This guy apparently has some policy-advising gig with the congressional corruption committee. I suppose it makes sense, given his background of simping for the most corrupt country in European.

Dude literally bought himself a bandera patch for his jacket, he hasn’t even tried to be subtle.

Doesn’t matter, same song and dance every time and they never learn. When they are given a new Cause to rally behind, they will even as they throw the last one under the bus.

“Yeah, they really fooled us with Ukraine, but THIS TIME we know that (probably China) is the real threat to humanity!”

Curtailing aid to Ukraine will only prolong the war, Mr Zelensky argues.

Without foreign military aid, how would Ukraine be able to prolong the conflict? An army with no weapons and rapidly dwindling manpower is hardly an army, they’d be forced to sue for peace.

Imagine begging for billions of dollars in aid and then threatening to somehow activate sleeper refugees as terrorists if countries don’t comply. Would the refugees even listen, surely the vast majority of people fleeing the country aren’t the nationalistic type. Otherwise they’d have been running in the other direction.

“Numbers that high are impossible, the country is lying”.

Obviously the natural order of things is to have homeless on every street corner, it is impossible to exist otherwise!

A bit after uni, so mid-late 20s?

Jurassic Park is American, so consequently Americans own the rights to any dinosaurs that appeared in it. Oil is from biological matter including dinosaurs, therefore Americans own that too. So really all oil is American and they were just taking back what belonged to them. Honestly China should be held accountable for stealing from the United States.

I did the USians mental gymnastics for them, they owe me.

I was so confused by their post for a minute until I realized they were using the term negatively. I thought they were celebrating the artist at first.

I need a soundproof tube to put my head in where I can scream as loud as possible until my vocal chords rip and no one else can hear.

Borrow a restaurant’s walkin. When I was working in a kitchen when I was younger it was their main purpose.

They keep your food cold too.

I talked with him about this before, and a big part was because Intel has a big presence there already so a lot of locals have education/experience in working with semiconductors. Which apparently isn’t helping them find willing workers still. I would also wager there are probably tax incentives being given too, that is usually a big motivator for companies.

I am lucky that all my relationships (I started dating very late and haven’t had many) have ended relatively amicably and I remain on good terms with them. My relationship before my current one we just had different future goals (I am childfree, she is not) so decided to end things with no hard feelings.

I wouldn’t say I am still close to any of them, but I haven’t blacklisted them and it isn’t awkward at all if a social situation involving both of us comes up. I have never had a “bad breakup” though, so that would probably be a fair bit different.

Friend of mine is working on that project, was actually relocated to the US for it, and it is apparently a mess. Among other things, they are apparently really struggling to find anyone who actually wants to work there.

I lived most of my younger years in arguably one of the biggest cities in the world, I don’t regret it. Very recently moved from Tokyo to a much smaller town. Not quite countryside, but it is in the mountains and significantly smaller than Tokyo (<100,000 population in the whole area compared to millions).

There are things I miss about Tokyo; I love cooking and the ready availability of international markets and ingredients was definitely nice to have. Public transportation was WAY better in Tokyo, and might be the biggest thing I miss. It doesn’t take me long to get back into the city if I really want to, but honestly I have only done that a couple times so far.

However, it is much cooler, cleaner air, and generally a less fast-paced lifestyle that I can appreciate. Nevermind the cost of living differences and the amount of space I have. My flat is almost 3x the size of what I had in Tokyo at the same price, and my area is actually fairly “expensive” for an area outside Tokyo.

If my work allowed for it, I wouldn’t mind going more rural. Having land and being able to grow some of my own veg would be wonderful. I would prefer to stick to the mountains, I don’t do hot weather well. It would have to be a job I could do remotely though, because my field wouldn’t really have many opportunities in the countryside.

It’s fairly telling that I can’t really tell which one you are talking about.

I remember at the start, there were a bunch of his photo-ops going around of him in fatigues near “the front lines”. Which I believe are all photo-ops that predated the war to begin with. People were losing their shit over having “a leader who walks the walk from the front lines”.

Is that still something people believe happened or did it just get quietly swept under the rug for the next thing?

I like to imagine the TV commentators are actually using “touchdown” and “fumble” for 9/11 discourse.

Because knowing the US, they probably would.

I am honestly surprised it took this long, I had just assumed he was already disappeared after they banned the communist party from existing.

and prevented any teaching about the positive aspects of Soviet history in schools.

Yet when I was a kid I was still being taught how positive slavery was in the US, and how people were actually better off as slaves than free. (That school thankfully is now a parking lot, which is all it deserves). Very happy to have left that country when I was young.

Then there was the spring offensive

Which started in summer as well.

Breaking news, we discovered that there were fascists hiding amongst all the freedom loving Ukrainians, so we decided to withdraw all support. NATO will never stand with fascists (except everytime we do), so couldn’t in good conscience continue to support them.

Who could have seen it coming!? No, don’t raise your hand. We were totally blindsided by the revelation.

Directly? I doubt it, the US has a miserable track record and even if there are a lot of USians that think they could beat any global power blindfolded, there has to be at least some Pentagon leadership that knows their actual capabilities.

If they have any kind of chance to supply/fund a proxy war, terrorist insurgency, or color revolution they will leap at it though. Even if they know it wouldn’t work, the chance to bleed Chinese resources at the low low cost of billions of dollars and foreigner lives is exciting to them.

On the opposite side, China is not going to start a war if there is any chance of ever avoiding it. China is reticient to involve themselves in foreign military affairs, they prefer to building infrastructure and engage in diplomacy.

What I do expect to see is continued US efforts to commit economic suicide by trying to distance themselves from China economically (and only resulting in making China more and more self-sufficient) as well as an increase in domestic racisim and hate crimes. I already tell all my friends to never visit the US on holiday, because they would be treated like garbage assuming they even lived to make it back home.