It took me much longer than I’d like to admit to understand what the title meant. “But 1985 is 0 years from 1985???”

I am not a clever person.

Not all that cute though

Or a FAT meme you’re too young to understand? I honestly can’t remember if NTFS needs defragging or not, I haven’t used Windows since Win7

“One country, two systems that are totally not the same system we swear”

“One country, two systems” isn’t quite as “two systems” as was promised, much to the surprise of pretty much nobody. I wonder what the situation is in Macau?

So jailing and murdering political dissidents, agressive imperialism, extensive propaganda that paints a completely distorted view of what the state is doing, having a small and rich ruling class, russification of minorities etc. are completely different from what was going on during the USSR? Religion is the only new part here, and even that is surface-level only as it always is.

Oh yeah true, I forgot about that! Although frankly it seems like it’s just a part of Russia’s USSR cosplay, just one that’s been going on for longer, where the Leningrad Military District was just re-established this year

I’m from an Eastern European country that was USSR aligned and part of the Warsaw Pact.

Then you really haven’t been paying attention if you think the modern Russia isn’t up to essentially the same bullshit that they were during USSR times, just packaged up in different rhetoric.

The reason why people even brought up USSR is because, newsflash, the dude’s nickname is USSRboy. Can you deduce why somebody would sarcastically say that they got what they bargained for when they got arrested? I’ll give you 3 guesses.

Just for your information, but Russia hasn’t been part of the USSR for over 30 years now.

No shit? Maybe you should tell that to “USSRboy”? Might want to inform Kreml too because they keep cosplaying as the USSR with their red stars everywhere and eg. reestablishing the Leningrad Military District – Leningrad hasn’t existed in 30 years either, it’s been St. Petersburg.

Also, Putin’s Russia is extremely different to the USSR, in that it is now ruled by far-right religious fanatics. I don’t think that would fit well into the USSR.

You have an extremely idealized picture of what the USSR was, which seems to be a common theme with people who didn’t either have to live in it (especially the non-Russian ones) or next to it. Russia was the one running the show, and nothing of substance has really changed about Russian political culture in hundreds of years – during the USSR their rhetoric was of course different, but the incredible brutality and complete disregard for the lives of non-Russians and even Russians was still there, as was the persecution of minorities

There is no will here for Ukraine to succeed.

Yep. The vast majority of liberal and conservative politicians are doing the absolute minimum to support Ukraine, if they’re doing anything at all in the first place. I can understand conservatives wanting Russia to win because they idolize Russia, but how everyone else seems to also be fine with the idea is just mystifying.

It’s almost like the rules don’t apply to the moneyed class

Considering that C-suite executives are usually fantastically expensive, they’d be a logical position to automate (assuming AI worked like suits think it does). For some veeeery strange reason no board of directors has suggested replacing themselves with AIs

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There’s some speculation that this was staged, and I have to say they do look pretty similar and it’d be a classic Nazi move to pull. Edit: I’d like to emphasize that this is complete speculation, and I’m not saying this is what happened. Rags like The Sun etc. are claiming to know who did it, but as they’re generally even less trustworthy than random people on Twitter, I’ll not link them here

Shh, don’t say “no” to the Rational™ Men, they don’t like it – because stereotypes don’t appear out of thin air right?

Yep, and then doctors and researchers go all surprised Pikachu face when it turns out that eg. some pain medication doesn’t work as well on women, but naturally this conclusion is only arrived at after decades of insisting that they should work and that you’re just being an irrational hysterical feeeeemale if you say they don’t

And lots of countries with upcoming elections, only have options that will support these fucking maniacs and legitimize them.

Unfortunately our local reich-wing maniacs love genocide and will support anybody engaged in it, especially if it’s against muslims

Approximately 0%

When broken down into party lines, 15 percent of Republicans think he is guilty while 64 percent do not

Proving once again that the vast majority of conservatives are completely beyond help

Same here in Finland, although at a national level we already lost and now have an extremist right wing government which has a bit of a neo-Nazi problem (and I’m talking literal neo-Nazis). The ongoing EU Parliament elections fill me with dread