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Journal of Runaway1956 (2926)
I have noted before that Zelensky talks too much, demands too much, demonizes the Russians, and canonizes his own forces. Here, we can put to rest the assertion that bombing cities is Russia's preferred tactic, or strategy.
“The Russians fight poorly in the cities,” Mr. Podolyak said. “In the cities, it is possible to maneuver, and find cover, and you minimize losses; you can resist a longer time and inflict significant casualties on the Russians.”
There you have it. The ongoing destruction of Ukrainian cities is a choice that has been made by Ukraine, not Russia.
Let it be noted, that time and again, we have seen cities evacuated after Russian forces have overrun the cities. Ukraine won't evacuate the city a week before expected combat, it seems they prefer to keep their civilian human shields around. How can you demonize Russian artillery, if you don't have mounds of dead civilians to point to?
What we don't see yet, is an open admission that Ukraine sets up it's own rockets, artillery, anti-aircraft and more in apartment complexes.
Further, there is a rumor (remains unverified by myself) that Ukraine hands anti-tank and other weaponry to civilians in those apartment complexes, telling them to fire any appropriate target.
Time and again, we've seen apartment buildings hit, but few people bother to ask, "Why would the Russians be targeting an apartment?"
People, if your own army is setting up artillery, rockets and anti-tank weaponry in your apartment building, then your own army is not on your side.
Ukraine's story is much like Israel's story. Ain't no 'good guys' involved. Ukrainian leadership has made the cold, calculating decision to fight inside the cities.
“The Russians fight poorly in the cities,” Mr. Podolyak said. Geez, I wonder why. And, it seems that Ukrainians are pretty damned good at it! A scorched earth policy is a relatively easy decision for those who don't really care about the people living on that scorched earth!
A generous western media source - https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/06/14/world/russia-ukraine-war-news
A less generous Russian propaganda source - ttps://www.rt.com/russia/557154-ukraine-presidential-adviser-military-positions-cities/
Here we have a bit of papal milquetoast - https://www.businessinsider.co.za/pope-says-putin-russia-war-ukraine-good-bad-guys-2022-6
It would be nice if the old man were to say, "Russia bad because A, B, and C, Ukraine bad because X, Y, and Z." Instead he just blabbers around the issue, ultimately saying nothing.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Gaaark on Wednesday June 15 2022, @01:45AM (30 children)
So if a country was to invade America, you'd just run and hide?
I'd be wanting arms and to defend my home, my city, my country whenever and wherever i could.
But i'd probably also like it if my country got some help with it's defense: that would be nice.
I guess Americans would just lay down and die?...or just SOME Americans?
American leadership has folded up in the fetal position and Americans are running to Canada and Mexico?
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: -1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday June 15 2022, @02:37AM (29 children)
Never said that. Never implied that. That's not what I expect of the Ukrainians, or anyone else. But, since you put it that way - it could be a good idea to fall back, and regroup. It all depends on the situation.
You might want a pony too. Anyone would be wanting arms if they were invaded. That doesn't mean that any outsiders actually owe you those arms. What is your bargaining position? What are you going to pay for those arms? What do you have to pay with? Ukraine demands, demands, demands, always implying that the fate of the world depends on our response. Bullshit. Many nations have been overrun in the past, and the earth didn't stop orbiting the sun or anything really crazy.
Again, you might also like a pony. What are you willing to pay?
Well, yes, I imagine that some would. Americans are soft. Americans haven't known real hardship since about the 1930s. A lot of candyasses would indeed lie down and die if the shit were to hit the fan. I can't tell you how many candy asses there are in this country. Sometimes, people surprise you when the going gets tough.
Huh? WTF? Yes, Ukranians are running to Canada and Mexico. Their leadership hasn't folded yet - but I expect Zelensky to wake up one morning soon, and realize that he is trying to bargain from a weak position. We'll see what he does then.
Now, a question. WTF does any of that have to do with the cold calculated decision to fight inside the cities? How does any of it justify using the populace as human shields? The so-called civilized world has condemned many other actors on the world stage for doing exactly that.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @03:17AM (7 children)
You're still a Putin apologist.
He's a genocidal terrorist, with delusions of empire, to put it mildly.
Was your nickname at school Neville Chamberlain by any chance?
You seem of the opinion Zelensky should just surrender, be murdered by Russian forces and have his people enslaved and Russified.
(Score: 0, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @04:13AM (6 children)
Anybody who grew up in the cold war era and listened to Duck&Cover a hundred times, has little compassion for Russian policies. Ask Hanoi Jane what sticks in our craw from that era.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday June 15 2022, @06:30PM (5 children)
Hahaha, well at least you are being honest about your anti-war stance being entirely based on the person saying it and not on any morals or ethics!
Most people agree with "Hanoi Jane" that the Vietnam war was was a terrible idea!
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @07:38PM
And most patriots who suffered through Viet Nam, have a different opinion about Hanoi Jane.
Your profound commentary about the relative goodness of wars, aside.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @07:55PM (3 children)
Hindsight is 20/20.
So smart guy, what would have been your approach to the spread of communism- the bad and militaristic kind?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday June 16 2022, @03:47AM (2 children)
Isn't it obvious? Wall them off. Communism does not and cannot work, due to human nature. If they want it so badly, let them have it. Alone.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 16 2022, @06:46AM (1 child)
So you have come to the conclusion that Runaway is natural? On the contrary, oh born gay person! He is not natural at all, he has been controlled and modified by capitalist propaganda and Fox News, and all we have to do is get him into the re-education camp, where we point out that if he keeps grifting off the rest of us, we will cut off his johnson. Works wonders on former capitalists and libertarians, both.
So, Communism can work, and if in fact the only economic system that can work. Otherwise we end up with khallow's richies houses falling into the rivers. You are in the health industry, you should know this.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday June 18 2022, @03:42AM
Human nature prevents actual communism from working, and in my opinion it's something ground deep in the biology, not our culture. We're always going to be looking at limited resources, limited capacity, finite and flawed knowledge of reality, and unexpected turns of events. We'd need to be almost angelic for communism to work, and if we were, we'd be good enough for ANY economic system to work.
My rule of thumb is "the less elastic the demand, the less laissez-faire policy should be." Frivolous luxury goods? Go right ahead and charge whatever you want and let "the market" determine your price point. Food, shelter, and water? These are necessities of life and at the very least a decent bare minimum of these ought to be guarantees. In practice, this works out to boring old Nordic social democracy.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @03:34AM (3 children)
In the name of equity and fairness, Sleepy Joe is going to give college dropouts a pony, right before the election.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @02:48PM (1 child)
He was going to give them a Jackass but Runaway's taken.
(Score: 5, Informative) by DannyB on Wednesday June 15 2022, @07:17PM
His role model Donald Jackass Trump is still available.
The anti vax hysteria didn't stop, it just died down.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 18 2022, @10:41PM
Joe wanted to give them electric bicycles, too. But he's sulking, because Dr. Jill took his bicycle away today.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @09:18AM
Runaway has already surrendered. He is a traitor and a coward, and a tranny penis scarfer. He needs to be hunted down and neutralized. Already reported him to the State Department as an unregistered agent of a foreign power, and a really stupid conservative idiot. Wet squid on the the way.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @01:48PM (1 child)
OK Vatnik.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 16 2022, @08:39AM
Goodnight, Cooper!
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Gaaark on Wednesday June 15 2022, @08:21PM (13 children)
When is arming and equipping civilians using them as shields?
Cold, calculated decision to fight inside cities... RUSSIA is attacking their cities! Remember? If Russia wasn't attacking, they wouldn't have to defend! Where else are they supposed to fight? Where would you fight if your enemy sucked at attacking cities? You ALWAYS make your enemy fight building to building, room to room, block by block.
Civilians can leave any time they want to: maybe they just don't want their homes in enemy hands. I wouldn't! I'd arm, I'd fight...block by block, building to building, room to room.
Wouldn't you? If you would, what's your point?
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday June 15 2022, @09:22PM (12 children)
When you send them into combat with zero training. Despite all the fuzzy-warm headlines about troops training in Poland and elsewhere, the Ukrainian troops on the ground mostly have no training. Many are still without weapons. Many don't know how to use the weapons given to them. That goes for small arms and personal weapons, right on up to the tank killers we are sending them.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Gaaark on Wednesday June 15 2022, @09:51PM (2 children)
They are fighting for their country, family, lives, etc.
They are short on EVERYTHING. They are doing what they can; what ANYONE would do in an unfair fight for their lives: grab what you can and fight how you can (reminds me of the Home Guard of old men with pitchforks, etc, at the start of WW2). Would you do less? I wouldn't. If someone handed me a flame thrower or rocket launcher: I'd try to figure it out and fight on.
They were winning, but now they seem to be running out of ammunition, etc. Too bad. I applaud their efforts: David vs. Crazy Goliath.
I don't get why you are trashing people who are fighting for their very lives against an invader: i applaud them and would expect no less. Feck Putin.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 16 2022, @02:33AM (1 child)
The neighborhood bully has promised you an asswhipping. So, you hide in Grandma's house, so that when the bully finds you, Grandma gets trampled in the action.
That is bravery, no?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Gaaark on Thursday June 16 2022, @11:34AM
The neighborhood bully has promised you an asswhipping: him and his friends go to your Grandma's house. You are at your Grandma's house when they arrive and you can't get your Grandma to leave. You know she is now in danger so you try your best to defend her and her house however you can. Your Grandma helps as she can.
That is bravery on both parts, yes.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 5, Informative) by DannyB on Wednesday June 15 2022, @10:29PM (4 children)
I could be wrong, but I think Ukraine people fighting are volunteers defending their homeland from a ruthless invader who started a war of aggression to steal their country.
Even without training some of them volunteer to fight off the invaders.
It is Russia who is in the wrong here. It is Russia that deserves the blame for everything bad that is happening. It is all Russia's fault. It is Russia that made a decision to send in troops (however ill equipped and ill informed) to invade another country. This war was unnecessary. Russia was not in any danger from Ukraine. If anything Russia has now demonstrated perfectly why it is absolutely necessary for every country bordering Russia to be part of NATO.
The anti vax hysteria didn't stop, it just died down.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 16 2022, @02:30AM (2 children)
OK, Hillare.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday June 16 2022, @03:08AM (1 child)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 17 2022, @12:29AM
More specifically they did it, and continue with it, at Putin's order. Yes, they follow him, but as the leader he bears the lion's share of responsibility for his bad decisions.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 19 2022, @04:21AM
The sad part is that their plan has worked, at least partially. Just wait for similar moves to be made against Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Georgia (again).
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 16 2022, @06:44AM (2 children)
Same like when "they sent" Killie Richetnputz or whatshisname to shoot people in a neighboring state at an age he wasn't even allowed to own a gun?
At least those Ukrainians chose to stay in and defend their home, giving them guns is better than let them throw boiled water from their balcony on the attackers.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Thursday June 16 2022, @02:41PM (1 child)
1) He was allowed to own the firearm he used.
2) He only shot people who were actively assaulting him and showed remarkable control under the circumstances.
And they can always learn as they fight. You fight with the army you have, not the one you wish you had.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 17 2022, @05:32AM
Khallow channelling Rummy! I am afeared! I will learn to shot bastards attacking me, like khallow, in the moment, with my mom-purchased AR-13-like weepon. Or, boiled water, from the balcony, but you know it is nice that they sterilize it, first, to avoid contaign.
Kyle is going to end up being the George Zimmerman of a two-year, unaccredited college in Tejas, which means dead within two years. And he coulda got life, if he pled.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 16 2022, @12:53PM
Why don't you ask Putin for a ceasefire so they have time to train them?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @02:31AM (18 children)
What's with this newsy stuff? I wasn't done dumping on California in your last journal.
Yeah, there aren't a whole lot of good guys in the news, lately. It looked like Smithfield was going to be the good guys in the California piece... then the plot turned.
January 6 there were surely some good guys, but we'll never hear of them. I really like my-MyPillow-pillow, but asking $140 for a pair of bedroom slippers makes him a bad guy. Don't get me started on Diogenes. Maybe it could turn out that good guys are... well, we'll probably never find out.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday June 15 2022, @02:39AM (14 children)
I disagree. Asking $140 for a pair of bedroom slippers doesn't make him a bad guy. But paying $140 for a pair of bedroom slippers would make you an idiot. I hope you haven't done that!
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @03:13AM (1 child)
Went to an outlet store and saved a C-note. Even politicians figure out when the price is too high.
In another (now unpersoned) thread I broached the term "Political affiliation stereotyping." If you're aligned with part of a group, you're in bed with the whole platform. Every thread you begin, the 50¢ army swoops in and tags you as a Russian-lacky, since you tick a few items on their list. Maybe when Ukraine/Russia finally drops from the headlines they will revisit that whole list idea, before jumping on the next one. One could hope, anyway.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 17 2022, @05:38AM
But, he is a Russian lackey. We have the pay stubs, the pro-Trump posts, the admission of growing squash (in IRC, if you care to look). We also know that Runaway works for socialist leaf-blower manufacturer, and that is in itself enough to ban him, forever. He is now targeted by the Ukrainian hit-squads. You very rarely hear them coming, and even your dogs are silenced. Goodby, Paul! Ukrainians and the Vatican both after your ass, and you are no Jeff Bridges.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @04:04AM
I think I was right. He's the victim in his advertisements — and he truly is one — but then he uses that status to garner sympathetic supporters, who will vote with their billfolds. You need to protect that covenant.
When the attacks on him began, I bought two pillows; they're still in the closet. I did it before his big campaign started.
(Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday June 15 2022, @03:52PM (7 children)
How much did you pay for that wall they never built?
(Score: 0, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday June 15 2022, @04:44PM (6 children)
You are misinformed. They built wall. In fact, they built wall for less than the federal government was paying.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @06:13PM (2 children)
Materials for unfinished sections are still there (Trump bought in bulk, for a good discount), and Diaper Joe is paying more to guard the materials, than it would cost to finish the wall. It's no wonder Texas is finishing it.
I wonder if the same scenario is being repeated for the Keystone XL. And the other leftmade disasters.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday June 15 2022, @06:22PM (1 child)
But more importantly.....did they get a good deal on the $800k yacht? [huffpost.com]
Trump pardoned Steve Bannon as one of his last acts in office. 2 other associates in Bannon's criminal case just admitted to fraud. [businessinsider.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 16 2022, @05:17AM
Bill Clinton used to donate his used underpants to some not-for-profit, for a tax write-off.
Does Joe do that? Depends.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @09:01PM (2 children)
> They built wall.
And the next night someone came along with a battery powered sawzall and cut out a convenient door.
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All in all you're just another prick with no wall.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 16 2022, @05:33AM
And all the grateful migrants, migrated back south for the summer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 16 2022, @06:37AM
Didn't you hear? The less than 0.5 mile long wall they built already came with a door in it. It also cost $8 million dollars.
The other "Lamborghini" wall they built doesn't have a door, but its shape allows you to just walk around that one. Until it collapses because it turns out they didn't build it right despite costing Fisher Sand & Gravel $20 million a mile to build.
You are thinking of Trump's "Megawall," which he often claimed to have designed himself. That wasn't one of the We Build the Wall walls. Not that it makes any of the walls mentioned less of a boondoggle.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday June 15 2022, @07:19PM (2 children)
If I were to pay $140 for a pear of bedroom slippers, I would expect them to use usb-c for charging.
The anti vax hysteria didn't stop, it just died down.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday June 15 2022, @07:27PM
My boots recharge wirelessly.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 16 2022, @02:33AM
They include free Wi-Fi.
But whatever you do, don't click your heels together three times.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @11:23PM (2 children)
But I still got nine -1 mod points there. And all of those were from sharing unfortunate truths about my former residence.
Only got seven -1 points here. With much less confrontational posts.
Clearly the left is more concerned about preserving the image of California, than Ukraine. Or good guys. Or peace.
The net result from my point of view is a brand new and oh-so-well-deserved ban from this place. I'll go sit in the timeout corner, and ponder. Okay, all done... MyPillow is still the Best Night's Sleep in the Whole Wide World, at the price.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 16 2022, @03:53PM
That's nice. You may now go back to sleep again.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 17 2022, @06:57PM
Vote early, vote often, reality depends on it!
-11 California thread
-15 Here
And, do have a tempestuous Blernsday.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @03:54AM
The ongoing invasion was always the choice of a fading meglomaniac dreaming of Empire a century after that was even a tenable thing.
Without all the western arms and unofficial helpers, Ukraine would have folded sooner. Zelensky's plea-repeat for more was not ever the reason the west went the proxy route, when has it ever been since pre WW1.
Defending against a larger agressor will always be messy, but have to say, when has any army, in the last century, stood lined up in a field to go at it like gentlemen.
Apparently Russia was saving Ukraine from the bad guys, why ever would scorched earth ever be on the table in that scenario.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by khallow on Wednesday June 15 2022, @04:31AM (13 children)
I still wonder why you're bothered that Zelensky does his job well?
It's standard Sun Tzu. If you have to fight, then you fight where your opponents are at their worst. Sure, it's a cold decision, but warmer than the games Russia plays these days. They could, after all, not have chosen this fight in the first place.
What's better in this case? That Ukraine successfully defends itself from a vicious enemy? Or that Ukraine adheres to some weird opinion you have about cold, calculating decisions by the wrong people?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @09:47AM (12 children)
The cold calculating decision you seem to be missing is that the Ukrainians are using their own citizens as human shields in an attempt to make the Russians look like war criminals when they target the Ukrainian military.
Interesting that the situation is exactly the same as when Israel blows up Palestinian civilian buildings, but in that case you make excuses for Israel.
(Score: 3, Touché) by quietus on Wednesday June 15 2022, @01:28PM
You mean those 5M+ Ukrainian refugees in Europe managed to slip through the road blocks of the Ukrainian Army, trying to prevent them from fleeing?
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @02:00PM (9 children)
Just who do think is invading who? Russia is invading Ukraine. The Ukrainians are defending themselves. What don't you understand about that?
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @04:29PM (5 children)
I did not say that the Russians are the good guys here. I was pointing out that using civilians as shields is wrong whoever does it, and that khallow takes different sides depending on who is doing it.
i.e. The Palestinians are evil for shooting from civilian buildings and the Israelis are justified in leveling those buildings, whereas the Ukrainians are virtuous heroes even though they are shooting from civilian buildings, and the Russians are evil for leveling those buildings.
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I am not runaway, but I am old enough to have seen the propaganda from many wars. This whole Ukraine-Good, Russia-Evil stuff just stinks to anyone old enough to have lived through it multiple times. Generally, there is no good side. The bankers and the weapon sellers will make billions, the poor patriotic suckers will die, and shit will go on as usual. If you really want to find out who is the worst of them, the Romans had a useful phrase. "Cui Bono?". Look for who is making money from this war. There is a good chance they are the ones pushing it along.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday June 15 2022, @06:09PM (1 child)
Palestine is a signatory to a ceasefire in Israel. I, like many lefties, am sympathetic to their situation but to conflate that spotty peace to an active invasion is a ridiculous stretch.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @09:41PM
An active invasion? hmm. https://israelmybeloved.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Obama-Calls-For-Israels-Return-To-Pre-1967-Borders-767x550@2x.jpg [israelmybeloved.com]
But leaving that aside, are you claiming that using human shields is ok in a "real" war, but not in whatever the M.E. situation is?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by khallow on Wednesday June 15 2022, @10:47PM (2 children)
Where's the evidence that Ukrainians are using human shields? All that is present here are your empty assertions. In the case of Hamas, they've been doing it for decades with plenty of time to separate military and civilians - yet they're still mixing people up.
Ukraine is in a war with a superior military power, fighting at its home, and has been scrambling for months to survive. So of course, they never had the opportunity to separate military from civilians.
And of course, it's ludicrous to expect Ukraine to unilaterally surrender cities to Russia. Maybe we should expect Russia to surrender to Ukraine for similar reasons?
Moving on, I too am old enough to have seen all that propaganda. And I've seen your game before. The whataboutism and appeals to hypocrisy fallacies are well known to me. If we too were to ignore the huge differences between the Ukrainians and Hamas tactics, we too might come to your conclusions.
There's an awful lot of people who will pay slight lip service to "did not say that X are the good guys here" and then obsess over the alleged evil and hypocrisy of foe Y instead. It's painfully clear what team you're on.
Sorry, the "Generally, there is no good side." line is bullshit. Russia is clearly in the wrong here - they invaded at the cost of tens of thousands of lives, they lied about many things that were easy to verify (like that the military buildup was actually a training exercise), and this is the latest in a long line of wrong doing. Ukraine can't touch that even if it's merely because they don't have the power or opportunity.
Imagine if we applied the same nonsense to other human endeavors like law enforcement. There's no good people moral equivalence, victims are deliberately hiding their valuables behind human shields (themselves no less), those who support enforcing the law are doing so inconsistently, and all that being more important than the ongoing murder-burglaries which gets worse and worse.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 17 2022, @01:24AM (1 child)
Seriously, khallow, fourteen is not old enough! You are young, get some perspective, and respect your elders.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday June 17 2022, @12:44PM
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday June 15 2022, @06:24PM (2 children)
Runaway thinks Mexico is invading us. And Russia is just on a normal tourist visit in Ukraine.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @09:40PM
Sigh. I'll bet you still think California produces enough electricity, too.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday June 16 2022, @03:40PM
Tourist visit is how the Russians entered took Crimea. Then suddenly the tourists turned out to be soldiers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @02:40PM
Comrade Runaway forgets about Stalingrad.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday June 15 2022, @04:39AM (57 children)
...you have a *problem,* friend. Hallow is wrong about nearly everything. This is like getting told by a sumo wrestler that it's time to cut back on the bacon-wrapped hot dogs...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @04:42AM (10 children)
Still pretending you never had a bacon-wrapped hot dog?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday June 15 2022, @07:09AM (9 children)
I had one once. It was way too greasy. You know that feeling you get when you ate something way, way too heavy? It's not nice. You feel slow and bloated and ick for hours.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 4, Interesting) by FatPhil on Wednesday June 15 2022, @07:33AM (7 children)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @12:02PM (6 children)
Oh, wait... You were talking about actual hotdogs?
I thought bacon-wrapped was a euphemism for...
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday June 15 2022, @07:22PM (3 children)
...trying to make a disgusting war slightly more palatable?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @07:31PM (2 children)
The war against luncheon meats is only being fought by you marxists. And even it is more palatable if you wrap it in bacon. Of course you can substitute with your BillG bacon, made from cricket larva and belfry denizens.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday June 16 2022, @06:59AM (1 child)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 16 2022, @08:45AM
Try a Runawaytm School Lunch! With extra former man-meat! Scarce now, since the Yellowstone flooding has cut off, so to speak, the khallow supply chain.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 16 2022, @03:45PM (1 child)
Sometimes a bacon-wrapped hotdog is just a bacon-wrapped hotdog.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 17 2022, @02:11AM
But a good bratwurst is always smoked.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @09:28PM
You could've tried bathing regularly. It might have saved you from a lot of rigamarole.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @01:10PM (42 children)
Well of course. Khallow has no morals as we recognize them. He worships money, and financial success, much as Trump does.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @03:21PM
No wonder Rs are so big on bacon wrapping!
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday June 15 2022, @10:50PM (40 children)
It would help if "we" had a history of recognizing morals. Even Azuma would whup your ass on that front.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday June 16 2022, @03:50AM (39 children)
You don't have morals, though. You are unable to articulate your system of morality, nor explain its ontological grounding, nor expound on your moral epistemology. You're very clearly a high-functioning psychopath. Which is fine in its own way, just don't pretend knowledge in a sphere you by definition cannot have any knowledge of.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 16 2022, @04:19AM (21 children)
They's some purtysome palaveratin' so as them rubes'll be bowin 'n bendin' at the awful buty of it. Not if'n they's been actual schooled, 'course.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday June 16 2022, @05:33AM (20 children)
Moral philosophy is *hard.* There is a very good reason most people stop at "well $BOOK says..." and leave it there.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 16 2022, @05:39AM
Betcha that sounded smart on the insides o' your head. Moral...
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 16 2022, @08:48AM (2 children)
We used to have a philosopher, named aristarchus, who would occasionally post journal articles on ethics. I bet they are still there, if anyone cares to look. As I recall, they did not phase khallow at all, since he is innocent of ethical thought.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 17 2022, @02:13AM (1 child)
And the asylums are full of philosophers.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 17 2022, @05:42AM
Such as it ever was. Just nice that they don't make us all drink Hemlock now! But, since everyone outside of the asylum, especially the Trumpers, appears to be insane, perhaps you might be better off inside?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 16 2022, @10:10PM (15 children)
Oh really? Gimme one single example of the difficulties you have.
Moral philosophy is *dead simple*. Maybe you're conflating it with politics
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 16 2022, @10:43PM (14 children)
Since people have been debating moral philosophy for thousands of years, perhaps you could just cut to the chase and give your metaethical framework, the normative ethic on that, and the resulting applied paradigm. Be sure not to leave anything out and to explain your answers to all the standard questions and solutions to the common dilemmas. I'm sure many would be pleased to finally have it solved.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 16 2022, @11:48PM (13 children)
Two words: Be nice
tl;dr version: Always kill your enemy with a smile
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 17 2022, @07:01PM
Wrong audience.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday June 18 2022, @03:30AM (10 children)
You didn't answer AC's actual question, and you sure as hell didn't answer mine, those being "What is moral?" and "How do you know?" The word we're looking for here is metaethics. Can you describe your metaethical framework, i.e., how you know what is moral?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 18 2022, @05:21AM
You could start by absorbing the "Be nice" part. After you chew on that for a few years, maybe then somebody might take your bait. And possibly without demeaning you more in the process.
Subplots can be a real botheration.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 18 2022, @05:21AM (8 children)
I answered it perfectly. "Moral" is a human invention, to feed the ego
Oh please! Stop with the silly psychobabble, trying to inflate your ego... metaethical... oh murrrrder!
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 18 2022, @05:34AM (1 child)
Nonsense, morality comes from magic apples; if god didn't want us to be moral he wouldn't have allowed a talking snake to seduce us.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 18 2022, @05:40AM
The ol' country tale goes... it weren't the apple, it were the banana.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 18 2022, @05:38AM
Apparently you aren't aware of the subplot baggage. The whole thing is dark humor.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday June 19 2022, @05:36PM (4 children)
Okay, so you'd describe yourself as a "moral error theorist" then? This being the position that morality is an accidental (if perhaps inevitable...) feature of sentient or at least human evolution and has no place in a modern, thinking man or woman's mind? :) Go on...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 19 2022, @06:34PM (2 children)
:-) You are a babbling brook.. "Morality" is a tool of imposition, *might makes right*
(Score: 3, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday June 20 2022, @05:19AM (1 child)
Moral error theory, yup. Let me guess, you consider yourself a libertarian?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 21 2022, @06:11AM
I think you are misunderstanding the meaning of The Greater Fool Theory.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 19 2022, @06:37PM
There are more things in heaven and earth, o' king of the pervs, than your nightmare philosophy can explain.
The gall of some delusional, neurotic asshole, lecturing on how to be nice.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 18 2022, @08:42AM
Define "be" and "nice," please.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday June 16 2022, @02:03PM (16 children)
Even if we were to suppose, contrary to reality, that any of that were necessary, there's plenty of articulation, explaining, and expounding for those who wish to pay attention.
I present as counter evidence here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org] (note I checked off all the boxes in this one and still caught shit), and here [soylentnews.org] (another eight examples from yet another time when you've made the same empty accusations you made today).
I don't expect anyone to read everyone of these examples. They're not that interesting. But I have examples going back six years, many in direct reply to you, Azuma. And yet, here you are still singing the same ignorant note. So how many years does it take you to acknowledge reality?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 16 2022, @02:38PM (5 children)
Your problem seems to be faulty axioms and likely some amount of ASD or sociopathy that makes common senae morality trickier for you to get a handle on. I believe this is because the mority of situations can vary highly with context, and if you're on the spectrum that makes it harder to understand the rules of morality. It would also explain your obsession with capitalism and insistence that any problems are due to government meddling, all dogma you learned as god given facts. When you hold beliefs that applaud the rich while hurting the poor, such as the standard GOP approach, then you are leaning evil. Maybe in the future when the rich are taxed so heavily they can barely afford first class airline tickets, THEN we can entertain whining about rich people problems.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday June 17 2022, @02:37AM (4 children)
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 17 2022, @05:25PM (2 children)
That tired excuse? Do conservatives ever take responsibility? You push anti-human pro-rich ideology, so either you have faulty assumptions making you believe toxicity is good, or you're fine with being a fair but evil. The only reason to think you're on the spectrum, as are many users here, is that you've had things explained but you reject everything that doesn't support old school capitalism, and anything related to climate change. How would you describe someone that rejects reality in favor of rightwing economics? Or the insurrection on 1/6 that finally has proper charges against the main instigators? Please, do give a description of such a type of person!
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Saturday June 18 2022, @06:07AM (1 child)
Erm, even if that were true, so what? I'm not the one having trouble with alternate viewpoints. A glaring example of this failure is that you have yet to display any morality in your above post, much less a morality superior to the alleged anti-human, pro-rich ideology.
Similarly, a flat Earther has explained things, but I still reject everything that doesn't support old school round Earthism. I must be on the spectrum!
The act of explanation doesn't make the explanation acceptable. You need more than that. Someone who lies on the rational end of the spectrum will reject irrational, dumbass explanations as standard procedure.
I'd start by first finding someone who does that. I haven't done so it's quite irrelevant to our discussion. First, I'll just note here that my economics is not rightwing economics. It is merely economics. Second, people who attack "old school capitalism" fail economics hard. Nowhere else can something succeed for centuries - building many awesome developed world societies, for example - and still get treated as if it were an utter failure.
I see you're self-signaling that you're an idiot. Wasn't Trump supposed to be THE main instigator in your narrative? And so far, nobody has issued charges against him. "Finally" hasn't happened yet!
I wager this is a situation where a glance in the mirror would reveal that type of person to you. I find it interesting how tu quoque works so well in situations like this. There's just an amazing number of people who brazenly display the flaws they claim in others.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 19 2022, @09:00PM
No u B^)
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday June 18 2022, @03:31AM
AC's not treating you like you're mentally ill, Hallow. That would give you an *excuse.*
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 17 2022, @01:22AM (4 children)
Evidence? Not only is khallow mad, he seems to hold grudges, and an inventory of every time he got spanked on SoylentNews. Pathetic, and mediocre!
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday June 17 2022, @02:43AM (3 children)
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 17 2022, @06:02AM (2 children)
https://www.slideshare.net/KevinHallow/online-dating-wingman-basic-report [slideshare.net]
Google. Sick.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 17 2022, @03:53PM
LOL
How is that surprising yet expected??
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday June 18 2022, @03:32AM
Oh good Lord, is that really him?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 17 2022, @09:51PM (3 children)
The fact that you think those posts help your case makes this whole thing even worse. Too long in the trenches, I suppose.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday June 18 2022, @06:16AM (2 children)
I strongly suspect most readers would disagree with that. Instead we're seeing the usual toxicity of narrative thinking - that is, believing something merely because it's an attractive story, not because it has even a slight connection to reality.
My take is that this just reduces your life to a shitty movie.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 19 2022, @09:04PM (1 child)
Amazing projection. You hold a narrative counter to easily observable and verifiable facts then try and pretend you are the ideologically persecuted one. Top kek, very rightwing troll.
Maybe stop being so hysterical? And smiling more wouldn't hurt.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday June 19 2022, @11:41PM
What would that narrative be? In this thread, we started with some babbling accusations against me about "no morals as we recognize them". Azuma weighed in with the usual frothing ranting which added nothing. At that point, I provided in total a dozen links where I demonstrated morals (including checking off some Azuma lines in the sand) as a rational person would recognize them. I grant you probably aren't so capable of recognition, but that's not relevant to my argument.
Now, you're whining about projection and making the usual completely nonsensical statements about "easily observable and verifiable facts" while failing to provide any of those facts - the usual bad faith move I see in these sorts of arguments.
Probably ought to take your own advice here. I'm here in the first place because I care about what happens to the Ukraine. Someone accuses me of silly flaws, I'll correct that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 15, @02:59AM
It should be clear to anyone reading Azuma's posts that the individual behind that account name is racist, in the worst sense of that word.
That individual practices the "you are racist if you do not think identically to me" form of racism, and reading the posts produced by that individual, it quickly becomes apparent that they are worse than the worst KKK members ever were during the 50's or 60's in the US south.
Further, that individual let leak out their racism when they posted this comment this comment [soylentnews.org].
For those who do not know, Clarence Thomas [wikipedia.org] is an African American.
Azuma Hazuki's writing of "Uncle (Ruckus)" is an allusion to the racial slur "Uncle Tom" [wikipedia.org]. Quoting from Wikipedia:
Usually the individual behind the Azuma account is much more subtle in their Racism, but for that post, they let their true colors be known.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @05:58PM (2 children)
There's your problem, assuming the right is all lockstep, like-thinking, dumber-than-rocks. Amazing thing is that the right is a big castle (you can keep your tent), with diverse thoughts, drives, opinions. Some probably even share a few of your least bizarre opinions, but we won't kick them out of the throne room. And we respect the bacon.
Study Contradicts Transgender Narrative, Suggests Puberty Blockers Spike Youth Suicide [breitbart.com]
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @08:50PM
Not an assumption, the result of long and unfortunate experience. Donald, y'all! And I do mean "you all".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 17 2022, @04:20AM
I thought the same thing about trans people in my last life too.
In your next life, you might get to figure out how to more critically approach the observation Breitbarf reports. You won't have it as easy as I do, what with all this HRT and surgery available. It's going to be very hard to find HRT after WW3 spectacularly concludes in a few years.
unless
(Score: 5, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday June 15 2022, @03:54PM (4 children)
If they invade your cities you fight in your cities.
Doesn't take a tactical genius to figure that one out....
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @06:15PM
Bugs kept coming into the house. We sprayed outside.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @11:47PM
No one ever accused Runaway of being a "tactical genius".
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Thursday June 16 2022, @10:37PM (1 child)
The claim appears to be that even when they know a week in advance that the Russians are coming, the Ukrainians won't evacuate non-combatants. I think runaway may even be implying that they actively prevent evacuation.
Yes, you can arm your civilian militia and let them fight for their country, but if you know a week in advance you are going to fight in the nursery you should send the kids away.
No problem is insoluble, but at Ksp = 2.943×10−25 Mercury Sulphide comes close.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 17 2022, @02:49PM
If you put the children in a shelter and clearly mark it, the Russians will target it.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Mojibake Tengu on Wednesday June 15 2022, @04:26PM (13 children)
There is an ancient Chinese stratagem: He who provides unsubstantiated grace to enemy denies it to himself.
Wasting civilian population by keeping them in cities under frontal attack as human shields with the purpose to slow advance of adversary is a common tactics, routinely used by Wehrmacht in WW2 on occupied Soviet territories and, quite not surprising to me, actual tactics used by U.S. Army in later major conflicts, observably in Korea, Vietnam and Syria. Against Russians it works well effective as a slowdown, just because for centuries of culture where human life (not money) is top value, Russians are too considerate to civilian population even if those are enemy nations.
The key factor of doing this by purpose is time factor. It is just a method of trading humans for time.
But Americans themselves evolved this tactics to even more outrageous modern model: methodical deploying heavy artillery in residential areas. Yes, this is a war crime by international law books. When long range artillery duel happens, nearby residential buildings inevitably suffer heavy damage. The same for anti-aircraft positions and their elimination by air strikes.
The key factor of doing this by purpose is propaganda factor. It is a method of trading small military assets and large civilian assets and humans for visual media glory.
Both tactics are specifically taught in all western military academies of all NATO members, and as such, Ukrainian forces trained by NATO advisors were specifically learned to use these tactics. They were suggested to do so with impunity, and they do it with enthusiasm, for it's just "more killing of White Niggers" for them.
I still remember advertising in Canadian hunter magazine for "White Niggers Safari", recruiting snipers. "White niggers" is an old nick for Russians both in Texas and Canada Nazi diaspora communities (here by Nazi, I mean both Hitlerists and Banderists).
The only thing I do not understand about current situation is, how could be they such stupid escalating for years and thinking what? That the Russians will let them murdering people on streets and in homes forever and keep to do nothing about it? Donetsk and Luhansk secession happened after Odessa arson on May 2, 2014, with about 60 victims burned alive in the Palace of Trade Unions.
There was a 15 000 civilian victims of regular artillery bombardment of Donetsk for 8 years in a row. For the first if Ukrainians considered this a part of their own territory, they were bombing their own population!
But no, they considered it just ethnic cleansing and nothing else.
If anything of that happened to me, I would be the first one to rebel against such a state.
Of course, Putin is by today the worst of the bad. I wonder who's be next...
Let me remind a repetition of the stratagem: He who provides unsubstantiated grace to enemy denies it to himself.
In a next conflict, the Chinese will not be as self-restrained as Russians are.
The edge of 太玄 cannot be defined, for it is beyond every aspect of design
(Score: 4, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday June 15 2022, @06:16PM (1 child)
You mean like these?
New before and after images reveal how apartment blocks and entire residential areas have been blitzed by Russian bombardments [dailymail.co.uk]
Ukraine: Russian Air-Dropped Bombs Hit Residential Area [hrw.org]
ntercepted radio transmissions reveal Russians ordering troops to 'cover' residential areas with artillery, New York Times reports [businessinsider.in]
Russia bombs residential area of Kharkiv and intensifies Kyiv assault as talks with Ukraine end [cnn.com]
So I guess this is all OK because the US teaches classes about it in military academies?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @08:11PM
No those are ok because Russian shills don't mind hypocrisy. Quick, save them by destroying their homes and killing many of them!!/s
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @10:07PM (9 children)
Troll
You have offended the democrat narrative!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @10:50PM (2 children)
Go home, Fusty.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @11:13PM (1 child)
How do you know who is at home, and who is the parasite?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 17 2022, @05:45AM
With Fusty, the symbiosis has grown so tight, that truly it is impossible to tell. Kind of like trying to figure out if Trump believes his lies, or just is his lies. Only one solution, and it involves being in orbit.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 16 2022, @05:11AM (4 children)
Not to worry, the modsquad has corrected any slight, in spades. Where do they get all those points, anyway?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 16 2022, @10:42PM (3 children)
10 points per day per sockpuppet. It adds up pretty quick.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 16 2022, @11:17PM
Oh thank God! Then they weren't saving 'em up just for me.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 17 2022, @05:53AM (1 child)
The only error in your theory is that janrinok has mod-banned every user that has downmodded the right wing, and has banned and permabanned, and shadowbanned any user that might possibly be aristarchus. I know this, because I am aristarchus!
Ha! You know that all this downmodding of racist nazi Republican stuff is just normal people? The ones who are becoming rarer and rarer on SN? Soon, we will be a very small clone of TruthSocial/Gab/Parlor.
There once was a dream that was SoylentNews, it started with BuckFeta! A news aggregation site, run by its users!
Yeah, right.
aristarchus (my liberties are severely restricted, at present)
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 18 2022, @12:18AM
Oh, look honey, they Spam modded aristarchus again! What will they think of next?
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 16 2022, @06:05PM
Troll
Apparently so have I!
*sigh* such is the immense power of propaganda
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday June 17 2022, @12:57PM
"Murdering people on streets and in homes forever" and the only example you can come up with is 8 years old and likely an own goal - that is, they accidentally caused the fires that killed themselves.
The obvious rebuttal to that is that a good portion of those Russian invaders are people who would happily rather be civilians than fight in yet another pointless war. Where's Russia's consideration to them?
Once again, we get these ridiculous puffed up pretenses for the Russian invasion. Where's the evidence?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @11:14PM
Servant of the People
You'll see he is a very down-to-earth humble guy
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2022, @11:24PM
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/06/15/demu-j15.html [wsws.org]
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 16 2022, @06:19AM (8 children)
Would be nice,
You heretic! How can you say any such thing about il Papa? Vatican hit squads have been dispatched. Are you Baptist? Then you know what form your death will take. Penecostal? Snakes, or poison, or just Fox News? Lethal, in all cases. You are the "old man," Runaway, with much less education and erudition than Pope Francis. The Dude is a Jesuit, dude! Do you even know what that means? Massive learning, black robes, dead before you even realize it. Been nice to know you, Runaway, nice that you shilled for the Church Universal and Triumpant on the abortion thing, but you dis the Pope, you are not long for this world.
And, the irony of asshole logorheaic Runaway, complaining that someone talks too much? Shut the Fuck Up, Runaway, before I have to make you do it.
[Oh, and I can!]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 16 2022, @01:06PM (6 children)
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday June 17 2022, @12:56AM
I don't have to be expecting them. When they arrive, my Ring doorbell notifies me.
The anti vax hysteria didn't stop, it just died down.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 19 2022, @02:10AM (4 children)
Another reason we have to finish the southern border fence.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 19 2022, @04:23AM (3 children)
Last I checked, the only countries having a southern border with Spain were Andorra and France.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 19 2022, @05:41PM (2 children)
Remember The Maine.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 20 2022, @09:18AM (1 child)
Right, in the 19th century.
How many wars has the USA fought since then? How many, non civil wars, has Spain?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 21 2022, @05:55AM
Thirty-Seven?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 16 2022, @01:20PM
Thanks for the reminder, I've been meaning to send a Passover Card to the Archbishop of San Francisco.