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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 9:16pm On Aug 25 |
grandstar: Everyone knows she is not the best the Democrats have to offer. She is just the avatar on the ticket, so they all have to bury their reservations and cover for her. We'll see if that's enough to get her across the finish line in November. -Lord 8 Likes |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 9:10pm On Aug 25 |
Ibime: First, the topic we're hashing out is the West's vindictive and ruthless MO relative to the East. In fact, in an earlier comment, you already conceded that the likes of Germany and the UK are not free speech absolutists because of their history. Durov's arrest is the latest example that the West is just as psychopathic as any rival power but glosses it up in suits and virtue signaling. When push comes to shove, the West will suppress dissent as harshly as Xi and Putin. Different methods, same outcome. Section 230 repeal is a different kettle of fish. That is an intra-Western conflict. The liberals have a chokehold on mass media (from news to social networks). The conservatives are trying to break this stranglehold and have been unsuccessful. Another thinly-veiled attempt was the proposed TikTok ban under Trump. Many of you on the left opposed the ban until TikTok became a tool for pro-Palestinian activism. Currently, the West is the Emperor without clothes The West destroyed a German-Russian pipeline and blamed Russia. You were an outspoken proponent of this narrative. That's just one of a litany of horrific examples of the West abusing its privilege. Hell, the economic reasons for brownnosing the West is another letdown. As a % of GDP, remittance outflows from the UAE and Saudi Arabia exceed every major Western country. Indians run the UAE. Russia is the prime economic nerve center in the Caucasus. Eliminate the illegitimate Western economic warfare against the Global South and there'll be just as many Third World migrants in the Second World as in the First World. This is a young female American living by herself in Rural China. Check out the quality of life of the older locals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0wqUVULvgI When I see many of you go out of your way to talk up the West, especially while simultaneously dunking on the Second World, it betrays a lack of understanding of what is possible when the West is not allowed to run roughshod on the rest of the planet. It's the difference between being in a family with just one breadwinner versus another where multiple members have fat stacks. The West, for all its attractions, is a major disappointment. It is in all our best interests that its primacy is at the very least challenged. -Lord 8 Likes |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 6:29pm On Aug 25 |
WritterNg: If Dugina a Russian citizen can be assassinated in Russia, an asylee can be assassinated as well. Snowden first flew to Hong Kong, then China arranged with Russia to have him. Russia has a longer history of accepting asylees and has a robust security architecture for asylees from its Soviet days that China isn't keen to replicate. Still, if Pavlovski shows up in Beijing, he'll be on a Chinese intelligence private jet to anywhere he wants to be. That's if he doesn't strike a deal with the Chinese. Russia will likely offer him a better asylum deal. -Lord 2 Likes |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 5:47pm On Aug 25 |
WritterNg: Dugina was assassinated in Russia. UAE, Qatar, Nicaragua will give you a heads up when the pressure is intensifying. Then you can be smuggled to China, DPRK, or Russia. Nowhere is truly safe. You're only choosing who you'd trust. -Lord 6 Likes 1 Share |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 5:30pm On Aug 25 |
Android17: Now you can understand why our Western Diaspora comrades on the thread viciously defend every Western action. Mk person no enter no-fly list or collect court date because of wetin dem yarn online. Finally, make the pretense end. China, Russia, US, France, UK... No difference. Once the powers that be reason your matter, na cell straight or you get accident. Fundamental human rights na lamba. Do pass yourself, you go collect straight up. -Lord 14 Likes 1 Share |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 5:14pm On Aug 25 |
WritterNg: Russia, China, UAE, Qatar, Nicaragua... He should keep his location secret. Before his plane malfunctions. -Lord 7 Likes 1 Share |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 3:23pm On Aug 24 |
raumdeuter: We know what we are doing. -Lord |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 1:19am On Aug 24 |
raumdeuter: The entrance. The response. https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1827130507588518281 -Lord |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 12:55am On Aug 24 |
Raumdeuter, you seeing this: Trump + RFK Jr in AZ. -Lord |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 2:44pm On Aug 23 |
afrodoc2: So even after all the genetic advantages and her parents working as Public Ivy scholars, she couldn't get admission in an Ivy League nor could she read law at a T30 school. And she still failed her first bar. Meanwhile the Trumps who are not intellectually gifted are a billionaire family and MaryAnne and Trump were able to break the cycle and become Ivy League alumni. Their kids are also Ivy League alumni. Anyway as long as you and the others can accept that Kamala is an airhead, I'm good. That was the OG bone of contention. -Lord 10 Likes |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 2:36pm On Aug 23 |
GloriousGbola: BlueRayDick: At the end of the day, Trump studied Economics at an Ivy League and graduated. Or did he also ask someone to take all his tests or pay every Professor and the school to pass him? The opinion of one professor does not change the fact that he graduated from U.Penn with a BS in Economics. The University of Pennsylvania is not a degree mill where you can sort lecturers like you guys are familiar with. However you got in, you have to earn your stripes to get your baccalaureate. Whichever way you slice it, there is no comparing an economics graduate of the Wharton School of Business and someone who went to a non-T30 law school who failed her first bar and never secured a job in the private sector. That same someone who right now refuses to conduct an interview because everyone knows her ceiling is reading from a teleprompter. -Lord 6 Likes |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 2:17pm On Aug 23 |
Ibime: Of the five children of Fred. Two went to Ivy League. Mary and Trump. Fred who was the heir apparent did not. Mary went on to become a Judge. Trump ran the family business. Why did Fred Trump pay for Trump and Mary to get Ivy League education but not the other 3 and especially his name sake Fred Jr who he wanted to succeed him? Harris is an airhead. That much is clear. You also are unable to contest that. A lawyer who cannot ace a softball interview while running a presidential campaign is a disgrace to her profession. -Lord 5 Likes |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 1:23pm On Aug 23 |
Ibime: Trump went to an Ivy League, studied economics, and graduated. The assertion is that she is an airhead and I brought receipts. -Lord 4 Likes |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 12:55pm On Aug 23 |
Ibime: Harris is an airhead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioPHRbXo3nY She went to Howard and then University of California, Hastings College of Law that is not even a T14 or T30 and failed the bar at her first attempt. Majority of her classmates passed in their first attempt. She has never worked in the private sector. She will not have even landed an interview with any BigLaw firm. Trump went to an Ivy League (U-Penn). Vance did. Vivek did. DeSantis did. How can you be hiding a lawyer from the press because you're scared that she can't properly answer questions or articulate her position. A lawyer. She is a dumb f*ck who has failed upwards. If she was Nigerian, her ceiling will be charge and bail. -Lord 3 Likes |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 4:03am On Aug 23 |
A40: Now that I think about it, the Classical Liberal platform was a Trojan Horse. They adopted those common-sense policies because they'd suffered catastrophic defeats twice vs Reagan and vs Nixon. The minute they captured the state (by controlling most levers of American public life) and established the permanent majority via immigration, they abandoned all pretenses. Look at Kamala. She was all for banning fracking; open borders and abolishing ICE (compared it to the KKK); defunding the police and bailing rioters. Now she needs to win the election, she has done a 180 on 12 major policy positions, including those three. However, if she wins, she will saunter further than Biden to the left. As raum reiterated, after Trump, the next GOP nominee will be Hitler redux and they'll recycle the same BS. When you draw attention to their horrible record and positions, they'll retort with "But the alternative is a racist, fascist, misogynist..." They did it to Bush, McCain, Romney, Trump. Whether it's Vance, Vivek, Haley, or DeSantis in 2028; it'll be the same tired sh*t. Kamala has not done an interview or had a presser in an entire month. She's apparently leading in the polls without a policy page on her campaign website. If she has her way, she'll only read teleprompters until she's declared the winner. The US is effectively already a one-party state at the federal level. Trump is going against the grain and that alone is deserving of spirited support. -Lord 5 Likes |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 10:31pm On Aug 20 |
WritterNg: Yeah, Marine One is gorgeous. -Lord |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 9:05pm On Aug 20 |
larride: This year, the official planes of Secretary Blinken and President Trudeau broke down. Trudeau plane had issues twice in four months and he's had issues with CF1 planes a record four times as PM. Canada's FG bought 9 planes in 2023. Nigeria's major issue is transparency. The authorities are always acting like bandits. There should be accessible (by FOI requests) EOL estimates and updates on the Presidential fleet composition. Fleet management is quite involved. Mothballing, adding, or replacing planes should be scheduled way in advance. Contingency plans should also be established. For instance, if they really need an emergency replacement, Air Peace operates Boeing 737s and many global lessors and operators will be willing to lease a plane with a minimum contractual duration of a few months to as long as is needed (at a premium). The contracts should be ironed out ahead of time. Not scrambling when unforeseen issues crop up. For obvious reasons, the optics of buying a jet must be managed carefully. As such, leasing and then planning a budgeted expense is prolly preferred. That said, the deal itself is quite okay and the A330 is at the lower band of a mission-capable flagship presidential aircraft. Although, I'd have preferred they bought new aircraft and spec it to their operational needs. Buy used for auxiliary units in the fleet. This rush job of buying whatever is available on the market then retrofitting it within weeks is less than ideal. At the end of the day, Nigeria's government is WYSIWYG. There's a shocking level of incompetence that defies reason. -Lord 7 Likes 1 Share |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 4:38pm On Aug 19 |
GloriousGbola: More numbers are coming out and it turns out we've paid as high as 500B (August 2022) in a month prior to 2023. It appears The Cable cherrypicked the perfect duration for shock value. It worked. 800B ($0.5B) is wild though. FY 2022 subsidy was $10B. At the rate we're going, we might end up paying the same or more subsidy in $ terms without the relatively stable supply during Buhari's administration. It'd be something to pay more subsidy than GEJ and have worse scarcity than Buhari. -Lord 9 Likes 1 Share |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 4:28pm On Aug 19 |
larride: He has kompromat on Tinubu. That has to be the only reason. -Lord 6 Likes |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 2:08pm On Aug 19 |
0m0luabi: I can see the logic. Israel kills scores of civilians and militants daily. So sending them into Israel to delete civvies sounds like a layup. But I doubt it'd be positive for Palestinians in the PR War. Anyway this is what Israel gets for its assassination policy. Haniyeh forbade suicide bombing. Sinwar DGAF. -Lord 5 Likes 1 Share |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 1:29pm On Aug 19 |
Vic2023: Hamas should not go down this path. It was abandoned for a reason. -Lord 1 Like |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 1:19pm On Aug 19 |
liveLongNprospa: 52B per month to 800B per month in under 1 year. What is this sorcery? And there is still scarcity. -Lord 2 Likes |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 6:48pm On Aug 16 |
OkpaNsukkaisBae: Have children with a good looking person. E get why. Anyway, she is from a political dynasty like the Bushes of the US. Many of these Asian second-world countries are just lowkey holding it down fr. Thailand's inflation rate is 1.5%. Interest rate is 2.5%. Exchange rate of USD/TBH as of today is less than it was in 1998. Unreal stability! The King is worth $40B+ and has a slush fund of more than $1B (N1.6 trillion) per year for his expenses. He was given four Boeing 737. The new PM's family--the Shinawatras--are Chinese and are a dollar billionaire family. Corruption is not Nigeria's problem. Our elite are CERTIFIED ID**TS! I hope her tenure is fruitful and doesn't end in a coup. -Lord 8 Likes 2 Shares |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 3:20pm On Aug 16 |
WrriterNg: Few people and entities give up power voluntarily. The US is in the second stage of grief - Anger. It'll get over it but hundreds of thousands of people will die during this infantile but fatal tantrum. The funny thing is that if the US actually changes course and embraces a multipolar world, it could return to being #1 in 2-3 centuries. It has enough land to fit more than a billion people. It still retains lots of advantages. Resources, geography, education and research, tech. And for all its faults, it is still incredibly appealing. If you hate all the woke stuff, there are places like Florida, Texas, North Carolina, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania; where you can live your life without being bothered by all the geopolitics, culture wars, and militarism. Similar to how you can live in cities like Chongqing (becoming my favorite city in China), Shenzhen, Wuhan, Guangzhou, or in rural China and just live your life without being bothered by the CCP and their aspirations. Just enjoy your time, go on vacation (lots of picturesque places to visit in China and Asia), low crime, everything is available, cheap, and convenient to acquire. But apparently, many in the corridors of power in Washington cannot envisage a world where they can't boss everybody about and dictate everything on the planet. When just 100 years ago, their parents and grandparents lived in a multipolar world. The hubris and unwillingness to consider an alternative is a tragedy. Needless pain, chaos, death, and suffering are allowed to fester because they seek to thwart or delay the inevitable. -Lord 8 Likes 1 Share |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 2:47pm On Aug 16 |
WrriterNg: Zelensky is fighting a PR war. He should push them to advance further. Way easier to kill Ukrainians in outstretched positions within Russia than in fortifications inside Novorossiya. -Lord 6 Likes 2 Shares |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 2:20pm On Aug 16 |
Appleyard: From the early days of the War, a strategic concern had been building. We've seen many instances of Russia destroying concentrations of foreign mercenaries in Ukraine. However, Ukraine has been able to amass large aggregations of men and materiel across the country without Russia taking them out. Maybe it's due to AD. Or Ukraine doing too many things at the same time (since they outsource a lot of the planning to the 14 Eyes and the West), that RU has to prioritize. But that inability made the Kursk incursion a possibility. All they had to do was designate a Kalibr or Iskander for every grouping that exceeds 2,000 men - enough to cause damage - and run down the clock on the Eastern Front. Add that to the list of limitations. They also can't stop the free flow of weapons into Ukraine. And they also can't destroy Ukrainian military industry since they can always just move underground. This has been a boon for the production of small drones, since they import parts from Asia which does not have the same deficiencies as the West. Essentially, Ukraine cannot win the war. But they can be a very costly nuisance. The Kursk gambit reflects this. It shouldn't lead to anything significant, but it was always an asterisk. Ukraine amassed soldiers on the borders of Belarus, Transnistria, and Russia. They could have pushed into any of the three. Belarus would be a provocation since they aren't currently a belligerent. Moldova firmly opposed moving into Transnistria. So they went into Kursk. The partisan infiltrations into Belgorod over the past 18 months provided critical insight into Russian defenses and response times. They also softened the underbelly with the deep strikes on airfields and radars. Russia has the trump card because they have the superior force, a lot of land, larger population, and an intact MIC. By some estimates, Ukraine can only support an incursion of about 100KM. That's the farthest they can go before supply chain and logistic snags wreck them. The deeper they go in, the larger the defense perimeter of the Ukrainians, which they'll have to man with more troops. It also allows Russia lots of surface area to press for pinchers through the flanks. It is a strategic gift. It's the Prigozhin affair again. Let them roll in and make Russia the newest cemetery for Ukrainians. From a PR perspective, this is not ideal. But if I can see it, I'm pretty certain Command would have told Putin that his slow, methodical approach would always have this as a potential outcome. Got to take the good with the bad. This is also reminiscent of the Kharkov offensive. Ukraine had swift, lightspeed attacks. Captured a lot of ground. It fizzled out. They've been on the backfoot since. And right now a repeat seems implausible. Russia is learning a lot on the fly right now. I had called for a general mobilization since last year. Equip a 5m man army. Take everything east of Dnieper and connect a land bridge to Transnistria. End the war and prepare for other theaters. Russia will need a lot of operators and resources to back its clients in Africa - Libya, Sudan, CAR, and its new Sahel friends; the Middle East (Syria, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon); its Asian commitments - the Big One (a potential Taiwan invasion), North Korea, India, expanding its Pacific Fleet; and South America - Cuba, Bolivia, Venezuela, and maintaining its strategic interests on the continent. But Putin wants a slow war . And that provides more time and boundless opportunities for more ship sinking, airfield strikes, terrorism and assassination, taking out pricey radar and AD installations, and Kursk-like incursions. These are the drawbacks of a slow war. Right now, many in the West think a Russian mobilization and all-out attack is justified, but Putin still would not bite. Certainly Netanyahu has provided a stark contrast even though he has not and cannot achieve his objectives. He has helped buttressed the merits of Putin's approach. Ultimately, this is how he has opted to fight this war. When Medvedev fought the Georgian War, he deployed troops at a 5:1 advantage, disabled Georgian air and naval forces. Then it became a turkey shoot. -Lord 15 Likes 5 Shares |
Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by LordAdam16: 5:35pm On Aug 14 |
basilico: It is a disgrace. They were horrible to Governor Sanders when she was PressSec. Now the professional fact checkers are sitting there dumb as rocks while KJP spits falsehoods. -Lord 2 Likes 2 Shares |
Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by LordAdam16: 4:41pm On Aug 14 |
raumdeuter: Trump had just 4 of the 16 years and everyone wants a repeat. The incumbent wants a reelection before fixing the economy. She is going to share her economic vision while in office less than 95 days to the election. This is all down to the media. They refuse to cover their failures and when the Right tries to we're viciously attacked. They aren't just playing defense for the Dems, they also play offense. Imagine if there were two wars with hundreds of thousands dead under Trump; we wouldn't hear the end of it. They'd be calling a new war in Europe the most consequential foreign policy failing since WW2. But here we are. -Lord 3 Likes |
Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by LordAdam16: 7:09pm On Aug 12 |
raumdeuter: All they've got is "Orange Man Bad". The Mainstream Media is perhaps the Dems biggest asset. All those polls in the past that set up Trump v Generic Democrat and gleaned that the Generic Democrat wins handily. They're pulling that with Harris. She is the Generic Democrat. THREE F*CKING WEEKS into her candidacy and she has NO platform. She has NOT conducted an interview. THREE F*CKING WEEKS. And they're defending the basement campaign. You don't care about her positions, her flip flopping, her horrendous record as a border czar. All that matters is "Orange Man Bad". Trump is a dictator. He is Hitler. He is this. He is that. Eventually Harris' legs will be held to the fire. Not if the Media can help it, but it'll happen. And her campaign will implode like it did in 2020. -Lord 3 Likes |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 5:32pm On Aug 11 |
Dream25: Back then, everyone still had a winner-takes-all mentality. The US was the first to wise up to the idi*cy of that worldview. And it did so because of its inability to conquer Canada. -Lord 1 Like |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 5:53pm On Aug 09 |
Unlimited22: 😂🤣😁 As long as after you laugh finish, you siddon house in 2027; I'm ok. -Lord |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 5:44pm On Aug 09 |
Unlimited22: Make una write open letter advise una MCM! Because the Agulu suicide bomber fit no get the memo on time. We dey expect better KKK results in 2027, una 1 use una stubbornness wreck this country again. We just need SS and SE to give Atiku a slim win; NW, NE will turn up. -Lord 2 Likes |
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