Russia and Ukraine

[Thumpalumpacus]

That's a thing (a government of yes men)...but assume the very best case, a dictator who demands and actually gets factual information.  Still won't help.  The country still succeeds or fails on the basis of a single persons whims.

Very true -- but when those whims are fed by misinformation, the circle of suffering widens, as we see in this case.

[arewethereyet]

Smartest guy in the room...just ask him, he'll tell you.

i am sorry, i try to be as dumb as you, but it is just beyond me.

Oh, ouch, that really hurt.

Carry on, tell us about tractors again, I love that story.

[Anomalocaris]

i am sorry, i try to be as dumb as you, but it is just beyond me.

Oh, ouch, that really hurt.

Carry on, tell us about tractors again, I love that story.

i would, but it takes too long to illustrate what tractors are with crayons.

[Thumpalumpacus]

i am sorry, i am really dumb to start with, and i made a herculean effort to become even dumber, but try as I might i can’t make myself come close to being as dumb as you or thump.

One of the longer "NO U!" replies you'll read, quoted above. Not even smart enough to practice economy of language.

Instead of answering my points you replied with "fuck off" and "go fuck yourself". I think that speaks volumes about both your intellect (or lack thereof) and your unjustified self-esteem.

Hopefully next time you'll respond to points made rather than flaunting your butthurt for all to see and laugh at ... but I'm not holding my breath.

[Anomalocaris]

i am sorry, i am really dumb to start with, and i made a herculean effort to become even dumber, but try as I might i can’t make myself come close to being as dumb as you or thump.

One of the longer "NO U!" replies you'll read, quoted above. Not even smart enough to practice economy of language.

Instead of answering my points you replied with "fuck off" and "go fuck yourself". I think that speaks volumes about both your intellect (or lack thereof) and your unjustified self-esteem.

Hopefully next time you'll respond to points made rather than flaunting your butthurt for all to see and laugh at ... but I'm not holding my breath.

 when you have a point, or even indication of a real thought, i will let you know.

[arewethereyet]

Oh, ouch, that really hurt.

Carry on, tell us about tractors again, I love that story.

i would, but it takes too long to illustrate what tractors are with crayons.

Here's a picture you can copy.  You don't even need colors other than black, gray, and white.

[Anomalocaris]

wrong one.    not pertinent to the discussion about how remote kill switch affect value of a tractor

[arewethereyet]

wrong one.    not pertinent to the discussion.

Says the tractor expert.

[Anomalocaris]

wrong one.    not pertinent to the discussion.

Says the tractor expert.

you see, you don’t need to be any expert about tractors to tell, you only need to known anything at all about tractors,

or not having any specific knowledge about tractors, having very general knowledge of how remote enabled machinery works from engineering perspective would suffice.  

and you seem not to.have neither, but are seething with resentment towards people who have bare minimum of knowledge and aren’t quite so completely ignorant.

[The Grand Nudger]

I feel like I'm missing something..but I'm entirely sure that no idea about tractors (however misinformed or expertly derived) can explain why a person would contend that invading a neighboring sovereign state was an issue of forced passivity. Such that some third party to conflict owned said conflict.

That shit..is bananapants, and doesn't even allow a person to claim agency for the great and masterful putin.