he would prefer it to stay reasonably rich

I think he’d much rather eliminate one of the top economies and make more room for the Russian economy to recover. I’d imagine the simplified version of the plan goes something like this:

1. Make the US destroy all its current trade relationships
2. In manufactured desperation, the US drops sanctions and tries to lean on Russia as a new partner
3. ???
4. Profit

The issue there is Trump already won the election. I’m not sure enough people would turn on Vance if he had some legitimate claim to power

Some of it is definitely bots, but don’t discount the human factor either. Russia had an entire branch of the military dedicated to trolling the Internet at least as far back as 2015. Something tells me that hasn’t gotten smaller since then. No doubt they work in tandem with bots as well, constantly editing their output, maybe even making posts from the same accounts.

The fediverse may be small compared to the behemoths, but I don’t think we’re so small as to be ignored.

That dude posts so much so frequently, it’s extremely fishy

… Yeah, Uber eats is another way people with problems like this get taken advantage of. Weird that you feel the need to be snarky about it

Being food motivated is exactly why I do this sometimes… Everything tastes better when you’re hungry, and you can eat more of it

Took me a while to realize there is no white cat in this pic

Mmm tar flavor

Less forgotten, more intentionally misinterpreted. They penalize as antisemites anyone critical of the state of Israel, while simultaneously allowing this political party to exist. Assholes.

I mean…

What the US did in Iraq and Afghanistan was wrong, no doubt. There’s a lot of reasons for that, ranging from who was actually responsible for 9/11 to all the actual violence between the civilians and soldiers. But systematic extermination is NOT one of those reasons. What Israel is doing in Gaza is 1000x worse. Equating it to how the US conducted its affairs minimizes what’s actually happening, muddying the water and keeping people from feeling like they should actually be doing anything about it.

Maybe it’s just a tiny hatsune miku

Because you (we) have brainrot

“Pet” theory! Because a cat is a pet!

Ha!

He was also 10 feet tall and had four testicles.

Joel last of us

Takes 4+ years to prosecute a popular, rich traitor. Takes one day to screw over poor people. Gotta love justice.

At least Trump got convicted in NY, I guess…

Their name is Erika Ishii! They’re a great comedian too, they’ve made a lot of appearances on Dropout

They’re the type of people who click on Facebook ads

I dunno. Plenty of pro-Russian posters on Lemmy, and in this very thread. It is funny to see people arguing that Ukrainian sources should be removed since they can’t give an unbiased picture of Russian casualties, though–I’m sure Russian sources are totally unbiased, lol!