Quote:It's very good news to see that Trump is shutting down the National Endowment for Democracy. This ironically-named institution has done more to obstruct and pervert free and fair elections than just about any other part of the US government.

Bel makes another baseless claim

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So Democrats are non-fascist by definition, not according to what they do? 

So they would allow free and fair primary elections. They wouldn't conspire with social media moguls to police what we can say on line. They wouldn't lie through their teeth to justify war. They wouldn't instigate a coup in another country in order to control that country's government. They wouldn't use US intelligence officials to lie in order to influence a US election.

Well, since you say they're nice folks, maybe they'll stop doing those things.

More make-believe by Bel

(10 hours ago)The Architect Of Fate Wrote:

Quote:It's very good news to see that Trump is shutting down the National Endowment for Democracy. This ironically-named institution has done more to obstruct and pervert free and fair elections than just about any other part of the US government.

Bel makes another baseless claim

He seems to have turned into an apologist and part time shill, for Trump and Musk's systematic dismantling of democracy in the US, to facilitate a trolley sweep of everything they can grab. 

Part of me hopes I am being overly pessimistic, and never have to say I told you so, but part of me is wondering if he is typing in one of those ghastly red MAGA hats.

Ich would not even be surprised if it turned out that English is not his native language.

(9 hours ago)Deesse23 Wrote: Ich would not even be surprised if it turned out that English is not his native language.

Belaqua? Surely it's ancient Greek?

(9 hours ago)Sheldon Wrote:

(9 hours ago)Deesse23 Wrote: Ich would not even be surprised if it turned out that English is not his native language.

Belaqua? Surely it's ancient Greek?

No, but I'm sure he knows a lot of people who speak ancient greek

https://reliefweb.int/report/ukraine/war...tural-land

It looks as though the unpopular changes Zelensky made to laws about land ownership do not allow outright purchase by foreign companies. I apologize for the error. The law does allow foreign control through more complicated financial arrangements.

The winners are still the oligarchs and foreign investors, and the losers are still the Ukrainian people.

Yay another instance of a western institution repeating Russian propaganda

https://www.stopfake.org/uk/fejk-zelensk...ompaniyam/

https://factcheck.bg/en/politicheck-it-i...companies/

Democrats do get one advantage from Trump ending the Ukraine war in this way.

There are some Dems and others who are SO FAR out in Cloud Cuckoo Land that they think Ukraine is winning the war, or could somehow win back the territory it has lost through military means.

Trump is just acknowledging reality, and putting an end to a ridiculous waste of lives.

But by doing it this way, the fantasists (those F-16s are going to be game-changers any day now!) can claim that Trump stopped things too early, and Zelensky would have won pretty soon if given the chance. That's silly, but not sillier than a lot of things people have believed. (US troops will be greeted with flowers in Baghdad; the Taliban will be easily defeated, etc. etc.)

(Today at 3:51 am)Belacqua Wrote: They wouldn't lie through their teeth to justify war.

GWB was Republican, just so you know.