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nan said:

Slava Ukraini is a Nazi salute.  FYI. 

sometimes you just ooze slime.

this is one of those times.

nan said:

If Zelensky's approval rating is so high why won't he have elections?  He should have nothing to worry about. 

Nan, I understand that you support Russia's claims, and you get that I support Ukraine. For that reason, knowing that neither of us are ever going to abandon our loyalties, I don't debate it with you. We both know that you have an assortment of people here to argue with. 

I stand with Ukraine.

Slava Ukraini!

The plan worked.  The only issue I had with it is that our governor did not negotiate intelligently and thus had a judge rule on the issue.  We should have been negotiating not for refunds or discounts, but for transit funding from the revenue being raised.  

ridski said:

That's the difference between an editor and a typesetter, ladles and jellyspoons.

We stand on the plasma of giants.

Who in their right mind would hold elections during A WAR???  

My mother had a couple of choice exclamations in Russian, but I can’t spell them.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/19/factchecking-donald-trump-claims-war-ukraine

Have you ever worked an election? Not for a candidate; I’m talking about helping the election happen. 
I have, for over 25 years. I work issuing ballots, tallying, and voter security. I work at city council elections, State elections, and at federal elections. I’ve worked two State elections when cyclones hit and we lost electricity for around 7 hours.  I worked one election with flooded bathrooms (school restrooms) so no working toilets for 12 hours.

My usual shift is 17 hours. You can’t leave the site, you can’t use your phone or internet; unless you’re the Supervisor, you can’t communicate offsite at all.   The booths are open for 12 hours. And you count those slips of paper 3 times, after also combing through rubbish bins to grab discards to include in the count,  before you go home. 
And you’re expecting Ukraine to calmly run a whole-voting-population election during a war???? 

DaveSchmidt said:

mtierney said:

Special language joke for you all.

*Shakes head*

Why waste all that blood writing YOU’RE when adding only ’ and e will do?

That's the difference between an editor and a typesetter, ladles and jellyspoons.

joanne said:

It’s so embarrassing for you, as a leading nation with a formerly well-informed, well-planned diplomatic policy. I’m sure you’re aware that energy secretary Chris Wright represented you at the ARC conservatives summit in London. 
He’s very good at making pretty speeches based on near-ignorance. Sigh. 
I thought you might amused to read a report on his ‘advice’ to Australia, on developing our resources mining and sales…

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/18/us-energy-secretary-says-australia-should-get-in-the-game-of-supplying-uranium
Among other gems he suggested we should develop our uranium mines and sell to international markets… Um we’ve been mining uranium since the 1890s, have had joint ventures with the US since, I think, the 1940s (check out the Ranger mines) and we’re the world’s third largest producer. One of the world’s richest women, Gina Reinhart, owns a couple of big mines. 
Mr Wright suggested we should develop more fracking mines for shale gas, and flog that.  Yeah, again we’ve been doing ‘for yonks’ as we’d say (‘for ages’). We export natural gas in several forms, for decades - we have to be careful not to destroy agricultural land, and heritage sites. 
And he seems totally ignorant of Pine Gap, a US intelligence base near Alice Springs. I remember student protests about it back in the early’70s.

Forgive us while we laugh at your federal government.

The irony is that Trump was famous for using the phrase, "they are laughing at us." last term. 

He's just a vindictive prick. Don't look for reasoning or rationale. 

nan said:

If Zelensky's approval rating is so high why won't he have elections?  He should have nothing to worry about. 

Ukraine declared a state of martial law following the Russian attack in 2022.

Martial law means no elections can be held.

https://www.rnbo.gov.ua/en/Diialnist/6342.html