You know you lost the war when they laugh in your face

[alvnv]

Crowd erupts in laughter at Russia’s top diplomat after he claimed the Ukraine war was ‘launched against us’:
https://news.yahoo.com/crowd-erupts-laughter-russias-top-180331126.html

 

[unicorn]

Lavrov is a man with no self-respect. I hope he eventually gets his just desserts. 

[Marc in Calif]

On 3/5/2023 at 11:23 PM, unicorn said:

Lavrov is a man with no self-respect. I hope he eventually gets his just desserts. 

"One would be forgiven..."

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/just-deserts-or-just-desserts#:~:text=Despite its pronunciation%2C just deserts,but pronounced like the sweet

What to Know
Despite its pronunciation, just deserts, with one s, is the proper spelling for the phrase meaning "the punishment that one deserves." The phrase is even older than dessert, using an older noun version of desert meaning "deserved reward or punishment," which is spelled like the arid land, but pronounced like the sweet treat.

Based on the way the second word in just deserts (“the punishment that one deserves”) is pronounced, one would be forgiven for imagining that it came about in reference to some form of discipline involving custards, cookies, or petits fours. It might even make one wonder why there are not other meal-based forms of chastisement in our language; why no deserved breakfasts, no requisite lunches, no warranted teas? Because it’s not that kind of dessert. 😇

[unicorn]

12 hours ago, Marc in Calif said:

...Despite its pronunciation, just deserts, with one s, is the proper spelling for the phrase meaning "the punishment that one deserves." The phrase is even older than dessert, using an older noun version of desert meaning "deserved reward or punishment," which is spelled like the arid land, but pronounced like the sweet treat... 

You learn something new every day! Maybe we could just shove a cake into his face?

Though I wouldn't mind seeing him perish in the desert....

[tassojunior]

Here's three friends who were all killed 2 months after enlisting. Whether they're Ukraine, Russian or Dombas you should not be celebrating their death or joking about war because the American yellow press is on yet another pro-war propaganda narrative of lies. War is a horrible thing. We were wrong murdering 7 million Vietnamese (for their own good), wrong murdering 1 million Iraqis (for their own good) and for following the yellow press into the Mexican War, the Spanish American War, and WWI and all these secret African wars we have going now. 

The American press glorifies war and death in every war until people eventually get fed up with the killing and lies and then the press pretends it was never really for the war. 

Celebrating war and death is wrong. Shame on you, shame on us. 

 

[unicorn]

11 hours ago, tassojunior said:

Here's three friends who were all killed 2 months after enlisting...

 

They died protecting the country they loved. Would you like to live under Putin, without freedom, where one's life can be in danger due to one's sexual orientation (for example)? 

[tassojunior]

8 hours ago, unicorn said:

They died protecting the country they loved. Would you like to live under Putin, without freedom, where one's life can be in danger due to one's sexual orientation (for example)? 

they're Russians and they volunteered because they love their country just as Americans love theirs. 

[Latbear4blk]

I am just double-checking. Someone posted in CoM that you need moderation approval to post in this Politics forum.

[Marc in Calif]

54 minutes ago, Latbear4blk said:

I am just double-checking. Someone posted in CoM that you need moderation approval to post in this Politics forum.

The crybabies and crazies are just jealous over there! 

[unicorn]

1 hour ago, tassojunior said:

they're Russians and they volunteered because they love their country just as Americans love theirs. 

Looking at the nametags, they're written with the Roman alphabet, which neither Russians nor Ukrainians use. Your story sounds fishy. 

[tassojunior]

Our pro-war yellow press may be going too far with this war:

[tassojunior]

volunteers who love their country like Americans do

[tassojunior]

Either you want to kill these patriots to their country to preserve American military hegemony over the world or you don't. 

 

[lookin]

3 hours ago, Latbear4blk said:

I am just double-checking. Someone posted in CoM that you need moderation approval to post in this Politics forum.

I think that 'moderator approval' message shows up under two conditions:

• You are not a member of the site
• You are a member, but you aren't signed in

If you're a member and you're signed in, you don't see that 'moderator approval' message and your post appears just as soon as you hit 'Submit Reply'.

[alvnv]

3 hours ago, tassojunior said:

Our pro-war yellow press may be going too far with this war:

Rich! Have you heard of Solovyov or Simonyan? How about Skabeyeva? Чья бы мычала… (Russian equivalent of the Pot Calling…)

Furthermore, while you get off on posting anti-American/Western sentiments while enjoying your life in the US/West, don’t forget that posting anything anti-Russian while in Russia will get you a personal introduction with Кузькина Мать (Kuzma’s Mother)

[alvnv]

2 hours ago, tassojunior said:

Either you want to kill these patriots to their country to preserve American military hegemony over the world or you don't. 

 

BUCHA!!!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucha_massacre
 

[vinapu]

14 minutes ago, alvnv said:

Furthermore, while you get off on posting anti-American/Western sentiments while enjoying your life in the US/West, don’t forget that posting anything anti-Russian while in Russia will get you a personal introduction with Кузькина Мать (Kuzma’s Mother)

if only that.

you hit the nail with your comment. We often forget how dangerous ANY dissent is in many places  while freely calling our kings, presidents , prime ministers etc any names we can invent without any fear of reprisal from state apparatus

[Latbear4blk]

1 hour ago, lookin said:

I think that 'moderator approval' message shows up under two conditions:

• You are not a member of the site
• You are a member, but you aren't signed in

If you're a member and you're signed in, you don't see that 'moderator approval' message and your post appears just as soon as you hit 'Submit Reply'.

I think @TotallyOz may have set a requirement of participation to be able to post without moderation.

[alvnv]

4 hours ago, tassojunior said:

volunteers who love their country like Americans do

How about the ones that left for UAE, Turkey, Indonesia, Thailand, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Armenia, etc. A lot more evaded than volunteered.

[tassojunior]

1 hour ago, vinapu said:

if only that.

you hit the nail with your comment. We often forget how dangerous ANY dissent is in many places  while freely calling our kings, presidents , prime ministers etc any names we can invent without any fear of reprisal from state apparatus

Julian Assange can't respond to you because he's been in prison for 15 years and Ed Snowden in exile can't either. I weep for the America I knew because we've become such a hate-filled war-loving country where most of our money goes to war and death and very little to the people. And between government censorship, the CIA's war narrative of the day, the regime media's war narrative of the day, how does anyone know what the truth is anymore. It's assumed we can't handle it and we're easier to govern by the regime if we are propagandized.  I don't know what country you're from but you're a 100% war and death-loving fascist. Killing people by the millions is not right. If you support it something is very wrong with you mentally. 

 

[tassojunior]

1 hour ago, alvnv said:

BUCHA!!!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucha_massacre
 

My Lai !!

[alvnv]

8 minutes ago, tassojunior said:

My Lai !!

I’m not the one calling murderers patriots

[alvnv]

Quite telling:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Russia

 

[tassojunior]

24 minutes ago, alvnv said:

Quite telling:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Russia

 

The US killed SEVEN MILLION PEOPLE in VietNam. (or do you prefer to call them "g**ks?). Then 1 million in Iraq ("sand n***ers"?). What other country comes close since then? I don't think defeating Russia needs be our main priority in the US. The world's biggest murderer is right here. But I don't blame patriots who love their country and fight for it trusting it's necessary. It's the regime in America that convinces them killing people is good when it's really only after preserving world domination for the white race (NATO), Wall Street, and the US war industry.  

[vinapu]

1 hour ago, tassojunior said:

........ but you're a 100% war and death-loving fascist. 

Gee, I don't hear it every day but as they say I was called worse things by better people