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The concept is that people would be less likely to engage in personal attacks when there isn't complete anonymity. I tend to agree.

You must be Russian then?

Neither do I.

Dude's got bigger biceps then I had back in the day.

Allowing biological males to compete in martial arts like boxing is insane and a danger to women. This chicks-with-dicks-are-really-chicks nonsense has got to stop before some women or girl is killed.

Is he on a Non-D visa (Non-Immigrant Derelict)?

That didn't take long.

I agree with you.

Personally I don't like the "Thumb-Down" emoji It's often overused and it's impossible to tell the context. Example: I like hamburgers! 😕 I don't like hamburgers! 😕 It's hard to tell who is Down-Thumb-ing what and for what reasons. And it's just sorta crude imho. But let's have a Poll. What Say You AseanNow Members! Yes I like the Thumb-Down emoji! No I don't like the Thumb-Down emoji! Huh? I didn't know there was a Thumb-Down emoji. I thought those were "Hearts." 👈 (half the time this is me <laughs>) And.....Why?

You mean Officer Barbie? 👮‍♀️ They need a brunette version and it would be perfect!

Well the IDF intercepted the boat. The fact the the little curmudgeon was on board probably saved the rest of the crew from being shot. Shooting little Greta Thunberg would be a PR disaster even for Israel who are otherwise immune to PR disasters involving shooting people. They gave her a bottle of water and a cupcake. She'll get a hand-slap and sent back to Sweden. Then we'll see if she goes back to saving the Earth from man-made climate change or if she sets sail once more to Gaza. The next time I doubt they'll care if it a PR disaster or not. My guess is she'll be warned in no uncertain terms not to repeat the act.

No doubt the Baroness will now be called and terrorist extremist.

About time.

Czechoslovakia was established on October 28, 1918, following the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of World War I and was created from Check and Slovak territories. The new state combined the Czech lands including Bohemia, Moravia, and parts of Silesia with Slovakia and Subcarpathian Ruthenia. Czechs and Slovaks are ethnically and culturally Slavic and share linguistic, cultural, and historical roots within the broader Slavic family such as the Poles. Historically Western Europeans detested both Jews and Slavs and during the Holocaust upwards of 11 million Slavs from Eastern Europe and Russia were exterminated. That never gets any press. Speaking as someone with a family half of which consists of ethnic Slavs from Czechoslovakia who were targets of Generalplan Ost1. "Antisemetism" gets a lot of press, but little is said of the generational hatred of Western Europeans for ethnic Slavs from Eastern Europe and Russia. Once you understand that, you can understand the visceral hatred of Russians by so many "farangs" on this forum. Which is very sad. But that hatred is passed down from generation to generation. 1Generalplan Ost Slavic Genocide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalplan_Ost

Watch the "I Hate All Russians and Slavs" come out of the AseanNow woodwork. And you start by dehumanizing them. "They are not like us. They are not like Brits, Americans, Germans...East Europeans culturally thrive on violence." I'm surprised the civilized Westerner Cameroni (Italian?) hasn't referred to all Russians and Slavs as bugs and animals, orcs and cockroaches. It's exactly this sort of inflammatory rhetoric which abounded prior to both World War 1 and World War 2 by civilized Western Europeans. Study European history and its replete in instances of endless regional conflict and warfare as well a Western Europeans referring to their Eastern Slavic counterparts as not deserving to live. They're rioting in Africa They're starving in Spain There's hurricanes in Florida And Texas needs rain The whole world is festering With unhappy souls The French hate the Germans The Germans hate the Poles Italians hate the Yugoslavs South Africans hate the Dutch And I don't like anybody very much! -Merry Little Minute, Kingston Trio

I love the West coast. I was born there and lived in the Bay Area, San Diego, coastal Oregon, and all over Washington State in Tacoma, Seattle, Bellingham, Tri-Cities, and on the Olympic Peninsula as both a kid and as an adult. One more time - I love the West Coast. But it's turned into a sh*t-hole thanks to Blue State progressive liberal policies and Big Government in general. Fishing destroyed, agriculture destroyed, manufacturing gutted, and society just turned upside down and inside out. I left in 2007, returned to teach snow skiing for one final ski season as I'm a PSIA ski instructor, then I left for good. And since 2008 when I bailed out, it's just gone downhill especially in Seattle. The Bay Area and San Diego's decline and death pretty much happened in the 1990s and Seattle's demise was just a matter of time as California Blue-Bodies headed North to totally screw up what was once a fantastic place to live. People say, "Don't Burn Your Bridges." I've got family and friends who still live there. But I've no desire to return. It's a mess. And as much as we bi*ch and complain about Thai Immigration policy, at least they understand that open-borders is a national security risk. I mean realistically. That attack on Russia's Nuclear Bombers? Do you people think that's a "one off?" With 20 to 30 million illegal aliens unaccounted for roaming free in the US, why would anyone in the right mind think that those numbers don't include cells of foreign agents who pose a direct threat to the US military assets, like the nuclear bombers in Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, and Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, as well as US nuclear plants and electricity infrastructure among a host of other military and infrastructure targets? And how about assets to bring Color Revolution to the US homeland like the US intel agencies have done using cut-outs created by USAID and NED across the globe? Defunct for now, but they'll be back once the Republicans lose the presidency and Congress between 2026 and 2028. Well, unless were in a state of war with martial law declared - I don't rule that out for a moment. There are those of you who think the US would be the safest place on Earth as its separated from the rest of the world by two oceans and Canada and Mexico to the North and South. Don't bet on it. If foreign enemies want to project power into the US, the Mexican border using Mexican nationals and armed Mexican cartels organized and fomented by foreign actors would be the place to begin and leveraging illegal Mexican nationals in Blue sanctuary states like California would be icing on the National Security Cake Of Disaster. The naval infrastructure in San Diego is a ripe target for destruction using drone warfare given it's proximity to Mexico as well as the use of screaming mad illegals and Mexican nationals living the California and Southwest United States who would be happy if all of the SW US became part of Mexico again. Then there is the advance in technology - non-nuclear hyper-sonic ICBMs that can't be stopped. Do you think that the "United States sworn enemies" aren't eventually going to transfer weapons technology to proxy agents like Latin American cartels and Mexican nationals who wish to see parts of the United States repatriated with Mexico as well as foreign agents who simply walked across the US border and disappeared into the center of the US homeland thanks to liberal progressives who help them to do so? "The United States is the safest place in the world!" Don't bet on it. Technology has changed the world. "Ya'll ain't in Kansas anymore Toto." I have no desire to return to what will be the center of the global "Splatter-ZoneTM" when the excrement hits the spinning propellers. I personally think the vast majority of people in the US, UK, EU, i.e., NATO countries want to have a global war. Be careful what you wish for - I think ya'll are going to get your wishes granted fairly soon. Me? I'm hunkering down in rural Thailand and watching the s***-show. This is a good enough place as any to die.

CNN news-crew in LA "detained" (handcuffed) and then released with warning that if they come back they'll be arrested. https://www.yahoo.com/news/cnn-correspondent-detained-lapd-camera-050421711.html So there goes the First Amendment guarantees of a free press. Not that it's a big deal per-say and everyone and the brother has a camera in their pocket. If the government wants to restrict reporting on the riots, banning the press for covering them is a dumb-ass way of doing it. I don't like CNN - but? Restricting press coverage of the riots concerns me deeply. Imho it is FUBARed.

Which is why I'm watching Platoon, Mash, and probably will cue up The Godfather series. There is very little whether movies or TV that is worth watching any more. I'm not saying that a lot of mindless people like watching CGI and "reality TV," they do, but I'm not one of them. And I'm reading more lately like The Third Reich Trilogy by Richard Evans. The parallels between 19th and 20th Century Europe and Europe today is deeply disturbing.

They may be deployed but they are legally constrained from acting by the Posse Comitatus Act (1878). They can stand there and look tough and that's about it. Unless Trump invokes the Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C. §§ 251–255) and personally I don't think he has the sack to do that. His constant flip-flopping on issues to create "strategic ambiguity" is a sign of weakness, not a sign of strength, and that applies to both domestic and foreign policy. Trump had a chance to do some really pivotal actions domestically and internationally and at this point all he's done is show that his policies are a confused mess with little foresight and coordination. Those who voted for him (I did not nor did I vote for Harris - both parties suck) and those who supported him during his first 100 days (I did) expected him to deliver on his campaign rhetoric: End wars, rein in government spending and largess, and rein in the Leftist insanity to always ends in street violence. What do we get? We're about to walk into wars on at least three fronts and maybe four (Russia/NATO, China/Taiwan, Iran/Israel and if wars go hot expect Kim's DPRK to enter the fray on Russia/China side which I fully expect to end up in a fully scale world war, and as Elon Musk's spat with Trump is about, Trump has decided to engage in "Big Beautiful Spending" starting with increasing the freaking military budget to $1.2 freaking TRILLION dollars for More War plus God only know what other nonsense in that congressional monstrosity, all after DOGE set out to decrease government spending (and what do we get - a net increase in the US debt further screwing the US Dollar), and there is chaos in US blue cities as local government officials like Newsom and Bass literally endorse street violence to protect those who broke the law by entering the US illegally. Trump is going to lose his base if he hasn't already. He has a mess on his hands and it's his own fault. My guess is before the end of the summer, he'll listen to the war-hawks in his cabinet and just go to war.

No. I handed Immigration my TM30 when I changed passports last year. They just handed it back.

I've wanted to do that to Main-Stream Reporters. Give that officer a gold medal and a box of rubber bullets!

Anyone see the Aussie gal report who got shot point-blank with a rubber bullet. Right on camera. She's talking away with a "Channel 9" mic in her hand. A cop swivels around and nails her in the leg. The officer needs a medal. Ahhh - somebody found it! 👇

Want to end the riots? Find the billionaire(s) funding the riots via NGOs and 501c non-profits, and arrest them and close down their support network, and use RICO to prosecute them. Nothing about this is an organic protest.

"Look how many people here support hate and violence against our country." You'd be surprised at how many people here would support hate and violence against other countries in the form of Color Revolution. Then when SHTF in the US and a potential color revolution hits America's shores, you wonder why. Live by the sword, die by the sword. I don't support hate and violence anywhere. However, you make the assumption that if you're born in America you need to wrap yourself in an American flag and support everything your government does. I praise it where praise is deserved and criticize it where criticism is deserved. I think the riots in LA need to be put down. But - not using Marines or other US troops. "This place is sadly becoming a Socialist chat room." Socialism ideology does not call for hate, violence, and revolution. You've got that mixed up with Marxism and Communism.