• @[email protected]
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    935 days ago

    It’s fucking tariff roulette again. And so it will be for the next 3.5 years. Stupid cunts. Remember to kick a republican in the nuts.

      • snooggums
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        545 days ago

        The last 6 months have been the longest decade of my life.

      • @[email protected]
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        25 days ago

        Luck is also a component in how long Trump lives ; though he’s not that old.

        OK, I’ll say it differently - luck is also a component in how long Putin lives, and that’s likely less. When he dies, there’s gonna be change. In USA too. In Russia - maybe not for the better immediately, but that will be a power transfer, which hasn’t happened since 1999. Even if to someone of his daughters.

        I don’t subscribe to any of stupid theories of “Kremlin towers’ balance”, “businessmen vs patriots” and such, but the point stands, and the previous power transfer, from Yeltsin to Putin, despite them being the same faction, changed a lot and fast.

        Which could mean some of the blackmail material leaking, or the direction of blackmail changing, or other ties being restructured. Which would pull the rug from many of Russia-aligned parties in the west, and it would be interesting to see whether Democrats or Republicans are affected more, in case of US, and whether local alt-right parties or the orderly centrists in EU are affected more. The common belief is that it’s the latter in the US and the former in the EU, but I think we’ll be surprised.

        Now, Russia is small compared to other parties, but big enough to make waves in case of such an event.

    • flandish
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      55 days ago

      *capitalist

      they ALL do this. they just market it differently. profits are at record highs and have been for YEARS. while working class people suffer and die.