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Fighting the good fight |
The thing is, it's true. That's how the younger generation works these days. But then again, how many times over the years have various forum members here said something along the lines of: "I don't read the news... Anything I need to know about I'll hear about on Sigforum anyway" or "Sigforum is the best source of news I've found." Now take those sentiments and replace "SigForum" with "TikTok". | |||
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Ammoholic |
Next you're going to tell me SF is owned by a Chinese company with direct ties to the CCP. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
Not at all. My point was, the concept of people using social media (in general) as a primary source of news isn't exactly a brand new concept, or even one that's relegated solely to "kids these days"... | |||
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Ammoholic |
I'm just being a smart ass. There is a difference in standards though. Here you want to make an assertion or post news, it needs links. Never seen a tictoc video with source links. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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A Grateful American |
Wait. You mean drums, smoke, drawing on cave walls, are no longer the means of mass communicatin'? "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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Funny Man |
I was reading about Ukraine’s air assets today. According to the author they are still flying about a dozen missions per day including in a handful of Mig 29’s they still have flying. Perhaps it makes no tactical sense or would not serve any direct military purpose but it got me thinking that Moscow is within easy flight range of Kiev, which means many potential targets are even closer. Is there a case for Ukraine making a couple of highly visible targets in Putin’s front yard go boom? ______________________________ “I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.” ― John Wayne | |||
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Wait, what? |
^^^^ I assume that ground to air defenses would become more numerous outside of Ukraine and especially around big Russian cities/assets. It might also be what Putin hopes will happen and hypocritically cry “war crimes” and release total annihilation in civilian areas. “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
Not IMO. If you're going to send resources on suicide missions, better to go for targets that might actually make a difference--like those trains, headed from the east, with a bunch of hardware and troops. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
Nope. And you don't even have to go all the way down to the watering hole or the corner diner to hear the latest gossip and world news these days. I do think it's funny how some folks will be posting in one thread about how "It's just ridiculous how kids these days only get their news from social media!" while in another thread they're like "Don't ever listen to anything the news media says, it's all controlled by the government, big business, and the leftists!" | |||
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I Deal In Lead |
Move up to the 19th century. We went to soup cans on a string long ago. | |||
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Member |
agree the channels of information have changed fundamentally from the boomer days of watching 'ol Cronkite broadcast the 6 o'clock evening news. but i will say -- i tell everybody i know that my 'most trusted' source is the Wall Street Journal. IMO actual objective reporting to 'old school' high journalist standards. ----------------------------------- Proverbs 27:17 - As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. | |||
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Member |
The Ukrainian version of a Doolittle Raid isn't going to happen, there's no reason to waste such assets on a mission that has little value, not to mention Ukraine is in the process of getting overrun, the US had no such problem. While citizens were still in shock due to Pearl Harbor, military leaders knew that there was an industrial base that simply needed time to ramp-up. There's no magic 'kill this guy and it all ends' type of scenario here. | |||
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A Grateful American |
"the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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Do No Harm, Do Know Harm |
After watching that Oliver Stone thing…holy shit what a convoluted mess. I’ve got no idea who to root for. I do know that usually the democrats and media are on the opposite side of what my values are. But the misinformation and disinformation is amazing. Knowing what one is talking about is widely admired but not strictly required here. Although sometimes distracting, there is often a certain entertainment value to this easy standard. -JALLEN "All I need is a WAR ON DRUGS reference and I got myself a police thread BINGO." -jljones | |||
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A Grateful American |
Given what we know, I am rooting for the people of Ukraine. No matter what level of corruption the government, no matter if there are some elements that are harshing the buzz of other folk in the country (i.e. the "Nazis in Eastern Ukraine picking on the Russian homies), possibility of NATO and/or EU membership, none of that merits the scale of invasion and brutality we are seeing upon a sovereign nation. Ukraine made no overture of threat to Russia. Ukraine posed no imminent threat to Russia. So, the asymmetrical response to any real problems causes me to root for the people. There were several venues where Russia could have brought forth evidence and argument and sued for UN, or even NATO or America involvement of review and investigation of allegations. After Crimea was annexed 8 years ago, this invasion of Ukraine is a second step, and may well lead to greater conflict. In both cases, Russia (Putin) has grabbed his nuclear crotch and taunted the West with threats of whipping it out. I believe that the best way for this to resolve is for Ukraine to somehow, prevail and cause Russian to go home and reconsider life choices from attrition of loss, than for any West hot confrontation to push him back. But, I just do not see any justification for Russia's side in this, even if all the claims of "Bio Weapons Labs" "Nazis", or any other issues were 100% true. And, yes, what can anyone believe is the "real truth" based on anything reported? "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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Ammoholic |
Everything the primate said. I don't really care if there are Nazis in the country, as I noted on here before they killed my family. I don't care if they are doing biological research, the vast vast majority of that type of research is not nefarious and I have yet to see one drop of evidence that they are doing something illegal or making weapons. I am going to stick with the fact that a former superpower with a shit ton of left over nuclear weapons and conventional weapons is attacking their neighbor unprovoked. Regardless of whatever Putin thinks justifies his attack they have not made a move attacking them yet. Until the first mortar flies you always have to try diplomacy first. Finally I always cheer for the underdog, Ukraine should have fallen within days to weeks, this is like seeing the #64 seed beating Duke in the second half of the final four. If we later find out that Ukraine is filled with nothing but Nazis and bio-weapon labs fine, deal with it with diplomacy. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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Freethinker |
Exactly. Someone I know listens to Nutjobs, Pinkos and Reds “public” radio and I couldn’t avoid hearing someone ask, “Are the Russians committing war crimes in Ukraine?” When I heard that my immediate reaction was, “Of course they are. The fact that they are waging the war is a war crime.” One of the charges against some of the German defendants at Nürnberg was that they had “waged an aggressive war.” Upon their conviction that was at least part of the reason they were hanged. An aggressive war is one that’s launched with no justification, and it is no different than if I broke into someone’s house, killed the occupants, and stole their possessions. If I did that to a friend or relative of yours, would you think that I had committed a crime? Would it be okay if I took their stuff and went home or maybe just decided to move into their house myself? Would it matter if one of the many occupants I killed was a criminal or Communist himself? Would all that be okay if some of the items I stole had been originally stolen from someone else? How about if I and a bunch of like-minded individuals decided to go to another town and do that to a bunch of people there? “Well, that’s war”—hmmmm … really? Just as our individual quality of life is degraded if we must live in a community in which crime is rampant and we cannot trust anyone else to the extent of not fortifying our homes and hiring security forces to protect us at all times, our quality of life is degraded when that’s necessary on a national level. And part of the reason why it’s necessary on our national level is because things like the aggressive criminal war against Ukraine are possible—and because they still occur, even in the 21st century. ► 6.4/93.6 ___________ “We are Americans …. Together we have resisted the trap of appeasement, cynicism, and isolation that gives temptation to tyrants.” — George H. W. Bush | |||
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Gracie Allen is my personal savior! |
Yeah, but oddly enough, a year after a Ukrainian court found Leschenko and Sytnyk illegally interfered with a US election, Porochenko and his party were swept out of power in the 2019 Ukrainian election that brought in Zelenskyy and his fellow Independents... http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/cr...are-great-teacher-us Trump couldn't ask for better allies to be in power in Ukraine than the people in power in Ukraine now - and, given Putin's partiality for autocrats, Putin knows it. | |||
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SIGforum's Berlin Correspondent |
https://www.newyorker.com/news...ussia-ukraine-stalin | |||
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A Grateful American |
Iran hit (U.S. Forces) airbase and near consulate Erbil Iraq. 1/2 dozen missiles. "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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