I totally agree: a gun is a piece of metal that can't harm anyone on its own.
But it might happen that sometime in the distant future, you'd want to ask yourself some different questions, like: "How many mass shootings a month you would regard as too many. How many people killed in mass shootings you'd regard as enough?" ... or some such.
Short is the main feature of a typical Scandinavian summer. This one was rainy too. Which, too, is typical. Still, it granted me a few nice moments, that’d be pleasant to remember during cold and dark Scandinavian winter.
Mihail Chsherbakov "Baltic waves". Every time I need to cry.
Northwest, the beeps, the blue. Cruiser, perhaps a destroyer. In the cabin, the radio operator rehearses: dot, dash, comma ... The girl waves her white hand from the shore. Everyone on board waved back. The most handsome one doesn't wave.
… Northwest, the beeps, the blue, crazy radio operator solo. …
Couldn't fine my thread with that name... (A few of my threads have disappeared since the beginning of the war... strange...)
Nonetheless. Alexei Navalny is charge again and put in SIZO (a very small chamber within a jail) again and he made a speech.
I'll post the link to his speech below. But I want to point your attention to the size of the man. The personality. The presence. The spirit. The stature.
Facing another 20 years in prison for ‘extremism,’ Navalny’s courtroom speech urges others to fight the ‘unscrupulous evil’ of the Russian authorities
The state prosecutor is seeking to sentence Alexey Navalny to 20 years in a special regime colony on charges of “extremism.” The prosecutor also requested that the second defendant in the case, Daniel Kholodny, be sentenced to 10 years in a general regime colony. The proceedings took place behind closed doors, and journalists and observers were not permitted in the courtroom. The verdict will be announced on August 4.
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I really like the wording of our compatriot, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor Yuri Lotman. Speaking to students, he once said: “A man always finds himself in an unforeseeable situation. And then he has two legs to rest on: conscience and intellect.”
Couldn't fine my thread with that name... (A few of my threads have disappeared since the beginning of the war... strange...)
Nonetheless. Alexei Navalny is charge again and put in SIZO (a very small chamber within a jail) again and he made a speech.
I'll post the link to his speech below. But I want to point your attention to the size of the man. The personality. The presence. The spirit. The stature.
Facing another 20 years in prison for ‘extremism,’ Navalny’s courtroom speech urges others to fight the ‘unscrupulous evil’ of the Russian authorities
The state prosecutor is seeking to sentence Alexey Navalny to 20 years in a special regime colony on charges of “extremism.” The prosecutor also requested that the second defendant in the case, Daniel Kholodny, be sentenced to 10 years in a general regime colony. The proceedings took place behind closed doors, and journalists and observers were not permitted in the courtroom. The verdict will be announced on August 4.
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I really like the wording of our compatriot, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor Yuri Lotman. Speaking to students, he once said: “A man always finds himself in an unforeseeable situation. And then he has two legs to rest on: conscience and intellect.”
Well... sounds like an older experienced (experienced in what?) man is some kind of a separate species. Older men are different and have different experiences.
Name 5 things you have to offer and see whether there's interest.
"Putin is the world’s most dangerous fool" — NYT 11 May, 2023 Thursday
Putin was convinced that he would easily take over Ukraine, so he had no plan B, making this war one of the most senseless wars of modern times.
This is stated in the article "Vladimir Putin Is the World’s Most Dangerous Fool" by the columnist and three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize Thomas Friedman in The New York Times.
Analyzing the course of the war in Ukraine, Friedman comes to the conclusion that Vladimir Putin never had a plan B and he really intended to quickly capture Kyiv and install a puppet government there. Now he has put himself in a situation "where he can’t win, can’t lose and can’t stop."
Lacking a back-up strategy, Putin resorted to the tactics of massive shelling of civilian infrastructure and a prolonged war of attrition to establish control over part of the territories which “he can sell to the Russian people as a great victory," the journalist writes.
"Putin’s Plan B is to disguise that Putin’s Plan A has failed. If this military operation had an honest name, it would be called Operation Save My Face. Which makes this one of the sickest, most senseless wars in modern times — a leader destroying another country’s civilian infrastructure until it gives him enough cover to hide the fact that he’s been a towering fool," the article reads.
According to Friedman, the war can end, regardless of whether Russia wins or loses, at the moment when Putin wants it to.
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My congratulations to putinoids of this site: your hero is a fool and you are dolboyobs, as stated. Save for kremleblad_:s - they remain as is.
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RE: Still misunderstood by many, do guns shoot people?
I totally agree: a gun is a piece of metal that can't harm anyone on its own.But it might happen that sometime in the distant future, you'd want to ask yourself some different questions, like: "How many mass shootings a month you would regard as too many. How many people killed in mass shootings you'd regard as enough?" ... or some such.