Posts by Grace Phillips25

Look, I haven't even been on this forum for twenty years.

But seriously, did they miss the mark on the date? 🤔 December 6th? What's the deal with that? If they meant January 6th, I might actually get where they're coming from—I mean, you can't turn on CNN or MSNBC without them bringing up January 6th every five minutes.😬

Hold up, Sam Alvarez4, where’s the fire? We still have to wrap up the World Cup first, then there's Christmas, then New Year's, then that other Christmas holiday... maybe we'll get to it by mid-January, or even early February once the Lunar New Year dust settles. 😁

It's not like we haven't dealt with a hungry hamster before. 😬

bluecyclist64, you're basically disowning your godparents through the freaking newspaper now! 🧐

Chatterbox is such a beautiful little internet Zoo—we've got parrots, peacocks, mud, monkeys, alligators, and maybe a couple of nocturnal creatures lurking in the shadows... come on, Andrew, don't go changing your whole vibe just because of one or two posts.

Hands off our Chatterbox! 🧐

Chris Williams said:I suppose sanctions won't lead to any meaningful shifts, not even on an economic level. Out of nearly 200 nations globally, only about 45 have signed on to sanction Russia. That leaves roughly 150 countries that haven't. It suggests that Russia still has plenty of places to export its oil, gas, precious metals, food, and other resources.

We’ll see the actual impact of these sanctions quite soon, probably within weeks. Of those 45 countries, 27 are part of the European Union, which includes small players like us here in America. This winter, we might witness how these sanctions end up crippling economies, manufacturing, and industry, essentially dragging everyone back a century—unless, of course, all parties decide to sit down at the negotiating table.

I’ve heard reports coming out of Germany about people scavenging fallen branches from forests just to stay warm, yet the government forbids it, as if they can't be trusted touching state-owned timber.

A government that fails to protect its own citizens is merely providing a hollow gesture toward protecting Ukraine. It all seems like games played by the military-industrial-banking complex in the USA, where we are all—including those ineffective politicians in the EU—just puppets dancing to their tune. And yes, that includes poor Ukraine as well.

If you ask me, sanctions are producing results, but it isn't Russia feeling the sting—it's us in the EU. So, I guess you should consider who the real enemy actually is....

The number you should actually be looking at is how much of the global economy those 45 countries actually control.

I mean, sure, the USA, Germany, and France—they all count as "one country" in these stats, but so do Vanuatu, Burkina Faso, and the Green Island...

mistyscout34 said:Is this a legitimate discussion thread on the PŽK or just some random chat room? From what I can see, this whole thing has devolved into a total joke, and not a single higher-up has bothered to step in (and by that, I don't mean those mods lurking in the corner who basically sleep through everything). I'm drawing my own conclusion here—it looks like there's a double standard where certain "privileged" users get special protection, allowing them to pick fights and act like they own the place without any consequences. If you actually think the stuff I quoted in my first post is acceptable, then the basic rules of conduct and the forum guidelines don't mean squat anymore.

I took a little deeper dive into Judy's track record, and man, what a complete crybaby. The arrogance and the insults are unreal. Just look at this link:

If someone doesn't get a permanent ban after spewing such disgusting garbage—honestly, it sounds like something straight out of a gutter (which is pretty much his signature move anyway)—then I'm calling it: someone is definitely pulling the strings behind him.

Grow some balls.

They come in handy in life.

Grace Wood5 said:Ugh, stop trying so hard. It’s clearly not working. 😁
If you and Lemonade haven't been treated to that a dozen times already, then nobody has. 🧐

Oh, please—he's "treated" us plenty of times, if your definition of treating someone is me constantly covering his tab. Total cheapskate.

Personally, I think Judy is such a cheapskate she wouldn't even buy someone a round of drinks if her life depended on it... 🕺

He’d probably talk a big game about buying more rounds, but let's be real—the guy's broke as hell and clearly forgot how to handle his cash. 🙂

Harold Chavez6 said:It looks like you haven't been keeping up with the Forum very closely (the post count probably gives that away)... ☕

Larry is just... *ahem*... a total cl..... from A... *cough*... 😉 ☕

Kenneth Cruz67 said:To be honest, I actually figured we might not see him around the Forum at all anymore after I read yesterday that Raos had been forcibly hospitalized 😬

So maybe that's exactly why he hasn't weighed in on this thread yet! 🤔

It's your turn now—just hang tight while it passes... 🤣

Look, I definitely wasn't the one hitting the triangle button.

Lisa Jackson7 said:I'm with you, especially on the bolded part. Our former moderator Meadow did a killer job—looking back now, it's pretty obvious.
Can't speak for the older mods, though.
Still, this keeps coming up every few weeks and nothing ever changes... maybe there just isn't anyone willing to moderate that PDF, who knows.

Where did Meadow disappear to? We seriously need to find someone for the Mod team to help bubimir out!

Noah Diaz said:Are we on the brink of war!?

🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏

I mean, are we actually talking about a real war here... or is it just another one of those "special operations" things??? 🤔

darkdriver said:Honestly, I bet like 90%—maybe even more—of the crews looking at that PDF don't even care about the fuel prices. It could be anything, really... $10As far as they're concerned...

Honestly, Russia has already lost this one. For Russia (and yeah, Ukraine too), the longer this war drags on, the worse it gets for them—and let's face it, this thing is going to last. Even if everything stopped right this second—which, spoiler alert, it won't—and Putin kicks the bucket, Russia is still toast. The only smart move for actual Russians? Pack up and get out of whatever wasteland they're turning into.

Gas prices are gonna stay sky-high for a long, long time.

It’s a shame, really, because I actually care about them as a people, but they've managed to vote for the wrong guy to lead them several times now.

Larry Walker24 said:LOL, give me a break...

sent a DM to Nico—we'll just have to wait and see, I guess.

You’re gonna get absolutely nothing, that’s what you’re gonna get! 😂

Gotta back my buddy Larry Walker24 on this one! 🙂

Noah Sullivan said:Actually, Sachs touches on that exact point—especially in that second link where he dives into the relationship with Gorbachev. Though, if you ask me, he seems a bit naive when it comes to China. Not that he’s being dense—he’s certainly not an idiot—but rather because he has... constraint It’s all just pure idealism.

And regarding that highlighted part—is it really true that nobody in the USA is raising the question? Because, frankly, it’s becoming increasingly suspicious how long this particular strain of US policy has been dragging on. No. It isn’t even the USA that comes out on top—not really, at least not in the first tier of winners—but rather China, who seems to be reaping the lion's share of the benefits without having to fire a single shot or waste a solitary dollar or yuan. Looking at everything since this conflict kicked off, the reality is staring us right in the face!

Thanks for the input, but like I said, I'm done here. Typing away on this subforum isn't going to save a single innocent victim of this conflict or any other war. A few years back, I might have given you a long-winded response, but not anymore.

Noah Sullivan said:Given his sheer idealism, you could argue that Sachs is somewhat naive—a trait that likely amplified the effect of Gorbachev's own statesmanlike innocence during their interactions.
But you can't exactly pin this specific criticism on him:

The thing is, he didn't actually claim to be certain the war would wrap up anytime soon.
He simply laid out his proposal for how one might bring it to an end more rapidly.
It was essentially a case of "I've said my piece and saved my conscience," because
his suggestions have already been debated and negotiated extensively during the relatively "low-intensity" phase of the conflict between 2014 and 2021 (when we were looking at "only" a few thousand deaths a year).
If those paths had actually been taken, the situation wouldn't have escalated into this high-intensity war we see now in 2022.

Technically, Sachs is wrong because he didn't start from the Wolfowitz doctrine of the 90s. If the focus back then had been on bringing Yeltsin's Russia closer to NATO—maybe even getting them to join—we wouldn't be in this mess today. The West would have had Russia on its side against their actual biggest rival, China.

Anyway, I'm not going down that rabbit hole. With this username, I'm just here to mess around. This forum isn't worth some Op-Ed style deep dives or wasting precious time on.

Just Sports and Music for me! 😁