The Ukraine war thread

[Mik]

We keep reading about Russia being hit by devastating blow after devastating blow, but they keep coming.

[Renauda]

…..And Putin and Trump keep having self congratulatory telephone conversations.

[Tom-K]

@Renauda said in The Ukraine war thread:

…..And Putin and Trump keep having self congratulatory telephone conversations.

It's why psychopaths RULE THE WORLD.

[Axtremus]

@Tom-K said in The Ukraine war thread:

It's why psychopaths RULE THE WORLD.

Well, did you vote for one of those psychopaths?

[jon-nyc]

People who are able to draw causal connections between different things might think that withholding weapons from Ukraine and not making progress with Putin might actually be related.

[Renauda]

@Tom-K said in The Ukraine war thread:

@Renauda said in The Ukraine war thread:

…..And Putin and Trump keep having self congratulatory telephone conversations.

It's why psychopaths RULE THE WORLD.

It’s called The Art of the Sell Out and Putin is the dealer.

[jon-nyc]

We’re on the side of the Angels.

[Klaus]

[jon-nyc]

The transphobia breaks my heart.

[Klaus]

Do you think CO and AJ believe their own bullshit?

[jon-nyc]

I stopped trying to understand magats. I just can’t. They’re a different species.

[Mik]

“Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'

I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!”
― Lewis Carroll

[Axtremus]

@jon-nyc said in The Ukraine war thread:

I stopped trying to understand magats. I just can’t. They’re a different species.

Easy.
They go with "whatever Trump says."

Say, anyone seen @Jolly lately? He used to have interesting interpretations for what ever Trump says.

[Klaus]

@jon-nyc said in The Ukraine war thread:

I stopped trying to understand magats. I just can’t. They’re a different species.

But compared to these people, Trump is a rational, fact-based persona. They are completely off the charts.

[Horace]

@jon-nyc said in The Ukraine war thread:

I stopped trying to understand magats. I just can’t. They’re a different species.

AJ and CO are both punditry entrepreneurs (or grifters, if you prefer) who have no problem differing with whatever Trump is saying that week.

[Horace]

@Klaus said in The Ukraine war thread:

@jon-nyc said in The Ukraine war thread:

I stopped trying to understand magats. I just can’t. They’re a different species.

But compared to these people, Trump is a rational, fact-based persona. They are completely off the charts.

It's not difficult to see AJ's and CO's trajectories as audience capture, selling fun conspiracy wackiness to the fringy people who want to buy it. From there it is human, if weak, to believe one's own BS to some extent. These lines of "true belief" are always murky.

[jon-nyc]

It would be funny if someone from the White House did in fact tell her that just to see how much stupid she would perform.

Years ago I worked with a guy who believed in all kinds of conspiracy theories. He got word of the fact that I was supposed to be in the twin towers on 9/11 but wasn’t. When he asked me about it I looked him in the eye and deadpanned: ‘Well, my wife’s Jewish so we got the call the night before’.

[Mik]

Another one bites the dust. They have a big problem with window safety.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/top-russian-oil-executive-dies-in-moscow-window-fall/ar-AA1HXUeP

[Renauda]

@jon-nyc said in The Ukraine war thread:

Years ago I worked with a guy who believed in all kinds of conspiracy theories. He got word of the fact that I was supposed to be in the twin towers on 9/11 but wasn’t. When he asked me about it I looked him in the eye and deadpanned: ‘Well, my wife’s Jewish so we got the call the night before’.

555. You’re a troll.

Did he run with it?

[jon-nyc]

I think he didn’t know whether I was kidding or not.