Spite is a strong motivator.

All of Eu, starting with Poland and the Baltics.

Wanna bet he’ll put up one of his kids (hell perhaps even Barron?) and bend the whole sycophantic side of the GOP into endlesdly propping them up?

In 4 years, you may simply get Trump III. I want to say this notion seems absurd, except that it absolutely isn’t.

Let me put it this way: we will see the true beginning of WW3 in the Baltics. Trump will predictably not act upon that and the response will be 100% up to Europe itself.

That response better be an armed one, and quick too, or we all better start practicing cyrillic here in W-europe.

Regardless if we are lucky, “only” tens of thousands will die. More likely it will be millions.

So yeah, Trump kinda bedazzled us there, no way around it. Won’t be until the people who voted him in will start hurting personally that they’ll finally realize they’ve been conned. But too little too late.

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It’s more like all pretense is gone now. Before, there was this veneer of legitimacy. Now, it’s straight up fascism. It’s a matter of image projection.

That would’ve been a gunfight. Here in Europe we practice melee only.

Hahaha. No. In 13 years those prices will have quintupled, but I’m willing to bet your income won’t.

Anyone who cannot afford a modest home today, will simply never be able to unless they inherit, win a lottery or land a ridiculously well paying job.

Saving up 5 years for a down payment? The price goes up faster than you can save. You could live like a hermit and eat nothing but ramen and still need years upon years only to even be considered for a loan.

No, people need to understand what has been stolen from them and rise up against it. Keeping the current system afloat will never bring any change, and what do they have to lose?

I feel sorry for the poor fuckers. They likely can’t even make use of the defection process due to the language barrier. How many NK’s do you think understand Russian or Ukrainian?

Let’s hope they don’t have to suffer long. They won’t make a dent in UA’s defenses though.

Call me a hippy but I’ve always had a problem with the very concept of a judge. As in, someone who gets paid (royally!) just to, well judge people. As we all know the law is anything but impartial, so my take was always that, say, the “wrong” type of people gravitate towards these posts. Keep this up for a few decades and you have a thorougly corrupt legal system (not remotely resembling a “justice” system).

It’s not as if I have any workable alternatives, but still the very concept feels wrong to me somehow.

$$$

The animals featured heavily on social media, so it could literally have been anyone. I agree with the sentiment though. Some person had to be the one to insert the needle and inject the poison, knowing full well the animals would test negative. I don’t know how someone like that can sleep at night, but if there’s anything I’ve learned these past few years it’s that human pettiness truly has no limits.

The mark of the beast was fiat money and we’ve been using it for a while.

This is starting to have all the makings of a true world war. Especially the first.

Pretty much for form I suppose, there are other ways to get those drivers.

I’ve been in a few online games with RU players and it struck me as so weird to be playing a game with someone from a nation we are basically at war with. Major WWI Xmas football vibes.

WWI-style cascade of breakdown of international relations?

An advanced finglonger.

They wouldn’t exactly admit a source and compromise further operations. They probably had at least an idea of where he might be.

Pretty telling when the only way you can get your users to “upgrade” is by stealth. I wonder what the % of involuntarily upgraded win11 users is vs people who knowingly and willingly did so.

“What is my purpose?”

“You give handies to Elon Musk.”

“Oh God.”