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Author Topic:   The War in Europe
vimesey
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Message 4 of 995 (892080)
02-25-2022 3:22 AM
Reply to: Message 3 by Tangle
02-25-2022 2:19 AM


Re: Thread Moved from Proposed New Topics Forum
It was game over on day 1.
I give it, say, 3 months before the Tories quietly re-start accepting their Russian paymasters' donations, then start work on reducing the sanctions (all the while telling us they're standing firm against Putin's increasingly insane ambitions).
A world of lies, where the privileged get to piss on us from ever increasing heights and in ever increasing volumes.
Edited by vimesey, : No reason given.

Could there be any greater conceit, than for someone to believe that the universe has to be simple enough for them to be able to understand it ?

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vimesey
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Message 67 of 995 (892248)
03-04-2022 4:21 AM
Reply to: Message 65 by Tangle
03-04-2022 2:04 AM


Re: What happened to the "Fairness Doctrine"?
Are these people actually insane?
Yep. They (and to be honest, half or more of the world's leaders) are at a point where their level of privilege and power has removed them from the world of decency, compassion and sanity.
They are prepared to consider wiping out billions of fellow human beings in a nuclear holocaust, as long as they get to survive in a sparkly nuclear bunker, with enough luxuries, lapdogs and concubines to keep them happy until they die.
Saddest fact of all is that so many ordinary people are prepared to swallow their lies and vote them in to power. "Don't trust democracy, with all of its kindness, equality and attemps to save the planet - vote for autocracy instead, and we'll let you piss on some minorities (as long as we get to piss on you, of course)."

Could there be any greater conceit, than for someone to believe that the universe has to be simple enough for them to be able to understand it ?

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vimesey
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Message 833 of 995 (895150)
06-09-2022 4:30 AM
Reply to: Message 832 by Tangle
06-08-2022 1:22 PM


Re: How seriously are we taking what Putin says these days?
There's some pieces of this jigsaw that we don't know about.
I've been a commercial lawyer for over 30 years now, and in that time I've had a bit of exposure to the vile world of mega wealth and power. What goes on there is complex, revolting and without any degree of humanity. People only make it into that world if they are bereft of kindness and decency. Ultimately, it's about wealth and privilege and the desire for power. That is a complex and impenetrable web of pulleys and levers.
Sadly, no revolution ever gets rid of that - it just replaces one group of dictators with another group of dictators, pulling the same pulleys and levers.

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