OT: World Politics

[Aberdeen]

To the Hague with that fucker.

 

[MindzEye]

Canceling his contracts with the US government would appear fitting

 

[WellPlayed]

Ya it's about time Uncle Sam took the kid gloves off with this guy. It's a bad look for them right now.

 

[manny]

Would Musk even have a single business if not for government bailouts and subsidies?

 

[MindzEye]

Still would have made his PayPal money. Other than that, no.

 

[MindzEye]

 

[Wayward DP]

Took’em long enough

 

[hockeylover]

CNN reporting Kim Jong Un en route to meet Putin about an arms deal.

 

[LeafGm]

CNN reporting Kim Jong Un en route to meet Putin about an arms deal.

Somewhere, Trump is weeping about not being included in a hang-out with two of the only two men on earth he genuinely loves and admires.

And if Western countries are still providing any humanitarian aid to North Korea at this point, we should cut that shit out.

 

[axlsalinger]

 

[MindzEye]

Something something throne of lies

 

[MindzEye]

 

[Volcanologist]

He's right -- they've tried repeatedly and failed

 

[MindzEye]

 

[LeafGm]

Like…I get that Vlad is a blatant shameless liar with his own twisted version of history. But this one is a doozie even for him.

I guess with the Soviet Union, the shield that he’d hide behind is that it wasn’t a Russian imperial project. It was a voluntary union of brotherly socialist nations who were all equal! Until the scourge of Nazism, nationalism and the treacherous West all schemed to break it up.

But I can’t even imagine what wild explanation he’d come up with for how Tsarist Russia wasn’t a colonizer.

 

[LeafGm]

 

[zeke]

 

[MindzEye]

Elon wants those sweet pentagon contracts without actually considering himself a military contractor and part of the machine

 

[LeafGm]

Elon wants those sweet pentagon contracts without actually considering himself a military contractor and part of the machine

It’s impressive mental gymnastics.

Also wants to believe he avoided intervening in the war by stopping Ukraine’s attack on the Russian fleet. Without realizing that he DID still intervene—only on Russia’s behalf.

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

It’s impressive mental gymnastics.

Also wants to believe he avoided intervening in the war by stopping Ukraine’s attack on the Russian fleet. Without realizing that he DID still intervene—only on Russia’s behalf.

Like the old NHL referee's excuse that to call a penalty in overtime is "deciding the outcome of the game" but making the decision to not call an obvious infraction somehow doesn't decide the outcome every bit as much.