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The SOTU is tomorrow if anyone cares. I really hope some leftists disrupt it over the genocide in Gaza.

POV: You're Geralt travelling through Khazaria on the way to Kaer Morhen

Logical fallacy meme: appeal to authority

@Krieger_88 @Azzmador What was the rationale behind trying to get this cat fired? Also, what was the cat being payed with?

@Azzmador And of course it was a woman who thought it was necessary to dedicate time and resources to get a cat fired.

I'm so glad we let women vote, drive, and work.

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Naturally

Fediverse culture is centered around cats. They have holidays for cats. They bullied hundreds of thousands of lonely nerds into adopting cats. They listen to cat music. They elect a cat as their mascot. They dress and act like cats. They draw the entirety of their modern culture from cats. They post sassy gifs about cats. They watch anime in worship of cats. Their biggest event of the year involves throwing parties in honor of cats doing cat things. They use cat slang like "meow" and "owo". When you say "Neco Arc" they're not thinking of some vampire from some visual novel everyone claims to have played. They're thinking of the cat girl. Their instances are completely overrun with cats. They worship their janny force disproportionately filled with cats and cat enjoyers and their global janny force of soldiers filled with cats. Their men sit around watching cat ball while their women sit around watching cat talk shows. They worship cats like Neco Arc and cat enjoyers like Gagron and Alex Gleason and Lain and syuilo while attacking the nerds who actually built their network before cats took over. Their movies are filled with cats and their music charts are topped by cats. They send cats to the Olympics and celebrate when the cats win because those cats are true red blooded fediverse posting cats. They share catgirl art to a point where "uwu" does not make them think of cute internet slang but about fluffy tails and ears instead. They will tell you how much they hate cats and how catgirl memes are a stale joke and they are just pretending to love cats but the evidence speaks for itself in that the Fediverse has always been and will be a network of cat loving cats.

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SERGEY LAVROV:

"I am going to say something that we have not yet revealed to the public.

We have accumulated a lot of evidence on how the EU embassies in Moscow are preparing for our presidential elections.

I am referring to interference mechanisms, certain 'supporting projects' for the non-systemic opposition – in short, things that embassies have no right to address.

With this information in hand, a week and a half ago, we invited all EU ambassadors [to the foreign ministry].

As a foreign minister, I wanted to tell the heads of missions that we, out of the best intentions, advised them against doing that. So, what do you think happened?

Two days before the appointment, they handed us a diplomatic note saying that they had decided against coming.

Can you imagine relations with states, whose ambassadors are afraid to attend a meeting with the foreign minister of their country of accreditation? Whoever heard of such a thing?

Here are the manners of those arch-partners for you.

President of Russia Vladimir Putin has repeatedly stated that we never reject serious proposals.

For example, the Americans say that we are launching nuclear weapons into space and suggest that we meet and elucidate on strategic stability.

This is cheap talk, not anything for grown-up people. Exhaustive answers were given to proposals of this sort. The same goes for other affairs.

Previously, they suggested resuming inspections of our strategic facilities under the Treaty on the Reduction of Strategic Offensive Arms.

We have explained to them that the treaty was based on trust, mutual indivisible security, and transparency. The Americans have trampled these principles underfoot by declaring us an enemy that should suffer a 'strategic defeat' on the battlefield.

After doing this, without blinking an eye, they ask us if we could let them see our strategic facilities. Is that honest?

So far, none of the Western countries has made any honest proposals.

African countries, Brazil, the Arab League, and China have put forward various ideas on security in Europe, ideas dictated by the best intentions.

All of them are calling for a peaceful solution.

The main aspect of their position (this is clearly outlined in the Chinese initiatives) is that it is necessary, first, to identify the causes of the situation existing in Europe, and, second, to look for a solution based on removing these causes and on respect for the legitimate security interests of all participants.

We are ready to cooperate on this basis. But the West is promoting a ten-point formula, a 'peace formula.'

Now they have duped Switzerland and it is trying to convene meetings and a 'peace conference.' A 'summit' has even been announced. But they don’t want to invite Russia.

Our country will be summoned after they come to terms among themselves. They will hand us a paper that will be an ultimatum pure and simple. Is that serious?

Everyone knows that this will never work.

They constantly say: 'Victory on the battlefield!'

OK, let them try."

"African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic American...every single group."

Notice there is one group he does not mention. One group he *never* mentions.