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Soy bugmen like Noah Smith and Mark Ruffalo think the world is a Marvel movie. They are fine getting us all nuked in the process. Hate to say it, but Putin is far more clairvoyant than any Western leader - especially President Senile Teleprompter and Vice President Word Salad: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-be-a-soy-bugman

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Biden is really saying when is Russia going to capitulate and submit to our overwhelming force of propaganda, and economic sanctions . Hell even with the threat of nuclear Armageddon as he wears his aviator glasses Russia isn’t backing down in the face of our aggression !

Biden blinked.

The 80% of the world and many in the West would like a Regime Change in America and await the Midterm Election results with a morbid curiosity .

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""So simple," Ruffalo says."

Man! The delusions, ego, and ignorance of our Hollywood elites is astounding. But they at least provide us a service, frequently offering clear examples of elite thought in the US while offering themselves up for complete ridicule. There's that, at least.

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Hubris is one hell of a drug.

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Who is the only country in the world to drop two nuclear bombs on another country's civilian population?

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Oct 9, 2022·edited Oct 10, 2022

I really enjoy Mark Ruffalo as an actor. But man, his political awareness is that of a 2nd grader. And like many of these Hollywood types, they are always so damn sure of themselves. Likely because they live in their wealth bubble in L.A., and rarely get out enough - to view all the homeless tents under overcrowded LA freeways.

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I'm a recovering democrat, I'm seeing them for what evil they truly are.

I recently learned that we are the most propogandized country in the world and that us' imperial ambitions thru war is the top reason.

Btw, what episode of jimmy dore was that, I'd like to go back and listen to it. I know that "shit-libs" absolutely hate jimmy dore. Never heard "shit-libs" before, they certainly have proven that a truth tho.

Thanks

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Putin is, or at least appears to be, the only world leader that knows, and is responsive to, the history of the Donbass. Stalin apparently just gave the area away in the hopes that a cobbled together Ukraine would become communist. The people of the Donbass didn’t want that. Their resistance, in many forms, have been fought by the current leader since. Putin’s role has been attempted negotiation. Apparently, the day after he signed the Minsk agreement Zelensky stated he had no intention of sticking to it. ( Someone should check my history. ) The Donbass has been the target of bombing for years. Putin finally had enough - it was obvious no one in the West was interested in negotiation/peace. And Putin’s “aggression” has been vilified on a daily basis by every western leader. So now what? Looks to me like Biden ( and those pulling his strings? ) can choose. Who should “back down” ?

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The stupidity to think that Russia should just leave. Leave what? Russia? Because that is what it is now. Kiev has shown how much it loves and values the Donbas and its citizens by shelling the hell out of it for over 8 years...hmm...could it be a reason they didn't want to be part of Ukraine anymore? Ungrateful scoundrels! I'd like to see how loyal the Hollywood celebs would be to Washington if Biden gave the order to start heavy shelling of LA..for eight years.

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Folks - Slightly off topic, but a reader in a prior essay posted a link to video and text of Putin's speech on annexation, see:

https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/putins-historic-speech-must-be-experienced

I watched it and was astounded by how harsh Putin's denunciation of the US and EU/NATO elites was! Truly a must watch to understand the Russian historical, cultural and political perspective!

It would be a good idea to get this text more broadly read -

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Sanna Marin is an idiot. Really the entire leadership class of the Baltic states are very stupid.

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A perfect war! Ukraine doesn’t matter strategically, only white people are being killed, no Americans are being killed, it causes the rest of Europe to vastly increase expenditure on American weaponry, it’s narrative of democracy promotion is virtuous, (no empire here) and they get to humiliate the autocrat Putin, who is a douche bag.  The liberals finally got it right. Professor Deenan - post liberal substack - calls it the “Gnostic of the liberal

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Gotta love this one! This is so funny but horrible at the same time! If only they were on a different planet and we were watching this on Netflix!

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I think a resurgent peace movement needs to go hard after the DNC and make the neoliberals...name them, mock them, hound them...uncomfortable. Biden recently named a black man from South Carolina the new DNC chair, and since Rep. James Clyburn is a force within the DP, he needs to hear the disgust and anger that this moment warrants. If ever there was a time to call, write, email all members of the DP, it is now. Write letters to the editor to the NYTimes and LA Times and WAPO. Call a DP pol repeatedly. Organize protests, leave no means of messaging untried. If you’re alive, do something.

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Oct 10, 2022·edited Oct 10, 2022

Saying Russia just needs to leave Ukraine is like telling a relentlessly stalked woman she just needs to stay home

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Biden should concern himself with why he continues to shake hands with invisible people. The sanctions against Russia are a complete failure. The reason it is a failure is the U.S. is fighting a natural resource rich country with food and energy to spare with a fiat currency that no one wants any longer!

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