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(182,904 posts)If you look for different news you turn to channel 2 and it say "Why you not watching channel 1?"
polly7
(20,582 posts)Last edited Thu Nov 26, 2015, 04:25 PM - Edit history (1)
Two families are without their husbands/fathers/brothers/friends, neighbours, co-workers. Even wonder about the children of those men?
Thought about this and what I said was rotten. I apologize. Still don't like your 'joke'.
edhopper
(33,621 posts)about the Hospitals and innocent people Russia had bombed from those jets.
Or the anti-Assad rebels,our allies,they have bombed?
trumad
(41,692 posts)morningfog
(18,115 posts)Duh.
MattSh
(3,714 posts)How do you know they're not lying? This is precisely the type of thing they would lie about. Because they've lied about it any number of other times.
edhopper
(33,621 posts)you are woefully uniformed.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)if jokes were made about any of that. Get it?
Matrosov
(1,098 posts)Anti-Assad "rebels" = Al Nusra aka Syrian Al Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood, etc.
edhopper
(33,621 posts)a vile dictator.
They are bombing those that oppose him.
Not ISIS.
Matrosov
(1,098 posts)Assad = dictator
Russia = supporter of Assad
Iran = supporter of Assad
However, what's very important to remember, is..
Free Syrian Army = Al Nusra (Syran Al Quaeda), Muslim Brotherhood, Wahhabist extremists
NATO (including the US) = supporter of FSA
Sunni Muslims (including our buddy KSA) = supporter of FSA
That's why I generally support Assad/Russia/Iran in this conflict, not because I think they have good intentions, but because I think they are still slightly better than FSA terrorists and their supporters.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)Putin picks the best and brightest from the North Korean slave logging camps in Siberia. Then they are trained as fighter pilots to go on the most dangerous of missions-
trumad
(41,692 posts)You ever wonder about the wives, Fathers, Children of the people they drop their bombs on?
I know---you'll counter with---they only drop bombs on bad guys. Yeah right.
polly7
(20,582 posts)born with defects from obscene chemicals used to kill in the most horrific ways, scooping up water from the river with corpses floating by, having limbs blown off because your gov't makes millions off those cluster bombs left behind they think are toys - all these children all over the region destroyed by western greed and blood-lust ......... don't fucking talk to me about your 'concern' about children when this crap ALL started because of the bloody, obscene invasion of Iraq. 7 countries in 5 years, short memory?
Sick, sick, sick.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Not following this line of reasoning.
polly7
(20,582 posts)Have you been ignoring events in the ME and NA since 2001? I'm not sure how anyone could be so uninformed.
These are just a few opinions, you've probably never heard of these people though, so start with google and current events, then follow links and stories backward. Not sure how else to help you.
Red-baiting and Russophobia to divert away from who has helped create and fund IS and their brutal terrorist acts that the hated Russia is at least trying to stop. Even going so far as to laugh about the deaths of a pilot down shot parachuting and a rescuer trying to locate these men. It's sick.
Pilger - From Pol Pot to ISIS: The blood never dried
Full article: http://johnpilger.com/articles/from-pol-pot-to-isis-the-blood-never-dried
Anti-Empire Report #140
by William Blum / November 3rd, 2015
Are you confused by the Middle East? Here are some things you should know. (But youll probably still be confused.)
-The first example of this was in 1979 when the United States began covert operations in Afghanistan, six months before the Russians arrived, promoting Islamic fundamentalism across the southern tier of the Soviet Union against godless communism. All the al-Qaeda/Taliban shit then followed.
-In addition to Afghanistan, the United States has provided support to Islamic militants in Bosnia, Kosovo, Libya, the Caucasus, and Syria.
-The United States overthrew the secular governments of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya and is trying to do the same with Syria, thus giving great impetus to the rise of ISIS. Said Barack Obama in March of this year: ISIS is a direct outgrowth of al-Qaeda in Iraq that grew out of our invasion. Which is an example of unintended consequences. Which is why we should generally aim before we shoot.1
What these governments have had in common can be summarized in a single word independence independence from American foreign policy; the refusal to be a client state of Washington; the refusal to be continuously hostile to Washingtons Officially Designated Enemies; insufficient respect and zeal for the capitalist way of life.
Attempted to overthrow more than 50 foreign governments, most of which were democratically-elected.
Dropped bombs on the people of more than 30 countries.
Attempted to assassinate more than 50 foreign leaders.
Attempted to suppress a populist or nationalist movement in 20 countries.
Grossly interfered in democratic elections in at least 30 countries.4
Plus although not easily quantified more involved in the practice of torture than any other country in the world for over a century not just performing the actual torture, but teaching it, providing the manuals, and furnishing the equipment.
Full article: http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/11/the-deadly-ongoing-role-of-the-us-in-the-middle-east-and-beyond/#more-60317
treestar
(82,383 posts)RT?
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polly7
(20,582 posts)I've never posted a link to RT. Where the hell are you reading, anyway?
treestar
(82,383 posts)If you're condemning the US for it, then condemn Russia for doing it. Or allow the US to have propped its own interests, if you are allowing Russia to do it here.
polly7
(20,582 posts)Sorry. Try harder.
treestar
(82,383 posts)and it wasn't children, but actual combatant soldiers you were talking about.
Evading your double standard for the US vs. Russia for doing the same thing is what you did there.
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Pretty gross.
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polly7
(20,582 posts)trumad
(41,692 posts)You won't be jurying me again.
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trumad
(41,692 posts)polly7
(20,582 posts)TM99
(8,352 posts)You made mine months ago.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Your alleged concern is given all the credibility it indeed, warrants.
Ugly Americans often maintain the pretense of social concern to better mask absurd political agendas, regardless of the righteous justifications pretending otherwise.
polly7
(20,582 posts)No worries, my concern is still as real as it was when I was replying to the warmongers demonizing me for being a 'Hussein lover', a 'Gaddafi lover' - even a 'Chavez lover'.
UGLY is making fun of human beings killed because they don't happen to be a part of destroying what the west has been trying for since the writing of PNAC and all its ugly, obscene repercussions.
Don't worry about my concern, do a little soul-searching and see if you can come up with some of your own.
polly7
(20,582 posts)'Puke'.
treestar
(82,383 posts)The who macho thing with Putin means they don't want this kind of sympathy.
polly7
(20,582 posts)Do you know them personally?
I bet it would be a lot different if it were your brother, son, friend, neighbour, eh? No turkey for them!!! Funny, funny stuff. I'd really expect about the same from mean little fourth-graders, not so-called progressives on an adult message board.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Women, children, that poor little Syrian kid, so many other Syrian kids. That being the first reaction for Russian soldiers from an American seems odd. Yes I do feel sorry for their families, especially if they were drafted as opposed to volunteers. But the joke is sort of aimed at the country, and we may not sympathize with Russian's aims and aspirations as you do.
It's not up to Russia what government Syria has, so they are interfering as badly as we ever do.
polly7
(20,582 posts)trumad
(41,692 posts)Spending all morning battling members in this thread over a Turkey joke.
polly7
(20,582 posts)and attention joking of the loss of human beings. Even recc'ing it yourself. How sad.
trumad
(41,692 posts)It was easy.
The biggest laugh is seeing you get wo worked up.
polly7
(20,582 posts)That shit just comes naturally, eh?
And yes, I've always gotten 'worked up' over death and dying ... it's just who I am.
forsaken mortal
(112 posts)at war with, a jet that isn't even equipped for air to air fighting or escorted, then we make fun of the pilot who was brutally murdered. What bullshit to see on a "progressive" site.
trumad
(41,692 posts)Was it dropping flowers?
nilesobek
(1,423 posts)in a cold war hysteria time warp. The world turned upside down. So-called liberals defending the ISIS bigots who throw gay people off towers like king longshanks.
Erdogan is widely regarded throughout eastern europe as a "little hitler." Putin would be fully justified to rattle the cage, the trillion dollar palace the little hitler built for himself on backs of his fellow turks.
After 30 million bucks we only found 5 "moderate" rebels. Is that erdogan's excuse to kill people?
cwydro
(51,308 posts)I do.
It's human nature.
demmiblue
(36,898 posts)ericson00
(2,707 posts)and the Ukrainian people unfortunately have to bear its worst brunt. Also, the Assad Dynasty was a Soviet creation.
not much to be thankful for in the USSR.
Renew Deal
(81,875 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,863 posts)you went there....
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)That was pretty fowl.
forsaken mortal
(112 posts)If your 5
trumad
(41,692 posts)Iggo
(47,571 posts)stevenleser
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trumad
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trumad
(41,692 posts)Sorry...not terribly upset that a Russian fighter jet was shot down.
War is hell ain't it.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)They shilled like one anyway.
Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)I was Juror #5. Not a fan of being a grammar Nazi, but if you are going to call someone an idiot, you might want to get your basic grammar right.
Sociopathic response.
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trumad
(41,692 posts)Figures.
Hekate
(90,829 posts)I need to update my little list (rubs hands and cackles).
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)Also, nice jury.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)This type of joke has existed since at least the 1960s. In the 196873 television show Laugh-In, a recurring character, "Piotr Rosmenko the Eastern European Man" (played by Arte Johnson), delivered short jokes such as "Here in America, is very good, everyone watch television. In old country, television watches you!". This joke alludes to video screens that both reproduce images and monitor the citizenry, as in Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The joke form is often credited to Ukrainian-American comedian Yakov Smirnoff, although he only rarely used Russian reversals; one exception was a Miller Lite commercial in which he appeared in 1985, wherein he states: "In America, there's plenty of light beer and you can always find a party. In Russia, Party always finds you."
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Many Russian expats tell jokes like this.
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NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Hekate
(90,829 posts)Old KGB hand Putin is definitely out of the USSR.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)But that's genuinely funny.