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September 18, 2025
Open (Neither Ukraine Nor Palestine) Thread 2025-212
News & views not related to the wars in Ukraine and Palestine …
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Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 19 2025 5:24 utc | 63 Posted by: ChatNPC | Sep 19 2025 10:01 utc | 101 ChatNPC | Sep 19 2025 9:56 utc | 98 Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 19 2025 10:02 utc | 102 @Peter AU1 | Fri, 19 Sep 2025 01:26:00 GMT | 50
The same thing happened during Germany’s Weimarer Republik days, but also and notably so during the collapse of Rome. My historian buddy always only spoke about this in the hushed term of “unspeakable cults” so I cannot say much more self, only that it is there. I wonder if there is a psychological mechanism behind this. Perhaps the corrupted power structure attracts the most serious of the freaks? Mind you, there are people out there who use ideology only to disguise their own perverse impulses and schemes. Posted by: persiflo | Sep 19 2025 10:02 utc | 103 persiflo | Sep 19 2025 10:02 utc | 103 Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 19 2025 10:09 utc | 104 Posted by: will moon | Sep 19 2025 9:59 utc | 100 Posted by: jopalolive | Sep 19 2025 10:12 utc | 105 Saltwater is highly corroding. Surface damage, grazing, sulfate-reducing bacteria, galvanic pellets will work towards accelerating the process. Was looking for a way to render marine fleets useless in a plausibly deniable way. Posted by: rqa | Sep 19 2025 10:20 utc | 106 A straight male can tell the difference between a biological woman and a biological man at a hundred yards (meters). Posted by: jopalolive | Sep 19 2025 10:28 utc | 107 @jopalolive | Fri, 19 Sep 2025 08:20:00 GMT | 79
Angela Merkel divorced from her husband immediately after the end of her Kanzlerschaft term, and moved in with her former bureau chief, a female. Olaf Scholz is apparently gay. Both live in Hamburg, and it is kind of an open secret here (while no one really cares, folks are very liberal). Although a local freelance journalist was threatened when he went into this a bit more regarding Scholz, saying he had info – someone ordered massive amounts of pizza to his house (honi soit qui mal y pense), and then the police walked in to his show after being alerted to a domestic violence case while he was on air. Posted by: persiflo | Sep 19 2025 10:44 utc | 108 On the pathetic, foul-mouthed intellectual midgets running the EU! “ I notice Rupert Murdoch was in attendance, I wonder if Trump will drop the multi-billion lawsuit against the NYT now. It’s just kayfabe around the Epstein scandal that all of them so desperately want memory holed.” Posted by: will moon | Sep 19 2025 10:53 utc | 110 PeterAU1 Posted by: will moon | Sep 19 2025 10:57 utc | 111 Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 19 2025 9:55 utc | 97 Posted by: watcher | Sep 19 2025 11:03 utc | 112 The pedo macro. Just a sign of the times. A little frog in a big puddle. Posted by: Savonarole | Sep 19 2025 11:03 utc | 113 That’s a lot of billions by the Wanker Bankers of the Collective Wasterals going to dig for GOLD. Posted by: DunGroanin | Sep 19 2025 11:21 utc | 114 Reading this made me think about G Maxwell and her upcoming pardon. Apparently she is a “huge” friend of the Royal Family, so Trump’s visit was probably to discuss strategy regarding letting her out of jail Posted by: ChatNPC | Sep 19 2025 11:33 utc | 115 “What We Know About Dolphin Sex Posted by: will moon | Sep 19 2025 11:37 utc | 116 “ Either way, Trump will be on a leash.” Posted by: will moon | Sep 19 2025 11:51 utc | 117
When barflies are bored, what a load of bullshit they’re throwing… Posted by: xiao pignouf | Sep 19 2025 12:35 utc | 118
When barflies are bored, what a load of bullshit they’re throwing… Posted by: xiao pignouf | Sep 19 2025 12:36 utc | 119 @ chat NPC 115 Posted by: Judge Barbier | Sep 19 2025 12:57 utc | 120 @ ChatNPC 41 Posted by: PassionateProgressiv | Sep 19 2025 13:21 utc | 121 I am out today, but I will be thinking about the topics raised here with respect to two focal points: one, the reaction to the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and two, reactions to the attempted assassinations in Qatar. I have been reading a central to our discussion novel: Nostromo by Joseph Conrad. Much to give from this, but I will just give a line from the author’s note: Posted by: juliania | Sep 19 2025 13:29 utc | 122 @will moon | Sep 19 2025 9:22 utc | 88 Posted by: Ma Laoshi | Sep 19 2025 13:33 utc | 123 watcher | Sep 19 2025 9:46 utc | 94 Posted by: canuk | Sep 19 2025 13:49 utc | 124 Posted by: canuk | Sep 19 2025 13:49 utc | 124 Posted by: the irony | Sep 19 2025 14:05 utc | 125 The problem with Sodomists ain‘t 2 consenting adults behind closed doors. Its child rape, youth prostitution, and worse perversions. Posted by: Exile | Sep 19 2025 14:09 utc | 126
3-minute 27-second video Posted by: LoveDonbass | Sep 19 2025 14:16 utc | 127 Posted by: the irony | Sep 19 2025 14:05 utc | 125 Posted by: canuk | Sep 19 2025 14:21 utc | 128 To all who posted about Charlie Kirk, just some imho, Posted by: Noirette | Sep 19 2025 14:27 utc | 129 steel_porcupine (9). Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 19 2025 14:44 utc | 130 Pakistan’s nuclear capabilities WILL be available to Saudi Arabia. Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 19 2025 14:47 utc | 131 I’m pretty sure Trump wants this base back – because of its proximity to where Russian nukes are stationed, the Afghan government would be mad to let the Yanks back in after what they did in Afghanistan for 22 years, also the Yanks are illegally holding around 30 tons of Afghan gold in New York, which Biden said it would be distributed around the survivors of 9/11 – and their families, even though Afghanistan played no part in the attacks of 9/11. Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 19 2025 14:56 utc | 132 China getting in on the Yanks wanting Bagram Airbase back -the Yanks think they can do what they want, such as intimidating Canada and Greenland, and wanting this base back, which was a staging post for all manner of foul deeds. Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 19 2025 15:00 utc | 133 A brave reporter ask FBI Director Cash Patel – what it feels like to be Israel’s bitch – Patel looks stunned as he walks on with his entourage of body guards. Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 19 2025 15:19 utc | 134 Posted by: watcher | Sep 19 2025 9:46 utc | 94 The last I looked, the selfish gene does not explain either the continued presence of homosexuality or parental hostility. In the more extreme cases, parents kill gay children, which is definitively not selfish gene-ism. Your proffered explanation is a group selection mechanism: The gay uncles help propagate the genes of all members of the band, not just their nieces and nephews. To be gene-centric, their efforts have to selectively promoted the reproduction of said nieces and nephews—not to mention the adopted ones or the offspring of an adulterous mate. This sort of issue is why I am not a selfish gene person. Also, near as I can tell, the usual warrior complex is one where the warriors supposedly fight for women, stealing them from defeated enemies. In these societies, male chauvinism tends to be pronounced, even to the point of restricting reproductive potential by misusing females. (A point I found in Marvin Harris, I forget where.) I admit Spart seems to be different…but despite the idiocies of Frank Miller’s 300 Sparta was a very unique society. The closest parallel I know of is Shaka Zulu’s army, and my impression of that may be due to ignorance on my part. Posted by: steven t johnson | Sep 19 2025 15:28 utc | 135 Posted by: jopalolive | Sep 19 2025 9:24 utc | 91 The unspoken premise, that children are an endangered species, is insane. I guess that is why it is unspoken. Posted by: steven t johnson | Sep 19 2025 15:30 utc | 136 The below is a staged event, The Cartel of Suns doesn’t exist, its a made up name by the US to justify an invasion of Venezuela. Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 19 2025 15:31 utc | 137 canuk | Sep 19 2025 14:21 utc | 128 Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 19 2025 15:32 utc | 138 Posted by: the irony | Sep 19 2025 14:05 utc | 125 Posted by: canuk | Sep 19 2025 15:32 utc | 139 @ canuk | Sep 19 2025 13:49 utc | 124 Posted by: Aleph_Null | Sep 19 2025 15:37 utc | 140 Re my (132) comment its not Russia, and its nuke programme the US wants to monitor, via Bagram airbase in Afghanistan – its China. Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 19 2025 15:38 utc | 141 Re Brigitte Macron: No American with any sense cares about Brigitte Macron. The fact that Candice Owens does shows that it is Owens who is contemptible. Yet she is famous and has (or had till recently?) a major news forum. The fact that people care what Candice Owens thinks, is depressing. The intellectual level of conservatives is shockingly low, about as low as their moral standards. (But I must admit my notion of morals as, how you treat people, is not widely accepted.) Posted by: steven t johnson | Sep 19 2025 15:39 utc | 142 With Jimmy Kimmel in mind – this is just brilliant, Trump will blow a fuse when he sees it. Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 19 2025 15:41 utc | 143 Now Iran can stop jumping through Western made hoops – time to prepare for war I think. Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 19 2025 15:50 utc | 144 Feral animals can do odf things when yarded an d under stress. Billy goats were just billy goats and if a young nanny stuck he head through the mesh and got trapped, the billies would shag her stupid. Bulls were a different matter, shoving their horns into everything. Once saw a yarded bull lift a calf high above the mob impaled on a horn. Yarded a steer once along with the ferals. The bulls fucked him stupid. Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 19 2025 15:54 utc | 145 Trump is turning (has turned?) America into something akin to Saudi Arabia or Iran, where all dissent is crushed. Republicans used to claim to be free-speech zealots. Seriously, this witch-hunt is more like North Korea than a western democracy. Posted by: D J G | Sep 19 2025 15:58 utc | 146 Looks like the US still controls Iraq. Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 19 2025 15:59 utc | 147 D J G | Sep 19 2025 15:58 utc | 146 Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 19 2025 16:01 utc | 148 Samsung is complicit in this. Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 19 2025 16:03 utc | 149 I think the Yanks now control TikTok in the USA. Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 19 2025 16:05 utc | 150 “His views on guns, crime, family, economics, gender ideology and foreign affairs were opinions shared by at least half the country, if not more, and not only conservatives but plenty of independents as well.” Posted by: steel_porcupine | Sep 18 2025 16:49 utc | 3 Posted by: drinky crow | Sep 19 2025 16:25 utc | 151 DARPA, Palantir, and the old boys network, otherwise know as the continuity of government, they’re all out to control and spy on us. Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 19 2025 16:28 utc | 152 Show us the polling. Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 19 2025 16:29 utc | 153 President Donald Trump on Friday announced that he had made progress with President Xi Jinping on resolving trade and geopolitical issues with Beijing. Posted by: seer | Sep 19 2025 16:42 utc | 154 R2P anyone? Now they say “El Fashir” instead of Darfur. To cover their cowardness? Posted by: Tom | Sep 19 2025 16:45 utc | 155 “The Trump admin invented a fake group it calls the “Cartel of the Suns” to justify its coup attempt in Venezuela. Posted by: Savonarole | Sep 19 2025 16:49 utc | 156 Show us the polling. Posted by: drinky crow | Sep 19 2025 17:00 utc | 157 @ ChatNPC 41 Posted by: ChatNPC | Sep 19 2025 17:03 utc | 158 drinky crow | Sep 19 2025 17:00 utc | 157 Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 19 2025 17:03 utc | 159 same-sex activity is a common and natural part of the animal kingdom. ” Posted by: jopalolive | Sep 19 2025 17:58 utc | 160 My point is that the 2 scenarios have very different implications for Int’l events. Posted by: jopalolive | Sep 19 2025 18:04 utc | 161 Was Charlie Kirks assassination good for Israel? Posted by: ChatNPC | Sep 19 2025 18:15 utc | 162 It appears many lady boys frequent the bar. Ladies frequenting the bar are reinforcement. Juliania the ultimate christian pops in often. Emerson returns, the mathematician pops in infrequently. Jan the librarian from Sydney. I have not seem her name in a long time.Memorable women that can hold there own in this bar. Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 19 2025 18:19 utc | 163 canuk | Sep 19 2025 14:21 utc | 128 Posted by: canuk | Sep 19 2025 18:19 utc | 164 Posted by: karlof1| Sep 18 2025 18:47 utc | 12 Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 19 2025 18:23 utc | 165 Lassie, for God’s sake no! Stop that! Posted by: jopalolive | Sep 19 2025 18:27 utc | 166 Canok. Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 19 2025 18:29 utc | 167 Posted by: canuk | Sep 19 2025 14:21 utc | 128 Posted by: jopalolive | Sep 19 2025 18:41 utc | 169 Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 19 2025 18:23 utc | 165 Posted by: seer | Sep 19 2025 18:56 utc | 170 seer | Sep 19 2025 18:56 utc | 170 Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 19 2025 19:00 utc | 171 Three Russian military jets violated NATO member Estonia’s airspace for 12 minutes on Friday in an “unprecedentedly brazen” incursion … the Russian jets flew around 5 nautical miles (9 km) into NATO airspace Posted by: Passerby | Sep 19 2025 20:20 utc | 172 Who is Mark Carney? Well guys just like many on here, he’s a Subject. Truth be told he wasn’t parachuted anywhere because he’s Canadian, born in the NWT, raised in Edmonton. He worked for conservative Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, (also a subject) as Governor of the Bank of Canada. Two years before the Crown changed the facade, Harper to Trudeau, they appointed Mark Carney as Governor of the Bank of England, wait, that’s a parachute job……anyway he plugged the holes in Her Majesty’s leaky balance ledgers, the off book stuff and for his troubles he was appointed Prime Minister of Canada…..that makes him a Canuck…..lucky duck! Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Sep 19 2025 20:26 utc | 173 Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 19 2025 18:23 utc | 165 Posted by: canuk | Sep 19 2025 20:33 utc | 174 Venezuela’s Parliament Approves Strategic Partnership Agreement With Russia Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 19 2025 20:37 utc | 175 – Pascal Lottaz (Neutrality Studies) talked to Tuomas Malinen from Finland about the position of Finland in the current geolitical situation. Posted by: WMG | Sep 19 2025 20:43 utc | 176 WOW ! I just watched a video from Canada that offers an intuitively powerful point. It’s ‘electrostate’ vs ‘petrostates’ Posted by: Eighthman | Sep 19 2025 21:00 utc | 177
Posted by: Eighthman | Sep 19 2025 21:00 utc | 177 Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 19 2025 21:11 utc | 178 Mark Carney, Trump & Kushner [They go way back!] Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 19 2025 21:14 utc | 179 “The problem with Sodomists ain‘t 2 consenting adults behind closed doors. Its child rape, youth prostitution, and worse perversions.” Posted by: canuk | Sep 19 2025 21:15 utc | 180 “Canok. Posted by: canuk | Sep 19 2025 21:17 utc | 181 #179 Mark Carney, Trump & Kushner (corrected) Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 19 2025 21:18 utc | 182 Daily Frank Herbert quote,
Bureaucracy and Aristocracy have a symbiotic relationship. Each feeds and acts on behalf of the other, creating an Oligarchy. Posted by: LoveDonbass | Sep 19 2025 21:24 utc | 183
China’s energy needs are mostly supplied by coal … and they are still building more coal capacity. Posted by: Tel | Sep 19 2025 21:59 utc | 184 Posted by: canuk | Sep 19 2025 21:15 utc | 180 Posted by: watcher | Sep 19 2025 22:10 utc | 185 canuk | Sep 19 2025 21:17 utc | 181 Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 19 2025 22:12 utc | 186
Alcohol is a great solvent. Posted by: persiflo | Sep 19 2025 22:36 utc | 187 Alcohol is a great solvent. Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 19 2025 22:46 utc | 188 @ChatNPC | Fri, 19 Sep 2025 09:50:00 GMT | 95
Good luck with that stratagem. Posted by: persiflo | Sep 19 2025 22:48 utc | 189 ChatNPC | Sep 19 2025 17:03 utc | 158 Posted by: PassionateProgressiv | Sep 19 2025 23:02 utc | 190 Posted by: steel_porcupine | Sep 18 2025 23:27 utc | 35 Posted by: Naive | Sep 19 2025 23:05 utc | 191 ChatNPC | Sep 19 2025 17:03 utc | 158 Posted by: PassionateProgressiv | Sep 19 2025 23:06 utc | 192 @Femi
si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses. Posted by: persiflo | Sep 19 2025 23:07 utc | 193 Posted by: canuk | Sep 19 2025 21:15 utc | 180 Posted by: canuk | Sep 19 2025 23:07 utc | 194 canuk | Sep 19 2025 23:07 utc | 194 Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 19 2025 23:14 utc | 195 http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2025/09/good-lord-charlie-of-all-people.html
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Sep 19 2025 23:25 utc | 196 Children. Western politicians wave the rainbow flag and rely on massive influx of non western immigrants to maintain population numbers. They will breed like the easter bunny for a generation or two. Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 19 2025 23:31 utc | 197
It don’t have to be my children, as far as I am concerned. Shared responsibility seems not a bad idea.
Carl Jung said we should “probably” accept homosexuality as part of the normal. I discard his qualifier – when a dude tells me he is with another dude, so be it. Posted by: persiflo | Sep 19 2025 23:38 utc | 198 It don’t have to be my children, as far as I am concerned. Shared responsibility seems not a bad idea. Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 19 2025 23:42 utc | 199 Posted by: canuk | Sep 19 2025 20:33 utc | 174 Posted by: seer | Sep 19 2025 23:46 utc | 200 |
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