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Funny indeed, because all you "proved" was that you had to zoom in so far we were looking at individual villages and streets to see any progress at all. Your argument that "advancing is advancing" looks pretty foolish now, considering Ukraine's captured an amount of territory in Kursk in a few weeks equivalent to what Russia struggled to take in Eastern Ukraine over a whole year. It's almost like throwing away manpower and material on attritional frontal assaults that accomplish next to nothing is bad military strategy...🙄 Nothing like that. I give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you don't actually want Vladimir Putin to win. I'm talking about the low-info brand of easily-shaped populist whose opinions are informed not by knowledge or even curiosity, but by whatever the talking heads are saying on TV or online. Knowing next to nothing about something doesn't seem to stop you from having a strong opinion on it.

He was caught red-handed posting the exact same posts on Australian and UK forums. The guy who discovered it quit the forum and deleted all of his posts, but those of us who saw it, remember. He's textbook troll-farm, and let's be honest...the people working there aren't the world's best and brightest.

athos doesn't warrant any actual response, beyond mockery. This is a paid Russian troll, and he sucks at his job. 🤣

Funny. Maybe we should talk more about Russia's phenomenal progress in eastern Ukraine .🙄 More and more over the last couple of years, your opinions seem to just fall in line with whatever the rest of the "brand" is saying.

For your absurdist interpretation of what he said, and for it to qualify as a "lie", he definitely does. You can prevent "all", "most", "some" or even "none" of something. You've assumed and now insisted on the absolute dumbest of these options. By your boolean logic, Ex Flyer is a liar if a single cookie or Tylenol tablet made it through the blockade. A rational human being would therefore toss that logic aside and quickly contextualize what was actually being said. Since nobody would seriously argue that literally no aid whatsoever was getting to Gaza, a rational human being would land on a more reasonable interpretation. Not so, for the blind idealogue.

No, he didn't. What he said was: "Israel has Gaza completely surrounded, no way in or out., Even prevents food and medical aid from getting in." Once again, you're so ideologically blind that you're left arguing absurdities. Unless Israel's blockade is not preventing any food or medical aid from entering Gaza, then the above statement is true and your accusations of lying are nothing but limp rhetoric.

An article from March… It’s amazing how reliably you’ll make a fool out of yourself when prompted. 🤡

One step closer to the Russians seizing Odessa, right? 😂

I don't suppose you have a citation for that, do you? The Chinese influence case we were talking about earlier this year, that certainly seems to be the case. Otherwise, I've not seen or found anything from CSIS saying anything remotely like that.

You don't understand why Warren Buffet pulled money out of the market, nor do you have any clue what he's actually saying, or what his strategies are. You like referencing him, but you're only regurgitating garbage-takes off social media that, rather than quoting him or having any understanding whatsoever about what's going on, make their own uninformed conclusions based on little/nothing. What's Michael Burry saying these days, by the way? 🙄

No, you've been vaguely warning the sky is falling for years, copy-pasting twitter garbage, and citing charlatans and crypto-bros. Nothing you predicted has come to pass. Recessions are inevitable, so eventually you'll get one, but the financial apocalypse you were hoping for has unsurprisingly not arrived. In a few years, the EV industry will be bigger than ever, hydrogen will have not yet taken off, and this will just be another feather in that wrong-headed cap of yours. Right now it's too expensive, and it will be fore some time. Things like Trudeau's 2030 targets are pipe-dreams especially in the context of Canada's overall affordability (housing, grocery etc). EV's are not going anywhere though. Yep.

No nerve. This is just useless copypasta. The only people falling for this sort of tripe are geniuses like you.

You're going to look really silly in a few years, lol.

Comrade, you aren't doing a very good job. Ask your masters for better material.

I'm not sure you even understand what conflict of interest really means in the first place. It's hard to understate how disingenuous you're being here. Characterizing Clarence Thomas' influence peddling as "going on vacation with rich friends" is comedy to begin with, but it also ignores the hundreds of thousands (at least) he's received in forgiven loans, free private school tuition for family members and buying his mom's house and letting her live there rent-free. As for ethical guidelines, you're right. Nobody isn't allowed to go on vacation with rich friends. It's just too bad nobody said that was the problem. The problem arises when your professional decisions affect the livelihoods and well-being of those "rich friends", and they're showering you with their largesse. Your worthless dissembling might work on fellow idealogues but "6 degrees of bacon" is a pretty goofy thing to say when you have Koch-employed lawyers arguing cases in front of a Supreme Court Judge who's been enjoying Charles Koch largesse for decades. 🙄

There was no logic. You should have stopped there. The conflict of interest is obvious, and the failure to report wasn't an oversight. That's pretty much the definition of below-board. There's not much of a conversation to have there. Clarence Thomas hilariously fails any professional code of conduct test out there. I've already said it, but bank tellers and data-entry clerks are held to a higher standard than he's held himself. In a lower Court, he'd have been brought up on disciplinary proceedings a long time ago, but the Founding Fathers likely didn't anticipate someone so cartoonishly self-interested and unscrupulous to end up as one of the Supreme Court Justices, and there aren't many mechanisms to deal with that after the fact.

The implication of this sort of "logic" is that a Supreme Court Justice is somehow subject to lower ethical standards of professional conduct than the meekest government pencil-pusher, who in many cases would be required to self-disclose gifts as low as $100 to avoid conflicts of interest (or appearances thereof). It's too bad Bob Menendez didn't get your treatment on his bribery scandal. What's a few gold bars and a bunch of money stashed in the walls between longtime friends? 🙄 He recently helped strike down the Chevron Deference, something that cost his buddy Koch billions over the years and that his network of businesses and non-profits have campaigned against heavily. What a pleasant coincidence their friendship has been.

No. I just posted a (not even comprehensive) list of other various gifts and handouts he's received from his billionaire buddies, amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars at least. If it was above-board then he would report it, and would recuse himself from decisions involving his "friends" or the causes they promote. Justice Thomas, sitting at the pinnacle of the US legal system, demonstrates a cartoonish lack of professional ethics, and holds himself to a lower standard than the average bank teller.

Yes, that's how I knew that it was nothing more than a low-brow opinion piece. What were the specific criticisms against Minister Joly? Go back to the article and post it here. 🙄

Went on vacations with his rich friend...there's a downplay if I've ever seen one. Which "rich friend" are we talking about? Justice Thomas has a surprising number of billionaire friends, who've paid for upwards of 40 destination vacations, ~25 of which were on private flights. That says nothing of the hundreds of thousands he's been gifted by various schemes over the years (forgiven loans, free tuition for his nephew at $72k/y, billionaires buying the house his mother lives in etc... No evidence that anyone bought him....just a lot of money going from billionaires to a Supreme Court Judge who's publicly complained that he doesn't get paid enough. Do you smell the smell? I smell the smell.

There's also this. I don't like his trashy copy-pasted article, so (by default) I like authoritarian communist countries. With logic like that, we don't have to prevaricate on labels. This is a low-intelligence poster.

If you say so. I just think it's a really shitty attitude, and don't see how you can critique other people's politics when you've more or less declared that the only thing you care about is what you get from the government. If you allow everyone else (like the RoC, or even the rest of the world) that same runway, who are you to criticize big polluters etc? At least you're staying on-brand. The RoC has to pay for all of the junkers their owners' have walked away from? I'd say track down the owners and fine them.

I don't even think these posts count as "thoughts". They're like word scrambles. Reagan Galicia Andrew Coyne Salisbury Steak Cold War is Over

Useless post.

Go outside. Pounding your keyboard in your basement is not how people are supposed to spend their summers. 🤡