derek-the-viking.bsky.social
I'm a nobody.
It's a problem everywhere that people care more about the price of oil and gas, than they do about genocide that isn't happening to them.
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Or if you meant the fire meme - my YouTube is playing up, but search for: "I Accidentally Became A Meme - disaster girl"
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It's a gripping experience. My advice - make sure you're detached from interruptions and turn the volume up. The soundstage is incredible.
m.imdb.com/title/tt7160...
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Btw, there's an interesting (brief) video on YouTube where the girl in the photo (now a woman) explains it.
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Yeah. But the background needs to be Russia 😁
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Thanks. Yes, a really good film. Not as good as 'The Zone of Interest' (2023?) though.
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I'm not overly impressed with the man's policy positions that I saw in the 2020 Dem battle. But this is a beautifully concise and effective piece of communication.
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Biden was the best of those you list. Harris might've been better. The Obamas and Clintons were, probably still are corporate Democrats who got America into this mess in the first place.
Two words: wealth inequality.
Don't address it? This is the consequence.
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I can't remember the name of that film, but it was great.
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If you have the time and skills, change the background 👍
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Big Badaboom!
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lol.
Where's that one with the little girl and the smirk?
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A good proportion of people who voted for Trump and co. did so out of sheer policy ignorance.
But yes, it could just as easily be sold: "The Dems didn't let us go hard enough". Impossible right now - as Dems have no blocking power. When they had it, they didn't fucking use it!
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If they're hurting as bad or worse in the next few years, their options will be to go harder on 'enemies' or flip. Hard to say which way people will go. One thing about polarisation is that it goes both way. Trump barely won, really. And when ALL incumbents were getting turfed.
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That's epic footage. Very iconic. It should be on all the news channels, all day.
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This is great and all. But it's too hard as a consumer to know this stuff. It's the stockists that have to stop stocking it.
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Makes perfect sense.
That'll fix all our wealth inequality problems that we don't want to talk about, let alone fix.
God-damned neo-cons. Just tax the rich, help the poor. They will not give a damn about trans issues if you fix wealth inequality.
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Joke will be on them. Most of the igloos will be decoys. Only SOME igloos will have the jets in them.
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I don't agree. They're hurting Canadians *right now*. It's not just words - it's deeds.
You just don't spend billions of dollars on military equipment from someone who is threatening to invade or subjugate you AND who is currently hurting you financially.
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Maybe they'll build ice tunnels 🤔 😆
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If America denies parts and expertise you have a reduced capability aircraft for much higher cost. You just don't buy tech from countries that threaten to invade you. It's really that simple.
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I wonder who that guy is. He's made a couple of fairly interesting videos. And what's weird is it's on a national broadcaster - but it doesn't "feel" like it. Maybe he's commissioned to make videos, rather than an employee. Interesting.
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But they are still getting 32 F35s. As the snippet showed, the Rafale doesn't play with the US-supplied aircraft so well. And the Typhoon manufacturing pipeline might not work.
I believe Australia chose not to buy more F35s too. Instead keeping their Super Hornets to work with the F35s.
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Why not?
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Sweden had such a deal for Brazil. So this is entirely unsurprising.
Gripen in Canada's climate, with those mountains and highways. Limited numbers of military personnel to maintain it. It's made for Canada. It even has a longer range than the F35! (i didn't know that, i just checked).
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I am not a fan of Macron. Because like almost every western democratic leader he's more neo-con than democratic socialist. But i do have to admire his political craftsmanship. Now he needs to start taxing the super-rich.
France is an interesting country, politically speaking.
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He was wary in the early days, but when he flipped to full-throated support for Ukraine - he properly flipped.
I don't hold it against him. He needed to know this fight was going to stay, that Ukraine wasn't going to fold. He has been more talk than action though.
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Sorry, i saw the article after posting. Slow down Derek!
"Due to the threat of an oil leak"
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What was the reason?
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The constitution doesn't feel a thing.
Pointing to the constitution is not the best defence against such destructive acts. It's a piece of paper. If i were king, i'd change a LOT about it. Pointing to the god-damned harm they are doing to society and the country should be no.1 attack mode.
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Flying sux though. I understand both your points 🙂
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*Croatians
Sigh. I got it right once, wrong once. My kingdom for a 60 second edit capability!
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For Croations?
I have to admit, i kind of assumed that Croatia could be a little like Italy. Lots of old places with no one to live in them. A friend of mine years ago (of Croatian heritage) bought a place in Croatia and while not to the scale of Italy he indicated it was like that in some towns.
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Shame about the flight time. But i suppose you'd spend the whole flight with a giant smile on your face.
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Maybe they'll figure it out soon. Maybe.
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This is tough.
If i were young, i think i would leave. I haven't accumulated assets. Don't have a house. Why stay? Family? If i were the father of a 20 year old man or woman - i would tell them to leave.
But imagine being 50, with a house. And just giving it to the Russians. I would NEVER forgive.
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I don't buy it.
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Stop the flow of eggs into USA!!
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I'd also dig a moat between it and St Petersburg.
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I think they're trying it, yeah.
Thing is, businesses aren't run for the benefit of the employees. So it will fail, eventually. Eventually people will revolt. It's just a matter of how much they can take. In a sense, democracy allows for peaceful revolt. Autocracy does not. It will turn violent.
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What is it called if someone just thinks it's a great historical document that needs drastic adjustments, but the means to do so are too difficult?
Or that the constitution has become something like a religious document, used it to justify a position, instead of using critical thinking to justify?