Rule of Acquisition 211: Employees are the rungs on the ladder of success. Don't hesitate to step on them.

For what it's worth I hope we get instance blocking features soon so I don't constantly have to see the toxic shit seeping out of the rest of lemmy.

give them back

How does e.g. Argentine keep getting away with things?

wtf are you talking about? link

Argentina, the largest debtor with the IMF after years of economic crisis, has seen locals lose faith in their currency as inflation hit triple-digits and almost four-in-10 people are below the poverty line.

They're already in debt hand getting pressured to do austerity, what do you even think is going on in the world?

Weird, so almost like there was an active war going on And whose fault is that? Who prevented that people in occupied regions participated in the elections?

I think the fault lies with the people who ignored any attempts at negotiation (minsk 1 and 2 peace agreements, and went on ramping up for a proxy war anyways)

There was a coup -> there is an active warzone in part of the country -> elections happen (so free and fair) -> The post coup elected government continues shelling the people living in the east anyways -> intervention happens

Also you're the only one talking about the US, here.

They're the other major party in the proxy war? The EU is a junior partner at this point.

There's plenty of examples of horrific British, French Spanish colonization, the Dutch are responsible for inventing the triangle trade of slaves to the Americas (with the profits going to Europe, hence triangle) in the first place. Some of those have actually had governments change since then too.

The US gets brought up because it's the global hegemon, driving so much of these political tensions. You don't get to pretend its blood-soaked record doesn't exist lmao.

link for the curious ( I swear its not pig shit this time)

Noone gives a flying fuck about the IMF.

You're joking, right?

Yanukovich committed the worst crime: not wanting to take an IMF deal.

Yes, and that's why I point out that it's silly to say 'these are both colonial empires' when one has had two major changes in government since then, and affected far fewer people. Unless you're trying to be essentialist about Russians as colonizers or something it makes no sense.

seems like they struck a nerve if you're this bent out of shape defending one of the US colonial occupations- I get that it's strategically important to have a military base right smack in the middle of the pacific, but come on don't be a ghoul.

yo, hit me an infographic for the 'ligma' fallacy if you have one.

'orcs' is just so much less jarring this time around right?

A terrorist sympathizer or a slur, remember it was the early 2000's