Comments by "Gavin Mc" (@gavinmc5285) on "CNN" channel.

  1. If you're important enough to be fact-checked you're at least in the business of misinformation.
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  2.  @lfsg689  well, the war on terror has now been 22 years
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  3. the history of Russia for over a century now has been mired in tragedy and unfortunately for everyone it is getting to the point where an arrest of denial is necessary since the opportunities to break from that cycle are decreasing as the consequential impacts increasingly spiral into malignant and pernicious fractals of deeper violence and threats. it is not unique to Russia and although the wider crisis in sovereignty is universal to varying extents the problems that Russians are facing, raising, fighting and projecting are ever more acute and dangerous. the answer to the question asked by Vladimir Lenin - 'what is to be done?' - is facing its own revolution. the Bolshevik hens and cockerels are coming home to roost. the ghosts of 1917, of tsarism, of capitalism by other means, of Stalinism, of Sovietism and of Communism are looking at Russia squarely. authoritarianism is a distraction. Ukraine is a distraction. nuclear weapons are a distraction. the PRC and NATO are distractions. Russia has to look at itself. it has to. it is the sick man of earth and it currently seems to want to treat everyone else as if they were crabs in the same bucket.
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  4. because the navy were all at sea
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  5. notable flinch for the answer from the reporter that asked a difficult multilayered question and got an undiplomatic straightforward answer. - do you think he's a dictator? - yes and people complain when politicans don't answer the question. meantime the prc domestic agency has to save face and tidy it up saying we don't run our protocol in that manner, we're much more finessed in disguise than these american amateurs...
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  6. trump has putin's number. but putin has trump's number too.
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  7. Transparency layers starting to peel
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  8. no-one is allowed to be bigger than the don
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  9. it's ok, you'll find a way to address presidential politics without having to subject your population to the insecurity of an authoritarian dictatorship. maybe build some checks and balances in and have a greater separation of powers. ensure the military have less power to institutionally coerce the civilian leadership and make sure that the judicial system has enough power to check the corruption at the gate instead of letting it spread. and don't fall for the stuff that germany did in the thirties and russia did in the noughties - it only ends in tears.
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  10. well, the cold war lasted c.45 years
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  11. all attention is good attention
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  12. <1% of Russia's population has a good quality of life. and when i say 'good' i mean oligarchically excellent. opulent even.
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  13. the Rubicon-on-Don
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  14. there's a few 'world leaders' out there that could learn about the principle of 'resignation'.
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  15. 2017 - 'i solemnly swear to uphold and protect the USA' 2022 - 'I was JOKING!!!. i meant hold up and REJECT the USA!'
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  16. twenty years for some empty space
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  17. 'jeffrey, he liked the young ones'
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  18.  @josephshields2922  i don't think the Russian Federation is like the USA no, even if similar statistical parallels can be identified
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  19. it's called coke.
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  20. Britain - how to make arms sales look palatable and morally just Germany - how to make arms sales look like they won't bring forth a genocide France - how to make arms sales look internationally acceptable Italy - how to finesse arms sales as suave and legit Vatican - how to tell the Kremlin they're not as far in control as they otherwise think
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  21. prigozhin has played a popular position in an unpopular operation
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  22. iran - middle east winner since blackwater fell
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  23. jokes aside in this jovial festive season over a thimble of bubbly and a few armed guards it is probably a misperception (subject of course to revisionist historical narrative) that ukraine's accession to the minsk agreement of 1991 and then again in 2014 and on, means ukraine 'started' the process by which a paranoid russian leader felt threatened by a sovereign entity that wanted nothing to do with the chokehold of the former u.s.s.r. and even less to do with the stranglehold of an authoritarian dictatorship that was seeking to coerce ukraine into being c.i.s. with a sworn allegiance to the iron fist of moscow in no uncertain terms.
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  24. on the brightside, it's not siberia
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  25. maybe it was to call the international space station to get the international criminal court off the kremlin back after the russian invasion of ukraine from belarus on feb 24 before the russian president celebrated his birthday on 10-7. - if that was the case then a premptive 24 hour call to a low earth orbit station probably wouldn't be cheap. even if it only lasted 45 minutes.
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  26. 20 loud knocks in 33 seconds
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  27. as opposed to 'you lot' (aka 'the whites')
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  28. his delivery is awful. if it was a pizza it would be cold with the toppings slid and crushed.
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  29. a bit of video footage, some conjecture mixed with fact, two opinions, a word blender, a liberal sprinking of loose agenda/s. apply pressure with some fast graphics and expert insights. make the concern sound dramatic and treat all interviewees very importantly. treat with appropriate seriousness and allow to rise for approximately four minutes. if extending to panel or interview analysis then ensure waffles are prebaked and try to initiate at least one offscreen talking point for followup.
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  30. c'mon guys, this isn't wrestling
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  31. come on, everyone knows by now that there's no such thing as a free trump lunch
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  32. wagner had an eastern branch?
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  33. y-knot
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  34. if you say so
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  35. ​ @luvpants2012 orange man in red party gets away with blue murder. basically.
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  36.  @psongman9536  touting replies are great again
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  37. falun gong might know better
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  38. Make America Russia Again LAGO
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  39. getting paid. what else would you be doing in congress? eating bean soup?
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  40. back in the day...
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  41. superbat and the missing covid
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  42. ...from stupidity
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  43. minions. maxions. nucleons.
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  44. 🇺🇦 ukraine targets selectively (discriminate). partly through necessity. 🇷🇺 russian federation forces under putin target indiscriminately (anything and anyone). partially through lack of choice.
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  45. leave the Kremlin out of this
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  46. ok, so they've checked at the back of the sofa. job done. phew, we can all move on then. "treachery is not something he (Putin) forgives" - which is ironic given that he has treacherously betrayed 1. Ukraine, 2. Russia, and 3. the principle of sovereignty by authorising, enabling and defending the full-scale invasion of Ukraine for circa 500 days now. Kremlin inferno
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  47. so did he win the minecraft competition or not?
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  48. 'Insanity is trying the same thing over again and expecting different results' - Ayatollah Mao
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  49. is that the news on channel 42?
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  50. biden - working families trump - trump family
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