I grew up in the LA suburbs in the 60s and 70s. I lived in a barrio. My neighbors were constantly getting harassed by the police.

I worked as a consultant for a long time. I learned that anyone who starts a question with “Why don’t we just…” generally doesn’t understand the problem.

That would make sense if corporate bureaucracy was not bureaucracy. But it is.

Only when we make sure there are consequences. There’s no such thing as karma.

I don’t care if the company collapsed at this point.

I care. I want it to collapse, leading to a debt cascade that wipes out all the rest of Musk’s holdings. Then I want Musk’s world to collapse on him.

Good start.

In that case, every stack that you use is riddled with those and we are all hosed. And yet somehow your computer, your phone and the internet keep on working most of the time.

No, he really does not, not in any way. Or if he does, he doesn’t care. He’s a soulless, power-mad sociopath, with no more human feeling than a cockroach has.

He’s not going to miss an opportunity to play the victim.

If Vancey-pants went on home and self-immolated, the kid would be better off in the long run.

Corbyn never understood how to work the media. He was also appallingly naive about the intentions of fascists like Putin, and was far too trusting of other authoritarian shitheads, just because they were not allied with the US. And when the right-wing press manufactured the antisemitism scandal, he failed to manage it, or even take it seriously. He lacks street smarts.

I voted for him, I despise centrists, but you’d have to be looking the other way to deny that Corbyn was an even less effective leader than Starmer is.

You’re making the same error that was pushed by propagandists during the US election: Harris and Biden were far from perfect, so support Trump. It was an idiotic and irrational thing to do, and we are paying the consequences for it now. Don’t do it again over here.

In my own personal experience of bullying, the only thing that worked was becoming stronger and smarter than the bullies, and then hurting them badly. Peace through being a hard target. I think it’s a principle that applies on the larger political scale, too. Those people don’t care about sweet reason. The only thing that will make them stop is the use of power.

Guess what: appeasement never works.

And yet Musk decides who gets fired and that’s not changing.

Typical Trump doubletalk. He’s lying to his own cabinet.

If they do Putin will lose support and money from his oligarchs/bitches.

That’s Putin’s problem. Let him join the defenstration-fest, the bloodthirsty greedhead, and Trump with him.

Those who show no mercy deserve no mercy, especially from their own goons.

It doesn’t have to make sense, it’s the firehose of bullshit.

TLDR: Russia would have allowed Ukraine to invoke Article 5 if invaded but not base NATO weapons and soldiers during peacetime that can be used for offensive purposes.

In other words, he would have allowed them to draw NATO into a conflict, but not to do anything to deter actual aggression or make it possible for NATO to fight effectively if called upon to do so. And any such conditions would violate Ukraine’s sovereignty. Free countries can ally themselves with whoever they want to.