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Really? Those are some serious stats, haven't seen them before. Totally believable, Russia's military has been shockingly inept on every level.
I don't understand what Putin views as his end game in all this. He's making NATO stronger and the EU larger and, at this rate, is liable to re-lose Crimea, too.
There's a good novel by Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, that deals with the brutality of the Russian occupation of Chechnya. And Russian troops were famous for the vast numbers of German women they raped at the end of WWII.
Fuck 'em.
The Russian situation is inexplicably weird. It seems like not too long ago they found out in Afghanistan how hard it is, impossible, to overtake and control a country whose people are willing and skilled fighters.
And, what I've been seeing about Putin seems analogous to what the US leadership did in Vietnam. He's hearing what he wants to hear from the generals he wants to hear it from, in the same way that our Presidents were fed misinformation about how well our invasion of Vietnam was proceeding. Which dragged it on long after its expiration date.
I think we're inching closer to Vlad being backed into a corner and seeing tactical nukes as the solution, he's definitely setting the table for it. Now we'll see if there's a palace coup, if his generals will seize power from him before he blows up the world. I think they will.
At least she didn't pass on classified info to Vlad
https://www.npr.org/2017/05/15/528511980/report-trump-gave-classified-information-to-russians-during-white-house-visit
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia/trump-revealed-intelligence-secrets-to-russians-in-oval-office-officials-idUSKCN18B2MX
Totally cool, amirite?
Oh, and remember this? No quid pro quo, for sure.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05/eric-trump-russia-investment-golf-course
https://thehill.com/homenews/news/332270-eric-trump-in-2014-we-dont-rely-on-american-banks-we-have-all-the-funding-we/
Republicans have a history of nominating for various offices either entertainment or sports stars who are mentally deficient or are sociopaths. Or Both.
Off the top of my head we have George Murphy, Reagan, Jim Bunning, Walker, Trump, Jack Kemp (marginally smarter), JC Watts, Arnold S, Fred Thompson, Linda McMahon, there are a lot of them.
On the other side of the aisle, I'm thinking Bill Bradley, who was a Rhodes Scholar and Al Franken, a Harvard guy who was also a best selling author and head writer for SNL.
The race for NY Gov features the slime bucket Lee Zeldin (R-of course), who, unfortunately, has been my Congressman (NY CD #1) for 3 terms. He refuses to disclose any positions on education, healthcare, climate change, or anything substantial, really.
It's culture wars 24 / 7 and a proposal to renew fracking upstate, which no one wants. With him, there's no there, there. Polls have him down by about 14%, but it ain't over till it's over (see Herschel Walker), I'll be very disappointed in my fellow Knickerbockers if the margin doesn't turn out to be wider.
Indeed.
Even though some are claiming we are living in a post ironic age, this still takes the cake:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/06/us/migrant-workers-hurricane-ian-response-cec/index.html
https://www.thedailybeast.com/irony-meter-explodes-as-migrants-lured-to-florida-for-hurricane-ian-cleanup
Does anyone think that Gov Shit For Brains will be checking to make sure these workers are "legal". He should have flown that group from Texas to Ft Myers, instead.
To be fair, MBS, about whom I think you're referring, is not the Saudi King. And the King isn't new, either, he's in his eighties and was enthroned a few years ago.
I guess he'd have to be careful about that, the Saudis and OPEC can go much further with this stuff, like the embargo during the Carter years.
Both Iran and the Taliban currently have their hands full with the womens. I recommend watching DW Live, on YouTube, it's in English, and they're giving a lot more play to these ongoing rights struggles over there, than we seem to be getting with the American media.
Also, don't want to do anything to push the Saudis closer to the Iranians, they hate each other and we should nurture that.
Clean energy is the way to go, the sooner the better.
Exactly, let the Saudis start buying military hardware from Russia. Over the past few months we've seen how good their systems work.
That's nice, dear. Read much?
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/15/politics/energy-independence-fact-check/index.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2022/03/08/surprise-the-us-is-still-energy-independent/?sh=26630d9830b6
This mod might not be American, but at least he's literate.
Just a guess, but did you think we were energy independent because Dear Leader said we were?
Example: You posted that Pres. Biden is doing a poor job of handling the economy. It was a stand alone sentence in a list. I've asked you 3 (?) times to defend your assertion and you won't or can't.
If you're going to say high gas prices, don't waste our time, I don't think he has a vote in the OPEC decisions. And I don't think he has a say in Putin's decisions.
You know the Fed is independent and sets interest rates as it sees fit, right?
What exactly has he done wrong and what exactly should he have done or be doing instead? If you can't answer stuff like this, one has to assume you're just a troll trying to get silly stuff repeated in the hope it gets mainstreamed.
538 aggregate polls had Rubio up by 4% over Demings, a virtual toss up.
Eh, indeed. Onward and upward.
This is entirely a fiction:
" you said you didn't understand why human right violations of other countries was not always also included in every article about human rights violations in Israel."
I never even came close to writing anything like that, don't know what gave you that idea or where it came from. I notice you didn't include any links to where I supposedly wrote that, whereas your links to previous ihub posts about most stuff are usually plentiful.
I believe, at this point, I've tried to make my position clear about a dozen times. Either I'm no communicating it well or you're not hearing it. To me, it's always been about the relativity of the response to oppression in other countries, not the human rights violations, per se. And you know this.
It's not whether and how much the Israelis are mistreating the Palestinians, it's about the global response to it in relation to the global response to the situation in other countries. And how and why it seems disproportionate.
https://www.businessinsider.com/genocides-still-going-on-today-bosnia-2017-11#darfuris-in-sudan-5
You've yet to posit any reason as to why pro-Russian speakers aren't being formally banned on college campuses in the same way that Zionists speakers are..
Cheers.
According to you. I"ve asked you numerous questions about things you've posted and have never received any thing close to a direct answer.
I understand your positions, I don't understand why you're unable to defend them.
I'm thinking you must get paid some measly amount for your posts.
You never answer questions put to you and only seem to try and provoke responses. You do not argue in good faith, ever.
Like this incredibly stupid post of yours, it makes no sense, adds nothing to any conversation, doesn't help anyone understand anything, it's just trying to irk the libs, it seems. A click (response) based royalty payout.
Well, enjoy your $2 or whatever, it's a sad life you've chosen for yourself.
I go way back with him as a fan, he's been consistently great for many years.
And, for the record, Galbraith viewed income inequality as the probable cause of the Great Depression in his book, The Great Crash 1929.
And getting back to our current economic construct of neoliberalism, one of its great accomplishments has been an increase in income inequality.
https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2022/may/neoliberal-policies--institutions-have-prompted-preference-for-g.html
I've never condoned Israel's oppression of the Palestinians. What I'm doing is trying to understand why it's considered worse than everywhere else, like in the attempted rule at that law school, among other things. Neither you nor anyone else (except Blackhawks) has even attempted to answer the question as to why there are no rules codified against, for example, pro-Putin speakers on campus, only Israel. So, why is that the case, again?
Why is there no BDS movement against China, whose human rights violations make Israel's seem like child play? I guess stuff at Walmart is more important than concern about human rights violations there.
You don't answer these questions by simply stating that I'm "wrongheaded" repeatedly.
When did I ever write that, "every article re discrimination and abuse in Israel must also include comparative or similar content re the same in other countries." I wrote about some Americans, like BDS proponents, response to it.
And that countries in Europe, other countries in the Middle East, and a few elsewhere seem to understand context better than some Americans or you do.
Where did I write that articles "about Trayvon and others mention rights violations and abuse in other countries", or should? I mentioned the comparison about gun violence. Global gun violence numbers are often used as context for perspective about what's happening in America. Get it? Yours is a straw man argument, a red herring, whatever.
Now, why is there no BDS movement against Saudi Arabia, again? I'm guessing it's because no one wants to mess with oil production numbers. Situational ethics at its finest. Cheers.
"Finally, insurance companies are helping curtail the practice, as they won't even insure homes in fire trap areas any more."
Not disagreeing with you, but why do those same insurance companies continue to insure homes built on coastal waters that are prone to hurricane, wind, and flooding damage.
And why do we continue to pay, via the Army Corps of Engineers, to have beaches rebuilt in residential areas?
https://www.nan.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Stories/Story-Article-View/Article/2948776/26-million-beach-renourishment-project-works-around-challenges/
https://www.saj.usace.army.mil/Missions/Civil-Works/Shore-Protection/
I guess money talks.
Hopefully, but, hey, let's formalize it like we do for some countries, shall we?
Frankly, I think the anti-Zionist stipulation is a bit anti-educational. I would find it perfectly sensible if, instead, say, they required an anti-Zionist speaker to appear every time a pro-Zionist speaker appeared.
And let them have at it and allow the super smart law students to hear them, and form their own opinions - and maybe have some minds changed, in one direction or the other.
Going to Martha's Vineyard, is not cruel, per se, obviously.
Are you obtuse, really, or just have fun acting like it.
No one on Martha's Vineyard was notified the plane was coming in. The immigrants were lied to in order to get them to sign papers. This is all well known. It was tantamount to kidnapping, if not actually kidnapping.
How does flying a plane full of people from Texas demonstrate the immigration problems in Florida?
You can't possible believe this and claim knowledge of how to use a doorknob.
That was a thing between Sortagreen and me, which was obvious, and should concern no one else. Things were getting heated between us and we both acknowledged the futility of continuing with it.
Post whatever you want, I can't imagine how you got the idea I was trying to dominate anything.
No idea, honestly, but it seems a bit of a deflection.
Actually, there are a number of Americans going around praising Putin in speeches, as you well know. Including Trump, Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard, any of whom might wind up speaking on college campuses
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/23/republicans-putin-biden-ukraine/
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/these-are-the-american-right-wingers-covering-for-putin-as-russia-invades-ukraine-1311965/
Yes and no. The racial part wouldn't be justified in the context of the rest of the world, but the shooting part would. It is often commented upon about how the US leads the world in the gun deaths per capita, as you well know.
You're doing apples and oranges. By virtue of commenting on other countries' policies, we are automatically bringing in other countries as context. Not all shootings of black guys by white guys in America are racial, even if unjustified.
Sorry, not wrongheaded.
Yes, we should leave alone the business of the Palestinian / Israeli situation. This is a different beast, however.
What I brought attention to is an American situation, the seemingly arbitrary denial, in advance, of any Zionist to speak at a state funded law school.
I describe it as arbitrary because I can't see why pro-regime speakers from other brutally oppressive regimes like Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Nicaragua,etc. weren't preemptively banned from speaking, as well. I wouldn't object to Israel being on a list of several countries from whose proponents they don't want to hear, but this singularity is confusing.
Surely Putin, for example, is paying people here to go around praising his work in speeches, a few of his stooges are well known Americans (besides Trump), and yet we hear crickets about that. I also posted a link to an article about pro-Zionists Arabs and asked, facetiously, if they'd be banned as well (obviously they would, but it could make for an interesting, even educational, experience).
What says you?
Ok, fair point. And that we give them a lot of money - although it's a little unclear how much of it is mandated to be spent on American made items.
I understand what you're saying and not arguing with you about it. It does seem though, that this has been the only pre-emptive action against potential speakers at this law school.
They didn't wait until a pro-Zionist speaker was scheduled, I don't think, they went on record ahead of time stating that none should be invited.
We've got to assume there was a reason for that, I'm just not understanding it. In a world full of state sponsored terrorism, why has anti-Zionism become all the rage on college campuses?
Again, I'm not defending Israel's misdeeds, and there have been many. I'm just trying to get at the source for the singular focus on them.
Roger that. Although, it's interesting that Israel, and only Israel, is treated in this fashion.
Why have smart law school students, regardless of the administration's position, come to feel that Israel's oppression of the Palestinians (which I'm not arguing with) is worse than the oppression of groups in the other countries I cited?
What am I missing? If the law students decided to condemn speakers from all countries that treat minority populations poorly, that's fine by me, but this strikes me as peculiar, I just don't understand the singular focus on Israel.
And some might argue that listening to the ideas of people you don't agree with is an important part of an education. Would they allow any of these guys to speak?:
https://www.thejc.com/news/news/meet-the-arab-zionists-a-new-generation-of-online-pioneers-5b63osaAHhUP9zlIFZi3XM
"Now, in a growing trend, pioneering Arab Zionists and pro-Israel influencers — who once would have been labelled traitors — are promoting Israel to their hundreds and thousands of followers."
A recent occurrence, story dated from last week:
https://brandeiscenter.com/several-berkeley-law-student-groups-adopt-no-zionist-speakers-rule-j-weekly/
I haven't had much time lately, so if anyone can provide any link to similar activities barring Chinese speakers or speakers from Myanmar or Saudi Arabia, or Syria, or Russia or Nicaragua or Iran, I'd appreciate it.
It's great, though, that we can isolate the single most egregious source of oppression in the world and work to end it!
The point is you seemed almost gleeful about the situation in which families are kidnapped and brought to a place, specifically because that place is unprepared to take care of them. What great fun!
The Feds would definitely have worked with DeSantis about the Texas immigration problem - although why he got involved there remains a mystery - but DeSantis thinks it's cool to score political points through cruelty to the less fortunate.
You on board with that? If so, you shouldn't need me to call you a shit head, just have a look in the mirror. Hey, if you're not busy this afternoon, I hear it's a real blast to go and find some little dogs to kick.
Do you actually read the post you respond to?
https://help.unhcr.org/usa/applying-for-asylum/what-is-asylum/
Asylum seekers are not here illegally. That's the law.
Nor do the immigrants from the border make up the most of the people here illegally
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/04/real-immigration-crisis-people-overstaying-their-visas/587485/
You care about laws so much how about those concerning the handling of top secret and classified documents?
https://www.factcheck.org/2022/02/former-presidents-are-not-allowed-to-take-home-official-records/
Not so much those laws, huh? Guess you like to pick and choose what laws to follow.
Immigrants are one of our greatest resources. We literally can't get enough of them.
My father, the child of immigrants (one legal, one not so much) grew up virtually penniless in the Bronx, in NYC. Because of cheap subway fare (mass transit) and almost free City College (socialism), he got educated and ended his career in the managing class.
Yes, the government spent money on him up front, but he paid it back many times over by being in a higher tax bracket and serving in WWII. It takes money to make money.
DeSantis spent all that money on a prank instead of using it to fortify his state against an oncoming and predicted storm.
Do you know anything about the law governing asylum seekers? I didn't think so.
Your post speaks for itself. My dog has more empathy and brains than you and that's the truth.
You're all about white grievance. You think you've been left behind in today's economy because of the brown people and the favoritism being shown them.
The real reason you've been left behind is that you didn't bother getting an education and you have a lousy work ethic. But blame it on the people seeking asylum, sure, your failures are their fault, not self imposed.
You do have excellent skills in picking on the helpless, those desperately in need, though. You should maybe look into doing that professionally instead of it just being your hobby.
Jeezus you're dumb. They can't be sent back to Venezuela and other countries we don't have diplomatic relations with. Plus, we're not heartless bastards like you people. We help the poor and dispossessed and downtrodden, like what's his name said to, oh, yeah, Jesus. Bet you're a good Christian, though, right?
For fuck's sake, these people were fleeing murderous gangs in their homelands. Homelands, by the way that America robbed of natural resources (maybe read something once in a while) and in which we overthrew governments. It's hard to believe that your parents aren't ashamed of you, that they taught you no better., that you're oblivious to the teachings of whatever religion in which you were raised. I'd rather have the random illegal here and have you shipped off to Honduras or wherever.
No one gets more free money in America than agricultural conglomerates, defense contractors, fossil fuel companies, crooked banks, and Trump family members. Maybe go pick on some of them, instead of proudly exhibiting what a punk ass you are.
Your ignorance is profound.
You can't send them home brainiac. Most of them are Venezuelans and we don't have diplomatic relations with Venezuela.
If you're enjoying this, you must love a good genocide or two.
You are the definition of a sociopath, someone lacking empathy.
You're proud in causing disruptions in public school systems?
Shit, I'm proud we took those kids and are trying to care for them. Fuck you and the rest of you who think it's cool to kidnap families and leave them on their own.
Shoulda made DeSantis take all of our jailed felons in return for Ian aid. Fuck him and you too. Heartless shitheads who enjoy the suffering of others.
"Ron DeSantis: A Three Act Play"
Act 1 - as a young Tea Party Congressman, Rep. DeSantis votes against aid for the victims of Superstorm Sandy, to show a commitment to fiscal responsibility
https://truthout.org/articles/desantis-accepts-fed-help-for-florida-but-in-2013-tried-to-block-aid-elsewhere/
Act 2 - as the Governor of Florida, DeSantis tries to embarrass President Biden and VP Harris by flying immigrants from Texas to Martha's Vineyard and Harris' residence, in protest of Biden's border policies. It's rumored that he was also planning to have another planeload of immigrants land near Biden's home in Delaware. DeSantis proclaimed willingness to spend $12M on such flights:
https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/regional/florida/desantis-migrant-flights-cost-vertol-systems-company/67-1d00e6d7-27e7-4fd5-b415-465fd70a1cf8
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/migrant-crisis-live-desantis-congratulates-120842603.html
Act 3 - Governor DeSantis asks for and receives federal aid from President Biden in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian.
It was widely reported that the working title for this play was originally, "The Shameless Hypocrite", but that proposal was dropped as being so obvious as to insult viewers' intelligence.