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Comment: The Zelensky Dump
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:08 am, December 14th, 2022
Both your and Redlogix's infantile response to the question of negotiations to help put an end to a pointless bloodbath only reinforces my assertion that the Liberal class are quite unhinged and live in a sound proof bubble of their own making.Comment: The Zelensky Dump
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:53 am, December 14th, 2022
Maybe you might try and remember that Every superpower in the world would have reacted in the same way to foreign hostile foreign military provication on their boarders..the only difference is that most of them would have acted sooner and harder. Now we ...Comment: The Zelensky Dump
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:54 am, December 14th, 2022
"We should be supporting an end to the Ukraine war via actively advocating further negotiations, not ramping up the meat grinder"...100% correct.Comment: The Zelensky Dump
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:46 am, December 14th, 2022
"Stockholm Syndrome"...glad you mentioned that because the Liberal class are a text book case of that for sure...as I said in an earlier comment., the Liberal class are so brainwashed now, that if the Iraq were to happen today..there can be no doubt that ...Comment: The Zelensky Dump
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:39 am, December 14th, 2022
"It’s refreshing to read comments here that don’t kowtow to the neocon narrative"...you forgot to add neocons and war mongering Liberals, because as we now know the 'Liberal' class has seamlessly morphed into the most outragous war pigs on the planet who ...Comment: Open mike 07/12/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:46 am, December 9th, 2022
"The historic parallels between Ardern and Lange are stark"..yep, and I bet both will be remembered fondly, instead of taking the full brunt of the blame for their own records...look at Lange, most lay the blame of the disaster that unfettered Free Market ...Comment: Open mike 17/11/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 6:31 pm, November 17th, 2022
"Everyone there is dying on hills"...yes that is the tragedy of this whole avoidable disaster...it is heart breaking to see the human lives from all sides being slaughtered so pointlessly.Comment: Open mike 17/11/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:47 am, November 17th, 2022
Yeah I guess that was because he was given the job of tamping down the war hungry maniacs in Washington who are pulling at the leash for NATO intervention in the Ukraine.... like this one... U.S. official says Russian missiles hit Poland, killing two And ...Comment: Open mike 17/11/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:16 am, November 17th, 2022
Funny (not really) that Sanctuary commented to be only two days ago... "Before you decide to die on a hill for Putin's Dirlewanger Brigade"...that this should pop up... https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/ytebdj/how_does_this_keep_happening/Comment: Open mike 17/11/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:11 am, November 17th, 2022
Yes that is exactly right, the fairness and balance in reporting by western MSM has almost completely disappeared…and the sad thing is that the most vocal and staunchest cheerleaders for this relentless western propaganda fuelled warmongering is no longer ...Comment: Open mike 14/11/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:26 pm, November 14th, 2022
What has that got to do with this thread?Comment: Open mike 14/11/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 4:32 pm, November 14th, 2022
"No Joe you are not in Colombia"....PM of New Zealand, Ardern, reminds the the old guy with some sort of dementia, who also happens to be in charge of the most weapons and most powerful army in human history, what country he is in. Joe Biden mixes up ...Comment: Open mike 14/11/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 4:04 pm, November 14th, 2022
@Sanctuary... And of course you used T.E Lawrence as example of your justified righteous retribution, a perfect choice coming from you…a great white man solving coloured people’s problems for them…I really don’t think you are even aware of the racism that ...Comment: Open mike 14/11/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 1:12 pm, November 14th, 2022
The thing is Sanctuary, you have proven today, that when push comes to shove you would most probably be just like them, that's the irony, and that is probably what triggers you so much.…do you really think that once you had given the green light to ...Comment: Open mike 14/11/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:48 pm, November 14th, 2022
"Ukrainian forces having no civilians to abuse"...have you any understanding to what is going on in the Ukraine at all, that this conflict has been going on as a civil war since 2014?...obviously not. Ukraine must stop ongoing abuses and war crimes by pro- ...Comment: Open mike 14/11/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:31 pm, November 14th, 2022
You aren’t going to get out of this one so easily my friend… What I am doing Sanctuary, is establishing for everyone here on TS to see and understand, is where your moral compass is pointing, and as I have suspected for a long time it points down…you have ...Comment: Open mike 14/11/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:21 am, November 14th, 2022
"Or am I just being cynical ?"....no you are being naive....since when has 'The West' cared about war crimes committed under it's name? U.S. Pulls Out of War Crimes Court, Fearing Easy Political Prosecutions https://www.wsj.com/articles/ ...Comment: Open mike 14/11/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:15 am, November 14th, 2022
If you really believe that in what is total war in the Ukraine, that both sides are not now and have not been involved in war crimes, then your understanding/knowledge of history and war is even worse than I already know it is....but then again, with your ...Comment: Open mike 14/11/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:40 am, November 14th, 2022
That's funny because that is exactly what your comment implies....what nuance did I miss? "Wikipedia tells us that in retaliation for the massacre, Lawrence's troops attacked the withdrawing Turkish columns, and for the first time in the war ordered his ...Comment: Open mike 14/11/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:32 am, November 14th, 2022
“The New Reich”….I assume you are referring to the USA…you know that ultra-aggressive world hegemony that meddles in other countries elections at will, the country with 750 military bases in 80 countries around the world..the country that the rest of the ...Comment: Open mike 14/11/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:59 am, November 14th, 2022
@ Sanctuary...So just to be clear, and we can all understand exactly what you are stating here on TS...it seems that you are saying that when any soldier from the Wagner Group are captured, they should be executed immediately by their captors?..is that ...Comment: What happens if Twitter dies?
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 3:32 pm, November 8th, 2022
Sanctury...you are so far down the rabbit hole that even the weasels won't be able to touch you....for what ever reason you seem determined to ignore the plain that by far the largest and most significant misinformation/disinformation on the planet comes ...Comment: What happens if Twitter dies?
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:46 am, November 8th, 2022
" extreme views of the right of free speech"...you do understand that in most democratic countries including the USA, speech is is well covered in law...so hate/racist speech etc could and should be easily be moderated by those existing guidelines...what ...Comment: Open mike 08/11/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:34 am, November 8th, 2022
Thanks Molly, This part in the abstract was interesting....and quite telling... "By aggregating account groups we find significant information flows from bot-like accounts to non-bot accounts with behaviour differing between sides. Pro-Russian non-bot ...Comment: Open mike 08/11/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:32 am, November 8th, 2022
"are all feasible measures the govt could take"...but won't.Comment: Open mike 08/11/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:01 am, November 8th, 2022
I don't even know what your comment means?...anyway I commute 20km each way to and from work most days and drive a 1988 800cc Suzuki Alto, so fuel doesn't cost me fuck all.Comment: Open mike 08/11/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:26 am, November 8th, 2022
And Labours response as usual is tepid…why?, because like National, they are free market fundamentalists, both whom believe the markets and commodification can fix every problem..even in the face of the World burning, caused by free markets and unfettered ...Comment: Open mike 08/11/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:16 am, November 8th, 2022
Funny that with all the talk in the media on dis and misinformation, that an actual story on some serious industrial sized dissemination of misinformation hasn't become a MSM story....I wonder why that is? Researchers Find Massive Anti-Russian ‘Bot Army’ " ...Comment: Open mike 02/11/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 1:55 pm, November 2nd, 2022
" Are you presuming others don't have bullshit detectors?"...don't you talk to people or read sections...or TS.Comment: Open mike 02/11/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:12 pm, November 2nd, 2022
Yeah, from where you sit...enough said.
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