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by Elfdart
2024-03-18 03:30pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: US passes bill to ban TikTok unless Chinese owner sells platform
Replies: 29
Views: 1194

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

BUT, along your vein, the safer thing for the US government to do would be to declare 'any company working with TIKTOK, in any capacity, will be investigated for being an US Security threat'. (I can also see them 'any individual workng with Tiktok....) Now, instead of those nice legal protections e...
by Elfdart
2024-03-10 01:36pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 221
Views: 8950

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread

https://apnews.com/article/state-department-victoria-nuland-retiring-russia-ukraine-b06cfb9ca517f1a7f2e10ee7520e3086 The deranged psychopath who said, and I quote, "fuck the EU!" and played a huge part in getting us into this mess in the Ukraine is now gone. Good riddance to a piece of tr...
by Elfdart
2024-03-04 05:43pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Colorado Supreme Court Removes Trump from State Ballot
Replies: 76
Views: 5007

Re: Colorado Supreme Court Removes Trump from State Ballot

I was wrong:

The Court didn't reject this 6-3 or 5-4 -it was 9-0!

This scheme to kick Trump off the ballot was every bit as fucktarded as the efforts to remove Obama from the ballot, only the GOP didn't bet the ranch on it succeeding.
by Elfdart
2024-03-04 03:18pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 221
Views: 8950

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread

So.... Russia human trafficking of Indians for slave soldiers is??? https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/indians-hired-russias-ukraine-war-4152556 Right now, the side that resorted to human trafficking conscripts is Russia ... It's a scummy move, but they're not counting on the handful of dupes bei...
by Elfdart
2024-03-04 01:44am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 221
Views: 8950

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread

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? Back when I was a preschooler, Ian Smith sent...
by Elfdart
2024-02-29 08:31pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
Replies: 458
Views: 32308

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

The Intercept does a deep dive on the allegations of rape and torture on Oct 7. Sources in this link. AMERICAN MEDIA KEEP CITING ZAKA — THOUGH ITS OCTOBER 7 ATROCITY STORIES ARE DISCREDITED IN ISRAEL Israeli media has debunked the ultra-Orthodox group’s stories, but the New York Times won’t say so....
by Elfdart
2024-02-25 02:58pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
Replies: 458
Views: 32308

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

It's worth a try, though the DNC's reaction will be as follows: You're going to get Trump elected! Fuck you, you dirty hippie -I mean terrorist! You'll come around and vote for Biden in November-who are you kidding? You're an anti-Semite! All of the above. And if Biden ends up losing in November bec...
by Elfdart
2024-02-20 11:09pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Replies: 1780
Views: 137778

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.

Is 6 million+ sizable enough for you? That's how many have fled the country so far. If the war is already lost, or at least unwinnable, I'd rather see every soul left in Ukraine fleeing into the EU. Better a life in exile than death by shell or bullet. I don't think a long deadly stalemate is ever ...
by Elfdart
2024-02-19 12:39pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Replies: 1780
Views: 137778

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.

Will the US stop trying to meddle in other countries' spheres of influence and couping neighbors after this, or do you think we'll just do it even harder? This entire war is the USA's fault, then it not immediately ending and dragging on for years with bloody casualties and eventually a Ukrainian d...
by Elfdart
2024-02-19 04:38am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Replies: 1780
Views: 137778

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.

Also, in Ukraine, military aged men are forbidden to leave the country. Was any such restriction ever imposed in the US during Vietnam? There was no blanket ban on leaving the country. However, it was made clear to those whose deferments were about to expire that leaving the country to avoid the dr...
by Elfdart
2024-02-18 08:29pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Replies: 1780
Views: 137778

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/18/world/europe/ukraine-russia-strategy-avdiivka.html Article on Avdiivka's fall. Nestled within the gloom, again on the topic I was just talking about: “ One of the key events from 2023 was that Russia was able to recruit a large number of volunteers [/u],” said Rob...
by Elfdart
2024-02-18 07:34pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Replies: 1780
Views: 137778

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.

Sucks, yeah. The Cold War peace dividend had a cost and we're paying it,, plus the costs of a bunch of other short-sighted decisions. What "peace dividend"? Heh, yeah. I meant things like the rolling back of production of certain types of military goods because with the Cold War over we d...
by Elfdart
2024-02-18 06:59pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Replies: 1780
Views: 137778

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.

Steve wrote: 2024-02-18 06:38pm Sucks, yeah. The Cold War peace dividend had a cost and we're paying it,, plus the costs of a bunch of other short-sighted decisions.
What "peace dividend"?
by Elfdart
2024-02-16 10:54am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
Replies: 458
Views: 32308

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

Cenk Uygur may be a gasbag and his campaign for President is a joke, but this ad is pure gold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYs43NasVSY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYs43NasVSY If you're an American taxpayer, the money you give to the IRS pays for genocide in Gaza. Just remember that the next t...
by Elfdart
2024-02-16 10:30am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Replies: 1780
Views: 137778

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.

Mild shock... Navalni has died while taking a walk at the camp. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/jailed-russian-opposition-leader-navalny-dead-prison-service-2024-02-16/ One loose end tied. A message sent. The two other loose ends will most likely face charges (or accidents) after the election....
by Elfdart
2024-02-16 10:19am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Replies: 1780
Views: 137778

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.

What's the rush? Once this war burns itself out I doubt Russia's going to be in a hurry to try again any time soon, and even if for some unfathomable reason China decided they'd rather have us as vassals than export customers there's an inconvenient amount of continent in the way of attacking us di...
by Elfdart
2024-02-15 06:31pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Replies: 1780
Views: 137778

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.

This is what happens when critical supply chains like ammunition are run by psychopathic corporations motivated solely by profit, and not the state. There's near zero private incentive to invest in expanding production capacity for a low-margin item like an artillery shell, especially when they're ...
by Elfdart
2024-02-07 11:12pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
Replies: 458
Views: 32308

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

Is he even all there enough to understand what's going on more than half the time? As we learn more and more about how the brain ages I grow ever more concerned that we leave nations in the hands of people with fading faculties. I really don't want to go down the justified age discrimination/prejud...
by Elfdart
2024-02-06 10:40pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
Replies: 458
Views: 32308

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

Being censured by this Congress is like Jerry Sandusky telling you he doesn't want your kid trying out for his Little League team. Biden squeaked by Cheeto Mussolini in Michigan, Arizona and Georgia -states that have hundreds of thousands of Arab and Muslim voters. If he only pulls a lower percentag...
by Elfdart
2024-02-03 11:17pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
Replies: 458
Views: 32308

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

On a lighter note, Katie Halper & Friends put this catastrophe to music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEG76hlnhNw Not only is the satire dead on target, but they took one of the most insipid pop songs of the 1980s and made it fun to listen to. :lol: "That's smooth -like a 2000-pound bomb!...
by Elfdart
2024-02-02 10:31am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Texas vs. The united States - border issues
Replies: 42
Views: 2438

Re: Texas vs. The united States - border issues

The real problem here is that Biden is too much of a weenie to send in the Army like Eisenhower and Kennedy did (and Johnson threatened to do) when states started this seditious bullshit. Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson didn't have to deal with a very large bloc within Congress that was openly back...
by Elfdart
2024-02-02 12:37am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
Replies: 458
Views: 32308

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

https://www.unhcr.org/emergencies/ongoing-emergencies UNHCR is handling multiple emergencies that are absolutely comparable to the current Gaza situation. And they do so with local relief workers, just the same. Nobody in his right mind would think that the UNHCR would kick out all local workers an...
by Elfdart
2024-02-01 07:43pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
Replies: 458
Views: 32308

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

I DID provide context: Palestinian refugees are murdered on a regular basis and in large numbers (Cast Lead in 2007, Pillar of Defense in 2012 and Protective Edge in 2014, to name but a few), so it would make sense to recruit Palestinians to handle day-to-day relief work since it's quite dangerous f...
by Elfdart
2024-02-01 06:21pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Replies: 1780
Views: 137778

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.

After hitting the links to LaCroix's "sources" it appears he would have been better served by not citing them at all. :lol: I'll be generous and simply ignore all the assertions based on "common knowledge" , "old news" and so on. That which is presented without evidence...
by Elfdart
2024-02-01 05:46pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
Replies: 458
Views: 32308

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

Pure ad hominem, with no explanation why the palestinian refugees are so unique that they need their own UN refugee organization, while EVERY other crisis can be handled by UNHCR. Name another group of refugees who are murdered as often as Palestinians, or in such numbers. Israel habitually massacr...