Sounds like just everything that could go wrong doing so. Glad to hear she's doing better though!
What about those weed gangsters that are mad about you giving speeches in Bumfuck, Maine?
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Show posts MenuQuote from: altered on April 13, 2022, 05:34:00 AM
Howl, you have to read this shit. I swear to god. The phrase "if my baby gets sick I will commit Zamboni Crimes" is in the opening fucking paragraph.
https://billshaner.substack.com/p/an-insane-person-for-an-insane-job
QuoteLook, I understand that wealthy people reading this are rightfully scared. You know you didn't earn your horde. But let me put it this way: Either you let us kill some rich people, or we burn down society and kill you all. That's exactly the same offer capitalists extend to workers. You might even stand to benefit!
Since my cruelty will be focused only upon the richest of the rich, mid-level rich fuckers stand to benefit the most from my cruel reign of hilarious terror. Just like in the forest, when a mighty oak falls, the sunlight is quickly lapped up by treacherous social climbers willing to sell out bastards they don't even like in exchange for a chance at their now-empty throne.
Quote from: Bruno on March 26, 2022, 12:14:57 AMQuote from: Cain on March 25, 2022, 10:52:48 PMQuote from: Bruno on March 25, 2022, 01:32:58 PM
Hey, Cain. How much of an issue do you think the food/grain/fertilizer/etc shortages are going to be?
In combination with a lot of other factors, it's not pretty. Uptake from Canada, Australia and China is helping offset a significant loss from the Ukrainian and Russian markets but it only goes so far and China in particular will likely be struggling due to harvest conditions there. I'd say further price rises are all but inevitable at this point.
Are we looking at a situation where millions of impoverished people die of starvation? That bad?
Quote from: Bruno on March 25, 2022, 01:32:58 PM
Hey, Cain. How much of an issue do you think the food/grain/fertilizer/etc shortages are going to be?
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on March 22, 2022, 02:16:59 PMQuote from: altered on March 17, 2022, 06:33:15 PMI'd love for some actual discussion of the propaganda stream.
Anyone who says "mainstream, media-backed position" as a serious response to the regulars of this forum has made a serious mistake. I'd wager that if people here aren't sure of what to think but have the fear of saying "I don't know," they'd go with the goddamn contrarian position for fucking kicks. Get real, please.
I hear a lot about Russian military casualties and destroyed materiel, and there's a lot about Ukrainian civilian casualties (and footage of blown-up apartment buildings), but there's practically nothing about Ukrainian military losses. I understand that broadcasting information on the state of your troops isn't exactly good practice, but the lack of even casualty numbers is conspicuous to say the least. Just how bad is it?
The videos of Ukrainians towing Russian tanks and disarming bombs are great for morale, but doesn't say much about the real situation (and I think the bomb disarming one may have been staged).
And what's up with Russia deciding to break out the hypersonic missiles? It's nifty tech and all, but... those things have to be stupidly expensive, they probably don't have many to spare, and if they provided a path for Russia to wrap this up quickly, they'd have done so long ago. Is this just Putinesque dick-waving?
Quote from: POFP on March 02, 2022, 03:20:45 AM
It doesn't even matter at this point. NATO all but just collectively agreed to shoot down Russian planes in their air space. Because backing a solipsistic nut job with Nuclear Launch Codes, who's just humiliated himself in front of the entire World, even further into a corner is sure to work out well for everyone.
I mean, seriously? Is no one else getting "Don't Look Up" vibes right now? What in the actual fuck is going on?
Quote from: NATO Secretary General Jens StoltenbergNATO is not going to send the troops into Ukraine or move planes into Ukrainian airspace.
Quote from: President of Poland Andrzej DudaGentlemen, as Secretary General has now said, we are not sending any jets to Ukraine because that would open a military interference in the Ukrainian conflict. We are not joining that conflict. NATO is not a party to that conflict. However as I said, we are supporting Ukrainians with humanity aid. However, we are not going to send any jets to the Ukrainian airspace.
Quote from: POFP on March 02, 2022, 02:04:47 AMQuote from: Cain on March 01, 2022, 02:03:50 PM
The thing is, if Russia's going to threaten to invade if Ukraine's part of NATO or not, then they might as well join, since the opportunity cost is exactly the same. "Neutrality" isn't really an option here, even that will be taken as trying to remove themselves from Russia's sphere of influence. That's what is so damning about the whole thing, the Minsk agreement would have effectively made them neutral, but that apparently wasn't acceptable enough to Putin's people.
If Ukraine is a part of NATO, doesn't that obligate the US and NATO to do a lot more than send them weapons when attacked? Theoretically pushing us closer to direct conflict and subsequent Nuclear Annihilation? Based on a lot of talk going around by World Leaders, Military Strategists, and every-day idiots on my Facebook feed, I no longer buy the assumption that everyone believes in MAD. And that should have been pretty predictable, considering it's merely an extrapolation of the concept of "Chicken" to Global proportions. I can find article after article of that game ending in countless dead idiots on the freeway. For that reason, we shouldn't consider direct conflict and invocation of MAD as an option. It might have been a pretty concept when even the Nuclear Arsenals of two countries couldn't turn our planet into a soot-covered, radioactive icy hellscape, but we're past that now.
Putin couldn't have been completely unaware of how much Ukraine has been building its Defenses since 2014. I refuse to believe that even a frustrated Putin would consider a direct Military Conflict to be cheaper than the de facto conditions of the Minsk 2 Agreement (Culture Wars and Intelligence/Espionage operations to establish Hegemony over Ukraine with the help of Political Factions from the Donbas and Crimean Peninsula.). If the US and NATO were willing to do the bare minimum, like talk Ukraine off the ledge Re: NATO membership (Which literally no one wanted anyways.) and actually moving forward with the Minsk 2 despite its disagreement on the interpretation, and overall cared more about preventing escalating conflict even when inconvenient, I think Russia would have avoided a full invasion and countless lives could have been saved.
I speak as someone who knows their own signaling couldn't possibly affect a foreign country. Nothing I say or do is going to affect Putin's decision-making. But if I kick up enough shit about my own country's actions/inaction, I have a higher, even if negligible chance of making someone in Washington attribute more value to human life and do better.
We're able to properly condemn the actions of people within a country/society using the Justice System. When their actions put the Liberty of others in Jeopardy, we quite literally have the ability to, with a seemingly external overwhelming force, put them in their place and maybe even rehabilitate them when we're feeling humane. When we're talking about the scale of World Super-Powers with the ability to end organized Human Life as we know it in less than an hour, there is no external overwhelming force that can come to the rescue. We actually have to take into account the concerns of absolute pieces of shit, and concede when it means living to find another way to beat them. I don't think we can continue treating War on the World Stage like some Moral pissing contest between opposing views on "Nation Sovereignty", as if the US Government or NATO ever gave a shit about that anyways. Countries do not exist in a vacuum - Sovereignty does not mean "Can act without consequences". There are ways of organizing against Autocrats that don't involve putting us all at risk, even if those methods might require us to admit that our own forms of Human Organization are inherently violent and wrong. I'm done pretending like the World Leaders should get a free pass to play ignorant every time another country starts a very predictable and preventable catastrophe.
/rant
Not directed at anyone here. Just completely disgusted by our general views of conflict as a species right now.
Quote from: Faust on February 28, 2022, 02:23:45 PM
I haven't been able to get my head around it, I expected posturing but not an outright invasion, is there really that much support for it back in Russia?
What do you think of the economic sanctions, will they be tight enough screws to finally get people to turn on Putin and end this mess, say if it was coupled with heavy losses in Ukrain when they expected a cake walk?
Quote from: The Commander on January 23, 2022, 09:20:28 AM
Liz Truss perhaps? I don't know much about her, but as I understand it, she's pretty anti-immigration. I know the refugee assistance group I work with is not happy with her.
The Commander
DIA
Quote from: Faust on January 23, 2022, 10:07:35 AM
The ever shrinking circle of pure brexiteers getting kicked out by the ever changing requirements of what a True Brexit means.