The sad thing is that a good amount of these guys aren’t actually working for the state. A lot of them are actually immigrants who left Russia for more opportunities, but are still rampant nationalist attempting to damage the countries that gave them a new home.
Yeah… Because Trump has such a good track record of maintaining nuclear deals. This is just a pretense to allow Israel to invade Iran once they’ve finished their genocide in Gaza.
The whole reason Israel felt comfortable enough to commit to purging Gaza is because Trump ended the original nuclear deal to begin with. Now that Benni feels things are wrapping up in Palestine, he’s going to need another war to keep Israel’s bloodlust going and keep his coalition together.
International law no longer holds any water. Every world power seems hell bent on making geopolitics revolve around hard power. The US backs out of treaties every four years, the Russians haven’t ever made a deal they didn’t pretend never happened, and China is out there pretending a vast swath of the Pacific is there’s because of reasons…
In a time where a level of global cooperation is needed greater than ever before to prevent climate change, we as a species are shitting the bed harder than ever before.
Well, vaccines are part of it… a large part is that the government started to regulate businesses more for harmful practices and mandating things like fortifying goods with essential vitamins.
With captain brainworms advocating for things like unprocessed milk, it wouldn’t be surprising to see infant mortality get worse than it already is in America.
they’d rather die than give up their unmasked freedom.
When they said that they meant other people, not themselves. As someone who works in my conservative state’s largest ER and only trauma 1 ward, pretty much everyone who died were completely baffled why they were being put on ventilators, including their families.
No one imagines it’s going to be them who ends up in the ground, they just want to continue doing what they want do without being told no. I think the big difference is that no one is going to expect other people to pay for their groceries.
The banks are still loaning him money for sure, but at a certain point that’s not exactly a good thing for musk. The stock price is what the banks are using as collateral, and with these types of loans the banks have the ability to collect on the loans if the stock devalues past a certain point.
Musk is only the richest man in the world on paper, and that’s because Tesla stock is overpriced by several orders of magnitude. If Tesla stock receives a reasonable correction, there’s a very good chance that it’s going to have a cascading effect on his other forms of collateral.
He and other “billionaires” are a lot like people juggling too many loans using their homes as collateral. And like them if the housing market (economy) collapses they are going to be in really poor positions. It’s really just gambling and betting numbers always goes up, just so you don’t ever have to pay taxes.
Unfortunately Tesla stock is so overpriced that it takes a whole bunch of money to sustain a short sale unless you have insider info.
Yeah… I think some Marshalls are probably going to get fired by some angry judges. The Marshalls are the enforcement arm of the federal courts, they really do not have the jurisdiction to do much without court orders.
Wouldn’t be surprised if these weren’t actual Marshalls, but are part of the private security team that musk had deputized.
Well the Republican party doesn’t have 3rd way and centrist politicians who like to make any excuse to cooperate with the opposition.
3rd way politics is was got us into this mess, and at this point the people who still advocate for “bi-partisanship” are either incredibly stupid or just conservative plants.
Hamas came to power after winning an election in 2006.
And that election happened in a complete vacuum… No need to add context to why Palestinians in 06’ would be voting for Hamas.
Also 2006 was nearly 20 years ago, the vast majority of the people who voted for Hamas are dead or have migrated away. 50% of the population in Gaza are under 18.
But you gotta hand it to the guy, he took control of the most powerful nation the world has ever known
Eh, that’s kinda feeding into the propaganda surrounding him. In reality the Russian Federation is just run by the people who scammed the most citizens from their ownership rights after the privatization of the Soviet state. Since the fall of the Soviet state, it’s basically been pretending to be a world power by bullying smaller nations with the military it inherited.
His real talent is propagandizing and intimidating his way to the top of basically a government run by a mob.
it’s pretty clear who’s pulling the oompa-lumpas strings)
Again, I think this is exactly what they want you to think. I just think trump wants what Putin has, supreme power to whatever he wants, and a state where his cronies can do whatever they want so long as they are loyal. American oligarchs have been envious of Russian oligarchs for some time now.
This is going to be a hard pill to swallow for the Russian nationalist cosplaying as leftist on Lemmy…
More than likely possible depending on how they came up with valuations on old stock piles from the cold war. Depends on if you value them based on their original cost, or the modern cost to replace them.
Do you think it’s a coincidence that fascist parties all over Europe are gaining traction at the same time, running on the same platforms, and offering the same solutions?
They are going to use the same play book being utilized in America in your country, if you don’t know the playbook you are going to have the same problems.
Yeap, I just think trump went to Russia and liked how they did things. I think American billionaires see the government as a boss, and they think rich people shouldn’t be able to be told no. They think if there is a hierarchy of power they should get to wield it to do the things they want to do, it shouldn’t ever be wielded against them.
I think that’s why he is generally bewildered when he is still told no, or held accountable, and why he’s so vindictive when he’s told no. He doesn’t really understand why people are allowed to say no, in his head he’s boss of America.
So when he sees Putin getting to do whatever he wants without any resistance, it makes sense to him, and he’s jealous. If Putin is boss of Russia, why can’t I be boss of America?
is there a news page that does NOT contain American politics?
I get the sentiment, but politics and news are irrefutably intertwined.
I feel for the victims, but only Americans can do something about it. And they never dealt with the “death penalty for walking on the street while black” problem.
I would argue this is a lot like people in France questioning why they should pay attention to Nazis invading Poland. Nearly all democratic nations are currently being subversively attacked by right winged political parties .
If people in your nation don’t learn from the US’s example, right winged parties will continue to grow in power.
I mean… If your only real accomplishment is inheriting huge sums of wealth, it makes a bunch of sense. I personally don’t really see the need for Trump to be compromised by Russian intelligence, American oligarchs have always been jealous of the federations kleptocracy.
What could be better for someone like Trump and his cronies than a system where as long as you’re loyal you can literally do anything you want?
Have a journalist poking around your business, simply introduce them to the window. A rival business won’t sell you their company for nothing? Make a call and have the government do a “corruption investigation”. Your company is coming under protest for displacing minority groups…off to jail for subversion.
The Russian Federation is just America in ten years of we don’t make a drastic about face. Our oligarchs have been pushing that way for a while, trump is just accelerating the process.
Yeah… What they tend to leave out is that anywhere from 100-250k people in Ukraine fought with the Nazi, while anywhere from 6-7 million Ukrainians fought against them, and had some of the hardest fighting on the eastern front.
The vast majority of “hormone blockers” are prescribed for non-gender affirming care. It’s used across medicine for a plethora of things like moderating growth plate fusion in pediatric orthopedics, or slowing down breast cancer.
This is why it should be illegal for legislators to be involved in any form of medical care, they’re just complete illiterate morons on the subject.
I mean it’s kinda hard to separate from COVID and the set back in their housing market. Basically in an attempt to meet their GDP quotas local governments loaned out way too much money to keep production. So local governments are in a lot of debt which at some point should have cascading effects on the economy.