If there's one thing the USSR and CCP were always super well-known for, it is no famines. They solved that shit. As is well known.
motherfucker what. i know tankies are completely nuts but WHAT!?
Solved. Completely fucking solved lol.
Also, Russia wants peace in Ukraine, but the US won't let them.
I'm working on finding a channel that was posting absolutely hilarious little cartoon vignettes from Ukraine about the war. My new strategy when someone is spending an absolutely endless amount of time and energy arguing some totally ridiculous thing to me, is instead of just trading barbs with them forever, to post to some productive location something opposite to their point of view that will get more attention. Thus the impact of everything they said in their comments on the overall consensus hivemind is negated and then some, and I don't have to spend unlimited amounts of typing time.
I mean, technically Russia does want peace, just a peace where they own the sovereign nation subjugated by force.
Kevin Weeks talked about this in his autobiography. He said that Whitey Bulger would always only use violence as a last resort. As an example, he brought up a time when he and Whitey went over to someone's house, and they tried every way from Sunday for a long time to talk him into giving Whitey the money. But no matter how they tried to explain it, the guy just wouldn't. So of course Whitey had to fuck him up. Like really bad. See? Absolute last resort.
I grew up in the Old Colony housing project in South Boston and became partners with James "Whitey" Bulger, who I always called Jimmy.
Jimmy and I, we were unstoppable. We took what we wanted. And we made people disappear—permanently. We made millions. And if someone ratted us out, we killed him. We were not nice guys.
I found out that Jimmy had been an FBI informant in 1999, and my life was never the same. When the feds finally got me, I was faced with something Jimmy would have killed me for—cooperating with the authorities. I pled guilty to twenty-nine counts, including five murders. I went away for five and a half years.
I was brutally honest on the witness stand, and this book is brutally honest, too; the brutal truth that was never before told.
So, violent and unreasonable, until they were faced with their own consequences, until they turned into the exact same rats. Sounds about right.
He's currently doubling down, saying everyone in the PRC is food secure.
I showed him this and asked him what the little dip in "World" and "Asia" was: