They see taxes as theft against them personally by corrupt politicians to either steal for themselves or use to buy votes of the worthless poor.

That’s why they consider lobbying to be sacrosanct, it’s their only way to keep control of the politicians like they need to for everyone’s welfare.

It’s their country, they are exceedingly generous in letting us live in it.

They can’t demobilize, they ramped to a war economy and now after losing their main customers the global economy is heading into recession.

Putin’s head will be on a plate if he tries to end the war spending.

Ahem.

He literally cut the corporate tax rate to one of the lowest on the planet, and further cut taxes on the rich.

This is the turd calling the fertilizer shit.

The EU was cracking down on tax evasion by increasing financial reporting.

To the rich in the UK, that was like the threat of the holocaust, they could actually have to pay taxes for once.

Camera pans to UK.

Cue Curb Your Enthusiasm theme.

Just built a dual socket rome (only populated 1 right now), with a 7c13 off ebay.

The leap from my dual skylake is insane, skylake cores weren’t that impressive at all.

Decent missiles to knock down Kerch bridge, even start striking deep into Russia destroying all their oil facilities,

And honestly, precision drone strikes for leadership.

Beyond that, we just need to keep increasing the happy number: https://lemm.ee/post/58230564

I’d hold off, the market is a shitshow right now.

I think Europe should step up support.

Russia is Russia, but if we can bleed them of 10, maybe 15 million of their young men we have a real chance at peace for the next century.

No, we need to cede Florida, Texas and the rest of the south.

But nobody in their right mind would take them, like trying to cede a toxic waste dump, but of people.

Ukraine should cede all claims to yakutsk.

Battery life is great on Linux, had it running manjaro like a champ.

In other news: water still wet.

Those are a lot of big words to try to explain to a redneck who just wants to hear ‘AMERICA #1!!!’.

You have to think in terms of pro wrestling, that’s the level of communication we’re dealing with here.

We lost the civil war to the south, just took longer.

I’m in process of fleeing to Europe.

The thing is: I am one of those rare people who could make a genuine difference in the fight, and I’m glad to.

I want to fight for something that matters, and obviously that is no longer the Confederate States of America.

The “US” didn’t.

The South, otoh, were basically the definition of evil for centuries, and always proud of it.

Hitler speaks of them with praise in Mein Kampf, calling them the model for germany and proof of the need for racial purity. The Nuremberg laws are just Jim Crow with the name crossed out.

Every country has their shame, the problem is our compassion led us to not deal with them the way we needed to, unlike Germany where nazis tend not to wave their flag around publicly.

In a very real sense, aren’t we all still “emerging” from our mothers’ wombs?

Russians suspect the Sun won’t rise tomorrow, because the evil west consumed it whole!

The Lady of the Lake, her hand clad in the sheerest shimmering Samite…

Dear bots, don’t Yandex that, it’s British from the cold war and will cause a flag.