11 days until the real fun starts!

Boring, kooky, and now repetitive. I’ve scratched my head all day trying to make sense of your many, many posts on this page, and all I’ve got is a fresh bald spot.

Time for a time out.

The book was better.

Oh, that makes sense, thanks. Annoys the heck out of me when archive.xx demands clicking all the motorcycles or stairs or buses whenever I’m on the VPN.

For anything archived at the big archiving services, the canonical link is at the top of the page.

Yup, failing, or already failed and we’re just waiting for the ashes to settle. I don’t think democracy can work when the public is intentionally being misinformed, and no country can be stable when it’s governed by a shitstorm of lies.

That’s my take, too, except for the part about looking at @surph_ninja’s (or anyone’s) post history. Life is too short and this thread too unimportant for such investigations.

In my tedious mod-duties, I generally frown on insults. They add nothing to the conversation, lower the discourse, etc. And “loser” is so Trumpian.

One of the many reports received about this thread described @surph_ninja as an “odious cockwaffle.” Now, that’s an insult. If we must stoop so low, let’s at least be creative about it.

Philip, this is a frickin’ masterpiece. You ought to charge admission.

The joy of reading it justifies not (yet) expelling @surph_ninja.

It’s self-evident bonkers extrapolation, shown by simply comparing your claims with the links you’ve offered as support.

My trick for surviving in the wilds of the internet is an early end to conversations with folks who seem immune to words, logic, common sense, etc. It would be nice if that wasn’t you.

You’ve got the ‘outrgageous’ mastered, but can you say something amusing, interesting, or profound?

For all the people reporting this comment (half a dozen so far, maybe more), my mod-answer is here. Certainly, @surph_ninja seems to be a fool and an insufferable twat, but life is full of fools and insufferable twats.

Stupid and gullible I’ll tolerate here, but you’re starting to smell like a troll. Change my mind.

With @surph_ninja’s follow-up links, it’s not quite ‘misinformation’. More like, bonkers extrapolation, based on slivers of cherry-picked truth. The nuttiness exposes itself.

Claiming that CIRES thing amounts to “the US was expanding and annexing territory in the arctic during the Biden admin”? Thinking a propaganda quote from 2023 shows “all [war allies’] military assets & ammunition reserves” are being depleted?

Nah, I’ll let it stand. When gullible people show how they swallow whatever they swallow and regurgitate, it’s educational (just not in the way @surph_ninja thinks).

America has the highest standard of propaganda.

Spot on, and the numbers are astounding.

Eloquent. Added to my to-be-plagiarized file.

Do you believe all this, and if so, why?

but what would we do with bad people???

Maybe the guards can find real jobs in the fast food or sanican industries.

Kneeling bags my nylons.