Best I can do is more restrictions on travel.

They can’t get married till they have a house, and there are problems there…

It’s not communist, it’s just a nazi state with a different name.

All the rest applies, the racial bits, the cruelty and genocide, all of it.

No, I lie, the nazis didn’t execute nearly as many of their own people, nor did they restrict reproduction in the same way.

10x worse, you work 12 hours min and you work Saturdays, plus the boss is a lot more… Personally cruel than they are here.

That still requires a surrogate at least

I mean, that’s what the camps in Xinjiang are for…

… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17?wprov=sfla1

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/23/world/europe/russias-sarmat-missile-test.html

They can’t shoot them.

The old ones, designed by ukrainians in the ussr, have expired, and the new ones are more likely to nuke Russia than anyone else.

They have a busted flush, hence all the attempts to scare us into giving them all of Europe.

It’s how we’ve reacted to their aggression so far.

Bullies always assume they’re the strong ones and everyone else knows they’re secretly really weak in comparison.

We watched for years as the nazis rampaged across Europe, it hurts to watch that again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17?wprov=sfla1

Greek and Roman mythologies are almost the same, and they spread throughout all their conquered lands because they enforced their religion upon them, and any foreign religion was subsumed as ‘oh, that’s just another name for jupiter or something’.

The Greeks and Romans left so many written records and the Greek language is still alive, while Latin is well understood.

Hindu mythology also stayed very firmly alive, but only among people in India, and nobody else cared. Buddhism doesn’t have the same kind of mythology, and it’s different depending on where you go, and even the local politics (actually so is hindu mythology, it’s basically the marvel comics universe but where each village priest makes up a few minor gods for themselves). China and Japan do have their own, pre-buddhist mythology, we see that a lot in anime.

Native American mythology was killed, a few times, by disease, violence, but mostly brutal Christianity.

Finally the Norse gods spent some time in England and Europe, after the Romans and Greeks, so they have some presence where they were considered interesting.

Mostly, English-centric literature and media, and literature students study it EXTENSIVELY for their degree, basically as a deconstruction of the evolution of storytelling and underlying tropes/archetypes. Less of this spread from elsewhere.

Haha, those co-founders got fairly well screwed, but startups are a bit like a lottery ticket to me: huge risk, pretty decent potential reward.

The only difference is if you’re careful, you come out having learned things.

Thanks a lot for the support! I really need to get off my lazy ass.

Social… Anything is not my strong suit, but if I can find some guys who do that good, I should be set.

That’s a resume generating event

Hah, no, but I’m good otherwise.

Talking to friends about starting one of my own ideas, reached an age where digging through the dirt is still fun, but I think I should be doing more.

Thanks for the concern :) , I rarely join startups because I think they have a chance to succeed, it’s just the only place you can get stuff done and have a good time, big companies are… Horrifying :( Google might have been the worst.

I need to get off my ass really.

BTW, ww3?

We are literally infinitely more powerful than the worthless pieces of shit, and they will just keep needling us and trying to provoke responses elsewhere until we finally turn and stomp their balls in.

This is how they work ‘escalate to deescalate’, because they believe everyone else is weak, only they are truly strong, so everyone will always back down.

The nazis were exactly the same. We are still shamed for waiting as long as we did to do what was right.

We need to teach them a lesson in a language they understand. Pain and terror.

It’ll be fixed?

Thank God we have the electoral college to save us from possible demagogues!!!

What? It was literally designed to launder slave votes for the south?

They said they’d use nukes if Russian territory was violated.

They’re Russians, all talk, no balls.

And I would never send troops.

But we should send bombers and erase any ground forces like we were having fun, they’re a joke country and 50 years behind us, they cannot stop us.

End the war now, don’t let it drag on, that is the larger risk.

Thank you, that’s basically how I feel.

Also, the startup I’m at just had 2 co-founders leave, so yeah, this is a real vibe.

He should have done the nasty in the pasty.

And in 2 days nobody will care anymore, just like the immigrant caravan or half the other issues that only show up before elections.

I’m perfectly fine with a rational debate about the issue, this is just stridency to disrupt any debate.