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Monday, February 17, 2025 4:02 AM

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Julia Davis @JuliaDavisNews

Meanwhile in Russia: Sergey Mikheyev says that in light of the Trump administration's express intent to abandon NATO allies in case they intervene in Ukraine, Russia should strike Brussels, London and Paris. Vladimir Solovyov wholeheartedly agrees.



Fake news.

Gotta get as much of it that they can get out before the last of the final USAID payments dry up.

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Monday, February 17, 2025 4:43 AM

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You can have plenty of different experiences just by living in America without going anywhere else. It's one of the reasons that the Left always putting everyone into boxes pisses me off so much. Nobody in my family did a goddamned bad thing to black people. We weren't even here early enough to do it. I drive around a shittier car than 95% of black people do. I don't want to hear about how great I have it or how bad my family was to anyone else anymore. And I especially don't ever want to hear out of some black millionaire like Anthony Mackie or Kapernick. We're done with that bullshit in 2025.

Where did that Anthony Mackie reference come from? From another thread you started:

The Blacktain Anti-America Failure Thread
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=36&tid=66463

Captain America: Brave New World stars Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson, who takes up the mantle of Captain America.

Quoting 6ix: "It's a loser for Disney even at $180 Million, and that should be enough to keep them from making another one or trying to shoehorn in Black Anti-America as the leader of the Avengers going forward."

6ix, the Confederate slave-owners spoke the same as you: "Nobody in my family did a goddamned bad thing to black people." There are racists I know who say the same as you, but I know they do harm black people.

Quoting 6ix: "It's one of the reasons that the Left always putting everyone into boxes pisses me off so much." 6ix, you put yourself in a box by your behavior and then you deny doing what you did, which makes you a liar along with your unsavory way of life and political beliefs.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Monday, February 17, 2025 4:57 AM

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Julia Davis @JuliaDavisNews

Meanwhile in Russia: Sergey Mikheyev says that in light of the Trump administration's express intent to abandon NATO allies in case they intervene in Ukraine, Russia should strike Brussels, London and Paris. Vladimir Solovyov wholeheartedly agrees.



Fake news.

Gotta get as much of it as they can get out before the last of the final USAID payments dry up.

The Russians did say that. Why would the Russians feel so confident? Because Trump made a stunning admission he would not abide by the collective-defense clause at the heart of the NATO alliance if reelected. To translate that into Trumptard language: If Russia attacked Brussels, London and Paris, Trump would not honor American treaties promising to stop the Russians.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/10/politics/trump-russia-nato/index.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Monday, February 17, 2025 8:32 AM

What Trump said was that if NATO states sent soldiers into Ukraine they wouldn't be covered by Article 5. Which, if you think about it, makes sense, bc NATO is there to defend NATO members against attack, and sending your soldiers into a foreign nation doesn't mean you've been attacked.

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Monday, February 17, 2025 8:43 AM

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Netanyahu To Rubio: Let's 'Finish the Job' Against Iran


Netanyahu is a mad dog

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Sunday, Feb 16, 2025 - 05:25 PM

Trump's Secretary of State Marco Rubio was in Israel where he met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, after which they gave a joint address before reporters in Jerusalem.

This is Rubio's first Middle East visit since becoming America's top diplomat. He and Bibi called for the total elimination of Hamas and the return of all the remaining hostages, following three being released on Saturday, including an American dual citizen.

Importantly, Netanyahu declared that Israel and the US should "finish the job" against Iran, a week after Trump in a Fox interview said the choice is on Tehran - either they can do a new deal to monitor their nuclear energy program or possibly get bombed into submission.

Rubio called the Islamic Republic the greatest source of instability in the region, and as a longtime supporter of Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

"Hamas cannot continue as a military or a government force... they must be eliminated," Rubio additionally stated alongside Netanyahu, warning that the "gates of hell" could once again be opened against Hamas.

As for Netanyahu, he affirmed: "We discussed Trump's bold vision for Gaza's future and will work to ensure that vision becomes a reality." This vision has been roundly rejected by Arab states, especially Egypt and Jordan.

Trump earlier this month restored "maximum pressure" and fresh sanctions targeting Iranian oil exports, which reflects the policy of his first term, when he pulled the US out of the JCPOA nuclear deal with Tehran.

"Maybe they are trying to get new defense as we speak but their defense is largely gone... Iran is very nervous. I think they're scared. I think Iran would love to make a deal and I would love to make a deal with them without bombing them," Trump had said in the remarks just under a week ago.

"Everybody thinks Israel with our help or our approval will go in and bomb the hell out of them," Trump had added. "I would prefer that not happen. I'd much rather see a deal with Iran where we can do a deal, supervise, check it, inspect it," the president continued.

That's when Trump made one of the more interesting and provocative comments of the interview...

There's two ways to stopping them: With bombs or a written piece of paper.

So Rubio has reiterated this ultimatum from Jerusalem, with full approval of Netanyahu standing by his side. Iran has meanwhile said it won't respond to such threats, and has described that even if it wanted a deal, it can no longer trust Washington given it agreed to the JCPOA nuclear deal under Obama, and then Trump pulled out of it in 2018.



I think Iran is another nation that Trump can't bully. He's got no leverage on Iran short of a military attack.

Trump and Netanyahu ... a match made in hell.

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Monday, February 17, 2025 8:46 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

You can have plenty of different experiences just by living in America without going anywhere else. It's one of the reasons that the Left always putting everyone into boxes pisses me off so much. Nobody in my family did a goddamned bad thing to black people. We weren't even here early enough to do it. I drive around a shittier car than 95% of black people do. I don't want to hear about how great I have it or how bad my family was to anyone else anymore. And I especially don't ever want to hear out of some black millionaire like Anthony Mackie or Kapernick. We're done with that bullshit in 2025.

Where did that Anthony Mackie reference come from? From another thread you started:

The Blacktain Anti-America Failure Thread
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=36&tid=66463

Captain America: Brave New World stars Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson, who takes up the mantle of Captain America.

Quoting 6ix: "It's a loser for Disney even at $180 Million, and that should be enough to keep them from making another one or trying to shoehorn in Black Anti-America as the leader of the Avengers going forward."

6ix, the Confederate slave-owners spoke the same as you: "Nobody in my family did a goddamned bad thing to black people." There are racists I know who say the same as you, but I know they do harm black people.

Quoting 6ix: "It's one of the reasons that the Left always putting everyone into boxes pisses me off so much." 6ix, you put yourself in a box by your behavior and then you deny doing what you did, which makes you a liar along with your unsavory way of life and political beliefs.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two





How about 10 years of this rich little black bitch whining about how unprivileged he is?





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Monday, February 17, 2025 9:43 AM

I think its quaint, SIX, that you think you can understand so many different kinds of people without ever leaving your home state, let alone your nation.

The farthest I've gone is Canada, but I met students from Pakistan and India and Eastern European nations and the Congo and Egypt at university. Most of them came from wealthy families, but some not so much. Their attitudes and assumptions and how they approached other people ... and young attractive women (as I once was) ... were very different depending on where they came from. And occasionally left me ??????

And my lab hired people from mainland China, Taiwan, Burma, Syria, Russia, Israel, Ethiopia, Sweden, Finland ... again, all very different. If I were to actually VISIT those nations and meet a broader range of people (besides intelligent, competent, technically trained, English speaking, and relatively wealthy) I'm sure I would have many more ???? moments.

I find that people who come from other cultures often have the sharpest insight into ours, and better sources of info. It's something I wish I could reproduce, but being mostly embedded in this culture it's impossible.

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Monday, February 17, 2025 10:59 AM

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I think its quaint, SIX, that you think you can understand so many different kinds of people without ever leaving your home state, let alone your nation.

The farthest I've gone is Canada, but I met students from Pakistan and India and Eastern European nations and the Congo and Egypt at university. Most of them came from wealthy families, but some not so much. Their attitudes and assumptions and how they approached other people ... and young attractive women (as I once was) ... were very different depending on where they came from. And occasionally left me ??????

And my lab hired people from mainland China, Taiwan, Burma, Syria, Russia, Israel, Ethiopia, Sweden, Finland ... again, all very different. If I were to actually VISIT those nations and meet a broader range of people (besides intelligent, competent, technically trained, English speaking, and relatively wealthy) I'm sure I would have many more ???? moments.

I find that people who come from other cultures often have the sharpest insight into ours, and better sources of info. It's something I wish I could reproduce, but being mostly embedded in this culture it's impossible.

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AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA





There's nothing quaint about it.

Your life and mine have almost zero overlap.

I don't need to go to India to see a different way of life. I can just walk my happy ass next door and do that.


So I'm confused when you say "our culture". I don't feel I share culture with anyone whom I've never met, let alone spent any real time with.

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Monday, February 17, 2025 2:47 PM

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So I'm confused when you say "our culture". I don't feel I share culture with anyone whom I've never met, let alone spent any real time with.


And that's what's so quaint.

You obviously haven't run into anyone REALLY different bc if you did, you'd know.

You fit smack dab into a stereotype, SIX. A white Midwestern American male stereotype.

If you want to know along what lines I'll let you know.
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Monday, February 17, 2025 4:09 PM

On Reddit, federal employees shared their experience. One wrote: “The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my f*cking firing. I make $50K a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

It certainly appears that those in charge of the firings didn’t know what they were doing: on Thursday they fired more than 300 workers at the National Nuclear Security Administration, apparently not aware that they were the people who oversee the nation’s nuclear weapons. Today, Peter Alexander and Alexandra Marquez of NBC News reported that officials are now trying to rehire them but can’t figure out how to reach them because the workers lost access to their work email when they were fired.

MAGA voters are now discovering that much of what billionaire Elon Musk is cutting as “waste, fraud, and corruption” is programs that benefit them, often more than they benefit Democratic-dominated states. Dramatically, farmers, who backed Trump by a margin of three to one, are badly hit by the freeze on funding provided by the Inflation Reduction Act for conservation of land, soil, and water. “This isn’t just hippie-dippy stuff,” Wisconsin cattle, pig, and poultry farmer Aaron Pape told Linda Qiu and Julie Creswell of the New York Times. “This is affecting mainstream farmers.”

https://angrybearblog.com/2025/02/federal-government-should-regulate-b
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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