Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.
As teenagers, we were drinking at a friend’s place while his parents were at work. One of us found his mum’s vibrator and chased everyone else around the house with it till it broke.
His sister heard about it and told her mum at family dinner. Their mother replied “Well it works now!”
Furthering putin’s major policy goals is the main responsibility this regime has. Trump’s personal grudges and feelings are irrelevant in any area as important to putin as demanding ukraine’s surrender.
Most events have multiple influencing causes. But in a hierarchy when the boss wants something, that’s why it happens.
This has nothing to do with obama or peace prizes.
Trump is an agent of putin’s will and he’s carrying out russia’s foreign policy by demanding the full surrender of ukraine.
the foreign policy of the most powerful country on Earth has been rapidly reorganised around the fragile ego of a sullen and resentful old man
This is false, unless the “old man” is putin. Attributing policy to trump is like blaming a car crash on the hood ornament.
US foreign policy under the current fascist regime is laser focused on destroying the core alliances of american power. Trump is far too senile to stay on goal like that and he was never smart enough for strategic planning.
Pete Hegseth Putin tells NATO…
Its very possible to enrich corrupt elites without taking an axe to the US’s strategic position. That would be preferable for securing the wealth of the ruling class in the future.
Of course they want to make the rich richer, but this level of systemic destruction isn’t the most efficient way to do that. The damage is clearly part of the goal.
Part of me thinks this is so they have an easy way to drop prices after people get used to everything costing more, but I’m sure it’s mostly just trying to destroy the the US’s relationship with it’s most important allies.
Well google maps can fuck right off, the cowards. What are everyone’s recommendations for alternatives?
Putin hired him to start pointless nonsensical arguments with our nearest and most vital allies and that’s what he’s gonna do.
It’s incredibly important to hold the powerful to account when they openly commit crimes.
Imagine where the US would be if obama had ordered a full accounting of the lies, theft and open illegality of the bush era. If people like cheney, wolfowitz, ashcroft, etc. went to jail for their open corruption and repeated open constitutional violations.
not really, it makes the store lock everything up behind plexiglass creating more friction for paying customers too.
That’s not really harm in the way that hunger or poverty or lobbying against workers protections is harm. That’s more like a temporary inconvenience that doesn’t stop anyone getting what they need, right?
Stealing a physical item from a giant corporate store is also always morally acceptable.
Having power neurologically suppresses empathy. Therefor resources controlled by the powerful will on average be used more harmfully. Taking resources from the powerful reduces total harm done.
You will use a loaf of bread less harmfully than Walmart will use the profit from it.
Oh look, another member of putin’s US regime going out of his way to sour US relations with a major ally.
I would’ve gone with Fus Rule Dah as the title.
I’m saying the need to instantly and constantly denounce tankies is tedious and counterproductive. I’m saying that policing the boundaries of leftism based on dumb shit said online is a reactionary distraction.
It’s not about defending tankies it’s about people who are constantly shifting the focus of conversation to the most mockable section of online lefties.
The ruling class don’t waste their time distancing themselves from qanon, they focus on furthering their class interests and emiserating the poor.
Liberals who are constantly calling people tankies are helping the ruling class.
This is a really interesting point - that fascist political identities are increasingly built around a willingness to believe the unreal, ignoring left/right beliefs.
But it also massively overstates how much commitment people had to those ideas to begin with. For example:
No “conservative” defender of traditional family values would propose, as ambassador to France, a convicted felon who sent a prostitute to seduce his sister’s husband in order to create a compromising tape
Family values Republicans have always been rape-friendly hypocrites who accept any behavior from their priest-kings.
Giving the powerful free-reign is the conservative value. Everything else is secondary.
Sinking a ship is a dramatic overreaction to accessing unclassified Treasury documents.
We spy on China as well, we just don’t make announcements like “in retaliation we’re going to continue hacking their shit too”.
Besides, if china needs to know anything actually important they can just ask putin to ask any member of trump’s cabinet.
I always heard the tip of the tie should be at your bellybutton, making the rightmost imagine correct.
There should definitely be a gap between your tie and pants, it looks super weird if not.