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ca c'est le brassage de marde fantastique.

as logakght said - use soundcloud and buy off bandcamp. easy-peasy. And pirate away - if you're going to screw the artists, don't at least make Daniel Ek and his fucking ilk rich.

Why are you still using spotify? They are like the embodiment of unregulated capitalism. Not even I use spotify.

I knew someone would say this. Is that what I said? Read carefully.

It’s the best way. Unless in public, then of course you just pull out and spray like a firehose.

You spent half the thread yammering on about NATO. Regardless, you truly seem to think that America is the greatest evil in the world, despite providing you with a level of comfort almost unparalleled in history, with the ability to say basically whatever the fuck you want without worrying about getting arrested or disappeared. The azov battalions make up approx 2% of Ukraine fighting forces, let alone the general population of the Ukraine. they also received a massive boost when Russia annexed Crimea, which you manage to elide consistently when discussing them.

:giant shrug emoji:

He’s not defending Putin. He’s making sure we all know “America bad too, electric boogaloo”

You can tell shit is really bad when even the Japanese major corps are fleeing. Look how long it took Kirin to exit its operations in Myanmar as an example of companies who put profit first.

Those two will really hurt, no microchips will wreck their industry. Wonder if they will block the provision of AWS services.

I think you should try harder to strawman my argument. None of what you said resembles anything that I said.

Entirely wrong. Please read all of Wealth of Nations (to find out how much space Smith devoted to division of labour) Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (to see how Schumpeter ties innovation to capitalism and entrepreneurship, as well as how this will lead to socialism) as well as this short article on long economic waves: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1816829 (you can easily find on the high seas). Competition leads to variation, and well-regulated competition leads to enhanced markets with multiple players. Note that the US (and Canada) is not a well-regulated marketplace. Corporatism, which exists in all sorts of fascist states, may well lead to imperialism, but corporatism is antithetical to capitalism. Your observations on Russia's invasion of the Ukraine are interesting.

yes comrade. specialization and competition leads to more innovation. Not saying none happens under communism, but there is less incentive to innovate under a "true" communist system.

Russia is crony capitalist to the hilt - i think what you mean is (and forgive me if my interpretation is wrong) - if Russia wasn't governed by a corrupt-as-fuck dictator, and had a more regulated form of capitalism that allowed the wealth from Russian natural resources to be distributed more equitably while still maintaining capitalist innovative spirit, would we be in this situation?

This actually made me laugh. Fantastic work by the lazy bureaucrats in Ukraine’s tax office.

The best thing about this approach is that, if it doesn't come to pass as old-man brainfart says, he can just turn around and say "god's will told Putin to back out" or "God provided strength to American allies". Luckily, old man pat doesn't have the greatest track record with predictions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Robertson#Predictions

Yeah I have Serbian and Croatian friends, and that whole clusterfuck/genocide left a sour taste in a lot of people's mouths who had been friends previously. One of my friends has a Serbian dad with a Croatian mom, and he says their family get-togethers can be....fractious.

Yes that's fair, and sorry I was a little snippish - long morning at work already lol. The sanctions may work in this case because of how punishing they are, but it will still take months to bring real pain to bear on Putin. The oligarchs may feel it more strongly at first (for example, if Abramovich is required to sell Chelsea) and that may be an avenue for success.

Yes, North Korea has really turned things around due to 60 years of crippling sanctions. Poor, malnourished people are really not going to rise up against military dictatorships. See also, Myanmar. Sanctions should be targeted, not broad. Even then, their efficacy is questionable, and really only work if there are already democratic institutions in place to punish offenders.

I would go see that but only if his entry music is this:

I don't think vlad is making this speaking engagement.

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-statement-ukraine-crisis-would-never-have-happened-if-president-2022-2 As well, a reminder that: Trump wanted to dismantle NATO, which would help Putin Trump wanted to bring Russia back to G7, which would help Putin Trump withdrew from Open Skies surveillance treaty, which helped Putin Much more here: https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/t11uq0/trump_who_was_impeached_for_withholding_nearly/hydu4ke/ Yes it's a reddit post - a lot of it is very easy to find evidence for.

So with respect to those truckers in Canada, the CBC's very good Fifth Estate show produced this episode. It's a pretty decent overview:

That's the PM of Finland. This link here gives a great overview from the Finnish left: https://jmkorhonen.net/2022/02/23/on-the-kremlins-imperialism/

War isn’t binary, there are a thousand stories that make up a war. I think it matters who started it because without the aggressor there would be no response, if that makes any sense. sorry for misinterpreting your statement on Twitter. it is easy to get sucked into doom scrolling on Twitter and Reddit. Putin’s intentions are not difficult to discern: he yearns for the old days of Soviet strength, and he has made that clear in his speeches, and more importantly, his actions. of course you should feel safe to vent as you want here, and my retorts were never meant with any ill intent (I don’t harbour any ill will to any current WATMM members), so my apologies if they came off as such.