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6 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

I’m a JFK Truther- with the LIRR from Jamaica going to Grand Central it’s <1 hour gate to midtown no matter the traffic and weather. 

My man i totally agree. Newark sucks, it used to suck but it still sucks too.

Jfk all the way. That's is not the same since the Lufthansa Hiest.

La Guardia has been recently renovated and it's "nice". I like small airports like SJC vs SFO if I'm getting a car.  But in New York I'm taking public transportation, it's part of the experience and it's efficient. Long ass Uber ride to Manhattan during rush hour sucked balls and was pricey.

Kinda odd you can go all over the place by train quickly, the beach, Boston, Philly but not a nearby airport. Caught me by surprise.

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5 hours ago, Pancho said:

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He’s incredibly dumb. Listen to the part of the interview with him from this weekend about crypto. He has zero clue what he’s talking about and it’s actually quite amusing. 

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We never took credit for winning two world wars?  You sure, fat man?

Because I was damn sure taught that we liberated France and won WWII.  The Soviets and Brits were supporting cast in the narrative.  Nevermind the Battle of Britain, and nevermind the 27 million Soviets who died, or the fact that they turned back Operation Barbarossa, reversing the Nazi fortunes and eventually taking Berlin themselves.  Those were barely mentioned, because Murka won WWII, per every high school in this country, as far as I know.

Don't get me wrong: I'm not saying that we didn't play a crucial role.  

But this fool is actually saying that we haven't overstated our role enough yet, which might be the most Trumpiest thing ever.

The combination of stupidity and outright lies is fucking staggering.

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1 hour ago, NAVY said:

Greatest episode of comedy ever. I watch it several times a year and laugh my ass off without fail. 

 

1 hour ago, Sbbruin said:

You have to pay the troll toll if you want to get into that boy's hole.

 

Ah /Tiny Boy
Ooo /Little Boy
Oh /Baby Boy I need you
Ah /Tiny Boy
Ooo/ Little Boy
Oh/I want to touch you boy
If you only knew what I'd
do to you/I need you boy
If I was that boy that's inside of you
 

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58 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

Ah /Tiny Boy
Ooo /Little Boy
Oh /Baby Boy I need you
Ah /Tiny Boy
Ooo/ Little Boy
Oh/I want to touch you boy
If you only knew what I'd
do to you/I need you boy
If I was that boy that's inside of you
 

So what’s it going to be, Dee? Song or no song? 

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On 5/4/2025 at 10:03 PM, jimmyjazz said:

I just visited Alcatraz for the first time last summer, so this hits close to home.

I also imagine it would be more cost effective to renovate and expand a 175 year old stone prison built on a rock in the middle of a bay in the most expensive city in America than it would be to (for instance) expand some federal prison in Bumfuck, Mississippi.

the supermax holds 490 and has never been close to capacity

it's currently at 340ish

putting aside the spin-the-wheel idiocy of the day....

dotard is infatuated with punishment and incarceration

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2 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Yeah, motherfuckers.  We don't need energy savings.

 

 

 

You literally could not do any worse for this country than what has happened in the past three months. It’s astounding. They do everything wrong. 

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2 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Yeah, motherfuckers.  We don't need energy savings.

 

 

 

All because a Dotard got angry over a television piece. That's our policy: what has made donny mad. Great job serious people 

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You literally could not do any worse for this country than what has happened in the past three months. It’s astounding. They do everything wrong. 

It’s pure, unchecked oppositional defiance disorder.
“Does it hurt people? Does it hurt America? Then let’s do that!”
It’s not any more complicated than that.

And as a reminder, half this fucking country thinks that’s awesome. We’re shooting our self repeatedly…and they cheer it on.
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For anyone that didn't watch It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, this page has gotten weird. 

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28 minutes ago, Pods said:

For anyone that didn't watch It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, this page has gotten weird. 

 

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1 hour ago, Ted Lange said:

Americans:  We want to buy our daughters 30 dolls for Christmas 

Trump:

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Hold on. I've always referred to it as the Arabian Gulf.

I'm almost positive we called it the Arabian Gulf when I was a Midshipen there during the Gulf War.

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On 5/5/2025 at 2:17 PM, Red Five said:

"I had nothing to do with it". 

I know that's his standard go-to when he wants to distance himself from something, but.... he fucking posted it. 

psychotic emperor feature, not a bug

absolutely insane

can't remember what he said or did before lunch

we're in to the 25th language on disability and succession

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On 5/5/2025 at 2:35 PM, 4th&amp;Five said:

when he finally dies and we're all partying in the streets and his family and cult are offended i'll remember to say "they can't take a joke?"

you'll note jared and ivanka are invisible this time around while dad grifts them a billion $ war chest

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1 hour ago, Pods said:

For anyone that didn't watch It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, this page has gotten weird. 

 

35 minutes ago, NAVY said:

 

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You want the baby boy's hole

You gotta pay the Troll Toll

You gotta pay the Troll Toll

To get in!

 

 

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29 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

miller is a byelorussian jew whose family would have been gassed if his male ancestors didn't immigrate to amerikka

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/13/stephen-miller-is-an-immigration-hypocrite-i-know-because-im-his-uncle-219351/

Are you saying a Republican pulled the ladder up first, i dunno, that's kinda too on brand to believe.

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1 hour ago, Pods said:

For anyone that didn't watch It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, this page has gotten weird. 

I haven't watched this illustrious program, but I've decided a crack addiction is the key to my financial future.

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I believe 8 out of 10 German soldiers in WW2 were killed by Russians.

 

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The western front was important, but the big part of the war, by far, was in the east. The USSR won that war with our help.

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I still remember debating Sushi on the number of divisions in the Afrika Korps vs Ostfront good times!

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53 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

Fixed.

 

The western front was important, but the big part of the war, by far, was in the east. The Allies won that war with USSR losing the vast # of citizens.

 

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1 hour ago, RomaVicta said:

I believe 8 out of 10 German soldiers in WW2 were killed by Russians.

 

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The western front was important, but the big part of the war, by far, was in the east. The USSR won that war with our help.

Some of my professors for my masters degree I am doing right now run that museum and a lot of the lectures I watch are filmed there. One in particular has written 10 books on the Wehrmacht during the war. Much of his writing has to do with the brutal fighting of the Eastern Front. 

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5 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

I believe 8 out of 10 German soldiers in WW2 were killed by Russians.

 

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The western front was important, but the big part of the war, by far, was in the east. The USSR won that war with our help.

Well, they also started the war and didn’t  actually liberate any of the places they fought so I’d say the honor of doing heavy-lifting was well-earned. 
 

Everyone’s favorite counter factual is “what if Hitler doesn’t do Barbarossa?”

Mine is “what if the USSR doesn’t help Germany carve up Poland or even makes it clear that attacking Poland is unacceptable along with the Western Allies.” They’d have had a whole-ass country between them and the Germans and Germany’s options in the West would have been far less-certain without Molotov-Ribbentrop. 
 

But honestly Hitler not invading the Soviet Union is far more realistic than Russia or any of its permutations not behaving like a predator and trying to make friends with the worst people in the world. I get why no one considers mine.

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1 minute ago, 956 Worldwide said:

...To bring it back to Trump’s America, for some reason a big chunk of our country has adopted alien Russian pathologies and neuroses as their own and has decided to surrender complete American victory for no reason other than petulance and a poisoned information environment. 

I read the print edition at the library (PTL that its shelves are still full) but there is a recent New Yorker article by Andrew Marantz titled "Is It Happening Here?" in which he discusses some points adjacent to your discussion.

I can provide a link and will post it below as I suspect the original is paywalled. I have found a different link that may work, but anyhow, the author references other research including the authors of How Democracies Die, but what I found interesting was the section where he wrote about the hollowing out of Central European University amidst Viktor Orban's solidification of power in Hungary and the inconvenient questions it raises for citizens (I"m grossly paraphrasing here and will spoiler a quote that is taken slightly out of context)

Spoiler

Zoltan Miklósi, a political philosopher in Budapest as interviewed by the author: "People want to believe that the world they live in, the system they live under, is mostly fair." In 2015, one of his colleagues at CEU 'made the case, very meticulously, that we no longer live in a democracy. ' ..."I felt, ' I cannot go there'--it seemed too extreme. But I had to admit that I couldn't think of good counter-arguments....if I admit that I live in an autocracy, especially a 'hybrid autocracy' that functions by unpredictable rules, this raises a lot of other inconvenient questions."

 

Marantz: Many of a citizen's fundamental decisions--whether to vote, whether to follow the law--presuppose a democratically legitimate state.

Miklósi: "If that's gone, then how am I supposed to live?"

Marantz saying that "in the real world the cataclysm often comes in on little cat feet, muffled and distant so that people continually adapt, explaining away the anomalies" seems to be what a large part of our populace is undergoing.

IMO, it's a good article and while a slightly longer read, it's worth the time.

Link:

https://milled.com/the-new-yorker/is-it-happening-here-STvOfTBFmOuoAthB

This is a podcast link below and not the article. I didn't listen to the podcast.

https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/how-bad-is-it-andrew-marantz-on-the-health-of-our-democracy

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35 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

By all strategic measures the United States was the victor of the war. It emerged with the fewest losses, the most credibility, and it built a world order and economy that benefited itself and attracted the wealthiest and most valuable allies to its side. The “losers” on the battlefield aligned themselves with the United States, accepted its primacy and even internalized the values and principles it espoused as their own. 
 

The Soviet Army defeated the German army on the battlefield.  It gained sullen and deeply antagonistic territory ruled by brittle puppet regimes.  The choices it made in the wake of its battlefield victory discredited its ideology and hegemony and directly led to its eventual destruction as the USSR and the collapse of its influence and prestige. 

I differentiate betwee winning a war within the time frame of the war from who most benefits after the war.

We emerged with, as everyone knows, an intact infrastructure and already booming industry which switched easily to producing for the countries who's industries were destroyed. I think we ended up with 50% of the world market. Oceans protected us more than anything.

Sure, we profited the most from what the world was like at the completion of the conflict. I argue that we benefitted from the USSR's conquest of the massive bulk of the Nazi war machine more than anybody, but none of that happens without their effort and guts and determination.

Also, might your position also apply to Canada? Australia? I think they also fit the model.

35 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

To bring it back to Trump’s America, for some reason a big chunk of our country has adopted alien Russian pathologies and neuroses as their own and has decided to surrender complete American victory for no reason other than petulance and a poisoned information environment. 

Hear! Hear!

We profoundly disagree on some subjects, but your opinions are always worthwhile.

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10 hours ago, Pods said:

For anyone that didn't watch It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, this page has gotten weird. 

And by the way, I thought the rape scene went really well.
 

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2 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

I differentiate betwee winning a war within the time frame of the war from who most benefits after the war.

We emerged with, as everyone knows, an intact infrastructure and already booming industry which switched easily to producing for the countries who's industries were destroyed. I think we ended up with 50% of the world market. Oceans protected us more than anything.

Sure, we profited the most from what the world was like at the completion of the conflict. I argue that we benefitted from the USSR's conquest of the massive bulk of the Nazi war machine more than anybody, but none of that happens without their effort and guts and determination.

Also, might your position also apply to Canada? Australia? I think they also fit the model.

Hear! Hear!

We profoundly disagree on some subjects, but your opinions are always worthwhile.

Whatever our contribution to victory in WWII, and it was substantial, regardless, one can win with humility.

Especially when our territory, its infrastructure, and our civilian population were never seriously endangered and largely because of that we reaped substantial benefit for the next half century or so.

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3 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

I read the print edition at the library (PTL that its shelves are still full) but there is a recent New Yorker article by Andrew Marantz titled "Is It Happening Here?" in which he discusses some points adjacent to your discussion.

I can provide a link and will post it below as I suspect the original is paywalled. I have found a different link that may work, but anyhow, the author references other research including the authors of How Democracies Die, but what I found interesting was the section where he wrote about the hollowing out of Central European University amidst Viktor Orban's solidification of power in Hungary and the inconvenient questions it raises for citizens (I"m grossly paraphrasing here and will spoiler a quote that is taken slightly out of context)

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Zoltan Miklósi, a political philosopher in Budapest as interviewed by the author: "People want to believe that the world they live in, the system they live under, is mostly fair." In 2015, one of his colleagues at CEU 'made the case, very meticulously, that we no longer live in a democracy. ' ..."I felt, ' I cannot go there'--it seemed too extreme. But I had to admit that I couldn't think of good counter-arguments....if I admit that I live in an autocracy, especially a 'hybrid autocracy' that functions by unpredictable rules, this raises a lot of other inconvenient questions."

 

Marantz: Many of a citizen's fundamental decisions--whether to vote, whether to follow the law--presuppose a democratically legitimate state.

Miklósi: "If that's gone, then how am I supposed to live?"

Marantz saying that "in the real world the cataclysm often comes in on little cat feet, muffled and distant so that people continually adapt, explaining away the anomalies" seems to be what a large part of our populace is undergoing.

IMO, it's a good article and while a slightly longer read, it's worth the time.

Link:

https://milled.com/the-new-yorker/is-it-happening-here-STvOfTBFmOuoAthB

This is a podcast link below and not the article. I didn't listen to the podcast.

https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/how-bad-is-it-andrew-marantz-on-the-health-of-our-democracy

Excellent post, and thank you for the link. It’s maddening for anyone passingly familiar with the Hungarian experience to see it repeated here, especially as the playbook has been explicitly copied from Orban. Orban has neither protected democracy or deliver on the stated goals of his anti-liberal program (increased birth rates, rising equality, increased security).  He has delivered cronyism, corruption, and culture war distractions and it turns out this is what Americans really crave too. 

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3 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

I differentiate betwee winning a war within the time frame of the war from who most benefits after the war.

We emerged with, as everyone knows, an intact infrastructure and already booming industry which switched easily to producing for the countries who's industries were destroyed. I think we ended up with 50% of the world market. Oceans protected us more than anything.

Sure, we profited the most from what the world was like at the completion of the conflict. I argue that we benefitted from the USSR's conquest of the massive bulk of the Nazi war machine more than anybody, but none of that happens without their effort and guts and determination.

Also, might your position also apply to Canada? Australia? I think they also fit the model.

Hear! Hear!

We profoundly disagree on some subjects, but your opinions are always worthwhile.

Honestly if we go this route then what needs to be acknowledged is the British role in all this, which is not sufficiently appreciated by either Americans or Russians.  The Soviets fought a desperate war of choice after trying to collude with the Germans.  The British fought by themselves and with obstinacy across oceans and the non-continental theater for several years despite having every opportunity to sit it out. The Royal Navy and the British in North Africa are why Germany wasn’t a true empire that could have choked the USSR out in 1941.  There is no lend-lease to save the Soviets without the Royal Navy.

And for that matter they were at least as critical to Normandy and the strategic bombing campaign. For that matter they did basically all of the Enigma cracking and anything in U-571 was also done by the British. Anyone looking for who stepped up needs to start with Churchill. 

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