Putin’s power draws from his adversaries and foreign policy. He is very weak domestically, mostly at the behest of the oligarchs that run the entire domestic policy show.
Putin muscling around internally usually has to do with the oligarch’s stance on foreign policy or the other oligarchs are wanting to eat one of their own.
Country buys foreign material, uses security.
The zionists won. It doesn’t need reminding.
A movement tried to make Palestine a relevant political issue for the electorate. It got stomped out. I don’t get this sentiment to keep stomping.
Part of my 2025 mental and physical health plan has been building and landscaping my little slice of land to go from an unfenced hillside of lawn to a walled and terraced garden.
Removed the sod and got a dumptruck load of granite stones at the start of the year. I am building using a dry stone technique and moving it all by hand on purpose. Currently finishing the main terraces and wall base, beginning raised garden beds now. Every day I move a couple stones into place and it feels like an accomplishment that is quite literally building on itself.
I look forward to seeing how it (continues to) come together.
children’s railway
I had to look this up.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_railway
Damnit I want these for America.
The first one was fairly clever in that they had probably 50 years of collective ideas and inspiration to work off of. It’s a story that needed to push no boundaries and hold to established tropes, with no expectations because it was a ride: perfect for Disney.
Now when Disney gets their hands on an established franchise full of expectations…
They’re being lobbied to pursue charges against a children show host for expressing sympathy for starving children.
Precedent shows they follow the instructions of the lobbyists with the biggest and/or most recent check.
So it’d be a strongly worded statement of support for the extrajudicial slaying of a human rights activist, because that’s already the norm.
Namely: there became another human in our lives. Our children became our central focus in our lives.
Being a family is a different dynamic and being a parent is a significant role in life. It is a relentless onslaught of needs and chores for someone that is neither of you. Babies don’t know boundaries and that has a very real effect on their caregivers.
If you’re birthing a baby: be aware of post partem, don’t be afraid to seek help, talk about it, and you deserve a chance to breathe regularly.
If someone is birthing your baby: giving that someone alone time with themselves (usually by having time with said baby yourself) is one of the most important devices for bringing you all together sans conflict.
Essentially if a mother can get the mental load of parenting off for a day–a few hours even–there should not be any (new) trouble acheiving or maintaining intimacy.
Interesring thing to note: doing any and all of the above to people along politically ideological lines is not considered genocide. Millions of civilians have been exterminated because their politics were not national, ethnic, racial, or religious.
Anxiety, easily.
Additionally, those kinds of shitbags routinely get tossed out of respectable places. What brings the manosphere, and things like it, together is usually a shared experience of rejection and isolation.
The 800 miles of separation North-South.
C’mon let this establish precedent so I can get ‘deported’ to the home country after 150 years.
Also, why did she get sent across the country from San Fran to the SeaTac area? Is Washington acting like the Louisiana of the West Coast, what the fuck?
It’s on brand for people who unironically refer to Russian conscripts as ‘Orks’ without any sense of irony.
I don’t think finding foreign nationals fighting in a war necessarily means their government regime is sending them.
There’s a lot of foreign fighters in a lot of conflicts without representation or protection of their government, and I’d be curious if that case is different here.
Campaign funds that were there to fund a losing message.
The electorate wanted a break from Biden, and if Harris’ campaign funding relied on not breaking with Biden, what does that tell you about the influence and intent of that funding?
There has been more movement towards changing that in the last year than I have seen in twenty years combined. Hope isn’t yet dead.
Basketball diplomacy builds good will.
It’s acting entirely in the moment. It’s an ideologically vapid approach that is the realm of the pure grifter.
See your brain went immediately to a solution based on knowing how something works. That’s not in the AI wheelhouse.