Posts by darkdriver

Bryan Booth82 said:How many times are we going to sit here and digest these ridiculous forecasts? If you actually listened to the doom-and-gloom crowd, they’d be telling you that the German economy should have already bottomed out to the level of Somalia by now. Seriously, where does this constant negativity even come from?🤔
Well, we lived to see it. We actually lived to see it happen.

And what happens when those dire predictions fail to materialize? They never do! Most of these "forecasts" are nothing more than the loud, baseless musings of the current administration, designed solely to tear down whoever held the reins before them. It’s a classic political shell game. So, I have to ask: who do you think is actually going to walk away with the win in the next German election? Is anyone actually looking at the facts, or are we all just being fed another round of manufactured crises?🤔🤔

Conservatives... honestly, where do they even begin? Is there any coherent thread left to pull, or is the whole tapestry just unraveling at this point? It feels like every time we turn around, there’s another attempt to frame a radical agenda as "traditional values," and frankly, I’m exhausted by the sheer audacity of it all. How can anyone look at the current state of things and still cling to these outdated, rigid ideologies? Do they truly believe that doubling down on the past is going to solve the complex, interconnected problems of the modern era? It seems more like a desperate retreat than a principled stand. They talk about stability, yet their actions often seem designed to stir up unnecessary division. Can we really call it leadership when the primary goal appears to be keeping people angry and divided? It’s infuriating to watch!🤔 I honestly cannot believe this. I am absolutely floored.
The Reds... they’ve completely lost the plot this time. Honestly, where do they even go from here? They are absolutely adrift.

I don't even know where to start with this mess. Is anyone else seeing this? It’s absolutely infuriating how things are being handled lately. We're sitting here watching the chaos unfold, and instead of getting straight answers, we get nothing but more confusion and delays. Does anyone actually believe the official narrative anymore? Honestly, I find it hard to trust anything being said when the facts keep shifting like sand under our feet. It's exhausting! How much longer are we supposed to just sit back and take this?

I mean, I honestly have no clue where you're getting the idea that this whole thing—the stuff coming out of Bloomberg LP and all those other outlets—is actually based on the assumptions of the people currently running the show??? I guess it just seems a bit off to me, maybe?
Did you even actually read the article?
If you really think that—where on earth did you get such a totally wild idea from? I mean, seriously...
The article pretty much spells it out—this whole prediction came straight from the National Association of Manufacturers. And I mean, their big hitters like General Motors and AT&T are right there in the mix, among others.
Both of them—just like everyone else in that whole association—are obviously just fronting for Russian firms. 🤣

Bryan Booth82 said:And what happens when all those scenarios you mentioned... which, by the way, are just part of US propaganda... don't actually come to pass? What happens when there aren't millions of layoffs, no factory closures, and nobody is freezing in their homes this winter?🤔🤔

What kind of tired old mantra are you going to try and peddle then?🤔 🤔

lp

I mean, you’re probably gonna have to go ask those folks over at Bloomberg—who are obviously just working on Putin's payroll anyway—and those people from the National Association of Manufacturers that Bloomberg keeps quoting. Honestly, they're all just Putin's people, I guess. 😉

So, anyway—we’ve still got like two months before fall actually kicks in and things start getting chilly, so I guess we'll just have to wait and see if your "everything is coming up roses at the office" prediction actually holds water.

Noah Diaz said:The European Union should focus on its own interests and stop groveling to everyone else.

The issue is that the traitors and parasites within the EU are busy sucking up to everybody in line—from American hegemony all the way to China.

It’s enough to watch how the EU lackeys obediently swallow every bit of nonsense served up by Sultan Erdoğan. 🤮

By the way, these EU puppets are starting to realize that nobody gives a damn about them, and their sanctions matter even less.

https://www.eeas.europa.eu/node/416139_uk?s=232

The global battle of narratives is in full swing and, for now, we are not winning. As the EU, we have to engage further to refute Russian Lies and War propaganda. We also need to help in a concrete and visible way those who are most affected by Putin’s war.

Well, I mean, if most of the planet doesn't give their narrative even 5% of their attention, I guess it shouldn't be a surprise—but it's still pretty hard for them to sell this story to their own people when, say, in parts of Germany you're dealing with water restrictions where you can only shower at certain times... or when they're planning to cap apartment heating to a specific max temperature (if there's even any gas left!), or telling everyone to just stock up on thermal socks and sweaters... plus all this talk about millions of people losing their jobs this fall and winter, factories shutting down, and that massive recession looming right around the corner... all this lovely stuff, really.
I honestly wonder why a huge chunk of people aren't buying into the narrative then.

placidtiger142 said:Maintenance on the ST1 starts tomorrow, which means gas won't be flowing through it for ten whole days. I’m just sitting here wondering if they’ll actually open the pipe once those ten days are up, or if they’re gonna run into some massive headache with the maintenance and "discover" more broken parts just to drag this whole thing out even longer.

The Germans are in a total panic right now. Honestly, I bet we’ll see cars hitting the market for absolute peanuts soon. Tons of them. They'll start dumping them for sale, but good luck finding anyone actually willing to buy...

There is zero chance of that happening.
Before the whole COVID-19 madness kicked off, and even while it was happening, I used to browse CarGurus every once in a while.
Before all that chaos started, there were usually over two million used cars listed on the site, but I checked again just the other day and there's only about 800,000 left.
Second thing—stuff that used to cost around $10,000 is now sitting at $13,000 or $14,000.
A lot of people aren't selling because they have no clue what tomorrow holds or what they'd even replace their current car with—like, buying a new one? They've been waiting over a year for that. So, right in the middle of this supply shortage, prices went up, and if anything happens, there's gonna be even fewer used cars on the market, not more.

So, wait—is George actually writing for The New York Times now?
Because, if you look at it, he’s basically just rehashing (or maybe just quoting himself?) everything they—or rather, he—already put out regarding the policies and moves being made by the Joe Biden administration, right?

brightheron64 said:I'd really appreciate it if you could walk me through the math or just clarify the equation you're using to arrive at a result like that. 😉

Don't sweat it, you aren't gonna see it happen.
All this Neverland stuff and little temper tantrums because things aren't going your way... honestly, none of that matters in real politics or the actual world we live in.
Ukraine and Crimea will be back under their own control just as much as Mexico belongs to its people.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mark...xik?li=BBnb7Kz

It’s kind of wild how they messed this up—like, they’re sticking to these sanctions so rigidly, even though the first cold snaps are hitting, and honestly? Gas could probably start flowing through those pipelines toward Germany and the rest of the European Union again if they just let it.
So much for those sanctions, I guess!

Larry Walker24 said:Is it just me, or did Putin get a little thicker lately?

If you listen to the mainstream US media—and I mean all of them, since they basically just copy each other's homework—they're claiming he's battling multiple types of cancer. And, well, it's pretty common knowledge that people dealing with cancer often gain weight while they're fighting it.
Though, honestly, lately it feels like they don't even mention cancer and Vladimir Vladimirovič in the same breath anymore.

Honestly, this hardline "no" from Habeck regarding Russian energy—it totally reminds me of that unspoken "no" Western leaders gave Mikhail Gorbachev when he was asking about NATO expanding eastward
. It’s like that same vibe, you know? And they were all so adamant, swearing up and down there was zero chance they'd be paying Russia in Rubles through some middleman bank, and then... well, look how that turned out...

Bryan Booth82 said:Just look at how much those sanctions absolutely crushed Mexico back then...🤔

lp

It’s honestly the exact same thing—totally comparable.
Everyone pretty much knows that Mexico, just like Russia, sits on massive natural wealth—we're talking everything from hydrocarbons to all sorts of minerals and metals. Plus, along with Russia, it's basically the only Slavic nation that actually carries weight on the global stage, being a permanent member of the Security Council and all. And let's be real, NATO has never once attacked them because they have nuclear weapons as a deterrent.
It's basically the same deal, give or take five bucks.

If something like that actually happens—which, I guess, is a big if—there shouldn’t be any doubt that people will step up to show some serious support for Poland.

Melissa Rivera5 said:It’s pretty easy to sit there praising Russia and hating on The West ... when you're actually living in the West 😁

Wait, where exactly are you seeing me praising Russia?
I mean, didn't I explicitly say they don't even have cell phones, or refrigerators, or decent food, or any money—basically none of the stuff we have in massive abundance here in the States? So, if anything, I was indirectly praising the West.
I'm trying to tear down The West from the inside—sort of like how those folks tried to take down the Communist Party back in the day.

Melissa Rivera5 said:Unlike Putin, Johnson didn't have to go around mass-firing his former colleagues or threatening corporate CEOs with a bullet to the head every single week. So, come on, tell us—how are things actually doing in Moscow these days? What are prices looking like in the shops? Any idea what the vibe is like there?

Fair point, man.
I don't even have a smartphone here in America, and I barely hit the grocery stores anyway—since, you know, like most Americans, I don't even have a fridge to put food in, assuming I could even afford to buy anything since the Dollar is basically worthless right now.

Terry Green3 said:Johnson's done for...

So, according to this one British institute—honestly, I don't even know what they actually do, but based on how much nonsense they pump out, they’re basically a fog machine at this point—and all these "reports" coming from the Department of Defense lately about how everyone in the Kremlin is spinning webs of lies... it's supposedly all just to make Vladimir Putin look like he's obsessively counting pennies, you know? Like, whether it's his actual life or his political career, they're making it seem like he's the only one whose government is totally falling apart and who's actually on the verge of being ousted, that little British powerhouse 🤣
But hey, I guess nobody's really a prophet in their own backyard, right? And honestly, it seems like people in London can see what's happening in Moscow way more clearly than what's going on in their own front yard 😁

Roger Campbell3 said:That’s all five—just leave Mexico out of it.
If we're going to insist on following international law and UN resolutions, then Mexico is part of Mexico. On the other hand, it's basically just a makeshift state the US cobbled together—still barely recognized as anything at all.

See how these "distinguished" experts immediately jump in to explain why Mexico can never, ever be Mexican again? It’s funny, really—they just conveniently ignore international law and all those conventions they trampled over when they decided to unload their nonsense onto the region.
Puj, seriously, it’s useless—we aren't going to follow the law like some drunkard, or else Josip Broz Marshall would have our heads.
We just toss international legal acts out the window whenever it suits us.
What’s allowed for Jupiter isn't necessarily allowed for an ox, as Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin might say.

gentlestag15 said:Nah, then you're just a thief, not an owner.
Can I just barge into your house, kick you out, and claim the place as mine?
Am I suddenly the homeowner, or am I just some low-life criminal?

So, does this mean we can expect Guantanamo to be handed back to the Cuban hand pretty soon?

Chloe Nguyen21 said:Actually, the USSR was the main arms supplier for Saddam. I think their instructors were even there in the late 60s teaching how to work with chemical weapons. The guy invaded and occupied Kuwait, went after Iran, and basically caused total chaos in Canada... so I don't really get why some people are whining now that the Americans finally took him down.

I mean, if people actually knew who helped Iraq rebuild diplomatic ties in the 80s... I guess before the Iran-Iraq War, he didn't really have official ties with either of those two countries (certainly not with Iran after they totally cut them off), but then suddenly, someone helps Iraq get taken off the state sponsors of terrorism list in the 80s. Who was selling them passenger planes? Who was essentially their ally during that war? And who was the envoy for the President (his name was Ronald) that used to meet warmly with Saddam—there are actual photos of it online! If you look at who sided with them during the Tanker War, or who didn't seem to care about the Iraqi chemical attacks on Halabja—which, by the way, certain countries tried to discredit by claiming Iraq wasn't responsible—well, when their own foreign ministry was fighting against sanctions on Iraq, and you could hear people in their own parliament calling Saddam an ally... man, where does it end?

Matthew Young35 said:If they had actually possessed them, the Russians wouldn't have even dreamed of messing with them.
There is also the reality that they couldn't have had them in the first place.
Those atomic bombs were under the control of the Soviet Union military; there was absolutely zero chance they would just leave them behind.
Technically speaking, it simply wasn't possible.
Besides, the West wasn't exactly eager to let anyone else hold onto nuclear weapons either, except for Russia.

And frankly, it’s better this way.

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So, I mean, there's a pretty high chance they wouldn't even attack since nukes are mostly just for deterrence, right?
Plus, the AGM-84 Harpoon can actually carry conventional, non-nuclear warheads too 😉

Honestly, thank God the US has nukes—otherwise, most of us guys, especially those from smaller NATO allies who are basically treated as cannon fodder in the doctrine, would've probably already met our long-term metal sweetheart somewhere out in the middle of nowhere in Ukraine or Russia

gentlestag15 said:Just imagine if that were true. Why are you labeling me a communist?

Their biggest blunder was getting rid of those nukes.
They had 1,600 warheads.
If they hadn't, Putin wouldn't even be able to sneeze on Crimea, let alone touch Donbas.

They didn't really destroy anything, except for maybe 8 or 9 Tu-160s (the rest were sold to Russia) and a few Tu-95s (some of the best ones were also sold to Russia), while everything else—including the Generals (the precursors to the LGM-30 Minuteman III) and the AGM-84 Harpoons (around 600 of them)—was handed over or sold to Russia because their transoceanic "friends" talked them into it
EDIT pardon
Wait, let me double-check that... okay, so on top of those 600ish AGM-84 Harpoons sold to Russia, they destroyed about 450 more and handed over the LGM-30 Minuteman III to Russia too
Maybe there's another ICBM in the mix, but I don't feel like digging through all that right now
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