I saw this earlier.
This fucking guy is the Russian president of Alpha Bank...of Trump Tower server infamy. And he's wondering how he's going to survive. Oh, I don't know motherfucker, you could always get a real job and bootstrap your way up like you rich fuckers always expect everybody else to do?
Or, I don't know, maybe sell some of your shit that's worth millions of dollars?
Get a loan with an absurdly low interest rate and start some new venture in a country that isn't launching an entirely unnecessary, vicious war against a smaller neighboring country and losing?
Fuck around and find out, yo.
That sound you hear is me laughing at your dumb ass.
This is what happens when you could have done something, but didn't. And let me tell you something else...you wonder why a lot of Western media, conservatives in general, the Republicans in particular and at least some of the West's wealthy all the sudden have their noses up Vladimir Putin's ass?
Because a lot of These Fucking People see this fucking guy and suddenly realize they could be next, if they back the wrong horse or do the wrong thing or offend We The People or a government that genuinely represents us...and, spoiler...a hell of a lot of them have done just that. So they want to see if they can recover some of the costs they've (politically) sunk into this bullshit.
They want to find a way to protect themselves from things like democracy and freedom and public opinion.
That's the whole basis for a lot of "Conservative" talk these days, especially bitching about things like "Cancel Culture."
Privilege. Completely unearned fucking Privilege.
I'm fucking sorry, but I'm goddamned fucking tired of the utterly ridiculous amount of solicitude in the media and the political class for authoritarian leaders and rich motherfuckers. If dude is worried he won't be "allowed" (WTF?!?!) to have a cleaner or a driver...dude, clean up after yourself and learn how to drive your own fucking car. Ain't nothing in the world for getting shit done like "Do It Your-own-damn-self." And you might even feel like you accomplished something, too.Oh yeah, that's right, isn't it? This flag was meant only for the rest of us, not for you fuckers. Well, your Army flies the Hammer and Sickle, sooner or later y'all gonna have to own that bitch again.
Y'all just mad 'cause we made it "Sooner." You don't...and shouldn't...get to reap the benefits of Capitalism and liberal democratic global order and Western lifestyles and wealth while flying that goddamned flag. Not least because the whole modern global system that made your asses rich came about because of the fall of Communism.
Nothing quite supercharged global Capitalism like over a billion Chinese suddenly being able to be (even if on a very limited scale individually as cheap labor) a part of it, plus the sudden availability of resources in former East Bloc countries and Russia itself, and later the entry of China into global finance as a moneyed power in its own right...a set of circumstances that places like Sub-Saharan Africa where the West and Russia haven't really invested in have actually reaped some benefits from.You fuckers decided you wanted to let Putin party like it's 1979...but trying to erase Ukraine instead of Afghanistan this time? And then you idiots basically got BTFO'd with one punch by the Ukrainians because your army is unmotivated conscripts led by incompetent officers and nobody knows what's going on...and you idiots couldn't even bother to outfit this snowballing soup sandwich properly.
And then you lost your ass financially? Dude, the fuck else were you expecting was going to happen?
And yet somehow, the most aggravating thing I encountered today was finding out that some high-horse, willfully-pig-ignorant "Conservative" is fucking surprised that rich people are debased motherfuckers awash in drugs, orgiastic fornication and various and sundry evil deeds.
Dude, you don't seriously think some bitter ass old KGB dude like Vladimir Putin is a devout Christian...much less some kind of misplaced American-style Culture Warrior conservative in real life, do you?
Dude has dedicated himself to the destruction of America and to violent Russian ethno-nationalism. If you ain't already Russian, that don't benefit you, especially if you're an American.
A lot of people better learn this shit real fast, 'cause as regards that global order that Reagan and Bush 41 and Bill Clinton built, we're falling and we better figure something out real damn fast.
It's not so much Gravity, as it is that sudden stop at the bottom, that's the killer.
You know, I can at least understand and empathize with president Zelensky's lack of comprehension about the sociopathic Russian lack of care even for the dead...much less the living...because I share it myself. Why? Because the tradition from which I come, the nation that I served, says we're citizen-soldiers who, whether we're alive or dead, get to go home when it's over.
The Russian government put all these soldiers in this situation, and simply cannot be bothered to even pick up their dead or treat them with any respect if they do?
Fuck all that.
I can sure understand why so many of the Russian soldiers don't even want to be there. I wouldn't either. Especially if I knew all this was being done in the service of bitter old KGB Men and filthy-rich oligarchs who don't know how to clean up after they own damn selves. And knowing they wouldn't even carry or drag my ass back to friendly lines if I was dead or dying?
Fuck that, too.
I wouldn't want to serve a country where my best chance would be for me to get captured by the enemy or have them pick up my corpse after I died.
And the thing I don't get is...and I say this as somebody who has invested some time and some work into America myself...I sure as hell don't get why so many Americans want America to be like Russia and then they show more solicitude and sympathy to the oligarchs and political leaders who fucking caused this fucking war than they do to the people who are getting bombed and fighting for their freedoms and their very lives.
And then I think about it, and I realize that one hell of a lot of Americans just want to be that fucker who's so rich he doesn't have to clean himself and a hell of a lot of those fucking people somehow see authoritarianism as a goddamned shortcut to that kind of life.Freedom isn't free, remember?
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it, and then hand it to them with the well fought lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the same. And if you and I don't do this, then you and I may well spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it once was like in America when men were free. ~Ronald Reagan.
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Will Turner : You knew my father.
Pintel : Old Bootstrap Bill? Aye, we knew him. Never sat well with old Bootstrap, what we did to Jack Sparrow. That's why he sent a piece of the treasure off to you, as it were. He said that we deserved to be cursed... and remain cursed. A' course, that didn't sit too well with the captain.
Ragetti : No, that didn't sit to well with the captain at all... Tell 'im what Barbossa did.
Pintel : [angry] I'm telling the story. So, what the captain did is, he strapped a cannon to Bootstrap's bootstraps.
Ragetti : [snickering quietly] Bootstrap's bootstraps...
Pintel : And the last we saw of old Bill Turner, he was sinkin' into the crushing black oblivion of Davy Jones' Locker. Course, it was only after that we learned we needed his blood to lift the curse.
Ragetti : Now that's what you'd call ironic.
~From Pirates Of The Caribbean.
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