StoneyPicton

This is disgusting.

Someone was favouring extra expensive contracts with private medical contractors.

I heard about the proxy war theory and it's depressing to think these people are that evil. The world is a fucked up place, no doubt.

Good point, hadn't thought of that lol.

That's just trump trying to swing the vote toward pp. It's so obvious I think/hope the only people stupid enough to fall for it are the ones who already vote conservative.

Interesting. The impression we get from brief news reports and no follow up is that the economy is hurting because of the sanctions. I think it's a shame that there isn't the same suffering that they are inflicting on the Ukranian people. They need to understand what their government is doing, propaganda or not. We'll have to see how it all works out.

I cannot profess to knowing that which I did not read, per say. Lol

Absolutely agree and was referring to post USSR when talking about discontent. Started in the 90's but has persisted and been fed by open information in the 21st century, no?

I didn't mean to emphasize stupid in any way. I think rejection of the current system was inevitable but they fall for lies that are allowed to go unchallenged in a meaningful way. I don't have a problem with optimism but I think ignoring the realities of the end game do us no favours. I would prefer a mix of the two with proper representation of a plan to survive what will come. Lets hope electoral reform actually happens in a way that truly serves the people and not the party. Thanks for your thoughts on all this.

Forgive my perhaps uninformed take on Russia but isn't there much more social cohesion because there is a common dislike of the state and the economic situation due to their actions and corruption? Once basic needs are met, as used to be the case in the west, people will branch off into goals based more on their own "selfish" desires. I try not to get too sidetracked with my doom and gloom scenarios because I'm well aware that there is no support for these extremes. I just wonder how to establish the social buy in of a single country or world population with time running out.

What rabbit hole is this that you have shared? It does look like a good read and I'll definitely follow up. To your point, no meaningful change will be possible until we genetically alter our humanity into something more coherent. As we are late to the show we will also have to resort to a bit of extermination as well if we hope to beat the clock on the worlds demise. That's the part where people think I'm nuts, which is of no consequence. They have no concept of the depths to which we will be sinking either way.