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11 elections if we count Bush II as the start of this crapfest. Voting is pretty much useless. I have voted in at least 8 of them and I haven't gotten one non-Republican governor, senator or rep for my efforts because I live in a gerrymandered red state.

It gets worse. All public media organs are controlled by the Kremlin and the major channels like Russia-1 are the equivalent of "Foxnews on steroids". Any independent media have been labelled as foreign agents due to all media funding within Russia being tied to the Kremlin. The major social...

For all his talk about European imperialism/post-colonialism, he doesn't seem to get that Russia was and is a colonial power that never really decolonized. Why did all the Baltic States and former Warsaw Pact Nations including Orban's Hungary jump on the NATO bandwagon as soon as possible even...

Boris knows his legacy is going to be "lockdown parties" if he doesn't change the script and he has studied/idolized Churchill enough that if you get the "book" out first, you get to shape the narrative for generations to come.

The people who get conscripted are either ethnic minorities or the poorest Russians from the most underdeveloped places. Anyone with resources or intelligence is going to dodge the draft or bribe their way out. This is probably why there's so much support for the war and why Putin can continue...

About what you'd expect from a invasion that publicly intended to solve the "Ukrainian Question" and an army that has institutionalized serial abuse and hazing issues (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedovshchina). So the Wehrmacht and Imperial Japanese Army rolled into one, but with none of their...

These claims that Putin is increasingly isolated and misled are from US intelligence (https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/03/30/world/putin-is-being-misled-by-advisers-ukraine-us-intelligence-determines/). It's pretty clear that they have been reading Putin like a book since before the invasion...

Putin had most of the political opposition and independent media in Russia "cancelled" (aka shut down and murdered). So he's definitely a big fan of "cancel culture". He's just trying to appeal to Western conservatives like Tucker and Ben who care about this crap like how Osama Bin Laden...

https://www.yahoo.com/video/russia-seize-60t-rubles-citizens-175003496.html Their leaders are already advocating that the government could seize everyone's bank deposits, which amounts to 60T Rubles.

This is terrible. He was only 49.

This family of grifters are just not very smart. With luck, they'll be holding the bag when everyone figures out NFTs are a con game.

If these guys trust Ivermectin and their Facebook MDs more than actual hospitals with real life doctors and nurses, one wonders why they are even taking up a bed in the ICU? Why don't they just treat themselves at home? There are people waiting for a bed in Michigan who actually got sick...

This show is saved mainly by the character interactions between Kate and Clint.

Just another grifter looking for a new grift.

Almost certainly. Even in the larger most heavily vaxxed states like MA or CT, it's still more than a million of people who are unvaxxed. Never mind states like NY, NJ, MI, MN or WI. It's going to be like summer in the deep South all over again.

https://archive.md/Jxgi7 - unpaywalled link Be warned. The article is very depressing.

So basically Dorsey/Zuckerberg have no reason to unban him since he is now competing with them?

Right. You can even see this on the patient side. There is a whole lot of gofundme pages begging for money to pay for covid related hospital bills or to pay for funeral expenses. And even among the survivors, there are going to be people stuck on oxygen for awhile who are not exactly going back...

Not quite. Asimov wrote himself into a corner with Foundation and Earth in regards to the threat of non-human intelligence and other anomalies in the Plan. Asimov just never got to writing himself out of the corner because he died. But I think it's pretty clear since the Encyclopedias are still...

It really speaks to the dominance of the right-wing apparatus across the anglosphere that they can lie with impunity and people will accept it.