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Buddur - Posted - 02/16/2024: 06:22:34
RIP Alexei Navalny.
Searched but couldn't find the thread that talked about all those who have mysteriously died in the Soviet Union....Navalny adds another person to the list of those who met their demise, albeit not as mysterious, but an opposition leader who met an untimely fate nonetheless.
RB3 - Posted - 02/16/2024: 07:14:22
Here in the US, we have to collect evidence, go to court, and then go through an onerous and time-consuming appellate process. It's so much more efficient the way the Russians do it. Putin really knows how to put the corpse in habeas corpus.
Tractor1 - Posted - 02/16/2024: 08:20:53
I wonder what a man that has anything he wants in his life and has as much as he wants anytime---what could he possibly gain--he already has anything he wants in ALL aspects in his life---
donc - Posted - 02/16/2024: 18:51:05
Greed is a bottomless pit.
chuckv97 - Posted - 02/16/2024: 20:09:18
quote:
Originally posted by donc
Greed is a bottomless pit.
You'll never get enough of what you want.
Laurence Diehl - Posted - 02/16/2024: 21:21:07
It's hard to vote him out of office when there's only one name on the ballot.
STUD figmo Al - Posted - 02/17/2024: 05:10:09
I would sujest looking a multipul souces of info..
Before concluding what you may think had happened..
mike gregory - Posted - 02/20/2024: 06:27:30
But, since Vladimir Poopin is a Head of State, anything we say about him on the HangOut is "political", and cannot be posted!
Same way I would not be allowed to speculate about why nobody else EXCEPT Vlad's translator was allowed in the room, when the American head of state was in there with him for what one comedian described as an "Employee Review".
Tim Jumper - Posted - 02/20/2024: 06:43:00
Since this thread is allowed to continue without editorial comment, one must assume it is not political.
Pomeroy - Posted - 02/20/2024: 08:53:50
Paradoxically shutting down opposition is symptomatic of anger at one's own underlying weakness and vulnerability.
When your position of privilege relies on intimidation you remain vulnerable to the people you violate collectively realising that what they have to gain outweighs their fear.
In some environments oppressed people discover and share that realisation quickly. In other environments, when subject to lies and manipulation, it takes oppressed people longer. But all oppressed people reach that realisation eventually.
Edited by - Pomeroy on 02/20/2024 09:02:13
monstertone - Posted - 02/20/2024: 10:00:30
Me thinks Pomeroy may be onto something. 
Dempsey-T2 - Posted - 02/20/2024: 10:32:46
quote:
? In a nutshell summing up your post: "you cant have shunt without a bump" { Einstein } as well then, given a majority of population they will forever have collectively the power to interrupt.
Originally posted by Pomeroy
Paradoxically shutting down opposition is symptomatic of anger at one's own underlying weakness and vulnerability.
When your position of privilege relies on intimidation you remain vulnerable to the people you violate collectively realising that what they have to gain outweighs their fear.
In some environments oppressed people discover and share that realisation quickly. In other environments, when subject to lies and manipulation, it takes oppressed people longer. But all oppressed people reach that realisation eventually.
STUD figmo Al - Posted - 02/20/2024: 12:15:48
quote:
Originally posted by monstertone
Me thinks Pomeroy may be onto something.
Yep..
Folks slowly..waking up..
mike gregory - Posted - 02/20/2024: 15:03:53
Now, comrades, we grab banjos, grab balaliakas, we sing along!
"Go in and out the window, Go in and out the window, Go in and out the window,
Like we have done before"
(But, mostly out, for troublemakers!)
Paul R - Posted - 02/20/2024: 17:45:45
quote:
Originally posted by STUD figmo Al
quote:
Originally posted by monstertone
Me thinks Pomeroy may be onto something.
Yep..
Folks slowly..waking up..
Waddya mean "slowly"? Some of us here have been onto it for several years.
Pomeroy - Posted - 02/21/2024: 04:38:52
It's also crucial to understand that the definition of 'oppression' is the unfair prevention of freedom and opportunity.
It is not merely a convenient synonym for being exposed to action and opinion we dislike or disagree with.
Edited by - Pomeroy on 02/21/2024 04:42:33
STUD figmo Al - Posted - 02/21/2024: 04:57:55
quote:
Originally posted by Paul R
quote:
Originally posted by STUD figmo Al
quote:
Originally posted by monstertone
Me thinks Pomeroy may be onto something.
Yep..
Folks slowly..waking up..
Waddya mean "slowly"? Some of us here have been onto it for several years.
It had been said.. by observers..
That there is a % of folks.. 4 to 10%..?
That will never wake up...
Long term indoctrination......?
you may choose to look at this answer ..
annahway you choose.. :0)
Remember...
it is harder to show someone that they have been fooled..
than it is to fool someone.. (remember your trueizum from past posts?)
personaly..
i think.. the folks that believe..that they are the smarter of the bunch..
Are the most difficult..to show them..as fooled..
But..
i..could be wrong... as i have been regaurded as not one of the smartest of the bunch... ;0)
I happen to know that ..i..have been fooled in the past.. so i now stay gaurded..for that..folks that consiter themselves..too smart to be fooleed.. tend to think that they can not be fooled..
From me own observations.. i have made in me life..
Mebee i am just foolin meself.. 'eh.. ;0)
cheers..
Edited by - STUD figmo Al on 02/21/2024 05:09:06
mike gregory - Posted - 02/21/2024: 05:14:09
quote:
Originally posted by Pomeroy
It's also crucial to understand that the definition of 'oppression' is the unfair prevention of freedom and opportunity.
It is not merely a convenient synonym for being exposed to action and opinion we dislike or disagree with.
This kid and I agree with you.
STUD figmo Al - Posted - 02/21/2024: 05:49:59
"I like to keep an open mind, but not so open that my brain falls out."
- Judge Harold T. Stone and others
- Liz
'I'm Liberated!' 3 hrs
'Mahog bow tie.' 15 hrs
