It’s so weird that countries would even bother spending down their reserves for this right now. Like of course they have to in order to keep their economies running but…then what. Nobody is doing anything to change the situation so they’re just kicking the can down the very short road. This isn’t like global warming where the folks who are making these decisions won’t be alive long enough to be impacted by them. This is like, next year nobody will be able to afford gas anymore. What do they think is going to happen?

Be gay do crimes

This journalist and artist broke the law. Now they can never go back to the place they broke the law. This is international news for some reason

“mild strategic posturing” is when you completely throw trans rights out the window to these people. My mild strategic posturing is to not vote for you then. Simple as that.

Almost as if investing into buildings that will never be built full of machines that burn power and water to accomplish nothing isn’t a very good economic strategy

I bet he’ll do it too. Dems couldn’t even keep their promise of 2000 dollar checks out the door immediately.

There’s no way that holds up in court

It’s because you’re supposed to come by each day and carefully and lovingly take the shit directly out of my asshole. I’m getting really backed up over here so if you could hurry it up I’d appreciate it

I know they say a sucker is born every minute but I really can’t understand how people keep falling for this unless this is all just always complicated money laundering schemes.

They aren’t trying to reduce friction for you to buy what you want, they’re trying to reduce friction for you to buy what they want. Capitalist efficiency at it’s finest

It’s almost as if in order to have outcomes, you have to materially invest in those outcomes.

The Western world is fast approaching the limits of how far pure idealism can take them

Ah now that is a fair question that I could only guess at

I think sexist means you hate sex though

The worst part for me is the combination of “I’ll unpack that box later” and “I know that thing I need right this second is packed in some random box somewhere around here”

I assume it’s because after the fall, Russia made a hard Euro/American pivot. It has basically never worked out for them and lately they’re pivoting back to regional powers that actually will work with them like China, Iran, and now clearly DPRK.

Honestly the best strategy to stop Chinese dominance is to nuke the entire planet. This way there will be no people or economy left and therefore China can’t win. We call this “Operation Take Our Ball and Go Home.” I think it’s flawless

Nah they’ll just ban soldiers from having electronic devices. Which will be extremely funny because it will make them even more miserable and will make it even harder to recruit

Please put a CW on this for meat thank you

I don’t actually know but can the US government actually declare the name of a state? Isn’t that something that the state itself controls?