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« Reply #7635 on: February 18, 2024, 01:38:37 PM »

RIP Navalny.  A light has gone out of the world in Russia. Am very sad to hear of this.

Wondering if Vladimir Kara-Murza is on the same horrible path now.

VKM disappeared from his prison near Omsk a couple weeks ago, so it seems likely he got the Arctic circle hellhole transfer that Navalny got in early December. Special regime colonies, they call them.

Both of them didn't 'read the room' very well.
You just can't go doing things like that in Russia and China.

They decided to disrupt the room. They are heroes and martyrs. Change does not happen by itself.
Some folks have the courage to stand up while others pull the cover over their heads while sucking their thumb.
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« Reply #7636 on: February 18, 2024, 01:48:32 PM »

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« Reply #7637 on: February 18, 2024, 02:05:29 PM »

RIP Navalny.  A light has gone out of the world in Russia. Am very sad to hear of this.

Wondering if Vladimir Kara-Murza is on the same horrible path now.

VKM disappeared from his prison near Omsk a couple weeks ago, so it seems likely he got the Arctic circle hellhole transfer that Navalny got in early December. Special regime colonies, they call them.

Both of them didn't 'read the room' very well.
You just can't go doing things like that in Russia and China.

They decided to disrupt the room. They are heroes and martyrs. Change does not happen by itself.
Some folks have the courage to stand up while others pull the cover over their heads while sucking their thumb.

They are dead.
Nothing in Russia will ever change while Putin is alive.
They gave up their lives for nothing.
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« Reply #7638 on: February 18, 2024, 02:14:18 PM »

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« Reply #7639 on: February 18, 2024, 03:26:33 PM »

He had four pair and had to buy two of them himself to hit the number. The wanker boots are made from unliqidateable trump steaks.
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« Reply #7640 on: February 18, 2024, 03:44:34 PM »

There was some speculation that trump would be running with the my pillow guy. Instead, as it turns out, trump is running as the my pillow guy. There is simply no accounting for taste when it comes to deranged minds.
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« Reply #7642 on: February 18, 2024, 05:26:33 PM »

RIP Navalny.  A light has gone out of the world in Russia. Am very sad to hear of this.

Wondering if Vladimir Kara-Murza is on the same horrible path now.

VKM disappeared from his prison near Omsk a couple weeks ago, so it seems likely he got the Arctic circle hellhole transfer that Navalny got in early December. Special regime colonies, they call them.

Both of them didn't 'read the room' very well.
You just can't go doing things like that in Russia and China.

They decided to disrupt the room. They are heroes and martyrs. Change does not happen by itself.
Some folks have the courage to stand up while others pull the cover over their heads while sucking their thumb.

They are dead.
Nothing in Russia will ever change while Putin is alive.
They gave up their lives for nothing.

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

Patrick Henry 1775
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« Reply #7643 on: February 18, 2024, 09:11:52 PM »

Today on Youtube, On America's Got Talent, I watched a chicken play  'America The Beautiful' on a keyboard, note perfect.
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« Reply #7644 on: February 18, 2024, 09:19:13 PM »


They are dead.
Nothing in Russia will ever change while Putin is alive.
They gave up their lives for nothing.

No.  Dissidents sometimes bring great change this way.  I recall a Judean dissident a while back...had quite an impact. 
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« Reply #7645 on: February 18, 2024, 11:43:19 PM »

Today on Youtube, On America's Got Talent, I watched a chicken play  'America The Beautiful' on a keyboard, note perfect.

That sounds like the most productive and least harmful day you have made for your self in many years.
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« Reply #7646 on: February 19, 2024, 01:01:09 AM »


They are dead.
Nothing in Russia will ever change while Putin is alive.
They gave up their lives for nothing.

No.  Dissidents sometimes bring great change this way.  I recall a Judean dissident a while back...had quite an impact.

Yes, dissidents in Russia obviously are wasting their time and their lives.

But hey, if it's what people want to do, it's their time and their lives.
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« Reply #7647 on: February 19, 2024, 01:51:06 AM »

China now has the world's largest navy, and every 12 months adds "the whole British navy" capability to China's navy.

Review of Australia's navy has been completed.
The review has declared that said navy is 'inadequate'.
As a result, the planned building of 9 new frigates has been cancelled or severely cut back...as a "lighter and more deadly navy is now needed."

The AUKUS nuclear submarines will not now be starting to arrive in Australia until 2040.
I'll be 94 by then!
I need something now, so the rest of my life can be lived in safety.
My only hope is ANZUS alliance...the US ranked no1 in the most powerful military chart shown on my tv news tonite.

1. US
2. China
3. Russia
20. Australia...lower than a whole lot of countries, including Algeria and Bangladesh.
I'll be cheering for whichever US Presidential candidate is the most committed to ANZUS.
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« Reply #7648 on: February 19, 2024, 02:25:27 AM »

It is probably time to start talking about a partition of Australia among more responsible nations.
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« Reply #7649 on: February 19, 2024, 09:44:45 AM »

It is probably time to start talking about a partition of Australia among more responsible nations.

What Australia should be doing is making nuclear bombs itself.
Has the uranium etc, has the scientists.
Going around signing nuclear non-proliferation treaties was absolute folly.
Can't change the past...but certainly can change the the planned future.
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