Eh occasionally I’ll be scrolling the Internet and feel something on my face only to realize I’ve been silently crying for a couple of minutes now.

A lot of it is due to the ideological education of this society. They can see, as anyone who bothers to look, that this country is messed up. The problem though is the immense anti-communist ideology in this society. So they are cut off from real solutions from the start. They’ve been taught that the solutions to the problems are the causes of the problems. The only answers they can see are down roads that will only make things worse instead of better.

I guess the way I understand it is that while the sanctions are still there without monitors they have a bit more room to maneuver.

US: Look at all those “rogue states!”

poking with a stick meme come on collapse already

“Democracy is on the ballot! Trump will ban voting!”

Headlines in a few weeks: Humanoid shaped lifeform holding what appears to be a vaguely weapon shaped object spotted in the vicinity of dying Palestinian.