BYO casing + powder but the slug is provided free and with fast delivery.

Appreciate the precision. My point is, life doesn’t fall apart without your preferred brand of whiskey/vodka/chicken sandwich/whatever. Principles are more important.

I love a good whiskey but if every single one of my favorite distilleries went fascist, I could drink Canadian Club for the rest of my life and be fine.

Euphemisms at least indicate shame.

There do seem to be some cracks there but he’s still been an incredible purchase for Putin.

My Russian is rusty, but here’s a rough translation: “We invaded Ukraine and have had our asses kicked thoroughly and dramatically, but we would still like to win and take a bunch of their territory.”

I might have missed a conjugation or two.

HELL YES. 🎉

The stupidest part is that of fucking COURSE there are zero tariffs if you move to the US, because tariffs are BY DEFINITION placed on imports. There’s no limit to the fuckery he can apply to you domestically, it’s just guaranteed not to be called “tariffs”.

So he skipped shorting TSLA and just shorted the actual Swastikar instead?

As an American, I am not an accelerationist, but I am somewhat darkly satisfied to see the military industrial complex reach the Find Out stage.

Amanita minute to get ready for some real talk in this thread.

You seem like a fungi

He’s only doing what he’s doing because of the smart evil that got him where he is though.

But with that, I don’t believe there’s a hard ceiling on ethically gained money. There’s an ethical obligation not to retain that degree of wealth, but getting there isn’t inherently a moral sin in my mind.

Smart evil is so much scarier than stupid evil.

I agree with you overall, apart from one point. Push enough inflation and we’re all billionaires. The line itself is arbitrary. Large sums of money can be gained ethically and small sums can be gained unethically. The billionaire line I think serves as a rule of thumb that is only very rarely excepted, so the real crime is not being a billionaire per se, but the means by which one gained any amount of money. Focusing on billionaires just more concisely highlights several often overlooked exploitations.

Fuck yeah Canada. More of this please.

I 99% believe in “there is no such thing as an ethical billionaire” with the tiiiiiny asterisk for those who literally create such a cultural artistic phenomenon that they sell through to billionaire status on it alone. Unfortunately, two of the most prominent examples, Notch (Minecraft) and JK Rowling (Harry Potter, obvs) turned out to be total pieces of shit anyway.

Oh well.

Private business

• that everyone needs to live
• that can’t profit without subsidies
• that has no competitors in its market
• that has growth potential defined strictly by external factors

It’s insane that this isn’t nationalized immediately. Privatizing it in the first place is the work of people who are corrupt as hell, inhumanly evil, dumb as rocks, or, most likely, all of the above.

Wave can stay dead though. I’m okay with that.