“It’s a big club and we ain’t in it,” but Trump and co. don’t feel the need to put up the facade anymore.

Bingo. Instead of “hiring” (paying off) politicians, they’re just doing it themselves. They’ve lost any and all care about keeping up appearances. After all, what are we going to do? Sue them?

Of course, they’ll be able to do tremendous amounts of irreparable damage to society.

Ukraine is facing an existential threat. If they have the in-house knowledge and capability to do this, they absolutely should.

If Russia gives up tomorrow, the war will be over. If Ukraine gives up tomorrow Ukraine will be over.

Ugh, that site has phone cancer.

No thanks.

They probably do, but:

• at this point if surfaced they’ll be claimed as ai- generated
• his sycos don’t care at all. Nothing he could do would ever sway their opinion, and you can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t arrive at using reason in the first place. It’s very much a ‘feeling’ thing instead of facts.

Slow, buggy, annoying interface, hogs extreme amounts of resources locally, can be used to spy on its users.

What’s not to like? It’s basically how Elon envisions X, an “everything app” that is actually good at nothing specific.

I don’t think it’s “compromat”. They just bankrolled his entire real estate empire since at least the 80’s. That creates a certain debt to be repaid.

Trump was never under the impression that anyone is his friend. All his relationships, including to his wife and biological children, are transactional.

Russia has dirt on him and has for a loooong time. That’s why Putin doesn’t need to suck his dick like the rest of the world’s wannabe dictators do.

I think the general feeling now is very similar to how medieval serfs must’ve felt about their Lords. Totally disconnected from everyone else in their castle towers.

Well, at this point I’m just rooting for nature to take its course, which it will.

I don’t want to live on a planet where these are the kind of people who decide, well, everything.

Doesn’t look like I’ll have much choice though.

Weimar-levels of hyperinflation, that’s what.

Always has been. It’s just that the thin veneer that was always on top has now has come off.

All of Eu, starting with Poland and the Baltics.

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.

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