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Should be a wild four years.

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The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights releases annual reports.Every year, these reports have to make a note:There's one woman who keeps filing literally thousands of sex discrimination complaints that the agency is required to spend man hours investigating.

lol, they really should just do 2 pi charts, one for people who have submitted more than 3 complaints and one for non crazies.
 
Here's what happens when Putin goes full Russian cursive.
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Safir, please explain why your country's cursive looks like something out of a cartoon.
It's only slightly less retarded than standard "Russian" writing. I only put "Russian" in quotes because they literally had to have some dude named Cyril make up an alphabet for them because just like niggers they had no alphabet not even numerals! Slavs are literally niggers.
 
your word is never to be trusted.
Anyone who still associates with the Democratic Party is indeed vile and never to be trusted. And they’re proud of it. Calling for the assassination of a world leader during a diplomatic meeting perfectly encapsulates how devoid of decency they are.
 
I'm skipping a lot of posts so it's possible this has been brought up already, but a lot of people (including people in this thread) seem to be missing a greater point in the Trump-Putin meeting.

First off, it was in Alaska. He literally met Putin halfway.

Secondly, and more importantly, it's a signal of a return to a multi-polar world order. The rest of the West was not involved in the decision to hold this meeting. Foreign governments were not consulted, the meeting was not on neutral ground. This ignored everyone else in the world and demonstrated quite vividly that The US and Russia remain the only two true superpowers on the map today.

Thirdly, the meeting became a three-on-three:
  • U.S. side: President Trump, joined by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff
  • Russian side: President Putin, accompanied by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and advisor Yury Ushakov
This turned it from a 'meeting' into a de facto summit.

Trump and Putin rode in the same car.

Trump flew a B-2 Spirit directly over Putin's head.

Any of these facts on their own would be intriguing, but not huge.

All of it together paints a singular picture: the rules of global governance are being rewritten in real-time, and Europe does not have a seat at the table.
 
It's surprising that our politicians haven't bilaterally agreed to center the map around Israel. Both parties are always eager to put Israel interests first.
Nah, they'd whine about the GPS coordinates for Israel becoming lat/lon 0,0 and being too easy for the muzzies to punch into to their targeting computers.

Surely he can post the job opening on his own website and accept applications from the local labor pool he was "planning" to hire from anyway, right? Right guys?

Their nuclear forces are the only thing left from the USSR that is worth a damn.
Their nuclear arsenal, functioning space program (reminder we still routinely hitch rides on Russian vehicles for trips to and from the ISS when our own shit isn't in working order), natural resources and industrial capacity make them a superpower.
 
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Sometimes I read the Trump lolcow thread and I think that the entire thread is either a trol or bait. All their posts are the exact same in essence and without substance, all of them hurling insults as if possessed by the ghost of HHH. 60% of the posts in that thread is "Trump is a coward/retard/demented/old/impotent/pedo and everything he does is bad, actually" and accompanied with tons of updoots. For example, the last highlighted post in that thread is just Trump getting insulted and then the poster making shit up that isn't even true and gets disproved easily.
It's completely indistinguishable from the average reddit thread tbh.

Edit: In fact let's play a game. See if you can do it.
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Russia is not a superpower. They are a very powerful regional power. They can't project force outside their immediate borders. Their nuclear forces are the only thing left from the USSR that is worth a damn.
...because all of Europe has been pissing and shitting themselves as an unofficial coalition to contain Russia's rejection of NATO encroachment. They've been draining US coffers to bring missiles closer and closer to Russian borders in order to reduce their reaction time to near-zero and exert pressure to get them to 'play ball'. Without US backing, Europe would not be able to contain this. The US is laundering its status as Power #1 to flex on Power #2 and it's past the tipping point. You're not wrong that Russia is significantly disadvantaged, but to quote Biden, "C'mon, man!"

The UN Security Council would have you believe that the U.S., Russia, China, UK, and France are equals. Do you really think France is equal to Russia? France has 200 nuclear warheads. Russia has ~5800. Nukes are rapidly becoming irrelevant but they still matter and are roughly reflective of political clout.
 
Here's what happens when Putin goes full Russian cursive.
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Safir, please explain why your country's cursive looks like something out of a cartoon.
No wonder Ukraine turned into a shitshow. They must have half of the army's intelligence personnel dedicated to deciphering Putin's chickenscratch whenever he gives them a written order.
 
...because all of Europe has been pissing and shitting themselves as an unofficial coalition to contain Russia's rejection of NATO encroachment. They've been draining US coffers to bring missiles closer and closer to Russian borders in order to reduce their reaction time to near-zero and exert pressure to get them to 'play ball'. Without US backing, Europe would not be able to contain this. The US is laundering its status as Power #1 to flex on Power #2 and it's past the tipping point. You're not wrong that Russia is significantly disadvantaged, but to quote Biden, "C'mon, man!"

The UN Security Council would have you believe that the U.S., Russia, China, UK, and France are equals. Do you really think France is equal to Russia? France has 200 nuclear warheads. Russia has ~5800. Nukes are rapidly becoming irrelevant but they still matter and are roughly reflective of political clout.
The Euros are delusional about Russia. in it's current state it would not be able to get past eastern Poland. Russia's army is that degraded. in any conventional conflict they would be clobbered. Their military has been coasting on soviet arsenals since the fall. they have no domestic production of thermal optics (they used to buy from france) or night vision. their aircraft industry is in tatters, and they are wasting their precious long range bombers (which they cannot replace, all "new" strategic bombers they build are on Soviet built airframes) on flinging missiles at ukriane. Their surface fleet is a pale shadow of its former self. Their submarine fleet is very good, but they cannot sustain deployments. instead they must sortie from their bases for missions and return. They can't do deterrence patrols like the US, France and the UK can.

The Russians have had no warning time against Ballistic missiles since about the 1970s. but even if they did have long enough to see it coming, they would not because their early warning systems have been very poorly maintained since the collapse of the soviet union.

The security council is not a power ranking. its just the principal powers from WW2. thats all.

Thats why all this bullshit is maddening. Russia poses no threat past its immediate neighbors. its all boomers wanting relive the glory days.

In the 1990s we could have made friends with the russians. we did not.

and further, "diplomats" do not understand Russia like the old boys from the 60s 70s and 80s did. Russia has it's red lines. The Cold war was won by avoiding touching them and forcing the USSR to spend itself to death.
 
Russia is not a superpower. They are a very powerful regional power. They can't project force outside their immediate borders. Their nuclear forces are the only thing left from the USSR that is worth a damn.
How can you say Russia can't project force outside their immediate borders when half of Europe swears Putin won't stop with Ukraine and conquer all of them too next? That's obviously not Russia's goal but they're definitely back to superpower status again. The war mobilization and rapid expansion of industrial capacity proves it.

The 1990's was a long time ago.
 
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