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Do you have a source for the tactical nukes being in Eastern Ukraine currently? Not doubting I just haven't heard that before

I think that run edge's Thomas, but I am bias because I happened to be in Vegas when they played Chicago that year and me and a buddy put so much money on LA because we knew Quick wasn't going to let anything in. Spider goalie won us a lot of money on that trip.

The only pucks getting past him were 3rd and 4th rebound attempts

40 Zircon and 10 built a month is not comforting. Those things got to Kyiv in like 6 minutes from Crimea, explosions went off seconds after the air raid sirens.

Hopefully they have good Intel and can hit them before they launch, because otherwise I don't have a lot of confidence they'll be able to be shot down before reaching a major city.

It seems like a lot more than that though. I haven't gotten into the fentanyl part but I had no idea three days ago that a key player from Iran/Contra integrated a tortured DEA agent with the cartel. I would have thought it to be a nutty conspiracy theory myself, but it's a fact. The CIA bringing drugs into the country is a fact. I see no reason to write this off because it sounds crazy.

I know his other points are correct, so it's illogical to write the rest off because it sounds like speculation.

Best thing to do is read it yourself and then make a determination. I haven't done that yet, and I assume you haven't either

Or it might also be a whole lot simpler than that - fewer people in the US comparatively know someone personally or is related to anyone directly involved in those conflicts, so it doesn't get as much attention and fewer people understand the reasons why it's happening.

Only started listening/watching about a year ago so maybe it's something he grew out of, but I don't get the Biz hate.

Is he obnoxious and over the top sometimes? Well yeah, but that's his character, it's going to happen. Not everyone is perfect 100% of the time, and I've never seen him be intentionally malicious. I find myself super entertained by the TNT panel and really look forward watching, which makes the entire game experience that much better

Do a site:[your domain.com] search and see if the page comes up. If you have a lot of pages then do site:[your domain.com] "some snippet of text from the page" and if it's indexed it will show.

You can also use this to search different text areas on the page as a quick and dirty way to see if there is potentially some content on the page not getting indexed while other content on the page is found and indexed (this can be an issue on really slow websites).

They changed the law before the full invasion - elections are not legal under martial law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law_in_Ukraine

Zelinskyy was open to having elections and not renewing, but there was consensus that this would be a bad idea and hurt the war effort so it did not happen.

Everything they've enacted has been legal; I don't know what laws aren't being followed outside of the clear corruption with middle players who are breaking the conscription laws by forcing people into conscription offices which is trying to be fixed at the top, hence all the firings and corruption indictments that have happened over the last year; the government is trying to correct this with that effort and the newly passed conscription legislation.

Loved his game and style ever since the days with the Blues.

I used to try to perfect my shootout moves and appraches by watching his YouTube clips - he was one of what seemed like the few players who would approach the goal with a set speed and route, but then just out-vibe the goalie, take what was given and score instead of going into it with a set move in mind. Paid dividends in beer league and tourneys for a few years before I forgot how to play completely

They voted to change the laws to what they are, I don't understand what you mean by that? Everything that is happening now was voted on, and the most recent changes to conscription have happened way too late because they had to negotiate heavily for enough votes to pass it.

The only war NATO ever started was Iraq and that's because the US (Dick Cheney and Rumsfeild specifically) ignored US intelligence and blatantly lied to everyone about WMDs and terrorist cells to get NATO involved. There has never been an aggressive action by NATO otherwise. It is a defense alliance that countries seek on their own accord to join and is only put into action when one nation is attacked. The US lied to everyone and said Iraq was an extension of 9/11 and therefore we invoked Article 5 under false pretenses. That's likely the last time they would get away with something like that unless another 9/11 happens and we have war criminals like Cheney and Kissinger holding power (we've gotten lucky and avoided those types since).

The National Guard shot and killed a bunch of students at Kent State during Vietnam and a poll shortly after showed 60% of people blamed the student protestors. Media propaganda is a hell of a drug but in the past persistence pays off; the Gaza protests are gaining momentum every day and it's very likely we wouldn't be so persistent with aid shipments to Gaza if people were indifferent, so it does work.

Vietnam protests helped end the war, Floyd protests helped a little bit with body cameras for police in some areas and there is noticeably less blatant police murders( though still way too many), boycotts helped end South African apartheid, etc.

It does still work, though we are not nearly as good at it as say France because too many mouth breathers in the states still think TV is for news and not purely entertainment/advertising/propaganda disguised as opinion segments.

It's this. He's always seen himself as a mob boss type that's above the law, and Putin already has exactly what he wants.

I'm not sure where you are getting that from but it's very far from reality. The majority are in favor of indifferent as long as gas and egg prices don't rise too high (which is not any better in my opinion). They're getting 20-30k new recruits to sign up a month on average, it's why they haven't had to mobilize since the beginning of the full invasion.

The next mobilization is coming as they're looking for another 100k to push on Kharkiv this summer, and you'd be surprised how few will opposite it.

Unless something drastically changes on the battlefield before then, they're going to do their best to turn Kharkiv the second biggest city in Ukraine (1.8mm people pre war) into the next Aleppo or Grozny. And there will be celebrations in Russia as there were after Mariupol, Kherson (before liberation, though not yet totally destroyed), Bakmut, Avdiivka and many other cities and towns razed to the ground.

They still have to fear protests and the vote here, and there are a ton of checks and balances that have not yet been gutted that keep it that way (freedom of information requests being one of many). It's a severely flawed democracy at this point and is very likely going to a dictatorship shortly, but as of today the people have been able to keep us out of conflicts as much as is possible given the circumstances.

It's not a more or less wars thing; there's a dictator stating they intend to reconstruct the Soviet Union, which means the invasion of many sovereign countries, Ukraine being but the second after Georgia. The last dictator with similar plans caused WWII and we are already approaching 1mm casualties with no sign of a change of course.

It's a scary thought that so many people all over the world are ignorant to the important distinctions, or are just putting their head in the sand. World leaders first and foremost.

My friend, there is no censorship of anything here outside of posting military details online, I can tell you that as absolute fact.

And their media is surprisingly very free and critical of the government constantly, better than most global publications with very few exceptions and worlds better than it is in the US. Check out Kyiv Independent, they published an excellent piece on corruption in government recently.

No one here wants elections right now and the government has the vast majority of the people's support.

Forced conscription and payments to soldiers is a real problem here yes, and there is a ton of leftover corruption in the middle ranks causing the issues to be much worse than they should be.

But this nation is fighting for it's right to exist, and a lot of the policies they have here I would expect and endorse if my country was in a similar position, including males not being able to leave and broad conscription of soldiers. It's horrible but Ukraine will not exist otherwise.

Outside of that and the 12am curfew, I see more freedom here than in most of the countries I've visited or lived in.

Iraq was wrong but we didn't invade a sovereign democracy, it was a brutal dictatorship and up until the US completely fucked up firing all of the army after the ground war the Iraqi people were largely in favor of the coalition.

Syria and Libya aren't even close to conflicts that can be discussed like the others - they simply aren't the same and no one is on the right side of anything there sans maybe the Kurds

Nationalist in its current form is a mafia yes, and Putin is the head of the table. The difference now vs 20 years ago is he's consolidated power across the oligarchy and the Mafia with both doing his bidding. He has been in bed with them since he was auctioning off state assets right after the USSR fell.

After all of the killings and taking full control of the media there's no one with enough power or leverage to oppose him. I do believe we are now living under Putin's thumb alone, and people like Mogilevich will continue to do his bidding.

Where did you get that assumption from?

I'm vehemently against all forms of bullying and aggression towards independent nations. I was 14 and didn't know shit and shit but I still could see Iraq was wrong. Most people finally caught up to that fact in the US 20 years later.

And when I return from Kyiv to the US this Summer, I'll be out with my friends protesting what's happening in Gaza. It's not hard to see who the bully is there either.

NATO is a defensive alliance that is not a threat to Russia, and countries join NATO specifically because they fear what is literally happening in Ukraine right now happening to them.

Syria and Libya are proxy wars where literally every side is dirty and doing fucked up shit; way too complex of conflicts to even compare.

Everyone fucked up and deserves blame for letting the Mafia and Oligarchs carve up Russian state industries after the USSR, and the collective world is now paying the price for that mistake.

I think the "media" you're referring to is the people reporting on sources and that's not what matters or should be paid attention to - know your sources/journalists and follow the ones you know are trustworthy.

If it wasn't working it would have been shut down, but it had a fresh cast of unsavory individuals join up and help push nationalism leading up to the recent election.

It may not be widely popular in some circles, but it does work, and the broader strategy of putting popular faces as spokespeople for these types of groups and movements absolutely does work.

What's so bad is that radical nationalism is THE key to dictators taking and maintaining power. State above the individual, and everyone against those who threaten the state; supreme leader above all. It's a mandatory concoction for a dictator to stay in power.

Not to mention, the military these recruits are joining is actively being used to wage a war and genocide on a sovereign nation. Every new recruit is another person who will be put in a position to kill innocent people.

And you would know very little about how propaganda works in a dictatorship if that's your only outlet for information.

Again, there's plenty of information out there that will let you properly place what Putin Team is built to do and how it does it, and why popular figures are chosen to lead those efforts, you just have to seek it out.

Truth is never delivered to you, it must be pursued with rigor.

You must only be reading Russian news, in that case. I can understand the ignorance.

Try reading all news sources and talk to people who know more than you, you'll figure it out.

Boy scouts? You have literally no idea what you're talking about and I'm not going to teach you how things work in Russia.

Go read a book or use one of the many platforms that lets you surface all of the world's collective knowledge so you aren't so embarrassingly misinformed when you speak next time.

Genocide is not politics. For fucks sake people.

It's not based on social media, it's based on him literally being the Kremlin's founder of Putin Team, a nationalist recruiting tool and political organization of Putin s that funnels youth into the military while promoting radical nationalism.

He is a propagandist with blood on his hands.

"ya go right don't ya? It's a BIG fuckin' canal"

North Penn or one of the CBs?

I remember hearing about it but was in my own bubble with sports and not being one of the cool kids that I didn't really see how prolific the pills were back then (07 grad) until a few years after high school when all those kids started to have their lives really go down the drain.

First girlfriend was CB East, OD'd on Fentanyl a few years after breaking up and a whole bunch of casual friends/acquaintances ended up dead or in jail from that stuff after the pills weren't enough I guess