They would start to “seriously consider the possibility that perhaps something was not right”

We’ve always been good at walking away, closing our ears, turning a blind eye…

If the alternative to “the nukes” is “gets steamrolled the old fashioned way” anyway, it’s not really an alternative.

I’m slightly worried about the really big guns russia supposedly have, but only slightly. At this point, it’s not like there’s a big red “launch” button on putin’s desk; it’d have to go through a few people that may have the actual big picture in their mind.

They may get forbidden from operating in the US? Like, the same thing, in reverse?

The satellites trains do it already by themselves, it’s ok.

the parties, exhausted by campaigning, will learn to compromise and make a coalition

Good luck with that.

Not putting him on a pedestal as a representative of your country would be a good start.

This was not a vote for leadership. It was a vote for one of our houses. Unless the president decides to play nice (spoiler: he won’t), we won’t have a prime minister from any left party, causing things to be difficult for the right but not impossible, as there are provision to force some laws to pass for the prime minister, and outright impossible for the left to do anything because they’re unlikely to get support from a right-oriented prime minister, and are unlikely to get an actual majority vote on anything.

Basically, unless something really unexpected happens, this will result in a stalemate for a while. Which is, admittedly, the lesser of two evils, but kinda sucks anyway.

They’re not very good at it, are they? :D

Russia on its quest to find something it can fight and win against.

Physicists are warry about splitting atoms; historians are warry about splitting Germany.

“And now, I’ll make these allegations disappear!”

Kids don’t get addicted to sugar much if there isn’t much sugar intake occasion. I’m sure they checked the market and found that they could sell more sugar-based product later with this initial push.

This is the main point : the breach of the trust we could have in state agencies and doctors. Hopefully the lesson stick this time.

Given what transpires about the US on the international news scene, I’m not sure putting that to a democratic vote would yield the result you expect, sadly.

Nobody in his sect is paying attention. The rest of the world is looking at this with anxiety.

If your only goal is that most people can live decently and reduce exploitation, abuse, and such, yeah, sure.

But if you just want to amass money, then, no.

A choice was made.

I did not know this was a competition where only one could “win”.