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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Russia doesn't invade, they recognize Donbass Republics: send in peacekeepers !

« on: October 06, 2022, 08:41:24 PM »

I asked why I should be sad about the corrupt nation of Ukraine being invaded. Russia being corrupt as well would be irrelevant to that statement.

The real question is why are you and all the other Republican traitors so happy about Russia expanding across Europe?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Russia doesn't invade, they recognize Donbass Republics: send in peacekeepers !

« on: October 06, 2022, 05:16:26 PM »

Tom is in favor of a much less corrupt country like Russia taking over all of Europe.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Russia doesn't invade, they recognize Donbass Republics: send in peacekeepers !

« on: October 06, 2022, 02:08:35 PM »

It's worth remembering that many of the psycho-right groups are directly funded by the Kremlin. It's really no mystery why they wouldn't be critical of the Kremlin.

A good example of this is the National Rifle Association. Under Trump, the Russians were actually donating cash to the NRA. It's in Russia's best interest to flood the streets of America with cheap accessible guns and divisive media.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Russia doesn't invade, they recognize Donbass Republics: send in peacekeepers !

« on: October 06, 2022, 12:02:02 PM »

Because Biden doesn't.

The far-right is literally "I'm against whatever he is for."
So if Biden is for helping Ukraine, The far right is against it and for Putin.

That is part of it. Like the Republican anti-vax movement, a lot of Republicans knew it was bullshit but saw they could radicalize the ignorant rednecks by wailing about vaccines. They could stand at the podium slamming their machete down, yelling about the left taking their freedom and mindless zombie crowds would cheer.

But the main reason the Republicans are betraying their country to support Russian expansion is that they know Russia will support them in the next election. Facebook has already removed thousands of fake accounts originating in Russia promoting Russia propaganda. Putin will bring resources to the right wing just like the pharmaceutical or the petroleum industry. Handing over Crimea was part of Trump's agreement with Putin. If he had been reelected, he would have given them Ukraine and Moldova.

Republicans fall into two categories. There are those who recognize and understand Putin's agenda and propaganda but will benefit from it. Then there are those idiots who actually believe the propaganda. It is a confluence of the evil and the stupid.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Russia doesn't invade, they recognize Donbass Republics: send in peacekeepers !

« on: October 05, 2022, 08:12:50 PM »

Am I supposed to be sad that Russia invaded a country which The Guardian designated in 2015 as the most corrupt nation in Europe?

Poroshenko was the president of Ukraine in 2015. He was a supporter of the Soviet Union just like you. Yes, he was very corrupt.

We all understand that for the Republicans and Putin, the invasion of Ukraine is just part of the plan to rebuild the Soviet union. It had nothing to do with the corruption of the government or the Nazis. Just like Crimea, it was another step in the path to dominate Europe. Putin's supporters know this and want it to happen.
Moldova would be next except for the spectacular failure of the Russian military. I thought Putin would sweep through Ukraine, seize that country and crush it into utter submission.
Also, Putin was counting on support from people like Trump, Mike Lidell, Steven Seagal, Tom and J Man. Turns out that none of those people are very helpful with anything.
Now, Putin has his testicles hung on a barbed wire fence and can't get himself loose.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Conservatives being snowflakes... again.

« on: October 01, 2022, 01:05:46 PM »

Kevin Sorbo could totally win an Oscar.
If he were ever cast in a role as a washed up, meathead, out of work actor, loser who destroyed his career and alienated everyone around him with stupid bullshit, he could bring the role to life in a way that would captivate everyone with its reality.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Russia doesn't invade, they recognize Donbass Republics: send in peacekeepers !

« on: October 01, 2022, 12:19:53 PM »

American conservatives don't believe the election results from their own country but they believe this bullshit from Putin. They're idiots.

There was no election, thousands of people are dead, hundreds of thousands fled the country. When have 92% of any group voted in one direction. It's all a sham. A handful of Russian soldiers in Donetsk filled out a few paper ballots supporting Putin and dumbasses like Tucker Carlson believe it.

Of course, all the thousands of people fighting and dying in Ukraine to protect the country from an invasion from a bloodthirsty dictator are all just crisis actors. It's all a liberal hoax.

Just another reason that I will never vote for another Republican for the rest of my life.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Russia doesn't invade, they recognize Donbass Republics: send in peacekeepers !

« on: September 28, 2022, 08:22:02 PM »

In Russia, the elections are managed by the federal government. Everyone cast their ballot then a black truck from the federal government takes the ballots away and announces the next day that El Presidente Gigante won in the landslide once again. There are no state or local election officials and no accountability.

This is what Trump attempted to do in his first year in office. Most Republicans thought it was a pretty cool idea.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/trumps-voting-commission-asked-states-to-hand-over-election-data-theyre-pushing-back/2017/06/30/cd8f812a-5dce-11e7-9b7d-14576dc0f39d_story.html

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Russia doesn't invade, they recognize Donbass Republics: send in peacekeepers !

« on: September 27, 2022, 12:15:42 PM »

I wonder how the EU and Germany is handling this inflation, no gas, no wheat, no yobs, no food.

Yes, Putin and the glorious Soviet Union will save all of Europe from inflation and Nazi aggression.

Snowden and Seagal become Russian citizens...

Yes, you should join them in their wonderful new life of prosperity and freedom. There are all kinds of career opportunities in the Russian military.



America needs to move as many of these traitorous freaks to Russia as we can. Rather than allowing the Republicans to make us part of the new Soviet Republic, we need to ship them to Russia. Rand Paul, Melissa Boebert, M.J. Greene, Matt Gaetz, Josh (the running man) Hawley, Ron Johnson, Donald Trump and the whole Hee Haw gang needs to go. Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, Bill Barr need to go to prison for thirty years and then get shipped to Russia.

After Ronald Reagan's pressure helped bring down the Soviet Union, these turncoats are helping Putin rebuild it. These communist collaborators are supporting Russia for one reason, they know Russia will support them in the next election.

This is how Venezuela became a Russian nation state. Putin flooded their media with propaganda that got those idiots to elect a bunch of corrupt pro-Russia politicians who then changed the laws so they can't be un-elected. We're watching it happen here.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Russia doesn't invade, they recognize Donbass Republics: send in peacekeepers !

« on: September 26, 2022, 07:53:02 PM »

Merely peacekeepers

Masses of people risking their life to flee Russia's brutal and bloodthirsty autocracy.
Masses of people desperately risking their lives to get into the United states for liberty and opportunity.

Idiotic American conservatives running in the opposite direction. Sad...

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: September 22, 2022, 01:04:24 PM »

Trump's whole career has been a sham. He's always inflated his valuations to get access to more credit. Eventually, the American banking system cut him off. Now, he's into the Germans for a third of a billion dollars. But they weren't totally stupid, they have the pink slip to Mar-A-Lago as collateral.

Trump's entire life has been a financial failure. He squandered the family fortune he inherited and 90% of the businesses he's been associated with failed or failed to turn a profit until after he left. Anyone who ever invested in him lost their money. Anyone who ever supported him got screwed.

You have to wonder what kind of idiots still believe anything Trump says.

Lawsuits going nowhere trumps any amount of chuckles.

Fake news believers = LMFAO!

oh...

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: We are saved by faith alone, and the evidence of faith is works.

« on: August 26, 2022, 12:44:08 PM »

What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, but is really a hateful, judgmental hypocrite spreading a message of anger and subjugation.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Monkeypox- the best way to attack LGBTQ

« on: August 22, 2022, 12:32:15 PM »

It shows that you don't have much of an argument. Homosexuals themselves have conceded that HIV/AIDS a "gay disease". Any disease which disproportionately affects and is spread by gays is a gay disease.

Why is the monkeypox pandemic real but covid is not?

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Technology & Information / Re: machine-generated art (DALL-E, Imagen, Midjourney, etc.)

« on: August 17, 2022, 08:18:47 PM »

Most artists of any kind produce their art because they are compelled to. They don't produce art because they feel the world does not have enough art in it already. In fact, if you ask most hardcore artists, " Would you still produce art if you knew there was no one to see it?" Most of the time, they say yes.

Writing and digital publishing has been a side hustle of mine for many years. I've written novels and nonfiction but now there is software that can artificially create stories. It's easy to imagine a website where an AI could create a novel for you based on your input. I don't see that as a threat, just another competitor.

I think I'm okay with an AI novel writer ingesting some of my work along with Hemingway and whoever to produce a story. However, if the AI created a story starring someone else's intellectual property like Spider-Man and sold it for money, then there could be some serious shit.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: August 12, 2022, 08:07:43 PM »

Its a problem with slogans.  Big, complex ideas ,that probably take a few pages to explain, are boiled down to a few words.  They are memeified, if you will.

This is an excellent point. The fact is that every reform measure Pete mentioned has been tried over and over and over again with no results. The situation continues to decay.

Instead of defunding the police, maybe we should just call it an extreme retraining and re-budgeting of resources.
It wouldn't frighten the mainstream masses as much.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: August 12, 2022, 07:49:17 PM »

That's generously assuming you're still alive to try, or that you have enough of a societal framework reamining for that to make any sense. Your plans are likely to make that no longer the case, so we won't be trying them, thanks.

This is why I hope that the "dEfUnD tHe PoLiCe" idiots never gain any ground. Luckily, they're very unlikely to.

I get it, you've been subjected to the same indoctrination that we all have. That The Thin Blue Line protects us from the murderers, rapist, robbers, liberals, socialist, homosexuals other freaks that are ready to destroy our world. It's part of what the corrupt law enforcement uses to keep us in line.

I'm a big fan of not fucking up the world just to appease my sense of righteousness

You think this is about someone's sense of righteousness? We're living with this fucked up shit.

People all over the world use this local issue in their own political agenda.

There's a point at which inaction is making things worse.

Dr Van Drugs

I resemble that remark.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: August 12, 2022, 01:08:54 PM »

So tell us, you know a lot about what won't work. What would be your plan for dealing with a heavily armed police presence, protected by Republicans and police unions that are harassing good people while the criminals run rampant?

I don't have one. Shit's fucked. But I also don't pretend to have a revolutionary plan that will Totally Work™.

Revolutionary plans that will Totally Work™ are dangerous, because they're a fantastic way to make things much worse. Friends don't let friends spread that kinda BS.

Yes, shit's fucked. But some of us know that things are getting worse and we can't go on this way.

Some people just point and say, 'this won't work' or 'that won't work' but we have no choice except to try. If it fucks up, we'll try something else. If that fucks up, we'll try something else.
What we can't do is just accept that this is our life.

If it was your town, you would just deal with it?

If we accept this bullshit from our cops, we're just as guilty as they are.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: August 12, 2022, 12:05:38 PM »

So uh, just fire everyone and start hiring from scratch? In a field that's chronically understaffed and which keeps getting forced to lower its standards further and further just to keep the headcount at a reasonable level?

"lmao just get rid of everyone and then use our infinite pool of resources to build a new system"

Yep, that's the exact smug attitude we get from the corrupt police department. We have a force dominated by corruption and violence backed by a powerful labor union laughing at us saying, "You can't fire us all!"

We hire good cops and good police chiefs but they get their lives threaten. They have to communicate outside of the department for their safety and the safety of their families. For years, this city had a 'metro gang strike force' that was terrifying the community. It didn't stop until they started blatantly shaking down random people of color for their cash before the Feds finally started to take action. They told us that the gangs would take over the streets if we dismantled this 'strike force.' It turns out, they were having zero impact on gang activity.

Americans will stare at a Chuck Norris movie for an hour and a half watching, "one good cop fighting a dirty department with corruption that reaches into the highest levels of political power." But, in real life, they have no answers. Chuck Norris isn't going to beat up an entire police force and throw a corrupt Senator off a building.

So tell us, you know a lot about what won't work. What would be your plan for dealing with a heavily armed police presence, protected by Republicans and police unions that are harassing good people while the criminals run rampant?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: August 11, 2022, 08:38:10 PM »

In the news....

https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/florida-man-taunts-trump-by-flying-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-banner-over-mar-a-lago/


LOL...
He just needed to add "COCK SHIT" to the end of the banner.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: August 11, 2022, 06:28:42 PM »

That's pointless and likely not possible.

Imagine telling 50 cops "You're fired" then having no police coverage for like 2 weeks, while you try to hire people to replace the people you just fired, knowing there likely won't be anyone to hire and/or they are people who were fired for doing the same shit you just fired your force for doing.

It's definitely a heavy lift that would require a high level of choreography between the outgoing and the incoming. Instead of going weeks without a police department, they could have the old and new departments overlap by a few weeks.

The problem is that taking the corrupt cops off the force is like whack a mole. Remember, one of the cops standing around watching George Floyd die was in his first week on the job. If no one had videotaped the incident, those cops would have gone back to the office, written their reports and been heroes that killed another filthy criminal. That was the training that the newbie was receiving.

Imagine a new, honest police chief walking into a department looking at 50 crooked cops. Is he going to tell them that they're fired?