So go home.

Either way, it’s a catastrophy for the european economy. The past 5 years will feel like a walk in the park compared to what’s to come if Trump follows up on his promises. We’re talking about mass migration like we haven’t seen in 80 years and inflation that’s magnitudes worse than we’ve seen the past couple years. I’m almost looking forward to our elections next year in Germany because right wing will almost certainly win and then crumble under the pressure of what’s likely to come.

Do you honestly believe the USSR honored it’s constitution? There were referendums because the dictator at the time decided to allow it. If Putin or Stalin were in charge at the time, this wouldn’t have happened just like the decades of suppression and exploitation prior. It’s very disrespectful and somewhat unhinged to claim all those vassal states had a choice all along and wanted to be part of the soviet union just because they were granted the privilege in the very end when the regime lost it’s grip anyway. The truth is Moscow couldn’t hold them together for much longer. Most of those states would just revolt even more so than they already did anyway.

Because yes, of course they tried to free themselves in the past but didn’t have the means to do so previously. Similarly, Russia’s vassal states today have no choice, as all elections and referendums are only for show and all leaders are installed by the Kreml.

Long story short: Constitutions in autocracies are worth as little as the paper they’re written on.

I don’t like the question because Putin being a good guy is unthinkable to me. Good guys aren’t in Russian politics, or at least not for long. But let’s say Russia had a halfway decent leadership where smart guys don’t fall out of windows. With their vast landmass, resources and workforce, they could easily be the third largest economy in the world again instead of not even making it into the top ten on their way to fall behind Mexico.

The USSR was a formidable power because of vassal states also known as good old imperialism, something Putin desperately tries to replicate. The mindset of Russia’s leaders today isn’t so different from Soviet times.

And it’s far from the worst things they’re going to do about their declining population. This is why we don’t want authoritarianism.

I do not think they’re dissatisfied with democracy but rather the lack thereof in their country. The article actually sort of explains it but then seemingly takes a wrong turn at the end with an assumption that isn’t really comprehensible nor explained further.

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The worst part about gas are all the leaks on site. Once it’s in the air, you can’t get it out. Often they don’t even burn the gas and just let it leak straight into the atmosphere. And we didn’t even get to liquifying the product or address the environmental cost of fracking for example. Meanwhile when coal falls off an excavator you just pick it up again.

If you care about the environment, go renewable. Gas isn’t magic and sugar coating won’t clean coal.

Post-pandemic idiocity (historically, far right politics become very popular after a pandemic, or so I’ve read) coupled with all the other issues. The filthy rich playing off the masses against each other being a big one. And of course it’s Austria we’re talking about. They’re resilient to learning from past mistakes even when it was just a couple years ago. It’s actually baffling how easily they swing from one side to another, but that’s probably partly because it’s a tiny nation.

They’re merely raking in slightly less massive profits compared to last year. They could probably make up for it by simply not paying out massive bonuses for higher ups, but we all know they’ll cut jobs instead unless they get that sweet tax payer money. Greedy scumbags.

Tanzania and Zambia about to join the “going to find out about Chinese colonialism the hard way” club. Corruption is cancer to any society.

No one is completely living outside the US. No one. Especially big elections concern everyone on the globe to some degree. It’s also simply interesting, although sometimes in a morbid way.

That being said, if you’re into politics in the first place, the one in your own country should have the higher priority in my opinion. I’m saying this because I know non-Americans who concern themselves more with American politics (it’s flashier and social media is so full of it, it’s easy to fall down that rabbit hole) than those of their own country. I think that’s a problem because it distracts them from problems they face in their own backyards that they might not even be aware of.

I know a person who loved the movie. Of course they haven‘t watched the original nor do they intend to because cartoons „are for children“. Some folks just watch anything that just gets advertised enough I guess.

A lot of their voters couldn‘t even vote before. GenZ make up a big portion of extreme right voters because that‘s how TikTok works apparently. The young have a huge media competency deficit.

Not only that but established brands simply have many more production lines that if they switch to fully electrict can outproduce Tesla tenfold.

And that sounds like a guy who carefully plans his gigafactory around every tree to get the most buck for his bark to you?

Tell me how much did he spend on Xitter again? Are you sure you know who we‘re dealing with?

My assumption is that they identified an area ready for harvest

I admire your ability to just believe. I really do.

That‘s more than Napoleon lost in Russia in one of history‘s most remarkable military blunders. So the Russians can‘t even look back at that fondly anymore. It‘s truly insane.