entire existence, the state of Israel has fought just to survive. Stop apologizing for people who want to finish what Hitler started.
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  11528.  @KPsTboy  As opposed to the blood diamonds that regularly come out of Africa? Or the blood cobalt used in your electric vehicle? Spare us your moral outrage.
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  11529.  @ahamasmiarinm  "Figures don't lie, but liars figure" -Mark Twain. You are taking those numbers completely out of context. For one, GDP takes into account government spending which is NOT creating anything but taking from one to give to another. China famously does that to artificially juice up its own GDP numbers Secondly, the "revenues" you are using for Russia are not taking into consideration both inflation and the collapse in value of the Rubble. The fact that India is forcing the Russians to accept the Rupee instead of paying in Rubbles means that those revenues numbers are complete garbage.
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  11530.  @ahamasmiarinm  No, it is NEVER out of place to use a quote, especially as Twain despite being an author was also a commentator on the absurdities of American politics, if you bothered that actually learn about the man. Your contempt for him only discredits yourself. And I DID address the Rubble issue if you actually bothered to read instead of just skim. The conversion rate has plummeted, especially as you compare the rubble to gold conversion rate. So yes, your numbers absolutely can be discounted out of hand. And while yes, the Russians can back out of the deal with India, they have nowhere else to go. China? They are not going to risk their connection to the global market for an economy smaller than Italy. North Korea? Not even a viable replacement.
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  11531. "If You Are Not a Liberal at 25, You Have No Heart. If You Are Not a Conservative at 35 You Have No Brain" -Winston Chruchill.
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  11532.  @frederikzinn5427  Which US president encouraged Putin to invade Ukraine? Might I remind you that the theft of Crimea occurred while Biden was directing Obama's foreign policy. Further, the drive to Kiev occurred while Biden was in the White House. The world respects a strong horse, and Biden is clearly an invalid with incompetent staffers who have zero understanding of realpolitik.
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  11533. The Soviet Red Army made its greatest gains against the Wehrmacht in winter. I could see Ukraine doing the same, especially as Canada and Norway have been sending cold weather gear since August.
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  11534.  @Bradimoose  Yeah, but then that would mean they are weak enough for the Ukrainians to break through their lines. It is a balancing act where you don't cluster you guys, but then you do want to spread them out too thin either.
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  11535.  @randomdude8202  Well, and it would violate the Montreux Convention.
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  11536. Taqiyya. They are obligate to lie to the infidel and kafir.
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  11537. Because the writers of classic Trek such as DC Fontaina relied heavily on scientific greats like Issaic Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and Robert Heinlein. The Krutzman staff view those futurists as racist old white fascists (particularly Heinlein who wrote "Starship Troopers"). The "science fiction" writers of today hold the greats who defined the genre in complete contempt. They have nothing but revulsion for the audience who made the IP popular, and it shows.
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  11538. The problem is that people HAVE voted. For 12 years they have, and it is not moving the dial. Time to change up what is being done. Just voting in new people is not fixing the problem, it is simply moving the deck chairs on the Titanic.
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  11539. And the "patriot party" incumbents would quickly capitulate to the GOP establishment just like the Freedom Caucus did. Small wonder Trump distanced himself from them, they are grifters just like the rest of them. There are actual conservative incumbents, only people drunk on the drug of power and prestige.
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  11540.  @braxxian  So you would choose to capitulate to aggression? There is a word for that: SLAVERY. You took the wrong less from WW2 that being that it is better to live on your knees. "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, – go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!" -Samuel Adams.
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  11541. Agreed. He is only worried because it is now biting him and his friends in the ass. Let them reap the consequences of their inaction.
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  11542. Yasuke was never a Samurai, merely a RETAINER, and a novelty that Oda could bring out to amuse his guests.
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  11543.  @Edward-tm1dm  London called them "Tunnel Rabbits".
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  11544. South Korea only does this for those who flee North Korea. They do NOT do it for their own citizens.
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  11545. Which is why punitive damages exist.
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  11546.  @gilbertcouto8537  The point of punitive is to increase the penalties so as to discourage future behavior. You are only thinking of monetary damages. It isn't punitive if it doesn't create the disincentive to continue doing it.
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  11547.  @gilbertcouto8537  And that is the kicker, it remains to be seen what the punitive damages are.
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  11548.  @christophersmith8316  Can you crack an 8 digit login with letters, numbers and at least one special character? THAT is how metadata can be authenticated.
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  11549.  @robsurname4054  Referendums at gunpoint are as legitimate as the election of Saddam Hussein with 98% of the vote or Kim Jong Un winning with 99% of the vote.
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  11550.  @sabrinafair35  He (Spooky dude Soros) even wrote a book about him gleefully pushing his fellow Jews into the ovens. And yet the "fact checkers" claim it is all "right-wing" fabrication.
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  11551. What happens when sodium gets wet?
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  11552.  @23Butanedione  If Biden only gets 80% of the people who voted for him, he loses. Just like Trump getting 20% of the black vote means Biden loses. Biden's margin of victory in 2020 was by less than 2% in the swing states that mattered.
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  11553.  @audiblefart6211  You seem to forget, the RINOs are the incumbents, hence they ARE the party. The RINOs are survivors, much like cockroaches. They survived the Reagan revolution, they survived Trump, they have survived you. The GOP IS liberal establishment neo-feudalist who tell you what you want to hear, and you constantly believe them and return to them like an abused spouse does. Stop appologizing for the party that never gave a damn about you. Plague on BOTH houses!
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  11554.  @anartapoashan5714  You would be surprised to hear that most Socialist-Marxists call themselves humanists. As did a certain German National Worker's party. And before someone brings up the strawman, the US Constitution is NOT a Humanist document, it is based on Natural Law. Humanism is about MAN's law, not Natural Law.
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  11555. Indeed. Cutting off the landbridge is more significant than being flanked on two sides.
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  11556. Legally, you cannot be in possession of a gun while wearing body armor. You can have one or the other but not both on you outside your own home.
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  11557.  @cdeford  WRONG. It is Russia who has turned Ukrainian cities into rubble and ruin, not the Ukrainians. Secondly, you have never heard of false flag operations, have you? It is a classic tactic to stage an attack on your own forces as justification and pretext for engaging in certain actions that would otherwise be verboten. Case in point is the murder of the Azov Steel Plant POWs.
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  11558.  @cdeford  More Kremlin talking points huh? When the traditionally neutral Swiss, Finns, and Swedes don't believe anything you are saying, you have lost the plot. Even India doesn't believe your story!
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  11559.  @cdeford  The UN or simply shills for Russia? Why is it that NGOs could not independently verify ANY of that? The UN is a playground for dictators and despots. Stop lying to yourself.
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  11560. o @cdeford  I could say the same about you. Yu are so hell bent on the anti-NATO narrative that you refuse to look at anything but anti-Ukraine sources. And pointing to typically neutral sources such as India and Switzerland not buying your story isn't a strawman, it goes to the issue that the people most open to accepting your evidence and arguments remain unconvinced.
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  11561. If he does, Russian will have alienated even the nominally neutral nations. That is a bridge he cannot afford to cross.
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  11562. There is a fan video of the AC/DC song "Thunderstruck" that uses clips from several War themed Anime such as "Girls und Panzer", "Azur Lane the Animation", and "Kantai Collection (Kancolle)" that would probably be more effective at recruiting young men to serve. I even make a joke in the comments that the JSDF (Japanese Self-Defense Forces) must be recruiting.
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  11563.  @lobster8009  The West has been dragging its feet since day one. The nuclear threat is simply a convenient excuse to dither. Putin's nuclear threats are the boy who cried wolf.
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  11564. Frontal lobotomies tend to be popular in both Tinsel Town and Washington DC.
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  11565. I second that motion.
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  11566. To quote Megyn Kelly, "She is a Pig!"
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  11567. Why kill each other when the local fauna is? The Dingoes are more dangerous than your fellow man.
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  11568. And that is the point. These nihilists want to destroy everything to fill the vacuum in their spiritually empty souls.
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  11569.  @jacksonh.4585  The problem is that the cities would simply send in their Praetorian guard to confiscate the food ala Atlas Shrugged.
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  11570.  @jacksonh.4585  That seems to be the case in Thailand when the military steps in to overthrow the government. They side with the exploited farmers against the corruption of the cities. But when it comes to military coups, it is usually a crapshoot. Burma's military Junta doesn't give a damn about anyone but their own little cabal.
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  11571.  @jacksonh.4585  If you are referring to the Sergeants, Captains (O-3s), Majors, and Light Colonels (O-5s) I would agree. The Flag officers (O-7 and up) are crap because they will do whatever it takes to put on that next star. And the junior enlisted (E-1 to E-4) as well as the junior officers are too wet behind the ears to know the difference. I really believe that it will be up to those field grade officers and the mid level NCOs to hold the line and refuse to carry out those unlawful orders.
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  11572. I will follow up by pointing out that if a Brahmin man had a child with a Dalit woman, the child would be Dalit. Likewise, if a Dalit man had a child with a Brahmin woman (highly unlikely as the woman would at best be disowned by her family if not outright killed), the child would still be Dalit. In effect, bi-racial children in India end up existing in an outsider condition similar to how half-gaijin children of Japanese did until the abolishment of their caste system.
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  11573.  @badluck5647  At a time when Americans were experiencing the greats growth in personal income. I think you are looking at numbers without actually looking at the whole picture. "Lies, damn lies, and statistics," -Mark Twain. "Figures don't lie, but liars figure," -Mark Twain
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  11574. Yeah, something tells me that will not hold up in court.
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  11575.  @danielch6662  And that 2-3 generation old US equipment being used in Ukraine is absolutely mauling the Russians and their Chinese made equipment. Cope harder.
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  11576.  @DarthArtokV  Yeah, those advantages you speak of are what the US enjoyed in Vietnam. Yet the reason for Red Flag is because those advantages of distance and stealth didn't help when inferior NVA MiGs would ambush them. A capable adversary knowing those strengths employs tactics to defeat those technological advantages. Case in point: the Ukrainian Air campaign has NOT gone the way the West expected it to, further driving home the importance of the Red Flag Exercises.
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  11577. And the old-fashioned alibi. Five people swearing under oath and threat of imprisonment against a photo? Which is going to be more credible when photos can be faked?
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  11578.  @snakejazz  Yeah, most of the animators and artists back in the 50s-80s would NOT have supported the grooming that is going on now. That subtly lewd art is NOT the same as the overt paedo crap that is being pushed today. Hence my retort that I would take the off-color humor of the past over the psychotic leftist cult theology of today.
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  11579. 'If You Voted For Biden And Don't Regret It, You're The Problem' - Jake Paul
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  11580. Because they fear what he has to say. They fear the influence what little he has can turn the populace agaisnt them.
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  11581. @mark Mierzejewski That is exactly what Joe Biden did.
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  11582. That wasn't a pray for peace. That was an invocation of power warned against in Luke Chapter 11, Matthew 20, and Mark 12. Woe of the Pharisees is what she just did.
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  11583. It was KPH, not MPH. In freedom units, the bus was going 70.
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  11584. Fascist bootlicker.
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  11585. The Blue wizards could have given then the natural excuse and justification for diversity in middle earth. Too bad they are scared of the "white savior complex". Nevermind that the Blues don't even have to be white!
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  11586. Wow, harsh and to the point. I hope I am never on the receiving end of your pithy observations.
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  11587.  @chilkat_river  Violent to whom? if you actually know anything about how "child protective services" work they are a racist government organization. They consider white parents spanking their children as abuse while they turn a blind eye to minority parents beating their kids to the point of bruises. And when they DO finally act to remove minority children from parents, it is often for dubious reasons than actual harm to the child. YOU NEED TO STOP APPOLOGIZING FOR GOVERNMENT KIDNAPPING OF CHILDREN.
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  11588. False flag attacks. Russia is known for staging them.
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  11589. There are some MAJOR differences between Taiwan's defense and Ukraine's. For one, the Taiwan strait is NOT so easily crossed. The Chinese "People's Liberation Army" would have to conduct a MASSIVE amphibious operation that would dwarf not just the Normandy landing but also the proposed Kyushu landing (Operation: Olympic). Red China so far has shown zero capability of conducting such a massive undertaking. The few times they have attempted amphibious operations, they have been abject failures.
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  11590.  @cfcheng8702  Those are fair points. I agree that if they locals will not fight, why should we. However, I DO think that the population of Formosa will fight.
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  11591. Yeah, there is an interesting correlation between overuse of hand sanitizers and the rise of food allergies.
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  11592.  Muad'Dib  Then how do you explain xenophiles? There are some folks that prefer a different culture than the one they grew up in. I for example much prefer Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese culture much more than the wokescold culture of the US. Or the regressive neo-Feudalist culture of Europe.
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  11593. Hell, it could easily get into a Constitutional issue regarding sovereign power of the State. The authority Disney exercises flows from the power of the state government who can revoke it at will.
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  11594. Wrong. Nato never forced membership on the Eastern nations the way the USSR forced membership in the Warsaw Pact. Or have you forgotten that Putin invaded Georgia in 2008 and followed the same playbook as he has used in Ukraine? The War in Ukraine is a repeat of the Georgian-Russia war.
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  11595.  @teddnaing6851  Actually, I do. Unlike you and yours, I don't try to make history and objective facts fit my preconceived notions. I can't help but notice that you failed to address ANY of the points that I made.
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  11596.  @awddsa2923  I have been saying for a while that the time for talk is over. The Soap Box is an exercise in mental masturbation, the Jury box is being denied to us, the ballot box has failed. That leaves us only the cartridge box to gain satisfaction for the redress of wrongs.
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  11597. That is how the Soviets got the Tu-4; they reverse engineered the three stolen B-29 superfortresses. Hap Arnold Special, Ramp Tramp, and Tsug- Saou.
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  11598. The only reason why Iran doesn't have them is because of the diligence of Mossad. It is the Israelis who are keeping them in check. That being said, we have no business getting into a spat with Iran. Let the Saudis deal with them.
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  11599.  @eddyr1041  No, it should not. If anything, government is responsible for creating the conditions that has lead to people using drugs to cope. Government does NOTHING right, not even national defense.
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  11600. What is the code? "Bros before H**s"? Not something you want to get in the middle of.
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  11601. Seems like my previous post got deleted. I guess Youtube/Google doesn't like the "Bro Code". The female version is "sistas before mistas".
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  11602. Indeed. The corporations play both sides so that they can't lose. Plague on both parties for selling us out for a few sheckles of silver.
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  11603. Once the lead starts flying, you don't think the Taiwanese would not return the favor?
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  11604. You realize that France is who provided those WMDs to Saddam? And he never proved that he disposed of them. Funny how those very weapons ended up in Syria after 2003.
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  11605.  @cindirose3390  But you can certainly drown it.
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  11606. And China has pathetically bad ASW capabilities.
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  11607.  @Tamachii12  You practice how you play. The fact that you think an exercise isn't reflective of how an actual engagement will play out shows that you have never actually participated in one.
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  11608. Short answer: no. Longer answer: We MIGHT be able to fight one of them, but not both at the same time. My priority would be Taiwan as their defeat will be the first domino that then proceeds to knock over South Korea and Japan pushing the US out of the Asian-Pacific region.
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  11609.  @networkgeekstuff9090  It was a slow and painful fall. Cincinnatus, the Sulla tried to restore the Republic only to fail with Jullius seizing power.
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  11610.  @networkgeekstuff9090  The cracks in the US system have been chipped at since the Progressive Era of the 1920s under Woodrow Wilson. Same people then are pushing the same things now, only they are more overt about what they are doing.
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  11611. They might not have had time. There is talk that the entire plane's hydraulic system was damaged preventing proper deployment of the landing gear. Loss of power and hydraulics might have forced and immediate landing.
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  11612. All part of John F. Kennedy's push for reducing taxes. He famously said that cutting taxes now will paradoxically raise future revenues.
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  11613. The funny thing is, many of the ethnic Russians in the liberated areas of Kharkiv welcomed the Ukrainians as liberators. Seems like even they were not pleased with Putin's soldiers abusing them alongside the ethnic Ukrainians.
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  11614.  @SN00PICUS  Biden is not all there. Dementia/Alzheimer's. But yes, his hospital orderlies, I mean his staff, should be exercising more message discipline. As for Stain, most people didn't know he was drinking water. One of the Germany delegates at an event managed to get a sip from the Priemer's flask, and almost paid for that with his life. Stalin gave that evil smile to let the delegate know how precarious the situation was. Edit: You were talking about Timmy Boy. Sorry, I had not gotten to that part yet.
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  11615.  @LasseEklof  No, Israel is NOT occupying Gaza, not yet. And do keep in mind that Israel was the one attacked this week. Just like they were in 1948, 1967, and 1973.
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  11616.  @LasseEklof  Slow down, most of those Palestinians weren't forced from their homes, they left at the urging of Haj Amin Al-Husseni, Fawzi al-Qawuqji, Ahmed Ali al-Mwawi, Hasan Salama, and many other Arab leaders. They promised to "drive Israel into the sea" and give their fellow Arabs (now called Palestinian) all of the land and possessions of the Jews. Yet again they tried to do the same with the Palestinians voluntarily leaving in 1967, but this time Israel taking possession of the West Bank. And in 1973 they did it again. So no, you grossly exaggerate the expulsion of Arabs from the region by Israel. The fact that there are members of the Knesset who are Muslims completely disproves your contention.
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  11617. You are no Republican. Jan 6th was an inside job as capitol police LET THEM IN! Ray Epps was an FBI agent. The fact that you care more about Trump's personality than the state of the country shows YOU are part of the problem.
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  11618. Agreed. More unfiltered rants, please!
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  11619. The very article he pulls up specifically spells out what is an is not a lawful combatant. Rather that shooting your mouth off in ignorance, try actually reading the statute. Being held at GITMO IS POW status. By all legal rights, unlawful combatants can be executed on the spot for war crimes as if they were a spy or saboteur.
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  11620.  @jamielondon6436  "If you seriously think that anybody outside of the US considers its treatment of the prisoners in the "war on terror" lawful, you're deluding yourself." That is NOT an argument, that is a logical fallacy, namely appeal to consensus. It is an emotionally based appeal with little in the way of hard facts to back it up. "They were explicitly placed in Guantanamo so as not to get POW status, because that would've afforded them rights that the US didn't want them to give." Actually, you have that bass ackwards. Being held at GITMO can only occur if they DID have POW status, without which there would be no legal justification for holding them there. The SCOTUS was very clear on this matter in the case Hamdi vs. Rumsfeld (2003) if you bothered to do your due diligence. And in that case, Hamdi was released specifically BECAUSE he had rights that superseded POW status as a US citizen. If the US lost credibility as you claim, then why is the US still in NATO? Why is the USD still the currency of trade? People of virtue would not continue doing business and the US would have experienced what Russia is going through now if your claims had any validity.
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  11621.  @jamielondon6436  No, you refuse to understand how POW status works. Or even how international law operates. NO COUNTRY CONDONES the murder of civilians by terrorists which is the LEGITAMATE justification for the Afghan War. As a POW, you CANNOT be prosecuted for combat acts such as killing of soldiers or the destruction of legitimate military targets such as equipment and barracks. Further, the detaining power has EVERY RIGHT to hold POWs for the ENTIRE DURATION of the conflict. That you would want to change that shows a complete contempt for the Law of Armed Conflict already in place. No, you have not made a single valid nor coherent argument instead resorting to emotional outbursts because you cannot be bothered to actually look up facts or the dirty details of the topic you are pontificating on.
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  11622.  @jamielondon6436  Written by people who are NOT telling you the full story. How many times have journalists inverted the details and left out critical facts in their reporting that completely flips the story? You sir, are being taken for a ride. The SCOTUS has already ruled on this particularly in Hamdi vs. Rumsfeld (2003). The SCOTUS told the DoD that his rights as a US citizen supersede POW status. In effect, they said either charge him with a crime, or release him. With that ruling, they upheld the legality of holding POWs until the end of hostilities while at the same time demanding that any US citizens held had to be charged or released.
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  11623. "Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin good forces have invented or made” -J.R.R. Tolkien
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  11624. The wokistas who are giving WOTC bad advice WANT you to go over to Paizo. They are using both as a bait and switch.
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  11625.  @psibernight2177  I'm saying that WOTC and Paizo are being extorted and controlled by the very same people. It is merely the illusion of choice.
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  11626. Iran finances Hamas and Hezbollah.
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  11627.  @metallife365  Naw, he is doing a Bill Clinton and is sticking his finger into the air to see which way the wind is blowing. After pandering to the woke mob, he now realizes that the tide has turned and is trying to change sides.
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  11628. Indeed. I am reminded of William Tecumseh Sherman's warning to the South on why they do NOT want to raise the ire of the North. The liberals should have listened to the General.
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  11629.  @Life_Is_Torture0000  Sadly, I don't think the right will act even then. We ask how the Holocaust could happen, and yet we see the very things that lead to in occurring right before our eyes. And like those in the past, we as a population are in complete denial.
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  11630. Then demand that of every Democrat member of Congress.
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  11631. Don't underestimate the importance of the Chaplain Corps.
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  11632. Indeed. It is as if they don't know that adding an "X" is Anglicization.
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  11633. Ironic, isn't it? He is basically admitting that he is bigoted against his own race.
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  11634. No, they know what the problem is but keep refusing to fix it. They WANT Charles Manson's Helter Skelter Race war even though they know only the buzzards win. They foolishly think they will be the survivors.
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  11635. What was the underlying crime? The conviction WILL get overturned by the SCOTUS.
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  11636.  @hybrdthry911  Patriot Act, written by RINOS and passed with Democrat support. Tell me again how the libertarian right is anything like the Italian Socialists (OG Fascists).
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  11637. @Kasper Hunger makes people desperate. Do keep in mind that during the North Korean Famine, they were eating their dead.
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  11638. Or the Milankovitch cycles simply didn't line up for him.
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  11639. Don't turn around, oh, oh, Der Kommisar's in town, oh, oh, oh....
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  11640. They are DC critters. There is no honor among those crooks.
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  11641. Indeed. And the case Lee vs. Unites States (1883) is why the Federal Courts would strike it down.
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  11642. And who will rise to replace? If you are putting faith in Red China, then I hope you enjoy the chains of slavery.
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  11643. Paul, as a former service member, you should know that under NATO doctrine, ANY use of nuclear weapons is considered Strategic escalation. Hence, while people colloquially differentiate based on size, military planners do NOT make a distinction.
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  11644. So you are saying that the Russian Army is so blind as to not see nor stop frogmen from placing demolition charges?
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  11645. Too late for a mistrial. Double Jeopardy is now in play. Only overturning the conviction is possible.
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  11646. Exactly. PLAGUE ON BOTH THEIR HOUSES! At least Trump came in like a bull in a China shop and shook things up a bit. Status Quo in DC is death to the nation.
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  11647.  @_Alfa.Bravo_  On what charge? The Georgia case is imploding. The New York case is going to get overturned on appeal and is so beyond the pale even liberal lawyers are calling it out.
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  11648. You clearly have not read Heinz Guderian's book. The best use of a tank is in combined arms, not in massive tank on tank battles.
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  11649. Or fixed to silver, then it would be the most reliable currency in the world.
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  11650.  @probablyinconsistent4756  How long do flood waters last in an area before it drains out to the Black Sea? The water level WILL reach an equilibrium level and things WILL return to where they were before the dam was breached.
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  11651.  @probablyinconsistent4756  Wow, you regurgitated word salad in hopes of sounding smart. I am VERY well aware of the currents that flow through the Bosphorus and Dardallens and they ARE in equilibrium. So are the currents that flow through the strait of Gibraltar. Your problem is that reality doesn't confirm to your ideological narrative. You are no different than the Soviet leadership who downplayed the Chernobyl disaster.
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  11652. George Carlin said it best, "The Earth will shake us off like a bad case of fleas". "Ask the people of Pompeii if they think they are oppressing the planet," -George Carlin.
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  11653. American unions are 100 years behind the times. They think it is still 1921 rather than 2022. The need for them in the 1920s doesn't exist anymore.
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  11654.  @ScorpiusZA.  Yeah, but you don't see Europe spending hardly anything on Defense. And you seem to forget that most of those countries have North Sea oil deposits that pay for everything. You are not telling the whole story. The reality is much more nuanced and you are glossing over the details.
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  11655.  @ScorpiusZA.  I don't disagree that defense contractors are grossly overpaid. But again, the US has paid for Europe's 80 years of relative peace. Putin's invasion of the Ukraine has made your leaders realize they have been living on American largess. It is time they pony up for their own defense. And if that means austerity and cutting into your social benefits, well, that is the cost of liberty.
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  11656.  @Goyimsagainstzionazis  Ever heard of gaslighting? Guess what, you and they are seeing a carefully cultivated and curated facade by Arab-Muslim extremists. The word to describe it is "Potemkin Village", only it is one made to look bad rather than ideal.
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  11657.  @stuartd9741  That is the problem with these people. Someone wanting notoriety would have spilled the beans about the whole conspiracy. The fact that none have shows how it fails to pass Occam's Razor.
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  11658. Why did I hear that in Will Smith's voice?
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  11659. Most modern governments of the West are less popular than venereal disease, yet only marginally better than authoritarian states.
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  11660. And the fact that Russia doesn't have the storage capacity. Oil can freeze in the pipes.
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  11661. Funny thing is, under Yeltson, Soviet bombs core were being reprocessed into reactor fuel. You CAN have weapons for war and still use them for peace once those bombs reach their "expiration date".
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  11662.  @afuzzycreature8387  Considering WHOM the Bee is satirizing, I'm not surprised. They don't need to be sophisticated because the people they are mocking don't have much sophistication to begin with.
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  11663.  @behroozkhaleghirad  You are psychologically projecting. You have zero evidence to support your claim. When even the Royal United Services Insitute (RUSI), and the Institue for the Study of War (ISW) confirms independently their numbers, the burden of proof is on YOU to prove otherwise.
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  11664. All of the confirmation hearings are going to be clown shows, so I don't know what people were worried about regarding Goetz. The Dems would try to crucify him just like they attempted to do Hegseth and now with Bondi. "Borking" is standard procedure.
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  11665. Indeed. The Poles have been much better than Deutschland.
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  11666. Pot meet kettle. The fact is, even some left of center folks disagree with Disney. But to partisans like you, they are now right wingers.
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  11667. ROTFLMAO to that remark!
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  11668. I may have one for you. She is making the arguments of those who advocate for the burka.
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  11669. The Japanese did it in WW2. Wasn't very effective then, but the technology has gotten better.
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  11670. Biology tells us that a woman is a sexually mature female who can produce eggs and carry offspring. In humans this is controlled by the 23 chromosomal pair which has 2X chromosomes. A male produces spermazoa and in humans has an X and Y chromosome on the 23 pair. Anyone who claims otherwise is a dishonest charlatan pushing an agenda.
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  11671. @UC_iMcxA9CLKcSwJWRXYNrvQ Heh, the Amazons of the Volga River Valley (the ones who spawned the Greek legends) prove your point.
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  11672. We need the well armed sheep to exercise his right to contest the vote for lunch.
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  11673. Putin better hope they are not Gurkhas. Don't want to get on their bad side.
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  11674.  @triggerwarning5762  No, they are not exclusive to the UK. It just happens that the British units are the most famous. Other nations that employ Gurkhas include India, Brunei, and Singapore. In theory, any country could organize a Gurkha unit provided that they used the same recruitment standards as those listed above.
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  11675.  @triggerwarning5762  Don't be intellectually dishonest.
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  11676.  @triggerwarning5762  Not really. I made a statement, you tried and failed to refute it, and now you are trying to move the goalposts (logical fallacy). How about you learn to debate?
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  11677. Discrimination by Israel Paul? Stop parroting the talking points of people who have never been to Israel. The fact that Arab Muslims have sitting members in the Knesset conclusively disproves the false allegations that Israel is an apartheid state.
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  11678. "When words lose their meaning, people lose their lives," -Confucius, Chinese philosopher and author of "The Analects".
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  11679.  @phillipheaton9832  Paradox. Some things produce the exact opposite effect that you think will occur.
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  11680. The Gorbachev-Reagan agreements came AFTER the close call of the Able Archer Exercise as well as the Soviet False Alarm scare. Much like with JFK, it took a close call for the two sides to pull back from the brink.
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  11681.  Moskva the Sinkable  Not really. American "intelligence" is more focused on Midwest "memaws" than outside threats. I trust British intelligence MORE than I trust American intelligence. And I say that as an American.
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  11682. The elites hate urban farms. It is a form of empowerment that they cannot tolerate. There is a reason why HOAs are the bane of WW2 victory gardens.
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  11683. You would think that they would, but aside from Russia invading Ukraine, they were wrong about almost everything else regarding the start of the war. They grossly underestimated the Ukrainians.
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  11684. I tend to agree. While I find it rather gauche, I don't find in particularly objectionable. And if it DOES encourage young girls to NOT abort, then that completely cancels out any tactless or crudeness of the doll.
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  11685.  DucknCoverin  I don't disagree with your argument that you should know your opponent. That is what Sun Tzu said in his famous work. My point is that when you use their terms, you legitimize their arguments. You let THEM set the parameters and conditions thereby putting yourself at severe disadvantage. For example, when folks say "undocumented immigrants" that attempts to gaslight people into giving legitimacy to FOREIGN ALIEN NATIONLS, a legitimacy they are NOT entitled to. Another example is why antis in fandoms say "head-canon". No, it is FAN FICTION. "Head-canon" is an attempt to gaslight people into thinking their opinion has official sanction.
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  11686. 'If You Voted For Biden And Don't Regret It, You're The Problem' - Jake Paul
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  11687. JUDEA will be free.
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  11688. Indeed. Just the requirements of an Amphibious operation to cross the Taiwan strait is enough to shut down most arguments.
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  11689. Wow, Thatcher just lobbed a stealth zinger with that quote.
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  11690. I would trade Porland and San Fransisco to China in exchange for Hong Kong. I would even throw in Los Angeles if they would give us Macau.
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  11691. Des Moine register has always been a Democrat Shill Paper. That and the poll was 16% democrat favor sampling.
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  11692.  @minor-crags  And they many very well vote him back in as a referendum on Biden. Ever heard of buyer's remorse? The American electorate is feeling that to a degree not seen since the election of Benjamin Harrison in 1888. Yes, Trump could be just like Grover Cleaveland.
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  11693. Either classical Liberal or "Traditional" liberal (ie JFK liberal) I presume?
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  11694.  @mrvwbug4423  Firing glide bombs from 30 km behind the front lines isn't close air support. When the Russians have elected to get their KA-52s or Su-25s into those engagements, the loss rates are nearly 50%.
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  11695.  @Pointi69  Pipe dream. Hydrogen is produced by consuming energy from cheaper sources, so all you are doing is moving the deck chairs on the Titanic. Nuclear power on the other hand, has been running on the cores of dismantled nuclear weapons for the past 30 years. That is why the US doesn't have many active Uranium mines: there is enough Uranium and plutonium to run civilian nuclear for decades.
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  11696.  @giovanni-cx5fb  Yes, and Bolivia is STILL an economic basket case. The ONLY people that benefit from nationalization is the kleptocrats in government, never the people. The "Benefits" you claim to have receive are nothing more than table scraps they have thrown you to appease you.
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  11697.  Jack Hui  I am fully aware of what they would consider a declaration of war. And some of them NEED to be crossed to call China's bluff.
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  11698. Belarus is a puppet, not independent. Anything they do will be at the direction of the Kremlin. Hence the implied threat is not credibile.
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  11699. Indeed. Aramaic didn't have its own unique writing, it used either Greek or Hebrew. I am disappointed that the video didn't mention Egyptian Hieroglyphs not Korean Hangul.
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  11700. Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain. The man had a way with words.
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  11701. Water injected into the stratosphere can still have a significant effect. Water Vapor can create stratospheric clouds that reflect solar radiation just as easily as dust particulates do.
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  11702.  @fra604  Yeah, sometimes it takes an outside to point out the blatantly obvious. You are the frog isn't in a boiling kettle lying to yourself that you are in a jacuzzi. You don't have the objective perspective because you are so stuck in the minutia. And you criticizing me for not having a valid argument simply because I am an American is a logical fallacy of appeal to authority. it is the classic tactic of despots and tyrants to silence valid and legitimate criticism. So tell me, does Brussels really make policy for the EU or is it really Berlin and Paris wo dictate terms? Poland has made NUMEROUS valid objections to how business in conducted in the EU, specifically calling out the Franco-German overrepresentation in that block. After having lived under the hell of Soviet-Russian despotism, they are calling out the very same tyranny in Brussels.
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  11703.  @lingricen8077  The problem is that feminists like her and Bet Middler pandered to the Trans crowd foolishly thinking they were allies when their goals were at odds. Kind of like how gays and trans thinking they could ally with Muslim groups like CAIR (political arm of Hezbollah) when those groups intend to throw gays and trans off of towers.
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  11704. Unions have always been political, at least since the 1920s. And I am sure you can lecture Americans about how Unions backed some pretty unsavory rulers in Italy during that time.
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  11705.  @Denien82  Yeah, trading one tyrant for an entirely new one. Typical result of changes in government.
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  11706. It is BS because it is absolutely unlawful. Wives do NOT get to wear their husband's rank though a number of obnoxious ones believed they could. My father always discouraged that behavior in his Navy unit. Seems like SFC Cook's superior officer was not doing his job of keeping that behavior in check.
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  11707. I think draft dodging will become quite popular if he does.
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  11708. How do they get past the Great Firewall?
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  11709.  @Notsogoodguitarguy  Oh, I absolutely agree that it is abominable that the government is TRYING to mandate it. But my point still stands, if they are removing this OPTION from the table, then they need to remove the other options that are just as bad. Empower the people, don't enslave them.
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  11710. I think the polls have been completely wrong since at least 2016.
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  11711. The doctor in this case was a rabid leftist in Bloomington, Indiana. Probably a graduate of the Kinsey Institute (aka School of Sex) at IU.
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  11712. Where is a Kuni Witch Hunter from L5R's Rokugan when you need one?
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  11713. There is a lot of misinformation about that infamous coffee case. Over the years propaganda has replaced cold hard facts.
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  11714. @piyushsharan406 Not as much as you think. The encirclement was from SURFACE movements around Ukrainian positions.
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  11715. The problem is that is what they governments have already been doing to companies that oppose them. Tax code is the preferred weapon of politicians to attack their rivals.
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  11716. Much like Theresa May, he fraudulently presented himself as something he was not.
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  11717. Not surprised. Disney often sanitizes fairy tales by removing things such as suicide, cannibalism, and the like.
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  11718. Tell that to Pele's face.
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  11719.  @koreystuart7054  That is for Ukraine to decide, not you or some outside force. If the Ukrainians want to fight for six or seven years to take back the occupied territories, that is their choice.
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  11720.  @koreystuart7054  Yeah, that would be nice, but it is wishful thinking. The Ukrainians have proven that they will settle for nothing less than the complete liberation of the occupied territories. Russia has shown they want nothing less than the complete subjugation of Ukraine. It is the unstoppable force meets the immovable object.
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  11721. More like blatant ignorance on the detail and trivializing critical details that make all the difference.
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  11722.  @rcommando1107  I'm not sure I am comfortable with the idea of using the chemical that the SS used to perpetrate the holocaust. I would much rather use radiological agents. Cobalt-60 in particular has had a notorious reputation after being scavenged from improper disposal of x-ray machines in Central and South America.
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  11723.  @magnuscarlsson9969  There is no cure for TDS. Those who suffer from it are detached from reality and nothing will convince them. They are no different than jihadis.
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  11724. Sovering power of the state. Disney only has Reedy Creek because the State government allows it. This is a constitutional matter; DIsney cannot monopolize authority that has been gifted to it from the government.
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  11725. Harold doesn't realize that it is the judge himself who is discrediting the court and faith in the judiciary, not Trump. If the judge really cared about the integrity of the court, he would either rescind the gag order or he would bring Cohen and company in and send THEM to jail.
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  11726. It was a master strategy to get Finland and Sweden to join NATO? I fail to see how the benefits Putin.
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  11727. Former president of the Screen Actors Guild? You can bet your bottom dollar he knew.
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  11728. Wrong, Those authoritarians called their political opponents "enemies of the STATE" not the people. BTW, it is the left who behaves with jackboot antics, not Trump. It is no accident that anyone with "socialist" in their political name is on the left and authoritarian.
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  11729. Oh, but the people hyperventilating about this don't want oil either. It is sus. They don't want the US using ANY cheap form of power, only the inefficient "green alternatives" which are a joke and a scam. The only sustainable green energy is hydroelectric dams, but they don't want those either.
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  11730. For almost 50 years after WW2, Europe has done just fine without Russia. Don't fool yourself; everything you say about Russia is a recent development mostly in the aftermath of the fall of the USSR. The former Warsaw Pact nations can attest to that.
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  11731. Gordon Chang is looking at the example of Japan leading up to their Lost Decade". Now consider how much larger China is and you start to understand how it is taking longer for China's looming debt crisis to catch up. An analogy is someone at a restaurant who forgot his credit card. He keeps ordering more food to prevent the bill from being brought out. China is effectively doing the same thing.
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  11732.  @LesliePeter  Did you not watch the video? They addressed that. The Chinese middle class are NOT the consumers that Americans are. Despite what Joseph Stalin said, quantity is NOT a quality of its own. Bulk may be great for efficiency, but it is a terrible way to turn a profit.
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  11733. Who Trump? Regardless of who wins, it is clear we are looking at an election of 1860 situation.
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  11734. They know the lesson of Weimar Germany as it has been repeated in Zimbabwe and Venezuela. It is all being done on purpose to destroy the US from within.
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  11735. He was not on the ballot in 2018, that is a false canard by rabid Trump hater (TDS). Nor was he on the ballot in 2022.
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  11736.  @BobBob-uv4vc  NO, but the cost should be part of basic building maintenance accounting. This is just nickel and diming patients.
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  11737. No joke. Putin has threatened nukes if the West gave Ukraine tanks. He did nothing.
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  11738. No, this is what corporate oligarchs do to game the system and extract value without putting anything into the system. True capitalism doesn't require government to bailout the people responsible. Capitalism allows the foolish to fail before they can get too big to threaten the entire system.
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  11739.  @Lili_C.S.  "everyone will have a high unconditional basic ίncοme, free housing, free high-quality healthcare and education" That is the exact same lie Vladimir Lenin said when he took power in Russia. How well did that work out? The Ukrainians refuse to go back to it.
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  11740.  @Lili_C.S.  All the exact same talking points used before. Your "worker's paradise" is a delusional fantasy. Smarter men and women have tried what you propose and failed; history is littered with examples. Yours will be no different.
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  11741.  @MrLizardDude1  Have you forgotten Louis Lehner? How about the Executives of Solyndra? How about Patrick Cunningham with regards to Obama's "Fast and Furious" gun running program? What about Jeff Neely and the GSA embezzlement scandal? You want to talk about organized crime, look no further than the government itself!
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  11742.  @zenobiaookpik  So your opinion is that everyone has to prove their innocence? That nobody has the presumption of privacy and protection from unconstitutional searches? THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU PROPOSE when you say the innocent have nothing to hide. "Better 100 guilty go free than one innocent be punished," -Ben Franklin quoting Blackstone's ratio.
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  11743.  @zenobiaookpik  And you are not actually debating, only making emotional outbursts because you cannot argue the merits. Your response is just that: nothing more than a temper tantrum.
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  11744. "Amateurs imitate, professionals plagiarize," -Attributed to Igor Stravinsky.
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  11745.  @pureflakmonkey3368  Indeed modern Disney does. I wait with eager anticipation for the House of Mouse to burn to the ground.
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  11746. And the politicians who are in their pocket will facilitate that. Political leaders hold just as much of the blame as the corporates.
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  11747. Indeed. General Frost may actually favor Ukraine this winter with an ass kicking Christmas. It won't end by Christmas as the battle for Crimea will take at least an entire season, but with the winter gear that Canada and Norway have been sending since August, they will be in a good position to exploit the cold.
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  11748.  @williamlloyd3769  Same here. I have always heard it used in connection to railroad workers in the post-Civil War era. Or to refer to the hats worn by Thai rice pickers.
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  11749.  @hossskul544  More like Mesotheists. It isn't that they don't believe in higher powers, it is that they actively hate and despise any faith and spiritualism. These are the people who claim they would gladly kill a god or deity.
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  11750. We have not even reached full productivity and hence peak population capacity. If we ramped up to maximum productivity in the US, American's breadbasket in the Midwest alone could easily feed 8 billion. The problem is, what is to be gained from that? What does sub-Sahara Africa have to offer in trade? The problem isn't really resources, it is distribution. Without something to trade, it is not worth while for farmers to produce that much abundance.
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  11751. I tend to agree. European largess is predicated on the blood of Ukrainians and tax dollars of Americans. Time that the French and Germans put their troops on the front line in Eastern Poland and the Baltic states.
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  11752. 'If You Voted For Biden And Don't Regret It, You're The Problem' - Jake Paul
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  11753.  @stephanledford9792  Agreed. I think we are on the same page, just coming at it from different directions.
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  11754. The FBI purposely empowers these people. The FBI and CIA knew the danger of Lee Harvey Oswald. The FBI and CIA trained and encouraged the Garland Texas terrorists. And the list goes on.
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  11755. Mike Pence is Grima Wormtongue.
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  11756. Not if China implodes under the weight of its own corruption like the USSR did. The Chinese financial system is a house of cards just waiting to collapse.
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  11757. Generally, yes. But in this case, Putin left his entire frontier in Bryansk and Kursk undefended. Ukraine went for the soft underbelly.
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  11758.  @ransertu7630  That is half of Ukraine. It is not a serious proposal.
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  11759.  @georgesibley7152  If the Russians knew Ukraine was coming, why have they failed to stop the incursion? Why is Ukraine easily 40km inside Russian territory? Your claims only beg larger and more embarrassing questions.
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  11760.  @georgesibley7152  Cope harder. Stop making excuses (rationalization fallacy)
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  11761.  @Daboy804  I think most conservatives DON'T see him as a hero. But the media wants the narrative to be that he is. Don't buy into their hogwash. Don't play into their disinformation.
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  11762.  @brianwebb191  Do you have anything better to do than lob insults at a dead man? It is easy to attack someone who can no longer defend themselves.
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  11763. That is the point. These whiners are neo-Bolshevicks whose ideas can't sell and rather than admit that they are wrong, chose instead to tear down the successful and blame their failures on capitalism rather than their own shortcomings.
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  11764. Ellen Page gives Sigmund Freud's theories about Penis envy some serious credibility. And I am HIGHLY skeptical of Freud.
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  11765.  @martinasandoval5326  So you think that they should just surrender their children to the government? Surely you jest. NOBODY would fault the protestors for getting violent for protecting their children from kidnappers.
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  11766.  @Stanley-px3bt  You are basically cheering for the destruction of the Western World then. Under Trump the WORLD experienced the best economic conditions since WW2. Your outburst just proves you are unhinged and completely divorced from reality and fact. You are exactly what George Orwell described when he wrote his dystopian novel.
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  11767.  @XTSu-sl1bb  Indeed. It was Trump that got the ball rolling on NATO STARTING to ramp up their defense spending. Putin's invasion simply gave them the kick in the pants to pick up the pace.
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  11768. A false conviction due to judicial misconduct WILL result in it nullified by the SCOTUS.
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  11769.  @CakeofWisdom  Gulf of Tonkin doesn't mean anything to you huh? That was significantly less.
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  11770. Yeah, their anti-American bias, fashionable antisemitism in the form of "anti-Zionism", and Trump derangement syndrome blinds them to critical details.
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  11771. Bush and Trump derangements syndrome is not a good look. Say what you want about Bush, but Trump didn't start any wars, and nobody try starting any trouble while Trump was in office. Ask yourself why Putin waited until Biden got into office.
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  11772. The failed siege of Kiev says otherwise.
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  11773. And he was emulating the Buddhist monks who often did it.
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  11774. The Pissed Off Bastards ride again.
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  11775. And Germany for the longest time had chancellors who were shills for Bolshevism. Keep in mind that Merkel was a member of the East German Communist Youth League.
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  11776. Sadly, those who enforce the law think they are above the law.
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  11777. Kavanaugh doesn't believe in the burden of proof being on the government. He doesn't believe in "innocent until proven guilty". He also suffers from Stockholm Syndrome.
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  11778.  @ivanstepanovic1327  Glide bombs are NOT close air support, and hardly constitute ground support. They are essentially strategic carpet bombing actions.
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  11779.  @joanmikeska8484  I agree. The difference in values leads to some interesting takes on what is essentially the same theme or concept.
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  11780. To your first question: Rotten Tomatoes and the other sites are shills for Hollywood. The "Critics" are insider elitists who hate everything that most American movie audiences appreciate. If the critics hate it, it is probably good. If the critics love it, it is probably trash. Second Question: it is about the response to "The Message". The people running these companies and franchises are NOT learning the lesson. They will NOT change until they have been bankrupted. Helping to make it a success only rewards them for their bad behavior. Making sure it fails properly punishes them for their vandalism and bad behavior. Yes, use the woke's own standards against them.
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  11781. Not all Israelis are Jewish, though most are. It may surprise you to hear that there are Muslim Arabs in the Knesset. That fact alone disproves the "Apartheid state" lie.
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  11782.  @cjay2  That is you OPINION. And opinions are like buttholes: everyone has one and they all stink.
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  11783. Bought it? He seems to have drunk it!
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  11784. Private ones, not government "state hospitals". Forced castrations were a common practice.
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  11785. @ Bedlam Hospital was a government run mental institution. And it has become a descriptor for hospital abuse. Then you have the fact that forced castrations were common in such places, with the last one occurring in the US in 1975. The movie "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" actually cuts pretty close to what such places are like with Nurse Ratchets being quite common.
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  11786. The best counter to it is Holon's Razor which Timmy boy likes to quote: "Never attribute to malice....."
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  11787.  @brianvance1178  No, but people love to conflate the two in order to better the situation they are in. Sometimes feinting ignorance helps your situation because knowledgeable incompetence is dereliction of responsibility. Sometimes claiming incompetence does because being ignorant would result in a loss of face(or respect).
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  11788. I think the Bofors and Oerlikons of WW2 are going to make a comeback.
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  11789. Funny thing is, that was the case for Ford before an act of Congress forced them to unionize. At the time Ford was giving $1 an hour wage as compaired to the next highest pay, $0.25 an hour. And that was not counting the personal cost of medical coverage that Henry Ford gave out of his own pocket to his beloved line workers. That famous photo of the scuffle outside the plant? Both the union and the Ford mangers claim they were the ones attacked and on the ground.
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  11790. The Indians (South Asian) sent in investigators. They could find no evidence to substantiate the claims.
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  11791. Agreed. Leaders like Ahmadinejad are "Twelvers"; followers of the 12th Mahdi and believe it is their divine mission to cause as much death and destruction to hasten the return of the Mahdi.
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  11792. Worked for the Buddhists in Vietnam against Ngo Dinh Diem.
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  11793.  @yesyes3010  It doesn't make sense for Russia to waste its precision weapons on civilian infrastructure, yet that is what the MOD has been doing.
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  11794. That would probably be for the best. The heart of Russia could be renamed "The Volga Republic".
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  11795. I would think that Polish and Czech MiGs are already equipped with NATO munitions adapters. How else would you explain Ukrainian MiGs using AGM-88 HARM but for parts the Poles gave them?
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  11796. Indeed. These hysterics to the point of farce are not building any credibility to their points.
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  11797.  @Spacemongerr  Indeed. Even today when looking at Korean place names, the Gs and Ks are often interchanged. For example, to differentiate Gongju with Gyeongju, the former has the soft sound while the latter has the hard sound. The Y after the K is the distinguishing factor. Another example which is really frustrating is Palace of GnosisKnosis. Too many people incorrectly use the hard K rather than the soft G. Gnosis should be pronounced similar to Gneisenau.
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  11798.  @mckennaConfig  How familiar are you with Harry Chapin's song "30,000 Pounds of Bananas"? Set in Joe Bite-Me's Scranton PA. Yeah, I think you are not actually making a rational argument but an appeal to emotion. "And side-swiped 19 neat parked cars, clipped of 13 telephone poles, hit 2 houses, bruised 8 trees and blue crossed 7 people, it was then he lost his head, not to mention an arm or two before he stopped. And he Slid for 400 yards, Along the hill that leads into Scranton, Pennsylvania. All those thirty thousand pounds of bananas." -Harry Chapin
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  11799. Part of the problem is that companies like Blackrock are buying up the homes as soon as they get on the market, purposely driving up the prices so as to create a feudalistic oligarchy not much different than in Russia or Ukraine today. Or Europe in the 1800s.
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  11800. Local politicians through zoning laws have created artificial housing shortages driving up prices.
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  11801.  @_Muzolf  Depends on which wave. First Wave and second wave were about equality. The problem is, second wave suckled third wave on the teat of man-hate. Many first wave were happily married and had supportive husbands who treated them as equals and they treated their husbands as equals. During second wave, the idea was pushed that a woman does not need a man to be successful, hence the man hate festered in third wave to become the "tear down the patriarch" we see today. And unfortunately, anything and everything is the patriarchy in their eyes.
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  11802.  @_Muzolf  And that is why you have no credibility. Susan B. Anthony was not the man-hating rabid FemiNazi you AND THE LEFT would love to paint her as. Feminists today would castigate her as supporting and defending "The Patriarchy" if they met her; only with the silence of her having passed on are they able to use her legacy for their own self-promotion.
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  11803. More sustainable? Have you not heard of US Navy's nuclear program? If it was not sustainable, then the US Navy would have abandoned it long ago. There is a reason why both the US Army and US Air Force abandoned their nuclear reactor programs. PS, Admiral Hyman G. Rickover set the exacting standards that even the IAEA follows. The man for all of his eccentricities (and rather abusive behaviors) was the foremost leader with regards to nuclear power.
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  11804.  @thomassecurename3152  Except, you said sustainable in your very first post. Don't try moving the goal posts or attempt to gaslight because you cannot argue against the points I made. Do keep in mind that Fukushima is grossly overblown. Chernobyl was almost 40 years ago and Prypiat's levels are only slightly greater than Fukushima. If you are following the rule of Seven, then that means that Chernobyl was several orders of magnitude worse (ie factors of ten).
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  11805. About sums up the entire metoo movement in a nutshell.
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  11806.  @DaCaRy1  Overkill is the only thing the Russians know. Or are you not away of how Marshal Zhukov conducted the Eastern Front in WW2? And that doesn't even begin to touch of the Soviet "Seven Days to the River Rhine" plan.
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  11807.  @DaCaRy1  Russia is following EXACTLY the Soviet playbook when it comes to conducting war. They have not changed one iota since then, having repeated the exact same plans in Grozny that they did in Afghanistan. And as far as nukes, that is an often grossly overplayed argument that has lost much of its value, mostly because those who use it don't understand that the great strength in nuclear weapons is the threat. Once used, it loses most of its value.
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  11808. I'm not for paying a tax to vote. I AM all for passing the citizenship test before you can register to vote. And I would be okay with having to pass it again to re-register in a new area.
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  11809.  @billyreastmanjr6176  Don't count your eggs before they hatch. People like you have predicted Florida's lose and have been proven wrong time and again.
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  11810.  @niktoinikak  That is wishful thinking. India is ripping off Russia. And China is also extracting a deep discount from Russia or they would go elsewhere for oil.
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  11811.  @niktoinikak  Delusional. When it was at $20 a barrel, they were fulfilling contracts that were paid at HIGHER prices. They sat on the "petty cash" oil which you are referring to, letting it store up. And as pointed out, now that they have reached max storage capacity, they are in a world of hurt.
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  11812.  @skippypeanutbutter9136  Don't feel too bad for him. He cucked himself by marrying a lesbian; he is the third wheel.
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  11813.  @willia3r  Not nearly as much as you think. Take the Russian oil price fixing. And outright ban on Russian oil is not viable, but the Indians and Chinese taking advantage of Russia by getting it at a steep discount still hurts Russia. Applied here, Modelo isn't directly owned or controlled by AB. Yes, they get a CUT, not the full profits. Which means that they are still hurt by this in the same way Russia is.
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  11814. Judges don't need clearance to review. Security is no justification for denying judicial oversight of the executive branch. "The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it.And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning” -President John F. Kennedy; 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria, New York City.
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  11815. Well, and the part few are talking about is that they took the money for themselves, giving nothing to Sargon and the others they banned. That falls under the FCC's disreputable business practices, namely misappropriation of funds, otherwise known as outright theft and money laundering.
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  11816.  @gc3k  Indeed. The people butthurt over "Retard" don't realize that it was the "politically correct" alternative to saying imbecile.
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  11817.  @vanlin9107  Actually it DOES matter. As a Korean you of all people should know that Democracy south of the DMZ is better than the squalor and famine north of the DMZ.
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  11818. No, she did not. She spoke the woe of the Pharisees which the Nazarene chastised in Luke 11, Matthew 20, and Mark 12. Go read your gospels.
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  11819. Don't count your eggs before the hatch. How long did the Kherson offensive last? Longer than the current one, that is for sure.
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  11820. Hell, they should have gone with Short Round picking up the role. But of course Hollyweird hates East Asian Heros who are not a Jackie Chan clone.
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  11821.  @BeardmanVaush  Keep clapping like a seal. This WILL boomerang on you people. "Strike me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine," -Obi Wan Kenobi, "A New Hope".
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  11822.  @americaisgreat-1  Trump is only getting stronger when people like you martyr him in this fashion. The black community is already calling him America's Nelson Mandela.
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  11823. If they were not so damn toxic, Mr. Pool would be a member of the "Dirt-Bag" Left at Chapo-Trap House. They would probably have him as a regular guest if they were not attacking him for not being leftist enough.
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  11824. Hamas thanked Iran for their financial and material support. In any court of law, that would be admissible evidence/testimony.
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  11825. You said that in 2016 and were eating crow. Haven't you learned that it is not wise to bet against a Casino owner?
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  11826.  @JesusSaysMAGAtrashMAGAfilth  Thank you for proving you don't actually have anything coherent to say. Engaging in ad hominins like you just did proves you have lost the plot. "“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” ― Iron Margaret Thatcher
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  11827. More thought into your proposal than was put into this Ubisoft monstrosity. If they were smart, they would take your idea and run with it.
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  11828.  @iratevagabond204  I agree with all of your points, though I am not familiar with the company FromSoftware. Culture clash is ALWAYS ripe for good storytelling, particularly humor. It is just that Ubisoft and Sweet Baby Inc are TERRIBLE at it. Mostly because they are guilty of the very "colonialist" behavior they accuse the rest of us.
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  11829.  @iratevagabond204  Complete agreement. And I will take a look at those game titles. Thank you for the recommendations.
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  11830. Their methodology is suspect. They assume that the New Hampshire voters are lifelong Republicans. Over half of Haley's voters there were cross-over Democrats. Even CNN acknowledges that.
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  11831.  @b1kReviews  Not really. it enhances what is already there. If there is nothing there to begin with it will not create something out of nothing. Ever heard of "bridges to nowhere"? Many of China's infrastructure projects are just that, as useful as a bridge to nowhere.
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  11832. But if the preorders are the ONLY copies that sell...... Kill the Justice League had LOTS of preorders before it released and crashed.
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  11833. Well, and don't forget that Samurai women had quite a bit of their own power in the house. While the men went off to war to fight, they were managing the estate and controlled the power of the purse. The most successful Samurai had an equally effective wife keeping them financially solvent.
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  11834. The Russian Bear is Geriatric.
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  11835. Don't let the government drop the charges and get away with this. The defendants need to demand that their cases go before the courts. Get a precedent set that such actions are unlawful until AFTER final ratification.
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  11836. That is already what is happening. The Administrative State already owns and controls the politicians. If the "Rookies" don't fire the staffers, that is their problem, not the fault of the voters.
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  11837.  @username65585  And yet the Japanese and South Koreans bring it in that way rather than a pipe that crosses half the planet.
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  11838. The problem is when he loses his nerve like "Fighting Joe Hooker" did at Chancellorsville. Too often he chooses to back down when he is finally gaining traction.
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  11839.  @sammiller6631  Oh, I agree it is more nuanced. But most people don't have the patience to watch his 1+ hour long videos. I was giving the Too Long Didn't Read summary.
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  11840. Molotov-Ribbentrop Alliance. Communist apologists don't like to acknowledge what Hannah Ardent and Eric Hoffer both observed: the two ideologies complete for followers from the same group of people.
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  11841.  @a.r.stellmacher8709  He is referring to North Ireland.
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  11842. THe reality is that union leadership haven't changed since the 1920s. Look up Theodore Rossevelt's complaints against both Unions and their employers. He trusted neither of them.
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  11843. Yeah, the actual racists are the people who think that a young white boy can't learn valuable life lessons from an older gentleman of color.
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  11844.  @AzovSS  HIMARS doesn't do that kind of damage. At best it can only pockmark the dam (look at the damage to the Antinovsky Bridge). That kind of damage can only be done by placed demolition charges. Hence my point about Ukrainian Frogmen.
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  11845.  @AzovSS  You are taking his words completely out of context. Stop pushing Kremlin propaganda.
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  11846. Basically, the unreliable ally who is more dangerous than a competent foe.
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  11847. And you have only empty Kremlin talking points to back up your claim. By every reasonable measure, Ukraine is inflicting on Russia what the Winter War did to the Soviet Red Army.
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  11848. Hell, the guy who was shot and killed tried to use bear spray to protect himself immediately before he was shot.
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  11849. lol, nice.
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  11850.  @ArlindBraka  Yeah, tell that to MacArthur during the Solomons campaign. Or Patton in Tunesia. Or Rommell in Libya. There IS some merit to landing further down the coast and surrounding the opposing force. That being said, I don't think Russia can do it because they are nominally a CONTINENTAL military, and their Navy power is drastically weaker that the old Soviet Union.
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  11851.  @hansvandermeer7635  Nominally, you feed them the rope the use to hang themselves. But Times Radio has chosen to be willing participants in spreading anti-West propaganda.
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  11852.  @urlauburlaub2222  I feel the pain. Many of mine get shadow banned on certain channels.
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  11853. That's Poe's Law for you.
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  11854.  @yabbo5138  That, and they were inflicting at least 3 to 1 casualties on the Russians and possibly as much as 7 to 1. Paul calling that "questionable" shows that for a foreign policy wonk, he can't seem to see the forest for the trees. I kind of get why he didn't get promoted higher into the ranks with that kind of short-sightedness.
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  11855. "Amateurs imitate, professionals plagiarize," -Attributed to Igor Stravinsky.
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  11856.  @toddcribbs6844  Maybe you didn't understand that I was making a cynical point about the lack of creativity in Hollyweird, not commenting on Iger or Chapek. How about you not jump to conclusions about what the brevity of my quote was about. "Brevity is the great charm of eloquence," -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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  11857.  @toddcribbs6844  And what does all of that have to do with my quote? You are just reverberating off the echo chamber walls now.
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  11858. “Mathematics is the alphabet with which God has written the universe” -Galileo Galilei
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  11859. Agreed. The presidential pardon power should be specific and limited, not absolute, just like with presidential immunity.
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  11860.  @DigitallySaved  Presidential immunity was greatly limited by the recent SCOTUS decision. Don't need a Constitutional Amendment when the SCOTUS can exercise judicial review to limit the power of the Pardon. It is called enforcing the separation of powers clause.
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  11861. I hope it happens.
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  11862.  @Echidna23Gaming  Wrong. It was not Israel that sold military tech to China, that was Japan. Yeah, the irony of China's historic rival giving away military hardware is not lost on me. And because of the actions of the Japanese, that is why the F-22 Raptor is not being sold to the Aussies, the Kiwis, the South Koreans, nor the Israelis. Though to be fair, the F-35 is suppose to be to the F-22 what the F-16 was to the F-15. And the Chinese effectively have the F-22 for all intents and purposes thanks to America's own tech industry engaging in industrial espionage on their behalf. The J-20 is suppose to be the Raptor killer specifically designed to take out our best aircraft, and with the schematics and intel on the F-22 in Chinese hands, they can make good on that threat. And they have the numerical superiority to offset any inferiority the J-20 has to the F-22.
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  11863.  @of218  Yeah, a crime in which the FEDS have jurisdiction chose not to pursue. Bragg is acting outside of his authority.
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  11864.  @CommonSenseFishing209  The problem is that we are beyond that. Words are not enough. Actual protesters get arrested by the fascists in government for simply exercising their constitutional right while rioters get their charges dismissed. There is only two outcomes before us; slavery to the left or civil war.
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  11865.  @Laugh1ngboy  I most stories it is not about the end, but the journey. How the hero gets to that ending is the adventure. But I agree with you that talk ahs failed. It is time to advance to the next chapter of the book.
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  11866. Cuban Missile Crisis. Look to that should Red China try to blockade. If not for Admiral Vasiliy (Laim Neeson's character from K-19 Widowmaker), the American blockade would have been hit with a nuclear torpedo.
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  11867.  @wangyaohan8824  Not as much comes from Russia as you think. Have you actually looked at the rail traffic along the Trans-Siberian Railway? And Thailand can be compelled through secondary sanctions to cease its trade with China. Choosing between the CCCP and the West, Thailand will choose the West hands down.
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  11868.  @John_Doe448  How does Russia transport that grain? SHIPPING THROUGH THE BOSPHORUS. No joke, it is cheaper for Russia to ship grain to China via the Turkish Straits, Suez Canal, and Strait of Malacca. You clearly have done little research on the topic.
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  11869. I am more worried about her support of Red Flag Laws which disarm law abiding citizens.
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  11870. Naturalized citizens are required to pass a citizenship test. The Constitution needs to be amended to make passing that test mandatory for voting. I helped my Chinese-Indonesian wife pass that test with a perfect score.
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  11871.  @_Mohit_Joshi  You seem to conflate Washington DC with the rest of the country. Middle America cannot engage in international relations because the US constitution forbids it; all actions MUST go through the state department. I agree that Pakistan is trash and Washington's continued support of them shows how completely out of touch with reality they are. They really are the ivory tower hacks who hold the "unwashed masses" in contempt. As far as "human rights" Europe loves to lecture the US just as much as they claim we lecture them. Perhaps more so. The truth is, it has only been during the last 80 or so years that Europe even acknowledged them, while the Bill of Rights has been there since 1787.
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  11872.  @lakshaysingh9743  Therre is no pint in arguing with this paid troll. He refuses to accept hard facts and instead engages in progoms typical of religious fanatics.
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  11873.  Fracking Saves  Talking about yourself? I'm not defending the trash, merely pointing out that people have different preferences. And the ONLY reason why this stuff even gets to be called "art" is because some rich idiot paid to have it on display. It is our responsibility to mock and ridicule it.
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  11874.  Fracking Saves  Just because you say so doesn't make it true. Reality is, if there is no market, no demand, the artist goes broke and the work never gets sold.
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  11875. They could, but I doubt they will. They will always pander to that niche audience. And that is okay, if they are content to be irrelevant.
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  11876. @ So dumb that he won back the presidency. Yeah, keep underestimating the man. It is why he keeps winning.
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  11877. They are not doctors for they have violated the FIRST rule of medicine: DO NO HARM. They are quacks no different than the hacks of old who sold snake oil.
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  11878. They can't be bothered with the dirty little details or the trouble of "war gaming out" their scenarios. They agree with Stalin that you "have to break a few eggs to make an omelets". Nevermind that those eggs are people's livelihoods.
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  11879.  @GlennRA3  Marshal Mud, aka Rasputitsa favors nobody.
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  11880.  @natedowns5  "I was just following orders" was rejected at Nuremberg. There is an OBLIGATION to refuse UNLAWFUL orders.
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  11881.  @natedowns5  Yeah, and they ARE getting satisfaction in the class-action court case against the DoD for the unlawful mandate.
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  11882. Last I remember, the East India Trading Company did that to Parliament at one time. Did not work out well for the British Empire.
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  11883.  @joec4997  You realize that the Israelis had nukes since before the Kennedy years? They were the Trump card in the 1967 six day war should things have gone south. Learn a little bit of history before you go off half-cocked.
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  11884.  @joec4997  Again another blood libel from someone who is ignorant of history. The Chinese got their nukes from the Soviets. They started testing experimenting in 1959 at Lop Nur dry lake in the Tarim Basin with their first officially successful test in 1964.
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  11885. Shale Oil boom came about because of the Saudis doing this crap.
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  11886. They blur the line between religious and political. Salafism in particular IS a theocratic political ideology.
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  11887.  @RomanHistoryFan476AD  Cope harder private Drunkenski.
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  11888. She has clearly never watched the short "Der Fuhrer's Face" which her uncle fully supported. It MOCKS the ideology she falsely claims (without evidence) he supported.
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  11889. Bootlicker.
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  11890. Indeed. There are cultural aspects that make Afghanistan unsuitable for a stable government and society. Only two people in history have ever brought the region to heel: Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan.
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  11891. Ukraine didn't have a choice in the matter. Are you saying that they should just roll over and accept slavery to Moscow? How very despotic of you. I hope you prefer living on your knees as a subject rather than on your feet as a free person.
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  11892.  @kcccc5682  The prosecution has failed to prove that. Hell, even the FBI and the DOJ refused to even pursue that charge. Even Fareed Zakaria has acknowledged this as a farce.
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  11893.  @ATigerShark  Public health, yes. Energy, no. RFK is part of the neo-Gaia climate cult.
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  11894. What is the old military saying? "A combat ready unit will never pass parade inspection, while a parade ready unit will never survive in a combat situation"? The Russians even have a name for it: Sukhomlinov Effect.
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  11895. It does, but government constantly interfere, which results in them creating the very problems they claim to be fixing.
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  11896. That was AVERAGE age. Most of the signers died in their mid 70s to mid 80s. generally speaking, if a person made to age 25, they could reasonably expect to live to their 70s unless war broke out. High child mortality rates are what cases the average to be in the 50s.
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  11897. I agree that the pilots already paid with their lives. But who authorized them? Who gave the go-ahead for someone they knew was not capable? THOSE people need to be held to account because their toxic influence will create another similar situation.
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  11898. The billionaires don't want the US constitution. They want to exploit the peasants and serfs. Follow the money and you will find that they have donated to practically every liberal-progressive activist group to upend the US constitution.
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  11899. "Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin good forces have invented or made” -J.R.R. Tolkien
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  11900. Why would they? How would that benefit them?
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  11901. The problem is that the 5 permanent members cannot be ejected. It goes to show how broke the UN truely is.
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  11902.  @JeanPierreVenson  I agtee with you on that. No less that 50% of deposits should be on hand. Sadly, the Feds allow banks to only hold 10%. In effect, the banks simply add zeros to the balance sheet to create fake money out of thin air with nothing to back it up; no assets nor collateral. If private citizens did that, we would go to prison for Pyramid Schemes.
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  11903. Roko's Basilisk
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  11904.  @Polygon-yug-9581  Ukraine isn't in control of the power plant. Russia is. Ukraine can't deny the IAEA access to an area that they do not have control over. You are bloviating and deflecting. it is RUSSIA alone who is denying access to the power plant.
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  11905. I call hogwash on that. The system is still grossly overbudget and 20 years behind schedule.
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  11906.  @groMMit1981  Yeah, something tells me that is merely what the defense industry claims, not the actually costs since politicians don't actually look at the fine print. The developers will tell you the materials and labor cost, but then conveniently leave out the premium they add to cover the R&D.
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  11907. By most measurements that is the case. However, the left thinks anything to the right of Joseph Stalin is a "right wing nazi".
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  11908. Sullivan ruling. The media are untouchable until it is overturned by the SCOTUS. Let us hope Alan Dershowitz's libel case gets them to invalidate that monstrosity.
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  11909.  @Nofilter1976  You missed his point. When they DID have that power, they didn't do anything with it! They COULD have repealed any number of Democrat policies but refused. Why? Because they wanted a campaign issue to run on. The GOP is the reverse side of the same coin as the DNC.
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  11910. They did with Lisa Murkowski. But then she ran a write-in campaign and won with Democrat support. Most other states have "sore loser" laws to prevent what she did.
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  11911.  @jessehachey2732  Have you even looked at how much money the US invests in education? The return on investment is abominable. Higher literacy rate than in the 1850s and yet much less wits and common sense.
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  11912. In effect, he was just as much of a fraud as Theresa May.
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  11913. MythBusters have proven that within 3 meters, the sword IS more dangerous than a gun. There is a reason why use of a combat knife is part of Marine Corp training.
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  11914. When you consider that Ukraine was expected to fall in three days and it is now three months in, I think it is quite easy to say they have already won. And this is hardly over yet. The Third Reich took ALL of Ukraine in just four months. They held it for about two years before the Soviets ejected them completely. Moral of the story: don't count your eggs before they hatch. Don't underestimate the Ukrainians.
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  11915. It is more convoluted than that. They want to pretend Spanish isn't gendered so they can apply their standards of gendering to it. They don't realize that the process is Anglicization which is a form of whitewashing.
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  11916. Only from the leadership of the Senate. The guy is a typical power addicted invalid.
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  11917.  @poisonouslead85  And removing the powder from a bullet does just that. Incidentally, the NFA covers just about ANY modification to a firearm. Simply adding or removing a buttstock falls under those regulations. Goes to show you how obnoxiously overbearing federal gun statutes actually are.
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  11918. That won't solve your problem, it only creates an entirely new set of problems. Furthermore, the drug cartels don't stop literally murdering their competition just because you made it legal.
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  11919.  @tylernorby4939  The devil is in the details. And the details paint a VERY different picture than the claims. Also, you seem to not realize that the local department of corrections is the biggest drug rehabilitation agency. Further, your long prison sentencings are a result of mandatory minimums pushed by the very politicians pushing for legalization. It is a giant grift and you are being played by the people purposely trying to tear down society. This comes straight out of the revolutionary's handbook.
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  11920.  @mmarques2736  Because you falsely believe that by being legal, they would automatically change their "business practices". Bootleggers still flaunt the law despite alcohol being legal. And people are still murdered over moonshine. It will be no different with any legalized controlled substance.
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  11921.  @mmarques2736  I was using the criminality regarding alcohol as an analogy. That you can't understand that shows a lack of critical thinking skills on your part. I was using a frame of reference; one you clearly reject and so there is no point trying to explain something to someone who refuses to entertain an idea for the sake of argument. I HAVE answered your question, you just don't like the answer because it doesn't comport with your myopic view of the world. "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” ― Aristotle, mentor to Alexander the Great.
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  11922. Nick was scheduled to be on, but then started making demands, particularly about bringing on people Tim didn't agree to in the initial arrangement.
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  11923.  @theamericanextremist  Tim event talks about it later in this video. You are clearly a tourist shilling for Nick and engaging in the very behaviors that Tim and company criticize you people for doing.
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  11924.  @theamericanextremist  Receipts for going on the Timcast show? Don't make me laugh.
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  11925.  @theamericanextremist  You mean grifters who pretend to be on the right. Conservatives actually support Israel. LEFTIST are anti-Israel. And no surprise because leftism and antisemitism goes hand in hand.
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  11926.  @ChefClary60  C.S. Lewis called it "Chronological snobbery". Other examples of such Anachronisms include "Presentism" and "Historian's Fallacy, though those two examples often get confused. Richard Rodreguez, you are trying that that is what is important. Too many just simply brush it off and so remain a fool as Confucius observed. You however, chose to ask the question as so while you may be embarrassed for a moment, you become wiser for having taken the time to try. multigamer1001- I fear that is where it is headed. The Nazis were not the only book burners. Mao's followers during the Cultural Revolution and Pol Pot's goons during "Democratic Kampuchea" did the same. I am reminded of the Heinrich Henie quote: "Whether they begin burning books, they in the end burn human beings". He was aware of the destruction of the Library of Alexandria as the example.
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  11927.  @Mr.Monta77  Keep dreaming. Trump got MORE votes in 2020 than he did in 2016. And he has not lost a single one. Biden however, HAS lost ground, down to less than 30% from his high on inauguration day. Buyer's remorse is strong among Biden voters, a problem that Trump does not have.
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  11928.  @David_Lloyd-Jones  2016 primary proves otherwise.
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  11929. And yet he STILL got elected in 2016 despite all of that. Underestimate him at your own peril.
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  11930. There has been talk about morphing ASEAN from a purely economic one into a military-economic block. Sadly, the disputes over the Islands have been too much of a hindrance for that. A real shame because if they COULD temporarily suspend their dispute and present a united front, they could form a defense line in the Parcel Island pushing the Chinses out at one spot instead of individually.
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  11931.  @lachlanp3365  All of those are fair points.
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  11932.  @khai96x  Finland and Sweden beg to differ. So do the Warsaw Pact nations who eventually joined NATO. Your blanket statement shows your myopic views.
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  11933. Funny how they are always blaming Iran, as if they WANT John Bolton's War in Persia.
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  11934. Yeah, I am all for completely pulling out of Europe, save for a few forces in Poland. It is Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan who are worth spending blood and treasure protecting.
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  11935.  @BasilAbdef  "Largess of the west"? You realize that Ukraine has been given OLD and soon to be trashed equipment? And if the out-of-date Western equipment is running circles around the best Russia has to offer, then that just proves that FORCE MULTIPLIERS more than make up for the disparity in manpower.
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  11936.  @BasilAbdef  keep coping. Ukraine's "largess" from the West is mostly old and outdated equipment that was going to be trashed anyhow. The fact that it is running circles around the best Russia can field shows that force multipliers absolutly makes up for the disparity in manpower.
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  11937.  @BasilAbdef  I don't disagree that the West has been dithering from day one. However, much like the experts who swore that Kiev would fall in less than a week, you keep underestimating the Ukrainians. If this war has proven anything, it is that people grossly downplay what the UAF can accomplish.
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  11938.  @dracoboomin6511  You mean the Ukrainians should have accepted the Munich Conference of 1939 and surrendered the Sudetenland? To Third Reich Russia? Putin is doing EXACTLY what the Austrian painter did. Learn your history. Appeasement NEVER works.
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  11939.  @julioseviltwin2304  By what definition? The IAU standard comes from a single 1802 paper and is based on a disproven theory of gravity. That isn't science, that is laziness on the part of the "experts". Dr. Philip J. Metzger of the University of Central Florida has demonstrated why their criteria fails spectacularly when you put Pluto around a Red Dwarf like Proxima Centauri or Jupiter around a large star like Sirus or Vega.
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  11940.  @MD-pl4ww  Try looking at the responses closer. No two are exactly the same. Hardly a cut and paste job. And certainly more sophisticated than a bot account posting.
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  11941. Yeah, it is like these people have never heard of Nelson Mandela, who spent time in prison before serving as president of South Africa.
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  11942. How is the draft any different than vaccine and mask mandates? You are quick to send other people's children off to war but not your own? PS I am a retired vet, so don't you dare accuse me of being a "chickenhawk".
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  11943.  @rustyfolts3298  Of course you don't care because it is not you nor your kin who will be paying the butcher's bill. I have already put myself on the firing line for you. You have zero right to demand others do so against their will. You don't believe in freedom, liberty and self-determination if you think that it is appropriate to force others to fight in wars not of their choosing. That makes you a fascistic-totalitarian.
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  11944. You make a good point. The forecasts are seen through rose-colored glasses and ignores the issues that have plague the continent for decades. Hand-in-hand with the corruption is the proclivity for warlordism. The authors blatantly ignore the numerous brushwars that have plague the continent.
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  11945.  @haroldmorris5901  Wow, you are completely delusional. First, guns are not the problem. Man will kill with spears, axes, or bows just as easily with guns. If anything, guns make people more polite. And before you bloviate about gun deaths in the US, keep in mind most gun violence in the US occurs in areas where the population is forcibly disarmed. Second, Africa has always been ungovernable by outside forces and remains so. Thomas Sowell has great documentaries explaining why this is. Geography, geology, and topography is but one reason as to why. Your last paragraph is nothing more than word salad of fancy words you think you understand, but clearly don't. Most of them are completely unrelated to each other. Put down the sherry and stop engaging in hysterics.
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  11946.  @samanth.  By "stable" do you mean the nearly continuous Brush Wars? I suppose consistently in conflict is a stability of sorts.
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  11947.  @samanth.  No consistent war in Africa? Let me educate you. Pick an area of Africa. Any location. This list is hardly comprehensive. And all of them have cited sources confirming that they actually did happen. h t t p s :// en. wikipedia . org /wiki / List_of_conflicts_in_Africa PS, and calling me "Racist" for point them out only proves that you know I am correct and cannot win the merits of the debate. In effect by calling me racist you are admitting defeat.
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  11948. "Testing the West"? Have you so quickly forgotten the 2008 Russo-Georgian War over South Ossetia? Or the 2014 theft of Crimea? They both followed the playbook Putin is using now. Difference is, the Ukrainians are putting up more of a fight than they did in 2014.
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  11949.  @The_Primary_Axiom  It just shows the man has no spine or morals. He is the kind of guy who would produce a Goebbels propaganda movie if he was paid in gold (and I let you imagine where said gold came from).
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  11950. The ban covers ANY Chinese owned company, not just Tiktok. If it exclusively targeted Tiktok, that alone would have gotten the ban overturned.
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  11951. Indeed. He thought that by Blitzkrieg on Kiev, he could take the whole of Ukraine. It didn't work out and now he finds himself in a mess.
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  11952.  @ABanRocks  It may be hurting Europe, but Gas Station Putin is feeling it harder. India and China are ripping off Russia.
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  11953.  @bloodfiredrake7259  Operation: Mincemeat. The Brits made a big stink on purpose so as to convincingly sell the false story they purposely dropped into the hands of the Nazis.
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  11954.  @strayandrongo7461  So you are a shill for Putin's aggression, and you believe that peace under the bootheel of a dictator is preferable to liberty. And funny you mention the Minsk agreement because Putin NEVER intended on honoring that agreement and instead had every intention of conquering the entirety of the Ukraine. IF the Ukrainians agreed with you, they would never have had put up a fight in the defense of Kiev. They would have simply rolled over and capitulated as Putin expected. Their actions completely repudiate everything you claim.
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  11955.  @MrGrim-yr8sg  Hyperbole is not making your point. The nuclear threat is grossly overblown by the media and the critics. The fears of nuclear winter are based on junk science. Scientists and skeptics like Michael Crichton have demonstrated the fallacies in those arguments. Bringing to the point, claims about preventing nuclear war shows a gross misunderstanding of what actually would happen in a nuclear arms exchange. Most of the power of nuclear weapons comes from the FEAR of their use, not the actual effect. Once used, they lose most of their geopolitical power. Case in point, Putin's used of conventional weapons against civilian populations.
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  11956. The US still uses the U-2 Dragon Lady to gather intelligence. Loiter time over the target is greater with a plane or balloon than with a satellite. Resolution is better as well.
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  11957. Sunk cost fallacy. She can't accept that she was wrong.
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  11958. Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, the father of Navy Nuclear is responsible to America choosing the water moderated reactors over graphite moderated reactors. And US Navy nuclear has NEVER had a reactor related accident in its entire history. There is a reason why US Nuclear takes its cues from the US Navy. Nobody does nuclear like the US Navy. Fukushima was nothing compared to the Kyshtym Disaster that nobody talks about. More people died from the Windscale Fire in the UK than from Fukushima. Stop acting like the Japanese disaster was anything like Soviet or European nuclear incidents. Most of the leak from Fukushima came from the waste storage pools, not the reactors themselves. The tragic irony is that had the Yucca Mountain Repository not been shuttered in the 90s, then the waste at Fukushima would have been buried in Nevada instead of in Japan at the time of the accident.
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  11959.  @grafity1749  And yet Hunter Biden was on the board of Russian Energy Company Burisma. Care to respond to that?
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  11960. Birdshot is a glorified noisemaker. Use it as the "warning" first shot to scare off the weak. Make the second shot buckshot so that the first wave becomes visually disabled.
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  11961. DeSantis' campaign team is intrinsically connected to the Veritas Team suing James O'Keef. DeSantis is an establishment patsy.
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  11962. And yet it was Trump who first sent stingers and Javelins to Ukraine in 2017 when Biden and Obama only sent blankets. If you take Russian TV at face value, then I have a bridge to sell you. Putin's mouthpiece is pusposl5y causing confusion, just like they did with the hoax Steele Dossier.
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  11963. And yet it was Trump who first sent Stingers and Javelins to Ukraine in 2017 when Obama and Biden only sent blankets.
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  11964. Pure delusional fantasy. The Shale Oil Revolution threatened Putin's near monopoly on energy in Europe. Ukraine was in a position to become the third largest oil producer due to shale fracking. This war has EVERYTHING to do with Russia under Putin stealing Ukraine's oil reserves under Donbas and the Crimea. Also, when the historically neutral Swiss, Swedes, and Fins don't believe your claims, you have lost the plot. Europe was about to emancipate itself from Russian energy when Putin started this war.
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  11965. Same here. That was awesome when I was a kid. As I recall, sometime after Froot Loops had a similar promotion when you could get Legos.
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  11966. Naw, what they need is another Hindenburg. Prussian-Kaiser Imperial leadership, not the National Socialist kind.
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  11967.  @AgentYellowWang  Non-sequitur. How many have you killed?
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  11968.  @blackoak4978  "Hundres of Thousands of dollars"? You clearly have been drinking the Kool-Aid.
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  11969. 75% of the world doesn't give a dead rat's butt about what she is saying. They are more worried about putting food on the table than her drama queen antics.
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  11970. Yeah, funny how cutting off supplies risks the lines collapsing. Trump was flirting with Nevile Chamberlain for worst appeaser.
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  11971.  @EdnaChrist  Yeah, and some of Trump's business have gone belly up, such as the Atlantic City Casino. He may be a good businessman, but he may have made a bad judgement call on Ukraine. And there is president for him making bad choices: Mike Pence.
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  11972. 'If You Voted For Biden And Don't Regret It, You're The Problem' - Jake Paul
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  11973. Funny, because under Trump there were no new wars and things were getting more peaceful. especially with the Abraham Accords. Then Biden enters office and the War in Ukraine kicks off.
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  11974. Before then, but Trump just forced them to take off their mask.
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  11975. This is typical of unions. They act like the mafia does towards those who break ranks.
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  11976. The pipe is in water less than 300 feet. A scuba diver could reach it easily.
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  11977. "Be all you can be" was a better slogan that the boneheaded "Army of One" nonsense. That shows you how brain-dead Army recruitment got in the 2000s.
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  11978. Your Trump derangement is discrediting anything else you have to say. Trump's stance on NATO was because NONE, save for the former Warsaw Pact and the UK were meeting their defense spending quotas required by the terms of the alliance. He was doing what is called "The Big Ask". He was bluffing them into meeting their obligations by threatening to pull out of NATO. As far as military commitments, you seem to blatantly ignore the fact that Obama pulled out of Iraq against the advice of the neocons only to have to enact "The Surge" because what they predicted would happen came true. Afghanistan was a collapse in slow motion because nation building was NOT the goal, capturing or killing Bin Laden was. Afghanistan became a repeat of the very same blunders of Vietnam where in the body count was more important than any strategic or even tactical gains. Take a look at how much of the country the Taliban controlled in 2014 and it becomes no surprise that the fall of Kabul was only a matter of time because the generals didn't know what they were really doing. Further, under Obama, the US military shrank to numbers not seen since BEFORE WORLD WAR ONE. So don't blame Trump for the actions of those incompetent leaders before him. His biggest screw up was that he listened to the advice of "experts" in Washington rather than the input of the men on the ground and in the fight.
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  11979. Which is why you want to change locations after taking the shot. "Counter battery fire" as it were.
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  11980. While it is never a good idea to handle radioactive materials with bare hands, not all radiation is the same. Alpha particle emitters CAN be handled safely as the radiation cannot penetrate the skin. The Beta emitters will easily penetrate skin. The bigger concern is the gamma radiation that both produce.
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  11981.  @jasonlarsen4945  Completely false. Volcanic emissions vastly outperform anything humans can do. Incidentally, fossil fuels come from carbon that was already on Earth since its formation 4 billion years ago. Stop this grifting over "man cause climate change". It is the same false argument about "human caused global cooling" in the 1970s.
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  11982.  @michaeldeierhoi4096  Talking about strawman arguments, the ONLY argument for climate change being the result of man is consensus. That isn't science, that is appeal to authority. The data is inconclusive at best. "Finally, I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough." -Michael Crichton's 2003 CalTech speech on Global Warming.
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  11983.  @michaeldeierhoi4096  To quote Michael Crichton, "the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus. Period." You resorting to claiming consensus is a logical fallacy called appeal to authority which makes anything else you claim based on that illegitimate. "Finally, I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way." -Michael Crichton
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  11984. Indeed. When the process is the punishment, the 8th amendment cruel and unusual punishment as well as 6th amendment due process have been violated.
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  11985. Indeed. Where is Mayor Pete Buttplug?
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  11986. Little miss anti-fascist should actually watch the 1943 Disney short "Der Fuhrer's Face" and realize that Walt was an actual anti-Fascist, not just some poser.
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  11987. Because they have the money, power, and prestige to obstruct justice.
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  11988. If there was a mobilization option, Putin would have pulled the trigger. The last attempt was a disaster.
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  11989. Fear over carbon emissions is a joke, and a bad one at that. The amount of carbon on the planet hasn't changed in 5 billion years. It was here when the planet formed, it will be here when the planet becomes burnt to a crisp by the Sun.
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