at least they offer to take you to dinner to tell you all that.

perhaps there is more than one problem

I know, I know - it's a Trope!

toast

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Dumps-on-Wheels

we need more sexual matadors!

amazing how many times some people try to like it

somebody's full of it, and afraid of competition

Right now, we are witnessing a preview of what could happen in the USA this November. Hungary's opposition party, Tisza, is so far ahead in the polls that they are on track to win a supermajority in the parliament, spelling the end of Orban.

The only way Orban can remain is to subvert the election.

Fascinating, Zelensky coming out publicly more and more and saying that Trump is working with/for Putin. The Ukrainians seem to have determined that telling the truth is preferable to lying to please Trump.

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enters Ukraine 1994

i mux them - is she the one with "learned the lesson" or the one who is somewhat concerned?

Lippmann's solution was radical and essentially technocratic: democracy can't rely on an informed public. Instead, he proposed expert bureaus, independent bodies that would analyse reality and provide reliable information to decision-makers.

btw, not sure how Snyder's text comes out, but I don't think it matters whether war was started for the sole reason to create pretext (and i don't think it was, just one of the vectors).
What matters is what's coming, and I think that's what Snyder is trying to warn about.

Why has it not happened yet? I don't see any downsides, and it's been successfully played many times.

Whom to blame? We don't have Chechens, Venezuelans would not work, Iranians might. (BTW, same as xutin, I don't think he expected such results)

Another Q is whether he's too toxic to survive this.

as someone who thought of this before Snyder's first pub - why?

Arguments that trump is too stupid, or that there would be no one interested in doing it are not serious.

Having *pretext* for some kind of martial law is what matters, usual bootlickers will do the rest.

there are many examples of the US military being up to the challenge when it's time to bomb somebody - and no examples of them hesitating.

I wonder what the solution will be and if it involves russia

I was always more afraid of who comes after, but at this point you might be right.

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why nobody draws the connection b/w DOJ releasing new Trump pedo files exactly 4 weeks ago and this?

existing signs cover us up to $1,000. We should be good till 2027.

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