A Web Exclusive From John Oliver: Rules, Moral Intention, and 1997’s Air Bud
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John Oliver discusses rules, moral intention, and 1997’s Air Bud.
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He repeatedly and angrily denied saying something and then a tape came out of him saying it.
Warren isn’t “attacking” McCarthy over his honesty. She’s simply acknowledging that he has none.
It’s like if someone called you a serial adulterer. Not an attack, just reality. https://t.co/HoBG7bMWfc— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) April 24, 2022
I started watching the Navalny doc on CNN near the end on the first run (when Bellingcat got involved), so it’s interesting to start at the beginning. I know he’s gotten shit for being anti-muslim, ultra-nationalist, but I think he deals with it well. He doesn’t say it was youthful naivete. He says the only way to win is to try to build coalitions against Putin. I think that is the honest answer about Ukraine, too, though the threat from neo-nazis has been overblown by bad actors like Glenn Greenwald.
This was the conundrum for us in Syria. Anyone who thought about it came up against the same wall: a significant part of anti-Assad were terrible terrorists.
This is the world we live in. Never easy choices.
re: #1 Dread Pirate Ron
Popehat also snarked a response to Gingrich:
I don’t know, Newt. I have a feeling you’ll all be looking for a younger, prettier speaker soon.
— LeavePlutoAloneHat (@Popehat) April 24, 2022
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What is so fraudulent about @GOP culture wars is that if they really believed culture was important & not just a weaponized outrage, they would have rejected a patholigical liar who talks in public about having sex with his daughter. Trump didn’t change @GOP, he revealed it. https://t.co/g7ZLABUrnv
— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) April 25, 2022
Some action items from the meeting in Kyiv between PM Ukraine and the US SoS and SoD :
NEW details of meeting with Blinken, Austin and Zelensky in Kiev: Blinken informed Ukraine officials that US Embassy officials would begin returning to Ukraine this week with the hope of reestablishing US Embassy in Kiev “as soon as possible.” Biden to announce new US Ambassador.
— Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) April 25, 2022
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NEW: During his trip to Kyiv with @SecDef, @SecBlinken announced US diplomats will be returning to Ukraine. He also relayed that Biden will nominate Bridget Brink as US Ambassador to Ukraine, a senior State Department official said (via pooler @Abs_NBC)
— Jennifer Hansler (@jmhansler) April 25, 2022
Well, that’s all I got…
Time for me to head to bed.
G’nite Lizards and tgim to all!
Thought for the night:
There once was a man that fell down a well.
Turns out, he couldn’t see that well.
Joe Biden, at the behest of the military-industrial complex, under the supervision of the reverse vampires, tricked Russia into invading Ukraine, and then tricked Ukraine into resisting, all to get a British artillery maker a new client, how do you people not see it? https://t.co/Ff8gH2jFg8
— Nicholas Grossman (@NGrossman81) April 23, 2022
re: #9 Dread Pirate Ron
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Mike’s the kinda guy who eventually convinces the rest of the crowd that the “anti-war” folks are conspiratorial nuts.
re: #10 Targetpractice
Mike’s the kinda guy who eventually convinces the rest of the crowd that the “anti-war” folks are conspiratorial nuts.
God knows I pity his liver.
What a beautiful sunrise.
— Edward (@Ark_Tor) April 25, 2022
Being anti-war and opposed to the fighting in Ukraine is totally understandable and I agree that I hate that there is war going on there.
But being anti-war and blaming the US/NATO by claiming that Russia had “no choice” but to go to war with Ukraine because the latter was a “puppet” due to a CIA-backed coup 8 years ago is…yeah, back away from the edibles, man.
I will never understand the absolute laziness it takes for people to come into our lobby, look for (and fail to find) something in our market, then act like they’re stuck in the middle of the desert because they can’t find what they want/need when there’s a Wawa less than five minutes walk from our property. You can see it from the front desk of our lobby, it’s right across the street from us, yet people are so damned lazy that they’ll act like we’re the only shop for miles.
re: #13 Targetpractice
Being anti-war and opposed to the fighting in Ukraine is totally understandable and I agree that I hate that there is war going on there.
But being anti-war and blaming the US/NATO by claiming that Russia had “no choice” but to go to war with Ukraine because the latter was a “puppet” due to a CIA-backed coup 8 years ago is…yeah, back away from the edibles, man.
Isn’t it simple? Mike is a strong Trump ally; Trump supports Putin in the conflict but quickly discovered that is still a step too far for most of his base so this is part of a strategy to diminish enthusiasm for Ukraine’s battle against Russia. Mike is not anti-war; he’s anti-Ukraine.
re: #15 Hecuba’s daughter
Isn’t it simple? Mike is a strong Trump ally; Trump supports Putin in the conflict but quickly discovered that is still a step too far for most of his base so this is part of a strategy to diminish enthusiasm for Ukraine’s battle against Russia. Mike is not anti-war; he’s anti-Ukraine.
He’s not even that, he’s anti-Biden just like he and his far-right buds were anti-Obama when they were either silent or supportive of the fighting while Dubya was in office. The kinda assholes who loved Trump being “anti-war” when really he was neo-isolationist except those times when he thought a bit of warmongering would boost his approval ratings. And screeched when Biden took office that we weren’t out of Afghanistan on the timetable Trump set, only to then scream even louder when the evacuation was handled “wrong.”
re: #13 Targetpractice
Being anti-war and opposed to the fighting in Ukraine is totally understandable and I agree that I hate that there is war going on there.
But being anti-war and blaming the US/NATO by claiming that Russia had “no choice” but to go to war with Ukraine because the latter was a “puppet” due to a CIA-backed coup 8 years ago is…yeah, back away from the edibles, man.
…because Ukraine is a Fascist state with a Jewish President.
re: #4 Dread Pirate Ron
Wait… he wants to repair a Tesla?
I thought you’re just supposed to throw the broken one away and get a new one.
re: #18 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Wait… he wants to repair a Tesla?
I thought you’re just supposed to throw the broken one away and get a new one.
No, the proper procedure is spending days or weeks on the phone with Tesla’s claims department arguing with them that the part just stopped working rather than you magically breaking it, only for them to agree to cover it under the warranty and give you a loaner while the shop you’re ordered to take it to spends a small eternity getting the part.
re: #16 Targetpractice
only to then scream even louder when the evacuation was handled “wrong.”
Yet when Clownstick bailed Syria, gave the Russians the shit we left there, and told our Kurdish allies to go fuck themselves before getting slaughtered… none of them said shit. Crickets. Arguably worse by an order of magnitude in every measurable way and the silence is deafening.
But Afghanistan was “the most embarrassing disgraceful thing in the history of our country.”
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re: #20 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
Yet when Clownstick bailed Syria, gave the Russians the shit we left there, and told our Kurdish allies to go fuck themselves before getting slaughtered… none of them said shit. Crickets. Arguably worse by an order of magnitude in every measurable way and the silence is deafening.
But Afghanistan was “the most embarrassing disgraceful thing in the history of our country.”
Oh, they said shit. They blamed Obama for us even being there in the first place, after losing their shit when he was in office for not seeing a “red line” about Syria’s chemical weapons and then praising Putin for “outwitting” Obama by guaranteeing that they’d “dispose” of those chemical weapons.
Speaking of the Former Draft Dodger in Chief, Cadet Bonespurs, I found out the reason why his grandfather emigrated to the US from Germany.
To avoid military conscription. He was banned from returning to Germany because of it.
It apparently runs in the family.
re: #23 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
Speaking of the Former Draft Dodger in Chief, Cadet Bonespurs, I found out the reason why his grandfather emigrated to the US from Germany.
To avoid military conscription. He was banned from returning to Germany because of it.
It apparently runs in the family.
Walks in the family. Can’t run. Bonespurs.
Military service was universal and mandatory in Germany at the time. And it served as a reason that lots of Germans and other Europeans emigrated.
Found myself imaging for a second how things would have played out with regards to Ukraine if Cheetolini were still in office. And realized that Putin would have just dropped the “denazification” angle and gone in heavily on the “illegitimate government/state” bit. He’d have played on Trump’s anger over 2016 and his belief that Ukraine was involved by claiming that there had been no legitimate elections since 2014 (when the pro-Russian pres got ran out on a rail), that Obama and Clinton had orchestrated the coup in order to get the latter elected in 2016, and Zelensky was just a puppet of a corrupt cabal who’d been put in office during a “sham” election.
And Trump would have happily ate it up, doing a total about-face on his “I’m tougher than Obama against Russia!” bit by now insisting that Russia had a legitimate beef with Ukraine and the US had no involvement in it. And when NATO allies pledged support, he’d whine even louder that they had money to give to Ukraine but not to “pay” us to defend them.
re: #26 Targetpractice
Clownstick has trouble keeping all of his various bullshit straight and says contradictory things in the same breath, no less in different speeches/interviews. Everyone who supports him, simply mentally edits out inconvenient things that are contradictory to their reasoning whenever they come up.
What would happen is probably all of the above while still saying he was tougher on Russia and “it wouldn’t have happened” if ‘insert some other bullshit reason he can blame on someone else here’.
Because that’s who he is. Stream of consciousness, the eternal now of the addled mind.
re: #9 Dread Pirate Ron
The old senile fake president sure pulled a fast one over you idiot righties, didn’t he.
— Oh. My. Glob. (@efuseakay) April 25, 2022
re: #28 GlutenFreeJesus
I have Tracey blocked, but I thought he was one of those fake Greenwald lefties from Horseshoe land, rather than a wingnut. Am I wrong?
re: #27 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
Because that’s who he is. Stream of consciousness, the eternal now of the addled mind.
Which is fine because we have the media to match. He knows he can utter whatever occurs to him at the moment and that he will experience no negative consequences from it.
re: #27 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
Clownstick has trouble keeping all of his various bullshit straight and says contradictory things in the same breath, no less in different speeches/interviews. Everyone who supports him, simply mentally edits out inconvenient things that are contradictory to their reasoning whenever they come up.
What would happen is probably all of the above while still saying he was tougher on Russia and “it wouldn’t have happened” if ‘insert some other bullshit reason he can blame on someone else here’.
Because that’s who he is. Stream of consciousness, the eternal now of the addled mind.
Right, but his handlers generally try to prod him to at least keep somewhat consistent in his bullshit. So he’d come out to the podium to read some prepared “condemnation” of the fighting (without identifying the belligerent) and pledge that US would work to bring a swift resolution to the fighting. Where he’d go off the rail is when he started taking questions, at which time he’d blame Zelensky and accuse him of being “corrupt,” suggest (or outright declare) that Ukraine could have avoided war if they’d just given into Putin’s demands, and make clear that the only interest the US had in the war was avoiding disruption to oil/gas shipments to keep prices down and avoid economic disruption (read: no sanctions against Russia).
Remove Capitalism?
Y’all trying to shut down Disney World, you shithead. pic.twitter.com/UuKP9el4Sx— Jo 🌻 (@JoJoFromJerz) April 24, 2022
re: #32 Dread Pirate Ron
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Didn’t you hear? Mickey Mouse, whose army of lawyers will flay you alive for even thinking of pirating a Marvel movie, is suddenly card-carrying Marxist who wants to groom your kids into being gay. So says Ron DeSantis, Patron Saint of Capitalism who bravely saved his state’s economy by sacrificing tens of thousands of Floridians to prevent shutdowns.
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re: #33 Targetpractice
Didn’t you hear? Mickey Mouse, whose army of lawyers will flay you alive for even thinking of pirating a Marvel movie, is suddenly card-carrying Marxist who wants to groom your kids into being gay. So says Ron DeSantis, Patron Saint of Capitalism who bravely saved his state’s economy by sacrificing tens of thousands of Floridians to prevent shutdowns.
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and Walt Disney was Jewish.
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GQP: “CANCEL CULTURE IS REAL! THEY’RE SILENCING ANYBODY WHO DOESN’T AGREE WITH THEM! THIS IS EVIL AND IT’S DESTROYING FREE SPEECH!!!”
Disney: “We support LGBTQ+ rights and feel that this bill is wrong.”
GQP: “DEATH TO THE MOUSE!!!!”
Another tip from the wage slave at your local hotel front desk: Computers have made your check-in process easier, but also made the chances of finding a room “for the night” after midnight next to impossible. Unless you’re trying to stay at some hole-in-the-wall motel in Podunk, Nebraska, then odds are the staff are working with computers that do not allow them to fudge the check-in date after the hotel’s “day” has rolled over. And while some might be willing to sell you a room for the next day (with attendant early check-in fee), most will not because it’s a hassle for the housekeeping staff when you “check-out early” because you never intended to stay more than a few hours to sleep/shower/f*ck/etc. If you know you’re gonna need a place to crash, start looking no latter than 11pm, because most third-party sites change their listings at midnight even if the hotel does not.
And please, be courteous to the guy at the desk at inhuman hours and thank him for telling you there’s nothing available, rather than berating him for your lack of planning and/or begging him to make up for your mistake in some fashion.
re: #37 Targetpractice
so our arbitrary and random division of the day at 12 pm is a pain in the ass for all those who do not work sunup to sunset…
re: #38 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
so our arbitrary and random division of the day at 12 pm is a pain in the ass for all those who do not work sunup to sunset…
Well, in my case the situation is sort of fucked by the nature of our management at this property. The parent company of our hotel does not normally have overnight staff, their office hours run from 7am to 12am, so anybody trying to check in during hours the office is closed are SOL. I’ve lost count of the number of people who’ve called me in a panic because the office at our new sister property across town is closed and they want us to ring somebody up to come deal with their problem.
However, our previous owners employed overnight staff and our GM insists on maintaining overnight staff on-property because there’s always a punching bag around for irate guests to yell at…er, somebody to assist guests with issues after-hours. This creates the issue that while our computers automatically run the audit at 1:30am, I’m still required by management to honor late arrivals and deal with persons looking for rooms at o’dark thirty in the morning.
You can’t guarantee that your membership doesn’t include domestic terrorism. https://t.co/JXsMOU5g9Q
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) April 25, 2022
In our age of perpetual discontent, it would be unheard of for an opposing party to acknowledge that an admin is doing just about everything humanly possible to confront evil. But this administration is. For that, Biden deserves a great deal of credit. https://t.co/p8mcxLUMTe
— Jennifer ‘I stand with Ukraine’ Rubin 🇺🇦🇺🇦 (@JRubinBlogger) April 24, 2022
re: #40 Dread Pirate Ron
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Approaching Lisbon, internet slow and unsteady, maybe a little more usable.
Has anyone been in touch with Teddy’s Person in my absence?
re: #43 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
Has anyone been in touch with Teddy’s Person in my absence?
I don’t think anyone has.
My mouse recharges in 3 hours and lasts 3 weeks. I wish my e-bike did that.
Strange are my dreams at times.
A few days ago I dreamt I was talking to someone who was being buried in sand, and I referred to myself as “this Egyptian”.
I think I was dreaming of this Egyptian.
re: #45 Dread Pirate Ron
My mouse recharges in 3 hours and lasts 3 weeks. I wish my e-bike did that.
Have you tried riding your mouse instead?
Never heard of a movie or TV show about The Egyptian. Seems to me it would make a good movie. But I think movie funders are still too skittish to cover anything that might be seen as making Christians a bit too uncomfortable.
There are enough people who will take McCarthy’s bald faced lie at face value, even with specific evidence that points to the exact opposite of what he said here.
McCarthy’s no Einstein, but he’s smart enough to know that there is a good chance this will pass.
And that’s awful. https://t.co/tPoOb9ZFPm— Hal Perry 🇺🇲🇺🇦 (@halperry) April 25, 2022
Except that your tweet reeks of white nativist anxiety.
— Hal Perry 🇺🇲🇺🇦 (@halperry) April 25, 2022
re: #50 The GOP is a terrorist organization
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“Our” language. “Our” culture. He wants to say the 14 words but knows the moment he does his campaign is toast.
re: #50 The GOP is a terrorist organization
None of the things he wants to defend is under attack, and only racists claim they are, therefore by I believe the term is modus ponens, he’s a racist.
“Defending our borders” is a loaded dogwhistle.
Because “Comprehensive and humane immigration policies” are not going to happen under them.
On the one hand, they need the “others” to single out as enemies of “our” culture, they also need the endless supply of cheap, easily exploited labor to keep our crops harvested, our chickens packaged, our lawns tended and our beds made.
re: #51 Targetpractice
“Our” language. “Our” culture. He wants to say the 14 words but knows the moment he does his campaign is toast.
Appearance aside, trying hard not to be part of his “our”.
re: #52 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
None of the things he wants to defend is under attack, and only racists claim they are, therefore by I believe the term is modus ponens, he’s a racist.
Mandel’s the kinda guy I label as “Fasionable Fascism,” the well-dressed racist who gets news interviews and magazine articles because he’s not in a stained wife-beater, overalls, and a MAGA cap bitching about “Those illegals are takin’ all our jobs!” No, he’s always dressed in a suit (tie optional), his hair freshly cut and face cleanly shaven, looking like somebody who’d do your taxes or process your bank deposit. But what he’s selling the same poison that the beer-drenched inbred is belching, just in a nicer package with a lot fewer four-letter words. Hence why the media loves to treat him as if what he’s offering is “serious” and “reasonable,” and why people getting shocked when fascists get into office and then proceed to enact fascism.
re: #55 Targetpractice
Mandel’s the kinda guy I label as “Fasionable Fascism,” the well-dressed racist who gets news interviews and magazine articles because he’s not in a stained wife-beater, overalls, and a MAGA cap bitching about “Those illegals are takin’ all our jobs!” No, he’s always dressed in a suit (tie optional), his hair freshly cut and face cleanly shaven, looking like somebody who’d do your taxes or process your bank deposit. But what he’s selling the same poison that the beer-drenched inbred is belching, just in a nicer package with a lot fewer four-letter words. Hence why the media loves to treat him as if what he’s offering is “serious” and “reasonable,” and why people getting shocked when fascists get into office and then proceed to enact fascism.
Himmler was a snappy dresser.
re: #56 Decatur Deb
Himmler was a snappy dresser.
Watched a clip the other day that reminded me of one of the better scenes of the latter portion of The Man in the High Castle, of Himmler being referred to (among other things) as a “failed chicken farmer” just before he was assassinated.
re: #55 Targetpractice
Mandel’s the kinda guy I label as “Fasionable Fascism,” the well-dressed racist who gets news interviews and magazine articles because he’s not in a stained wife-beater, overalls, and a MAGA cap bitching about “Those illegals are takin’ all our jobs!”
A “racial realist” who has a few cherry-picked sociological and anthropological studies to “prove” the “inherent otherness” and incompatibility (i.e., the threat) of the other races/cultures?
re: #56 Decatur Deb
Himmler was a snappy dresser.
It seems to be a rule of history that the bad guys are the best dressers. Not only were Nazis the best dressers of WW2, they had the most admirable technology.
Even as a kid I understood the distinction between looking good and being evil, although I did always let my German soldiers beat the British within an inch of capitulating before sending in General Patton to save the day for Freedom.
“Our” language. “Our” culture. Josh, you were born in Cleveland, a city which saw a huge influx of European immigrants the 1700s and 1800s. For a long time, it was a city that had the largest population of Hungarians outside of Hungary. Like most every large city in America, it has entire enclaves dedicated to single ethnicities where languages other than English are spoken and the culture is not “Hotdogs, Baseball, & Ma’s Apple Pie.” You’re not some salt-of-the-earth kid who grew up on the farm and dreams of bigger things, you’re a big city yuppie who’s selling the 21st century “blood and soil” BS.
re: #58 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
A “racial realist” who has a few cherry-picked sociological and anthropological studies to “prove” the “inherent otherness” and incompatibility (i.e., the threat) of the other races/cultures?
The kinda guy who has a copy of The Bell Curve on his book shelf, right next to his dog-earred copy of Mein Kampf.
re: #60 Targetpractice
“Our” language. “Our” culture. Josh, you were born in Cleveland, a city which saw a huge influx of European immigrants the 1700s and 1800s. For a long time, it was a city that had the largest population of Hungarians outside of Hungary.
My half-Hungarian grandmother originally came to Cleveland from Croatia around 1912, where she gave birth to my mom and aunt Helen before relocating to Gary, Indiana, another place that was chock full of Eastern and Southern European immigrants, Appalachian and Southern whites, blacks and Latinos.
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I hear “our culture” and can’t help but think we’re talking the sort of white people who put raisins in potato salad. Or cook chicken without any seasoning on it.
re: #64 Targetpractice
I hear “our culture” and can’t help but think we’re talking the sort of white people who put raisins in potato salad. Or cook chicken without any seasoning on it.
I remember when they came out with a spray for microwave chicken to add some roasted brown color and flavoring to the cadaverous grey chicken flesh that otherwise resulted from nuking a chicken leg.
re: #66 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I remember when they came out with a spray for microwave chicken to add some roasted brown color and flavoring to the cadaverous grey chicken flesh that otherwise resulted from nuking a chicken leg.
I found myself immediately thinking of that old tweet of the boyfriend’s roommate baking boneless chicken breasts in the oven with absolutely no seasoning whatsoever. Not even any salt and pepper on them. Good Zod, that was a crime against cooking.
re: #59 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It seems to be a rule of history that the bad guys are the best dressers. Not only were Nazis the best dressers of WW2, they had the most admirable technology.
Even as a kid I understood the distinction between looking good and being evil, although I did always let my German soldiers beat the British within an inch of capitulating before sending in General Patton to save the day for Freedom.
Willie and Joe dressed like slobs.
I have to admit, I kinda surprised myself with this one. It’s way too early on a Monday morning.
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Speaking of cooking, if you’ve got some time to spare, check out this guy’s Tik Tok. It is utterly hilarious:
re: #68 Decatur Deb
Spike Milligan likened the British battledress to a “sack of shit tied up in the middle.”
I just faceplant to post amusing things, sometimes rant about inequity, and read about stupid people in silly tag groups. I posed this first picture in January and got a 30-day restriction to my account (don’t promote self-harm) which equates to no live, no ads (don’t do either) and reduced visibility. Engh, appealed, a real person said that it is a violation of community standard. My belief that 95% of the planet is too stupid to breathe is confined, (reconffmed?) again.
30-days restricted
So, I wake up on Sunday,and see that I am restricted, again, (60-days, now) because the cold-case algorithm has found the second picture (at least I’m consistent) that I posted 20-months ago, appealed, person looks at it, denied again because people are morons and can’t recognize the difference between sarcasm and reality.
I am assuming that a person looked at it when your appeal. On faceplant, words are not used when dealing with the powers-that-be.
re: #73 Colère Tueur de Lapin
A classic case of what social media are useless at (spreading useful/vital information about health, safety, etc.) and what they are good for, namely spreading news about what you and your friends and family are up to, what they had for lunch, cute pet/kid photos/videos, local gigs and events, etc.
Indonesia, the world’s largest producer of palm oil, is banning exports to reduce the domestic price. The cost of edible oils has been skyrocketing because Ukraine is a large exporter of sunflower oil. Expect to see a big jump in the price of vegetable oil.
With the rise of right-wing nationalism around the world, pro-democracy candidates everywhere can learn from this messaging. pic.twitter.com/TI0xFkOJWB
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) April 24, 2022
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re: #78 jeffreyw
You’re a big fan of pickled jalapeños, right?
re: #77 Ming5000
I am surprised that there are not massive protests in support of LePen, accusing Macron of stealing the election. What is wrong with French Democracy? Have they no True Patriots left? Why are they not storming the Bastille as we speak?!?
re: #79 Colère Tueur de Lapin
You’re a big fan of pickled jalapeños, right?
They also went into the veggie chili I am whipping up today.
Familiarize yourself with where you might get access to monoclonal antibodies or antiviral pills if you do test positive. The US government has a website to help https://t.co/eT2k6ZnNyX
— Global Health Observ (@GlobalPHObserv) April 24, 2022
re: #82 Belafon
Mornin’ everyone…
We were having breakfast at our local spot in the harbor yesterday and some younger guy was on his second or third paradise mimosa (champagne, orange, pineapple, shot of Malibu rum)…my wife likes them a lot so she said, “Those are good, they taste like Hawaii” and he said, “I went once, but they’re really hard on the unvaccinated.”
We both just changed the subject and were grateful he was half way down the bar.
re: #83 darthstar
Mornin’ everyone…
We were having breakfast at our local spot in the harbor yesterday and some younger guy was on his second or third paradise mimosa (champagne, orange, pineapple, shot of Malibu rum)…my wife likes them a lot so she said, “Those are good, they taste like Hawaii” and he said, “I went once, but they’re really hard on the unvaccinated.”
Well, Obama is from Hawaii, so that explains why they are so hateful and intolerant and unaccepting of alternative viewpoints and lifestyles…
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Good morning.
Does anyone have Teddy’s Person contact info?
It’s been awhile..
Admired Hitler, spouted Russian propaganda, defamed veterans, no problem.
Photographed in ladies’ underwear, death sentence.
This seems bad. For him, I mean. https://t.co/BECyG8kVJh
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) April 24, 2022
re: #21 Hecuba’s daughter
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I like New York Times Pitchbot
Macron scored a decisive victory today. So why does it feel like he lost?
— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) April 24, 2022
re: #89 Ming5000
It’s clear that you don’t get math or what is considered a landslide.
By French standards, this was a landslide. By US measures, it’s like Reagan wiping out Mondale in 1984.
Same margins.
So yeah, I’m here for the ratio.
Even still, Le Pen should have gotten no more than 20.— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) April 25, 2022
After getting ratioed for her hot wrong take, she turned off replies.
Instead of admitting being wrong, she turned off critics.
Got it. https://t.co/SjNIthcmTB— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) April 25, 2022
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re: #59 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Not only were Nazis the best dressers of WW2, they had the most admirable technology.
for the clothes it’s a matter of taste.
For the technology?
They didn’t have the wooden pallet and the forklift.
re: #92 John Hughes
for the clothes it’s a matter of taste.
For the technology?They didn’t have the wooden pallet and the forklift.
Nor the duce & 1/2 or the Liberty Ship.
re: #92 John Hughes
for the clothes it’s a matter of taste.
For the technology?They didn’t have the wooden pallet and the forklift.
They had the best-looking technology, not necessarily the most practical or robust.
re: #93 William Lewis
Nor the duce & 1/2 or the Liberty Ship.
Or the Jeep.
German tech was generally well engineered - over engineered in many ways - too complex to keep running on a battlefield, which meant that they couldn’t deliver in the numbers needed.
Hitler’s fixation on super weapons also made things worse. Ultimately the Allies overwhelmed with superior numbers of equipment, had better logistics, and by the end of the way, key weapons systems were as good or better in many respects.
#Ukraine is sincerely grateful to the partners for their assistance and unwavering support during the second Russian invasion. (Video) pic.twitter.com/QeTBgYZbPG
— Victor Kovalenko (@MrKovalenko) April 25, 2022
re: #94 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They had the best-looking technology, not necessarily the most practical or robust.
So much of the problem with Germany’s military was that weapons procurement was subject to three issues: Hitler had final approval, Hitler had no real idea what the Wehrmacht needed, and decisions were as much about political patronage as they were the suitability of a design for the role intended.
For example, Hitler was the primary reason why the Wehrmacht did not adopt an assault rifle until late in the war, as he saw no advantage to equipping soldiers with a select-fire rifle with an intermediate round when the Heer already had plenty of SMGs and MGs.
re: #95 lawhawk
Or the Jeep.
German tech was generally well engineered - over engineered in many ways - too complex to keep running on a battlefield, which meant that they couldn’t deliver in the numbers needed.
I read that the Bosch engine bearings on a Panther Tank had a life of nearly 10 years - at a time when most tanks did not last more than six weeks on the battlefield.
re: #98 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I read that the Bosch engine bearings on a Panther Tank had a life of nearly 10 years - at a time when most tanks did not last more than six weeks on the battlefield.
The Maybach HL230 was a really well made engine. Of course, that mattered little when it was sitting in a brewed-up wreck.
re: #51 Targetpractice
“Our” language. “Our” culture. He wants to say the 14 words but knows the moment he does his campaign is toast.
it starts with “Defend”
re: #73 Colère Tueur de Lapin
I just faceplant to post amusing things, sometimes rant about inequity, and read about stupid people in silly tag groups. I posed this first picture in January and got a 30-day restriction to my account (don’t promote self-harm) which equates to no live, no ads (don’t do either) and reduced visibility. Engh, appealed, a real person said that it is a violation of community standard. My belief that 95% of the planet is too stupid to breathe is confined, (reconffmed?) again.
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re: #97 Targetpractice
For example, Hitler was the primary reason why the Wehrmacht did not adopt an assault rifle until late in the war, as he saw no advantage to equipping soldiers with a select-fire rifle with an intermediate round when the Heer already had plenty of SMGs and MGs.
The M1 Garand, while not a perfect weapon by any means, was a revolution on the battlefield in the face of the bolt action Lee-Enfield and Mosin-Nagant rifles on the continent. It gave an American rifle squad the firepower of a European platoon. And that was just a semi-automatic rifle with a relatively small clip. You’d think the demonstration of such superior firepower would be a compelling argument for adopting semi-auto or select-fire weapons of your own, but Hitler was nothing if not stubborn.
re: #14 Targetpractice
I will never understand the absolute laziness it takes for people to come into our lobby, look for (and fail to find) something in our market, then act like they’re stuck in the middle of the desert because they can’t find what they want/need when there’s a Wawa less than five minutes walk from our property. You can see it from the front desk of our lobby, it’s right across the street from us, yet people are so damned lazy that they’ll act like we’re the only shop for miles.
They can come down to the lobby barefoot & in pajamas (like it’s their home) but don’t want to get made fun of or thrown out of they go to Wawa looking like that.
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re: #104 Dangerman
VIRTUOUS VIRGINS or CRACK WHORES
CHICK FIL-A or TACO TRUCKS
KEN & BARBIE or PEDOPHILE GROOMING
GOD IN SCHOOLS or SHARIA
So looks like Twitter might accept Musk’s bid. interesting times.
re: #106 JC1
So looks like Twitter might accept Musk’s bid. interesting times.
Well, that might put me right off of Twitter. Not that I do much in the way of political or controversial tweeting, but just the idea that he is in charge… do.not.like.him.at.all.
I live in an angry neighborhood, we even have cross streets…
re: #99 The Squire of Logos
The Maybach HL230 was a really well made engine. Of course, that mattered little when it was sitting in a brewed-up wreck.
Big part of the problem was that Maybach benefited from political favor with Hitler and thus a total monopoly on tank engine designs. Great for their profit margins, but also meant that there was no flexibility in tank designs. By contrast, over the life of the M4 Sherman, every military that used it found ways to shoehorn whatever engines they could get their hands on into it. Started with gas-powered radial engines, ended with Cummins diesels when the Israelis retired their last ones.
re: #106 JC1
So looks like Twitter might accept Musk’s bid. interesting times.
And MAGA twitter is sure this is all to own the libs.
re: #106 JC1
So looks like Twitter might accept Musk’s bid. interesting times.
It won’t effect me much. There are already lots of Nazis on Twitter, and I just block them. I also think that if Trump is allowed back on to spew his insanity, that might actually help Democrats.
re: #111 No Malarkey!
It won’t effect me much. There are already lots of Nazis on Twitter, and I just block them. I also think that if Trump is allowed back on to spew his insanity, that might actually help Democrats.
FWIW, THGs hiatus from Twitter has sent his popularity into a tailspin from which the whole extreme wing of the GOP is not recovering.
re: #112 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
FWIW, THGs hiatus from Twitter has sent his popularity into a tailspin from which the whole extreme wing of the GOP is not recovering.
I don’t know. The GQP seems to be doing pretty well these days. They’re getting done everything they’re setting out to do, at the state and court level, at least.
re: #110 Barefoot Grin
And MAGA twitter is sure this is all to own the libs.
They’ll be sorely disappointed if they think the guy doing more than anyone else in pushing EVs and solar power is MAGA friendly.
re: #113 Dopamine Fish
I don’t know. The GQP seems to be doing pretty well these days. They’re getting done everything they’re setting out to do, at the state and court level, at least.
GOP overall, yes. The Trump wing of it, not so much.
re: #112 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
FWIW, THGs hiatus from Twitter has sent his popularity into a tailspin from which the whole extreme wing of the GOP is not recovering.
One fun part if Trump is reinstated on Twitter, it will be the final nail in the coffin for Truth Social; any chance that Trump will start using it will end, and everyone who invested in it will lose all the money they put in.
Biden: “I’ve had long discussions..now up to 70-some hours with Xi Jinping..He’s a very smart and calculating guy..He doesn’t think that democracies can be sustained in the 21st century, in the second quarter of the century, because” 1/https://t.co/HiNWzSFSn8
— Sari Arho Havrén (@SariArhoHavren) April 24, 2022
Xi said: “What are you going to do?” And I [Biden] said, “What I’m going to do is reestablish our alliances.” [Xi] said, “That’s..because you’re trying to hurt China.” 3/
— Sari Arho Havrén (@SariArhoHavren) April 24, 2022
Biden:”The point being that one of the things that the autocrats fear the most..is the notion that somehow we can work together in concert and-contrary to what are essentially dictatorships, which a lot of countries hv become-..not only China, but Russia and many other.” 5/5
— Sari Arho Havrén (@SariArhoHavren) April 24, 2022
re: #117 Belafon
“autocracy-only autocracies are able to handle it.Bc democracies require consensus..it takes too much time,.to get it together. And by that time, the event, the circumstance has gone beyond your ability to fix it.”
We have seen time and time again that when democracies give someone “emergency powers” to deal with a crisis, they never want to relinquish those powers, and perpetuate the crisis or help find or create a new one.
re: #118 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We have seen time and time again that when democracies give someone “emergency powers” to deal with a crisis, they never want to relinquish those powers, and perpetuate the crisis or help find or create a new one.
In some cases (see: the current day GOP), it doesn’t even have to involve emergency powers. The mere threat of losing ordinary governing powers is enough for them to invent increasingly hysterical crises, in an attempt to whip up support in spite of their increasingly unpopular agenda.
re: #119 Dopamine Fish
In some cases (see: the current day GOP), it doesn’t even have to involve emergency powers. The mere threat of losing ordinary governing powers is enough for them to invent increasingly hysterical crises, in an attempt to whip up support in spite of their increasingly unpopular agenda.
And to convince us that CRT is going to teach blacks to hate whites and whites to hate themselves. And that Disney is going to teach them to all become LGBTQ.
re: #116 No Malarkey!
One fun part if Trump is reinstated on Twitter, it will be the final nail in the coffin for Truth Social; any chance that Trump will start using it will end, and everyone who invested in it will lose all the money they put in.
Truth Social is already a lost cause.
Accident on railway in Russia transporting armor to Ukraine. https://t.co/x3giZSG9kn
— Anders Östlund (@andersostlund) April 25, 2022
re: #121 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Truth Social is already a lost cause.
It was always a scam. Someone reskinned Mastodon and sold it to suckers as a social media site for fascists.
re: #122 darthstar
Oh, come on. That’ll buff out.
re: #123 Punish Domestic Terrorists
It was always a scam. Someone reskinned Mastodon and sold it to suckers as a social media site for fascists.
The only reason it is still up is that there are still sheeps to be fleeced.
re: #95 lawhawk
Or the Jeep.
German tech was generally well engineered - over engineered in many ways - too complex to keep running on a battlefield, which meant that they couldn’t deliver in the numbers needed.
Hitler’s fixation on super weapons also made things worse. Ultimately the Allies overwhelmed with superior numbers of equipment, had better logistics, and by the end of the way, key weapons systems were as good or better in many respects.
A small thing but you can find places where historians with a focus on tanks or similar stuff compare what it took to do maintenance on a M4 Sherman’s transmission compared to that of a Pz V Panther. Night and day in the Sherman’s favor.
re: #124 Dopamine Fish
Oh, come on. That’ll buff out.
Looks like a little bit of the hill slid out (got blown out) under the tracks…that’s going to take more than a few pieces of rail to fix.
Meh.
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re: #122 darthstar
TRAIN JUMPED OFF TRACKS TO SPARE LIFE OF INNOCENT LOST UKRAINIAN REFUGEE CHILD CROSSING RAIL LINE!!!!
re: #126 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
A small thing but you can find places where historians with a focus on tanks or similar stuff compare what it took to do maintenance on a M4 Sherman’s transmission compared to that of a Pz V Panther. Night and day in the Sherman’s favor.
And the suspension on a Sherman could be removed and replaced in the field.
German tanks had three layers of overlapping road wheels, which gave great weight distribution but meant that you would have to take off up to five wheels to replace on the inside.
That train accident looks more like poor maintenance and someone let the supports underneath washout due to rains/etc.* Then you put a lot of weight on a section of rail and the whole thing slides down the hill.
* - Does not necessarily preclude someone doing something to make it more likely to occur.
re: #131 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
That train accident looks more like poor maintenance and someone let the supports underneath washout due to rains/etc.* Then you put a lot of weight on a section of rail and the whole thing slides down the hill.
* - Does not necessarily preclude someone doing something to make it more likely to occur.
If it wasn’t for bad luck Putin would have no luck at all.
re: #132 darthstar
If it wasn’t for bad luck Putin would have no luck at all.
This is the battle of attrition on the popularity front that he is losing as he ramps up the battle of physical attrition in Ukraine.
re: #130 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And the suspension on a Sherman could be removed and replaced in the field.
German tanks had three layers of overlapping road wheels, which gave great weight distribution but meant that you would have to take off up to five wheels to replace on the inside.
And the Sherman’s* bogie system was in part chosen by the designers with that in mind. It was pointed out in one of the videos by The Chieftain** that the US Army chose weapon systems in part with the expectation that it would be shipped thousands of miles away to be used. Therefore, ease of maintenance, reliability, etc. were important since if the tank was sitting in a depot to be fixed it wasn’t much better than it sitting back in the United States.
* - The Sherman’s predecessors actually. Torsion bar suspensions were going to replace that, but that was a different design series.
** - IIRC, he has a 45 minute video on a presentation he did about the various myths about the Sherman and why the US Army had the tank that it had in WW2.
re: #122 darthstar
Others posting on that have indicated that flooding washed out the embankment causing the collapse/derailment.
re: #135 lawhawk
Others posting on that have indicated that flooding washed out the embankment causing the collapse/derailment.
General Mud strikes again. Slava Ukraini!
re: #135 lawhawk
Others posting on that have indicated that flooding washed out the embankment causing the collapse/derailment.
Which in turn implies poor maintenance or inspection procedures to check that your railways are not having these issues before a train expensively derails itself.
re: #134 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
And the Sherman’s* bogie system was in part chosen by the designers with that in mind. It was pointed out in one of the videos by The Chieftain** that the US Army chose weapon systems in part with the expectation that it would be shipped thousands of miles away to be used. Therefore, ease of maintenance, reliability, etc. were important since if the tank was sitting in a depot to be fixed it wasn’t much better than it sitting back in the United States.
Not just tanks. The B-17 and P-47 were mainstays of the 8th Air Force in Europe, precisely because they could get beat to hell over France (and later Germany) and still make it back to England with enough flyability to get patched up and put right back on the flight line.
re: #121 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Truth Social is already a lost cause.
Anyone ever hear of Counter Social before?
This feed is literally the first time I’ve ever heard of Counter Social, unlike Trump’s fiasco Truth Social.
— Slava Ukrayini! (@aagcobb1) April 25, 2022
re: #137 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Which in turn implies poor maintenance or inspection procedures to check that your railways are not having these issues before a train expensively derails itself.
It tells us they’re not maintaining infrastructure, which as an American, isn’t something I feel like I can criticize them for. We should do better, so that it is something I can criticize them for.
re: #137 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Which in turn implies poor maintenance or inspection procedures to check that your railways are not having these issues before a train expensively derails itself.
Yes, if that had been a trainload of cabbages, that would’ve been one thing, but this was a key military shipment.
re: #139 No Malarkey!
Anyone ever hear of Counter Social before?
Never heard of it. Here it is on the app store…
apps.apple.com
re: #111 No Malarkey!
It won’t effect me much. There are already lots of Nazis on Twitter, and I just block them. I also think that if Trump is allowed back on to spew his insanity, that might actually help Democrats.
The problem is that if Musk is going to be the kind of free speech absolutist he’s trying to pawn himself out to be and take out the moderating middle man, it won’t just be a matter of Trump returning to the platform. It’ll be making that one account whose name I refuse to name (you know, the one brigading against LGBT teachers and such and then playing victim) will absolutely become the prevailing and protected norm, and at risk users will simply end up inundated with death and hate without recourse.
re: #139 No Malarkey!
Anyone ever hear of Counter Social before?
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re: #95 lawhawk
Or the Jeep.
German tech was generally well engineered - over engineered in many ways - too complex to keep running on a battlefield, which meant that they couldn’t deliver in the numbers needed.
Hitler’s fixation on super weapons also made things worse. Ultimately the Allies overwhelmed with superior numbers of equipment, had better logistics, and by the end of the way, key weapons systems were as good or better in many respects.
Not that it mattered in the end, because Germany just didn’t have enough oil to power a 20th Century military facing off against three of the largest industrial powers in the world. Plus we would’ve nuked them if the war in Europe had gone on long enough.
re: #143 Citizen K
The problem is that if Musk is going to be the kind of free speech absolutist he’s trying to pawn himself out to be and take out the moderating middle man, it won’t just be a matter of Trump returning to the platform. It’ll be making that one account whose name I refuse to name (you know, the one brigading against LGBT teachers and such and then playing victim) will absolutely become the prevailing and protected norm, and at risk users will simply end up inundated with death and hate without recourse.
Musk may have to learn the hard way that unmoderated social media simply doesn’t work. The question is whether he will learn that lesson fast enough before he irredeemably breaks Twitter.
re: #144 Punish Domestic Terrorists
No ads? How is it financed?
Good question. I may have to check it out and report back.
re: #146 No Malarkey!
Musk may have to learn the hard way that unmoderated social media simply doesn’t work. The question is whether he will learn that lesson fast enough before he irredeemably breaks Twitter.
If it does break, the collateral will be absurd, especially since Twitter is still basically the only game in town of its kind. But at the same time, there’s certainly a chance that even if he wrecks the ship, Twitter might still end up persisting as ‘too big to fail’ by sheer inertia, and ends up becoming the new 4chan on the widest scale possible.
re: #145 No Malarkey!
Not that it mattered in the end, because Germany just didn’t have enough oil to power a 20th Century military facing off against three of the largest industrial powers in the world. Plus we would’ve nuked them if the war in Europe had gone on long enough.
We overlook that Germany never had more than about 20% of its forces motorized: most of the infantry divisions still had horse-drawn artillery and transport.
They simply did not have the gasoline or the industrial capacity.
re: #139 No Malarkey!
Anyone ever hear of Counter Social before?
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I’ve been a member of Counter Social for a few years now. It’s run by Jester (the ‘famous’ former hacker dude who has one of his laptops in some museum). It’s actually a good site, and the people there are pretty much a lot like the people here. And he has a mobile app…I just don’t go that often because I was overloaded with social media. But it most definitely isn’t Truth social.
re: #126 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
A small thing but you can find places where historians with a focus on tanks or similar stuff compare what it took to do maintenance on a M4 Sherman’s transmission compared to that of a Pz V Panther. Night and day in the Sherman’s favor.
Everything about the Sherman was right there, usually only requiring a few bolts or panels to be removed to get to them. To change the transmission, all you had to do was remove the bolts on the front cover and you were right at it. You could do it in the field with simple tools and basic equipment.
Changing the transmission on a Panzer IV? You didn’t do it in the field, you shipped the thing back to the factory and waited for a replacement. Why? Because you have to remove the turret, cut the roof armor off, and then lift the transmission out with a hoist.
re: #150 darthstar
I’ve been a member of Counter Social for a few years now. It’s run by Jester (the ‘famous’ former hacker dude who has one of his laptops in some museum). It’s actually a good site, and the people there are pretty much a lot like the people here. And he has a mobile app…I just don’t go that often because I was overloaded with social media. But it most definitely isn’t Truth social.
@th3j35t3r is his twitter handle.
I confess, I’m not too sure what the national motto of Russia is, but maybe they should just change it to “yo, shit’s on fire”:
Russian Air Force base in Ussuriysk, Russia appears to be on fire.
pic.twitter.com/sNFGgeGruF— spook (@spook_info) April 25, 2022
This is from a tabloid source in Sweden (and machine translated into English), but an interesting development if the story is accurate:
Sweden and Finland have agreed to submit NATO applications at the same time. This is stated by the Finnish newspaper Iltalehti, which also writes that this will take place as early as mid-May.
Swedish government sources to Expressen confirm the information, and state that there is an agreement between the countries.
The Finnish Iltalehti reports on Monday that the Swedish government has expressed a wish to Finland that a NATO application from both countries be submitted at the same time. And the newspaper also reports that the two countries have now agreed to announce any applications during week 20, i.e., sometime from 16 to 22 May.
According to Expressen’s sources, the information is correct, and there must now be an agreement between Sweden and Finland that any applications must be submitted that week, which also coincides with the Finnish state visit to Sweden. Finnish President Sauli Niinistö will arrive in Stockholm on 17-18 May.
As Expressen reported, Finland has also previously expressed a clear desire to the Swedish government that the countries act together and apply jointly for NATO membership. And this is what the two countries now agree on, and that it is also the appropriate time for this.
Source, in Swedish: expressen.se
Fewer than 4 in 10 Americans voted for a far-right US candidate in 2016 — and he won. I guess what’s objectively “better” is the French election system. https://t.co/8i6vFWRH15
— Ishaan Tharoor (@ishaantharoor) April 24, 2022
A reminder that, in actual functioning republics, even the far right parties don’t engage in the level of authoritarian nonsense of today’s GOP. No attempts to restrict suffrage. No lies about nonexistent voter fraud. No refusal to concede. No ex post coup attempts. https://t.co/sVPkbMKzoL
— Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov) April 24, 2022
If someone won a US presidential election by this margin, we’d call it a historic blowout. Keep in mind as pundits suggest the election was “close” in coming days. https://t.co/hFHGTW7csd
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) April 24, 2022
Hell, I wish ours was this healthy. https://t.co/k4Za1SiOep
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) April 24, 2022
re: #134 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
And the Sherman’s* bogie system was in part chosen by the designers with that in mind. It was pointed out in one of the videos by The Chieftain** that the US Army chose weapon systems in part with the expectation that it would be shipped thousands of miles away to be used. Therefore, ease of maintenance, reliability, etc. were important since if the tank was sitting in a depot to be fixed it wasn’t much better than it sitting back in the United States.
* - The Sherman’s predecessors actually. Torsion bar suspensions were going to replace that, but that was a different design series.
** - IIRC, he has a 45 minute video on a presentation he did about the various myths about the Sherman and why the US Army had the tank that it had in WW2.
Logistics win wars and the Sherman was an awesome example of that. It was built on the same basic frame as the previous two medium tanks (M2 & M3), its main gun was an adaptation of the venerable French 75 field gun, and the most common engine (Wright R-975) was already widely used in aircraft. That engine could be swapped out in the field by a well-oiled crew in less than 2 hours.
The Germans? You could swap out the motor in the field…if you could find one. Even before the Allies were bombing them around the block, Maybach was struggling to keep up with production because of how complicated the HL230 was to build. Throw in German insistence upon production passing exacting standards and you had field mechanics forced to cannibalize one tank just to get another back in the field.
re: #153 Dr Lizardo
I confess, I’m not too sure what the national motto of Russia is, but maybe they should just change it to “yo, shit’s on fire”:
I sort of wonder if various industrial and military fires in Russia are not that uncommon and that in the current political climate and crisis the media is simply paying much more attention to noticing them?
Aside: A bit similar to how I think police shootings/beatings of so-and-so have not increased. Instead they are getting filmed and thus noticed by the media more since the cell phones and private surveillance* cameras are much more common.
* - Surprised myself by spelling this correctly first try. Should go buy a lottery ticket.
re: #154 Dr Lizardo
Is the result of the eventual merge going to be called “Finden”, “Sweland”, “Finswed”, or “Swefin”?
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re: #26 Targetpractice
Found myself imaging for a second how things would have played out with regards to Ukraine if Cheetolini were still in office. And realized that Putin would have just dropped the “denazification” angle and gone in heavily on the “illegitimate government/state” bit. He’d have played on Trump’s anger over 2016 and his belief that Ukraine was involved by claiming that there had been no legitimate elections since 2014 (when the pro-Russian pres got ran out on a rail), that Obama and Clinton had orchestrated the coup in order to get the latter elected in 2016, and Zelensky was just a puppet of a corrupt cabal who’d been put in office during a “sham” election.
And Trump would have happily ate it up, doing a total about-face on his “I’m tougher than Obama against Russia!” bit by now insisting that Russia had a legitimate beef with Ukraine and the US had no involvement in it. And when NATO allies pledged support, he’d whine even louder that they had money to give to Ukraine but not to “pay” us to defend them.
Putin’s approach might have been quite simple — just reiterating (as he is doing) that Ukraine is part of Russia the way Texas is part of the United States and he’s just trying to restore his nation. Trump was all on board this invasion at the beginning until he realized it wasn’t playing well. But with him still in power, it would have played well to his base and most of his party.
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re: #58 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
A “racial realist” who has a few cherry-picked sociological and anthropological studies to “prove” the “inherent otherness” and incompatibility (i.e., the threat) of the other races/cultures?
Not a racial realist — just another J.D. Vance who will say anything and promote any policy to gain him power. Mandel is a liar with no core beliefs or ideology who would happily say the exact opposite if it would lead to victory.
re: #121 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Twitter will rather quickly die or at least become far less used. A competing platform will become the go-to (slightly) moderated platform for liberals, and naturally the right wing will want tot gravitate towards that new one like they always do.
We see this is real life all the time as liberal areas usually are associated with the arts, sciences, actual academic learning, new ideas and technology advancements far more than right wing areas. The effect is that those on the right wing then want in on the action, or more simply and egregiously, to troll. This is where moderation comes into play, making the platform that much more desirable. Maintaining the most effective balance of moderation is the real key.
re: #157 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
re: #158 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
There’s been too many of these fires and “industrial accidents” as of late. It could well be accidents, to be fair - but it could also domestic Russian saboteurs, Ukrainian saboteurs living in Russia targeting Russian infrastructure, clandestine Ukrainian military operations or possibly some secret squirrel shenanigans from Western special forces operatives (though that’s a very low possibility, at least in my book).
Instead of Tweets, Counter Social uses a euphemism for passing gas.
So I signed myself up. It is free and thus far (2 hours in) it has been good fun. You can see my profile here. I have not a clue how big the community is, but engagement has been fantastic. I Tooted (the equivalent to a Tweet) 4 times (one intro & three replies) and already have six followers. 600% in 2 hours, yay!!. I made my profile public.
🤬 Russian troops set up a concentration camp in Vovchansk, Kharkiv region. Civilians are tortured and forced to cooperate, the Ombudsman said.
The same was in the occupied Izyum, Kharkiv region. pic.twitter.com/qEUSlU43NZ— Alexander Khrebet/Олександр Хребет (@AlexKhrebet) April 25, 2022
re: #151 Targetpractice
Everything about the Sherman was right there, usually only requiring a few bolts or panels to be removed to get to them. To change the transmission, all you had to do was remove the bolts on the front cover and you were right at it. You could do it in the field with simple tools and basic equipment.
Changing the transmission on a Panzer IV? You didn’t do it in the field, you shipped the thing back to the factory and waited for a replacement. Why? Because you have to remove the turret, cut the roof armor off, and then lift the transmission out with a hoist.
I thought I remembered reading somewhere that the VW beetle was immensely popular partly because a lot of mechanical stuff could actually be done while it was sitting on the side of the road. I got home from Charleston once in a friend’s Opel after he replaced some kind of critical engine component with a Bic pen, which just happened to fit exactly the space needed. So some of those old cars were really designed with the idea that an inquisitive fellow ought to be able to fix lots of stuff on the side of the road.
re: #166 steve_davis
Any competent mechanic can drop an old beetle engine onto the ground in under an hour with just a floor jack.
re: #163 Dr Lizardo
There’s been too many of these fires and “industrial accidents” as of late. It could well be accidents, to be fair - but it could also domestic Russian saboteurs, Ukrainian saboteurs living in Russia targeting Russian infrastructure, clandestine Ukrainian military operations or possibly some secret squirrel shenanigans from Western special forces operatives (though that’s a very low possibility, at least in my book).
A saboteur/infiltrator can carry a handful of Switchblade drones in his briefcase. That means all possible targets would have to be sealed off with a buffer of several miles. I’ll bet people think about those things.
re: #102 Dopamine Fish
The M1 Garand, while not a perfect weapon by any means, was a revolution on the battlefield in the face of the bolt action Lee-Enfield and Mosin-Nagant rifles on the continent. It gave an American rifle squad the firepower of a European platoon. And that was just a semi-automatic rifle with a relatively small clip. You’d think the demonstration of such superior firepower would be a compelling argument for adopting semi-auto or select-fire weapons of your own, but Hitler was nothing if not stubborn.
The Marines were also very slow to adopt the Garand. It took a few crusty old Gunnies to shoot the shit out of the Japanese at Guadalcanal to convince the Officers to get as many into platoons as they could ship from the States.
re: #161 Hecuba’s daughter
Not a racial realist — just another J.D. Vance who will say anything and promote any policy to gain him power. Mandel is a liar with no core beliefs or ideology who would happily say the exact opposite if it would lead to victory.
´Guys like Vance, Josh Hawley or even Ted Cruz tend to play down their academic credentials, they want to sell themselves as “men of the people”, except when they are advancing some pseudo-theory to justify their white supremacist policies.
re: #167 Florida Panhandler
Any competent mechanic can drop an old beetle engine onto the ground in under an hour with just a floor jack.
I liked the Beetle in its time, but I like modern cars that run well nearly all the time better.
re: #167 Florida Panhandler
Any competent mechanic can drop an old beetle engine onto the ground in under an hour with just a floor jack.
4 bolts…..
re: #164 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Instead of Tweets, Counter Social uses a euphemism for passing gas.
“Memes, memes, the musical fruit
The more you meme, the more you…”
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re: #88 Eventual Carrion
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re: #172 Dave In Austin
4 bolts…..
Not quite as simple, but..
1. Access shift linkage in the interior and loosen coupling bolt.
2. Jack up car, prop up using stands and unbolt axles from transmission, suspend out of the way.
3. Disconnect throttle rod, clutch cable and heater hoses from exhaust manifold
4. Drain oil, loosen oil and fuel lines.
5. Position floor jack under engine and unbolt transmission support
6. Unbolt remaining engine bolts at the rear and lower away.
With a proper 2 post lift it probably can be done in like 15-20 minutes. A speed run in like 10 minutes. Maybe. I really don’t know what the world record is.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it: pic.twitter.com/dAOmOdVXAh
— Queen of Heart (@CanisOxide) April 25, 2022
re: #166 steve_davis
I thought I remembered reading somewhere that the VW beetle was immensely popular partly because a lot of mechanical stuff could actually be done while it was sitting on the side of the road. I got home from Charleston once in a friend’s Opel after he replaced some kind of critical engine component with a Bic pen, which just happened to fit exactly the space needed. So some of those old cars were really designed with the idea that an inquisitive fellow ought to be able to fix lots of stuff on the side of the road.
The basic “Beetle” concept seems to have been the exception to the “German over-engineering” rule in WWII: IIRC, the big VW plant was retooled when the war broke out to manufacture Jeep-like vehicles for the Wehrmacht, which, being air-cooled, were considered better than more-conventional scout vehicles other armies used.
re: #176 Dopamine Fish
He’ll lose that on his own if he does what right-wing assholes hope for, and starts hauling the neighbor’s trash in instead of taking Twitter’s trash out.
re: #153 Dr Lizardo
I confess, I’m not too sure what the national motto of Russia is, but maybe they should just change it to “yo, shit’s on fire”:
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Ussuriysk is 60 miles north of Vladivostok.
If the Ukes hit that air base, the Russians are in very deep shitski.
Heh:
I NEVER SEEN A CAR TEAR AN ACL BEFORE 😭😭 pic.twitter.com/KtMatopwtY
— d🦕n (@javroar) April 24, 2022
re: #179 austin_blue
Ussuriysk is 60 miles north of Vladivostok.
If the Ukes hit that air base, the Russians are in very deep shitski.
If the Russian AF is as STRAC as the Russian armored corps, someone was probably drunk and smoking in he hangar.
re: #181 Decatur Deb
If the Russian AF is as STRAC as the Russian armored corps, someone was probably drunk and smoking in he hangar.
Getting drunk on hydraulic fluid…
re: #169 austin_blue
The Marines were also very slow to adopt the Garand. It took a few crusty old Gunnies to shoot the shit out of the Japanese at Guadalcanal to convince the Officers to get as many into platoons as they could ship from the States.
Slow to adopt, or slow to have available?
I recall reading that once there were US Army units sent to Guadalcanal was when the USMC there were getting Garands by stealing them from Army depots. The USMC was using a mix of weapons in part due to the rapid expansion of the US armed forces in general previous to getting embroiled in the war. So there would be 1903 Springfields as a sort of default and then M1 Garands and M1 Carbines coming out as the new standard with stuff like the Johnson m1941 rifle filling gaps since some could be acquired to arm a unit.
re: #182 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Getting drunk on hydraulic fluid…
Ya’ gotta filter it through a loaf of stale bread, first.
re: #179 austin_blue
Ussuriysk is 60 miles north of Vladivostok.
If the Ukes hit that air base, the Russians are in very deep shitski.
That one was almost certainly a genuine accident of some type, or maybe burning off some old jet fuel or something.
re: #170 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
´Guys like Vance, Josh Hawley or even Ted Cruz tend to play down their academic credentials, they want to sell themselves as “men of the people”, except when they are advancing some pseudo-theory to justify their white supremacist policies.
It is possible Hawley is more of a true believer; I recall reading an article over a year ago that suggested he was a religious fanatic. But whether a true believer or a lying sociopath, these guys are a danger to the future of our republic and our nation and our world.
re: #179 austin_blue
Ussuriysk is 60 miles north of Vladivostok.
If the Ukes hit that air base, the Russians are in very deep shitski.
My guess is they were trying to get some old equipment or weapons into usable order, and things did not go well.
re: #186 Hecuba’s daughter
It is possible Hawley is more of a true believer; I recall reading an article over a year ago that suggested he was a religious fanatic. But whether a true believer or a lying sociopath, these guys are a danger to the future of our republic and our nation and our world.
He nonetheless plays down his book schoolin’ and tries to sell himself as a Man of the Common Clay…you know…
re: #181 Decatur Deb
If the Russian AF is as STRAC as the Russian armored corps, someone was probably drunk and smoking in he hangar.
That’s what any incompetent military will be called. Those guys are Russian AF.
Lately, I’ve been getting into conversations with ex-military guys (i.e. guys in my generation who fought the old Cold War and should by all lights know fucking better), who keep spouting things like:
“This invasion is all NATO’s fault! After all, what choice did they give Putin? The feckless democratic administrations just bungled relations with Russia, expanding too fast and making the Russians feel threatened, and .,.. “
After that, it’s all WHARRGARBLE for about 15 minutes of Tucker Carlson communist propaganda filtered through a white supremacist self-pity septic tank of grievance.
The myth of Elon Musk, defender of free speech, does not seem particularly rooted in facts https://t.co/bK2DiBbm65
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) April 25, 2022
re: #190 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
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Lately, I’ve been getting into conversations with ex-military guys (i.e. guys in my generation who fought the old Cold War and should by all lights know fucking better), who keep spouting things like:
“This invasion is all NATO’s fault! After all, what choice did they give Putin? The feckless democratic administrations just bungled relations with Russia, expanding too fast and making the Russians feel threatened, and .,.. “
After that, it’s all WHARRGARBLE for about 15 minutes of Tucker Carlson communist propaganda filtered through a white supremacist self-pity septic tank of grievance.
You know what makes a country feel threatened: Being invaded or threatened with an invasion.
re: #190 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
There are plenty of grievances against NATO, on the one hand, over-expanding right up to the borders of the Russian Federation, and at the same time, against NATO and the EU for going too easy on Putin for his incursions into Ukraine in 2014.
But I can see nothing that would justify a war of aggression against a sovereign state.
re: #190 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
Tell them that ‘Russians feeling threatened’ has been a thing since the Rurik dynasty.
re: #195 jaunte
Tell them that ‘Russians feeling threatened’ has been a thing since the Rurik dynasty.
and “Russia minimizing its threat potential by expanding into neighboring territory” has also been a thing ever since the days of Tsar Ivan the First…
re: #192 DodgerFan1988
The fascists who are cheering him on hoping he’ll haul the trash that earned bans back onto Twitter aren’t interested in facts, beyond their strategy of creating enough noise to drown out facts.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) April 25, 2022
re: #190 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
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Lately, I’ve been getting into conversations with ex-military guys (i.e. guys in my generation who fought the old Cold War and should by all lights know fucking better), who keep spouting things like:
“This invasion is all NATO’s fault! After all, what choice did they give Putin? The feckless democratic administrations just bungled relations with Russia, expanding too fast and making the Russians feel threatened, and .,.. “
After that, it’s all WHARRGARBLE for about 15 minutes of Tucker Carlson communist propaganda filtered through a white supremacist self-pity septic tank of grievance.
putin was doing this (ir)regardless of what NATO did or didnt do
a ‘mellower’ / less expansive NATO would have made it easier is all (and maybe sooner)
Anyone who ever owned an older VW Beetle knows what is it like to freeze to death in the winter. Heater boxes always evenually rotted out. Learn not to breathe on windshield and carry spray can of de-icer with you at all times.
That’s weird. Man, whoever owns a lot of Twitter stock just made a lot of money. Randomly. https://t.co/qrmjysFKDY
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 25, 2022
Weird how some people can make millions talking about what they might do.
re: #198 Dangerman
putin was doing this (ir)regardless of what NATO did or didnt do
a ‘mellower’ / less expansive NATO would have made it easier is all (and maybe sooner)
Putin has validated NATOs parking ticket. At the same time the UN has shown itself a lot more useless than I had hoped.
re: #190 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
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Lately, I’ve been getting into conversations with ex-military guys (i.e. guys in my generation who fought the old Cold War and should by all lights know fucking better), who keep spouting things like:
“This invasion is all NATO’s fault! After all, what choice did they give Putin? The feckless democratic administrations just bungled relations with Russia, expanding too fast and making the Russians feel threatened, and .,.. “
After that, it’s all WHARRGARBLE for about 15 minutes of Tucker Carlson communist propaganda filtered through a white supremacist self-pity septic tank of grievance.
Military guys knowing better? Timothy McVeigh was an ex-military guy. General Michael Flynn is an outright traitor. Pompeo graduated at the top of his West Point class. And let’s not forget Ashli Babbitt.
re: #202 Hecuba’s daughter
Military guys knowing better? Timothy McVeigh was an ex-military guy. General Michael Flynn is an outright traitor. Pompeo graduated at the top of his West Point class. And let’s not forget Ashli Babbitt.
And there’s always Lee Harvey Oswald.
re: #202 Hecuba’s daughter
Military guys knowing better? Timothy McVeigh was an ex-military guy. General Michael Flynn is an outright traitor. Pompeo graduated at the top of his West Point class. And let’s not forget Ashli Babbitt.
For a delightful moment I did forget Ashli Babbit.
Hmm….
It’s no secret that a large fraction of Austrian politics is beholden to Putin’s interests.
For example, this is Austria’s former foreign minister at her own wedding in 2018.
She then became a board member of Rosneft. https://t.co/bhLnwCQJ8b https://t.co/3XHTOFGJSB pic.twitter.com/TspQAieBro— Florian Ederer (@florianederer) April 24, 2022
re: #203 Hecuba’s daughter
And there’s always Lee Harvey Oswald.
Charles Whitman. My house is five blocks north of where he lived at the time.
re: #153 Dr Lizardo
I confess, I’m not too sure what the national motto of Russia is, but maybe they should just change it to “yo, shit’s on fire”:
Dang, that place is in far eastern Russia, about as far as you can get from Ukraine.
re: #208 Belafon
Austria’s not a member anyway.
It is in the EU and that’s the application under consideration.
re: #211 Hecuba’s daughter
It is in the EU and that’s the application under consideration.
I was assuming NATO. My bad.
re: #209 No Malarkey!
Dang, that place is in far eastern Russia, about as far as you can get from Ukraine.
We don’t know if Ukrainians or their sympathizers were involved. I expect things to explode in Russia like they do in Texas, because both are corrupt petrostates.
Not substantiated, but…
Claim here that a Bayraktar TB2 was used in Ukraine’s airstrike on oil storage facilities in Bryansk last night. https://t.co/QrGP65pBAY
— Michael Weiss 🌻🇺🇸🇮🇪 (@michaeldweiss) April 25, 2022
re: #198 Dangerman
putin was doing this (ir)regardless of what NATO did or didnt do
a ‘mellower’ / less expansive NATO would have made it easier is all (and maybe sooner)
I’m pretty sure that if NATO hadn’t expanded, Putin would’ve already occupied the Baltic states by now.
(Various pictures of Bong Bong, a merchant cat from Thailand.) pic.twitter.com/zesBTpE5g3
— cats with jobs (@CatWorkers) April 25, 2022
re: #213 Belafon
Does EU membership require unanimous consent?
I know the Brexit deal did, so probably.
Russia has lost thousands of weapons in Ukraine & faces Western sanctions designed to impede their replacement. Two years of tank production erased. “We don’t have the men, we don’t have the equipment, we don’t have the components.” Story w/@DanMichaelsWSJ https://t.co/2hV8J5pRk3
— Matthew Luxmoore (@mjluxmoore) April 25, 2022
Gave his little buddy the bigger piece and then a pat on the head…😁😇🐶 pic.twitter.com/bqDdqdX2oB
— Laughs 4 All 🤟 (@Laughs_4_All) April 24, 2022
re: #217 ckkatz
Not substantiated, but…
The requirement to provide AA defense a couple hundred miles deep will hurt Putin more than the oil.
lmao Ted Cruz was texting Mark Meadows his tweets, because of course he’s that guy pic.twitter.com/h3g4qSbVg4
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 25, 2022
re: #221 ckkatz
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Immediate replacement? Dragging old tanks from the Cold War era stockpile and getting them running again.
Long-term replacement? Depends, is 5-10 years long-term enough?
as late as 3 days before Biden’s inauguration, Marjorie Taylor Greene was texting Mark Meadows and floating the idea of Trump declaring “Marshall law” to keep himself in power (note her claim that other House Republicans were on board with this as well) pic.twitter.com/a9KawE8bKq
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 25, 2022
choose your fighter pic.twitter.com/zjgpcIBVnm
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 25, 2022
re: #213 Belafon
Does EU membership require unanimous consent?
Yes, and that was a major consideration in the initial Scottish Independence referendum in 2014: leaving the UK would have left them outside the EU with no guarantees of being let in.
Spain would likely have blocked it so as not to encourage breakaway Catalonia.
But now, under different circumstances, I think the EU would unanimously welcome Scotland back in if they applied.
re: #225 Targetpractice
Immediate replacement? Dragging old tanks from the Cold War era stockpile and getting them running again.
Long-term replacement? Depends, is 5-10 years long-term enough?
Getting tanks that have been rusting for decades running again may not be “immediate.”
re: #228 No Malarkey!
Getting tanks that have been rusting for decades running again may not be “immediate.”
When you’re talking getting new T-90s on a timescale measured in years, a T-55 pulled from storage and made to run again in a matter of weeks/months is “immediate.”
heh, good luck with that…
Russian Ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, has said Moscow has sent a diplomatic note to Washington demanding the US stop sending military aid to Ukraine.
— Will Vernon (@BBCWillVernon) April 25, 2022
re: #226 Backwoods_Sleuth
This is a text which would’ve made good evidence at MTG’s trial.
Ahahaha. Oh my God.
The Russian FSB mocked up some fake Ukrainian Nazi assassins to foil but when stocking their villain lair, instead of buying 3 SIM cards, they bought three copies of The Sims.
I’m crying. pic.twitter.com/kYOY3eyXWJ— Dmitry Grozoubinski (@DmitryOpines) April 25, 2022
re: #230 Backwoods_Sleuth
heh, good luck with that…
My response would not have been very diplomatic.
re: #230 Backwoods_Sleuth
heh, good luck with that…
Pull out of Ukraine, return all of their citizens, and pay them for the damage you have caused, and we’ll talk.
#US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says US 155-mm howitzers are already in Ukraine
Also, the training of the first Ukrainian artillerymen has already been completed— Euromaidan PR (@EuromaidanPR) April 25, 2022
re: #229 Targetpractice
When you’re talking getting new T-90s on a timescale measured in years, a T-55 pulled from storage and made to run again in a matter of weeks/months is “immediate.”
Only for them to be fed to Saint Javelin the Merciless within days of their deployment, which feels a bit like throwing good money after bad.
re: #234 Backwoods_Sleuth
Honestly, it gets better:https://t.co/9Kwh1ovuLc
— orangustang (@0rangustang) April 25, 2022
Russian media reporting explosions at state security buildings in Transnistria https://t.co/i3I1U7HCvG
— Aric Toler (@AricToler) April 25, 2022
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Still the most prescient tweet ever tweeted:https://t.co/3Hn5XZ9BTv
— WomblingFree (@free_wombling) April 25, 2022
Trump in contempt, will be fined $10k a day until he complies.
BREAKING:
“‘Boilerplate Doesn’t Cut It’: Judge Finds Donald Trump in Contempt of Court for Flouting an Order to Comply with Letitia James’ Subpoena.”
My recap, @LawCrimeNews https://t.co/qFL35xl4uj— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) April 25, 2022
Of course she remembers having this conversation. It’s not even believable to suggest otherwise. https://t.co/WiBubbkQvn
— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) April 25, 2022
re: #221 ckkatz
Russia has lost thousands of weapons in Ukraine & faces Western sanctions designed to impede their replacement.
So while we scramble to replace Russian gas and oil shipments (a long-term benefit for us), Putin has to scramble to replace components for his defense industry. Could turn out to be a long-term bonus for him, but a heck of a difficult challenge in the meantime.
re: #226 Backwoods_Sleuth
as late as 3 days before Biden’s inauguration, Marjorie Taylor Greene was texting Mark Meadows and floating the idea of Trump declaring “Marshall law” to keep himself in power
Instead, he called on the de Fenders of the Republic to turn it up to XI…
Not familiar with the source account, but this was retweeted by Michael Weiss, who seems to be stand up. The Swedish system is considered by many FA sme’s (subject matter experts) as very advanced, particularly for ‘shoot and scoot’, because of it’s extensive automation.
I would guess that the supplied numbers would be fairly low, perhaps 20 or so.(Ie a battalion or so.)
As with most other new systems being supplied to Ukraine, in the short term, maintenance beyond the simplest repairs is likely to be done in neighboring countries by non-Ukrainians.
🇸🇪Sweden will transfer to the Armed Forces of Ukraine a batch of self-propelled guns FH77 BW Archer pic.twitter.com/snzGNp1C6U
— The RAGE X (@theragex) April 25, 2022
re: #230 Backwoods_Sleuth
Russian Ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, has said Moscow has sent a diplomatic note to Washington demanding the US stop sending military aid to Ukraine.
As soon as Russia stops it “demilitarization and de-Nazification operations”…
WOW: Prominent MAGA influencer Andrew Tate’s home was raided as part of a human trafficking investigation.
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) April 25, 2022
The raid was prompted by reports that an American woman had been abducted.https://t.co/3PTku4emVW
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) April 25, 2022
re: #245 No Malarkey!
Trump in contempt, will be fined $10k a day until he complies.
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re: #251 Backwoods_Sleuth
Some of these MAGAts do seem to have an alarming depth of knowledge in areas such as child porn, human trafficking, sexual grooming of children, etc. I do sometimes wonder how they got that expertise.
re: #253 ckkatz
Some of these MAGAts do seem to have an alarming depth of knowledge in areas such as child porn, human trafficking, sexual grooming of children, etc. I do sometimes wonder how they got that expertise.
Opposition research, of course…
re: #245 No Malarkey!
Trump in contempt, will be fined $10k a day until he complies.
After the 2 billion dollar payoff to Kushner, the $10k daily fine is mere pocket change. Needs to be at least $100,000 to mean anything — and even that may be too low.
re: #243 Punish Domestic Terrorists
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re: #225 Targetpractice
Immediate replacement? Dragging old tanks from the Cold War era stockpile and getting them running again.
Long-term replacement? Depends, is 5-10 years long-term enough?
Russia relying on western tech to produce core equipment. Seems like they’ve got a natsec supply chain issue. They can’t produce high tech equipment in-country. They rely on third party suppliers?
And they’re going to replace the tanks that failed so badly in Ukraine with even older tanks that are just as deficient? All their talk of having superior weapons is revealed as just that. They might have numbers theoretically in reserve, but their gear isn’t going to handle the tanks or anti-tank weapons any better than they’ve done to date.
Trump’s probably already yelling at his lawyers to find a way to appeal the contempt ruling to a higher court because there’s no way he’s paying out any money. He’s Donald Trump, only lesser people pay court fines.
re: #258 Shropshire Slasher
OMFG I am crying. I don’t know what is funnier, his descriptions of the more putrid ones, and that surprised face when it is delicious.
I am totally making potato candy at 23:06
re: #253 ckkatz
Some of these MAGAts do seem to have an alarming depth of knowledge in areas such as child porn, human trafficking, sexual grooming of children, etc. I do sometimes wonder how they got that expertise.
Whether or not he’s ultimately a trafficker, “Cobra” Tate has a lifestyle brand where he talks explicitly about how his genius moneymaking strategy is convincing women he dates to work as cam models and give him the money.
At any given moment, people like this are angry that the wrong kinds of people have sexual power, which is entirely different than having a moral position about, in general, how power interacts with sex. The correct answer is always “what I do with power is moral.”
There’s a septic field extending from pick-up artistry to social conservatism precisely because the core premise “well, I deserve access to women and they shouldn’t be allowed to say no” is the only value retained.
From what I have been reading, Ukraine has been badly lacking sufficient Air Defense capability along the DonBas Front. The UK move may be part of a response. As is, I suspect, the US resupply of more Stingers.
Use of multiple different anti-aircraft weapons systems make Russian efforts to protect their aircraft much harder.
⚡️UK to send Stormer armoured vehicles to Ukraine.
The U.K. will send a “small number” of such vehicles, fitted with Starstreak anti-aircraft missiles used to target planes and helicopters, U.K. Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said on April 25.— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) April 25, 2022
re: #255 Hecuba’s daughter
After the 2 billion dollar payoff to Kushner, the $10k daily fine is mere pocket change. Needs to be at least $100,000 to mean anything — and even that may be too low.
Start with 10k, then double it every day.
re: #257 lawhawk
Russia relying on western tech to produce core equipment. Seems like they’ve got a natsec supply chain issue. They can’t produce high tech equipment in-country. They rely on third party suppliers?
And they’re going to replace the tanks that failed so badly in Ukraine with even older tanks that are just as deficient? All their talk of having superior weapons is revealed as just that. They might have numbers theoretically in reserve, but their gear isn’t going to handle the tanks or anti-tank weapons any better than they’ve done to date.
Russian battle doctrine going back to the Cold War relied upon troops being broken up into three Categories: A, B, and C.
Category A troops were standing forces composed of their newest equipment/armour wielded by troops that were in the middle of their conscription terms and officers with at least a year into their own service. These were the best of the best, meant to fight NATO forces on equal terms and have a fair to good chance of coming out on top.
Category B troops were usually reservists recently released from conscription and officers fresh from schooling, the equiv of National Guard troops in terms of equipment and training. These troops were usually used to bulk up the ranks in times of war, taking time to call up and get to the front lines but still having a good chance of doing some damage to NATO forces.
Category C troops were the bottom of the barrel, when you’re calling up middle-aged and even retired men while digging into the bunkers for whatever equipment is still servicable. These are guys riding into battle in T-55s that haven’t seen the light of day since Brezhnev was running things, the soldiers riding on the back wielding AKMs that were packed in crates filled with Cosmoline about the same time. These guys are bullet catchers, called up for no other reason than to soak up bullets/missiles so that the Cat A & B troops might possibly break through the enemy lines to wreck havoc.
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just reported on NPR that Le Pen was not really super far right in the U.S. context, but more of a populist, with policies that would help the little guy. These stenographers have have learned NOTHING from the Trump experience.
re: #261 The Ghost of a Flea
Very true.
A constant value in the current GOP seems to be the demonstration of raw power. “Laws don’t apply to me”/IOYKR, display of and threats with firearms, threats and use of violence, hypocrisy, etc…
The lack of consequences are considered to be demonstrations of personal and organizational power.
🫢😆 Funny, because it sounds so realistic. https://t.co/Vmp0JaTeHl
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) April 25, 2022
re: #266 jaunte
Eleanor Beardsley
just reported on NPR that Le Pen was not really super far right in the U.S. context, but more of a populist, with policies that would help the little guy. These stenographers have have learned NOTHING from the Trump experience.
And that is the whole appeal of that brand of politics: preach the message that the “political elites” are out of touch with “the little man” and in bed with global corporations, and then promise how you will make it all better.
I try not to immediately brand them fascist or extremist but a lot of them are actually so anti-corporation that they are socialist. And so anti-globalist that they are nationalist.
Nationalist and socialist.
Wonder if anybody has long-term success with that ideology and approach…
re: #256 ckkatz
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So I just had Century Link in to repair my internet, again. T mobile has been pushing it 5G wireless internet here lately with a $50/month plan with no caps and all fees included. He says that former customers he’s spoken with even further out in the boonies are getting 100 mb/sec data rates (x5 what I’m getting) so I’ve decided to give them a try. It would not break my heart to give Century Link the boot.
I suppose “we broke the subject mentally to the point of suicide” means you no longer have a ‘mental health problem’ to deal with.
…because face it, that’s exactly what this end game is: break and isolate LGBT folk until they’re forcibly closeted in fear, or dead.— Citizen K Dissents (@Citizen_Kryptik) April 25, 2022
They want nothing more than a full LGBT genocide at this rate. And they’re pushing dangerously close to being able to implement it.
re: #243 Punish Domestic Terrorists
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FWIW… CounterSocial is interesting and has possibilities. Right now there is such an influx of people fleeing the Tweet Tubes that the site is stumbling and crashing. That may be the case until the whole Musk thing sorts itself out.
re: #272 Citizen K
They want nothing more than a full LGBT genocide at this rate. And they’re pushing dangerously close to being able to implement it.
They see gays as an abomination and they see it as God’s will that they eliminate this affront to (their bigoted, close-minded and inhuman interpretation of) His Divine Order.
re: #271 William Lewis
So I just had Century Link in to repair my internet, again. T mobile has been pushing it 5G wireless internet here lately with a $50/month plan with no caps and all fees included. He says that former customers he’s spoken with even further out in the boonies are getting 100 mb/sec data rates (x5 what I’m getting) so I’ve decided to give them a try. It would not break my heart to give Century Link the boot.
I’ve had TMobile internet before. Works great for the most part. As of a few months ago, there was no way to set up port forwarding on their WiFi access gizmo, though the functionality was supposedly planned for a future release. If you don’t need that, it works great.
re: #271 William Lewis
We’ve had T-Mobile home internet for nearly a year now. Reliable as a rock, download speeds between 400 - 500 mbps, uploads around 20 mbps.
And (shush), you can take it on the road whilst traveling, and it seems to magic a signal out of thin air. (/shush)
re: #276 JC1
I’ve had TMobile internet before. Works great for the most part. As of a few months ago, there was no way to set up port forwarding on their WiFi access gizmo, though the functionality was supposedly planned for a future release. If you don’t need that, it works great.
I’ve been debating ditching my slow crappy DSL for this, but we do a lot of gaming, and I’m not sure about the latency aspect.
re: #274 The Squire of Logos
I just set up an account there to reserve my pseudonym.
re: #277 immigrant
We’ve had T-Mobile home internet for nearly a year now. Reliable as a rock, download speeds between 400 - 500 mbps, uploads around 20 mbps.
And (shush), you can take it on the road whilst traveling, and it seems to magic a signal out of thin air. (/shush)
Their access point has a battery that will last up to 12 hours.
re: #278 Dopamine Fish
I’ve been debating ditching my slow crappy DSL for this, but we do a lot of gaming, and I’m not sure about the latency aspect.
Pretty sure that you can try it free for 30 days. Give it a go and see.
re: #274 The Squire of Logos
FWIW… CounterSocial is interesting and has possibilities. Right now there is such an influx of people fleeing the Tweet Tubes that the site is stumbling and crashing. That may be the case until the whole Musk thing sorts itself out.
Twitter is the media that most legitimate news organizations use to promote their insights and articles. Starting anew on a different platform can be challenging, especially until much of your audience has also made the transition.
Let’s look at traditional news outlets: back in the day, there were 3 networks that informed the public. Now we have a cacophony of “newsish” sources and it does not appear we are better served by having more voices. Instead, as I’ve said before, a variation of Gresham’s law applies — bad news sources overwhelm the truth. The most ignorant among us, if they are have a loud enough voice, are given equal weight to the most knowledgeable.
re: #230 Backwoods_Sleuth
heh, good luck with that…
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Interesting thread on the possible “broad picture” outcome of the Ukraine War:
.@SabFis3: “the immense pressure generated by the war and the Western sanctions could bring about domestic political change and see an end to Putin’s regime. The conceivable scenarios, however, point to destabilisation rather than democratisation.” https://t.co/95pps9urXC
— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) April 25, 2022
tl;dr
It appears to outsiders that Russian policymakers are currently in agreement on Russia’s current policies.
To ensure that Russia does not return to attack Ukraine, it may require removal of that internal agreement. Which, basically means destabilizing the current political order.
But that opens up risks:
“if the Russian political system implodes a major destabilisation must be expected. Regional secessionism, violence, even civil war would not be excluded. The biggest risk in this context would be Ramzan Kadyrov’s reign of terror in Chechnya.”
a little over 60 miles south of me
WATCH | This video taken by Emily Smith has gone viral.
It shows the final moments of a police chase on the Mountain Parkway in Powell County, Ky. Sunday. #WKYT
READ MORE HERE: https://t.co/fw4Qw62DIY pic.twitter.com/mFX8kr9AzL— Chad Hedrick (@ChadHedrickWKYT) April 25, 2022
re: #284 ckkatz
Interesting thread on the possible “broad picture” outcome of the Ukraine War:
“Regime Change” does not necessarily lead to “Regime Improvement”…
re: #285 Backwoods_Sleuth
Gotta love that one cop that just dives off the roof of the vehicle.
Say goodbye to the separation of church and state.
It was nice while it lasted. https://t.co/QgkHcIFWGj— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 25, 2022
I’m not very enthusiastic about Counter Social - it’s run by a weird anonymous “hacker” dude who goes by the name of “jester.”
This doesn’t seem like somebody we should just blindly trust.
re: #288 Charles Johnson
Can’t wait for the first Satanist football coach…
re: #284 ckkatz
“if the Russian political system implodes a major destabilisation must be expected. Regional secessionism, violence, even civil war would not be excluded. The biggest risk in this context would be Ramzan Kadyrov’s reign of terror in Chechnya.”
It’s pretty much an open secret that Kadyrov wants nothing more than to be Putin’s successor. He has aspirations (or maybe better to say delusions of grandeur) to be Russia’s next Tsar Caliph.
re: #246 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #285 Backwoods_Sleuth
a little over 60 miles south of me
Ah, he’s white that’s why he was arrested rather than killed.
re: #288 Charles Johnson
I figured this is exactly what would happen. So if SCOTUS rules in favor of the coach, does that mean schools can force Christian prayer on students again?
re: #288 Charles Johnson
So much for originalism and textualism.
The right wing judicial activists are busy rewriting the Constitution in their theocratic/fascist image.
re: #290 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Can’t wait for the first Satanist football coach…
That’d be struck down as a violation of the player’s 1A rights on indoctrination. But a Christian coach prayer would be upheld, because reasons.
re: #288 Charles Johnson
Say goodbye to the separation of church and state.
It was nice while it lasted.
The very fact that SCOTUS took the case suggested this would be the likely outcome. Courts are no bastion of truth or justice. The German courts supported Hitler; the American courts infested with Federalist Society ideologues will inflict damage to our democracy, which will take decades to recover, if ever. It was 60 years between Plessy and Brown.
re: #255 Hecuba’s daughter
After the 2 billion dollar payoff to Kushner, the $10k daily fine is mere pocket change. Needs to be at least $100,000 to mean anything — and even that may be too low.
Doubled daily
re: #272 Citizen K
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Yep. But the LGB Communities keep telling us we are being hyperbolic in our warnings.
re: #288 Charles Johnson
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So while it’s been decades of bedrock erosion, it’s basically only taken a single Supreme Court term to officially erase the foundations of the country for the sake of ‘FUck you, Our Country’?
re: #297 Hecuba’s daughter
The very fact that SCOTUS took the case suggested this would be the likely outcome. Courts are no bastion of truth or justice. The German courts supported Hitler; the American courts infested with Federalist Society ideologues will inflict damage to our democracy, which will take decades to recover, if ever. It was 60 years between Plessy and Brown.
Now imagine Trump gets four more years to put even MORE nutjobs on the bench…
re: #301 Eclectic Cyborg
Now imagine Trump gets four more years to put even MORE nutjobs on the bench…
Not Trump — any Republican.. every Republican.
re: #269 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
just reported on NPR that Le Pen was not really super far right in the U.S. context, but more of a populist, with policies that would help the little guy. These stenographers have have learned NOTHING from the Trump experience
1. Which ‘little guy’s?
2. Then why didn’t she win?
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re: #272 Citizen K
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You know what else would work?
Not targeting people in the first place
When I click on the link to the new page, I get “about:blank#blocked”. I have to return to home page to access the page.
re: #306 Hecuba’s daughter
When I click on the link to the new page, I get “about:blank#blocked”. I have to return to home page to access the page.
me too
re: #257 lawhawk
Russia relying on western tech to produce core equipment. Seems like they’ve got a natsec supply chain issue. They can’t produce high tech equipment in-country. They rely on third party suppliers?
And they’re going to replace the tanks that failed so badly in Ukraine with even older tanks that are just as deficient? All their talk of having superior weapons is revealed as just that. They might have numbers theoretically in reserve, but their gear isn’t going to handle the tanks or anti-tank weapons any better than they’ve done to date.
Rolling out older T- models would arguably make the Leopard 1s being given to Ukraine much more effective combatants since the 105mm gun that can’t deal with a T-72 (plus ERA plates) can deal with a T-62/T-55/T-54 era tank.
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