It’s difficult to determine the true state of things in Ukraine because both sides have interest in propagandizing to the west. But the way they are fighting tells me that to varying degrees, both sides are quite worn down and unable to commit any significant number of troops to one area. Skirmishes seem to involve less than a dozen people on any one side, frequently unsupported by heavy weapons.

With this in mind, I have no idea why Russia would want to open the conflict even wider. They’re using fucking donkeys to ferry supplies to the front. But who knows what Russia is thinking. Maybe they want an excuse to begin full mobilization of the population. Maybe they’re building up reserves that I’m unaware of. Maybe they think they can get away with slinging some drones at the NATO pig-dogs and taking some back in return.

Conservatives have wanted to gut the Fed with a bowie knife since fucking Andrew Jackson, so this isn’t a blunder to them.

Should just black bar all the words on the bottom and write “pedophilia” over them.

I can’t decide whether Fox and Friends or The Five is the worst segment on Fox. Seems like they’re in competition for the title. The both of them are technically comedy or even satire segments, but of course they use that as a shield from criticism. “No reasonable person would take this seriously”, just like they argue in court when they get sued for the raw sewage they spew into public discourse.

But “Kill all of the homeless” and “destroy the UN and everyone who’s part of it” are only jokes if you find those actions amusing.

They’ll blame the parents, seriously. For entering illegally and “creating the situation.”

“The rule of law” and the people who carry it out are just forces of nature and have no free will or choice in the matter, let alone accountability, of course.

Maybe not, up to a point where he won’t have a police force anymore. Even then, they’ll quickly get re-hired as white trash Gestapo, and then what?

No. Police across the board are optimistically 70% MAGA, more realistically 80-90%.

So they only even began to realize there was a spill when they weren’t pulling enough product out of the ground, i.e. they weren’t generating the expected profit, am I reading that right?

“I would have considered opposing war crimes and general inhumanity, but the opposition was cringe. I had no choice, really.”

Fuck off.

Red Note banned a lot of people for wrongspeak during that exodus. Westerners are used to speaking their minds online for better or worse.

Speaking of banning, saying the “CPC” is awfully authoritarian and all that shit would normally be a permabanning offense in .ml, but I’m willing to bet that the admins will let it slide because you’re disingenuously pushing Chinese influence on the libshit gweilo.

The most vile among them are at best ambivalent towards Trump. They’ll say he’s part of the same [Jewish/communist] cabal as the rest of the globalist NWO government and would be glad to put him to the torch as long as they get to put everyone else to the torch. He doesn’t go far enough quick enough, basically.

Reminder that it is known fact that this dumbfuck tub of lard and syphilis spends up to 8 hours a day, every day, watching cable news to see what people are saying about him. Instead of actually completing presidential duties, or listening to briefings and getting his information from the most sophisticated intelligence network in the history of mankind.

Humans have been ostracising those with aberrant or antisocial traits and behaviors for longer than civilization has existed. That’s just how we work, its nothing new. A lot of the time it’s simpleminded and damaging, but sometimes it’s for the good of the whole.

I think it’s perfectly okay to ostracise fascists and racists. I don’t think it’s okay for them to try to do the same for us. That’s not hYpOcRiSy, that’s how culture war works.

Right now it’s the legal infrastructure, mostly. The mechanism they seem to most prefer developing is making LGBT+ existence pornographic. They are already trying to ban porn in general per P2025, but leveraging the severity of sex crimes to abuse them in particular is not a giant legal stretch once they have the precedent.

The mental illness angle would give the public the sense that they care, that they’re “helping” those “afflicted”, but may be harder to sell upfront. It’ll probably be a post-facto justification once they’re already rounding people up.

As far as physical structures, they are opening and reopening prisons at breakneck pace for the deportation effort. There will be no shortage of places to stuff anyone they don’t like.

If the topics of discussion are:

1. Nonwhites should be subject to warrantless search, arrest, detainment, and deportation, and we are actively carrying it out.
2. LGBT+ should be considered a mental illness and be imprisoned in “psychiatric facilities” and we are actively building the framework to do so.
3. MAGA is the party of real Americans, everyone else is a perfidious traitor and should be targeted, and we are openly entertaining this idea.

There isn’t anything to discuss, really. Fascist “discussion” is a distraction, a charade, an amusement, while they work to undermine norms and institutions and do real harm.

You want to see what MAGATs mean by “open discussion”, look at Patel’s and Hegseth’s Senate hearings. Repeating blatant lies, hollow rhetoric, and when pressed even a little, they angrily accuse everything and everyone in the room of being a fraud and a traitor. Nothing but contempt for the institutions they are forced to abide by, for now. I guarantee they were both thinking “I can’t wait to give the order to throw all these fucking communist worms in a hole” the entire time.

There is nothing to discuss with a fascist. There’s only what you can do to neutralize their influence.

I’m no Boeing engineer, but the design on the thumbnail does not look airworthy at all, the wings are too small and probably too far rearward to generate the necessary lift. And only 4 engines? Look up pictures of the late An-225 for an actual superheavy airlifter.

The average person is a follower who will defer to authority when pressed even a little. The average person abhors violence. People turn in their loved ones to please authority and condemn violence all the time, like the shooter’s suspect’s father.

Rifle fire is ~165 decibels

It doesn’t need to be absolute in success, it just needs to be applied arbitrarily to further abuse out-groups.

Is the answer lead poisoning?

Seems like it.