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“This is a full-fledged bank run that’s already underway,” Maximilian Hess, a Russian economy expert and fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, told CNBC.
The Russian people are about to have all of their savings converted into “war bonds” that won’t be available until “after the war.” That’s pretty interesting considering they’ve also been told the country isn’t at war.
Here, John. I’ll save you the trouble of posting Putin’s next level of propaganda. Here’s what’s getting preached to the Russian people:
“It’s not against Ukraine the Russian army is fighting. It’s against a New World Order of Bilderberg and Davos elites trying to genetically engineer a subservient humanity with gay marriages in the West and killer viruses in the rest of the world. With Rockefellers, Dulles brothers and WHO thrown into the mix.”
“We didn’t invade Ukraine for a political land grab! We did it to save the world, you ungrateful morons!”
It is QAnon on steroids.
And, speaking of QAnon, here’s your too-invincible-to-loose Russian military:
Russia has one aircraft carrier. And it’s on fine… again.
Yesterday, Donald Trump said he would be making a “big announcement” today. People speculated everything from announcing a running mate to announcing a new book. But nobody… absolutely nobody, expected this!
Better hurry and send him your $99! Those trading cards will be “gone soon.”
https://www.axios.com/2022/12/04/north-carolina-power-outages-criminal-investigation
“An alleged attack on multiple electrical substations left 60 percent of North Carolina’s Moore County without power over the weekend in what local and state authorities are investigating as a “criminal occurrence.”
Multiple substations had been shot up by gunfire. It is estimated that at least 45,000 homes and businesses will be without power until Thursday. It is too early to say for certain who did it, but at the moment it’s looking like the Proud Boys have struck again. It is believed their motive was to protest a drag show.
Needless to say, those homes will be without lights or heat in freezing weather. Sick people, old people, children have been put at risk. Some may die.
Hate crimes have become a way of life. But yeah, let’s let the freaks fly their hate flags uninterrupted on Twitter. Do a little gay bashing. Can’t hurt you… right?
https://www.the-sun.com/news/6821624/putin-falls-stairs-soils-himself-cancer/
If it really is pancreatic cancer, he probably has about 4 months left. And they will be a very unpleasant 4 months.
Seems as if Putin has interesting plans for Russia’s future. Drafting 2 million Russians and imposing martial law doesn’t sound like a great option, but if he plans on checking out anyway, he probably doesn’t care.
“‘He will most certainly leave before 2024. It is even possible he will announce his departure before the New Year, but this depends on his state of his health.”
Since the definition of “fascism” has been debated here, I thought the author of this article may have a better way of describing Russia today. She gives evidence of why Putin’s Russia is “simply a group of gangsters in charge of a failed state.”
I’m hearing more and more about Yevgeny Prigozhin, Putin’s Chef, and leader of the paramilitary group Wagner. As evil as Putin is, he’s not stupid. I honestly don’t believe Putin would resort to nukes. But, if Prigozhin takes power, all bets are off.
Prigozhin has been keeping his Wagner group just far enough out of the action that he won’t take any heat for the losses in Kherson. He’s building training camps on the Russian side of the border “to prepare local residents in case the war in Ukraine comes to Russian soil.” Does he really think Ukraine is going to invade Russia? Or is he preparing his own private army for something else?
Anyway, I think Mr. Prigozhin bears watching.
https://www.axios.com/2022/10/17/twitter-kanye-trump-elon-musk-bans-content
First of all, social media companies moderate users’ posts to stay within the law. Child pornography and snuff videos are just a couple of examples of why they have to do it.
Beyond that, they have to consider public safety. It may be legal to post videos on how to poison your wife and get away with it, but it’s not something many advertisers are going to want to associate with. If they’re going to keep their advertisers, they’re going to need to stay within certain social norms.
And “social norms” is wherein the problem lies.
Conservatives say they are censored more than liberals. And that is true. But, for conservatives, social norms have changed. Today, Eisenhower would be considered a “libtard.” Today’s conservatives see nothing wrong with chanting “hang the Vice President.” Lying about winning an election is normal. If you lose, just deny it and destroy the Capitol if you can’t get your way. The peaceful exchange of power, the one thing that had always set America apart from other countries, is, for conservatives, no longer a “social norm.”
So, are Twitter and Facebook wrong for banning people like Trump and the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys for violating social norms when they have none? If Oath Keepers and Proud Boys can’t be banned, can Al Qaeda and BLM? Can ISIS openly recruit terrorists on Twitter? Can Trump?
Of course, no one has a crystal ball. No one knows for sure how the war will end, but Timothy Snyder has some interesting ideas. The article is a bit long, but worth a read.
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