We're all so small. I remember when Carl Sagan asked NASA to turn Voyager around and take a picture of Earth on it's way into the cosmos as it exited our Suns influence in space. It took months for astronomers to locate our planet. Sure enough, they eventually found it, an insignificant dot of light among the vast dizzying dots of light. Carl Sagan words were inspirational, and should serve as a reminder for the power hungry madmen who seek to acquire that which is unattainable. Carl said "imagine all you know and will ever know, everyone who has ever lived has lived upon this little dot of light. Every book, every action, every thought, every war, every discovery, evey thing that has ever happened, happened on this insignificant, fragile speck in the vastness of the cosmos." Yet we allow the small-minded arrogant fools to bully all of society, for a world they selfishly desire to call their own, a world they cannot take with them, to consume more than they deserve or need and to create horrors beyond all imagination in effort only to satisfy their ego.
Great wealth has never been good for civil society, it's never been good for our Earth and all living creatures. Having money is a necessity for everyone. Why we allow for a few to acquire vast amounts, which allows them to distort the health of society to acquire more wealth which leads to catastrophic events for everyone and everything is beyond reason. This is our planet, it belongs to all of us, and all creatures who call it home; it does not belong to any one person to dictate the terms of living! Fuck the one percenters! They are criminal in their belief that they are "better" than everyone else, who sanction their behavior as lawful by twisting societies laws and regulations to validate their grift, and worse; twisting our minds into accepting the idea that people with money are more intelligent and qualified. Don't you believe them, they are worse by far.
Civil society's greatest success will be in "outlawing" great wealth. Money, like water is essential for the health of society; to allow great wealth to rest in the hands of the few, is to deny entire populations the right to live in harmony and be the best persons they can aspire to become.
I’m not entirely convinced that the Mango Mussolini didn’t know before hand. Actually I’m torn. On one hand I believe like many that if he knew he would have alerted Putie Pie. On the other hand he did scream on Untruth Antisocial about “BAD THINGS” last week. Despite TACO’s BS the US still shares intelligence with Ukraine 🤔
It might be the pain killers kicking in but I can’t help but wonder how great the US could become if you had Zelenskyy as your president 🤔😊
Does the word ‘Zapusk’ mean anything to you people?
Can anyone offer any compelling reasons for which that order should not be given?
It is no secret that the West generally and the US particularly have worked tirelessly against Russia since 1945.
Why ought not the nukes to fly?
No seriously, children.
Since everyone wants this so bad, why not just end it.
At some point, it comes down to whether the world wants to live or die.
The longer you wait to decide to end this reactionary conflict, the stronger the case becomes that humanity has failed to justify its continued existence, and that the eradication of humanity from the earth would end more suffering than it would create.
Once again, you comprehend naught of what I am say.
A literary strategy of any level of sophistication leaves you in the cold.
Now I could take you to 1908 when the FBI was formed, discuss its surveillance of ‘radical’ [working class] groups. I could walk you through the October Revolution, the response of Capitalist regimes to it, the birth of Red Scares, and the ongoing presentation of Bolsheviks as vicious and ruthless opponents of democracy.
Hollywood and print media relentlessly produced films, books [and comic books], posters, cartoons, etc. depicting the Soviets as villains.
Educational materials, public meetings, Chambers of Commerce, churches, corporate and business bosses, politicians, etc., etc. stressed the dangers of communism. Always a threat to freedom. Always an attack on democracy. The Soviets were always monsters who eternally plotted invasion.
All this was before WW II. After WW II, the campaign resumed. It culminated in the McCarthy decade and the Second Red Scare.
Numerous Americans were accused of being communist spies, sympathizers or worse.
The government and media fueled fears of Soviet infiltration, espionage, and subversion constantly.
Campaigns targeted government officials, entertainers, scientists, and others. Everyone was a potential Soviet agents whether evidence for it existed or not.
Politicians, military leaders, and influential figures consistently depicted the Soviet Union as an aggressive, expansionist adversary.
The rhetoric became a rationale for military alliances as NATO [created in 1949], and military buildup during the Cold War.
Operation Vigilant Eagle and others aimed to alert the public and to, and to orient them toward political reaction.
Broadcasts promoted anti-socialism and anti-communism around the globe. In my undergrad years, I spent hours reading VOA [Voice of America] every week. It was always the insidious threat to ‘American’ [ruling class] values and security.
That is only a minimalist outline which could be expanded in most cases with multiple examples.
Nor is this to say that the Soviets did not have their own agenda. Every day, newspapers in the US but also around the world, published a major piece by the TASS News Agency. These provided excoriating and detailed exposure of the duplicity and hypocrisy of Capitalist political economy. They were prepared by high powered Soviet academics, and they were read by many millions of workers in the US alone. And many days, there were two such pieces.
But the Stalinist regime also had a dark history. It betrayed the October Revolution, assassinated nearly all the great Marxists, forsook its international grounding for ‘socialism in one country,’ aided Capitalists in suppressing revolutionary fervor in exchange for concessions the bureaucracy desired for itself.
The US was more than willing to agree, and the process corrupted both the SU and the US utterly.
This brief outline stands for any who might perhaps wish to explore such things.
As for you — two points.
1] I have seen more of this history than you might guess. If you think you can cast out a premise or two and expect me to be disoriented by that, you are mistaken.
2] I am no longer in the business of taking on the task of educating politically illiterate neophytes who think that casting out an assertion effectively establishes their case.
Your original post was itself a Manichaean screed. You made a claim that this was because of the West attacking Russia since 1945. I countered your claim.
The irony here is you proved my point precisely. You claim the west attacks to justify your lust for war despite the west holding out the hand of friendship.
I think comrade it was YOUR head that this flew over and very soon you will get your wish.
‘Zapusk’ it is. Russians are obviously sick of living and that’s just sad.
It’s not the West who have worked tirelessly against Russia, it is Russia herself who has worked against Russia. By way of history, Stalin’s belief that all nations should fall under his leadership (imperialism) sowed the seeds of mistrust broadly. The mistrust diminished under Brezhnev and rose again under Andropov. A walk in the woods to discuss reducing nuclear armaments by both Russia and the USA was followed by two things - Russia (USSR) increasing its arsenal and the shooting down of the Korean plane. Andropov hid the fact that Russia (USSR) had the black box from the plane from the whole world. This created even greater mistrust. Under Gorbachev that mistrust was once again cast aside and this continued under Yeltsin. Putin’s engagement in corruption, cyber warfare against the west, his belief that he has “privileged interest” over former Soviet countries and his behaviour towards Chechnya, Abkhazia and Transnistria raised that distrust to an all time high and culminated in a complete distrust. His anti-west sentiment drove equal rhetoric responses from the West. 2014 annexation of Crimea and the 2022 invasion of Ukraine to the brink.
Until 2014 many in the west held hope that they could create and nurture a neutral relationship with the USSR and then Russia. Between 2014 and 2022, the west was more sceptical that a neutral bilateral relationship could exist. After 2022 it was clear that whilst Putin leads Russia no such relationship can be supported.
The west doesn’t hate the people of Russia and never has. What the west doesn’t like (not hate) is Putin’s approach to other sovereign nations and his desire to dominate the entire world.
You ask why the missiles shouldn’t fly? Because the west holds hope that when the dictators of this world are dead and buried that people like you and I can live in peace and have a neutral (or better) relationship without mistrust or distrust - one where there is mutual respect for our differences and the commonality that we share.
Launching shuts down any chance of that hope coming true.
The Ukranian attack is being called a historic intelligence coup and attack that will go down in history. Rightfully so. Well done! 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 Those planes are irreplaceable. The production lines closed decades ago. There's a good chance that they never will be replaced. I would not be surprised if more aircraft were destroyed then Russia is letting on.
As to the so-called peace talks, Vlad has had multiple chances and peace talks. The next ones would have been more of the same. Zalinskyy knows that the Russian Bear only respects power. This war could have been ended a long time ago by Russia going back to is original borders.
Now, Vlad has to look over his shoulder every day. Are there more surprise attacks coming? Where? On who? When?
Sorry. I was trying to apologize for the typo in Zelensky's name that appeared in my mouthy reply. Of course at my age it could have been a brain-oh, & not a typo. Thanks Porter for the good humored correction.
The Ukrainian multi-targeted attack on the Russian planes that have been doing dirt to Ukraine was absolute genius and will be studied for many years.
One of the Russian lorry drivers said that he made the long drive to where he was supposed to, and then suddenly the top of the lorry flew open and these drones started flying out of his truck, going for the most expensive and supposedly protected Russian planes. To paraphrase the title of a junk TV series, "and just like that!" a third of Russia's biggest and baddest and most expensive war planes were destroyed.
Yes, this action took place over the Urals and halfway to China, with part of it happening as far away north-east as Siberia. All at exactly the same time, a tightly-held secret operation that surprised the crap out of the Pentagon and Big Orange Brother, who would have been on the phone right away with Poopin to let him know what was happening to his (soon-to-be-former) airforce.
Little Ukraine once again shows the armed forces of the gigantic Russian Empire to be stupid. And as Forrest Gump taught us in his wisdom, "stupid is as stupid does." YAY for the Good Guys!
As usual Mr Mouthy, you said a mouthful! Hooray for Ukraine!!! And double hooray for the way they showed the world that you can retaliate in a more humane way (by not wiping babies off the face of the earth). Valinsky is truly a hero. It just must fry Putin's gizzards to be shown up by a man of principles. Long live Ukraine. And long live the USA if we also can find and elect a more principled leader.
👍👍👍
We're all so small. I remember when Carl Sagan asked NASA to turn Voyager around and take a picture of Earth on it's way into the cosmos as it exited our Suns influence in space. It took months for astronomers to locate our planet. Sure enough, they eventually found it, an insignificant dot of light among the vast dizzying dots of light. Carl Sagan words were inspirational, and should serve as a reminder for the power hungry madmen who seek to acquire that which is unattainable. Carl said "imagine all you know and will ever know, everyone who has ever lived has lived upon this little dot of light. Every book, every action, every thought, every war, every discovery, evey thing that has ever happened, happened on this insignificant, fragile speck in the vastness of the cosmos." Yet we allow the small-minded arrogant fools to bully all of society, for a world they selfishly desire to call their own, a world they cannot take with them, to consume more than they deserve or need and to create horrors beyond all imagination in effort only to satisfy their ego.
Great wealth has never been good for civil society, it's never been good for our Earth and all living creatures. Having money is a necessity for everyone. Why we allow for a few to acquire vast amounts, which allows them to distort the health of society to acquire more wealth which leads to catastrophic events for everyone and everything is beyond reason. This is our planet, it belongs to all of us, and all creatures who call it home; it does not belong to any one person to dictate the terms of living! Fuck the one percenters! They are criminal in their belief that they are "better" than everyone else, who sanction their behavior as lawful by twisting societies laws and regulations to validate their grift, and worse; twisting our minds into accepting the idea that people with money are more intelligent and qualified. Don't you believe them, they are worse by far.
Civil society's greatest success will be in "outlawing" great wealth. Money, like water is essential for the health of society; to allow great wealth to rest in the hands of the few, is to deny entire populations the right to live in harmony and be the best persons they can aspire to become.
Just wait until Russia invades Alaska. They can practically walk there.
I’m not entirely convinced that the Mango Mussolini didn’t know before hand. Actually I’m torn. On one hand I believe like many that if he knew he would have alerted Putie Pie. On the other hand he did scream on Untruth Antisocial about “BAD THINGS” last week. Despite TACO’s BS the US still shares intelligence with Ukraine 🤔
It might be the pain killers kicking in but I can’t help but wonder how great the US could become if you had Zelenskyy as your president 🤔😊
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
The truth is, Russia is a paper tiger held together with embezzled US federal funds and Mossad/CIA old white men
I had to reread each paragraph three times bc I was choking with laughter. Thank you for that - it makes me feel more like a human. Been a long time.
Does the word ‘Zapusk’ mean anything to you people?
Can anyone offer any compelling reasons for which that order should not be given?
It is no secret that the West generally and the US particularly have worked tirelessly against Russia since 1945.
Why ought not the nukes to fly?
No seriously, children.
Since everyone wants this so bad, why not just end it.
At some point, it comes down to whether the world wants to live or die.
The longer you wait to decide to end this reactionary conflict, the stronger the case becomes that humanity has failed to justify its continued existence, and that the eradication of humanity from the earth would end more suffering than it would create.
Once again, you comprehend naught of what I am say.
A literary strategy of any level of sophistication leaves you in the cold.
Now I could take you to 1908 when the FBI was formed, discuss its surveillance of ‘radical’ [working class] groups. I could walk you through the October Revolution, the response of Capitalist regimes to it, the birth of Red Scares, and the ongoing presentation of Bolsheviks as vicious and ruthless opponents of democracy.
Hollywood and print media relentlessly produced films, books [and comic books], posters, cartoons, etc. depicting the Soviets as villains.
Educational materials, public meetings, Chambers of Commerce, churches, corporate and business bosses, politicians, etc., etc. stressed the dangers of communism. Always a threat to freedom. Always an attack on democracy. The Soviets were always monsters who eternally plotted invasion.
All this was before WW II. After WW II, the campaign resumed. It culminated in the McCarthy decade and the Second Red Scare.
Numerous Americans were accused of being communist spies, sympathizers or worse.
The government and media fueled fears of Soviet infiltration, espionage, and subversion constantly.
Campaigns targeted government officials, entertainers, scientists, and others. Everyone was a potential Soviet agents whether evidence for it existed or not.
Politicians, military leaders, and influential figures consistently depicted the Soviet Union as an aggressive, expansionist adversary.
The rhetoric became a rationale for military alliances as NATO [created in 1949], and military buildup during the Cold War.
Operation Vigilant Eagle and others aimed to alert the public and to, and to orient them toward political reaction.
Broadcasts promoted anti-socialism and anti-communism around the globe. In my undergrad years, I spent hours reading VOA [Voice of America] every week. It was always the insidious threat to ‘American’ [ruling class] values and security.
That is only a minimalist outline which could be expanded in most cases with multiple examples.
Nor is this to say that the Soviets did not have their own agenda. Every day, newspapers in the US but also around the world, published a major piece by the TASS News Agency. These provided excoriating and detailed exposure of the duplicity and hypocrisy of Capitalist political economy. They were prepared by high powered Soviet academics, and they were read by many millions of workers in the US alone. And many days, there were two such pieces.
But the Stalinist regime also had a dark history. It betrayed the October Revolution, assassinated nearly all the great Marxists, forsook its international grounding for ‘socialism in one country,’ aided Capitalists in suppressing revolutionary fervor in exchange for concessions the bureaucracy desired for itself.
The US was more than willing to agree, and the process corrupted both the SU and the US utterly.
This brief outline stands for any who might perhaps wish to explore such things.
As for you — two points.
1] I have seen more of this history than you might guess. If you think you can cast out a premise or two and expect me to be disoriented by that, you are mistaken.
2] I am no longer in the business of taking on the task of educating politically illiterate neophytes who think that casting out an assertion effectively establishes their case.
I may be wrong, but I think we’re done here.
Good day.
Completely flew over your head. Didn’t it.
In reply to your Manichean screed?
No.
I don’t dialogue either those whose conceptual framework is organized around fictitious narratives.
Because it isn’t possible.
Zapusk! Zapusk! Zapusk!
Your original post was itself a Manichaean screed. You made a claim that this was because of the West attacking Russia since 1945. I countered your claim.
The irony here is you proved my point precisely. You claim the west attacks to justify your lust for war despite the west holding out the hand of friendship.
I think comrade it was YOUR head that this flew over and very soon you will get your wish.
‘Zapusk’ it is. Russians are obviously sick of living and that’s just sad.
Ah you want to launch the missiles huh?
It’s not the West who have worked tirelessly against Russia, it is Russia herself who has worked against Russia. By way of history, Stalin’s belief that all nations should fall under his leadership (imperialism) sowed the seeds of mistrust broadly. The mistrust diminished under Brezhnev and rose again under Andropov. A walk in the woods to discuss reducing nuclear armaments by both Russia and the USA was followed by two things - Russia (USSR) increasing its arsenal and the shooting down of the Korean plane. Andropov hid the fact that Russia (USSR) had the black box from the plane from the whole world. This created even greater mistrust. Under Gorbachev that mistrust was once again cast aside and this continued under Yeltsin. Putin’s engagement in corruption, cyber warfare against the west, his belief that he has “privileged interest” over former Soviet countries and his behaviour towards Chechnya, Abkhazia and Transnistria raised that distrust to an all time high and culminated in a complete distrust. His anti-west sentiment drove equal rhetoric responses from the West. 2014 annexation of Crimea and the 2022 invasion of Ukraine to the brink.
Until 2014 many in the west held hope that they could create and nurture a neutral relationship with the USSR and then Russia. Between 2014 and 2022, the west was more sceptical that a neutral bilateral relationship could exist. After 2022 it was clear that whilst Putin leads Russia no such relationship can be supported.
The west doesn’t hate the people of Russia and never has. What the west doesn’t like (not hate) is Putin’s approach to other sovereign nations and his desire to dominate the entire world.
You ask why the missiles shouldn’t fly? Because the west holds hope that when the dictators of this world are dead and buried that people like you and I can live in peace and have a neutral (or better) relationship without mistrust or distrust - one where there is mutual respect for our differences and the commonality that we share.
Launching shuts down any chance of that hope coming true.
And Trump had no idea it was going down..! 🤡😎
💙💙💙💙💙💙
Can someone make a meme of TACO’S head exploding and all the lettuce coming out and make it go viral please. Maybe even put it on billboards please
The Ukranian attack is being called a historic intelligence coup and attack that will go down in history. Rightfully so. Well done! 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 Those planes are irreplaceable. The production lines closed decades ago. There's a good chance that they never will be replaced. I would not be surprised if more aircraft were destroyed then Russia is letting on.
As to the so-called peace talks, Vlad has had multiple chances and peace talks. The next ones would have been more of the same. Zalinskyy knows that the Russian Bear only respects power. This war could have been ended a long time ago by Russia going back to is original borders.
Now, Vlad has to look over his shoulder every day. Are there more surprise attacks coming? Where? On who? When?
💙💛💙💛💙💛💯💯💯💯
Sorry. I was trying to apologize for the typo in Zelensky's name that appeared in my mouthy reply. Of course at my age it could have been a brain-oh, & not a typo. Thanks Porter for the good humored correction.
The Ukrainian multi-targeted attack on the Russian planes that have been doing dirt to Ukraine was absolute genius and will be studied for many years.
One of the Russian lorry drivers said that he made the long drive to where he was supposed to, and then suddenly the top of the lorry flew open and these drones started flying out of his truck, going for the most expensive and supposedly protected Russian planes. To paraphrase the title of a junk TV series, "and just like that!" a third of Russia's biggest and baddest and most expensive war planes were destroyed.
Yes, this action took place over the Urals and halfway to China, with part of it happening as far away north-east as Siberia. All at exactly the same time, a tightly-held secret operation that surprised the crap out of the Pentagon and Big Orange Brother, who would have been on the phone right away with Poopin to let him know what was happening to his (soon-to-be-former) airforce.
Little Ukraine once again shows the armed forces of the gigantic Russian Empire to be stupid. And as Forrest Gump taught us in his wisdom, "stupid is as stupid does." YAY for the Good Guys!
Good news for a change, and no civilian casualties.
Ukraine doesn't target civilians, schools or hospitals, outdoor gatherings in parks and so forth. That's Putin's Stalinist way of war.
As usual Mr Mouthy, you said a mouthful! Hooray for Ukraine!!! And double hooray for the way they showed the world that you can retaliate in a more humane way (by not wiping babies off the face of the earth). Valinsky is truly a hero. It just must fry Putin's gizzards to be shown up by a man of principles. Long live Ukraine. And long live the USA if we also can find and elect a more principled leader.
Love your reply, but Valinsky runs the deli down the street. Zelenskyy is the President of Ukraine.