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Thanks Kluurs. Argerich remains my top favourite living pianist. I have yet to be disappointed by any of her solo recordings out there. Interesting what the article has to about her relationship to Schumann’s music. I would have never thought that.

@Horace said in Biden lied. Imagine that ...:

It's a testament to the power of rhetoric that the threat of nuclear war - in a discussion about a proxy war between the world's two greatest nuclear powers - was never on the table in the mainstream discussion. It's all about what's morally just. When practical risks were considered, they began and ended with Russia continuing through all of Europe if they were "handed Ukraine".

US has been doing for Ukraine exactly what the Soviets did for the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong during the war in Vietnam. The extent of direct Soviet involvement too was treated as a big secret - although poorly kept and known to anyone in the West who was willing to dig around military and foreign policy academic periodicals, right up until the USSR was dissolved.

The NYT article really exposes nothing. The Trump camp loves it because it shoe horns nicely into the narrative of its own parallel reality.

The coordinated effort that led to the sinking of the Moskva is no revelation. I even sat in in an online Atlantic Council panel discussion that was chaired by Gen (ret.) Philip Breedlove, shortly after the ship was sunk in which the coordinated effort was discussed in detail. The NYT team and Taibbi, of all people, should know that very well. If they did not know - and I find that hard to believe - they are guilty of sloppy thinking derived from poor journalistic integrity. But we knew that along.

@Jolly

Geez, what a bunch of hair-trigger reactionaries..

There isn’t a bunch. Only two reactionaries on this forum and of those two, you are the grand wizard.

@Copper said in Canadian Tariff situation gets its own thread:

nice

Hey Copperhead, you 5 cent piece of passive aggressive troll excrement, I get the impression you actually like taking elbows to the head.

@Copper said in Trumpenomics:

disappointing

Copperhead.

Not surprised that Rand Paul put his name to it. I hope others will step up and show similar moral fibre.

Wait until it dawns on the old Fat One that he’s been Putin’s Muggins since before they even met in Helsinki back in 2018.

Trump has been Putin’s muggins all along. He was just too stupid to figure it out.

@Copper

It's pretty easy for me to disregard a New York jerk, I have over 70 years of experience doing this.

And to think you gave us all the impression you were originally from Boston.

Nope.

And your so called “gun rights” is just one reason (of many) why we don’t want it or will allow it to happen.

@xenon said in 100% American Made Car:

Have not. Got a link? Is this soeech from a military base? (I assume they couldn’t find any Greenlander to actually host them)

Here’s a link by Timothy Snyder who, although overall correct in his assessment, will not go over well with a few posters here:

https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/vance-in-greenland?r=17wfy3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

@Jolly said in 100% American Made Car:

What a crass fucking comment.

Find your own damn link.

Been called out again or just spilling water, eh Foghorn?

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@Doctor-Phibes said in Glad the free speech folks are in charge:

@Jolly said in Glad the free speech folks are in charge:

One of the biggest lies in the history of the U S. was the Biden cover-up.

And none of you Trump hating muthafuckers said barely a word, except to lie and deny what everybody could see.

So pardon me if I doubt your veracity when it comes to this administration. I know you nitpicking nabobs of negativity would love to see this country fail, because winning has replaced what you think about the country and at least half the people who live in it

If I was close enough I'd spit on you.

You must live in a parallel reality if you think nobody here said anything about Joe Biden's fairly obvious incapability.

I believe that has been well understood for sometime now.

@Mik said in Trumpenomics:

I hear the same from my Canadian relatives. They're plenty pissed.

Hell, they're not even apologizing.

I’m at least discriminating. I take it all out on the two resident MAGAts here. Those two and any fellow Canadians that show slightest sympathy for MAGAtism and its demogogue leader cult figure.

@xenon said in 400,000:

@Mik said in 400,000:

He didn't start that way, but when Newt's GOP crushed the Democrats in the 94 midterms he just pivoted and very masterfully stole their platform. Didn't call him Slick Willy for nothing.

Carney is doing a similar thing in Canada right now. He’s adopting some of the policy positions from Conservatives and dropping the MAGA overtones.

He’s moving the Liberal Party back to its traditional place at the centre left and bringing in disillusioned red Tories (Joe Clark PCs) who the Poilievre Conservatives have unceremoniously abandoned

@jon-nyc

He’s [Musk] almost certainly the single largest individual spreader of lies and propaganda the earth has ever seen.

I would say in the top three. He faces some pretty stiff competition for the top spot from Putin and even his own boss, Trump.

@Doctor-Phibes said in Your idea for a polymarket topic here.:

@89th said in Your idea for a polymarket topic here.:

Musk likes his company names. He should name it Otto Mobiles, named after Nicolaus Otto who invented the first gas engine.

How about The Wankel?

Named after the famous German engine designer, Felix Wankel.

Although that name might rub people up the wrong way, it would be quite appropriate.

Maybe something more American like:

Wankler

Greenlanders are talking too:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14541241/amp/Greenland-savage-Usha-Vance-cancelation.html

Love it!

Anchor is up. Quality is said to be very good.

Distractor alert!

Beauregard is seeking attention by proving once again he has nothing of consequence or value to say on the thread topic or discussion at hand.