Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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UPDATED: Sunday, September 6, 2026 21:09
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Originally posted by second:
I'm collecting $4,555 per month from Social Security Retirement. Does that mean I am retired? No, 6ix, I am working.
Oh... And that's cute. You got that number for the maximum benefits paid out when retiring at 70 from here:
https://www.bankrate.com/retirement/average-monthly-social-security-ch
eck/
Yanno... The same very same article that Google used to misrepresent what the average SS payout for retiring at 62 was when they instead gave you the the maximum number and fooled you into posting something stupid just yesterday right here:
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=65414&mid=11662
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Since the average Social Security check at age 62 is $2,572
No it isn't dummy, but I know exactly how you got that. Looks like Google lied to you again.
Click on the bankrate.com article that Google used to provide those fake numbers and actually read it.
The Average check today for ALL recipients, of any age, including disability payments and survivor benefits payments is only $1,550.48.
Here's the part that Google grabbed and presented as the answer to your question:Quote:
The maximum initial monthly benefit for 2023 by retirement age:
At age 62: $2,572
At age 65: $3,279
At age 66: $3,506
At age 70: $4,555
These figures assume a worker had steady earnings at the maximum taxable level since age 22. For 2023, maximum taxable income is $160,200, a number that usually rises each year.
This isn't only hilarious, but is a great example of how you lack any critical thinking skills whatsoever, and why it is so easy for the Legacy Media to make you believe whatever they tell you to.
Have a nice day!
This ain't the real world where you can lie to people all day long in person and there's no receipts of you lying and/or all the dumb shit you say dude.
We know nothing about you dude. Nobody believes anybody who tells the world that they're perfect and always right and always better than everybody around them, both online and in real life.
I know I'm a flawed individual. Perhaps even deeper than the Median person is.
And even with all the things that I have been doing right and all the improvements I've been making for myself and those that I care about, I'm not shy about admitting my current shortcomings, both IRL and right here on these boards. Something you know full well because you live for reading my posts and saving them to try to embarrass me when you think you've somehow got the upper hand because of something I've posted previously.
SPOILER ALERT: You can't embarrass me. You can't even attempt to talk down to me. You're nothing but a lying little worm of an indeterminate age with a grand old fake online persona you've made for yourself.
You are not only nothing to me, but you are nothing to yourself... which is the saddest part about all of this.
And I never said I wasn't working. More often than not I'm keeping myself busy working on one thing or another. I just don't care about money beyond what I need to live, and I've made saving and spending wisely into an art-form over the last two decades.
I don't have to give my time away for a pittance or have to answer to any terrible bosses anymore, yanno... like the fake one you've made for your garbage online persona right here in the RWED.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Russia has claimed the war could "end tomorrow" if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky orders a retreat from territories within Putin's recently-annexed four regions in the southeast.
In comments tantamount to blaming Ukraine for defending its own territory, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov suggested the Ukrainian Armed Forces were preventing a ceasefire by continuing to liberate cities across the front line.
Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Peskov was asked about when the "special military operation" in Ukraine would end in light of comments by Mr Zelensky that the war would be over by 2023.
Peskov said: "You can speculate until blue in the face when it all can end. Zelensky knows when it all might end, it all might end tomorrow if he wishes."
The Kremlin spokesman then said in "Russia's new regions", there were "occupied territories that will have to be liberated".
Peskov was suggesting that Ukrainian forces, in reclaiming land occupied by Russia earlier this year, were themselves occupying this territory against the will of its residents.
Repeating Putin's suggestion that Russian forces were "protecting" the people of Donbas and "southeastern Ukraine", citing sham referendums as proof of their desire to be within Russia as oppose to Ukraine, Peskov called on the Ukraine forces to give back the territory to Russia.
On February 24, when the invasion was initiated, Putin made no mention of these territories, rather he said the reason behind the move was "the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse, genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years". He added that Moscow's plans "do not include the occupation of Ukrainian territories".
Infuriated Russian commentator Boris Rozhin, known as 'ColonelCassad' on Telegram and who has more than 800,000 followers, stated that "the annexation of Zaporizhia and Kherson oblasts was not among the declared goals of the special military operation on February 24".
Other bloggers suggested Putin's redefinition of the objectives and the admission that this will be a long occupation reflected the fact that he does not have the capacity to continue pursuing his maximalist goals, forcing the Kremlin to accept protracted war as the means to wear down Ukraine.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/kremlin-claims-that-russia-might-
end-war-even-tomorrow-but-there-is-one-condition/ar-AA154VE1
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Igor Girkin is a former Russian military commander who led the annexation of Crimea in 2014. Girkin wrote:
In most parts of the Russian Federation Armed Forces, soldiers and officers do not understand in the name of what, for what, and with what purposes they are fighting.
It's a mystery for them what is the condition for victory or just a condition for ending the war.
The authorities of the Russian Federation are not able to explain this to them, since setting a clear goal for the SMO [Special Military Operation] means 'limiting room for maneuver' — that is, losing the opportunity to declare the goals of the SMO as achieved at any moment that the Kremlin leaders consider convenient.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ex-russian-operative-who-visited-
the-front-in-ukraine-says-russian-troops-are-in-disarray-due-to-a-crisis-of-strategic-planning/ar-AA152azR
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I have never seen anyone virtue-signal so hard as SECOND. It's like he has to justify his existence to himself and everybody else.
If he's as successful as he says he is, then he won the energy-speculation lottery. He should be smiling every day about his good fortune.
Instead, he's a miserable little shit and a malicious twerp. He must really despise himself.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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I have never seen anyone virtue-signal so hard as SECOND. It's like he has to justify his existence to himself and everybody else.
If he's as successful as he says he is, then he won the energy-speculation lottery. He should be smiling every day about his good fortune.
Instead, he's a miserable little shit and a malicious twerp. He must really despise himself.
And I always just thought he liked to argue.
T
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Quote:He likes to threaten, harass (IRL), libel, lie, insult, and bob and weave.
Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I have never seen anyone virtue-signal so hard as SECOND. It's like he has to justify his existence to himself and everybody else.
If he's as successful as he says he is, then he won the energy-speculation lottery. He should be smiling every day about his good fortune.
Instead, he's a miserable little shit and a malicious twerp. He must really despise himself.
And I always just thought he liked to argue.
T
That's not arguing. Arguing is when you assemble your facts and use facts and logic to dispute another's position, or posit one of your own
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Quote:Yes, you have. Putin was signaling a lack of virtue:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I have never seen anyone virtue-signal so hard as SECOND.
Vladimir Putin has warned that any country that attacks Russia would be “wiped off the face of the Earth”.
The Russia president issued his latest threat to the West at the Eurasian Economic Union summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on Friday.
Mr Putin also said that Moscow could adopt what he described as a “US concept” of using preemptive military strikes, in a blunt statement amid rising Russia-NATO tensions over Ukraine.
It comes as Russian forces placed Grad multiple-launch-rocket systems on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant’s territory, according to Ukraine’s nuclear energy operator.
The rocket launchers are next to spent nuclear fuel storage units near the plant’s sixth reactor, it said, and are likely to be used to strike cities on the opposite side of the Dnipro River, using the reactor and fuel storage as a “shelter” from return fire, according to Energoatom.
Russia’s move violated conditions for nuclear and radiation safety, the company said in its statement, which was backed by several Ukrainian ministers.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/ukraine-news-%E2%80%93-live-russi
a-installs-multiple-launch-rocket-systems-at-nuclear-power-plant/ar-AA154OMn
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Quote:Vladimir Putin appears ‘drunk’ as he charges Ukraine for attacks
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
He likes to threaten, harass (IRL), libel, lie, insult, and bob and weave.
That's not arguing. Arguing is when you assemble your facts and use facts and logic to dispute another's position, or posit one of your own
Friday 9 December 2022 04:19 , Arpan Rai
Vladimir Putin has accused Ukraine of initiating attacks on civilian infrastructure in the ongoing invasion by Moscow.
“There’s a lot of noise right now about our strikes against the energy infrastructure of the neighbouring country,” Mr Putin said at a state awards ceremony where he appeared with a glass of a sparkling beverage.
Swaying from one side to another, he said: “Yes, we are doing it, but who started it? Who struck the Crimean bridge?”.
Economist and author Anders Aslund said: “This is the first time that I have seen Putin seeming drunk in any context. He talks nonsense as usual, but he seems to realise that he is a loser. Very interesting & promising. All Russians will see that he is drunk & weak.”
“Putin, clearly drunk at today’s Russian military awards ceremony, gets his Kremlin propaganda lies mixed up - it’s supposed to be Crimea that Ukraine denied water to, not Donetsk,” said Ukrainian editor and journalist Euan MacDonald.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/ukraine-news-%E2%80%93-live-russi
a-installs-multiple-launch-rocket-systems-at-nuclear-power-plant/ar-AA154OMn
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Ukrainians aren’t delighted about sharing their Nobel peace prize
Many resent being lumped in the same basket as Russia and Belarus.
by Veronika Melkozerova, December 9, 2022 6:57 pm CET
https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-share-nobel-peace-prize-russia
-berit-reiss-andersen/
OSLO — Ukrainians are happy about winning their first Nobel prize since independence, but it stings that they’ll be sharing the limelight on Saturday with fellow laureates from Russia and Belarus.
It’s clear what the Norwegian Nobel committee is seeking to achieve by sharing the peace prize between civil society activists from three nations locked in a war, with Committee Chairman Berit Reiss-Andersen admitting the committee wanted to send a signal that the conflict in Ukraine must end.
In order to send this message, it has awarded the prize jointly to Russia’s now disbanded Memorial Center, jailed Belarusian opposition activist Ales Bialiatsky and Ukrainian human rights watchdog Center for Civil Liberties, which documents Russian war crimes in Ukraine.
From the Ukrainian perspective, however, it leaves a bitter taste that activists in their country — on a very different, democratic political trajectory from Moscow and Minsk — are still lumped together in the post-Soviet sphere with campaigners tackling the regimes of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarus’ Alexander Lukashenko.
Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the Ukrainian presidential office, complained the joint prize boosted the Kremlin’s narrative about the war and Putin’s claims of the unity of Russian and Ukrainian people.
“Awarding three human rights organizations from three countries does not answer the question of protecting peace, but openly promotes the destructive thesis about the same notorious ‘trinity of the Slavic peoples’ that Russian propaganda constantly talks about in global public opinion,” he told POLITICO.
He explained that Moscow sought to portray the people of the three countries as wanting peace but being prevented from reaching a truce by non-Slavic countries. He also issued a criticism that, while Ukrainians were fighting for survival, civil society groups in Russia and Belarus were largely shying away from active actions against the invasion.
“This is an extremely insensitive move at times when Russians are killing Ukrainians with the help of Belarusians,” said Olga Rudenko, chief editor of the Kyiv Independent, and one of the favorites for the 2022 peace prize.
She added all the candidates deserved the award and that Ukrainians would have no problem if each of them got the prize individually. The problem was putting all three together in a year when the nations they represent are riven by a war sparked by Russian colonial ambitions.
“As if the ‘grownup’ West wants to lock us kids in the same room after a fight and order us to make peace,” Rudenko said.
More at https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-share-nobel-peace-prize-russia
-berit-reiss-andersen/
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The Ukrainian 6th Separate Rifle Battalion (SRB) Lost Its First Battle. Then It Got Javelin Missiles.
The 6th SRB formed in May in eastern Ukraine. As early as July, the battalion was in combat in Avdiivka, a settlement in Donetsk Oblast that anchors Ukrainian positions opposite the pro-Russian separatists based in Donetsk city.
The Russians and their separatist allies since February have been trying to capture Avdiivka. The 6th SRB's territorials joined the battle with only light weaponry - and got slaughtered.
In mid-July, former members of the battalion recorded a video blaming Zelensky for their losses. "We as fighters of the territorial defense were illegally sent to the front lines," their spokesman said.
"We lost 70 percent of the personnel," the spokesman continued. "Then we expressed our distrust of the battalion command about the fact that there was an oral order to occupy and hold unequipped positions without heavy equipment and artillery."
The defense ministry in Kyiv apparently internalized this criticism. When the 6th SRB reappeared along the front line around Avdiivka, it was a much more powerful formation. Videos the battalion began posting online in November depict several successful strikes on Russian armored vehicles by 6th SRB troopers firing American-made Javelin anti-tank missiles.
There’s no evidence the 6th SRB possesses any weaponry heavier than a 50-pound Javelin, or any vehicles heavier than a truck. The 6th SRB does however operate the usual bomb-dropping quadcopter drones. As long as the battalion doesn't try to advance long distances while under fire — and so far, it hasn’t - the Javelins and drones might suffice.
Notably, there haven't been any other public protests from the battalion like what occurred in July. The 6th Separate Rifle Battalion still is in the thick of the fighting. But its territorials apparently are confident they can beat the more heavily-armed Russians.
More at https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-ukrainian-6th-separate-rifle-
battalion-lost-its-first-battle-then-it-got-javelin-missiles/ar-AA155Fef
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