Moonbox
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On 8/19/2024 at 4:29 PM, Army Guy said:
Funny i thought i had already proven that fact to you, even gave you colorful maps so you could follow along...
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...🙄
On 8/19/2024 at 4:29 PM, Army Guy said:What brand is that ?, let me guess the Russian cheerleading crowd that brand....or perhaps the the i'm a disgraced soldier brand, i'm not sure what brand it is any more...
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.
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8 hours ago, Perspektiv said:
Paid? That is disturbing.
Thats like renting a car that doesn't have a muffler or brakes.
Same question comes into play: "You're going to pay for that?!" "Can't you just walk?".
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.
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On 8/17/2024 at 10:33 PM, DUI_Offender said:
You just used a YouTube video, of a twice convicted pedophile. He is a disgraced man, who hates the USA.
athos doesn't warrant any actual response, beyond mockery. This is a paid Russian troll, and he sucks at his job. 🤣
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On 8/16/2024 at 8:57 PM, Army Guy said:
At what price is it going to cost Ukraine....this incursion is not going to change anything...not for Ukraine, not for Russia, at most it is a temporary moral booster for Ukrainian troops, which will be short lived...and completely forgotten in a few months. In the big picture it was a waste of time and lives....
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.
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2 hours ago, User said:
"Even prevents food and medical aid from getting in."
That is a lie any way you want to dissect it.
Israel is not preventing food or medical aid from getting in. Go look up the definition of prevent. He doesn't have to include "any" in the sentence.
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.
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32 minutes ago, User said:
You tried to claim Israel was not letting in any medical aid or food. Its just an outright lie or spoken with no regard for caring about the truth... a lie.
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.
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22 minutes ago, Nationalist said:
An article from March…
It’s amazing how reliably you’ll make a fool out of yourself when prompted. 🤡
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3 hours ago, Nationalist said:
We? Are you going to fight?
One step closer to the Russians seizing Odessa, right? 😂
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12 hours ago, CdnFox said:
They don't tho. In fact the reports from CSIS suggest they overwhelmingly favour the liberals in canada. We had a bot on here for a bit and he pitched the hell out of the left wing.
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.
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On 8/7/2024 at 3:25 PM, sharkman said:
The recession that Warren Buffet has been preparing for since the beginning of 2023. He currently has 278 billion pulled out of the markets waiting for the drop. While the masses are saying, “what recession?”
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? 🙄
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On 8/5/2024 at 12:56 PM, sharkman said:
It’s funny, I seemed wrong a couple of years ago when I first started warning about a serious recession. Today everyone knows about the danger.
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.
On 8/5/2024 at 12:56 PM, sharkman said:The EV market is in upheaval of sorts, for various reasons. In a few years, hydrogen technology may have become the answer, and you may be on the wrong side of history again.
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.
On 8/2/2024 at 1:00 PM, CdnFox said:I wonder. It really does seem like the ev market is relatively niche and that niche has been largely serviced at this point.
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.
On 8/2/2024 at 1:00 PM, CdnFox said:There seems to be a lot more interest in going back to plug in hybrids, which do make a lot more sense as a general use vehicle till the tech makes that last jump
Yep.
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On 7/31/2024 at 9:36 AM, Nationalist said:
You know a nerve has been struck when the Libbie hoard react in unison like this.
No nerve. This is just useless copypasta. The only people falling for this sort of tripe are geniuses like you.
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16 hours ago, taxme said:
The company halts that project because they have finally seen the light. The EV industry is over. No one is buying those EV vehicles any longer. They are a pain in the butt and after owning an EV for ten years, a new EV battery will cost the owner around $10,000 or even more to have to buy a new battery.
You're going to look really silly in a few years, lol.
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Comrade, you aren't doing a very good job. Ask your masters for better material.
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On 7/31/2024 at 9:02 PM, User said:
If the conflict of interest were so obvious, you would be able to articulate what it was and why.
I'm not sure you even understand what conflict of interest really means in the first place.
On 7/31/2024 at 9:02 PM, User said:I don't know what bank tellers you know or data entry folks you know, but the ones I have known and know have no such ethical guidelines that preclude them from going on vacations with their rich friends.
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. 🙄
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39 minutes ago, User said:
There is no logic here other than my pointing out there was nothing below board, nothing nefarious here, other than a failure to report.
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.
54 minutes ago, User said:If you want to have a discussion about what standards currently exist as compared to others, great.
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.
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18 hours ago, User said:
There is nothing to show it was somehow below board by not reporting it, other than it not being reported. But now that is just circular.
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? 🙄
On 7/30/2024 at 4:11 PM, User said:What decisions was he involved in that involved his 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.
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4 minutes ago, User said:
That is almost entirely what comprised all the value in gifts we are talking about here.
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.
45 minutes ago, User said:Yes, over a lifetime of friendship hanging out... that adds up.
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.
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4 hours ago, blackbird said:
Sorry, you are wrong. Did you actually read the article I posted as the OP?
Yes, that's how I knew that it was nothing more than a low-brow opinion piece.
4 hours ago, blackbird said:Everything in it is factual and true. You are way off base. It is critical of Minister Joly, but for good reasons which it states clearly.
What were the specific criticisms against Minister Joly? Go back to the article and post it here. 🙄
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On 7/29/2024 at 9:45 AM, User said:
Yes, Clarence Thomas went on vacations with his rich friend... but there is zero evidence that "bought" him.
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.
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On 7/22/2024 at 7:36 PM, blackbird said:
Spoken like a good leftist/liberal who doesn't know what is going on in the world or likes authoritarian Communist countries. Too bad you don't understand how they are meddling with Canada's political system, interfering with elections, and spreading their tentacles through western democracies to undermine them. Dealing with the Devil has its consequences.
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.
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On 7/25/2024 at 7:09 PM, eyeball said:
There was a whole bunch of give give give too.
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?
On 7/25/2024 at 7:39 PM, eyeball said:Speaking of which...wait until the ROC has to pick up the tab for dealing with 1000’s of old derelict and abandoned boats scattered and sunk along the coast.
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.
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46 minutes ago, Moonlight Graham said:
August you should create your own thread to post all your random thoughts in one thread.
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
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Useless post.
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Ukraine Can't Win the War
in The Rest of the World
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I don't really know what he thinks. The stuff he's saying here has been nonsense.
Ceding ground, inflicting heavy casualties and stretching an attacker's supply lines and logistics is another time-tested strategy. I guess these sorts of concepts are taught only to the officers and planners in Canada's military...evidently not the enlisted.