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lol

I can't wait until the Leftists are purged from the mainstream.

We're getting there.

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You are channeling...

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I'm doing no such thing.

I'm absolutely sick and tired of the Leftist Propaganda churned out 24/7 from the Leftist ran media machine.

Just like everybody else in the fucking country is.

We're done with you idiots. Everything you touch turns to shit.

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I can't wait until the Leftists are purged from the mainstream.

We're getting there.

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You are channeling...

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I'm doing no such thing.

I'm absolutely sick and tired of the Leftist Propaganda churned out 24/7 from the Leftist ran media machine.

Just like everybody else in the fucking country is.

We're done with you idiots. Everything you touch turns to shit.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
If you (individually and collectively) would stop threatening "Trumptards" maybe you wouldn't be seen as a threat.

If you (individually and collectively) would stop threatening Russia, maybe Russia wouldn't see you as a threat.

It's simple, but probably not simple enough for you.

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If you (individually and collectively) would stop threatening "Trumptards" maybe you wouldn't be seen as a threat.

If you (individually and collectively) would stop threatening Russia, maybe Russia wouldn't see you as a threat.

It's simple, but probably not simple enough for you.

SECOND: The Trumptards and the Russians make claims upon other people's property.

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Oh, yeah... I'd say "fuck Ukraine" but Biden* and Zelenskiy are doing a pretty good job on that.

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Oh, yeah... I'd say "fuck Ukraine" but Biden* and Zelenskiy are doing a pretty good job on that.

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It is Russia "doing a pretty good job" destroying $trillions of Ukrainian property, so it is Russia's fault for what happens to Ukraine. The usual Russian rhetorical trick is to shift all blame onto Ukraine. The trick goes like this: If only Ukraine would surrender, Russia would stop destroying Ukrainian property. Therefore it is all Ukraine's fault for what Russia has done and will do to Ukraine. I never found that trick persuasive, but Russians think it is absolutely brilliant logic.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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All Ukraine had to do to avoid this clusterfuck was IMPLEMENT THE MISSJ agreement. Yanno, the one they signed that had been approved by the western powers in the UN Security Council.

Now they're saying -out loud- that the only reason they signed was to buy time to arm up. Then they massed forces on their eastern border in late 2021.

They got what they deserved: being used as a pawn in our fight to destroy Russia. Too bad for them.

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All Ukraine had to do to avoid this clusterfuck was IMPLEMENT THE MISSJ agreement. Yanno, the one they signed that had been approved by the western powers in the UN Security Council.

Now they're saying -out loud- that the only reason they signed was to buy time to arm up. Then they massed forces on their eastern border in late 2021.

They got what they deserved: being used as a pawn in our fight to destroy Russia. Too bad for them.

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"IMPLEMENT THE MISSJ agreement"? What a puzzle for me. Oh! You meant "Minsk agreements". The Russians are pretending that they kept their agreements. Like Signym, Russians can't even spell MISSJ. Or is it Minsk?

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All Ukraine had to do to avoid this clusterfuck was IMPLEMENT THE MISSJ agreement. Yanno, the one they signed that had been approved by the western powers in the UN Security Council.

Now they're saying -out loud- that the only reason they signed was to buy time to arm up. Then they massed forces on their eastern border in late 2021.

They got what they deserved: being used as a pawn in our fight to destroy Russia. Too bad for them.

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"IMPLEMENT THE MISSJ agreement"? What a puzzle for me. Oh! You meant "Minsk agreements". The Russians are pretending that they kept their agreements. Like Signym, Russians can't even spell MISSJ. Or is it Minsk?

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Sigs can spell just fine. She's no Ted.

You already know the reason that her spelling/grammar has taken a hit recently because it was discussed in the Garden and you read everything that's posted in there even though you don't participate because you're a creep.

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All Ukraine had to do to avoid this clusterfuck was IMPLEMENT THE MISSJ agreement. Yanno, the one they signed that had been approved by the western powers in the UN Security Council.

Now they're saying -out loud- that the only reason they signed was to buy time to arm up. Then they massed forces on their eastern border in late 2021.

They got what they deserved: being used as a pawn in our fight to destroy Russia. Too bad for them.

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"IMPLEMENT THE MISSJ agreement"? What a puzzle for me. Oh! You meant "Minsk agreements". The Russians are pretending that they kept their agreements. Like Signym, Russians can't even spell MISSJ. Or is it Minsk?

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Sigs can spell just fine. She's no Ted.

You already know the reason that her spelling/grammar has taken a hit recently because it was discussed in the Garden and you read everything that's posted in there even though you don't participate because you're a creep.

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Just now I picked up my phone and said one word: "Minsk" to Google voice typing, with absolutely no context to help decipher what I said. And guess what appeared on the screen? It wasn't "MISSJ". It was "Minsk". If Signym can't type, I am pretty sure Signym can talk all day and give excruciatingly long defenses of Putin, Russia, Trump, etc. Tell everybody how wonderful Russia is, Signym, and that the world would be better if Russia, not the USA, was the richest country in the world, rather than Russia being the biggest and stupidest.

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Replying really fast on the fly, and not checking autocorrect.

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As one Russian oligarch reportedly put it, speaking on the growing culture glorifying violence around Wagner and its rise within a Russian state where criminals increasingly call the shots, “the sledgehammer is a message to all of us.”

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As one Russian oligarch reportedly put it, speaking on the growing culture glorifying violence around Wagner and its rise within a Russian state where criminals increasingly call the shots, “the sledgehammer is a message to all of us.”

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Oh yeah? Who said it?

Give me a name. Now.

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As one Russian oligarch reportedly put it, speaking on the growing culture glorifying violence around Wagner and its rise within a Russian state where criminals increasingly call the shots, “the sledgehammer is a message to all of us.”

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Oh yeah? Who said it?

Give me a name. Now.

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Boris Badenov

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All Ukraine had to do to avoid this clusterfuck was IMPLEMENT THE MISSJ agreement. Yanno, the one they signed that had been approved by the western powers in the UN Security Council.

Now they're saying -out loud- that the only reason they signed was to buy time to arm up. Then they massed forces on their eastern border in late 2021.

They got what they deserved: being used as a pawn in our fight to destroy Russia. Too bad for them.

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"IMPLEMENT THE MISSJ agreement"? What a puzzle for me. Oh! You meant "Minsk agreements". The Russians are pretending that they kept their agreements. Like Signym, Russians can't even spell MISSJ. Or is it Minsk?

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Sigs can spell just fine. She's no Ted.

You already know the reason that her spelling/grammar has taken a hit recently because it was discussed in the Garden and you read everything that's posted in there even though you don't participate because you're a creep.

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Just now I picked up my phone and said one word: "Minsk" to Google voice typing, with absolutely no context to help decipher what I said. And guess what appeared on the screen? It wasn't "MISSJ". It was "Minsk". If Signym can't type, I am pretty sure Signym can talk all day and give excruciatingly long defenses of Putin, Russia, Trump, etc. Tell everybody how wonderful Russia is, Signym, and that the world would be better if Russia, not the USA, was the richest country in the world, rather than Russia being the biggest and stupidest.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly]

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The war is not yet over, but Ukraine has already lost

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Empty Bins in a Wartime Environment: The Challenge to the U.S. Defense Industrial Base
...The war in Ukraine has also exposed serious deficiencies in the U.S. defense industrial base and serves as a stark reminder that a protracted conflict is likely to be an industrial war that requires a defense industry able to manufacture enough munitions, weapons systems, and matériel to replace depleted stockpiles.

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We allowed an important idea — American exceptionalism — ­to be hijacked and misused. Now we need to rescue that idea and let it guide America at home and abroad.

For example, Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz published a book a few years ago called Exceptional, in which they boast of America’s unmatched “goodness” and “greatness” — conceding nothing, admitting no error. In their telling, the Vietnam and Iraq Wars were sound strategic decisions. George W. Bush’s administration’s use of torture was right; its critics were wrong. And on and on. Young people hear these kinds of arguments and say, Count us out.

Meanwhile, older generations are tilting toward a different outlook: the United States as the world’s No. 1 sucker. It’s time, many believe, to stop shouldering the burdens and letting others enjoy the benefits. This is Trump’s vision of “America first.” He is hostile toward America’s allies and contemptuous of cooperation. He loves to goad and bully (and even bomb) other countries and says alarming and irresponsible things about nuclear war. He has pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal, the Paris climate agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and more. He is not preaching isolationism; he is preaching predatory unilateralism.

Trump’s approach is dangerous, but he has surfaced questions that need clear answers. Those of us who believe that the United States can and should continue to occupy a global leadership role, even if a different role than in the past, have to explain why Trump is wrong — and provide a better strategy for the future.

II. Self-Correction, Self-Renewal

American exceptionalism has meant different things to different people at different times: the unique geographic advantages of the continent, the story of the Revolution and the writing of the Constitution, the legacy of the frontier, the impulse to universalize the American experience. Some have taken this to an extreme, asserting that America is blessed by divine providence.

There is a common thread: the idea that the United States has a set of characteristics that gives it a unique capacity and responsibility to help make the world a better place.

Most people are familiar with the standard story of how those characteristics have guided American foreign policy in the modern era. The United States stopped Hitler’s Germany, saved Western Europe from economic ruin, stood firm against the Soviet Union, and supported the spread of democracy worldwide. This story has always been compelling. It is also incomplete. Americans are no longer buying it at face value. What about the mistakes, the complexities, the imperfections — things like covert regime change across Latin America, support for brutal dictators, the invasion of Iraq, and the tragedies (despite the best of intentions) of Somalia and Libya? The Cheney version either ignores this dark underbelly or insists that the United States is “saved,” as it were, and therefore cannot sin. It is a self-serving lie that has generated skepticism about America’s strengths and virtues.

Still, the exceptionalist idea has proved resilient, no matter how many experts declare it useless or wrong. The expectation that the United States can do, and be, better runs deep — even among America’s fiercest critics. One such critic, the journalist Suzy Hansen, used the phrase broken heart in her book, Notes on a Foreign Country, to describe the way many people feel about the reality of American power. The phrase reflects a perhaps unwitting expectation, a hope, that the U.S. will act differently from other powerful countries. The idea of American exceptionalism speaks to not just who we have been but who we can be.

A distinctive part of America’s postwar history has been the ability to adjust after failures and follies, which are an inevitable part of global leadership. The Marshall Plan and NATO came into being only after a period in which Harry Truman’s administration reduced the American footprint in Western Europe and imposed self-defeating conditions on economic assistance. The Bush-era HIV/aids program that saved millions of lives arrived many years after the woeful response to the epidemic by Ronald Reagan’s administration. In Latin America, from the end of the Cold War through the Barack Obama years, heavy-handed intervention and support for dictators gave way to mutual respect, engagement as equals, and the normalization of relations with Cuba.

This capacity for self-appraisal, self-correction, and self-renewal separates the United States from past superpowers.

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War in Ukraine demilitarizing the USA

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Empty Bins in a Wartime Environment: The Challenge to the U.S. Defense Industrial Base
...The war in Ukraine has also exposed serious deficiencies in the U.S. defense industrial base and serves as a stark reminder that a protracted conflict is likely to be an industrial war that requires a defense industry able to manufacture enough munitions, weapons systems, and matériel to replace depleted stockpiles.

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It's amazing how the Democrat politicians and the Democrat ran media have turned the Democrat voters into NeoCon warmongers.

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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.

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EU to Train 30,000 Ukrainian Troops as Kiev’s Losses Mount

by Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman | Feb 2, 2023

The European Union doubled its pledge to train Ukrainian forces from 15,000 to 30,000 troops. The EU made the announcement shortly after Berlin found Kiev was losing hundreds of soldiers a day fighting in just one Eastern Ukrainian city.
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The war has dragged on for nearly a year and Ukraine has reportedly suffered significant losses. In November, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said 120,000 Ukrainians had been killed, claiming 20,000 were civilians. More recently, the German foreign intelligence service has assessed that Kiev is losing a “three-digit number” of forces every day as Ukraine and Russia battle for the city of Bakhmut.

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It's amazing how the Democrat politicians and the Democrat ran media have turned the Democrat voters into NeoCon warmongers.

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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.

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And stupid ones at that.
They eat heaping mounds of steaming shit bfast, lunch, and dinner and thinks it's tasty.

Eeeew.

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Dud Russia nuke anyone?
No
It was the USA, not once but twice.
If you want to look at a war criminal, SECOND, go look in a mirror.
But that would cause cognitive dissonance, and we know you don't experience cognition, so....

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It would be nicer if Ukraine went where California belongs and just disappears.

Fuck Ukraine.

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Dud Russia nuke anyone?
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It was the USA, not once but twice.
If you want to look at a war criminal, SECOND, go look in a mirror.
But that would cause cognitive dissonance, and we know you don't experience cognition, so....

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Over and over, Putin has mentioned the US nuking Japan. You are doing what Putin is doing, the famous whataboutism that all Russian diplomats engage in. Could you stop repeating Putin's talking points, Signym? I am talking about the US spending another $6 trillion to counter the threats that Putin makes every day to nuke the US. It sure would be a nicer world if Putin could control his need to murder women and children in Ukraine. And while Putin gets some stronger self-control, he could also stop threatening to nuke the US.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Truth hurts, doesn't it, SECOND?

If you want to see a war criminal, look in a mirror.

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Shooting civilians from a helicopter. Something you said you did while conserving ammunition by taking careful aim.

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It would be nicer if Ukraine went where California belongs and just disappears.

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Putin has your problem. There are people he feels are threatening him by just their very existence and he is making them disappear so that he can feel safer.

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It would be nicer if Ukraine went where California belongs and just disappears.

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Putin has your problem. There are people he feels are threatening him by just their very existence and he is making them disappear so that he can feel safer.

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Those people would be NATO. Unfortunately, he's not getting rid of any of them. They're using Ukrainians as meat shields.


And no. That's not my problem. Idiots like you are no threat to my existence.

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