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- dee-dubs21
QBN Mugs 2025
Posting cos years 3/4 of the way thru..better late than never.. plus vibes of OBBTKN's beard going on..
- 3/4 of the way thru what... life? What is your expected expiry date?jagara
- 3/4 thru 2025
Hopefully not my life but you never know what’s round the corner :)dee-dubs - If i had taken the trouble reading your post more thoroughly, I'd have gotten there myself :)jagara
- I want to hug that puppy.CyBrainX
- Fix this beard, man!! ;)OBBTKN
- HAL90019
Russia-Ukraine Invasion
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-------Putting aside the possibility of Trump somehow being compromised (as far fetched as it sounds, it's impossible to rule out), it's increasingly obvious to me that he simply doesn't understand Putin as a person.
Trump spent time in Moscow in 2013 for his Miss Universe pageant, and would have learned a lot about how the Russian state functions from the oligarchs who hosted him.
Putin is effectively the head of the world's largest organised crime syndicate, and as someone who spent his career working in casinos and real estate development, I suspect Trump recognised a "mob boss" and genuinely thought that he knew how to deal with him.
Immediately following the failed meeting in Anchorage, Trump lamented the missed economic opportunities that could have been explored between the two nations.
My suspicion is that Trump offered Putin trade deals or investment opportunities, perhaps ones that both men could personally profit from, in exchange for a Ukrainian peace deal that would have handed Trump a massive political victory. I think Trump is genuinely frustrated and confused as to why Putin isn't interested.
But understanding Putin the criminal is only understanding half the man. Russia expert Anne Applebaum said in a recent interview that the biggest thing the West fails to understand about Putin is just how extremist he is in his quasi-religious nationalist ideology.To understand Putin's mindset, we need to discuss a little known 1997 book by a Russian neo-fascist and political philosopher named Alexandr Dugin, a man so closely associated with the belief systems and values of Vladimir Putin that he became colloquially known as "Putin's brain".
Dugin has spent his life warning of the evils of liberalism and democracy, and insisted that only Russia could save humanity through the advancement of Christian Russian Orthodox values.
The book provides the blueprint for how Russia could fight "the battle for the world rule of Russians". It laid out in detail how Russia needed to use information warfare, economic power, and military force, to establish a new Eurasian Empire.
It's been used a textbook in schools, indoctrinating a generation of Russians into a belief that the Russians had a God given right to rule the world from the "third Rome" (Moscow), and that notions like democracy and civil liberties were a uniquely Western invention that were bordering on satanic.It called for Georgia, most of the Baltic States, Finland, and Central Asia to be annexed into this new empire though force, while Belarus and Moldova are expected to voluntarily join after a decades long propaganda onslaught.
He was adamant that an independent Ukraine could not exist if Russia was truly going to become a superpower, arguing that "Ukraine as a state has no geopolitical meaning, no particular cultural import or universal significance, no geographic uniqueness, no ethnic exclusiveness, its certain territorial ambitions represents an enormous danger for all of Eurasia and, without resolving the Ukrainian problem, it is in general senseless to speak about continental politics".
Western Europe, meanwhile, would become a collection of weakened vassal states, subordinate to Russia's will, and argued that to achieve this Russia could help fund and organise a collection of right wing political parties to infiltrate and erode liberal democracy from within. To achieve this, Dugin suggested finding ways to weaken the NATO alliance, culminating in the removal of US military presence in Europe.
But perhaps most disturbing is Dugin's vivid advice on how Russia could subdue the greatest impediment to Russian ambitions, the great defender of the liberal values Dugin despised... the USA.He argued that Russia should use special services to "...introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics'."
The book was written in 1997.
Vladimir Putin became Russian President in 2000. He's had 25 years to put this plan into place. He is not going to abandon his life's work for some sanctions relief and a trade deal.- the second to last paragraph is right on... and it was written in 1997HAL9001
- The level of brain rot required to believe this nonsense is over 9000! Time to delete yourself, things are not gonna get better for you.Milan
- Welcome back Bennn! It’s been a while :)_niko
- Everybody that discusses seriously about Russia's war in Ukr knows all about Dugin's crap
Also we know Trump's just a puppetgrafician - "Over 9000!" says the presumably 50-year-old Putin bootlicker.garbage
- TL;DRrobthelad
- hi niko!HAL9001
- Totally not gay but I was on a lake in Mont Trembant area last week with the family and actually thought wonder what Benn's up to lol_niko
- The second to last paragraph is basically a description of what all intelligence agencies do in adversarial nations.monNom
- lol @niko
iam still here but busy and dont visit qbn oftenHAL9001
- PonyBoy9
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I've been so irritated w/having to move to eastern side of the USA these last 4 years that I've basically made fun of everything around me and middle-fingered every 'historical' spot as I drive through 'old' New England.
For a while I've seemed to find issue w/every restaurant, store, roadway, public park etc etc... I've just been a little bitch all butthurt w/having to relocate that I've become cliché in my ability to find fault with everything.
I was informed the other night over a beer that this dopey little mountain near me (if you can call it a 'mountain') of which the peak isn't even 20km from my home as the crow flies, is actually the 2nd most climbed / hiked mountain ...on the PLANET (behind Mt Fuji).
I called 'bullshit' while laughing / snorting my hazy IPA all over myself. Dude pulled up all sorts of tourist crap / wikipedia stuff / news articles etc etc showing it to be 'true' (I still call bullshit but there's some truth to its popularity).
For the last four years I've referred to the mountain as Mt 'My Nads Knock' as it's called Mt 'Monadnock'. The word is overused to name every other business in the region (eg-'Monadnock Towing'.)... I was bored of the word / idea of this mountain 15 minutes after moving here.
I'm suddenly intrigued... turns out people like Emerson, Thoreau... even Lovecraft loved the place, frequented and wrote about it.
There's also a number of fun conspiracy documentaries and New England historical 'stuff' out there that's actually interesting enough that I'm contemplating calling it by its actual name and MAYBE even going and hiking some it's trails.
- lolmonospaced
- So beautiful up there. I toured the monadnock paper factory there once. Amazing b&bs too.monospaced
- OF COURSE it's named 'Monadnock' Paper... lol—what else would you name it? :) And yeah—it's lovely up here in the warmer months... but winter is coming :(PonyBoy
- Them woods are scary AF at night, though ;)monospaced
- Lol MonadznockYakuZoku
- Lol. Stay strong, and continue ignoring that stupid rock, like a grumpy old man ;)OBBTKN
- At least you don’t live in the inferno anymore. Weren’t you in Phoenix? Anyone that chooses to live in 115°F needs their head examined.HijoDMaite
- As someone from the area, you seem to be fitting right in with the 'tude.cannonball1978
- yeah, Hijo—I lived in PHX more than half my life... I've just returned to where my wife and I grew up to be near her aging family (talk about cranky people) :)PonyBoy
- slappy11
Proud dads...
My son is 14 and pretty independent now, would rather ride bikes with his mates than with his old man (which I get) so we needed a new hobby to bond over.
I bought a second hand racing go kart and we are back! It’s so fun to be hanging out in the garage again. We are fixing it up but it’s a little too fast at the moment, might have to put in a restrictor to keep it under 100km/hr / 60mph. It’s off its head, I had no idea.
Hopefully we get another 3 or 4 summers in before he starts adulting.
- 60mph!! Christ... My lad is 17 and a half now. It doesn't take long until they're a mini adult... I'd do anything for one day with him when he was 2/3 years oldcruddlebub
- Me too. Thankfully I remember all the fun and joy and not much of the second job that is being a PA to a toddler.slappy
- In 3 or 4 summers move on to 50s Chevy Gasser buildsprophetone
- I could get into something like that. Vintage US cars are a bit thin on the ground in Aus, maybe an old Valiant though with a big turbo V8 might be fun.slappy
- Can I be your son?Nairn
- Fantastic; cool dad alert!!!ideaist
- We're JUST into RC car(s) and it's lovely. 7 & 11.ideaist
- RC cars are the gateway drug to becoming the team mechanic. Enjoy!slappy
- Awesome!YakuZoku
- Og AE RC10, Kyosho Optima, Scorpion ftwprophetone
- I have a few old rc’s in my storage here, Tamiya Wild One, an AE RC12L, and a couple RC10L’s... there’s a re-issue of the Kyosho Fantom which is dopeprophetone
- RC’s are def gateway drug, so easy to drop $’s lolprophetone
- Sick https://www.reddit.c…prophetone
- RC of the day. I remember the foam wheels! The vintage RC stuff is expensive now.slappy
- sab18
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From a trip with the fam to Kakadu, Northern Territory a few years back. Did a flight in a light aircraft over the some of the area. Amazing place.
- BusterBoy13
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For about seven years there’s been a young homeless guy outside the supermarket I go to. His line was always the same - “excuse me sir, do you have any spare change?” I’d occasionally hand him something from inside, since I never carry cash.
I’ll admit it often grated on me – he’d ask on the way in and again on the way out. I’d sometimes remind myself “there but for the grace of God go I,” but truthfully I was more irritated than compassionate most days. Not exactly proud of that.
Other people would sometimes stop to chat with him.
Today I went past and saw flowers and a note in the spot he always sat. He’d died, apparently after a short illness.
It hit me harder than expected – maybe guilt, maybe the sudden finality of it – but it lingers more than I would have thought.
- neverscared3
- Fall Out BoyNBQ00
- rubio looks mental...neverscared
- like if someone is telling him about couchfucking all day long..neverscared
- I've seen a bigger picture of the room, they were in a corner somewhere, next to the big boys table, totally for decoration :)))grafician
- just like the european delegation... pretty normalneverscared
- Vance is thinking about when Macron was talking about getting spunk off a cracked, old, leather sofa, not realising he meant his wife.face_melter
- This is the picture with the big boys table and these losers in a corner:
https://i.imgur.com/…grafician - @neverscared wrong as usual, the EU delegation WAS the big boys table :)
Including Ursula and Melonigrafician - Graf wishes he was being passed around at the big boys tablecanoe
- neverscared0
Russia-Ukraine Invasion
A new giant Ukrainian cruise missile is rumored to carry a 1,000-kg warhead for strikes 1,800 miles deep inside Russia
Ukraine announced it has begun serial production of a cruise missile said to carry a 1,000-kg warhead.
The Flamingo is rumored to have a range of 1,800 miles and looks to be a huge conventional weapon.
A missile of such range and power could allow strikes on vital production hubs deep inside Russia.- operation super giant spiderweb 2.0 coming sooner than we think...neverscared
- I remember you losers saying the same thing about HIMARS, Storm Shadows and other NATO "wonder weapons".Milan
- ^ Which were used with great effect on the front lines, but you ignore the actual newsgrafician
- Great idea launching giant rockets at a nuclear superpowersrhadden
- Rassa just bombed the place where they planed to manufacture these.sted
- utopian19
- Love these!PhanLo
- Yours? Mac Icy?!grafician
- yuputopian
- Love these!hydro74
- Noice!YakuZoku
- sick!futurefood
- niceMrT
- Dopeyuekit
- Nice !d_gitale
- Cool!!maquito
- Nice stuff - Do the names KAIR, BOSE, PRAEZ ring a bell to you? Early 90s?stoplying
- Wow! cool.mort_
- Nice! I remember in late 90s discussing websites and sharing off Graf photos with the admin go Graffiti.org as I took lots of local Graf vids/photosprophetone
- Yes, both Kair & Praez ring a bell. Met up with Kair a few times. I primarily wrote with Suroc, Espo, Kare, Pez, Braze, Credit and what not.utopian
- I remember seeing Espo up all over the place. Cool stuffstoplying
- pango3
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Do billionaires ever do their own laundry?
- only tech billionaires. the finance ones like slaves.uan
- They all like slaves, that's why they're billionairesYakuZoku
- they just wear new clothes dailyautoflavour
- they don't even wear the same skin for more than three days, what makes you think they wash their clothes?face_melter
- flolcanoe
- Rich people are boring af... Laundry is one of the "big pleasures in life", cooking, dishes... Anything is more fun, than looking at numbers going up daily!OBBTKN
- I was expecting nobody would reply to my dumb idle thought posts...
Gotta make them even less interesting next time.pango - I'll wash your underwear Pango.utopian
- PonyBoy2
Signs your getting old?
Wilford Brimley was 49 when he filmed Cocoon.
- JesusYakuZoku
- I was born the same year as cocoon :DArchitectofFate
- F**kOBBTKN
- futurefood8
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ugh, sorry for repost. here is longer version.
IR-720nm
Another from the same night
- Love these, you should check out Scanner Guy: https://www.youtube.…utopian
- pretty cool!YakuZoku
- ^thanks!
@utopian, awesome channel thanks!futurefood - neatRaybandana
- The beauty of space trashmilfhunter
- cool!mort_
- Sea monkeys? :)sab
- neverscared5
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i moved up to CD position... its huge amounts of moneys but not much to do... C'est la vie
- Congrats, enjoy and wait till they flood your calendar.Longcopylover
- Overwork the intern!bezoar
- If it goes bad it’s your fault. Congrats!monospaced
- thx.. i ll keep it humble and everyone relaxed.neverscared
- First world problem(s)!!!
Congrats bro.
: )ideaist - Compact disc?milfhunter
- Chicken dinner?futurefood
- cardinal dictator or chief douchebag .. time will tell.neverscared
- Was there a CD before?doggydoggdog
- Pretty sure it was Cassette tape before CDpango
- huge amounts of moneys like 190k/year and some company benefits huge amounts of moneys?_niko
- ^ wages haven't kept up with inflation at allmonNom
- congrats on the Cross Dressing.face_melter
- DVD level next?grafician
