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Gorth would you support the banning of books that encourage or support criminality? And I dont mean culture wars "criminality ", for example books about an Islamic Extremist and how he personally built bombs and killed people ?

Yes but most effective armies need experience in warfare. What wars have the Chinese been involved in in the last 30 years or so, battle experience matters. Thats one of the reasons the US is the worlds most powerful military, its not just the funding. Its the 20 years of the War on Terror and how the US has learnt lessons and refined its military strategies These new US missiles, whatever you call them, supplied to the Ukrainians are doing some damage to the Ruskies. Artillery matters in this war

Im one of those gamers that never gets tired of tried and tested designs, of course I appreciate worthy innovation but for example can you ever get tired of killing Zombies?

And we can blame the left for this because of all the fake accounts and bots that exist on Twitter, the numbers of substantive users are almost impossible to discern. I dont blame Musk at all And this is definitely one of those times where its the lefts fault because most Conservatives have been banned from Twitter. Well done Alan, this is all your fault

You clever people, of course illegal aliens are real, everyone knows this ....stop trying to fool us Most of the men in both my UK and SA family are committed atheists\agnostics and my dad doesnt believe in anything unless science can prove it and what science cant prove he says one day they will. So their is no room in his world view for ghosts, faeries and supernatural events But my parents were divorced and my mom raised us and my mom was more " well maybe aliens exist, you never know " My dad had this bad habit of using extreme logic and investment banker thinking to dismiss things we use to ask him and I remember asking him questions like " how do you know aliens arent true, what about all these sightings " And he would respond with something like " why would an intelligent form of life capable of traveling and somehow bypassing the known laws of light and speed come to our planet and only appear in front of Farmer Joe in his corn field in Wyoming ....do you know how ridiculous that sounds " My dads never really understood or appreciated fantasy

Kanie so you a space person which means I am going to ask you the question that everyone on this forum wants to know ..... Are aliens real and if so do they believe in colonialism and CRT 👽

Venezuela is indeed an absolute economic disaster but thats because they nationalized\stole the assets of international oil companies back in 2006 and then mismanaged the running of these oil companies like most failed socialist experiments The Russian energy companies are more or less well run and always have been state and oligarch owned. But you cant have a sustainable and growing economy just on energy sales especially with the level of Western sanctions and disinvestment in the Russian economy So the future for the Russian economy is not great

Thats why we using sanctions, no one has to freeze to death when we have sanctions

Im watching loads of entertaining series that include Season 4 of Mayans : This is a gritty and violent spinoff of Sons of Anarchy and in this latest season the Mayans end up going to war with the Sons. Its great and you will recognize some of the previous actors from the original Sons of Anarchy Hightown season 2 : A crime drama about police battling in drugs in Provincetown : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hightown_(TV_series) Law and Order season 21 and Law and Order: SUV We Own This City: From the producers of The Wire and its brilliant and its all about police success and corruption in Baltimore : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Own_This_City Desert Rose : A South African drama about a dysfunctional family living in a drought stricken town, its got some hotties in it which is always a good thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Rose_(TV_series) Billy the Kid : It seems to be a revisionist story of the famous outlaw where he is good guy and misunderstood. Still fun https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14586544/

Yes the Japanese since the end of WW2 have a culture of pacifism and gun ownership is very strict, the only people who own guns are the Yakuza and military personnel

Because its not a culture where gun violence or assassinations is common This is very unusual

Good to know, you learn new things everyday

Kazakhstan? What.....I thought that was a made up country for the movie Borat ? It looks like its real ? Mamie is this a real link

No thats not accurate, its not lying if you didn't lie Alan its not very nice to make fun of people, I thought that went against the liberal code?

This has got huge potential. The one positive from Putins War is the US and its Western allies doesnt ever need to worried about being called warmongers anymore because all future invasions ...Im mean "special military operations " can be justified And it is so easy in the case of Turkey, you just say you "invading " because of Islamic Extremists. You cant use the Nazi card but you can easily argue the EU is worried about the borders of Turkey expanding. And then at the UN all we do is deny and repeat the same gaslighting Its a brave new world Putin has shown us, who needs to respect sovereignty when you have a more powerful military EDIT : Oh I meant to add, you also need to keep saying the West was provoked, thats very important to justify an invasion of Turkey

I see the oil price is down to $102, nice. Hopefully it drops more and stays low, that will be a huge help in ending the high global inflation

I have made this same point on Codex several times but I genuinely feel sorry for those Russians who dont support and never did the invasion of Ukraine. Thats one of the many disadvantages of living in an autocratic state like Russia. Citizens have no voice and no way to change the economic trajectory and future of Russia We have problems in all our Constitutional Democracies with the current global inflation but they are nothing compared to what Russia will be like in the next 18-24 months. And on Codex the majority of cheerleaders of Putins War all live in Western, first world countries. Of course none of them would actually live in Russia. And most of the Russian members who live in Russia dont like Putin and dont support the invasion. They care about their country like any patriot would but they not supportive of what Putin has done and they not positive about the future

I knew you cared about this topic, its okay to admit that ...no one is going to think less of you

I agree, if over 50 people hadnt resigned and demonstrated that he had lost confidence of his party then he could have stayed on But as I said earlier politics is a fickle beast

Very magnanimous resignation speech from Johnson, Trump can learn a lot from him and accepting when its over or you lost

Yes Sarex that must be true, great economic analysis there. Germanys economic success and strength must be because of Russian energy. It cant be because of the correct economic policies, hard work, effective government that ensures accountability and governance, the EU, education system or the advanced industrialization of Germany and now without Russian energy its going to collapse Makes perfect sense

Gorthfuscious I think you need to be honest, it doesnt sound like you respect or like Johnson?

Do you know of any time in the UK where so many people have resigned in protest from any political party, its unprecedented ?

Thank you for demonstrating my point. Many people, including yourself, dont understand the reality of the UK and its political decisions. Johnson didnt break-up the UK, he delivered on the mandate of the BREXIT referendum. Thats what political parties are suppose to do, deliver on what they say they will do when the majority of citizens have voted Hoonding dont allow yourself to be fooled and manipulated by misinformation and some media hyperbole. Always ask me if you not sure

The misunderstanding you guys are making with Johnsons leadership is you are judging him on the theater and media outrage like Partygate and ignoring how effective he was on the real issues like BREXIT and the overall UK response to the virus. He was also well respected internationally But I do now sadly concede its time for him to step down because he has clearly lost support within his own party Politics is a fickle mistress, I wouldnt want to be a politician