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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", sykesix asked the members: "What do you do if you arrive early at movie besides go to the snack bar?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Dope1 ⎊  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: The Messaging Turns On A Dime
Date: 01/03/26 1:53 PM
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For one thing, it tells Russia to continue pursuing its war in Ukraine, because that is in its “sphere of influence”.

But according to you people, the strategy was never to pursue peace (as Trump has). It was to wear Putin down. You all RIDICULED anyone pursuing the peace option.

Are you turning your messaging on a dime now?

And it tells China that it has a green light to invade Taiwan, because that is in their sphere of influence.

Yeah, no. But I'll tell you what would need to happen for there to be an equivalence. Never let it be said that I never help out the left!

Taiwan would have to:

-Have a President that lost an election overwhelmingly to another candidate, who was forced to flee the country to escape prosecution
-Have several superseding indictments with legit legal backing (as Trump does with Maduro)
-Have been running drugs and hosting terrorists

I grant you the Chinese are probably hard at work concocting that scenario. But whomever wrote that talking point is forgetting something. Can you guess what that something is?
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