Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rich Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: OT: (politics) [was Re: The joy of Linux] Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2024 15:50:50 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <20241104142659.0000090c@gmail.com> <9LicnYvYUKH3t7b6nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@earthlink.com> Injection-Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2024 16:50:51 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="ebb17475d16519ba5ec81865b7ae69d5"; logging-data="3428708"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+lLMB/EA9IBGLEjmGwsVfn" User-Agent: tin/2.6.1-20211226 ("Convalmore") (Linux/5.15.139 (x86_64)) Cancel-Lock: sha1:IiIOdMyrDvZfpECjs3RZZ5uTUtQ= Bytes: 2942 The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 08/11/2024 03:28, Robert Riches wrote: >> On 2024-11-07, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >>> On 06/11/2024 18:55, rbowman wrote: >>>> On Wed, 6 Nov 2024 18:44:59 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >>>> >>>>> But he will wreak revenge and I am seriously worried about Ukraine. >>>>> >>>>> If that is allowed to fall, Europe is threatened. And Europe doesn't >>>>> currently have the ability to churn out armaments at the scale needed by >>>>> itself just yet. >>>> >>>> I don't share your worries but I don't live in Europe. >>> >>> Well I am sure we will do all the worrying on your behalf. >>> >>> the US hasnt ever been invaded, except by Mexicans. 911 is a picnic >>> besides what is happening in Ukraine. >>> >>> If the totalitarians are not stopped they will roll all across Europe >>> and across the pacific and end up doing a D day in Alaska. >>> >>> If they haven't already installed their puppet regime in the USA, which >>> some people think they just did. >> >> The installation of a puppet regime in the USA occurred 4 years >> ago. >> > Well that of course is another hypothesis, one that I have sympathy with. > No one gets to be POTUS without owing a lot of favours.... The key is not that there may be "puppet strings" (as you say, that's nearly a given in today' world). The key is determining to whom those puppet strings connect, and which ones, when pulled by the holder, result in movement of the puppet. And that information is *way harder* to suss out from the publicly available information.