You must be Russian. Only they and the Americans have such a lopsided perspective of World War 2.
You must not be letting facts interfere with your storyline. If millions of Russians hadn't died defending their country, just how much harder would it have been to take back the continent if the western allies had faced the full might of the German military? We're talking three times or more the Nazi military presence, if they hadn't been tied up with fighting the very Russians you despise.
Quick deflection though.. Did the Germans kill more Russians than Stalin and Lenin?
What does that do to change the fact that Russia did more to beat the Germans than all the other Allied forces combined? Jack and shit, and Jack left town.
In any case, are you sure you want to move the goalposts to domestic deaths in the USSR, most of which were due to famine. Why is it that communists are always 100% responsible for every death through famine - completely ignoring the impacts of of WWI, a drought, a civil war, not to mention a foriegn invasion. Yet, Capitalist Exceptionalists are never are responsible for any famines resulting from their policies. Irish Potato Famine, heard of it - the country had a food surplus throughout the blight, but much of their agricultural output was exported for British profit. There's plenty of otherexamples to choose from.
So, you're not objecting to the famine, you're objecting to the communism. A classic case of Western Exceptionalists only giving a flying fuck about human lives or human rights as long as it serves their politics and historical revisionism.
Way to completely (deliberately, of course) miss the point. You're (deliberately) confusing tactics and specific weapon use blah blah blah
Reality has a well known anti right-wing, anti-neocon, anti butthurt-American-Exceptionalist butthurt bias.
Oh, please. The Taliban had brutally taken over Afghanistan
After Reagan had given them money, arms and training to provoke the Soviets into an invasion. Not only was it a feature, not a bug, that they were violent fundies, it was the whole damn point.
and was harboring the group that had just killed thousands of Americans... and refused to turn them over.
And, Iraq? The UN authorized the use of force because
The UN didn't authorize force against Afghanistan, much less Iraq. This little alternative universe you guys live really is complete with it's own alternate history, isn't it?
among other things, Saddam never even TRIED to honor the agreements he made
You mean with his non-existent WMD's and non-existent yellow cake? Besides, if you're going to wave around the boogyman of Saddam, years after his death, you're going to have to do it to the people who put him in power in the first place. The people who put him in power in the first place and gave him weapons and intel to use in the Iran-Iraq war, which he started. The intel that allowed Saddam to use those gas warheads that caused much bedwetting amongst American Exceptionalists.
The Sea Aye Fucking Eh. Sensing a pattern yet? America creates a force to fight someone they don't like, only to become the new someone they don't like a few years later, someone who needs a good bombing. First it was the Taliban, then it was Saddam, now it's ISIS - who are still "freedum fighters", as long as they're fighting Assad and not Chevron.
the illegal war against Libya
You're deliberately pretending you can't tell the difference between "illegal" and "done poorly by an administration that doesn't know how to do such things."
No, as in fucking illegal, you incompetent boob. Constitution, heard of it? Declaring war is the exclusive purview of Congress, not the President. No, you can't weasel out of this with the War Powers Act or NATO treaties, as Libya was no threat to the U.S. or any NATO member, and the war went long past the time limit set by the WPA. If you were dropped on the head as a child, repeatedly, and need a picture drawn for you as to why the president is not free to take the country to war without consulting the legislative branch:
Imagine that Obama decides to resolve his spat with Putin by ordering the Russian President's plane be shot down on its way back from the recent summit. This naturally leads to reprisals, and nuclear war, and most Americans ending up fucking dead from the ICBM strikes or the nuclear fallout. Should one person be able to make that call, and one person alone - or should the representative branch have a say?
the bombing of even more countries that have never been a threat to us
Ah, the ol' hand-waving vagueness tactic. Again, how do you think this helping you to sound credible?
Are you naturally a complete idiot, or does this take practice? The United States has bombed Yemen, Syria and Libya, among other countries. What threat have the people of Yemen, Syria, or Libya posed to the United States? Hint: the answer is "None".
Laughable neocon revisionist history is laughable.
The what? Yanukovych campaigned on a promise not to sell the country out to Putin, then promptly turned around and started to sell the country out to Putin.
You mean accepted a low interest, flat-rate loan from Russia over the crushing austerity measures demanded by the IMF in return for one of their loans? Do you also sneer at people taking a 6% interest rate from a credit union rather than 25% from a seedy payday loan company? Makes as much sense.
The people who lost the last election to him, and wanted those crushing IMF loans raised hell about this
FTFY. There's also the slight issue of Victoria Nuland, the assistant Secretary of State, getting captured on video, bragging about spending billions to bring Ukraine 'the future it deserves'? Would you be as blase if Putin had spent $5 billion to subvert the elected government of Canada? Methinks not.
and he fled the country after an illegal coup
FTFY2. This is an easy one, whether you are a right-wing imperialist Democrat, or a right-wing imperialist Republican. Because you can insert the names Reagan or Bush into this little thought experiment, or the names Clinton or Obama, since all four presidents ended their terms in office with Congress in control of the other party.
Imagine the $POTUS of your choice is six months out from the next elections. The opposing party in Congress impeaches him, but falls short of the Constitutionally-mandated number of votes to remove him from office. Rather than accept the fact that they lost - again - they fucking launch a coup and force your $POTUS to flee the country.
Would you have accepted that? Would you have accepted that when those driving $POTUS out of the country had taken billions in money from Putin to subvert the results of the last election, since they just couldn't win at the ballot box?
leaving behind an estate and mansion worth at least 100 million US dollars, which he somehow had been able to afford on a 2,000-dollar-per-month salary.
Obama could never afford to build the White House on his salary, either. WYP? And are you sure you want to throw stones in that corrupt glass house, when the son of the Vice President was promptly made a top exec at a Ukrainian energy company after the coup?
Just that the Russians were the ones to send in underequipped soldiers en mass to overwhelm the enemy with numbers irrespective of casualties, killed a lot of their own people through purges and punishments
American Exceptionalist Bitch, please. American's would have gotten their asses kicked even faster at the start of WWII, if they had shared the same continent with Nazi Germany. No one was capable of going toe-to-toe with the Germans in a ground war at the start of WWII.
I'm not sure it was right, and it sure as fuck doesn't mean that nobody else was fighting Germany at the time.
That's sure as fuck attacking a straw man rather than deal with the fact that the Western and Pacific fronts combined were a sideshow next to the Eastern front, or that over 80% of German casualties came at the hands of the Red Army.
Placing a distinctly military base in some proximity to civilians is not the same as using some poor shmoe's house as a weapon storage, and then instructing him and his family at gun point not to leave, even when the IDF is phoning in telling them they are about to bomb it.
Imperialist equivocation. The purpose of a facility can be made as distinct as you want, but then it's "ermagerd they were using human shields!", and you still have mass slaughter of civilians and imperialists washing their hands of it.
So what you have is a distinction without a difference. Israel also distinctly uses their airports for both civilian and military use, but we all know the "T" word would be used to describe any attack on such an airport. It's like "double tap" bombings - it's only terrorism if their guys are doing it.
That is logically sound, indeed Reagan is too liberal to be a republican.
Hell, these days, he's too liberal to be a democrat. Started prosecutions of bankers when Obama bailed out the banks for a fraud dozens of times as large as the S&N crisis. Insisted that Social Security had nothing to do with the deficit - tell that to Obama's Catfood Commission. Withdrew from Grenada and Lebanon (though he never should have gone in in the first place), whereas Obama has made plans to continue the occupation of Afghanistan through two terms of his successor, whoever they turn out to be.
Carson is a young-earth creationist and a crackpot. He's definitely not "thoughtful".
Carson is a brilliant surgeon - freaking genius, really. Any other subject and he's as smart as a bag of hammers.
Cruz follows Dominionist Theology and keeps trying to shut the government down.
Saw a meme floating around last week....a Canadian, a Cuban, and a white supremacist walk into a bar. Bartender says, 'hello, Senator Cruz'.
but I'll take Trump any day over these two wackos.
Who's primary skillset is losing other people's money in bankruptcy court? Why not get Lincoln Chafee to switch back, since he's not overly bloodthirsty or a Christofascist?
Biden would probably be OK too.
Eh. Supported the Iraq war, supported the 2006 bankruptcy bill that makes it harder to discharge debt (unless it's for your vacation home), and brags about writing the Patriot Act. Unlike Hillary, he's likable and actually has a personality - but agrees with her on policy.
That's no small achievement, they were the first to manage it with smartphones and you have to give them credit for that, and for successfully appropriating all these UI concepts. But that's about where it stops. That's a significant couple of achievements, but still don't add up to innovation.
They had both innovation and invention,, Haterade Distortion Field be damned.
Apple didn't buy Next for their market success, but for the operating system and development environment, so your observation is a bit of a non sequitur. But congrats for capitalizing the x.
Having dedicated, high-quality keys with excellent tactile feedback is ideal, however it isn't always practical. There's no way you can do that on a phone with apps, for instance, because every app is different and you need to be able to reconfigure it on the fly.
Or connect a bluetooth keyboard, or bluetooth num pad, if you need to do a serious amount of work with your smartphone app. Logitech, at least, makes a few keyboards where you can easily switch between different bluetooth devices.
Because you want him to drive the United States into the ground to the point where it has to declare bankruptcy? Because that is Trump's primary skill set: losing other people's money.
The whole point of buying these overpriced products is that they're supposed to "Just work." They just don't live up to the promise, anymore. Apple is looking more like Microsoft each day.
You mean they're supposed to be flawless, because Apple, because reasons. Five people out of five million purchases report a problem with an Apple product, and Tim Cook better be calling Kerry Washington because they've got a scaaandal on their hands.
Think that's hyperbole? At the height of Bendghazi, Apple had reports from a total of 6 users on their iPhone screens bending. Whereas the Samsung Galaxy cracked, rather than bended, at the same pressure but there was no whining at Samsung.
If you want to stop shit from happening then stop people from being violent and necessitating a violent response.
I see what you're saying. The United States is by far and away the greatest cause and supporter of violence around the world. The biggest mountain you can name from the worst rouge state is a molehill next to the carnage fostered or dealt by the CIA and the Pentagon.
So, when is Washington D.C. going to be invaded, and who's going to do it?
If we had CNN in the 40s we never would have been able to defeat Japan or Germany because of all of the bleeding hearts. Now THAT was real carnage. Nothing that the US does today is remotely comparable.
We've had CNN all through the war crimes of the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the illegal war against Libya, the overthrow of Ukraine's democracy, the bombing of even more countries that have never been a threat to us, the drone assassins that have killed hundreds of kids....
Obviously, none of that was stopped by CNN. Hell, the network supported most of that, along with the rest of the media. Did you think through this talking point before posting it?
Groups like the Taliban frequently use hospitals for attacks
That's what imperialists tell themselves when their bombs kill a bunch of innocent people. And they never play by their own rules - Israel bombs buildings all over Gaza, with the excuse that they are being used by Hamas for military purposes, yet puts their own military headquarters smack in the middle of Tel Aviv.
It's interesting how willing you are to declare people murderers without actually knowing the chain of events that led up to the case.
Or you could try, you know, not being a bloodthirsty imperialist? You out yourself when you repeatedly excuse U.S. bombing while at the same time repeating the dumbfuckery of "barrel bombs." There would be no war in Syria if your fellow bloodthirsty imperialists weren't arming, funding and training foreign fighters to attack Assad, who was targeted for regime change before the Arab Spring.
All the dead in Syria, all the refugees fleeing to other countries, all the people drowning in the sea - victims of regime change.
This video entails a company that bought an Apple TV.
No. They didn't. This Apple TV is not yet for sale.
Then took it apart, and put it back together. So that they could show how to repair it.
No. They didn't. They took it apart so they could grab a story before the rest of the press, but violated the developer's NDA in the process, hence their membership in the developer program getting revoked, hence the app getting pulled from the Apple Store.
Hatebois have the right to their own opinions, but they don't have the right to their own set of facts. That, and to pretend Apple suddenly had a problem with iFixit taking apart an Apple product, after they've posted hundreds of guides on how to take apart Apple products, is just fucking stupid. If iFixit had waited until they could buy a model online or at retail, there would have been no issue.
the same way education and healthcare aren't (and never will be) "free."
Which has always meant free to use, not that there is no cost involved. Sidewalks aren't built for free, but they are free to use. Same goes for schools and healthcare in civilized countries.
If my house, van, and tee-shirt all have the slogan "I take apart lawnmowers" and you lend me your lawnmower - despite you being legally in the right, everyone will still call you a dumb ass for your stupid decision.
In an alternate universe where the website was iTakeStuffApart.com, and the slogan wasn't actually "The Free Repair Guide for Everything?"
Perhaps she should acquaint herself with Confirmation Bias.
You first.
There is, generally speaking, a cultural bias in the black community AGAINST academic excellence. It even has a name: "acting white."
See above, RE obvious prejudice. Look, this isn't hard: the #1 correlation between a student and academic performance is not race, but the wealth of the parents. Do you really think that no poor white kid has been sneered at by peers for wanting to get a masters or a doctorate? Do you really think that the Obama girls have been told "they're acting white" a day in their lives?
GTFO with your race-based prejudice. There's a term for that, BTW.
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You must not be letting facts interfere with your storyline. If millions of Russians hadn't died defending their country, just how much harder would it have been to take back the continent if the western allies had faced the full might of the German military? We're talking three times or more the Nazi military presence, if they hadn't been tied up with fighting the very Russians you despise.
What does that do to change the fact that Russia did more to beat the Germans than all the other Allied forces combined? Jack and shit, and Jack left town.
In any case, are you sure you want to move the goalposts to domestic deaths in the USSR, most of which were due to famine. Why is it that communists are always 100% responsible for every death through famine - completely ignoring the impacts of of WWI, a drought, a civil war, not to mention a foriegn invasion. Yet, Capitalist Exceptionalists are never are responsible for any famines resulting from their policies. Irish Potato Famine, heard of it - the country had a food surplus throughout the blight, but much of their agricultural output was exported for British profit. There's plenty of other examples to choose from.
So, you're not objecting to the famine, you're objecting to the communism. A classic case of Western Exceptionalists only giving a flying fuck about human lives or human rights as long as it serves their politics and historical revisionism.
Typical allergic reaction to undisputable facts from an American Exceptionalist.
Reality has a well known anti right-wing, anti-neocon, anti butthurt-American-Exceptionalist butthurt bias.
After Reagan had given them money, arms and training to provoke the Soviets into an invasion. Not only was it a feature, not a bug, that they were violent fundies, it was the whole damn point.
Wrong wrong wrong wrong, wrong wrong wrong wrong! Taliban offered to expell Osama bin Laddin if Bush had bothered to provide evidence that Osama was guilty. Bush didn't bother, because he wanted his illegal war.
The UN didn't authorize force against Afghanistan, much less Iraq. This little alternative universe you guys live really is complete with it's own alternate history, isn't it?
You mean with his non-existent WMD's and non-existent yellow cake? Besides, if you're going to wave around the boogyman of Saddam, years after his death, you're going to have to do it to the people who put him in power in the first place. The people who put him in power in the first place and gave him weapons and intel to use in the Iran-Iraq war, which he started. The intel that allowed Saddam to use those gas warheads that caused much bedwetting amongst American Exceptionalists.
The Sea Aye Fucking Eh. Sensing a pattern yet? America creates a force to fight someone they don't like, only to become the new someone they don't like a few years later, someone who needs a good bombing. First it was the Taliban, then it was Saddam, now it's ISIS - who are still "freedum fighters", as long as they're fighting Assad and not Chevron.
No, as in fucking illegal, you incompetent boob. Constitution, heard of it? Declaring war is the exclusive purview of Congress, not the President. No, you can't weasel out of this with the War Powers Act or NATO treaties, as Libya was no threat to the U.S. or any NATO member, and the war went long past the time limit set by the WPA. If you were dropped on the head as a child, repeatedly, and need a picture drawn for you as to why the president is not free to take the country to war without consulting the legislative branch:
Imagine that Obama decides to resolve his spat with Putin by ordering the Russian President's plane be shot down on its way back from the recent summit. This naturally leads to reprisals, and nuclear war, and most Americans ending up fucking dead from the ICBM strikes or the nuclear fallout. Should one person be able to make that call, and one person alone - or should the representative branch have a say?
Are you naturally a complete idiot, or does this take practice? The United States has bombed Yemen, Syria and Libya, among other countries. What threat have the people of Yemen, Syria, or Libya posed to the United States? Hint: the answer is "None".
Laughable neocon revisionist history is laughable.
You mean accepted a low interest, flat-rate loan from Russia over the crushing austerity measures demanded by the IMF in return for one of their loans? Do you also sneer at people taking a 6% interest rate from a credit union rather than 25% from a seedy payday loan company? Makes as much sense.
FTFY. There's also the slight issue of Victoria Nuland, the assistant Secretary of State, getting captured on video, bragging about spending billions to bring Ukraine 'the future it deserves'? Would you be as blase if Putin had spent $5 billion to subvert the elected government of Canada? Methinks not.
FTFY2. This is an easy one, whether you are a right-wing imperialist Democrat, or a right-wing imperialist Republican. Because you can insert the names Reagan or Bush into this little thought experiment, or the names Clinton or Obama, since all four presidents ended their terms in office with Congress in control of the other party.
Imagine the $POTUS of your choice is six months out from the next elections. The opposing party in Congress impeaches him, but falls short of the Constitutionally-mandated number of votes to remove him from office. Rather than accept the fact that they lost - again - they fucking launch a coup and force your $POTUS to flee the country.
Would you have accepted that? Would you have accepted that when those driving $POTUS out of the country had taken billions in money from Putin to subvert the results of the last election, since they just couldn't win at the ballot box?
Obama could never afford to build the White House on his salary, either. WYP? And are you sure you want to throw stones in that corrupt glass house, when the son of the Vice President was promptly made a top exec at a Ukrainian energy company after the coup?
American Exceptionalist Bitch, please. American's would have gotten their asses kicked even faster at the start of WWII, if they had shared the same continent with Nazi Germany. No one was capable of going toe-to-toe with the Germans in a ground war at the start of WWII.
That's sure as fuck attacking a straw man rather than deal with the fact that the Western and Pacific fronts combined were a sideshow next to the Eastern front, or that over 80% of German casualties came at the hands of the Red Army.
Imperialist equivocation. The purpose of a facility can be made as distinct as you want, but then it's "ermagerd they were using human shields!", and you still have mass slaughter of civilians and imperialists washing their hands of it.
So what you have is a distinction without a difference. Israel also distinctly uses their airports for both civilian and military use, but we all know the "T" word would be used to describe any attack on such an airport. It's like "double tap" bombings - it's only terrorism if their guys are doing it.
Hell, these days, he's too liberal to be a democrat. Started prosecutions of bankers when Obama bailed out the banks for a fraud dozens of times as large as the S&N crisis. Insisted that Social Security had nothing to do with the deficit - tell that to Obama's Catfood Commission. Withdrew from Grenada and Lebanon (though he never should have gone in in the first place), whereas Obama has made plans to continue the occupation of Afghanistan through two terms of his successor, whoever they turn out to be.
Carson is a brilliant surgeon - freaking genius, really. Any other subject and he's as smart as a bag of hammers.
Saw a meme floating around last week....a Canadian, a Cuban, and a white supremacist walk into a bar. Bartender says, 'hello, Senator Cruz'.
Who's primary skillset is losing other people's money in bankruptcy court? Why not get Lincoln Chafee to switch back, since he's not overly bloodthirsty or a Christofascist?
Eh. Supported the Iraq war, supported the 2006 bankruptcy bill that makes it harder to discharge debt (unless it's for your vacation home), and brags about writing the Patriot Act. Unlike Hillary, he's likable and actually has a personality - but agrees with her on policy.
They had both innovation and invention,, Haterade Distortion Field be damned.
Or maybe you just outed yourself a fascist. I'm not kidding, either.
Apple didn't buy Next for their market success, but for the operating system and development environment, so your observation is a bit of a non sequitur. But congrats for capitalizing the x.
Luck, and Gates trading on his mom's business connections to sell early Microsoft products to IBM, something Jobs didn't have.
Or connect a bluetooth keyboard, or bluetooth num pad, if you need to do a serious amount of work with your smartphone app. Logitech, at least, makes a few keyboards where you can easily switch between different bluetooth devices.
Because you want him to drive the United States into the ground to the point where it has to declare bankruptcy? Because that is Trump's primary skill set: losing other people's money.
Nah, not joking. Trolling.
You mean they're supposed to be flawless, because Apple, because reasons. Five people out of five million purchases report a problem with an Apple product, and Tim Cook better be calling Kerry Washington because they've got a scaaandal on their hands.
Think that's hyperbole? At the height of Bendghazi, Apple had reports from a total of 6 users on their iPhone screens bending. Whereas the Samsung Galaxy cracked, rather than bended, at the same pressure but there was no whining at Samsung.
Then, of course, there's don't hold it wrong.
I see what you're saying. The United States is by far and away the greatest cause and supporter of violence around the world. The biggest mountain you can name from the worst rouge state is a molehill next to the carnage fostered or dealt by the CIA and the Pentagon.
So, when is Washington D.C. going to be invaded, and who's going to do it?
We've had CNN all through the war crimes of the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the illegal war against Libya, the overthrow of Ukraine's democracy, the bombing of even more countries that have never been a threat to us, the drone assassins that have killed hundreds of kids....
Obviously, none of that was stopped by CNN. Hell, the network supported most of that, along with the rest of the media. Did you think through this talking point before posting it?
That's what imperialists tell themselves when their bombs kill a bunch of innocent people. And they never play by their own rules - Israel bombs buildings all over Gaza, with the excuse that they are being used by Hamas for military purposes, yet puts their own military headquarters smack in the middle of Tel Aviv.
Or you could try, you know, not being a bloodthirsty imperialist? You out yourself when you repeatedly excuse U.S. bombing while at the same time repeating the dumbfuckery of "barrel bombs." There would be no war in Syria if your fellow bloodthirsty imperialists weren't arming, funding and training foreign fighters to attack Assad, who was targeted for regime change before the Arab Spring.
All the dead in Syria, all the refugees fleeing to other countries, all the people drowning in the sea - victims of regime change.
Yeah. There was.
No. They didn't. This Apple TV is not yet for sale.
No. They didn't. They took it apart so they could grab a story before the rest of the press, but violated the developer's NDA in the process, hence their membership in the developer program getting revoked, hence the app getting pulled from the Apple Store.
Hatebois have the right to their own opinions, but they don't have the right to their own set of facts. That, and to pretend Apple suddenly had a problem with iFixit taking apart an Apple product, after they've posted hundreds of guides on how to take apart Apple products, is just fucking stupid. If iFixit had waited until they could buy a model online or at retail, there would have been no issue.
Pull your heads out of the Hatorade, Hatebois.
Which has always meant free to use, not that there is no cost involved. Sidewalks aren't built for free, but they are free to use. Same goes for schools and healthcare in civilized countries.
In an alternate universe where the website was iTakeStuffApart.com, and the slogan wasn't actually "The Free Repair Guide for Everything?"
NDA? What NDA!!!
You first.
See above, RE obvious prejudice. Look, this isn't hard: the #1 correlation between a student and academic performance is not race, but the wealth of the parents. Do you really think that no poor white kid has been sneered at by peers for wanting to get a masters or a doctorate? Do you really think that the Obama girls have been told "they're acting white" a day in their lives?
GTFO with your race-based prejudice. There's a term for that, BTW.