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1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

but IMO a rock would have done a better job.

"The Rock"  ? 

Hardwarehouse Na-Jomtien/ Bahn Amphur has a selection of fans and almost everything else...ever invented

16 minutes ago, Wobblybob said:

Stop trying to blame Ukraine for a war Russia started.

It is a war started in 2014 egged on and instigated by US /NATO meddling and provocation "Ukraine" had little choice but comply.

37 minutes ago, Wobblybob said:

I will give you a choice of 2 to choose from, either Russia or Putin.

No I reject your 2 choices, as I said before this whole mess could have been avoided by letting zelensky negotiate...instead they sent Boris to insist on war...a proxy war to "bring Russia to its knees and envoke regime change"

with no US military personnel lost and low percentage of GDP spent a price well worth it  according to the war hawks...never mind the Ukrainians let them fight to the last man,womam and child !

Never mind that the illegal sanctions have backfired the Russian economy is doing fine and they are forging new trade links via BRICS further weakening the US hegemony.

Now It's looking increasingly likely those US/NATO troops will be on the ground in Ukraine...well at least that is one thing (GI) Joe got right !

You fail to see my point that China will allow a "different" set of speech

not free speech no-one allows that  but a different set of opinions to combine many different sets of speech/opinions then you can make up your own mind..

(not the CIA,NSA,CCP well hopefully)

12 minutes ago, Wobblybob said:

your hatred for the US is preventing you from talking sense.

Your fawning adoration  of

"Uncle Sam" (GI Joe) and unquestioning following of the mainstream narrative has led you up the garden path.

Ukraine can not win against Russia

If the US and NATO fully engage then that is a whole nother cattle of fish  in other words  World War 3.

1 minute ago, candide said:

 It's above removing the Chinese shareholder.

Why the heck does it matter if its a Chinese shareholder  spying on you

or an Uncle Sam shareholder...both are terrible   but having 2

(more's the better ) competiting "systems" at least allows some small degree of diversity of thought,expression,opinion...some would call different opinions mall,miss,diss information or propaganda..I'd say the more speech,viewpionts ,opinions  and platforms to express them the better.

3 hours ago, tgw said:

What they need to do is to bloody the bear's nose, not once, but several times in a row with mass casualties of Ruzzian soldiers and ravage Ruzzian airbases, Ruzzian oil infrastructure. Take out the damn bridge.

You like war ?  WWIII  with a nuclear sprinkle on top ?

This whole thing could have been avoided if they had not sent Boris to insist on fighting..dont give in we got your back...fight to the last Ukrainian..it's very good value for (US)

4 hours ago, Hummin said:

also the continued war in Gaza against palestinian civilians shows the as west two faced and also a propaganda win for Putin

The "west" is certainly two faced and hypocritical no need for "propaganda" to show that.

15 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Recently they've put in annoying little speed bumps, every few hundred metres all along the road. 

 

 

Unless very recent (last few weeks) I wouldn't call them little...more like motorcross "whoops"

2 hours ago, candide said:

B.S. That's not the issue. The issue is about removing the Chinese shareholder, not about censoring Riot on.

No B.S.

It is completely about censorship and control...facebook,Google etc collect as much if not more "user data"..the difference is they spy for the CIA ,NSA,FBI 

so all's good right ?

Warrantless searches all hunky dorey "for your own protection"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/12/what-is-fisa-warrant-surveillance

57 minutes ago, retarius said:

If the US is able to sell products to its allies like Ukraine, then so is China.

Exactly..the hypocrisy of

"Uncle Sam" (GI Joe)  is totally off the chart !

2 minutes ago, stevenl said:

With the exception of Hong Kong no Bricks countries in the biggest export countries for China.

The point is that they are forming new alliances so as not to depend so much on US ,Europe, NATO and other various vasal states.

I believe this Blinken visit is a prelude to more sanctions on China

and so they are right to look towards strengthening ties with less sanctimonious  trading partners.

2 hours ago, candide said:

China's trade is dominantly with NATO countries

Ever heard of BRICS ?

5 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Saying Ukraine can't win is a standard Kremlin talking point.

They cannot win and never had a chance of winning, not a "kremlin talking point"  just the plain truth.

^^^ Exactly ,almost everything is made in China it is impossible to isolate China  without incurring a massive degradation to "our" standard of living....I'm all for countries repatriating their manufacturing but it can't happened overnight.

7 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

I found some footage of the Swiss guy, in his younger days riding a bicycle. 

I know I shouldn't  but I laughed out loud  what an idiot cyclist...thinking he owned the road and  everyone would stop ha ha

24 minutes ago, Skipalongcassidy said:

unless you can provide one you are just rumormongering and spreading misinformation.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/poland-and-lithuania-pledge-to-help-kyiv-repatriate-ukrainians-subject-to-military-draft

Poland and Lithuania have said they are prepared to help Ukrainian authorities return men subject to military conscription to the country, after Kyiv announced this week that it was suspending consular services for such men who were now abroad.

Anyone noticed that so called liberals are suddenly in favour of no freedom of speech,censorship,cancel culture  done a complete 180 on "my body my choice"  and now  fully support the deep state

(CIA,FBI,NSA etc etc) intruding into every aspect of their life ?

For me it's ok for everyone to decide for themselves if they want to use a service controlled by the CCP or one controlled by the CIA/NSA  I would prefere to use services with no conection to any government agencies but often its very hard to avoid them...

5 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

when it comes to Tiktok I do consider it to be the most toxic social media platform on the planet.

Yes it's horrible but this push to ban it is  IMHO more to do with censorship/control than protection of kids...which is ultimately upto the parents...unless by kids they mean everyone and the government is the parent which seems a bit north Korean-ish.

4 minutes ago, Confuscious said:

And next Zuckerberg's Face<deleted>/Meta and Google.

Nope because those are already fully cooperating with the 3 letter agencies...but they would still love a digital ID..just to make sure.

All part of the push for an online digital ID under the same guise of "for your protection" and or to "protect the children"...they have of course wanted this for a long time the end of online anonymity.

The ultimate censorship lovers dream.

Resist these draconian/dystopian edicts in every way possible.

4 minutes ago, Wobblybob said:

Russia has no say in who joins NATO, it has nothing to do with Russia who joins NATO, for without Russia there would be no NATO! 

Of course they have no say in who joins NATO as they are not members

they can express disapproval of continuing NATO expansion toward their border.