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07 Mar 2022, 7:10 pm

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there are lots more of such folks than many people realize. interesting book about 'em called "the sociopath next door."


I still think Trump is merely a narcissist, rather than a "Dark Triad" personality type.
I am sure you will agree. :mrgreen:


despite recent efforts to remove it, narcissism is still one of the three in dark triad.



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07 Mar 2022, 7:19 pm

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malignant narcissist, he attempted to murder a fellow classmate in military school by overpowering him and shoving him out a window, trump's classmates dragged him off of the victim.


In the way he promoted Q and got in the way of any legit criticism of left leaning MSM during his reign is a better example of malignant narcissism imo, albeit one that gets complicated fast..

easier to defend as examples of Malignant Narcissism are his conflicts of interest in invading Syria, and his drain the swamp lies. sure they all lie, but the swamp thing was over the top, esp with the Goldman Sachs angle...



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07 Mar 2022, 7:26 pm

The_Znof wrote:
Pepe wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
there are lots more of such folks than many people realize. interesting book about 'em called "the sociopath next door."


I still think Trump is merely a narcissist, rather than a "Dark Triad" personality type.
I am sure you will agree. :mrgreen:


despite recent efforts to remove it, narcissism is still one of the three in dark triad.


Trump isn't in the dark triad category.
pootin could be, imo.



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07 Mar 2022, 9:16 pm

anyway here is a site that may be worth a look.

https://zona.media/



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08 Mar 2022, 12:32 am

https://god.dailydot.com/ukrainian-girl ... let-it-go/


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08 Mar 2022, 12:37 am

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The Polish mothers of Przemysl know this, and they did what mothers around the world do in times of crisis: They gave what they could because they know what mothers need.


This photo of strollers in Poland went viral. The photographer said it was 'surreal' to capture that image.
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08 Mar 2022, 12:44 am

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"“I’ve covered war long enough to know that I do not believe anything until I can see it, until I can photograph it,” Addario said in an interview on MSNBC. “And this is a case where I watched civilians being targeted and it’s very important that image goes far and wide.”

The online article accompanying Addario’s photograph also contains a link to a video taken by a colleague, Andriy Dubchak. The shaky video depicts a Ukrainian soldier on one side of a street and civilians escaping from the village of Irpin on the other, until the flash of an explosion between them.

Soldiers are then seen running toward the wounded.

CNN aired the video late Sunday with a warning from Anderson Cooper, who is reporting from Ukraine.

“We want to warn you that is shows precisely what this war truly is, and that’s why we think that it’s important that you see it,” Cooper said. “Because what’s happening in Ukraine right now should not be sanitized. It should be seen by the world in all its horrors. You will hear obscenities in this video and you will see them as well.”"


NY Times images of slain Ukrainian civilians show war’s toll
By DAVID BAUDER today

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukrai ... 670af290ff


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08 Mar 2022, 10:47 am

kitesandtrainsandcats wrote:
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"“I’ve covered war long enough to know that I do not believe anything until I can see it, until I can photograph it,” Addario said in an interview on MSNBC. “And this is a case where I watched civilians being targeted and it’s very important that image goes far and wide.”

The online article accompanying Addario’s photograph also contains a link to a video taken by a colleague, Andriy Dubchak. The shaky video depicts a Ukrainian soldier on one side of a street and civilians escaping from the village of Irpin on the other, until the flash of an explosion between them.

Soldiers are then seen running toward the wounded.

CNN aired the video late Sunday with a warning from Anderson Cooper, who is reporting from Ukraine.

“We want to warn you that is shows precisely what this war truly is, and that’s why we think that it’s important that you see it,” Cooper said. “Because what’s happening in Ukraine right now should not be sanitized. It should be seen by the world in all its horrors. You will hear obscenities in this video and you will see them as well.”"


NY Times images of slain Ukrainian civilians show war’s toll
By DAVID BAUDER today

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukrai ... 670af290ff
There's one photo under this article... no gore, the bodies are covered with something that looks like a tablecloth - and a suitcase standing next to them.

Nazi is as Nazi does.

We need to prepare - next waves of refugees will have had their lives way more shattered than the current ones.


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08 Mar 2022, 12:10 pm

Maybe Airbnb will extend their fee free booking in Ukraine outwards to Poland and surrounding countries so that North Americans & others can “book vacations,” to transfer funds to help pay for housing & feeding refugees.


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08 Mar 2022, 3:22 pm

Perhaps the only real solution to this is for the president of the Ukraine to agree to remain neutral, and not join NATO. Putin's primary motivation for the invasion, I believe, is keeping a buffer zone between Russia and other NATO countries.


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08 Mar 2022, 3:26 pm

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Perhaps the only real solution to this is for the president of the Ukraine to agree to remain neutral, and not join NATO. Putin's primary motivation for the invasion, I believe, is keeping a buffer zone between Russia and other NATO countries.
Nope. Putin's primary motivation for the invasion was his dream of rebuilding Russian Empire.
And because he thought he could.

His exceuses for the invasion are an entirely different topic.


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08 Mar 2022, 3:27 pm

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Perhaps the only real solution to this is for the president of the Ukraine to agree to remain neutral, and not join NATO. Putin's primary motivation for the invasion, I believe, is keeping a buffer zone between Russia and other NATO countries.


I'm pretty sure the only real solution involves Putin pulling his head out of the 1800s (among places).


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08 Mar 2022, 3:29 pm

If Ukraine went along with that he would not be satisfied.He will then threaten his neighbors who are in NATO and tell them if they don’t withdraw from membership he will invade them next.


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08 Mar 2022, 3:34 pm

Maybe so. I don't know what's going to happen.


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08 Mar 2022, 3:38 pm

Or perhaps it’s as, I believe, Lindsay Graham said (the quiet part out loud) when he said the solution was for someone within Russia to eliminate putin.


Doesn’t matter who does it - foreign or domestic - reality is that if putin dies, so does this war.


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08 Mar 2022, 3:48 pm

goldfish21 wrote:
Or perhaps it’s as, I believe, Lindsay Graham said (the quiet part out loud) when he said the solution was for someone within Russia to eliminate putin.


Doesn’t matter who does it - foreign or domestic - reality is that if putin dies, so does this war.


That might not be ideal because of the power vacuum that would result, that could just lead to a younger Putin 2.0 coming to power.


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