From the looks of it, you wouldn't need much gas. You might just need to be able to stand for five minutes without collapsing.I gots no gas in the tank no mo’. I’d rather take it easy.
What Is Wrong With William Schryver? Can Someone Please Help Him?
Re: What Is Wrong With William Schryver? Can Someone Please Help Him?
Re: What Is Wrong With William Schryver? Can Someone Please Help Him?
Keeping an overabundance of the C word bottled up inside can do that. He should have found the sacred grove of the Cedar City canyon and shouted it to the mountain tops. "Give me Putin and lots of Putin", he could have shouted. Or maybe he did and that was his game-changer.
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Re: What Is Wrong With William Schryver? Can Someone Please Help Him?
Schryver seems to be a rightist—a guy who wants to be right. He wants to be right about something about which most others are wrong, especially all the people that make him feel bad. I doubt the topic itself is important.
Cheering for Putin ticks boxes. Almost everyone thinks Putin is bad and stupid: Schryver gets to be the one smart guy who bucks conventional wisdom. It’s a war, so it’s important and manly. There are clouds of propaganda, so the chance of being proven clearly wrong too fast to weasel out of it is low.
The chance that Russia gets decisively beaten in the end is not so low, so Schryver is taking a risk. He may not have better options for ego-boosting rightness. He can hedge his bet in two ways.
If Putin loses but has a face-saving claim to have accomplished some goal, Schryver can sing in chorus and claim he was right all along.
If Putin‘s defeat is too disastrous for any redemption, Schryver can blame the tragic failure of heroic Putin on some vile traitor. That leaves Schryver being at least morally right.
Cheering for Putin ticks boxes. Almost everyone thinks Putin is bad and stupid: Schryver gets to be the one smart guy who bucks conventional wisdom. It’s a war, so it’s important and manly. There are clouds of propaganda, so the chance of being proven clearly wrong too fast to weasel out of it is low.
The chance that Russia gets decisively beaten in the end is not so low, so Schryver is taking a risk. He may not have better options for ego-boosting rightness. He can hedge his bet in two ways.
If Putin loses but has a face-saving claim to have accomplished some goal, Schryver can sing in chorus and claim he was right all along.
If Putin‘s defeat is too disastrous for any redemption, Schryver can blame the tragic failure of heroic Putin on some vile traitor. That leaves Schryver being at least morally right.
I was a teenager before it was cool.
Re: What Is Wrong With William Schryver? Can Someone Please Help Him?
Blame it on the United Nations threatening the nearby hamlet of LaVerkin. At some later date, Schryver can dance the Mamushka with Vladimir.Physics Guy wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 9:05 amSchryver can blame the tragic failure of heroic Putin on some vile traitor. That leaves Schryver being at least morally right.
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I think it is fun to speculate what Will will say if Putin fails. Let's say Putin dies and sanity returns to the Russian military and they withdraw... how does Will save face?
Treason seems to be the easiest excuse right? It can't be that he miscalculated or chose to listen to propaganda.
Treason seems to be the easiest excuse right? It can't be that he miscalculated or chose to listen to propaganda.
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I think PG’s observation nails down WS’s psychology perfectly. There are just people who have to be The Man on certain things; sometimes they have to be The Expert on all things. Schryver is a deeply confused person, but he’s found his community. As an aside, anyone that comes across this post must know Schryver bans people liberally from his Twitter account - he … CANCELS OPPOSING OPINIONS.Tim wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 5:39 pmI think it is fun to speculate what Will will say if Putin fails. Let's say Putin dies and sanity returns to the Russian military and they withdraw... how does Will save face?
Treason seems to be the easiest excuse right? It can't be that he miscalculated or chose to listen to propaganda.
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I always wonder if these online Putinists are getting paid for their work? If not, I feel really sorry for them. It takes a staggering lack of critical thinking and warped morality to land on the side of Putin.
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If you can help Will, I think that would be a good thing.
If you would like to help Ukraine, have a look at my post in Spirit Paradise:
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It's easy - just talk for an hour (more if you choose) per week!
If you would like to help Ukraine, have a look at my post in Spirit Paradise:
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It's easy - just talk for an hour (more if you choose) per week!
You can help Ukraine by talking for an hour a week!! PM me, or check www.enginprogram.org for details.
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Re: What Is Wrong With William Schryver? Can Someone Please Help Him?
Sometimes if feels like certain theists have calculated that the only way to "save" God is to throw in with authoritarians whom they wrongly calculate will force religion into the center of society again.PseudoPaul wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2023 2:47 pmI always wonder if these online Putinists are getting paid for their work? If not, I feel really sorry for them. It takes a staggering lack of critical thinking and warped morality to land on the side of Putin.
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Now Russians are saying Germany needs to be ‘denazified’, and partitioned:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVide ... utm_term=1
This is who William “Moscow” Schryver aligns himself with. It should be noted they’ve said this about Ukraine, Poland, and a few other European states.
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eta: https://meduza.io/feature/2023/05/02/es ... ob-yasnima
tl;dc - prepping Russian media on how to report on potential losses in Ukraine, so hopefully Schryver got a copy of the manual ahead of time.
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVide ... utm_term=1
This is who William “Moscow” Schryver aligns himself with. It should be noted they’ve said this about Ukraine, Poland, and a few other European states.
Every accusation is a confession.
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eta: https://meduza.io/feature/2023/05/02/es ... ob-yasnima
tl;dc - prepping Russian media on how to report on potential losses in Ukraine, so hopefully Schryver got a copy of the manual ahead of time.
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