Appalachia is pretty poor, but it's nothing like the reservations that, if they ever had industry, the locals never saw a nickle of

They protect the institution of private property, not any individual's personal property.

How many of those engineers are gonna end up at Lockheed or Raytheon?

Always knew he'd die with one or more bears inside him.

*salmon

But you understand that cops, above all else, exist to protect the institution of property correct?

Roads? Slave labor. Taxes? Slave labor. Taxes that fund the police? Somehow not slave labor.

Like you're not wrong, democrats do advocate slave labor in the form of supporting the prison-industrial complex, but I know you're not talking about that.

People who don't understand why she would pick the bear don't deserve bears.

You misunderstand what that quote means. The people having bread and entertainment isn't some kind of trick to lull people into a sense of complacency by diverting them from some ideal society where everyone is hungry and bored, it's pointing out that when a society fails to provide people with these things, they change things until the problem is fixed.

For Ukraine’s sake, I really hope someone diposes Putin in a coup

Yeah you don't want that, the second biggest party is the communists, but from what I hear they're not really communists, just boomers nostalgic for the USSR.

The nationalists waiting in the wings to seize power are even more psychotic than Putin.

The liberals are a distant 4th want to bring back the 90s, which created the conditions that got us here.

The communists would maintain the war for the same reasons the Putin does

The nationalists would make it 10x worse

The libs might end the war, but would definitely immiserate all of Russia again so the nationalists have an easier time recruiting.

IDK why you're getting downvoted.

Edit: Me too. Guess there's a big contingent who are anti-Hitler, but also support anticommunist 1940s German conservatives who aren't Hitler.

Yeah, circumstances are very different now. Back then the Russian bourgeoisie thought they'd get to join the club. Now they have very little incentive to abide such deals.

Also there's way more right-wing psychos.