Politics

[Red Leg]

Rather interesting snippet from one of the Kremlin's lead media propagandists.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1989049427542118434

 

[deewayne2003]

ww

I know a little bit about intel ops, and I would simply suggest the worst way to keep a Mossad operation secret would be to have a former Israeli Prime Minister visiting the primary subject.

Agreed, makes about as much sense as Bill Gates saying his interest in Epstein was for raising capital.

Or how Epstein attained an office at Harvard?

 

[spike.t]

Germany agrees new military service plan to boost troop numbers

The new military service plan will mandate all 18-year-old men to fill out a questionnaire on their suitability to serve.

www.bbc.com

 

[spike.t]

If she was white she wouldn't have been able to say this.....good she can ....

 

[Altitude sickness]

Highlights of this free online course

 

[Brent in Az]

Marxism. Socialism.Communism.

Coming soon to a Democrat hell hole city near you.

 

[PARA45]

I'd like to ask those idiots who follow this ideology if they have ever set foot in a Socialist country, and or lived in a Socialist society. I'm sure, 99.99% of them would say no. Idiots who have no clue of what it is to live day in and day out in that type of society where you don't know where your next plate of food is going to come from, and where the government controls every aspect of your life. Ask the Venezuelans, or the Nicaraguans how it is to live under Maduro's or Ortega's dictatorship.

 

[mdwest]

The question I ask every young person I meet that starts espousing socialist ideals is this…

What service or product is it that the federal government delivers that you think is well managed, efficient, and cost effective?

The simple truth is government sucks at service delivery… because there is nothing that motivates government to actually be good at it…

In a socialist society government controls more aspects of your daily life… not less..

The government can’t manage to get you mail delivered on time or correctly…. But we want to trust the government to make sure your local grocer is adequately stocked and able to provide your family with food?

More importantly we trust that they’ll provide the food options you actually want?

The government can’t properly manage SNAP benefits… but we want to trust the government to make sure energy is properly distributed to your home so that you do t freeze to death during a northern Michigan winter?

The DoD fails 7 annual audits in a row… but we want to trust the government to manage a national healthcare apparatus that includes maintaining hospitals, making hiring decisions on medical staff, etc?

Whst exactly is it that you think the government can do better then the private sector?

And what is it exactly that they are doing so well that would make you trust that they’ll provide could do anything else better than the private sector?

 

[Brent in Az]

The typical Democrat lemming marches to the beat of the party war drum. Most have no clue.
The Democrat party is eroding, and the old guard Dems are slowly being pushed out by the radical faction.
Pelosi retiring. Schumer could very well be on his way out?

Dangerous times ahead for this country..

 

[PARA45]

I remember the BS Ortega used throw out, stating that everyone was going to be equal, that there was not going to be any more social classes, and that the "bourgeois" (their term) class would disappear, etc, etc. All the people heard was free stuff, and equality, and the government was going to take care of you. Poverty rate in Nicaragua is higher than it has ever been. Ortega who fought a dictator (Somoza), is now a worst dictator than Somoza could have ever dream of being.

Today, you cannot fly the Nicaraguan flag, or you'll be labeled an insurrectionist. All Christian gatherings during Holy Week have been banned. God forbid if someone (lots of ears on the street) hears you talking bad about the government, you may miraculously disappear and never to be found.

These are the simple things the dumb Socialist supporters do not see (want to see), and don't know anything about it because they do not read and unfortunately believe the filth coming out of the mouths of individuals like Mamdani or Sanders. All they hear is free this, free that, equality this, the rich will pay for this, etc.

 

[Saul]

I had forgotten Die Juden were behind it all.

I am assuming this was said in jest. Every time I hear a theory floated about Mossad somehow being behind something I feel the same way.

 

[Saul]

The typical Democrat lemming marches to the beat of the party war drum. Most have no clue.
The Democrat party is eroding, and the old guard Dems are slowly being pushed out by the radical faction.
Pelosi retiring. Schumer could very well be on his way out?

Dangerous times ahead for this country..

It is almost as if the anti-intellectual cult of youth spawned from social media would be bad for politics.

 

[mdwest]

I remember the BS Ortega used throw out, stating that everyone was going to be equal, that there was not going to be any more social classes, and that the "bourgeois" (their term) class would disappear, etc, etc. All the people heard was free stuff, and equality, and the government was going to take care of you. Poverty rate in Nicaragua is higher than it has ever been. Ortega who fought a dictator (Somoza), is now a worst dictator than Somoza could have ever dream of being.

Today, you cannot fly the Nicaraguan flag, or you'll be labeled an insurrectionist. All Christian gatherings during Holy Week have been banned. God forbid if someone (lots of ears on the street) hears you talking bad about the government, you may miraculously disappear and never to be found.

These are the simple things the dumb Socialist supporters do not see (want to see), and don't know anything about it because they do not read and unfortunately believe the filth coming out of the mouths of individuals like Mamdani or Sanders. All they hear is free this, free that, equality this, the rich will pay for this, etc.

Much of the wealthy/elite class left Nicaragua, starting as early as 1979.. by the time Ortega actually took power the first time in 1985, a huge amount of the wealth in the country was already gone.. there was no "rich" to pay for all of his promises..

From what I can tell today, most of the real wealth in Nicaragua isnt Nicaraguan.. foreign investors have come in and built empires in the tobacco industry (largely US citizens), most of the other agriculture is owned by the big US firms (Cargill, Dole, etc).. almost all of the gold mines are owned and operated by foreign companies, etc..etc..

So, other than senior government officials, there are very few "rich" Nicaraguans able to pay for all of that free shit Ortega promised... which is why most of it has never been delivered..

All of that said, I absolutely LOVE Nicaragua.. its a beautiful country.. I especially like the area around Estelli (tobacco country)... the people are incredibly warm and welcoming.. the pace of life is slow and easy going.. the food is wonderful.. etc..

Its a shame how impoverished it is though.. Especially once you get outside of Managua.. there are horrible townships in South Africa that are 100 fold better off than some of the little ramshackle collections of huts (I'd hardly call them villages or towns.. just groups of a few hundred to maybe 1000 people living in home made shacks constructed from scraps.. most with dirt floors, no plumbing, no electric, etc..) Ive walked through in Nicaragua..

Having seen true, no shit poverty in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and a couple of other places in Central America (not the American version of poverty.. which to most of the rest of the world is pretty close to middle class living).. it actually made it pretty hard for me to get angry at the migrant hoards that started heading north during the Biden administration.. while there were certainly plenty of truly terrible people included in those masses.. I imagine the vast majority came from those dirt floored cesspool collection of huts you find scattered all over the region.. just people looking for anything that even remotely resembles hope for even fractionally better life..

Dont get me wrong... Im all for the mass deportations.. Im all for securing the border.. etc..etc.. I am completely and totally on board with us correcting the HUGE problem the last administration dealt us..

Im just saying I understand why so many people made the decision to try to come here...

What most Americans think is "poverty" really isnt poverty at all... most of those people were born into a situation of true despair.. if any of us were born into the same situation, we'd be trying to figure out a way to escape it too..

I just also understand that its not our responsibility to fix their problem for them... We didnt elect Ortega.. they did.. in order to reverse course and get themselves out of the situation that 40+ years of socialism has brought them, its probably going to require massive bloodshed...

But.. they bought into massive bloodshed to get there (armed internal conflict from 1978 until 1990).. Unfortunately I think the only solution is to commit to something similar all over again..

 

[deewayne2003]

I had forgotten Die Juden were behind it all.

I know, it's almost like "gods chosen people" do nothing wrong.....ever

 

[steve white]

Much of the wealthy/elite class left Nicaragua, starting as early as 1979.. by the time Ortega actually took power the first time in 1985, a huge amount of the wealth in the country was already gone.. there was no "rich" to pay for all of his promises..

From what I can tell today, most of the real wealth in Nicaragua isnt Nicaraguan.. foreign investors have come in and built empires in the tobacco industry (largely US citizens), most of the other agriculture is owned by the big US firms (Cargill, Dole, etc).. almost all of the gold mines are owned and operated by foreign companies, etc..etc..

So, other than senior government officials, there are very few "rich" Nicaraguans able to pay for all of that free shit Ortega promised... which is why most of it has never been delivered..

All of that said, I absolutely LOVE Nicaragua.. its a beautiful country.. I especially like the area around Estelli (tobacco country)... the people are incredibly warm and welcoming.. the pace of life is slow and easy going.. the food is wonderful.. etc..

Its a shame how impoverished it is though.. Especially once you get outside of Managua.. there are horrible townships in South Africa that are 100 fold better off than some of the little ramshackle collections of huts (I'd hardly call them villages or towns.. just groups of a few hundred to maybe 1000 people living in home made shacks constructed from scraps.. most with dirt floors, no plumbing, no electric, etc..) Ive walked through in Nicaragua..

Having seen true, no shit poverty in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and a couple of other places in Central America (not the American version of poverty.. which to most of the rest of the world is pretty close to middle class living).. it actually made it pretty hard for me to get angry at the migrant hoards that started heading north during the Biden administration.. while there were certainly plenty of truly terrible people included in those masses.. I imagine the vast majority came from those dirt floored cesspool collection of huts you find scattered all over the region.. just people looking for anything that even remotely resembles hope for even fractionally better life..

Dont get me wrong... Im all for the mass deportations.. Im all for securing the border.. etc..etc.. I am completely and totally on board with us correcting the HUGE problem the last administration dealt us..

Im just saying I understand why so many people made the decision to try to come here...

What most Americans think is "poverty" really isnt poverty at all... most of those people were born into a situation of true despair.. if any of us were born into the same situation, we'd be trying to figure out a way to escape it too..

I just also understand that its not our responsibility to fix their problem for them... We didnt elect Ortega.. they did.. in order to reverse course and get themselves out of the situation that 40+ years of socialism has brought them, its probably going to require massive bloodshed...

But.. they bought into massive bloodshed to get there (armed internal conflict from 1978 until 1990).. Unfortunately I think the only solution is to commit to something similar all over again..

A brother to our music minister went down to Nicaragua to run an orphanage. He was on meds out the wazoo, had tons of physical problems. He stayed down there ten years and came home on zero meds, all blood work perfect, nothing wrong, no longer diabetic. Attributes it to the organic diet.

 

[Brent in Az]

I've never been to Nicauragua, but I can say that I've smoked a ton of Nicaraguan Cigars.

 

[Brent in Az]

A brother to our music minister went down to Nicaragua to run an orphanage. He was on meds out the wazoo, had tons of physical problems. He stayed down there ten years and came home on zero meds, all blood work perfect, nothing wrong, no longer diabetic. Attributes it to the organic diet.

Something in the water, maybe? .....lol

 

[Brent in Az]

Leopard watching today's typical Democrat stroll by.....

 

[Wishfulthinker580]

I am assuming this was said in jest. Every time I hear a theory floated about Mossad somehow being behind something I feel the same way.

I assure you it was . To me the Jews, Israel and Mossad are interchangeable. As it pertains to conspiracists

 

[Wishfulthinker580]

I know, it's almost like "gods chosen people" do nothing wrong.....ever

That is indeed who they are.That said, nobody is perfect. Also, most of the unfounded conspiracies are just low key anti Semitism. If someone provides some proof then I’ll criticize the actions. Until then it’s just a lot of conjecture fueled by the aforementioned ism.

It’s amazing. There’s so much horrific stuff going on in the world and yet people concentrate on Israel. Why is that?

People have got to get off the internet and stop listening to Tucker Carlson and his ilk.