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Russia Invades Ukraine. Again

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Sunday, June 26, 2022 11:53 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

You just linked a pro-war article from a Leftist trash shill site.

THIS is what Democrats are now.

You suck. Your party sucks.

We are watching the death of the Democratic Party.

And I'm sitting up top here with the blacks and the Mexicans and watching the white racists fall apart.

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Putin says he would attack Finland, Lithuania, Poland, Germany. He also said he'd nuke the UK and USA. There is nothing stopping Putin but his imagining that the USA would retaliate against Russia. This kind of thing has happened before, but the USA didn't retaliate until years too late against countries on a murder-rampage against their neighbors:

Japan went on a murder-rampage in July 7, 1937. Germany in September 1, 1939. President Roosevelt wanted those countries stopped but the Republican and Dixiecrat Senators called FDR a warmonger until Pearl Harbor Day, Dec. 7, 1941. FDR could have stopped Japan and Germany in only a year's fighting, but Republican and Dixiecrat Senators would let those separate wars blossom into the biggest fire fight in Earth's history because the Senators would not vote for a declaration of war.

Now that I think of it, US Senators haven't voted for a declaration of war in 80 years. A majority of Senators are too irresponsible to make a decision about war or anything of substance, which is why the Senate has been malfunctioning for 80 years and getting worse and worse as the Senate has filled up with more and more elderly folk.
https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/declarations-of-war.htm

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As per usual, this is not a reply to what you quoted.

Fuck Ukraine. Fuck Democrats. Fuck Joe Biden*.



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Monday, June 27, 2022 12:38 PM

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The Disappeared

Russian lawmaker Oleg Morozov of the pro-government United Russia political party, the largest in the country, was recently sharing his thoughts on a Rossiya-1 state television talk show. Speaking to pro-Kremlin TV host Olga Skabeyeva, he asked: what if Russian agents kidnapped a NATO country defense minister while they were visiting Kyiv to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy? The minister would wake up, shocked, in Moscow.

“You mean we abduct them?” Skabeyeva responded, according to Reuters.

“Yes,” Morozov answered. “And then we would sort out who gave which order for what, who is responsible for what exactly. It is not such a mythical picture … There are new rules in the world now. Let all those war ministers gathering in Kyiv think a little about what it would be like to wake up in Moscow.”

This comical political rhetoric alludes to but also elides the horrific recent history of kidnappings in the Russo-Ukrainian War. “All over Ukraine, people are missing, forcing families to become detectives,” went the headline of a Washington Post story about Ukrainians seeking to solve the fates of around 9,000 missing loved ones who have disappeared since Russia invaded Ukraine in late February. Authorities are simultaneously investigating 13,000 alleged war crimes in the same period.

Sometimes the kidnappings are designed to intimidate Ukrainians living in a war zone, as France 24 explained, referring to Ukrainians who were detained, abused and tortured because they spoke out against Russian occupation. Russian forces have also made a point to “disappear” Ukrainian local officials, like mayors, who might organize resistance movements, Vox noted.

But Britain recently imposed further sanctions on Russia to signal disapproval over Russian forces abducting Ukrainian children and giving them to Russian families, the Guardian reported. The sanctions include Maria Lvova-Belova, a Putin ally who is the Russian children’s rights commissioner. She stands accused of running a state-sanctioned abduction program. Ukrainian officials claim that Lvova-Belova has masterminded the kidnappings of more than 2,000 children.

Russia has also taken other measures to absorb Ukrainians and wipe out their identities. As the Daily Beast noted, Russian occupiers of the Ukrainian city of Kherson recently decreed that all children born in the region since the invasion started would automatically be considered citizens of Russia. These measures are common throughout history when powerful nationalist forces seek to erase communities who don’t fit in with their plans, wrote University of South Carolina Law Professor Marcia Zug in the Conversation.

What’s inconvenient for them, though: Just because people disappear doesn’t mean they will be forgotten.

https://www.dailychatter.com/stories/the-disappeared/

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Monday, June 27, 2022 12:46 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Nobody cares.

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Monday, June 27, 2022 3:02 PM

THG


Comrade Signym, you are a sewer rat. So are most other fucking Russians. That includes your compadres here.

T



Ukrainian Shopping Mall Shelled By Russian Missiles,



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Monday, June 27, 2022 5:44 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nobody cares.

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Putin cares. He is waiting for Trump, but the Ukrainian army is better than the Russian army (more motivated, better trained and led) and that NATO weapons are better than Russian weapons. If the current coalition in support of Ukraine holds together, a Trump victory in 2024 would be too late to salvage a Russian victory in Ukraine.

Putin had better shift his hopes to congressional Republicans taking an isolationist turn and refusing to extend military and economic aid to Ukraine.

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1534759968628518914

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Monday, June 27, 2022 8:42 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Nobody cares about Putin either.

Grow up.

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Monday, June 27, 2022 10:20 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


OMG, SECOND lives in a fantasy.

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Monday, June 27, 2022 11:10 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


You know what's not a fantasy?

The price hikes on food and just about everything else coming shortly down the pike because of the lack of fertilizer we've got right now thanks to JoeBama*.

Funny that the media isn't warning you about that.

I hope you've been taking my advice to stock up on food and other things, Sigs. At least you can blunt the trauma of all of the hikes we're about to see in a month or two for a while, and avoid not having things you need when we go back to Covid level toilet paper shortages on just about everything.

I'm basically stocked to the gills on everything I possibly can have stocked up within their shelf life at this point.


Well... except for gas. Although I know more than one asshole who is sitting on an extremely dangerous amount of gasoline reserves at their residence, I'm not going to do that.

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Tuesday, June 28, 2022 5:42 AM

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Originally posted by SignyM:
OMG, SECOND lives in a fantasy.

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A WWII refugee from Ukraine links Putin’s war to Stalin’s famine

By Oleh Wolowyna, Ph.D., a fellow at the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

According to our estimates of the famine’s impact, about 4 million people, or 13% of Soviet Ukraine’s population in 1933, were starved to death between 1932 and 1934, and 600,000 children were not born.

A unique characteristic of the Holodomor is that 80% of the 4 million deaths happened in six months. There was an explosion of mortality during the first half of 1933, with the number of deaths caused by the famine increasing 10 times between January and June of that year. At the height of the famine in June 1933, there were 28,000 famine-related deaths per day, or 1,167 per hour, or 19 per minute. Mortality levels of this magnitude are not found in other human-made famines. According to French historian Alain Blum, “Rarely, in all of the demographic history of Europe, will a famine have caused losses of such proportions” (Mr. Blum’s emphasis).

Why inflict such torture?

The French historian Nicolas Werth provides the following summary of Stalin’s objectives: “Choosing to instrumentalize the famine, Stalin intentionally amplified it in order to punish the Ukrainian peasants who rejected the ‘new serfdom’ and to break ‘Ukrainian nationalism,’ which he saw as a threat to his goal of constructing a centralized and dictatorial Soviet state.”

Ninety years later

Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is an updated version of Stalin’s deliberately manufactured famine. Stalin denied the famine’s existence; Mr. Putin claimed he had no intention of invading Ukraine. Mentioning the famine was punishable by law, as is the case today with describing the invasion as war. Ukrainians starved to death during the Holodomor because Stalin took away most of the grain produced by Ukrainian peasants; Mr. Putin is stealing hundreds of thousands of tons of Ukrainian grain. In terms of Ukrainian identity, though, Mr. Putin has in some ways gone a step further than Stalin by denying the very existence of Ukraine and claiming that all Ukrainians are Russian.

When the war is over, I will probably return to Ukraine and, with my colleagues there, face the task of documenting a second genocide. We will try to determine how many civilians were killed, how many children were not born because of the war, and what proportion of future generations has been lost forever.

More at https://web.archive.org/web/20220627192429/https://www.csmonitor.com/C
ommentary/2022/0627/A-WWII-refugee-from-Ukraine-links-Putin-s-war-to-Stalin-s-famine


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Tuesday, June 28, 2022 5:49 AM

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At Least 18 Killed in Russian Missile Strike on Ukrainian Shopping Mall

The Ukrainian defense ministry said the strike was deliberately timed to coincide with the mall's busiest hours and cause the maximum number of victims.

The Ukrainian air force said the mall was hit by Kh-22 anti-ship missiles fired from Tu-22 bombers from the region of Kursk in western Russia.

"The missile fire on Kremenchuk struck a very busy area which had no link to the hostilities," the city's mayor Vitali Maletsky wrote on Facebook.

Russia has not yet commented on the strike. In the past, Moscow has denied targeting civilians and accused Kyiv and its Western allies of staging such attacks.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/06/27/at-least-18-killed-in-russia
n-missile-strike-on-ukrainian-shopping-mall-a78123


Meanwhile, Russia’s deputy ambassador to the UN, Dmitry Polyanskiy, wrote on Twitter, without citing evidence, that the attack was a “Ukrainian provocation”. “Exactly what Kiev regime needs to keep focus of attention on Ukraine before (the) NATO Summit,” he said, referring to the alliance’s Madrid gathering due to begin on Tuesday.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/27/10-killed-from-russian-missil
e-strike-on-ukrainian-shopping-mall


Alternative lie from Russia: Russia's defence ministry on Tuesday denied hitting a shopping mall in the Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk with missiles, saying it had struck a weapons depot and a subsequent explosion of ammunition had triggered a fire in the nearby mall. I think the more believable lie is accusing Ukraine of blowing up Ukraine's mall to get sympathy from NATO. It is probably time for Ukraine to blow up a Russian mall inside Russia. Is there a major Russian shopping holiday coming sooner than Christmas? Xmas Eve is a great time to kill Russian women and children and a few store Santa Clauses but it is 6 months away!
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-hit-weapons-depot-kre
menchuk-caused-fire-shopping-center-2022-06-28
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Tuesday, June 28, 2022 11:35 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Nobody cares.

And just what the hell are they doing with all those billions of taxpayer dollars asshole JoeBama* sent over there anyhow?

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Tuesday, June 28, 2022 12:05 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nobody cares.

And just what the hell are they doing with all those billions of taxpayer dollars asshole JoeBama* sent over there anyhow?

The Pentagon wrote a Press Release: $450 Million in Additional Security Assistance for Ukraine June 23, 2022
https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3072799/450-mill
ion-in-additional-security-assistance-for-ukraine
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What does the press release mean?

It simply means that American manufacturers received cash from Congress. In exchange the manufacturers ship death-to-Russia machines to Ukraine via Pentagon transportation. Ukraine never sees the cash, which stays with the American manufacturers of death machines, but in exchange for machines, Ukrainians kill Russians in ways that involve loud noises and grotesque action scenes that even the best Hollywood directors can't believably imitate. It's the eternal wheel of life and death. Money keeps the wheel rolling over the bodies of Russians, crushing them into bloody mush which impresses Congress to send more money to crush more Russians.

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Tuesday, June 28, 2022 12:09 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Yeah. Only they're not doing that. Raytheon is getting rich and Russia is winning.

Fuck Russia. Fuck Ukraine. Fuck Democrats.

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Tuesday, June 28, 2022 12:19 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yeah. Only they're not doing that. Raytheon is getting rich and Russia is winning.

Fuck Russia. Fuck Ukraine. Fuck Democrats.

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Which Congressmen want Russians crushed? Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Saturday led a delegation of Republican senators to war-ravaged Ukraine. Video showed Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) walking with McConnell in the Ukrainian capital alongside President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/14/mcconnell-republican-senators
-kyiv-00032534


6ix, you sound like you don't know what you are talking about. Signym spouts the same empty nonsense you do about Russia winning. Russia won't win if Republican Congressmen and the European Union keep sending Russian-killing-machines to Ukraine. Putin will run out of Russians willing to die for him before Ukraine runs out of Ukrainians that are willing and able to kill Russians. Raytheon will be very pleased to take the money for those machines to keep the process rolling along of reducing the population of Russians.

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Tuesday, June 28, 2022 7:54 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


I can't imagine what SEVOND would do if/when Russia accepts Kiev's surrender. Probably try to redefine victory and defeat by claiming Russia used "too many" munitions, or took too much economic loss or some such nonsense, the same way he tries to rewrite WWII history.

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Tuesday, June 28, 2022 10:24 PM

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Nobody cares.



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Wednesday, June 29, 2022 6:30 AM

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Originally posted by SignyM:
I can't imagine what SEVOND would do if/when Russia accepts Kiev's surrender. Probably try to redefine victory and defeat by claiming Russia used "too many" munitions, or took too much economic loss or some such nonsense, the same way he tries to rewrite WWII history.

Russians were mostly killed by Germans and Germans were mostly killed by English-speaking warriors:
WWII Deaths
Soviet Union 27,000,000 <--This is what incompetence looks like, Signym
Germany 7,000,000
United Kingdom 450,900
United States 419,400
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties#Total_deaths_by_
country


After the war was over, Russians would seek revenge against Germans. The Russians distinguished themselves by killing 2,000,000 German-speaking civilians, after the surrender.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_and_expulsion_of_Germans_(1944%E2
%80%931950)#Discourse


Ukrainians are aware of how Russians handle conquered populations. Ukrainians also haven’t forgotten the 3,900,000 Ukrainians starved to death by the Russians in 1932-1933.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Holodomor

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Wednesday, June 29, 2022 7:03 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Nobody. Cares.

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Wednesday, June 29, 2022 8:00 AM

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Nobody. Cares.

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You've written the same-old 'nobody cares' or 'Trump is fine' thousands of times. Are you sure you are not a machine simulating a person? When I'm with a Trumptard they never give a sign that they are conscious people -- nothing they do is surprising, nothing they say is real or even new. But then simulacrums aren't surprising, they are just weird looking things from the uncanny valley. With Trumptards it is one predictably stupid thing after another followed by whining and complaining, then bragging and self-congratulation, same as Trump would do. Even his lies and chaotic behavior seem robotic, not human. There is no originality with that fat lying machine. It is not a crime to shoot a machine in the head. (That's part of an experiment to test whether 6ix will write 'Archived' when the 6ix robot perceives an assassination threat against Trump. It is a flawed experimental design because I informed the robot that I'm testing for signs that it is a robot.)

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Wednesday, June 29, 2022 8:19 AM

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You've written the same-old 'nobody cares' or 'Trump is fine' thousands of times. Are you sure you are not a machine simulating a person? When I'm with a Trumptard they never give a sign that they are conscious people -- nothing they do is surprising, nothing they say is real or even new. But then simulacrums aren't surprising, they are just weird looking things from the uncanny valley. With Trumptards it is one predictably stupid thing after another followed by whining and complaining, then bragging and self-congratulation, same as Trump would do. Even his lies and chaotic behavior seems very robotic. There is no originality with that fat lying machine.



Some people can’t think of anything intelligent to say but at the same time they can’t keep their yaps shut, so they settle for saying something stupid. Or something contrary, or if they don’t have that they just agitate/troll.

Trump is done. He had his time. He should have ended like any cult leader of his ilk, dead and surrounded by a stack of bodies. Like Jim Jones. The Capital would have made an impressive Jonestown. People who worked for him as president are tripping over themselves to throw him to the fishes. He may not go to jail but he’ll be reduced to some living wax museum oddity complete with catchy phrases on que.

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Wednesday, June 29, 2022 8:57 AM

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Originally posted by CAPTAINCRUNCH:

Some people can’t think of anything intelligent to say but at the same time they can’t keep their yaps shut, so they settle for saying something stupid. Or something contrary, or if they don’t have that they just agitate/troll.

Trump is done. He had his time. He should have ended like any cult leader of his ilk, dead and surrounded by a stack of bodies. Like Jim Jones. The Capital would have made an impressive Jonestown. People who worked for him as president are tripping over themselves to throw him to the fishes. He may not go to jail but he’ll be reduced to some living wax museum oddity complete with catchy phrases on que.

This is dehumanizing for me to say, but Trumptards lack the human spark at work. They are dullards (less charitably described as robots) when confronting problems that don't have well-known solutions handed down from somebody who was a fully conscious human. Counties in the United States that are majority Trumptard controlled only have half the economic activity of counties that are controlled by Democrats. I think the Trumptard robots cannot compete with real human beings going about their work and living. Being robots explains the backwardness, and economic/family problems, of Trumptards. I wish the Trump voters could make themselves human, but that's not gonna happen, is it? See the article "Biden-voting counties equal 70% of America’s economy. What does this mean for the nation’s political-economic divide?"
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2020/11/09/biden-voting-coun
ties-equal-70-of-americas-economy-what-does-this-mean-for-the-nations-political-economic-divide
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Russia has got the same damn problem of being full of not-quite-human humans and, predictable, Russia has economic problems the same as Trumptard controlled counties in America. Russia is poor, yet it has been around since the year 862. What the hell have those Russian robots been doing for fourteen centuries? Mostly stealing land and food from smarter people who aren't Russians. Russia is below South Korea on a list of The Top 25 Economies in the World, but Korea is only a century old.
https://www.investopedia.com/insights/worlds-top-economies/#toc-11-rus
sia


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Quote:

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Quote:

Originally posted by CAPTAINCRUNCH:

Some people can’t think of anything intelligent to say but at the same time they can’t keep their yaps shut, so they settle for saying something stupid. Or something contrary, or if they don’t have that they just agitate/troll.

Trump is done. He had his time. He should have ended like any cult leader of his ilk, dead and surrounded by a stack of bodies. Like Jim Jones. The Capital would have made an impressive Jonestown. People who worked for him as president are tripping over themselves to throw him to the fishes. He may not go to jail but he’ll be reduced to some living wax museum oddity complete with catchy phrases on que.

This is dehumanizing for me to say, but...



Hmmmm. I agree with the first part, "dehumanizing." The rest sounds pretty ugly too imho.
I'm thinking Book would have a more charitable way to react to that observation.

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Wednesday, June 29, 2022 11:23 AM

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Russia is the one thing you dumb little shits still have to talk about because it's the only lie the Leftist Media thinks it can still get away with telling.

It's not getting away with it.

I repeat myself here and in the Trump thread as a daily reminder to everyone that NOBODY gives a shit about Ukraine, and Trump will be fine.

All the dumb bullshit you think isn't going to change either of those facts.


Democrats are done in November.

You are to blame for that.

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Wednesday, June 29, 2022 12:12 PM

CAPTAINCRUNCH

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Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Russia is the one thing you dumb little shits still have to talk about because it's the only lie the Leftist Media thinks it can still get away with telling.

It's not getting away with it.

I repeat myself here and in the Trump thread as a daily reminder to everyone that NOBODY gives a shit about Ukraine, and Trump will be fine.

All the dumb bullshit you think isn't going to change either of those facts.


Democrats are done in November.

You are to blame for that.

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Nobody cares

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Wednesday, June 29, 2022 2:32 PM

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Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Russia is the one thing you dumb little shits still have to talk about because it's the only lie the Leftist Media thinks it can still get away with telling.

It's not getting away with it.

I repeat myself here and in the Trump thread as a daily reminder to everyone that NOBODY gives a shit about Ukraine, and Trump will be fine.

All the dumb bullshit you think isn't going to change either of those facts.


Democrats are done in November.

You are to blame for that.

First thing, 6ix, the kind of people who vote for Democrats will NOT be done. They are smarter, stronger, healthier, wealthier and have more children than Trumptards. It is the Trumptards who rightfully should be worried about their survivability in the future. When I talk to Trumptards, they are worried. They think it is because Democrats are oppressing them, but the truth is that Trumptards don't psychologically have what is needed to prosper in America. That's why they are scared and angry and searching for somebody to save them from those nasty Democrats who are taking everything away from Trumptards.

How did the Trumptards become inferior humans? Scientific American has a story about that: How Parents’ Trauma Leaves Biological Traces in Children
Adverse experiences can change future generations through epigenetic pathways
By Rachel Yehuda, July 1, 2022
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-parents-rsquo-trauma-le
aves-biological-traces-in-children
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I am 70 years old and I have been watching Trumptards grow up. Their parents and even grandparents were terrible, the very worst at raising children. The horrible results from all this incompetence is very apparent in the Trumptards I know. If I had been raised as badly as these Trumptards, I'd probably have as difficult a life as the Trumptards have.

The same bad parenting that ruined the Trumptard children has also ruined today's Russians. But at least the Russians can truthfully blame history: WWI, Stalin, WWII, the Cold War, the Collapse of the Soviet Union, Putin's thievery for the present generation of worthless Russians, traumatized by their parents/government/war/famine/history. It is unsurprising that these sad, psychologically damaged Russians are trying to steal land and food from Ukraine. The Russians have got excuses for why they are the way they are. Unfortunately, the Trumptards in America don't have those excuses for their bad behavior. The Trumptards are sui generis screw-ups, dingbats and loonies. The future won't be kind to those people.

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Wednesday, June 29, 2022 2:46 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


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Originally posted by SECOND
First thing, 6ix, the kind of people who vote for Democrats will NOT be done. They are smarter, stronger, healthier, wealthier and have more children than Trumptards.



And you support Democrats because....?

They don't support the elites???

Your brain, SECOND, it's twisted itself into knots.

If my brain was as twisted as yours, I'd worry about it.

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Wednesday, June 29, 2022 4:33 PM

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Originally posted by CAPTAINCRUNCH:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Russia is the one thing you dumb little shits still have to talk about because it's the only lie the Leftist Media thinks it can still get away with telling.

It's not getting away with it.

I repeat myself here and in the Trump thread as a daily reminder to everyone that NOBODY gives a shit about Ukraine, and Trump will be fine.

All the dumb bullshit you think isn't going to change either of those facts.


Democrats are done in November.

You are to blame for that.

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Nobody cares




Good.

Because unlike your ceaseless persecution of Trump and endless wars that you cheerlead, we have a date on this one for the Tick Tock clock.

I'll see how much you care on November 9th. Assuming you even stick around after the loss.



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Thursday, June 30, 2022 6:14 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Empire To Expand NATO In Response To War Caused By NATO Expansion
https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/empire-to-expand-nato-in-response-to
-war-caused-by-nato-expansion-956a68fcc991


G-7 & The Desperation Stage Of Russian Sanctions
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/06/29/g7-and-the-desperation-stage-o
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Quote:

Originally posted by SignyM:
Quote:

Originally posted by SECOND
First thing, 6ix, the kind of people who vote for Democrats will NOT be done. They are smarter, stronger, healthier, wealthier and have more children than Trumptards.



And you support Democrats because....?

They don't support the elites???

Your brain, SECOND, it's twisted itself into knots.

If my brain was as twisted as yours, I'd worry about it.

I am NOT voting for the Republican Party candidates because the Republican voters, note well the word voters, are crazy people from my experience. They live ridiculous lives, have problems that a sane person, but not a crazy person, could easily solve. I will not follow the well trodden paths of crazy people and do what they do.

Maybe I haven't told you this recently, or you never read it, but all the Trump voters I know are crazy people, with the exception of the richest Trump voters, who voted for Trump because he would reduce their taxes since Trump, himself, doesn't pay taxes. Twice Trump went to the Supreme Court in order to keep his tax returns a secret from grand juries. If you recall, Trump promised to reveal his tax returns to the entire world before he was elected. But after the election? All Trump promises were cancelled by that fat lying sack of shit. ("I can't because I'm being audited," said Trump numerous times. The truth is that the IRS isn't stopping him. His tax attorneys can't stop him, either. They work for Trump, not the other way around.) Signym, are you really so stupid as to believe Trump paid what he owes?

The people I know who voted twice for Trump (those not disturbed by his bizarre behavior as President) are even crazier than the ones who voted only once for Trump. That is my real life experience with Trump voters.

The people I know who minimize what Trump did after he lost the election are even crazier than the first two groups. I am NOT basing my opinion that they are crazy on their support of Trump. I am basing it on how they live from day to day.

I will never vote for candidates loved by crazy people. The average Republican voter is an abnormal person. Expressed mathematically: Average does not equal Normal

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Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Empire To Expand NATO In Response To War Caused By NATO Expansion
https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/empire-to-expand-nato-in-response-to
-war-caused-by-nato-expansion-956a68fcc991


G-7 & The Desperation Stage Of Russian Sanctions
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/06/29/g7-and-the-desperation-stage-o
f-russian-sanctions
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There is no truths in these claims about Putin / NATO / EU / USA. The real truth about Putin is simpler and uglier and will get many Russians killed:

How Far Do Putin’s Imperial Ambitions Go?

The Russian president and his inner circle speak openly about retaking the vast lands that Moscow once controlled. As the war continues in Ukraine, Russia’s neighbors are taking the threats seriously.

By Yaroslav Trofimov
June 24, 2022 11:53 am ET

At a ceremony honoring young geographers in 2016, President Vladimir Putin asked one boy about the capital of Burkina Faso and then quizzed another about where Russia’s borders end.

“At the Bering Strait with the United States,” the 9-year-old boy ventured hesitantly. Mr. Putin, who chairs the board of the Russian Geographic Society, contradicted the boy to triumphant applause. “The borders of Russia,” he pronounced, “never end.”

The scene, years before Mr. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine unleashed the biggest war in Europe since World War II and triggered a breakdown between Russia and the West, illuminates a conviction deeply held by many in Moscow’s establishment: that Russia has the natural right, and the existential need, for territorial expansion.

Until recently, this imperial belief was often couched in language that is more acceptable in the 21st century, such as security concerns about NATO’s expansion or apprehension about alleged discrimination against Russian-speaking minorities. Since the war began, however, calls for seizing new lands have become much more explicit.

Earlier this month, Mr. Putin said that he views Ukraine as just the first step, with many other territories potential targets.
On June 9, he held court in front of a sign proclaiming “Peter the Great, the Birth of the Empire” at an exhibition honoring the 350th anniversary of Russia’s first emperor. With a smile, Mr. Putin explained that when Peter conquered from Sweden the area of today’s St. Petersburg and the city of Narva, currently in Estonia, “he was merely returning what is ours, and strengthening it,” even though nobody else at the time recognized the legality of Russia’s land grab.

“It seems like it is our destiny too, to return and to strengthen,” Mr. Putin added, suggesting that—like the wars of Peter the Great—the current conflict could last more than two decades. His senior adviser Vladimir Medinsky was even more explicit. He lamented at the same conference that Russia’s territory has greatly diminished from the time when Moscow controlled one-sixth of the planet’s surface, including Finland, Poland, and 14 other currently independent nations. That unfortunate territorial retreat “is not forever,” he said.

Much of this revanchist rhetoric is driven by decades of resentment over the Soviet Union’s collapse, a defining moment in the lives of Mr. Putin and most of Russia’s ruling class. Described by Mr. Putin as the biggest catastrophe of the 20th century, the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union deprived Russia of nearly half the population and lands that had been amassed by czars over the centuries. It also turned a global superpower into a rump, bankrupt nation beset by poverty, corruption and internal revolts.

Moscow’s fresh threats against neighbors such as Estonia and Lithuania (members of NATO and the European Union) or Moldova (recently invoked as a target by a senior Russian general) might seem outlandish given the difficulties that Russia’s military has encountered this year in Ukraine. Russian troops had to retreat from the capital Kyiv and other northern cities in late March because of fierce Ukrainian resistance and since then have been bogged down in a slow, grinding advance through parts of the eastern Donbas region, suffering heavy losses along the way.

“Putin doesn’t have the military capacity. He is completely tied up and performing quite poorly in Ukraine. For him to move beyond that would be insane,” said Alexander Stubb, a former prime minister of Finland, which applied to join NATO after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Yet it is precisely the embarrassing setbacks in Ukraine that may push Mr. Putin to expand the conflict, cautioned Marat Gelman, an opposition politician who once advised the Russian president and served as a senior executive for Russian state TV. “There is a threat to his ratings inside the country. He cannot explain to Russian citizens why the great army that he has been expanding and financing all this time cannot deal with the Ukrainian resistance,” Mr. Gelman said. “So he needs to turn everything into a new dimension, where he is at war not with Ukraine but with the entire world. Therefore, there is a danger that he will choose another victim.” A broader conflict, Mr. Gelman said, could justify mobilizing civilians into the military and removing the few civil liberties that still exist in Russia.

Just in recent days, Russia’s foreign ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, threatened Lithuania with “actions to defend our national interests” after the Baltic nation barred the railway transit of goods sanctioned by the EU to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. Prominent lawmaker Konstantin Zatulin, incensed by the refusal of Kazakhstan’s president to recognize Russian-run statelets in Donbas, pointed out that many parts of the Central Asian nation are populated by ethnic Russians and warned that it may meet the same fate as Ukraine.

In Ukraine, despite Moscow’s military problems, the war isn’t anywhere near over. Russia continues to advance in Donbas as it braces for years of conflict, and its original goal of annexing the Ukrainian state hasn’t changed. As former president Dmitry Medvedev, who heads the ruling United Russia party and serves as deputy head of Mr. Putin’s national security council, wondered earlier this month: “Who told you that Ukraine will remain on the map of the world in two years’ time?”

To some European leaders, this discourse means that a potential cease-fire leaving Russia with a large chunk of Ukraine and a capacity to regroup, to rebuild its depleted military and to prepare for new offensives would end up putting other European nations in Mr. Putin’s crosshairs.

“He is also after the Baltic countries if he succeeds in Ukraine, and this is why we have to do everything so that he doesn’t succeed in Ukraine, because otherwise his appetite will only grow,” Estonia’s prime minister, Kaja Kallas, said in an interview. “If he gets away with this, nobody can feel safe.”

While Estonia and the two other Baltic states are theoretically protected by their membership in NATO, the small military forces that the alliance currently deploys in the region and in other parts of Eastern Europe wouldn’t be sufficient to militarily repel a full-blown Russian invasion. Not even Poland, the biggest nation in Eastern Europe, has a military as strong and battle-hardened as Ukraine’s.

Russian forces would be able to take over Estonia’s capital Tallinn within as little as one day, some Western military experts say. Poland’s military would be completely defeated by Russia in five days, a 2021 Polish defense ministry war game concluded.

America’s nuclear arsenal would not necessarily deter a rapid Russian advance on a NATO ally. The U.S. has long maintained a strategy of deliberate ambiguity about the circumstances under which it would use nuclear weapons to stop a conventional attack. According to America’s latest nuclear posture policy, Washington would only consider deploying nuclear weapons “in extreme circumstances” and would first try to end the conflict “at the lowest level of damage possible.”

That is one reason why Russia’s neighbors are now pushing for large and permanent NATO bases on their soil. At the NATO summit in Madrid on June 28-30, Ms. Kallas said that she would ask the alliance to shift from its current “tripwire” deployment, with a relatively small contingent of forces, to a beefed-up forward defense along Russian borders, “so that we don’t have to be liberated afterwards but are able to push back the aggression immediately.” Other Baltic states and Poland share the same view.

The fear isn’t limited to Russia’s immediate neighborhood. According to a European Council on Foreign Relations opinion poll conducted in May, a possible Russian invasion of their nation is seen as one of the top three threats by 53% of Swedes, 54% of Romanians and 40% of Germans.

“Even a weak Russian military can do an awful lot of damage if it wants to,” said Ivo Daalder, president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs think tank and a former U.S. ambassador to NATO. “We should take Putin at his word. Even if we assess that he doesn’t really have the military capacity to act upon his grandiose vision, the reality is that he has the intention and the will, and there is so far domestically no opposition sufficient to change that.”

As it stands now, a Russian military invasion of a NATO member would certainly meet with a swift response from the U.S., Mr. Daalder said. Unlike in Ukraine, Russia would see its air force battered within days, and its land forces would be highly vulnerable to superior NATO air power. Things could be different, however, should a more isolationist administration come to power in Washington.

Russian officials often cite President Donald Trump’s 2018 remarks questioning why Americans should die to defend Montenegro, now a NATO member, and say that they hope pressure on Moscow will diminish after this year’s U.S. midterm elections.

Mr. Putin’s imperial ambitions have grown over time because his previous acts of territorial aggression went largely unchallenged. The 2008 invasion of Georgia wasn’t sanctioned in any serious way and was followed by President Barack Obama’s attempt at a “reset” with Moscow. The 2014 intervention in Donbas and annexation of Crimea during Mr. Obama’s second term prompted only halfhearted sanctions. Until last February, Germany pushed the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project that would have allowed Russia’s gas exports to bypass Ukraine. Up until April, the U.S. and its allies refused to provide Kyiv with the heavy weapons that could have deterred this year’s war.

“Putin simply does what he can get away with, like a hooligan,” said Mikhail Kasyanov, a Russian opposition politician who served as Mr. Putin’s prime minister from 2000 to 2004. “If he is allowed to conquer some territories and Europe and the U.S. end up swallowing that fact, he will simply keep going forward.”

Russia’s top officials raised this record at a televised meeting on Feb. 21, assuring Mr. Putin that the West will eventually acquiesce to the Ukrainian war that he unleashed three days later. “The experience has shown that it will be difficult, but after a certain time, thanks to skillful managing of the situation, which we have learned under the president, this tension vibrating around our country will recede one way or another,” Mr. Medvedev told Mr. Putin that day. Western nations, he added, “will tire of this situation sooner or later.”


Unlike bygone European empires that gathered colonies overseas, such as France, Spain, Portugal or Great Britain, Russia’s imperialism blurs the distinction between what constitutes a colony and the home country. Over the centuries, Russia absorbed many of its immediate neighbors, often resorting to physical extermination rising to the level of genocide, and imposed its language and culture.

The Tatar cities and mosques on the Volga were dismantled in the 16th century, their bricks and tombstones used to build Russian churches and fortresses. Yerofey Khabarov, the explorer after whom the Siberian city of Khabarovsk is named, had his men butcher thousands of the native Daur people as he sailed down the Amur River in the 17th century. Russia’s 19th century conquests in the Caucasus and Central Asia were accompanied by wide-scale killings and displacement. One of Russia’s most famous paintings, by Vasily Vereshchagin, who served with Russian forces in Central Asia in the 1860s, depicts a mountain of sun-bleached skulls and is dedicated “to all the great conquerors—past, present and future.”

Moscow began its colonial expansion after freeing itself in 1480 from the Mongol Golden Horde. Muscovy served as the Mongols’ principal tax collector and agent in Russian lands in previous centuries. Once it gained independence, it adopted many of the methods of war and elements of statecraft that once allowed the Mongols, an impoverished nomadic people, to conquer much of the known (and exponentially wealthier and more technologically advanced) world. Turning cities that refused to submit into rubble, such as what happened this year in Ukraine’s Mariupol, was the Mongols’ trademark tactic.

A powerful current of Russia’s political thought, the so-called Eurasianists, holds that the Russian state is a natural heir of the Mongol empire that is finally ending a three-century-long flirtation with Europe that began when Peter the Great launched a wholesale westernization of the Russian state and society. “Peter the Great opened the window to Europe. Putin closed it. We’ve aired enough,” goes one meme currently making the rounds on Russian social media.

One such Eurasianist is Russia’s defense minister, Sergey Shoigu, who hails from Tuva, a region on the Mongol border. A former speaker of the Tuva parliament has recently written a book extolling Mr. Shoigu as the reincarnation of Genghis Khan’s top commander Subedei, who may have also been an ethnic Tuvan.


Others currents of Russia’s neo-imperialist political thought hark back to more familiar Soviet times, idolizing the ruthless age of Joseph Stalin. One of the most vocal such representatives is former FSB intelligence officer Igor Girkin, also known as Igor Strelkov, who ignited the war in Donbas after seizing the town of Slovyansk with a group of Russian military veterans in 2014. At the time, he signed execution orders citing Stalin’s World War II laws.

Unlike the critics of the Ukraine war, detained across Russia under new laws punishing the discreditation of the military, Mr. Girkin and like-minded hard-liners have been allowed to post daily diatribes labeling Mr. Shoigu and Russia’s top military commanders as traitors and idiots for mishandling the invasion. They argue instead for a nationwide mobilization and total war.

Mr. Putin himself isn’t necessarily a fan of the past Soviet leaders. He has repeatedly blamed the Soviet Union’s founder, Vladimir Lenin, for giving what he views as historically Russian land to Ukraine a century ago—and for acknowledging the idea of a separate Ukrainian nationality in the first place. But, like most other Russian nationalists, he is focused on a return to bygone glories.

“All his ideas about what a ruler is supposed to do, what is good and what is bad, come from the past,” Mr. Gelman said. “He wants to move the country to the 19th century, to a time when empires were possible.”

Write to Yaroslav Trofimov at yaroslav.trofimov@wsj.com

https://web.archive.org/web/20220628210830/https://www.wsj.com/article
s/how-far-do-putins-imperial-ambitions-go-11656085978




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Thursday, June 30, 2022 8:58 AM

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Empire To Expand NATO In Response To War Caused By NATO Expansion
https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/empire-to-expand-nato-in-response-to
-war-caused-by-nato-expansion-956a68fcc991



Yup. That's the end game.

http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=65137

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Ukraine Drives Russian Forces From Snake Island, a Setback for Moscow

The Russian defense ministry, in a statement, sought to cast the retreat as “a gesture of goodwill” that would “not allow Kyiv to speculate on the impending food crisis,” since control of the island is vital to securing the shipping lanes in the northwestern corner of the Black Sea. Russia’s de facto naval blockade has prevented Ukraine from exporting most of its prewar average monthly supply of five million tons of grain.

Despite the Russian statement, there was no indication that the Kremlin will allow safe passage of Ukrainian vessels leaving the port of Odesa.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-drives-russian-forces-fro
m-snake-island-a-setback-for-moscow/ar-AAZ1wjN


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Thursday, June 30, 2022 9:15 AM

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Nobody cares.

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Thursday, June 30, 2022 9:41 AM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Empire To Expand NATO In Response To War Caused By NATO Expansion
https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/empire-to-expand-nato-in-response-to
-war-caused-by-nato-expansion-956a68fcc991



Yup. That's the end game.

From that article you mentioned:
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This would confirm what I and many others have been saying since Russia invaded: that this proxy war is being waged not with the intention of saving Ukrainian lives by delivering a swift defeat to Moscow but with the intention of creating a costly, gruelling military quagmire to weaken Russia on the world stage.
"A swift defeat to Moscow . . ." The USA would have to fight Russia directly, sending in hundreds of thousands of troops, to achieve "a swift defeat to Moscow". 6ix, do you really want the US Army fighting in Ukraine? I'm curious about how you think wars end swiftly because I have never known a Trumptard to understand military strategy beyond what they see in Top Gun: Maverick.

I noticed that only Trumptards at fff.net are commenting on Tom Cruise and Top Gun: Maverick.
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=36&tid=65066
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=36&tid=62441
This is truly a stupid ass movie, every bit as unbelievable as Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible movies. Tom Cruise is dropping a bomb down the ventilator shaft of the Death Star. No, that's Star Wars. Tom Cruise is dropping two bombs, not one but two, down the ventilator shaft of an unfinished factory for atom bombs. No, that's the unfinished Death Star in Return of the Jedi.

If the US Army goes into Ukraine, it will be Iraq all over again, where the US Army could not tell the difference between Shiites and Sunnis, except it will not tell the difference between Ukrainians and Russians. The US Army will murder everybody on all sides. Ukraine will be asking the US Army to please stop helping and leave the fighting to Ukraine. Who better knows the difference between Russians and Ukrainians? Maybe the US Army can skip over helping Ukraine and attack Russia directly? But then Russia will nuke Washington DC and NYNY. Putin has threatened to exactly that. While he is at it, Putin will nuke London because Boris Johnson has visited Ukraine.

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Thursday, June 30, 2022 9:42 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Because unlike your ceaseless persecution of Trump and endless wars that you cheerlead...



Which "wars" have I cheerlead?


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Thursday, June 30, 2022 9:44 AM

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"A swift defeat to Moscow . . ." The USA would have to fight Russia directly, sending in hundreds of thousands of troops, to achieve "a swift defeat to Moscow". 6ix, do you really want the US Army fighting in Ukraine? I'm curious about how you think wars end swiftly because I have never known a Trumptard to understand military strategy beyond what they see in Top Gun: Maverick.



We have ZERO business there, period.

I don't give one single fuck what happens to Russia OR Ukraine.

Democrat cancer is using US taxpayer dollars to fund globalism and using this bullshit little skirmish to justify it.

All part of a plan to make the UN the Government of the world before Barry is too old to be the head of it.


Fuck Ukraine.

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Thursday, June 30, 2022 9:45 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Because unlike your ceaseless persecution of Trump and endless wars that you cheerlead...



Which "wars" have I cheerlead?




This one, you fuck.

Look at your post history. I have shit to do today and no more time to waste on your dumbassery.

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Thursday, June 30, 2022 10:16 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

We have ZERO business there, period.

I don't give one single fuck what happens to Russia OR Ukraine.

Democrat cancer is using US taxpayer dollars to fund globalism and using this bullshit little skirmish to justify it.

All part of a plan to make the UN the Government of the world before Barry is too old to be the head of it.


Fuck Ukraine.

6ix, Trumptards are the cancer that says healthy tissue is the cancer. In so few words, you hit every single Trumptard's bitching about the 20th and 21st Century. Yeah, we know Trumptards can't compete internationally or even locally and therefore get their stupid asses fired from job after job. Yeah, we know Trumptards have no money, again because they are stupid and crazy, and that they cheat on their taxes. (See Trump about tax cheating.) Yeah, I know Republicans make terrible soldiers - cowardly, poor marksmanship, inability to understand orders when under any pressure, and tactically incompetent in battle. (See Trump and his bone spurs and draft deferments. The only good he did is to understand weaklings like him are dead meat if they went to Vietnam. Trump and his kind are cannon fodder, not warriors.) It is no surprise that Trump's kind of people wanted to quit NATO. Trump's kind don't survive when they go into battles because they are grossly unsuitable for war. Not really suitable for work, either. Laying around and bragging about themselves and their importance? That's what they are good for.

Let's be plain and clear: Trumptards are crazy, shiftless, untrustworthy, cheapskate, cowardly, incompetent Americans with family/financial/health/mental problems who can't understand that about themselves because of their huge and inflamed egos. Trumptards love Trump because he has all their faults and never acknowledges any of what obviously is wrong about himself. That gives Trumptards permission to be little Trumps.

Since this about Russia, Putin is their Trump. He will tell the losers they aren't cowards, lazy, stupid, dishonest murderers. Putin will tell the losers they are heroes. Why would Russians believe that about themselves? Huge and inflamed egos, exactly what Trumptards have in America.

It sure would be a different world if their egos forced them to be at least halfway as good and heroic as they only imagine themselves to be.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
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Originally posted by captaincrunch:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Because unlike your ceaseless persecution of Trump and endless wars that you cheerlead...



Which "wars" have I cheerlead?




This one, you fuck.




You said "wars" you fuck. Which ones?

Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I have shit to do today and no more time to waste on your dumbassery.



"Shit" will be all you do today, Nancy.

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A quote and a post for the ages. Put it in stone for future generations in case anyone asks, "Who was Donald Trump?" they'll have an answer:

Quote:

Originally posted by second:
"Trumptards are the cancer that says healthy tissue is the cancer."

In so few words, you hit every single Trumptard's bitching about the 20th and 21st Century. Yeah, we know Trumptards can't compete internationally or even locally and therefore get their stupid asses fired from job after job. Yeah, we know Trumptards have no money, again because they are stupid and crazy, and that they cheat on their taxes. (See Trump about tax cheating.) Yeah, I know Republicans make terrible soldiers - cowardly, poor marksmanship, inability to understand orders when under any pressure, and tactically incompetent in battle. (See Trump and his bone spurs and draft deferments. The only good he did is to understand weaklings like him are dead meat if they went to Vietnam. Trump and his kind are cannon fodder, not warriors.) It is no surprise that Trump's kind of people wanted to quit NATO. Trump's kind don't survive when they go into battles because they are grossly unsuitable for war. Not really suitable for work, either. Laying around and bragging about themselves and their importance? That's what they are good for.

Let's be plain and clear: Trumptards are crazy, shiftless, untrustworthy, cheapskate, cowardly, incompetent Americans with family/financial/health/mental problems who can't understand that about themselves because of their huge and inflamed egos. Trumptards love Trump because he has all their faults and never acknowledges any of what obviously is wrong about himself. That gives Trumptards permission to be little Trumps.

Since this about Russia, Putin is their Trump. He will tell the losers they aren't cowards, lazy, stupid, dishonest murderers. Putin will tell the losers they are heroes. Why would Russians believe that about themselves? Huge and inflamed egos, exactly what Trumptards have in America.

It sure would be a different world if their egos forced them to be at least halfway as good and heroic as they only imagine themselves to be.


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Thursday, June 30, 2022 12:11 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.



Quote:

Originally posted by SECOND
First thing, 6ix, the kind of people who vote for Democrats will NOT be done. They are smarter, stronger, healthier, wealthier and have more children than Trumptards.

SIGNY: And you support Democrats because....?
They don't support the elites???
Your brain, SECOND, it's twisted itself into knots.
If my brain was as twisted as yours, I'd worry about it.

SECOND: I am NOT voting for the Republican Party candidates because the Republican voters, note well the word voters, are crazy people from my experience.

As usual, I only get thru one or two sentences until I read something so breathtakingly nonsensical that it forces a stop.

You don't vote for a candidate bc of [your mistaken] impression of the people who vote for him/her???

HAHAHAHA!

You have a black hole in your brain, SECOND, and everything is twisted and bent around it, no matter how irrational. That black hole is "I HATE NON-DEMOCRATS".

So you hate non-Democrats bc they're "racist" "Confederates" (even tho Lincoln ... you know, the man who freed the slaves... was a Republican) and because they wage stupid wars stupidly (even tho Dems wage more stupid wars more stupidly than Republicans) and because Dems are "for the people" (even tho they represent the elite and you hate everyone else)... and for any number of nonsenses that you shit out every day.

No wonder I never read your posts thru.

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Thursday, June 30, 2022 12:31 PM

SECOND

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:

As usual, I only get thru one or two sentences until I read something so breathtakingly nonsensical that it forces a stop.

You don't vote for a candidate bc of [your mistaken] impression of the people who vote for him/her???

HAHAHAHA!

You have a black hole in your brain, SECOND, and everything is twisted and bent around it, no matter how irrational. That black hole is "I HATE NON-DEMOCRATS".

So you hate non-Democrats bc they're "racist" "Confederates" (even tho Lincoln ... you know, the man who freed the slaves... was a Republican) and because they wage stupid wars stupidly (even tho Dems wage more stupid wars more stupidly than Republicans) and because Dems are "for the people" (even tho they represent the elite and you hate everyone else)... and for any number of nonsenses that you shit out every day.

No wonder I never read your posts thru.

Signym, I read every word you write and click every link you post. Why? You are entertaining me. The ordinary Trump supporters and Putin apologists I know in the real world don't give me as rich an experience, or as amusing, as you do, but I know they are sincere. Their lives are sincerely a sad mess, with all kinds of foolish drama, fights, financial/health/mental problems caused by their lack of foresight or even common self-control. They are little versions of Trump with less money, less publicity, less sense. Signym, I don't know who you truly are, unlike the Trump voters in Texas, but the character you play at fff.net never fails to live life stupidly and foolishly, do you?

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Thursday, June 30, 2022 1:38 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Originally posted by CAPTAINCRUNCH:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
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Originally posted by captaincrunch:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Because unlike your ceaseless persecution of Trump and endless wars that you cheerlead...



Which "wars" have I cheerlead?




This one, you fuck.




You said "wars" you fuck. Which ones?


The world doesn't revolve around you and your opinion of the day, Karen.

You agree with 100% of what Second and Ted post, so you're on board with every fucking thing they say and do and believe. If you support Ukraine over America, you support all unconstitutional wars that our "leadership" engages in for their own profits.

You're a fucking lemming and a cheerleader for the Neo-Libs and Neo-Cons who work for the war machine.

Quote:

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I have shit to do today and no more time to waste on your dumbassery.



"Shit" will be all you do today, Nancy.




I've already installed one of the shelves in my pantry that I built from scratch in the workshop I built in my garage over the last few weeks. I've also installed the electric for an external outlet on the back side of the garage where I was never able to get electric before since even my 100ft extension cords wouldn't do the job.

And it ain't even lunch time.

What the fuck have you done today pussy?

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Thursday, June 30, 2022 2:09 PM

SECOND

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

I've already installed one of the shelves in my pantry that I built from scratch in the workshop I built in my garage over the last few weeks. I've also installed the electric for an external outlet on the back side of the garage where I was never able to get electric before since even my 100ft extension cords wouldn't do the job.

And it ain't even lunch time.

What the fuck have you done today pussy?

I read a story today about the designer of the 50 star US Flag. It turns out the story that the designer tells, Robert G. Heft, is a lie. I bring that up because Trumptards lie constantly, in my experience, to make themselves appear more significant. Heft is dead since 2009, so he never could have voted for Trump, but I bet he would have from reading his sad story, where one screwed up generation raises the next screwed generation, much the same as goes on in Russia since WWI, Stalin, WWII, the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet Union, Putin's trillions of dollars in theft produced a bunch of Russian lying sacks of shit who have problems with alcohol, tobacco, money, jobs, marriage, family, you name it, it is a problem for a Russian soldier who is in Ukraine killing women and children.

So, am I calling you a liar, 6ix? Yes, I am. All I really have is the fact that you defend Trump, another wild liar, and your extremely fucked up family. Don't feel bad. Most Russians have extremely fucked up families, too! But their excuse is the tumultuous Russian history. 6ix doesn't have that excuse.
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Robert Galen Heft was born in Saginaw, Michigan, on Jan. 19, 1942. His parents, Maynard G. Heft and Viola C. Weaver, separated when he was a baby. Maynard Heft ran into trouble with the law—he was charged with stealing chickens as a teenager, and for the theft of 75 pigeons—and served time in the Michigan state reformatory. Viola eventually remarried, and neither would play a significant role in their son’s childhood.

When Heft was 1 year old, he went to live with Sheldon and Gladys Schromme in Lancaster. While he spoke of the Schrommes as his grandparents, their exact relationship is unclear—Gladys may have been a great-aunt on his father’s side—and Heft remembered them both as strict disciplinarians.

Lancaster was a small city of around 25,000 people, about 30 miles southeast of Columbus, informally known by its residents as “the whitest town in America,” which made it a favorable region for the Ku Klux Klan. (One of Bob Heft’s nephews, Maynard, told me that Heft privately claimed that his grandfather had been the grand dragon of the klan in Ohio.) As a boy, Heft attended Calvary Lutheran Church and enrolled in the Cub Scouts. At Lancaster High School, he joined the library club and student council, but he was socially awkward—a large kid with thick glasses—and he never went on dates or attended dances.

Heft always said that designing the flag in Stanley Pratt’s American history class was the turning point of his life, and he precisely dated the beginning of the project to Friday, April 18, 1958. This is inconsistent with the assertion—which appeared equally often in his recollections—that he was 17 and a high school junior at the time. The chronology also conflicts with his claim to have contacted Gov. Michael DiSalle and Congressman Walter Moeller, neither of whom was in office until the following year. To make his story more impressive, it seems likely that Heft consciously revised the timeline in his favor.

https://slate.com/culture/2022/06/american-flag-history-scam-designer-
robert-heft-50-stars.html


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Thursday, June 30, 2022 2:21 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.



Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
As usual, I only get thru one or two sentences until I read something so breathtakingly nonsensical that it forces a stop.
You don't vote for a candidate bc of [your mistaken] impression of the people who vote for him/her???
HAHAHAHA!
You have a black hole in your brain, SECOND, and everything is twisted and bent around it, no matter how irrational. That black hole is "I HATE NON-DEMOCRATS".

So you hate non-Democrats bc they're "racist" "Confederates" (even tho Lincoln ... you know, the man who freed the slaves... was a Republican) and because they wage stupid wars stupidly (even tho Dems wage more stupid wars more stupidly than Republicans) and because Dems are "for the people" (even tho they represent the elite and you hate everyone else)... and for any number of nonsenses that you shit out every day.

No wonder I never read your posts thru.

SECOND: Signym, I read every word you write and click every link you post. Why? You are entertaining me...



Another screeching halt.
Yep, you're so amused that you post walls of blather to refute my posts?
Ha!
I wish I could say you're amusing, but mostly you're just so dishonest that you're stupid.

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Thursday, June 30, 2022 2:41 PM

CAPTAINCRUNCH

... stay crunchy...


Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

I've already installed one of the shelves in my pantry that I built from scratch in the workshop I built in my garage over the last few weeks. I've also installed the electric for an external outlet on the back side of the garage where I was never able to get electric before since even my 100ft extension cords wouldn't do the job.

And it ain't even lunch time.

What the fuck have you done today pussy?



Spent some time waiting to see if you were lying about the "wars" you said I have cheerlead. Come on, 6ix, which ones?

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Thursday, June 30, 2022 2:50 PM

SECOND

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


Quote:

Originally posted by SignyM:

Another screeching halt.
Yep, you're so amused that you post walls of blather to refute my posts?
Ha!
I wish I could say you're amusing, but mostly you're just so dishonest that you're stupid.

The Trumptards at work have the same problem you do. With each new piece of machinery they will get befuddled, nervous, angry, so ANGRY! that it isn't what they are familiar with. Do they read the manual? They try, but they don't understand. That's why I have people who aren't Trumptards around. They read the manual. They don't get confused when some new and different machine goes online. They are nothing like those asshole Trumptards, which probably explains why they have smoothly running lives while the asshole Trumptards live in chaos and confusion. Trumptards are very amusing people, if you want to laugh at their pretensions of superiority, but they are not very useful. Neither are Russians very useful, but they sure do have a superiority complex fueled by Putin telling them mighty Russia should be running the world, starting with running Ukraine.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Thursday, June 30, 2022 3:28 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Bored now.

ETA: But if you're ever this way, and I have some ripe ones, stop by for an avocado toast. I give avocadoes away, and neighbors say they're the best they've ever tasted. Prolly bc the trees are too tall to pick, so I have to wait for them to ripen naturally and fall. Grab a cuppa home-brewed coffee if that's your thing. Hubby makes the best.



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Thursday, June 30, 2022 4:54 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

I've already installed one of the shelves in my pantry that I built from scratch in the workshop I built in my garage over the last few weeks. I've also installed the electric for an external outlet on the back side of the garage where I was never able to get electric before since even my 100ft extension cords wouldn't do the job.

And it ain't even lunch time.

What the fuck have you done today pussy?

I read a story today about the designer of the 50 star US Flag. It turns out the story that the designer tells, Robert G. Heft, is a lie. I bring that up because Trumptards lie constantly, in my experience, to make themselves appear more significant.



There you go.

http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=58882&mid=11581
17#1158117


What did you do today, bitch?



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Thursday, June 30, 2022 5:03 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by CAPTAINCRUNCH:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

I've already installed one of the shelves in my pantry that I built from scratch in the workshop I built in my garage over the last few weeks. I've also installed the electric for an external outlet on the back side of the garage where I was never able to get electric before since even my 100ft extension cords wouldn't do the job.

And it ain't even lunch time.

What the fuck have you done today pussy?



Spent some time waiting to see if you were lying about the "wars" you said I have cheerlead. Come on, 6ix, which ones?



I already answered your question.

Why are you quoting things that have nothing to do with your reply? You're a lot more like Second than you should ever want to be.


For those keeping score, this was the previous quote, which you conveniently left out, that got that reply from me.

Quote:

Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I have shit to do today and no more time to waste on your dumbassery.



"Shit" will be all you do today, Nancy.




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