[Faust]

Originally Posted by WonderMomma ↗

Thank you for mansplaining everything to me. Now stop that.

So if you understood him, then that means you tried to whitewash it? :P For me it doesn’t matter, I actually watched Velma (on my iPad not in my home theatre) and it was a pretty decent series. The ethnicity or color of cartoon characters doesn’t really affect me personally.
Anyway it was an interesting interpretation of the Scooby do gang

[WonderMomma]

Originally Posted by Faust ↗

So if you understood him, then that means you tried to whitewash it? :P For me it doesn’t matter, I actually watched Velma (on my iPad not in my home theatre) and it was a pretty decent series. The ethnicity or color of cartoon characters doesn’t really affect me personally.
Anyway it was an interesting interpretation of the Scooby do gang

Whitewash... dude, whaaaaat?

Is it ever possible just to have a normal discussion with you about anything at all?

I don't always read into absolutely everything.

I haven't watched any Scooby Doo anything since my daughter was a child. That was back when the movie came out with Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. It does not appeal to me anymore.

I'm aware of the new movie/series or whatever it is. I'm not aware of who is playing Velma. I've seen previews or trailers on TV in passing but what race people are in movies is not something that sticks in my head. Until you pointed it out, I had no idea what ethnicity this new actress is.

Ride said DISCUSS... so I discussed. Nothing more.

Why are you bringing up race and ethnicity anyway... I don't believe ride said a word about race or ethnicity. Why don't you ask him why no longer finds Velma more attractive than Daphne instead of assuming shit.

[Faust]

mansplaining means that a man is telling you something which you already understood right?
Or is it explaining in a way that even a woman would understand it?

[WonderMomma]

Originally Posted by Faust ↗

mansplaining means that a man is telling you something which you already understood right?
Or is it explaining in a way that even a woman would understand it?

Don't worry about it.
Have a lovely day.

[Rikbikboo]

A very interesting read on Quora today below.

Russian propaganda is so bad because it takes for granted that you, me and everyone else is dumb.

When I started posting on Quora nearly three years ago, this individual was the most popular authority on Russia. Take a look what he had to say about Putin three years ago.

Dima verobiev

Related. Why do Russians support Putin.

I try not to throw up each time I see the man’s silicon enhanced face and hear his feeble high pitched voice on tv

He is vindictive, vulgar and sexist. He’s a creep. But when it comes to business he’s on top of it.

The truth is president Putin is the best leader Russia has ever had

He is the first since Stalin who knows how to run the country, he does the job with immensely less blood and suffering, and to much better result, at last we have a competent leader who doesn’t kill and torment people at an industrial scale.

He is not a sadist, or a power maniac, or a simple thief, or a conqueror. With the power he has amassed he could be Ivan the Terrible or Caligula, or Lenin- but he chooses not to. What a welcome wonderful change.

He has little time for liberal niceties, like rule of law or civil rights, or human dignity. But he is very legalistic. “To my friends everything; to my enemies the law” He wants to win elections not abolish them
, tweak and change the law, not ignore it. That’s fresh. Very new, very empowering.

He calls Stalin who killed fellow Soviet citizens on industrial scale “a competent leader.”

Putin, according to this author, is equally competent only he doesn’t kill people.

Yes, he is talking about Putin who blew up apartment blocks in Russia to justify unleashing war in Chechnya. The man who changed Constitution twice and poisoned his critics to remain in power is apparently not power hungry. He wants to win elections. He does want to but the truth is he can’t. Not if there was a fair competion.

He is not a simple thief who stole trillions of dollars with his cronies and built a mansion with one billion dollars on top of 18 mansions that he already had. The man who turned the entire country into a thieve’s paradise.

He is also “very legalistic” illegally annexing Crimea from a sovereign country on top of territories alienated from Georgia. Under Putin’s watch, laws became a joke. And of course he is no conqueror obsessed with fighting Ukraine for eight years.

I know that you gonna say it was written sarcastically, tongue in cheek.

Then try to find a single posting of this author where he comes out of his gameplay and actually says so and calls a thief a thief, a power hungry despot a power hungry despot. You won’t find any.

He is a Russian propagandists and saying the truth is forbidden. One of countless thousands working around the world to sell Putin as a benevolent, competent leader who have built from ground up an empire of lies.

The blood of thousands of killed Ukrainians and Russians in the so-called Special Military Operation is on their hands, too.


So why do Russians love Pootin so much? Is it because they suffered for generations at the hands of the likes of Stalin and Lenin, and now Pootin comes along and gives them the freedom they never had. Albeit whilst at the same time robbing the country blind right under their noses.

[Faust]

I think people love him because he puts his people first, though never to the detriment of others.

[scorpion9]

Originally Posted by Faust ↗

I think people love him because he puts his people first, though never to the detriment of others.

Haha :D Yes, he puts "HIS" people first, at the expense of the average russian.

[ride]

Fausto - Do you really think ethnicity had anything to do with my not being attracted to a cartoon character?!? You know we’re talking about a cartoon character, right?!? On a forum where nothing is real?!? On the internet, where someone’s perceived self-worth is measured in likes, shares, and retweets? C’mon, I thought you were a better troll than that.

[jkesil]

Ethnicity? What kind of shit ethnicity you talk about when you refer to russkieland? There’s like 20 different countries there that - thanks to this war - will finally be independent. It will be a new day for Asia. It’s coming. Talked with some people with knowledge - you can believe me or not, doesn’t matter - but the overall idea is that now China slowly steps up and uses Russia as a proxy just like The West uses Ukraine. Putin is starting to realize his huge historical mistake and now it starts to dawn on him and people around him. He’s being used by China and basically China is the master of playing with weaknesses of others without risking an open conflict itself. They mastered it and they are doing it with Russia. For the first time ever China published its official maps of the world with Chinese names of East Asian russkie cities. The direction is clear. It’s not about putin. He’s over. His whole apparatus is over too. What we’re watching now is the decline of their regime. They might want to use nukes but China will explain to them why it’s unwise.

And then putin starts to understand the situation so that for the first time he mentions the possibility of russkieland ending.

“ “I do not even know if such an ethnic group as the Russian people will be able to survive in the form in which it exists today,” putin said.”

https://thehill.com/policy/internati...an-people/amp/


He knows it’s over and he’s in deep shit. It’s just an end game in slow motion. It’s slow but inevitable.

[Faust]

Originally Posted by ride ↗

Fausto - Do you really think ethnicity had anything to do with my not being attracted to a cartoon character?!? You know we’re talking about a cartoon character, right?!? On a forum where nothing is real?!? On the internet, where someone’s perceived self-worth is measured in likes, shares, and retweets? C’mon, I thought you were a better troll than that.

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