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161  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Publicly held Trump trials - ongoing on: May 31, 2024, 11:54:26 PM
I am sure that the European Union is involved in all these lawsuits. Someone clearly doesn’t want Trump to win the election. It is much easier to install another puppet as president. Biden can no longer put together a few words, but the Senate apparently believes that he is completely adequate.

The senate is shit-scared of Trump. Any republican who dissents is bullied into leaving politics. But they are not judged, Trump has been and now he is a felon. I would like to see the representatives voting for a convicted felon who they know is going to pardon himself (or try). They will have the historic honour of rising a criminal to the presidency of the US (if it the people do not stop it first).

This are the people who find him "adequate" (plus all the ones that are not public starting with Putin, who obviously has much to gain). No wonder, they are mostly gangsters.

Mafia heirs....
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delson and her late husband, Las Vegas Sands founder Sheldon Adelson, were Trump's biggest donors in 2020 — contributing $90 million to Preserve America.

The same people Trump claims to fight:
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Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman told Axios last week that he would support and donate to Trump after previously calling for "a new generation of leaders."

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Elon Musk, who met with Trump at Peltz's home, now speaks to the former president multiple times per month and is organizing dinner parties to whip elite opposition against Biden.

The ones that make the wars of the world happen:
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Trump teams up with Big Oil in push to dismantle Biden's green agenda

The "people in the street" and the "people in need of jobs"  
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The bulk of Griffin's fortune is derived from the money he's made managing Citadel Advisors, the hedge fund firm he founded in 1990.

Of course all these people want to weaken the state. What do you think they are going to do if Trump opens the gates for the vultures?



 
162  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Publicly held Trump trials - ongoing on: May 31, 2024, 07:38:26 PM
A sad day for America. Everyone knows the trial is nonsense. I have to wonder about our society where people in respectable roles are abusing their positions as much as possible to support their political beliefs. I hope this is as bad as it gets and the pendulum swings the other way now. The road ahead is tough though. The oil reserves, the debt refinancing at insane rates, the illegals, the homeless, the drugs, the wars… This can’t just be incompetence.

I agree... in the sense that Trump has used his position as much as possible to support his political beliefs (if any, this guy changes with the wind). He has appointed judges that are not aligned with the vast majority of the country, he has used his position to harras by air land an sea judges an jurors .. .and their families...

But hey, there is good news for you, there is still a Trump trial pending that will consider how he used his position to arrange an assault on the Capitol that caused several deaths. Will we ever see that trial, or will the judges at the Supreme use their positions to support their political beliefs and prevent it from happening?

You only needed to convince 1 in 12 -  Trump could not even get that.

The brainwashing is real. Imagine trying to blame J6 on Trump when he told people not to do it, requested additional security, and begged people to be peaceful. Meanwhile Pelosi denied the security request, Twitter censored his pleas to the people at the government’s request, and Capitol employees killed someone as a result. Imagine how brainwashed you’d have to be to blame Trump. People in this country aren’t well and I don’t know why they push false narratives to punish innocent people. It’s despicable. Thank god for what’s coming. Get your Kleenex ready for November.

You are such a hypocrite. There is a mountain of evidence on Trump not caring for the safety of the Capitol, of video recorded inflammatory speeches and practically not doing anything to help the democratic process of power transfer. The problem with your lies is that they clash so hard with all the evidence as they did in the trial in which Trump has been convicted of 34 charges with overwhelming documentary evidence.

In the whole speech, there is one single time in which he says "peacefully", while all the rest of the speech is the purely inflammatory. He wants now to make the whole case about a line in a thousand of a call to attack the congress.

 And if there is ever a trial on the Capitol riots, this is going to be there.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5Qe4h7KQ7c
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-speech-a-key-part-of-impeachment-trial

A call to "pacifically march" but also "to fight like hell or you will have no country"... very fringe, very improper of a President to call people to go to the Capitol.

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"We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore," [...]

 "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."

Yes "peacefully", but only once, just in case anyone in the mob thinks he really wants a peaceful demonstration, after telling a thousands people mob of radical supporters from Proud Boys to Oathkeepers- that does not need that much to get angry - that they are being robbed, that they have to march in to the Capitol and that they have to "fight for their country".

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Media will not show the magnitude of this crowd. Even I, when I turned on today, I looked, and I saw thousands of people here. But you don't see hundreds of thousands of people behind you because they don't want to show that.

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We took them by surprise and this year they rigged an election. They rigged it like they've never rigged an election before
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All of us here today do not want to see our election victory stolen by emboldened radical-left Democrats, which is what they're doing. And stolen by the fake news media. That's what they've done and what they're doing. We will never give up, we will never concede. It doesn't happen. You don't concede when there's theft involved
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 We will stop the steal.
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We will not let them silence your voices. We're not going to let it happen, I'm not going to let it happen.

(Audience chants: "Fight for Trump.").

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Now, it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we're going to walk down, and I'll be there with you, we're going to walk down, we're going to walk down.
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Because you'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong. We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated.
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You will have an illegitimate president. That's what you'll have. And we can't let that happen.
[... this is followed by claim after claim of fraud in several states, including the "dominion machines" conspiracy theory...]
We won in a landslide. This was a landslide. They said it's not American to challenge the election. This the most corrupt election in the history, maybe of the world.

So we're going to, we're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. I love Pennsylvania Avenue. And we're going to the Capitol, and we're going to try and give.

The Democrats are hopeless — they never vote for anything. Not even one vote. But we're going to try and give our Republicans, the weak ones because the strong ones don't need any of our help. We're going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.

So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.

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A man of peace my ass.

Trump knew perfectly well what was going to happen and did nothing for hours. You cannot inflame a "thousands of people" mob that they have to fight, take no precaution to protect the elected representatives of the people and claim that "you are a man of peace". This person is unfit for being President... or nearly anything else.

How long 'til Trump decided to do anything at all, as the President of the US he was up to that moment?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack

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Here’s what President Trump did during the 187 minutes between the end of his speech and when he finally told rioters to go home: For hours, he watched the attack from his TV screen. His channel of choice was Fox News. He issued a few tweets, some on his own inclination and some only at the repeated behest of his daughter and other trusted advisors. He made several phone calls, some to his personal lawyer Rudolph Giuliani, some to Members of Congress about continuing their objections to the electoral certification, even though the attack was well underway. Here’s what President Trump did not do: He did not call any relevant law enforcement agency to ensure they were working to quell the violence. He did not call the Secretary of Defense; he did not call the Attorney General; he did not call the Secretary of Homeland Security. And for hours on end, he refused the repeated requests—from nearly everyone who talked to him—to simply tell the mob to go home.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack

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Trump resisted sending the National Guard to quell the mob.[68] Later that afternoon, in a Twitter video, he reasserted the inaccurate claim that the election was "fraudulent", and told his supporters to "go home in peace".

Tell me, why did it take hours to tell people to go in peace while they were killing and injuring the guards in the capitol?

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Many people were injured, including 174 police officers. Four officers who responded to the attack died by suicide within seven months.

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Trump resisted sending the National Guard to quell the mob.[68] Later that afternoon, in a Twitter video, he reasserted the inaccurate claim that the election was "fraudulent", and told his supporters to "go home in peace"

So, in your enlightened and "brainwash resistant" opinion, why Trump watched the riots instead of trying to keep people safe? Why did he wait for hours while people got injured, threatened, killed.... Comme on, go for it, rewrite documented history like he tried to rewrite the accounting records...










163  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Rumours that russia will use nuclear but where ? on: May 31, 2024, 06:50:00 PM
Another fear mongering post from a Jr. You are late by many months - Putin has been sabre rattling about nukes for the last couple of years, so "rumours about this and that" are just that. Nuclear escalation would only work against Putin, as there is certainty to have an answer.

Just do not open thread after thread on this topic, everyone know what you are and what you are trying to do. Fearmongering is gone because Ruzzia will be subject to a massive non-nuclear retaliation even for "a small nuke" particularly if radiation reaches a NATO country.
164  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: May 31, 2024, 04:00:14 PM
Why do you mix together countries with different politics and ambitions? For instance Belarus doesn't want to be a NATO member, contrary to Georgia and Armenia, but they aren't being asked by NATO to join. It's not NATO that is coming to them, but they're trying to get into NATO. Why is that? What are they so afraid? Maybe they don't want to become a part of the Soviet Union again?

Not true...USA tried to topple Lukashenko in a coup, too. Same as in all former USSR republics, can you
name single one where USA didn't try to "bring democracy" by replacing legal government with
"USA friendly" one? And why would they do that if Russia is not a final goal?

I told you coolcoinz, this people here will not deviate from the narrative. Any opposition to Ruzzia is NATO acting in the background. People are not free, they are "bought by cookies" or "under the CIA direction"... it is simply not in their mindset to think that they may see a different future for their children and may want to fight for it.

does it take money and help to get there? Yes, it may be impossible otherwise, Moscow's tentacles are multiple (fortunately, not infinite).

165  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russia has moved 11 nuclear submarines into the Atlantic Ocean on: May 31, 2024, 01:38:43 PM
The escalation continues to grow, while Western countries have allowed their weapons to be used on Russian territory (although Ukraine has been doing this for a long time). Russia can scare with nuclear weapons, but I don't think it will do that. Peace talks will not be held soon... Sad

There will be no peace talks at least as they are commonly understood for many years.
166  Economy / Gambling / Re: What are your expectations for Casino coins in this coming bull run? on: May 31, 2024, 01:09:53 PM
I know this is off topic  but since this is about Casino coins , so what are your thoughts about FUNtoken now? looks like freebitco.in token is facing so much issue now .

Hope that those who invests in this project that still has their funds inside and things will be resolved in some time because they need to settle this for the betterment of their site and business.
Fun coin was the best coin out of the op's mentioned coins but its platform freebitco is causing a lot of problems especially its withdrawal problems are affecting the users more.  Because of this, the signature campaign of this casino site has been put on hold after a long 219 weeks. It is very sad when something like this happens to a reputable casino site and our trust is lost on other sites as well.  So I don't expect anything good from tokens on any casino platform at the moment.

In the end is all about creating a good eco-system for the coin is it not? The bull run may not make as much difference as other aspects that are strictly related to site in question instead of the wider market.  It is the same with most crypto assets, either they have strong financial support and a well dedicated team behind plus a community or they will end up in the 0x0000000000000 cemetery of tokens.
167  Economy / Gambling / Re: Guide for newcomers Start a fun and profitable gambling entertainment journey o on: May 31, 2024, 12:48:13 PM
But I think that financial education comes with experience and at some point in life quite a lot of people, including gamblers, still begin to study some educational programs or some additional courses on financial literacy and modern financial tools.  For example, on investment strategy, the formation of portfolio investments and other related issues.  By the way, just even reading educational literature on financial literacy, in my opinion, can quite seriously influence the behavior of a gambling player also because by studying these issues, such a player begins to know very well at what point he can afford to lose such amounts that will have a slight impact on  his financial condition. 
So it’s also worth considering that in general, reading or studying this subject itself takes time and this is clearly useful time spent for the player. 
Simply because he is clearly not gambling this time, but is engaged in self-education.
If you're right, well a few years ago I didn't know much about bitcoin and it was when it reached $20k and I didn't know anything I stopped making a lot of money, so I started reading books and I started to see how this market moved, that's when I learned a lot, so What you say is very true, because basically one learns things like that, after already having prior knowledge about things, that is why it is always good to investigate, learn and of course here in the forum there is always detailed information from a very good source, apart from There are all people who have a great intellect that one can learn a lot from what they write. It is always good to have some knowledge of this when playing in a casino.

Yes, I will say even more.  Namely, that almost all users of our forum are highly intelligent people who, to some extent, throughout their lives have mastered not only the Internet itself.  But they also mastered and studied a rather complex topic about blockchain, bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.  Many users are well versed in financial matters.  In this sense, all BTT users can safely be considered the intellectual elite of the world.  And I would also note the kind attitude towards colleagues on the forum.  Almost always, those who know the subject well will give you a good solution to your problem in the field of cryptocurrencies.  In this sense, our forum is very useful.

I think that while most people have covered the basics and have some stuff in their heads, there is always a number of newbies that come and go and need a good first approach to the benefits and risks involved in taking their game on-line. It think covid opened the doors to many people who would normally play in physical placees and now have decided that on-line is for them so they need some support or at least some general ideas.
168  Economy / Gambling / Re: My betting strategies on: May 31, 2024, 11:20:45 AM
Sounds like investing here in crypto mate lol. that magic advise about investing the amount or funds that we can afford to lose and never to lose more or to extend what you are or how you are dealing in gambling

Yes, bro, when we dare to start a gambling game, the main thing we have to think about is that we are ready to accept the losses we will make, the more money we put into gambling, the more losses we have to accept because gambling does not always give us profits, but We also have to think about the losses that will happen to us, if we dare to start we also have to dare to accept all the consequences and then we can be called true gamblers😅, that's what you all think.

Yes gambling no matter the strategy or how clever a gambler may be putting first to accept losses is a paramount thing because losses is inevitable, the only thing I see in having a strategy as many gamblers know what work best for them is that those strategies may eliminate some losses if one has more knowledge on the game he want to gamble on but but percentage of wining is usually lower than losses.

Strategy of stoping once one begin to experience losses beyond expectations is the best option because since gambling is a game if luck if the time has already been scheduled to give you loss continuing in such game may rein you down that is why gambler who is clever and smart control their losses in a little manner but not completely in loss control management.

The thing for an strategy is to make sure you have more upside than downside. As you say loses are innevitable and always linked to the fact that gambling has an chance or stochastic component - if not is not gambling - that is difficult to predict, so the key for an strategy is to take that into account and ensure that the big numbers and the long term present a favourable predicted result for the user.
169  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russia has moved 11 nuclear submarines into the Atlantic Ocean on: May 31, 2024, 11:10:14 AM
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Maybe you could only be referring to the total number of  nuclear Subs own my USA while the context of the OP mean to insight awareness that the Russians has installed a minimum number of Subs in the affirmed locations. Probably could be craving tensions about their intentions of what Russians are up to.

So if the USA does not take a drastic cover-up earlier, then all that multiple subs they have could be effortless at a needed time.

The OP is referring to one of the usual obscure sources he uses and fear-mongering as he does no have anything else to say. Ruzzia has always a number of submarines in the Atlantic, there is no "news", just a ridiculous attempt at fearmongering. Ruzzia has been moving nukes in BealoruZZia and making demonstrations and saber-rattling along with threats since years due to the war in Ukraine not going to their liking.

The strategic nuclear weapons have been there for decades.
170  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Publicly held Trump trials - ongoing on: May 31, 2024, 10:51:11 AM
A sad day for America. Everyone knows the trial is nonsense. I have to wonder about our society where people in respectable roles are abusing their positions as much as possible to support their political beliefs. I hope this is as bad as it gets and the pendulum swings the other way now. The road ahead is tough though. The oil reserves, the debt refinancing at insane rates, the illegals, the homeless, the drugs, the wars… This can’t just be incompetence.

I agree... in the sense that Trump has used his position as much as possible to support his political beliefs (if any, this guy changes with the wind). He has appointed judges that are not aligned with the vast majority of the country, he has used his position to harras by air land an sea judges an jurors .. .and their families...

But hey, there is good news for you, there is still a Trump trial pending that will consider how he used his position to arrange an assault on the Capitol that caused several deaths. Will we ever see that trial, or will the judges at the Supreme use their positions to support their political beliefs and prevent it from happening?

You only needed to convince 1 in 12 -  Trump could not even get that.
171  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: May 31, 2024, 10:32:24 AM
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Because we've already been through this, the precedent was set and continues to be up kept. It doesn't matter how much Cuba wants to be in military alliance with Russia, or how much beneficial Russia/China can make it for Cuban population, they can make Cuba the most prosperous place on earth, but non of this matters because US just won't allow it. And it's for the better, you don't want super powers buying their way closer to another super power's border, it's called spheres of influence and that's what kept our species from removing ourselves off this planet. But now one power decided to break that delicate balance, and change the status quo by bringing cookies, with expected results from other powers.

Ukraine decided to change. You have a lame excuse for the failure to Ruzzia to peacefully convince Ukraine that they should be a dominion of Moscow - tough sale I reckon. Why calling it cookies when you should call it incompetence?

But now, to things that actually matter: Yesterday the attack in Kerch left at least one transport ship (ferry) out of service. Ukraine claims to have hit more targets (namely landing ships "Tunets"), but that shall wait for confirmation. This is the first stage of disrupting the ability of Ruzzia to supply Crimea. It is likely that future strikes will point at other transport ships, ferries and very likely to the Kerch bridge. The railway connection being built across the southern part of the occupied territories will be a permanent target -  a much easier one to degrade as it is much longer and much closer to free Ukrainian territory.

Last night, there were further attacks in Novorossiysk port, the new Black Sea fleet base after Sebastopol became untenable for most uses. I will update on this as pictures come.

Edit: there are claims of a large oil terminal hit with Ukrainian made Neptune missiles.

The Luhansk strike that took out a Nebo radar (usd 100 M) controlling 400 km of the front is claimed by Ukraine, and there seem to be enough satellite evidence for high credibility.






It seems that Ukraine is also going to get two Swedish AWACS, quite good radar planes that need to be quite careful with the long range Air to Air ruzzian missiles, but still a great tool to monitor Ukrainian and border skyes. The total number of f16 promised to Ukraine are more than 100. Enough for a basic airforce, despite the many challenges around getting these operational.

There is also a ridiculous amount of visually confirmed Ruzzian loses, with a 7 to 1 ratio to Ukrainian material in the last couple of weeks. This includes several T90 tanks.
172  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Publicly held Trump trials - ongoing on: May 31, 2024, 12:47:47 AM
I kept raising the volume as the verdicts were being read.   Eventually the neighbours called in a noise complaint, from a mile away....

Long list.  I wonder what decides concurrent vs consecutive.

I would have chosen to say guilty 33 times and acquit the last one. You know... for the laughs. Grin

I think he is not touching jail on this one, but it may be the first of a few.

A shame this is only going to help the guy raise more money and play the victim all over. It is a situation in which he is going to be Xtweeting all over and filling the "Truth"-social with "deepshhhtate" accusations and all that.

But today, I am going to take this for what it is. Trump got trumped. Who trumped the trump, the trump trumpers AKA the jury.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/30/gop-trump-verdict-2024-elections-00160830

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Hill GOP blasts ‘travesty’ Trump verdict — and vows it will motivate party base in November

My hope is that part of the "base" will consider carefully before voting a convicted felon. Who know, there may be some people out there in wild who still think is not ok to vote a criminal for power.
173  Economy / Gambling / Re: Casinos not asking for KYC to register and play, but do require it to withdraw on: May 31, 2024, 12:43:36 AM
If you play at a licensed casino, you are obliged to pass the KYC, and you know that you are on the safe side!

That is one of the things they have told us in favor of a KYC benefit , also When they give examples like if they hack a casino, or any crypto entity , then they recognize the money, that is something I do. I don't think so and that seems like a perfect form of manipulation to me, although in part if we go to the fiduciary system they have Control of Everything, and yes, they track them and can find those who commit the crimes, but from there they return the funds to people is something that they are going to question, because they will start to ask the origin of the funds for the casino and for everything, so that is another problem, maybe I am exaggerating, but that is something that can happen if you believe in those things .



The KYC has benefits for players that do not mind sharing their info, and I think these are a majority in fact. Sites requesting KYC in theory have less risk of being banned or shut down for regulatory reasons and can be considered more trustable in that sense. Sites which use KYC as a barrier to withdraw are pretty much the opposite, so it depends on how KYC is used - positive or negative.
174  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: May 30, 2024, 12:54:16 PM
There are news of strong explosions on the Kerch Bridge between Crimea and "mainland" Ruzzia. For the moment there is no evidence of a successful strike in the area but there are some videos that may be just an active air defence or maybe an strike with a degree of success... or maybe failed. What is clear is that there is intention to strike and the previous weeks strikes may be opening the way for a future Ukrainian success here.

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At the same time, Suspilne Krym quoted a local resident.

Quote: "It is very loud in the city now. We heard six or seven explosions of approximately the same force. The windows in the house were shaking a little bit."

Update: At 02:51, Kryuchkov reported that two ferries were damaged – a car ferry and a railway ferry.

Quote from Kryuchkov: "During the repelling of the enemy attack on the transport infrastructure of Kerch, two ferries – a car and a railway ferry – were damaged by the fragments of downed missiles, and the glazing of the extension buildings was damaged. There were no casualties."
175  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: May 29, 2024, 08:18:47 AM
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But how does this changes the balance exactly? Pretty sure an attack on the early warning system is one of the justifications to launching a nuclear strike first. Thinking that you can take out Russian nuclear early warning system (with attempted justification to launch few ATACMS at ex Ukrainian controlled territory) is not just gambling with your own population but gambling with the whole world. If some 3rd state (that Russia sends weapons to) took out US's nuclear early warning system, I'm sure we'd all be glowing green now, Russia so far has been showing great constraint in all of this. Ukraine is attempting to force this war on to the rest of the world which should not be allowed to happen.




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I focus on what's close and the way I see it, the conflict is local. It's not the US vs China, but Ukraine vs Russia that we're talking about. What's happening here and now is Russians and Ukrainians killing each other with the help of weapons sent to them by other countries. China is playing it's own game trying to take over Taiwan and I'm of course against that.
It's interesting that you feel like we have to be "brainwashed" to think that Russia is bad. Have you ever considered that Russia might actually be bad, or are you blinded by propaganda coming straight from Kremlin?
[...]

I have explained how it changes the balance. From Ruzzia sending hundreds of missiles and being pretty much undone, to getting a fair share of pain on expensive and difficult to replace assets. It is better that you gather a few links and news negative to Ukraine to cover this.

@coolcoinz - By now you probably figured out you are dealing here with people who are most likely paid or otherwise Kremlin trolls. There arguments are always the same, regardless of the situation (Ukraine is a possession of Ruzzia, the West is evil, if Ruzzia does something bad the West is doing something worse, "we need peace... but with an Ukrainian surrender", "the western weapons do not work", "the western weapons do not make a difference", ...)

Facts are questioned, while alternative (but proof-less) reality is put forward. denial is constant.

It is very predictable. When they call for "brotherhood" they are calling for your surrender and their dominance (they will be the "Big Brother" in all senses. Ukrainians will not have peace, they will be sent to the next conflict fighting for Moscow.

Briefly, it works like this:

@Branko - Russia can do no wrong. If they obviously do, NATO is worse, and everything is "the same". If he saw a picture of Moscow burning he would post one of a fire in a dumpster in Los Angeles to prove the above point.
@daRude - May be two people or more.  (a) Everything is always bad for Ukraine (collecting all the news that support that, while ignoring any oher). If Ukraine has an obviously positive news, then question, doubt, alternative reality,...(b) He wans peace - meaning an Ukrainian surrender, nothing else.
@BA - He is absolutely confused about nearly anything in life or... he works for China.
@be.open - I am not sure if a paid troll, but the user or users are  the victims of watching the Ruzzian TV for many years.

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Welcome to our team, paxmao. Let's stop this silly war rather than feed it with more US money and weapons.
[...]

I hope you are a good musician, your destiny is not in comedy (nor in many other things).

Edit: The strike in Luhansk destroyed a Nebo M radar (and the vegetal species in the surrounding field). This is a 600 km range radar that guides / informs the S400 systems and is designed mostly to track missiles and planes - it is claimed they can detect stealth planes. My guess is Ukraine is making sure the f16s have a good chance of survival. Costs in the range of usd 100 million.
176  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: May 28, 2024, 07:24:42 PM
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Oh, don't be so hard on paxmao. I should be gentler with him, too. He's simply cheering a 'football team' on, while most of what he says is designed to antagonize people who don't agree with him, simply because they don't agree with him... not because he wants the war. He knows perfectly well that his 'team' has lost, and he is simply shedding tears for the losses.

The thing that he doesn't seem to realize is that the fact of his team even fighting has literally killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of them, and maybe of the opposing 'team' as well. I find it hard to believe that he actually wanted all those deaths to have happened.

Whatever the true number of casualties in this war - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=casualties+of+the+Ukraine+war&ia=web - nobody except the US government war machine and the heads of the big banks want it. This is what they have been after since they backed the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia over 100 years ago - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=who+financed+the+bolsheviks%3F&ia=web. And they are losing this war just like they lost the Bolshevik Revolution.

Cool

do not worry dumBAss, your happy bunch is what I eat for breakfast.

It is very clear that I am not cheering. You can see the difference by looking at your own post actually cheering the death of people.
177  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Publicly held Trump trials - ongoing on: May 28, 2024, 07:12:45 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWOxTTM2iMs

Trump saying that his trial is "Rigged" and "unfair", but before knowing the outcome. If he is acquitted is it still rigged?


Even IF Trump did something wrong like you suggest, it almost is nothing

He broke the law to help himself become president during a campaign that one of his main promises was to prosecute and lock up his political opponent.  There's literally no evidence that Biden is directly involved in any of Trumps indictments while Trump openly pushed for Hillary to be charged, and when the DOJ eventually convinced him that they didn't have a strong enough case he ordered them to indict someone.  So they did.  And the jury acquitted him in like an hour.

Quit being such a crybaby.  If you don't want the DOJ to be weaponized, don't vote for Trump.  



Looks like the case will go to the jury in a matter of hours...



We will never get away from people and presidents doing illegal or unconscionable things. If Trump did anything wrong or illegal or unconscionable, it was like a picnic at the beach compared with the wrongdoing of Biden. And Trump did many good things while in office.

Get Trump elected to stop the bad and to expand the good.

Cool

Same old same old... 1) A illogic argument. Let me prove it: "We will never get rid of gangsters killing people, let's not jail them".

And now spread the shit so that everything looks shit - "Biden has done worse" - To what the obvious answer is ...take Biden to court and prove it.

You are missing here the "he is a victim", but I feel it coming.
178  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: May 28, 2024, 07:08:59 PM
[...]


Seriously paxmao, you're now happy about attacks on ballistic missile early warning system?  Are things already that bad that you're cheering for a global nuclear annihilation?

I am not happy about anything related to this war. I am point out something that does change the balance. Are you happy about Ruzzia hitting the power stations required to keep the Ukrainians warm in winter?

[...]

Those radars are insignificant for current war, which is another sign that attacks are directed by UK/USA and probably preparation for nuclear assault on Russia
They serve as early warning  against intercontinental ballistic missiles
Now, imagine if attack on such objects get falsely flagged as nuclear attack and Russia responds nuking England, how would you like it?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukrainian-strike-russian-nuclear-radar-163845828.html

“Not a wise decision on the part of Ukraine,” said Hans Kristensen, a nuclear arsenal expert at the Federation of American Scientists. “Bombers and military sites in general are different because they’re used to attack Ukraine.”

Thord Are Iversen, a Norwegian military analyst, said striking a part of Russia’s nuclear-warning system was “not a particularly good idea… especially in times of tension.”

“It’s in everyone’s best interest that Russia’s ballistic missile warning system works well,” he said.

1. Everyone seems an expert on how Ukraine should fight. I am sure you can find someone saying the oposite. But saying is saying and does not bring the radars up.
2. I am not sure what types of "experts" are these that do not know that ATCAMS are ballistic missiles, so those radars are relevant to the war clearly. Unfortunately, they are also relevant for other things.

I almost agree with the last sentence though - well, not to everyone's interest. Ukraine does not have nukes, so nothing will be coming from them.

As said, if Ruzzia cannot afford to lose this and other infrastructure they can leave Ukraine and start figuring out how to pay reparations.

Edited to note: The radars destroyed point to the south. I leave to you why did Ukraine hit those and not the northern ones.
179  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: May 28, 2024, 06:11:32 PM
A Ukrainian soldier was drove to suicide

https://seegore.com/a-ukrainian-soldier-was-drove-to-suicide/

If you won't suicide by yourself, your Ukraine commanders will get job done

https://www.theinteldrop.org/2023/12/17/ukrainian-soldiers-ordered-into-suicide-missions-nyt/

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240125/suicide-mission-ukrainian-troops-reveal-dire-situation-on-the-battlefield-1116376198.html

https://pledgetimes.com/a-ukrainian-armed-forces-soldier-shot-and-killed-his-colleagues-in-the-border-region-of-ukraine/


Ukrainian conscript soldier breaks down during frontline training (notice difference in morale of Ukrainian conscript and
American that is training him for meat grinder)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBE2Ijwfj08

@Paxmao I could continue on and on, but unlike you I don't enjoy war porn, and its really sad that Boris Johnson
prevented peace deal and forced all this to happen

You were arguing that what I post is propaganda. I just wanted to show you what can be classed as such (despite not being necessarily a lie) and how easy is to find it so you may notice the difference. I can see you are starting to get the difference between "war porn", "cheering", "propaganda" and information that is relevant. One more example to see if you can find the seven differences:

This is a very real cost of keeping the war ongoing. In the years before, all the cost and all the infrastructure destruction was on Ukraine. Missiles flying only East to West. Now missiles (& drones) are also flying West to East. This is factual information, with a high degree of credibility and it is of strategic importance for the war:



This is the network of radars that Ruzzia uses to detect incoming ballistic threats. All short of threats (I am going to leave to you to figure out what "detection", "ballistic" and "incoming threats" mean).

Over a single week, Ukraine has damaged two of these (along with a few airframes). These are not just simple anti-air radars. They are building size and they will take a long time to repair or replace.





Why does this matter?

a) direct effect in "strategic blindness".

b) An economic effect in the war calculus: from we hurt Ukraine and it is "free" to, hey they can and will hit in stuff that hurts (that started with the Moscova BTW).

See, this is not propaganda, no tweets, no same thing...

180  Other / Politics & Society / Re: What do you think about Ross Ulbricht, the SilkRoad and the drugwars in general? on: May 28, 2024, 02:49:23 PM
Prohibition is a big business. It keeps a full US government agency employed, makes sure plenty of people go to jail for really long sentences, makes sure the poorest people die or have to put untested stuff in their body... if you ask me, a degree of control would be much better than prohibition.

BTW, people are free to put whatever in themselves sure, as long as: a) do not harm others (e.g. robbing to get the money) and b) do not ever aspire to have subsidised healthcare.

But that is unlikely to change. My take on this, is that despite the guy being an example of "free trade", liberty and all that, it is also true that provided a framework for services such as booking a henchman, killing services, child abuse materials, snuff media or even worse than that, and that is not "liberty" in my book.
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