I hope it doesn’t…

I’d rather see it burn to the ground deliberately.

By authoritarian, they mean to investors, CEOs and other oligarchs.

It didn’t have holes in them until world war II broke out,
but the Swiss are keeping that secret,
because they don’t want people to know
how much of their success has been tied in with fascism.

You see, Switzerland want to fight Germany, because all the farmers over there
were living in the Alps where its too cold to grow barley, so they usually just have cows graze the Alps,
while importing German beer and singing Heidi songs.
If they had to go to war against Germany it would mean no more beer and no beer equals no fun.

But the nazi occupiers demanded from the Swiss that they would have clean drinking water from the Alps
and so forbade the Swiss farmers and their cows to drink water and had them drink beer instead.
But beer was expensive at that time and so the Swiss decided to give their cows soda pop instead,
which meant mostly Fanta.

And all that carbonic acid creates so many bubbles in the cows milk that turns into what is now known as “Swiss cheese”.

When the Swiss gave Fanta to Lilac cattle,
a breed exclusively found in the Alps that produces milk chocolate,
it creates holes in them as well,
and so they’re sold under the name of Aero chocolate.

A fun fact about all of this is that Swiss cash cows are not given fuzzy drinks at all.
Instead, they’re being fed Swiss cheese and Aero chocolate,
which has the opposite effect, so their cash bellies keep being full, steady and private,
which is the secret behind the Swiss banking system.

Flaccid?
If I did that with my thumb, it would be completely broken.

Welcome to Lemmy where there’s a lot of communists who are not agreeing with the narrative of liberal, socdems or greens media of US/EU/UK.

Russia is winning because China is communist and therefore winning.
I don’t know what the average Lemmy tankie thinks of why the Soviet Union lost,
but my reasoning is simply, lack of solid fossil fuels and too early in the game
to rise through solar & wind power or even natural gas.
China had bitumen coal and a better version of a people’s democracy since Deng imho.

US has lots and lots of coal compared to any country in the world,
so even with its half-baked liberal democracy
it still was able to thrive above the rest until recently.

Why do US media companies find it obligatory to call the Special Military Operation a “full invasion”?

A) There’s never been a plan to invade the Western half of the country.
B) they never do so with Israël’s invasion of Palestine, NATO’s invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, which ARE a full invasion.

Do they get paid by the CIA for this?

Because it’s not a Chinese company.
They split the actual Chinese company Douyin into two so that TikTok would abide to US law.

Grand Theft Auto?
Genuflect To America?
Gotham Teachers Association?
Guess The Abbreviation?

BRICS acts against SWIFT.
SWIFT exploits all currencies by having every currency swap be traded in US dollars first
and every international transaction be tied to US servers.

It might not be great for American consumers, but think of all the American exporters,
who will be able to sell their goods without tax.
All twelve of them will be able to increase their revenue and be able to buy back more stocks with all the money they’ve made.

I don’t get it.
And the cars don’t match the young men’s outfits.

I think you’re just confused on what is the left, but many in the US are.

You will need medicine for this.
I have obesity issues and I recognize that like alcoholism,
you’re unlikely to win a 24/7 battle of will power,
when the stuff is around at the place you will need to make a living.

Have you tried the Sinclair method?

I’m hoping to found people that might say this of yellow or magenta.

I changed the picture because I don’t think my previous one correctly represented the colors.

The fact that you say cyan was missing and instead you saw blue is I think interesting,
and wonder if people would agree wit you.

Autism + male

It’s like trying to find water deep in the desert.
You’ll be lucky to find a mirage.
But most of the time you’ll find others also trying to find water.

I hereby sign the executive order that the US shall have a “Good times threat act”
whereby any politician threatening it’s majority voters with a good time if their candidate gets elected,
will face criminal charges if the politician in question does not follow through his or her threat.

Someone should put in a law that if a politician is going to threaten to move somewhere if X happens,
and X happens, then by law s/he is exiled to that place.

You can’t suppose that ideologically and economically opposed nations won’t both editorialize (which seems here to be your concern, editorializing).

No, I am concerned about Ukraine that is fighting an unwinnable war for the US(/UK/EU) that set them up with unrealistic goals and demands, while their enemy had modest demands that are now being eroded as Ukraine has decided that these modest demands should be met with a fight to the death fueled by the outdated view of the world that you can’t go wrong when you have the military and financial backing of the US.

And Ukraine is now fighting until there’s nothing left, because while if it was a regional conflict,
this nation would have crumbled and surrendered, it is now sacrificing every life it has
as a constant stream of financial support from the EU, UK and US allows Zelensky to theoretically
go for a zero sum war until there’s no Ukrainian citizen left.

You are portraying Russia, a global superpower, as the unilateral victim. I am saying there is more nuance, especially concerning superpowers.

Russia is a regional superpower.
The current power behind Russia, China is the global superpower.
Russia meanwhile is not a victim because it’s winning and they came to the rescue of the Russian Ukrainians who had been suppressed since the coup of 2014.
The victims are the Russian Ukrainians and Ukrainian conscripts as both groups have been duped
into voting for a conman that is unfit to be president and lets his decisions be made by foreign powers
who have no stake in Ukraine and use Ukrainians as cannon fodder as the foreign themselves also have the outdated
view of the world that you can’t go wrong when you have the military and financial backing of the US.

This entire war is currently the biggest example of the failure of liberal democracy.
The Soviet Union did not do anything remotely like this when it started losing power,
dissolved peacefully with geopolitical issues far more difficult to solve than the issues
the US is currently experiencing and yet the US is dropping the ball because it’s a liberal democracy
and a bad one at that.

Ukraine has a card-carrying puppet president elected for the polar opposite for what he was elected for,
all the EU nations have shown themselves to be puppet leaders of the US,
and thrown their economies, which is about 25+ countries, into financial ruin to support this war,
which should have remained a regional conflict of a border and alliance dispute,
and it’s even hurting the US financially as well,
because it is currently China, not the US,
where can’t go wrong when you have the military and financial backing of.

The US started it.
Just like it did with Venezuela (failed so far), Myanmar (failed), Hong Kong (failed), Belarus (failed), Kazachstan (failed), Georgia (failed), Afghanistan (ruined and failed), Pakistan (to a lesser extend) and Syria (ruined but success).
Not to mention the “Arab Spring” (success), so Lybia among a host of MENA nations as well.

If the US hadn’t been involved with its subservient media, but some other country, like Russia, being involved then there would be questions like:

“How are these interim presidents like Ahmed al-Sharaa being selected?”
“So all of these interim presidents are all living in Russia and move from Russia into these countries as presidents?”
“And these people are recieving peace prizes in Russia/Belarus/North Korea?”
“So most of these people in Finland that’s in civil war right now don’t know at all who this interim president is, was never on the ballot, lived most of his life in Russia, but it’s okay, because this is an interim president, selected ‘internationally’?”

And headlines like:

“Russia installs another Puppet President into Finland under the pretense of democracy and soveirignity.”
“Russia calls to implement another slave shield zone above the nation of Greece, dubbed ‘no-fly zone’ in Russian language”

The only thing Ukraine stands out of the list is that Zelensky actually had been elected by the people and started out as an internal project for an oligarch, unlike CIA puppets Ahmed al-Sharaa, Hamid Karzai, Juan Guaidó, Reza Pahlavi, Fethullah Gülen, Aung San Suu Kyi, Joshua Wong, Ursula von der Leyen and others.
Zelensky however was about as thruthful in his campaign being an anti-war president as Trump has been and so his pro-Russian voters got completely betrayed, because he decided that he wanted to join the EU at all cost, thinking that this would turn his country into an economic miracle following the same economic trend as neighbouring Poland, repeating history with truisms as the economic landscape of the world has changed dramatically between the days Poland started to recieve EU subsidies and US investments and when Zelensky became president, with Russia in a much better position where it was back then and so Ukrainian people with growing economic ties to Russia only further entrenched themselves towards support for Russia.

Russia invaded Ukraine because it violated the Minsk 3 agreements time and time again and because of mistrust of the European Union–Ukraine Association Agreement that included military cooperation with NATO countries, which aroused suspicions of Ukraine trying to join NATO, an anti-Russia organisation, with Ukraine being an artificially created nation by the Soviet Union that contains mostly parts of Russia and Poland.
The US supporting Ukrainian nazis thing was just the most emotionally infuriating part, but not the most worrying as suppression of the Russian people in the Donbass was, who tried to vote themselves out of the country, but were violently suppressed.

The invasion was a warning to Ukraine that if it did not sign the agreement that it would refrain itself from joining NATO,
it could expect a devestating war, which it now does.

If anyone has footage of this by the way, please direct me to it.
I did not save the footage of people going to polling stations and being shot at by Ukrainian troops.
The footage I saw had loud sweeping music/commentary added to it,
which did a giant disservice in my opinion to spread the atrocity that happened that day.