Moonbox

It doesn't really appeal to me at all, and I'm a social progressive, BUT there are a lot of people who are far more worried about this stuff than I am. To me, this is little more than a Trudeau Sunny Days I Stand Up for Minorities photo op. Not much substance to it, but maybe the LGBTQ community cares about this more than I do. I kind of agree here. This is another very small, very irrelevant thing that people are getting themselves worked up over (IMO). If we actually care about the issues facing Canadians, we'd do a lot better talking about them rather than getting carrying on about Trudeau getting his picture taken with some drag queens.

What's rhetorical about it? Why do we care what the leadership of crapholes like Iraq or Iran think? What do we need the approval of Russia for? We have no nukes, nor do we have a big military, nor have we ever tried to threaten anyone with hard power. Why are we even talking about anyone taking Canada's threats seriously? The only clout we have is economic and maybe as a reliable intermediary between other middle powers and our big boy neighbour to the south. That's fair, but I think the only reason we're talking about it is because it's drag queens.

I don't think we need to really care what Iran, Iraq, Russia or other medieval countries think . I suspect Biden couldn't care less, given his party's openly liberal platform, and if Trump gets back he's hardly in a position to make fun of someone's media exposure (though he'll try nonetheless). Pretending you're a brave macho traditionalist doesn't get you as far as you'd think. Just look at how far Putin's bravado has got him. To me, this story is a great big giant nothingburger.

Well he'd have been a hypocrite for not staying at home, but he didn't do that. Showing up and demonstrating solidarity with a marginalized minority, I don't think, conflicts with caring about healthcare or inflation. If he'd have shown up on Jackass 4.5 then you could sum it up to "yukking it up" but this was obviously a calculated political move to appeal to social progressives. Again, I'm really struggling to see how this hurts/harms anyone, or is even in poor taste for that matter, unless there's something particularly offensive about drag-queens. Like I said, if he'd gone to for a photo-op at a Church picnic, or a Montreal Canadians game, would we even be talking about this?

No. Borodino was a large pitched battle, ending in a pyrrhic victory for Napoleon over the Russian army, prior to their capturing Moscow. The Russian army withdrew, scorched the earth behind them, and then the Grande Armée starved and froze in their hundreds of thousands. In the subsequent retreat back to France, almost none of them made it back. This was the end of Napoleon's Empire, aside from a brief resurgence that ended at Waterloo. It is a major plot point in Tolstoy's War and Peace. I think DoP wants to draw parallels to this in Ukraine or...something, except in this case Russia appears to be France and he doesn't realize that.

"Me smart. You a dumb." is your argument. Got it. Your eloquence and reasoning is just...beyond words. ? He's not a self-made billionaire. He inherited money from daddy and would be far wealthier now if he'd just invested it in a US index. The fruits of his innumerable business ventures have been far below market average. As for his spray tan, look at the pictures. If he can afford the best treatments, why does he look like this? This is, of course, ignoring the absurd vanity of a 70-year old blob opting for tanning treatments. ?

Ah yes, the fabled General Winter, who's decimated so many invading armies on the Eastern Steppes. The difference this time? Russia is the one doing the invading, with the longer (and more stressed) supply lines. Russia is the one in hostile territory with unmotivated, poorly trained and poorly equipped troops trying to invade a country that's already very well acquainted with Russian Ukrainian Winter.

Whether intentional or not, I'll give you points for this great troll. Only Id Yuts use spray-tan on their wrinkled, obese faces into their 70's.

I still don’t really understand why. What is tone deaf about it? I’m not so sure. That Trudeau is a frivolous lightweight is firmly established by now. For clueless and tone-deaf we have his trip to India, which I’d say was far more embarrassing to this. I don’t see how this is any different than showing up to a Pride Parade, or getting photographed at a Church Picnic (which you know the same folk would not have complained about). Yes, Canada has problems, but the idea that our leaders are sitting in the war room with advisors 24/7 coming up with solutions to complicated problems like inflation or Ukraine is not the reality.

Sort of like this entire thread, right?! ??

Even...*shudder*....Liberals?

What offends you about this, precisely? My reaction? Nothing. I saw this and literally didn't spare it a single thought until people started raging about it. What did this cost Trudeau? How did this harm you, or anyone, anywhere, ever?

You asked me to provide a list of sacked Russian generals to support my thesis of widespread Russian failure. I did so, but you unsurprisingly had no comment on it. Why? Because you know it's true. As a response, you launched into a boring broken-record ramble of conspiracy slogans. Care to comment on Kharkiv Oblast? How's the Bakhmut offensive going? What's the word on Kherson city? Russia has lost or fired how many generals so far? How's the War in Ukraine going???

Gosh, now there's some infallible logic. Smurt people voted for orange-man. The dumbs voted for Joe. and yet your education comes into question here, with logic like this. ?

According to newspapers in Republican Florida counties even: https://archive.tcpalm.com/news/more-florida-adults-lack-basic-reading-skills-than-national-average-study-shows-ep-400673372-347830961.html/ Just saying it ain't true doesn't change anything, friend. The same intellects who voted for: You rest your case, indeed. ?

but 20% of Floridians can't even read. ? The voting doesn't prove anything, lol. Full disclosure: I love Florida and have spent years of my life in a gated community 15 minutes from Mar-a-Lago, but I love it for what it is and would never in a million years pretend it was a bastion of literacy and/or intellect. Drive 30 minutes inland almost anywhere in the State and you're in certified Bubba country.

Yes but the point stands, and you're much more likely to be able to recruit sailors when they'll crew state-of-the-art warships vs old barnacle tubs from 40-50 years ago. They'll find a way to increase recruitment, but that's a mostly separate problem from procurement.

I see your Governor DeSantis and Senator Marco Rubio, and raise you "Florida Man". https://www.wctv.tv/content/news/Florida-man-throws-samurai-sword-at-sheriffs-deputies-485751211.html This is a good one too: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/hurricane-irma-gun-owners-florida-shoot-down-storm-a7937546.html Florida gun owners shooting their guns at the hurricane. What a special place - America's glory-hole.

Except it doesn't ?. With the third-highest percentage of adults lacking basic prose literacy skills, Florida’s population has a literacy rate of just 80.3%. https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/us-literacy-rates-by-state

Why do you keep saying, "you Americans"? Russian Tsars paved the way for the Bolshevik revolution. Life in Russia was pretty tough/cheap before the revolution, and it remained so after. What are you even talking about here? This whole thread makes little/no sense to me.

This sort of delusional coping is certain to reverse Russia's fortunes in Ukraine...r-r-right!?? ?

What's Florida's literacy rate? Just curious...?

Kiev in a few days!, oops we mean months isn't gonna happen. Hopefully we can hang on at least to Crimea ?!

What part of it signals that he's winning? Is it the first Russian draft since WW2? The loss of total loss of Kharkiv oblast and the ongoing retreat from Kherson? Does the importing of Iranian garbage-tech paint an encouraging picture of Russian weapon stockpiles, or their ability to manufacture replacements? Being able to show you what I'm saying is true is all that matters. Your impotent rhetoric is irrelevant. ? I don't know how many have been sacked. I do know of the following, which includes 8 top generals and the the overall commander of the Ukrainian theatre being replaced...TWICE. 1. Gen. Aleksandr Vladimirovich Dvornikov - overall commander of Russian forces in Ukraine - replaced by: 2. Gennady Zhidko - who was subsequently replaced by Sergey Surovkin (place your bets on how long he lasts everyone) 3. Lieutenant General Serhiy Kisel, commander of the 1st guards tank army - replaced for failure at Kharkiv 4. Igor Vladimirovich Osipov - Admiral of the Black Sea fleet, replaced following the sinking of the Moskva 5. Aleksandr Chaiko - commander of the eastern military district - replaced by Rustam Muradov 6. Andrey Serdyukov, commander of Russia's airborne forces - stripped of posts following the faceplant at the Hostomel airfield early in the war 7. Dmitry Bulgakov - Deputy Minister of Defense and head of Russian army logistics, replaced by Mikhail Misintsev 8. Alexander Lapin - commander of central military district - replaced ? If your world-view is based on the delusion that everything the MSM says is a lie, what you've convinced yourself of is that anything you don't want to hear isn't true. You don't have to believe the MSM on the above though. You can get this info from you're super-reliable Russian sources! Unless you're prepared to argue that Russia hasn't replaced its top commander in Ukraine twice (along with heavy turnover elsewhere), why don't you tell us how this sort of leadership turnover is a sign of Russian military success? ?

I think given how long they're going to take to build, there's time to train the sailors needed.