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RE: https://mastodon.chrisclark.net/@rssbot/116465880734136674
Story is on farmers not putting in crops due to Trump policies boosting fuel and fertilizer costs.
The real story here is that the world economy and all its supply lines are global. War is obsolete because it is like a body's hand warring with its liver.
In this model, both Trump's America and Putin's Russia are malignant cancers, damaging vital body functionality to the detriment of all.
RE: https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@openrightsgroup/116459798064806188
Oh look. He's pulling this crap on the UK now after we folded on it.
Guess he took that as encouragement.
Those Conservative motherfuckers.
Nova Scotia could have fracking operations by July.
In Nova Scotia we depend on our ground water. It is very finite, without price, and once those goobers have fracked it, the damage is forever.
A fucking moment, a flash of money for Rodney Richpigge, who you can be damn sure will never drink that water, then forever the poison spreads to other water tables.
It is beyond insane, it is a crime against every person in the province.
God damned Conservatives.
But it has still got to be tempting Xi.
Dude's as totalitarian as the rest of them. Much more competent.
A moment presents itself could he resist to play the long game?
There are documentaries about China trying to export China to diverse locals like Captain Kirk expounding on Federation virtues to a recent First Contact and the one common element is everything that works in China does not work like that anywhere else and trying to make it work drives the field team squirrelly.
They'll figure it out if only through trial and error eventually though to secure supply lines for trade and that works best when everyone's not pissed at you as Putin & Trump show.
China just needs to not be stupid and everyone else's stupidity will make them boss just by default of not bleeding themselves out in acts of badly thought-out insane aggression.
Nature and global politics abhor a vacuum and can forgive a lot of sins - look what the US and Russia got away with all this time - so China being the rational superpower will make the world see their standards as default, which is still kind of a work in progress given problematic quality control standards there.
It must be so tempting right now for Xi looking at Putin and Trump and their excesses. Taiwan and India right there, he just hands the dynamite to the chaos monkey like those two did and who's going to stop him?
Who's stopping either of them? Or Netanyahu, dripping with the blood of innocents, a one man hit squad for journalists telling the truth?
Xi must be looking at the news every morning and thinking why the hell not? He can badass at the world and make it lick his shoes like them. Why not
So China's big selling point on the world stage is whatever other flaws it may have, it is the sole superpower currently rationally governed.
The USA and Russia have both hung "Out to Lunch" signs on their countries as the psychopathic criminals robbing both nations blind, deaf and dumb exist in delusion funnels of yes-critters and flattering bullshit versions of events and each nation is less of a rational actor than that guy on the bus said you were a ham sandwich could he chew on your coat.
A man who's never had a callus from work, as they say.
All those paydays for traitors are just sitting there.
Anyone lazy without spine, ethics or morality can ride that gravy train for life.
AFAIK his entire family has so he comes by it, um, honestly.
Thinking of fun stuff I could do today. I need to walk that isn't errands. I generally walk 3-5 km a day on errands.
There is the downtown. The cuisine of Spring Garden and South Park eaten in the Public Gardens or on the side of Citadel Hill. Popular.
There is the Point Pleasant Park. Pick one of several routes, some quite rigorous, find a patch of unpopulated ocean and a windbreak, zen on waves breaking. Soothing.
Adventure. The #15 and the wild coastline of York Redoubt. Forbidding.
If you're in Canada, they're auctioning off all the Starfleet Academy stuff, fire sale style. Ontario residents don't have to leave a security deposit.
On the one hand, Star Trek's current owners are not nice people one does not wish to see prosper.
On the other where are you going to see authentic Trek bits with $5 bids on it.
Lotta terrariums.
Just a humble truth teller, guv.
Truth's it's own thing, we're mirror to reality, like. Mirrors can have some silvering missing, smeared glass but the light that bounced off things then hit their windward side, that was reality.
But things to do, places to be, so cheery-bye. 
Will can both effect and affect outcomes.
Hmm.
So I was just thinking maybe it's like paranoia - where, is it paranoia if they really are out to get you?
Is it pessimism if (a) negative outcomes predominate and/or (b) it is in the interests of bottomless-resourced entities for said negative outcomes to manifest?
So this one time I nearly died.
When I was a kid, I made a rule. I said, if I was ever up against oblivion, I would fight my last no matter what.
When you *are up against oblivion there is no you left. I fought.
We can agree on the general point.
I think the point of disagreement is on foreknowledge.
One school of thought says it's best to know up front what you're up against. Good and bad.
Another says people can't handle that. Keep the message simple, details confuse.
Both may be right to different audiences under varying circumstance.
I prefer full message. Reason why is when folks deliver on simple thing but still in Shit Creek, not knowing details got em.
But your thread so *waves.
@benroyce @mjc0961 @aadeacon @Eetschrijver
I posted only moments earlier how important it was to both vote in the primaries as well as the election saying that yes your lives really do hang on the results.
That is truth.
But it is also truth that this is not going to be that easy or that straight forward and the only result with any chance of success - a Democratic supermajority everywhere - is going to be a reach, even if it works.
@mjc0961 @benroyce @aadeacon @Eetschrijver
Because the Democrats still have no more control or ability to interfere than they did before.
What will happen in an election with such control on the line?
Historically if they were to win it, one or more Democrats, however many as needed, will veer right, voting to block such control until it is blocked.
They will be rewarded well for this.
Maybe with an overwhelming Democratic majority? Hasn't before but ever hopeful.
Trump threatens UK saying deals can be changed.
There in one sentence is why America needs to get punched the fuck out like the belligerent drunk it is.
A deal with mad cunts whose word means less than nothing and changes by whim hourly is not even worth writing down.
