You sit so close beside me,
Your shoulder touching mine,
You look at me like maybe
You could cross that little line.
Then you smile and change the subject,
Like you haven’t got a clue—
But I know you know exactly
What you’re making me go through.
You’re so patient, so polite,
Taking your sweet time tonight.
Every almost, every pause
Only makes me want you more.
Make the first move, darling,
I’ve been waiting for so long.
You keep holding back the moment,
While my heart keeps beating strong.
Make the first move, darling,
Don’t be gentle with the truth—
I’m aching just to be much closer,
And I’m aching most for you.
Your fingers brush against me,
Then retreat like nothing’s there.
You lean in close to whisper,
And I feel your breath and stare.
You know how much I want you,
You can see it in my eyes—
And I swear you almost kiss me
Just to watch the temperature rise.
You’re a gentleman, I know,
But there’s only so much slow
A lonely woman ought to bear
When what she wants is sitting there.
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Make the first move, darling,
I’ve been waiting for so long.
You keep holding back the moment,
While my heart keeps beating strong.
Make the first move, darling,
Don’t be gentle with the truth—
I’m aching just to be much closer,
And I’m aching most for you.
It isn’t only hunger,
It isn’t only heat.
I want the way you hold me
When the wanting is so sweet.
I want your arms around me,
I want nowhere else to be—
So if you’re waiting for permission,
Baby, look at me.
I’ve given you the answer
In a hundred little ways.
In every lingering goodnight,
In every time I stayed.
And maybe you enjoy it,
Making every second last—
But if you make me wait much longer,
I may have to move first fast.
Make the first move, darling,
I can’t take another tease.
You’ve been winding me so tightly,
Now come give me some release.
Make the first move, darling,
I’ve got nothing left to prove—
I don’t just want your body,
I want everything about you.
So come here.
No more maybe.
No more almost.
No more room.
You’ve made me wait so beautifully.
Now make the first move.
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U.S. hypocrisy about the war in Ukraine is absolutely stunning, given that it invaded and bombed countries all over the world (e.g., Iraq) for flimsy reasons, often allying with Muslim extremists (e.g., Afghanistan in 80s, Serbia, Libya, and Syria). The U.S. occupies 1/3 of Syria (the parts with oil), with help from its proxy army, the Syrian Defense Forces. Russia's invasion was along its borders, in response to CIA and NATO meddling in a country with deep historical, linguistic, and cultural ties to Russia. U.S. meddling included "engineering" the 2014 coup, according to Chas. W. Freeman, former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Lifetime Director of the Atlantic Council. The U.S. also armed far-right militias that were attacking Russian speakers in the east. Before the 2022 invasion, the militias increased their bombings. Crimea had voted multiple times for closer ties to Russia. The U.S. exploited divisions in Ukraine between pro-Western and pro-Russian provinces and groups to provoke the war. RAND Corporation recommended arming Ukraine as the best way to "weaken and overextend" Russia and predicted it would result in a war. The New Yorker reported that the CIA and NSA engaged in a broad "effort, around the time of the invasion, to close off many 'sources related to Russia/Ukraine matters.'"
Jack Matlock (former U.S. Ambassador to the USSR under Ronald Reagan) said in a 2024 interview: "Why don’t we understand that trying to remove Ukraine from Russian influence and put military bases there would be, in their case, absolutely unacceptable and worthy of defense?" Matlock said the U.S. backed the 2014 coup, and "Obviously, to any Russian leader, not just Vladimir Putin, that would have been an absolutely impossible, hostile act, which they had to react to. And in particular, they were not going to lose their naval base in Crimea." Finally, Matlock said the Ukrainians are "dominated in their thinking by neo-Nazis — we tend to ignore that, or when Putin points it out, we say he’s lying. He’s not lying."
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Eisenhower Warns about U.S. Militarism
War is a Racket (Smedley Butler Song)
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