The solution to false masculinity is to replace it with real masculinity. Men who speak well of women, who practice custody of the eyes, who willfully suffer for the good of others, and who do hard things. We used to promote examples of such men but that time seems to have passed.

By your source, they resisted 12 years (mostly due to western aid) and then gave-up.

“By the early 1950s, the Soviet forces had eradicated most of the Forest Brother resistance. Intelligence gathered by the Soviet spies in the West and MGB infiltrators within the resistance movement, in combination with large-scale Soviet operations in 1952, managed to end the campaigns against them. Many of the remaining Forest Brothers laid down their weapons when offered an amnesty by the Soviet authorities…”

Now you have to be a troll. First, Russia ruled the Baltics for several generations. Second, it is the most easily conquered NATO territory in Europe today. Many doubt that NATO would respond and Russia would displace native people (who they will forcibly relocate elsewhere) with Russians who will be moved in to Russify the lands.

I’m not a lawyer but the feds claiming it as a federal case because cars could be used in interstate commerce seems lame. Should be a Missouri case, not a federal case.

I got a very early version of Debian from a friend when I was in college. I had a very old computer gifted to me but couldn’t get Windows to install. I ran that badboy with no window manager, just text. I used elinks for my web browser and pine for email. VI was where I wrote my papers. Drivers were a problem, so I had to save papers on a disk to print from a computer at a library.

Georgians recently elected a very pro-Moscow political party. Belarus could revolt but doesn’t. During Soviet rule, we had the example of the Hungarians whose little revolt was crushed quickly. They then fell back in line to Russian rule.

I’m confused, which bias is this story trying to exhibit?

1. What an amazing man, to subject himself to measles due out of his heroic care; or

2. What a dumb man to travel after having been near people with measles.

I mean, Chinese companies having loads of unsold inventory that they are trying to sell to locals at a deep loss does seem to be part of the tariff story.

I believe it is because the activity burns everything, including molecules that build up to eventually cause cognitive diseases.

Then what? Then you get the 1950’s - 1980’s in eastern Europe all over again, including an obvious level of stagnation when compared to those on the other side of the iron curtain.

I know this is going to be unpopular here but I will 100% tell you that there’s a lot of people now voting for the GOP because they are upset about pronoun politics. My dad has voted Democrat every election his entire life because he is in a Labor Union. This time him and most of his union buddies voted Trump. My neighbor is hispanic and employs a lot of hispanic contractors. Most of them voted with the GOP because they are upset about how the schools are presenting pronoun policy. There’s a lot of this out there. They can agree with the Democrat party in terms of healthcare, taxation, foreign policy, and a whole lot of other things but this one issue really drives at the core of what they think it means to be a human person … and they don’t like it.

They win wars. They bore of occupations.

Now they can do the most American thing of all: Ignore weather warnings.

I could be wrong but my impression was that this is how it already is for goods containing rare earths. That they are already manufactured largely in China and China exports them and that there’s no ban on finished products containing rare earths.

I’m pro-Europe but I also recognize that Europe is very dependent on the US for military technology and weapons. France is the only country that is resistant to the possibility of the US just turning everything off. European nations would do fine vs. Russia with American technology and weapons. I suspect that Russia could reconquer to Berlin if Europe was depraved of American military technology and weapons. Maybe I’m wrong, though.

Better yet, use adb to remove all the junk from your phone.

I am self-employed and have customers who need to reach out to me about one thing or another. I’m okay with phone calls. Phone calls get business done quickly. Text messages are terrible. If I get one text message, I’ll respond right away if I can, but only the first message. If he shoots a message back, I call. If he doesn’t answer, I wait a few hours to text back again. I absolutely refuse to turn our conversations to SMS conversations.

China will have to become a net importer for that to happen and that’s very unlikely. The Euro has a better chance but I seriously think Trump would turn all of Europe over to Russia to stop that from happening.

China has to be careful because they are an export driven economy and there’s not a lot of wealthy customers out there. If they contribute to a serious recession in the US, it’ll carry consequences in China too. The key for them will be retaliation that carries a big political hit but not an economic hit.

From what I understand, China’s exports of rare earths have been largely a part of finished components and that’s not been suspended.