Just don’t show me to Paulina Brandberg

Our prime minister is very upset by the fact that the media is even talking about it.

Wow. 3 million rubles is down that much?

The overton window has moved

What the hell. Where’s the line for Korea?

He’s been very transparent in his attempts to move stuff around, telling his audience exactly what he’s been up to.

I mean, at least passing gas relaxes you a little

It’s funny how today is one of the few days where posting that would be not the onion

Funniest outcome from a sad fucking story I’ve ever seen.

As a policy wonk I feel that this was the correct buyer. Damn, it couldn’t be funnier. The Onion now owns Alex Jones’ former twitter account.

That was my first thought as well! Just gift something from the set to Knowledge Fight.

I’m already salivating for that dreamy creamy irony ice-cream

I don’t think that’s it, but I do think it will endure massive strain.

People give a fuck because they’re (with reason) emotionally invested in the politics of their lives, and which politicians are elected directly effects their lives. That one’s not too hard to grasp.

But while that will always be the case, people need to realize that Russian propaganda is inherently opportunistic and it has a goal of pushing us further apart from one another. There are real issues that lead to these sorts of political outcomes.

It’s not because of Russia, but the russian state is incredibly efficient at grabbing those issues and amplifying them to the point where we stop trusting our neighbors and families, thus breaking the democratic wheel.

Knowing that is part of the solution but realizing that there are actual issues that make people vote for political figures like Trump and listening to those voters without making assumptions about their morals is even more important.

edit to add: the republicans are part of America. Their voters are part of America. Just as democrats are. Trump is part of it, so is Jill Stein. Own it, learn from it, don’t repeat it. Try to understand why it happened. This is true for every country, but with different characters, other movements.

Well that’s nice.

It doesn’t matter if the voters are to blame. If they don’t vote for you, you haven’t reached them. Complaining about that won’t make them vote for you.

This being said everyone who is a citizen of a society has some responsibility for that society. So of course the voters have responsibility.

To be fair they’re saying this not because it’s actually useful (which it might be) but because them saying this stirrs shit up and makes people more upset. They’re playing on the feeling that is already there, and the best thing to do is to dismiss their comment as a play to make us upset with eachother and watch what they do instead. They want us to burn bridges. That’s what’s useful to them.

Yeah, it wasn’t my brightest moment ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Literally the first part of the sentence lol

I know it’s a joke, but you’ve missed the dollar symbol. That’s the fine in USD.