Comments by "Paul Gibbon" (@paulgibbon5991) on "Jake Broe" channel.

  1. Russian Generals: "Russian forces are advancing rapidly and capturing multiple towns!" Putin: 😀 Russian Generals: "There's just one catch...."
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  2.  @ninemoonplanet  The thing is...for decades to come, if you're talking to a Russian man of a certain age, there's a chance you're talking to a murderer / rapist / torturer / child kidnapper. Of course, they will all say they were one of the good ones, innocent conscripts who never wanted to be there.
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  3.  @septimiufly5134  Nuclear threats cannot be a factor. The message cannot go out to the world that nuclear blackmail works or makes anyone go easy on you for your atrocities. There should be no restraint in breaking Russia's economy and military for the rest of the century and supplying whatever orc-slaying weapons Ukraine requires.
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  4. Remember one historical fact: Russia never talks about negotiations when they think they're winning.
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  5.  @tedferkin  But quite appropriate.
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  6.  @koma-k  Don't assume that this is a quality unique to Russians. It's the natural end point of people saying they're "not interested in politics" or "why vote, they're all the same".
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  7.  @reaper2943  "Whataboutism" is a Soviet-pioneered propaganda technique, whereas cricitisms are not answered directly, but distracted from by pointing out something that somebody else did. Whether the counter-accusation is actually relevant or stands up to criticism is not important, the intent is only to divert the attention of the audience.
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  8.  @blindinglight8604  The problem with the Republicans as a whole is that they very consistently bend the knee to the crazies in their party, whenever those crazies show signs of having any popular appeal. It's not just the actual abusers who do the damage in a company or family, it's the wider circle of people who cover up for and enable the abusers.
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  9. If Russia screams about escalation, that's an immediate sign to give Ukraine more of it.
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  10. One useful thing we have done with our smaller contributions is to have shown Putin's red lines to be hollow threats.
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  11. "It's amazing what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit." --Harry Truman
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  12.  @enemyofthestatewearein7945  There's a prejudice from history that Europe invented colonialism and were the only ones who ever practiced it. We did neither, we were just the most successful at it, and the fact that our colonies were largely overseas made it much more visible. Russia struck to brutalising and colonising their neighbours (not for lack of trying), and was VERY successful at exterminating their cultural identity.
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  13. China would also like to have a word about some eastern provinces, and Sweden would like St Petersburg back.
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  14.  @Pulstar232  Also, that STORING that stuff didn't come for free. Weapons need to be maintained, guarded and take up space in storage facilities that also need upkeep and staffing.
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  15. For Russians, the logic is that they fought fascists, therefore they can't possibly become fascists. The US is at an earlier stage of that same process of "It Can't Happen Here".
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  16. It's worth remembering that the abduction and forced adoption of children is clearly defined as genocide in international law.
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  17. I think it's also relevant, because the Russian attempts to dehumanise the Ukranians are front and centre of their war effort. The accusations of Nazism, the consistent "accuse the enemy of whatever we're doing" strategy, the denial that Ukraine has a culture of its own, the looting of museums to destroy Ukranian history....pushing back against that is important in its own right, even if it's not part of the struggle for survival.
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  18. That's the thing. Even for countries that decry Israel as evil incarnate, they don't want to actually help the Palestinains. It's far easier to stir the pot every now and then, to keep Palestine radicalised and to keep Israel as a bogeyman and a distraction from domestic failures.
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  19. "Some people" being botskis, you mean.
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  20. Nelson Mandela would be so proud of them.
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  21.  @katiehettinger7857  The actual cost is trivial. In the UK, we lost more money on Liz Truss' terrible budget, or on Johnson and co awarding contracts for ineffective PPE gear to their Oxford chums during the pandemic.
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  22. Scholz is one of Putin's People, through and through. At this point, it's time to just start ignoring the collaborator.
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  23.  @Carrera6rennsport  Botski reported, may you soon be drafted.
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  24. Like a video game, a late offensive is only late till it arrives.
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  25.  @gvaik  How's your helicopters, navy and artillery doing?
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  26. Of course they are. And they need quick and shoddy prefabs that they can stick actors in front of to talk about how nice Russia has been to them and how you should ignore all those reports of genocide.
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  27.  @simchalebovitch6944  They understand, but they need to pretend otherwise to keep the Kremlinbucks coming in.
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  28. When did he HAVE credibility? He was the foulest of the foul even before he started openly cheerleading for fascists.
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  29. "Neutrality" is inherently pro-Russian. Neutrality always favours the aggressor.
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  30. Russian and Maggat propaganda isn't aimed at people who think about it. It's aimed at people who don't really follow an issue, hoping to push a talking point into the mainstream through sheer weight of repetition.
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  31. @@4k40fps4 How are those Leopards coming along?
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  32. Evil cannot comprehend good.
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  33. It makes sense in a world where "Nazi" means "someone who opposes Russia".
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  34. I don't. No matter why he did it, the man is a traitor, he chose to be a traitor, and he put the lives of good people at risk. Make an example of him, and demonstrate what awaits dirty traitors.
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  35. There's a quote about environmentalism that always stuck in my mind: "We don't need a thousand people doing this perfectly, we need a million people doing it decently." 🙂
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  36.  @arturobianco848  Musk hasn't "innovated" anything, people in his companies do--usually, if you listen to the accounts of ex-employees, by making sure Musk himself is involved as little as possible. He's a company mascot, there to take credit and make the tech-bros swoon.
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  37.  @vp4744  Six of one, and half a dozen of the other. They also both have the same mystifying ability to attract zealous cultists who utterly refuse to see how flawed their waifu is.
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  38.  @dustyfloor1896  Fun bit of trivia--in the novel "Don Quixote", which first used the phrase "pull yourself up by your bootstraps", it was used an an example of something self-evidently impossible, which illustrated how detached from reality the character saying it was.
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  39. A nice side-effect is that it defangs Russia's nuclear threats. It's not total protection, but if you're actually launching a nuclear missile with all the escalation and risk that such a launch entails, you want to be damn certain it's going to hit what you want it to hit. Cutting that chance even a bit dramatically de-escalates.
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  40. Just remember to vote. Putin's banking on Trump getting back in and keeping his promises.
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  41.  @Whatshisname346  Because it works. It's not about creating a plausible narrative, it's about flooding every channel with nonsense and pushing it so hard that observers decide they don't know what to believe.
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  42. Only tragic for Russia.
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  43. Stooped? They were already stealing children, hard to go down from there.
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  44.  @gregbrogan9061  Anyone from there who wants to be Russian is free to go and live in Russia.
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  45.  @cindiheaton6469  In part, that's why it works. It's the "big lie" principle--make the lies so outrageous that people assume you'd never make something like that up.
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  46.  @dawggonevidz9140  You'd think people would have learned, on seeing Russia go from a communist dystopia to a capitalist dystopia, that maybe the problem is Russia.
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  47. Let's not forget that in 2013, Germany had NO problem with sending Leopards to Indonesia, so let's just not start with the lie that they're shying away from wars. Scholz is one of Putin's People, treat him accordingly.
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  48.  @lilacer6841  You're fighting 5% of NATO's military budget and 0 serving soldiers, continue coping.
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  49. Well, a lot of it is also to tell Israel's neighbours "Don't you even think about it."
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  50.  @peterc.1419  Botski reported, may you soon be drafted.
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