Re: Foreign aid to ukraine
Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2023 2:56 pm
please show your work. Please be specific.ousdahl wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2023 7:51 am Not that I’m necessarily siding with randy, but he’s prob at least wondering the right things. Randy, if I may offer you advice - if you really wanna troll, avoid the kooky unverified social media accounts. The folks will just mock you for that shit.
Stick to the REAL Putin propaganda, like the New York Times and the Washington Post and the state department and such. That way you can really win the folks over, just like Qusdahl did.
The thing is! the rest of you guys sure do seem confident in a military industrial complex that’s failed five audits in a row.
And let’s once again giggle at how quickly Ukraine went from “a corrupt country with a pandora paper president and a Nazi problem” to “a buncha choir boys promoting freedom and democracy”
Here’s an article by the New York Kremlin admitting they’ve been deceiving their readers about the whole Nazis in Ukraine thing.
Here’s a take from the Kremlin Post suggesting the whole point of the Ukraine war is some “windfall” to benefit someone “other than the Ukrainians”ousdahl wrote: ↑Tue Jun 06, 2023 8:00 am and the whole…um…this angle…
Nazi Symbols on Ukraine’s Front Lines Highlight Thorny Issues of History
Troops’ use of patches bearing Nazi emblems risks fueling Russian propaganda and spreading imagery that the West has spent a half-century trying to eliminate.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/worl ... raine.html
New York Times once again publishing Nazis in Ukraine….but this time it’s saying it out loud and everything!
They even mention journalists deceiving their audience about it!
And, holy shit, the way they present the whole Nazis in Ukraine thing as bad, but not cuz Nazis are bad, but just cuz it makes for bad propaganda….woof!
Here’s a bunch of bangers about how Ukraine is an antisemitic humanitarian crisis, straight from the kremlin:ousdahl wrote: ↑Sat Jul 22, 2023 11:15 am Meanwhile, for the United States and its NATO allies, these 18 months of war have been a strategic windfall, at relatively low cost (other than for the Ukrainians).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... est-gloom/
Want me to keep going?ousdahl wrote: ↑Tue Jun 14, 2022 2:09 pm from 2018: a good 4 years before anyone accused Qusdahl of being a Russian spambot:
https://khanna.house.gov/media/press-re ... ism-europe
from 2016:
https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/US-lifts ... tia-441884
https://www.thenation.com/article/polit ... ding-bill/ (passed the House by unanimous vote?!)
2014:
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ukrai ... rs-n198961
...
there's all sorts of shit out there about this. It's that it was just never a bigger story until it was, and once it was, anyone concerned about it is ridiculed as a bad-guy sympathizer.
The only people who describe Ukraine as “a buncha choir boys promoting freedom and democracy” are people who get butt hurt about having people argue with them.ousdahl wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2023 7:51 am Not that I’m necessarily siding with randy, but he’s prob at least wondering the right things. Randy, if I may offer you advice - if you really wanna troll, avoid the kooky unverified social media accounts. The folks will just mock you for that shit.
Stick to the REAL Putin propaganda, like the New York Times and the Washington Post and the state department and such. That way you can really win the folks over, just like Qusdahl did.
The thing is! the rest of you guys sure do seem confident in a military industrial complex that’s failed five audits in a row.
And let’s once again giggle at how quickly Ukraine went from “a corrupt country with a pandora paper president and a Nazi problem” to “a buncha choir boys promoting freedom and democracy”
Actually there's nobody saying that. Nobody at all. Anybody who could read this thread and think that's what people are saying is either being intentionally manipulative or dumb as fuck.twocoach wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2023 12:57 pmThe only people who describe Ukraine as “a buncha choir boys promoting freedom and democracy” are people who get butt hurt about having people argue with them.ousdahl wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2023 7:51 am Not that I’m necessarily siding with randy, but he’s prob at least wondering the right things. Randy, if I may offer you advice - if you really wanna troll, avoid the kooky unverified social media accounts. The folks will just mock you for that shit.
Stick to the REAL Putin propaganda, like the New York Times and the Washington Post and the state department and such. That way you can really win the folks over, just like Qusdahl did.
The thing is! the rest of you guys sure do seem confident in a military industrial complex that’s failed five audits in a row.
And let’s once again giggle at how quickly Ukraine went from “a corrupt country with a pandora paper president and a Nazi problem” to “a buncha choir boys promoting freedom and democracy”
out of sincere concern I come across as "full illy," forgive me if I have. Now, let me just articulate how frustrating it is that I really have tried to "show my work" yet no one seems to notice.TDub wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2023 12:47 pm has anyone debated that there are small pockets of white nationalists in Ukraine? We have hundreds of pages about all of this.
and Full illy? you sure its me going full illy?
These threads make me miss Illy, he was a pleasure to read compared to the pile of manure accumulated in these 2 threads.
you're damn right I'm butthurt!twocoach wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2023 12:57 pmThe only people who describe Ukraine as “a buncha choir boys promoting freedom and democracy” are people who get butt hurt about having people argue with them.ousdahl wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2023 7:51 am Not that I’m necessarily siding with randy, but he’s prob at least wondering the right things. Randy, if I may offer you advice - if you really wanna troll, avoid the kooky unverified social media accounts. The folks will just mock you for that shit.
Stick to the REAL Putin propaganda, like the New York Times and the Washington Post and the state department and such. That way you can really win the folks over, just like Qusdahl did.
The thing is! the rest of you guys sure do seem confident in a military industrial complex that’s failed five audits in a row.
And let’s once again giggle at how quickly Ukraine went from “a corrupt country with a pandora paper president and a Nazi problem” to “a buncha choir boys promoting freedom and democracy”
You've had this same rant for months and have gotten the same response for months. Supporting Ukraine in their fight against Russia does not require support of all aspects of everything related to Ukraine. A sovereign nation should not be invaded by a foreign nation and their citizens should not be raped, tortured, mutilated, kidnapped and imprisoned. Period.ousdahl wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2023 9:59 pm ok, so maybe that particular verbiage was a tad hyperbolic. Sorry, I thought you guys would realize that.
but, come on! mjl has pushed the "this is a clear battle between good and evil" sort of rhetoric about Ukraine as much as/maybe more than anyone else. As if global politics can be reduced to comic book hero storylines.
More so, anyone suggesting Ukraine as anything less than "the good guys" with only the purest and most noble intentions has got, and still gets, an awful lot of hell for it.
and, mjl, you prob won't read this, but kindly spare us the "intentionally manipulative" fuss. You've tried to gaslight me as much as/maybe more than anyone else in the history of the boreds.
Show us your work towards what? What specifically are you working towards? You should probably figure that out before you get mad it isn't happening.ousdahl wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2023 10:05 pmout of sincere concern I come across as "full illy," forgive me if I have. Now, let me just articulate how frustrating it is that I really have tried to "show my work" yet no one seems to notice.TDub wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2023 12:47 pm has anyone debated that there are small pockets of white nationalists in Ukraine? We have hundreds of pages about all of this.
and Full illy? you sure its me going full illy?
These threads make me miss Illy, he was a pleasure to read compared to the pile of manure accumulated in these 2 threads.
The only reason I called you full illy is cuz you've been displaying the illy-esque tendency to take something and beat it to death - "please be specific!" - and seem to do so not out of any meaningful attempt to discuss anything, but only out of mocking antagonism.
When I asked you to be specific, it's cuz you keep alleging some mass of evidence I've been ignoring, when I simply don't think that's the case! Again, if it is, please do call me out. I don't mean to ignore anything, and am always looking for the next change to completely upend my world views.
After all, I am on record as being willing to eat crow.
Or, should we say, crauw.
We supported Stalin during WWII, he was no choirboy.twocoach wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2023 7:58 amYou've had this same rant for months and have gotten the same response for months. Supporting Ukraine in their fight against Russia does not require support of all aspects of everything related to Ukraine. A sovereign nation should not be invaded by a foreign nation and their citizens should not be raped, tortured, mutilated, kidnapped and imprisoned. Period.ousdahl wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2023 9:59 pm ok, so maybe that particular verbiage was a tad hyperbolic. Sorry, I thought you guys would realize that.
but, come on! mjl has pushed the "this is a clear battle between good and evil" sort of rhetoric about Ukraine as much as/maybe more than anyone else. As if global politics can be reduced to comic book hero storylines.
More so, anyone suggesting Ukraine as anything less than "the good guys" with only the purest and most noble intentions has got, and still gets, an awful lot of hell for it.
and, mjl, you prob won't read this, but kindly spare us the "intentionally manipulative" fuss. You've tried to gaslight me as much as/maybe more than anyone else in the history of the boreds.
The fact that some people who live in or even fight for Ukraine may individually be truly horrible people does not change that. Period.
HOLY FUCK.ousdahl wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2023 10:05 pmout of sincere concern I come across as "full illy," forgive me if I have. Now, let me just articulate how frustrating it is that I really have tried to "show my work" yet no one seems to notice.TDub wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2023 12:47 pm has anyone debated that there are small pockets of white nationalists in Ukraine? We have hundreds of pages about all of this.
and Full illy? you sure its me going full illy?
These threads make me miss Illy, he was a pleasure to read compared to the pile of manure accumulated in these 2 threads.
The only reason I called you full illy is cuz you've been displaying the illy-esque tendency to take something and beat it to death - "please be specific!" - and seem to do so not out of any meaningful attempt to discuss anything, but only out of mocking antagonism.
When I asked you to be specific, it's cuz you keep alleging some mass of evidence I've been ignoring, when I simply don't think that's the case! Again, if it is, please do call me out. I don't mean to ignore anything, and am always looking for the next change to completely upend my world views.
After all, I am on record as being willing to eat crow.
Or, should we say, crauw.