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jykiodfgr says

No wonder China is evacuating out of Ukraine.

Based on what? I see a map with many colors on it. Why should that mean anything to Chinese nationals in the country?

I hate this sort of thing. It reminds me of the unlabeled chart on Zerohedge with nothing more than "the chart speaks for itself", when it DIDN'T.

socal2 says

Imagine trying to extol the virtues and achievements of the Russian military after the last half year of complete and utter embarrassment at the hands of the much smaller and weaker Ukraine that is literally right next door.

Dude, the United States spent 20 years in Afghanistan with no visible gains, and left them with 80 billion dollars of equipment which has been disassembled and studied in China and Russia.

You're comparing a sewage pit with a toxic dump. Neither is very impressive.

Russia is in absolutely no hurry to win this war, and the United States wants to drag this out. Even if Russia used all their resources and military to over-run Ukraine, and I think they could have, they'd have to deal with an insurgency the US and NATO would have funded for years. Instead, they've decide to let Europe starve for lack of energy resources and let the US spend more money on "aid" than all of Russia spends on their own military per year.

This will go on for at least until spring, but I expect I wouldn't be surprised if it went on for years. It costs Russia money and human resources (blood) to continue this, but it's less than what Ukraine pays for in blood, and the US is approaching instability with China as a result of this.

NATO may no longer exist at the end of this, in fact the EU may be gone, and the US may find itself economically isolated. That would be worst case scenario though, but it would put Russia in #2 position, and China in #1.

cisTits says

I am sure that will work just AOK...like all other temporary price controls have.

When O'Hare Airport was built there was a "temporary" toll put on the highway running by it. It's still in place.

jykiodfgr says

HeadSet says

You never hear about big die offs due to a cold spell.

That's because the media don't report it. If you look at total deaths you'll see a huge dieoff every winter.

This winter in Europe is going to be in the history books.

Any links? I've never heard of mass casualty events from cold. My SIL is living in Germany currently. Nobody cares. They're not worried. Pipes/Plumbing are the biggest worry as I and others have said. You don't have to shower, but even a two minute cold shower is actually good for you. People in cold areas have clothing for it. Gear. Even morons. It's why as a dude I have a full ass closet here in IL. Winter and Summer. It's not complicated.

Patrick says

When O'Hare Airport was built there was a "temporary" toll put on the highway running by it. It's still in place.

After they got caught for corruption in the 90's, the tollway that is, the roads are meticulously maintained now besides when under construction. As an adult that makes good wages it's 1,000% worth it. I pay I think $5 one way to O'hare or Midway. I did that daily when I worked in the city. So $10/day roughly. Maybe a touch less, can't remember since I don't go that way often and it's all digital.

A well run toll road system is great. It's when the fraud and kickbacks come in where shit work is done. Much more oversight here in IL surprisingly. Drive the Indiana or Ohio toll road system... you'll need a new suspension. And you might as well haul a dumpster to pick up all the trash on that highway (I-80) as well. Have to deal with that shit to go to Fort Wayne, IN this winter for a show. Shit, I need to figure out where I'm staying now that I think about it.

With a low enough price cap, the heavy industry will still be able to operate normally with the reserves they have in storage...until suddenly there ain't any more gas cause nobody had to ration it.

cisTits says

Western firms that pulled out and took their technical peeps with them.

Like what western firms? Name a few. I'd be interested.

Maybe they fear the gas theyre currently getting from russia will stop for whatever reason? Like maybe due to a pipeline suddenly exploding again.

But I'd put my money on it being strategic pressure, like maybe russia told them to stop supplying europe w/ gas...

Russia has about 90,000 dead of wounded so far. These were their best guys, and they are retreating.
The Russian military behavior reflects primitive WW1 tactics; they have zero coordination of air, naval and land forces.
Sending new guys to the front will not change the dynamic; Russia needed a military with 500,000 men and western modern military tactics, which they didn't have and won't have.
Hitler made many strategic blunders, but he almost invented modern warfare; "blitzkrieg" was a coordinated attack with air and land forces moving quickly.
Russia has no air superiority over Ukraine today. 200,000 more unwilling guys at the front cannot change this.
Russia has no technological superiority either; the weapons provided to Ukraine are superior. HIMARS, Javelins, Starstreak, etc. are effective. Russia stuff is about 1/2 as effective.
The fancier stuff Russia has is depleted and cannot be replaced; the embargo of some high tech components means Russia cannot resupply its army with some useful stuff.
Russia is now getting restless; the myth of Putin's popularity is bullshit. He's got a rabid base but most Russians either don't like him or tried to not even think about politics; now they're unhappy about being drafted to go to Ukraine for no reason they can understand.
I'm able to remember Vietnam and it was unpopular for a big reason; they were drafting guys.
There were marches "Hell no, we won't go!"
I recall after the draft unpopularity, they had a "lottery"; your birthday was in a lottery, and if you got a "low number" maybe you were going to have to go.
People can't seem to appreciate how unpopular being conscripted is; you're being forced to go somewhere to maybe die and you don't want to.
I'm curious to see how long Putin holds onto power; there is increasing unrest and guys in the Kremlin are probably pissed off but don't have the power or balls to make a move against a former KGB spy turned dictator.
Edit: I'm not sure how bright Putin is, but he is likely skilled at subterfuge and political intrigue.

clambo says

former KGB spy turned dictator.

KGB spy stuff is all Hollywood bullshit. Pumped up to make it seem like they knew what they are doing. Sure there were spies and they were conniving, but you can see with Ukraine they just don't have it. Russia is pussy. Think of the series Mad Men. Putin was likely drinking booze constantly and fine, killing people. That doesn't make him a smart person.

This is by far a worse conflict than the US in Iraq or Afghanistan as far as making sense. Hell Chicago is in a perpetual state of war over drugs and gang territory. Russia did not need to invade Ukraine for anything. They have energy. They have land. They control Crimea. For fucks sake buy a 1 mile swath of land and build a highway to Crimea. Ukraine should just go full ape shit and take out that bridge completely at this point. Russia is weak sauce and it's highly likely their nukes even work or are accurate. And yes, I also give zero shits about Ukraine. This whole thing is dumb.

WookieMan says

This is by far a worse conflict than the US in Iraq or Afghanistan as far as making sense.

Really? Iraq didn't have a weapons of mass destruction program before the war started, and that was the (given) reason for the war. What was the purpose of the Iraq War?

Afghanistan offered first to hand over binLaden provided the US would share evidence of his involvement with 9/11, the US refused, they later just offered to hand over binLaden, still the US refused. What was the purpose of the Afghanistan war?

Tell me how either made sense?

I do know that part of the reason for the Iraq War was to establish US military bases there and to prevent Hussein from moving to the Euro exclusively for oil trade. Afghanistan MAY have been in part for oil pipelines, but that's only rumor.

WookieMan says

Ukraine should just go full ape shit and take out that bridge completely at this point.

It really doesn't matter. I believe Russia already has a land bridge to it at this point. You know how they attacked the bridge? They got some patsy to drive a truck loaded with explosives across it, then they detonated it.

Still waiting for those worthless draftees to overrun Ukraine.

richwicks says

It really doesn't matter. I believe Russia already has a land bridge to it at this point. You know how they attacked the bridge? They got some patsy to drive a truck loaded with explosives across it, then they detonated it.

It does matter. The land is contested borderline land. There's not a free flow of commerce or whatever Russia wants to do with Crimea. Knock the bridge out with full military grade weapons and Russia is fucked. This has always been about Crimea since they annexed it. Russia is landlocked in the winter for the most part. Shipping goods/resources via water is the cheapest way possible. Can't easily do that through ice. Europe won't supposedly "freeze" as has been mentioned. Russia will.

This is why the supply chain is fucked up right now with China and Covid. It takes a while via water, but you can ship massive quantities of stuff. That's all Russia wants. They could have just negotiated that and bought the land. We see with their war machine they're inept. They didn't have the money. We're witnessing the downfall of Russia. They're not a global super power. They have gas and oil, that's it.

richwicks says

Really? Iraq didn't have a weapons of mass destruction program before the war started, and that was the (given) reason for the war. What was the purpose of the Iraq War?

I don't care about the reasons for those wars. Were they dumb? Yes. We can agree there. We also didn't take 7-8 months to grab contested land that's maybe the size of Indiana. Sure we didn't control 100% and lost troops along the way, but Russia is getting their asses handed to them by their next door neighbor. We controlled 2 countries at the same time across the globe. I've said I don't care the outcome, but ultimately Russia looks like it's failing. Not much dispute there. Long game maybe they prevail, not certain of that though either.

zzyzzx says

Still waiting for those worthless draftees to overrun Ukraine.

Drunk draftees.

They need to innovate LNG offloading in Europe to lessen the hardships of Russia cutting off natural gas supply.

Provide for security of the LNG infrastructure also, which means deploy retired SEALs, security technology, etc.

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Dozens of LNG-laden ships queue off Europe's coasts unable to unload

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/dozens-lng-laden-ships-queue-off-europes-coasts-unable-unload-2022-10-17/

WookieMan says

It does matter. The land is contested borderline land. There's not a free flow of commerce or whatever Russia wants to do with Crimea.

There's a massive military base in Crimea. That's the extent of Russia's interest with it and it's a major military objective to take it away from Russia for the United States. This is why the US has been lying for 8 years that "Russia invaded Crimea", they were already there when the coup happened.

WookieMan says

Really? Iraq didn't have a weapons of mass destruction program before the war started, and that was the (given) reason for the war. What was the purpose of the Iraq War?
richwicks says

I don't care about the reasons for those wars.

Then you'-re just another massive hypocrite that applies principles and logic only when it suits some programmed condition.

I am tired of this shit. Russia hasn't done ANYTHING United States hasn't done, and if you haven't complained about what the US has done for 20 FUCKING years, who cares about "your" opinion on Russia?

Do you really have one? If you have no consistent set of principles but instead have just a bunch of exceptions, are you positive you're not one of these?



WookieMan says

I've said I don't care the outcome, but ultimately Russia looks like it's failing.

You, and I, have no idea what the objectives are. None. For all I know this war for the United States is exclusively to launder money and to prop up the MIC, and NOTHING else. For Russia, it might be an excuse to first let Europe fail economically though energy starvation, and then take it over in the next 10 years.

You don't know, I don't know.

We are always lied to about the wars, every fucking time. You know this, you must at least suspect at this point.

Lol!

An emboldened cast of anonymous trolls spewed racist slurs and Nazi memes onto Twitter in the hours after billionaire industrialist Elon Musk took over the social network

I bet most of the racism posted came from bitter leftists. Just like fake noose and all the other fake hate crimes.

The soys are so het up from this.

Agree, the majority of any racist posts are leftists/twitter employees

But, but, but, they have to prove that without their tree-hugging, soy-chomping censorship that uber MAGA racism will propagate like Covid-19!!!!!!!I

I must confess that since Musk took over, I'm feeling more racist, just because . . .

I would guess Paul won't make it out of the hospital alive, too much of a liability. Whether or not they kill the patsy or not is moot, too. If we see 'Paul' again, it will probably be another imposter, and it is 'hasta la vista' Pelosis. With Nancy Actor in a viable possible Presidential position if Biden Actor is removed and Kamala returned to La La Land somewhere, the Globlists couldn't risk it being the real Nancy, who by all accounts is (was) as lushed out as Paul. Guess Paul was trying to spend the 120 million or so on gay Caligulan decadence while he had a chance.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/reports-paul-pelosi-icu-surrounded-family-david-depape-still-hospital-unknown-injuries/

man i have to ask you always post about hindoos. why?

You Khalisthanis will face real genocide if you keep killing Hindus. Now hindus are more united and they have more information.

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/sikh-secessionist-group-to-defend-man-who-shot-dead-shiv-sena-leader-in-amritsar-2293909-2022-11-06

FarmersWon says

Howz it @indc Hindooo, Why don't you take the rape and genocide threats against Sikhs by Your Hindooo filth Suri and play it for your wife,mother and daughter.
They should also know How much filth is Hindooo.

Or as usual hide under rock like you always do when I show you reality.
Sikhs won't allow Hindooo filth to escape this time and expose it to world.

Give me time to respond. Did you @FarmersWon even have time to go to gurudwara for guru pornima or you dont even celebrate it. I see genocide threat where is the rape threat in the video? You want Freedom of Speech to threaten to kill hindus, but he needs to be killed because he used his freedom of speech. What kind of logic is that?

FarmersWon says

@indc take this to your sister,mother and daughter and have them understand hindooo filth.

Also never travel for job as once you travel your wife is fair game for Hindooo cult for sex.

https://mobile.twitter.com/GurpreetSSahota/status/1588939539212808192

I dont understand so much punjabi. But maybe you should just check messages in that tweet.

NATO? Somebody clearly used his geography textbook for doobies.

Islam covers the landscape with phallic symbols.

Let me see if I understand:

-- Sikhs buying expensive land from whites abandoning unprofitable farms.
-- ....
-- PROFIT!!!

Sorry, I don't understand what's the angle here.

FarmersWon says

Hugh_Mongous says

Let me see if I understand:

-- Sikhs buying expensive land from whites abandoning unprofitable farms.
-- ....
-- PROFIT!!!

Sorry, I don't understand what's the angle here.

Angle here is that Sikhs are stupidly making agriculture unviable for future generations.
Whites are smart enough to understand that agriculture needs to make profit.. But Sikhs due to lust for land are putting resources from other income into land and making it unprofitable for real farmers... as 250k an acre will never produce enough income to justify price... It is a trophy speculative property and destroying true farmers who want to get into this field.

How is it making anything unavailable? The land remains there. It doesn't care whether some Sikh has overpaid for it at some point. If he can't make profit he'll go bankrupt and the land will go to somebody else at more reasonable price point.

Pudgy loser. The parents are total fuckups.

Before the mass murderer was identified as "Non-Binary" ...

Hutchinson: GOP Needs to ‘Tone Down’ Transphobic Grooming Rhetoric

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/11/22/hutchinson-gop-needs-tone-down-transphobic-grooming-rhetoric/

CNN guest host Brianna Keilar said to Gov. Hutchinson, “I do want to ask you, in light of this shooting at the LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs, do you think that members of your party needed to tone down some of their transphobic language? We’ve heard officials talking about pedophilia, grooming, demonizing trans people?” Heavily implying that the mass shooting was fueled by RIGHT WING RHETORIC.

@FarmersWon

Not to take the wind our of your sails, but have you noticed most people don't engage with you?

Hindus aren't a (major) problem in the United States. I have seen divisions within corporations where some stupid Indian moron will only hire other Indians, and that division fails as a result due to their racism. It's self correcting. I've seen companies where only Taiwanese were hired, they failed too. I'll never forget that company, there was nobody to tell them "what you are doing is a fucking stupid idea", the entire company was doomed from the start. It was iSCUSI- SCUSI over internet., you know, what I call NFS. For some reason, they thought making a dedicated card would be better than just using a software solution. I guess it could have been useful in 1990, but I was working for this company in 2001, as a CONTRACTOR, I'm not Taiwanese.

The reason that we don't want a single system, is YOUR problems, are YOUR problems, not mine. I'm in the United States. I don't see much conflict from Hindus and Sikhs here, and if I did, I would be like "these fucking throwbacks, I wish they would take their bullshit back to India".

If there were a bunch of Hindus here, you could talk, but you should TALK - not just denounce them. Explain your grievances, and try to work it out and come to a solution. Just don't condemn them. That's not useful.

FarmersWon says

Hindoo is desperate. Nobody likes these "cow piss drinkers".

Pretty fucking certain that none of my Hindu bosses drank cow urine.

Look, I'm a white hick that grew up in a TINY rural town in Northern NY. Think I'm a meth head? I could find one where I grew up in 5 minutes, no problem.

You're making the ANNOYING "mistake(?)" of taking the worst attributes of a minority within a group and expanding that to the entire group. That, is what I consider, "bigotry". Blacks are FAR more likely to to engage in a violent crime than a white person is, but - what percentage of people commit violent crimes? Less than 1%, across all races.

You want to fix a group? Get that group to correct the WORST of that group, not to condemn the entire group. You're just alienating them.

I have psychopaths running my nation, the trouble I have is getting people to recognize this. It's not white versus black, it's fucking psychopath versus the rest of us.

FarmersWon says

I don't see any positive in German Nazis or Hindooo Nazis.

Well, I can point out some positives in German Nazis.

They stopped hyperinflation, ended dependence on a central bank, broke their treaty of Versailles - but, they then went to war. That was their mistake. They should have done everything and anything to avoid war.

FarmersWon says

Both want to control common man and are cruelty filled .. with especial hatred towards minorities to level of genocide.

You're a machine to duplicate your genetics. What would that entail? Well, racism, genocide...

FarmersWon says

For Hindooo on site ..

Not seen any, or they are silent about their religion - so who are you convincing? Whose minds are you changing?

FarmersWon says

sorry I am not among the ones who miss "forest for a tree".. Money is to serve people not to use them as tools.

You're missing the point of what Hitler did. He (more likely people below him) made a "people's money", that revolutionized Germany.

I don't want to get into this history, because it's very hard to get people to unlearn their programming. Hitler, like any leader, was not a "good guy", but he wasn't as bad as we're taught, but he was pretty bad but so was Eisenhower.

There's no black and white.

I'm getting into dangerous territory discussing this as well. "The Nazis were't ALL bad" is an invitation to call me an "anti-Semite". I've gone through this so many fucking times, I'm just tired of it. Reversing propaganda, is enormously difficult, and even if I can do that to the average person, they don't pass it on.

History is far more nuanced than you are PROGRAMMED to believe. I don't know how it is with Hindus and Sikhs, but I won't be surprised it is the same "Group A EVIL group B GOOD!". I'm well beyond this. Its idea and concept good and asshole group that implemented good ideas also implemented bad ideas. It's not complicated once you step OVER the idea of PEOPLE and consider concepts and ideas.

Hitler implemented a lot of good ideas, and a few really bad ones. He's only remembered for his bad ideas, because his good ideas are a threat to our current establishment.

FarmersWon says

Tyrants should always be loathed

No, they shouldn't be. Singapore may be a modern example of this. Possibly. I'm not well enough informed to judge.

I know you despise Hindus, but I don't experience this myself, so I cannot connect with you in this. Maybe they are horrible to Shiks, and I've seen SOME stupidity among them engaging in racism, but it's a self correcting problem.

I'm witnessing large corporations collapse, because of wokeism. Part of that wokeism, is primitive tribalism.

Silly Con Valley was ONCE a meritocracy, and when it ceased to be, it began to collapse. We really were the brightest and best, from all over the world. But now there is all this bullshit, and I can watch the rest of the world, eat our lunch - GOOD.

We've done our work. If we didn't, you couldn't talk to me now. We made the Internet, and the PREVIOUS generation (perhaps the only thing the boomers did well) was to design it to be hardened against censorship.

You can say whatever you like here in my opinion, but there's no obligation for people to pay attention to you. You need to appeal to hindus, I'm not a part of your conflict.

I really hate these Youtube jack asses that post month old videos, and fail to mention the date that the event occurred. So many Youtube Congressional hearing footage is months or years old. But they post them without context to when the video was filmed. This is a video from June of this year. But by posting it out of context, not even knowing the topic of the floor discussion, makes it sound like the new GOP house is readying themselves for retribution against the J6 Commies.

Probably released by the establishment to bolster McCarthy's claim that he will investigate them.

Youtube used to be great, they would post these exchanges just minutes after they happened, but after the 2020 elections, these exchanges don't get posated until months later, and are most always presented like it happened either yesterday or today, and is hot off the press.

I followed Drudge from the start when he broke the Lewinsky/Clinton story. Early on, he actually had 'scoops' do to 'insider' info that was being leaked to him.
That didn't last long. He then morphed into a site that just provided headline stories with links.

I quit visiting his site years ago, after I noticed that he had shifted heavily towards being a mouthpiece for the mainstream propaganda ministry. How and why that
happened is a mystery. My personal opinion is that the CIA may have taken over his site years ago ... it possibly may have been a PSYOP from the very beginning.

PS: Drudge originally supported Trump but then ditched him soon after he won the election in 2016. Ann Coulter, another fake, is a very close friend with Drudge.
Coulter also dumped Trump about the same time that Drudge did. Coincidence?