zephyreks

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[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago

Oh, I forgot the part where a country could be fascist without literally committing the Holocaust.

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago

US foreign policy is happy to punish Chinese people for Xi Jinping and Iranian people for Khamenei. Iranian women who want to study in the US and leave the regime get their visas denied and their study rights revoked for the audacity of having an Iranian passport.

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Means, motive, and opportunity, yet it's fake news.

I guess that's how OJ got off, huh?

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

Pretty much. Dude's stuck between a rock and a hard place. If he steps down, his propaganda machine has made it so he'll probably get executed for betraying Ukraine. If he doesn't, he's stuck in a war he knows he can't win without NATO troops.

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I mean, obviously?

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

Of course. They're white.

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I mean, by that logic we might as well dump everyone who's started a major land war recently into the ground.

Iraq, Ukraine, Afghanistan... ah fuck, eh?

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Socialism worked in Russia: it dragged hundreds of millions of people out of subsistence farming and turned the USSR into an economic powerhouse. Of course, the collapse of the USSR showed the failings of an aggressively socialist state, but the funny thing is that China already has the solution: a market-based economy with strong state control. Putin doesn't dare piss off the oligarchs though, so we're stuck with this crony bullshit.

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