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  • The fecklessness of this administration knows no bounds

    Most recently, we had the utterly ludicrous case of #hashtag diplomacy, which lasted all of about two days before the mockery became too much for even John Kerry to stand.





    That's right: live by the promise of hashtag. No, really. That's the official State Department stance on Russian aggression: live by the promise of hashtag. And the power of Greyskull.


    This is your tax dollars at work.

    Needless to say, the mockery has been quite delicious:




















    But apparently that wasn't enough mockery to make the infants in the White House understand that the world exists outside of twitter.



    That's right: deranged African warlords, who are kidnapping children to a far-away forest and selling them into slavery, are going to suddenly be convinced that they should mend their ways because of a hashtag campaign.

    Good grief. These people are genuinely delusional.
    It's been ten years since that lonely day I left you
    In the morning rain, smoking gun in hand
    Ten lonely years but how my heart, it still remembers
    Pray for me, momma, I'm a gypsy now

  • #2
    Originally posted by Adam View Post
    That's right: deranged African warlords, who are kidnapping children to a far-away forest and selling them into slavery, are going to suddenly be convinced that they should mend their ways because of a hashtag campaign.
    Looks like an awareness campaign to me.

    But I understand a negative response (outside of the generic ODS crap) to yet another social media movement.


    “Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”

    ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Billy Jingo View Post
      Looks like an awareness campaign to me.

      But I understand a negative response (outside of the generic ODS crap) to yet another social media movement.


      If they ever did something other than awareness campaigns and other such hollow, empty gestures, then no one would have any problem with it. But that's just it: everything that this administration does in the name of their so-called foreign policy is hollow, empty symbolism, with the notable exception of being overtly hostile towards our allies. It's honestly just bizarre. We hit an overcharge button with Russia, and we stab Poland and the Czech Republic in the back. We tiptoe around on eggshells, careful not to offend Iran when they are killing their own people in the streets for the crime of wanting freedom, and we sell Egypt out on a reasonable and democratic election, touching off now three years' worth of very bloody internal strife. We coddle China and leave Japan twisting. When Russia engages in the most overt military aggression the world has seen in twenty years, we send hashtags. When three hundred children are kidnapped from a school to be sold into slavery by a bunch of al-Qaeda-related thugs, we effectively e-mail the captives pictures of our hands.
      It's been ten years since that lonely day I left you
      In the morning rain, smoking gun in hand
      Ten lonely years but how my heart, it still remembers
      Pray for me, momma, I'm a gypsy now

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Adam View Post
        If they ever did something other than awareness campaigns and other such hollow, empty gestures, then no one would have any problem with it. But that's just it: everything that this administration does in the name of their so-called foreign policy is hollow, empty symbolism, with the notable exception of being overtly hostile towards our allies. It's honestly just bizarre. We hit an overcharge button with Russia, and we stab Poland and the Czech Republic in the back. We tiptoe around on eggshells, careful not to offend Iran when they are killing their own people in the streets for the crime of wanting freedom, and we sell Egypt out on a reasonable and democratic election, touching off now three years' worth of very bloody internal strife. We coddle China and leave Japan twisting. When Russia engages in the most overt military aggression the world has seen in twenty years, we send hashtags. When three hundred children are kidnapped from a school to be sold into slavery by a bunch of al-Qaeda-related thugs, we effectively e-mail the captives pictures of our hands.
        I think Georgia circa 2008 was worse.
        “Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”

        ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Billy Jingo View Post
          I think Georgia circa 2008 was worse.
          I'm not so sure, at least in terms of just outright aggression. Georgia came of Georgia launching an attack on South Ossetia. They may or may not have been justified in doing so, but the Georgians struck first there, and the Russians came in and ended the fight. Not so in Crimea and Ukraine as a whole. Ukraine had a revolution, and Russia saw an opportunity to strike, claiming that they were protecting "ethnic Russians," but there was never any credible threat to "ethnic Russians" in Ukraine. There certainly was no strike against Russia or any Russian interests.

          If you just want to stack up body counts and compare them, then yeah, lots more (at least so far) died and more general damage was done in Georgia. But in terms of just outright aggression and using an opportunity for a land-grab, I think that the Ukrainian situation is much worse.
          It's been ten years since that lonely day I left you
          In the morning rain, smoking gun in hand
          Ten lonely years but how my heart, it still remembers
          Pray for me, momma, I'm a gypsy now

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          • #6
            South Ossetia wasn't a land grab?
            Enjoy.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Norm dePlume View Post
              South Ossetia wasn't a land grab?
              It wasn't just a land-grab. There is more to it than that.

              I'm not excusing Russia's behavior there, but the point is that Georgia started the aggression in that conflict. That was not the case in Crimea.
              It's been ten years since that lonely day I left you
              In the morning rain, smoking gun in hand
              Ten lonely years but how my heart, it still remembers
              Pray for me, momma, I'm a gypsy now

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              • #8


                It's been ten years since that lonely day I left you
                In the morning rain, smoking gun in hand
                Ten lonely years but how my heart, it still remembers
                Pray for me, momma, I'm a gypsy now

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                • #9
                  May we raise children who love the unloved things - the dandelion, the worm, the spiderlings.
                  Children who sense the rose needs the thorn and run into rainswept days the same way they turn towards the sun...
                  And when they're grown and someone has to speak for those who have no voice,
                  may they draw upon that wilder bond, those days of tending tender things and be the one.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Michele View Post
                    “Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”

                    ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

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                    • #11
                      It's been ten years since that lonely day I left you
                      In the morning rain, smoking gun in hand
                      Ten lonely years but how my heart, it still remembers
                      Pray for me, momma, I'm a gypsy now

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