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Calliban · 2024-03-18 16:29:12

Proof of what I have been saying all along. Being woke (left-wing) correlates with mental health issues.
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/woke- … dy-reveals

The question is, does being left-wing cause mental health issues, or are the mentally weak drawn to the woke movement in the same way shite attracts flies? I think its a little bit of both. Either way, I have never met a sane lefty. They are all profoundly bitter at the world, with an aura of spite surrounding them like a bad smell. They despise patriotism, hate western society and dream of tearing it down. They rot the sole of a nation. Spreading poison and undermining nations from within. It is time that they were recognised as the nasty little vandals that they are.

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clark · 2024-03-18 23:53:23

My reply is to kbd512; cool, you are disillusioned with both parties. I am there with you. You want to throw in with Trump and watch it all burn down? I understand. The adult in me says it probably isn't great for my kids. Take your gamble.

kbd512 · 2024-03-19 04:16:01

clark,

Que sera, sera.

kbd512 · 2024-03-20 08:28:31

Ana Kasparian Visits Hell - A Special Place in Hell YouTube Channel

Yeah, I mean look, I just think the culture, I don't know maybe I was totally wrong but I feel like there was a time in the country where people who had disagreements could have disagreements and still really like each other and still be friends. We're so far removed from that culture, and I'd really like to get it back. I don't know how we build that again, but I don't want, look I've gone, I've done a complete 180 from thinking like, oh if people don't, I can't believe I used to think this, but I used to think like... Well, if people don't share my politics, then they're just, they're probably inherently bad people, and we have nothing in common, and I can't have them in my life. It's such a dumb way of thinking, and I closed myself off to so many wonderful people as a result of that. And so, for others who operate that way, even if they're doing it subconsciously, I want them to like think of what they are depriving themselves of, which is really wonderful relationships that could add more to their lives, to enrich their lives, and also, I like being challenged. Everyone should, I get that some people are uncomfortable with it, but it's super boring to exist in a world where you're never challenged, like I was so bored for two years straight and I couldn't figure out why. I was just like, I'm bored, I'm bored, why am I so bored? Like, I like my job, but I'm bored, and it was because I wasn't ever really being challenged, you know? And and anytime someone attempted to in good faith, I had been primed or conditioned to think, well this is just an alt-right person who hates the country, or, you know, hates minorities, hates women. I had all these, like, stories in my head and I just realized I've absorbed a lot of BS, and I need to detox from it and kind of start seeing the world for what it really is. - Ana Kasparian

kbd512 · 2024-03-20 09:17:04

clark,

Years ago, I used to talk guns with my fellow gun nuts on a gun forum. After about a year, it was painfully boring, so I had to leave. For starters, at least 70% of the people there barely knew which end to be on. Maybe 0.1% of the people there knew the differences between 4140 and 416 barrels, apart from the "color" of their barrel. If they knew that much, they probably didn't know that the 4140 had a finish applied to it, whereas the stainless was not finished with anything except bead blasting. How do you have a conversation about firearms with someone who doesn't understand basic metallurgy, has never used a lathe or welding machine in their life, and has no appreciation for the smell or feel of a fine slab of English Walnut or Ebony, or thinks tacky white plastic is anything like real bone and Ivory? Some of the pilots or reloaders were a bit more interesting characters, but that was it. Worse than that, some of them were angry as hell, kinda like you've been lately, and some of the rest were so set in their ways that it was similar to talking to my grandfather about playing poker. Some of the people I've taken to the range with me, well, I'm never going back to the range with them. They're not fun to be around.

I knew plenty of guys in the military who were exactly like that, and it ruined the entire experience for me. There's always some genius who has to ruin the party for everyone else. Drinking is fun to do with your friends, but I didn't aspire to be a lifelong drunkard. There were far more interesting things to do with my life on the weekends, like flying. Worst of all, there were precious few people to talk computers with, despite being surrounded by fellow Radiomen. They call them "ITs" now, but it's still the same thing.

I don't worry too much about the Russians or Chinese invading, for example. They're dumber than I thought they were if they're merely contemplating that course of action. If they choose to do that anyway, then they should know what's waiting for them.

Now, my friend, do you understand why I come here and talk to you?

We used to have some fairly interesting conversations, or at least, they made me think. Maybe you have it all worked out in your head, but I know I don't.

What do we have now?

Silence. Anger. Frustration.

It's not beneficial to anyone at all.

If you hadn't noticed, I don't stop talking to people merely because they said something I didn't like. I may never think or know the same things as other people I talk to, but I know enough about war to know that when the talking ends, generally speaking, only bad things happen afterwards.

Mars_B4_Moon · 2024-03-23 07:03:55

Budgets and Politics

NASA Wants to Shut Down Its Greatest X-ray Observatory—and Astronomers Aren’t Happy
https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti … servatory/

big islamic terror events back in the news once again

Russia weeps for its dead: Mourners lay flowers as death toll from ISIS attack on Moscow concert hall rises to 143 and security forces arrest 11 suspects
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl … -hall.html

News media in the USA confirms ISIS behind deadly Moscow concert attack and that warnings were passed on to the Russians about an attack of jihadis which could soon take place

7th day of March, in year 2024

"Location: Moscow, Russia
The Embassy is monitoring reports that extremists have imminent plans to target large gatherings in Moscow, to include concerts, and U.S. citizens should be advised to avoid large gatherings over the next 48 hours.
Actions to Take:
Avoid crowds.
Monitor local media for updates.
Be aware of your surroundings."

https://ru.usembassy.gov/security-alert … -48-hours/

Islamic State Group Claims Russia Gun Attack
https://www.barrons.com/news/islamic-st … k-f361895d

That weird Trans mixing of gays and lesbians and men and women and that odd situation, born men competing and beating up women while wearing a dress and why an Athlete Bill is needed?

House Judiciary Committee hearing, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) battled with Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) over the Protection of Women in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWve2JNtVfQ

World supply chains?
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us … 024-03-22/
US has urged Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian energy infrastructure.

Last edited by Mars_B4_Moon (2024-03-23 11:08:10)

RobertDyck · 2024-03-29 16:26:31

I would like to ask Americans. What will it take for the US to take the war in Ukraine seriously.

Parallels are extensive between Russia now and Nazi Germany in the 1930s. When Adolf Hitler invaded Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia, he claimed he was defending ethnic Germans. When Putin invaded Ukraine he claimed he was defending ethnic Russians. Invasion of Ukraine is not the first; Russia attacked Chechnya from 1994 to 1996, signing a ceasefire in 1997. But Russia attacked again in year 2000. One reason Germany went to war is to establish more defensible borders; they were surrounded by flat open land. One reason Russia is invading now is to establish more defensible borders; they're surrounded by flat open land.

Putin has stated everything that was part of the Soviet Union or the Russian Empire before it, now belongs to Russia. Borders at the beginning of World War I in 1914 extended from the Black Sea to the Carpathian mountains, to Sudetes mountains, to the Baltic Sea. The only places to drive a tank division are the Polish gap (Sudetes to Baltic Sea) or Romanian gap (Carpathians to Black Sea). To do this requires annexing all of Ukraine, Moldova, a strip of northeast Romania from Moldova to the Carpathians, all of Poland, all of Lithuania/Latvia/Estonia. To reduce the border, it also requires annexing Finland. In 1914 Russian territory included the southern 2/3 of Poland including Warsaw, that strip of Romania, but all of the other countries including Finland. Putin and his generals intend to take all of this.

In 1939, Hitler was upset when UK Prime Minister Chamberlain said he could have only a part of Poland. Hitler ordered Germany's army to invade and annex all of Poland. I expect Putin will do the same, he will demand all of it.

Nazi Germany was scary. Below is a map of the maximum extent of Third Reich in 1942. Nazi Germany was defeated, but at great cost.

At the beginning of World War 1, the US was isolationist. WWI was 1914 to 1919, but the US refused to get involved until 1917. Not until US ships were sunk by Nazi submarines. WWII was 1939 to 1945, but the US again refused to get involved, until Pear Harbor in December 1941.

So my question: what will it take for Americans to take this seriously? Will it require a direct attack by Russia on US territory or assets? Will this have to expand to WWIII?

SpaceNut · 2024-03-29 16:30:57

A direct attack on US soil got us to the middle east and it's going to take that level of direct attach to have the US do so once more.

Mars_B4_Moon · 2024-03-29 18:39:07

The meat grinder of destroyed human bodies continues, Russia's military perhaps with small gains but significant gains.

'Putin's troops gain ground: How will Germany and the West respond?'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcmbPsl8NKc

Putin says Moscow concert gunman were 'radical Islamists' but refuses to say they were from ISIS
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl … orces.html

checking what gamers play, cultural war

Vladimir Putin orders creation of Russian game consoles, Steam-like cloud delivery, and OS
https://www.techspot.com/news/102440-pu … ivery.html

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Italian fighters intercept Russian planes at Baltic Sea
https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2024/0 … 43978.html

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Japan Finally Screens Oppenheimer - Unease in Japan

trigger warnings, uncomfortable Hiroshima Nagasaki people

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/japan … 024-03-29/

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Mars_B4_Moon · 2024-03-30 03:45:19

Pic of Hamas terrorists parading naked body of woman wins award, ignites anger
https://www.news9live.com/viral-news/pi … er-2482216

Armenia Blocks Shows of Pro-Kremlin TV Host
https://hetq.am/en/article/165391

Authoritarian Imperialistic Neo-Russia gone backward and the Communists of Cuba

Russia Sends Cuba First Oil in a Year to Ease Blackouts and Unrest
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/russia-sends- … 00843.html

Cuba the Marxist–Leninist one-party semi-presidential socialist republic

Soros Funding Group Associated with Hamas
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/soros-fun … ith-hamas/

Marianne Williamson, still in Democratic presidential bid, says campaign isn't about winning: 'There's more than the horse race'
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mariann … =108316131

GOP senator Murkowski likely to leave the party due to Trump

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congre … rcna144822

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s spectacular rise and fall in the cryptocurrency industry — a journey that included his testimony before Congress, a Super Bowl advertisement and dreams of a future run for president — hit a new bottom Thursday when a New York jury convicted him of fraud in a scheme that cheated customers and investors of at least $10 billion. After the monthlong trial, jurors rejected Bankman-Fried’s claim during four days on the witness stand in Manhattan federal court that he never committed fraud or meant to cheat customers before FTX, once the world’s second-largest crypto exchange, collapsed into bankruptcy a year ago. “His crimes caught up to him. His crimes have been exposed,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon told the jury of the onetime billionaire just before they were read the law by Judge Lewis A. Kaplan and began deliberations. Sassoon said Bankman-Fried turned his customers’ accounts into his “personal piggy bank” as up to $14 billion disappeared.
https://apnews.com/article/sam-bankman- … f92e6bcf42

Venezuelan 'migrant'
tells his followers on social media that you can just squat in people's homes in the US to take them over.

https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/17 … 5028234259

Random woman getting punched in the face in NYC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnOVQ0uc67I

females in NY punched in the face by homeless people
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZhvkPzlVA

2nd arrest made after multiple women share stories of random punching attacks in NYC on TikTok
https://abc7chicago.com/women-punched-i … /14589074/

'Turns Out The Well-Known TikToker Who Got Sucker-Punched In NYC Was Attacked By A Guy Who Ran For Mayor'
https://vidmax.com/video/226952-update- … -for-mayor

Skiboky Stora (Freedom Party) ran for election to the New York City Council to represent District 9. He was disqualified from the general election
https://ballotpedia.org/Skiboky_Stora

Lost to Yusef Salaam an American politician, motivational speaker, and activist serving as a member for New York City's 9th City Council district since 2024, Salaam's car, which had Georgia license plates and dark-tinted windows that are illegal in New York, was stopped in Harlem by a New York City police car, a muslim islamic observant he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from then-president Barack Obama, he was paid $41 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought by the Central Park Five.

Unpaid NYC property taxes to hit record $880M this year
https://nypost.com/2024/03/29/business/ … sequences/

California Secretary of State approves signature gathering for Newsom recall
https://www.10news.com/news/california- … som-recall

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RobertDyck · 2024-03-30 17:26:19

Bump re post #2582

kbd512 · 2024-03-30 21:57:27

RobertDyck,

After America is attacked, then we'll engage with Russia, but not before.

Our President and Congress are too preoccupied with the Middle East... Again.

Mars_B4_Moon · 2024-04-05 16:14:04

No money to keep Dams in repair in Russia but money for imperialism a nd wars?

Dam bursts amid flooding in Russia's Urals, evacuation underway, emergency services say
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/da … 024-04-05/

Russian attacks leave over a million Kharkiv residents without electricity or water (english.elpais.com)
https://english.elpais.com/internationa … water.html

Over 80% of medical facilities and 90% of roads in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed
https://medium.com/@chrisjeffrieshomele … ffa5347eea

American aid worker killed in Israeli airstrike was a new dad and military veteran about to leave Gaza
https://nypost.com/2024/04/03/world-new … a-new-dad/

American-Canadian aid worker Jacob Flickinger, who was killed in Israeli air strike on Gaza
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl … inger.html

India, Pakistan attempted to interfere in Canadian elections, according to Canada's spy agency
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/pakist … -1.7164378

Swiss population grows at fastest since 1960s, spurred by Ukrainians
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/sw … 024-04-04/

RobertDyck · 2024-04-07 10:46:58

Every developed country in the world has a major problem: crashing birth rate. Some more, some less, but every developed country without exception. This has resulted in an aging population, large number of retirees with not enough young people to pay taxes to support pensions and healthcare. Also not enough workers to do the work: factory workers, people to maintain roads, water supply, power plants, sewars, etc. Many developed countries have tried to compensate with immigration. But since all developed countries have the same problem, immigrants must come from third world countries. This is causing problems.

Peter Zeihan talks about this a lot. In one of his videos he claimed that Canada has more immigrants as a proportion of their population than any other country. He claimed Canada has 3 times as many newcomers as the country with the next greatest number. As a proportion of population. He said Canada is "special" with "sprinkles" and other countries couldn't do this. But is that true?

Oops! Not! In this case Peter Zeihan is full of shit.

Mars_B4_Moon · 2024-04-14 12:03:20

Iran's attacks on Israel: World leaders warn against escalation, UN Security Council emergency meeting on Sunday
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international … 359_4.html

Woman is interrogated by Russian police for 'showing support for Ukraine' by wearing a yellow coat against a blue sky
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl … w-low.html

N.Korea state-run news agency website launches section on ties with Russia
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20240409_20/

North Korea ships 7,000 containers of military hardware to Russia to back Putin's Ukraine war
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-new … s-32384643

Sri Lanka Recovering But Poverty Enduring: World Bank
https://www.barrons.com/news/sri-lanka- … k-f612a9f6

College sports association bans biological men from women’s sports
https://angelusnews.com/news/nation/nai … er-sports/

A trans-identified male just dominated the Girls 200m Varsity at the Sherwood Need for Speed Classic in Sherwood, Oregon.
https://twitter.com/ReduxxMag/status/17 … 8507747448
Aayden Gallagher, a boy who "identifies" as a girl, set a new record after easily defeating his female competitors.

Mars_B4_Moon · 2024-04-19 12:37:54

news of the strange

American goes missing in Russian-controlled eastern Ukraine, police say
https://www.voanews.com/a/american-goes … 67377.html
Russell Bentley, an American who fought against Ukrainian forces, is missing in the Russian-controlled Donetsk region

What is cloud seeding? Step-by-step graphic reveals how the weather modification technique works
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech … aphic.html
As experts question whether Dubai's devastating deluge was self-inflicted

'Cloud-seeding isn't a rain/water solution'
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/op … 442255.cms
Dubai's rain sparked cloud-seeding suspicions

'Eerie' moment Dubai sky turns green after floods: 'Like science fiction!'
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/18 … her-photos

Parts of Dubai witnessed an otherworldly phenomenon as the sky transformed into a haunting shade of green

France urged to repay billions of dollars to Haiti for independence ransom
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/ … eparations

Brexit plans in ‘complete disarray’ as EU import checks delayed, say businesses
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 … ade-checks

US vetoes Palestinian bid for full UN membership
https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/274 … membership
Twelve of the 15 council members voted in favor, while Britain and Switzerland abstained

Israeli missiles hit site in Iran, ABC News reports
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-ea … 024-04-19/

SpaceNut · 2024-04-24 20:27:03

Michael Cohen says he's going to gag himself and stop criticizing Trump online until after he's done testifying in the hush-money trial

Sounds like advice that should have been taken along time ago....in another trial.

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