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  1. 56 minutes ago, TKthunder2 said:

    Sorry if off topic, but can someone explain to me how Russia lost tons of territory in Eastern Europe but held onto Kalingrad. That seems like a big security risk in the middle of NATO country.

    That sliver was added to Russia proper after WWII.  Then they ethnic cleansed it with almost nothing but Russians.  When the USSR fell apart there was no one with the bright (and right) idea to break away.

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  2. 2 hours ago, Parliament said:

    Why the big flake out NOW?  Qatar has been this way since the beginning.  They were like this when they were competing to get the WC.  Why weren't people raising a big stink then?

    Because everyone was being bribed.  Now that the money's been doled out, and most of the people on the take got away with it, the Qataris are left to fend for themselves.  To hell with all of them.

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  3. 51 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    How do they get “trapped” on the east side of the river? They occupy all the territory from there east to the Russian border. I thought that was the point of them pulling back to there from west of the river. I figured the river would be their line of defense against Ukrainian forces to the west.

    I think there may be some miscommunication here.  AFAIK when the Ukrainians talk about the right side of the river they describe it as one looks downstream along the river.  For the N-S flowing Dnieper that means right = west.  I suspect someone at some point saw "right" looked on a map and assumed this meant the eastern shore since that's to the right of the western shore.

    The orcs on the east side are not trapped.  Yet.

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  4. Win win for DeSantis I suspect.  A small number of people locked up.  A larger number of people, who are not 100% sure the police won't come knocking on their door, just refrain from registering altogether.  Everything is going according to plan.

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  5. 11 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Also, here's my one ask of this entire universe.

    I am an out of shape lawyer of a no-longer-young age.  I ask the universe only this: put me in a ring with Trump for just 5 minutes.  Just 5 minutes for him to show  us all how "manly and masculine he is."

    I am no athlete or fighter....and I would whoop his ass mercilessly.  There's not a part of his fat ass I couldn't kick up and down the goddamned ring.  Your "alpha male" would get his ass beaten by 95% of the people in the US.  Not 95% of the men, 95% of the PEOPLE.  Not adult people, ALL people.  Any healthy person over the age of 10 would beat his sorry ass.  He's no man, he's just a fucking pussy-ass lying con-man who will cry like the little bitch that he is after the first punch is landed on his weak face.

    That's all I ask, universe.  Give me those 5 minutes.  I won't let you down.

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  6. 43 minutes ago, Satchel said:

    Then there’s this:

    After President Bill Clinton’s infidelity, the 1998 Southern Baptist Convention passed the “Resolution on Moral Character of Public Officials” declaring that a person’s “moral character matters” and that Americans should not vote for Democratic candidates who do not “demonstrate consistent honesty, moral purity, and the highest character.”

    The added word in bold is implied, of course.

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  7. 5 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

    We do it too


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    One of the great things about the booklet with candidates and propositions here in CA is that we completely tune out any and all political ads.  Prop 27, 29, 30?  How will I vote?  No idea yet.  We'll pore over the details later at our leisure and decide then.  Then we just mail in our ballots and wait for the email confirmations.

    TV ads are such a piss poor way to get properly informed about any issue that they should be banned.  But of course that will never happen.

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  8. 59 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    The answer is to create a different Treaty organization with similar rules to NATO, which actually gets funded, while everyone lets their NATO funding shockingly lapse. Or everyone in NATO except Hungary and Turkey or whoever else decides to sign independent treaties with Ukraine that operate similarly to NATO. I mean, fuck, the US signed a treaty with Ukraine and Russia pledging to help them stay secure when they gave up their nukes. I'd argue we're negligent on that one. 

    Can we call it NAFO?

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