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Brisketexan

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  1. This. Animal Tobacco is a dumbass motherfucker, spouting propaganda. He's an idiot or an operative, or both. 1 -- There are minimal "cash" contributions happening here. They are almost all in-kind contributions of mostly outdated hardware and weapons. 2 -- The comparison of value of contributions makes him look like even MORE of a fucking dumbass. Compare the contribution as a percentage of GDP: in 2022, the GDP of the EU and UK was around $20 trillion....the GDP of the USA was around $25 trillion. The EU and UK GDP was 80% the size of our GDP, yet they contributed 12% MORE to the war effort. You just made yourself look like a complete dumbass -- per dollar of GDP, they contribute substantially MORE than we do, you fucking dumbass. It IS disproportionate.....THE OTHER FUCKING WAY THAN THE ONE YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT, YOU IGNORANT, LYING, BAD-AT-MATH PIECE OF FUCKING EXCREMENT SPEWED FROM PUTIN'S ANUS. 3 -- The ONLY reason that Russia and its allies are able to "out produce and outgun" Ukraine is because....and follow me here, this is really important....Russia and its allies are pumping everything they have into the war effort, whereas the West is having its armament apparatus held hostage BY FUCKING POLITICIANS WHO ARE COMPROMISED BY THE FUCKING RUSSIANS. If the West simply poured in the resources that we have and that Ukraine is asking for, Ukraine actually fucking outguns Russia. The ONLY disadvantage should be how much meat they have to throw at the effort. And when it's an existential crisis, you find the fucking meat. In summary, fuck yourself to hell, and I hope that one day your family finds itself in a Bucha and that when you cry for help....it is as forthcoming as the help you would have us withhold. If you are okay with atrocities, may you have them visited upon you so that you may fully enjoy them.
  2. This. And a "Ukraine can't win" conclusion is uninformed by history. Army v. Army, Russia has had an advantage in a shitload of wars. Yet....Russia regularly loses or collapses as a government/state. Russia's one great victory, WWII? It was fought using a shitload of western materiel. Otherwise? You don't beat Russia by straight head-to-head matchup. You beat Russia by humiliating it, bleeding it, and causing a crisis within Russia and Russian leadership. The Ukraine strategy is to fight to a point of either Putin declaring victory of some sort to save face/save his ass, or collapse of the current Russian regime (either by actual collapse or Putin's death/incapacity). I regularly advise smaller clients in fights against much larger, better-funded adversaries. I tell them "we don't have to beat them head-to-head right now. They are going to throw everything they have at us. All we have to do is survive the onslaught, and outlast them." That strategy works. It works a lot. Because a lot of the "big boy bullies" in this world only have "bully" in their arsenal. When "bully" fails to achieve the desired result....they become confused, vulnerable, and lose their will to fight. Which creates the opportunity for a negotiate resolution that is much, much more favorable for the smaller adversary than you would have thought at the outbreak of hostilities. All that BeardIP is telling us is that either 1) he is fucking lying about supporting Ukraine, and/or 2) he's a shitty strategic thinker who has minimal experience in adversarial engagement.
  3. Is "TL;DR" in it? Because...TL;DR.
  4. WTF? The effective opposition to aid to Ukraine is coming from ONE faction of ONE party being driven almost entirely by ONE leader of said party. Fucking seriously, it's not "Qanon conspiracy theory" shit when they literally say out loud what they are doing and why. What the fuck are you even talking about?
  5. What HASN’T been going on your entire life is one of our two main parties becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of Russia. And the party that did so used to be stridently ANTI-Russia. That’s been the most shocking shift in American politics since the Civil Rights era. It is having a global impact, and is causing deaths in Ukraine right now.
  6. You know what fascists understand? They understand one thing. And only one thing. Cruelty, pain, suffering, and death is the only language they speak and understand. They speak it loudly and fluently. But that means that they also hear it, crystal-fucking-clear. Y'all keep thinking that there's a way out of this that doesn't involve a massive body count and unspeakable suffering. There isn't. This is the path, this is what fascism brings. Every. Fucking. Time.
  7. And with that culminating sentence, I bring you this live image of Thetexashammer:
  8. Perhaps he was just diverting livers to another location....where they could be served with some fava beans and a nice chianti?
  9. Vic Mackey's been into this stuff for years.....
  10. What about some of the foundations that focus on Asian affairs, like the Mansfield Foundation?
  11. Damn right you ain’t kink shaming…
  12. Because most middle eastern countries are shit. Shitty leaders, shitty history, trying to hold onto power, needing an easy "external enemy," all kinds of stuff. "Iran and Egypt are shitty too" still doesn't excuse Israeli war crimes. The tu quoque logical fallacy is still a logical fallacy.
  13. That is false. Some of my preferred porn was not posted online till the last couple of years.
  14. This. This is what will happen. Lots of people will try to fill his shoes, all will fail spectacularly. There will be continuing shit as you note. It's still shitty, and problematic....but the threat will no longer be existential.
  15. #1 on the list of how not to respond would be "deny food from reaching starving civilians." "But Hamas is really, really bad" (a proposition with which I agree without reservation) does not = "so driving every breathing human out of Gaza, including civilians" is justified. It doesn't. It won't. It never will. Israel has a hard job. They have to be somewhat methodical, and patient in target selection. E.g., I have no problem with them blowing up the children of Hamas leadership....and I acknowledge that innocent civilians (children) were killed in that strike. "Collateral damage" can be okay. "Purposefully targeting civilians" and "cleansing the area of all of them" are not.
  16. Because if it goes down to $.01, then you'll TRIPLE your investment when it shoots up to $.03!
  17. This. I look at my Temu suggestions on ads....then think of my browsing history......and, ummmm......
  18. You say you "disagree that Israel is ethnically cleansing Gaza"....then proceed to type multiple sentences justifying....Israel's ethnic cleansing of Gaza. Seriously, WTF? Senior Israeli leadership has stated plainly that they want all Palestinians -- combatants, civilians, ALL of them -- driven out of Gaza. That's ethnic cleansing. Oh, and they also have stated that they'll use famine to achieve that goal, so a war crime achieved with a war crime. Nope. IDGAF how justified Israel was and is in a military response to Oct. 7th, "drive every Palestinian out of Gaza, including civilians, by any means, including war crimes" doesn't pass muster. It never has, it never will. And finally, if the concern is "there's a group of people who hate Israel so much they don't think it has a right to exist," then the cure of "so let's treat them with perfect cruelty and subject them to war crimes" is not exactly a recipe for solving that problem.
  19. Yes.....but modern religious movements built around a single charismatic leader don't have a great track record of surviving the death of that leader. The Branch Davidians aren't that much of a thing anymore (survivors still are, but they aren't gathering members like Koresh was able to do). All of the poisonous things that lead to Christian Nationalism and Theocratic Fascism are there, they always have been and always will be. But the catalyst for coalescing those things into a powerful movement is a personality/figure. Trump has a magical touch. Nobody else trying to capture that same lightning in a bottle can even come close. When Trump dies, the catalyst will be gone. The pieces will still be there. The movement will not "die," but it will not be able to project itself with the prominence that it has today.
  20. Ahh yes, the "two wrongs make a right" rule. Seriously, the anti-jewish bullshit of multiple Arab states over the past century is a fucking atrocity. I am anti-ethnic cleansing. I don't care who is doing the cleansing. I don't care who is the cleansed. I am against ethnic cleansing. Are you?
  21. I mean.....in a chaotic environment with no legal authority exercising control (you know....like most war zones), there is absolutely going to be a "loss rate" to theft etc. Every time, all the time. You don't stop providing aid because some of it got stolen. Unless, of course, your goal is to stop all aid to force the people to flee to accomplish your goal of ethnic cleansing. Which is Israel's plainly stated goal here.
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