JoeWeber
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While you've most certainly earned the right to have an opinion on the passage of time, given that history isn't over yet and the American Borg have only just begun assimilating us, we ought to reserve a bit of judgement. Seems to me that once they have us plugged into our charging ports life won't be that interesting at all.
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Isn't that the truth. What's really crazy is that the nutters didn't need a majority to make it happen. And now in broad daylight they're comfortable holding their annual seance in Hungary to learn more about co-opting democracy from Victor Orbán. We most certainly do live in interesting times.
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Leave this ancient website and join Skydiving on Discord
JoeWeber replied to boozy's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Absolutely. The sad, simple, fact of the matter is that some kids will always need to be held by an ear lobe when speaking in public. -
Powerful African American switches party affiliation
JoeWeber replied to brenthutch's topic in Speakers Corner
Hmmm... except for your overwhelming desire to prove you aren't racist by recognizing accomplished African-Americans isn't Mr. Musk as much a Canadian-American or American-American? Or, as you are no doubt goosing yourself over, a Republican-American. -
Well, I don't know about the science but solid empirical data suggests otherwise.
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Let's also not pretend a pimple, or any other assemblage of inanimate cells, is a baby.
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I do. Besides being happy with our strengthened NATO alliance and how he's handling the war in Ukraine I am totally thrilled that he is occupying the Oval Office and not Trump. Even if I were to concede he's made some domestic policy errors just knowing that it's mere incompetence not rank criminality as the root cause makes me happy.
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In a nutshell it's your right to keep your health information private, sort of. But in a world where privacy is no longer a constitutional right that can change. On the bright side maybe we'll get Trumps grades now.
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So as I imagine you in your throes of, er, wealth I can only see one way all parties are overlooking the water. Do I have it right?
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The political leverage could be a simple as knowing that by treaty an attack on Finland would require a response from all of NATO. Even a serious looking bluff would require something in kind. Not to mention we'd receive even more piercing insights into who is willing to pay for what and when. I see nothing gained by changing the games rules at this juncture. I concede I might be wrong but that's how I'd play it right now.
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Sorry, for sure someone like AOC will introduce the "Save Coastlines not the World" bill and that will end it.
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I see what Finland gains short term, I don't see what NATO gains-at this particular moment. If Russia attacks a non-NATO Finland we can choose to respond or not and to whatever degree seems appropriate. Why add an unnecessary trigger point, and potentially give Russia additional political leverage, at an inconvenient time? Yes, that's entirely transactional but so is everything geopolitical.
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The US can't control what Turkey does anymore than we can control India. Honestly, when the time is right I won't care if we make Finland the capital of the world and force everyone to be happy and have a home sauna. I simply think now isn't the time to add a country that has an 800 mile border with Russia given that NATO is fighting a proxy war over something similar at the moment.
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I suppose. But I further suppose that given the rest of what the US is supplying to fight what has become a proxy war that not having US air assets flying over Ukraine when an ally nearby Ukraine can do so is a good thing. Regarding Finland, I just do not see how the value of bringing them into NATO exceeds the additional friction it will cause especially now.
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All the shine of a thousand spotlights All the stars we steal from the night sky Will never be enough Never be enough Towers of gold are still too little These hands could hold the world but it'll Never be enough Never be enough
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I concede your point on Sweden. Thank you. But Finlands move is self serving. I don't blame them but were it my call I'd be happy to point out the late isn't always better than never, parachute deployment comes to mind, and optics do matter. Please wait awhile.
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And now Turkey is gobbling loud over Finland and Sweden joining Nato, but it's mostly Finland. I see their point, actually. Yes, they have Erdoğan, and he's a pill. But he's a pill that is supplying one Bayraktar TB2 Drone a day to Ukraine. Those drones are proving decisive. What can Finland supply a day? Lutefisk? That and why should NATO poke the bear again by taking on a country contiguous to Russia when NATO is already busy defending another country contiguous to Russia because Russia doesn't want another NATO country contiguous to Russia? As they say, timing is everything and Finland and Swedens after the fact decision that non-participation in a defensive treaty is on reflection, not in their best interests really is a bit offensive.
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I don't know about that. Crazy people do crazy things.
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I still am. I never thought of WWIII as a land war.
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You pretend to save your hope. I'm the only person I know, of all of the gun people I've known, who has ever used a gun to defend my home. In retrospect I am convinced that had I just stayed silent and where I was the intruder would have left without incident. But, I just had to take my .300 Savage off the wall, chamber a round and go down the hall. See? That's the problem. Guns can make you do dumb and unnecessary things like believe you need to defend yourself when you really do not.
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The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind. The answer is blowing in the wind.
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Nope. But you are inspirational, thank you.
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Seriously, a state with less than 4.5 Million people, less than 1.4% of our nations population, a state most famous for Baseball Bats, Horse Racing, Moonshine and Kentucky Fried Chicken, is controlling the future of America? Does anyone else see a problem here?
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A million dead, and it didn't have to be that way.
JoeWeber replied to kallend's topic in Speakers Corner
I did. Sorry. Maybe, just maybe we should vet these Nigerian MD's a bit more closely. No matter, we're soon to be wearing Libtard patches on our sleeves the way things are going. Good for me I can escape to my pied-a'-terre the Peoples Republic of Joe. What a fiasco. -
Apparently, those sissies destroyed 2 Battalion Tactical Groups, albeit understrength units but then they all are it seems. Sunk their boats and took out the engineer units, too.
