The unions are part of the top legislative body.

It just so happens that under Russian rule, Russian rulers will be making profit instead of Ukrainian rulers.

I think we’re missing a couple of nuances here, no? Although it’s a stretch to call them nuance. The way Ukrainian rulers have been making money has been through privatization. And because there’s so much privatization we need to look at who owns Ukraine’s economy. It’s only escalated since Russia invaded, with national assets being sold off to foreign private sectors so cheaply that one has to wonder why they did it when the gains are a drop in the bucket compared to the direct aid they’ve been getting from Western public sectors.

If Ukraine emerges from this conflict with its own sovereignty, it’ll be sovereignty over a flag, a presidential palace and a state framework that protects foreign companies’ investments from hungry Ukrainians.

And more solid poops afterwards

He does that at home already so there was no cosplay challenge

This only applies to olympic athletes because they’re the only ones strong enough to get out and push the rocket

I love his PFP. He’s getting photobombed by a bush. It’s such a conspicuous and cynical affectation.

https://youtu.be/UuA1e7HMCc0

This doesn’t surprise me.

He missed with the Xinjiang ‘genocide’ as well.

Missing is human, but he’s such a dick about it and to my knowledge he never acknowledged how fucking stupid he was about Xinjiang - and I doubt he will about this as well.

I love you, Ireland.

$4 million is kinda embarrassing considering white dude earning privilege

That tweet made the same day that Hamas and Fatah are reconciling in Beijing.

Problem is, voting is none of those things because it is totally ineffectual.

It’s worse than that: voting for the dems acts against meaningful change: no one votes for 3rd options, so 3rd options never develop any potential, so no one votes for 3rd options. So they queue up to kiss either cheek of the same ass and say there was nothing they could do.

Voting 3rd party or not voting are far, far better than this stubborn nonsense.

Russia doesn’t need to do that. Burgerlanders already experience it through the magical way they render themselves blind to their government’s behaviour unless it’s projected onto China or Russia. Like how Trump is a Russian asset and China is turning Cuba into a staging ground for an invasion.

Especially when the user experience is constantly guiding users who don’t know better to do exactly that

Imagine it getting to the point where they have to ask Russia to send a Soyuz up there, or China to send a Shenzhou*. I have a feeling they’d rather de-orbit the ISS with two corpses on board.

*Wolf Amendment

Presumably you only need to buy ammo if you’ve used the ammo you already have… or am I missing something?

So what the fuck is going on in that stupid fucking country that members of the public are having to stop by a vending machine to ‘top up’ their ammo? The fuck is everyone shooting at?

Apart from schools. I know people shoot at schools but I’m given to understand that school shooters don’t need to replenish spent ammo after shooting because they’re either dead or in jail. Or are they?

I think the only thing Western leftists have to offer is withholding their consent for war/conflict.

China’s recent changes in Visa policy are interesting. Previously it’s been evident that they’ve been willing to spend zero effort on their pop image in the West, which shows how much difference they think public opinion has on Western government policy. Visa free entry being opened to a swathe of Western countries reflects a change in attitude: maybe they think that a positive Westerner view of China is more valuable now, maybe they think it’s easier to push back against “China Bad” propaganda now.

The fact that US and UK are notably excluded from the visa-free policy suggests Beijing sees more potential in Australian and European public opinion.

PRC and DPRK have completely different circumstances.

China spent decades avoiding antagonising the West and quietly developing its economy (Deng’s “Lay low and develop the productive forces”) to the point where Western economies were so dependent on China that they can’t cut it down to size anymore. DPRK had no such potential as they were already severely sanctioned.

So while DPRK has been able to always be outspokenly on the right side of history, no other socialist state can match the PRC’s ability to aid other states in their development, share potentially world-saving green energy solutions across the global South, stake a socialist presence on the moon and Mars which would otherwise be de facto American frontiers, and have its private sector take money from Western gamers and use it fund fusion power research.

SCOTUS said he could

TLDR: Folks, vote harder.