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Putin was forced to promise that conscripts won't be sent to combat in Ukraine in 2022, otherwise he risked a societal backlash from the richer/more influential Moscow/St. Petersburg regions. Basically the unwritten contract is: as long as the war doesn't affect their lives too much, russian society will support Putin's war. Word is that most of those surrendering are conscripts, they have absolutely no motivation to fight or die for Putin's war. There are no "first line" troops any more. Almost all "elite" Russian units are heavily degraded according to analysts, in particular the ISW, because they were used for meatgrinder assaults in Ukraine.

@billeisele, remember this? Turned out you didn't own nor actually run the $21.5 million business. Does this make what you did "stolen financial valor"?

For me it was watching a music video of the rock band Incubus (lead singer always sings shirtless) - apparently he looked "demonic".

You don't even need to paraphrase anything - he does it so openly If Coreece was Pinocchio, you'd be able to build a space elevator with his nose

Hey, you asked for one. No equations were solved in making this, so my guess can be wildly wrong. I prefer being optimistic though.

I could be wrong, but I think they will. As Charlie XCX has said, "Kamala is brat"

Yeah, but he'll never answer that. He doesn't follow the Commandments either. Just random stuff cherry picked from both the Old and New Testament, whatever suits them really. Strangely this one is a crypto bro too

Kamala suddenly replacing Biden has re-energized the dem campaign, and the trumpists are freaking out (like Coreece in the other thread). They remember what trashing Roe vs. Wade did to the "red wave" in the midterms - how big is the GOP majority now? 1? That red wave was destroyed by mainly women turning out to vote. They might do the same again this November.

For it to be hypocrisy, a person has to have words and actions in conflict with each other, so this has to be on the same topic. If a BLM supporter likes coke and I like pepsi, it doesn't mean that I'm now racist and don't support the movement. This is what Coreece is trying to insinuate, with his weird pretending to care about racism, when we all remember what he was saying in 2020. Now that's hypocrisy.

No, what's creepy is you always arguing in bad faith. Here you are pretending to support BLM, but we know that you don't. I've come to expect evangelicals to be dishonest liars, but it's still unbelievable how openly dishonest they can be - I mean, don't they realise what they post here is recorded?

I'm not desperate enough to keep trying to twist nigel99's words as anti-BLM when he's directly refuting YOU. You got nothing. You're so desperate to divide the left-leaning here against BLM, because that's what Jesus taught, right? You're such a sad, angry evangelist.

I said it was one of two possibilities, and you have just confirmed it was the other one Thanks for clearing it up!

...this is coming from an evangelical.

Your one warning

*starts new climate denier bingo sheet*

@BIGUN you've misattributed the quote in your post to me - I didn't say that.

Well, with Trump promising tariffs on everything the US imports, inflation in the US will probably jump 10%. And conservatives here (i.e. Brent) were complaining how inflation was all Biden's fault We had high inflation in the UK too the past few years (under a conservative government no less), but it's a silver lining that this time the inflation will be more isolated to just the US. COVID is far more contagious than stupid Trump tariffs

But you don't know how to read them...

Anyone who wants a coupe and still likes to row their gears will continue to enjoy their hobby, like how horse enthusiasts can still enjoy their hobby with various breeds of horses. But they won't be finding them in the local car dealership. In fact, hobbies like restoring vintage cars are having a bit of a renaissance due to the recent availability of 3D printing and lower-cost CNC machining.

The moment there's a tiny chance, Brent jumps in to FLEX! Yep, not insecure at all

But, how will they then adopt a victim mentality? They've got to follow the example of the biggest victim of all, you know.

Everything you mentioned was states forcing car companies to sell EVs, not forcing ordinary people to buy them. You're not even forced to buy a car at all - if you have a horse-drawn carriage you can keep using it, but I don't see you arguing that horse-drawn carriage owners' freedoms are being impinged when you can't buy one at your local car dealership.

US power sockets are pretty anaemic. Most of the world is on 220-240V and take nowhere that long.

Wind is driven not by absolute temperature, but by temperature gradients. So generally, heating up the world with more CO2 won't necessarily cause more hurricanes IF you heat it up evenly, but the earth is a big planet. There are so many variables involved that it's far, far (more complex), plus the fact that the Navier-Stokes equations don't have an analytical solution so it's really hard to tell if climate change will result in more hurricanes. But remember my quote from Bertrand Russell - wise men are full of doubts, while only a fool is certain. Brent will certainly look at scientists struggling to make predictions and think his confidence makes him know better. One last thing though - while hurricanes get their energy from temperature gradients, heating up the planet, on average, makes more energy available when those gradients do occur. It's like giving it ammunition to shoot us with. It might or it might not, but I'd rather not take chances. (edited. Don’t do that)

Well Brent is not 75, he's at least several thousand years old given his memories of the last glacial period - damn, he's soooo glad it's hotter now! (forgetting the fact that he made hundreds of posts denying it was getting hotter)