Georgia, though not anywhere close to Ukrainian nazi vermin, was preventing regions seeking autonomy that needed Russian assistance. Still, pig fuckers aspiring to NATO government..."
They don't need a doctor's note. They need a parent's note saying they are against vaccination.
I'm a notary for a municipality and at the beginning of the school year we get flooded with parent's getting thise notes signed. Most businesses refuse to notarize that bullshit, but at the city we can't refuse to notarize based on ethical grounds.
Read the latest comment from that guy down the thread when the mask falls completely off. It's a real piece of work, calling Ukrainians vermin and Georgians pig-fuckers.
I'm white and hang out with mostly white people who don't understand how scary this is.
I ask them if they can prove to me - right now - that they're a citizen. Lots of them legitimately think a Driver's License is enough.
I explain that it is not proof of citizenship and that lots of people have licenses without being a citizen. So if they were brown, they might be arrested based on their lack of papers.
And once arrested and sent to a camp, your ability to produce any documentation you may have diminishes to almost nothing.
Are you really pretending Russia didn't invade Georgia?
It's literally an alliance formed during the Cold War to prevent Russian expansion. Otherwise, Russia would have been invited to join NATO decades ago.
And to say ownership of the most-strategically located nation in the North Atlantic is unimportant to the North Atlantic Treaty is laughable. But you clearly know all of this. You're trying to influence others to believe Russian propaganda.
Russia invaded Ukraine. Russia invaded Georgia. Russia invaded Afghanistan.
You know who they haven't invaded they'd lusted after for decades? Turkey. But Turkey is a NATO member, so Russia can't do shit without.
In fact, there's a wall between Russia and the West of Europe formed by states that have not been invaded by Russia in the last 60 years, and that wall is comprised almost entirely of NATO members.
Russia has invaded 2 separate soverign states in Europe for the purpose of annexation into Russia within a 15-year span. The only thing stopping them from pulling more of that bullshit is NATO. Dismantling NATO - an alliance composed specifically to stop Russian annexation of neighbor states - is Putin's number 1 international goal.
Trump is his number 1 tool in that mission right now.
It's half that distance to the Faroe Islands, meaning NATO only has to control half that distance, which is well within the range of land-based anti-ship defenses.
Whereas free Russian movement along Greenland's coast would be protected if it was under the control of a Putin-friendly US. They'd be even safer going through Bafin Bay to the West of Greenland. Od course that would only happen if Canada also left NATO.
And on a completely unrelated note, Trump is also trying to get Canada to become a US territory.
Those international waters are very narrow and have been a thorn in the side of Russia forever.
They invaded Ukraine to get access to the Mediterranean through the Black Sea and Turkey because they have no current way of getting Naval ships to European shores without circumventing the globe or sailing through the narrow stretches of the ocean that NATO is capable of blockading.
A blockage of military ships and not civilian ships is not out of the question.
And having pacific ports and no access to the North Atlantic would mean using the Panama Canal or going around Africa or South America to reach the Atlantic.
Lidar of the terrain is free to download from the USGS. That's stupidly easy to make into 3d models.
Then you just need to model the structures on the route. but that's mostly empty. You could do street-level photogrammetry by simply doing the drive with a few cameras on top of the car with GPS triggers, or even some 360 cameras.
Plug it all into Reality Capture, and you've got a stew going.
In the event of a military blockade by NATO after America leaves NATO, Russia's only route to the Atlantic would involve the Panama Canal or going around Africa or South America.
And Trump is also totally coincidentally trying to take the Panama Canal too.
So having Greenland as part of NATO independent of the US important. If Trump were to take Greenland, he could allow Russian Naval activity in Greenland's territorial waters.
It was actually a way to hide the flavor change in the switch to Corn Syrup instead of Sugar, and never intended to be permanent.
Pepsi existed
There's no real commercial competition for Microsoft. Linux is great, but there's nobody for a business to call when shit fucks up. And Apple's walled garden and high prices make it terrible for enterprise.
It's about Naval access to the Atlantic. The Russian Navy has to go between Greenland and Norway. With NATO controlling both sides, they don't have a route to the Atlantic through friendly waters.
Jury nullification is literally the entire reason to have juries composed of everyday citizens instead of legal professionals. The final safeguard against injustice is a jury's ability to acquit regardless of the law.
There used to be a large textile industry in Mikwaukee. In textiles manufacture, there's always some level of waste between defective products, remnant cut-offs, etc. There were still used for some of these remnants. Some could be recycled into pulp and dyed a darker color. Some was used for stuffing, some as fire fuel, etc.
But ribbons were hard to deal with. The material didn't recycle well into other fabric, take well to dying, soften enough to use as filler, or burn clean enough to be used as fill.
Then a factory manager named HR Pabst came up with an idea. He'd render it to a pulp, dry it, and use that as a filter to remove the odor from aged horse urine, and that's how we got PBR.
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