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I've given up using irony on this forum. Watching Mr. Radical Free Speech drop on his knees and smile like a doughnut for the CCP though. That's almost too much. Maybe I will join Twitter, and post radical opinions like "Taiwan should be free and independent" or "The CCP is trying to eradicate the Uighurs".

It's behind a paywall on financial times, but Musk just signed a pledge agreeing with China's socialist values.

Anything that cuts down the amount of time they have to spend breaching minefields and assaulting fortifications. Whenever Ukraine's been able to increase the tempo of their operations, Russia's come off the worse.

Generally, I'm for giving the Ukrainians whatever they ask for, in whatever quantities we can spare. They seem to have a very good grasp on what capabilities they need, and also what capabilities they need to maintain. If Clusters bombs are it, by all means.

So is Ukraine de-nazified yet? Asking for a friend. Yes, this post is ironic.

If this post got any more pompous, it would run for a Congressional seat in Brooklyn.

Happy Fourth everyone! Enjoy the fireworks!

He won't care if he's still up by 20. Neither will his voters He's going to meet the debate requirements. He's brash, loud, quick witted, crude and sarcastic. Exactly the verbal style that flusters DeSantis. I'm not saying DeSantis is a bad politician. But so far he's a wet fart of a presidential candidate. He's not ready for the fight. Which is...concerning... for somebody who is ex Military from Harvard Law. So now he gets to show us his resilience and adaptability. Or he can tread water and get beat.

Trump won't debate unless he absolutely needs to, and nobody can force him to do a debate if he doesn't want to. If DeSantis is banking on that... ... Can you imagine a fencepost like DeSantis holding his own against Chris Christie and Trump at the same time? That and even if Trump is convicted, and he ***** should be, he still wouldn't be barred from office.

He can't though. DeSantis' brand is all MAGA, all culture war, all the time. That's also Trump's brand, and Trump's way better at it. Ron's turning into just another Ivy League suit to be schooled by Trump. He's had years to figure out how to beat the guy, and so far he's got nothing.

I don't. It's France. They've been through three monarchies, two empires, one facist dictatorship and four republics since 1793. They had a communist coup in 1870 and a military coup in the 1960s. They'll sort themselves out or they won't. There's nothing atypical going on.

Huh. Not a single former Patriots player on that list...

Why should we give a ***** if France can't get it's act together?

Huh. This embedded tweet still works. As of about three hours ago, you have yo be logged in to twitter to read or view anything. Even embedded tweets on other websites. Musk is going to do what he does I guess.

Probably is the best answer.

Well, I guess there was something to that video of Chechen fighters cutting the throats of arrested Wagner PMCs after all.

Huh. So Amazon is co-opting the gig economy's work style. Do your friends work there full-time? A couple hours in an Amazon warehouse is the next best thing to a gym membership.

That's insane. UPS Workers are Teamsters, with Teamster protections and Teamster lawyers to fix there traffic problems. Usually though, you used to have to put your time in as package handler before you get a truck. That's overnight, minimum wage work, at least it was when I was there about seven years ago.

What's the "Western Media"? Sounds scary!

Bill Browder has a very entertaining book. He was a corporate raider in Russia right after the fall of the USSR, I believe he made his fortune selling off the USSR's pacific fishing fleet. But he also got in with early anti-Putin dissidents back in the 00s, and watched while they were all packed off to Penal Colonies and murdered. He managed to escape.

It's easy to make everyone out to be a supervillain, or a super genius. Especially when weird things happen that don't make sense on the surface. It's a lot easier to gin up conspiracy theories that connect dots that aren't there with lines of bull####. That way, nobody has to admit they're wrong, or worse, that they aren't in the know.

It actually sounds like Prigozhin sold Wagner to the Russian MoD in exchange for exil and guarantees of his own personal security. Is George RR Martin writing our current timeline? With pointers from the ghost of Tom Clancy?

I'm not gonna give anybody credit for 5D chess moves in this war. But it wouldn't surprise me if that's where Wagner ends up. The Ukraine-Belarus border is massively fortified, and Wagner are the best Russia has at tackling fortifications.

Wow. And it's all over, just like that.

Posobiec programs people into Red vs Blue twitterbrains. Of course he's going to try and turn this into a Red vs. Blue issue.