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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Well, Russia is close to collapse, yes. Not days, for sure, but close enough. Ignore the lost money for a second, Russia lost 1.2 million abled men, plus god only knows howany wounded on top of that ((typically at least the same number, or more. So let’s call that 2.5 million men that will no longer be contributing to the economy, and about a million that will now much leech your economy (blinded, lost limbs, etc) with medical needs.

    Russia has, say, 150M people. Say, 60% is working age, so 90M people of working age. Russia lost some 2-3% of that. That is not a small “oopsie we’ll fix it in post later”, this is an “oopsie we’re fucked” level

    And that is just the dead and wounded. Russia blew through its savings, it barely has a military left to protect itself from other big players like China. Literally it’s only defence, currently, are it’s nukes and with all the corruption there, it’s highly doubtful that those are still functional in amounts high enough to be a credible defense.

    So no savings, a huge cut in its workforce, it made itself the pariah of the world…

    Yeah, Russia is fine tomorrow.

    But next year? 5 years from now?

    Russia is fuuuuuucked





  • And this wild conspiracy speculation is based on…?

    To quote Wikipedia: <Citation required>

    Yes, yes, om sure the CIA is fucking evil and they’ve overthrown many governments and commit sabotage on a regular basis

    None of that means that the CIA had anything to do with this violence.

    Having lived through multiple of these violent events in Mexico, this is not a revolution in progress. Mark my words, the worst is behind us, and within a few days this will be utterly go e.

    I can tell you this has more to do with the Narcos being fucking violent organizations that are reacting with revenge for their leader.





  • The EU and the US don’t NEED eachother.

    It’d be nice if they could be together, work together, trust together but since the US is now run by a narcissistic mobster wannabe with dementia, it’s a bit of a big ask for Europe, or anyone for that matter, to trust the US. Hell, after what the US pulled, nobody should ever trust the US ever again in its current shape and form

    If the US were to change itself into a parliamentary democracy, and get rid of the current insane election systems, and implements strong laws to control the rich (implement wealth caps!) and curb fascism, you might get something stable enough to try again







  • So if later, when digging through company emails during some deposition, it turns out that this slithering lying snake obviously knew better, we will have proof that he knowingly and willingly harmed children for money.

    We will jail that fucker for life, then, right? All the world wide harm he has caused to so many kids? Of course we’ll do… Nothing.

    The owners of the company that gave us the opioid epidemic knew full well that people got addicted to their heroine, and were dying from it, making them push it even harder, because more money. How many of them saw jail time?

    None. We gave them a small tax on their ridiculous profits and they got a movie made where we make them look bad. Seriously, if somebody goes and shoot this entire family down, full Kristy noem doggy style, I would celebrate it as that person would have made the world a better place.

    There are vile, evil people out there