Nothing a little ducktape won’t fix

Yeah, I have no problem with any people in general. But I’ve got lots and lots of problems with Jews, Muslims, Russians, Belgians, the Swiss, Kenyans, brunettes, Inuits or anyone else when they decide to invade countries for the purposes of removing their people and moving in their own.

The US is doing a LOT of dubious shit, but not invading other countries for the reason of annexing it and replacing the population with your own (thats more of a historic thing, but that’s a historic thing for pretty much every country)

Google search became shit when they made the guy in charge of ads also in charge of search.

The point isn’t the US economy. The point is stockmarket manipulation to get Trump and his friends more money.

That’s literally the only reason.

Even the kids in the story are mostly fine with it though. It’s good and proper to have slaves, and even the idea of free elves is something to be mocked by everyone.

A big issue is that they still exist in the “happily ever after” situation.

When the horribly flawed government is now horribly flawed with good dictators, there is still massive racism and slavery that everyone approves of.

Ask what Tasha Yar thinks about that

not overhauling it too much to “respect three decades of muscle memory.”

Haha, yeah right. The current start menu is basically useless.

This is absolutely terrible, and anyone involved in this need to be tried for warcrimes. But as bad as it is, this isn’t a war of agression, or intentional genocide.

And I’d also like to point out that the british people DID infact remove that government. They did exactly the thing that we’d all like to see happen in Russia. The opposite of hipocrisy.

I dunno, the number of western countries actively invading another country for the purpose of displacing the population and taking their land by moving in their own people can’t be very high. I definitely can’t name “quite a few”.

Really? I’m pretty sure my country isn’t invading anyone, isn’t kidnapping children, isn’t bombing civilians, etc etc.

What’s the hypocricy?

It’s kinda dumb to kill the president you just bought. They’re just going to spy on him and enjoy the priviledge that comes with this bribe

I don’t really understand how he could use this as Air Force One.

Oh simple, none of those issues even remotely passed through his brain.

All of your points are great, but if you looked beyond monetary value, many industries that used to produce things that increase the welfare of your citizens are now used to wage war.

Exactly! that’s the entire point. On page 2 of the summary it looks great on paper, but if you actually start looking at the reports, you’re going to see it’s actually getting worse and worse.

I love your example, and it’s a great way to show the difference between spending and investing. Buying a an expensive gun is spending money looks good right now but it doesn’t DO anything. Buying a cheap sewing machine is investing, maybe not much, but over time you’ll add value to the entire economy.

And downvoted like all AI slop should be

“Tesla Employees Against Musk. There’s no you in TEAM!”

Why can’t both of those be true? Should Europe ignore Russia until they CAN march into Amsterdam? There are far too many corpses in Ukraine not to take them seriously, regardless of economics.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

And the sanctions make the numbers bigger. Russia needs to spend more to get the same, which means they’re getting less for the same amount of money, sweat, genius and hopes.

And that’s a win.

It’s normal for a war economy to “grow”. When a government is buying all the tanks, guns and bullets it can, that’s absolutely amazing for the economy as a whole. Government spending increases generally drive growth (never mind that this just drives debt up and can send your country into a spiral)

Inflation, usually as a result from the former, also makes numbers go up. And if you intentionally undercount accidentally underestimate inflation, it goes up even more! You can always increase interest to keep up (if you dont have massive debt from the former).

You reduce exports of cheap raw materials and start using them yourself to make expensive war materials that look great on your books (but which don’t actually make your country any money, unlike the raw materials).

Getting more soldiers is great for employment numbers, and industry will also need more people. Governments competing with industry drives wages up (and government reserves down).

War generally requires new infrastructure, which is great for countries that have neglected it for decades (unfortunately getting bombed tends to make said improvements rather short term, and only to places nobody wants to go).

So as long as you’re not collapsing under debt (and if you can steal from private citizens, you can keep going for a bit) and your civilian industry hasn’t quite collapsed yet (Russians excel at suffering) and you haven’t undergone population collapse (15 and 70 make for great soldiers, right?) your economy looks great to anyone not looking too closely.