Come on, Freedom Loving Nations like Russia don’t use them to monitor their Totally Fair and Unbiased Elections.
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Come on, Freedom Loving Nations like Russia don’t use them to monitor their Totally Fair and Unbiased Elections.
And here I am having been introduced to the acronym via WP:POV
They pulled a bunch of emergency levers then to stabilize the ruble (and the economy as a whole). Thing is, emergency levers are emergency levers. You can’t just keep pulling them. It’s been predicted for a while that Russia would not be able to prop up its economy forever.
It tickles me pickle! Ban it post haste!
I get the point you’re trying to make, but it wouldn’t be at all out of character.
I’m just going to not bother giving a fuck, since that’s what they want out of me.
Nah, the “anti-woke” crowd is already going after Chick Fil A. They dared to have a DEI position. The horror!
Same as any strongman leader. Talking tough reliably gets votes from a certain type of voter, even if what is proposed is utterly insane.
Technically the truth?
There is a breed of pug, retro pugs, that is a Jack Russell terrier mix. They have elongated snouts, leading to a happier life. Most of the health problems that are unique to pugs, poof, gone.
And looking more broadly, how much of any given system’s death toll should be counted, and in what way. Mao caused massive amounts of death with the Great Leap Forward, which arguably would not have happened under a system that relied less on central management and more on capitalism’s distributed feedback mechanisms. Then there were purges, suppression campaigns, and land reforms that resulted in productivity losses.
But comparing that with a capitalist country that is a liberal democracy is hard. There are a lot of factors involved. Case in point: there was solid growth in China and the USSR. But we can’t make a direct comparison between them and the West. China and the USSR were playing catch up using technologies produced by capitalist countries. Take tractors, which immensely boosted productivity. Those were sourced from the West, at least initially.
They are WASPs for the most part, but the mentality behind WASPs is a dying breed so no one wants to date them anymore.
WASP = White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. It’s a reach, but it’s funny so I’ll give it to them.
Quite literally. It’s a shared project between Belgium and France.
The problem is landlords who don’t give a fuck about their tenants and are fixated on squeezing the most out of them. I currently own my house, but my previous landlords were very diligent with repairs and kept rent increases to inflation. They knew we were dependable tenants who paid rent on time and were going to leave the place in decent shape.
But yes, renting can absolutely have unscrupulous landlords. Large investors especially use rental pricing software to press tenants to their absolute limit. It becomes a form of price fixing.