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As said, blissful ride never lasts.. in historical scales

That would be democracy for us, not by us. And that will always be doomed. Bread and circuses!

C'mon we've been at so many times. Think of a long standing problem like... healthcare.. tuition.. drinking water whatever open your eyes and: it's in the state of permanent fixing. In Ottawa a newly build train suspended for the third time in not as many years despite who-knows-how-many-public-billions sunk. You can keep counting but I'm growing bored. Something is coming. Don't even count on a blissful ride for another two centuries. Two decades, who knows. Can't be sure. You could have shut the country down literally and saved half of that. While some countries achieved better results without any or almost shutdowns. This part of responsible management the opposite of crusading who cares about the cost escapes you very easily because: right, no feedback from the reality. Here's what you are doing: because there are no reality checks, you can take one factor by which you did relatively well, ignoring all the rest and pose it as a great achievement. China did that. Russia, can. And why wouldn't you? You can say anything. There are no checks.

Thank you, yes this is very characteristic and symptomatic of an entrenched and self-absorbed system to treat most routine and trivial events (e.g. a fart; update of a payroll system; or most recently a network update) as a major problem and a resounding feat of achievement. And it's not going to get any better for an obvious reason that there's no feedback from the reality. And that too is characteristic. Of course one could use objective criteria, comparing results and costs by which it would be little short of chaotic; confusing and contradictory; ineffective (retirement homes); obscure; overreaching without a slightest need for and in the end achieved the same or similar results as more sound and far less restrictive policies. But, there's no feedback from the reality, remember? So you can call it the best in the Universe itself, like in China or Russia or almost there's no limits (who here has any checks or limits, please!).

Hard to say where you're reading it? But you're sure it has something to do with this topic? The democracy or so it claims that has become all about pointless talking and getting into the chair to do more of that. If it isn't so, point one achievement, serious issue or problem that has been solved, a major innovation or improvement in the country recently. What if it doesn't exist? What if it's all about the chat from now on? Missed one important word there. Try again? Any Not look for ready solutions because they do not exist. We have to find them and create them. If we choose to go to sleep blissfully in the hope that someone will take care of it for us, we will wake up to surprises. Not if only when.

Where are you reading this exactly? Are we in the same universe, by any chance? (speaking in English)

And have the discussion all to themselves. This is called self-organization and self-regulation. Or the Great Leader and opaque bunch of his quasi democratic associates to cheer for. One or the other, left or right, blue or red but it has to be one, both together only an illusion aka bullshit. So you've got to choose one. And ignoring wouldn't work either.

An aside, we need to petition the administrators to allow originators of discussions to remove unwanted material. That way the forum can be self-policed. Of course some could overuse the privilege but then such cases would be known.

This is so wrong I can't even begin to describe. Did you mean, gratification given to self out of someone else's pocket without any transparency, checks or fairness, bounds of decency or even common sense? Are you, and I apologize too dim to not see the difference between that and "anyone", or deliberately misleading?

As witnessed here, a fine experiment and an example to remind us, yet again. When a democracy doesn't know anymore why it exists; forgot it principles and values; works only for entitlement and self-gratification it becomes weak. It whimpers and doesn't know what to do when toys and luxuries are taken away. It crawls and cries to get them back at any cost. And that's when the tyrants come, when Russias will come. No mistakes or surprises, they will. The mindless blissful ride will not go on forever.

As witnessed. No endless mindless ride. There will be no surprises.

The forum is a fine illustration of a gradual but very steady and absolutely predictable degradation of the political system in the absence of any meaningful checks and standards. Just / only give it a time, some time.

A. America did not start a war. B. No one has threatened Russia, while Russia threatened and invaded many of her neighbors. There are no valid causes and and justifications for Russia's abhorrent behavior in the normal world. With her actions Russia has locked herself outside of the normal world. A mad, brutal and violent psycho of a country.

Because the psycho gets to decide what will be a valid cause for his next fit. The psycho is going crazy again so there has to be a just reason. You. This is exactly how it works (with psychos). Why is it so hard to understand?!!

Of course. A psycho wouldn't have touched you if you didn't wear that hat. Sure makes sense. To a psycho.

So when Americans did it it was wrong. OK And now, when you are doing it what should we call it? A simple puzzle Russia (and her trolls) will never give a straight answer to because it so simple just can't miss it. No you have no right to be there. Just none, so get out of there now. And everything else, only standard and tired Russia's bullshit.

To round it up: Russia has no reasons not even slightest ones to be in Ukraine. Psycho cannot barge in your house because they had childhood issues and a bad nightmare. Only psycho arguments, so a psycho country yes it happens we know. Yes with nukes, so what. Now what's with that inquiry?

Right, tell that to their modern brethren. Do Nazis enjoy being that?

Conservatives have a rare opportunity to come as owners and agents of real, meaningful change that the country is needing desperately. The outdated to the point of archaic political system is in a clear state of stagnation going on decay. Will they choose the country over the trough? Can they, and that means any of the status quo entities lead real change? That's an interesting one to watch. No change no vote. Triple Justin, the bureaucratic behemoth forever is one and the same thing. Nothing to choose, really. Not even fun.

Whatever blah the next bullshit remember that this is happening in Ukraine where bloody Russia has absolutely no business to be. OK done talking to trolls. What about the inquiry though? Will we have the answers? When will we have them? Can we have any answers, at all, in this democracy?

Psycho speaking: you knew this would happen when you forced me by going to that mall. Russia speaks for herself, about herself so clearly and exhaustively, you don't even need to add anything. Just watch and pay attention, and understand.

Russia is lying again. Like she can do anything else, even if she tried, and she never does. A liar brutally aggressive terrorist state. If you happen to be her neighbor you have to be in the NATO. Or look what she can do (and will sooner or later) if and when you are not.

Russia isn't aware of Geneva conventions and its obligations on humane treatment of war prisoners. Just like you know who, another coincidence.

So Russia is going to set a monkey (like everything that Russia does) "war tribunal" - for the criminal war Russia herself started, mind you, with Syria and Bolivia as trusted partners. Iran is mentioned too but no way it'll participate not that stupid. That should be enough to understand what kind of ridiculous joke of a country it has become under Putin. Soviet Union that he strives to reestablished fared way, like lightyears more respectable by comparison. And now it cut itself all paths of returning into the normal world.

A child killed by Russia by bombing her peaceful place in her own country, not Russia for no reason. That's still a child killed by Russia for no reason, a criminal, terrorist, psychopath state doing the same things to her neighbors as Nazis before. And this is only a fact. No, only a plain, obvious fact. So we cannot speak of children killed by Nazis and Russia because that would be "propaganda". Hear it. Books written, places of remembrance all over Europe all wrong because bullshit Russia says so. Russia wants to decide what you will remember and speak about. If she isn't stopped. And that's why we have NATO and should always remember what it is about.