What happens with Venezuela is going to be an important test of how that develops I suspect.

I’m disappointed Siegel doesn’t attribute Asimov’s brilliant 1989 essay, The Relativity of Wrong.

BRICS countries are the most likely destinations. There’s little chance that anybody outside the west would park money in Europe at this point.

Clearly rape, torture, and pillaging have fuck all to do with investing in Europe given that the US is one of the biggest trading partners of Europe. Try to put a bit more effort into your artless trolling.

Given that they want to steal Russian assets because they’ve run out of money to fund the war, it’s not clear where the money to compensate Euroclear would come from. However, that’s not really even the main issue. The real risk is that Europe becomes toxic to foreign investment once they do this. Nobody in their right mind would ever park money in Europe or invest into European industry after that. The whole attempt to seize Nexperia doesn’t help build confidence either. And of course, foreign money that’s currently in Europe is going to flee as well which will lead to a huge financial crisis bringing us back to the question of how the EC can possibly reimburse anything.

also, a reminder that Doug is basically run by the mob https://web.archive.org/web/20220415233311/https://twitter.com/RahRahRaina/status/1352258104818339841

Oh I was being facetious here, and I very much agree with everything you’re saying here. We live under the dictatorship of capital, and they only throw us enough scraps so that we don’t riot.

Imagine being so utterly depraved that you’re trying to create nuance around slavery.

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I mean if that’s the game plan then they’re doing it backwards given that Ukraine and the Europeans already rejected the US 28 point plan, while Russia just slow walked it saying they’d consider it as a basis for negotiation. It’s the Ukrainians who look intransigent here, not the Russians. Meanwhile, the conditions on the front continue to deteriorate and Russia’s position in the negotiation continues to get stronger.

It’s absolutely incredible to me that libs are funneling 3.8 billion to buy jets from the US, and funneling who knows how much money into these AI pyramid schemes instead of investing in things like our healthcare system, infrastructure, housing, or domestic industry. Our government will spend money literally on anything else other than actually improving living conditions in the country. And people wonder why the far right continues to be a growing force in Canada.

that explains a lot actually

you keep using this word ‘logical’ I don’t think it means what you think it means

I suspect that one would have better luck explaining this to a squirrel on meth.

calling what goes on inside that head of yours thinking is very generous

I mean both Russia and the US have nukes too, and the proxy war is in its third year now.

yeah it’s a really powerful editor that can handle tasks you’d normally use a few different apps for

horny chatbots are about to get real weird

Somebody will have to explain to me why Russia would agree to that.

original snes super mario world is still a blast, tetris is another game that’s still fun