Matty Roses

Can you rephrase that in any way that makes sense?

Hey, you want to argue the world should be treating the US as a pariah state as well, I have no objection.

The UK doesn’t quite do that, though, do they? How’s that war in Iran going?

If the rich control the elections, doesn’t that make them meaningless?

Just wait until The Guardian learns about the CIA!

Chapter 5 was begging for it

The Anglo-Saxons are just low Germans after all

oh, a royal rogering? Back home we calls that the Glorious Revolution!

So I tell the swamp donkey to sock it before I give her a trunky in the tradesman’s entrance and have her lick me yardballs!

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/08/harris-iran-greatest-adversary-trump-election.html

They actually dig up the 100 million victims of communism, brought them back to life, then killed them again

They needed the mask when the USSR offered competition. Once there was “no alternative”, they went mask off.

GDP during WWII isn’t very helpful a statistic, especially considering the occupation.

It would not be an improvement - do you have any idea how bad the 1990s were in Russia?

There’s a reason that Putin has high support, and it’s not all manufactured. It’s that the Yeltsin shock therapy was really traumatic - largest peacetime drop in life expectancy in recorded history.

moved from the US to Europe - US high school takes less effort in total than a driver’s license here

SHINY AND CHROME

carbrains

Phoenix is 90% people who were on their way to LA, and something happened

heh yeah - his Cartoon Guide to the Computer actually has one of the best explanations of how basic circuts are translated into boolean logic of ANY source out there, still.

Definitely read the book This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed.

Non-violence by the SCPP is now treated as not only their only tactic, but the only valid tactic ever. But that’s historically just not true. Even Dr. King and others realized that their tactic of non-violence was working with other groups who were not pledged to non-violence - and in the setting where the US was worried about its image versus the USSR in the third world. Nor was it the primary driver of what limited success the movement had.