ConfusedPossum

joined 2 years ago
[–] ConfusedPossum@kbin.social 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How do people vote for cartoon villains

[–] ConfusedPossum@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (16 children)

They are on borrowed time. Chinese economic growth is investment based and now they've built enough condos to house their entire (huge) population twice. This will ruin the value of houses, which is where ordinary Chinese have their savings. Coupled with their poorly thought out demographic policy this will cause an insane crisis as the life savings of elderly Chinese evaporate while they don't have the working population to recover from this. There's this guy Peter Zeihan on YouTube who explains it better than I can. He expects China to be done within a decade.

I'm just wondering if they will attempt to invade Taiwan before that happens. They might not even be able to but with Xi completely out of touch with reality they might anyways

[–] ConfusedPossum@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

That's just more reason to not do it at all

[–] ConfusedPossum@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

All of our international organizations are useless because of too much veto power and no mechanism to throw countries out. I would love a coalition of reasonable countries that you can only be part of it you have a functioning democracy and respect the rule of law

[–] ConfusedPossum@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Agreed, the death penalty is inherently cruel, no matter what the person has done. Especially if you make people wait for decades in a prison cell before the sentence is carried out

[–] ConfusedPossum@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago

Even before reading the post I knew immediately which song it is. I've seen it added ironically to many videos of Russians dying alone and cold in a bomb crater somewhere in a field in Ukraine

[–] ConfusedPossum@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Imagine MTG pulling the strings of this shit show

[–] ConfusedPossum@kbin.social 22 points 2 years ago

Can't really commit genocide with a UN official looking over your shoulder

[–] ConfusedPossum@kbin.social 19 points 2 years ago

They are powered by Elon's massive ego exclusively and as such don't require any polluting fuel or rare earth metals. The future is finally here

[–] ConfusedPossum@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

Reminds me of that silly Disney Easter cartoon where the Easter bunnies are mixing paint for the eggs and the pattern stays even when they apply it

[–] ConfusedPossum@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I just love it when people put way too much effort in something ridiculous

[–] ConfusedPossum@kbin.social -5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Who gives a shit about order of operations. In a real world scenario you'll know what to do

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