It's so pervasive and so large that people just assume that, like death and taxes, it's always going to be there to the point that politicians only run on holding the debt steady now, which, with the magic of baseline budgeting, meaning that it will only continue to grow at the current rate.
It's the one thing about the "boil-a-frog" metaphor that really worked: people will accept anything if it hangs around long enough. It becomes the new normal. And then they are surprised when it all falls down, like in the Soviet Union.
I used to be notorious for linking forum threads together within the discussions. It's one of the great things about this format.
IMHO the problem with HOAs is the same problem with all democratic governments, committees, and bureaucracies.
This is basically what it feels like. Either that, or eminent domain. "We need this for a uh er freeway project yeah that's it."
It's funny how much German lives rent-free in the Russian mind.
Khazars reclaiming their true homeland and intentionally emptying it of Slavs. It’s disgusting.
The Khazar hypothesis went nowhere once the genetic data came out. Ukrainians are West Slavs, Russians are East Slavs. Big difference.
Sort of. They will be added to what we already use. There is going to be a drone war now where counter-drone drones will be deployed and then automated. It will parallel the history of aircraft, which first shot each other down during observation raids, then dropped bombs, and finally were held off with automated anti-aircraft missiles.
The crime families in power at the present are filling their diapers and drooling about the estimated 73 trillion dollars of natural resources that the Russians rightfully possess... that maggot Zelensky sold his soul to the A.C. /son of perdition, so far the price is near one million innocent Ukrainian lives.... an entire generation of people dead....a genocide in it own right..... it's so blatantly clear that the current crime families in power provoked this fuck'en genocide..a person would need to be willfully blind or complicit not to see this shit...... the worst is yet to come....
Resource wars are common. Wait until people are fighting over food and fresh water. Many skulls.
No ...... once again you misunderstood, I don't want any of my hard earned money, tax money pissed away on someone else's fucking problem ..... only on my country's needs is where my tax dollars should be spent.... fuck the Russian/Ukrainian genocide..... fuck the Isreali/Palestinian genocide.....none of our business ..... billions for the Ukrainian border and none for our borders...... half a million Chinese soldiers have invaded my nation and will attack when that maggot Xi instructs them to do as much....This ^
The lion’s share was ALWAYS going to the U.S. directly or indirectly.
The MAGAts were either too dumb, or too invested in helping Putin, to be honest about where the money was really going - or a dangerous combination of both.
Avoiding WW3 is cheaper than saving money in the short term.
At the present we are in world war 3 when it arrives at our shores these war mongering whores will receive a very rude awakening.... but by then it'll be to late....
So you want to pay a shit ton more money for all of the things you buy because you think that isn't part of the problem globally.
We are at the very least in a Cold War II with Russia-China.
