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mtierney said:

Personally I think they should face stiff fines or jail time considering the disruption their climb caused.

You think?

dave said:

Caught the last 15 mins. Well, done.

Got some echo on your voice... intentional? Not a lot. I could still make out the words, so I'm thinking just an effect. 

Thanks, Dave.  Song selection is part of the fun. I spent weeks selecting and arranging those songs. Tune in next week. It will be a very diff show. 

I honor today's holiday.

HatsOff said:

I heard a joke today, though told in the context that it may no longer apply.

Q: How do you get ten Canadian guys out of a swimming pool?
A: Say, "hey guys, mind getting out of the pool?"

(In case it matters, I am Canadian 🇨🇦)

Q: How do you get ten Canadian guys to stay in a swimming pool forever?

A: Say "hey guys, Donald Trump wants you out of the pool".

Maybe we're not really supposed to know the status of Schrodinger's Mitch.

nan said:

Also, you are forgetting, that prior to the 2014 coup, Russian speaking Ukrainian residents of the Donbass were free to identify with Russia any way they wanted to. In your article Zelensky is still telling them they are not allowed to be Russians living in Ukraine as Ukrainian citizens. They have to make a choice. Zelensky is anti-diversity. Usually you support people being able to celebrate their culture but suddenly you support the monist view just like the Nazis.

As actually reading what Zelenskyy said shows, your description of it is wrong.

We’ve already gone over that, and if Sakwa is an “expert” who promotes disinformation like that, there’s a word for that.

ridski said:

Looks like I found my pet peeve right here.

Whew. I was worried when I saw the Missing Pet Peeve flier.

nan said:

When you use the term “Russian allies” you are trying to smear the victims. You don’t seem to think they are worthwhile people or even Ukrainians. You just want them associated with Russia so you can make their deaths seem understandable and take the Ukraine Nazi side like tjohn who thought they should settle down and behave and follow their new master’s orders. 

Russia did not start this attack on the Ukrainian people of the Donbass. You need to acknowledge that. You need to acknowledge that sending Ukraine troops to fire on Ukrainians and to reject diplomacy was wrong. 

You really have a hard time understanding what you read, don't you? "Russian allies" isn't smearing anyone, it's a factual description. A group of armed men in eastern Ukraine seized territory and declared themselves independent from Ukraine. When an armed group announces that they are now separate from their government, they are described as "separatists." Russia supported these men with weapon, money, and even fought alongside them. That makes Russia an ally of the group.

In the fighting between the Ukrainian government and these separatists, many people were killed -- the most reliable estimate is 14,200 - 14,400. The majority of those killed were combatants -- either Ukrainian military personnel, separatists, or Russians fighting alongside the separatists. A much smaller portion of that 14,000 was civilians, killed by both sides. When you and your sources use "14,000" as a figure referring to civilians killed, and then further claim or imply that they were all killed by the Ukrainian government, it's a lie, as you are knowingly making a specific claim you know to be untrue.

Looks like it was a busy weekend. I would ask for the tl;dr version of the weekend's list of reasons why Putin is always right and all Ukrainians are Nazis, but I have a suspicion that it's basically the same as in the other 200+ previous weekends.

joanne said:

Given the fact that you live in Australia, this conjures very interesting mental imagery.