They keep coming up with the most explosive products.
I see what you did there.
What did I do?
Wait, you didn't make a pun about all the exploding Samsung phones? Or did you just bamboozle me, good sir?
Hah, wht don't you just buy a jacket with a pocket for 80 inch TV
Maybe Samsung will make their own version of that abomination - the iSock?
Since red Kool-Aid blue Kool-Aid both taste like bitter almonds, yeah, there's no difference. And that's been the case for at least a couple of decades.
I believe the problem is over-reach, or at least one of them. Any time one or the other groups is in "power", the over reach starts.
If we look at the Republican side When in power, the reach is to become more conservative. This will continue until the populous has had enough. When you start talking about cutting out SS or Medicare, and doing silly stuff to your voter base like that, you end up losing support. In my state, there was an attempt to recall judges for not thinking right, so to speak. It failed. Attempts to remodel the judicial system with a bunch of Karl Roland Freislers was classic overreach. We've seen this in the past with attempts to eliminate teaching Evolution in schools, and replace it with young earth creationism taught as science. Just two examples of conservatism gone bad. Compounded by Republicans going batshit crazy after O'Blama was elected, then insane when he was re-elected.
On the other hand Democrats are not immune from overreach idiocy either. After Trump was elected, many had the same reaction as Republicans had with O'Blama. They did some strange things, like take up anti-science and anti-biology positions, they abandoned core demographics like Unions and the resulting workforce union adjacent demographic, they supported schools superseding family authority, moved to getting marching orders from a small group of far left wing academics, then were surprised when the demographic they had spent years dehumanizing - males in general, and young males in particular didn't vote for them. A worrying thing, since males tend to become more conservative as they age.
I'm certain I pissed everyone off, which is another core overreach of the present system. Whatever you believe, the other side hates you and wants you to fuck off and die. I get most of my vitriol from the left wingers lately, but I can piss off the far right just as easily.
The grandmas are not "refusing to give up Instagram", they are refusing to be silenced. They're also refusing other attempts to have them "pacified".
The difference is small, but important.
It was their bikini clad shots at the beach bar with 10 men that got them in trouble.
They keep coming up with the most explosive products.
I see what you did there.
I've had 4 z-flips (original, 3, 4 and 5) and at least as far as comfort goes, they're significantly better than a standard phone. They also fit in your pocket a lot better. Yes, I just said that. The problem with the z-flip is the 5 and later have a screen on the outside of the phone. The huge advantage of the flip phones is the case protects the interior screen, so there's no need to buy a screen case. The 5 did away with that because Samsung was busy listening to reviewers instead of the people who actually use them. I was in the hospital for 5 weeks, had nurses pull the table causing my phone to fall over and over. I still use the phone. It has minimal damage. Do that with a standard phone and you'd be screwed.
The critical thing is how can people drive and text with these things? If people can't text and drive the phone market will collapse as those critical group chats have to happen! Validation is no joke, my friend.
Or you can carry one device and have a phone and a tablet. For the record, btw, I proposed the trifold idea on
Hah - I'm holding out for the 16-fold Samsung, a Smartphone that I can open to an 80 inch Television. This 2 and 3-fold crap is for posers, and poor people. Wake up people - the cool kids are waiting until Samsung smartens up.
ruzzia is "winning the war" in the same way that a cancer is "winning" by destroying the body where it resides. Nobody is winning anything yet. Ukraine is slowly losing territory, while trying to keep more soldiers alive, ruzzia is slowly losing its manpower by throwing more and more bodies, now without even basic body armor and helmets into the meatgrinder to be burned alive by the drones to gain a few hundred meters a of burned up, empty territory per day.
This is a continuation of standard Russian military tactics under Papa Jo Stalin Throw bodies at the enemy. Try to overwhelm them. It mostly worked during WW2, but it is why the largest loss of life was in Russia.
There is a difference - no US involvement on Russia's side. The lend/lease program supplied a lot of materiel, weapons, planes, food. Russia was second on the list after Great Britain.
So now, what is left is mostly throwing cannon fodder at Ukraine.
They might want to save a few men in order to replenish the population after whatever the outcome of this latest military action.
For the US, Europe has always been the buffer zone between them and the Soviet Union, that theater on which that war that luckily didn't grow hot would happen.
The Atlantic and Pacific Oceans are indeed our buffer zones. NATO was formed to keep Russia from further implementation of Buffer states that are populated and subservient to Russia. There is a certain advantage to have thousands of miles of water around your country There is no real practical way for a buffer state scenario here. And the US doesn't rule the Atlantic and Pacific.
You might want to claim that the US was protecting itself. Yes, in some form it was. It was also protecting allies. Not many western countries wanted to be living under Stalinist/Russian rule. Stalin and his replacements have rather different methods of handling disagreement. Command Economies are not popular among people who prefer to set their own goals. Seeing the difference between East and West Germany, and the Stalinist attempts to starve West Berlin - a Kind of mini holodomor if you will, and the resulting Berlin Airlift, told us what we needed to know about Stalin's plans.
Claiming that you're protecting your shield and getting angry that your hands have gone too little and weak to carry it is funny, but pathetic.
Don't mistake trolling for anger. and your little hands comment is kinda weird. I thoroughly enjoy pissing you and your ilk off, it feeds me.
Now to weakness - probably not our time to fall yet. Countries do not stay at or near the top forever, and that's a fact. Too much competition, and the so called "Grand Experiment" here in the US will eventually fail. There is no Roman Empire today. There is no British Empire today. No Soviet Union. The question is what will replace the US when that eventually happens?
Of today's players - who do you want to replace the US, and hold the power against the other countries that want the position. Name it. A question of utmost simplicity, no trolling, no humor, no little hands, no patheticness. No name calling. Name the country.
Awesome. I'm with you - the US should;d get out of Europe today.
Europeans wish America would fuck off
Why wouldn't you? I mean, you'll do better without us.
Sorry, but you sound incredibly butt hurt and whiny.
Lets base our foreign policy on who was mean to me online
Yeah, that's the ticket!
Perhaps I'm just pointing out who is propping you up. One h8er at a time.
Not expecting individuals to grok that necessarily, but no butt-hurt here, just Enjoying watching where y'all are heading.
You're attributing to me, that which I'm attributing to political leaders after the fall of the Soviet Union.
I re-read your post. You are correct, and I was way off. I dunno if I posted before my first cup of coffee, but my reading comprehension was really bad. Mea Maxima Culpa!
I thought Russia might be able to change its spots, but their actions starting in the late 200x showed otherwise.
When Putin came to the helm, it was over. He was KGB.One does not leave KGB or the ideology except by death, or alphabet soup name change.
And while not quite communist, it isn't all that different in practice from before the fall of the USSR, A small class of extreme privilege, and the rest of the country.
Let me repeat Pug Ismay's characterization of NATO: "US in, Germany down, Russia out" NATO succeeded for a long time, but it's not clear to me now NATO is working. Hungary & Turkey have at various times been the primary impediment to NATO consensus on various missions.
Turkey always seemed like an odd fit into NATO. Hungary could be playing with fire. In my assessment of the situation today, the Russian Federation today is not the Soviet Union. Can they come to dominate Europe, or at least create a Stalinesque vision of buffer states? Probably not. I do not think they have enough power. Their difficulties in Ukraine show some serious weaknesses. A country that teaches about the Holodomor in their history classes might just fight back. I would expect most EU countries would also fight back.
Replying after finishing that first cup today. 8^)
After the 'fall of the wall', Europe, particularly Germany, believed that war on European soil was unimaginable, and that Russia would turn into an at least semi-democratic state, with economic ties motivating political reforms. So they stopped spending on defense, started buying Russian energy, and generally positioned themselves to their current position. (I visualize an ostrich, head in the sand, ass exposed to the air!)
It sounds like you believe that the Russian practice of setting up buffer states was a US lie.
Poland, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and errrrm East Germany. They might have a different opinion on Russian peacefulness, and for at least some of us, there was a reason that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was set up.
Europe is pretty clear - they don't like us. Maybe Europe should consider rejuvenating the Warsaw pact, or more accurately the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance. Sounds like a much nicer deal.
What is not said enough about this post-WWII security arrangement in which the US plays a large role in transatlantic defense, is that this is not simply just a "cost" that the US absorbs. The US has profited ENORMOUSLY off of this arrangement, in multiple ways.
First of all, much of the defense spending goes back into the American economy.
Awesome. I'm with you - the US should;d get out of Europe today, and if you become buffer states for Russia, I believe that is exactly what EU citizens want. You deserve it, and get your Cyrillic dictionary out.
I mean - what should the USA protect countries that hate us? In fact, rathe than fight a war with Russia, why don't you just surrender peacefully and then you will be happy. I'm with you - US pull out of all Europe, and let what happens happen.
I appreciate the average American's sentiment who want Europe to pay for its own defense. However, there's a lot of American history in the 20th century and before which brought us to this point deliberately. After being drawn into two huge world wars, started by member states of a continent that had continually been at war with themselves, the United States came up with a plan to prevent it from happening again. They invited everyone into an alliance structure where anyone could trade with anyone else, and the US would guarantee free navigation of the oceans so they didn't need big navies, and would provide security guarantees so that the countries of Europe didn't feel the need to arm themselves to the teeth. This arrangement is expensive for the US, but not so expensive as a world war 3. And it worked to prevent WW3 for many decades. Now that the generations who fought those wars are gone, we've forgotten the lessons, and I'm afraid we're doomed to repeat them. European have not evolved. Their geographic and political reality encourages wars among their own states. And as much as the US wants to stay out of it, they invariably get dragged back in every time.
Well, as the EU becomes buffer states of Russia, will the US need to help? It is apparent that the EU and its citizens believe that the US is a backwater country, full of fat stupid people who are the most evil humans on th planet. We are treated every day to EU supremacy, where any topic about Rooshia or China gets turned into our fault or a whataboutism within a few posts.
You will come a buffer state, and you will be happier, because the US will leave you alone. You won!, You are no longer under the heels of the worst country on earth. I suggest learning Cyrillic, you'll need it.
If it has syntax, it isn't user friendly.
