I would absolutely love it. Used to be an FLO and all I can say is carrying a stack of HE Shells would be stress free. Nobody rushing you or even being remotely discourteous. A team of escorts tackling anyone that even looks in the direction of my path, let alone attempts to walk in the way…
Thank you for making my job a little easier today :)
I actually read the referenced articles.
Fact: WWII was almost 8 decades ago. Japan, France, Italy, Brazil all are not Nazis.
Every nation has an element of Far-Right wackadoodles in their midst. To call Ukrainians nazis is as racist as calling Poles communists because they were a part of the USSR 40 years ago.
What evidence? I see zero reference to any evidence other than the word in the title. Nonsense. Reading the NYT article (which should have been the actual article not this blog post BS) the closest you get to anything Western related for breaking the negotiations is their advice that the initial tentative agreements ‘were tantamount to capitulation’. Negotiations proceeded long after that point and 2 key issues with them are attributed to their breakdown:
Putin’s micromanaging of his negotiation team led the Ukranian side to doubt the negotiations were anything but a stall tactic, and
A deal-breaking Russian amendment to Ukraine’s Article 5-esque ‘guarantors will come to the aid of Ukraine if they are attacked again in the future’ which essentially gave Russia a veto.
;tldr the only evidence provided by this blog post BS is for Russia not negotiating in good faith, and definitively being the one that spoiled the talks with a garbage ally defence veto amendment which strongly indicated they had every intention of doing all this again anyways no matter what the agreement said (their SOP.
For anyone wondering, this sort of blatant Russian propaganda is evaluated using a higher level of scrutiny but will be tolerated so long as the content can be reasonably interpreted as not intending to incite or belittle Ukrainians.
In this specific example, the claim ‘an Ukrainian assault by untrained and inexperienced prisoners was annihilated with ease’ would be in violation if it wasn’t so absurd, unsupported by the footage, and laughable.
Why allow it? Ukrainian ideals include things like ‘freedom of the press/information’. In times of war this has significant limitations ofc but I for one am interested in hearing ‘their side’ of events as they happen so long as it is done in a neutral voice. Many truths can be gleaned from lies for people savvy enough to read between the lines.
Rest assured this is not an open invitation for Russian bots to start spamming propaganda. This community will NOT become a Tankie Hellhole.
They said while wasting even more time typing about it.
but but… mUh LeGaCy!
The tragic irony of so many chickens coming home to roost but still being unable to feed the “martyrs of the future”.
IF it was forced to be in the 66% CG bracket $16.5k would be taxed at the previously posited 20% resulting in $3300 paid to government so it is a respectable jump in tax owed for those being subjected to it.
A better way to think of it is <$250k 50% of the profit is tax-free. >$250k only 34% of it is tax exempt.
First, the bump to 66% only happens after 250k that year so $25k would not trigger the extra 16% eligibility. So standard 50% CG only would be applied. $12.5k taxed at your rate means the min rate which may be something like 20% (this number is a wild guess) so say $2500 paid to the gov. Not as bad as it sounds.
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Streisand effect too: hadn’t heard of this until now. Git downloads immediately get flagged as Trojans tho
Because imprisoning terrorists is what it is correctly called
You understand ‘imprisoning terrorists’ /= ‘holding hostages’ right?
Hamas released the hostages yet?