His vision didn’t fail. His employees failed his vision.

Is there a term for the reverse uncanny valley when your avatar looks more lifelike than you?

You’re missing the mild humor. The Admiral Kuznetsov is an aircraft carrier for legal purposes a missile frigate that has regularly failed to run under its own power.

For forty years.

It is towed from dry dock to dry dock.

No better metaphor for Russia.

Doesn’t need plate armor around his waist with that much gut.

I’m sorry, but this is stupid. They’re hoping for a violent response so they can justify imposing martial law.

Why give them what they are not only prepared for, but fervently want?

Five thousand dead Iranians and counting didn’t turn the tide.

Unconventional resistance has been more effective and less deadly.

But if you want violence, you can go first.

That’s unfair. The Russian navy gained a brand new submarine during the war with Ukraine.

The Moskva.

Plus they have the world’s most expensive barge, Admiral Kuznetsov.

Ah yes, because using rocks and sticks against the world’s largest military is much more effective.

Let “let’s fight them on their own turf!” be our battle cry.

Why not? Not enough ketamine?

Its the creeps!

NYT still sanewashing this guy.

That, and the US is a fiat currency system. Treasuries are a relic of the gold standard. If no one wants to loan the US the money it itself creates out of thin air, it can simply loan itself the money. Really, just will it into existence.

Europeans can exchange their dollar holdings for other currencies or spend their dollars on US goods or dollar-denominated oil. This would weaken the dollar and make imports into the US more expensive. But it’d make US exports more competitive.

I’m always baffled how people, particularly Europeans, don’t understand fiat currency. They have ceded their sovereignty to bond market vigilantes so thoroughly they can’t even conceive of a fiat system.

This particular threat seems like a way to wishfully think their way out of a poor defensive posture. Europe, you’re being squeezed by Russia on one side, the US on the other, and China is hollowing out your manufacturing. Time to hit the gym.

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Traditional mandarin too complicated? Good news! There’s a simplified version:

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What? Naur!

Give a bully what they want once and they leave you alone forever.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ign_vZupjno

"If Hitler came back to see this group of mixed race young gay men chanting his name he would immediately kill himself a second time,”

Say what you will about Hitler…

The Secret Of Nimh

Requiem For A Dream

Dancer In The Dark

Grave Of The Fireflies

Rubio was bored. Didn’t have enough jobs.

Republicans MO — cause problem, then remove problem when people complain and say “there I fixed it.”

Or wait for democrats to inherit problem and blame them.

Get what you wanted yet, business dweebs?