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Tech, music, war. Very angry most of the time. #NAFO
Russia delights in hanging various threats over people's heads. It's their entire playbook summarized.
December 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
You said it
December 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Just ask yourself, What Would Russia Do.

Oh wait, we know what they'd do.
www.businessinsider.com/russia-econo...
Russia has seized about $50 billion of assets as its wartime economy comes under pressure
In 2024, Russia's federal budget received 132 billion rubles from property sales.
www.businessinsider.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
So, what, he's going to ask for Exxon, Mobil etc's "70s money back" on behalf of the federal government? Huh? The feds had nothing to do with Venezuelan oil.
December 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
So for fucks sake, stop worrying about the bomb in a defensive war against the biggest cunt nation in European history. Russia hasn't stopped humiliating and pounding its neighbors into the dirt since Stalin and won't stop until we stop thinking OMG THE BOMB. They do not have that card.
December 18, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Say what you want about Putin, I don't think he literally wants his, what, five major population centers deleted? Russia is big but it's as delectably nukable as, say, Norway.

He wants empire, not the paving of St Petersburg, Moscow and Novosibirsk.
December 18, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Nukes exist as a deterrence and nothing more. They have to be present, they have to work, but they are useless to anyone but the utterly insane. Game it out, see what state the world winds up in when ANY player on the field actually plays the nuclear card.
December 18, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Russians think "we have 5000 nukes" somehow beats "we have 50". Motherfuckers, the amount of nukes you need to decapitate a nation can be counted on one hand! The only way it's a numbers game is if you are fully suicidal and literally want to end the planet.
December 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
That's cool, as long as he's in the first group of Russian dimwits on their meat shield front lines they can try anywhere they want.

These Russian media dingbats love perpetuating the lie that Russia is capable of anything at all with any success. Please, show me the last thing they achieved. Any.
December 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I'm mostly pissed he had me wringing my hands in anxiety waiting for what this loser was gonna break next, and it turns out all he wanted to do was the equivalent of *tap tap* "Is this thing on?"

I swear I'm losing years of lifetime over the bs stress this guy is putting on us.
December 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I'm so fucking mad at this idiot. Number one job, Mr President, "leader of the free world", is to keep people's stress levels in check. Don't systematically, routinely fuck with your citizens' peace of mind. Yet here we are, clown idiot world with a "leader" that can't stop farting into the mic.
December 18, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Nonetheless, there's no Conservative Party doing these things. Nor is there a Liberal Party. Not saying you're doing this but confusing anti-capitalist forces with liberal forces is another one.

Bring conservative is not the bugbear people want to make it out to be. They just want easy shorthand.
December 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
That's because you're conflating terminology.
December 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I don't disagree, the two party system is a crime against the American public that the founders never wanted. It's a shame the constitution didn't make provisions against party politics.
December 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The democrats are far to the right of what would be considered left in, say, Norway. I don't think there's an actual leftist party in federal US govt. Even US socdems are basically righties with a heavier leftist lean.
December 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
That's just patently untrue. We're just asking classic/fiscal conservatives to renounce their world view or be shunned as Nazis; the exact purity testing that's made political fools of liberals the past decade. That dogmatism buys us a Trump, not a liberal future.

Let's just agree to disagree ♥️
December 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I'm concerned with populists and single issue voters on the right vs the left. On the right they'll let anyone in if they pledge allegiance, while on the left we're in a sense all-exclusive if purity can't be proven. We're just breaking rank over and over and you know that's no way to push forward.
December 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Thank you for your service!

Schumer and Pelosi need to be off the table, but I think it's a mistake to focus too much on personalities in a two party system. Look at where you are now. You realistically have nowhere to go, there's no meaningful third party alternative.
December 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
That's fair, we can disagree. I'm always fine tuning. I just start with the supposition that judgmentally applying broad terms is foolish. Politics are not immutable characteristics. I find most people are more amenable to progressive movements the less broadly you judge them.
December 16, 2025 at 3:12 PM