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atomheartbevo

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  1. 1 hour ago, Gil Bang said:

    Hey y'all. Clooney has won a couple of oscars, and his movies have sold about 2.5 billion in tickets, but he's not a movie star

    Every single day for the past few weeks, there’s been numerous posts by him that make it clear he is miserable, feels inadequate, and is just angry at the world. This is one of those.

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    19 hours ago, jdhorn92 said:

    The proper from response from our dear leader should have been: "stop complaining, you're at war, you want the alleged attacks on your residence to stop, issue a ceasefire and end the war. You are indiscriminately bombing civilian targets and you expect Kiev to temper itself?"

    17 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

    maybe if he wasn't a completely-compromised moron

    And the he turns around and says this

  3. 3 hours ago, Dendox said:

    But his general takeaway was - he couldn't fault Russia for going to war with Ukraine.

    The problem for your buddy is that he ignored years of Putin saying that Ukraine and Georgia belonged to Russia, that they were not separate countries. Putin was literally saying that historically Ukraine belonged to Russia and he was going to re-unite the two no matter what. It had absolutely nothing to do with NATO and everything to do with Putin's bullshit version of manifest destiny.

    Obviously, Russia did not realize they were cornering a honey badger in 2022, and many of us didn't realize it.

    But there was never going to be a positive economic outcome from the US or Europe after a full-scale takeover of Ukraine and all of its mineral assets in the Black Sea, and everybody knew that before February 2022, and in the run-up to the full invasion, a lot of people/nations were warning Russia was going to economically isolate themselves. Putin did it anyways.

    And now he's got a sunk-cost fallacy rattling around in his brain.

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    3 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Russia remains opposed to "the West," rather than being a part of it. Its western neighbors behave accordingly. It's not like NATO really represents an arms buildup or aggression, it's a defensive pact.

    It bears repeating, and this is the point I always make to anybody I know or meet that pushes NATO as being a problem for Russia - since the 1940s, NATO has never invaded anybody. It has acted as a peace-keeping force (it didn't have to, it could have ignored things and let them get worse), and it has responded once (once!) to an attack on a member nation, and that was America on 9/11.

    Russia/Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact? Russia/Soviet Union has literally invaded members of its own "defensive" alliance multiple times over its history.

    Come On What GIF by MOODMAN

    Boris Yeltson wrote NATO about Russia joining in the future. In '93, our Secretary of State James Baker talked about Russia joining NATO. 1994, Yeltsin talked about Russia joining NATO ahead of the Eastern European nations, but said Russia was not ready. In 2000 when Clinton visited Moscow, Putin publicly mentioned joining NATO, and again before his first inauguration.

    Putin even said in 2000: "Russia is part of the European culture. And I cannot imagine my own country in isolation from Europe and what we often call the civilized world."

    In 2000-2001 Putin said multiple times they should join NATO. One of the Russians biggest hang-ups, and this was mentioned as far back as 94 or 95, was standardization - Russia did not want to/could not afford to standardize on NATO standards because they were admittedly too big, and they wanted NATO membership, but they wanted accommodations for that. And it was understandable - you can't change directions for a military that size in terms of equipment.

    In response to a March 2009 suggestion by Polish foreign minister Radosław Sikorski that Russia join NATO, the Russian envoy to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, said that Russia had not ruled it out, but preferred to continue co-operation with NATO. He emphasized that "Great powers don't join coalitions, they create coalitions. Russia considers itself a great power". However, he said that Russia wanted to be NATO's "partner", provided that Ukraine and Georgia (which Russia had invaded the year before) did not join the alliance. The suggestion of Russia joining NATO was repeated in an open letter co-written in early 2010 by some German defense experts. They posited that Russia was needed in an emerging multi-polar world in order for NATO to counterbalance emerging Asian powers.

    Things reached a point where Russia wanted more power than they deserved, and they were not the "great power" they claimed - they were a gas station with nukes and a lot of land.

    Putin and Russia are now paying the price for Russia fucking around with Georgia and Ukraine. Had they made truly positive efforts to joining NATO as a full member (they were in a partnership of sorts with NATO for decades) we would have the US, Europe, and Russia in an alliance that could have evolved into an economic alliance that counters China in the long run. Instead, China is going to eat Russia's lunch in the long run.

  5. Maybe some common sense, and Houston gets a capsule (they already have some) instead of wrecking the Discovery.

    Gizmodo
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    NASA’s New Chief Finds Loophole for Texas Shuttle Switcheroo

    “One way or another, we’re going to make sure Johnson Space Center gets its historic spacecraft right where it belongs.”

    In an interview with CNBC on December 23, Isaacman saidrelocating Discovery would depend on whether it could be done without damaging the space shuttle and within budget. If not, he suggested sending Houston a different spacecraft, such as an Orion capsule.

    “If we can’t do that, you know what, we have spacecraft going around the Moon with Artemis 2, 3, 4 and 5,” Isaacman said. “One way or another, we’re going to make sure Johnson Space Center gets its historic spacecraft right where it belongs.”

    Unlike Cornyn and Cruz’s original bill, these provisions do not specifically name Discovery or Johnson Space Center. Rather, H.R. 1 includes $85 million for a “space vehicle transfer” of a crewed spacecraft to a NASA center involved in the agency’s commercial crew program and directs NASA to select a spacecraft to be transferred within 30 days of enactment.

    The bill also states that the selected vehicle must have flown to space, carried astronauts, and must be selected with the approval of a third party chosen by the NASA administrator. Discovery, the most-flown shuttle during its 27 years in operation, fits that bill, but it’s not the only option.

    In August, NASA said then-Acting Administrator Sean Duffy selected a vehicle, but the agency declined to say which one. Sen. Cornyn’s office later claimed the choice was a retired space shuttle bound for Johnson Space Center—without specifying which shuttle.

    Apparently it’s a national security issue on which spacecraft they selected.

  6. 6 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    I'm curious why it's the CIA all of a sudden, and not the USN or other DOD military, making these strikes.

    I have thought all along that it would be CIA doing these things because they're used to being lawless. And outside the military chain of command.

    4 hours ago, Irwin F Fletcher said:

    Maybe so he doesn’t have to go before Congress to get "approval" for armed conflict.

    I know, I know, this regime doesn’t believe they need permission for any action. That said, the American public has no desire for this conflict.

    The interesting thing to me is that if he hadn't mentioned it publicly in an interview, we might not have known about it at all.

    I'm also guessing that it's about risking CIA assets and not US military personnel.

  7. On 12/29/2025 at 12:03 PM, gernblansten said:

    https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/23/politics/justice-department-redactions-review-epstein-files

    The Justice Department’s leadership asked career prosecutors in Florida to volunteer over the “next several days” to help redact the Epstein files, in the latest Trump administration push toward releasing the hundreds of thousands of photos, internal memos and other evidence around the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

    A supervising prosecutor in the Southern District of Florida’s US Attorney’s Office emailed the entire district office on Tuesday — two days before Christmas — announcing an “emergency request from the [Deputy Attorney General’s] office the SDFL must assist with,” according to a copy of the email reviewed by CNN. “We need AUSAs to do remote document review and redactions related to the Epstein files,” the email said.

    These are the kind of people who are going to make it easy to get at redacted text, because you know that they are pissed that D.C. is telling them to give up their holidays.

  8. 4 hours ago, Pancho said:
    3 hours ago, DDD Dad said:

    If it was unanimously approved won’t Congress just override the veto?

    Congress will most likely make sure, because Johnson, for all of his faults, is going to try to shore up Republican seats anywhere and everywhere and Trump's little stunt hurts the GOP in Colorado. Trump doesn't think that far ahead - he saw a chance to fuck with Boebert and took it.

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    Edited by atomheartbevo

    7 hours ago, Parliament said:

    Fair. But am I allowed to want them all dead?

    Yes

    7 hours ago, Parliament said:

    Maybe it's the drugs, but I feel optimistic about 2026.

    So do I. Would have been great if they had more long-range stuff a year ago, but you go to war with the army you have or something, not the one you want.

    I feel optimistic as well though. I didn't anticipate that the amount of Russian deaths/casualties would rise as fast as it did, but Putin was desperate to take some major towns ahead of "negotiations" and Russian soldiers paid dearly (as did some Russian generals apparently).

    Time to dust off the parallels to Afghanistan, except Russia/Soviet Union was substantially larger manpower-wise in the 1980s, and has lost far more troops in the 2020s (crazy to think Afghanistan only cost them 15,000 - 25,000 deaths).

  10. 29 minutes ago, South Austin said:

    But I'm still baffled that the words "diversity," "equity," and "inclusion," either individually or used together, have become four-letter words for millions of Americans.

    All of those wheelchair ramps that Greg Abbott uses came out of DEI measures.

  11. 13 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    I have apparently missed out that it has tremendous impact on people with amazing forms of mental illness. I admit my error. Many such cases.

    So I didn’t see the original on its first run in theaters, forgot why, but didn’t. I had friends though that were obsessed with it, like seeing it after work almost every day and going early on the weekend showings. I very clearly remember CNN and other outlets talking about it being a serious mental health thing. I remember thinking it was some kind of furry thing going on, but it was grabbing “normal” people.

  12. 21 minutes ago, flatdawgs said:

    to say nothing of the odds your taxes may end up being late).

    Oh this decision will be reversed in April. Lot of people do not pay attention to these little details. They’ll get fucked and they’ll bitch to Congress and it’ll get changed. We are talking about people who mail this stuff in. They’ve skipped technology or are in a situation where physical paperwork is needed for some reason.

  13. Stop fucking believing everything Putin says.

    What The Hell Wtf GIF

    Putin’s aide Ushakov stated that during a conversation with Trump, Putin complained about an alleged Ukrainian attack on his residence. According to Putin’s aide Yuri Ushakov, Trump was "shocked" by what he heard, and Russia may now reconsider agreements reached earlier.

    However, there are discrepancies regarding the drone attack, as Russia’s Ministry of Defense reported that 89 UAVs were shot down over Russian territory on the night of December 29.

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