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mostly reader says

richwicks says

Notice I'm not demanding you to accept what you hear at face value. For all I know, this guest is full of shit.

He is. He's parroting the narrative of kp.ru, the Kremlin propaganda outlet.

Possibly but at this point, "Russian propaganda" is a synonym for the unvarnished truth. Our government calls any truth that they are lying about "Russian propaganda". They've been doing this for 1/2 a decade. It's not my fault or error that my government is so fucking dishonest. They have zero credibility at this point and if the truth happens to coincide wit h "Russian propaganda", oh well. "American propaganda" used to coincide with the truth 40 years ago.

I would judge it to be an error for the intelligence agencies to infiltrate our "news" agencies with Project Mockingbird. I don't know why they thought continual lying was better than the truth. It's damaged their credibility irreperably.

mostly reader says

When Kremlin craps it's pants, it resorts to the usual tactics: friendly media sources that parrot lines which originate within it's walls. Who says that you can't buy friends?

Nobody said that. The US intelligence agencies did it. Find that Russian Collusion yet?

mostly reader says

Even an imbecile should suspect that something is fishy with a story which relies on PEOPLE WEARING ARMBANDS AKIN PAINTING TARGET ON THEIR BACKS!

Perhaps it's untrue. Again, I'll find out in time.

The point I made is that it's not logical for the Russians to murder people, it gives them not tactical advantage. It is advantageous to the Ukrainian puppet government. I can see their logic in this.

mostly reader says

There's only one bit to this story that has basis in the truth: Rashists made people wear bands. Rashists, not Ukrainians. The rest is the product of imagination of kp.ru and it's trumpets (you amongst them apparently, through yet another medium)

I have no idea what kp.ru is and I don't know what you mean by "trumpets".

mostly reader says

richwicks says

I don't need to be told that if A is in B doesn't imply B is in A.

Oh, you do. Demonstrable lack of logic and critical judgement is exactly the reason why anyone who feels like it can use you to wipe the floor.

I listen and bide my time. There's no reason to chose sides in this. It wouldn't matter if I did.

I know my government lies, that it's been trying to create a conflict with Russia, I know with certainty that Ukraine was overthrown by my government, and I know that Europeans have concluded that the sniper fire was done in Miadan was done by the current government. I know my government tells obvious lies, I know Ihor Kolomoyskyi is a criminal thug, I know this war is between governments and not people, I know that Russia has a legitimate grievance, I know that Zelenskyy is a puppet, I know that the Biden family is corrupt and is taking bribes from Ukraine.

Everything else is speculation.

But chiefly, I know my fucking government lies. It's a pity it's come to this point, but if they weren't such fucking liars, I could at least consider what they are claiming. They spent 1/2 a decade destroying their credibility, and these stupid assholes are furious I don't trust them. Why do you? Find that weapons of mass destruction program in Iraq yet?

There's rumors that NATO is in Ukraine now - if this is the case, Russia will fight a war of attrition and this will go on for years, destroying Ukraine. It won't be a war for Russia to win, it will be a war to exhaust NATO. Russia is basically fighting on a home front, the United States isn't. I fucking hate the Neocons. They are the worst thing that has happened to my nation in my lifetime and I'm irritated by the dupes of them after 20 years of disaster under their incompetent leadership. This will just be another disaster.

Will make the offense industry a lot of money though - that's the main point.

richwicks says

Possibly but at this point, "Russian propaganda" is a synonym for the unvarnished truth.

Only in your disturbed imagination. "Russian propaganda" is not even a data point. They are not even trying to go "gray", which is when you have a grain of truth and use it to build up a lie (something that I found you do quite often). They just make shit up. Demonstrably. Over and over again. When someone hints that they are more truthful than US MSM (which is a low bar) I suspect that the person is a propaganda troll. When someone says what you said I don't suspect it, I know it.

richwicks says

I have no idea what kp.ru is and I don't know what you mean by "trumpets".

kp.ru - it's a source which creates BS that you are spreading (one of them). Their trumpet - it's what you are, knowingly or not. Glad to be of help.

richwicks says

Perhaps it's untrue. Again, I'll find out in time.

You don't need more data to rule out certain options if you are not an imbecile. Since you haven't ruled them out, and you are actively spreading them... well, you get the picture. Oh, wait, may be you don't!

richwicks says

I listen and bide my time. There's no reason to chose sides in this. It wouldn't matter if I did.

False. False. False.
- You don't just "listen and bide your time". You are actively engaged in propaganda, and lying about not choosing sides.
- There is a reason. It's imperfection (Ukraine) vs. pure evil (Moskovia). You are stroking the dick of pure evil. You are promoting Orcs, and imperfection of the other side is your talking point.

richwicks says

I know...

My first reaction was to paraphrase Ronald Regan - "The trouble with you is not that you are ignorant; it's just that you know so much that isn't so". But that would apply to an honest agent. It doesn't really apply to you.

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2022/april/11/cia-admits-feeding-americans-false-info-about-ukraine/?source=patrick.net

CIA Admits Feeding Americans False Info About Ukraine
written by ron paul
monday april 11, 2022

Late last year, a Gallup poll showed that Americans’ trust in the mainstream media has fallen to its second lowest level on record. Only seven percent of Americans responded that they have a “great deal” of trust in the media.

That loss of trust has been well-earned by the mainstream media, and it explains the massive growth of independent media and alternative voices on social media. The response to the rise of independent media voices has been a rush to “cancel” any voice outside the accepted mainstream narrative.

Citizens of the Soviet Union would read manipulated media like Pravda not because the regime reported facts, but because truth was hidden between the lines of what was reported and what was not reported. That seems to be where we are in the US today.

Last week an extraordinary article appeared in, of all places, NBC News, reporting that the US intelligence community is knowingly feeding information it does not believe accurate to the US mainstream media for the American audience to consume.

In other words, the article reports that the US “deep state” admits to being actively engaged in lying to the American people in the hopes that it can manipulate public opinion

According to the NBC News article, “multiple US officials acknowledged that the US has used information as a weapon even when confidence in the accuracy of the information wasn’t high. Sometimes it has used low-confidence intelligence for deterrent effect…”

Readers will recall the shocking headlines that Russia was prepared to use chemical weapons in Ukraine, that China would be providing military equipment to Russia, that Russian President Putin was being fed misinformation by his advisors, and more.

All of these were churned out by the CIA to be repeated in the American media even though they were known to be false. It was all about, as one intelligence officer said in the article, “trying to get inside Putin’s head.”

That may have been the goal, but what the CIA actually did was get inside America’s head with false information meant to shape public perception of the conflict. They lied to propagandize us in favor of the Biden Administration’s narrative.

Those pushing the “Russiagate” hoax through the Trump years claimed that the goal of “Russian disinformation” was to undermine Americans’ trust in our government, media, and other institutions. Isn’t it ironic that the CIA itself has done more than the Russians to undermine Americans’ faith in the media by feeding false stories to establish a particular narrative among the American people?

After the Bay of Pigs disaster, President Kennedy has been quoted as wanting “to splinter the CIA in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.” That didn’t work out too well for him. As Senate Majority Chuck Schumer famously told Rachel Maddow in 2020, responding to the-President Trump’s criticism of the CIA, “let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community — they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.”

As more information about the activities of the US Intelligence Community in trying to bring down Trump come out, it appears that, for once, Schumer was right.

It’s time to revisit President Kennedy’s post-Bay of Pigs wish. The CIA using lies to propagandize the American people toward war with Russia is just one of thousands of reasons to scatter a million pieces of that agency to the wind.

Weird scene: tank shoots a bunch of soldiers at close range:

https://southfront.org/videos-21-a-russian-tank-fired-at-group-of-soldiers-at-close-range/?source=patrick.net

Even reading the comments it's hard to understand how this could happen. My guess is that a bunch of Ukrainian solders thought that the Russian tank was captured, but it wasn't.

mostly reader says

To the unified chorus of the coach experts who claim that "his expertise is obsolete" regarding that X-KGB guy. I was talking specifically about his ability to process data. It's a skill, an acquired one. It's based no a number of rules which don't go obsolete, and it itself doesn't go obsolete.

Sir, intelligence experts are like financial analysts, economists, etc. An art, and a bad one, masquerading as a "science".

Again, two former DIRECTORS of both the NSA and CIA said Hunter's Laptop was Russian Disinformation. Now the Media has finally (probably because Biden is such a drag on their activism) admitted it's real. Just months ago you got banned from social media for mentioning it.

mostly reader says

richwicks says

Possibly but at this point, "Russian propaganda" is a synonym for the unvarnished truth.

Only in your disturbed imagination. "Russian propaganda" is not even a data point.

No, it's not a data point. It's a thoughtless smear that idiots repeat. It's like "whataboutism" when the moron saying that means "you're bringing up my own hypocrisy, that's not fair!". Our government and it's pathetic, lapdog, Mockingbird media calls anything "Russian propaganda" when it's an inconvenient reality. Hunter Biden's laptop was called "Russian propaganda". Victoria Nuland's audio tape in picking Arseniy Yatsenyuk as the next "democratic" leader of Ukraine was called "Russian propaganda".

mostly reader says

They are not even trying to go "gray", which is when you have a grain of truth and use it to build up a lie (something that I found you do quite often).

Show me where I have. Quote me. Bring up specific examples so I can examine them, and I will walk you through my reasoning process or so you can show fault in my reasoning process.

mostly reader says

They just make shit up. Demonstrably. Over and over again.

The Russians do? Point out specific examples.

The US certainly does. Where are those mobile crematoriums? What about the Douma chemical attack in which two OPCW whistleblowers came forward to explain how it was staged? Do they do stuff like this?


original link


Delightfully hilarious! That's the credibility of our propaganda. They don't even try. They think their viewers are absolute morons, and guess what? They are. I used to respect CNN at one point, more than 20 years ago. They don't respect me.

mostly reader says

When someone hints that they are more truthful than US MSM (which is a low bar) I suspect that the person is a propaganda troll. When someone says what you said I don't suspect it, I know it.

HINTS? I'm outright stating it. "Hint". I'm certain they produce propaganda, but they don't assume their audience are fucking laughably stupid like US media does. It's not a "low bar", it's buried in the ground. Random commenters are more credible. Alex Jones is more credible and I think he's at least 1/2 full of shit. There's NOTHING less credible than the US government and it's media at this point.

50 intelligence officers claimed the Biden Laptop was false. FIFTY. How much do they have to fucking lie to you before you realize they will lie all the goddamned time? It's not that they have low credibility, they have absolutely no credibility whatsoever.

mostly reader says

richwicks says

I have no idea what kp.ru is and I don't know what you mean by "trumpets".

kp.ru - it's a source which creates BS that you are spreading (one of them). Their trumpet - it's what you are, knowingly or not. Glad to be of help.

Oh, so you're accusing me of just repeating something I am not even aware of, or care to know about. It's true I could be listening to people who are mindlessly repeating what they've heard from that site. That's entirely possible.

mostly reader says

richwicks says

Perhaps it's untrue. Again, I'll find out in time.

You don't need more data to rule out certain options if you are not an imbecile. Since you haven't ruled them out, and you are actively spreading them... well, you get the picture. Oh, wait, may be you don't!

What am I incorrect about again? Quote me, don't just insult me. It's tiresome. I can't be insulted by you. I think you're an idiot blowhard, I don't care about your dumb opinion about me. Show me I'm wrong. I'd care then.

I know myself, I'll resist it, I'll at first internally deny it, but I will accept it in time. If you show me I'm incorrect, I'll go through anger, denial, then acceptance. I'll be angry because I will recognize I've been deceived, I will track down who deceived me and I will show others that the person is deceptive. Many people are like this, this is why comments aren't open on "mainstream news" today. A lot of people are pissed. A simple rule to follow is if you can't comment on a "news" story, you're reading propaganda, not news.

mostly reader says

richwicks says

I listen and bide my time. There's no reason to chose sides in this. It wouldn't matter if I did.

False. False. False.
- You don't just "listen and bide your time". You are actively engaged in propaganda, and lying about not choosing sides.

Again, this is just stupidity and insult.

It doesn't matter a bit what anybody thinks. This government, this criminal government of ours, doesn't even fucking care about how we VOTE - our opinion is meaningless to them. They will do what they want. I'm just sitting back and laughing that people go along with it.

I walk past a school when I walk to work (quite often), and there's little blue rocks left out by the poor brainwashed students painted in blue with yellow letters "Ukraine" on them - no doubt part of an art project, ironically. As if suddenly people care about war victims. Where's the rocks for Libyans, and Syrians, and Iraqis, and Afghanis, and Yemenis? Just hilarious how easily people are controlled. In less than a week people went from demanding you mask up and get a boosters to making you swear allegiance to Ukraine.

One good thing, is a bunch of these NPC nitwits joined up with the Ukrainian military and got killed immediately. You can do that as well, if you like.

mostly reader says

richwicks says

I know...

My first reaction was to paraphrase Ronald Regan - "The trouble with you is not that you are ignorant; it's just that you know so much that isn't so".

Then tell me what it is I believe, and isn't so.

Quote me.

I can see why people think you're just a troll. I'm wondering if you're really a functioning person that can't do simple communication. All you have to do is point out what specifically I've stated, and how you conclude or believe it is wrong. Maybe I AM wrong, but in all the shouting and screaming at me, you have never given me a reason to reconsider my opinion. I speak to you in charity, because I try to get you to think, you don't ever return that favor.

Hmm, the rumor is that a United States Army lieutenant general was captured by Russian forces in Mariupol.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220407220315/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Cloutier?source=patrick.net

https://web.archive.org/web/20220408045234/https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/apr/05/tweets/no-nato-allied-land-command-leader-wasnt-captured-/

Normally I would dismiss this as BS woo crap, but PolitiFact has denied it, and they are like 100% wrong. I'm just posting this so I can follow it up later.

Let's hope Ukraine, the Bread Basket of the USSR, isn't a significant producer in comparison to Russia.

I'm going to make a bet. I bet people start to starve in the West, and Russia will feed their population. We find out in 9 months or so.

richwicks says

Show me where I have. Quote me.

I have. Repeatedly. At some point I dedicated a post to your use of gray propaganda: https://patrick.net/post/1344073/?comment_id=1826473 Are you having memory lapses, or do you pretend to not remember as a way to create friction?

richwicks says

The Russians do? Point out specific examples.

Let's take JUST ONE event, MH17.

- Claim by the "uprising" official talking head, Girkin, that the dead bodies were old and therefore already dead. The claim which was then echoed in Russian MSM. Note quotes in "uprising" - Girkin is a Russian militant who was dispatched to the Eastern Ukraine to stir shit in 2014.

- Invented Spanish air dispatcher Carlos.
A bit more on this.The fuckers desparately held on to the version that it was air-to-air rather than surface-to-air missile. The invented air dispatcher was supposed to confirm that there were military plains next to MH17. They further WENT TO WIKIPEDIA AND CHANGED TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF Su-25! The airplain with service ceiling of 23Kft could now climb and fight at 30K+.

- They further produced a doctored photo from "spy satellite" which showed a fighter plane shooting a missile towards MH17. The fuckers couldn't even produce a believable forgery: it turned out that the size of the fighter plane, as it compared with other elements on the photo, should've been around 6 miles.

I gave 3 just for practical purposes. In reality, there's more like 300 examples of them fabricating lies just on this topic: https://euvsdisinfo.eu/disinformation-cases/?text=MH17&date=&per_page=&source=patrick.net Go through the entire list and come back enlightened.

I wonder why you challenged me for examples. Did you not know any of it? Explain.

mostly reader says

richwicks says

Show me where I have. Quote me.

I have. Repeatedly. At some point I dedicated a post to your use of gray propaganda: https://patrick.net/post/1344073/?comment_id=1826473 Are you having memory lapses,

Look, if you deny that the US overthrew Ukraine after you have the audio recordings of Victoria Nuland at first saying that Vitaly Klitschko shouldn't be the next leader

Nuland: Good. I don't think Klitsch should go into the government. I don't think it's necessary, I don't think it's a good idea.

Then saying that Arseniy Yatseniuk should be the next leader

Nuland: [Breaks in] I think Yats is the guy who's got the economic experience, the governing experience.

And that's precisely what happened.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957?source=patrick.net

you are either a troll meaning you are lying and know you're lying, or you're a crazy person unable to do basic, simple reasoning. In either case, it's an impasse. There is no point trying to appeal to your reasoning ability, if you have any. I find your thinking to be as trite as Jen Psaki telling the country that the reason gasoline is expensive is because of the sanctions on Russia and then pretending to be dumbfounded that people don't believe that BS.

I'm fully confident that Psaki isn't insane. I'm not so certain about you. Maybe you genuinely do believe the BS? That's just simply insane to me.

mostly reader says

richwicks says

The Russians do? Point out specific examples.

Let's take JUST ONE event, MH17.

Who cares about MH17? It's to no advantage of either the Ukrainians or the Russians to shoot down a commercial airliner. It was an accident, and then it was nothing more than fodder for propaganda. It doesn't matter who shot them down, it was an accident.

https://www.rebelnews.com/french_journalist_claims_americans_are_in_charge_ukraine_i_found_myself_facing_the_pentagon?source=patrick.net

A French journalist and senior international correspondent for mainstream publication Le Figaro, Georges Malbrunot, claims that Americans are “in charge” of the Ukrainian war effort on the ground.

Malbrunot, who returned from Ukraine, after he accompanied French volunteer fighters on the battlefield, said that he was surprised to find out that Americans are “commanding” efforts on the ground. The journalist made his remarks to French global news channel CNEWS, the second most-watched news network in the country.

“I had the surprise, and so did they, to discover that to be able to enter the Ukrainian army, well it’s the Americans who are in charge,” said Malbrunot.

French reporter returning from Ukraine "Americans are directly in charge of the war on the ground." pic.twitter.com/m5yr7far6N

— no one (@antiwar_soldier) April 11, 2022
Malbrunot asserted that he and the volunteers he was accompanying were “almost arrested” by the Americans, whom he said were in charge. Malbrunot claims that the volunteers were forced to sign a contract agreeing to fight “until the end of the war.”

“And who is in charge? It’s the Americans, I saw it with my own eyes,” claimed Malbrunot. “I thought I was with the international brigades, and I found myself facing the Pentagon.”

Malbrunot pointed out that America has been providing Ukraine with armed switchblade suicide drones, as previously reported by Rebel News.

On April 10, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin shared a photograph of himself speaking to Ukrainian soldiers training on how to use the cutting edge weapons on a video conference call.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks to Ukrainian soldiers training on switchblade drones in Biloxi, Mississippi before they return today to defend their country pic.twitter.com/awUaoySgeH

— Lucas Tomlinson (@LucasFoxNews) April 10, 2022
Following the interview, Malbrunot tweeted that British SAS units “have been present in Ukraine since the beginning of the war, as have the American Deltas.” The journalist cited a French intelligence source for his claim.

“The Russians don’t ignore it, they know what the secret war is,” his source purportedly told him.

La visite de Boris Johnson à Kiev confirme la place de Londres comme premier allié de l'Ukraine. "Les unités d'élite des forces spéciales SAS sont présentes en Ukraine depuis le début de la guerre, de même que les Delta américaines", confie une source française du renseignement. pic.twitter.com/6ziTj4Dpst

— Georges Malbrunot (@Malbrunot) April 9, 2022
The claim that British and American special forces units are operating on the ground in Ukraine runs contrary to public statements by both the U.S State Department and the British Foreign Office, which asserted that there would not be any “boots on the ground” in Ukraine.

richwicks says

Look, if you deny that the US overthrew Ukraine after you have the audio recordings of Victoria Nuland at first saying that Vitaly Klitschko shouldn't be the next leader

I explained point by point how you went from fact from fiction - that's what "gray" does. I further asked a question: now that we know that her line was compromised, why is it the worst that they could produced? Why are there no other recordings? Crickets.

richwicks says

Who cares about MH17? It's to no advantage of either the Ukrainians or the Russians to shoot down a commercial airliner. It was an accident, and then it was nothing more than fodder for propaganda. It doesn't matter who shot them down, it was an accident.

Bullshit. There is a reason why Rashists denied it with such vigor. If they admitted that, then they would also have to admit sending BUK and the crew to Ukraine, something that they viciously denied. Accident? Sure. "Doesn't matter?" Oh, sure it does. It pulls the ground from the likes of you who claim "civil war" lead by "farmers and coal miners" against evil Kyiv.

Is that all? No, that's not all. You challenged me on examples of Rashist propaganda making shit up. I produced such examples. I specifically picked MH17 because it's well documented. This is when you either debate the fact or shut up. Shut up after you explain why you challenged me in the first place that is. Where you not aware of the blatant lies of Rashists propaganda?

mostly reader says

I explained point by point how you went from fact from fiction

Again, your reasoning is, well, obviously fallacious to me.

Either you can't reason, or you are a troll. We are at an impasse. I can't see any reason to engage with talking to somebody who thinks they are being reasonable and to me, seems obviously unreasonable.

I could spend some time explaining why it's irrelevant how long the protests were going for, that Nuland had a single recording intercepted and may very well (and most likely was) having conversations FAR in advance about how to shape the Ukrainian government. I could point out that Zelenskyy was offered a negotiated deal brokered by France and Germany to avoid this war, and that he was told to encourage a conflict.

But you can't reason, so why expend the energy.

richwicks says

Again, your reasoning is, well, obviously fallacious to me.

Your opinion is irrelevant. Just focus on the "Now that we know that her line was compromised, why are there no other recording?" question.

On the second point, have you accepted that Rashists propaganda just makes shit up and runs with it?

mostly reader says

richwicks says

Again, your reasoning is, well, obviously fallacious to me.

Your opinion is irrelevant.

I wouldn't consider it an opinion, it's a regrettable conclusion.

Either you're a troll - i.e. you are simply lying in order to get a response, or you cannot reason. In any case, I've concluded that it's a waste of my time to converse with you.

richwicks says

I wouldn't consider it an opinion, it's a regrettable conclusion.

Your conclusions are like your opinions: subject to be ignored. They are irrelevant for the lack of merit and general lunacy of the carrier.

Have you accepted that Rashist propaganda makes shit up and runs with it? Or will you again pretend that this conversation never happened and employ the whack-a-mole technique?

Patrick says

I really do find it odd, that American government and the left are so invested into Ukraine. Ukraine isn't leftist, they hate gays there, they are not even on same continent. Yet left goes out of the way in this war. Feels like the left is still fighting the cold war or something... not sure... but it has nothing to do with any of us. Just the extravagances of the billionaire ruling class.

https://twitter.com/CovertShores/status/1514310116211843075?source=patrick.net

FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut says

I really do find it odd, that American government and the left are so invested into Ukraine. Ukraine isn't leftist, they hate gays there, they are not even on same continent. Yet left goes out of the way in this war.

I think you're confusing "the left" with "the establishment".

Just like our media characterizes "the right" as being fascist, neo-nazi, Putin lovers, they characterize "the left" as agreeing with everything the establishment does. The "left" I think you complain about are actually just NPCs, not the real left.

The true left and right ignore propaganda, but there's a lot less of them than I previously imagined although the numbers are growing. There's a lot of people on "the left" that aren't on board with the LGBTQ crap for example.

I think the penultimate uncontrollable person is somebody that won't label themselves as either left or right - of course, this is a bit of arrogance on my part, because I'm part of that penultimate uncontrollable group, or at least I may delusionally believe I am. We all think we're right otherwise we wouldn't be the way we are. It will be interesting if I find out, once again, I was wrong in time. Gone through that a few dozen times.

richwicks says

FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut says

I really do find it odd, that American government and the left are so invested into Ukraine. Ukraine isn't leftist, they hate gays there, they are not even on same continent. Yet left goes out of the way in this war.

I think you're confusing "the left" with "the establishment".

Just like our media characterizes "the right" as being fascist, neo-nazi, Putin lovers, they characterize "the left" as agreeing with everything the establishment does. The "left" I think you complain about are actually just NPCs, not the real left.

The true left and right ignore propaganda, but there's a lot less of them than I previously imagined although the numbers are growing. There's a lot of people on "the left" that aren't on board with the LGBTQ crap for example.

I think the penultimate uncontrollable person is somebody that won't label themselves as e...

good point man. its just frustrating that our government clearly represents ruling class and not us everyday americans. they don’t even pretend anymore, at least in the past it was important enough to pretend that we voters matter. our system outlived its usefulness

Fortwaynemobile says

good point man. its just frustrating that our government clearly represents ruling class and not us everyday americans. they don’t even pretend anymore, at least in the past it was important enough to pretend that we voters matter.

At least people are beginning to realize this. This has been going on for at least 30 years. Groups are purposely misrepresented, people are as well.

Fortwaynemobile says

our system outlived its usefulness

That depends on what you mean by "our system".

Our system is a good system, but it was overthrown decades ago. This is actually an oligarchical dictatorship, and most people wouldn't call that "our system". They create internal conflict so we don't concentrate on the enemy, which is the oligarchical dictatorship. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty it is said. I don't think there's been much vigilance from 1970 to 2010. People are finding their ballsack again just recently.

All this stupid insipid propaganda, calls for censorship, actual censorship, crackdowns on peaceful protesters, allowing violent thug protesters to run riot - this is just them doubling down because people are finally pulling up the rug again to show the dirt. All these actions are signs of desperation and weakness, not strength.

What's important and different today is we can record it all. We can actually warn the future generations and show them how this shit works. I have great hope for the future. More than I did 20 years ago - I gave up back then.

Confirmed by the official Russian news agency:

MOSCOW, 14 April. /TASS/. The cruiser "Moskva" of the Black Sea Fleet was seriously damaged as a result of the detonation of ammunition that occurred as a result of a fire, the crew was evacuated. This was reported in the Russian Defense Ministry.

"As a result of a fire, ammunition detonated on the Moskva missile cruiser. The ship was seriously damaged. The crew was completely evacuated," the military department said.

The ministry said the cause of the fire is under investigation.

https://tass.ru/proisshestviya/14372453?source=patrick.net
https://archive.ph/9svF1?source=patrick.net

Neptune (Ukrainian: Р-360 «Нептун», romanized: R-360 "Neptun") is a Ukrainian anti-ship cruise missile developed by Luch Design Bureau.

Neptune's design is based on the Soviet Kh-35 anti-ship missile, with substantially improved range and electronics.[1] The system is designed to defeat surface warships and transport vessels with a displacement of up to 5,000 tons, either in convoys or moving individually.

The system entered service with the Ukrainian Navy in March 2021.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune_(cruise_missile)

This one is special: a guy named Medvedchuk is now enjoying liberation festivities. He was a close ally to Putin, and Putin is a godfather to his daughter, all the while he was also head of administration of the president of Ukraine during Yanukovich and a top-tier Ukrainian politician afterwards. That's right: one of Putin's insiders was also a top tier politician in Ukraine. It just goes to show how deep that octopus grew it's tentacles into Ukraine.

Being the carrier of some juicy info about preparations for the liberation, he was too shy to stick around for the party and apparently escaped into one of the neighboring states.

Not to worry: as a result of operation by Ukrainian intelligence he joined the party in a secret ballroom, presumably in Kyiv. Everyone is wondering how much vodka it'll take to get him loose and talkative.

Eric Holder says

The ministry said the cause of the fire is under investigation.

I'm sure it was disregard for safety. Those damn smokers just can't keep it in the designated areas.

BBC:

More on Russia's Moskva missile cruiser, which Moscow says has been badly damaged by a fire.

Ukraine earlier claimed the warship was hit by Ukraine-made Neptune missiles.

Ukrainian presidential aide Oleksiy Arestovych said Russian rescuers were unable to reach the vessel, which could have had as many as 510 crew members on board.

"It has been confirmed that the missile cruiser Moskva today went exactly where it was sent by our border guards on Snake Island!" Odesa regional governor Maksym Marchenko wrote in his Telegram post.

mostly reader says

Eric Holder says

The ministry said the cause of the fire is under investigation.

I'm sure it was disregard for safety. Those damn smokers just can't keep it in the designated areas.

Could be one of these fire-breathing birds, genetically modified in a secret US-financed Ukie bioWEAPONS lab to carry terrorist attacks on innocent Russian ships....

Eric Holder says

Confirmed by the official Russian news agency:

Who is that?

The CIA? CNN? The US State Department?

If it's confirmed by the "official Russian news agency" link to the official Russian news agency. We have translation tools, and we have a pretty laughable and stupid propaganda machine as well.

richwicks says

Eric Holder says

Confirmed by the official Russian news agency:

Who is that?

The CIA? CNN? The US State Department?

If it's confirmed by the "official Russian news agency" link to the official Russian news agency. We have translation tools, and we have a pretty laughable and stupid propaganda machine as well.

Are you fucking blind? Or is it tears in your eyes? There is a link to TASS - the fucking offcial fucking Russian agency right there in the post you're responding to.

I will s_l_o_w_l_y copy it here, specially for you:

------------> https://tass.ru/proisshestviya/14372453?source=patrick.net <---------------------

Enjoy.

PS. Let me know if you need help with translation.

Eric Holder says

Enjoy.

PS. Let me know if you need help with translation.

Why are you competent with translation?

richwicks says

Eric Holder says

Enjoy.

PS. Let me know if you need help with translation.

Why are you competent with translation?

translate.google.com, duh!

To add insult to the injury this Ukie Post stamp have been officially rolled out yesterday:

RWSGFY says

richwicks says

Eric Holder says

Enjoy.

PS. Let me know if you need help with translation.

Why are you competent with translation?

translate.google.com, duh!

It's interesting to see the number of NPC droids pop up in the last few months, now that a new distraction has been made available. I'm wondering if you are people or are constructs. I really wonder if there isn't a division in humanity that simply has to parrot and is entirely incapable of thinking.

What I find interesting, is that Ukraine never reports any setbacks at all. Only Russia does.

richwicks says

That depends on what you mean by "our system".

Our system is a good system, but it was overthrown decades ago. This is actually an oligarchical dictatorship, and most people wouldn't call that "our system". They create internal conflict so we don't concentrate on the enemy, which is the oligarchical dictatorship. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty it is said. I don't think there's been much vigilance from 1970 to 2010. People are finding their ballsack again just recently.

All this stupid insipid propaganda, calls for censorship, actual censorship, crackdowns on peaceful protesters, allowing violent thug protesters to run riot - this is just them doubling down because people are finally pulling up the rug again to show the dirt. All these actions are signs of desperation and weakness, not strength.

What's important and different today is we can record it all. We can actually warn the future generations and show them how this shit works. I have great ...

I just want to go back to small government, constitution, where government is small as fuck and can't fuck with any of us. maybe that convention of the states will take off to replace the feds. tired of these feds just fucking with us.

FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut says

I just want to go back to small government, constitution, where government is small as fuck and can't fuck with any of us. maybe that convention of the states will take off to replace the feds. tired of these feds just fucking with us.

Liberty, the Founding Fathers, the Pilgrims - all talk of them has disappeared in the past 25 years, replaced with Race and Gender(bending).

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/western-dissent-from-usnato-policy?source=patrick.net

Western Dissent from US/NATO Policy on Ukraine is Small, Yet the Censorship Campaign is Extreme
Preventing populations from asking who benefits from a protracted proxy war, and who pays the price, is paramount. A closed propaganda system achieves that.