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by Gandalf
2024-03-15 07:06pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 202
Views: 7367

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread

You can keep repeating that claim all you want, it means nothing because that's not what's happening here . You can waffle on about anti-communist bullshit as much as you like as if it's somehow relevant but it changes nothing. By all means though, keep stuffing that strawman with those red herring...
by Gandalf
2024-03-15 08:45am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: US passes bill to ban TikTok unless Chinese owner sells platform
Replies: 29
Views: 1007

Re: US passes bill to ban TikTok unless Chinese owner sells platform

That's how you get around government bans and blocks in the US and Canada (probably most of Europe too). Example - Contractor that owes the government money and they are garnishing your wages? Set up a corporation, and have that corporation bill people for your services, and then just take your pay...
by Gandalf
2024-03-14 10:04pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 202
Views: 7367

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread

Here , because although it's common knowledge what the Nazis did I couldn't express it any better myself. If you're going to cite glorious Wikipedia on the subject, scroll down to the part where the page mentions "soft core" denial by likening it to other historical atrocities. I wouldn't...
by Gandalf
2024-03-14 09:34pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 202
Views: 7367

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread

To qualify as "holocaust denial" it has to contain one or more of the following: Nazi Germany's "Final Solution" was aimed only at deporting Jews from the territory of the Third Reich and did not include their extermination. Nazi authorities did not use extermination camps and g...
by Gandalf
2024-03-14 04:45pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: US passes bill to ban TikTok unless Chinese owner sells platform
Replies: 29
Views: 1007

Re: US passes bill to ban TikTok unless Chinese owner sells platform

Interestingly, Trump is against the Tik Tok ban. So this could help him with younger voters.
by Gandalf
2024-03-14 04:08pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 202
Views: 7367

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread

The Sisko wrote: 2024-03-14 02:04pm So wait, Stalin wasn't a murderous autocrat and the Soviet Union did nothing wrong? I'd love a thread about this.
No, but apparently saying that A isn't as bad as B is the same as saying that they're flawless.
by Gandalf
2024-03-13 10:45pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: US passes bill to ban TikTok unless Chinese owner sells platform
Replies: 29
Views: 1007

Re: US passes bill to ban TikTok unless Chinese owner sells platform

Solauren wrote: 2024-03-13 10:21pmYou'd be surprised how many people I know use VPNS for stuff. And all you have to do is set up a third party company for billing purposes to bypass the ban.
The ease of Tik Tok is that you can open it up for instant content with little effort. Adding a VPN layer is going to slow a lot of people.
by Gandalf
2024-03-12 04:02pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 202
Views: 7367

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_voting Why are people acting like being required to vote is some special Russian tyranny move instead of something also done by noted fascist dictatorships Australia, Singapore and Belgium? Here in Belgium there is compulsory voting, but voting is done ano...
by Gandalf
2024-03-07 03:09pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: US Election 2024: Grumpy Old Men
Replies: 37
Views: 1687

Re: US Election 2024: Grumpy Old Men

I see three possibilities for 2028: - Trump wins this year. He can't run again - Trump loses this year. I doubt he can delay his trials long enough, so he's going to have to try and run from wherever he's been incarcerated. - Trump dies Either way, I can't see him being a serious candidate in 2028 ...
by Gandalf
2024-03-06 07:56pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: US Election 2024: Grumpy Old Men
Replies: 37
Views: 1687

Re: US Election 2024: Grumpy Old Men

So that's I guess the setup to Haley 2028, hoping that by then everyone is burned out on Trump.
by Gandalf
2024-03-04 04:54pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: US Election 2024: Grumpy Old Men
Replies: 37
Views: 1687

Re: US Election 2024: Grumpy Old Men

American domestic media coverage of the contest. "Biden has problems, he's so old, the economy is only doing REALLY good not REALLY REALLY good, he didn't instant transmission to the Kremlin and kill Putin on Feb 23, 2022 and he sometimes says things that are old man speak." "Trump i...
by Gandalf
2024-03-02 08:37am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 202
Views: 7367

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread

Solauren wrote: 2024-03-01 02:44pm That's part of the reason I'm in favor of hiring every merc. company in the world to help booster Ukraine.
(or at least the acceptable ones).

They come with their own munitions and equipment.
Why would an acceptable mercenary company take such an offer?
by Gandalf
2024-02-27 07:15pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: US Election 2024: Grumpy Old Men
Replies: 37
Views: 1687

US Election 2024: Grumpy Old Men

I thought I'd get started on a thread for all of this wacky content. Right now in the Michigan Democratic primary, Biden is up against the proverbial empty chair, because of his stance on Israel and Palestine. So the ongoing story of Biden having a unified party while Trump can't get rid of Haley mi...
by Gandalf
2024-02-26 05:24pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
Replies: 431
Views: 31051

Re: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue

Elfdart wrote: 2024-02-25 02:58pm It's worth a try, though the DNC's reaction will be as follows:
  • You're going to get Trump elected!
That was Gretchen Whitner last night on CNN, presumably as a part of the 2028 run. No real acknowledgement of the underlying concerns of genocide, just covering for Joe Biden.
by Gandalf
2024-02-25 06:14am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
Replies: 431
Views: 31051

Re: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib tells fellow Democrats: reject Biden in primary The progressive US congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has called on her fellow Michigan Democrats to vote “uncommitted” in the state’s presidential primary election – at the expense of the party’s incumbent, Joe Biden – in late Fe...
by Gandalf
2024-02-25 05:17am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 202
Views: 7367

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread

So what I'm hearing is that the US and other NATO countries need to massively increase aid to Ukraine, including sending actual troops to supplement them. I haven't really heard a reason why we shouldn't do this other than "Putin will totally nuke any foreigners who set foot in Russia's Ukrain...
by Gandalf
2024-02-23 11:01am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Replies: 1780
Views: 137333

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.

Also, as it is now 24/02, the conflict is now entering its third year.
by Gandalf
2024-02-23 10:24am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Replies: 1780
Views: 137333

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.

Hey Gandalf, I think we're all aware at this point that you believe it's really hypocritical to be against this war unless you were exactly as against every war the US and its allies have started so unless you're going to take the next step and actually say that's why Russia should be able to Iraq ...
by Gandalf
2024-02-22 05:35pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Replies: 1780
Views: 137333

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.

Russia is attempting to conquer and annex territory, while at the same time committing genocide. While not much of a difference, it's enough that Russia is doing worse then anything the US has done. No, they just fund allies who annex territory and commit genocide while advancing US interests. It's...
by Gandalf
2024-02-21 03:59pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Replies: 1780
Views: 137333

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.

I noticed that, placing such a facility in Ukraine itself is just going to become a target. It would make more sense to place it on the Polish side of their border with Ukraine. Hopefully this will be clarified in the future. Looking at maps, southeast Poland has a railway crossing into Ukraine, an...
by Gandalf
2024-02-21 03:29pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Replies: 1780
Views: 137333

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.

Ukraine has a joint venture with the German Rheinmetall to service and repair Western weapons sent to help Kyiv fend off Russia. The company also plans to open an ammunition factory in the country. At some point in this thread, aerius went through the massive input requirements for an ammo plant. T...
by Gandalf
2024-02-20 08:07pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Replies: 1780
Views: 137333

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.

Solauren wrote: 2024-02-20 08:02pm I was thinking more 'post World War 2'
That just privileges countries who got their conquest out of the way earlier and managed to hold on to their gains subsequently.
by Gandalf
2024-02-19 11:28pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Replies: 1780
Views: 137333

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.

You don't need to be a mod to declare "DR5, back up your shit."
by Gandalf
2024-02-19 10:55pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Replies: 1780
Views: 137333

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.

Unfortunately they're getting the Blackrock Plan. Blackrock, JP Morgan, and the usual capitalist vultures are already lining up to asset strip the nation and enslave it to their new corporate masters. They're planning to do the same thing to the Ukraine that they tried to do to Russia until Putin w...
by Gandalf
2024-02-19 08:44pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Replies: 1780
Views: 137333

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.

If Ukraine surrenders right now they'll end up in a similar situation as Chechnya. It's not pretty, we're not going to like it, but it's a path towards peace which leaves what's left of the Ukraine with some degree of autonomy. Keep fighting long enough and they'll suffer the same fate as the Circa...