There's just no way that there isn't retaliation. We're still operating under MAD. Between air force, Navy, and ICBMs, there's too many nukes on both sides that dozens but more probably hundreds of millions of people would die. The entire point of the Ukraine war is to prevent NATO from getting any closer and possibly sticking nukes (or targets that would invoke a nuclear response from NATO) within striking distance such that retaliation couldn't occur in time to sustain MAD. It's very similar to the Cuban/Turkish standoff that occurred at the height of the cold war. I see the change in doctrine more matching the US' first strike policy and Russia trying to assert itself as a world power again. They're putting those words into action with their current military endeavors and diplomatic moves, but statements like these are continuous opportunities for the West to pull their heads out of their asses and recognize the change in reality beneath them.
Critical support to whoever gets those uncanny valley ass medication ads out of my life forever.
Don't forget Ivanca/Jared fondling Trump's nuts from time to time trying to maintain their position of favor too.
Just the tip of the spear. Islamaphobia has been rabid in the West for decades now.
Healthcare? Abortion protections? Legalize weed, student debt relief, labor favors? 
Unlimited grifts for the MIC and imperialism? 
They could have paid me half his fee to shit myself in front of the crowd and probably done less damage to the campaign.
same reason republicans vote for Trump instead of neocon Democrats: why go for the generic brand when you've got the real thing?
A sizable number of write-ins are likely PSL too. They weren't officially on the ballot in many states but had write-in status recognized.
I had a "Remind me" bot notification on reddit come in to gloat at a NAFO dork in one year as they were braying for blood in particularly deranged ways, and refusing to acknowledge that the privatization scheme in Ukraine was a bad thing actually, and so too was sending hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians into a meat grinder just to lose slowly anyway.
Since then, I got banned from World News in like the first few weeks of the active phase of genocidefor posting amnesty international and other humanitarian organizations assessment that Israel is an apartheid state/has committed crimes against humanity in the past (before Oct 7th) and thus violent resistance was justified, so I can't comment directly in the same chain. I went to PM the dork, but their entire account got suspended during that time lmao. #bothsides strikes again I guess.
:God-Please-Kim-Katsuragi:
They were a write in in my state. My County has just shy of 400 write ins recorded, and I'm one of'em. I wish there was more granularity about those names given that PSL had "official" write in status, but none yet.
!planet-hillary out there smug af today probably, and anything that brings her joy makes me at least a little mad because she deserves less than none forever until her death
If only there were other options to engage in meaningful political struggle outside of just voting. Oh well, brunch is cancelled so I guess we just have to sit and feel sad until we can do a politics again.
I think LGBTQ comrades get priority, but as an anti-zionist Jew and out communist (Communists disdain to hide their views...) I don't feel great about my place in line for the chopping block.
Best outcome: Trump wins pissing off the liberals, then Trump does what he always does and gets fed up with losers thus Elon loses favor and gets kicked out of the WH orbit. This results in a Twitter meltdown and Trump using the power of the presidency (imagine that! Democrats literally can't) to go after his new rival and finally takes the apartheid clown out.
Not even kidding, same here lol. It's the inspiration for my username.
I'm going to have to move back to California lol. There's not many in my pasty ass current state. Least racially diverse place I've lived by far, and it feels weird.
I see no downsides, and I already speak Spanish well enough to navigate the world. I read it better than I speak it too, which has got to count for some kind of bonus points.
Kamala loses the election, but Joe Biden dies before January. She has to be president for like, 3 weeks, before handing over the whitehouse to Trump. Hillary Clinton has an aneurysm due to jealousy and rage !hillgasm
Send help for the love of God. I've killed thousands and had to restart my Republic so many times making mistakes that it feels like there should be easier ways to avoid. I'm playing realistic mode for reference.
As a general problem, I keep on failing to resist the temptation to build an ugly little 400x400 meter box cram packed with spaghetti walkways and utilities wherever they fit in order to min/max walking and infrastructure range. After 70 hours of the game my first city is actually surviving to the point of net gain and I'm trying to make the next jump. I've carefully prepared before allowing any growth beyond 3000 (I learned my lesson when everyone froze to death... And starved... And ran out of water... And died at 45 due to pollution...) but now I don't know what to do lmao. My people are happy, healthy, and well enough employed by a clothing industry with a food factory and distillery ready to go into production, but I hate trying to do anything in the city because it's so so so cramped. Do I try to make the shitbox less shit? Should I just build a new better city some ways off, or keep new development close to old development so I can still make good use of the infrastructure? Whatever my decision, I can't make a larger city work on buses and trucks alone. The fuel costs and traffic are a pain and I wish I could use all those cool trains or even just trolleys, but I can't figure out how to make it happen lmao. I have learned to save before trying a project only for it to fail miserably and kill everyone or bankrupt me when it completes in 6 months to a year, and I just had to revert because it turns out trolleys can't interact with fuel bus platforms, and my ENTIRE city depends on its platform, so that's not going anywhere.
Where is a quality source for guides on how to build industries, make rail work, and so on and so forth? I've been watching bballjo's videos as well as reading the wiki, and honestly, they're not so good. It's unironically been making me wish I was better at the game so that I could make the kinds of guides I wish I had right now; well scripted and on topic, edited well with pre-recorded clips to clearly show what's going on, and not just saying "this" or "here" or "there" or "that" and using specific names so people less familiar with the game don't lose the thread. Also, digestible. Each guide feels like it should only be 10-15 minutes MAXIMUM, with shorter being better. The longer 'guides' just become too much to absorb at once and harder to sort through to find the bit you actually need. Does anything like what I'm describing actually exist? Or is it all streamers style some guy in a gaming chair rambling more or less on topic for an hour?
Credit where credit is due, I was able to claw a surviving city together by pulling out the main lessons from jo and other ramblers content, but it's getting worse as I get to more complicated systems.
This is a long post that has become more complaining than I wanted it to be. I'm really enjoying the game and I want to progress out of the "early" game, but I don't know how to make train run good or scale up. Please send me good written or video sources for how to city good. Also, don't make me an urban planner after the revolution, at leastv not until I have a couple more hundred hours in this game lmao.
They don't trust voters not to choose a succdem and offend pwecious widdle capital, and they're worried they couldn't fix a second election after 2020 almost went to Bernie despite their best efforts. So now they're just propping up the old man strategically until it's too late and they can put whatever blob priest into office they like without the unwashed masses messing it up with their "democratic will" or whatever. Technocrats must sit the eternal throne whether the people want it or not.
Ukraine’s allies are scrambling to secure long-term aid for Kyiv amid fears about a second Trump term.
I know Trump's word is worth less than dogshit, but hypothetically, he's now the harm reduction candidate when it comes to Ukraine.
Of course the liberals of reddit are hand-wringing about Putin and "tHe FrEe WoRlD"
Posting IS praxis and this is a solidarity thread with the freedom fighters of New Caledonia
chef's kiss levels of layered irony here.
A)The market distributing housing based on gambling instead of need is irrational
B) still believing TSLA will somehow redeem itself instead of continuing to slowly unravel like a cheap coat is irrational
C) preferring homelessness to losing investment positions already massively losing value is irrational, literally sunk cost fallacy, but HODL my dude 🦍💎👏🤑
D) if we ignore the insane predatory distribution of housing as a moral issue and accept this bizzaro world distribution system as it is, YOU'RE THE MARKET ASSHOLE. THE ONLY REASON TSLA EVER GOT SO HIGH WAS BECAUSE OF IRRATIONAL MANIACS LIKE YOU ENDLESSLY PROPAGANDIZING MUSK, SOY FACING WHILE LICKING HIS BOOTS AND CONVINCING YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO SO THE SAME. YOU'RE THE PROBLEM. THIS IS THE MARKET ACTUALLY CORRECTING FOR A GODDAMN CHANGE, AND YOUR RESPONSE IS TO DOUBLE DOWN? YOU'RE GOING TO DIE. YOU'RE GOING TO DIE BEFORE THE MARKET WILL EVER BE RATIONAL, BECAUSE MARKETS DON'T MAKE RATIONAL DECISIONS, AND YOU'RE A MORTAL LITTLE SPECK OF EMBODIED HUMAN CAPITAL AND WHEN THE MACHINE HAS NO USE FOR YOU IT WILL DISCARD YOU WITHOUT A SECOND THOUGHT. BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD LINE MUST GO UP.
E) living in a Tesla is a terrible decision. You can buy a good minivan for less than $5000 Dollars and do a no build camper build in it for much better quality of life. Link for comrades who might genuinely need it--i know I might in the near future !pain https://youtu.be/25VBk8AOqRQ?si=mfyXb8YfPP69ne6-
If you are too horny to speak, please use the appropriate gestures when turning yourself in to the volcel police
