That isn’t pretty good insurance.

It’s what most employees will settle for.

A society that does not accept the blame for the actions of its own people has no hope of changing the course in a positive direction.

Pff, not me. I’m going to become a bank robber.

They aren’t reciprocal tariffs. Reciprocal tariffs are matched to an existing tariff from the target nation. That’s what reciprocal means.

This idiot thinks trade is a zero sum game and therefore any import imbalance is theft.

Accepting his deliberately false wording is accepting his agenda.

In English it’s “With friends like these, who needs enemies?”

Apparently coined by an early 20th century comedian, but I wouldn’t put a lot of stock in that origin.

Becoming Russian, of having a PM that cheats on her husband?

Decisions decisions

Maybe right wingers just like to removed about everything

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Yeah, that checks out.

I don’t think it is common knowledge.

It’s also a good excuse to [redacted and illegal act of protest]

Yeah, a profit cap is a much different beast than a price cap.

That was when they were meeting to negotiate SA not continuing to fuck Russia’s economy into the ground with a trade war on oil prices.

Which does imply they might be convinced to do it again.

Nah, this is based.

💪Citizen Soldier Time 💪

By making it about mandatory training (presumably in small blocks) instead of enslaving your citizens into the army for a couple years of their life you’re actually promoting liberty and demystifying military service while making your nation harder to invade. You also just naturally have an out for pacifists and other noncombatants, the training doesn’t necessarily have to be martial, logistics arguably matter more.

This is literally one of the founding premises of a classical Republic, that all citizens are responsible for defending each other. Not that their definition of citizen was particularly open or perfect, but still.

Assuming they’re telling the truth about how they’re going to handle it, anyways.

Obviously it’d be better if they had an anarchist revolution and smashed the state, but guess what everyone needs to be doing to protect their society if they do that?

A 15% bootlicker quotient is actually amazing, the global average is 30%

I’m surprised the lower class peasants are allowed to read in the first place.

And gobbles Trump’s knob publicly.

They won’t need a law to force compliance.

Azur Lane was better because the best ships were American, as Gawd intended.

Yes, the well known anti-imperialism of FRANCE.

They labelled those parts of the connected landmass with those separate labels so people wouldn’t complain that some parts didn’t belong to the culturally arbitrary grouping.

The point of the map is to demonstrate that Africa is larger than all of those geopolitically relevant areas, and those connected bits fit into the space so it was included. Don’t think too much about it.

No, it’s not. That’s why it has its own specific label…