Quote from: TECSHARE on October 22, 2018, 02:32:20 AM

Whatever it takes for you to continue the delusion that Trump was not legally voted in.

Does the legality REALLY matter that much?
Trump is an expression of a social phenomenon, or, rather, a host of phenomena.
They are an effect of certain causes. Better look at the causes, than argue endlessly/fruitlessly about his legitimacy.

Quote from: Spendulus on November 17, 2018, 04:58:50 PM

Color me unimpressed with these "facts." It really sounds like a total stretch to find any and everyone who ever once talked with a Russian or someone that knew a Russian.

Because of the excellent USSR education system (not entirely extinct even by now) and other properties of the Soviet regime many Western elite members have Russian wives. (You may argue that they are examples of Ruth/Jehudith Tanakh narratives, however, that would also be sensible). It usually takes one acquaintance away to get to someone with either wife or girlfriend. A Russian-Jewish one.

Funnily enough if you can pass as "Ukrainian" you get a votum of trust from the West. I may start putting "understand spoken Ukrainian" in the Languages section of my resume, and that would increase my chances with Western employers, I guess. (I hope to be mistaken about this, though). I really understand UA due to really interesting events happening in Ukraine, so I watch hours of TV and listen to radio. The next step up this ladder would be to understand spoken Polish without the subtitles.