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I did not get a warning either and my response quoting and agreeing with Bob got axed. In fact, as soon as I saw he got the boot I pretty much figured I'd get it also.
Is it really different than any other day? This entire thread is built on 2400 pages of nonsense and lies.
In the post truth era, you said what they wanted you to say. And they re-arrange the truth. and suppress the realities, until truth and reality represent what they want it to say.
Agreed, but this was bad for even this thread. Someone couldn't handle an opposing view and called me bleepity bleep. I reported it and someone else jumped in with a vulger personal insult at me and got rightfully banned for it. Then folks accused me of trolling to try and get someone banned.
. You can't make this up.
This is completely false and you know it. So what does that say about the purpose of such a post? I ask because of the several claims being made that people are here to get Trump posters banned. Another assertion that is completely unsubstantiated.
It's funny- just about every one of your posts could be read as projection. We tried to confront this thing with facts, logic, and reason to 'shine light' on an overwrought conspiracy theory with no basis in fact. The circumstances that led to it were a frightening abuse of surveillance powers and disinformation. Those who use lies and trolling tactics propped up the conspiracy theory, carnival barking frauds like Seth Abramson and Adam Schiff were held up as 'the truth'.
Several false assumptions here but one thing I’ll point out is that Trump has taken no proactive steps to counter it. Such steps would include expanding US LNG facilities delivering to Europe, supporting Ukraine and preventing it from falling back into the Russian fold (its a key alternative pathway for LNG), and supporting democracies in the East European, Caspian, Caucasus, and Syrian regions. Trump’s lip service on Nordstream should be put in the same category as his ridiculous yammerings on the 2010 era Nato spending requirements.
Yeah I saw that meltdown (surprised it’s still up honestly). People tend to lash out when they don’t have truth or facts on their side. It didn’t help that MSNBC Lawrence O’Donnell chummed the waters last week with yet another fake Russia bombshell. These poor people.Agreed, but this was bad for even this thread. Someone couldn't handle an opposing view and called me bleepity bleep. I reported it and someone else jumped in with a vulger personal insult at me and got rightfully banned for it. Then folks accused me of trolling to try and get someone banned.
I am guessing they are just realizing they got the wool pulled over their eyes with this Russian collusion nonsense and they refuse to acknoweledge the truth.
This thread was d e a d dead until it got bumped by fake news that got everybody excited again.Running on fumes in here.
Then the tantrums.
I never dug on that unless it was something truly egregious. One dissent I have from this place.
Exactly. I barely come in the PSF any more, occasionally to read. This site is now complicit in the normalization of Trumpism.
Actual president. Shorthand for the incoherence is he refused to answer the question twice.
So to reiterate on this, in hearing:
- Trump's request for stay was denied. That's currently on appeal.
, nuthin to see here, move the eff along already."![[scooter]](/data/avatars/m/22/22287.jpg?1659477690){kind=avatar}
It's the first rules of the sociopath's playbook: never accept responsibility and always accuse your accuser.
Strange argument to make, agree.Don't do illegal stuff with some of the worst people in the world then?
Oligarch has a technical definition as well as a colloquial one. Technically it refers to the 30 or so Russians who received or hold control over industries spun off post-USSR dissolution. Someone like Prigozhin may have come in late but he has still garnered a good deal of control over military and domestic security outsourcing for the Russian government. He's not an oligarch simply because he's rich. They all answer to Putin. It's practically tsarist the way Putin has it structured.
One working definition of oligarch according to merriam-webster is “a member or supporter of an oligarchy.” The US is an oligarchy. It is run by oligarchs.
Right again you’re talking colloquially - Webster’s - as opposed to Russian history. Feel free to make any conclusions about corruption generally. I have zero idea why someone would generally hold xenophobic fears of Russia, but I do know that’s strictly a Kremlin talking point created for domestic consumption. Nobody else takes that claim seriously or ever makes it.
I remember that statement and no I don’t think Clapper meant that literally, he meant it in the sense of the Soviet apparatus that Putin and his henchmen emerged from. That’s political culture, not a national or ethnic comment.
It doesn't matter what you think he meant. What he said is a xenophobic statement. If I said Jews are "almost genetically driven to" ____, or Mexicans are "almost genetically driven to" ____, you'd be rightly appalled by it. Talking about a demographic's genetics is explicitly racial/ethnic.
But there is no ethnic oppression of Russians in America. That POV makes no sense by itself.
Yes, after Helsinki he said that Trump fit the standard profile for money laundering and compromise that has been a feature of the Putin era.
Is it possible to go outside the Taibbi/Ames/Levine bubble? Levine worked with/for them at the Exile. As cool as their perspective on 1990s Moscow hedonism was and maybe still is they obviously have a sort of blind spot. Whether that’s conscious or not I have no idea.
When he made this point, did he invoke their Russian DNA and whether it genetically predisposed them to do that?
Ren, Russo-eugenicism isn’t a thing, that’s why this claim is ridiculous. He specifically referred to ‘historic practices’.
lol wut? I mean, in fairness it might be that Trump denies global warming not because he's a moron, but because he's corrupt and simply doesn't care, so is lying .
The substance of this piece was also pure nonsense. He thought they twisted and turned to Iet Clinton off the hook, which is silly. I wrote extensively here about how she hadn't committed a crime for months before the FBI made the easy call. Virtually everyone with expertise in the interpretation and application of federal criminal law who wasn't an insane right wing mouthpiece agreed. But that's the thing about people who have written books about how Obama is instituting Sharia law- they tend to be insane right wing mouthpieces on other issues too.
