Quote from: nutildah on Today at 03:52:12 PM

Quote from: tvbcof on October 07, 2022, 08:40:10 AM

The only reason you ever write anything here is to give yourself the illusion that you have some semblance of power and control over your own life... When you post, you're not really talking to anybody, just re-asserting yourself. It's been kind of fascinating to watch, NGL.

So far the best excuse I've heard for the war from the pro-Putin, pro-invasion and pro-bloodshed side is that "Well America has done bad things, too."

If you're Russian, then I kind of get it. You feel a patriotic duty to support your president. A lot of Americans were tricked into thinking the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11 were necessary, with the government really playing into the patriotism aspect to get the support of the populace. So I don't blame you.

This will be my only post here. Hope the war ends soon. Its been bad for Bitcoin, and pretty much everything else in the world, if you hadn't noticed.

Nice take, but pretty much dead wrong. I have an unusual amount 'power and control' over my own life (thanks to Bitcoin.) If you look at my predictions for Russian in Ukraine at the start of this thing, you'll find that I was about the only one (worldwide) who nailed it about what the Rooskies probably wanted and what they would probably do. I seek mainly to give people an alternate view of what they hear from the 'experts' for the benefit of those who can make some use of it. Morons make up their own wild fantasies about what the Rooskies want, and then when it doesn't happen they claim it was a failure. People who listened to the alternate viewpoint (mine) won't have to spin their wheels with such fantasies...but then they miss out on some warm fuzzy feelings on account of their false 'wins' as well I suppose.

America is not really even the America I grew up in, and has become exponentially more evil and has exponentially fewer 'saving graces'. It makes no sense to fight for a country which has been decapitated and the head replace with little red people with pointed tails (or tiny hats as the case may be.) That is equally true for the U.S. and Ukraine. How anyone could sacrifed so much as a toe-nail for either Biden or Zelenski is beyond me. Russia seems to be generally improving (since Yeltsin) while the U.S. is in free-fall. That's why I tend to favor Russia generally. They also don't lie as much and I hate liars. I never gave two fucks about sports teams and the like. I'm one of those people who is just wired that way. I base my preferences on unbiased analysis, or try to, and again it's natural for me.

I took a healthy dose of red-pilling when I was a participant (wearing an American uniform) in Iraq-I. Within a few days of 9/11 I could see it was a hoax, so of course I was vehemently opposed to the occupations. I was already familiar with Rumsfeld and Cheney's games from the Bush-I timeframe and they were not fooling me with their bullshit.

I'll be happy when it ends simply because it's largely the wrong people who are being killed on both sides. Hopefully it evolves into, or promulgates, a world-wide situation where the right people are getting killed. They richly deserve it and until it does start to go that direction the plebs all around the world will be feeling increasingly dead or enslaved. Won't likely happen until the 'vax' depopulation really gets rolling though. Hopefully after that there will be a window of opportunity.