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The fanbase is becoming more bigoted and I don't know what to do anymore.

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  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
    Posts: 9,081
    CommanderRoss wrote: »
    echo wrote: »



    In truth, there is a common enemy and that enemy is Putin. We are in another Cold War, but not everyone realizes it.

    Considering my wife is Ukrainian, I wouldn't call it a 'cold war'.
    I do get the comparison though, as it seems there is no direct confrontation between east and west, but in the digital world, a lot of damage is done. And it might be very well that the DHL plane that crashed in Latvia was actually blown up, as the Russians have tried to do just that several times in Germany nd other countries. It seems though our media choose not to show what's really going on. There are far more terror attacks than are publicly knwon. Explosions in weapons factories in Germany, Czech republic, Poland. sabotage, blackmail, etc.
    And obviously buying lections or influencing them. It is hardly in the news here, but in Georgia tens of thousands are protesting every day.

    I'm all in with holding Putin responsible for most of the unusual things that happen here, including and foremostly for tampering with elections to produce political chaos in the Western World (including a certain recent example on the other side of the Pond, not just Georgia), sabotage and killing off his critics by having them miraculously fall out of windows.

    However, with your notion "It seems though our media choose not to show what's really going on. There are far more terror attacks than are publicly knwon" [copy-and-paste], you are rather close to conspiracy theory turf. Our media do choose to report those things...for instance, when the DHL plane crashed in Latvia literally everyone wondered immediately whether this might be another case of a package's "spontaneous combustion", after it happened before on the ground at Leipzig airport. And if there are "far more" terror attacks than being "publicly known", pray tell me where you have your intimate knowledge from...if not from publicly available media. Are you secretly with MI6?
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
    Posts: 13,999
    mattjoes wrote: »
    The fanbase is becoming more bigoted and I don't know what to do anymore.
    What? You're worried about that? What a waste of time. Go get drunk, laid, read a book, build a bridge and, yes, watch a Bond film, no matter what other people think.

    This, right here. Wise words.


    I will say for Twitter/X, it hasn't just become toxic. It has always been like this, only now the pendulum has swung the other way.
  • mattjoesmattjoes Pay more attention to your chef
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    CraigMooreOHMSS wrote: »
    mattjoes wrote: »
    CraigMooreOHMSS wrote: »
    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    Looking at what seems to be your concept of "building bridges", I wonder what your notion of "getting laid" is ;) .

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    Are you the elephant or Jay Dubya?

    That's a very personal question.

    You're not going to let me in there, are you? You've got your armour back on.
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
    Posts: 8,331
    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    CommanderRoss wrote: »
    echo wrote: »



    In truth, there is a common enemy and that enemy is Putin. We are in another Cold War, but not everyone realizes it.

    Considering my wife is Ukrainian, I wouldn't call it a 'cold war'.
    I do get the comparison though, as it seems there is no direct confrontation between east and west, but in the digital world, a lot of damage is done. And it might be very well that the DHL plane that crashed in Latvia was actually blown up, as the Russians have tried to do just that several times in Germany nd other countries. It seems though our media choose not to show what's really going on. There are far more terror attacks than are publicly knwon. Explosions in weapons factories in Germany, Czech republic, Poland. sabotage, blackmail, etc.
    And obviously buying lections or influencing them. It is hardly in the news here, but in Georgia tens of thousands are protesting every day.

    I'm all in with holding Putin responsible for most of the unusual things that happen here, including and foremostly for tampering with elections to produce political chaos in the Western World (including a certain recent example on the other side of the Pond, not just Georgia), sabotage and killing off his critics by having them miraculously fall out of windows.

    However, with your notion "It seems though our media choose not to show what's really going on. There are far more terror attacks than are publicly knwon" [copy-and-paste], you are rather close to conspiracy theory turf. Our media do choose to report those things...for instance, when the DHL plane crashed in Latvia literally everyone wondered immediately whether this might be another case of a package's "spontaneous combustion", after it happened before on the ground at Leipzig airport. And if there are "far more" terror attacks than being "publicly known", pray tell me where you have your intimate knowledge from...if not from publicly available media. Are you secretly with MI6?

    Well, it's good to read that it got the attention it deserved in Germany, it didn't in The Netherlands. It got not more than half a message half way down the main newspapers' websites. The protests in Georgia have only been covered on three seperate days, not consecutive. The explosions in both Germany and Czech republic never got to the news here.
    I get my news mainly through Telegram channels which use either direct sources when it comes to Ukraine, or news outlets from all over the world. Next to that I check the main Dutch news sites, next to al Jazeera (less so lately as it was difficult to get through their bias), foxnews, CNN. Sometimes BBC if there's still a bit of time left.

    Hence my frustration as to what comes through here in my own country. It seems nobody here really understands we're at war. I know in the Eastern part of Europe this is different, but the language barrier stops me from reading Scandinavioa, Polish or Hungarian news. Allthough my bet is the latter won't be much better than the information I get from Dutch sites.
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