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Gazprom is circling the toilet.


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2015 Aug 12, 6:34pm   23,900 views  151 comments

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How Russian energy giant Gazprom lost $300bn.

It was not too long ago that Gazprom, Russia’s state-controlled energy conglomerate, was one of the Kremlin’s most powerful weapons. But those days now seem like a distant memory. Today, Gazprom is a financial shadow of its former self.

The speed of Gazprom’s decline is breathtaking. At its peak in May 2008, the company’s market capitalisation reached $367bn (£237bn), making it one of world’s most valuable companies, according to a survey compiled by the Financial Times. Only fellow Exxonmobile and PetroChina were worth more. Gazprom’s deputy chair Alexander Medvedev repeatedly predicted that within a decade the Russian energy giant could be worth $1 trillion.

That prediction now seems foolhardy. Since 2008, Gazprom’s value has plummeted. In early August it had a market capitalisation of $51bn – losing more than $300bn. No company among the world’s top 5,000 has suffered a bigger collapse, Bloomberg Business News reported in April 2014, and by the end of the year net income had fallen by an astonishing 86%.

Though share prices have rallied slightly since, indicators suggest Gazprom has further to fall. Lingering uncertainty raises questions about whether it can survive, with production continuing to tumble downward.

So what happened? Why is a company with the world’s largest gas reserves, operating in a country bordering China and the European Union – two of the world’s top energy consumers, performing so badly?"

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/07/gazprom-oil-company-share-price-collapse

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81   richwicks   2022 May 14, 12:42pm  

mostly reader says
richwicks says
That's not true. Russia has been trying to negotiate with Ukraine for 8 solid years.
There's one thing on patnet that doesn't change: puturds running their little propaganda campaign.


Just demonstrate I'm incorrect. You're again wasting your time insulting me.

mostly reader says
How exactly did they negotiate? By installing their puppet Yanukovitch?


There was no conflict when their puppet Yanukovitch was in power. There was a problem when the CIA took over the nation by staging a fake revolution. That's when Western Ukraine began bombing Eastern Ukraine and began claiming they were going to join NATO. NATO is a defunct organization, it should have been dissolved when the Warsaw Pact was.

mostly reader says
By taking over Crimea?


Well, they weren't going to give up their naval base there. They are majority Russian there. The US would be more likely to give up Guantanamo.

mostly reader says
By sending their goons to Donetsk/Lugansk? Or by leading hybrid war for 8 years?


Well you got REAL war now.

mostly reader says
Will you actually be stupid enough to claim that non of this happened?


I'm pointing out none of this would have happened if the US didn't overthrow Ukraine in 2014.

mostly reader says
If I didn't know your MO I'd feel sorry for someone so misinformed. But since I know your MO, the feeling is that of disgust.


I find it difficult you believe what you claim to believe. You never source information, EVER. I do.

And now, all the evidence is being wiped by "Big Tech", ala 1984. Seems legit..

I don't believe my government because they are proven and habitual liars. Why do you believe anything the US government says?
82   mell   2022 May 14, 1:01pm  

mostly reader says
How exactly did they negotiate? By installing their puppet Yanukovitch? By taking over Crimea? By sending their goons to Donetsk/Lugansk? Or by leading hybrid war for 8 years?


So we have never negotiated with countries and parties involved in military actions? Following that logic we should be at war with dozens of countries, including some large powers. Nato deliberately did not negotiate seriously ever on this, instead they poked the bear. If you're fine with plenty of Ukrainians and Russians dying over a conflict involving small areas of Ukraine and neutrality that's between you and your conscience, but insults don't help that cause. Neither does invoking godwins law, Hitler quickly declared war on the entire world within a few years, whereas this has been a localized conflict over small regions for decades. They should come to the table, negotiate a deal and make it clear that this is about the separatist regions only and any future aggression deviating from the deal and expanding will be met with force.
83   richwicks   2022 May 14, 1:07pm  

mell says
They should come to the table, negotiate a deal and make it clear that this is about the separatist regions only and any future aggression deviating from the deal and expanding will be met with force.


This isn't about saving lives, it's about weakening Russia, and if the conflict expands, weakening Europe - the only downside is that it's POTENTIAL the end of modern civilization if it goes to nuclear war.

It's not fucking traitors to the nation that run this country, they are traitors to all of humanity, if not all life.
84   mell   2022 May 14, 1:13pm  

richwicks says
This isn't about saving lives,


Clearly it isn't. Let Europe deal with it, engage in diplomacy only and only engage in military actions and aid if a Nato member is attacked. The US has been broke for a while (like plenty of other countries), hence the fiery printing and massive inflation and shortages.
85   mostly reader   2022 May 14, 1:18pm  

richwicks says
Just demonstrate I'm incorrect. You're again wasting your time insulting me.
I've done it, and repeatedly. Your typical pattern is 1) to pretend that it didn't happen, 2) when referred back demand quotes 3) when receive quote ignore or divert to another topic.

richwicks says
There was no conflict when their puppet Yanukovitch was in power.
I think you are saying that Russian puppets are good because Russia is happy and there's no conflict with Russia. In other words, Russia should be able to install it's puppets, let you live in return, and it's a fair compromise. If anyone ever needs proof that you are Putler's propaganda troll, this is a good reference point.

But even there you are DEAD WRONG. Medal for "Return of Crimea", Russian campaign medal of the Ministry of Defense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal%22For_the_Return_of_Crimea%22 Yanukovich was still in the office when it was issued. Do you know how much time is needed to discuss, approve, and then to issue a government award? Let's just say - it doesn't happen overnight. You are obviously passionate about the topic, and then it turns out that you don't know shit about it.

richwicks says
Well you got REAL war now.
And it's a continuation of the hybrid war they started in 2014. BOTH were started by Russia. "It was so avoidable, we really should've been nicer to that crocodile." Pathetic.

richwicks says
I'm pointing out none of this would have happened if the US didn't overthrow Ukraine in 2014.
I already pointed out that your perpetual repetition of a false doesn't make it true. I explained why. You couldn't argue against the explanation, so you just dismissed it and engaged "whack-a-mole" mode.

richwicks says
I don't believe my government because they are proven and habitual liars. Why do you believe anything the US government says?

I repeatedly pointed out that I don't get my opinions from US government. You are full of shit. Again.

Yet you do spread Rushist propaganda. There are no bigger, more psychopathic liars on this planet. You absolutely, positively, have no right to criticize anyone's source of data.
86   richwicks   2022 May 14, 1:30pm  

mostly reader says
richwicks says
Just demonstrate I'm incorrect. You're again wasting your time insulting me.
I've done it, and repeatedly.


Quote me. We're going back to this.

You claim you've done shit, that you haven't demonstrated. As soon as I see you do this, I just ignore everything else you write. If your first statement to me is a lie, there's nothing else coming from you worth considering.

Quote me - provide a link.

How have you demonstrated I'm incorrect? What statement did I make, that you demonstrated was incorrect, quote me, and quote yourself.

Or don't bother me. Your "proof" is you said I was wrong and insinuated I was having anal sex with Putin. This is your primary form of argument and discussion.
87   stereotomy   2022 May 14, 1:34pm  

I've said it before, mostly reader is the most comically ironic username on PatNet,
88   mostly reader   2022 May 14, 1:37pm  

richwicks says
Quote me - provide a link.
I dedicated a post to your use of grey propaganda, with a specific example. Are you saying that you don't remember? Yes or no?

Here, I want to make it blatantly obvious that your demands for a quote is a stalling technique.

richwicks says
Your "proof" is you said I was wrong and insinuated I was having anal sex with Putin.
I did no such thing, let's be clear about who said what. My statement was that your tongue is stuck in a part of Putin's body. There was nothing about anal sex. Furthermore, I didn't use it as a proof. It was an inference from your observed endearment of Putler.
89   richwicks   2022 May 14, 2:46pm  

mell says
richwicks says
This isn't about saving lives,


Clearly it isn't. Let Europe deal with it


The United States wants war - they aren't going to engage in diplomacy. They want to weaken Russia, and if it weakens Europe, that's fine too.

mell says
engage in diplomacy only and only engage in military actions and aid if a Nato member is attacked.


NATO is a stupid gift. Countries that have it get free money, they don't pay for it. If we had people that gave a shit about the United States in power, they would dump their treaties with Europe and join Russia to squeeze Europe.

I can think like a sociopath. That would be what is best for this nation. Prop up Russia, victimize Europe. We control the oil for the most part from the Middle East, we can make a deal with Russia to make them the SOLE SUPPLIER of energy for Europe.

If the sociopaths that run this nation cared about this nation - and they don't.

mell says
The US has been broke for a while (like plenty of other countries), hence the fiery printing and massive inflation and shortages.


Well, if I was a sociopath in control, I would have been steadily collecting gold for the last 20 years and working with Russia behind the scenes to upend the US dollar, and replace it with a new currency.

We'll see. We'll see if traitors are running this country or not in a few years. I think traitors run this nation though.

It's easy to think like a sociopath, just imagine the entire situation like a video game. Do you care when you kill another player or when you are killed?
90   richwicks   2022 May 14, 3:04pm  

mostly reader says
richwicks says
Quote me - provide a link.
I dedicated a post to your use of grey propaganda,


No quote. No link.

Provide a quote and links. Show your dedicated post, quote it, provide links. I expect you to point to any random post, and dishonestly claim it proves something it doesn't. This is why I'm saying "quote it", if you do - I expect you to lie about the quotes.

I'm not going to expend any effort with you. You can insult me all you like, but I have judged you to be dishonest to my own satisfaction, and as a result, as soon as I detect a lie I ignore anything beyond that. You can admit "error" and we can move on, or you can demonstrate I'm in error, and then we'll move on.

See what I've quoted from you? That's as much as I've read of yours. I don't think you are worth even considering. I judge it pointless to spend even a minute reading what you write. To me, you're either a brainwashed fanatic or a legitimate propagandist. Not the first one I've encountered. People just can't conceive paid liars exist, I know they do.

I respond to you to demonstrate your dishonesty, not because I learn anything from you at this point. If you're not a propagandist, it's interesting you fall into the same playbook of Hasbera. You can insult me if you like but again, it doesn't matter.
91   mostly reader   2022 May 14, 3:09pm  

richwicks says
No quote, no link.
Are you saying that you don't remember? Yes or no?

richwicks says
...not because I learn anything from you at this point.


Since you seem impaired in the learning department, this is irrelevant. Although you may hold it in your brain that Crimea annexation was planned with Yanukovitch in the office. Or not. I'm not optimistic.
92   richwicks   2022 May 14, 3:19pm  

mostly reader says

richwicks says
No quote, no link.
Are you saying that you don't remember? Yes or no?


I'm saying you are being dishonest.

Quote me, provide a link, refresh my memory.

I get tired of this. You lie, and then you act astounded you've been caught in a lie. You do this over and over and over again.

Hey @Patrick - reveal this comment: https://patrick.net/post/1344825?start=27#comment-1837824 and this post: https://patrick.net/comment?comment_id=1837824

"mostly reader" can say whatever he likes about me. I don't mind. I recall that post about me sticking my tongue up Putin's asshole, as if that's an argument. High scho... Elementary school was a fucking long time ago. I don't know why you feel the need to insult me. You know it doesn't result in a similar response. Ad hominem is just admission you have no data to back up "your" position.
93   Patrick   2022 May 14, 3:21pm  

richwicks says
Patrick - reveal this comment: https://patrick.net/post/1344825?start=27#comment-1837824


OK, it's approved now and should be visible.
94   Patrick   2022 May 14, 3:21pm  

@richwicks ^^
95   richwicks   2022 May 14, 3:30pm  

Patrick says

@richwicks ^^


That's not the right post,but I really don't care. This has been an excruciating, pointless argument, devoid of information from somebody I don't trust to be honest or sincere.

I shouldn't have bothered you. I don't think anybody here is that influenced by what I consider false information. Proving 1+1=2 is pointless. I think most people know.

You never have to protect me, Patrick, and it kind of shows favoritism so in this stupid pointless dumb fucking arguments, if you're going to ban one, ban both of us. I get frustrated, but I try to steer clear of mindless insults, although I will admittedly engage in them when I consider the person I'm responding to is "dishonest", "a liar", etc. I don't know if that's true - but the alternative thinking is "this person is stupid" and I find that extremely rare. I'll avoid insults and categories as much as possible, it's also pointless to do.
96   mostly reader   2022 May 14, 3:40pm  

richwicks says
Quote me, provide a link, refresh my memory.
Here you go, dear senile: https://patrick.net/post/1344073?start=9#comment-1826473

There, I demonstrated how US injected itself into the situation in Ukraine and how dishonest agents (I'm looking at you, richwicks) make it seem that US created the situation in Ukraine. You've been rubbed into this multiple times, dear senile. You even tried to debunk it, but didn't really say anything other than repeat what already have been said. So if you try again, here's the only explanation that I'd be interested in: now that we know that Nuland's line was compromised all along, how come there are no recordings of our office actually planning the uprising? (I don't really expect an explanation from you. I expect either crickets or rewashing your old talking points)

It was super cute of you to ask to re-open some posts but not the others. There was something else that I posted about Bucha. I'll copy/paste:
Start of copy/paste:
---
Oh fuck. I don't remember another time in which everyone who matters, on both sides of the isle, conformist or non-conformist, pro-war or pro-peace, would be so unanimous. That includes Donald Trump.

Al Jazeera: "Bucha killings: ‘The world cannot be tricked anymore’"
FOX News: "Atrocities in Bucha, Ukraine, appear 'premeditated,' 'deliberate': senior US defense official"
CNN: "The horrors of Putin's invasion of Ukraine are increasingly coming to light" and many more
The Guardian: "Satellite images of corpses in Bucha contradict Russian claims"
Times of Israel: "Refuting Moscow’s claim, satellite images show bodies were in Bucha for weeks"
BBC: "Satellite image of bodies site contradicts Russian claims"
The Times (UK): "Satellite images show bodies in Bucha before Russian retreat"
The Telegraph (UK): " Satellite images of Bucha dead could provide ‘irrefutable’ proof of Russian war crimes "
Reuters: "Satellite images show civilian deaths in Ukraine town while it was in Russian hands"

Is that all? No, it isn't. Donald Trump also described Moscow's activities in Kyiv as "genocide." That was before Bucha even.

"Our governments"? The ONLY major players that push the line which you are pushing are... drum roll... Russia and China! That's about it!

To truly believe in it, you'd have to believe that:

1) Germany falsified satellite images, and in a way which wasn't exposed
2) Every major outlet outside of Russia and China - US, UK, Canada, Israel, Germany, Netherlands - are all in on it.
3) All major characters, including Trump, are all in on it as well
4) The false flag operation of this scale can be implemented in a few hours and without major leaks
5) (drum roll) Russia and China are telling the truth!
---
End of copy/paste

Further, there was another reference to geo-location of your tongue relative to Putin's body part. To be clear: I meant every single word of it. Someone who attempts to shift the blame about what happened there crossed the line between humans and subhumans. Just so you know where you stand.
97   HeadSet   2022 May 14, 4:16pm  

RWSGFY says
no proof of any existential threat to Russia from Ukraine have been provided

I do not like Putin, as he is a murdering thug. But from the Russian point of view, with Ukraine moving alliance from Russia to western Europe, with the Ukrainian constitution removing the provision that would keep it out of NATO, with the US Vice President publicly encouraging Ukraine to join NATO, with the steady incorporation of former Warsaw Pact countries and even ex-Soviet states into NATO, one can reasonably assume Ukraine would be next to join. Putin likely saw the need to annex Crimea lest he see a NATO Black Sea Naval Base at Sevastopol. Today, it appears that Putin wants all Ukrainian Black Sea Coast, as to prevent a NATO navy base at Odessa. The idea that the invasion was "unprovoked" is a matter of opinion.
98   mostly reader   2022 May 14, 6:07pm  

HeadSet says
I do not like Putin, as he is a murdering thug.
He is indeed.

HeadSet says
The idea that the invasion was "unprovoked" is a matter of opinion.

It is a matter of opinion indeed. All this "Support Ukraine" business - it's the world deciding whether the opinion of a murdering thug should count for anything going forward.
99   mell   2022 May 14, 7:03pm  

mostly reader says

HeadSet says
I do not like Putin, as he is a murdering thug.
He is indeed.

HeadSet says
The idea that the invasion was "unprovoked" is a matter of opinion.

It is a matter of opinion indeed. All this "Support Ukraine" business - it's the world deciding whether the opinion of a murdering thug should count for anything going forward.


HeadSet says
I do not like Putin, as he is a murdering thug. But from the Russian point of view, with Ukraine


Ah yes like the murdering thugs who killed 500k-1MM Iraqis, many children with war and sanction induced famine over completely fabricated wmds? Putler has a long way to go. Have talks already. Trump understood this and didn't start a single war, you can always negotiate with strength, those are not mutually exclusive.
100   richwicks   2022 May 15, 2:01am  

mostly reader says
richwicks says
Quote me, provide a link, refresh my memory.
Here you go, dear senile: https://patrick.net/post/1344073?start=9#comment-1826473


What I asked, again was:

richwicks says
mostly reader says
richwicks says
Just demonstrate I'm incorrect. You're again wasting your time insulting me.
I've done it, and repeatedly.


Quote me. We're going back to this.


Cutting up responses to change the meaning is purposeless.

Quote me - when you do, provide a link to my quote so the entire context can bee seen. I predicted your reaction, previously I said:

richwicks says
Show your dedicated post, quote it, provide links. I expect you to point to any random post, and dishonestly claim it proves something it doesn't. This is why I'm saying "quote it", if you do - I expect you to lie about the quotes.


The bold is added. This is what you just did.

There is no point of me wasting my time with you if you are willing to lie to me, and you have demonstrated repeatedly your willingness to deceive, to lie, to misdirect.

To the best of my efforts I am not consciously dishonest. I can be fooled, tricked, I can be maneuvered into repeating what I incorrectly believe to be true information. I recognize I can be tricked, you don't appear to have this minor ability. You insist that whatever you believe must be true, but if I poke just a little, just a scratch, you realize you don't know how you've come to "your" beliefs, but you are very angry at ME for pointing this out. I'm not the one programming you but you blame me for pointing it out.

I can can be tricked as well. Here's something I used to believe:


original link

That's what Joseph Goebbels called "The Big Lie". It's a lie that is so large, that you cannot believe that the person telling it would degrade and prostitute themselves to such a degree as to tell such a lie. Such a lie would lead to a war, killing at minimum thousands, perhaps 100's of thousands. Who would possibly be such a fucking horrible human being as to do that?

Well, the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador would.

There's no discipline in being dishonest. You might despise me, but I'm trying to help you. I'm taking it on faith you want to actually be correct. I'm showing you, repeatedly, how you're deceived. I know it's not pleasant. I reeled for years when I realized how deceived I had been by "mainstream news" - but that was 20 years ago. What I'm rather shocked by is that despite how fucking stupid I am, almost everybody around me is even stupider. They don't even care about being lied to or being deceived, but they react terribly when they are shown they've been tricked.

Propaganda, it's fascinating. And it's also goddamned evil. Makes good men support evil things.

You are cheering on a war in Ukraine that, if Russia so chooses, can be ended with a nuclear strike after the US overthrew that nation an installed cutout puppets as leaders. I just want the goddamned thing to end and I know how it will end. Russia is still a nuclear super power, Ukraine has no chance. The absolute demand is there, and it will be met - just a question of how many people will purposely die before its met.
101   mostly reader   2022 May 15, 9:55am  

richwicks says
Show your dedicated post, quote it, provide links.
I did just that - provided a link to my dedicated post. That's EXACTLY what you asked me to do. This is YOUR quote from YOUR post asking me to do that. Now you act butthurt because supposedly it's not what you demanded.

Sheesh, you can't even put together a coherent thought. No wonder your mental process is so defective.

Are you denying that you tried to pin Bucha on Ukrainians and requesting quote for that?

Be specific, dear senile.
102   richwicks   2022 May 15, 10:44am  

mostly reader says
richwicks says
Show your dedicated post, quote it, provide links.
I did just that - provided a link to my dedicated post. That's EXACTLY what you asked me to do. This is YOUR quote from YOUR post asking me to do that. Now you act butthurt because supposedly it's not what you demanded.

Sheesh, you can't even put together a coherent thought.


Oh please, this is just another ad-hominem attack.

You make false claims constantly.

mostly reader says
Are you denying that you tried to pin Bucha on Ukrainians and requesting quote for that?


What I HEAR, and I may be misinformed, is that the Ukrainians did it - specifically the Nazi factions of the Ukrainian military which are also fiercely anti-Russian and they targeted Russian sympathizers - that THOSE were the victims. Further evidence to this as being possibly true is that the mayor of Bucha made no mention of the massacre immediately after the Russian military force left it, that Zelenskyy is forcing people to fight and won't allow them to leave, and the cherry on top is our "news" media claims it happened.

Our media ONLY lies. Ghost of Kiev/Kyiv, the massacre on Snake Island? Zelenskyy fighting in the trenches? Our news media lies blatantly. They have no credibility, and this is their claim, and because they're such fucking liars, I have to assume they are lying again. They are war whores. It's a sad state but when I assume our "news" media is lying I'm more than 90% correct at this point.

mostly reader says
Be specific, dear senile.


Again for the 10th time, insulting me doesn't change my mind. It's pointless. I can't be offended by a person I don't respect, and honestly, I feel contempt for you. I think you're not just uninformed, I think you're actively dishonest. I think you're an active liar, who knows they are lying.

What purpose does this war have for Russia? If we are to trust them (and perhaps we should not), it's to prevent Ukraine from housing NATO weaponry and to end the bombing in Eastern Ukraine. Are these unreasonable demands?

If not, Ukraine can agree to them and if the war continues regardless THEN we can discuss the morality of this stupid, pointless, fruitless war.

Those are Russia's stated demands and the cause of this war, remove them, and we'll see if Russia is lying about their motivation for war.

I don't know if Russia is a bunch of scurrilous lying shit, but I know the US lies about ALL of their wars. Find that weapons of mass destruction program yet? If that was a mistake, a valid mistake, it would be a huge error of incompetence and there would have been a fallout of people who made that "mistake" - but that never happened, instead their cunt wives helped overthrow Ukraine.

I'm tired of this empire of lies, and I will actively work against it, but legally of course.

If my government wants me to trust them, they can stop lying to me, but they won't - why is that? My only conclusion is that they have to lie to get support, and either you're part of that or a victim to it.
103   WookieMan   2022 May 15, 10:48am  

richwicks says
British Petroleum poisoned the entire Gulf of Mexico.

This is true to an extent. It was overblown to a large amount though. Nature was fucked with, but it wasn't as bad as pictured by the media as someone that frequents the Gulf and Panhandle. It was a slow news cycle and they needed clicks. Yes, it f'd some things up, but it wasn't as bad as it was made out to be. Not a BP stock holder either.

Oil, gasses and natural chemicals have leaked onto land and water naturally forever. I also think Gazprom will be fine. Need to keep the lights and heat on in that part of the world. The US for sure isn't producing it even though we could.
104   mostly reader   2022 May 15, 11:01am  

richwicks says
What I HEAR, and I may be misinformed, is that the Ukrainians did it.


I'll have to repeat myself.

Start of copy/paste:
---
Oh fuck. I don't remember another time in which everyone who matters, on both sides of the isle, conformist or non-conformist, pro-war or pro-peace, would be so unanimous. That includes Donald Trump.

Al Jazeera: "Bucha killings: ‘The world cannot be tricked anymore’"
FOX News: "Atrocities in Bucha, Ukraine, appear 'premeditated,' 'deliberate': senior US defense official"
CNN: "The horrors of Putin's invasion of Ukraine are increasingly coming to light" and many more
The Guardian: "Satellite images of corpses in Bucha contradict Russian claims"
Times of Israel: "Refuting Moscow’s claim, satellite images show bodies were in Bucha for weeks"
BBC: "Satellite image of bodies site contradicts Russian claims"
The Times (UK): "Satellite images show bodies in Bucha before Russian retreat"
The Telegraph (UK): " Satellite images of Bucha dead could provide ‘irrefutable’ proof of Russian war crimes "
Reuters: "Satellite images show civilian deaths in Ukraine town while it was in Russian hands"

Is that all? No, it isn't. Donald Trump also described Moscow's activities in Kyiv as "genocide." That was before Bucha even.

"Our governments"? The ONLY major players that push the line which you are pushing are... drum roll... Russia and China! That's about it!

To truly believe in it, you'd have to believe that:

1) Germany falsified satellite images, and in a way which wasn't exposed
2) Every major outlet outside of Russia and China - US, UK, Canada, Israel, Germany, Netherlands - are all in on it.
3) All major characters, including Trump, are all in on it as well
4) The false flag operation of this scale can be implemented in a few hours and without major leaks
5) (drum roll) Russia and China are telling the truth!
---
End of copy/paste

I of course do not for a moment think that you believe that. I think that you are a propaganda troll, as dishonest as they get. You crossed the line between humans and subhumans on the way down long ago.

I'm also waiting for the likes of you to produce "air traffic controller Carlos" who saw it all.
105   richwicks   2022 May 15, 11:28am  

mostly reader says
richwicks says
Show your dedicated post, quote it, provide links.
I did just that - provided a link to my dedicated post


Well, show the quote.

See I can do it:

richwicks says

mostly reader says
richwicks says
No, exact quote, and link to it.
I feel that I'm talking to a retard


That's interesting. Quick scan had no links again.

Provide quotes of mine with links.


See? That's a quote, and a reference back to the original post.

You can insult me all you like. I don't care. To me, this just demonstrates your inability to explain, because I believe you're an active liar.

I don't particularly want to engage with this, you talk about nothing, you give no information, you don't provide data which I can assimilate or evaluate - you're just incensed and outraged I don't agree with your, supposed, opinion, which I think is stupid because you don't demonstrate how it's supported.

I have had to beg you for over a month for what forms your opinions. I can show you mine easily:


original link


There's one. Is is correct? I don't know, but you never argue with it. You just call me a stoopid poopy head, as if that's going to make me think "maybe I AM a stupid poopy head? Maybe I should agree with you..."

I'm not a kid anymore and I'm not subject to peer pressure, and I understand how propaganda works. I could be made to agree with you, but I would have to be in a torture prison to do it, and in that environment, I'd agree that black is white, and up is down. Nobody can withstand torture.

However, you're not torturing me.
106   mostly reader   2022 May 15, 11:59am  

richwicks says
Well, show the quote.
I gave you the link, go and read. I'm not chewing your dog food. It's quite clear that your demands for quotes are a stalling technique.

richwicks says
you talk about nothing
This is not true. I point out holes in your disinformation campaign and I accurately classify your status in this world.

richwicks says
I have had to beg you for over a month for what forms your opinions.
Did anything change once you had it? Nope. That's why. I understand fully well who you are.

Hey, meant to ask you and forgot. How did you know which posts of mine marked as "personal" to ask Patrick to restore? There were like 10 of them, I understand that regular contributors can't see them. You asked specifically for what, 2? And your wish was very promptly granted. Just curious.
107   richwicks   2022 May 15, 12:00pm  

mostly reader says
richwicks says
Well, show the quote.
I gave you the link,


Well, if you did, you could quote it and demonstrate you're not lying.

But you are lying. Again.
108   mostly reader   2022 May 15, 12:10pm  

Your post:
richwicks says
Provide a quote and links. Show your dedicated post, quote it, provide links.


My response:
mostly reader says
Here you go, dear senile: https://patrick.net/post/1344073?start=9#comment-1826473


Link is there, go and read. It's right in your face. Yet you accuse me of lying by claiming that it's not there. Are you THAT dishonest or legally blind?

I see you ignored my question. Copy/pasting for your shopping convenience:
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Hey, meant to ask you and forgot. How did you know which posts of mine marked as "personal" to ask Patrick to restore? There were like 10 of them, I understand that regular contributors can't see them. You asked specifically for what, 2? And your wish was very promptly granted. Just curious.
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109   richwicks   2022 May 15, 12:16pm  

mostly reader says

My response:
mostly reader says
Here you go, dear senile: https://patrick.net/post/1344073?start=9#comment-1826473


Here's what that contains:

mostly reader says
This would be a 101 on how to detect one of the propaganda techniques.

Intro: most real-life situations have a large number of variables and moving parts. It's not always clear how they fit multi-dimentional world into a coherent picture based on incomplete and ambiguous data. Slight mis-interpretation of data points - a little bit to the right here, a little bit upwards there, skip this data point because it doesn't fit, stretch another one because it supports - and you get one pictures. Change the direction in which you move the points - and you get a different picture, which may also be consistent, yet be in conflict with the first one. That's what this technique does, it paints the picture by slight manipulation of data points. Lying by omission is quite popular with this approach.


In other words, just your bullshit - nothing I've said.

I don't care what YOU have to say. I consider you dishonest. I consider anything you write to be something to be disregarded at this point. You have no credibility with me. I don't consider you intellectually honest. I ignore all your opinions at this point.
110   mostly reader   2022 May 15, 12:22pm  

richwicks says
In other words, just your bullshit - nothing I've said.
No-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no. This selective quoting that you are demonstrating right now is exactly an example of grey propaganda. I further dissect that lie you push about US overthrowing Ukraine. You conveniently omit that bit.

I see you yet again ignore my question. Here. Because "shopping convenience":
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Hey, meant to ask you and forgot. How did you know which posts of mine marked as "personal" to ask Patrick to restore? There were like 10 of them, I understand that regular contributors can't see them. You asked specifically for what, 2? And your wish was very promptly granted. Just curious.
---
111   richwicks   2022 May 15, 12:25pm  

mostly reader says
richwicks says
In other words, just your bullshit - nothing I've said.
No-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no. This selective quoting that you are demonstrating right now is exactly an example of grey propaganda.


Again, I just ignore you. I'll engage with you, but with a minimum of effort and by the way, that was YOUR quote. You wanted something else, you could have quoted it. You point to nonsense when asked to provide data. You do this every time. I'm just demonstrating it's nonsense.

If you disagree with me, explain why you disagree with me and explain your reasoning and the foundations of your thinking. I regard you has a cheap version of Rachael Maddow, demanding whatever bullshit that falls out of your mouth as being accepted as factual. I'm not going to do that.

No more insults, no more bullshit like I'm tonguing Putin's asshole, you tell me what you think but I don't care about what you think unless you tell me why. I don't think you make reasonable decisions and have logistics at this point, so I insist on your sources. I don't understand Ukrainian or Russian though. That might be a barrier.
112   FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut   2022 May 15, 9:08pm  

RWSGFY says

FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut says
not sure what this means, will this do anything for our gas prices? They haven't come down yet.


No connection whatsoever.


well fuck me then, $7 a gallon. Can't wait till I'm out of CA with their faggot tranny worshipping bullshit and high gas prices and fucking commie fucks everywhere and militant leftist blacks. fuck all of that.
113   RWSGFY   2022 May 15, 9:49pm  

FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut says

RWSGFY says

FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut says
not sure what this means, will this do anything for our gas prices? They haven't come down yet.


No connection whatsoever.


well fuck me then, $7 a gallon. Can't wait till I'm out of CA with their faggot tranny worshipping bullshit and high gas prices and fucking commie fucks everywhere and militant leftist blacks. fuck all of that.


Dude, you seem to be confused by the simple fact that the word "gas" is used to describe three completely different thing: natural gas, liquified propane and gasoline. Gasoline prices in CA and embargo on pedo Vlad's natural gas exports are not connected.
114   mostly reader   2022 May 15, 11:11pm  

> richwicks

You seem to have trouble keeping track of more than one issue at a time. So I for now will reduce this conversation to a single question. The one that you keep ignoring. Here it is (it's a copy/paste because I already asked several times without getting any response)

copy/paste
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Hey, meant to ask you and forgot. How did you know which posts of mine marked as "personal" to ask Patrick to restore? There were like 10 of them, I understand that regular contributors can't see them. You asked specifically for what, 2? And your wish was very promptly granted. Just curious.
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end of copy/paste
115   richwicks   2022 May 16, 6:12am  

mostly reader says
Hey, meant to ask you and forgot. How did you know which posts of mine marked as "personal"


Because I replied to them before they were marked.

But really it doesn't matter. You're simply not worth engaging with at this point. Sometimes I feel the need to show somebody's dishonesty lest they deceive other people, but given how you act, I really don't think there is any need.
116   mostly reader   2022 May 16, 7:35am  

Yeah, let's talk about exposing dishonesty

richwicks says
Because I replied to them before they were marked.

No, you didn't. https://patrick.net/post/1344825?start=27#comment-1837824 - this is my post which you asked to reveal. There are 7 more posts in that thread, none of them is your reply to me or to my posts. Hint: make your lies harder to verify.

It does matter. I can think of few explanations to this phenomena, and none of them are flattering to you. What's yours?
117   richwicks   2022 May 16, 7:36am  

mostly reader says
richwicks says
Because I replied to them before they were marked.

No, you didn't. https://patrick.net/post/1344825?start=27#comment-1837824 -


Well some of them. I don't recall.

I really don't care.

I just don't find you at all useful much less to bother with any more. You're a foul mouthed, illogical, insane lunatic to me. Who cares what you "think"?
118   WookieMan   2022 May 16, 7:48am  

I don't think this is going anywhere guys. Right or wrong, maybe just move on from the back and forth? This is going down the classic forum rabbit hole. Agree to disagree so to speak.
119   richwicks   2022 May 16, 8:05am  

WookieMan says

I don't think this is going anywhere guys. Right or wrong, maybe just move on from the back and forth? This is going down the classic forum rabbit hole. Agree to disagree so to speak.


I would agree, this is going nowhere. I will make the attempt to understand another person's point but that's only possible if they can explain their point of view.

My point of view is our media and government have lied about every single war since Iraq, and before of course. I don't see any reason to trust these fuckers for one. Second our media has omitted critical data about this conflict and they are using very obvious and blatant propaganda techniques. How many times have you heard "unprovoked attack on Ukraine?" - it's like "weapons of mass destruction", or "Qaddafi is about to cause a humanitarian crisis" or "Assad is gassing his own people". These are demonstrable lies.

My government lies because it has to lie. If Americans realized what was actually going on, they wouldn't support it. This is why they MUST be lied to in order to gain support, and every fucking time we're lied to, it leads to a catastrophe for this nation, 100's of thousands of deaths, and a few fucking assholes use the chaos to enrich themselves.

The US is sending 40 BILLION dollars to Ukraine - how much of that money is just going to come back to the US in terms of bribes, and payoffs? The US doesn't do aid, they are ripping off the country and then laundering the cash, then giving it back to themselves. This is clearly what Hunter Biden is doing.

And our media doesn't do fucking any work at all to find out what is going.

With this level of corruption, it's difficult to imagine the US is in the right. If Putin was doing this shit, they'd be be telling us.
120   mostly reader   2022 May 16, 8:59am  

richwicks says
I don't recall.
Of course, of course, dear "suddenly senile". FYI - this is what true online spanking looks like.

richwicks says
You're a foul mouthed...
Yet I wouldn't dare to even think of deep and dark places where your tongue is usually lodged.

Amen, my forgetful but ambitious friend.

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