ToastyWaffles

They're the type to freeze instead of fight or flight

Nice try, monobot glares suspiciously

Incorrect title, he has declared they're marching (or planning to) march against Shoigu and oust him from the MoD.

In his statement he specifically states that he thinks the MoD has also misled the President. So his argument is that he is he's trying to help Russia and Putin by getting rid of Shoigu.

FSB has declared a criminal investigation on charges of inciting a coup, and Rosguardia has been put on high alert. Medvedev has stated "all necessary precaution measures have started".

Will be interesting to see what happens next.

FSB has announced they've started a criminal investigation into him.

I wonder if he's in cahoots with the CIA or something?

/r/politics and /r/worldnews are beyond terrible. Just constant propaganda and astro turfing, bots, and just generally brainwashed idiots who take an editorialized headline as fact, and then race to the comments to make a shitty non-constructive joke. And God forbid you try to bring up evidence to counter their arguments, you'll get downvoted to hell if not banned. It really started to become noticable around 2016 after Bernie lost the primaries, and it's only gotten exponentially worse since then.

More is not better. Also if you think Facebook, Meta or the zuck are good people, you haven't been paying attention.

Jerboa is FOSS? You can make pull requests on the repo here: https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa

I feel like the pause on rate hikes is to just avoid spooking the market aka investors. Anyone who works in the industry can tell you investors stomp their feet and cry whenever they don't get what they want, and what they want is antithetical to the health of the market, so the Fed has to try and increase rates at a pace that doesn't cause a complete spook/revolt from the investors. But the market is so leveraged I fear 5% may still not be adequate, and we'll need to be at these rates and higher for a much longer time than the investor class wants to tolerate. Inflation won't go down until there is some semblance of wealth redistribution from the large capital holders to normal market actors imo.

What's also crazy is despite rates going up, housing prices aren't going down, they're still going up. There is so much capital accumulated by the few, that even if the market dictates unfavorable deals for the common man, the massive capital holders honestly couldn't give a shit cause they can just buy everything up anyways. We're already reaching record levels of apartments/condos/SFH being owned by large corporate holdings and just renting them out.

With all the money pumped into the market because of COVID, I really don't know how the Fed can get itself out of this situation without seeing a severe economic crash. It's just a matter of if they will continue to put the economy on life support for an even bigger fall, or just let it happen whenever it comes.

I think it's more about maintaining superiority as the unilateral world superpower. Can't let anyone else come into a position to threaten western hegemony. The military industrial complex profits are just the icing on the cake.

Can't wait for the neolib astroturfing to make it's way here too

Honestly we're all adults here and we all know how the Internet works. Best to not feed the trolls and ignore them. The more attention you give the more it gives the appearances that their rhetoric has validity. Just move on and let's all focus on making a better fediverse for all