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That takes money. Ukraine was very poor in 1993. It's even poorer now.

It did help the US government's goals of starving Cuba.

> 4. Directly attacking multiple Jewish targets around the world (like the AMIA and then embassy bombings in Argentina)

Why would Iran attack Argentina? There's plenty of Jewish Iranian citizens. Did they run out of people to attack?

If you are a male between the ages of 17 and 55, you are not getting out of Ukraine right now.

last Block/Square party I went to had MC Hammer as a DJ.

How can an incredible pile of fraud successfully sue another company? The only source of news I trust on Terra is

https://twitter.com/FatManTerra

Which means we'll all work on expanding the welfare state? Which exists to take care of the unemployed portions of our population. Right?

"weeks"

Federal Gov't only spends its discretionary funds now on funding ICE with 70 billion dollars.

It's clear that at least a couple of thousands Iranians have died in protests. Khamenei even said so in a speech a few days ago. but its not 36,000.

There is a great UK tv show about the surveillance state, from 2019

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Capture_(TV_series)

I am the local headphone guy. They are usually shocked anyone would give them anything ever. No face punches yet.

I closely follow all of this, to the detriment of my job. I'm amused that the US State Dept's PR is that "Maduro is selling oil to our enemies."

We've frozen Venezuela out from buying or selling anything from any other country. This is how economic sanctions work. If a company or country does business with Venezuela, we block them from doing business in the USA.

What else is Venezuela supposed to do? Of course they're going to sell oil to countries that we don't like. It's the first thing that happens when we place severe economic sanctions on another country.

I think we should all be more shocked the US kidnapped the leader of another country.

Often when I encounter a person loudly listening to music or videos on their phone in a cafe, it's because they are completely unaware of how loud they are or they obviously have some challenging psychological issues ( I live in SF ).

I have a lot of wired headphones I got off of Temu, I just give them a pair.

The Musk suite of companies all exist at least partly to promote Musk's politics and policies.

You mean when Churchill wanted to hire 100,000 "former" Nazis to invade the Soviet Union?

You know the US destroyed nearly 75 percent of all buildings in North Korea during the Korean War, right?

NK is paranoid for very valid reasons.

I can't remember the names of all of the parts of the CIA right now, there are two, but Carter ended up having 5 percent of the Clandestine Services fired. that's it.

Main funder of the US Communist Party during the COINTELPRO era was... surprise.. the FBI, they wanted to use the CP to keep tabs on possible spying or agitation efforts by Soviet Union's in the US.

Any former resident of Soviet Union thinks Larry Summers is huge crime

A nice list of Summers' many crimes from over 10 years ago:

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/07/why-larry-summers-sh...

Current docker tooling is so much nicer than whatever I was messing around with in jails 16 years ago.

I think building stuff is fine. The Chinese foreign policy seems to be building stuff in other countries, and using the new infra as leverage to promote Chinese interests in the future.

Lately the US just seems to threaten countries with Tactical bombing, no building infra.

I don't think the US gov interfering in the elections of other countries with a massive lake of cash is very 'free market'. The US has a decades long history of promoting neo-liberal policies in Argentina ( though some economists might argue that it actually started in Argentina and migrated to America ). If this is 'free market', I don't think the word has any meaning anymore.

There's also a non zero chance that Trump will get distracted or changes his mind and it the Bailout just doesn't happen.

Perhaps Argentinian citizens take the long view and decided Milei's policies are the best route of 'the hole', or maybe they decided the US's offer of 40 billion dollars only if they elected Milei again is the more likely scenario.

Milei's seemed spectacularly unpopular only 3 weeks ago.

A Socialist would argue the private money spent use to the private charities you just listed should have gone to the government through taxation originally, and that the government should provide services and a safety net for all instead.

Shriners are cool though.

I'm sure this is going to be used by anarcho capitalist types and the media to say Milei's program of cutting public services is noble and great and here's the proof. I feel like I must be taking crazy pills though. If the Argentinian gov needs 40 billion from the US to continue functioning, how does that mean Milei's policies are working? It's like if I decide to use a car to drive 1000 miles, but I only buy enough gas for 500 miles, but a dude at the midpoint in my journey offers to lend me enough money for the next 500 miles of gas if I kick all Chinese people out of my car in return, and then I return and say see due to my amazing thought leadership my car has double the gas mileage now.

I haven't been able to defeat the paywall here, but what mandate and what revolution, and what is so free market about taking in 20 to 40 billion from the US in exchange for a promise to push Chinese business interests out of the country? At least the Chinese were building stuff in Argentina. The US will just hold stuff hostage like Paul Singer.

running Nextcloud AIO has been reliable for me for a couple of years now.