On 2024-05-28 2:02 a.m., RonB wrote:
> On 2024-05-28, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
>> On 2024-05-27 8:22 p.m., RonB wrote:
>>> On 2024-05-27, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
>>>> On 2024-05-27 9:02 a.m., RonB wrote:
>>>>> On 2024-05-27, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
>>>>>> On 2024-05-26 7:50 p.m., candycanearter07 wrote:
>>>>>>> Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote at 21:49 this Saturday (GMT):
>>>>>>>> DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Get a real sound editing app for free (like most good application
>>>>>>>>> software, it's not available for Linux):
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://www.audacityteam.org/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Audacity is the industry standard, right?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To be fair, what the industry uses shouldn't matter to a home user.
>>>>>
>>>>> Except for the fact that, ideally, the reason industry uses it, is because
>>>>> it is stable. (Not always the case, I understand.)
>>>>
>>>> Certain industries have valid reasons for choosing one product over
>>>> another, and stability is not always part of it. I'm thinking of
>>>> WordPerfect in law offices and Google Workspace in schools, for example.
>>>> Sometimes, it is because of exclusive features like in the case of
>>>> WordPerfect; at other times, it is simply because the company behind the
>>>> product had the least expensive offering as in Google's case.
>>>
>>> I played around with Google Docs for awhile. Then I read somewhere where
>>> somebody got on the wrong side of Google and they shut down his Google
>>> account and locked him out of his documents. That was all I needed to know
>>> about Google Docs.
>>
>> It happened again as per a new article by Bryan Lunduke. Apparently,
>> Google decided that a document a Pfizer whistleblower shared was too
>> dangerous, so they blocked it.
>
> And I think it's going to keep getting worse in our Woke society.

I think that people are already waking up to the fact that corporations
aren't on their side. They are already aware that the media lies and
that the government has nothing against using false flags, this is the
last thing they need to be woken up to. In the end, Linux *is* the
solution, but it won't be for the majority until some of those machines
becomes as easy to obtain as something purchased from Best Buy.

--
Andrzej (Andre) Matuch
TG: @AndrzejMatuch
Catholic, paleoconservative, Christ is king.

candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
wrote:

>>>>>> https://www.audacityteam.org/
>>>>>
>>>>>Audacity is the industry standard, right?
>>>>
>>>> It's certainly what I would use, I took the moment of looking at it to
>>>> get the AppImage, in fact, because Mint's copy of it was outdated.
>>>
>>>Is it too old to use?
>>
>> I doubt that, but why not use the latest version?
>
>Fair. I don't mind having a slightly out of date version if it updates
>automatically though.

I'm kinda obsessive about updating, it's weird. It's actually one of
several reasons I will never, ever, run Winblows again, because as
I've repeated ad nauseam, you can't even keep up with their latest and
greatest version, without throwing away computers every five or so
years.

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
wrote:
>DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote at 03:50 this Monday (GMT):
>> On 5/26/2024 7:50 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:
>>> Diego Garcia <dg@chaos.rocks> wrote at 16:48 this Saturday (GMT):
>>>>
>>>> For lackeys --
>>>>
>>>> https://ufile.io/zux0rlug

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>>> Sorry, e-s doesn't carry the binary groups.
>>
>> Don't waste your time. It's just the ridiculous Feeb promoting more
>> half-ass, outdated, lackluster, abandoned-8-years-ago GuhNoo junkware.
>>
>> https://github.com/bleskodev/siggen
>>
>>
>> Feeb's been on cola for more than 9 years here, and I don't recall him
>> being critical of a single piece of GuhNoo hobbyware. Not one. But he
>> labels AutoCAD "junk" and Mathematica "fucking incompetent commercial
>> grubbers!".
>>
>> He's a gibbering fool without an honest bone in his excuse-making body.
>
>Oh. I'd still like to watch it to see how it is, but oke ^^

He included a Web link, albeit insulting anyone who uses it, despite
the fact many like you use E-S.

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

On 5/26/2024 10:00 AM, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
> Le 26-05-2024, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> a écrit :

<big snip>

Nice! Your beatdowns of Feeb have become masterful.

DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
>On 5/26/2024 10:00 AM, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
>> Le 26-05-2024, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> a écrit :
>
><big snip>
>
>Nice! Your beatdowns of Feeb have become masterful.

Yeah, Stéphane is a cool person. The time I grossly insulted him, I
wasn't really being that serious, I've kind of hated on France ever
since their BS about the Iraq war, but it's not like they're a
monolith anymore than any country is. Which is why I retracted it
right away.

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

Joel wrote:
> The time I grossly insulted him, I wasn't really being that serious.
>
>
>
>
It was just more idle threats from a punk ass faggot weakling that no one
takes serious anyway, no worries.

https://postimg.cc/RW6rqgr0

Erter Terte <Erter.Terte@qmail.net> wrote:

>> The time I grossly insulted him, I wasn't really being that serious.
>>
>It was just more idle threats from a punk ass faggot weakling that no one
>takes serious anyway, no worries.

<punches you in the face, knocking you unconscious instantly, because
you're a poser faggot>

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

In article <f2rb5jl0gf2du8j01v8b6nvlomcksn6om6@4ax.com>, joelcrump@gmail.com says...
>
> Erter Terte <Erter.Terte@qmail.net> wrote:
>
> >> The time I grossly insulted him, I wasn't really being that serious.
> >>
> >It was just more idle threats from a punk ass faggot weakling that no one
> >takes serious anyway, no worries.
>
>
> <punches you in the face, knocking you unconscious instantly, because
> you're a poser faggot>
>
>
Lay off the meth pipe and the cock pipe too, pillow biter.

https://postimg.cc/RW6rqgr0

Erter Terte <Erter.Terte@qmail.net> wrote:

>Lay off the meth pipe and the cock pipe too, pillow biter.

Weak poser.

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

On 5/28/2024 9:40 AM, Joel wrote:
> DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
>> On 5/26/2024 10:00 AM, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
>>> Le 26-05-2024, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> a écrit :
>>
>> <big snip>
>>
>> Nice! Your beatdowns of Feeb have become masterful.
>
>
> Yeah, Stéphane is a cool person. The time I grossly insulted him, I
> wasn't really being that serious, I've kind of hated on France ever
> since their BS about the Iraq war, but it's not like they're a
> monolith anymore than any country is. Which is why I retracted it
> right away.

I like Stephane too. Most enemies of shitv are a friend of mine.

On 2024-05-28 2:04 a.m., RonB wrote:
> On 2024-05-28, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
>> On 2024-05-27 8:27 p.m., RonB wrote:
>>> On 2024-05-27, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 27 May 2024 11:17:04 -0400, DFS wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I've been using only Opera for many years now, but about a week ago I
>>>>> uninstalled it in favor of Brave, which does a great job blocking ads.
>>>>
>>>> https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2023/06/introducing-opera-one/
>>>>
>>>> That one? Wise choice. What could go wrong with an AI powered browser
>>>> owned by the Chinese?
>>>
>>> I thought Opera was still based in Norway. It looks like I'm about 8 years
>>> behind the curve on this one.
>>>
>>> That said, I think I would rather have the Chinese government spying on me
>>> rather than the CIA, NSA, etc. via U.S. social media sites.
>>
>> How about neither?
>
> Not going to happen. But what's the Chinese government going to do to me?
> I'm more worried about what my government is going to do.

Well, they might label you as an anti-Communist threat and hunt you down
the moment they invade and take over the United States. It seems
unlikely until you realize that they already have sleeper agents in the
country who can easily take down the vulnerable grid using a few EMPs,
and how America has already bankrupted itself militarily by supplying
all of its weapons to Ukraine.

--
Andrzej (Andre) Matuch
TG: @AndrzejMatuch
Catholic, paleoconservative, Christ is king.

On 2024-05-28, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
> On 2024-05-28 2:04 a.m., RonB wrote:
>> On 2024-05-28, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
>>> On 2024-05-27 8:27 p.m., RonB wrote:
>>>> On 2024-05-27, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 27 May 2024 11:17:04 -0400, DFS wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I've been using only Opera for many years now, but about a week ago I
>>>>>> uninstalled it in favor of Brave, which does a great job blocking ads.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2023/06/introducing-opera-one/
>>>>>
>>>>> That one? Wise choice. What could go wrong with an AI powered browser
>>>>> owned by the Chinese?
>>>>
>>>> I thought Opera was still based in Norway. It looks like I'm about 8 years
>>>> behind the curve on this one.
>>>>
>>>> That said, I think I would rather have the Chinese government spying on me
>>>> rather than the CIA, NSA, etc. via U.S. social media sites.
>>>
>>> How about neither?
>>
>> Not going to happen. But what's the Chinese government going to do to me?
>> I'm more worried about what my government is going to do.
>
> Well, they might label you as an anti-Communist threat and hunt you down
> the moment they invade and take over the United States. It seems
> unlikely until you realize that they already have sleeper agents in the
> country who can easily take down the vulnerable grid using a few EMPs,
> and how America has already bankrupted itself militarily by supplying
> all of its weapons to Ukraine.

China is basically a materialistic country. Their prime object is to make
money and the United States is one of their biggest customers. I don't think
they want an empire, just like Russia doesn't want an empire. I'm more much
worried about the people running the United States. They're the crazed ones.
They're the ones pushing for the New World Order, where we'll all be eating
crickets, own nothing and "like it."

--
[Self-centered, Woke] "pride is a life of self-destructive fakery, an
entrapment to a false and self-created matrix of twisted unreality."
"It was pride that changed angels into devils..." — St. Augustine

RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:

>China is basically a materialistic country. Their prime object is to make
>money and the United States is one of their biggest customers. I don't think
>they want an empire, just like Russia doesn't want an empire. I'm more much
>worried about the people running the United States. They're the crazed ones.
>They're the ones pushing for the New World Order, where we'll all be eating
>crickets, own nothing and "like it."

Spoken like a true nationalist retard.

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

On 5/28/2024 12:06 PM, Joel wrote:
> RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> China is basically a materialistic country. Their prime object is to make
>> money and the United States is one of their biggest customers. I don't think
>> they want an empire, just like Russia doesn't want an empire. I'm more much
>> worried about the people running the United States. They're the crazed ones.
>> They're the ones pushing for the New World Order, where we'll all be eating
>> crickets, own nothing and "like it."
>
>
> Spoken like a true nationalist retard.

wRonG is ALL KINDS of retard.

DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
>On 5/28/2024 12:06 PM, Joel wrote:
>> RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> China is basically a materialistic country. Their prime object is to make
>>> money and the United States is one of their biggest customers. I don't think
>>> they want an empire, just like Russia doesn't want an empire. I'm more much
>>> worried about the people running the United States. They're the crazed ones.
>>> They're the ones pushing for the New World Order, where we'll all be eating
>>> crickets, own nothing and "like it."
>>
>> Spoken like a true nationalist retard.
>
>wRonG is ALL KINDS of retard.

He's OK when he posts on-topic, a little rabidly anti-M$, but hey,
it's COLA. His political and related views are abominable, though.
Utter lunacy about the COVID stuff, utter stupidity about democracy
and the outlook for the future, totally bonkers religious
perspectives. Just an old man incapable of evolving. I pray I never
emulate that, if I'm OK in my mid-to-late 40s, maybe I can avoid that.

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

On Tue, 28 May 2024 16:05:38 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

> They're the crazed ones.
> They're the ones pushing for the New World Order, where we'll all be
> eating crickets, own nothing and "like it."
Reese Specialty Foods has toned down their products but in the '50s they
offered stuff like fried grasshoppers, whale, and chocolate covered ants.

https://www.jta.org/jewniverse/2016/meet-max-ries-who-brought-edible-
insects-to-1940s-chicago

The whale had a heavy soy/teriyaki flavor. The grasshoppers weren't all
that bad if you like salty, greasy snacks.

The Indians around here liked grasshoppers but their collection technique
might upset the EPA. Set fire to a field of dry grass. When the fire dies
down pick up the fried hoppers. Beats the hell out of chasing them with a
net.

It was more productive than it sound. I remember driving from Great Falls
to Fort Benton after the wheat had been harvested and having to roll ip
the windows before the pickup cab was filled with hoppers.

Never ate crickets.

On 2024-05-28 9:34 a.m., DFS wrote:
> On 5/26/2024 10:00 AM, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
>> Le 26-05-2024, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> a écrit :
>
>
> <big snip>
>
>
> Nice!  Your beatdowns of Feeb have become masterful.

What sucks is that you don't speak French and that those beatdowns
aren't happening verbally. To me, nothing is elegant than a Frenchman
using his mastery of his beautiful language to insult the heck out of
anyone. I just spent an hour at work with one who substitutes here
because merely hearing his thoughts on things like wine and politics
sounds so much better because of the accent and his choice of vocabulary.

--
Andrzej (Andre) Matuch
TG: @AndrzejMatuch
Catholic, paleoconservative, Christ is king.

On Tue, 28 May 2024 06:24:40 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

> I keep forgetting that even Montana has college towns.

Oh, yes, and University of Montana in Missoula is as woke as it gets.
Montana State in Bozeman isn't as bad although Boseman has turned into
yuppie entrepreneur central. Montana Tech in Butte is hard science and
grounded in reality more or less. Butte itself is old school Democrat
because of the labor history, not woke Democrat. I think sooner or later
they will flip to red.

On 2024-05-28 12:05 p.m., RonB wrote:
> On 2024-05-28, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
>> On 2024-05-28 2:04 a.m., RonB wrote:
>>> On 2024-05-28, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
>>>> On 2024-05-27 8:27 p.m., RonB wrote:
>>>>> On 2024-05-27, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 27 May 2024 11:17:04 -0400, DFS wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've been using only Opera for many years now, but about a week ago I
>>>>>>> uninstalled it in favor of Brave, which does a great job blocking ads.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2023/06/introducing-opera-one/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That one? Wise choice. What could go wrong with an AI powered browser
>>>>>> owned by the Chinese?
>>>>>
>>>>> I thought Opera was still based in Norway. It looks like I'm about 8 years
>>>>> behind the curve on this one.
>>>>>
>>>>> That said, I think I would rather have the Chinese government spying on me
>>>>> rather than the CIA, NSA, etc. via U.S. social media sites.
>>>>
>>>> How about neither?
>>>
>>> Not going to happen. But what's the Chinese government going to do to me?
>>> I'm more worried about what my government is going to do.
>>
>> Well, they might label you as an anti-Communist threat and hunt you down
>> the moment they invade and take over the United States. It seems
>> unlikely until you realize that they already have sleeper agents in the
>> country who can easily take down the vulnerable grid using a few EMPs,
>> and how America has already bankrupted itself militarily by supplying
>> all of its weapons to Ukraine.
>
> China is basically a materialistic country. Their prime object is to make
> money and the United States is one of their biggest customers. I don't think
> they want an empire, just like Russia doesn't want an empire. I'm more much
> worried about the people running the United States. They're the crazed ones.
> They're the ones pushing for the New World Order, where we'll all be eating
> crickets, own nothing and "like it."

The media has been telling me that China's economy is doing very poorly,
and that if America just continues, it will eventually go bankrupt and
adopt capitalism. Of course, they also thought that Russia would go
bankrupt and that the current war of attrition will lead to a Ukrainian
victory. I'm starting to wonder if the media is ever right about anything.

--
Andrzej (Andre) Matuch
TG: @AndrzejMatuch
Catholic, paleoconservative, Christ is king.

On 2024-05-28 12:23 p.m., DFS wrote:
> On 5/28/2024 12:06 PM, Joel wrote:
>> RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> China is basically a materialistic country. Their prime object is to
>>> make
>>> money and the United States is one of their biggest customers. I
>>> don't think
>>> they want an empire, just like Russia doesn't want an empire. I'm
>>> more much
>>> worried about the people running the United States. They're the
>>> crazed ones.
>>> They're the ones pushing for the New World Order, where we'll all be
>>> eating
>>> crickets, own nothing and "like it."
>>
>>
>> Spoken like a true nationalist retard.
>
>
> wRonG is ALL KINDS of retard.

Let's figure this one out:

1) RonB is an American male who rejects the forced obsolescence of
technology by using Linux, rejects unnecessary vaccines, has little
trust in the media and his government, the latter because of its
constant invasion of privacy as detailed by Snowden's revelations in 2013.

2) Joel Crump is a supposed male who believes that he is the resurrected
Jesus Christ, dates a man who believes that he is a woman, admits to
enjoy sucking "girl cock," picks fights with people online despite
weighing little more than one-hundred and forty pounds and thinks that
anyone who believes in Catholicism or two genders is a monster.

I'll stick to RonB, thank you.

--
Andrzej (Andre) Matuch
TG: @AndrzejMatuch
Catholic, paleoconservative, Christ is king.

rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>On Tue, 28 May 2024 06:24:40 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
>
>> I keep forgetting that even Montana has college towns.
>
>Oh, yes, and University of Montana in Missoula is as woke as it gets.
>Montana State in Bozeman isn't as bad although Boseman has turned into
>yuppie entrepreneur central. Montana Tech in Butte is hard science and
>grounded in reality more or less. Butte itself is old school Democrat
>because of the labor history, not woke Democrat. I think sooner or later
>they will flip to red.

They won't if Trump becomes dictator, they'll become the state's seat
of the resistance in the civil war. Trump will probably split from
Melania and take it in his bitch ass (and I mean literally, having
anal sex, the bitch boy) from Kim Jong Un, after fleeing to North
Korea.

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
>On 2024-05-28 12:23 p.m., DFS wrote:
>> On 5/28/2024 12:06 PM, Joel wrote:
>>>
>>> Spoken [by RonB] like a true nationalist retard.
>>
>> wRonG is ALL KINDS of retard.
>
>Let's figure this one out:
>
>1) RonB is an American male who rejects the forced obsolescence of
>technology by using Linux, rejects unnecessary vaccines, has little
>trust in the media and his government, the latter because of its
>constant invasion of privacy as detailed by Snowden's revelations in 2013.
>
>2) Joel Crump is a supposed male who believes that he is the resurrected
>Jesus Christ, dates a man who believes that he is a woman, admits to
>enjoy sucking "girl cock," picks fights with people online despite
>weighing little more than one-hundred and forty pounds and thinks that
>anyone who believes in Catholicism or two genders is a monster.
>
>I'll stick to RonB, thank you.

We knew you were a moron, many times over.

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

On Tue, 28 May 2024 16:51:18 -0400, Andrzej Matuch wrote:

> The media has been telling me that China's economy is doing very poorly,
> and that if America just continues, it will eventually go bankrupt and
> adopt capitalism. Of course, they also thought that Russia would go
> bankrupt and that the current war of attrition will lead to a Ukrainian
> victory. I'm starting to wonder if the media is ever right about
> anything.

The media echoes the party line as surely as Pravda ever did. The
difference is the US pretends there are two parties.

On Tue, 28 May 2024 14:52:54 -0400, Andrzej Matuch wrote:

> What sucks is that you don't speak French and that those beatdowns
> aren't happening verbally. To me, nothing is elegant than a Frenchman
> using his mastery of his beautiful language to insult the heck out of
> anyone. I just spent an hour at work with one who substitutes here
> because merely hearing his thoughts on things like wine and politics
> sounds so much better because of the accent and his choice of
> vocabulary.

Tabernak! Odds are that means nothing to Stéphane.

China, Russia & the West are all doing fine.

Like The West technically lost VietNam to "communist" China/Russia...
Russia may technically win Ukraine... and China Taiwan;
de facto, The West won.