ProfessorAdonisCnut [he/him]

Come tell us how you slew them old Arabs two by two…

Those 12 also agree it’s part of China, they just disagree on which part is controlled by an illegitimate rebel government

But can profit be taken from an orange?

Oh good, British gunboat diplomacy in South America always great for humanity

The style of fixation they have with war news actually reminds me of the ending of 1984, one of the more accurate things in that book really

President in Israel is mostly designed to be ceremonial, he’d have had very little actual power

Fish Speakers? :leto-ii-shining:

If you had to buy 5 washing machines over a 20 year period, you’re 5 times as prosperous as someone who only bought 1, right?

“Executive Branch? Close, but you’re saying it wrong.”

Starship Troopers is effective at turning libs into fascists without needing the scratch precisely because it uses a high school civics class as a vehicle for disseminating its lazy propaganda

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining

I only just noticed that it has a red line separating the colours

So China has about 500 grams of navy per capita, vs 10.2kg per capita for USA and 6.3kg per capita for Taiwan.

How can we not be scared of the yellow peril?

Also when his bodyguards came in, he told them not to kill the assassin because they needed him to talk

Truly wild that this is coming from him and not some kind of spooky RuZZian disinformation bot, it is predicated on the idea that Ukrainian refugees are a fifth column of stochastic terror just waiting to happen. Given these are the people who chose life over throwing themselves into the grinder out of nationalist fervour, I’m not convinced of that.

Is this meant as a threat that they sent a few dozen SBU among the refugees?

We’re still midway through the long arc from “fun fact: somehow Showgirls passes the Bechdel Test” to broad acceptance that it does at least as much to tear apart patriarchy as Starship Troopers does to fascism.

The children who yearn for the mines, yearn most of all to be canaries

He couldn’t McDonald’s or charge they phone back then, so he had to double down on eat hot chip and lie.

It is deeply unsettling that a random doofus oligarch can just hugely impact a war like that, someone needs to fix this (change the news so I don’t have to hear about it)

They’re safer in brake and indicator lights than incandescent bulbs are though since they come on much faster and give more time for cars behind to react