Another dumb conspiracy theory down the drain. Will people ever learn?
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Another dumb conspiracy theory down the drain. Will people ever learn?
This is how a police force that protects the public acts, in case the US wants to learn a thing or two.
To his credit, Germany actually is financing the Flamingos. Not sure if the Taurus issue still matters.
Correct, same figures that Zelensky gave. Monthly or daily, it will take time before they can stockpile thousands.
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How? Zelensky said current production is 1 per day, with the goal to expand to 7 per day. Unless I missed something.
Two weeks.
The terrorist country russia is again attacking the Ukrainian capital and other regions with drones. The school year has started, and schoolchildren are sitting in the subway in Kyiv instead of studying; in other cities they have descended into shelters.
What doesn't make sense? In four years, she has been unable to contain Orban. She was one of the worst defence minister in the history of Germany. She is so weak as a leader, that Putin isn't afraid to potentially down her plane. Can you imagine Putin doing that to, say, Macron? I don't think so.
He has better odds at setting the new world record of pole vault anyway.
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Isn't it cute. The leader of the country of no sanitation with the leader of the country of public defecation conspiring against civilised and democratic Ukraine.
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He can fuck all the way off. So can his wife, if she's willing to snug up with a thug and shape-shifter like him. I read earlier today that it was Thiel who somehow convinced him to convert from atheism to Catholicism. That's quite a leap and a weird direction. And nope. I wouldn't kiss that face.
Yes, they are incredibly resourceful, brave, and inspiring.
It isn't silly. Not doing anything emboldens all other autocrats and tyrants.
Nuclear blackmail by russia. Putin would never dare, but he get everyone scared shitless. The same malady that affected the Biden administration. We could have intervened directly, and saved countless Ukrainian lives. We were legally bound to do it, and that is what infuriates me the most.
Resign and let someone who is at least able to contain Orban lead the Commission. That would be a major improvement of our posture.
cowardice and fear of Putin are paralysing every EU leader. We were bound by the Budapest Memorandum to intervene militarily already back in 2014, when Putin invaded Crimea. It's been more of the same shitshow since. I appreciate your trust and follow, but there are some real experts around. :-)
As Europeans, we should take our own responsibilities, but we keep on failing our Ukrainian brethrens. Von der Leyen's idea of leadership is scheduling the next meeting. She was a disaster as a German defence minister, and to no one's surprise, she is a disaster now. Although to be fair,
This is on EU's own weak leadership, which von der Leyen is a prime example thereof. She commands contempt and zero respect from Putin, who can again count on full impunity. This is someone who has failed to contain Orban for four years.
Ironic that it mentions parasitic problems.
If only. We are ruled by imbecilic sheep.
It would also be a great time for von der Leyen to resign. Her extreme weakness invites Putin's contempt and disrespect. He knows that he can act with impunity against an inept leader, who is still unable to contain Orban, four years on. We should start a campaign to get her out of the way.
That would turn all MAGA against him. It's not realistic.
Today's attack on von der Leyen reminded me that russia tried to assassinate Rheinmetall's CEO last year. russia is waging fucking war on Europe and we're still playing games. Time to obliterate these terrorists.
The orcs know that they can act with impunity, and has zero respect for weak leaders like von der Leyen. She isn't even able to contain Orban, let alone Putin.
For Ukrainian missiles and drones to strike terrorist bases in occupied Königsberg (so-called Kaliningrad) they would have to cross enemy territory in Belarus and then get permission to fly over Poland or Lithuania. It would be far better for NATO members to defend themselves.
The plane of @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu targeted by orcish jammers because Putin can count on her extreme weakness, and he knows that he can act with impunity. EU weakness draws only contempt and disrespect. The EU should honour the Budapest Memorandum, but can't even contain Orban, 4 years on.
I disagree. That shows utter contempt, disrespect, and certainty of impunity. We have the weakest leaders ever, in Europe, and von der Leyen is top of the list.
We must stop to outsource all the dirty work to Ukraine. We have our own air forces, and they would make mincemeat of anything the orcs can throw at us. Let's start by bombing the jammers in Koenigsberg.
Ukrainian defenders in Donetsk Oblast dealt a devastating blow to a Russian armored assault group attempting a mechanized push toward the settlements of Prohres and Malynivka.
Worry not, this will elicit a strong-worded letter that Putin will be unable to ignore and laugh at.
Time for a strong-worded letter. That will put Putin in his place.
LOL
Vučić is paying 50€ for counter protestors in Serbia to show foreigners that people still support him. Only poor pensioners and unemployed come. It's more cheerful at the funeral.
Dear online “leftist” scolds, Please direct your morality policing to Nazis at the present time. You can “critique” the rest of us when fascism’s in abeyance. Until then, I’m going to block you, and I’m going to encourage everyone else to block you: we are fighting fascism, you are in the way.
spotlighted in Venice is a propaganda gift to the Kremlin. And every Italian intellectual who shrugs, who insists that art transcends politics, reveals themselves not as enlightened but as decadent moral weaklings dressing up complicity as sophistication.
The professors, critics, and curators who preen about “universal art” are laundering blood with culture. They would rather quote Tolstoy than confront Mariupol. They would rather sip wine at a gala than spell Odesa and Kyiv correctly. Every russian film
Italy’s intellectual class is a disgrace. While Ukrainian cities burn, Italian festivals still drape themselves in russian flags, still bow to russian composers, still parrot russian spellings like obedient courtiers of empire. This is not cosmopolitanism, it's cowardice.
Ma quale anima italiana. L'anima delli mortacci vostra. Imparate a scrivere Odesa, piuttosto. Ignoranti.
I would reserve a Flamingo for inauguration day.
Just a scratch.
The man in the picture is lord Alfred Douglas, not Oscar Wilde.
Musk has shadowbanned the 10 Downing Street account on X, and is stepping up his destabilisation antics as he pushes forward his efforts to control the entirety of Britain's electric power. We have to push back against this foreign chaos-merchant dividing this country with his hate.
once you adjust for map projection, russia is a lot smaller than you probably think thetruesize.com#?borders=1~!...
So many good, courageous and strong Ukrainians are dead. And we are so painfully lame and fearful, weak by choice and arrogant and complacent.
The foreign minister of Hungary, Péter Szijjártó, is an anti-Ukrainian fanatic and recipient of a Friendship Medal from the russian terrorist state. The failure of the EU to expel or suspend Hungary, a russian client state, brings into doubt its viability and reason for being.
Every time she tries to sound tough, she broadcasts whimpering weakness. What 'deterrence' is there in a frigging copy of Trump's wall? Meanwhile Europe is letting Putin murder Ukrainians at will, and is still not honouring its Budapest-Memorandum commitments out of extreme cowardice.
With that small force they can't possibly invade Venezuela, but they could attempt a decapitation of the regime. Maduro won't be caught unprepared like Noriega, though. An invasion of Panama seems like an act of reputational self-harm. Trump possibly was talked out of it long ago.
FUCK china
Yes, and the current US administration is weakening defences and aiding the spread. But the worst of COVID likely is behind us, thanks to vaccines now being present.
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The concepts of dogma and revelation themselves are at the foundations of all totalitarianisms.
Christianity isn't antithetical to dictatorship, though, quite the opposite. Look back at the history of the papacy, the synergy between Mussolini's and Hitler's regimes with the catholic church, the role of the orthodox church in stalinism and the current ruzzian government, etc.
How did we ended up here? The Republican Party that once stood firmly against dictatorship and for Christian values is now posting giant portraits of Trump in Washington, D.C. 1/2
Here is the most up-to-date study. It's been revised down to 60 years, so I misremembered the exact figure. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
I am absolutely pro vaccine. I hate RFK and charlatans in general.
I clarified that we know none of that ,and that these observations just provide a glimpse into frequency of a given event. I am not a working scientist, but I do have a relevant degree. That doesn't matter in the slightest, I am not the one obfuscating. You are.
calculations for all sort of misfortunes. They don't "proof" anything, just tell you roughly what their frequency is.
Major deadly global pandemics occur on average once every 80 years, going by historical data. Prior to COVID, we had the Spanish flu, around the time of WWI. That is of course no guarantee that it won't occur sooner. We are overdue for a catastrophic asteroid strike. There is data and
She doesn't really make your case, as far as I can see. But hey, we shall see. Thanks for the convo. Got to go.
I am a Euro, my forecast counts for nothing. I don't have the pulse of the nation. One of my close friends, who is a leading US scientist, warned me that Trump was going to win. But now the parallels with prior fascistic descents into madness are there to be seen. Anne Applebaum sees them clearly.
I am old enough to remember principled conservatives being the majority of the American right. Now, Trump maintains high approval rates amongst R,in spite of all the abuses against immigrants, etc. He has already poisoned the nation. You should be able to see it.
The full arch took 12 years to pan out. You are 6 months into a regime which has already disbanded and destroyed democratic institutions, treated people extremely unfairly, imprisoned and deported others unlawfully, mobilised the army, etc. There was hardly any reaction from the Trumpist base.
It's identical, not just appropriate. Germans were a decent people, the party turned them to monsters. The nazi party was a fascist party. You called the current regime fascist. What's the big difference, here? It may not devolve into a full genocidal regime, but the dynamics of autocracy are same.
and somehow a victim, then your narcissistic tendencies get massaged and you just don't care if your neighbour gets sent to Uganda for no reason. Especially if inherently gullible (as christards are). Have you seen many R rebelling to the kidnapping of mothers on the street?
They were not fascists, like the majority of Germans who ultimately voted for Hitler. Eventually, they got comfortable with anything the regime did, and later they fully qualified as nazi. When you get permission from above to lose your moral restraints, and you are told that you are both superior
that separates conservatism from liberalism. Both sides generate their extremist fringes, and it's a common responsibility to correct these abominations.
Then you deny that the hard right exists, always existed, and that it's generally refractory to progressive and liberal thought. You may deconvert a bunch of people who got sucked up into it because of their social circumstances, but you will always have a population split along the broad line
You confuse ultimate cause with proximate cause. The ultimate cause of fascism is adherence to fascist beliefs, plus a host of other cultural and social issues. The proximate causes is the weakness of the opposition, and all other things we spoke about.
That's like saying that the Weimar republic or the Versailles treaty led to Hitler. It's trivially true, but completely shifts the blame, and distracts from the urge to remove the fascists at all costs.
The same old corrupt D are better than whatever you have now, and that's not even debatable, I would think.
It is harmful to democracy, but you'll need to ban it first. But that's not the immediate goal, is it. The immediate goal is to prevent a defeat in 2026 because only R are rigging it.
Let's also not forget the redistricting action. The polar opposite of D spinelessness.
Well, given the air time he gets on Fox, and the hysterical reactions by Trump and his sycophants, it's safe to say that facts are currently contradicting you. This may change later on, but right now, no one else has come close to make a dent like he did.
Let me put it in a different way. You need Newsom like you would need a very effective weapon in an arsenal. You need the arsenal as well stocked and diversified as possible, so you can take on the enemy whatever he throws at you. Then for your victory parade, you will showcase only your finest.
That's why you have primaries, I thought.
I actually agree with this, too. I am not missing any of these, I think. But if you make it all about trans issues, as in your first post, that's definitely a tree in the forest.
I totally agree that spineless inaction played a role, but also pandering to some unpalatable ultra-left rhetoric lost a huge moderate chunk of the electorate. You can't chant and encourage 'defund the police', and expect middle-class families to approve. So, that's two divergent causes already.
Probably. Everyone is selling out their own integrity, it appears.
That's highly debatable. In fact, it is strongly disputed that any single cause led to Trump.
Going by your own words, mate. Newson no good on trans, then no good on anything. Newson 'corporate democrat', therefore not representing the common cause of taking down Trump. Just grossly paraphrasing, not mocking you.
There are different interpretations as to why the D lost the elections. I am not an expert of US internal politics. But I have seen my fair share of toppled regimes. It's not by focussing on internal divisions, and orthodoxies. In fact, that's the recipe for defeat.
That may be an internal issue that must be solved separately, but not while you are literally one step away from a civil war. It's just priorities, mate.
What does corporate democrats even mean. It's a political party with a rigid hierarchy. Newsom is the governor of the fourth largest economy on earth, and he gets under Trump's skin better than anyone.
Fuck you, russian scum.
I totally agree. Also, they framed it as a scoop, in their own post about it. Unfollowed. They clearly haven't a clue of basic journalistic concepts.
The immediate goal is to take Trump down, and Newsom simply is the most effective actor able to weaponise the media. You need broad alliances to achieve major goals, not adherence to orthodoxy.
Yes, Europe won't follow the lead of these anti-science loons. But another serious pandemic is statistically improbable, in such a short time.
An opinion by a sycophant in a corrupt putinophile administration seeking to absolve their inept Dear Leader now qualifies as a scoop. Go blow goats for a living.
If you cannot force Putin to peace, if you lack the spine to show strength and leadership instead of pathetic applause on the red carpet -- then at the very least don't obstruct those who are actually doing the work, and above all, stop pleasing and encouraging the aggressor.
Glad to have an ally step up where an old ally has fallen down. It's an emotional gesture and I appreciate the Japanese for making the statement that Europe can count on their friendship. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/japan-to-dep...
It's not unlikely that Trump actually said it.
I’ve heard from a couple of messaging strategists now that people shouldn’t post so much about COVID19 vaccines because it’s “divisive”. I am here to say that I do not give a damn what is popular. I will never ignore scientific evidence for the sake of expediency, and neither should anyone else.
