

A high-profile British judge who resigned from Hong Kong’s highest court last week has warned the city is “slowly becoming a totalitarian state”
Slowly becoming my ass…
HK is already totalitarian af.


A high-profile British judge who resigned from Hong Kong’s highest court last week has warned the city is “slowly becoming a totalitarian state”
Slowly becoming my ass…
HK is already totalitarian af.


I mean wouldn’t you also much rather be bribed than blackmailed?


Have they even left yet?


Has anyone else claimed to have done it?


I mean he defrauded rich people.
Off course he gets the book.


Why is that even a question?
Russian elections are a joke even when held in russia, why would they matter to anyone when held in Ukraine?


Ah danke, habs geändert.


As a non native speaker the honest question, why?


Well to a degree.
He certainly didn’t want Sweden and Norway to join NATO and I doubt he wanted a multi year long war in Ukraine.
But I do agree that he certainly won’t throw nukes just cause hurr durr he is such a crazy dictator.


Whoever decided this can shove a cactus up somewhere.
Fuck you for hurting the most vulnerable;
disgusting decision by disgusting people.


That’s just wrong for the simple reason that NATO is vastly superior in any form of conventional warfare.
NATO against russia would be nothing like WW2.
It would be a one sided beating.
And russia would lose and lose fast.
But russia would still have no incentive to be the first to launch nukes, because that would change the situation from bad to total annihilation.


Like I don’t know that, like anyone doesn’t know that.
Still noone, not the winning side, and especially not the losing side has any real incentive to launch them first.
It’s basic game theory, you never choose the option that has you lose absolutely everything, even if the alternative has you lose something big (like a war, or even your life).
Even crazed dictators like Putin know this.
And not even Putin can launch a nuke on his own. Even he needs generals and engineers that all know that not only they themselves will die if they obey, also their families will die, everyone they know will die if they obey.
We will never see full scale nuclear war, because noone at all could ever want that.
But Putin benefits from rubes just letting him bully everyone around him because, boo hoo he is so crazy and scary and after so many crossed red lines the next one surely is the one that makes him suicide himself, his wife, his daughter, his country, his place in history and anyone or anything he ever valued or cared about.


Good job repeating russian propaganda.
Edit: Not that I care about internet points.
But the thought that opposing russia would lead to nuclear war is exactly what Putin wants people in the west to think to keep bullying and suppressing everyone around him.
He is bluffing though and he knows it.
He said delivering supplies to Ukraine was the red line.
He didn’t react when we did.
He said delivering arms to Ukraine was the red line.
He didn’t react when we did.
He said delivering tanks to Ukraine was the red line.
He didn’t react when we did.
He said delivering planes to Ukraine was the red line.
He didn’t react when we did.
Because he can’t. He knows he would lose everything.


American politics increasingly sound like Warhammer 40,000 politics.


No steps forward…


Both sides this, both sides that.
And even in your stupid fairytale lie the left side still is better than the right.
Ooh one side terrorizes rape victims (in reality) and one side makes youth sports less balanced (in your fantasy).
If that sounds equally bad to you, you better get yourself checked out.


Water is what makes other stuff wet.


It’s crazy how german media is only reporting on its economy being super bad rn.


It shouldn’t be that hard.
It shouldn’t be that fucking hard to be at least the slightest bit of a decent human.
I am pretty sure his movie career failed so hard he even had to act in a video game.