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Like throwing a swimming pool into the ocean.

I pronounce it in a French way, like Le`stat.

Can you say "election cycle"?

Mandatory drafts for young people who come from families with more than $5m net worth.

Also known as the "no exception for yuppies" clause.

Come on, Thad. GTF off TikTok and your libertarian forums. You're going to be dragging tractor tires up a mountain with a rope.

The world: fuck American football. Embrace baseball. LETS GOOOO!!

You okay, US? Been removing voting locales, preventing people from getting hydrated when standing in line, literally trying to prevent the end of an election cycle and now... this.

Democracy, does that mean anything anymore over there, or is it just decorative?

Nuh-uh! That's the elites! We're the silent majority... which is why we had to sabotage the election. It makes perfect sense.

That is of course the excuse Putin wants everyone to swallow, but no matter how bad NATO has been and how that whole paradigm probably should be reimagined, one cannot ignore the decades of reporting, first hand accounts and witnesses of what's going on in the various oblasts and republics of Russia, and I'm not just talking about Siberia.

It's this idea that all westerners are stupid and disconnected enough to not know, but we have ex-pat Russians, Belarusians, Lithuanians, Moldovans, Polish, etc, etc.

This was never about NATO. That is a scapegoat. It is the resurgence of Russian emperialism, the classic KGB subversion and purile egomanic vanity. If they wanted Ukraine away from NATO, they could've instead relied on soft diplomacy and probably even have gotten there. This was as all about taking sovereign territory from another nation state for strategic purposes, by any means necessary.

Now consider Ukrainians, knowing all this, because again, they are not stupid neither, would they just lay down knowing fully well what will happen to their country?

Mf, they stay in this - for the survival of their culture and history, because cultural genocide will be just the first in a long line of atrocities that lie in wait if they should lose.

I put my chips on the Ukrainians, even that they become one of these perpetual conflict countries. But hopefully not. Hopefully they'll take back the east and also Crimea and maybe even shake up the power dynamics in Russia for the better.

Uh, yeah, the thing about that? Russia wants concessions Ukraine will not give. It would also embolden the Duma and quite frankly they deserve all the L's they can get.

It's apart of the definition, like how cultural genocide has also been baked into being part and parcel of genocide.

You destroy their identity, their lineage, their art, their heroes, their history, their language, in effect destroying anything related to a people group and country so that they no longer have anything to fight for.

It's exactly what happened to slaves during slavery, adding genocide on top of every other evil in the list of atrocities caused by slavery.

Illegal guns get flipped if I'm not mistaken. Like unregistered automatic rifles that gets resold and smuggled across county and state lines. It's probable that some russian mobsters got a piece of the action is what I'm saying. Mobsters don't need to stick to their own nation states and will move around to where they can make money.

I have an idea. Make a new summer solstice celebration in the Nordics, where instead of burning wood, we burn copies of every religious text in existence - including the Qur'an, but also every version of the Bible.

Make it an all or nothing affair. Then I bet a whole crapton of politicians would find a way real quick.