Hassy,

Having a nicely polished wooden box on the wall, is preferable to being in a a nicely polished wooden box on the floor.

Yes Paul, I'll pay that one.

Only someone who had an empty or a miserable life, who had nothing and no one dear, doesn't mind being torn away from all they had before and sent away in the company of strangers and their strange ways.

Apparently such people don't mind forcing the same on others, including those who do have a life.

Shall we look into Putin's childhood?

http://acestoohigh.com/2022/03/02/how-vladimir-putins-childhood-is-affecting-us-all/

Yuyutsu

You’ve gotta stop this. Over the years, I’ve given you more credit than most for a brain, but on this subject your lost.

They all practice the art learned over the course of more than a thousand years, to sack, plunder and rape.
You should be thankful the slave markets have closed down or there’d be a glut of Ukrainians ATM.

This is the simple question to ask for clarity; who has the greater right to install a puppet ruler, the US or Russia?
There it’s as simple as that: Now sleep tight, it’ll all work itself out as it has over the past thousand years.

Dan

Dear Dan,

«You’ve gotta stop this.»

Sorry, but that was not clear enough:
What is "this" that I am supposed to stop?

The Ukraine atrocities? For sure if I can.
Computer takeover? Yes, I am passionate about stopping it.
Or otherwise, I await your clarification.

You also asked: "who has the greater right to install a puppet ruler, the US or Russia?", and clearly nobody has such a right, but perhaps I may understand your question better once you clarify your first statement.

BTW, my last post did not stand by itself but was connected to my earlier posts, thus its subject was not Vladimir Putin in person, but rather someone else on this forum whose attitudes towards others are remarkably similar.

Yuyutsu

I’ve been around you for a long time on OLO. You are one of the more sensitive poor souls here, which is balancing: But you did reference Putin’s childhood into your passivisic (my conjugation), argument against conscription.

I didn’t get the impression from individuals post he was advocating for collective violence; it was more an idea to improve our society by introducing youth regimentation with national service: which as the name implies, serving our communities in a positive way; something akin to Boy Scouts in uniform. There is merit in his suggestion. So I was following your posts.

My exasperated response “You’ve got a stop this Yuyutsu“ was directed to your pacifist dogmatism.
You’ve got to stop this, means (I think), you need to take an a look at aggression in a more positive light.

The idea of National service is to capture natural youthful aggression and channel it into positive directions of character building, for our societies sake. It has merit.

Putin’s youthful captives, shown as captives by Ukrainian forces, crying on video is not unusual in battle. There is seldom anything to laugh at! Those Russian boys will learn from their transgression from the macho in the moment.
National service tends to do that too, but in a controlled manner. It’s a good character building discovery for our youth.

The uncomfortable truth of life is that we delude ourselves into believing our ability to control our own environment. We are all captive to the system. There is always somebody above us in rank, pulling the strings and making us dance to off tune music.

National service serves as a medium for our youth to learn the art of taking orders passively. That’s my idea of passive aggressive as an art form; a good reliable worker follows orders, it must be learned!

Enough for now.

Dan.