420blazeit69 [he/him] @ 420blazeit69 @hexbear.net

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Pick one: Russia is running on fumes, or Russia should have won a year ago.

The coherent opinion here is that it's a slow, grinding war and the side that has lost more and more territory as it continued will continue to do so.

This has been the narrative since shortly after the war began. All that's happened since is Russia has slowly advanced.

Taking everything you say at face value, the options for Ukraine are:

1. Take a deal that maybe you can't trust, but it at least gives you time to breathe.
2. Keep fighting, and with the war going how it is eventually lose more than what you've already lost.
3. Attempt to draw other states into the conflict so that you have a shot at what might be considered a victory, likely years more down the road under the best of circumstances.

There is no justification for 2, and 3 is highly unlikely -- if other states haven't entered the war already, they're not going to do so now.

This isn't capitulation, this is cutting your losses while you have something left to hold onto.

Do you have anything of substance to add?

:smuglord: "you're from Hexbear" isn't an argument

Even assuming Russian shells are lower quality (and you have absolutely zero evidence of that), a shitload of weapons that are lower quality can still beat you.

Since taking office in 2021, Biden has yet to meet the Dalai Lama. As a candidate in 2020, Biden criticised Donald Trump for being the only US president in three decades who had neither met nor spoken to the Tibetan spiritual leader.

Where's the Chinese figure from?

Domestic terrorist

Lmao there isn't even a shred of a suggestion that this guy is a terrorist

This seems like one where waiting for all the facts to come out is a good idea

I'm guessing there are women in it without

Zoolander is pretty funny, but world renowned actor?

A great lesson to apply to all sorts of organizations. You actually have to put in time and effort to develop people and have someone capable and popular to hand projects over to.

Even adjusting for inflation, it's common to raise prices to increase revenue (consumer expenditures). There are business people all over the world right now drawing up graphs of how much total revenue they can generate at different price points, and low price/mass sales is not a good approach for many companies.

This is an important point, because prices are set largely by what people are willing to pay, not costs + whatever margin a company picks, for example. Tons of right-wing media pretends industry does rudimentary cost + margin pricing to push talking points like "if our business has to pay one cent more in taxes or wages that will ultimately be paid by consumers," which is preposterous theoretically and has been disproven by real data over and over.

Perhaps the most egregious part of this is that the graph shows dollar expenditures, not meals bought.

• A store in 2014 sells 1000 hamburgers at $5 each = $5000 in expenditures
• Same store in 2024 sells 800 hamburgers at $10 each = $8000 in expenditures

It's common for companies to raise prices to increase revenue, even if raising prices results in fewer people buying your product. This shit is taught in high school economics. Absolutely nothing here shows anything about how many people can afford fast food.

There is a 100% chance he SA'd multiple women.

Are there any accusations of this? One of the weirder things about his saga is that many women he's been involved with actually seem to like him, and we shouldn't be tossing around serious accusations without any basis.

Obviously there are a million criticisms of his life from a leftist perspective. I think people find the "guy with substance abuse issues keeps fucking up" relatable, as many people know (or are) someone like that to varying degrees.

Uncritical support to Comrade Maggie in her struggle against belly imperialism

Baby's first political thought

"What if people make a bad decision? We should have one really smart guy in charge instead"

Wow fucking groundbreaking who needs the last few thousand years of political thought about the shortcomings of exactly that idea

Roosevelt, believing Stalin was not serious, quipped that “maybe 49,000 would be enough.”

Gets me every time

Also worth noting that 50k represented a tiny fraction of the Nazi military -- there were well over a million people under arms right up until the end of the war. So Stalin and Roosevelt were already talking about officers and units that did the worst atrocities, not some mass retribution against the bulk of the military itself.

Yeah this is a little bit "if you don't have a hard hat and a big hammer you aren't proletarian," which is the exact opposite of what we should be saying