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Favourites: 161; Deviations: 132; Watchers: 76
Watching: 74; Pageviews: 24039; Comments Made: 6410; Friends: 74
# Interests
Favorite TV shows: Revolutionary Girl Utena, Air, Escaflowne, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica, xxxHolic, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, Little Witch AcademiaFavorite books: Tao teh Ching
Tools of the Trade: Clip Studio Paint
# About me
Hi! I'm Kes, a native Philadelphian who sometimes tries to do the whole art thing. I was born in 1976 (Ack! I'm getting ooooolllld!) and went to Penn State University. I started off majoring in Engineering Science but later switched to East Asian Studies, so I've wound up with a foot in both the clear cut scientific world and in that hazier existence of uncertainties and things half seen or half remembered.I love anime and manga - they're my preferred forms of entertainment these days. But I'm always willing to try new stuff. I also have some pretty wide interests in things from physics to history to folklore and mythology.
Artistically I'm self taught so IhavenoideawhatI'mdoing... Feedback is always appreciated, including general assessments of my art, anything that particularly jumps out at you good or bad. Please tell me what I'm doing wrong - don't worry, I have a thick skin. ^_^ I shoot for an anime-ish style, and any tips, suggestions, or things it might help me to learn are much appreciated.
In general I return llamas but not faves or watches. Please only fave or watch if it's because you like what I'm doing. I'd much rather get comments. Conversation helps motivate me much more than anything else. If I go a long time between posting artwork, it probably means I'm in a bit of a funk so feel free to poke me and tell me to get off my lazy behind. ;-)
made the chibi avatar for me - she totally rocks!
Yup, I talk politics. Yup, I'm left of center. However, I have no time for ideology. I care about what works in the real world, not how anyone thinks the universe is supposed to be. I always listen. I have no problem with respecting different points of view. I like to learn new things and new ideas. And if you don't want to talk politics just say so. I'm perfectly happy to be friends with people who strongly disagree with me.
However, I have completely exhausted my tolerance for mushrooms: people who want to be kept in the dark and fed bullshit. Those whose egos and worldviews are too fragile to deal with contrary facts hate me and frequently block me. I am the Snowflake Slayer!
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# Comments
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FRIEND711 [2024-05-22 23:52:49 +0000 UTC]
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BatsBallbag [2023-11-26 04:39:37 +0000 UTC]
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kessy-athena In reply to BatsBallbag [2023-11-27 17:53:43 +0000 UTC]
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Truthfulpietro1 [2023-07-25 12:39:56 +0000 UTC]
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kessy-athena In reply to Truthfulpietro1 [2023-07-25 14:00:18 +0000 UTC]
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Truthfulpietro1 [2022-02-25 20:18:44 +0000 UTC]
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kessy-athena In reply to Truthfulpietro1 [2022-02-25 21:31:35 +0000 UTC]
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Truthfulpietro1 [2022-02-25 07:58:55 +0000 UTC]
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Club-Dreamiverse [2021-07-17 01:50:12 +0000 UTC]
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kessy-athena In reply to Club-Dreamiverse [2021-07-17 19:22:01 +0000 UTC]
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Club-Dreamiverse In reply to kessy-athena [2021-07-17 19:39:03 +0000 UTC]
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thormemeson [2020-05-27 07:42:55 +0000 UTC]
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kessy-athena In reply to thormemeson [2020-05-27 16:55:57 +0000 UTC]
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thormemeson In reply to kessy-athena [2020-05-27 20:23:06 +0000 UTC]
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thormemeson [2020-04-04 03:46:05 +0000 UTC]
My source for the most part is guerilla journalists China Uncensored who use individuals living in China to report on activity in China. I figured I'd share it they work for no one but themselves hoping to preserve the culture Mao killed in exile and make the world aware of the CCP.
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kessy-athena In reply to thormemeson [2020-04-05 20:35:52 +0000 UTC]
That explains a few things.
I really admire those folks. It's an incredibly brave thing they're doing, risking their freedom and maybe even their lives by defying the Chinese government to get this information out to the world. they're fighting for a noble cause, and we should do what we can to support them.
But they're not journalists. They're activists, even a resistance. There's a difference. By definition, they have an agenda. Do you remember all the "slam dunk" intelligence Bush had about Saddam's WMD in the run up to the Iraq War? Most of that came from an Iraqi dissident codenamed Curveball. He was also fighting against an oppressive, tyrannical regime in his homeland, just like these folks in China.
I'm not telling you not to listen to what these folks have to say, but you should temper it with real journalism and not simply take it at face value. Remember that Chinese invasion of Taiwan that was supposed to have happened a few months ago?
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thormemeson In reply to kessy-athena [2020-04-05 21:24:10 +0000 UTC]
Well activism is all journalism according to most journalists oddly enough only Tucker Carlson has been against that and he is an editorial troll. Frankly a trade war was according to them in 2015 a peaceful way to stop an invasion of Taiwan. Although I am more of the mind that Corona Virus is a mixed blessing the PLA is unable to do anything. Still the group may be activist but well they meet standards Curveball never met. Also yeah I know they are a bit non-news like. Frankly give them a watch it won't hurt you. Also the invasion was slated to take place between March and May so yeah its likely not happening as the Corona outbreak started in January. Microbes are a real equalizer nothing to be done against them with laws, borders, and modern weapons.
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kessy-athena In reply to thormemeson [2020-04-08 09:38:11 +0000 UTC]
Hey, this is kind of off topic, but have you heard about NASA has been overlooking evidence if life on Venus for decades? It all started with declassified Soviet era imagery from the Venera probes, which show what appears to be some sort of small creature on the surface. A closer analysis of the probe's data revealed that the Venusian atmosphere is anomalously depleted of hydrogen near the surface, which is believed to only be possible due to biological activity. Radar returns from orbiters show strange surface features that seem to come and go with the seasons. And finally reanalysis of meteorites originating from Venus has revealed what can only be microfossils, clearly indicating the presence of life on ancient Venus.
So what do you think? Does that seem credible to you? Do you believe it? Would you believe it if you saw that story on one of your favorite websites?
You shouldn't. Because I know for a fact that it's complete bullshit. Because I just made it up off the top of my had. Completely pulled it out of my ass.
Seriously, if you had read that online somewhere, would you have believed it? Would you have thought to check it? Would you even know how to check it?
You cannot tell whether or not a story is true simply on the basis of whether or not it sounds good. It is not at all hard to simply make up a story that sounds good. That's why con artist is one of the oldest professions out there. Credibility of your sources matters. Professionalism matters. Expertise matters. And saying that, "Well activism is all journalism," is saying that there's no such thing as objective truth, that there's no such thing as real facts. That there's only what you want to hear, what you want to believe, and what serves to stroke your ego. That's saying that's all you care about and nothing else matters to you. Is that the sort of person you are? Is that the sort of person you want to be?
The agenda of real journalists is the truth. Period. The fact that they do not just tell you what you want to hear does not make them part of grand liberal conspiracy out to get you.
Yes, the Chinese government is authoritarian, oppressive, and has global ambitions. Yes, they are the US's greatest long term strategic challenge. No, they are not out to deliberately start a war. They're despots, not idiots. And they know full well just how devastating a war with the US would be to their country. And you should know just how devastating a war with China would be to the US. You need to stop thinking of war as a legitimate tool of diplomacy. It's not. It's how the world ends.
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thormemeson In reply to kessy-athena [2020-07-31 17:44:18 +0000 UTC]
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thormemeson In reply to kessy-athena [2020-04-08 14:58:53 +0000 UTC]
Venus has an atmosphere with sulfuric acid clouds life there would have to be made of something like solid state diamond skin just to surviving a spring shower. It sounds like the Soviets purposely did some misleading information dump and may have paid people off here to run with it.
As for your statement are you taking aim at China uncensored? If the Journalists are all about Truth then why did they ignore things like Chinese SAM sites across USN patrol and US shipping routes in the pacific for 8 years? If they are about truth why are they repeating CCP lies that are debunked by Chinese people leaking information to the west at the cost of their own safety? I am assuming this is about China uncensored? They are the only source I trust with the Chinese as a subject.
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kessy-athena In reply to thormemeson [2020-04-08 17:34:07 +0000 UTC]
I made it all up.
It was not a Soviet misinformation dump. It was not a conspiracy. It was not evil liberals out to get you. It was me. Period. To make a point. That you can't tell whether a story is real or not just by how it sounds.
I am taking aim at your lack of a balanced information diet and your consequent tenuous relationship with reality. Chinese dissidents are a valuable source of information about what's going on over there. To use them as your one and only source of information is idiotic. Dissidents, by definition, not only have an agenda the way Curveball did, they do not have access to the full picture of what's going on. That's why you need analysis by experts. People who actually know what they're talking about and can put things like claims from dissidents into context.
You have fallen prey to the right wing cult of stupidity. Thousands of people are dying right now who didn't have to because you guys decided to put an incompetent idiot in the White House. And you're still saying that you don't need to listen to experts. Because who needs to actually know what's really going on? Made up bullshit is just as good as reality, right?
Except that reality will kill you.
The mainstream media haven't really reported much on Chinese SAM production because it's not especially newsworthy. Of course China has a huge arsenal of SAMs. So do the Russians and every other major power. The press has reported extensively on China establishing military bases on artificial islands in the South China Sea.
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thormemeson In reply to kessy-athena [2020-04-08 17:58:19 +0000 UTC]
You realize I knew it was Bullshit right life in an environment raining down highly caustic acid makes life impossible. Lead melts under sulfuric acid attacks so yeah I knew it was BS. I just labeled the most obvious sources. Are you actually suggesting we can legislate a virus into submission? This is our black death humanity was over due for one but that's just a virus evolving naturally to most of our vaccines. We've abused just about ever medication, and vaccines for a century. Experts have already warned that our medical care will be obsolete due to over use. Worse still for your experts is that they were not very good at about 52 years worth of warning in our climate, I have lived through more climate prediction failures than years I've been alive. You can only cry wolf so many times before people naturally stop caring. Our best bet against a virus was border security aka a wall which the democrats spent every waking minute attacking. The reality is Clinton wouldn't be any better at fighting Corona virus its a virus if it could speak the damn thing would say, "Fuck your borders I'm airborne". Is now really time for blame or perhaps unity and compromise on your side for once. We've know this was coming but human exceptionalism kept us comfortably ignorant.
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kessy-athena In reply to thormemeson [2020-04-09 09:23:31 +0000 UTC]
Had Trump not sat around on his lazy fat ass for two months doing nothing, we could have had enough tests to do actual surveillance. We could have detected the virus when it first arrived, done contact tracing and quarantines, and instituted social distancing in time to prevent what we've been seeing in New York. The reason NYC is being hit so hard is because we waited far too long to counter measures, because we didn't have tests and didn't know what was going on. We still don't have enough tests to track this thing. The result of the incomprehensible levels of Trump's incompetence is that the US is now the world wide epicenter of the pandemic. It didn't have to be this way.
Vaccines do not work that way. You are thinking of antibiotics, which are only effective against bacterial diseases. Viruses are as different from bacteria as bacteria are from us.
The Black Death killed at least a third of the total population of Europe. Covid isn't even remotely close to being in the same category.
"Our best bet against a virus was border security aka a wall" and "Fuck your borders I'm airborne." Do I even need to say anything?
When we have a President who is simply incapable of doing the job and is actively getting thousands of Americans killed with his dumbfuckery is exactly the time for blame. www.politico.com/news/magazine…
"Climate prediction failures," huh? In case you didn't notice, we just went through a year without a winter. Sorry, but you have to be actively trying to be stupid to deny the reality of climate change at this point.
Yeah, sure you knew it was bullshit. Just like you knew Audie Murphy's full name all along. Incidentally, we have extremophile organisms here on Earth that will live quite happily in battery acid. It's not the H2SO4 that's the real problem on Venus. It's the fact that it's 800F in the shade. And while that probably makes life as we know it impossible on the surface, there's always the possibility of life as we don't know it. Incidentally, there really are people who claim to be able to see a scorpion like creature in some of the Venera imagery. It's just a furrow in the soil from when the probe ejected its lens cap.
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thormemeson In reply to kessy-athena [2020-04-09 16:25:26 +0000 UTC]
There you go on your ego trip making more shit up again. If you think you could legislate a virus away you are beyond foolish. You had no clue who Audie Murphy was and are projecting it onto me. Your media down played the threat of the virus for months so spare me this crap that its Trumps doing.
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kessy-athena In reply to thormemeson [2020-04-09 22:20:15 +0000 UTC]
Singapore has had 6 deaths from covid. Hong Kong has had 4. New Zealand has had 1. We are not helpless in the face of the virus. We can limit the spread and minimize deaths, if we have a competent government. You need to grow up and face the fact that Trump is an incompetent idiot who was always obviously completely unfit to be President. You knew it and you didn't care. And now people are dying because of it. Deal with it.
"My" media downplayed the threat? LOL Now I know I've made my point so even you get it when you're desperate enough to start making wild accusations like that. It was Trump who called it a Democratic hoax, remember?
Now since I'm willing to bet you were too scared to actually read the article I linked you, here's a bit that you should find especially interesting:
"At the Pentagon, the Navy faced last week’s Covid-19 crisis aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt without a Senate-confirmed Navy secretary; Richard Spencer departed last fall amid the controversy of Trump’s pardoning of a Navy SEAL accused of war crimes. Now that Spencer’s successor as acting Navy secretary has himself resigned amid the carrier fiasco, the undersecretary of the Army—the only one of the three service under secretaries now filled and a post he took up only two weeks ago—will apparently be filling as acting Navy secretary. To say that it’s less-than-ideal for all of those roles—which serve as each military service’s chief management officer—to be vacant in the midst of an unprecedented, global crisis is an understatement. Across the building, roughly a third of the Pentagon’s top jobs are vacant or filled with acting officials—an administration high. The undersecretary for personnel and readiness, Matthew Donovan, has been on the job for only about two weeks—the job sat vacant since July 2018—and there’s currently no undersecretary for policy."
So tell me, oh great China hawk, just how well do you suppose we'd fare in a war against China with the Pentagon full of empty offices?
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thormemeson In reply to kessy-athena [2020-04-09 23:05:22 +0000 UTC]
Did you look at those journalists I meantioned or did just praise them and dismiss them to glorify CNN? Did you know that China uncensored has analysts from the Pentagon to the EU? Again once the the stealth fighters land our forces would be simply overwhelmed or lose command and control. Frankly the death toll in China is a sad mix as it will delay any actions they take for years to come. As for the war crimes the guy made fun of a dead jihadi. The more questionable pardon was of Clint Lorance in the army which I would like to know more about.
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kessy-athena In reply to thormemeson [2020-04-11 23:26:13 +0000 UTC]
(consults Google) Wait a minute, this is a Youtube channel you're talking about? ARE YOU FUCKING SHITTING ME??!!! What the hell is wrong with you???? You want to go to war with China on the basis of what a bunch of fucking troglodytes make up in front of webcams in their mothers' basements???? Have you completely lost your mind?????? A war between the US and China would kill hundreds of millions and could well end our civilization completely and you want to do this on the basis of some fucking Youtube vloggers?????????????????????????? How fucking stupid can you possibly be?
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thormemeson In reply to kessy-athena [2020-04-11 23:31:29 +0000 UTC]
Said the woman quoting cnn on Russian cyber attacks against America they post their findings on the only platform that they have.
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kessy-athena In reply to thormemeson [2020-04-12 00:23:34 +0000 UTC]
-_- Just how fucking stupid and gullible can you possibly be? Look, this channel is posted in English right? Let me check. Oh, look at that, Youtube took them down. Gee, I wonder why? What makes you think that any of the people involved in that are even actually Chinese? Or have even ever actually been to China? You may as well go get your information from the unwashed wide eyed guy on the street corner wearing the sandwich sign proclaiming that the end is nigh.
Let me make this very very clear for you. If we went to war with China, you would die. Your family would die. Everyone you have ever known or cared about would die. Do you know what dying from acute radiation poisoning is like? Your body basically dissolves around you, slowly, over days, while you're alive and awake to experience it. And you are trying to bring that death on your family, your friends, your neighbors, all because your poor pathetic little manhood can't deal with the idea that you have to listen to nerds. WELL TOO FUCKING BAD!
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thormemeson In reply to kessy-athena [2020-04-12 00:31:50 +0000 UTC]
more projection I mean shit you're the one who has a hard on for waging war with Russia all because America didn't want clinton while you literally bury your head in the sand ignoring China's constant actions against us. I doubt you knew shit about radiation poisoning without fucking google much like you know nothing unless google or some rich libtard fool tells you something to think. Again guerilla journalists are as you ironically said noble because they tell the truth also the Chinese wouldn't have been a threat had Clinton not empowered their military industry in the 1990s. Whats next going to make some shit about life on Mars in a pathetic attempt to trick me into believing it? I mean it worked the last in your imagination.
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kessy-athena In reply to thormemeson [2020-04-12 02:30:38 +0000 UTC]
Oh yeah, because your dick is some awesome that you can just magically know everything better than the rest of humanity put together, obviously! Oh wait, no, your dick is tiny and you don't know shit, because you're a gullible idiot who will believe any con artist who will stroke your ego. Because you can't be bothered to check your facts or listen to anybody who actually knows what they're talking about since you magically know everything!
Facts matter. Expertise matters. Competence matters. And when you put an idiot in charge of something, bad things happen. When you put an idiot in charge of the country people die. Like is happening right now you pathetically insecure self absorbed moron. Because you can't think straight you're so terrified of your dick being too small, people are dying. I don't give a fuck how scared you are, how insecure, or how much it hurts your poor pathetic ego that there are people out there who know better than you. It's time for you to grow the fuck up and stop throwing a fucking temper tantrum like a spoiled five year old who just got told to eat your vegetables. Because as much as you can't conceive of this, there are more important things at stake here than your poor pathetic ego.
People who only have a Youtube channel and a Facebook page are not journalists. Period. They are random people on the internet spreading rumors.
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thormemeson In reply to kessy-athena [2020-04-12 02:32:03 +0000 UTC]
Wow that took forever 2 hour and it is just as bad as I thought it would be you have no more insults other than projecting Obama jokes onto me. Seek anger management lady I am not interested.
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kessy-athena In reply to thormemeson [2020-04-12 03:24:07 +0000 UTC]
Believe it or not, my life does not revolve around dealing with your stupidity.
Yanno what really pissed me off about this? Is that I gave you the benefit of the doubt. I just assumed that you were talking about a legitimate site, that you were talking about real dissidents actually risking their lives in china. And instead I find something put together by a punch of unwashed knuckle dragging Sinophobes making up crap in the mothers' basements.
You seriously need to grow up and start listening to real journalists. And yes, watching a little CNN would do you a world of good. This is not a game. You don't just respawn if you screw up. You can't just move to a different server if you want the world to be different. This is serious business. Real people are dying, right now.
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thormemeson In reply to kessy-athena [2020-04-12 03:26:08 +0000 UTC]
No your life revokes around ass worshiping the DNC and the reason people are dying is all thanks to globalism and the Clinton's empowerment of China. Had Bill simply just stuck to raping interns and strippers this Virus never would have happened.
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kessy-athena In reply to thormemeson [2020-04-12 15:48:22 +0000 UTC]
Incidentally, no I didn't look up that tidbit about severe radiation poisoning being like your body dissolving around you. I'm no expert, but I've made sure to educate myself about the effects of nuclear weapons. For example, did you know that one of the most devastating effects of a nuclear weapon isn't really the blast itself. It's the fact that a nuke produces so much radiative energy that it heats everything in a direct line of sight so much that anything flammable will spontaneously burst into flames. Many victims are burned to death when their entire city is instantaneously set on fire.
Here's a fun little website you should try playing around with: nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
It lets you virtually detonate a nuclear weapon anywhere in the world and look at the effects. I'd suggest you try dropping a 5 megaton Dong Feng 5 on the city nearest you. Think about what that would do to your family. That's what you're playing around with when you talk about going to war with China. All on the basis of some Youtube troglodytes with a webcam in their mother's basement.
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thormemeson In reply to kessy-athena [2020-04-12 16:46:28 +0000 UTC]
Sorry I moved on with life
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kessy-athena In reply to thormemeson [2020-04-12 20:56:21 +0000 UTC]
In other words, you're too afraid to take responsibility for your actions.
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thormemeson In reply to kessy-athena [2020-04-12 20:57:38 +0000 UTC]
said the woman who's politics made this world and wants to wage war on Russia a nation with better tech and nuclear arms than China. You are always good for a laugh.
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kessy-athena In reply to thormemeson [2020-04-12 21:29:30 +0000 UTC]
My politics "made this world"? What do you mean by that? (That's a serious question, I genuinely don't know what you mean.)
You know perfectly well that I don't want to go to war with Russia. That's just (another) baseless insult you throw out when you know you've lost the argument.
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thormemeson In reply to kessy-athena [2020-04-19 14:49:29 +0000 UTC]
Sure you do thats why you made art calling for murder of Republicans for winning an election fair and square on the baseless grounds of Russian hacking that can be sat next to CSPAN's feed and Vermont's power grid. If you must be told the obvious again Chicago’s last GOP mayor was elected in 1927. The nation’s third-largest city is home to some of the worst inner-city violence imaginable. More than 2,300 people were shot there last year, and nearly 400 lost their lives to homicides. Newark, N.J., hasn't had a GOP mayor in more than a century. It was ranked as the fifth-worst city to live in in 2015. Detroit, of course, was first. Do you see the connection I doubt it your head is so far up your own ass if I told you to clench down and slow the flow of shit you spew you'd decapitate yourself and for the Corona virus subject,
- “Coronavirus not a global health crisis.” ~ USA Today , 1-23-2020
- “We are encouraging New Yorkers to go about their everyday lives and suggest practicing everyday precautions that we do through the flu season.” ~ New York City health commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot , 2-3-2020
- “Worried about catching the new coronavirus? In the U.S., the flu is a bigger threat.” ~ NPR , 1-29-2020
- “Don’t worry about the coronavirus, worry about the flu.” ~ BuzzFeed , 1-29-20
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kessy-athena In reply to thormemeson [2020-05-07 11:07:19 +0000 UTC]
I've been trying to decide whether you're deliberately lying about what I've said (and I don't really get why anyone would do that - the only person you might be able to fool is yourself) or if you're trying to convince me that you're really that unbelievably stupid. Either way, I'm disappointed - I'd thought better of you than that.
Are you really trying to convince me that you're so stupid you honestly believe that foreign relations are always binary choices - either we go to war with a country or we love and adore a country and everything they do is right and we would never ever under any circumstances criticize anything they do? What sort of fucked up attitude is that? There was this little thing called the Cold War - perhaps you've heard of it? For half a century the US opposed the Soviet Union and succeeded in stopping them from establishing a world wide dictatorship without going to war with them.
The US cannot go to war with Russia or China. If we do it means the end of everything. The US would cease to exist. Our civilization would end. In the case of Russia the human species would probably become extinct. You would die. Your family would die. Everyone you've ever met would die. Your country would die. Your beliefs would die. Everything you believe in would die. If you're not scared by what nuclear weapons can do, you're an idiot. You seriously need to go to Nukemap and think about what a Chinese ICBM would do to your home and your family. Or watch some documentaries about the effects of nukes like this one: youtu.be/lChLpK8kQr4 Keep in mind, this is talking about a 10 kiloton bomb going off in NYC. The Chinese have 5 megaton weapons at their disposal - 500 times more powerful than the weapon they're talking about. Or try this TED talk for a more complete overview of what a nuclear war would look like. This is not a game. This is not about your ego. This is not about posturing or who's "better" than who. This is about your family dying horribly in front of your eyes. Do you get it yet?
The Russians attacked us. That is an incontrovertible fact. It is attested to in exhaustive detail in intelligence reports, in criminal indictments, in the Mueller report. That is reality. The CSPAN and Vermont incidents you refer to are fantasies that only ever happened in your imagination. It's quite clear that the only reason you keep going on about this nonsense is because you think that Trump's election wasn't really legitimate. It's time to be an adult and deal with reality and set aside fantasies. Because defending this country from foreign aggression is more important than your fears that Trump wasn't legitimately elected. defending against this sort of attack does not mean going to war. Just like defending against the Soviets didn't mean going to war. It means sanctions, diplomacy, intelligence operations. It means working with our allies to isolate the Russians, limit their freedom of action, and impose costs.
Let me guess, you've never actually been to Chicago, Newark, or Detroit, have you? Because you're talking about a caricature of how things were 30 years ago. Violent crime has dropped dramatically since its peak in the early 90's and is now at similar levels to what it was in the late 60's. And guess what? Violent crime doesn't just happen in big cities. It happens in small towns and rural areas too. Most murders are committed by family members and close associates. So no, you're not going to get shot just walking down the street. Yes, many cities have problems. But what causes those problems? Crime is about lack of opportunity and lack of education. You have crumbling infrastructure due to a lack of investment. You have the flight of corporations and the wealthy to tax havens leaving the cities with no tax base. It's Republicans who have refused to tax the wealthy responsibly at a national level to provide the funding we need for infrastructure, research, and education. It's Republicans who insist that schools be funded locally so that poor people are stuck in lousy schools with no way out. And those Republican policies are spreading the problems. The opioid epidemic? The drop in life expectancy for middle aged working class whites due to suicide, substance abuse, and other diseases of despair? Those are the same things that devastated the cities in the 80's and 90's. White people thought they could leave the cities and shut up black people and poor people there and just leave them to rot, and now those same whites are suffering from the same social ills they visited on minorities. Pure karma, if you ask me.
And what exactly are you trying to prove with those covid links? That the public health authorities were telling people not to panic? Well duh. People going out and buying up a year's supply of toilet paper does no one any good. Yes, in late January we thought that covid wasn't circulating in the US yet. Turns out we were wrong. That doesn't change the fact that we knew that it was circulating in China and that it was only a matter of time before it spread. It doesn't change the fact that Trump was warned about the danger and he did nothing. It doesn't change the fact that gee, whaddya know, it turns out that putting an incompetent idiot in the White House is actually a bad idea and gets people killed. We're almost two months into this and testing is still grossly inadequate. We still have shortages of protective equipment for health care workers. And now Trump is leading the charge the reopen prematurely and is going to cause a big spike in cases in a month or two that will kill even more people.
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thormemeson In reply to kessy-athena [2020-05-07 17:08:17 +0000 UTC]
I hid your comments from kajm but I suggest you actually try responding in a timely manner. Otherwise I don't care what nonsense you make up.
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kessy-athena In reply to thormemeson [2020-05-07 22:27:23 +0000 UTC]
You "hid my comments from Kajm"? And how exactly did you do that? And what does Kajm have to do with anything?
(Massive sarcasm) Oh, well, I'm terribly sorry if I'm not commenting on schedule. I mean, my whole life revolves around replying to you. (/massive sarcasm)
I reply when I get around to it. If you say something bizarre and nonsensical that I'm not sure how to take, that will make the reply time longer. If you have a bunch of links that I have to read that will also make it take longer.
I take it this means you're still not ready to deal with reality? The reality that we cannot go to war with Russia or China. The reality that those governments are nevertheless still hostile to differing degrees and need to be dealt with. The reality that the Russians did indeed attack our election in 2016 and are continuing to do so. The reality that Trump is an incompetent idiot. the reality that Trump's incompetence is killing people. The reality that even though cities are full of black people, immigrants, poor people, and liberals they are not in fact gunfire riddled war zones.
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thormemeson In reply to kessy-athena [2020-05-08 00:02:42 +0000 UTC]
Oh Lord always projection get your head out your ass woman there are no Russian hackers shutting down power cords or stealing elections. Your Russian phobia is just going to empower China further. www.defensenews.com/naval/2019… good riddance and yes uv treatments are real www.washingtontimes.com/news/2… moron
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kessy-athena In reply to thormemeson [2020-05-08 03:07:13 +0000 UTC]
O_o Seriously? There are no Russian hackers, huh? So I suppose that Mueller indicted ghosts? And let me guess, the Apollo moonlandings were filmed on a movie stage and fluoridated drinking water is a commie plot, right? Just how gullible are you? I take it you're still getting your news direct from the Kremlin via Wikileaks. And what is that about power cords?
Yeah, one tiny little difference between China and Russia: the Russians are actively attacking us, the Chinese aren't. Also, you're surprised that the Chinese are building their military? that's what countries with rapidly expanding economies and an increasing global profile do. What exactly do you propose we do about it? Go to war? You want to watch your family die horribly because the Chinese are building warships?
The Washington Times? Seriously? Are you going to be citing the National Enquirer next? Yes, there are various medical treatments that use UV and other types of light. And I'm completely sure that Trump had never heard of any of them when he made those comments and wouldn't understand the first thing about any of them if he did. You don't "inject" light. That's not how light works. But since you're so sure that Trump knows what he's talking about, you gonna be shooting up bleach straight into your veins?
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thormemeson In reply to kessy-athena [2020-05-08 03:37:16 +0000 UTC]
Mueller had nothing and still has nothing hell he even had to drop his charges on flynn. Also the lights will be inserted into respirators but hey you are so afraid of treatments you banned the company from the net. Also your dossier was made by Russians using porn stars from the Ukraine.
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kessy-athena In reply to thormemeson [2020-05-08 11:36:49 +0000 UTC]
Seriously? Your response is to deny the blatantly obvious? Mueller had 400 pages of nothing. Multiple indictments and guilty pleas is nothing. Because it's only the CIA mind control rays that make all those court documents look like something. Better make sure you don't run out of tin foil during the pandemic lockdown, otherwise the aliens are gonna getchya.
Mueller isn't Special counsel anymore. In fact he's not part of the Justice Department at all anymore and he had nothing to do with dropping the charges against Flynn. That was done by Barr for blatantly political reasons. And then there's the little matters of Manafort, Papodopolous, Cohen, the indictments against assorted Russians, and so on and so on.
I'm so afraid of treatments I banned the company from the net. Really? You honestly think that I personally have the power to ban a company from the internet? And this comes from where exactly? The magic wand under my bed I don't know about? Or maybe I'm using those mind control rays again?
So you didn't answer my question. Since Lil' Donnie always knows what he's talking about, are you going to start shooting up bleach? How about Lysol? How about a nice isopropanol cocktail?
The main allegations of the Steele Dossier are that Putin actively favored Trump over Clinton in 2016, that the Russians conducted election interference to help Trump and hurt Clinton, and that multiple members of the Trump campaign had secret contacts with the Russians. None of which is even remotely disputable at this point unless you're completely out of touch with reality and think that Hillary Clinton is really a reptillian alien in disguise.
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