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We were born too early to witness the sack of Rome, but we have been born just in time to witness the death of its farcical imitation.

I'm preemptively making a prediction to be wrong about

Well chaps, I want to wish you all good fucking luck in WW3

What does he say? I can't be bothered to use tiktok.

On Zizek as a whole, I distinctly remember somebody asking him something about Kosovo, when there were talks that it was gonna be partitioned once and for all. He says that he supports it, in that Kosovo gives Serbia the obviously serbian parts, which is common sense. But then, for a guy living in the balkans, he says something unimaginably stupid and pretty much racist. He thinks that kosovo should get a part of Sandzak (which is a province of Serbia containing a majority Bosniak population), as if he cannot imagine that maybe Bosniaks are satisfied with the way things are right now, as opposed to living in a country where their language (and consequently the language of the majority of South Slavs) is actively being suppressed. As if that would be good thing simply pertaining to the fact that they share a religion with the Albanians of kosovo. Also the notion that Serbia should give something up to make it fair, as if simply recognizing the territory which was illegally taken from it isn't enough. If this is how informed he is on the region he hails from, you can imagine the credibility of his opinions in regards to foreign policy in general.

I mean yeah, but let's not kid ourselves on who the shot callers in the EU are. I guess I was wrong about the Germans, but I have no doubt that if the French and the British decided to go with America, they would as well (and the rest of the EU being hipnotized by russophobia, they would easily fall in line). Don't forget, the number of US military bases in Germany.

Another thing that I forgot to mention is also obviously the fact that the europeans are bying american gas at much higher price than they used to buy russian. All because of their dumb little neoliberal ideology.

Europe, during that shift, will either join the US in failing or just easily slide over into more equal footing with the rest of the world.

I mean, will they? I don't have the graph right now, but I'm pretty sure that the EU in the case of global redistribution, would literally be the only ones who would lose out. Even the US, with how unequal it is, would on average actually stand to gain

I think this is enticing, and could fit Laussen's contradiction because Europeans are pretty self-righteous and maybe unwilling to fully subsumed themselves to US interests when against their own.

I mean, we literally had that in the Nixon shock, where they lost out on exchanging their dollars for gold, and they didn't make too much of a fuss. Even before, the british in the form of debtors gave up their companies, liquid reserves, and the frozen account of 15b pound sterling with their colonies just to pay off lend-lease, only to then later on get fucked in the position of creditor themselves by the aforementioned Nixon shock. It's just that in every situation they could have gotten out of being under the american yoke, they always proved subservient anyway, even when their own interest should've been paramount.

Besides, I agree with xiaohongsh@hexbear.net that China's best bet is to lift the global south out of poverty by a new Marshall Plan, rather than to hedge their bets on the EU. They're simply too unreliable, driven by a neoliberal ideology which mainly concerns itself with defending themselves from muh gommunism (now in the form of Russia and China).

I've had it for about a week now, I've kept the outbreak from getting too bad but it still itches so bad, and I have it EVERYWHERE. On my face and lips, I have a patch in my ear, on my dick, all over my hands and arms, everything is suffering. I already washed myself with dish soap so it's not spreading anymore but goddamn if this isn't hell

He must've made a recent visit to a nursing home and she got jealous. Only reason I can think of

If this causes a 30 years war in the US, but this time a Orthodox vs. Catholic vs. Protestant battle royale, I'm all for this.

You have 5 seconds to beat it before I add you to the list of NSF casualties

GTA Gooner City

The funny thing is, up until now, it was a dead man's race. The students trying to resolve their contradictions of revolutionary fervor and liberally brainwormed non-violence (which has now been resolved by embracing those liberal brainworms and with them, representative democracy) and Vucic, who is just laughably incompetent. Unlike his predecessor Milosevic, he has absolutely 0 backing in any discernible ideology whatsoever, other than pure clientelism and self-interest. His regime is a house of cards, it's only the students' disorganization and their fanatic adherence to non-violence that has kept him in the game this long.