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  1. Russia makes it illegal to show "propaganda" that shows that childless life is fun.  TV shows like FRIENDS would be banned.  Russia is currently losing 500,000 people per year.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/world/europe/russia-child-free-lifestyles.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Zk4.eQ0U.QfDT0otNeYuO&smid=url-share

     

    Russian lawmakers on Tuesday voted to ban the advocacy of child-free lifestyles, in a move that is part of a broader effort by the Kremlin to reverse a falling birthrate and promote the country as a bastion of traditional values that is battling a decadent West.

    The State Duma, or lower house of Parliament, unanimously approved a bill that would ban any form of “propaganda” promoting the “refusal to have children.” That would include material on the internet, in media outlets, in movies and in advertising that portrays child-free lifestyles as attractive.

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  2. 5 hours ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

    Because I know that any citation of civilian deaths at the hands of the American military will be dismissed out of hand as "whataboutism," I will only put forth a token effort to make the argument. And to say, "yeah what about Afghanistan, Iraq, and Vietnam? And by proxy, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras? And The Phillippines circa 1900? (Read Mark Twain's diaries on our atrocities there.) Of all people, who are we to pontificate about the civilian casualties inflicted by others? Of course, we have had the decency to confine most of ours to brown people, so we didn't rip the fart in church Putin has in that regard. And we always believe we have learned our lesson and won't do the same in the next war, and then the next war rolls around, and it's the same ol' same ol'. "The enemy was using them as human shields." "We acted off bad intel." 

    "what, you think we're so innocent?"

  3. 2 hours ago, pops said:

    Yep. They done. Putin just sent them back to 1970 and it isn't changing. Hope the younger generation enjoyed a quasi taste of freedom for the past 20 or so years. Now I hope they enjoy wiping their ass with rubles trying to figure out why instagram doesn't work. 

    Now,  fuck China. Isn't there somewhere else nike and apple can pay slave wages to workers?

     

    1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:


    Then lock them out of the rest of the world. 100% sanctions. No commerce. No Russians allowed to travel to sanctioning countries. Nothing. If they aren’t willing to be members of the civilized world, then they don’t get the privileges of membership. Let them starve. The oligarchs will thrive, the rest will wither and die. Return to the worst days of the Soviet Union. This is what they want - it’s their authoritarian dream. Let them live it.

    there's not going to be some global boycott of an oil rich country for any meaningful length of time.

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  4. 3 hours ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

    that's a good close look at all the b.s.

     

    it also serves as a nice focus on the populist side of the right.  you can have these educated people up there, but the most prominent split is between those actively courting votes because their ego says they should have higher office, and those that don't have direct interaction with voters.  the latter can tend to have some decency and say 'this is a bridge too far,' while those in that are beholden to their retarded voter base have to keep up the act no matter the cost to the country.

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  5. On 12/28/2021 at 10:08 AM, OneOfTheOutOfFocusGuys said:

    Hulk Hogan - 68

    Dwight Gooden - 57

    Jared Leto - 50

    Dick Cheney - 80

    Pope Francis - 85

    Barry Sanders - 53

    Gene Hackman - 91

    Joe Biden - 79

    Madeleine Albright - 84

    Kieran Culkin - 39

    that's a bingo!

  6. 4 minutes ago, MillerEP said:

    https://www.politico.com/interactives/2022/ukraine-european-allies-matrix/

    How loyal are Ukraine’s Western allies?
    We’ve plotted 35 countries joining the EU, NATO and G-7 summits in Brussels this week according to their level of Russia skepticism and economic dependencies.
    By RYAN HEATH and BEATRICE JIN

    image.thumb.png.e17527674b4077ce0d39bf8f8c45bbb9.png

    lol switzerland.  i'd like to see the chart that doesn't show them with close economic ties to someone horrible

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