Process moves way faster when they're cluttering up a sanctuary city as opposed to El Paso.
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Also good and topical -- given the discussions here on amazon's "diverse" Lord of the Rings series...
Liberals have been throwing angry temper tantrums over the skin color of fictional characters for as long as anyone has been paying attention.
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Yes, in case you were wondering, Hannibal is still very pissed that they have cast blacks (BLACKS!) to play mythical creatures in works of fiction. Having a white actor don blackface or tape their eyes to look "slanted" is a bit different, but not according to the gutter trash right.
JFC If you could tell the teenage you that in 30 years time you'd be heavily invested in the skin color of a mermaid in a movie intended for babies and little girls, you'd have probably put a bullet in your brain right then and there, not wanting to see how pathetic you'd become by middle age.
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Interesting piece about DeSantis and the future of the party. Peter Thiel takes some mild shots at him towards the end. I did get a chuckle at the guy who wonders why so many foreigners (Nigel Farage, Victor Orban's crew, members from Israel's Far Right, etc.) are always at these "America-First" conferences.
The coronation of Ron DeSantis - UnHerd
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Ukraine: New developments. Putin has embarked on a scorched earth policy of targeting large swaths of critical Ukrainian infrastructure - electrical transmission capacity (nuclear and otherwise), water distribution systems and, not yet being reported on but undoubtedly on going, cyber attacks on banking institutions and the computer networks that activate the controlling devices of any major system that relies on them to function.
It's the kind of cyber warfare talked about decades ago coupled with destructive attacks on key nodes. Putin is coupling these with the targeting of civilian residential and business structures for the purpose of terrorizing residents and business owners using conventional weapons. Putin has the resources to carry this kind of unconventional warfare off when it is becoming increasingly obvious he lacks the resources to prosecute a conventional war. This would involve force of arms and boots on the ground to eliminate Ukrainian soldiers and the equipment that supports them, then seize and hold key terrain within Ukraine. He's apparently failing using that plan.
It's also worth mentioning that the first evidence of high-tech Iranian drones, e.g. a potentially locally remanufactured Shahed-136, loitering, high angle stealth, kamikaze attack drone are appearing on the battlefield. They are difficult to detect, acquire, engage and shoot down. Depending on sophistication in EW countermeasures installed on board the drone, they can be jammed, somewhat an extension and another category of cyber-warfare. https://www.jpost.com/international/article-717402
Not too long ago both NATO acting collectively and independent western nations started planning for a war like this. How it is waged is classified and not in the public domain (e.g., jamming equipment targeting drones). We get glimpses that the capability is there - for example, the decreasing number of cyber crimes involving extortion. Reports that the Ukrainians have been engaging and destroying Russian drones with conventional air defense systems and western supplied ground based ECM are out there (these are likely black programs where reporting on them is censored and suppressed).
An interesting article I read months ago at a business web site that I don't recall the name of, discussed the advanced programing skills and tech development capacity that was active in Ukraine before the war. Lots of businesses there with well educated employees where those kinds of skills can be easily translated to cyber-attack and self defense against it. It could be a factor in this new approach to bringing down Ukraine and the Zelenski government that it appears Putin has embarked upon having probably realized he's not going to force that outcome on Ukraine in a conventional military operation. I hope it is.
I know many hold the belief that the west should not be getting involved in Putin's war in Ukraine. But what appears to be a major shift, possibly an earlier conceived plan B, in how Putin plans to achieve his political objectives in Ukraine, presents an ever growing threat to western ideals, the attendant world order and governing ideology if Putin succeeds in annexing Ukraine into Russia. It's just another battlefield the west has to prevail on. It seems the west has stymied Putin's conventional military operations and obtaining his strategic objectives these were intended to facilitate. A new cyber, high tech stealth battlefield, equally important is emerging.
Mission to CFB's National Championship accomplished. But the shine on the NC Trophy is embarrassingly wearing off. It's M B-Ball ..... or hockey or volley ball or name your college sport favorite time ...... until next year.
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These Trump lawyers are something else. They won getting a Special Master appointed.
Now they're whining that he's moving too quickly and they want to slow the process down. They want the entire process to last until at least Nov. 30
Judge Dearie specifically asked Trump's team to provide evidence that he declassified ANY of the material. The lawyers are pretty much point blank refusing.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/re...18763.97.0.pdf
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Maybe some interesting food for thought for the churchy types (Linesman, Geezer, etc.) . Appears to signal that evangelicals are very united when it comes to culture war/political issues but deeply divided or simply don't understand basic tenets of their faith.
FWIW the guy sharing this is a self-declared evangelical himself and the survey was done by Ligonier Ministries
https://thestateoftheology.com/?utm_...te+of+theology
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Originally posted by Dr. Strangelove View PostYes, in case you were wondering, Hannibal is still very pissed that they have cast blacks (BLACKS!) to play mythical creatures in works of fiction.
That also includes these people who are angry that there are too many white people on television
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/04/94257...life-diversity
https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-in...sing-diversity
https://www.usatoday.com/story/enter...dy/3720579001/
https://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...sity-report-tv
https://huntnewsnu.com/68868/lifesty...for-diversity/
https://deadline.com/2018/04/diversi...me-1202375787/
https://theconversation.com/film-and...h-worse-154622
Three minutes on Google produces literally hundreds of similar hits about how we need fewer white people on television. Here's your chance DSL. Don't let those racist Liberals obsessed with skin color define you!Last edited by Hannibal; September 19, 2022, 08:17 PM.
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Obsess much?
Good lord, have they told you about Jesus, yet. Your head is gonna explode.
x61-810-L-2.jpgLast edited by CGVT; September 19, 2022, 08:35 PM.I feel like I am watching the destruction of our democracy while my neighbors and friends cheer it on
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Originally posted by Dr. Strangelove View PostBexar County Sheriff (San Antonio) announces a criminal investigation into Ron DeSantis' stunt flight. Heh
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/d...grant-flights/Shut the fuck up Donny!
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