thaibeachlovers

Having a bad day? It's just going to get worse come January. Perhaps you should get off the internet so you don't get triggered all the time.

That's what happens when using western supplied missiles in Russia. Would they have been less destructive had they been sent on a different day? Ukraine's air force said it had detected 184 missiles and drones, but many were shot down or missed their targets. Huh? I distinctly remember posts on this very subforum claiming that Russia had run out of missiles. I guess someone got it wrong, Ukraine perhaps?

We saw it the first time you posted it.

Seems it's the in thing to jump in before actually knowing the facts if it puts Russia in a bad light. The propaganda mill proceeds apace.

There is a reason for that, if you bothered to find out, and it's nothing to do your implication.

Ain't that the truth. I miss the God thread. I learned so much, but like everything the end comes eventually and after Sunmaster and the Italian guy ( I'm getting so forgetful as I near the end )- you know who I mean, left I saw no point in regurgitating the same thing over and over, so i left too. Agree on that. Statesmen are nowhere to be found anymore. It's all about power and wealth- how they can get as much of that as possible without being overthrown in a rebellion or going to jail. Not in a bad way I hope. I am still here, too much so in fact, but it helps to pass the time before time is called for myself.

Interesting post with much to think about. The takeaway I get is that so called public health services are going down the rabbit hole of high tech, when almost all of the patients I looked after in decades of nursing in public hospitals were low tech. When the bureaucrats spend most of the money on high tech that is applicable to few of the patients, it means that low tech patients have to wait. Just one heart replacement costs more than many, many simple operations such as cataracts. Seems to me the aim is to benefit the few over the many. Given the human characteristic of looking to build empires I expect more public money to be diverted into high tech with higher media profile in future, leaving patients with simple, but less "sexy" ailments to suffer longer. My solution- public money should be spent for the maximum benefit for as many patients as possible. Leave the high tech for those that can afford it in a private system. When I worked for the NHS, which was some years ago so may have changed, laser corneal shaping was done only for private ( paying ) patients. The NHS did the dog work of cataracts, simple procedures that changed countless lives for the better, but were not media worthy.

Good description of governments as they have become in 2024. Welcome back. I missed your contributions during the election season. The God thread died not long after you departed.

I hope you are not implying that Bolton is a "good guy". He got the boot for a reason. While you are complaining that Trump is an idiot ( which makes him an ideal politician- idiots welcome in that club ) you might ask yourself how an idiot thrashed the one selected by the elites of the Democrat party in the election, winning not only the EC but the popular vote and all the swing states.

You do occasionally write something I can agree with. You missed Slaughter of M E peoples.

I assume you meant "invasion". Stop making it up. Taking back the canal forcibly is not the same as invading the whole country. I'm not in favour of that, given it's illegal, but IMO the US should never have given it away in the first place.

There is a lot of that about these days

A lot, unfortunately when woke people get hold of other people's money. You do know that PEOPLE spend money, and it doesn't spend itself, aren't you? Depends if it's for something they actually need help for something that they can't fix themselves. IMO poor countries are not poor in fact. There is usually plenty of money but it's stolen by corrupt governments. Let them pay before western money is sent. The other reason they are poor is that they are overpopulated, and their governments do nothing about that, preferring to let them try to get illegally to other countries, while selling their fishing grounds to rich western nations and such like. Nigeria makes loadsacash from oil, but the poor get only pollution and no money.

Seems everything is based on "left wing or right wing" these sad days and the idea that organisations should just help people in trouble, without trying to make them take an unproven vaccine is an idea consigned to the bin long ago. Now it's all about politics. IMO.

Have you been living in a cave for the past decade? If you can't see the atrocities of wokeness you need to look harder. They are all about us. Just one example- causing massive amounts of pollution flying thousands of people to exotic locations to talk about reducing pollution.

Only half? Seemed more like 100% of the west to me. In NZ they are still trying to make us take boosters for a vaccine that IMO didn't work and is a huge con.

It's not irrelevant when wokeness is used to cover many atrocities of modern life. When the luvvies stop pushing wokeness in my face at every turn, I'll stop mentioning it.

No doubt including the covid rushed vaccines based on "new" science. Let them carry on with such without the US. No reason for the US to be the largest contributor to that sort of thing that I fundamentally disagree with.

Hes hardly going to say "Yes, I agree, Journalists should not be allowed to enter dangerous places". Strange thing to say. Journalists have been going to dangerous places as long as I can remember, as evidenced by the numbers killed doing their job However, being a journalist in Gaza seems excessively dangerous, it's almost as it they are targeted, but surely the most moral army in the world would never do that? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/16/media-freedom-watchdog-decries-israels-killing-of-journalists-in-gaza CPJ says the Israeli military ‘continues to act with total impunity when it comes to the killing of journalists’.

Silly question. America loves israelis, so they could all go there. Different story for the Palestinians. No welcome for them in America. Given the history of Jews it seems strange that they are doing what they are doing in Gaza and the West Bank.

Some of them are even posting the same old <deleted> they were before their heroine was roundly defeated by someone they consider to be the worst man on the planet, worse even than Stalin or Mao.

Yes they should be, whatever gender they are.

Sadly, the woke agenda has been insinuated into western society for almost as long as I've been alive. It rots kids brains and they grow up thinking it's actually a "good thing" to be woke. It's too late for the western world to wake up- just a matter of time now. IMO. I've even seem the creeping menace of wokeism infiltrating Thai society.

Just as it is anti Trumpers SOP to keep throwing mud in the hope that some will stick. It doesn't have to be true, just keep throwing it.

I'm sure I met a lot of people in my life that I don't remember meeting. Seems that some people on here think Trump should have a photographic memory. Anyway, just because he met her does not mean he is guilty as charged. Need more than a photo from long ago to prove that.