Worth noting that Russia absolutely weaponizes it’s people’s impoverishment - many folks, who’ve signed contracts to go to war, did it because they took many loans and loan sharks were after them, or it were simply folks from remote downtrodden regions, for whom joining a war presented a chance to earn some better livelihood for their families.
Just debt slavery all around, while head of state may well be the richest man in the world.
Would be good to see any following of that though.
Because as of now - Palestinian state is basically a virtual entity, and unless Israel will be forced to retreat and international peacekeeping contingent will have its boots on the ground in Gaza - it’s all just empty talk while people are getting murdered.
Every such deal with authoritarian countries is a ticking time bomb.
Just look at USSR’s car history - first they acquire licenses from FIAT to build their own cars in likeness of what FIAT had. And then after some time they show their thanks by selling their cars at lower prices that FIAT, thus dampening the price, while FIAT wasn’t really doing good financially.
Most fun part - Soviet citizens paid unreasonable prices for their cars simply to balance out expenses to dampen export variant prices (and those were of much higher quality too). Example - VAZ 2101 was costing almost 5700 rubles, which by “official” exchange rate (RUB:USD 1.2:1) would be around $6800, and for that you could buy Chevy Corvette Stingray in West.
This situation today is very different, but still has this smell of “buy this band-aid from us, it will be of great use later”.
I thought military and weapons were their expertise?
Well, being far-right doesn’t come from any expertise, it comes from purposefully ignoring it.
Other far-right folks accuse Ukraine of letting drones pass through to Poland on purpose. 🌝
Reminds me of someone sharing their experience of having lengthy argument with someone about food on Reddit to later check other person’s profile to see they’re frequenting piss drinking community.
But yeah, person from other side of the screen being disgusting may come as a surprise on Reddit, while you just know it from get go if we’re talking about people on 4chan.
It depends though, if you go to instances directly moderated by Lemmy developers, you’ll see a lot of conspiracy theories being spread and bans for wrongthink.
I respect work done, but with me being Ukrainian - using something made by someone who wishes death to me is really uncomfortable.
Okay, let’s rationalize his shooting. He was a:
Conclusion: RIP Bozo, you won’t be missed. Being a thought leader with large following, who supports genocides is the same as being complicit in genocides for me. In normal world he should’ve been tried in Hague.
Foreshadowing
I feel like THIS is retributive violence. Democratic politicians were earlier shot dead in their homes, so I’d say that republicans (who are themselves endorsing political violence) shouldn’t be able to feel safe either.
If he got shot in the head - no vital organs would’ve been hit tho.
Can’t disagree. Even if it was best company in the world - it can’t be fair that CEO/CTO just has over one third of a trillion dollars.
Well, at least Oracle is definitely a better place to work at than most of Muskie’s galleys (except maybe those fictional companies like Hyperloop, that were never supposed to deliver anything except 3d renders in the first place).
Russians are testing how much shit will NATO eat up. Next time their soldiers may “accidentally” wander into some neighbouring country village from Belarus (they have joint military exercises soon) and station there, under some bullshit premise like “we’ve got lost”, “we’ve got wounded in here” or whatever.
Russians are only going to escalate and that is gonna continue up either until actual full-scale war breaks out or somebody actually gathers some balls to f them up during such “provocations”.
Even before Pooty became president - Baltic states had to fight internal fifth column (also known as pro-Russian parties and lobbies) to set course to NATO.
Russia “willing to join NATO” then is same as them “wanting peace” now - sand in the eyes and “what if they’re dumb enough to agree?”.
If people were to think critically and objectively - Orban wouldn’t be in power. He’s loser by all metrics (except his personal enrichment) - economy is tanked, country except main metropolitan area is often a horror show (especially eastern parts of Hungary) and many other fun things.
It’s just that world is now ruled by people of extremely low merit, who just create this “strong statesman” image for themselves, and populi falls for it.
Hoo boy. It’s actually an endorsement of that law on their part. Simply because of how shit these places are.
Russia’s one of most popular talking mouths Solovyov wrote a book on Mussolini, sometimes even expressing admiration for the man. This same guy is one of the main sound emitters calling for Ukraine to be “denazified”.
This is how much audacity modern fascists have.