Youtube comments of jorge luis barrios mur (@jorgebarriosmur).
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This is not going to end well.
As a LOTR fan myself, who had read the book more than 34 times, and can citate entire parts of it without hesitation (Ok, ok, I don`t speak sindarin, but even I have my limits!), let me tell you that we can be very pasionate about the products released involving the world of the middle earth.
We DID accept some of the "changes" in the films, because it was a GOOD adaptation, and sometimes you simply cannot tell things the same way in a book and in a film.
But this garbage they are trying to sell to us........Nobody will buy it.
And let me point out, that WE, the middle aged men, fans of LOTR, who prefer more "traditional" aproaches to this fantasy-world, are the ones with the money.
Oh! I am sure, the younger people that value more the inclusion of certain modern perspective than the rigurous aproach to a classic product have also money to spend, they are just not fans of LOTR, and will spend it anywhere else.....
So, yeah! What could possibly go wrong?
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@Korschtal Spaniard here. To be fair, I think most of us were shocked and concerned with the Brexit.
I think it is fair to say that our goverment put more effort asisting the Brits living in Spain that your own goverment. Some town-councils even organized seminars in english explaining their british neighbours what to expect, and the steps required to ensure their residence as non-EU-citizens
Sadly, some of them are elederly people that not only don`t speak spanish, but are also disconected from our news and social circles, wich could have helped them navigating the situation.
They have been up for a rude awakening, seeing their drivers license, healthcare-coverage, and residencial status revoked, although they could have secured them just filling in the requiered paperwork in time
Some of them were even forced to sold their houses and relocate to UK! A sad outcome for people who had been living in Spain for decades........
And then, of course, is the whole Gibraltar-issue. I mean, why be good neighbours when we can complicate things and mantain an endless debate, that will end with a hard border in the Gibraltar-line, right?
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@bradsanders6954 This is not as moronic as it seems. Rice consumes a lot of water, and that can be problematic in certains periods and places. But on the other hand, you don`t want the farms to disappear, becuase, if some day the sh*t hits the fan, the only food you will able to rely on will be the one you can grow inside your own borders.
So, you pay them to not stress the enviroment and the market NOW, but to be there, to simply exist, in case they are ever needed.........In Europe we call it Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
It`s.....like paying an insurance, you hope never to need, but can`t afford to live without........
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And we spaniards are a mix from almost everything.......
We have Iberian and Celtic "native" people, Cartaghinians (descendants from the semitic people originated in what is now Saudi Arabia), Greeks, Latins (in the roman conquest), Germanic tribes (when Rome fell), more Celtic people (that fleed from Britain when the Anglo-Saxons defeated the Romano-british resitance there, and setteld in northern Spain), more Semitic and North-african people (in the islamic conquest), more Gemanic people, (when the Franks and the people from what is now Germany came to fight in the "Reconquista" and to repopulate the conquered land), plus a permanent small but persitent jewish population (from the Roman conquest, till 1492, although some of them converted to catolithism to stay in Spain, and their DNA is now part of our DNA).
Hell, we even have some 20 japanese diplomats, in 1500 and something that didn`t make it back to Japan and settled in the south of Spain, taking spanish wives......
And this is only the mixture of "historical" times.......
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That`s how it was supossed to work: You find somebody suituable, and then, TOGEHTER you built a family and a future for yourself and your children. I was raised to belive in this and to aim for it.
But, that`s not how it works now. It hasn`t been for quite a while.......and back in my days, it took me a decade to figure it out.........
I know younger people give my generation a hard time, blaming us for the current state of things, but we were the last generation of men raised traditionally, and the first who had to manage throug the sh*tshow called "modern society". Mentally and morally speaking, we were sent to a gunfight, armed with a knife.......All the things we belived in, and all what we valued, was, not only useless, it was deemed as "evil", "toxic" and bad.
It took us some time to realize what was happening, and then, it was to late......
I only hope not be around, when the sh*t finally hits the fan......
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Also, nobody seems to think about the lack of proper waste-disposal systems, because WHILE we wait in line to be converted into zombies, we will still continue to poop and pee and generate other waist, wich is not a problem if you and I do it, but CAN become a problem if we are joined by our millions of (temporarely) fellow survivers, and nobody is operating and reparing the machinery, collectors, tubes and garbage-trucks.......
The long-time survivers should avoid any big concentration of former humans, not only because of the zombies, but because it will become very quickly a hazardous enviroment in the near future......
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52 yo male here. Of course, now it is easy to say that I saw it comming. Indeed I didn`t.
I KNEW something was not working out like I was told it would be, but couldn`t identify the problem, and took the only sensible option, 22 years ago.
By then, the dating scene was already a sh*tshow, and all that I was able to land, were the clinically crazy ladies, that made realtionships look more like an endless strugle than a mutually beneficial partnership.
Part of the problem is, of course, that it can`t be easy to teach a stoic attitude to a bunch a kids that are used have gratification just one click away, for their entire life.
Luckily I don`t have kids. The most similar thing I have is a nephew, and I don`t really like him THAT much.
Wish your boys the best luck in life.
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Some still believed in the cause, but most of the germans fight because they had no choice..... Given how they behaved during the invasion of the USSR, they feared a harsh treatment, for them and for their families (and indeed, the soviet soldiers commited multiple warcrimes during the conquest of Germany, but not to the amount of what the nazis did to them, just a few years earlier).
This fear was, of course, exacerbated by german propaganda.
Most of them, just fight the best they could, to stop the soviets, hoping their families would be conquered by the western allies, if they hold out enough time......and of course, there was the "sippenhaft", that ensured, that if you failed your country, nazi autorities would enforce the punishment for your crime........to your family........ that was also a good reason to fight......
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As a man, the only unconditional love, huges, kisses and emotional support you will get, comes from your mother......the rest, has to be earned......
We learn this from our fathers, and it finally dawns even to the most obnoxious of us, when we become adults. SOME of us can`t deal wich such a barren and apocaliptic landscape, and that`s one of the reasons men are 75% of all "s*lf-d*l*t*rs".
For the rest of us, we either finally manage to bond with a wife that fills this void (and a wife has to be earned, too), or we get used to it, and it becomes just a normal Tuesday.......
This "mature man" is just learning this harsh lesson, and regardless of much he has transitioned, he lacks the necesary emotional, genetic, physical, educational and mental background to deal succesfully with it......... I fear, this will not end well.......
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I don`t even trust "REAL" money. Even gold gives me the ick. I only value thinks that are of immediate use (things you can eat, drink, use for shelter, transport, heat or cool, practicall tools, ect.......). If things really goes southwards one day, money will be just good enough to lite a fire, and gold to throw it at somebodies head to keep him from stealing your actually valuable things........ (your seeds, your water-purification system, your food and so on). Always remember the tulip-buble. The only thing that makes this things valuable, is your believe that there is another m*r^n (besides yourself) that will accept them as payment. Once this ceases, you are sitting on a huge pile of nothing (if it was at least sh^t, you could still make fertilizer out of it, indeed, we should make sh*t our currency, because, if someday the economy colapses, we will still be able to give it some use)
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If you didn`t get it from the begining, and were OK with it, you can`t complain.
BUT, if you got it frequently while dating, and suddenly after marriage you got into a drought period, where you don`t get it at all, or only your birthdays.....you have been scammed from the beginning.........time to pack your things, and leave, because, if she scammed you with "that", who knows what she scammed you with, or will scam you in the future with.......
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In Spain, our population had historically the sense of still beeing a somehow powerfull Empire, and a big player in the international scene, till, in 1898 the USA declared us the war, obliterated our outdated fleet, and seized the Philipines and Cuba from us (with the help of the local rebels).
We call it "El desastre del 98" (the disaster of 98), and study this phenomenon in history class, and it was a culturall and mental wake-up call, that completelly changed the view we saw ourselves in regard of our place in the world.
Indded, the shock, produced a generation of remarkable writers and artists, called "la generacion del 98" (the generation of 98), one of the best in our history, that faced the results of the economicall, moral and mental struggle of that time........
Perhaps Brexit is ment to be UKs "disaster of 98"......who knows.........
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And, they will not only have to fulfill the Comisions conditions ( wich will surely imply adopting the Euro, something I simply don`t see UK agreeing to), but also the specific concerns of some countries that would have no problem blocking UK for as long as it takes).
Greece will probably want to have the partenon back, and will also monstly not allow any financial concession towards UK, given how they treated when they themselves had problems........
Ireland will probably NOT agree to any UK joining (they are actually benefiting from Brexit!), unless North Ireland joins Ireland (perhaps they will allow some form of regional and semiautonomous goverment, but thats it)
Finally Spain, my own country, will demand Gibraltar. Period. No Gibraltar, No EU. (Of course, I, personally couldn`t care less about that rock, but any politician that demanded less in such a situation, would risk an insurrection)
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I lived for some time in Germany, and had the privilege to speak to some of these people when they were still alive. One of them explained it precisely so: " We were, poor, we were weak, we felt humiliated, and then H...... came along, and suddenly we jad jobs, money and a renewed sense of pride. Of course we followed him! He seemed to have all the answers!..........it was the biggest mistake of our lifes, and when we realized it, it was to late".
He instilled in me the passion to read, and to analize critically........ and I never thanked him for it
After the war, he became a jugde, and dedicated his life to defend democracy and human rights. He died at the age of 93, still regreting the life-choices he made back then..... (let`s just say, he learned about the true nature of the regime he supported the hard way, at the russian front)
If there is an afterlive (wich I seriously doubt) I hope he finds forgivness and peace.......
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Spaniard here. Actually WE TRIED TO HELP british residents to get their papers in order. They were contacted by our authorities in regards of their future change in residency status, and encouraged to act acordingly (a work that should have been done by the british embassy, but was ignored by them). City-councels of the places with significant british population even organized SEMINARS IN ENGLISH were public workers of the city tried to guide british residents (mostly retired people with little or no knowledge of our lenguage) through the aplication process (wich CAN be complicated).
Sadly, a significant number ignored our attemps to help them, or didn`t fully grasp the seriousness of the situation, and had a bad awakenning when freedom of movement was effectivelly ended for them, and they were told that their british driving licenses were no longer valid, they would be subject to doble taxation (in the EU AND the UK), and that they could only live 2 non-consecutive periods of 90 days per year in their spanish homes........
The "funniest" thing is that the laws for third country-residents (not from the EU) they complain about now, were voted by the UK, when they were still part of the EU...... In some cases they even INSISTED the laws beeing so.......
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@JayzsMr Don´t forget the Almogavars. Literally :" The ones who wage war"
They were mountain and frontier people who organized themselves in order to defend themselves from islamic raids (the word "almogavar" is suposed to be from arab origin), and naturaly evolved by adopting the tacticts and methods of the ones who were atacking them, to the point where the stopped farming or raising kettles, and whent to live exclusively from looting, pillaging, and working as mercenaries, during several generations........
Under the crown of Aragon, they spread terror and devastation through the mediterranean, to the point that in some places, saying "I wish you to be chased by the catalunian vengance" is still a thing (in many of this places they called "catalanoian" all people of the crown of Aragon, the same way we call "yankies" all people from USA, althoug in their country this is usually referred only to people from the north of the country).
And not that the other mayor kingdom in Spain (Castilla) had not his own almogavars, it is only that they were occupied fighting the islamic kingdoms in the spanish peninsula, and didn´t have the oportunity to wage war against other external threads, and get as (in)famous as the ones from the Kingdom of Aragon.......
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Exactly!
I mean, as rational beeings, we are expected to control our urges and instincts, but fact is, that we HAVE EVOLVED THIS WAY, and it had turned out to be the winning strategy for the last MILLIONS of years......
In a scenario where the survival of infants was less than guaranteed, the production of as much as possible offspring was the only answer possible, in hopes that at least SOME of them would make it into adult age, and carry on our legacy (and repeat the process in the next generation).
That`s why men have this s*xual drive 24/7/365, and woman a receptive the same time (humans have no "mating seasons").
The ones that haven`t, didn`t make the cut, and d*ed out.
On a more modern scenario, the necesity of having access to a womans body is what makes society thrive. In older days, men got jobs, built houses, went to war, formed families, and basically built civilisations, just to get access to women.....so yeah, let`s just despise the core of what made us what we are........
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Wow! She is 21? Kid-actors sometimes have some serious mental issues related to their carreers. Perhaps she has some problems and forgot to take care of herself.
Also, when she was a star, she had an entire crew dedicated to make her look good. Perhaps, now that fame and glamour are gone, and this team is taking care of the image of some other kid-actor, we see simply, the real, mostly average person that was behind all the time......
I also thought she looked like she was 40 (wich is nothing bad, if you are 40 yo, but not so good, if you are 21 yo)
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@LaneCorbett in some cases , it will......but for most not. It`s like been poor. SOME few extraordinary people will manage to became 1%s. despite their origins, but 99,9% of them are doomed to be poor their whole live, no matter what, and no matter how hard they try.
Yet people like endinmagic will tell us to focus on the (very) few succeses, and to ignore our (more than probable) fate.
Ignore the carrot that is waved in front of your face (and that you probably aren`t going to reach no matter how hard you try) and advance into the future well aware of what is waiting there for you....... (mostly a sh*tshow, designed as a bad joke at your expense).
My solution? Participate in the society the minimun amount required to ensure my survival and my wellbeeing (most people wont belive it, but it is POSSIBLE to live without a PS5 or an Iphone), and not an inch more....... the rest of the world can burn , with my regards........
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@ALEX-fq7hh The diference is, a private healthcare service will begin to search for ANY excuse in the contract to NOT honor it, the same minute you get a cancer, or some other serious issue (You where late in a payment 5 years ago? Soooooory, no chemotherapy for you!) , while the public healthcare sistem will just take care of you, with no bs.
The private health sistem just want profit, and at a certain point, you are more valuable for them dead than alive, because your expenses in health increases with the age.
A public health sistem just bothers about keeping you alive and sane.......as long as posible.....
So yes, stick to your private sistem. Good luck, you will need it.......
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@Cayenne Captain The romans. It were the romans...... but, as a Spaniard, I AM PROUD of my celtic, greek, latin, islamic, jewish, and germanic roots. PROUD!
Don´t try to shame me, or any spaniard by using our origin against us, because it makes us what we are, and WE ARE F......PROUD OF IT....... (although, being humans, I have to admit that we did some very nasty things in our history)
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Some time ago, I was in a conversation with some people and a lady began scolding young men that refused to fight for their country when called (the topic was the Ukraine-war).
I have to admit I got a little bit angry and told her to shut up, because she was speaking from an absolutely safe position, knowing very well, that she would NEVER EVER getting drafted under no circunstance, and that it is very easy to send other people do die in some dirty trench, crying and calling their mothers, while their guts are spread around several meters, knowing very well that you would never have to face this fate.
I also told her that if the day comes that she was told that she were going to be enlisted and sent to that trench, she would change her mind, because all the wannabe-warriors that ACTUALLY have to face a weapon pointing at them, suddenly tend to reevalute their priorities, and decide that SOME things, are not as important as they seemed before THEIR OWN skin was in danger.......
Then I left. Unfortunatelly I got very angry and pasionate, and perhaps I even shouted a little bit, so I no longer see that people.
They think probably that I am nuts........ It`s just, that as I get older, I have less tolerance to BS......
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I have had zero contact with bears in my life, but I have had some contact with animals, and anybody saying they would prefer be stucked with a bear instead of a man, deserve what they would get in such a situation.
Just A HORSE charging in your direction, because it got scared and is trying to flee, is enough to make yourself sh*t your pants.
And that animal ISN`T EVEN TRYING TO HURT YOU, it just wants as far away from the danger as possible.
A wild pig running through the forest, not even in your direction, but simply charging at whatever it was running to (or from) is enough to give you a heart attack.
People who haven`t witnnes the pure POWER and speed of a boar roaming through its territory shouldn`t be out there speaking BS.
Even a pack of dogs that had reverted back to wildness can ruin your day (more probably than any wolf, because wolfes mostly fear humans, while wild dogs are more familiar with them).
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@charlesdriggers199 Indeed only a small number of people from Marroco invaded the peninsula (and even less from arabic origins, although they where usually the ruling class), and where quickly absorbed by the local population , who converted over time to islam (you convert=no taxes for you), and adopted much of their cultural particularities.
In the time of the "reconquista", it is sure to say, that all spanish muslims, except the ruling class, had mostly locals ancestors, with some here and then, having ONE morroco ancestor in all their bloodline.
And fact is, most of them converted back to cristianism after the "reconquista", hide their non-cristian origins as best as they could, and stayed in the peninsula.
So we did not exactly drive them out, the same way they did not drive "us" out, when they conquered the peninsula in first place (I use peninsula and not "Spain", because the islamic conquest and cristian "reconquista" involved both the modern territories of Spain and Portugal).
In both cases the population mostly remained and adopted, time passing, the religion and culture of the new rulers.....
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@RyoKasai25 Probably a lot of roman citizens of the third century said the same........and "only" three generations later...... ( the western empire was finished by Odoracus, in 476, but they where unable to rule their territory effectively from, perhaps 385 dc or less). I don´t say that USA will colapse anytime soon (in fact, I hope I see no more such radical transformations in what I have yet to live), but, for example, if you had a time machine, and go back in time, to the Yugoslavia, ten years before the people of that country tear themselves apart, and try to prevent them, nobody would belive you........People tend to belive that things will be one way forever, just because they had not known it otherwise in their life..........big, big, mistake
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Spaniard here......I can`t sleep thinking about it 🤣🤣🤣
No, seriuosly. I see no problem if brits want to go elswehre. Other nationalities will take their place. Toursim is 11% of our GDP, but people here are acting like ALL tourists are british, when in fact, they make "only" for 20% of our tourism.
So, provided we loose ALL brits, and are not capable of replacing them with other nationalities AT ALL, this would endanger 2,5% of our GDP.
A huge blow, I admit it, but certainly not the end of the world, and STILL less harmfull than Brexit for GB (just saying).
AND, in GB they will probably be able to notice the sigh of relief commnig from the former british holiday-places.......😉
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The risk may be small, but the consequences are devastating to a level women can`t simply apreciate.
On an emotional level, they simply don`t care if a man is encarcerated for years or decades, for a crime he didn`t commit, has his reputation ruined, and loose his job, family, friends and wealth.
For them, it is the price to pay to "protect all women", and it is a price they are willing to pay......... this is so, mostly to the fact that THEY are not going the ones to pay the price, if things go wrong (although, this could change if they have a son, and suddenly he is on the bad end of a false acusation)
Fact is we can eliminate the risk, by simply not aproaching........so any sensible and rational man comes sooner or later to the conclusion that the risk is not worth the reward.......
Hard pass for me
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@Itwillblend The most important fact here, is that "Chad" IS NOT WILLING to provide, protect, have a serious relationship, and form a family, while the normal guy, could be (at least, before beeing burned out)
Of course, all of these women, think they are 1 in a million (wich they are not), and that "Chad" will both, commit to them, and continue beeing "Chad".
Plot twist: He will not......
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@playdg I didn´t mention the other books, because I did not read them 34 times. Only several times........
If I ever meet somebody who have read the "Silmarilion" 34 times, I will salute this person with respect.
This kind of person I am talking about probably even can speak fluent Sindarin!
Also, when I first got the LOTR in my hands it was a "one book" edition, (not divided in three separated books I mean), the size of the letters was small as heck (perfect for the eyes of a teenager, not tired yet from life) , and was so heavy that you could use it as weapon, if needed..... SO yes, for me, it will always be "the book" that opened the eyes of a lonley teenage boy in a country whose lenguage he barely spoke, to an amazing world full of fantasy.........
This is what Amazon is sh*tting on with this show.
How could they expect me to NOT be disappointed?
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The news in our main -media seems very similar to the news in Germany in 1945, where the allied advanced in every front, the country was in rumbels, and the german army had lost almost all of their combat-capacities, and yet, german media ignored all this facts and focused on meaningless achievements, like a bunch of teenagers delaying the advance of an american aromured colum for several hours.......
EVERY TIME an uckranian artillery piece hits something, it is celebrated like if they had won another battle of Stalingrad, yet, the simple fact that the russians continue their advance, and the ukranians are retreating, is simply ignored......
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That will be a serious problem. Whenever this wa......sorry, whenever this special military operation ends, Russia will have 500.000 expirienced, well trained and battlehardened soldiers, a booming weapons production, and an economy that thrives in war-times (soposedly they are reaching full employment, wages are rising, and even non-specialized workers in the military productions sector are beeing constantly offered better conditions by competing firms, eager to meet their production-objectives).
For Russia, it will be more profitable to start another wa.....sorry, another special military operation, then revert to a peace-time-economy.......
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The best defense is just not to be there, because you have a functioning brain, and are able to avoid putting yourself in daengerous situations.
If this is not posible, knowing your buissnes, is the second best defense.
If you don´t know how to behave, you can have all the peper spray, teaser, and even fire weapons you want, you will not be able to defend yourself against a determinated agressor.
Without propper training, probably you will even shoot yourself rather than any atacker.
I know for the people of USA this is a big thing, but just HAVING a weapon does not mean that you are safer, the same way that just OWNING a car dosen`t mean you know how to drive.......
6 millions years of evoultion have given us a formidable weapon, a functional brain. Don`t dismiss it when you need it the most....
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Hmmmm.....how would you feel if we, in Spain, do the same with the british tourists, or with the british inmigrants that you call "expats" if they get in legal problems?
Imagine a Gibraltar-national getting in legal trouble while living in his apartment in Marbella (f.e. Mister Picardo), and after beeing found guilty, we tell him that there is no appeal for him........wouldn`t be nice, would it?
And, if you are so kind, spare me this "you-need-us-more-than-we-need-you" BS. Reality has already proven that the EU is perfectly viable and happy withou the UK, while you, are not performing as good as you could........if you don`t come to Spain, other people will happily take your place......
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All the clothes I have on right now may be worth (when they were new) 200 or 250 bucks. And that`s only beacuse we have here a bad weather front, it is very cold, and I am wearing A LOT of clothes.
Also I need to customize my shoes (one of my legs is 2 cm shorter than the other), and it is somehow expensive to get it done properly.
My clothes may not be fashion, but they are resistent, and could perfectly serve me in a zombie-apocalypse (wich is something I always consider in any purchase I make......).
Also, I will keep on wearing them, till they fall apart, and then buy the most similar thing (or exactly the same) I can find, (probably in some years). If it isn`t broken, why fix it?
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Suposedly a guy who flies away in search for a situable partner, is a dusty and broke person, unable to land a woman in his own country.
If this is true, why are this ladies so upset? I mean, they SURELY weren`t going to date or (God forbid!) marry one of such kind, were they?
Please, let us dusty and broke man, who are unable to land a woman in our own country, find happiness wherever we can. It`s not like if OUR absence was going to affect YOUR dating pool, or YOUR life, right?
UNLESS, you want us simply alone and unhappy, so can enjoy our disgrace and feel superior........ If THIS was your goal, then I can understand why you are so upset with this gentelmen finding happiness abroad.....
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@niicopanda This is not how tribes work.
The chieftain (or warlord) obviously will have his own harem (they always do), but will share the "property" of most women with his subordinates, in order to ensure their loyalty. It has worked this way for millions of years, till very reciently (at the cost of coercing the female part of the population into "setteling", of course)
Oh! surely, SOME people are going to get always the short part of the stick, but in such times, the only requirements for men will be, having two functional arms and legs, and be capable to walk and breathe at the same time. No six figures, no 6 feets, six inches, and no sixpack required.
And I think, this are requirements most of our modern incels can meet. Plus, having finally access to a living human female (and power over her), will make them VERY loyal to their new chieftain, and that`s what all is about.
The fate or opinion of the afected women? Won`t even be considered, the same way afghan women are not asked what their opinion about the current state of their country is......... Do you think there are many taliban incels? I don`t think so....... for them women are just spoils of war, and they make sure every soldier gets one, (regardles of the opinion of the afected woman).
Perhaps not the BEST woman, the most beautifull or young ones (these are reserved for the big bosses, of course), but certainly A WOMAN......
That`s more or less the fate that awaits women, and incels, in such a scenario.....I hope I`m not here to witness it....
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The same happens with spanish colonisation of America.
It was just buisness as usual: The one with the bigger stick came and took it all.....like the indigenous people had been doing for thousends of years.
Indeed, the conquest of Mexico was only posible because all its neighbours hate them with passion for beeing an imperialistic and warmongering bunch of duchbags, and thougt the spanish were a better alternative ( a big mistake, in my opinion, but understandable).
As for the Incas, they just had a blody hell of a civil war when the spaniards arrived (and of course the waves of desease that preceeded them, erasing up to 90% of population in some cases, and causing what we only can describe as an apocaliptic scenario), where people were slaughtered day in and day out, without the intervention of any white conquerer. (By the way, the Inca imperium, was not build with nice words and diplomacy, it was build over mountains of corpses, using, more or less, the SAME methods that the spaniards used centurys later to conquer them)
As for the rest, they were mostly loose tribes or confederations, who hade no problem raiding their neighbours if they needed it or just were in the mood.......
Was it nice what my spanish ancestors did to my indigenous ancestors? Hell no! But it was just the way things were handeled then.......we cannot judge actions of the past with modern views.........
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In my country, police-oficcers carry with them portable breazalizers. If they suspect that you are driving under influence, they ask you directly to take a breath test, wich you can refuse.
BUT if you refuse, they are entiteld to arrest you and bring you to a clinic to take and analize a blood sample. If the blood sample comes out clean, you are free to go, if not, you have to pay the full cost of the extraction the test, the fine, can lose points of your drivers license (or even get it revoked directly), and even face jail-time, if you are drunk enough.....
So, no sobriety tests for us.......wich is a good thing, because I haven`t touched a single drop of alcohol in 22 years, and I am not sure that I could perform all these tests at the satisfaction of an officer.......
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Probably the USA is a good place to live......if you are VERY wealthy and succesfull, because there will be many things you will be able to obtain with your money and/or influence that you simply cannot have in Europe, and your wealth will shield you from all the downsides the USA has (like the absence of universal heatlthcare, the school-shotings, the college loans, and so on).
BUT, I think , that if you are a middle-class average person, or even slightly wealthy, you will be better of under the European wellfare-system, that protects you from almost all downsides you can face in live.
Of course, beeing poor, sucks everywhere, but I think in Europe we put in more effort trying to leave nobody behind.
Just my opinion........
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I am a spaniard. I imagine the people coming to fight with us against facism in our civil war (1936, Abraham Lincon Batallion) to be like him. The fact that we lost, and had to endure over 40 years of darkness, terror, and opresion, doesn`t mean we are not greatfull to the people like him, who let everything behind, to fight in a country that`s not theirs, for the right cause.
Belive me, in the generations to come, SOME ukranians will still remember with gratitude this gentelman, and his fellow comrades.
THIS is the kind of people that deserve to be awarded half of ukraines minerals resources, and not Trump, JD vance, or Elon Musk.......
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Exactly my thought! This type of land and buisness-concentration happened in the late Western-Roman empire. The farmers either remained on their former lands, working for the new owner (this patched the way for medieval serfdom) or went to Rome to live of "wellfare" (distribution of grain for it`s inhabitants)
Rich and powerfull landowners bribed ("lobbied") their way through the Imperial administration, and the lands that had been a revenue of taxes and recruits under middle-class farmers, now were almost independent fiefdoms, where no recruiter or tax-officer was allowed into.
The people that became dependent on the roman grain distribution, neither payed taxes (they didn`t have nothing to pay with), and made dodging recruitment an art (most of them worked under the radar of the state, or became directly criminals, in organizations that make cartels look like boy scuts, and mafia a non-profit organization).
People really should check how things worked out last time, before doing certain things.......
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The ukranian army waited till the russians had occupied all the paved roads that led to Avdivka.
A counterattack on the flanks to regain control of one of the roads and to avoid the encircelment, made by the elite troops of the third brigade (succesors of the controversial "azov" batallion), was not succesfull, and the ukranians had to withdraw with heavy losses.
So, the defenders of Avdivka, facing another "Mariupol"-scenario, had to flee, using a path of earth that the weather had turned into mud, or cross directly the countryside on foot.
In the procces, they had to leave behind their wounded comrads, their heavy equipment and most of their amunition........
That`s not "withdrawing to avoid loosing lifes", that`s a grown *ss defeat and your troops running to save their lives!
Aditionally, the comanders of the sector have failed since 2014! ( ten years ago!,when the eastern parts of Ukraine rebelled and the fight began in the region) to build a proper second line of defence in case the enemy broke through the first. They probably thought that would never happen!
Remember the russian defences used to meet the ukranian counteroffensive, with layers and layers of fortifications, minefields, killing zones and obstacles? There is no such thing in the, mostly flat terrain, that surrounds Avdivca!
The defences that they have hastly assembled this last weeks will probably do little to stop the russian army (the mud, and their own logistical flaws will probably hold them back much more than anything the ukranians can achieve right now in this sector).
So yeah! Tell me again that this is not a defeat!
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@dougiehouser7789 Just let us dwell in our misery. If we are more confortable investing our time, work, and money in a car (or in another hobby) than in any human relationship, it makes us happy, and we don´t harm anybody, it is nobodys buissnes to shame, pitty or correct us......
It`s called freedom, and unlike other people, WE, are ready to accept the consequences of our choices (expected or not) without complaining.
Either way, thanks for worrying but it`s not necessary.......
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They have their own problems. For example a real state buble that makes that of the west look like a wlak in the park, an aging population do to the past "one child" policy, agravated by the disbalance between men and women (because back then families prefered to have boys than girls, if they could only have one child, and countless girls were terminated before beeing born), and the emergence of the "leftover women" (women that are so succesfull in their careers, that they can`t find a situable partner in their earning-range, and end up single and childless), plus endless social, ethinic and enviromental tensions and protests that require a 24/7 supervision (represion) to be manegable.
Yes, China is rising, but it has its own big weakneses..........
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52 yo here. Have my house my car and no debts. I don`t do a single hour of overtime. I they want the job done, they should hire more people. Period.
Who ends up making overtime? The dudes with children, a mortage, or an alimony to pay! I don`t blame them, they have responsabilities, but I have designed my life porpousely to NOT be trapped in such a situation......
In some years I will buy a piece of land in the middle of nowehre, put a house/cabin on it and try to be as autosuficient as possible. After some years more, I will just reduce my work hours and work basically a part time job (we have universal healthcare, and the amount of hours I work don`t have any influence in my health-plan)......till my retirement......
Perhaps no the greatest achievements, but it was the best I could do with the cards I was given.......
And now excuse me, Warhammer 40k Rouge-Trader has just come out today, and I want to give it a try! 😉
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On the bright side, if goods are produced closer to where they are produced, this will decrase transportation, and ironically, help combat climat-change....the same climate change they don`t belive in......
Other countries will implement tarifs over US-goods also (a fact Us-citizens tend to overlook), and therefore will also produce more goods locally, increasing the effect......
Sensibly, goods should be taxed for every km they have to be shipped to where they are consumed, but general national tarifs are a step in the good direction.......What amazes me, is that they weren`t willing to endure higher prices to save the planet, but are willing now, because they prefer us beeing all poorer together than letting some foreigner having his benefit...........SMH
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NATO advisers had stated that if Russia keeps it war production on their actuall level, they could build up their army at the full strength they had before the war in four or perhaps five years after the end of the war in Ukraine, and that with battlehardened and expirienced troops
Meanhwile the amunition stocks in the west are empty, and UK could probably field 40 working tanks in case of a full scale war, while
the german army is a shadow of what it was in the cold war, Belgium has aparently disbanded its last tank-brigades and donated the tanks to Germany, and the rest of western countries are not in any better shape.
Yes, there are plans to revert this situation ( for example, Poland plans to be THE ARMY of Europe, in terms of size and combat capabilities), but its development can take DECADES, given the actual industrial basis of NATO-countries........ and the USA is overstreched, and who knows what will happen if they have to fight a conventional war in Taiwan and Europe at the same time.....
The only thing we have left is nuclear disausion.
What could go possibly wrong
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I don`t buy things to get happy, I buy things to get a job done!
I want a roof over my head, I buy a house. I want a vehicle that brings to the places I want to go, I buy a car. I want to play videogames, I buy a computer. I want to make phone-calls, I buy a mobile-phone........ This things don`t make me happy. The things I do with them, are the ones that make me happy.
I don´t need a palace, a bugatti, a pro-PC or a apple-phone. I just buy the basic, long proven tool, that gets the job done.
If somebody wants to pay extra for the fancy gear that will make him stand out as a winner-alpha-super-chad, perfect! You go man, you got this!
I got monk-mode 20 years ago. I don´t want a Bugatti to take some hot chicks on a ride. A basic SUV that allows me to make a trip with my dogs into the very outskirts of my city, is enough for me, thanks........
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Atacking Kherson makes absolut sense for the ukranian army. This zone is the only position in russian hands at the western side of the Dnieper.
If they manage to make the russians retreat past the Dnieper, they could use the river as formidable country-wide defense line in case the russian take control over all the east side of it (this river crosses the country from north to south).
This is probably also the reason, the russians will defend it at all cost, even pulling troops from the Donnbass front (even if they don`t conquer Kherson, just forcing them to divert their troops, endangering the offensive, would be already a succes).
BUT, luring the ukranian forces out of their positions, to bomb them at will, is one of the favorite tactics of the actuall comander of the russian army in Ukraine, and much of their counterofensive had ended in disaster.
That brings me to the counter-ofensive in Kharkov. If you zoom at a map to check the region north-east of the city, the one conquered by ukranian forces, you will notice that it is basically a swamp, with almost no comunications or posibilities to be used as base for further attacks (althoug Annibal and Rundstedt would probably disagree).
Some analist have argued it was sparely defended, and the troops guarding it retreated almost inmediatly, inviting the ukranian troops to okupy a terrain where they were easyer to to bomb than in their previous positions, wich is , more or less, exactly what is happening now.
"Pro russian" channels are also reporting the collapse of comand structure and morale of ukranian troops in the Donbass-front.
Alegedly some hunderts of ukranian soldiers are refusing to go back to the front if they don´t get the promised supplies and reinforcements.........
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@_GOD_HAND_ 1% is composed exactly of 1% of the poeple. Your solution means letting the other 99% behind. YOU, have a 99% of chance to NEVER be in the upper 1%.
There will always be people who don`t make the cut, but just sentence 60% of young men to not have relationship is insane, and will not end well......
If average, hard working men, are not able to get their righfull piece of cake (house, partner, kids, happiness, future), they will simply check out (or worse)
If the barbarians ever knock at your door, THIS gentelman, is not going to step up to defend you. You will count yourself lucky if he (and his comrads) don`t join the barbarians out of spite......because, you know, in the new world after the invasion, HE could be, perhaps, in new the upper 1% for once.......
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@yanaantonio42 Historically the most ruthless people are the ones to survive and thrive. There is no reason to belive that it would have been otherwise in pre-historic times.....
Althoug, some of them probably "cooperated" in order to screw their neighbours more eficiently......
People are nice only if there are enough resources for all (and sometimes, even then they behave like sc*mbags), but as soon the sh*t hits the fan, there is no food, shelter, fire, or water for all, and you have to ensure the survival of YOUR children, most people will have no moral problems in depriving their neighbours (and their children) of the few resources present, in order to ensure THEIR survival and that of THEIR group,
Even if this means that the other people are not going to make it........
WE are the descendants of the ruthless ones........
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Just don`t get things you can`t afford, unless it is absolutely necesary.
If I lived in the US, I wouldn`t take a credit, unless it was to cover the medical expenses of one of my beloved ones....
Luckily, living in Europe, I don`t need to.
Debt is slavery..... you are not longer your own master.....
If you NEED something, work your butt off, save your money, and go for the basic version.... (car, house, whatever). There will be time for improvement later ........
Not having to impress the ladies in order to land them, also helps.......a lot
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To ensure the figth-spirit of soviet soldiers during the war, Stalins regime released an insane amount of antigerman propaganda, pointing at the noumerous atrocities they did in soviet land (they didn´t even have to lie, german occupation was more than brutal).
Even the soviet goverment noticed, once thay entered in Germany, what consequences this would have, and tried to change the focus of propaganda from "revenge" to simply "win the war", as motivation for their soldiers, but it was too late, and it was not one of their priorities.
The combination of years of "revenge-propaganda", mental state do to the constant fight and bad conditions of the soviet army soldier (harrased again strongly by political commisars, after beeing released for a little amount of time), and the lack of effort of soviet oficials to enforce any kind of protection for the german POW or civilians (wich, they mean, they didn´t deserve) made sure that any prisioner of the soviets would have a hard time.
And then was the very well known tradition of the goverment of sending people to Siberia, of course........
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I don`t doubt your courage or your morals. Indeed, I admire people who are prepared to risk their life and health for their belive, even if I don`t share them (it`s always easy to drive a line in the sand when nobody is challenging you).
But don`t fool yourself, you fought oversees to ensure that the "right" people would have control over gas, oil, mineral, agricultural, and water-resources, and that it was the WESTERN oligarchs who got their claws onto that mountain of money, and not the chinese or russian ones..........
If you think that it`s something worth fighting for, go ahead, and take care of yourself, but for me, it makes no difference......
I know well that both, the western and the chineses/russian billonair-oligarchs would`t care to p*ss on me, if I caught fire in front of them......
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Saw that happen to a man, too. In the end he just gave up his house, and moved to another place, till, after years, she decided to move out because she found something better (she plowed her claws in another victim), and he was able to get his property back. Of course, meanwhile he had to pay all the taxes, becuase , you know, it was HIS house, after all.......
I have a strict policy about people I let into my house. SOME family members (most of them are just sc*m), and only ONE person that is not blood related to me, a close friend of my mother, who helped her many times along the years when her family refused to, and has proven once and again that she is worthy of my trust. This old lady knows that she will always have a place in my heart and in my home.......
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I would have probably, too, knowing very well that if I didn`t, the nice folks of the GESTAPO would "take care", not only of me, but also of any adult closely related to me, while the children would be taken over by the state, and educated in specialied facilities, where they would in become "good germans" (cannon fooder, and human breeding stock).
Also, a lot of them were well aware of the treatment they had given to the soviet population in their invasion, and knew that the average soviet soldier was more then eager to pay them back, with interest.........
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@Dan_Rodrigues Jesus, was not a real person. Like King Arthur, or Robin Hood, it`s a legend, losely based on some figures that actually existed (The years between 50 BC and after 50 AC were a litlle bit turbulent, and several "messiah" appeared in that time in the Roman province of Judea (renamed Palestina in the year 135)
So, beeing a legendary and non-existing figure, there are multiple versions of him......like there are multiple versions of Robin Hood and King Arthur........
IF you are going to belive in imaginay friends, at least that friends should behave as you would like them to, right?
So let this people have their "Jesus", it can`t be worse than yours.......
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@thescorpionsy9011 Lets be honest. You have to be a very special type of person, to be given this kind of power, without any negative consequence, and not take advantage of it. Most of us, men, would do it to, probably, if the situation were the other way around.
Given the odds, the best solution is no marriage, no cohabitation, no children......
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You are acting as you were making us a favour and not getting any compensation for it. Truth is, US-dominance ensures your corporations a privileged position when it comes to make deals.
Your problem is that this benefits go to your big corporations, wich YOU choose not to tax, and redistribute to the ones who are footing the bill for your world-dominance (the US-tax payer).
As a citizen of the EU, just be advised that for EVERY tariff you impose on us, you will be subject to an equivalent one. A lot of US-citizens seem to think that, while they will consume local produced goods, they will be still able to export THEIR products to OUR markets without any problems (good luck with that).
Indeed, if you loose your grip over Europe (was about time), we can finally persue our own needs and goals, produce our own weapons (instead of buying yours), and trade with more realiable and willing partners...... so, godbye and good ridance!
First thing in the list should be buying russian gas, and stop buying the US-gas, wich we are forced to pay right now at four times the price of the russian one........
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I think "hate" is a litlle bit harsh.....annoyance would be more precise........also, it is not as we have a choice......we MUST apllie EU laws in our country (mostly because, as a part of the EU,we contribute in the making of these laws), so , either Gibraltar takes the necesary steps to integrate into theShengen space......, or it will be a third party, and treated acordingly.
Sorry, no cherrypicking.......... You can be in, or out, but not both.......
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I am from Spain. Here our soldiers not only get paid poorly, but also get fired when they turn 45, and thrown totally unprepared into a job-market that doesn`t want them, and deems them obsolete once they turn 50.....
For the first time in our modern history, some public civil jobs have been offered to this people, but I think they are few (some 20 or so), and the requirements for that jobs are so specific, that nobody meets them.
So, if you tell a 20 something man that he will be serving in a sh*tty and underpaid job for the next 25 years, and then send to the curb without any help or future, you should not be surprised if not only you do not meet your recruitment-objeticst, but also, that the only ones applying to the army are the ones that couldn`t land any job at all (not even waiter), plus some few patriots......
We also fill our ranks with latino- recruits (from south and central America), who can aplly so to spanish nationality....... But Rome did something similar back in the days, and it didn`t end well........
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SOME german officers expresed their concerns about a war with Russia, and manifested, that the only way of wininng was to turn the invasion into a "civil war" between "red" and "white" russians (there were still some of them around, and a lot of people who hated Iosef could have been convined to switch sides).
Soviet terror and purges (and the Holdomor, of course) were still present in peoples memories, and indeed, the soviet authorities aknowledged this, when they relaxed political represion and took away some of the executive powers of the political commisars (who were taken out of the chain of comand, and became mere advisors at a certain point)
For a lot of soviet soldiers, their time in the front, was the first oportunity they had in a lot of time (or even the first time) to speak freely about their concerns, and aparently one the phrases that appeared in conversations was :" things have to change after the war".
Sadly, when the war progressed, and Stalin got more secure, represion was again reinforced (it never really left, just got more subtle for a certain time), the commisars got their power restored, and the madness of stalinist purges reapeared........
For Adolf, the mere concept of colaborating with slavic people (even temporarely) was anathema. He viewed the war a clash of titans, the final strugle between to races (the slavic and the gremanic) that had to be fought wothout concessions till the end.
He was mentally and ideologically unable to make any deal with the invaded soviet citizens.........
The only way this could have been achived, is with a change in the German leadership, removing Adolf, and changing him for a more practical Fuehrer, less blinded by racial ideology, and more practical
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So, we all are trying to ban v*ginal ablation of children worlwide (because it is child-mutilation), yet you allow THIS stuff?
I didn`t now things were THAT BAD in the US.
Given that, things that happen in the US, tend to come to Europe some time later (in some cases almost inmdiately, in others, perhaps a decade later), I am not optimistic about the future.......
Underage children should only be subject to medically necesary treatments......A child masectomy should be only considered in case of brest-cancer.......Elective procedures, can wait till they turn 18.......WTF, dude....... ANY parents proposing this, should be deprived of their parental rights ASAP.
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@fedecano7362 A ver, para empezar se llamaba Corona de ARAGON, por algo, y no meramente porque la "A" de "Aragon viniera antes que la "C" de "Cataluña".
Segundo, se le olvida que la Corona de ARAGON estaba tambien conformada, aparte de por Aragon y Cataluña, por Valencia, las Baleares,los condados del sur de Francia, Sicilia y Napoles (aunque la ultima se incorporara posteriormente). De verdad esta intentando dar a entender que TODOS esos lugares no eran sino un oscuro paramo intelectual y cultural, alumbrados por la centelleante cultura y marea de ideas generadas en Cataluña? Hagaselo mirar, por favor......
Finalmente, y puesto que TODAVIA estabamos en la edad media, y llegada del estado-nacion aun se haria esperar una temporada, le recuerdo que CATALUÑA, como entidad politica, no existia, ni se la esperaba. Se trataba de una serie de estados feudales (el mas importante de lo cuales era el condado de Barcelona), con una cultura y lengua comun, conectados por un complicado entramado de lealtades personales, a cuya cabeza resultaba estar el rey de ARAGON (y antes de salte usted, ya le confirmo que España, tenia la misma entidad que Cataluña en esa epoca, o sea, NINGUNA)
Pretender que Cataluña (o España) era(n) un pais en aquella epoca es como decir que Grecia era un pais durante las guerras medicas.
No hijo, no..........
La historia, ya es una disciplina lo suficiemente imprecisa como para que encima venga aqui el personal a manipularla para adecuarla a sus humedos sueños adolescentes de naciones milenarias que, a lo mas que llegan es a 300 o 400 años de antiguedad (que tampoco esta mal, oiga!).
Si quiere usted pertencer a una nacion milenaria cuyo origen se pierda en la niebla del tiempo, le recomiendo China, o Egipto.
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Having served nowhere, and beeing barely able to swim, I would say that your opinion hugely owerweights mine, buy if I may, I would want to point out that the Chinese navy is not chalenging (yet) US-global naval dominance, wich would require, efectively, a logistic-chain that right now, only the US is able to deploy.........China seems to be targeting "only" a local superiority, not very far away from their coasts.
The logistic-requirements for that task, although probably still brutal, are mostly only a fraction of what you need to dominate the seven seas.......
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@derekking5386 There are no"gibraltar waters". Your navy is constantly messing around in OUR legal waters. Also, you are constructing ilegaly and artificial island in them.
Oh! And "your" airport is partially build over spanish soil, that you robbed when we were fighting our civil war........SHARING the airport, as part of the inclusion of Gibraltar into the Shengen space, is only reasonable
Don`t worry about our 15.000 workers. They are only a very small percentage of our population (0.03%), and, if needed, we will use spanish and UE funds to support them......while Gibraltar will see 100% of its population and their whole economic structure afected.
Please. take note that I haven`t spoken about the sovereignty of Gibraltar, because I don`t want MORE people in my country that don`t want to be a part of it (we have already enough of that, no need to add 40.000 more). Most of us DON`T CARE about Gibraltar, we just want you to play by the rules, instead of doing what you want.......
You keep thinking that we need you more than you need us.......good luck with that!
Just get of your high horse, and make a reasonable deal, now that you have the chanche, because, if our goverment changes, and the conservative and ultranationalists rise to power, you will call what we have now "the good old times"
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@THX829 IF UK ever wants to join the EU , and STILL holds sovereingty over Gibraltar, you better bet it will be up for negotiation.
Your opinion is going to be considered as important as that of the people of Hong-Kong was........
If it is in Uks interest, they will not hesitate one second to sell you out.
But, I don`t think UK will ask to join the EU in a looooooong time (if ever), so, no need to get passionate about the topic.
I just wanted to point out, that even IF the UK wanted to join the EU, it could be more difficult than they expect, because you know, other countrys have their particular agenda, too..........
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The thing is, this ladies that had come to know that they have been screwed, should try to reach younger generations, and tell them to avoid the mistakes they made, tell them that what they are beeing tought now, is just a bunch of lies.
That the next 10 years in their life are very important and going to define their future in matter of family and children, that you can´t make your cake and eat it, and that acts and decisions have consequences.
For the now 35 year old ladys, and for us men, who have been burned by them, it`s too late, but perhaps they can save the next generation (because you know, if a man tries to do it, he is just a misogynist patriarch, who is trying to mansplain young people)
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Oh! they knew that it was wrong.....they just had never been confronted with the fact that acts have consequences.......I know some people like this.......they were shielded from any punishment (except, perhaps, some slap on the wrist) by juvenile laws and theyir crappy parents........sudenlly they turn 18, and the first time they perform the same crap they have getting away all their lives, they get thrown the whole book at them........ The look in their faces, when they realize, that THIS TIME they have f*cked up, is priceless.....
In one particullar case, a police officer from a small island told me they had marked in a calendar the day a certain person was going to turn 18, and were eagerly waiting for that day.........very, very eagerly...........
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Yep. I had to use this at least two times.
Just told them directly : "Sorry I am 30 years old , live with my mom, and the only money I have is the monthly allowance she gives me" They never spoke to me again.
If you want to get rid of a woman just tell her you are a broke looser........
Funny thing is, when my stepfather died, me, the son that did not marry and get kids, returned home. Now I put almost all my money in a joined bank acount to help pay the mortage, groceries and expenses, and keep a small amount for my personal needs, so my lie became truth 10 years later. :)
Given the fact that aparently I still look like I am 35 years old (or thats what people keep on saying to me all the time), every time I speak to a woman I tell them almost inmediatly that I am 51 years old and live with my mom.
So I avoid problems and misunderstandings, and keep my freedom and peace of mind.....
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Yeah! The thing with the air-power....... But I belive that was not entirely Ukrains fault. A lot of western goverments and public opinions wanted to see some quick and swift results from their investments in Ukraine, because, lets face it if we were told the truth (that it will take DECADES of funding Ukraine and sanctions against Russia to eventually make an unsatifying deal with the enemy), most of us would just say "scr*w it".
If they only have waited till Ukraine got more anti-air capacity to protect their troops , and an extensive airforce, capable of giving the russian one a hard time, prevent their artillery to fire at will, and overall, keep their anti-tank helicopters from the front, who nows what could have happened.............
But that would have ment to delay the ukranian offensive to 2024 or even 2025, and meanwhile spending a lot of resources without "results" to show to the western public opinion........
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@davester1970 Exactly my thought. As long as it works, and does the job, who cares?
The same with computers, cars, tools, houses, and all other things you own. Don`t go for the fancy, high mantainance item.
Get yourself something solid, proven, that lasts, and does the job you want to get done. Don`t spend your hard earned money to be able to potentially impress some chick that don`t give a f..... about you unless you have a Mercedes, an IPhone, a house on the beach and all the other BS.......
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The situation has become so bad, that 71% of young people in the US would be unable to join the military, if draft needed to be re-introduced. This is mostly (but not exclusively) do to a lifetime of obesity (from childhood on) that has weaken their hip-bones, rendering them unable to endure the hardships of military life.
The fact that they don`t adress this as a national security problem is unbelievable. Ukraine has shown us, that in case of a mayor conflict, you NEED to reinstate draft. Also, the birthrate in US WITHOUT factoring inmigration is 1.65 children per women......Us authorities should have a look at South Koreas and Japans actuall problems, because if they continue rejecting inmigrants and deporting them, this is how their country will be in 50 years (aditionally with 70% of the few young people from then, unfit for military service).
What could go posibly wrong? They should better start to learn chinese (we, probably, also)
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There is a unit already specialized in the integration of soldiers from diferent origins, to conform an effective combat- force.
I am speaking, of course, of the forgein french legion.
This model could conform the core of an european army, althoug, it would be probably necesary to switch from french lenguage to english (a sensible question for many french, who tend to think, that if you were capable to learn english, the only reason you do not speak french, is because you hate this lenguage, culture, and all french-speaking people).
This core of multinational combat-ready troops, that should include of course strategic transport capabilities, could then be complemented by national units, whose training should include learning english to a level enough to speak and write it fluently.
Esentiall would be also, that not EVERY country should have ALL TYPE of units. Unecesary duplicity is one of the big problems of the european armys right now, while nobody cares about other necesary capacities ,like the previous mentioned strategic depolyment capacities ( aka big f*cking transport planes), or aircraft-carrier groups, wich europe has not enough, now that the british left the union......
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I don`t want this war. I don`t want it to happen, I don`t want the necesary economical sacrificies it brings, and overal, I don`t want to fight in it.
This said, IF we are going to do this, we have to go all the way. No bragging now, and then, in two or three years, when we suddenly can`t buy our fancy Apple-devices any more and body bags pile up mountain high, we back of.........
There will be poverty. There will be hardships, There will be hunger, and most of the people send into the Russian meatgrinder will not make it back.
If we europeans acknoledge this, and even so decide to help Ukraine, I will do my best to do my part.
But please, rememeber IT WON`T BE EASY. IT WON`T BE QUICK. WE WILL NOT WIN (even if we do, the price will be so hughe, that "victory" will taste like ahes in our mouth). Even so, we probably should do it.......
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Given how the USA and the west behaved in the Falkland-war, I can totally understand if the argentinian goverment choose to rely on chinese weapons, instead of western ones........
Another advantage of chinese diplomacy, is that they don`t care about human rights or enviromental problems, and will not ask their buissnes partners to adhere to such agendas......
Finally, USA in particular, and the west in general, have been treating latin american countrys more as vassals than as partners, since the fall of the soviet union (and not that before of that they treated them any better), so, now that they have another suitor, they are more than happy to let both pretenders fight over them, and take advantage of the situation.......totally understandable.......
If we want them to adhere to our cause, we will have to sweaten the deal for them. Perhaps latin american people get finally some f...... justice. God knows they deserve a break.......
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@derekking5386 And all you ask is simply that we ignore laws that we are BOUND to implement, because, you know, WE, are still part of the EU.
That 15.000 workers are 0.03% of our population. If they don`t work in Gibraltar, they will simply work elswhere, and we will fund them temporarely, using Spanish and EU funds.
Make a deal, or go kick rocks. We don`t care.......
And we send the police to that water, because, for whatever reason, we think that belong to us........, just as you think that the the northern part of your airport is constructed over gibraltarian land, and not over a buffer-zone that is spanish, and you took away ilegally while we were fighting our civil war.........
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To work? Yes. To demand absolut alliegance to his cause accepting whatever sacrifice is needed? Hell no! I would have quit. Indeed, whenever some moron presented me such an ultimatum, I simply quited.....
Most times, they expect you to comply (if they want to fire you, they fire you, and thats it), and the look in their face when you simply smile, wish them the best, and leave, is priceless..... Some even call you, after a certain time, asking if you are currently working, and if you would consider going back........ (of course, no).
Just not having debts, and keeping your needs in check, gives you the freedom of quitting (with jobs, places and people, or even with the crazy exgirl-friend you almost married), whenever you feel in the mood.....
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The problem we are going to face when this war is over, is that Putin will have a 500.000 men strong army of seasoned veterans, with a lot of military hardware, and an industry completely dedicated to war production.
Dismanteling this miltary-based economic structure, and reverting to a civil one might be not easy, specially if the sanctions are kept in place (wich is most likely to happen, unless Ukraine assaults Moscow, Russia surrenders unconditionaly to NATO, allowing NATO-countrys to establish an ocupation-force on russian land, all russians stop speaking rusian and start to learn ukranian lenguage, and every western man gets the right to get intimate with any russian beauty whenever he feels in the mood).
In other words, FOR RUSSIA, IT WILL BE ECONOMICALLY ADVANTAGEOUS to start another conflict, to keep people working, production increasing, money flowing and moral high. A little bit like the Rome, in the lasts years of the republican phase, and the begining of the Imperial phase.
He will probably NOT invade any NATO country, because that would mean total war with the USA, but if I was was the president of any post-soviet republic in the middle east, I would carefully plan my exile in some western country, because surely Rusia is going to knock at my door any day soon.........
Of course, this could be avoided if, after the war, we revert the sanctions, help Russia back to civil production, and make peacefull trade more actractive for Russia than the other alternative.........but, as I said, this is not going to happen.....
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@Remixersoloman You sir, have no idea what you are talking about.
In the tolken lore, elves, dwarfs, orks and other similar creatures, are effectively compeled by their nature to choose one the sides.
No elf or dwarf will aid Sauron and no ork or troll the people of the west unless compeled by force or deception.
BUT THIS IS NOT THE CASE OF HUMANS, and also not the case of other creatures.
In the mith of their creation it already said that, together with the gift of death, they have the ablity to defy the path that has been determined for them.
It also mentioned that Gondor, in its great and ancient times, ruled the northern parts of Harad and its people were under the influence of Gondor. So coexistence was clearly possible.
Grima was a rohirrim, a man from the "good" people, who choose to serve Saruman (who made also the travel from the good side to the bad).
Both were offered the posibility of redemption, and Grima was, at the end at the verge of succeeding.
Also, the inner struggle of Smeagol/Gollum for his soul, is more in the grey zone than a story about absolut good and bad.
Remeber the ambush to the haradrian reinforcement troops, where Sam witnessed a dead haradrian soldier and noticed that he seemed not particulary evil, and asked himself if he actually was a bad person, or just some recruit forced to go to war?
Also after the battle of Helm, the mountain people were offered mercy (again, coexistence).
The oathbreakers, who get redemption by holding their oath in death and serve Aragon (redemption)
And Legolas and Gimpli talking about what powerfull master of darknes Aragorn could have been if he had choosen the dark side and claimed the ring.....
In tolkiens lore, humans can choose wich side to join, so of course, there is space for a grey area.
Again, you have no idea what you are talking about......
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A lot of people hated their neghbours more than the invaders, and were happy to join them, as long as they could leash out on the ones that "had been wronging them since before the dawn of civilization".
Kinda what happened to my spanish ancestors, when they arrived in Mexico. No way they could have defeated the mexicas (an empire that could field 100.000 warriors, if needed) with only 500 men, some war-dogs, horses, metal-swords and armours, and primitive arquebus. They only succeded because the rest of what is today Mexico hated the Mexica-confederation SO BADLY, that they joined the invaders in flocks, up to an army of tens of thousends of warriors........ (they probably regreted it later, but that`s another story)
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To be fair you are one of us. I am spanish (Imposible to be more hispanic). You italian people brought your lenguage and culture to the spanish peninsula, and intermingeld with us, when the roman empire conquest and asimilated us (to the point where 3 roman emperors were actually born in what is now Spain), setting the ground-base for the hispanic culture and lenguage.
After some "minor" aditions (germanic and islamic mostly) we did the same with the american indigenous people (conquest, forced cultural asimilation, imposing our lenguage, intermixing), creating what you call "Hispanic".
So you see, we have the same roots, it`s like beeing cousins. I don`t think it would have been totally a lie. In my book, italians and italic descendants get a "hispanic"-pass......
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Men invented almost everything in the history of human civilization
Yes, we truly don´t know who "invented" agriculture, catlle raising, domesticated dogs and horses, the fire, or made the cave paintings of Altamira, for all we know, it could have perfectly been women, we simply don´t know.
BUT, in historic times, we are sure, because we know for sure, that all women (and almost all men , too) where banned from de adquisition of knowledge, and busy working their ass*s of trying to put some food on the table and pay their taxes to their local overlord (like 99.99% of the men)
Even the few women who belonged to the upper clases where banned from knowledge and investigation and constrained into other fields (politics, trading, childcare, ect.)
Yeah, so I can assure with confidence, that men invented and built almost all things in historic times......
They invented most of the things because they where the only ones with the necessary knowledge
Fair? No! But life is not fair!
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The problem for the american elite (like the roman empire at a given point .before them) is that they are not fighting for their survival, so they lack the ability of total comitment. Their politicians, economists, CEOs, big fortunes, and the common people, want their wars to be "profitable", at least in medium time terms (and better if the profit comes almost inmediately!). The cost of a land invasion in China is simply to high, and not worth any possible benefit they could achieve.....
China has, at this very moment the weakness of its low production of oil and some rare metals . If the Usa manage to control, or damage the actual or future oil supliers of China (has anyone said Iran, or Venezuela?), or countrys that can provide coltan, for example (hello, Bolivia!) to China this would be a huge blow to chinese industrial capability. Of course, the Chinise goverment is aware of this Achilles heel, and is working hard in secure their positions in this key-countrys, and searching for tecnological advances that made them less dependent of strategical materials they have to import......
We will probably asist more likely to a second part of the "great game", than to a full scale war between USA an China.
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@sid2112 Generally speaking, almost all attempted invasions of Russia that had its origin in the west, failed miserably (I think there was a Polish-Lituanian invasion that obliterated the state of Moscovia once, but I don`t recall another one).
I just don`t see how opening another front, when you have shortage of combat ready troops is of any use, and more, if we take in acount, that INSIDE undisputed russian territory, Putin can resort to regular russian troops, and is not reduced to use only the ones that have signed a contract to fight in Ukraine.
Yeah, SOME supplies ment for Ukraine will have to be diverted to counter this offensive and re-conquer the lost territoy, but it will cost Ukraine troops that it simply can`t afford to loose.......
It just looks like a greater version of that st*pid PR-stunt that was the ukranian crossing of the Dnieper......
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When I was younger, and still dating, the fact that I have almost no smell-sense (when I begin to smell something, other people are already throwing up) made me almost belive in God. Almost.
It has also it downs........for example, when something is burning, but you don`t detect it till you see flames and smoke, regardless of the fact that the whole city is already aware of it because of the smell, and I don`t enjoy flavours as much as other people, but in the particular scenario we are talking about, it was very helpfull.........
Also, I have to be VERY thorough with my personal higene or that of my house, because, I can`t detecd my own odor or that of my house.........on the other hand, you can fart silently in my presence without getting embarased...... so yeah!
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So he gets indoctrinated, but the other way around.
What could possibly get wrong?
Schools should teach children HOW to think, and not WHAT to think, except certain common and basic precepts.
Clasic philosphy, by the way, should be a "MUST" in every school, and sports.,lots of sports. And if you already have sports, more sports.......
For a conservative parent, having his kids tought HOW to think by themselves, can be far more threatening than having him delivered progressive propaganda 24/7
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@BD-jm2rj When I was younger, I was not the nice, peacefull and calm person I am 99,99% of time nowadays (and I thank God every day that social media, internet an mobiles weren`t a thing then, because I was sutpid AF), and in my expirience, if you face this kind of people, look them cold in the eyes and tell them: " OK, lets meet and get this done" they back off......
They are just too used to intimdate other people with their empty threats.
The guy you should worry about, is the guy you screwed, and didn´t say a word about it or complain........ the reasonable and calm person that never raises his voice.........these are the people you should fear..........
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@deumevet Pues eso. Hechos inventados para cuadrar con su particular vision.
El "principado de Cataluña"......madre mia del amor hermoso!
Me produce usted la misma pena que la gente que dice que el uso de la palabra "Hispania" ya demuestra la existencia de "España" en tiempos de la conquista romana.
Y solo por darle el gusto. La primera mencion a la CORONA de Aragon (no confundir con el reino de Aragon, puesto que este solo era una parte de aquella) proviene del siglo XIII, no del XVII, como formula dinastica empleada para identificar lo que anteriormente era nombrado como " Rey de Aragon y Conde de Barcelona"
Apliquese usted su propio consejo, y lea.
Pero por favor lea libros que no hayan sido escritos con una finalidad identitaria, sino libros que pretendan analizar de forma honesta los hechos del pasado.
Mire usted. Su tan ansiada independencia y establecimiento de un estado-nacion, no depende de que se inventen ustedes unos hechos miticos de un lejano pasado que provocan mas risa que cualquier otra cosa.
Depende de lo que ustedes decidan hacer con su FUTURO. Sencillamente, el dia que el 90% de los catalanes decidan que ya no quieran ser parte de España, nadie podra hacer nada al respecto (probablemente con un 80, o un 70% tambien bastara).
Si ese dia llega, espero que se les acabe la tonteria, y dejen de contar trolas como catedrales para justificar una aspiracion que no necesita mas justificacion que su voluntad colectiva de llevarla a cabo.
PERO, si ese dia llega antes, pues mejor que mejor......j*der, el "principado de Cataluña"......hace tiempos que no oia esa.........
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@adrianshephard378 You can`t blame a slave for revolt. Indeed, if I were a slave, I would do anything to get my freedom NOW, not in some generations, when it pleased my masters, who, aditionally would be compensate for their "sacrifice".
You could also say, that the shoa would have eventually stopped, and that there was no need to sacrifice 40 million people to save six millions, and that a compromise could have been made with Adolf, but it still wouldn`t make any sense.......
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The only ones to help them, rescue them and give them shelter whenever they could, were the kurdish fighters of Syria.
They were the only ones who did the right thing, and are basically the only "good guys" in a scenario where you can only find bad, worse, and the worst people...... (the syrian dictatorship, backed by russian aviation and pro-iranian militias on one hand, and on the other the Al-Qaueda militas, backed by the saudi theocracy and its allies, and renamed as "syrian rebels", to make them more suituable for western public opinion)
And their reward? They were used by the US to fight Isis, and then discarded and left to their fate at Erdogans "tender" hands.....
Why do we, in the west, ALWAYS end up suporting the worst sc*m in any given scenario?
Sometimes life, just sucks.........
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@angloirishcad an unknown, but certainly important percentage of this artillery, is not even making it to the front. Even if it is deployed in the front, it will not last very much, unless it motorized artillery.
And even so, given the air and artillery superiority of the russian army , I would not wish to be one of the soldiers serving with this pieces.......
Reportidely, desertions have being rising in the ukrainian army, as conscripts with only 2 weeks of military training have been informed that they are heading to the Donbass front.
Given that time is on ukranian side, I do not understand why the don´t just retreat back the Dnieper, and show the russians the middlefinger.
Right know, they are fighting the war the russians want them to.........
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Funny thing is, the local goverment, as their dealer holds all the power and has all the leverage in the world over most of this people (all the adicts). They could literally FORCE the adicts to do whatever they wanted.
You were involved in a minor crime this week? No dosis for you.
You refuse to live in the area asigned by thel ocal goverment? No dosis for you
You refuse to build housings for you and your kind in this area? No dosis for you
You refuse to shower, eat healthy make exercise and keep your asigned parcel clean and in good order? No dosis for you
You refuse to make therapy? No dosis for you
You refuse to clean the streets, make minor reparations, and any job you are able to (no heavy machinery, use of vehicles, or any other tasks in wich their drug-altered mental state could harm themself or others) in benefit of the comunity, and get payed for it, so you can cover at least SOME of your expenses?
NO-F*CKING-DOSIS-FOR-YOU.
SOME of them, would be benefited by this kind of stable enviroment, and PERHAPS, be able to overcome their adictions, and for the rest, it is better to treat them as minors that require control and supervision than to throw them into jail.......
The same for ilegals. Most of them would LOVE to be trained to engage in any position required, and work for (lets say) 5 years serving the comunity (building highways? railroads? airports? taking care of the elderly?) to get their permanent legal residence, and perhaps another 5 years to get the nationality (if they meet all the other criterias, like, of course, not beeing involved in any crime)..........
Ten years of (almost) free force-labor......just imagine what your country could do with this kind of arrangement.........and this new citizens would value their new nationality as more as an piece of paper, because they would have EARNED it through hard work.........
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@ceejay1476 I think even this may be a bad deal, becuase a, somewhat, powerfull and independent Russia would probably play its own game in case of a "China-West" conflict, and perhaps even ocasionally align with the west, while a "castrated", but not completely defeated, Russia is nothing more than a chinese vassal-state.
Can we really afford having Russia on Chinas side if it ever comes to a confrontation (even an economical one)? Just right now, China is getting all the petroleum it needs from Russia, at a spot-price, and I wouldn`t be surprised if they gain acces to their strategic minerals in the next future. Meanwhile the number of chinese civilians living in the far-east part of the Russsia, with the compliance of the authorities, is rising........
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I don`t know. Sometimes , technological advantage is not enough to counter sheer numerical superiority. Look at the germans in WWII with their fancy Tigers and Koneig-Tigers, far superior to anything the allied could use.
Also, the russians have air superiority (not dominance, but superiority), and , if this systems proof to be anoying enough, they will be surely willing to risk some more of their precious planes, or even some long-range missiles, if they think they have a chance to destroy one of this twelve systems (and manage to be accurate enough).
I would not like to be one the crew-members of these systems, if the russians manage to fix my position for enough time.....
Fact is, the russians had get used to operate freely in their rear, and this is over for the moment.....
For how long? Who knows!
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Given that the money for salarys, amunition and suplies disapeared in the pockets of politicians instead of going to the troops, it is no wonder that they surrendered.
I remember a statement from an afgani refugee in Italia, saying that by the time the troops of his town surrendered, they hadn´t recieved salarys (they had families to feed), amunition, and gas for their vehicles, in the past three months......with the USA still in charge of the country
You have to be a very special kind of person to choose to fight in such conditions.
Indeed, this kind of people (very few), reunite in the Panshir Valley, because it has two conditions:
It`s geography is specially adecuated for guerrilla warfare.
It`s strategic importance is almost none (unless you are invading the country from the north, like the USSR did), so, the enemy will probably not spend the resources he need to hunt you down in this sheer undendless mountains....
because, it`s just not worth.......
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@brianwashington2449 What I find quite intriguing, is that the few people from the US that I have met personally, were all, without exception respectfull, reasonable, polite and easygoing people. Guess you, unlike the brits, leave your "lesser gifted" citizens at home....... I guess the brits had me gotten used to expect the worst of people, but I was actually surprised by the quality of the people from US........
This sayed, if you don`t want to be laughed about, try to do less laughable things........(no offense). Anouncing that you were going to create a department, to tax people outside the US, for suposed "services rendered" by the US, is a little but laughable........
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That ukranian "NKVD"-officeer seems very nice. He wasn´t shooting at anyody, but was trying to convince them WITH WORDS.
Either way, if it is true that this seven soldiers is all what is left from 100 man, I think it is totally understandable that they have no intention of returning into the meat-grinder.......
At this point, hiding in a cellar till the battle ends, and then enjoying some hollidays in Siberia (paid by Putin), looks like a good plan to me.......
If Zelensky is so eager to keep on defending Bahkmout, he can always do it personally. He, his staff, his oligarchs, and their families.......
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To be fair, I worked as hotel receptionist for eleven years in a hotel in the Canaty Islands, and all the Us-tourists I met were polite, kind, and behaved very well.
The worst? The english (not the british, the english) and my own people. The best? The people from Luxembourg.
French were OK, as long as you spoke with them in french. If not, they always gave that look that meant :" If you were able to learn english, the only reason you don`t speak french is because you don`t want to"........... wich is, kinda true........
But people from the US, were OK.........unlike the english, your less polite people probably never leave the country......
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If Ukraine had a WWI-type of defense (a continuous line of trenches, manned with infantery, and suported by machineguns, wired positions and artillery), charging on motorcicles would be suicidal.
But, the modern front lines (both russian and ukranian) seem to involve the defense of key-positions (strongholds and comunication-hubs), with the space between them defended mostly by sparsed infantery units, relying on artilery and drones to harras any enemy detected in the gaps between this thin line of, basically, entrenched observation points.
In THIS scenario, motorcycles have proved to be very effective.
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My country, Spain, already ditched the proyected F-35 purchase. Luckily we did not have signed the contract yet, when the US began to run amok.
I think, generaly speaking, very few of the extra (attention!) 650.000 MILLIONS of Euros of increase in our military budget are going to be used to buy US-equipment....... SOME of the money will still be going to the US (because the Grippen, for example is suposed to have 15% of US technology in it), but it will be far more less than in the past......
The Poles must be feel pretty dumb right now, with all the Abrahams they have bought........I bet they wished they would have completely opted for the South Korean "Black Panther", instead buying 50% of "Panthers", and the other 50%, "Abrahams"
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Sometimes I think this is a problem Kim-Yong-Un, the leader of North Korea could be facing.
I mean, he atended school in Switzerland, and lived some time in the west. He must be aware of what a madness his regime is.
Even with all the personall advantages of beeing a God and holding almost divine power in his country, and the influence of all his entourage telling him only what he wants to hear, he surely has to realize that his goverment makes that of the soviet union look like a paradise.
But, he must be also aware, that five minutes after loosing the grip of his steel fist regime, (or even the moment he looks remotely weak), he would be draged to a wall and shot on the spot......if he is lucky.
I don´t know if he have ever wanted to make the situation more bereable for his population, but, if this is is the case, he would not dare to........out of fear..........
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It is easy to blame the ukranians for the inadequate use of US-"wunderwaffen", but we should keep in mind that, usually, when the Anrahams appears on the battlefield, the enemy has been bombed into oblivion a long time ago, is reduced to "asimetric" warfare (guerrilla-campaign), with its command-centers, supply-depots. assemble-zones and fortifications turned into dusty rubble.
Also, US (or NATO) operated Abrahams (and other Tanks) usually operate under complete and close air to air coverage, and artillery support, with complete air-dominance and surveliance capacities delivered by friendly forces.
"Combined Warfare" doesn`t mean sh*t when the enemy fires 10 artillery shells for every one your army can fire, and the planes and helicopters over you are actually CHASING you and giving away your position, and not there to support you and supress enemy forces......
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I think, that although Ukraine would be forced to make HUGE concessions to Russia if peace talks took place under these circumstances, It could also gain some advantages.
It is unlikely that they could retain Crimea, or Donbass, but I don`t think Russia would ask for more territotial concessions (or perhaps minimal ones). IF Ukraine can get in exchange their adhesion to NATO and the EU without Russia oposing, this would greatly benefit Ukranian people in the long term.....
The leverage Ukraine has right now, is, that, although Ukraine can`t win the war, it CAN make Russia pay a heavy price for its "victory".
But, IF they force Russia to pay this price, Russia is going to want the whole prize (all of Ukraine and Moldova).
So, both parts will have to think carefully about their situation......
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Just at this very moment, men are forced to fight and die in Ukraine, whether they want it or not (and kudos to all the volunteers, but there are people that would prefer NOT to fight, for whatsoever reason) while there female counterparts get VIP-refugee treatment in Europe,and get to join the fight ONLY IF THEY WANT.
This has come to a point where our judges are DENYING refugee-status to young men fleeing from Ukraine, and sending them back to their country, to face prision, or death in battlefield (again: meanwhile, women=VIP refugee status).
I am willing to accept EVERY bet you want to make, that, when the war is over, and they release some scenario about the conflict, the ucranian army will be composed almost exclusively by brave, stunning and independent woman, fighting the misoginistc and brutal male russian invader. Wanna bet?
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Stalin is what happens when you put a man with paranoid schizophrenia in charge of a country. And not that Lenin was any better (he was a cold blooded mass murder, willing to climb a mountain of corpses to achieve his goals), but even he, made it very clear that did not wish to see Stalin in charge of the USSR in case he died, and if somebody like Lenin thinks you are a bad choice, that has to mean something!
I have personally spoken with former soviet citizens who lived that times, that told me that after Stalins dead, and the dismantling of his regime, the USSR was still a dictatorship, but still so, a much better one.
People who kept their heads down and comply, could expect not to be bothered by authorities ( this was not the case in Stalins time, where you could find yourself send to gulag, just to fill some share.)
In post-Stalin USSR you could even be a "non dangerous" dissident and "get away" with a punishment like beeing exiled in a city 600 km away from your home.......wich sucks, but is much more better that what you would have recieved in "uncle Joes" time........
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@mikaels6009 Dude, open a history book.
Rome conquest of Iberia was 800 years before islam was even born, and 1000 years before the islamic conquest of the visigothic kingdom of Hispania (wich included also parts of southern Galia).
They romanized extensivley the indegenous population (at least the ones who weren`t killed or enslaved), and built entire cities and military colonys from the scratch, to provide land for their soldiers to settle when they finished their service ( again, after killing and enslaving a good chunck of the native population, to make place for the roman colonists)
AND PART OF ROMANIZATION WAS THE BUILDING MANTENIANCE AND USE OF PUBLIC ROMAN TERMS.......
This said, dude, MY ISLAMIC ANCESTORS made Al-Andalus a beacon of knowledge, poetry, philosophy, science and art, defended by some of the greatest warriors the world has ever seen, a lost paradise that even today, musmlim people sigh about when they speak about it, while yours were probably sitll wearing hides and using stone-tools.......
So, what are trying to shame us about?
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The thing is, in the winter before, when soviets launch their counter-ofensive, holding out untile release, turned to be correct answer, and prevent the german line from collapse (with heavy casualties on both sides). So Adolf, pointed out, that if it worked last time, why should he not use tha same tactic?
Of course, in 2020, and knowing the aftermath, it is easy to get the good answer.........but in 1943......and looking at what happened till them, the initial order Adolf gave to Paulus, seemed not to crazy........
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@RiteMoEquations We are trapped in a "tuthydides trap". The US is stagnating, will China is rising. 75% of the elegible men for draft in the US, are simply unfit enough to join in case of a mayor conflict.
China is slowly closing the technologycal gap with the US, why also building a naval fleet that will compare to yours in 20 years (or less). The only point where you still outmatch them hopelesly is in aviation. They are also challenging you on the diplomatic front (They are basically kicking you out of Africa, showing up in Latin America), and building "civilian" airports and harbours all over the globe (civilian my *ss)
Your debt is.....I don`t have even words to describe it. You have ethnic, ideological, religious, societal, and wealth-distribution problems enough to start several civil wars in a row. Also, the dollar is no longer the only accepted currency to buy oil (the oil producers have basically stopped to belive uncondionally in your dominance).
Luckylly I will not be here to witness the outcome, because it won`t be nice........
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I adopted two years ago a dog, that was hold its first 8 months of life in a cage, without ever leaving it, or interacting with other dogs or humans (except when they brought him food).
First time I went with him to a forest and released him, he runned in circles, as if he was still in his cage. It has taken me 2 years of training (including the help of a dog-trainer), medication and beeing bitten 3 times by him in the face (no serious damage, perhaps he may have even improved my beauty) to get to some kind of normal behaviour from him. Even so I have to implement strict routins, medication and 2 or 3 hours of excercise every day to keep him at bay, and can never fully trust him in any situation he may get to scared or to excited.......... At least, now he behaves 99% of the time, and accepts my authority and control the other 1%
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I can easely accept that hunting with traps, or hunting of minor pieces was participated indistinctively by both men and women, (most probably by young men, not yet ready to join the big game hunting and non-pregnannt women) BUT, the big game, was probably an almost male thing, with perhaps SOME extraoirdinary woman, involved
Look at the modern special forces! When the sh*t hits the fan 99,9% of men don`t make the cut, BUT, how many of the 4 BILLION women on earth would be able to get into the Navy Seals or the SAS? How many have, so far? Surely , there have to be one or two capable, because 4 billion is a very high number, but no more....... what is this, a 0.0000001%?
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@danielbwest Lets just say they have learned and implemented some costly adquired lessons, geared up their military production and keep their public opinion motivated and at bay. Russia is STILL fighting with one hand tied to their back.
Meanwihile Ukraine is on the way to loose an entire generation, the best and most motivated soldiers are either dead, wounded, or in dire need of some rest, ukranian civilians are actively trying to opose recruitment, and the western support is dwindeling.
In an attrition war (and this has become one) the conquest of territory is only an excuse. It`s about who gets his resources and manpower drained in the first place.......and that will most probably be Ukraine. Russia could loose 10 soldiers for every ukrainian one and still win, and the WHOLE WEST is unable to provide the same amount of artillery amunition that Russia is able to produce on its own.......
Ukraines only realistic chance is to demoralize russians public opinion, so that they opose the war, and cause enough trouble at home, to make the russian goverment re-think about their priorities.......and it dosen`t look like this is going to happen soon..... not before the last ukranian soldier dies on the battlefield......
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Most of black people in the imperium woould begin their lifes as slaves or as conquered non-citizens, like all the other conquered people (except the local rulers who sided the roman conquest in time). From this position on they had to manage their way to roman citizenship throug service, loyality ,and romanization, a task that could take several generations of a family.
From then on, if they wanted to gain better positions than simple citizenship (either military , in the public administration, or as merchant for example), this could be also a multigenerational task. So, when they became noticable, their descendants wouldn´t be black, but probably mixed, after several genrations of marying local people (wich where predominatly, "white")
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@wanderlustoceans8205 Sorry, no :( .
But, we are right now 27 countrys in the EU, and there are a lot of oportunities .
I encourage you strongly to get permanent residence in a european country INSIDE the EU, because so you can freely move in the other 26. If you choose to live in GB, for example, you would have to make a lot of paperwork to visit the continent.
If you are strong in IT or Tech, try Ireland. 99,9% of them are nice an welcoming people, althoug you might find from time to time someone that pretends he can`t speak english.
The thing is, since GB left the UE, a lot of foreign inversion, and even national buissnesowners from the GB have been going to Ireland, due to the geographical proximity and the easy acces to the rest of the UE common market.
A lot of buissnes that are actually establishing themselves in Ireland are in need of skilled workers that the irish worker-market is (currently) unable to provide.
Either way, good luck. Hope to greet you soon as my european neighbour.
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@awg7068 Also my plan. I want to drive this car till my retirement and my two dogs die (I use my car to go to work and to go to rural areas with my rescued and problematic dogs, so they can exercise freely)
Then I will rely on public transportantion (wich, luckilly, is pretty good in my country), and get a small, already trained dog, with no mentall issues, wich I can exercise in urban parks, and live a modest live.
Till some time ago, I planed to retire to a tropical island, but now, I am not sure my budget would allow me to have a comfortable life in the long term. It`s better to play it safe.......
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By then, France and "Germany" had been doing this several times (since the first Franco-Prussian war), imposing evermore harsh conditions on the loosing side, guaranteeing that they would come back in some decades, aiming to "correct" the situation.
Versailles was just buisness as usual. Despite the 80.000.000 dead people of WII we would bestill quareling, if it were not for the A-bomb, and the fact that the eurpean contenders became second-league-powers, and got from policy-makers, to followers, united under a new protector ( superpower-USA), to face a new threat (superpower-USSR), quite like the Greek city states, who waged endles wars, till the Macedonians arrived, put an end to "all that BS" and decided to face the Persian Empire once and fo all......
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Let`s be real here. The ukranian gains at the begining of the war, were possible becuase the sheer incompetence and lack of planing of the russian leadership, that thought (for whatever reason), that they had just to show up, accept an unconditional surrender, and prepare a victory-parade.
Aparently, they ACTUALLY thought that the population and the army would welcome them as their liberators......
The counteroffensive of Jerson, on the other side, was victorious, because the contratcs of the russian volunteers expired massively after 5 months of war (the russians actually thought it wouldn`t take longer than that), and they simply packed their belongings and went home, leaving the frontline understaffed, do to the failure of the russian army to provide replacements for all this people leaving at the same moment.
NATO-intellingece noticed it, and they used this very unique and punctuall weakness to kick the russian in balls, seizing a good chunk of previously occupied territory.
BUT, the russians learned from their mistakes, as the failurre of the summer-offensive shows, and unless they commit serious mistakes, Ukraine will be unable to launch succesfull offensives in the near future........
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@Mark-Haddow In the last 80 years, we have been quite acomodating, but what people fail to understand, is that before, we had TWO MILLENIA of endless and unyielding slaughter. First we slaughtered our neighbours with a dedication and preseverance worthy of a better cause. We waged conflicts that endured for decades or even centuries, with brakes only in order to catch a breath, take a step back, and come again with renewed fury.
And as soon as we were able and had the means, whe went out to slaughter people from all over the globe, till we covered the globe with a knee-high layer of blood.
Now we have been taking a napy-nap for 80 years, and the question is: Do people really want to poke the sleeping bear? Are they aware what they are asking for? I doubt it.
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@marianlinden9736 but, for whatever reason, we know the names, history and the tragedy OF EVERY person dead or kidnaped by Hamas, and their faces are all over the walls of the mayor cities.
Meanwhile, the death, suffering, and kidnapping of the palestinian people (called "administrative detention") is only a sidenote in the news, if it even mentioned at all.......
Perhaps the pañestinians should try to change their names into ukranian ones, so that their lifes and suffering matters, too.
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The polish partisans where active for almost a decade after the end of WWII against the soviets, without any support. With the soviet troops fighting a total war along all germany, the Armia Krajowa would have been a hedeache for soviet supply lines. Not o mention the inevitable air superiority of allies (they had jet-fighters, the soviets not), and the eventual use of A-bombs against supply-knots. All the soviet soldiers advancing through Germany and France, would have become POW, sooner or later. After that, invading the USSR, would have only been posible, if they manage to transform the invasion in an russian civil war (like the german generals ask Adolf to do), liberating Poland, Ukraine and the Baltic States, and using them, and also Turkey, to bomb the soviet back into the stone age, allowing a "white" russian army to fight with some posibility of succes......
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In western Europe, the years between 400 and 900 AC were probably pretty wild in many places (and more if you lived in Britannia)
But once the dust setteld, it was just buisness as usual. Yes! the people at the bottom were screwed, but probably not more than any slave working in the fields or mines of his master in the "enlighted" Roman Empire, and before. There were just new people in charge, and now the descendant of some germanic warrior who conquered your place some generations ago, could do (literally) whatever he wanted, instead of the latin landowner, who did the same 2 or 300 years before.
Probably the TRUE dark age, were this years (400-900 AC), when the situation was so fluid in many places, that NOBODY was really in charge, and the lord of today, could have his head impaled at the walls of his fortification by his succesor, the very next day, and any group of people you saw could be a potential raiding party looking for an easy prey.......
Also, there was certainly no "dark age" in the Islamic world, or in the Eastern Roman Empire, and certainly not in America, India, China, or elswhere. They had their problems, but nothing as harsh as the West-European "dark-age"
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That`s debatable.
Of course, if you are religious, you belive it to be true, but given that you also believe in almighty, allknowig and ubicous inmaginary friends, your opinions is not extactly a relatable source.
SCIENCE, on the other hand, has still not offered a definitive answer, so, any RATIONAL person adheres to the 3, or 4 month-consensus, and let the potential mother, make the final decision, because, SHE, is the one who will have to bear the consequences of her actions.........
Just saying.
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Our actuall goverment has been very reasonable and just let things as they were before brexit ( and even improved some) while negotations with no time-limit had been promoted.....
But, if a more nationalistic goverment takes power, things could get not so smooth. For the extremist-nationalist party of VOX, causing trouble and making the Gibraltar-question the center of public-debate would be a great succes.
So, if VOX has something to say in the next spanish goverment, things will get messy around Gibraltar, the actuall agreements would be revoked, and nothing but the complete surrender and anexation of Gibraltar would be acepted....... not because they would think they could achieve it, but because they could use this situation of conflict to earn votes.......
As for La Linea, they don`t give a sh*t. This kind of people think that every problem can be solved by hissing a spanish flag, and the bigger the spanish flag is, the better will be the situation........So they will probably just fill La Linea with giant spanish flags, and call it a day........
So, if Gibraltar can make us all a favour, and go down from their high horse, stop beeing a financial heaven, accept already signed agreement that they refuse to implement (yes! I am speaking about the presence of mixed police-teams in the airport you build ilegaly on spanish land), and generaly stop behaving like morons and sign a reasonable permanent agreement BEFORE the people from VOX come to power, it would be nice........ just saying......
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Totally unrelated to the current topic, but this strech of land holds gas resources to provide Europe for the next century. This was discovered in 2014, when both, Russia and the US began to move their pieces over the Ukranian chessboard.
But again, this is totally unrelated, and has NOTHING to do with the actual conflict, or the previous maidan-coup, the separatist movements, the ukranian repression, and the russian invasion.......nothig at all........ trsut me, and now, if you are so kind to look into this flash-light..........
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@andro1988 It was an advantageos move! Would grant the west the rich gas field of east ukraine, and the minerals, while negating them to Russia.
Also, making the Ukranian frontier a NATO-froniter, would have rendered any russian conventional defense system unsustainable, and would have doomed the russian economy, like the "star wars" initiative did with the USSR, shaping Russia into a western puppet, that could then, be turned agains the "final boss", China.
And if it did go wrong, the only ones paying the consequences were the ukranians.......
It was a good plan (for NATO). Sadly, the russians and the chinese had other ideas........ Now, a generation of ukranians lay on the battlefield, and Russia is aparently going to get whatever it wanted from the begining.......
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@explorer47422 Nato-troops at the broder with Finland, and the baltic states, is manegable. The terrain is rough, can be defended more easely, and there is a wast space between the frontier and sensible russian assests......
Ukriaine, was a like a knife pointed at russias soft underbelly.
And although the russians screwed up at the begining of the war (they thought they had just o appear and prepare the vitory parade), they have found a way to wage a MAYOR WAR, with no draft, using only a part of their military assests, while improving the life-quality of their population (thanks to China, who has not suported the sanctions), and WINNING the war on the battlefield.
If you haven`t noticed THE RUSSIANS ARE GOING TO ACHIVE THEIR OBJETIVES, AND WIN, despite the oposition of the west for four years!
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Let me tell you, as an European, that it is NOT free. It`s totally worth it, for many reasons, but it is NOT free. We pay for it with our taxes.......In my country, 33% of our salarys are retained in order to ensure Social Security (public pensions for retired people) and universall basic healthcare (things like nose-jobs or hair implants are not covered, unless you had an accident that makes them necesary).
Again, totally and absolutely worth it, and if somebody tries to take it away from us, they better prepare for a rough time, BUT IT IS NOT FREE.......
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Yep. But some freaking respect would do no harm. People have gotten to used to be disrespectfull with men that could potentially use their face to wipe the floor.
They are to sure to face no consequences for messing with the "bullys", and so they unleash their anger and resentment at the slightest oportunity, even when it would be wiser to just shut the f*ck up.
For their own sake, I hope they never become to live in a situation where there is no laws to protect them, because , if you have lived your life, ignoring some basic facts of life (like NOT to piss off the guy that could beat your ass) it will take some harsh lessons before they learn to adapt to new circunstances.
And although, it would be funny to witness it, I simply hope this happens past my time, and not to be here anymore, when the sh*t hits the fan.......
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That`s not true. Your can expect A LOT.....
Mostly (but not exclusively), headeaches, problems, discusions, gaslighting, mindgames, screaming, court-dates, legal alegations and public humilation.....oh, sorry,,,,you meant something GOOD? Yeah, then I agree with you.......
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@charlesdriggers199 You dont get it. Almost nobody where "driven out". In both cases, the overhelming part of the population just stayed in their places, and changed their customs, in corcondance to that of the knew ruling class.
The local population was not replaced by another comming from Marroco when the islamic armies conquered the peninsula, and therefore, there was no "arab", or "moroccan" population to expel when the northern christian kingdoms "re"-conquered that lands.
99 % just were local inhabitants (future spaniards and portuguese) whose ancestors converted to islam and now reversed back to christianism.
Yeah SOME irreductible left, and of course the ruling class was expelled, but the rest, just changed the half-moon and the david star for the cross.
And yes. The islamic conquerors, not only in the peninsula, but almost in all other conquests did not force local population conversions (SOME fanatic did, but it was not normal)
They just forced non-islamics to pay extra taxes, while the people profesing islam were exempted
This became later one of the main problems of the later islamic kingdoms in the time of reconquista, do to the fact that, the mayority of population, had converted to islam, and this source of income decrased dramatically.....
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You are right! Here in Europe (I am from Spain) we put up an emergency program, that allowed all people that had to stay home to keep getting their salary paid, as if they were working. Also, they were payments an credits for buissneses who had to close temporarely.
I never benefited from this payments, do to my job beeing clasified as "esential", but it`s OK.
That is what a country is about, everybody takes care of his own sh*t, and then, we all together, take care of the people that (for whatever reasons) can`t take care of their part........
If not this, what is a nation good for?
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@angloirishcad I don`t think they wanted a fast-manouver fight.
I actually think they belived that the ukranians would decide mostly not to fight, and that the sheer sight of russian armed colums would make them seek peace-talks.
No kidding.
About the atrition war, keep in mind that Russia has not declared war or mobilisation.
They are not really striving yet, while the ukranians are throwing in the battle all what they have, just to stop the russian invaders.
If Ukrania has wast reserves of willing men, why are men in military age not allowed to leave the country (unless you are Zelenskis buddy, of course)?
About the artillery, ALL the shells provided by NATO together for the pieces, is, more or less, the same number that russian artillery launches in ONE morning, and perhaps they could outrange most of russian artillery, but surely they cannot outrange russian aircraft...... And that suposing they even arrive at the front, wich a lot of them don´t.
This is the war that the russian army wants to fight.
They don´t have the numbers for a deep penetration war (as had been already prooved), and will not, unless the declare general mobilisation, or hire the irany revolutionay guard in exchange for some atomic bombs (ot some other nonsense)
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I have never been in Canada, but it seems like a big country with lot of empty spaces......can`t you just settle in the middle of nowhere and tell the rest of the world to go kick rocks?
In the pandemic some places of my country, very isolated (mountain regions with bad roads and awfull public transport conections, the kind of place that gets easely cut off the world as soon as there is any weather other than a perfect one), inhabited mostly by elderly people, simply strenghened their isolation by going no-contact with outsiders (easy to do when there is only one small and barelly drivable road to go in and out of that place), and basically did a normall life in their villages , with their neighbours, while the people in the big cities, or well conected villages, had to adhere strictly to the quarantine.........
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In my country we had a similar case some years ago. A famous "bailaor" (profesional flamenco dancer), a real artist, famous for his art and performances, ran over some hard working dude, killed him, and fled the scene
Then, he convinced his brother (who was a minor at the time) to take the blame, and say he did it (because, beeing a minor, he would get a lighter sentence)
He was caught, but had a good lawyer and an impressive press campaign, and was sentenced to ONLY 3 years in jail.
Actually, he keeps dancing, and is celebrated by the public, while the family of his victim has to see him having fullfilled live.
Sometimes life, just sucks.......
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It is not about what you spend (because you also generate expenses, and more if you are retired brits, with potential health problems and care-needs), it is all about the real-state-market.
The spanish bubble never finished to burst. Brits leaving Spain, and selling their properties, could be the nail on the coffin of our agonizing real-state-market.
We have build so many real state, (and our economy depends so much on its value), that even if every spaniard could aford a house/apartment (wich most of us can not), there would be still more left to sell...... So, we NEED foreingers to BUY them, and to KEEP THEM, and NOT to sell them....... thats the issue......
This said, if I were british, I would go back to my country. Spain is going to be at the loosing end of climate change, so planing a future in Spain, could be not the brightest idea.......
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She seems to aknowlegde the problem on the dating apps, but fails to understand that this behaviour is only a reflection of their real-life attitude.
Dating apps only enable this kind of behaviour to an absurd extent, allowing them to reject 500 regular dudes and try to match with 50 "Chads" at the same time, instead of beeing able only to reject 10 dudes in a bar, and try to get the attention of the only "Chad" present......
Before dating apps (you know, when dinosures roamed the earth), young women got eventually tired of beeing unable to cacth the only local avaliable "Chads" attention, and adquired a more realistic wiev of their "market value".
But, with the dawn of dating apps, "Chads" commitment seems always to be at the verge of the womens fingertips, like a carrot that is waved constantly in front of their faces, but that they will never be able to reach....... Sad........
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Yep! Just let the parents forbid the teachers to give them an age-appropiated education on this matters, so that they get their answers through their friends and through the internet, because, what could posibly go wrong, yes?
Also I don´t know how it is in Romania, but in MY country the people that want to ban this kind of education from school, are the same people who want to make religious education mandatory in public school, specifically CAHTOLIC religious education, a idea I am not totally convinced of, given how things have been in the recent past between catholic priests and children...
Again, what could posibly go wrong?
I like your content, but, respectfully I have to disagree in this matter.
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Around 1700, Hamelin is suposed to have some 2.500 inhabitants. In medieval times, Hamelin would have even less (much less, probably even less than a thousend perhaps), and, from a modern point of wiev we would have called it probaly a village, instead of a town.
I can fanthom how the "loss" of 130 healthy and young workers, women and men, (lets not forget the economy then was based on "human" energy) through emigration could have been seen as a huge blow for the "city", and more, if they left all at the same time, tempted by some foreign noble who promised them better conditions than that they had in their hometown.......
For the remaining people this must have been a very bad day, and more, if we take in consideration that, given the times they lived, if they emigrated far away enough, any form of comunication would be almost impossible, so their final fate would be unknown, and for the people in town, they had effectively "vanished"
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The last gentelmen gives me actuall cringe....... I don`t date.
But, IF I WOULD, I would certainly not date single moms.
But lets say, I get a stroke, that paralizes one side of my body, and delivers some serious brain-damage to me, so that, in a moment of confusion, and under the extense use of medical drugs (mixed with alcohol, and with a gun pointed at my head), I accept to date a single mom:
EVEN SO, I would refuse to pay for a babysitter in order to take her out. Hell no!
This particullar trend, looks like something comming out of the mind of Tzeentch........ so, in the name of the Emperor, may the EXTERMINATUS begin........
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Although the soviet army beared the bulk of the fight (and losses) against facism, truth is, that the only reason the soviet army reached Berlin first, was because the western allies (particulary the USA) refused to rush to it, because at Yalta it was established that Berlin (although divided) wea to be in the soviet-okupied part of Germany.
They saw no need in losing men, supplies and time in conquering an area they would later have to hand over to the soviet troops!
And this had nothing to do with any suposed western superiority.
It was to fact that, at the end of the war, most germans were eager to surrender to the western allies (UK and USA, not so much to the French), and let them pass, and prayed to be conquered by them, while they fought viciously against the soviet steamroller, eager to hold them out just ONE minute more, and negate them the acces to one cm more of german land.
If the soviets took Berlin first, it was only because the western allies allowed it (much to the germans population despair)
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Also, you get what you pay for.
If the salary and work conditions of law enforcement are miserable, and they have no social recognition, the only people working as such are the ones who can`t do better, or the ones that really enjoy the job and want to serve their comunity regardless fo the abuse. But even these ones get tired eventually.
Also, you train them very poorly. In my country they have to pass a civil and a physical exam, where only the top percenters get elected. This can take YEARS of training and studying (although some achieve it at their first intent)
After that, they train one year in the national police academy (where they can get expelled if they don`t fullfill the demanded criteria).
Finally, they spend two more years on the field, supervised each candidate by two police-officers, who train and evaluate them, while fullfilling their duty. Although they hold already the authority of a police officer, they are not allowed to act on their own, and have to follow stricly the orders of their supervisors.......in this phase very few candidates fail......... after that they become full-flegded police officers.....
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Yes, we have to follow the rules. But we also make them. Thuth is, in the UE, usually the decisions are made to satisfy primarely the needs of Germany , because it is the most powerfull country in the EU, BUT, if the spanish goverment didn`t want this rule to be aproved, it would not have been.
Now we are seeing that the rule WE COOPERATED to create, is not as good as we thought, and of course, we have to ask our partners, if we want to change it.
I am not totally convinced we should allow brits to live in Spain for more than 90 days so easely, because this would bring a lot of retired brits, and yes, they bring their money (wich is good), but they also bring their health-problems, and need for care (wich is no so good) , and I think our excelent healthcare-system could be spending more money on them, that what they actually bring to the table.
The fact that the goverment wants MORE BRITS to actually live in spain has more to do with the real-estate market (the next bubble is going to burst any day) than with tourism......
Did you know that, in this very moment, you can get a special residencial status in Spain by simply purchasing a house of more than 500.000 euros? Its all about the real state!
Finally, I want to note, that our goverment goes on easy-mode with GB (despite Gibraltar) because we don`t want GB to split up, and so give our own separatists bad examples....... Once the question of Gibraltar was, somehow settled (our spanish nationalits pleaded for blocking all negotiations of the Brexit, unless we got it back), there is probably no better ally in the whole UE for GB than Spain.........we want you to succeed, while others want you to fail, so that no one else leave the UE.
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6:20 Today I heard a joke. You know why Jesus Christ was a spaniard? He was 33 years old, with no job, and lived with his mother!
I am 51 years old, and life with my mother. My step-father died after 20 years of them beeing together. My brother and me lived 3.000 km away from her, and couldn´t convince her to come to live with one of us, so, me, beeing the one with no wife and children, quitted my job, got a new one in her vecinity, and moved back to stay with my 74 year old mother with health-issues.
AND I AM F......... PROUD OF IT. Anyone who thinks I am a looser can stick his opnion in his......you know! When a woman even looks in my direction, the first thing I say is " I am 51 years old, and live with my mother".......works better than "I have a girlfriend"
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I was going to say, that beeing a mother herself, she will eventually figure out, that her kids will always be "her children", no matter the age.
But, who knows......people are so delusional nowadays...........
When my nephew asked me, when his father was going to treat him like an adult an an equal, I told him to aim for more reasonable goals.
I am 51 years old, and my mother keep lecturing me........and not that I obey her, but I am gonna miss it, the day she is no more......
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There is no historic evidence of his existence...... In the antique world, Jews were looked down for beeing monotheistic and for negating the validity of others peopels Gods.
In the middle ages, appart form the mith that they were "the people that killed Jesus" , rich and powerfull people used them as convinient scapegoats.
You see, back then, fuedal lords who owned big estates, didn`t collect taxes personally. Instead they sold the right to collect taxes to other people (for cash). Now, giving this "taxation-rights" to jewish middelmen was very convinient, given that they had enough wealth to pay good money for this concessions, and the taxed people would hate THE JEWS, and not the FUEDAL LORD for their high taxes, ignoring the fact, that the jews in question, had to squish them out to recover all the money previously paid to the feudal lord......
Imagine that the people working for the IRS were ALL left-handed red-heads........you would surely not be very fond of thid specific type of people, would you? No imagine his dislike brewing for several generations, one century after another.......even if at certain point they got expeled from the IRS, their reputation would be doomed for manny more centuries.......
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@YourHineyness Socialism , intended as the socialism displayed in Europe, where there is Space for private iniciative, but there is a significant state intervention, and the big firms and rich people (and the middle class of course) are taxed enough in order to establish and mantain a welfare-system (including universall healthcare) for the ones who, for whatever reason, didn`t make the cut.
Also I like it when strategic areas (food, water, education, defense, energy) are kept under gouvermental supervision, or directly owned and managed by the state, and not let in the hands of private iniciative.....
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Just yesterday I was included in group that "did not enough to further a safe and comfortable enviroment for women" in a particullar hobby-space I use to attend.
I pointed out, that I reserved my friendly beghaviour FOR THE PEOPLE I KNOW AND TRUST wich happens to be a group of around 10 men, that I know since kindergarten (I`m now 53 yo), AND SIMPLY IGNORE (politely) THE REST, regardless of their gender.
Furhter I pointed out, that it was ironic, that they had noticed how I simply ingnored the ten woman participating in our hobby, but not the (around) 30 men, I give EXACTLY THE SAME TREATMENT......... and who aparently do not feel particullary concerned by me minding my own buissness......
By the way, the "acusation" (it was more a complaint) WAS MADE BY MAN........
Can`t I even choose my friends now , with wich I want to hang out and spend my time? Am I going to have a "cuota" of female friends and messure the time I spend beeing friendly with every gender in order to make sure that I give them the same attention?
WTF!
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@Dumaski The public opinion is under control. Protesters are few and cornered, and the average russian citizen supports the "special operation" (with the help of a 24/7 propaganda-machine)
"Russian" soldiers dying are all officially "volunteers" (although some are slightly more volunteers than others), so there is no preception that recruits (sons, fathers, brothers and husbands) are FORCED into the meat-grinder, and casualties are considered "acceptable" (not for the families of the people involved, but certainly for the general public).
The economy is surprisingly resilent, and wages and work-conditions have improved for MANY of the people that are now employed in the military industry, and that DON`T WANT THE WAR TO END, because it would mean the loss of their new jobs.....
THE AVERAGE RUSSIAN CITIZEN LIVES TODAY IN BETTER CONDITIONS THAN TWO YEARS AGO (For Gods sake! They can even watch Youtube without ads!!!!!)
Indeed military manufacterers are COMPEETING for skilled workers right now in Russia, offering better salaries and work conditions, and also extemptiom from recruitment.......
Unemployment is melting like icecream in a hot summer, and the war has become PROFITABLE for the russian state, as a way of employment and wealth-resdistribution through participation in military production), and a way of getting new population, offering citizenship through military service in Ukranie to a massive amount of willing volunteers of the asian ex-soviet-republics, who live in such miserable conditions, that their new life in Russia (as second-class citizens) is actually AN IMPROVEMENT.
So yeah, as long as they can sell their petroleum and gas to China (and to a lesser degree to India), and get that sweet, sweet cash for their war-machine, war-fatigue will hit the western societys much sooner than the russian one....
This war will end when China decides so, and not a minute earlier.....
To WIN a war, you have first to assest the harsh reality- Believing blindly in the propaganda our media is delivering to us, will not help us in this predicament.....
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Asking to get the money for the refugees send to Ukraine has several objetives:
First of all, Zelenski, and his comrads of the oligarchy, can pocket their fair share of this funds (no worries, it will be only some billions)
Second, he cand divert this funds into the military budget wich he cares a lot more about then about the refugees....
Third, the few funds that WILL, indeed be given to the refugees, will allow the ukranian goverment to locate the refugees, control them, and have leverage over the young men in military age that currently are not willing to join the slaughter ("if you don`t join the army, your family will get no aid").
All this are things, the ukranian goverment, wich is deseperately seeking for new recruits, is not able to do right now.
Ukranian men in military age living in the EU can avoid beeing drafted simply by not registering in the ukranian embassy or consulats........ if their financial stability depended from the ukranian goverment, they WOULD be forced to register in the embasys and consulates in order to get the financial help, and would be so at the mercy of ukranian military recruiters.......
IF ukraine needs soldiers so urgently, they could open a recruit-center in Monaco, where the sons in military age of the ukranian oligarchs are waiting for the war to end. Indeed, they are called "the Monaco-brigade", and their partys are said to be legendary.......
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I just can`t understand why some people are so obsesed in get to control what happens in the insides of a womans body.
That`s a thing only between her and her conscience.
It´s like if I wanted to get a vasectomy and some *hole from the goverment decides to forbid it to me. That would have been a story with no happy ending, trust me!
I am NOT pro-*bortion, I think it would be better to have the child and give it for adoption, BUT IF THE WOMAN IN QUESTION DECIDES OTHERWISE, its nobodys buisness, not mine, not the goverments, any pastor, religious nut, or anybody else, except the women in question (and her parents, if she is a minor), and perhaps the man involved, in the sense that if he is willing to help financially with the *bortion, and the woman refuses, he should not be asked further for any support, because its exclusively the womans choice continue with the pregnancy........
And let me tell you something my friends: If *bortions were done with firearms instead of medical instruments, all these religious and conservative nuts would DEFEND the right OF EVERY WOMEN to have one of such firearms in their house.
Wanna bet?
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This war has become a race, to see wich public opinion gets war-fatigue first, the russian or the western one.
One one side, the western goverments have the advantage (as cruel as it sounds) that no one of their citizens is dying in the war, "only" ucranians and forgein voluntairs, and their biggest concern is to counter the economical backlash of the war, and the sanctions, for their lower and middle-classes, while justifying at the same time, the unbelievable amount of money they are spending to support Ukraine.
Rusia, has the advantage of beeing a dictatorship, and unless the public opinion comes to a breaking point that causes a revolution or an upraise of the army, they can endure any other level of discontent........
Lets not forget, that we are "fighting" a country with the GDP of Italy (but with a lot natural resources and an insane amount of military capacities). It probably depends on the support they are going to get from China........
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The rebel factions of Syria are armed by Turkey, and funded by Saudi Arabia. Some outsiders may attack Isnotreal, but thebulk of their army will do as they are said...... Next in line are the Kurds.......Turkey hates them with pasion, and, till reciently, they had a defensive pact with Assad.........If I were a kurdish ctizen living in the kurdish-militia dominated part of Syria, I would be packing my luggage RIGHT now.
There is no way they can face what is coming their way right now....... (unless they subordinate themselve totally to Turkey, like the kurds of Irak have done, or form an unlikely, uncertain, and daengerous alliance with Isnotreal)......... After that.....well, who knows.......the Taliban have already congratulated the "rebels".......thats not a good sign.......
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Te parece que no tenemos ya suficiente gente en nuestras fronteras que no quiere ser español? Que bien haria añadir 40.000 mas?
Tu deja que se bajen de la burra, que traguen con el uso conjunto del aereopuerto, las aguas territoriales, desmantelar el paraiso fiscal, y dejar de ser refugio de contrabandistas.......el resto ya se ira cayendo por su propio peso, a la chita y callando, a medida que los efectos del Brexit vayan calando........
Y si no les parece bien, no hay Shengen, y ya hablaremos la proxima vez que quieran algo de la UE........
Despues de 300 años, los britanicos se han disparado un tiro en el pie con el Brexit. Seamos sensatos, y actuemos con cabeza.....
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@johnheim-po4ee There is a seriuos competition for that place. Gengis Khan killed almost as many people as Adolf with far less technology at his disposal.
Napoleon is very admired for his civil law code, but in the turmoil he organized, he had 6,5 million people kick the bucket, aproximately 5% of the (then) current population (impresive with one-shot muzzleloaders)
Iosef, DEFINITIVELY killed more people (he had also more time, he was not only bad, but also competent enough to reign for many years).
If we speek of percentages, I would propose Pol-Pot for the first place, and you will have to admit, that as bad as Adolf was, he didn`t put 30% OF HIS OWN PEOPLE in concentration camps (an achievement unlocked only by the three North-Korean-comunist-hereditary regime rulers).
Not saying he wasn`t as bad as it gets......but the WORST? Really?
Also, he was Austrian, not German ......... so TECHNICALLY, he was "brought" to us from Austria........ And when I say "us" I say it in a wider sense, I am not even german.......
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Beeing a stay at home mom and wife is a great RESPONSABILITY.
But there are jobs that are much much worse........ Ok, perhaps beeing a stay at home mom/wife of 5 children, back in the early 1900 s, with no electricity, washing machine or dish-cleaner, no fridge, financiall help from the state, modern water supply and some working sanitary facalities, was a job as bad as that of a coal-miner or a blacksmith.......
But today there are a lot of sh*tty jobs out there that are way more daengerous, hazardous and tyring than beeing a stay at home mom/wife of one or two children.......these jobs are not as IMPORTANT as taking care of the next generation, but they are certainly harder......
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That`s why a twelve eggs omelete costs you 10 dollars, plus the 500 dollars of the ambulance ride when you get sick (wich you will, if you eat that omelete)
I pay 2 dollars for 12 eggs, and could call an ambulance RIGHT now, without any charge, if I needed one, knowing very well, that the rest of my treatment is allso 100% covered. (To be honest, they would lecture me about my eating habbits, and perhaps derive me to a dietist, or even phsychiatrist, but sill all without charge)
Your definition of "looking out" for something is strange
YOU won`t see a cent from that deal, neither in cash, nor in services.......give it a thought........
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If enough people died from the plague (and if it was the pneumonic version it could have easely been 90%), and the people of the steps took over the "empty" lands, cornering or absorbing the few descendants of the initial survivors, the surviving of the femenine DNA-line (and the extintion of the masculine) could be explained through a combination of patriarchism and racism.
In the conquest of america for example, few families would tolerate a "lower" indigenous men (or even half-blod men) to marry their daughters or sisters (even if this women were, themselves aready halfblodded), while, it was more common that indigenous woman were "allowed" (forced, sometimes) to breed with the proud and "superior" colonisators.
The incorporation of indigenous DNA in the new "main-DNA-pool" would be, almost always, throug maternal line, so, that if the indigenous society and DNA pool ceases to exist, because they were efectively incorpored into that of the newcomming people, the paternal line of DNA would be doomed sooner or later.......
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@saltymonke3682 Yes it is. It is Spanish land to so a degree, that UK did not deny it, but argued that Spain failed to claim their land back in the proper terms and time (wich was proven to be not the truth)
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Finally GB and Spain AGREED and signed, that to solve the issue, mixed police teams would be deployed at the airport-customs.
This agreement is still valid, but its implementation was blocked on behalf of the goverment of Gibraltar.
So we are not asking to place our police at the customs out of the blue.
This issue was properly adressed and negotiated, GB just refuse to honor their word.
Also, if you are so keen to adhere to the Utrecht treaty, I would like to remember you that, neither Gibraltar not UK have the right to claim any waters outside of the port of Gibraltar nor to interfere with any Spanish vessel.......but for whatever reason, this does not stop them in doing so
Of course, Gibraltar having NONE territorial waters ist just nonsense, and this issue should be also adressed, but you cannot adhere and not adhere to the treaty both at the same time......this it not a "Schroedingers"-treaty 😁
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@saltymonke3682 I know it, you know it, and everybody with to braincells know it.
BUT, that is not what the treaty says....sorry.
So, what it is going to be? Rasonable agreements between two neighbours, or adherenece to the letter of the treaty..... you can´t have it both ways....... and less now, when we have the ability to block any future comercial agreement between the UK and the EU.
Nobody (at least nobody reasonable) is asking for Gibraltar returning to Spain, but you should come down from your high horse, and adress Spains more reasonable demands (end of tax-heaven policy, the question of territorial waters and the question of the airport), instead of simply ignoring them......
IF UKs economy gets worse and worse in the next decades, the temptation of sacrificing Gibraltar to get a good deal with the UE, will increase, so you really should make NOW the best deal you could get........
just saying.........
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In the fight against the albigensian heresy (about 1.200 AC), when the catholic crusaders got one particular city into their hands, where catholic and albigensian christians had been living side by side for decades, the leaders of the army asked the bishop who was their spiritual adviser how they could identify the albigensians, in order to execute them.
His answer was :" Kill them all. God will pull apart his children from the heretic ones"
Guess, 800 years later, Israel is going to do, more or less, the same....... guess we are not as civilized as we thought.......what I don`t get, is why Hamas is labeled as a terrorist organisation, while Israel is called a civilized, democratic and advanced country........
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I am not a fan of Mr Trump either, but I think him beeing reelected is not the end of the world (and less, beeing an EU citizen like myself)
I mean, HE WAS ALREADY IN CHARGE FOR FOUR YEARS, yeah? And although he had some crazy and ridiculous ideas, your system, and "the powers that are ment to be", kept him checked........
I mean, what if he builds his wall? Yes! It won`t fix anything and throw a lot of money out of the window, but it is AS crazy as pumping BILLIONS of dollars into the pockets of the afghan warlords, funding Israels universal health-care system while you have none, or depleting your arsenals, just to help an entire generation of ukranian men get wiped out!
And the wall will probably be not so expensive! If you make it big and fancy enough, it can even become a tourist atraction! (May I sugest an ice-wall like the one in game of thrones? I am sure you have the necessary technology........)
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@edibandulan5266 In my country, if you join the ukranian armed forces, you have no problems. BUT, if you join, for example the kurdish defense forces in Syria, you are in for some nasty legal trouble.........There are also countries that punish their citizens for serving in ANY armies other than their own. Check out the stance of your country, before commiting........
Also, aparently, russian military consider foreigners fighting in their ranks as somewhat expendable........ perhaps you should speak (PERSONALLY) to somebody who went to this expirience. Don`t trust the internet. Pro-ucranian sites will tell you that you will be cannon-fooder, while pro-russian ones will tell you that you will become a 40.000 K Warhammer Space Marine.......
Not saying you shouldn`t go, only that you should do your research, because if you go, and regret it later, rest asured that you will be NOT left out of the hook..........
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@SwikingSwe True, BUT, the chinese CCCP basicaly don`t give a f*ck about its own people, as long as they think they can screw them and get away with it.
Also, the chinese goverment, has represive tools at its dsposal to confront unrest raising form economic dificulties, that the US-goverment can`t even consider, because it would cause a revolution........
It`s like the people of Gibraltar trying to explain to me that my goverment is never going to close the border, because it would significally impact 15.000 direct employments on my country, and indirectly around 150.000 lives.........Dude my goverment DON`T GIVE A SH*T ABOUT THIS PEOPLE........and the oposition will even less, once they get to govern
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@debibera912 of course, the situation from the places they come from, makes the one in Ukraine look like a picnic.
But, hey! If its not in the media, it does not exist, true?
Indeed, most od the people comming from Africa, would go back to their places , if they could, but a lot of them come from places much worser than Ukraine, and , for whatever reason, nobody is helping them with weapons and money.......
Indeed, usually we give money and weapons to the people that are killing them, so no surprise they have to flee......
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@DilawonDandek SOME of us europeans ar A LITTLE bit worried that you may poking a sleeping bear.
You see, we have been at peace and (somewhat)"civilized" for "only" 80 years.
Before that, we were as bad as it gets, to the point that even your blodthirstiest president, would look like Mahatma Ghandi.
Europe, has basically been a slaughterhouse for the past 2.000 years, and past certain point (around 700 years ago) we decided that there was no reason to ALSO slaughter the rest of the world, while simultaneosly continuing slaughtering our next neighbours (because, why not?)
That`s who we are. I think the world made a very good deal letting us chill under the "protection" of the US..........if we take matters in our hands again, who knows what BS we could come up with (and this time it would be worse, with a EU acting coordinatley under French-German-Polish leadership, instead of fighting between us, while simultaneously fighting the rest of the world).
The future is......quite uncertain.....more than usually...... I am happy to be past military age.......
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@noah_gaming_yt5225 Relax bro. We have already enough people in our country that don`t want to be part of it.
Why add more?
But, it would be nice if Gibraltar stoped beeing a tax-heaven, claiming spanish shores and waters, and either demolish the part of your airport made on spanish land, or accept the presence of mixed police-units at he customs, and generally speaking cease to behave like a pain in the *ss.........
Please, before getting cocky, remember that from now on Spain is part of the EU, and GB not, so good luck trying to make any agreement with the EU while at the same time ignoring Spains demands......... no, seriously, good luck.
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What are they suposed to do, without amunition, food , water and medical supllies?
Plus, Rusia and Ukraine, are exchanging POWs, so there is a good chanche for them to join , sooner or later, their own side.
Once out of amunition, surrendering was the right choice.....
By the way, showing POWs in public media is againts the Geneva convention. I thought that at least the regular russian army would respect this.....
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@RollerCoaster-ok7qw Please, read again my comentary carefully, and tell me, in wich part of it I (or my goverment) asks for the return of Gibraltar in exchange for becoming part of Shengen.
In case you aren`t in the mood, I will repeat what we (basically) ask for in exchange:
*SHARED CUSTODY OF THE CUSTOMS IN THE AIRPORT.
AN AGREEMENT IN THE ISSUE OF THE TERRITORIAL WATERS
STOP BEEING A TAX HEAVEN, AND ADHERENCE TO UE LAWS (not the spanish ones, but the ones from the EU, wich WE ALL are bound to obey)
CEASE THE PROTECTION OF SMUGLERS AND CRIMINALS IN THE TERRITORY OF GIBRALTAR*
Again, where do you see a demand to be part of Spain here, and do you really think that this points are so unreasonable?
What do the people of Gibraltar exactly expect? Just to be accepted into the UE, without ANY concesion in return? Why should we accept that?
The EU is OUR HOUSE now, and not longer UKs! Wanna live in MY house? Follow my rules, or go kick rocks...... if it was the other way around, you would expect the same from me........
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Probably your predictions are gone fail....because things will go much worse.....Just 2-3 degrees celsius of global warming (wich seems unavoidable by now) would change drastically the enviroment of most of the countries that exist in this very moment. And not in the same way for all. With 2-3 degrees celsius of global warming, there will be winners, and there will be loosers (with more, we will be screwed al the same).
In Europe, the south of the UE, will probably cease to exist do to lack of arable land, avaliable water resources, and colpase of tourism (how many tourist do you think go to visit the quattarra depresion every year? Because thats what south-europe will become).
Modern states will probably colpase, do to their fail to provide food, water and security to the actual population (and the millions of people from Africa, wich will cross these lands, trying to get to northern Europe, wich will have in this scenario a clima similar to an actual mediterranean clima).
Some form of modern state will exist, including north Germany, France and Poland, and the scanidavian countrys, but, at a certain moment, if they want to survive, they will close their new frontiers to climate-refugies.
The rest of what we call Europe, will probably consist in small groups, gathered around privileged valleys or water resources, ruled by warlords (they will perhaps have other names, but this is what they will be), payed and mantained by the northern countrys to stop (kill) the hunderts of millions of starving african refugies from reaching their new frontiers......
For Canada, ther will be an "Anschluss" the moment the USA realizes that more than 50% of their country (the south) will be no longer able to sustain large polpulations (Mexico and Central America will become directly a quattara desert too), while in Canada a lot of land will become usable for agricultural propouses, and they will have a really nice and soft clima, perfect for all the US citizens unable to live south of Wyoming.......wanna bet?.
Asia? Holocaust! Say goodbye to the monzoon as we know it, and hello to starvation an genocide-like wars in order to secure the few resources left.If Russia colapses fast enough to NOT be able to mantain their nuclear threat, China will anex probably Siberia (do to similar reasons as the Usa will anex Canada).
Africa? Almost all people unable to flee from the hellhole it will became, will die, and not in an nice way. Some nomad tribes and people gathered around privilegd places will be all left.
Middle east? Oh yes! Israel will cease to exist as a state, unfortunately there will be few arabs (if anyone) around to be happy about it.
South America? Take a photo from the amazonian forrest, because thats the only thing you will have to remember it. Then, continent-wide desertification, starvation, war, ect.ect. SOME part of southamerica will ending having a sustainable clima, and if a local military power (like Brazil) manage to control this part, some sort modern civilization (probably ruled by a military dictatorship) will survive in this part of the world.
The only good thing? I will be long dead when the sh*t hits the ventilator, or I will be so old, that I will die almost instantly, once the trouble begins, and resuorces will no longer avaliable to take care of old and sick people......
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The thing is, some of the protesters, and almost all of the organizers of the (lets face it) ilegal refrerendum were acused of despropotionally severe crimes with high penalties (like treason or insurrection), instead of the crimes that they ACTUALLY COMITED (mostly disobeying the orders of the court and embezellment of public money for illegal porpouses), wich would likely not have seem them going into prision (first offence and less than 2 years of sentence ussally means no effective jailtime), althoug it would have implied the imposibility of ocupying a public position and severe fines.
BUT, this was not enough for our "patriotic" judicial system, whose judges performed a lawfare action against the catalan separatists, wich is mostly the reason why Europe showed us the middlefinger EVERY time we asked them to imprision the ones that fled to Belgium, Switzerland, France, Ireland and other countries, and send them back to Spain to be judged
The people who manifest against the amnesty are mostly conservative or far-right sympatithers, angry that Sanchez is able to govern just by a difference of some 100.000 votes or so. They thought it was their time do dismantle all what the govern has achieved lately and are now p*ssed off...........
Sadly, now that the catalan separatists have the key to let Sanchez govern, they have included inthe amnesty some ACTUALL corrupt politicians, that were not jugded for separatism, but for corruption and embeselment of money for DECADES. This could lead to some problems, because SOME left-parties that support the goverment, are not OK with the amnesty for corrupt people, and their votes are AS necesary as the ones from the catalan separatists.........
A complicated situation.
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@ You see, when you are not interested in invading some middle east country from time to time, but only want to be able to defend yourself, your needs are not much.
Our spending is perfectly adecuate for our needs. I can undestand countries like Germany, Poland, and the baltic states getting nervous (I would too, if I hade a neighbour like Russia), but in the case of my country, you have never done nothing for us, and can, politely, go kick rocks......
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8 times a day, continously, indicates a serious mental issue........adiction can take any form....alcohol, dr*gs, gambling, videogames, OF........or s*x......... seriously, if it is a thing from time to time, and she can control it, then OK (it think), but if she "needs" it continously to the point where here "needs" interfere with her normal life, this lady should go to a doctor........
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9:32 I must admit I have a problem with all this people that resort to science to proof the existence of only two genders.
And not because they are wrong, because they aren`t, but because when it comes to OTHER TOPICS (like climate change, c*vid, evolution, *bortion, or other controversial topics) THE VERY SAME POPLE that resort to science in the case of the "gender-issue", suddenly have a problem with science, and resort to "other sources", disregarding science as a mere opinion........
No, ladies and gentelmen, you can`t resort to science to sustain your claims about how many genders there are, and then ignore it when we speak about evolution or climate change.......not if you wnat to have some credibility.......
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In Spain, we had a civil war just before the WWII. It was an ugly mess. My grandfather refused to choose sides (and was punished for it after the war), while 3 of his brothers joined the republican side, and one the fascist one. Long story short, the fascists won, two brothers were executed , and one had to go to exile to avoid the same fate, while my grandfather spent 3 years in jail for the crime of not wanting to fight against his own family.
The brother on the "winner" side, seized all family properties, and ensured that the remaning relatives (except his wife and children) lived their lives in poverty, hardship, and humiliation.......... A decade ago, I went to the village where they were born to see the house where my grandfather and his brothers lived their childhood, and tried to reconect with that side of the family. It was imposible. They avoided me like I was going to ask them to give my grandfathers rightfull inheritance back! Don`t know if they are ashamed or hold a grudge against me and my side of the family. In my opinion, their only "crime" is to have loved their grandfather, and they are not accountable for his actions, but I never got to explain it to them........
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@haga2519 Yeah! But we have to admit that the Brits holded the line, mostly alone, till the russians were involved, and the US arrived to save our colective arses (although it took MY country another 40 years to get rid of our fascist dictator, but, that`s water under the bridge)
ALSO, they were the first ones to combat actively slavery on a global scale (an endevour whose loans they have been paying out till very, very reciently), and this year they have been the first to quit using carbon..... We have to give credit, when credit is due
They have done some awfull things (like british p*rn, or the opium wars), but in others, they have led the way.....
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@peterclareburt4594 You have to understand the european mindset in Western Europe after WWII. They were so horrorized by what happened, that they decided that the only way to prevent it from happening again would be become so entangeld and dependent from one another, that a war between us became an almost impossible task, like cutting of your arm to stop your hand from hurting.......
This couldn`t be made just from one day to another, and surely not including half of the world in its initial steps, but it can be made with time and persausion, like my country (Spain) did with Mercosur and several other spanish ex-colonies, serving as bridge between both sides.
The EU DIDN`T cut you out. NOBODY forced you into the EU. YOU ASKED TO GET IN. In fact, you asked several times (because you now, France).
And now you hav left. Good luck and good riddance. If you want something from us, you know our number....... but better come with a damm good compensation for it in hand....... just saying.......
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You don´t have to look back to the american revolution: Nowadays in Ukraine, f.e., if you are a 22 year old single woman, you are free to leave your country and throw yourself in the loving arms of the EU.
BUT, if you are a 35 year old father of three little babys, you have to stay in the country, even if you have no military expirience, and the only use you could have in war is stopping a russian bullet......
In my own country (Spain), where our taxi-drivers have gone with their own vehicles to Poland to bring back refugees (woman and child), and we have made an express system to give them the status of refugess, a judge has just refused to give refugee-status to a young man who came to Spain, trying to avoid to be drafted, becuase "he did not comply with his civic duty of defending his country".
There is no eqaulity in the Titanic!
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Very few leaders are (democraticaly) elected by the mayority of their population... not only in your country, but in any place.
To begin with, almost half of your country did not vote, and from the half that voted, not even 50% voted for the candidate that won. Yes, yes, he got more votes than the other, so his victory is totally legitimate, but that does not mean that he represents most of the population .......indeed, he represents a little bit over 30% of your population (wich is still A LOT of people, but NOT the mayority).
Not that there is any reasonable alternative (unless it`s a dictatorship, with me as the dictator), but I just wanted to point it out!
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@maskr5520 The rebels in arms are almost all from Isis and Al-quaeda. If there is any pro-western-democracy-rebel, he is hiding very well.
SOME of the rebels were, in the begining really sirian opositors who seeked a better life for their people, but, as always, we (the wester countrys) choose to found the worst of them (ISIS and Al-quaeda in Siria, but before we asked them to change their names) through Turkey and Saudi Arabia, and the few "laic" oppositors, simply vanished.......
The cloosest thing you can find to a "laic" militia in Siria are the kurdish troops, but they focus mainly on self-defense, and made an alliance with the goverment of Assad, in order to better fight against the islamic rebels and the turkish army and mercenaries......
Is Assad a cruel dictator? Hell Yes!
Are the rebels worse? You better believe it!
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Both sides have a demografic problem, only Ukraines is worse. They have lost a lot of population in the last 30 years (Ukraine 30%, Russia less, and it also had more population from the begining).
Russia HAS a wide group of people betwen 20 and 30 years, right now, but if you look up to the numbers of the generation that is ment to replace them, they are considerably less. They need their young men to stay at home and keep producing children.
The situation of Ukraine is even worse. They need absolutely their young men between 20-30 (wich are sparse, compared to other age groups) to stay safe, in hopes they can generate a much needed generational replacement they simply don`t have now......
If any of the conflicting sides send their young able and fit men to die at the front, they risk to implode in 20, 30 or maximum 50 years, when no one will show up to take over the jobs or services required to mantain their countrys alive...... because the generation that was ment to do that, was never born, do to their fathers dying in some trench full of mud........
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@HowardNeil-k5r
You see, most brits didn`t let any notable profit in the regions they devastate. If the price for getting rid of your hordes of drunken younglings, low cost, rude and uneducated plauge of wannabe-middle-class families, and elderely retired couples who come to leech off our health-care -system, (who all cause more problems than they are worth), is saying goodbye to the few ones thar ACTUALLY contributed something to our country, then it is a sacrifice we are willing to make.
Luckyly, since you left the EU, we no longer HAVE to admit you regardless of what we thought about it. Now you have to abide by our rules, like every other non-EU citizen...... or go elswhere
Do not worry, there are plenty of other nationalities willing to occupy the space you leave. It was nice, but it is time for us all to part our ways......
Wish you all the best and the happiest life possible.
PS: And tell your people to PLEASE, PLEASE stop calling themselves Expats when they go abroad to live. They are INMIGRANTS.........
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A lot of people who blame all german people for the holocaust, forgot, that the first in the line for the concentration camps, and execution, where german citizens.
The reason why so few of them were found alive, is that they were all dead, long, long ago...... after beeing tortured to death.
What was left, was a lot of people who feared for their lives (and that of their relatives), and kept their heads down, millions who complied voluntarely with the nazi agenda, and some very few heroes who, even beeing aware of what happened to the ones who oposed the nazi regime before them, choosed the right, path, and paid the price.....
Sincerly, I don´t know, if I had the strenght to opose these beasts, if I were in such a situation, and I hope, I don`t have to find it out.
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If there are, more or less, the same number of straight men and women, and more and more men keep getting "single and lonely", this means that forcely, the same number of women are going to end ALSO "single and lonely".
Of course this can be temporarely avoided by sharing the avaliable man with the necessary cualifications (aka CHAD), BUT, althoug this works perfectly fine when speaking about "fun and games", it is less ideal when speaking about long term relationships......
So, unless women agree to share the same man in a long term relationship, they will probably end "single and lonely" in the same proportion than men..........
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@-SonZetta- TRUE. We PAY for the privilege of beeing your vas.....sorry, your allies.
Do they think WE LIKE to buy your gas at four times the price we could get it from the russians?
Or that we are HAPPY to donate our military stuff to Ukraine and then purchase the stuff we need to replace it form them AT FULL PRICE?
Do you think we gave up having our own "GPS" system (Galileo-initiative), and instead built a subsidary system of them, giving them the key to the switch-off bottom becuase our LOVE for you?
THEIR CORPORATIONS are the one benefiting from our military dependence......the fact that THEY refuse to tax them and redistribute the money to the average US-taxpayer (you know, the one footing the bill for our "protection") is THEIR problem, not ours.
Once THEIR military umbrella vanishes, we will be able to stop giving them preferential treatment, buy things from were we get them cheaper, and produce and use our own weapon-systems, ensuring that the benefits and jobs derived from our protection-needs, stay in our countries, and are NOT transfered into the US.
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@DDtch6669
You are right, western Tanks were designed to operate in the plains of west Germany, (with no mud season and a lot of "Autobahn" , proper bridges capable of sustaining their weight, and local industrial facilities, able to provide the maintenance this complicated tools need) in a DEFENSIFE war against an invading soviet force.
Althoug the USSR is no longer, the western countries keep on building Tanks adecuate to operate in their OWN home-territory, or, at most, in that of their allies. (An exception to this is the US-army, who simply brings whatever they may need, with them, wherever that place may be)
My country, for example, operates its own version of the "Leopard" (more similar aparently to the shwedish version than to the german one), do to its more complicate orography.
Ukraine, is for all practical purposes a "soviet-union" enviroment (roads, bridges, maintenance crews, clima, soil, and what not).
Blaming a tool because it operates poorly in an enviroment, it has not been designed for, is not reasonable!
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We should have encouraged the Ukranians to do this long time ago.
Retreat past the Dnieper and blow up all the bridges.
And then let the sanctions sink in, but REAL sanctions, not only convinient ones, including sanctions to the people who continue trading with Russia.
Meanwhile , we get rid of the ukro-n*zis, make Ukraine a democratic, modern european and western country, and pour so much money in it that it becomes the next Germany.
In three or five decades, THE SAME PEOPLE that are supporting now the russian invasion, will knock at Kievs door asking if they can, please, join Ukraine again (look at Cyprus, now its the people from the north who want to join the south, and its the south who is saying that, unless it is under their conditions, they have no interest)
This would cost much more money, but less lives.
It would have been even better if we had encouraged the ukranian goverment to adhere to the Minsk-agreements....
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If Israel tried to end me, I would last aproximately 10 seconds (on a lucky day)........ That this man was able to keep himself alive so many years must almost feel like a victory of ots own......
Moral considerations apart, he must be a very dedicated man, even obsesive...... I wonder what he would been able to achieve, had he lived in more peacefull circumstances.
I wonder also if he is full of hate, or if he considers himself just to be doing his "patriotic" (or "islamic") duty.
He has brought a lot of suffering to many people, but on the other hand, what option does he, or any palestinian have?
The situation in the west bank after almost two decades of FULL cooperation from the Palestinian authority towards Israel, has shown EVERY PALESTINIAN, and a lot of people in the rest of the world, that this is not the way.
Israel has shown every palestinian what their life will look like if they accept the ocupation without fighting......no wonder they choose to fight.... I certainly would.......and if the Palestinian Authotity had choosen to cooperate with Israel (without any gain), and the only ones fighting were Hamas, I would join Hamas....... great job, Israel!
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@boristimko7402 This is the point. We are NOT willing to. And less after beeing lied by out leaders and propaganda who told us that the russians would collapse at any given moment, and that the ukranians were only weeks away from asaulting Moscow.
Saving Ukraine yakes, either a full scale NATO war against Russia, OR , a new cold war for the next 5 decades (or longer), not only against Russia, but also against anybody making buissnes with them (anybody said China?).
The western public opinions are not prepared for any of these two scenarios....
The fact that our leaders also try to hide their incompetence/bad decisions/bad news/ and the results of the everlasting corruption behind the "War in Ukraine" also dosen`t help.....
When you think that your low wages, high taxes, inflation, or any other problem has its root in the war in Ukraine, sooner or later you want to get rid of this scenario ASAP.
Our leaders should just had us told the truth from the beginig (it will be hard, it will take time, cost a lot of sacrifice, and perhaps we loose), and so perhaps there would have been less suport in the begining, but it wouldn`t have vanished like a snowball in Hell.
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@energytauq8710 Palestine is not only Gaza. You kept their most valuable lands and resources, and transformed gaza into a huge prision of 3 million people..... and simply didn`t stop k*lling and kidnapping inocent palestinians and imposing a regime of terror in both palestinian territories..... And then you act surprised when the inmates rebel....
The Oslo accords were a trap.
Palestinians were to get some unconected pieces of land, with all the water and energy resources in Israeli hands, as well as control over their exterior borders and israeli security forces allowed to act in Palestinan territory as they saw fit...... (basically the situation they already were in)
In return they had to legalizae the ocupation of their land by colonists, desist on claiming palestinian refugees to return to their homes, and accept as (their) "part of Jerusalem" two villages hastly incorporated administratively into the city, in order to offer them to the Palestinians as their "capital".... (basically giving Israel all what it wants)
Your problem is, that when it is only the palestinians d*ing and suffering, it is regretable, but acceptable.
It only becomes a problem when the ones d*ing and sufering are Israelis........THEN, it is terrorism.......
Soviets and N*zis my friend....Soviets and N*zis.......
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Don`t get married. Also, freeze your boys, and get a vasectomy. It may be less romantic, but so you avoid accidents and beeing babytrapped without your consent (you can still consent to the wrong woman, but that`s on you). Do NOT cohabitate. Do NOT date single mothers, that could decieve you into becoming a paternal figure for her children, or even PRETEND that you have become one, when it is not the case.
Finally, check the statutes about common law marriages in your country, and cut ties with any partner BEFORE this limit is reached.
And if you think it`s to much of a hassle, just for a litlle in-and-out do what I did when I turned 31 and get on monk-mode.......
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@AlexNinjaTurtle And there is also another unexpected consequence, however this ends, Russia is now firmly aligned with China.
Before all this mess, we could have speculated, that if things go south with China (for example in Taiwan), Russia would probably have minded its own interests, wich could have aligned partially with the Chinese ones, or perhaps not.
Now, we can be sure, that if the sh*t hits the fan, Russia will glady return all the "favours" recieved from NATO in this conflict.........
What could go possibly wrong?
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@papuchomamucha7621 En los años 80 en España planteamos un referendum para salirnos de la OTAN.......Ya se encargaron nuestros amos de dejarnos bien clarito lo que pasaria si votabamos salirnos.......el partido socialista, que llego al gobierno con la promesa de sacarnos de la OTAN de repente y por "razones inexplicables" cambio de parecer..., ruido de sables, Marruecos se puso tontorron con Ceuta y Melilla, campañas de desinformacion, NUNCA podriamos entrar en la CEE, ect, ect........
2024, y aqui nos tienes, en la OTAN, una organizacion defensiva que EXCLUYE la defensa de los unicos puntos de nuestro pais que podria ser objeto de un ataque por parte de un vecino.......todo bien......... no sigo, que me cabreo........
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Things like this are going to pose a serious problem in the next future. Regardless of how this war ends, Russia will have a battlehardened expedition-force of 500.000 soldiers, used to fight for a living and make good money with it, plus millions of workers used to be employed in the military sector, with competitives wages. and an economy that relies on a active war-front to run-smothely.
Faced with this scenario, there will be surely the temptation to open another war-front to keep the show (and the economy) running, instead to making a difficult transition into a peace-time economy, and more so, if the international sanctions against Russia are not dropped right after the war (wich they almost surely won`t).
They probably won`t attack any NATO-country, but there are a lot of central-asian ex-soviet-republics who could be sudenlly deemed as not AS pro-russian as the could be, and therefore considerated candidates to a "special military operation".
It`s like the Roman economy of the late republican and the early imperial times, wich relied on conquest and plunder to keep on going......once they got on the defensive, and the flow of cash, gods and slaves stopped, the first cracks showed up-------
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@UberZambrotta8 Yep. You don`t see yourself living with someone at the age of 27, and I can respect that (mostly because I took the same decision 23 years ago).
BUT, if you suddenly decide in 11 eleven years that you want children and a decent husband, fail to do so (because, you know, father time does not forgive), AND THEN proceed to whine and blame everyone but you and your choices.......THEN, you would be like the lady in this video.
I hope this is not the case, and you have a litlle bit of accountability and coherence if this happens, but let`s be honest, most people don`t.
And that`s esentially what we are talking about...... the lack of awarness of todays women when it comes to their desiarability and fertility window ......again, I hope, that this will be not the case of you and your aquietances, but if it is, feel free to rewatch this video in 11 years.........
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@MrGasparin200 I think that the key words here are "for the time".
And, for that time and place, it was just buissnes as usual, and indeed, slightly better than that of of other european powers, and even some indigenous states.
The aztecs, for example, were unanimously hated by their neighbours, having endured a treatment at their hands, that rivals in cruelty with that inflicted by Sparta to the ilots.
The incas, on the other hands, had an empire built over mountains of corpses of defeated enemies, and had just endured an all-or-nothing civil war that had nothing to envy in cruelty to any european one (including the massive extermination of the loosing side).
The level of violence and cruelty of the Inca Empire , matches easely the ones of the Roman Empire.....
So yeah, buisness as usuall. Of course, if we analize it through our 21 centuray mindset.......yep, it was pretty nasty.....
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@residentjess If toxic masculinity was bad (in evolutionary terms) it would have gone extinct millions of years ago.....agression, hate, violence, madness, and the disregard for others people wellbeing have its place and moment.
This kind of behaviour has helped us (as species) as much as compasion, empathy, cooperation and peace to survive to this point, and should not be erased just because we want the reality to adapt to our views, instead of accepting it as what it is, a place where you sadly sometimes need fire to fight fire............. IF there comes a day when the sh*t hits the fan (and I hope that if it happens, it will be in many, many, years, when I died a long time ago, after a plenty and peacefull live), we will beg the "toxic men" to lead the way and put themselves between the danger and us........if by then, we have gotten rid of all of them, we will be doomed.........
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For all these people talking about the use of compas, directions the would have taken and so on :
The decisive moment were the hours he walked/runned in the first sandstorm, underestimating the potential thread he was exposed to.
From this moment on, he simply estimated his location, and made a huge mistake.
I would love to know where he guessed he was (obviuosly he was complely wrong), but I am sure, that form the area HE SUPOSED HE WAS, the direction he took seemed the best posible in his mind.
Also, it is one thing to think about the alternatives in the aftermath, with all the information, and another, beeing scared, sunburned and dehidrated, and having only partial informations........
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Laws aside, it if was a "no fault divorce" he, (and all other people) should be granted a reasonable amount of time and money to get to stand on their own feets (asuming they were stand-at-home wife/husbands, if they already have a job, they should go kick rocks......), BUT, if she cheated on him, she deserves what she is getting (as all other cheaters should, men and women).
Also, I think, child support is a must, but the recieving part should be mandated to justify EVERY PENNY spend, to make sure it is spend on the childrens wellbeeing (and not some ramdom BS), and that the amount of money granted is reasonable....... related to the needs of the child, and the capacity of the part who is paying the support......
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Aparently, in Egypt there is a lot of schrexual represion. Young and unmarried men rarely get access to pre-marital relationships. Combine this with a society that views woman as second-class citizens, where even traditional families are only concernerned about the wellbeeing of the women of THEIR OWN family, while considering women OUTSIDE of the family as fair game (and more if they are part of the 10% of the christian population), and you have a perfect recipie for a disaster.
A country where incels rule the streets without oposition....what could go posibly wrong?
When there is a strong goverment, security forces try to ensure tha law that forbids this kind of behaviour, and more if it affects foreign women (bad for tourism), but the tales of women gropped in public places are legion. In a situation with no law enforcement present, and emotions running high, this was sadly to be expected.
This lady probably thought that egpcian people would suddenly and magically turn into westernerns the minute they would free themselves from dictatorship......a mistake made by a lot of western people. We have to remember that THE ONLY TIME they were able to vote in freedom, they elected the Islamic Brotherhood.......
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@crossfitruston3632 My friends and I know eachother since elementary-school. We have a specific pact NOT to invite eachother to our weddings........made after the first of the group married, and we had to go throug the awfull expirience of beeing the grooms best men (a nightmare!)
Over time, there have been some issues about this with fiances, girlfriends, partners and families, but we have made it always very clear, that if we had to go to the wedding, we would 100% go to the bachelor party (actually another event we would rather like to avoid), and, that our opinion was, that if the wedding actually happened after a bachelor party with us, we would consider the party a failure (saying this with a straight face and without laughing helps a lot!)
After that statement, we are usually excused.........indeed, we are usually encouraged not to atend...........
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@yoeyyoey8937 And if we combine this with a "Marshal Plan" for Ukraine, led by the EU, that democratizes the country, helps it to get rid of their corruption, and turns Ukraine basically into a new Germany, in 50 years the inhabitants of this 5% wil kindly ask, if they pretty please can rejoin Ukraine.
Something like Cyprus, (where the southern, prosperous and europan part has now no rush for reunification, unless it is under THEIR conditions), but bigger......
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Truth is they did. It is also truth that this fact was highlited day in day out by western media, while you have to actually dig, if you want to read/hear/watch something negative about Ukriaines performance in the war.
Russia does NOT conscript people for the war, not because they care for their people, but because they don`t need to.....
There are enough russian d*uchbags willing to give their lives away voluntarely, so that the gas fields of western Ukraine can be extracted by russian oligarchs, instead of ukranian ones (because this is all what this war is about)
Also, a good chunk of the volunteers were in a situation so bad (prisions) that the front is actually an improvemet, and this people, plus the foreign mercenaries are disposable and always do the most risky and daengerous jobs.
Finally, they can get all the volunteers they want ( and certainlly do so), by offering russian nationality to men from asian ex-soviet republics, who are EAGER to get out the hellholes they call "country", and, more important, get their families out of there, and have no problem, running into an artillery-barrage, if it means a future for their wife and children.
RUSSIA has no problems getting volunteers for the front.......sadly.....
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It looks like Adolf was just a normal, conservative, nationalist and antisemitic young man (like many others in his time) until he broke down in WWI. The treatment he recievd for his PTSD was a lot of shouting and militar discipline (Seriuosly, he was "cured" by a doctor who`s prescription for PTSD was harsh discipline, shouts, and push you around in order to get you to be functional again)..........That`s the point he get probably completly insane, just nobody noticed it at this time........Not that he was not megalomaniac and didn´t have a lot of hate before, but that episode probably exarcerbated his insane tendencies "ad infinitum". Unfortunately, he was functional enough to get his way to the Reichskanzlerei.....and the rest is history. So the question should be : What if Adolf`s doctor was competent, and not only didn´t make his PTSD worse, but also diagnose his inherent mental problems?
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@tiffanygoss9380 I get it. You ingore the benefits this situation has brought you, because these benefits are for your big commpanies, their CEOS, and their shareholders (while you, the average tax-payer, foots the bill).
This, is a YOU-problem, because you refuse to tax the people that benefit from such a state of things, and use this money to get universal healthcare (or free weapons for all, or a wall around your country like the one of Game of Thrones, whatever you prefer)
Prepare for some nasty surprises once we get rid of your "protection".....we haven`t been buying your garbage just because we like you (ok, we like you, but not enough to give you our money for free), or we couldn`t find better offers......the time of priviledged deals for the USA, is over....... good riddance
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In the last chapters of the wars, "Sippenhaft" was also heavely enforced.
This ment, that if you were found guilty of a crime against the German Volk (like desertion, refusal to fight, defeatism or others), not only you would be punished, but your relatives could also suffer, in a range that went from social ostracism and denying of public help (wich was the only way to get food-rations, coal for the winter, and other things you needed to survive), to internation in disclipinary battalions (not good), jail (bad), or konzentrarion-camps (worse), knowing meahnwhile, that your chidren woould be taken away from your family and rised by the state to be good n*zis and pay for your "sins" with their blood......
That`s definitively a good reason to fight till your last breath.......because, while you can have doubts about the fate of your family under russian or american occupation......they knowed DAMM WELL what was going to happen to them if they p*ssed ofthe german authorities......
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The problem I see, is that this war is actually PROFITABLE for the russian average people, who have seen their wages increased, and are no in a full-employment scenario, while, the only ones dying in Ukraine are "volunteers", wich seems acceptable for the russian public opinion.
So, at the end of THIS war, Putin will have a thriving economy based on war-time production, and around 500.000 battlehardened veterans with nothing to do..........What could possibly go wrong?
Not that I think they would attack any NATO-member, but there are some ex-soviet republics in the Caucasus and Asia that will be probably "invited" to re-join a "greater union" under Putins leadership........
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@veronicajensen7690 In the EU, countries have veto rights in important matters, and even if a particullar matter doesn`t require unanimity, almost any matter have to be aproved by at least 55% of the states, representing at least 65% of the european population. You have to perform very poorly in order to get imposed a decision you don`t want to.......... There are always countries around wanting to block or re-negotiate things that don`t really affect you, and exchanging favours is common currency in this kind of negotiations (you help me protect my fishing rights, and I vote against UE imposing you coutas on inmigration).
Also, even if a particular matter doesn`t require unanimity, and you can`t articulate a blocking-minority, you can just hint that if this particular policy is aproved, you will veto the next decision requiring unanimity, just becasue, until THIS policiy is adressed properly (at your satisfaction).......it worked for the UK for decades..........
That`s why most decisions in the UE are consensual. The brits have discovered it the hard way. Now, if they want to trade with us, they have to adhere to our regulations, and have no veto rights and no leverage.......
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What these people should consider, is that travelling is not cheap. Also, other countries (understandably) don´t want broke people from outside comming to live with them, EVEN if they are from the USA, and demand people who want to live there, to be able to, at least, provide for themselves (among other economic and personal requests, like the absence of criminal records in their home-country).
This demands can change, depending on the country you want to inmigrate, but, BE ASSURED, that no country is going to allow the inmigration of large numbers of broke USA-citizens into their territory.......
So, most probably, this people are not as broke, as some want us make belive they are.......
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@ltahoe9257 Your country was LITERALLY founded on the basis of an ilegal protest that disturbed innocent people...... but, make no mistake: If this people in the universities. had been protesting, in the same way, about LITERALLY any other topic, no f*cks would have been given.
For example, if this had been protests against, or in favour of *bortion, they would be still protesting, and no police would have been involved......and that, with an issue so emotional and that divides so much.......but as soon as you put in question the unconditionall support of your country to the country that can not be named......well, you see what has happened
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What Ukraine can ACTUALLY do with this 61 B aid package is increase the cost for further Russian advances, once the weapons and amunition are deployed on the battlefield.
THAT would be the perfect moment for peace talks.
Truth is Ukraine will have to make painfull concesions, but the west could sweeten the deal integrating the rest of Ukraine (populated mostly by ukranian-speaking, pro western people) into NATO and the UE.........
I think this is the best Ukraine can hope for......perhaps, if Ukraine becomes a developed western country with high-living standarts and a thriving economy, THE SAME people that are fighting now for secession and union to Russia, will come back askin, pretty please, if they can re-join Ukraine.......
It worked in Germany, and the only reason it does not work in Cyprus is because the southern, pro-western and European part of the island thinks its to much of a hassle to re-integrate the northern (and much poorer) ex-separatists, and demands terms THEY KNOW, the north is not able to meet.........
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@k.b.2639 This might surprise you, but US-citizens are not automatically welcome in the rest of the planet......Oh, as a TOURIST, you will have almost no problem, but if you want TO LIVE in my country, for example, there are condtions to met. First, if you have a criminal record, in your country, forget it. Then you have to proof that you have the means to sustain yourself for several months (money in the bank, owning real state in the US, or having a rich daddy doesn`t count), and that you are not going to be a burden for our universal healthcare before you begin to work and pay taxes. A letter of invitation, a job-offer can also be required (sometimes they give you up to six months to find a job or leave), or alternatively having spanish ancestors or deep cultural conections with our country can also help (just speaking spanish doesn`t count).
We are less picky with refugees (you know, people fleeing from warzones, poor places, or similar), but people from developed countries, better go by the law, or they will be invited to return to where they came from
There are tons on requiriments more, and I can hardly inmagine that Venezuela has less, and will allow this gentelman just to step out of the airplane and make himself a home there........
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Nah. here in the west, we practice selective defense of human rights. Ukraine yes, Palestine no. Rusia bad, Israel, a pure criature of light and benevolence, incapable of any wrongdoing......
And although we live theorically in a democracy, EVERY TIME a party that wants to change the status qou becomes a threat, it suddenly becomes the interest of judges and "journalists", that spread lies and investigate suposed scandals and corruption.....only to close this cases in silence once this party is no longer relevant or decisive.......
Yeah! We have freedom of expresion......as long as we aren`t a threat to the powers in charge......who ensures that only the "right" kind of people get to govern.....the kind of people that stay when a representant form a genocide state speaks......
Sure, our sistem allows you an ample space of personal freedom, as long as you stay within the limits of the "autorithed" freedom, but it is NOT the govern of the people.
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In a conventional warfare? No!
And that is precisely why they are not fighting a conventional warfare.......
If anybody here has planed things to the last detail, it`s Hamas....... of course, PLANING things, and ACHIEVING them, are two completely diferent things, but I would say that nothing of what has happend since October last year, is far away from what Hamas has been expecting and preparing for....., and unless Israel suddenly changes it`s mind, and facilitates a viable palestinian state under the rule of the PLO, there is not much what they can do, that Hamas does not expect and have been preparing to he last ten years.......
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Althoug a lot people claim Spain to be one of the oldest countrys in the Europe, the fact is that most of spanish territory did not come under the same rule (even if they had a comon history and lenguage, or similar) till the marriage of the catholic King and Queen (Fernando and Isabel). Even then, the several spanish kingdoms under their rule, and that of their succesors, kept on working, more or less, as separate states, for three centurys, just joined by the fact that they had a common ruler (they had their own parliment, rise their own troops and taxes, and the laws cuold be a little diferent). Having achived such "union of Kingdoms", the interest of Spanish Kings, was to incorporate the OTHER Kingdoms in the spanish peninsula, that weren`t yet under their rule. Granada (1492), Navarra (1512), and, of course Portugal... so you see, it was nothing personal, just buisness.
Just Portugal managed to be the only, of several kingdoms in the peninsula to NOT to stay spanish.............
And, I did NOT forgot that unified muslims states ruled almost all of the spanish peninsula before, it is just, that these states didn´t lead to the modern spanish state.......
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To be fair, the Tank that is able to navigate the ucranian (or russian) mud-season is yet to be invented.
Russian tanks face similiar issues, and the russian offensives will slow down to a stop, once the mud-season hits the region in all its glory.
Of course, they will also use this time to reorganize, reinforce, and resupply their troops, and will be prepared to start again their offensive movements as soon as the mud dries out, becoming consinstent earth, capable to endure the weight of a tank, allowing this vehicles (and all other) to operate outside ov the paved roads.......
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@harrisdupree3323 he seems to know his buissness. First of all, he tariffs products selectively, searching for the biggest impact on Us-consumers, while protecting his own people.
Secondly, he gives canadian companies some weeks to adjust their suplly lines, encouraguing them to seek conections in other matkets
And third, and most important: Aparently, almost all canadians stand behind him. If they expiriencie difficulties, they will bkame Trump, and not Trudeau. Meanwhile, in the US 49% of the population can`t stand Trump just because, without their lifes having been really affected by his administration yet. Of course, his most stubborn supporters will side with him regardless of the circumstances, but how many of the other 51% will continue to support Trump once they begin to expirience hardships?
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@leopard2a436 Oh! I am sure you could dance naked in front of the Finland parliment with one russian flag in each hand, your d*ck painted in the coulour of the russian flag and screaming your love and aliegance for Putin himself, and face only minor inconvienences.......
But, my friend, THE MOMENT you, and your fellow pro-russian comrads would have the SLIGHTEST chanche to have the minimal influence in order to remove Finland from its course towards the NATO, you would recieve a treatment that would make you DESIRE to be in the hands of the FSB.
Please, don`t be naive! It`s not about freedom or human rights!, It`s about Everest-high-mountains of money. If you really think the people in charge are going to hesitate ONE SECOND before doing whatever is necesary to remove you (if you dare to put yourself between them and their money), you truly deserve what you would get.
Funny how quick you (correctly, by the way) judge the russian sistem as a dictatorship, but don`t say a word about the ucranian one, wich is at least, as bad as the russian.
As for the finish one, you live in the same cage as any russian citizen.
Only yours is a little bit wider, you can scream at the wardens, your bars are painted in the colours of the rainbow and hidden behind cortains. But they as hard an unmovable as the russian ones.......
If you don`t belive me, ask Asange his opinion about freedom in western democracies......
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@egobrain6826 Because if the parents are human garbage you are letting the kids beeing raised by human garbage.
So, for you is is ok if I indoctrinate my kid in my ideas, if these are that Adolf is the best thing that happend to humanity since the wheel, and that unfortunately he was not able to send enough people to the camps?
Just because you stick it in raw, does not make you a good father or an example for anybody.
Some of the nastiest people in history are product of beeing indoctrinated by people that where just nuts.
If the schoolsystem works properly (wich yours, clearly do not) it is a good back-up system to give the children some common moral base (do not steal, kill, abuse the weak, respect people that think otherwise, do not send people to death-camps, ect.) that can compensate the nasty influence of some degenerate parents.......
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Sometimes it makes sense to wear masks. I am extremly arlegic to certain plants, and wearing a mask prevents me from breathing pollen in spring......
Also, do to my work, I have contact with TONS of people on a dayly basis, and when I have to visit an elderely home, or places where people with healthproblems live (also work related), I wear a mask to protect THEM (because this kind of people have enough problems, without me worsening their situation).
Another advantage of the mask is, that while working with public, I have not to smile when I am really not in the mood, because, nobody is going to se my mouth anyway....... sounds petty, I know,........
So yeah IF I WANT TO WEAR A MASK, JUST SHUT THE F*CK UP, LET ME DO MY THING, AND FOCUS ON YOUR OWN F*CKING SH*T (no offense ment)
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These people, once they made their decision, had to be totally ruthless in order to survive. Even the glimps of a failure in the service of their new masters, and he would be send back to the ranks of the common prisioners, where they new that their fate would be worse than dead. Other slave-based envirmonets used this method too, knowing that no overwatcher would be as strict, ruthless and brutal, than a former slave who feared beeing thrown back to this position, and would do ANYTHING, to avoid it......
Sad, but true.....
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The "battle of Covadonga" is a fake. It is based on a chronicle hunderts or more years away from the events depicted by a writer trying to trace the ascendence of the (then) actuall King of Asturias from a noble called "Pelagious" whose right to reign (and so that of his descendants) was sanctioned by a divine intervention in this mithycal batlle. Pure propaganda.
Islamic chronicles, written by the time of the suposed battle ( although obviously biased) mention some thoug resistance to islamic tax-collectors, and how the rebels seeked refugee in mountains and deep valleys, easy to defend, from where they harrased the troops send to defeat them, till they had no other option than to retreat.
This scenario (a desperate a seemingly lost guerrilla-warfare againts an overhelmig and aparently invincible invasion simply refusing to surrender against all odds) is, in my opinion, much more epic (and much more likely to have happened) that some battle nobody mentioned ever, till it was politically convinient, hunderts of years later.
Also, the last "Visigoth King" (or the last pretender) fought till 719-720, when he died campaining against the invasion, and his visigothic stronghold of Narbona was conquered, all the men killed, and the woman and children enslaved.
Some other strongholds even hold out till 725 (Carcasone for example) guided by local chieftans ending FOURTEEN YEARS of campain, where, along with some peacfull pacts, there were also some fierce resistance in mayor cities, that sufered the same fate of Narbona ( also. by then, the local islamic governor of Asturias had already been expelled and never returned, making this territory effectively the first one to recover its independence from islamic rule even before the conquest of the rest of the Kingdom was fully achieved......)
Indeed, the resistance was so fierce, that around 720, the islamic goverment in Hispania thought about just leaving the territory, because the conquest was to expensive to make and to keep, and numbers simply didn´t fit.....
No need to belive in mithycal battles. The resistance against the conquest was fierce and bloody, even epic, althoug sadly disorganized
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Sapiens and Neandertahls coexisted around 20.000 to 25.000 years.
Surely, in this period, the comunities that had contact one with another, adopted all kind of behaviours.
In some cases they probably avoided the other, coexisted "peacfully", traded, merged in a group, fighted, scared the other away, prayed or even exterminated the other tribe(s) they met, depending on the circumstances.
Probably even, the descendants of a group that opted for one type of behaviour, adopted another, if, the met another group of neanedrtahl/sapiens hunderts or thousend years later......
I can perfectly imagine a sapiens group asking their neandertahl neighbours, with whom they had established peacfully relationships over the generations, for help when threatened by another, new and agressive, sapiens group......
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They will have the same problem with the F-16, too. Althoug it is a good weapon, and if delivered in enough numbers, it could make the life very unpleasant to the russian air force, truth is, this kind of fighters need an infrastucture and maintainance capacity that Ukraine simply lacks, right now.
F-16, for example, needs very precise and well built air-fields to operate from, that do not damage their (comparatively) sensitive landing-gear.
Nato, HAS this kind of airfields, the capacity to defend them from enemy attacks, and the capacity to repair them quickly, if they are damaged.
Ukraine hasn`t
The SAAB 39-Gripen, on the other hand, although not AS fancy as an F-16, is a robust fighter, capable of operating in less than optimal conditions (indeed it is designed to be operated using highways to land and take off, and can so fight from hidden and dispersed positions) and it`s maintenance is, if we compare it to the F-16 a little bit easier.
So yeah, the F-16 will be basicaly another flop, given enough time........
They should just have got the SAAB instead
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@larryc1616 In touristic areas yes! (worked 11 years in a hotel reception, and there were days I didn`t speak a word in spanish). If you go inlands tend to younger people, more fluent sometimes, and don`t forget to carry a translator in your phone.
Also, I know teenagers (14-15 years, you know) who, as prank, sent tourists in the oposit direction, if asked for indications (nothing daengerous, but given that your holidays are limited in numbers, spending hours findig a place you had just at the next corner, can bee annoying). ANY hotel worker (and most of other profesionals) will gladly help you, even if you are not THEIR client.
Airbnb and similars have gotten lately a bad reputation here (acussed of taking homes that should be for natives, and making prices rise). Cruisers also (for all the disturbances their passengers cause when they appear, all of them, at the same time, at the same place).
Stick to a more traditional hotel (or pensions)- holiday-packages, and you will earn the gratitude of the locals (as this is what benefits them more in the long term).
Under the current circumstances, identify clearly as a canadian. Do it, even if you are from the US.......there are douchebags an troublemakers everywhere, even if there is only 1% of chanche finding one, why take the risk?
Of course, you can`t hide your nationality to your hotel staff, who will have to examine your passport in the check-in, but they are obliged to confidentiality by our personell-data-protection-laws, and would risk their jobs and hefty fines if they blabbered. Outside, get yourself a cap with a maple leaf and the word "CANADA" on it....... people will smile more, and you won`t have to answer unconfortable questions about your president, your sanity, your ability to think in general, what you were thinking about when you voted for him, or if you are aware where Spain is in a map........
And if you happen to come from the US, remember, we have universal healthcare. If you have a problem CALL THE FREAKIN AMBULANCE........
Enjoy your holidays!
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@kaba_me Although it is really embarrasing, Rusia has strategic depth. They can trade land for time, regroup, and decimate the invading forces, something the ukranians should learn.......
It`s NOT necesary to defend EVERY F......INCH to the last man, and more, if you are facing manpower shortages. For Ukraine, right now, it`s more important to keep it`s soldiers alive, than to keep every two- or three- houses big village.
The russians have learned (the hard way) to retreat, if defending a position is not worth it, and try another day and/or in another place. Ukraine, still hasen`t.......
Also, Russia can use REGULAR military forces to counter this offensive, given that they are fighting in russian soil, and won`t need to use the ones that have signed a contract to fight in Ukraine, so, few (if any) forces will be diverted from the ones advancing right now in Ukraine.
I think, that the ukranian side will miss the soldiers and material they are going to invest in this offensive (like the ones from the summer-offensive)
Right now, they have given Putin a bloddy nose embarrased him and showed the russian public opinion that their goverment is unable to protect them. Great!
Time to limit their losses, now that their are winning, get the F......out of there, and engage in a part of the front where they can be of actuall use and make the difference........
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No offense, but you know that it was your goverment the one to promote Hamas and allowed it to become what it is now, in order to weaken the PLO and divide the palestinian representation, yes?
There would be no Hamas if you simply complied with the UN-resolutions, and kept your hands out of Palestine....just saying.......
On the other hand, if what has been happening now for the last 20 years in the West Bank is what "peace and cooperation" with Israel looks like (remember that there rules the PLO, that recognizes the right of Israel to exist, and cooperates with Israel in the represion of islamists groups), it is no wonder that the palestinians choose to resist with all means.
And if the only ones fighting are Hamans (and even worse people), it`s only logic that they join Hamas.
I mean, I wouldn`t, but if you and your comrades had k*illed my brother, kept my nephew in administrative detention for a decade, and bulldozed all my earthly belongings, just to make place for some colonists that harras and humilate me day in day out, just because, perhaps I woul think otherwise...... and so would you.......
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@matthoffman8162 Yep, although they are ASSEMBELD in your country, a good percentage of the parts that are assembeld there come from outside (most probably China).
And the parts that ARE made in the US, probably use raw materials from other countries (like Canada, for example), so this cars will also see a rise in their prices (because the already made parts, and the raw materials imported to produce car parts locally, are going to be taxed)
General tarriffs agianst ALL products that come from a country don`t make sense. Take the vegtables coming from Mexico in winter to your grocery stores. Are US-farmers sudenly going to change their whole production in only one year, to produce THE SAME vegtables, but without tarriffs? What about the ones that don`t own the adecuate soil or don`t have the adecuate climate?
Your consumers are going simply to pay more for the same product, with the diference going directly into the pockets of your govermet.
I thought you DIDN`T like taxes.
Tariffs have to be carefully considered and applied, sector by sector and product by product, and apllied in a timely manner, to achieve the goal you persue, while NOT shooting yourself into the foot........
I have nothing against tarrifs. We in Europe use them to secure our strategic sectors (mostly the agricultural one. We HAVE to able to feed ourselves)
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We were 50 years behind Europe in development.
Now, we are perhaps 20 years behind.
But, your "adoption" would not have been necesary, if you (and the rest of the world) haven`t (cowardly) allowed Adolf and Benito to throw over the spanish goverment in late 30s, refusing to help the Republic, and so causing a civil war that throwed us back almost one century.
But, hey, no hard feelings.....you paid the price for not confronting fascism, when you should have, in blood, tears, the loss of your empire and your place as the most powerfull country in the world.......... good job.......,(and still better than 40 years of fasicsm, or 45 or comunism, like the eastern countrys of Europe, but, who cares?)
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I have been saying this thing about Ukraine since they aproved this insane law.
A women without military expirience is as good as a man pulling a trigger or stoping a rusian bullet, BUT, there is no gender-equality in the Titanic. right?
This is a valuable lesson for all men who don`t want to die just to make richer some people (already heard of the woman of an ukranian oligarch caught in Hungary with 27 millon dolars and 1.3 million euros in cash?)
Leave the country BEFORE the war begins, when you see the first problems in the horizont, because, as a man, when the sh*t hits the fan you will be lined up as cannon-food, while you can have a good look at all the strong, brave, and independent woman leaving the country, without complaining how injust it is that they can, and you cannot......
I swear to God that if someone tries this BS with me I will join the enemy........
And before anyone comes here waving ukranian flags, I have the same opinion about Rusia.
How many conscript woman do you think are serving in the russian army invading Ukraine these days?
Funny how nobody cuenstions THIS male privilege.......
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He had basically no choice. Beeing an open source AI, if he banned it, US buissness and citizens would be stuck with less eficient AI tools while the rest of the world would thrive using a vast more efficient tool (yielding the same results, or perhaps even better, at a fraction of the cost of using closed sourced US AI tools). It would be like fighting with one hand, while you use your other hand to cover your eyes, rendering you effectively blind.
China has just given the US a billions worth kick in its balls, and all Mr Trump can do is smiling and pretend it`s not a big deal......Yeah, sure....... He just got c*ckslapped, and all he can do is smile in return and pretend it`s fine......
For now, you have been defeated, like you were when the Soviets launched the Sputnik. We`ll have to wait and see if you will be able to pull an "Apollo program"-type answer......
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Lady, think of it as if you were a pro-football player (REAL football, not the armoured roughby some people call football).
You had your time, and Barcelona, Manchester, and Paris-Saint-Germain where courting, and throwing money at you. Masses hanged on every of your words, and you made articles day in day out with even the siliest of your ocurrences......
That what 20 years ago. Now, you cualify, at best, for some japanese or saudi-arabian teams, whose goal is to interest european public in their local leauge, hiring some almost outdated ex-stars.
You should enjoy this last chanche to reminish your glory-days in this second-tier leagues. In some years, not even this kind of teams will want you.........
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@kaptenhiu5623 Defending your country, when your country does not give a sh*t about you and your beloved ones, doesn`t seem like a good deal to me.
I will NOT do it if my country is ever atacked!
Let the King (yes! we have one!) and his family fight!
Let all the corrupt politicians, and their wifes (who are shoping like the world is going to end tomorrow and they will not have enough time to spend all their money) man the trenches!
Put the oligarchs (that bend the law in their favour, and have no problem screwing you, if they can get one Euro in exchange) in the tanks and transport vehicles!
And the judges that have one law for the common man, and another for the rich and powerfull? They would make good paratrooper and marines!
I will NOT fight and die for this people! The foreign invader has yet done nothing to me. The people that have been screwing my whole life are my fellow countrymen, and they should count themselves lucky, if I don`t join the enemy!
Where are the sons and daughters of the ukranian politicians and oligarchs? I bet they are NOT decorating any trench with their guts! They are either in Europe, living their best live, or have some position in the rear, secure and warm!
But you want the common man to forcefully have to defend his country! Just go kick rocks!
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Indeed, what is today Poland, used to be mostly Germany.
After WWII uncle Iosef (who had absolut no simpathy for Poland, because they wiped the floor with his face in the soviet invasion 1920) decided that it would be nice to incorporate the east of Poland into the USSR, fill it with etnic russians, and offer the displaced polish a huge chunk of Germany (wich, were, understandably in no position to protest). Before that a lot of what is now Belarrus was polish territory.
Luckily, after the fall of soviet union and the disulution of warsaw pact, Germany and Poland decided to resing on any reclamation based on past beeings, and let the forntiers excatly where they where.........
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Sorry to hear that. On the other side, if you continue on this path, you might solve your inmigration "problem", because nobody will want to go there.
Just come down from your high horse, make a reasonable treaty with the UE (I know, I know, that can be a hard pill to swallow!) and stop throwing your money and resources into the russian meatgrinder in Ukraine.
About inmigration, as mentioned earlier, the only way to STOP it, is to transform your country into such a hellhole, that nobody with two functional braincells would want to go there..........
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OF may not be ilegal, but it is certainly inmoral. I have nothing against two adult people interacting in any legal way (I mean, IF you are dumb enough to go sign up for an OF, you deserve whats comming for you.......)
WHAT I CAN`T STAND, is this people POURPOSELY targeting underage males (CHILDREN) in places of the internet they tend to visit, in order to "hook" them on their content, taking advantage of them not beeing mature enough, only to ensure they use their parents credit-cards to fund the "creators" lifestyle.
Till "creators", and the platform itself, ensure effectivelly that their buissness wiil not exploit CHILDREN, shaming the "creators", is our first line of defense (a good education in moral values is the last)
Imgine if a male model streamed half naked in a social media used by unedrage females, and told them, that if they give him money, they can "interact" with him on a screen........
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Speaking as an UE citizen, we should just pour enough money into Moldavia, to make it a rich and developed country ( in exchange of beeing able to judge moldovian corrupt officers), so that the people from Transnitsria came to think tha PERHAPS re-joining might be a good idea.
It has worked in Cyphrus, were it is now the southern, rich, and european part of the island, the one to rejecting unification (unless it is under THEIR conditions) while the former indepentists want it so badly, they cane barelty hide it.
This is, by the way, also my solution for Ukraine. Negotiate a cease of fire. Democratize and eliminate corruption in Ukraine, and pour so much money into it, that it esentially becomes a new Germany.......in 50 years, the same people that are welcoming now the russian troops, will be knocking at Ukraines door, asking, if they please, pretty please, can rejoin.......
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Sometimes it looks like the russian goal is to simply wipe out an entire generation ukranian soldiers, in order to make a future occupation of the country easier......... of course the insane defense of EVERY meter of ukranian soil, regardless the cost, helpes them a lot.
Why don`t they just retreat past the Dnieper, show the russian army the middlefinger from there, and let the sanctions work?
Even better, we could get rid of the ukranian regime, integrate the western part of Ukraine in the EU and NATO, and pour enough money into Ukraine to transform it into a new Germany .......
THE SAME PEOPLE that support the russian invasion today, would come back crawling in 5 decades asking, pretty please, if they coould rejoin Ukraine.
Look at Cyprus. For decades the south wanted the to integrate the northern part, but now, that they are more developed and in the UE, IT IS THE NORTHERN PART the most interest in joining the southern part, and the southernes are the ones saying " Nah, we are good", and that reunification will happen only under their conditions........
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@fireaza It worked in Crimea, Donbass and Lugansk. No wonder they thought it would work in the rest of the country. That explains (partially) the awfull performance of the russian army and their stunning losses at the begining of the w...... sorry the "special operation".
They thought they just had to show up and organize a victory-parade
On the other hand, it is true, that the best and most effective combat formations in the ukranian separatist crisis were pro-n*zi volunteer militias. I mean, they had LITERALLY sw*stikas tatoos, and their crimes against the civilian population residing in the separatist areas (or the ones suspected to symphatize with them), are well documented, although widely ignored by western media.......because of "reasons".
But you are right, they could have ended every single pro-russian separatist, and Putin wouldn`t have given a damm, if t was not for the huge gas fields discovered in Lugansk and Donbass in 2014, capable of meeting Europes demands for DECADES.
And this is why russian soldiers are dying for......to secure the control of this gasfields...... sounds familiar?
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It`s not about the toll......300 or 1.000 military casualties, althoug having a huge impact on their moral, don`t compromise the effectiviness of the IDF.
It`s simply that THEY NEVER HAVE THE REQUIRED NUMBERS FROM THE BEGINING, to keep their tight grip over the west bank, secure their border with Hezbola, and OCCUPY Gaza........
Raoming around, flatten Gaza, ending 36.000 inocent civilians life and perhaps 4.000 Hamas fighters?
Yes! For THAT they have enough soldiers!
Occupying Gaza, establishing a permament military presence among a hostile population ("hostile" is an understament), and surpresing Hamas military capacities, while simultanely mantaining all their other commitments? They need to double or triple the number of soldiers and equipment present in Gaza.....perhaps even more!
One of the reasons of the "succes" of the 7-O attacks, was that the borders with Gaza were serverly undermanned, because troops were sent to the West Bank, in order to opress the population there........
Netanjahus only plan is to keep fighting one day more, because he knows, the moment the bullets stop flying around, he will have to answer some uncortably questions.......
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It is estimated, that, at any given moment, there were no more than 8.000 neanderthals alive at the same moment in Europe.
Meanwhile, the modern human population was estimated in 1.000.000 (most of them in Africa) when neanderthals and modern human first met, and around 3.000.000 when neanderthal got extinct.
Even only 1% of modern humans inmigrating in Europe would have already outnumbered ALL the neanderthals living in Europe.
Even if they managed to overcome an inmigration vawe, and the inmigrants got extinct (like in that cave in France), it was, at best, a tie, because the other 99% of modern humans remained untouched, breeding and producing the next inmigration-wave.
Neanderthals had to prevail EVERY TIME just to live a little bit longer, while all what modern humans needed was to prevail only ONCE........
We should not ask why they got extinct. We should ask how they managed to last for so long.
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No, this woman does not "love herself". If you are TRULY independent, company is a convinience, something to enjoy when, and if it happens (like a beautufil spring day for example, if you are not alergic), and not a necesity, like food, water, or shelter ......IF YOU NEED company to be happy, if beeing alone makes you sad, you are not "strong and independent"
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In Spain, we have somewhat the same issue. A lot of french-speaking african inmigrants actually want to reach France, while most of the rest aim for Italy and Germany. Very few want to remain in Spain and build a life here, but, because of Shengen, we don`t allow them to continue, and if they do, France (and any other country in the EU) has every right to ship them back to Spain (the first Shengen country they entered in), without us beeing able to complain.
I have personally spoken with several long term inmigrants (that have already make themsleves a life in Spain) that stated, that, if they had known that they wouldn`t made it to their final destination, and get stucked in Spain, they wouldn`t have left their country at all........
France can now just stop carrying about any inmigrant taking a boat to the UK, beacuse, once they leave french waters, they become Uks problem, and they have no obligation to take them back, if they don`t want to, because this people are actually LEAVING Shengen-space, and emigrating into a non-EU country.......not their problem anymore........ UK has efectivelly shot themselve in the foot here..........
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There `s nothing wrong if a man don´t care about how many people his partner slept with.
I mean, we are 8 billion people by now, half of them men, and SURELY, some of this 4 billion men, don´t mind. Some millions of men, or hundert of millions.......
It`s OK, there is nothing wrong with it, and I wish them the best of luck (I think they will need it, but who knows...... it`s their life)
BUT, caring about it, is also OK. It is the option of most men (and a lot of women, who see beeing a "player" as something negative).
People WHO DO CARE about this kind of things, should not be shamed because of it.......
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@paperandmedals8316 Yeah! You laugh at incels.
As individuals, I feel compasion for them. They are going into a gunfight with a knife (into adulthood without the social, intelectual and emotional tools they need to have a chanche of a happy live)
As group, I fear them. How can you NOT fear the consequences of having MILLIONS of broken and disastified men, who basically feel that society hates and mocks them? The recluitment-problems of western armies, are only the first sign of the disconection of a significant part of our society, their lack of commitment, and their desire to see the world burn,,,,,,,
If WE (the western society) don`t answer the legitimate questions this people have, other people will gladly take over this role, and you won`t like their answers...... trust me.
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There is a fact you don`t mention, perhaps because you don´t know well spanish social situation. Here in Spain, half of the population, hates everything the other half says, think, and do (and this is mutual). If one side would support the law of gravity, the other would throw themselves from the bridges, just to try to prove them wrong. So, if there was en attack against portugal,, the guardia civil, and the army would be occupied managing civil unrest al along Spain. Aditionally, at least a portion of bask and catalonian independentists would try to get rid of Spain by force, giving more work to the spanish armed forces.....
Finaly, the spanish average citicen, realy likes Portugal and his people, and it would be a very unpopular war. I bet a lot of the civilan people who were suposed to be mobilisized, would just refuse and face the consequences.
Portugal could send an army of special forces to sneak in the bedroom of every spaniard and sh*t on his bed, and we still would like them........
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I am 51 years old, and let me tell you, ladies and gentelmen, if your boss tells you to work harder or to quit, then quit.
Always quit. No job is worth your soul and your health.
I have never regret quitting. I have never applied for high paying jobs, becuase I know the price you have to pay (ok, I did once, but only becuase I was basically payed for something I would have done just for fun, so I didn`t mind working till exaustion).
NOBODY gives you money for nothing.....
But, if you are going to follow this advice, follow also this two: Live in concordance with your income, and never, never, have any debt......... (ok, and not having women and children, but having universal healthcare and an afordable college education, also helps)
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Seems like China is facing some serious issues in the next decades......There are some countrys where there are more woman than men.
Unfortunately, this countrys are not asian (one of them is Russia, but Rusia has more a western type of culture than China), so there could be some problems, regarding cultural and racial differences (surely every grandma in China wants their grandchildren TO LOOK LIKE A CHINESE), and even more if we are speaking about a rural and more traditional enviroment, instead of an urban, and more modern one, where western, latinos, and similar people could, prehaps, fit in more "easely" (not really).
I seea a huge obstacle there.........
How many women are there in North Korea?
Surely a lot of them would be willing to mary a rural chinese man to leave the country, and beeing the north-korean regime as nuts as it is, they could probably agree in exchange for weapons, food, a new hair-cut for Kim-Yong-Un....... whatever
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Even today, if it would rain straight for two consecutive years, with almost no days of sun, most places would have a very hard time.
Yes, we have technology that our ancestors could only dream about, but we are also much less resilient, do to urbanisation (and even our farmers can`t operate without a robust chain of suplly).
Perhaps places like GB, where it anyways rains a lot, could somehow adapt, but if rained for two years in Spain (my country), we would surely colapse.........
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Nowadays this war would be nearly imposible to win for the vietcong and the north. Fighting against USA military or it`s near allies (israel, saudi arab, and UK for example) is like fighting a bunch of aliens from outer space. The technological leap is too big for all, but perhaps russian and chinise. The only hope for succes is making the war to expensive, so that even a victory would mean that the winner would not be able to get any profit from his conquest. It`s "easy" for the yemen resistance, wich already fight in a devastated country that no one in his sane mind would want to invade, and it`s posible for the palestinians, if they torch their soil and poison their water resources (transforming cisjordania in another gaza), so there is no reason for israelis to stay there. But if you are "unluky" enough to have inside your territory valuable resources you cannot destroy (oil, uranium, coltan), the best you can do is surrender from the begining, and try to get the best deal out of it........
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Indeed, the plan of the army was to turn the invasion into some sort of russian civil war, knowing very well that a lot of soviet citizens disliked their insane goverment. Their plan was to make the population belive that they were only against the comunist goverment, not against the people of the USSR.
But Adolf, emboldend of his ideas of aryan superiority, and focused on his idea of "Rassenkrieg" ("racial-war") gave them a treatment, so bad, that most of the people who COULD have joined willingly the german side, thought that perhaps Stalin was the lesser evil......
When they finally saw the painting on the wall, and tried to get soviet citizens to join the german cause, it was to late, and their numbers and influence in the global theatre of operations was very limited.....
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The fact that the nobles and the church didn`t have to pay taxes (either legaly or bribing the oficials in charge) shouldn`t be underestimated, given that they held the mayority of the land and wealth in Spain.
The mayority of the wealth in Spain was simply un-taxable, making the economic pressure of the ones that COULD be taxed (mostly peasants, common follk and traders), unbereable. Common farmers and sheperds revolted, emigrated or looked for ocupations that allowed them to conceal their benefits from the authorities. Their fromer posesions ended in the hands of the nobles and the church, icreasing the amount of untaxable wealth, and the taxation over the remaining common people, in a vicious circle that ended in economical collapse......
Under such conditions the emerging middle-class was drown before it even came to exist, and hard and honest manual labor was deemed unworthy for everyone who had an ounce of self-respect or honor, rendering them unable of social progress.........
Even today the biggest individual receptor of UE agricultural funds in Spain is a noblehouse (la casa de Alba), because of the absurd amount of agricultural land it still holds, while the church gets 10 BILLIONS yearly in tax-exemptions.
What could have possibly gone wrong?
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@hayleylongster4698 Dear friend. We could LITERALLY ban ALL tourists (not only the british ones), put all our money together in a giant mountain, and burn it down, and we would be still better off than you and your Brexit.
We are just aiming for another kind of tourism, that atracts other nationalities, more interested in cultural and sustainable activities than in getting wasted at 3 am (wich brings more problems than it is worth for us).
And we don`t do so because we particullary dislike you, (in moderate dosis, you are fun to be around) but more because we are firmly convinced that in a future not far away from now, most of you won`t have enough money to make tourism even to nearest pub, and certainly not to Spain......
But hey! At least this will solve you inmigration problem, because, you know, nobody wants to go to a place that is worse than the one he actually is.
Good luck, you`ll need it......we not, we have the EU........
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@Porkcylinder It`s funny because the same people that have made (collectively) the worst decision since Varus decided to trust Arminius, are trying to teach us about something that is excusively OUR buissnes, and in wich YOU have no say.
We could burn our entire country down, and it still wouldn't be as bad and harmfull for us, as your decision was for you.
So please, stop thinking you are the center of the universe ot that "they need us more than we do".
You represent 30% of the 11% of our GDP (more or less 3-4% of out total GDP) for Gods sake.
We could ban all Brits from entering Spain RIGHT NOW, and search for no substitutes in other markets, and it STILL wouldn`t be as harmfull for our economy as Brexit has been for yours......thats why it is funny.
Indeed, sacrificing 4% of our GDP to get rid of certian type of turists (the people that come to my country only to get wasted and do all the BS they don`t dare to do in their own country), seems like a good deal to me........ an EXCELENT deal......please go elswehre, if you are not ready to abide by our laws, and good luck.
Or would you be OK with me visiting London and demanding you all drive at the right side of the road, just because I pay good money in my holidays?
You are hurting your tourism by insisting in driving at the left side of the road!!! It`s the end of GB!!!!!!!
Outrageos!!!🤣🤣🤣
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Indeed, Adolf and his fellows where blinded by their ideology.
It would have been more efective just throwing all the people ment for extermination in the hands of the western allies (the soviets didn´t care even about their own people, so they wouldn´t have spend a drop of oil in taking care of 6 million almost dead people).
The nightmare of feeding, bringing medicine, cloths and shelter to this people, would have shurely made more to stop the allied advance than any german counteroffensive (just the city of Paris for example, was already a black hole for american supplies).
Then there is also the litlle detail that 6 million innocent people could have gotten a decent chance to survive, but, I don´t think that german authorities of the time would had seen that as something to concern about.
Just shipping this people to allied controled land, would have allowed the german to save a lot of supplies, spend in something evil that made no military sense, while making the allies spend a huge amount of their supplies, to make something good, but that would compromise their war efforts......
But I am only an armchair-wannabe-fieldmarshall, speaking of something that happend 80 years ago, and with all the information at my disposal........
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Palestinians are f*cked, regardless of who is president. What they CAN do, is denying the democrats access to the govern, untill they stop talking and DO something to stop the slaughter.......because Biden did NOTHING for the palestinians, and ALL for Isnotreal........ pro-palestinans are f*cked, but at least they can make your life miserable, too, allowing Trump to govern.....After 40.000 dead people, with a democrats president complicity, it will take more than words to convince them to vote democart again.
Just SAYING that you want a two state solution, while you give Isnotreal the means to continue the slaughter, is like getting p*ssed onto your face, while they say you that it`s raining......
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@dedeferreira98 If it works for you, I can respect that.
I prefer to think about where will the sons and daughter of the rich and powerfull spend their war-time when the sh*t hits the fan..... You know where the children of the russian oligarchy are? In Moscow, throwing partys. No member of Putins family has been never seen near the battlefield
The Ukranian children of the rich and powerfull have spend the last two years in Monaco, living a lavish lifestyle. There is indeed a joke in Ukraine, calling them the "Monaco-brigade".
How many of your politicians or rich peoples children (the ones that get the most benefit from beeing USA-citizens) serve in the army? Shouldn`t they be the ones most interested in defending a system that brings them a lot more than it does to the average people?
Netanhayus son is in the US, as far away from any potential battlefield as posible, and the leaders of Hamas and their families live a luxury life in the emirates........ while the common people in the middle east are drowning in blood.....
I for myself intend to enlist in the same platoon as our King (or the crown-princes, if he is to old), if we ever get atacked. I will be RIGHT BY HIS SIDE, charging with fixed bayonet against a fortfied enemy position, ready to face a glorious death to honor my country and my flag......but, if he doesn`t go, neither will I....... loyalty has to go both ways......
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I have to admit that, till he was arrested, I didn´t know who this guy was.
So I really don`t know what to think.....he seems to work producing adult content, and this activity could, if not handeld properly, produce the kind of acusations he is facing now.
We have to remember that Julian Assange was initialy acused of having non-consesual s*x (not using a condom in a relationship when the other part demanded it), a charge that was dropped as soon as he was nailed down.
But this gentelmen, Andrew Tate, don´t seem as important and daengerous as Asange. Just venting unpopular opinions n a somewhat cocky way, does not make him a threat to the goverment of the United States, so, I don`t think there is any conspiraton.
Either he is giulty, or perhaps somebody with influence who has a personal grudge against him is pulling the strings.......
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It is hard pill to swallow, but perhaps they should accept the loss of 20% of their territory, in order to get the other 80% into NATO and the EU.
If they developd enough, they same people who fight this days to bring their regions into Russis, colud come asking in 50 or 60 years, if they pretty please can rejoin Ukraine again.
Look at Cyprus, where it is now the southern part (that is in the EU) the one not wanting the northern part to rejoin, unless it is under their conditions, and has absolut no hurry, while the northern part is the one eager to rejoin, and put their hands onto that sweet, sweet EU-money..... who would have guessed that 50 years ago?
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Funny thing, our grandparents and their parents, were much like this pakistani guy......(althoug they were cristians instead of muslims). But this down to earth, respectfull but blunt attitude, is how my grandparents used to be....... they thought telling you how things were, instead of caring for your emotions, was actually doing you a favour ........
My grandma told my once that a girl I brought home was like a pear, with a slim face, but with fat *ss and legs. Another time she stated that another had not the best hips to give birth, and she was no good for me.......and she didn`t wait to speak to me in private, if you know what I mean.......when I asked her why she was so harsh, she told me it was their mothers job to care for their feelings, not hers........
When she was young, marriages were still arranged by families in my country and for her, marriage was about family and buissness, not about romance and love......... I miss the old lady........
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@acetvn4122 Dude. Read some history. The women enlisted in fighting-roles in the soviet army, endured the same conditions as their male counterparts, and performed , on average, as well (or as bad) as them, as tankers, pilots, or infantery. Some of them were heroes, and others cowards.
What I can tell you for sure, is that the average german soldier in the east-front, was not very happy when told he had to fight soviet female-troops, not at all.....
My argument is that, beeing "equal", and that there is historycal proof of an adecuate performance on the battlefield of female troops, there is no reason NOT to draft all these strong and independent women, and send them to the Bakhmout-meatgrinder.
So, boy. If you are so kind, keep your opinions about my person, for yourself.....thx
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The main concern of Spanish politics towards Africa is the (very realistic) fear that in a, not so far, future, Africas population will move north as one, trying to flee the worst effects of climate-change.
By strenthening the relationship between all this countrys and Spain, two goals can be achieved:
First we create wealth in this countrys, wich will help them to counter the worst effects of climate-change, and made the people want to stay in their own countrys (why emigrate if you have a future in your own place?)
Second, and more probably to happen, an economic relationship will allow the spanish goverment to presure local african goverment into avoid (by force, if necesary) their citizens (or other emigrants) heading to Spain........
Marroco and Mali are excelent examples of this politic. We give them money, arm and train their frontier-police, and guarantee them acces to european markets, in echange for helping us to stop inmigration........
Fun fact is that Spain will probably become as inhabitable as most part of Africa in the next 50-100 years, and we should be more concerned about the Scandinavian nations accepting us (spaniards) as climate refugies , than about hundret of millions of african people, heading to a Spain where nothing will be left.
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One can speculate about the colonisation process, looking at the colonisation of America.
The hunters gatherers faced probably a wave of desease brought unknowningly by the farmers ( living close with animals created a whole new spectrum of deseases for humans). This made the islands seem probably more "empty" (the where already sparely ocuppied, compared to continental Europe) and ready for colonisation.
The sheer numbers of colonisation, and the destruction of the enviroment necesary to sustain the hunter/gatherer style of live (they needed a LOT of space to feed the same number of people colonisators could sustain just with the production of one small field) made the rest.
I mean, a particular tribe, or several could succed from time to time in repelling the colonisation in their territories, but over the centuries, they had to face one wave after another, and just loosing one time the strugle, was enough to get wiped out.
The last of them, in the north of the island probably knew their fate, the same way the last free tribes in America knew it....
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@khalilfajloun4310
Yesterday, 32 unarmed palestinians were killed in the west bank by israeli security forces because they commited the unthinkable crime of protesting against the occupation of their land. (Unarmed). I bet their relatives are thinking at this very moment to join Hamas, and are full of hate and rage (I would)
Every week, israeli colonists in the west bank, armed to the teeth, kill unarmed palestinian civilian. No one is ever judged.
Do you know what the diference is? CNN, BBC, FOX, WION and the rest of the media, don`t broadcast heartbreaking interwies with their surviving relatives. They do it only when the ones masacred ones are israelis......
Israel has created several generations of souless sociopaths with its behaviour in Gaza and the West Bank. And this monsters, "made in Israel" have got the upper hand for a moment, with predictable results. Even Mother Teresa or Ghandi would turn into souless monsters after 15 years of such treatment.
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@RemikoLucce We were trying to convince the ukranians to adhere to the Minsk-agreements, avoid the war and play the long game. Sadly the brits and the US had other plans, and when they told Zelensky that they would support Ukraine "with whatever it takes", he choosed to believe them.
Don`t get me wrong, the invasion is totally Putins fault, but it is not as he had any feasable alternative at that point.
Indeed, BEFORE the war, Putin was perfectly OK with Ukraine joining the EU, as long as it didn`t join NATO, Sevastopol was recognized as russian territory, and Ukraine adopted a federal structure, with eastern (russian ethnic) self governance and mutual veto-right in external politics. Not ideal, but not the worst deal in the world (and certainly better than what they are going to get now)
But as I said, Biden and Johnson had other ideas........
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Is he not, from a legal point of view, to consider as an ucranian POW?
I mean, if he joined the ucranian regular military forces, and is subdued to their military laws and chain of comand, and if he was captured as part of a regular force, with the uniform and equipment of ucranian army, he is by all means an ucranian soldier, no matter his nationality, and should benefit form the Geneva-convention-laws.
Surely, he will not be exchanged for some russian POWs, because his propaganda-value is too high, but I doubt that they simply throw him into some hole in Siberia and forget him.
Not that he will have an easy time, but he is a precious propaganda-piece, and will probably be kept alive and sane.....
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@jbtechcon7434 ......unless, of course, you cut unemployment-money, food-stamps, and social programs, forcing workers to accept this wages, that allow them barely to survive.
But I am sure, that`s not what your goverment is planning, right?
The only time I can recall the market having worked in favour of the labour-force, was after the black plauge, in the middle ages, when workers (overall skilled agriculturall workers) were so scarce (because most of them had died in the plauge and the following turmoil) that employers HAD to offer better salary and conditions, to convince the remaining workers to labour for them, and not for the count of the next valley (who ALSO risked to get ruined if HIS harvest wasn`t done, and so tried also to outbide his neighbour)
Otherwise, employers usually, either cut sociall benefits, to "encourage" the worker force to accept the given conditions, or simply rise the price of living acordingly to what they have to pay more (aka inflation), rendering the increased wages useless (because if your salary rises 30%, but you also have to pay 30% more money to get EXACTLY the same stuff and services you got before, you are basically, in the same place, and as screwed as before)
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Ok. I personally think I am very, very left on the spectre of what you can find in my country (spain), and in this video I have heard some BS I can`t belive (64 genders? holy c......!). Perhaps you mean that we are more concerned about redistribution, more taxes for the very rich, and state intervention in the economy to "level the field", and make sure that strategic sectors (like food, water, or energy production,education or the health system) are managed by the goverment (wich I supose sounds like comunism for you), while we have no problem in letting the free market rule about the accesories (want a PS5? PAY IT!). But I think you will not find anybody in my country, no matter how left he is, that defends some of the things I saw in that list.
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Both. Both are the terrorits. You don`t have to choose between the n*zis and the soviets.
It`s possible to despise the both.......
This said, I can empathise more with a palestinian who joins Hamas, because he is basicaly a cornered beast, and his only alternative is to live like his peers "live" in the W*st B*nk (my comments tend to disapear if I put the full name, wonder why), wich is basically no live worth of living.
I can understand the desire of getting under with hissed flags and roraing cannons, trying to take as many of your opressors with you as you possibly can....... including settlers in military age (although not children and elderly)
The average IDF soldier on the other way, has all the means to live a happy and fulfilled life, and go out of his way to take away others peoples land, impose them an apartheid system, and genocide them if they don`t comply........ so, it is more difficult for me to empphatize with them.........
But even so, I can not be happy when they publish videos about how they ambush IDF soldiers in Gaza.......I just don`t want people to die.......It`s just, when the palestinian ones are the only ones dying and getting kidnapped ("administrative detention", they call it), nobody seems to care.....it becomes only a problem when also israelis are dying and beeing held hostages...... so sad........
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@giorgismaximos8662 sounds like the USSR and the "Afghan freedom fighters".
Come on. This is the third or fourth time Israel invades Gaza, and the outcome has always been the same.
Even their methods haven`t changed. First the cut Gaza in two, then they concetrate on the northern part, declare it "free" from Hamas influence, and switch to the southern part.
When their casualties begin to amount, they declare "victory" and leave.
Hamas KNOWS exactly what IDF was going to do and have prepared acordingly.
So far, Israel has killed 25.000 civilians,and basically flatten Gaza, to neutralize (kill, wound or captured) only 20% of Hamas-forces (as aknowledged by the IDF themselves).
Hamas shows no sign of wanting to surrender. Meanwhile, with "only" 200 IDF-soldiers KIA in this offensive, Israeli society is begining to question if it is worth it.
Sorry, but this is a confrontation of willpower.........and while Israel cares (about its own people, they don`t care about innocent palestinians), Hamas, simply don`t give a sh*t about nothing but advancing in their agenda.....
Just like te USA and Vietcong......
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Desmond Griffith The moment they dropped the nukes over Japan, there was, in fact, no risk for the USA to be defeated, it was more about avoid the casualties of an invaision of Japan and showing the soviets who was the boss, but, if you look at WWII as a whole, it was a world-domination challenge, and the fate of USA was, in fact, in the balance.
Remember, the USA searched for the Bomb, because they feared the german would get it first, and use it to achieve world domination.
If you look at the situation after the USA joined the war, with the attack on pearl harbour, and the german u-boats attacking just in front of the west-coast, it certanlly seemed that the USA where under siege.
I think, that, probably, WWII was the biggest challenge they hade to face.
The other conflicts where serious, but they where only chess moves, in a long term game.........
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@anacc3257 Dude, the paelstinian authority has been fully cooperating with Israel and its security for MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS now. They have been even praised by the Sin Beith for their cooperation and asistance. In all this time, they have gotten in exchange:
- Thousends of inocent civilians in the West Bank killed, tortured, kidnapped and imprisioned FOR YEARS, for crimes as "serious" as simply protesting against ocupation. (In the las months, most of the palestinians killed in the west Bank are cristians, by the way......I can almost guarantee that they are NOT members of Hamas or any other islamic group)
-Seizure of their land, dividing the territory under the control of the Palestinian authority in a series of small "bantustanes", isolated one from another, and unable to function,or even to travel between them, without permision from Israel.
- Building of new settlements, and, and extension of the already existing existing ones, and expulsion of the palestinian population from their homes to build homes and buissness for israeli citizens.
-Control of the border with Jordania by Israel, the water resurces, the best agricultural land, and basically any worthy resource in the West Bank.
-Absolut NO advance in the question of Jersusalem or the creation of a Palestinian state.
And remember, this is after more than TWO DECADES of extense and peacefull cooperation.........
If THIS is what peace and cooperation with Israel looks like, no wonder so much palestinians choose to fight...... at least they will go under in their own terms, and perhaps, only perhaps, they can take some of their opressors with them.......
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The problem with the military spending is not only the amount.
There is an issue with HOW it is spendend. Europe is a combination of many countries with several sizes (economicaly and geographicly) and EVERY country wants to have A WHOLE ARMY by itself, mostly because it is an expresaion of sovereingty, and also because of knowing that if an ally has to choose between saving themselves, and seaving us, they will always save themselves first...
This means there are a lot of inecesary duplicities : EVERYBODY wants to have his own tank-divisions, jet-fighters, high-comands, special forces, marine corps, aircraft carrier supply units, ect., and don`t want to rely on depending on another country to cover this necesities.
This also means, that, because european countrys are spendind their money all in the same areas, there is no money left, for some things that would be fancy, but are too expensive to be faced by one country alone, like a huge fleet of heavy military airplanes to gain strategik proyection (like the USA, who is capable to deploy quik- and decisively in almost any part of the world).
The fact that Lituania was able to break this circle, and concentrate on the basics, optimazing their outcome, and rely on their alies to cover the areas they can not realisticly reach with their budget, surprises me
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MaximusTheThird-p2t I don`t pretend to discuss the inmigration issue (your country, your rules) but let me just say that the IQ tests have a certain cultural bias (a fact that is even pointed out by the same people who design them), and should be taken with a grain of salt.
Indeed, ilegal inmigration is a daengerous task, and the ones that make it to your border are the thoughest, more ruthless, adventorous, open minded adaptable and inteligent ones (wich is of course a problem if they use this cualities to do bad things). Their journey act as "natural selection", and the dumb, stubborn and lazy weaklings, simply don`t make it to your borders (they die in doves).........
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@jeffreybreitbart8578 It`s not only life. It has to be life that endures enough to create inteligent and techonological spicies that didn`t wipe itself out before beeing able to try to contact other spicies outside their planet/solar system/galaxy.
Aditionaly this form of contatc has to reach us in the last 100 years, and be understandable......... 500, 1.000 or whatever years ago, we didn`t have the technology to discover radio signals. Imagine a civilization that launched it`s signals 100 milion years ago, but got extinct somehow in that HUGE lapse of time (we separated from the chimpances"only" 6 million years ago)
Indeed, signals may be reaching us RIGHT NOW, but in a way we can`t detect them, because we are not advanced enough,
Not saying it can`t happen, but there would have to align A LOT of things.....and , if aditionally we live in a region that is less atratctive to search inteligent life (because of its emptiness), then there are even less chanches......
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"Since the dawn of time" is a bold thing to say. BUT we know for sure that it was a thing in the Roman Empire (probably even earlier), moslty because the Romans made legislation about it (it was a crime, if the woman did it oposing the "pater familias" desire to have the child. Otherwise, it was not a crime, and decision of the mother).
So, saying "for thousends of years" would have beeen probably more accurate.........And I am not saying that it DIDN`T HAPPEN in pre-historic times, it`s just that we have no proof of it at this moment.
Hunter-gatherers groups were always one bad day away from extintion, and surely their were times when children were VERY, VERY inconvinient, but, WE DON`T KNOW if they had the knowledge (and the will) to practice birth control and *bortions, or if they simply resorted to exposure (another historical method of getting rid of unwanted children.......after they were born....)
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They probably planned to keep on doing this kind of stuff till they turned 18, and then be more carefull......what they don´t realize is that meanwhile they have become adicted to the sensations such behavior provides (sense of impunity, power-surge, fun with other peoples disgraces, adrenaline-rush, ect.....). Sooner or later they would have given in to this urge, like any average yonkee.
This kind of people, are already mentally and morally broken, and unable and unfit to live in society.
30 years ago, I got to knew a child that pulled a lot cr*p while beeing a minor (no k*lling, but a lot ilegal things), and got away with it because he was a minor and his parents were sc*m that didn`t care. He even bragged about it and mocked the police......
A police officer confessed to me that they had marked in a calendar the day he was turning 18, and were eagerly waiting for this particular event......
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They will conquer all the territory they want once the cohesion of the ukranian army collapses do to their heavy losses........
But Ukraine simply dosen`t seem to get it. They insist in defending positions till they are LITERALLY undefendable, without any regards for their own losses........
They should aim to inflict as many losses as possible to the attacking russians, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME, keeping their forces as intact as they can, even if this means retreating as soon as the reatio of losses is no longer "profitable" for them.
Even if they manage to inflict heavy losses to the russians, if they get their own forces depleted in the process, it is a victory for Russia, because Russia can replace their lost manpower, while Ukranine is reaching a point where they have problems to do so, and mantain the quality of their fighting units........
Just look at the oposite forces: Russia is able to attack ANYWHERE at the same time, because their REGULAR TROOPS are capable of cunducting offensive actions, while the ukranians can only counterattack when (and where) they send their elite troops, with the rest of the ukranian army basically filling the gaps and offering a tempting oportunity for a russian attack.
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@JewishAtheist First of, because most people think with their guts, not with their brains. Appealing to emotions is a better way to conect with more people than using hard facts and logic (Sad, but true).
Secondly, it were the Macabi-hooligans the ones that brought their attitude, confrontation, racism and hate to Amsterdam. THEY were the ones assaulting and chantig about killing arab children......
Do you think, that if I went to israel, mocking the shoa and 7-O victims, bulying isralei citizens that manifested things I didn`t like, destroying private property, and attacking civlians that are just doing their jobs, I would make it out alive? Do you?
If they had behaved like normal people, rest asured there would have been less incidents, or none at all........
Of course, this is also the authorities fault.
They could just have authorized the countermanifestation.......far far away from the stadium, and hold the israeli-hooligas accountable for their actions, difusing the situation. Instead they choose to let the isreali mob do what they wanted, without protecting the locals, and only intervened, when the tables turned.....
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As european, it seems to me, that while OUR right-wingers are more disciplined and inclined to join structured organisations that focus strongly on obidience and discipline (in order to promote/impose traditional familiar and religious values), YOUR right-wingers are more anarcho-capitalists that focus on individual liberties, personal independence, and traditional values.
Their reluctance to join strong, vertical organisations, and their focus on individuality, would be a huge disatvantage in case of a conflict.
Also I think Trump is going to win your next elections. Biden is in an impossible position, do to voters from islamic origin (and voters simpathetic with the palestininan cause) simply refusing to support him, because HIS support of the israeli genocide (even the israeli goverment admits that for every legitimate target, they k*ll 20 inocent civilians------imagine if the russians inflcited this kind of casualties to the ukranian population, the outrage would lead probably to a NATO involvement in the war.....)
He CAN NOT win without the support of the pro-israeli part of his voters, but the defection of the pro-palestinian ones, seriously jeopardizes his chances to win......and he can`t satisfy both at the same time.
Indeed, his actuall policies, of fully supporting Israel, while making some meaningless and empty gestures towards the palestinian cause, is enraging BOTH SIDES.........
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@viderethevaccinatorfromhol7536 Exactly my point! Any increase in defense-spending should get exclusively into buying and producing european weapons, and expanding our military-production capabilities.
We should also have our own atomic bombs.......
We have already the knowledge, heck we produce even some very fancy gear, equal or better than that made in the US, we just have to have the will!
Spain and Austria have just produced some self-propeled artillery THAT CAN ACURATELLY SHOOT WHILE MOVING, we have excelent armoured transports that even the US is buying in small numbers, we have the Grippen, perfectly suited for self-defense (although not for invading some country in the middle east), and the Leopard-Tank is highly competitive (and don`t consume f*cking jet-fuel, or damage most of the bridges it would have to use). We have the Galileo-satelital constelation, we can use to have our own military GPS system (although the US made us integrate our system into theirs, and give them the key to it-------guess they don`t want us to be THAT independent), and the future fighters we are designing will likely be able to flight through electrical storms (unlike the F-35)
IF WE WANT TO, we will be able to defend ourselves by conventional means in, perhaps two decades, against any foe except the USA itself (hence why we should have the A-BOMB, USA never atacks any country that has its own....) Also, reintroducing mansatory military service, is a MUST........
If we do all this, next time the US tries to tell us to do something that is clearly not in our best interest, we can calmly tell them to go kick rocks........
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This was mostly because Spanish military was very inefective by the time, at least confronted with napoleonic armies. Once the french armies were deployed for battle, in most cases, and unless you where Wellington, there was litlle to do. This was true for all armies in an open batlle, but specially for spanish armies.
The fact that Napoleon took the best spanish troops to Denmark to fight for him, before invading Spain, and that the remaining spanish armies were mostly armed peasants and citizens, poorly trained and equipied, with some profesional soldiers leading the way, didn´t also help.
Spanish "regular" military corps where effective by merely existing, right out of the reach of the napoleonic armies, so that the last could not spread to fight the guerrilla parties, and they, on the other hand,could make sure that the french controled only the land they had on plain sight in every moment........and sometimes not even that......
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Just information, no bias, allowing everyone to form his opinion by themselves! Great job.
This said, I don`t understand why Israel made a deal with Hamas that they have no intention to fulfill........It is clear that if Hamas kept their side of the agreement (NOT bombing Israel) but Israel simply refused to increase significantly the flow of goods into Gaza, Hamas would break the truce as soon as it was possible.......
Perhaps Israel not only did this because they don`t trust Hamas, (I wouldn`t also) but also to avoid giving more advantage to Hamas (a faction that has "driven out" Israel from Gaza) over Fahta (a faction that has been fully cooperating with Israel over the last decades, and has achieved NOTHING in return).
If Israel has taught something to the palestinian population this decades is that fighting Israel brings "results" (moslty minimal results, and at the cost of rivers of blood, but results, nontheles), while cooperation brings NOTHING (and also costs rivers of blood).
Israel should make concesions (HUGE concesions) to the Palestinian authority, and perhaps so a lot of people that actually support Hamas would begin to think: "whait a moment......perhaps cooperation is the way to achieve our goals"
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This people should start aiming for a sustainable model of tourism NOW that they still can.
Massive tourism, and what it brings with it, can be as destructive as any coal-mine operation, leaving behind only a barren, non-profitable land on long term.
Also, if climate change makes other parts their country more harsh to live in, but spares their mountanious region (because, as long as global temperatures rise below 3 C there will be winners and loosers of climate-change, and regions isolated by mountains could be easely in the first category), they could see a demografic re-birth, is service industries relocate to more bereable areas to live in.........
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They are dying to decide who is going to exploit the vast gas-fields discovered in 2014 in eastern Ukraine (the fact that the "maidan-revolution" or the secesionist movement appeared right then, is, of course, absolutely not related to this discovery)
In 50 years, no one will give a sh*t, and western and russian oligarchs will even share the profits and have good relationships, while the dead people will still be dead.......
I always remember the story about the NON-battle between Octavious and Marco Antonious, where their legionairs (who were former legions from Cesar, had fight together, and had friends and relatives on each sides) simply refused to attack their comrades and told their comanders to get their act together and reach a deal...........sadly it didn`t last, but THAT`S how battles should be!
Just a lot of soldiers telling their comanders that they are not going to die for anothers man profit!
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Beeing a male or female has NOTHING TO DO with your genitalia (you can alter or remove them, and this will still not change your gender)
Cromosome XX= Man
Cromosome XY=Woman
THERE ARE some (very rare) cases with both combinations (Chimera-syndrom it`s called I think, when you have cells from two diferent zygotes that fused in the uterus), and we should give THAT PEOPLE a pass, because, genetically they are male and female at the same time, and THEY should be allowed to identify as the one of their choice (or neither, or both)........otherwise, not........
If you are a man that wants TO BEHAVE like a woman, that`s your buisness, and you will have to face the consequences of your choices, but you are still a man. And the other way, the same...... as for the rest of the things people identify, that are preferences, way of lives, or identities, BUT not genders........
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Don`t get to hyped. There`s no way we can make up for a potential loss of US-aid to Ukraine.
Also, if people realize that the money take away from healtcare, social programs and infrastructure, goes to benefit THE US MILITARY COMPLEX, after this very country has decided to cut its aid to Ukraine, there will be revolts in the streets.......
Accept your losses, lets integrate a smaller Ukraine into the Nato and the EU, and work to make Ukraine new Germany.....in 50 years, THE SAME PEOPLE that are supporting now the russian invasion in the east, will crawl back, asking, if they pretty please can re-join Ukraine.......THEN, you will be able to dictate your terms.....look at Chyprus........
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Genitals don`t define a man, You can have an accident and loose yours, and you would be still a man.
The same way, the capacity of bearng children doesn`t make you a woman. What about the infertile ones? Are they not women? And the ones over 45? Do they magically transform in butterflies, and cease to be women because they no longer can have children?
There are THREE genders,
male (a person with XY-genes),
females (a person with XX-genes),
and rare cases of hermafroditism, were persons show traces of both genes at the same time ( cientists theorize that it could happen do to an egg beeing fertilized by TWO spermatozooms at the same time, so that the embrio develops cells with BOTH combinations of genes (some XX, and other¡ XY) who merge in a single human beeing).
If a man, or a woman, wants to adopt the living style and apereance of the other gender (or something completly new), I have no problem with it, but it won`t change their genetic code. They will be still men and woman......regardless of what they do or think.
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Truth is, even if you dislike Trump (like I do), we have to admit that Biden seems to be unfit for the job. ALSO, he is unable to get BOTH the democrats pro-Israel votes and the pro-palestinian votes AT THE SAME TIME, and without both , he simply can`t win (I am gonna make an educated guess, and say it`s gonna be the pro-palestinian ones, the ones to show him the middle-finger).
Another candidate, who hasn`t the bagage of the pro-Israeli politics of Biden, perhaps could try to gather the democrat pro-palestinian voters more succesfully (by lying to them, of course)
You don`t have to like ALL the songs from a music group to be their fan.Even the Beatles had bad songs (may John Lennon forgive me), and are STILL one of the best musical groups I can think off.
Although I disagree with the pro-Trump opinions of this section (wich don`t mean that I like democrats), butts are like opinions, we all have one.
I won`t unsuscribe, unless Man Talk begins to advocate for Pizza with pineapple!
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@Klierowski We will hit him with countertarrifs, and simply make deals with the rest of the world. The whole Ukraine, disaster (wich began in 2014, lets not forget it) has put Russia fimly in Chinas camp, while, beforehand, in a China-West confrontation, Russia would have prioritized its own interests.
If Trump pushes to hard, he simply riks pushing Europe away also, and althoug I don`t think we will up ending as Chinese proxies (like Iran, who economically is right now a Chinese colony), there could come a day when we choose to adress our OWN, independent concerns, that may not align with the one of USA........
Right now USA is not seen as a long term reliable partner, because, ANYTHING can change after 4 years......
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I was once given a shot of a very, very strong opium-painkiller, (by a doctor) and I can confidently say it was the best and happiest moment in my whole life.
Although I KNEW it fas fake and artificiall, the overhelming sensation of pure joy and invencibility (plus the absence of pain) gave me a new perspective, and made me understand WHY people can get adicted to this kind of substances. In that moment you could have skinned me and cut my balls off, and I wouldn`t have cared........
Luckily, once the effects passed, I decided to endure the pain, to some extent, and asked for less effective pain-killers.......I simply thought that I could not allow myself to get used to this stuff on the long term........neither from a monetary, nor from a legal or health related point of wiev.....
Even today, 30 years later, I still long for that sensation...... I will probably miss it till the end of my days.......
And this was opium, and not fentanyll........wich is suposed to be MUCH stronger.......If they had given me fentanyll, I don`t know if I would have had the strenght to reject a second shot.......I barely managed to reject more opium-shots.........
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I am european, so I have no horse in this race, but I want to belive that the wast mayority of people, who DON`T cut their family and friends out of their lives over politics (or aren`t cut of by them), simply don`t manifest themselves in social media, and that we therefore, are getting a somewhat biased, and exagerated version of what is REALLY happening now in that circus you call country.
I HAVE cut my relation with family and friends over the years, but it was becuase serious stuff (cheating to their spouses, refusing to take care of their elderly when they could, activelly backstabbing me, lying about me, or putting pinapple on pizza).
But for politics? You all should follow the example of the most succesfull scotish clans, who always made sure to have members of their family ON BOTH SIDES of any conflict............. just saying.........
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1:59 He is Also a convicted felon and a cheater.......just saying........
It`s funny that in your country a convicted felon can`t own a gun (that pardon to Hunter Biden is just moraly wrong and should be reversed!) but he can become the comander in chief of your armed forces!
Is your nuclear button considered a weapon? Because if it is, he shouldn`t be allowed to push it!
This said, YOUR country, YOUR buisness, YOUR consequences........
Just stop interfering in others people buisness, if you are so kind, and be aware, that for EVERY tariff you rise, you will be subjected to an equivalent one, at least in the EU......my country is already considering ditching the purchase of your F-35 (wich are aparently not as good as they could be), and buying french "Rafaelle", and I think we are not the only ones........
Good luck!
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To be honest, I expected Russia to make this deal with Iran, not with North Korea.
Iran wants to become a nuclear power, something Russia could make "easely" happen, and Russia could in exchange ask for the whole 125.00 iranian revolutionary guard, well trained and highly motivated troops, that have also expierence fighting against high-tech adversaries (I mean, if you are used to fight Israel, fighting in Ukraine must look like a piece of cake), use of drones, ect......
Hell, if Russia gives them in exchange a dozen "plug and play" mobile nuclear missile launchers, they won`t even complain if none of that soldiers makes it back home!
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Aparently, this mesure was taken some hours before Biden hold a speach in Michigan, wich is the place with the bigest islamic comunity in the US.
The goal was to appease the Us citizen of islamic origin, and convince them not to turn their backs on Biden in the comming presidential elections, because this could cost him his re-election.
BUT, islamic leaders on Michigan did NOT accept this narrative, and refused to hold a meeting with Biden, take a photo with him, or show him any kind of support.
Of course, the comming elections are also the main reason Biden is suddenly advocating for a palestinian state. This promis will be forgotten as soon as elections passes.......
I could almost pitty mister Biden, who can`t take any serious messure against Israel, but also can`t afford to loose the votes of Pro-palestian voters........Ah! What a dilema!
Guess Trump is going to have second mandate.........
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I was like this guy in my teens and early 20s. Then I seeked prefesional mental health, improved myself and began dating (although, all the ladies I engaged with were crazy, and not the funny type of crazy). Finally I met a girl I proposed to (despite never wanting to marry, but I thought I had landed a good one, wanted to keep her in my life, and guessed that at 30 yo, it was time to settle down).
With the wedding already agreed, she crushed me so hard, that I simply walked away from her and from dating, got a job in another continent, and never looked back. That was 23 years ago. 23 peacefull and happy years.........
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Manufactured Consent Unlucky, if you are not a jew, black,romani,slavs, asian, homosexual, have some mental problem, or are not a perfect arian person....... Comunists where bad and crazy, but, if you simulate to join them AND ARE LUCKY, perhaps you can survive (much people where randomly send into the gulag, but it was a question of being loyal, AND one of the lucky ones). In the case of the nazis, if you have the wrong ancestors, you where doomed, no matter how loyal you where or how much you tried to fit in.......
Yes, comunism regimes killed so much people that it is almost imposible to imagine it. But the number of people Adolf and his comrades would have killed if they could .....probably the mayority of humanity
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Everybody has the right to care about what they want.
There will be men that care about a womans education, money, and carrer.
For other this will less important, or even not at all.
But NOBODY, has the right to tell me (or anybody else) what I should care about, or not.
I am ready to accept the consequences of my choices (expected, or not), so please, leave me alone, so that I can choose what I care about, and what not.
It`s called FREEDOM
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@modernretropodcast1209 No we did not. We conquered them, asimilated their surviving nobles and chieftains into our lesser nobility, and forced the common people to become the bottom-class of our society, granting them societal advance only through asimilation of our culture, lenguage, and religion!
Did we kill in the process? Hell yeah! A lot! Indeed, the massacre only ceased (somehow) when the loosing part accepted their place in the new order.
Why did we do it? Because this was buisness as usual. Since the islamic conquest, all through the reconquista and the conquest of the Canary Islands (that was a prelude of the conquest of America in method and execution), conquest, anexation, and cultural and religious asimilation had become the "Spanish way of life" for the past 800 years.......we simply did in America, what we had been doing in the spanish peninsula for the last 8 centuries.........
We didn`t want to confine them in some reserve and let them starve there. We wanted them to become us (back then, we really thought we were making them a favour). Once they agreed with us (and gave us all their stuff in exchange), we were all good........
Indeed, 90% of the indigenous people that died in the spanish conquest did so without ever getting to see a white person, wiped away by several waves of deseases that preluded the arrival of the spanish soldiers, colonists, and priests, and that, although made the conquest much more easier, were COMPLETELY unintended........
So yeah, check your facts, please.......We did nothing William the Bast...sorry, the Conqueror didn`t when he conquered England. Would you say William the Conqueror was absolutely brutal in his conquest of England!
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@Mookie-q4i They have all my respect, but if you don`t mind, if I am ever in danger, and need a platoon to come to my rescue, I would prefer it to be an all-male platoon, preferably a special-forces male platoon......the same way I would prefer a doctor over a nurse (regardless of their gender) if I needed a complicated medical procedure......just saying.......
Your enemies don`t give a f..... about equality, and prioritize combat readiness about inclusivity. The only reason you still get away with sabotaging your own military is because you spend as much money in it as the next eight countries all together (and one of them is China!).
But, as time goes by, this gap closes, and your supremacy gets challenged, you will be in for some painfull decisions........
it will be an "interesting" time, but luckily I will not be here to wittness it (at least I hope so)
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Whats the problem? She called the white lady a bitch! It`s not like she was inocent.
In my wilder and younger days, I had a guy harras me through a whole workshift, without retaliating. When we finnished, I cursed his mother, knowing very well that she just had died. He flipped out, and I could care less.......If you mess with me, expect me to hurt you EXACTLY where it hurts most, no matter if it is racist, misogynist or whatever.
And yes, this piece of sh*t tried to get his hands on me. It did not end well for him (wich was the reason I waited to end our workshift and be outside of work before confronting him).
This black lady will sooner or later mess with somebody like me (the wrong person), and get what she deserves.
Hope to see that on video, too
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Spain had just had his own civil war 6 years ago, wich let the country devastated. The spanish goverment at the time was not even capable of feeding his own people. In fact, there where negotations between Franco and Hitler to join the war on Axis side (when it seems that they where the wining side) but the demands of Franco , both in rewards (basically the northern africa vichy colonies) and, the huge amount of suplies he demanded, not just to supply his army, but also the civilians, almost give german generals and planers a heart attack.
In fact, the suporters of Franco, say that he, in his "wisdom" made these unrealistic demads, so he could keep Spain out of the war without getting Adolf upset (wich was, at the time, not a god idea ).
The truth was, that smashing the spainsh democratic goverment lead to an attrition war that put Spain on his knees for more than 15 or 20 years.......
Spain would have been more a burden than a help........perhaps they could have sent volunteers, like the blue division.....but not more.........
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@malikamasimova7631 To be fair, most of the american indigenous people that died in the colonisation era, did so because of the sucesive waves of deseases we brought with us, and against wich they had no defenses........And this was almost absolutely unintentional (although very convinient for the colonists).
Indeed, most of them ( up to 90%, depending of who you ask) kicked the bucket, before they had even the CHANCHE of seeing a white man showing up in the horizon, lusting for women, land, and whatever valuable thing or resources they may have.....
Would they have k*lled all this people the "traditional" way, if the deseases hadn`t done the job previously? Hell yeah! But fact is, they didn`t need to. They just had to deal with the survivors of a post-apocaliptic scenario that had not yet recovered from what they probably thought was the end of the world.........
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Aparently, most of the palestinians killed in the West-Bank in the last month are CHRISTIAN palestines (aprox 16% of the population).
I can almost guarantee that they are NOT member of Hamas or any other radical Islamic organisation.......they simply opose the occupation......
Your gouverment should have given the Palestinian authority a break (stop killing and imprisioning palestinians in the west bank, take away the ilegal colonies instead of making more, converting the west bank into a continuos territory instead of some isolated bantustanes, transfering security-matters to the armed forces of the palestinian authority, letting them manage their own water-resources, and who knows, perhaps even giving them part of Jerusalem as their capital or take care of the border with Jordania, although I have to admit that this last two are concesions you are not actually prepared to make, yet).
After almost 20 years of full cooperation with Israel, the Palestinian Authority (the ones that WANT to make peace with Israel) has NOTHING to show or to offer to the palestinian people in exchange, except corruption, colaboration with the occupyers and impotence.
And, although it is of course the wrong path, can you (or anyone) really blame the palestinians for choosing Hamas side, given this situation, and seeing what "peace and cooperation" with Israel looks like?
Of course, it is easier to see what went wrong AFTER you got a bloddy nose, but perhaps we all can learn a lesson or two for the future.
RIGHT NOW it is important to stop the slaughter, and after that, we could all try to make things better this time.....
Shalom.
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We have to aknowledge that the Bible is, basically a piece of propaganda (both religious and nationalistic).
Around the same Time (the bronze age collpase) egyptian monuments tell us the story of how the Pharao "destroyed Israles seed", and we know for sure that it didn`t happen.
So, although the native canaanites surely had a hard time facing the israeli invaders, and many of them died or were enslaved, I highly doubt that they were exterminated to the last man, woman and child,
More probably the survivors were incorporated and asimilated into jewish culture, as some kind of lower class..... (lets not forget that the jews in Egypt were mercenarys, rather than slaves , and that the main reason for their flight was probably beeing at the loosing side of some dinastic strugle, so conquest and subjugation was probably just a regular tuesday for them......)
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@ The whole canadian population stands with its goverment, and as long as Trudeau can defelect the blame for any difficulties to Trump, they will be willing to endure some hardships to retain their "independence". Meanwhile they can reach out to other markets (that may have been less atractive in the past, but now suddenlly become more appealing, as trade with the US is burdened by tarriffs.
Meanwhile, 49% of US citizens already hate Trump, without him even haven`t have time to do anything to them......Sure, Trump will have always a group of supportres that will back him regardless what, but how many of the 51% that support him will continue to do so, once their jobs go down the drain?
Because, the EU will sooner or later also establish counter-tarriffs, and THEN the sh*t will hit the fan in the US...... trust me, countertarrifs are almost a religion here in the EU.......
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@andrewlynch4126 I think USA has retrated from Afganistan because they have realized that they have been screwed, but not by the taliban.
They have been screwed by the Afgan politicians and commanders that are suposed to be on their side.
They are suposed to have spend 1 Billion dolars in 20 years, and yet have not achived to build a structure capable to resist the taliban more than a few days without help.
An afgan doctor evacuated to Italy (because he worked with the italian army) told the news there that the soldiers in his city hadn`t been paid in 6 months, before the city felt to the taliban, and that they haven´t recieved amunition, gasoline, and spare parts, for much much longer.And they weren´t besiged......
He, therefore, didn´t blame them for not fighting and run.
Where did the Billion dollars go? Because, they seem not to have been invested in the afgan military and police forces.........
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@residentgang489 Here, in Europe, it is LITERALLY the taxpaying peoples responsability to take care of others people health.
I mean, this is LITERALLY what it means to be a country. Everybody takes care of his own sh*t, and then, we all together, take care of the needs of the people that can`t .
It also a an act of self defense, because healthier people are less prone to infections......infections that sooner or later would make their way into YOUR ass..........
The fact that you are still a country, and that your masses are not revolting, amazes me.
If somebody tried to charge me for and ambulance and a treatment in a hospital, I would b*rn the f*cking place to the ground.......while I dance around naked and covered in war-paint
They will only take away my hospitals from my cold, dead, hands!
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Of course. With most of USA turning into a desert, a situable landmass only some miles away (inhabitated by "only" 37 millons people), AND, given the casuality that the USA have the most powerfull army in the world,is there any chanche that Canada will be NOT anexed to the USA?
Ok, they will disguise it as some sort of "union", or "confederation" or something, but effectively, USA will anex Canada.
Also I bet that most of the inhabitants of Siberia in 2100 will be of han origin......I don`t know if they will be the new worker class living under their russians masters rule, or if the whole chinese population, migrating to Siberia at the same time, will simply transform Siberia into the new China (Rusia, unlike Canada, CAN defend itself, so I am not sure what will happen)
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What if they are all pervert?
Sadly I have some expirience with political partys in my country, and they are usually endogamic structures that make sure that only a certain type of people advance in the ranks high enough to get key positions, the "right" kind of people, the ones that will ensure that nothing changes and the people in power are not chalenged........
The others, the honest ones that care for the people, either change to fit in (they call it "compromise"), or never get the chance to get near any real power position
Your senators and congressmen are probably honey-trapped long before they reach the peak of their careers, (as soon as it looks like they COULD become a "big fish" in the future) and the ones that do not fall into the trap (the honest ones), simply don´t get the support of the already honey-trapped, in your congress or your senate, or the "big checks" from your lobbies.
The lobbies promote the careers fo the perverts, and use their honey-trapped pupets to do the same, and to weed out the honest ones and block their careers, in order to make sure that, when one of their puppets leave, he is replaced by another puppet.....
I have no proof, but also no doubts, that this is how your system works (ours, probably too)
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The danes have already offered to buy Florida. Don`t worry about the money, I am shure the EU would finance it! (this offer was made as a joke).
Perhaps the people of Florida would want to enjoy universal healthcare, no-transgenic and mostly chemical-free food, reasonable infrastructure and considerable less gun violence. This said, this all comes at a cost. We pay, on average, 30% more taxes than our US-counterparts.......a lot, I konw, but still totally worth it...... Also, if there happens some natural disaster, it would be EU the one coming to their help......
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Mostly angry and young people, fueled by the fact that 15.000 children (and 30.000 inocent adults) have been slaughtered un the name of zionism, with the unconditional help of your country......
They don`t know how to handle their rage about the genocide in Palestine, and somebody is taking advantage of that fact.....
You see, when someone has a valid concern (stopping a genocide, fear for their future, impoverishment, colapse of cultural or societal values and/or institutions, climate change, ect), and the society fails to adress it in a properly manner, there is ALWAYS somebody who will give this people the answers they THINK they are seraching for......... and take advantage of them for his own agenda.......
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@coolthief8375 Looks like he is spending the conscripts and old equipment the same way I would eat first a yougurt near to the expire date and keep the more fresh for another day.
The "fancy" (and expensive) toys, and well trained troops will probably join the party once the ucranian defenses are "softened".
Colonial armys did this often in the past, sending the native troops as cannon food, and keeping the "white" troops (or the better trained, paid, equiped, and more realible natives) for the victory parade.
Inhuman, yes, but so is war.
If something is clear, is that the casualties Putin is willing to risk (on both sides), probably has no limit......
By the way, anybody has notice from Armata T-14 beeing used in Ucraine?
I could be mistaken, but I think, as soon as we see the deploy of the units equiped with the (overexpensive and ) suposedly unbeatable tank, we will be able to tell that the sh*t is going to hit the fan (for ucranian resistence, I mean).......
Sorry to say this, but no amount of ucranian resistance is going to brake Putins will.
Only the economic sanctions could achieve this, and this will take time......
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Why would I have any moral obligation to date a single mother, regardless of her story?
Are THEY going to date 350 punds heavy men, who ACTUALLY have a severe glandular disorder? Because, beeing f*t is not their fault!
Are they going to date 5,1 feet guys, who didn`t choose their genetics? Because it`s not their fault beeing short!
And a guy who packs 3 inches instead of 6? Because it`s not his fault either!
And the guy who got cheated on, wrecked in the divorce courts, and end up homeless? Are they going to date HIM? Because his situation isn`t DEFINITIVELY his fault. Why don`t nobody try to guilt women into date this type of man?
WE ALL have a right to have preferences, and if I state that I don`t want to date lefthanded redheads, single mothers, or date at all, it`s MY buissness........and no ones else..........Life is not fair......sorry.......
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There are more involuntarely celibates than ever, and thanks to the social media, they can find each other, bond, fuel and feedback their rage and frustration.
What were once some isolated individuals, easy to ignore, has become a worldwide subculture of extremly frustrated young men, a barrel full of fuel, waiting only for a spark to ignite
In their torment and suffering, they are raising some valid questions, and if we, the society, don`t provide some valid answers, SOMEBODY will. And we won`t like the outcome. Trust me........
They shouldn`t be mocked and tossed away, but get therapy or even psiqiatric treatment, to improve themselves, adapt and overcome their situation, or accept it and live in peace........
Or perhaps, re-introduction of mandatory military service for young men could also be a help for them.........although it could destroy some of them, for most men back in the "good old times" it marked their transition from childhood into a "traditional" manhood, and was truly a life-changing expirience......
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To be fair, gentelman, there have been sent massive phone messages to black people, requesting them to show up at the next plantation, to be enslaved and used to pick cotton (wich of course, is st*pid, because this task is made by machines nowadays)
I sincerly hope that this is a student prank (most affected seem to be black students) or some foreign country trying to interfer in the pacific transmision od power, and NOT euphoric Trump supporters harrasing inocent people with (belived) impunity.......
Aparently, there have also been reported groups of men chanting "YOUR BODY, MY CHOICE" to solitaire women.........
Gentelmen, keep your minds clear, don`t let your emotions control you, and focus.......WE are the masters of our emotions, and not their slaves...... Don`t become what you despise........
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