115 Replies to “September 16, 2023: Reader Tips”

    2. “Pearl Harbor style”

      Ugh, no, not at all. Just because you attack a fleet in a harbor it does not make it Pearl Harbor style. The attack on Pearl Harbor was what started the war in the Pacific. This would be an attack in the middle of war, so it would be a lot more like Taranto or Alexandria and not at all like Pearl Harbor.

      Also this bullshit about escalation is getting tiresome.

      Having said that, not willing to be dragged into a conflict is his right as an owner of a private US company. Also, in this case, it makes him an asshole, but unfortunately it is his right.

      Final thought: how would orcs react had they realized that all of a sudden Starlink works around occupied Crimea? And I don’t care about long run reaction*. I mean how would they react immediately, would it not alarm them and eliminate the effect of surprise?

      *Their long run reaction would involve huffing and puffing and drunk Medvedev threatening to nuke someone and as usual none would give a shit.

      1. Elon Musk @elonmusk
        The Starlink regions in question were not activated. SpaceX did not deactivate anything.

        Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal
        The source was CNN referencing Walter Isaacson’s biography.

        Thank you for clarifying the facts, and glad to see Starlink was not activated in such a contentious territory.

        Elon Musk @elonmusk Replying to @MarioNawfal
        There was an emergency request from government authorities to activate Starlink all the way to Sevastopol.

        The obvious intent being to sink most of the Russian fleet at anchor.

        If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation.
        https://tinyurl.com/3ues589a

        BTW, I’m not pro-Putin or Russia — I just don’t comment about it at SDA.

    3. One more thing, the whole narrative that Starlink was turned off, Ukrainians did not know about it, realized at the last minute and only then and asked Elon strikes me as bullshit. Either he turned off in the last minute out of his free will or he got strong armed by US to do so.

        1. We have two options.
          1. Ukrainian story is true and Elon turned off Starlink at the last minute and that makes him an asshole.
          2. Elon’s story is true. It was a Ukrainian amateur hour with poor intel and Elon refused to help at the last minute and that makes him an asshole.

          I don’t find 2 plausible and if I am right Elon is lying to look better and that makes him extra asshole.

      2. Walter Isaacson @WalterIsaacson Sep 9
        To clarify on the Starlink issue: the Ukrainians THOUGHT coverage was enabled all the way to Crimea, but it was not. They asked Musk to enable it for their drone sub attack on the Russian fleet. Musk did not enable it, because he thought, probably correctly, that would cause a major war.

        Elon Musk @elonmusk Sep 9
        Much appreciated, Walter.

        The onus is meaningfully different if I refused to act upon a request from Ukraine vs. made a deliberate change to Starlink to thwart Ukraine.

        At no point did I or anyone at SpaceX promise coverage over Crimea.

        Moreover, our terms of service clearly prohibit Starlink for offensive military action, as we are a civilian system, so they were again asking for something that was expressly prohibited.

        SpaceX is building Starshield for the US government, which is similar to, but much smaller than Starlink, as it will not have to handle millions of users. That system will be owned and controlled by the US government.

        1. “…the Ukrainians THOUGHT coverage was enabled all the way to Crimea, but it was not… ”

          This strikes me as highly implausible. Ukrainians have conducted hundreds if not thousands of sabotage missions on russian territory, their intel and special forces have conducted strikes from deep inside russian territory. They surely have agents in Crimea, who knew local conditions. To think that they missed this critical bit strikes me of naivety.

          “that would cause a major war”

          No it would not, the major war is already on. It would just be another defeat suffered by orcs. It will happen sooner or later anyway.

        2. “To clarify on the Starlink issue: the Ukrainians THOUGHT coverage was enabled all the way to Crimea, but it was not.”

          You’d better repeat that fact several times REALLY SLOWLY so that even a dullard like Colonialista can comprehend it.

          1. I see Freddie is coming back with extra ankle biting zeal after his limitations yesterday have been emphasized.

  2. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/09/14/canadian-academics-climate-change-assemblies-could-break-political-deadlocks/

    The scientists behind this climate assembly proposal claim that Canadians are split along party lines, yet somehow they believe their climate assembly would produce a more climate friendly outcome than representative democracy? How could this possibly be the case, unless the assembly process is flawed, and somehow doesn’t genuinely represent the will of the Canadian people?

    It worked so well in Venezuela.

    1. Maybe it begs this question:
      How many academics actually believe the dirty proles should get to vote?
      The contempt that some of the Parasite Class have for people who get their hands dirty – and, ironically, work outside – while working for a living is a real thing.

      1. Buddy – The academics are not capable of thinking for themselves and do not seem to know how the economy works.

        1. They don’t know how an economy works because they are paid by publicly funded institutions and those institutions are the equivalent of a goldfish bowl. The only time they interact with the rest of the world is when they visit a grocery store, or have their car repaired. The rest of the time, they are completely isolated in their particular disciplines and listen, look, or talk about nothing or to no one else except people like themselves. And it is entirely possible for any closed portion of society to become just like them.

    1. “Years ahead of schedule” = being able to produce 3/5s the amount Russia produces today (per annum) beginning in 2025.

      1. Yeah apart for the fact that russia does not produce anywhere near as much as you claim. And that is just US.

    1. LOL, someone better asks Gateway Putz why, if russia produces all this ammo, are they begging Baby Kim for 122mm and 152mm arty shells and Grad rockets (and 115mm tank barrels while at it).

        1. Are you denying that Kim just jumped on the train and visited Pootin? Are you denying that russia is requesting (again) that NK send them ammo? Or are you just a barking moonbat orc supporter?

      2. “LOL, someone better asks Gateway Putz why, if russia produces all this ammo, are they begging Baby Kim for 122mm and 152mm arty shells and Grad rockets (and 115mm tank barrels while at it).”

        Or they could just explain to you how Kim is seeking Russian space flight technology (I’m guessing that you didn’t understand the significance of he and Putin meeting at a Cosmodrome, did you?) and is ready to trade weaponry for it. They might also try to explain to you how very bad it might be for the western world if Kim had the ability to easily launch satellites and space-based weapons, and how Putin is using this possibility as yet another thinly-veiled threat to the west. That’s Politics 101….something you might already know if you weren’t so childish and deranged when it comes to anything Russian.

        1. Pay attention moron: the fact that Pootin needs Kim in any capacity demonstrates how far russia has fallen. Period.

          Also no, what I said is correct. Orcs are begging Kim for shells. That is a fact unlike all the bullshit you invent.

          1. “Pay attention moron: the fact that Pootin needs Kim in any capacity demonstrates how far russia has fallen. Period. ”

            Right back at ya, imbecile. Putin does not *need* Kim at all…he’s only using him to send a strong message to NATO. Kim needs heavy launch capability (he has had two recent failures…watch some news or something) and some satellite tech, and Putin is talking about offering it to him. This would be very bad for the western world. I thought I had explained this simply enough that even a child could understand it…I was wrong.

            Go get someone smarter than you (should be easy enough to find) to explain these basic concepts to you , loser.

          2. “Putin does not *need* Kim at all…he’s only using him to send a strong message to NATO.”

            Do your pathetic self a favor and occasionally pause and read the self contradicting nonsense that you’re spewing. What you have just said, is that Pootin does not need Kim… he just needs to use him. You’re a moron.

            And no, he is not sending a strong message to NATO, he is sending a message of desperation that additionally pisses off his Chicom masters. Again, know your limitations and stop cooking up infantile theories.

          3. “Do your pathetic self a favor and occasionally pause and read the self contradicting nonsense that you’re spewing.”

            Okay, let’s review:

            ” What you have just said, is that Pootin does not need Kim”

            Correct.

            “… he just needs to use him. ”

            WRONG. I did not say that…you did. Nice try.

            Putin is CHOOSING to use Kim. He doesn’t NEED to use him, and he is certainly not “begging” Kim for anything….Kim is the one who actually needs something that only Putin is willing to provide him (the aforementioned space launch capability and satellite tech). The mere thought of that capability in North Korean hands , *terrifies* the west. PAY ATTENTION, now.
            This is not rocket science….it’s Putin daring NATO to call his bluff. Watch what happens next, dimwit.

            “You’re a moron.”

            Coming from you? Hilarious.

          4. “Putin is CHOOSING to use Kim. He doesn’t NEED to use him, ”

            LOL, I can’t tell whether you’re that delusional or that demagogical.

            “and he is certainly not “begging” Kim for anything….”

            Oh yes he is. By now he is begging Kim, Chicoms, the Turbaned Tyrants of Tehran, hell recently even begged Burma (!) for help. Anything they can spare he will happily take and offer carnal services in return.

  6. Colon, I cannot understand your dogmatic support for anything and everything anti Russian. What is wrong with you?

      1. Joke
        Read up on the dynamics that caused this war. It was planned by the deep state since 2014, or as early as 2003.
        The same people who engineered it are the ones who killed both JFK and RFK.

        666

        1. People can search for ‘causes’ back 10,000 years.

          But the fact remains, Putin invaded Ukraine. He had other options.

          And calling someone Joke doesn’t make your arguments more intelligent.

          1. “But the fact remains, Putin invaded Ukraine. He had other options.”

            So did the United States. They could easily have stopped this before it even started, but they chose not to do so.

      3. “Russia did not need to invade Ukraine.”

        The US didn’t need to sabotage their elected government in 2014, either. What’s your point?

        1. The point?

          Russia did not need to invade Ukraine.

          They had other options.

          Think about what they could be.

          1. “The point?

            Russia did not need to invade Ukraine.

            They had other options. ”

            Yes, and the US had other options, too, and could have prevented it from happening with a single public statement (as I have already stated). Again…your point?

    2. He has the right to support anything and everything anti Russian — as long as it is legal. What no one has the right is to do it with Canadian taxpayer money.

      My questions to those who support Ukraine in this war:
      1. How much of your own money have you handed over to the honest people running the Ukraine?
      2. How many rounds have you fired at the orcs?
      3. How many Ukrainian refugees have you sheltered in your dwelling?

      I will not fight for the Ukraine. But I will fight — for the Canadian Taxpayer.

      1. @Rizwan

        “I will not fight for the Ukraine. But I will fight — for the Canadian Taxpayer.”

        ^^^100%

        I will add – demanding peace & diplomacy to save average Ukrainian & Russian citizens as well. Anyone advocating the continuation and escalation of this war to fill the coffers of corrupt psychopaths on all sides is indeed mentally ill.

        1. ““I will not fight for the Ukraine. But I will fight — for the Canadian Taxpayer.”

          ^^^100%”

          Seconded.

          (and I’ll also fight against any further pointless slaughter of Ukrainians to keep the war machine *profits* coming in)

      2. 1. None of your business but probably a lot more than you think I did.
        2. Zero, I did contribute to buying munitions for Ukrainian forces though. Not everyone is qualified to operate a Warmate.
        3. Personally none, my family in Poland is very actively engaged in helping Ukrainian refugees, including donations in kind, in cash, volunteering etc.

        All those answers do NOT matter. I could have answered zero to all three and it would still be irrelevant. Those questions are a cheap, primitive, rhetorical smokescreen designed to promote the fundamentally flawed libertarian position. Foreign policy is one of a few reasons to have a government. Helping civilized against savages is a worthy goal for foreign policy. So you will pay taxes and in return get to be upset every time a Canadian contribution betters and orc, bitch.

      1. “Mental illness seems pretty evident by this point, yea?”

        Beyond any doubt now, I would say. Some things can be explained away by naivety or simple ignorance, sure. Racism might even be a factor, or immaturity…but there are limits.

    4. “Colon, I cannot understand your dogmatic support for anything and everything anti Russian. What is wrong with you?”

      It’s been apparent for some time now that he (or she?) has some type of mental illness.

    5. It is a rhetorical question, right? An anthology of books could be written why. This will necessarily be brief.

      How can one not despise everything orc? A savage lie created by Mongol Empire that inherits to this day Mongol norms and behavior. A lie that since the time of Peter the great (but not before) reinvented itself as russia thus usurping itself connection with the Kievan Rus. A lie further reinvented by Catherine the Dog Molester that connected the Mongol savages with ancients Greeks and Romans because why not. Everything about Russian history is a lie that propels them to build myths about their past, and thus with a zeal of a jihadi attempt to recreate those myths by destroying cultures superior to theirs.

      They are ISIS with snow.

      They mainstreamed sadism.

      A place where abuse in every social interaction is a norm. None is a worse boss than a russian, none will accept abuse from a boss more eagerly than a russian. Consent translates to “did not run up the tree” world leader in abortions, European leader in venereal diseases infection rates, 70+% percent in marriages end in divorce, 650K children abandoned to orphanages. What is not to like?

      And they don’t care about all that, they only care that they are feared. They were free briefly under Yeltsin, and they could not stomach freedom and pissed it away at first opportunity. A nation of whipped mongrels that worships their tyrants. To this day the more tyrannical the leader the more respect he gets. They want only one thing from the tyrant: to unleash them to rape and pillage those who build prosperity that orcs can never build. Just let them rape and pillage, for that an orc will accept any humiliation and abuse. True to their Mongol roots.

      But, I would be happy to let them marinate in their juices, kill, rape and eat each other, become eventually a battleground for Chicoms and Mooselimbs and I would happily eat popcorn while watching them devour each other. But no, they want to export their filth, they demand a right to infect all of their neighbors with that filth. And for that I will support every effort to rid the world of this vile plague.

    7. Why else? Let’s see, how about that russians appear to be, (as if genetically) unable of empathy for their victims. This applies to abuse at home, at workplace but especially to victims of russian imperialism. A common theme in russian literature is the drama suffered by a murderer or oppressor, it is their personals drama, the focus is on how he deals and struggles with his consciousness, but it is his consciousness. The circumstances of the victim, or their family, their misery, their agony, how does the victim feels or tries to pick up the pieces and survive are only used as tools to highlight the drama of the oppressor or murderer. Victims’ drama is always secondary for russians are beasts fundamentally devoid of empathy. They replaced empathy with fatalism. “Every honest man at least once goes to prison” and similar nonsense is deep ingrained within russian mindset.

  7. I was able to read this “one free article.”
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/09/15/oregon-republicans-border-move-idaho/

    ‘ He wonders if anyone in Portland understands that there are few viable electric tractors yet or sufficient charging stations in many parts of the east.
    “I don’t have a problem with green technology,” McCarter said. “But common sense says you replace diesel engines when you have stable options already in place. As of now, we don’t.” ‘

    That’s just one difference between east and west.
    The further or closer this get’s to being accomplished, the more the move-the-border idea may spread to other parts of the nation’s states like California/Nevada.

    1. If you clear your cookies you can read more articles from sites like that. But some record your IP address, so it is often best to clear your cookies for the day before visiting these websites.

      Remember to clear your cookies from your browser, not to “toss your cookies” as the latter gets into your keyboard and makes them unusable from the mess.

    1. They are not banning them, they are removing them form libraries, that is evil and stupid. but. as always. an order of magnitude less evil than orcs or chicoms actually banning books.

  17. “Oil companies can only decarbonize as fast as the rest of the economy says Shell Canada president”

    “Shell Canada’s parent company,… angered climate activists earlier this year by effectively abandoning its plan to cut global oil production by one to two per cent per year until the end of the decade.”

    What a shame.

    https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6968753

  18. Of every 100 people mobilized in Ukraine last fall, 10-20 people remain in the ranks. The rest are dead and wounded. The statistics were revealed by the Poltava military commissar at a session of the local city council.

    At the same time, Poltava is in last place in the region in terms of recruitment indicators – it fulfilled the General Staff plan by only 13%.

    https://t.me/c/1428699099/26394

    1. “Of every 100 people mobilized in Ukraine last fall, 10-20 people remain in the ranks. The rest are dead and wounded. The statistics were revealed by the Poltava military commissar at a session of the local city council.”

      That would probably be why they are snatching teenagers off the street to force them into military service, why they have decided to accept 60-year-old recruits and why they are now demanding that other nations forcibly repatriate the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian citizens who fled their homeland to avoid the war.

  19. I disagree. Ukraine (and its master, NATO) were baiting the bear for a number of years, Russia finally said “Enough”.
    As well, the phrase “Old sins have long shadows” applies to Ukraine. It is paying for all the shit they did in World War II against the Jews. Remember the Ukrainians provided most of the guards at the concentration camps, with “Ivan the Terrible” being the worst one.
    And yes, I know all about the Holdomar (sp?) which was Joseph Stalin’s horrible campaign of starvation against the Ukranian farmers/kulaks. But why did the Ukrainians have to retaliate against the Jewish poplulation?

    1. Finland x 2, Poland x 2, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania x2, Ukraine x 2, Caucusus.

      That would be list of countries that picked on poor innocent Russia and as a result got invaded or occupied. Momma, you be full of crap.

      1. Also including but not limited to: Albania, Yugoslavia, Iran, Central Asia, Sinkiang, Mongolia, Manchuria, the Kuril Islands.

        1. No one seems to bring up historical invasions & colonization around the globe by the British, German, French, Japanese to name a few and hold them to account.

          It’s always “that was a different time and place, they’re different now” argument that was never afforded the Russians after the fall of the Soviet Union.

      2. “Finland x 2, Poland x 2, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania x2, Ukraine x 2, Caucusus.

        That would be list of countries that picked on poor innocent Russia and as a result got invaded or occupied. Momma, you be full of crap.”

        She said nothing about those other countries, and none of those actions justify what NATO and the US did to deliberately provoke this confrontation in Ukraine. Nice try.

        (oh, and you might also want look up the difference between Russia and the USSR before your next post)

  22. ‘A Ticket to Disney’? Politicians Charge Millions to Send Migrants to U.S.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/14/world/americas/migrant-business-darien-gap.html?unlocked_article_code=TCq39DgspdrMBqi2V1BbW8Pxu-EP54whDm0sL5xzvInalqCtnH4uD-PSMUUDnlzb1MYoltG_FYFyy9BEmvl0Py8f_thqW_AnAKSpQW-_ldQvwWyljky2hvssfmIpy-KiDJyZviIYqgiifS8__t4s6wSiUQxbqBIEqq949KAIAZoAsBOVF2pe-Kcs6qaj2-xC3_aOAywUtMgXHy5r3Rc_uBPfrhLfprFtUIQr5HA-1E80gc1tHVqipFTEpBaTrS7-jtBbL3tPKg90qrBp98q8JGJcx8N_Gk2hTw2RubzSkAbe0caF0y2gj9luI4hyT-_equE1WIm_dnpCs5CL3yn_Sl324eBNN4mStmLLDg&smid=url-share

    1. “China apparently has lost a modern, nuclear-powered attack submarine:”

      Of course they have. Chinese technology is the best they can steal.

    1. Stop the khazar terrorism against Palestinians. Give the Palestinians their land back from the river to the sea.

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