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Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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Saturday, February 21, 2026 5:53 PM
Quote:GM Gilbert was the chief psychologist who interviewed Nazis on trial at Nuremberg. His words are as valid today.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Oh yeah?
How, pray tell, are they going to do that?
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"I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I've come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy."
https://mike-scialom.medium.com/a-short-history-of-evil-f379da5723f7
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Saturday, February 21, 2026 10:06 PM
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Trump lost the election in 2020, but he said he won and he would stay in the White House, except Congress threw him out of office. Trump lost on tariffs in 2026, but he will keep collecting the money until Congress throws him out of office.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:GM Gilbert was the chief psychologist who interviewed Nazis on trial at Nuremberg. His words are as valid today.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Oh yeah?
How, pray tell, are they going to do that?
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No they aren't. You've completely destroyed the meaning of the word Nazi.
Its 2026. If you feel the need to bring the word Nazi into any argument, it means that you've already lost said argument.
Meanwhile, answer the fucking question, retard. You don't get to say Nazi to avoid having an actual debate over your dumbass, braindead commentary anymore.
Not when everybody knows your game and hates you for it.
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Sunday, February 22, 2026 6:50 PM
Quote:After Hitler was dead, the place names honoring him were changed back.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Meanwhile, answer the fucking question, retard. You don't get to say Nazi to avoid having an actual debate over your dumbass, braindead commentary anymore.
Not when everybody knows your game and hates you for it.
Feb 21, 2026
Trump’s naming mania has attached itself to Palm Beach International airport, just a few miles from his Mar-a-Lago Club. The Miami Herald reported this week that a bill to rename the facility as Donald J. Trump International Airport is quickly moving through the state Legislature and destined for Gov. Ron DeSantis’ signature to be signed into law. But Trump could be getting more than just ego gratification from the renaming. The newspaper said that even before the bill won approval in the Florida House, a Trump Organization affiliate called DTTM Operations LLC filed applications to trademark the new airport name.
The newspaper said the trademarks “would cover dozens of goods and services, according to the applications, including airport buses, parking garages, suitcases and more.” Trademark attorney Josh Gerben said in his blog that trademark applications for airport names are typically filed by the government entities that own the airports, not private citizens or companies. He called the trademark filing “completely unprecedented” and noted that it might put the Trump Organization in a position to charge licensing fees for the use of the Trump name. https://www.gerbenlaw.com/blog/trumps-private-company-files-trademark-
for-president-donald-j-trump-international-airport/
For now, we can only sit back and ponder the significance of a sitting President filing a trademark application with his own intellectual property office to protect the name of an airport he is pressuring politicians to rename.
https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/travelers-southwest-revenues-213
67582.php
Hitler had too much dignity to trademark his name and profit from it, unlike Trump, making him better than Donald.
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Sunday, February 22, 2026 7:11 PM
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Originally posted by second:Quote:After Hitler
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Meanwhile, answer the fucking question, retard. You don't get to say Nazi to avoid having an actual debate over your dumbass, braindead commentary anymore.
Not when everybody knows your game and hates you for it.
Shut the fuck up.
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Sunday, February 22, 2026 10:07 PM
Quote:DOJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as federal officers’ lies are exposed in court
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut the fuck up.
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Department of Justice prosecutors across the US have suffered a string of embarrassing defeats in their aggressive pursuit of criminal cases against people accused of “assaulting” and “impeding” federal officers.
In recent months, the federal government has relentlessly prosecuted protesters, government critics, immigrants and others arrested during immigration operations, often accusing them of physically attacking officers or interfering with their duties.
But many of those cases have recently been dismissed or ended in not guilty verdicts.
In several high-profile cases, the prosecutions fell apart because they relied on statements by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers that had no supporting evidence or in some instances were proven by video footage to be blatantly false.
Criminal defense lawyers said it was unusual for federal prosecutors to pursue a high volume of charges over minor clashes with law enforcement, and that it was extraordinary to see the DoJ lose case after case across jurisdictions.
Still, the costs for defendants, even if ultimately exonerated, have been enormous, with many having their mugshots blasted by the government and some forced to languish in jail or have criminal charges hang over them for weeks and months.
The most recent significant fumble came from Minneapolis prosecutors, who last week dismissed felony assault charges they had filed against two Venezuelan men accused of “violently beating” an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer “with weapons” on 14 January.
In a press release issued after their arrest, the DHS had described the men as “violent criminal illegal aliens”. The department said officers were conducting a targeted traffic stop to detain an undocumented man from Venezuela, and as he “began to resist and violently assault the officer”, two other men came out of a nearby apartment and “attacked the law enforcement officer with a snow shovel and broom handle”. The officer shot one of them in the leg.
Two of the men were arrested and charged, with a 16 January affidavit providing a vivid account of them attacking an officer identified as ERO 1, referring to ICE’s enforcement and removal operations. But on 12 February, prosecutors filed a motion to dismiss both men’s cases, saying: “Newly discovered evidence in this matter is materially inconsistent with the allegations in the complaint affidavit.”
The motion, which a judge granted, sought to have the cases dismissed “with prejudice”, meaning the government could not re-file charges.
ICE director Todd Lyons said ICE and the DoJ had opened an investigation into the case after videos revealed “sworn testimony provided by two separate officers appears to have made untruthful statements”, marking a rare acknowledgement of possible wrongdoing by DHS officials.
“It is very unusual for the government to move to dismiss its own case with prejudice,” Frederick Goetz, a lawyer for one of the men, said in an interview. He praised the government for launching investigations: “If you make false statements to a federal agent, that is a crime.”
Continue reading at https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/doj-protesters-federal
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Monday, February 23, 2026 12:07 AM
Shut up, loser.
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Monday, February 23, 2026 5:57 PM
Quote:Trump's support for Russia isn't working the way he and Putin expected.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut up, loser.
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Day 1461 of Putin’s Three-Day War
Courage, betrayal — and reasons for hope
Paul Krugman
Feb 23, 2026
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/day-1461-of-putins-three-day-war
Source: Institute for the Study of War
Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2002. Putin expected a quick Russian triumph — reports are that he expected the Ukrainians to fold in days. He never said “three days,” but this meme has become shorthand for his belief that it would be a walkover. Western military analysts who had bought into propaganda about Russia’s military strength shared his assessment.
U.S. right-wingers were especially enthralled with what they perceived as the toughness, masculinity, and anti-wokeness of Russian soldiers.
But Putin’s dream of a short, victorious war has turned — as such dreams usually do — into a long nightmare of blood, destruction and humiliation. Ukrainian courage and Russian incompetence — combined with the effectiveness of British and American man-portable weapons — ensured that the attempt to seize Kyiv became an epic debacle. The three-day war is about to enter its fifth year.
I am not a military expert. But I pay attention to those who are — especially Phillips O’Brien, who has been far more right about this war than anyone else I know. Furthermore, the future of the war will depend greatly on an issue I do know something about, Europe’s ability to provide Ukraine with the support it needs. So I thought I would use the fourth anniversary of the beginning of the war to talk about where we are right now.
First, about the military situation. The maps at the top of this post show how the area of Ukraine under Russian control — shaded pink — has changed over the past year. You may ask, what change? Exactly. The Ukraine war isn’t like World War II, in which breakthroughs could be exploited by armored columns sweeping into the enemy’s rear. It’s a war in which the battlefield is swarming with drones, where there isn’t even a well-defined front line, and the “kill zone” within which even armored vehicles are basically death traps is many kilometers wide.
Some observers still don’t understand how the reality of war has changed. Thus there have been breathless reports about the danger Ukraine would face after Russia seized the “strategic city” of Pokrovsk since July 2024. Russian forces finally entered Pokrovsk late last year and may now occupy most of the rubble. But it made no difference.
This reality shows how idiotic it is for the U.S. Department of Defense — sorry, Department of War — to decide that its mission is to embrace a “warrior ethos.” Bulging biceps and macho posturing won’t help you prevail in modern war, while bombastic stupidity is a good way to get many soldiers killed.
So if modern technology has turned war on the ground into a bloody stalemate — much bloodier for Russia than for Ukraine, but still indecisive — what will determine victory and defeat? The answer, which has been true in most wars, is that it will come down to resources and logistics.
If this were purely a conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the Ukrainians, for all their heroism, would be doomed. Russia, after all, has four times Ukraine’s population and ten times its GDP.
But Ukraine has powerful friends.
For the first three years of the war, the United States was the most important of these friends. Indeed, Ukraine wouldn’t have been able to resist Russia without U.S. aid.
Unfortunately, top Biden officials were too cautious. They didn’t want Putin to win, but they clearly lost their nerve at the prospect of outright Russian defe
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Monday, February 23, 2026 6:00 PM
Shut up, loser.
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Monday, February 23, 2026 6:42 PM
Quote:Has Donald Trump lost his most powerful tariff weapon?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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The US Supreme Court decision on tariffs has upended the central plank of President Donald Trump's economic and foreign policy. Will this lead to a change of course, or will Trump double down?
By Arthur Sullivan | Feb 22, 2026
Even by Donald Trump's standards, 2026 has been unusually frenetic.
From the ousting of Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro, to his threats to annex Greenland, to his repeated vows to use military action against Iran, a lot has been happening. Yet amid all these geopolitical upheavals, one key tool has pretty much defined both of Trump's presidencies: tariffs.
Trump's obsession with tariffs goes back a long way. Those who have observed the US president over the decades say it is tied to his view of the booming Japanese economy of the 1980s.
Trump formed the view that Japan's economic success was based on what he felt were the unfair terms of its economic relationship with the US. He came to see tariffs as a magic bullet for balancing the terms of trade with countries — a view he has firmly held for more than 40 years, regardless of the country or the economic dynamics at play.
He often turns to tariffs when cornered. At the height of the Greenland crisis, when European leaders strongly rebuked his rhetoric, he threatened tariffs against those who opposed his plans. His resolute confidence in their effectiveness, regardless of the issue, seems unshakeable.
"I always say tariffs is the most beautiful word to me in the dictionary," he said at his Inauguration Day parade in January 2025. "Tariffs are going to make us rich as hell, it's going to bring our country's businesses back."
Much more at https://www.dw.com/en/trump-tariffs-trade-geo-economics-supreme-court-
china/a-76077670
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Monday, February 23, 2026 6:43 PM
Bombs into the Sandbox?? so more spending for another war in the Middle East then?
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