I just checked, it looks like they’re stealing the “smart” out of smart appliances in order to produce electronic components. So scorched earth, in the future, may involve entering your fridge’s self destruct code.
I want to laugh at how the 10¢ microcontrollers we put in dishwashers in the west are better than state-of-the-art homegrown Russian tech, but then I remember that America would be pretty screwed if we were cut off from Taiwan and had to rely on locally-manufactured chips, too. It wouldn’t be as bad since we do have some chip fabs here, but we don’t have enough of them to make the national security folks happy.
Think about the automobile shortages in the last few years due to lack of chips, except it’s military vehicles instead.
I don’t know who said it. But one of my favorite lines about america goes: “America will always do the right thing. After it has tried everything else”
My wife tells me she thinks that I am being over dramatic when I say we need to start thinking about exit strategies for fleeing the US, and then stuff like this pops up.
You’re not being overdramatic. I’ve been thinking about an exit since 2020. I plan to have it figured out in advance of the next election so that I can flip a switch and go. Don’t wait for disaster. Have an exit decided and hope you don’t need it.
Account deficit for first 6 months is like 30 billion. They entered the war with 300b pile available to them.
They used much of that to prop RUB. Between deficit, inability to raise FX on global markets and war spending they got to be starting to run out and fx markets smell it.
Still a while to go tho. Ukraine still has to spend another year or two grinding Russia down.
But Ukraine is supported by half the planet that happens to be the rich half.
Russias hope is that China will bail them out when shit hits the fan.
Hope y'all realize this is just rage bait. Like when conservative bloggers pass of a couple of tweets from tankies as the official stance for every Democrat and left wing movement.
Lol ok what's your solution for two brainwashed racist assholes who made the statements the blogger quoted? What should we do to them other then get upset and curse their names?
Dope guy makes sense but that still doesn't change my opinion that the article is rage bate on the level conservatives put out. Frankly I think it's rage bait to sway minority groups back to the democratic party since trans people have been unfortunately the scape goat republicans use since Trump's comments about Mexicans have backfired. Republicans have been gaining support from certain minority groups since that story has died down and democratic have noticed. And no I'm not advocating for tolerance of the intolerant. I just don't believe we should make a big deal about a couple of idiots comments because when something actual note worthy happens it will just becomes more noise in the constant news of culture war.
Didn't miss the point. The reason these idiots even have a platform is because you and OP are giving it to them. Your falling for the rage bait and spreading it through a post just how conservatives started to spread bullshit on Facebook. Unless your following up with an actual call for action your just spreading their message and so far alot of responses on this post have been just "fuck em".
oh, right… racism is our fault. because we complained about it. gotcha. that’s some real DARVO bs ya got there…
“DARVO is an acronym used to describe a common strategy of abusers. The abuser will: Deny the abuse ever took place, then Attack the victim for attempting to hold the abuser accountable; then they will lie and claim that they, the abuser, are the real victim in the situation, thus Reversing the Victim and Offender.”
TLDR: You guys posting rage bait are just the moderates the guy in the video described. Y'all are just contributing to the echo chamber's we have setup for ourselves to stroke our ego's instead of actually doing something.
Alrighty you seem to have me confused for a moderate with the belief that if we go kumbaya with republicans things will get magically better. So let's establish what I believe.
The Jan 6 rioters should have received capital punishment.
Every person that was a part of Trump's cabinet should also be tried for complicity in every charge Trump receives. They were 100% complacent in the corruption.
Churches should lose their exemption from taxes since they are 100% involved in politics. The Quiverfull movements is hilariously going down the giliad republic route.
Adding to the above, trump won the 2016 not because of the racist support, but because radical christian's infiltrated the republican party. Most racial minorities agree with the bullshit republican's spit out because they are religious.
The military industrial complex needs to be shut down. We don't need an 30 billion dollar 5th gen stealth fighter when we have the f-22 already.
Corporations should lose their rights as individuals and a new wave of anti-trust busting is needed.
Now the reason why I believe these post's are not helpful, is because it's literally what we did during the 2016 election. We as millennials fucked up by not doing more. We voted (I know, not enough of us voted) and named & shamed people but it was too late for that. It was too late because the culture wars had started and everyone was finding their comfy spots in their echo chambers.
These post about republican's being boogeymen are just going to be read by people who agree with you and anyone who tries to say anything that isn't a copy & paste will just be ridiculed out. Instead of just posting these rage bait articles, that are eerily reminiscent to the conservative posts of facebook & twitter in the mid 2010s, post something like the one that provided a link to the FBI's list of unidentified Jan 6 rioters. Posting rage bait is just feeding the endless cycle we're stuck in of "vOte Blue nO maTter WhO" even though democrats are the new conservatives and republicans are the fascists party.
PS. Voted for Bernie in the primaries. Voted for Hilary and Biden in the general's. Participated in the 2016 BLM protest in Houston, and I regret not doing more. The only reason why I posted in the first place was to hopefully convince people to not turn this place in the toxic echo chamber reddit became.
Hey bud you should care but unless you're a local or planning on movie to Conroe, your comment will not do nothing but stroke your ego. Enjoy them fake internet points your earned by showing how upset you are on place filled with like minded people.
And these brain-wormed zombies are trying to get elected to school boards across the country in a coordinated effort. This isn’t some isolated incident.
Vote them out. Call them out on every platform available, don’t take their bullshit excuses for reasons; dig deeper. Identify the groups they call home and write exposes. Rub their noses in the issues they’re afraid to own: show the world what and who they are. If their ugliness and connections are on display they lose the chance to rope in the unknowing because now everyone knows.
“We can’t do anything” is the siren call of the couchsitter who finds that a more comfortable place than the fence.
Nope I think we need to start going after the big fish that incited the culture war bullshit. These two racist will most likely be voted out soon, but in the process the article just created more noise in place filled with people yelling already.
I would say he is morally in the right. Legally this is going to be way more difficult. Just because he didn't receive the same share as everyone else doesn't mean it's illegal. He signed that conservatorship, and finding proof of the Tuohys abusing it isn't going to be easy. And especially without knowing the full details arguing that he is legally in the right (or wrong) is just pure speculation.
I’ll bite, here’s a little list of the top of my head.
They’ve had a failed invasion of Ukraine
Rampant corruption
Putin is getting old and frail
Russia has a struggling economy where “Fortress Russia” is starting to fall short
Drone strikes from Ukraine have been able to target major Russian cities.
There was a mini-coup attempt by one of Putin’s closest allies where a standing army nearly made it to Moscow while shooting down multiple Russian military aircraft.
The linked article hypothesizes “a rump Russia reduced to the area bounded by St. Petersburg, Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod.” Even given the country’s struggles, I have a hard time imagining large chunks of Russia breaking away. My question is whether there is evidence to believe that kind of split has become a real possibility. Neither Putin nor his successor would allow it without a serious fight given the immense value of the natural resources and sea ports Russia would lose.
Imo, anyone who’s going to try to break away from Russia, ahem Serbia, would wait until Russia’s military collapses before they make any official announcements.
But plenty of Russian allies have secretly worked against Russia itself, won’t be long before they’re all doing it as overtly as Turkey’s Erdogan.
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