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Steghorn21's avatar

Someone on Simplicius just made an excellent joke that deserves sharing in these gloomy times:

Putin phones up Macron: "Look, Manni, I don't like what you're saying about me. Let's settle this man-to-man. Get your wife on the phone!"

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Must read roundup--it's not just about France, but also about the overall situation. It digs into what the Polish general whom I quoted is talking about. Part of this is BS--that Russia is planning to attack NATO by 2026--but the stuff about Ukraine's casualties ...:

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-31924-french-military-openly

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Steghorn21's avatar

Russia's bounce back from near-annihilation has been remarkable. A key to this achievement was that despite the hell of its communist past, Russia still had a bedrock of shared culture and history to rebuild upon. When our turn comes to fall apart, what foundations will we have to help us?

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Bob C.'s avatar

Excellent point!!

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Bob C.'s avatar

Diesen's tweet hits on a theme that we see almost daily these days, the denial of reality. As if that denial can somehow stave off reality.

Women can be men, men can be women, Ukraine can defeat Russia they just need more of our money, Israel is not committing ethnic cleansing or genocide (they are merely defending themselves), Illegal aliens are "newcomers" fleeing persecution, Biden got 81 million votes, Trump is an insurrectionist and needs to be incarcerated, spending money we don't have is just fine and borrowing money (that we also don't have, hence the need to borrow) to give to other countries makes perfect sense and on and on and on.

It's hard to solve problems when we pretend they don't exist. It's time to call BS on all of it.

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susan mullen's avatar

Ollie North says countries like Ukraine are happy to use "Their blood, our bullets." @:58...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tsg0MTZv2A...12/2022....

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Steghorn21's avatar

Is that creep still alive? I still remember all his "clean Marine" crap from the 80s.

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dissonant1's avatar

I would recommend that Ollie get a room with Lindsey but then it would have to be a large enough room to accomodate all of the Neocons and Neolibs since the late '80s. Given that they are all polluting the biosphere and exceeding their allotted carbon credits perhaps they could just self-negate. That might not be bad at all. At least we would not have to listen to their continued pleadings for us to donate our lives in service to their selfish causes.

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CBus Mike's avatar

LMAO What you mean we, white man?

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