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Post by pulmonarymd on Mar 4, 2022 11:18:41 GMT -5
If you watch Tucker Carlson, you might as well admit you are a racist, because he sure is. Anyone who continues to do so at this point is a racist.
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I'm surprised Tucker didn't put the blame on Obama for once wearing a tan colored business suit. Tucker Carlson Admits He Was 'Wrong' About Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Bizarrely Blames Kamala HarrisTucker Carlson admitted he was wrong about the Russian invasion of Ukraine during Thursday night's "Tucker Carlson Tonight," but the host still found a way to put the blame for the situation in Eastern Europe on the Biden Administration. Specifically, the Fox News host asserted that he never took the situation seriously because President Joe Biden sent Vice President Kamala Harris to Europe as the world feared imminent war. Carlson opened his show by addressing breaking news of a fire at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, which broke out Thursday after Russian shelling. "So, the situation appears to be more chaotic by the day, possibly even spinning out of control," Carlson said in response. "And that, we must be honest, is shocking to us. We've been taken by surprise by the whole thing. We're not the only ones who were, but we're willing to admit it. The only thing more embarrassing than being wrong in your estimates is pretending that you weren't. So why didn't we see this coming, this total loss of control?" After backpedaling on his Russia-Ukraine conflict stance, he pivoted the blame to Democrats, going on to say that his failure to take the situation seriously was due to Harris' attendance at the Munich Security Conference in February. "Well, because we assumed that if things were dire, serious people would be involved in fixing them. But we looked up and we saw Kamala Harris involved, and that reassured us," Carlson said. "Harris had just come back from Europe where she'd been conducting quote, 'diplomacy' with our allies, and that appeared to be proof this could not really be a big deal." "If the situation in Ukraine had been legitimately serious, if the future of Europe and the world hung in the balance as now so obviously it does, of course the Biden administration would not have sent Kamala Harris to fix it, because that's not her job," he continued. "Kamala Harris' job is to trot down to the Blue Room periodically to greet delegations of TikTok influencers or to cut occasional PSAs for Children's Dental Health Awareness Month, which is in February, so we assumed she'd be working on that right now. "We didn't underestimate Vladimir Putin, we overestimated Joe Biden," Carlson said before playing a series of clips showing Harris in light-hearted moments. "This is just not a serious person, not surrounded by serious people," he followed. After months of pro-Kremlin comments, Carlson received widespread criticism for his remarks downplaying the Russia-Ukraine conflict last week, even as Russia launched the invasion. He minimized the conflict as a mere "border dispute" and questioned what he described as a sense of "a patriotic duty to hate Vladimir Putin." "It may be worth asking yourself, since it is getting pretty serious, what is this really about? Why do I hate Putin so much?" he said on his Feb. 22 show. "Has Putin ever called me a racist? Has he threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him?" "But Joe Biden likes Ukraine, so Putin bad, war good," he added at the time. Carlson concluded Thursday's bizarre rant against Harris with a bit about her dating history, referencing her past relationship with Montel Williams — not his first time fixating on the relationship. "So if you're looking for someone to date Montel Williams, well, maybe she's the person you would choose," he said. "She could be a solid choice, she's done it before. Dating Montel Williams - you know - is something that's within her range of experience. Is she good at it? We can't say. But she's done it. But this new gig? De-escalating a world-ending conflict with the nuclear-armed rogue state? No. No, not when nuclear reactors are on fire. But they're doing it anyway." Tucker Carlson Admits He Was 'Wrong' About Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Bizarrely Blames Kamala HarrisOh come on, Tucker, just say ‘I didn’t think it was important because they sent someone without a dick to do it’ All your MAGA head pals would know exactly what you mean by that. And what’s with saying ‘we didn’t know it was serious,’ Maybe YOU didn’t think it was serious but this dickless American knew it was. Admit you fell for Trumps’ “Putin is our pal” BS.
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Post by Tennesseer on Mar 4, 2022 11:39:08 GMT -5
Russia, Ukraine agree to set up evacuation corridorsNegotiators also discussed maintaining a temporary ceasefire in areas where the humanitarian corridors will be located. Russia and Ukraine have agreed on the need for humanitarian corridors to deliver aid and help civilians exit besieged Ukrainian cities, in the first apparent sign of progress in talks between the warring sides. Russian negotiator Vladimir Medinsky reported “substantial progress” at Thursday’s talks – the second round of negotiations since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine – saying the “main issue that we settled today is the salvation of people, civilians who have found themselves in a zone of military clashes”. Complete article here: Russia, Ukraine agree to set up evacuation corridors
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Post by chiver78 on Mar 4, 2022 11:46:30 GMT -5
what the hell?
ETA - re: Tucker, not the continuing talks. some time passed between my reading and replying.
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I'm surprised Tucker didn't put the blame on Obama for once wearing a tan colored business suit. Tucker Carlson Admits He Was 'Wrong' About Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Bizarrely Blames Kamala HarrisTucker Carlson admitted he was wrong about the Russian invasion of Ukraine during Thursday night's "Tucker Carlson Tonight," but the host still found a way to put the blame for the situation in Eastern Europe on the Biden Administration. Specifically, the Fox News host asserted that he never took the situation seriously because President Joe Biden sent Vice President Kamala Harris to Europe as the world feared imminent war. Carlson opened his show by addressing breaking news of a fire at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, which broke out Thursday after Russian shelling. "So, the situation appears to be more chaotic by the day, possibly even spinning out of control," Carlson said in response. "And that, we must be honest, is shocking to us. We've been taken by surprise by the whole thing. We're not the only ones who were, but we're willing to admit it. The only thing more embarrassing than being wrong in your estimates is pretending that you weren't. So why didn't we see this coming, this total loss of control?" After backpedaling on his Russia-Ukraine conflict stance, he pivoted the blame to Democrats, going on to say that his failure to take the situation seriously was due to Harris' attendance at the Munich Security Conference in February. "Well, because we assumed that if things were dire, serious people would be involved in fixing them. But we looked up and we saw Kamala Harris involved, and that reassured us," Carlson said. "Harris had just come back from Europe where she'd been conducting quote, 'diplomacy' with our allies, and that appeared to be proof this could not really be a big deal." "If the situation in Ukraine had been legitimately serious, if the future of Europe and the world hung in the balance as now so obviously it does, of course the Biden administration would not have sent Kamala Harris to fix it, because that's not her job," he continued. "Kamala Harris' job is to trot down to the Blue Room periodically to greet delegations of TikTok influencers or to cut occasional PSAs for Children's Dental Health Awareness Month, which is in February, so we assumed she'd be working on that right now. "We didn't underestimate Vladimir Putin, we overestimated Joe Biden," Carlson said before playing a series of clips showing Harris in light-hearted moments. "This is just not a serious person, not surrounded by serious people," he followed. After months of pro-Kremlin comments, Carlson received widespread criticism for his remarks downplaying the Russia-Ukraine conflict last week, even as Russia launched the invasion. He minimized the conflict as a mere "border dispute" and questioned what he described as a sense of "a patriotic duty to hate Vladimir Putin." "It may be worth asking yourself, since it is getting pretty serious, what is this really about? Why do I hate Putin so much?" he said on his Feb. 22 show. "Has Putin ever called me a racist? Has he threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him?" "But Joe Biden likes Ukraine, so Putin bad, war good," he added at the time. Carlson concluded Thursday's bizarre rant against Harris with a bit about her dating history, referencing her past relationship with Montel Williams — not his first time fixating on the relationship. "So if you're looking for someone to date Montel Williams, well, maybe she's the person you would choose," he said. "She could be a solid choice, she's done it before. Dating Montel Williams - you know - is something that's within her range of experience. Is she good at it? We can't say. But she's done it. But this new gig? De-escalating a world-ending conflict with the nuclear-armed rogue state? No. No, not when nuclear reactors are on fire. But they're doing it anyway." Tucker Carlson Admits He Was 'Wrong' About Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Bizarrely Blames Kamala HarrisSo basically the Black lady isn’t qualified to do her job.
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Post by swamp on Mar 4, 2022 12:13:37 GMT -5
If you watch Tucker Carlson, you might as well admit you are a racist, because he sure is. Anyone who continues to do so at this point is a racist. This.
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Post by bean29 on Mar 4, 2022 12:21:41 GMT -5
If you watch Tucker Carlson, you might as well admit you are a racist, because he sure is. Anyone who continues to do so at this point is a racist. This. Idk, my Mom is not Racist, but I am sure she watches fox. She has a long history of Right to Life, so she is blindly loyal to the Republican party. They support Right to life and the D's do not, so she is a R. She does not question anything they do. So, I would not be surprised at all if I found her tuned in to Tucker Carlson's show. If you get your news from the echo chamber, you are not necessarily going to have to have anyone explain to you that he is racist. I suspect a lot of people just tune out the parts they don't like.
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Post by weltschmerz on Mar 4, 2022 12:48:05 GMT -5
Ukraine is saying they caught half of a Russian elite special forces team that was tasked with finding and killing Zelensky and took the team out. They say they are tracking the security team. The interesting part is they are claiming the Russian Federal Security Service is the group that tipped them off because they don’t want this war either. Of course we don’t know if this is true or just propaganda. I’m not a military expert by any means, but I know shitty human behavior, and I figure the most likely way for Putin to vanish is for the oligarchs to use some of their ill gotten gains to buy off parts of the military/government and stage a coup. Might mean we get an even more horrible Russian leader, ultimately, but I’ll be crazy optimistic and hope it might give the Russian opposition party a chance to push the country towards democracy. Alexei Navalny, who is still rotting away in prison for speaking out against Putin and corruption, should be the new leader.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Mar 4, 2022 13:02:23 GMT -5
My MiL was over Saturday, and she said something along the lines of, I don't know why all the Ukrainians are fleeing. (WTF?) I replied, "because they don't want to die." She said she doesn't have Fox news, but she probably gets her news from even worse sources. I know she switched to parler or some other stupid social media.
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Post by djAdvocate on Mar 4, 2022 13:05:54 GMT -5
"But Joe Biden likes Ukraine, so Putin bad, war good," he added at the time.
can anyone explain "war good" to me? who thinks that? Tucker? because Biden surely doesn't, and i don't see how it logically follows from his previous remarks.
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Post by Opti on Mar 4, 2022 13:08:31 GMT -5
I'm surprised Tucker didn't put the blame on Obama for once wearing a tan colored business suit. Tucker Carlson Admits He Was 'Wrong' About Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Bizarrely Blames Kamala HarrisTucker Carlson admitted he was wrong about the Russian invasion of Ukraine during Thursday night's "Tucker Carlson Tonight," but the host still found a way to put the blame for the situation in Eastern Europe on the Biden Administration. Specifically, the Fox News host asserted that he never took the situation seriously because President Joe Biden sent Vice President Kamala Harris to Europe as the world feared imminent war. Carlson opened his show by addressing breaking news of a fire at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, which broke out Thursday after Russian shelling. "So, the situation appears to be more chaotic by the day, possibly even spinning out of control," Carlson said in response. "And that, we must be honest, is shocking to us. We've been taken by surprise by the whole thing. We're not the only ones who were, but we're willing to admit it. The only thing more embarrassing than being wrong in your estimates is pretending that you weren't. So why didn't we see this coming, this total loss of control?" After backpedaling on his Russia-Ukraine conflict stance, he pivoted the blame to Democrats, going on to say that his failure to take the situation seriously was due to Harris' attendance at the Munich Security Conference in February. "Well, because we assumed that if things were dire, serious people would be involved in fixing them. But we looked up and we saw Kamala Harris involved, and that reassured us," Carlson said. "Harris had just come back from Europe where she'd been conducting quote, 'diplomacy' with our allies, and that appeared to be proof this could not really be a big deal." "If the situation in Ukraine had been legitimately serious, if the future of Europe and the world hung in the balance as now so obviously it does, of course the Biden administration would not have sent Kamala Harris to fix it, because that's not her job," he continued. "Kamala Harris' job is to trot down to the Blue Room periodically to greet delegations of TikTok influencers or to cut occasional PSAs for Children's Dental Health Awareness Month, which is in February, so we assumed she'd be working on that right now. "We didn't underestimate Vladimir Putin, we overestimated Joe Biden," Carlson said before playing a series of clips showing Harris in light-hearted moments. "This is just not a serious person, not surrounded by serious people," he followed. After months of pro-Kremlin comments, Carlson received widespread criticism for his remarks downplaying the Russia-Ukraine conflict last week, even as Russia launched the invasion. He minimized the conflict as a mere "border dispute" and questioned what he described as a sense of "a patriotic duty to hate Vladimir Putin." "It may be worth asking yourself, since it is getting pretty serious, what is this really about? Why do I hate Putin so much?" he said on his Feb. 22 show. "Has Putin ever called me a racist? Has he threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him?" "But Joe Biden likes Ukraine, so Putin bad, war good," he added at the time. Carlson concluded Thursday's bizarre rant against Harris with a bit about her dating history, referencing her past relationship with Montel Williams — not his first time fixating on the relationship. "So if you're looking for someone to date Montel Williams, well, maybe she's the person you would choose," he said. "She could be a solid choice, she's done it before. Dating Montel Williams - you know - is something that's within her range of experience. Is she good at it? We can't say. But she's done it. But this new gig? De-escalating a world-ending conflict with the nuclear-armed rogue state? No. No, not when nuclear reactors are on fire. But they're doing it anyway." Tucker Carlson Admits He Was 'Wrong' About Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Bizarrely Blames Kamala HarrisOh come on, Tucker, just say ‘I didn’t think it was important because they sent someone without a dick to do it’ All your MAGA head pals would know exactly what you mean by that. And what’s with saying ‘we didn’t know it was serious,’ Maybe YOU didn’t think it was serious but this dickless American knew it was. Admit you fell for Trumps’ “Putin is our pal” BS. Why can't he blame himself? He follows world and US events for a living.
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Post by djAdvocate on Mar 4, 2022 13:09:59 GMT -5
he is following edict from the Fascist Playbook: never admit you are wrong.
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Post by Opti on Mar 4, 2022 13:13:14 GMT -5
he is following edict from the Fascist Playbook: never admit you are wrong. It makes them look like functional and not so functional idiots to me. Heart of weakness IMO.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Mar 4, 2022 13:22:57 GMT -5
he is following edict from the Fascist Playbook: never admit you are wrong. It makes them look like functional and not so functional idiots to me. Heart of weakness IMO. It's not about that at all. It's about steering public opinion, regardless of truth/facts/logic. Propaganda 101.
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Post by Spellbound454 on Mar 4, 2022 14:56:01 GMT -5
She was at the Munich Security Conference, along with big-wigs from all over the World.
They were discussing the impending crisis in Ukraine and what the response should be. She spoke well If I remember rightly.
She's the US VP and no-one gave it a second thought.
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Post by djAdvocate on Mar 4, 2022 15:07:16 GMT -5
pension managers are so fucking shady.
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Post by Opti on Mar 4, 2022 15:34:37 GMT -5
It makes them look like functional and not so functional idiots to me. Heart of weakness IMO. It's not about that at all. It's about steering public opinion, regardless of truth/facts/logic. Propaganda 101. It only steers public opinion for those that think that shit means they are strong. I can pick out weak people and bullies easily. One of the hallmarks is refusing to admit fault. I know some people like that crap, but I am beginning to wonder if its because they are even weaker inside and want to see that as the actions of someone in control.
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Post by Opti on Mar 4, 2022 15:36:16 GMT -5
Rand Paul is shady. I'm surprised McConnell is willing to be that openly stupid, especially now. x 3
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Post by pulmonarymd on Mar 4, 2022 15:39:28 GMT -5
Since Kentucky will vote republican no matter what Biden does, No one likes Paul, and McConnell does not want to make deals that will help Biden, I wonder what the upside to doing this "favor" for them is for Biden
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Post by Opti on Mar 4, 2022 15:47:01 GMT -5
Is this not a Russian connection far worse than working for an NGO? (i.e. drama over Hunter Biden) Since its the Senate, did they really need Biden's help? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RusalUnited Company RUSAL, international public joint-stock company (Russian: МКПАО «ОК РУСАЛ», romanized: MKPAO «ОК RUSAL») is the world's second largest aluminium company by primary production output (as of 2016).[2][3] It was the largest until overtaken by China Hongqiao Group in 2015.[4][5] UC RUSAL accounts for almost 9% of the world's primary aluminium output and 9% of the world's alumina production.
The United Company was formed by the merger of RUSAL (Russkiy alyuminiy, lit. Russian aluminium) (Russian: Русский алюминий), SUAL, and the alumina assets of Glencore, completed in March 2007. According to its own statistics, UC Rusal accounts for 6.2% of the world's primary aluminium output and 6.5% of the world's alumina production, while operating assets in 13 countries over five continents, employing over 61,000 people across its international operations and offices.[6]
The company is incorporated in Jersey, where it has its financial centre, but its headquarters are in Moscow, Russian Federation. UC Rusal is a public limited company and its shares are traded on the Moscow Stock Exchange, Hong Kong Stock Exchange and European Stock Exchange. Since 25 September 2020, the company changed its place of registration from Jersey to Kaliningrad, Russia.[7] In 2021 RUSAL announced a proposal to demerge its high carbon assets and change its name to AL+.[8]
In late March 2007, the merger between RUSAL, its domestic competitor SUAL, as well as the bauxite and alumina assets of Swiss commodities trading group Glencore, created UC RUSAL.[25][26] The merger created the world's largest aluminium company at the time,[27] with assets in 17 countries across five continents,[25] including 16 aluminium smelters, 12 alumina refineries, eight bauxite mines, three powder metallurgy plants, three silicon smelters, three secondary aluminium plants, three aluminium foil mills, two cryolite plants, and one cathode plant. The merger was completed in March 2007, at which time the newly formed company was estimated to have pro-forma sales of $12 billion and production capacity of about four million tonnes of aluminium and 11 million tonnes of alumina.[28] The move completed the 15-year process of consolidating the Russian aluminium industry.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Mar 4, 2022 16:28:13 GMT -5
pension managers are so fucking shady. I saw another tweet saying that the pension fund sold their position on Feb 23 for around a $3 million loss, or was it my husband reading this on Reddit? (Sorry, I'm getting information from a couple places, and I'm too busy to look myself.) Anyway, it's still shady this kind of investment is happening in the public sector.
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This is a bizarre observation on my part but when I see the Ukranian mothers who are refugees in Poland (as are their children) I look at the mothers' hands as they hold their children. What I often see are well manicured fingernails.
And I shake my head and think this invasion cannot be happening to a modern society or at least modern citizens who lived in modern cities.
This is not some third-world country invading and killing citizens of another third-world country over things like ethnicities and religions of its populations.
And the refugee children have the same clothing and backpacks as the children of the United States and Canada.
It's like I am watching what could happen within the United States if we are not careful.
And now there is no free press in Russia to report what is happening to their neighbors and caused by the Russians.
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Post by Opti on Mar 4, 2022 23:24:59 GMT -5
This is a bizarre observation on my part but when I see the Ukranian mothers who are refugees in Poland (as are their children) I look at the mothers' hands as they hold their children. What I often see are well manicured fingernails. And I shake my head and think this invasion cannot be happening to a modern society or at least modern citizens who lived in modern cities. This is not some third-world country invading and killing citizens of another third-world country over things like ethnicities and religions of its populations. And the refugee children have the same clothing and backpacks as the children of the United States and Canada. It's like I am watching what could happen within the United States if we are not careful. And now there is no free press in Russia to report what is happening to their neighbors and caused by the Russians. Russian women are generally well dressed as it is part of the culture. Not surprised that would be true in Ukraine as well. It is sad, tough, and jarring. I hope this would not happen in the US. This is a dictator IMO who wants a certain Russian legacy before he goes or is forced to concede power. I feel like the Trump crazy rubbed off on Putin and he decided the time was now. Given all the poisoning and invites for tea, did Russia even really have a free press prior to this?
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Post by Spellbound454 on Mar 5, 2022 8:54:55 GMT -5
He won't go, or concede power. He's altered the constitution so that he can stay in power........ His demise is a pipe dream, I'm afraid.
What he is afraid of is an uprising from the population ......... and since State TV says he is removing Nazis from power in Ukraine for the good of the population.... (and no other broadcaster is allowed access) Russians are largely pretty satisfied with the motivation.
They are blaming NATO for the fact that interest rates are going up.... and think we are supporting a NAZI regime.
They tried to say the two GRU poisoners who came to this country after the Skiprals .... were on a sight seeing visit to look at the spire at Salisbury Cathedral. Absolute nonsense....... As if there are no interesting buildings to look at throughout Europe.....other than an obscure one in the south of England where an Ex Russian Spy happens to live.
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Post by teen persuasion on Mar 5, 2022 10:59:02 GMT -5
Does he not realize she's VP? Is he confusing her role with that of FLOTUS, because - female? Or did Trump's choice/treatment of Pence really devalue the VP to comic sidekick in his worldview? What am I thinking? It's Tucker Carlson, trying to distract from his obvious miscalculation. Devalue Harris, devalue Biden by proxy, stir up shit, - SQUIRREL! - deflect blame for him... bonus!
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Post by Tennesseer on Mar 5, 2022 11:29:32 GMT -5
Opinions | The bond that explains why some on the Christian right support Putin’s war
Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers (R) was only one of the speakers at the Feb. 25 America First Political Action Conference to voice support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But her meme-ready remark — urging more tanks and using a crude term to call for fewer transgender people — reminds us that many on the American right see Russia as an ally in the culture wars. This long-standing alliance has forced a rift within the Republican Party since Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Even with mounting civilian casualties this week and a growing humanitarian crisis, former president Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters refuse to condemn his remarks about the “smart” invasion. But there is another dimension to this rift, illustrated by the audience to which Rogers spoke: how this alliance of cultural conservatives in the United States and Russia has also embraced racial and ethnic bigotry. White evangelicals once saw Russia as an existential threat to traditional gender roles and sexual morality, but over the past three decades, they have forged a partnership in a global family values movement that not only embraces sexual and gender traditionalism but sees these practices as a solution to demographic changes around the globe. In fact, GOP-proposed state-level anti-transgender and “Don’t Say Gay” bills actually echo Russian laws — which isn’t surprising since U.S. conservatives contributed to the Russian legal prohibitions. That’s become a real problem for Republican leaders, who over the past week have rejected not only AFPAC’s support for Putin’s war but also the group’s explicit white nationalism, antisemitism and incitements to violence. American critics condemned the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in overtly sexual terms: Collectivizing farms and factories, they charged, inevitably meant collectivizing women. A Senate committee found that by destroying a wife’s dependency on her husband, communists stripped men of their masculine prerogatives and blurred gender roles — to the detriment of social order. Anti-radical crusaders charged that Soviet women were forced to register at a national Bureau of Free Love, where any man had the right of sexual access. The sexual threat of Russia’s “red menace” galvanized organizations such as the Women’s Christian Temperance Union in defense of both private property and private family life. They monitored textbooks, compiled blacklists of “subversives” and defeated liberal legislation on maternal health and child welfare. “Economic bolshevism is destructive,” warned a conservative editor in 1922, “but it is nothing as compared with sexual bolshevism.” Christian missionaries to the U.S.S.R. walked a fine line in these years. Some initially hailed the Russian Revolution as an opportunity to win souls from the shackles of what they considered the authoritarian, superstitious Russian Orthodox Church. But Russia under the Bolsheviks challenged the very nuclear family that American Christians saw as the bedrock of civilization and property relations. The 1918 Family Code predicted that by turning domestic labor into a public service rather than a private duty, socialism would eliminate “the fetters of husband and wife.” Over the next decade, Soviet authorities did their best to fulfill that prediction. They shuttered churches, secularized schools and removed Bibles from libraries while decriminalizing abortion, liberalizing divorce and recognizing de facto marriage. In 1929, new laws barred foreign proselytizers. Atheists organized in the League of the Militant Godless pledged to eradicate religion in the Soviet Union by 1937. Rest of article hrre: Opinions | The bond that explains why some on the Christian right support Putin’s war
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Post by Opti on Mar 5, 2022 11:37:39 GMT -5
www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/opinion-putin-the-emperor-with-no-clothes/ar-AAUBKlS?ocid=msedgntpHas Vladimir Putin gone mad? How else could the Russian President have so recklessly placed the world on the precipice of the unthinkable, with what outside the Kremlin is seen as an unjustified and unwinnable war in Ukraine? Yes, unwinnable, in that even should Russian troops replace Ukraine's democratic government at bayonet point with a Russian puppet and occupy the country, the Kremlin faces a bloody insurgency and crushing economic consequences. Putin might yet realize his greatest fear of a grassroots movement that deposes him -- and it could come from what he has set in motion with his own hand. But, as a longtime watcher of Russia, I doubt Putin has lost his mind, but rather, is so ill informed as to be basing his calculus on intelligence that bears little resemblance to reality.Putin could not sustain power, nor his allegedly ill-gotten riches, in a genuinely democratic Russian state. Well in advance of temporarily leaving the presidency in 2008, turning over the post to de facto caretaker and titular head Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian leader made his intentions clear.In 2005, Putin declared in his annual state of the union address to parliament that the collapse of the Soviet empire "was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century" and was an "epidemic" fostering separatist movements that had "spilled over to Russia itself." His December 2021 comments on historical Russia's demise were the natural follow-up to his March 2018 statement to reporters that he would reverse the Soviet Union's collapse, if he could. Putin, formerly of the KGB, is a trained intelligence officer. He is obsessed with control. An intelligence officer strives to establish power over everyone and everything, including the narratives by which they are perceived, so as to control the ensuing actions of others.I recommend reading the entire opinion at the link if you have time.
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Post by Tennesseer on Mar 5, 2022 11:45:32 GMT -5
Be careful what you pack when trying to leave Russia. Russia is looking for any reason to detain Americans and hold them hostage. Russia Says It Has American Basketball Player in CustodyThe Russian Federal Customs Service said Saturday that its officials had detained an American basketball player after finding vape cartridges that contained hashish oil in her luggage at the Sheremetyevo airport near Moscow. The Customs Service said in a statement that the player had won two Olympic gold medals with the United States, but it did not release the player’s name. The Russian news agency TASS, citing a law enforcement source, identified the player as Brittney Griner, a seven-time W.N.B.A. All-Star center for the Phoenix Mercury. Griner, 31, won gold medals with the U.S. women’s national basketball team in 2021 and 2016. The Customs Service released a video of a traveler at the airport who appeared to be Griner, wearing a mask and black sweatshirt, going through security. The video showed an individual removing a package from the traveler’s bag. According to the statement, a criminal case has been opened into the large-scale transportation of drugs, which can carry a sentence of up to 10 years behind bars in Russia. The basketball player was taken into custody while the investigation was ongoing, the officials said. Rest of article here: Russia Says It Has American Basketball Player in Custody
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