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Ukraine war: 80 years on, we are facing German tanks again - Putin
placeholder replied to webfact's topic in World News
Coupling a yiddish word with "Arians" in a sentence is a dead giveaway. "Once the deal goes sour, the entire mishpachah can blame the Arians again and right they are. " You used the word "Arians" (your spelling) as though Jews have some kind of animus towards people who are members of a scientifically invalid race concept. A concept promoted by Nazis. In fact, a concept that was the core of Nazism. Only someone obsessed by antisemitism would make a blatantly irrelevant reference to "Arians". As for your claim to be Jewish...why should I give any credence to an anonymous member of aseannow.com when his comments make that claim exceedingly unlikely? -
Advocates: Black cops not exempt from anti-Black policing
placeholder replied to onthedarkside's topic in World News
Good thing you're not bigoted. Because if you were, you would say something like the Tyre Nichols was "black guy resisting arrest" when in fact, he wasn't. Tyre Nichols seen not to resist officers in bodycam footage released of arrest by Memphis Police Department https://inews.co.uk/news/world/tyre-nichols-not-resist-officers-footage-released-arrest-memphis-police-department-2114150 -
Here's another one. This goes all the way to the Dark Ages, otherwise known as October 2022. "In a recent campaign video, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican from Georgia, likened Democrats to destructive feral hogs allowed to range free and destroy the American countryside... As the camera followed her, she grabbed a rifle and climbed aboard a waiting helicopter, where she tracked down and shot a fleeing hog. In the next scene, quite pleased with herself, Greene posed next to her dead prey and invited supporters to enter a free drawing, with the winner accompanying her on her next hog-killing expedition." https://newjerseymonitor.com/2022/10/20/top-republicans-embrace-marjorie-taylor-greenes-violent-rhetoric/
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Yes, we'd have to go way way way back to Feb 1, 2023 to find crazy stuff that she has said as she did during a Congressional hearing: Greene: "Oh, Mr. Dodaro. I have to tell you in Illinois that they received $5.1 billion at an elementary school there that used it for equity and diversity." The funding Greene is discussing came from the 2021 American Rescue Plan, a stimulus package in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which included billions to support school reopenings. Illinois received about $5.1 billion, with the majority of that split among the state’s roughly 850 school districts. The state did not receive $5.1 billion for a single school. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/feb/03/marjorie-taylor-greene/51-billion-for-one-schools-diversity-program-marjo/
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US halts Blinken China visit after spy balloon row
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
Not so long ago, Michael Flynn claimed that there were signs in Arabic directing Islamic terrorists who had illegally crossed the border from Mexico, where to go. Now it's Chinese spies. -
Antony Blinken in Jerusalem: Urgent steps needed for calm
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
The thing is, that most, if not all, of those other offending countries don't enjoy the same level of support from the United States as does Israel. -
Fred Kaplan at Slate.com offers a very good explanation of the drawbacks and benefits of giving Ukraine F-16s https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/02/biden-ukraine-f16-fighter-planes.html
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UK economy only G7 nation to shrink in 2023 - IMF
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
No, I wouldn't agree that a technical matter of economic judgement has anything at all to do with her bad judgement in the other case. None at all. Nada. Zip. The motive behind your attempt to conflate 2 kinds of "judgement" is transparently obvious. As for productivity. here's the results of a meta study that analyzed 41 different studies: "According to the unweighted average of all estimates in our data set, a cut in the corporate tax rate by 10 percentage points would increase annual GDP growth rates by about 0.2 percentage points. However, we find evidence for publication selectivity in favour of reporting growth-enhancing effects of corporate tax cuts. Correcting for this bias, we cannot reject the hypothesis that the effect of corporate taxes on growth is zero." https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014292122000885?via%3Dihub Even the unweighted results show very little change. So given that this is a 6 point increase, we could expect a reduction of 0.1% based even on unweighted projections. -
US adds 517,000 jobs in January in huge gain for labor market
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
Went to the foxnews landing page to see how prominently this story was displayed. It must have been written in invisible pixels because it's nowhere to be seen. Is it any wonder that those on the right are so badly informed? -
UK economy only G7 nation to shrink in 2023 - IMF
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
Not for being a bad economist. -
Ukraine war: 80 years on, we are facing German tanks again - Putin
placeholder replied to webfact's topic in World News
Interesting that Kwasaki and NativeBob endorse the anti-semitic comments of Sydebolle. Comments that clearly are aligned with Nazi ideology. -
Germany no longer reliant on Russian energy.
placeholder replied to Social Media's topic in World News
So your argument against ev is that a VW van has a low range of 30 miles? Actually, it's 82 miles but that still makes it the van with the lowest range of any e-van. https://www.parkers.co.uk/vans-pickups/volkswagen/transporter/2020-e-transporter-review/#:~:text=But the driving range%3F,range is just 82 miles. Did you think that such a transparently inaccurate assertion would pass unchallenged? And that your choice of that particular vehicle constitutes some kind of serious evidence? -
Ukraine war: 80 years on, we are facing German tanks again - Putin
placeholder replied to webfact's topic in World News
As this sentence show in its obscurantist way, Sydebolle is an unapologetic anti-Semite. Here's the definition of "Mishpachah": "The meaning of MISHPACHAH is a Jewish family or social unit including close and distant relatives." Making this a Jewish-Aryan dispute is, of course, nonsense. But to someone obsessed by Jew-hatred, as Sydebolle is, this makes perfect sense. Clearly, he's in sympathy with at least some of the essence of Nazi ideology. -
Ukraine war: 80 years on, we are facing German tanks again - Putin
placeholder replied to webfact's topic in World News
Nonsense. Germany is a member of NATO. It's very clear what the obligations of a NATO member are. The cheif one being to defend other members of NATO if their territory is attacked, NATO went into Afghanistan because a NATO member was attacked by forces that enjoyed the Afghani government's protection. And it should be pointed out that far from prodding NATO to take action, the Bush Administration was not at all welcoming of the effort. NATO IN AFGHANISTAN "NATO’s invocation of Article 5 and allied offers of assistance immediately following the al Qaeda attacks on the United States met a lukewarm response in the Bush administration, where skepticism about NATO and allies was rampant in the new administration’s Pentagon. When Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld proclaimed in September 2001, “The mission determines the coalition. And the coalition must not be permitted to determine the mission,” the message to the NATO allies was loud and clear: thanks, but no thanks." https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/767/76712438004.pdf -
If you think Russia would survive as a nation after launching a nuclear war you're part of a very small minority. Are you familiar with the concept of mutually assured destruction?
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Lucky for them they have that sub. Because without it, they would only have thousands of land-based ICBMs to commit suicide with.
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Ukraine war: 80 years on, we are facing German tanks again - Putin
placeholder replied to webfact's topic in World News
*Deleted post edited out* The reason why Bandera is a hero to some in the Ukraine is his opposition to domination by Russia/The Soviet Union. There are very few who celebrate his anti-semitism. There is a lot less anti-Semitism in the Ukraine than there is in Russia https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2019/10/14/minority-groups/ And you know full well why there was so much opposition to the resolution. Russia has been using those anti-nazi resolutions to justify their aggression in the region. Especially against Ukraine. And what you failed to note this: "Before the vote, Australia managed to get an amendment to the draft resolution adopted (63 votes in favor, 23 against and 65 abstentions) inserting a new paragraph in which the General Assembly "notes with alarm that the Russian Federation has sought to justify its territorial aggression against Ukraine on the purported basis of eliminating neo-Nazism, and underlines that the pretextual use of neo-Nazism to justify territorial aggression seriously undermines genuine attempts to combat neo-Nazism." https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2022/11/09/why-france-and-51-other-countries-voted-against-the-un-resolution-condemning-nazism_6003471_8.html