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bolverk

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  1. He can be a bit of a blowhard at times. Welcome back, btw.
  2. Oh, I get that public sentiment could've risen from the 21% favoring the Shah's son in that poll, but I've also read that most of his support actually comes from the Iranian diaspora, so I'm trying to bear in mind that there could be propaganda accounts from that community. Just trying to keep an even keel on this, since so many previous uprisings have eventually been crushed. I certainly hope this is the one that brings down the mullahs, but I keep in mind that poll in which opinions on preferred types of government were split so that none of the choices had a strong plurality. So, sure, they might rally around him as a figurehead for the revolution, but that doesn't necessarily mean that support for his actual leadership as head of state would coalesce. Understand? I know it's nitpicky, but there are so many fucking Xitter accounts posing as independent journos with hidden agendas that I'm eternally skeptical of most of them now. That applies especially to ones like this one that don't show a link to anything.
  3. That do seem sketchy, especially if it's taking the opinion that this is a pro-Shah uprising with no apparent link. I'm sure that there are some calling for the Shah's sun to return, but that's not what this is all about necessarily. Of course, with no ties over there, I don't have any sense of authentic public sentiment aside from that poll I posted a couple of days ago.
  4. This one is kinda hard to watch, not because of any gore but just how sad it is. It sounds like there's a woman saying, "That's my wife!" This is a really good eyewitness account.
  5. I'm no Canecutter, but I do enjoy me some accents. If any of you happen to know any Africans/Carribeans with similar accents, advise them that if they find themselves in this situation as that Uber driver, they should state they are from South Carolina and speak a Gullah accent. Here's an example (video embedded in news article - no paywall): https://www.greenvilleonline.com/videos/news/2019/02/04/gullah-dialect-still-spoken-south-carolina/2653241002/
  6. I've seen a name posted on r/ICE_Raids, which I won't post on here because it appears that post over there has already been taken down. I will say, though, once I googled that name, I saw it was being widely spread on social media. In one of the videos, it begins a bit earlier, where it kinda looked like she was parallel parked at first, and then started to pull out. But she did stop and yield to the first ICE car. Now, I don't know whether her intention was to block the convoy by being perpendicular to the flow of traffic or if she was trying to merge, and the sudden yielding put her in an awkward spot that she was then stuck in. But she did yield. One of the first eyewitnesses seemed to suggest she was pulling a U-ee (funny, I've never seen that word spelled before), but that would've pointed her down the wrong way of a one-way street. I don't know why she would do that.
  7. You guys should put thisnew Orange-4-Life guy on ignore, as I'm pretty sure this poster is PRONG HORN, which he later changed his profile name to BeardIP, but that has now been scrubbed from the board for whatever reason. If you don't recall his posting style, it's very trollish. His sources of information are about as bad as Pimphand's, but he rarely engages in actual discussion and doesn't rant and rave with crazy shit like that other psychopath. For him, it's just a stream of clips and videos, often from obvious foreign propaganda Xitter accounts, YouTube accounts, etc. He's impervious to any appeals to logic, morality, or any sort of discussion. Watch for a pattern in the time is when he posts, as I recall PRONG HORN's posts tended to be in the middle of the night, as if he were working the graveyard shift or from abroad. I'm not saying he's some GRU contractor or anything, but he's certainly susceptible to those types of very divisive propaganda accounts. It's all just rage bait. Of course, I could be off-base, but that's my strong suspicion.
  8. Itty bitty hands. Must be a fascist thing.
  9. I highly recommend everyone get the fuck off Xitter and stop driving traffic to that site. There are tons and tons of other options than financially supporting that particular piece of shit with your clicks, who donated $288 million to Trump's campaign and helped bring fascism to Amerikkka, not to mention all the shit he fucked up and all the starving people he killed with DOGE.
  10. The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
  11. ICE in an unmarked white truck using vehicle in a much more threatening manner than that poor woman did. The guy at 32 seconds. ICE shooting shit directly in the face of protesters. No idea why this is blurred.
  12. He fucking pulled his gun out while the car was still in reverse.
  13. This multiquote is in the wrong order, but fuck me if I'm going to try to fix it because editing quotes in this new format is damn near impossible. Anyway, the good news is that the professor got his job back, plus a nice payout. And, uh, what's going on with the actual investigation.
  14. Putting this here because it touches on so many different topics. For all intents and purposes, the Western Alliance, as we’ve known it, is all but dead. And I'll be honest here about my feelings: I'm mourning the loss. Among the stages of grief, I'm swinging between anger, bargaining, and depression. I suppose those also apply to how I feel about what's going on domestically. Just pissed off at how stupid and destructive this all is, and full of contempt for the dipshits that unleashed this beast on the rest of us. Fucking sad to watch it all go down the shitter. Hoping beyond hope that somehow we'll avoid the worst of it, but with the knowledge that what we once had will never return. It feels like November 2024 all over again. Anyway, back on topic, I think the cycle of emotions I'm going through must be really similar to what's going on among our NATO partners (hesitate to call them allies anymore), who I'm sure are just hoping/praying that they can hold out long enough so that they can ramp up their defenses. And, oh fuck, how Canada must now be lamenting their geography.
  15. His overreach just might be our only hope.
  16. It didn't make sense for Nazi Germany to preemptively declare war on the US after Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese, thereby providing a casus belli for the US to enter the European war. Just like the Nazis, this regime only gets hungrier the more it eats.
  17. tldr: Denmark does not have the right to sell Greenland -- only a referendum among Greenlanders can decide that. On top of it all, we (the US) already have almost carte blanche to beef up whatever presence we have there anyway, so the only reason we’d want to buy it is to outright own the ice and whatever there is beneath it (more likely, Trump and his cronies would own the mineral rights). That said, Greenland has already said they’re more than happy to do business with us to do a deal and provide access. So taking it would, in essence, be the theft of a whole fucking country. Buy Greenland? Take It? Why? An Old Pact Already Gives Trump a Free Hand. Analysts say the Cold War agreement allows the president to increase the American military presence almost at will. President Trump has ridiculed Denmark’s dog sled teams in Greenland. He has cited mysterious Chinese and Russian ships prowling off the coast. He seems increasingly fixated on the idea that the United States should take over this gigantic icebound island, with one official saying the president wants to buy it and another suggesting that the United States could simply take it. Just a few days ago, Mr. Trump said: “We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security.” But the question is: Does the United States even need to buy Greenland — or do something more drastic — to accomplish all of Mr. Trump’s goals? Under a little-known Cold War agreement, the United States already enjoys sweeping military access in Greenland. Right now, the United States has one base in a very remote corner of the island. But the agreement allows it to “construct, install, maintain, and operate” military bases across Greenland, “house personnel” and “control landings, takeoffs, anchorages, moorings, movements, and operation of ships, aircraft, and waterborne craft.” It was signed in 1951 by the United States and Denmark, which colonized Greenland more than 300 years ago and still controls some of its affairs. “The U.S. has such a free hand in Greenland that it can pretty much do what it wants,” said Mikkel Runge Olesen, a researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies in Copenhagen. “I have a very hard time seeing that the U.S. couldn’t get pretty much everything it wanted,” he said, adding, “if it just asked nicely.” But buying Greenland — something that Secretary of State Marco Rubio told lawmakers on Tuesday was Mr. Trump’s latest plan — is a different question. Greenland does not want to be bought by anyone — especially not the United States. And Denmark does not have the authority to sell it, Dr. Olesen said. “It is impossible,” he said. In the past, Denmark would have been the decider. In 1946, it refused the Truman administration’s offer of $100 million in gold. Today, things are different. Greenlanders now have the right to hold a referendum on independence and Danish officials have said it’s up to the island’s 57,000 inhabitants to decide their future. A poll last year found 85 percent of residents opposed the idea of an American takeover. Greenland’s prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, has repeatedly scoffed at the idea of being bought, saying this past week, “Our country is not for sale.” The relatively short, straightforward defense agreement between the United States and Denmark was updated in 2004 to include Greenland’s semiautonomous government, giving it a say in how American military operations might affect the local population. The roots of the agreement go back to a partnership forged during World War II. At that time, Denmark was occupied by the Nazis. Its ambassador in Washington, cut off from Copenhagen, took it upon himself to strike a defense agreement for Greenland with the United States. (The island is part of North America, along the Arctic Ocean and close to Canada’s coast.) The fear was that Nazis could use Greenland as a steppingstone to America. The Germans had already established small meteorological bases on the island’s east coast and relayed information for battles in Europe. American troops eventually ousted them and established more than a dozen bases there with thousands of troops, landing strips and other military facilities. After World War II, the United States continued to run some bases and a string of early warning radar sites. As the Cold War wound down, the United States closed all of them except one. It’s now called the Pittufik Space Base and helps track missiles crossing the North Pole. The Danes have a light presence, too: a few hundred troops, including special forces that use dog sleds to conduct long-range patrols. In recent months, the Danish government has vowed to upgrade its bases and increase surveillance. After American special forces captured Nicolás Maduro, the ousted president of Venezuela, from a safehouse last week, Mr. Trump seemed emboldened. Stephen Miller, a top aide, then claimed that Greenland should belong to the United States and that “nobody’s going to fight the United States” over it. Danish and Greenlandic anxiety skyrocketed. On Tuesday night, Danish and Greenlandic leaders asked to meet with Mr. Rubio, according to Greenland’s foreign minister. It’s not clear if or when that might happen. Tensions between Mr. Trump and Denmark’s prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, have been steadily rising, as Mr. Trump pushes to “get” Greenland, as he puts it, while Ms. Frederiksen refuses to kowtow to him. Just a few days ago, Ms. Frederiksen cited the 1951 agreement, saying, “We already have a defense agreement between the Kingdom and the United States today, which gives the United States wide access to Greenland.” She urged the United States “to stop the threats” and said an American attack on Greenland would mean the end of the international world order. European leaders issued their own statement on Tuesday, also citing the 1951 agreement and saying, “Greenland belongs to its people.” Analysts said that if the United States tried to use the defense pact as a fig leaf to send in a lot of troops and try to occupy Greenland, that wouldn’t be legal either. According to the 2004 amendment, the United States is supposed to consult with Denmark and Greenland before it makes “any significant changes” in its military operations on the island. The 2004 amendment, which was signed by Gen. Colin L. Powell, who was then the secretary of state, explicitly recognizes Greenland as “an equal part of the Kingdom of Denmark.” Peter Ernstved Rasmussen, a Danish defense analyst, said that in practice, if American forces made reasonable requests, “the U.S. would always get a yes.” “It is a courtesy formula,” he said. “If the U.S. wanted to act without asking, it could simply inform Denmark that it is building a base, an airfield or a port.” That’s what infuriates longtime Danish political experts. If Mr. Trump wanted to beef up Greenland’s security right now, he could. But there has been no such official American request, said Jens Adser Sorensen, a former senior official in Denmark’s parliament. “Why don’t you use the mechanism of the defense agreement if you’re so worried about the security situation?” he said, adding, “The framework is there. It’s in place.” But Greenland’s strategic location is not the only thing that’s attracted Mr. Trump’s inner circle. The enormous island has another draw: critical minerals, loads of them, buried under the ice. Here, too, analysts say, the United States doesn’t need to take over the island to get them. Greenlanders have said they are open to doing business — with just about anyone.
  18. Technically, Greenland is one of three countries that make up the Kingdom of Denmark (kinda like Scotland is a country within the UK). The Faroe Islands are the third. As such, the nation of Denmark doesn't have the authority to even sell it, but instead, that decision would require a referendum of the people of Greenland. And according to a poll from last January, 85% of Greenlanders are opposed to annexation by the US.
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