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2021-04-12 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-12 05:42|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 If you're going to talk about this without including the context that the Bidens are pretty much owned by the Russians you're talking out of all four sides of your mouth with both your faces.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-04-12 09:19|| 2021-04-12 09:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Especially from someone who believed all the left-machine's (both locally and from China) stack of lies and half-truths that basically amounted to: none of the treatments worked, so let's ban them and bitch about masking and keep everyone inside instead.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-04-12 09:21|| 2021-04-12 09:21|| Front Page Top

#3 ^I managed to upset somebody with strongly held opinions - who, unfortunately doesn't understand that there is a difference between Russians and Ukrainians. (I won't ever touch on his profound knowledge of immunology & epidemiology).

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-12 09:47|| 2021-04-12 09:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Burisma was founded during Yanukovitch's term in office by his environmental minister, Zlochevsky, who basically denied environmental permits to most companies besides the one he owned. Yanukovitch is currently resident in Russia. Noone seems to know where Zlochevsky is living. Biden basically exercised influence during the Obama regime to keep the Ukranians from prosecuting Burisma, which is a Russian front firm paying him money.

"Those are just Ukranians Us Poor Russians Have No Control Over" is just another way for the machine to exercise control over you and keep you from seeing what's going on. Or for you to advocate for the Russian branch of the Machine even as the US branch is grinding me down.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-04-12 10:14|| 2021-04-12 10:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Finally, look at Israel's death rate compared to (oh, picking an east asian country at random) Laos's. 6299 deaths versus zero.

Maybe Israel is less free than Laos?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-04-12 10:20|| 2021-04-12 10:20|| Front Page Top

#6 The truth is China cares more about killing Westerners, which they're trying to establish ownership over, than it does about killing Laotians, because they already own Laos and don't need to establish ownership over them.

BUT: If I were an obnoxious troll....

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-04-12 10:23|| 2021-04-12 10:23|| Front Page Top

#7 I just thought of the way of finishing the sentence:

IF I were an obnoxious troll I could ignore the last thirty years of warfare by other means, which has picked up in the last four years, of which the virus is just one example.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-04-12 10:25|| 2021-04-12 10:25|| Front Page Top

#8 I concede. I eat crow. Your erudition is rivaled only by your superior intelligence & your intellectual integrity, oh mighty sage!

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-12 11:01|| 2021-04-12 11:01|| Front Page Top

#9 Enjoy your custom-designed Modified Limited Hangout. May it be more gentle to you than the truth.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-04-12 11:14|| 2021-04-12 11:14|| Front Page Top

#10 Who's moving to China for the freedom? Bueller? Anyone?

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-04-12 11:20|| 2021-04-12 11:20|| Front Page Top

#11 Ted Nugent said, "Of course America is f*cked up. But it's still the least f*cked up place in the world." Not true, of course. Lichtenstein, Monaco, Switzerland, a few other places are less f*cked up. But you better have the gelt to apply for citizenship. Unlike the US, those places don't let just anyone in...

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-04-12 11:24|| 2021-04-12 11:24|| Front Page Top

#12 ^So no more posts about USA becoming Nazi Germany in the 'Burg?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-12 11:29|| 2021-04-12 11:29|| Front Page Top

#13 G(r)om, you're misunderstanding how the "Limited Modified Hangout" works. It starts out, "Ok, you're been lied to, but here's the truth..." and they take a small clipping of the truth and staple another layer of lies to it.

It's been used to kill half a million people in the West in the last year, but maybe the governments, most of them foreign, that are behind this are only doing it to _you_ for your own good because they like you. Maybe you'll be that one special person.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-04-12 12:40|| 2021-04-12 12:40|| Front Page Top

#14 ^

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-12 13:11|| 2021-04-12 13:11|| Front Page Top

#15 Re. the article's comparison of Putin's Russia and Woke America:

In both countries, major corporations are expected not to cross the regime. However, only Woke America demands that corporate executives make affirmative statements and other shows of loyalty to the ruling party.

Woke America now requires outright discrimination against white males in order to achieve "diversity, "inclusion" and "equity" across races, genders and something called "transgenders."

These concepts do not exist in Russia. Although the USSR had various schemes to promote Siberian or Tatar or other underrepresented groups, and of course Party members and children of same were privileged while Jews, Armenians and others were openly discriminated against, today's Russia has no such distinctions.

In Putin's Russia there is no systematic or widespread, let alone official, discrimination in hiring by private firms or in university admissions. By contrast American universities and firms are now openly discriminating on the basis of gender and race.

In Russian job interviews there are no political loyalty tests.
In today's Woke America, people are now being fired for incorrect political views-- or even statements that appear to violate Woke pieties.

In America today, one who shows any evidence of sympathy for Donald Trump or his policies -- to take one small example, suggesting that perhaps the US should cease promoting lies about Russian "collusion" and stop alienating and demonizing Russia at every turn -- such people are persecuted, slandered, attacked, destroyed financially and reputationally.

Frankly, the choice isn't at all difficult. For whites generally and white males especially, today's Woke America is far more repressive -- and dangerous -- than Putin's Russia.

Maybe we should move there. Давай, пойдём завтра

Posted by Spaque Lumumba4931 2021-04-12 14:34|| 2021-04-12 14:34|| Front Page Top

#16 Maybe we should move. To Russia or Hungary. Swiss if they'll take us.

Posted by Menhadden Jones5440 2021-04-12 16:53|| 2021-04-12 16:53|| Front Page Top

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