When the border has literally moved

The last time that border moved was back at the Winter War, when Russia attacked Finland.

Their own rhetoric says otherwise. The whole saber-rattling thing brings people closer to war, not peace.

If something like it were to provide free service over the Internet, not sell ads or whatnot in the US, it doesn’t fall under US jurisdiction.

Actually, that’s a point where there is precedent to the contrary. The GDPR claims extraterritoriality even if there is no payments involved, if the free services are provided to EU citizens. It enforces it by proxy, mostly through international agreements, like in the case of US companies.

In Hungary, there is a straight-up nazi party that is used to test the waters for the government’s more “radical” ideas, as well as catch the splintering radicals, so the government can keep dictating where the “centre” is.

This might be the right trying to test the Genocide Joe message with a broader audience.

How can something so bad, make something so good?

Engineers create value, then the suits monetize it.

I do remember some guy embezzling funds from a rail bridge construction in China, causing a derailment that injured some people, being executed.

To be honest, if there needs to be a death penalty, it should be reserved for those cases. A single murder is reprehensible, but it is easy to get the wrong guy. If you do shit like management in Boeing, I wouldn’t say it’s unreasonable to execute the decision maker whose corrupt decision caused a plane to crash and hundreds of people to die.

Wasn’t she driving on her private property, as in this big ass piece of land from one house she had on it to another, and backed into her own lake? I mean yeah, her life has not been the most altruistic, so the hate towards her is understandable, but at least there was no danger of her injuring unknowing bystanders.

To be honest, I’m not happy she died. Her fortune goes into inheritance to someone else, so the world is not a better place, other than that, I don’t feel like cheering the death of anyone, even a career criminal.

To be honest, that graph is a bit worrying especially if you look at PPP. I’m not saying “China will build more aircraft carriers than the US” or some such nonsense. I’m saying there is no point going to 300 bil if you don’t want to fight the US. India is their other closest rival.

I’m not sure they would succeed, but I’m worried they might try.

All the while, Secret Service dude is standing there with a face saying “was it worth it?”

“I don’t know anything about that,”

This seems to be the canned response to all “uncomfortable” topics.

It seems that right-wing “debates” are not about arguing a point or another, but bringing up the “right” talking points, and backing out the wrong ones.

My guess it is, but it is “good for everyone”, since they can campaign less, hence the more money goes to Trump, the more seats Dems get.

I’d just like to mention that that is a very US-centric perspective. Of course it’s not social media, but in the 1950s the average person who was just graduating from the place I did was fighting the 8th Mechanized Army of the Soviet Union. Things did not improve immediately after.

Point is, the relative welfare of the US was built on the fact that Europe was devastated in WWII, and then squandered once the wealthy saw they can’t keep accumulating wealth at the same pace after Europe was back in one piece.

That said, the boom-bust cycle is seeing us worse and worse every iteration and the 100 obscenely wealthy people better and better off. So maybe that’s the problem.

Religious fundamentalism is a helluva drug

lived under the specter of nuclear annihilation.

That specter’s back though.

Holy fuck that ad is depressing.

I won’t get my hopes up until after

Even if it all goes as it should, and he sees at least some consequence, it’s a travesty that it took so long. Even if he was behind bars today, the damage to what passes for justice in the US is done.

Rich people are above the law.

Well, if my country was at war, I would not be happy either. Except for some reason, people in Israel.

I think the whole surveillance state thing is less about throwing individuals in jail, and more about controlling mass discourse.

For example how social divisors like gender, age, sexuality and whatever else are amplified while criticism and action against the people cooking us alive is buried. You don’t need black chaikas and fear if you have soft power and constant outrage. TBH I think that’s why Trump got elected, a bunch of people went “fuck this shit” and either went and voted for Trump to “stick it to the man”, or just didn’t go to vote at all.

How else is a state owned healthcare system deemed radical and hospitals being owned by private equity normal if it’s not those few profiting off the death and suffering setting what’s normal?

I can see them holding individuals in the party accountable. Not those high up, but someone might take a fall.

Kelenföld Power Station, Budapest, Hungary