I assume that also means that Russia would then send in state-sponsored terrorists in the guise of “settlers” to murder the Ukrainians and incrementally steal their land, and send in the army to slaughter them if they dare to fight back.
How much money you have doesn’t determine what your values are,
Having more wealth than you could ever possibly need while people all around you can’t even afford basic necessities is very much an indication of exactly what your values are. They’re shit and so are you.
That’s not just a likely lie - it’s an entirely self-evident and certain lie.
There’s nothing - not one single thing - that’s standing in Trump’s way. If he actually wanted full transparency, that’s what we’d have, immediately and effortlessly. So it can only be the case that that’s a lie - it’s literally impossible for it to actually be the truth.
He asserts that “our goal is not to occupy Gaza, our goal is to free Gaza.”
That’s not just ridiculously obviously a lie - it’s provably a lie.
Israel has already struck a deal with Egypt to sell natural gas from deposits in Gazan territorial waters. Therefore it must be the case that Israel is already planning on not only occupying but annexing Gaza - they could not claim ownership of those gas deposits otherwise.
“That’s a lie! They still want me!”
And specifically because if you shared those details, you ran a risk that they were going to fall into the hands of bad actors who would cause you harm.
Which is the exact same risk that still exists today, with only the difference that more often all the time the bad actors are governments and corporations.
The internet can suck my dick.
Not just the most corrupt president in history, but the most gauche and tasteless as well.
On investigation, out of my faulty memory.
I have no idea where that figure came from, but it was the one lodged in my brain for the “settlement”/bribe that Paramount paid Trump.
Ah well…
$10 billion including Trump’s $2 billion bribe.
Different reasons for different people.
Some because they expect to benefit from it - they expect to be a part of the autocracy.
Some because they’re angry and stupid and all they know is that people they hate are unhappy about it, so it must be a good thing.
Some because they can’t wrap their heads around it - they can’t believe that it’s really happening.
Some because they think they’re powerless to stop it.
And some because they just want to watch the world burn.
If your party is likely going to lose because it supports destructive and unpopular policies, there are two ways to win instead - switch to supporting constructive and popular policies, or cheat.
Trump and the Republicans have chosen cheating.
That says everything that really needs to be said about them.
Every single person on the planet just happened to be born in some particular place, and every place has some particular set of people who at some point drew some arbitrary lines and decreed that the area within the lines was a country and gave it a name.
The idea that happening to have been born within the confines of one arbitrary set of lines rather than another is something of which to be proud is blatantly stupid.
Oh yeah - Myst required lots of notes, because there were things that you’d learn at one point that were clues to some puzzle somewhere else. And yeah - just in general you needed to keep notes, because the games didn’t record hardly anything.
And none of the early RPGs generated maps - if you wanted a map, you had to draw it yourself.
I still make video game notes but they’re mostly just reminders - things like “500 wood for Robin” or “need Nordic helmet for mannequin at Heljarchen.”
She’s a current Democrat, and a coward.
That means she’s expected to strike a sympathetic humanitarian pose that’s immediately rendered meaningless by her craven need to suck up to the pro-Israeli lobbies.
Multiple ones.
I have an open pack of 5x7 file cards - I use them (folded in half) for making to-do lists, shopping lists and the like. I have a shelf that collects unwanted printer paper - misprints, test pages and the like - for doodling, and I have a stack of legal pads and graph paper pads for stuff I want to hang onto (the graph paper pad in particular is for notes and such about video games, and I’ve been doing that since the days of having to draw my own dungeon maps).
Yes.
He’s not just a clown though. He’s an emotionally stunted, psychopathic, delusional narcissist who happens to be mentally ill in a particular way that leads to him generally making just the sort of demands they need to complete their goals.
For instance, they want to be able to arrest anyone at any time in order to shield themselves from criticism and opposition. Trump also wants to be able to arrest anyone at any time, but for him it’s because he’s a racist piece of shit and a thin-skinned crybaby who wants to hurt people who say mean things about him. So they can sit back while he does all the work to make it possible to arrest anyone at any time, then reap the rewards.
And since he’s a delusionsl narcissist and has not just the emotionsl development but the attention span of a child, any time he’s not quite on track, all it takes is for somebody to whisper the right words to him, and off he goes.
But yes.
Trump is a snake oil salesman, and the bogus product he sells is himself.
Not every tactic - no.
And Russia is introducing some novel tactics of its own, like kidnapping and indoctrinating Ukrainian children.
I have little doubt though that the broad strategy is exactly the same - what they can’t take immediately, they intend to take incrementally.
And in fact, that’s essentially what they’re already announcing to the world. They can’t be unaware of the fact that, to much of the world, stating that they’re patterning the proposed occupation after the West Bank is effectively stating outright that they fully intend for Russia to then incrementally steal everything and to kill anyone who tries to stop them.