PugJesus @ PugJesus @kbin.social

Cripple. History Major. Vaguely left-wing.

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Russia is just honoring the Great Patriotic War!

Man, if your argument relies on comparing a country to despotism like Saudi Arabia to get a 'favorable' comparison, maybe both countries are dog shite.

Honestly, I'm not sure that there is an optimal solution there. All I'm certain about is that the European powers didn't give a shit about anything other than resolving their own claims in an ideal fashion when releasing their colonial vassals piecemeal.

Unfortunately, instead of the outside world helping Africa to get to this point … the world instead uses Africa as just another place to exploit and make money out of. In the short sighted vision of the first world … it’s more lucrative to make a bunch of money now by taking advantage of poor dying people than it is to help them become productive members of the global economy.

I would argue it's more complex than that. The very conditions created by European colonization have resulted in extreme instability and corruption in the resulting, mostly-arbitrarily drawn states, which heavily discourages investment from rational (though amoral) actors. It's not that the rest of the world market doesn't want Africa to be more "Developing Southeast Asia" than "Place we get raw resources from", it's that the conditions European colonization foisted upon it make getting there from this point very difficult.

Subsaharan Africa: "Oh no! These Turkish and Arab invaders are terrible! Surely Europe, which also fights with the Turks and Arabs, will help us?"

Europe: "Actually, we've decided to make it worse."

Africa: "Oh no"

Europe: "MUCH worse."

Some rare exceptions, particularly in the earlier period, aside

Man, I'm not even sure I want to live past 60.

Hadrian just wants to bone his boytoy in peace, no matter how many barbarian men, women, and children he has to kill to get it.

"Don't accept endorsements from an increasingly unpopular foreign actor with blatant favoritism towards Republicans and genocide" is not a sabotage attempt.

Decreasing enthusiasm for electoral participation because this time getting a fascist government will DEFINITELY lead to a socialist utopia. /s

Is it not?

God, I wish.

Oh, I'm not saying they're not shitty. I'm only saying they aren't nearly as competent as people think.

DoD: "We have a recruitment problem, not an equipment problem. Allocate money properly please?"

Congress: "Where's the profit in that? You can't get kickbacks from the enlisted!"

No.

No mercy.

Make it an example.

Let them be electorally crucified. Make voting GOP as reviled as voting for the KKK.

Sometimes they tried to kill Castro with exploding cigars.

The CIA is often attributed great cunning and intelligence, both in popular culture and by their enemies.

In reality, they were busy during the Cold War dosing up on LSD and trying to cultivate psychic powers, including tests to try to kill goats with mind-powers

"In fact, keep the tired. And we only want the poor if we can abuse them without repercussion."

I mean, it's a bit of both. Biden and his campaign are a bunch of fucking dinosaurs who are not exactly 'with it', or even conscious that it's not the 1980s anymore; but much of the media is also cheerfully playing up Biden's shortcomings to a ridiculous degree because they want a horse race to get them more views.

Mood. I'm a curmudgeon and was looking forward at shaking my cane at some vandals, but here they are putting thought into things.

“I think this is the worst election in my lifetime,”

Were they not alive for 2016?

Probably the only type of destruction of art as protest I condone. The piece:

Is not very old or culturally/historically important
Directly depicts someone at the root of this conflict
Was deliberately targeted and the reasons layed out

About where I'm at. Normally I get immensely irritated by 'protesters' who go and vandalize unrelated and historically important artwork, but this isn't particularly objectionable.