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atomheartbevo

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  1. I believe in free speech and I believe it must be protected. Even speech that I don’t like and disagree with, and believe me I’m the victim of lots of hateful and untrue speech, but I still believe Americans have the constitutional right to free speech. And most importantly, Americans must retain the right of free speech to criticize their own government and any other government. And I say this as one, who is not only the victim of hateful lying speech, but also as one who had my free speech rights violated when the government told Twitter to permanently ban my personal Twitter account “mtgreenee” in Jan 2022 because I harshly criticized Covid vaccines and mandates. No matter which party is in charge of the government, the government NEVER has the right to take away free speech. And it’s up to YOU, Americans, to never allow your government to take away your constitutional rights. YOU are really in charge, you just have forgotten. ——- MTG making sense And Joe Rogan was saying something similar about the Kimmel situation, and that MAGA better watch it, because if they get comfortable with government leaders calling for censorship, what happens when the other party is in control.
  2. People are speculating off of ships and the pattern is all over Denmark
  3. He’s trying to scare Trump. Or tie up NATO air defenses.
  4. Armenia and Cambodia are not trading fire today.
  5. That’s a shitload of oil production, and no way they have it back up in November. Don’t need to sanction oil buyers if they can’t get it in the first place.
  6. @PTINS you might find this interesting. Hitting oil export infrastructure from the sea.
  7. Same. I thought there was some scandal in the judging or something.
  8. Sounds like they’re really starting to dial things in. I’m guessing they’ve got analysts who are looking at the whole picture. Like what regions are affected, what facilities downstream are affected, etc. Someday this will be a niche strategy game where your goal is to cripple the Russian economy by taking out various parts of their oil and gas infrastructure.
  9. There’s not that many Tesla Robotaxis out there. Yet.
  10. This is probably why. Ukraine continues to pound away at infrastructure critical to the Russian economy and military while Russia flails about at Ukrainian apartment buildings.
  11. Being confirmed by Russian leadership @PTINS one of those areas, this is apparently the second time in a few days so I’m guessing they have solid intel on what damage they did the first time and then did a follow-up.
  12. It’s fascinating how it came about and Baxter was the perfect partner for him (and to finish it).
  13. Moving onto the third one, Long Mars, really enjoying the series - wish Terry Pratchett was still around, and had co-written more like this (I know he came up with the idea originally, and then shelved it for Discworld). Lot of characters, lot happening across a lot of locations, but it doesn't get bogged down in itself, unlike the Red Mars trilogy (Kim Stanley Robinson's series, one of my all-time favorites that has a large amount of characters and plotlines). Brisk, light read that focuses more on people than the sci-fi aspect.
  14. Be glad we didn't invite the Taliban to Camp David.
  15. So far, it looks like the ceasefire between Cambodia and Armenia is holding. We'll see if it lasts 24 hours.
  16. Trump told everybody that he was solving the Ukraine thing or whatever and that Putin respects him or something, and then Putin sent a couple of massive drone raids at Kyiv and elsewhere, and then violated NATO airspace with Russian MiGs, making Trump look weak, all the while Trump is campaigning for the Nobel Peace Prize by doing things like stopping the war between Armenia and Cambodia. On top of that, European politicians are one-upping Trump and looking like bad-asses and telling Russia to STFU and don't come whining when their fighters go missing. Trump does not like to look weak, especially with so much shit going down (being mocked over the National Guard stuff, Congress still looking at Epstein stuff, etc.). And let's be real - if we opened up the spigot and things really started flowing to Ukraine, and they make a lot of progress towards Russia and even remove Russia from large parts of the conquered areas, Trump will look like a genius and call himself the savior of Europe.
  17. Because the death penalty is important to aggy students. A 4-star general with 80 years of family ties to A&M is a DEI idiot.
  18. They only have a few flying in service, less than a dozen, and these were apparently some of the ones who were patrolling along the Crimean coast. It actually makes sense in a Russian kind of way, because it’s what they were designed to do. Even if it’s 85 years later.
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