In an un-fucking-believable move, the Americans stopped sharing intelligence and disabled Starlink’s military services, rendering Ukraine completely defenseless against Russian ballistic missiles just prior to a major attack.

This coming shortly after the US essentially negated its economic sanctions on Russian diesel and once again pressured Kyiv to unilaterally cease its attacks on Russian energy infrastructure, even as Russia ramps up their own attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure.

Trump is now publically aiding the Russians in their aggression against Ukraine and Europe

Its not France though…the Netherlands were also hit.

Yeah…they mostly don’t…

A lot of younger guys do for sure (usually after some awkward discussions with the other halve) but I’m not sure if you’ll get boomers to sit down ‘pee like a girl’.

Who benefits from destroying supermarket products?

And Americans just sit on their ass and shrug their shoulders. What a fucking joke.

FU America

The point I’m trying to make isn’t about sexualization of women in and off itself. Woman have the right to celebrate their sexuality and there’s plenty of nutjobs that still haven’t come to terms with the sexual revolution.

But what I’m referring to is the hypersexualization of women present in things like adverts, music or film. Prior to the MeToo movement you couldn’t walk a block without spotting an highly revealing or highly suggestive advert of a woman.

Back in the sixtees, the sexualization of women served to promote ideas about the sexual revolution, bodily autonomy and reproductive rights. But decades of commercialization have reduced these ideas simply to “sex sells”.

The thing that makes the hypersexualization of women degrading imo is that it reduces women to a subject of lust, while deflecting any criticism under the pretends that women should be free to express their sexuality.

My ban, the proposed ban concerns diesel fuel, not crude. That said though, it makes absolutely no sense for companies to sell diesel far below market value during a global oil crisis.

If companiea can’t export diesel at a reasonable price then the first action would not to be to cut prices domestically, but to try and cut production. Which then also impacts gasoline and kerosine prices.

Yeah, except its not going to lower prices.

Trump consistently makes the error of thinking he can influence US oil prices. He can’t, the oil prices are set globally. The only thing that could possibly lower oil prices is to either restore global supply or subsidize oil.

America doesn’t have a shortage of fuel. But if Trump were to ban the export of oil regardless, then oil prices would rise significantly, followed shortly after by even more inflation and supply chain disruptions.

Its literally one of the dumbest things he could do, and he’s threatening to do it just weeks ahead of the elections that might already cost him his presidency.

Maybe we should just let him go ahead and do it. Between this and two more years of Trump-just-doing-crazy-shit, an oil supply disruption is probably the better option, if it helps to get his dumb-ass on a leash.

Wait, what?

So Donnie’s threat is basically: help me win the elections at your expense, so you can suffer through two more years of this shit, or else I’m going to seriously screw myself over?

Can’t wait for him to pull even more oil from the global market and have prices soar to 200 dollars per barrel, just before Americans hit the voting booth.

I think at least part of it is a backlash against the proliferation of pornography (its shocking just how prolific and how degrading porn actually is compared to the ‘good ‘ol days’). A lot of youngsters were first confronted with porn as children through their smartphones.

But a lot of it also has to do with changing attitudes towards woman and sexuality. We’ve had corporations marketing woman and teen girls as sex objects for decades now, but we now also have an increase of violence against woman and we have the manosphere and far-right extremists campaigning against basic woman’s rights like abortion, equal pay and whatnot.

So I guess the real question is, are more people taking offense of nudity because of their conservative beliefs? Or are more people viewing nudity in popular media as a means of sexualizing (and thus degrading) women?

Any Frenchmen here to provide some context on this? Why are so many people voting for a criminal who is sponsored by the Kremlin?

Iran might want Trump and the Republicans to suffer in the midterms, but China is more than willing to throw him a lifeline.

In Xi’s mind, keeping a demented, corrupt, egomaniacal idiot firmly seated in the White House, so he can continue to degrade America’s military power, economic power and political influence, is a winning strategy for China.

That was true 70 years ago, but today Germany is a country with an aging population, outdated industry and infrastructure, few remaining natural resources, strong cultural and historic ties with Russia and a populace that leans heavily into pacifism. Military adventurism just isn’t in the cards, regardless who wins the elections.

I’ll even argue that to remain passive in the face of injustice isn’t at all moral or ethical. We are already at war. The enemy just hasn’t reached the German border yet.

While Germans drag their feet, discussing matters of military support, re-armament and deterrence, more and more Ukrainians are left dead from Russian missiles and drones. Germany’s ethics are paid for in blood by Ukrainian men, woman and children.

Trump is like the kid in the schoolyard who got punched in the nose, yet claims that it was he who won the fight.

That’s Trump. Talking s#%t about the other kid, while secretly hoping that kid doesn’t come back and punch him in the face again.

My bad! I misread your comment 🫢

Russia actually invading a NATO state is not a likely scenario, but minor incursions are. Not responding to those will fracture NATO and invite even more Russian aggression, with the ultimate goal of wrestling territory from the Baltics.

But here’s the catch: its not just the Baltics that are at risk. The Baltic states are also EU member states. If Russia manages to succesfully confront and annex EU member states, then it will massively impact things like the value of the Euro, the credibility and stability of EU institutions, freedom of travel et cetera.

Even right-wing governments will be forced respond. So we’ll still end up fighting a war with Russia, only from a considerably worse poisition then if we continue re-arming Europe and supporting Ukraine.

You do realize that mandatory service is not the same as actually joining the military? Besides, the military doesn’t want to recruit people who will actively resist their service and stir trouble.

Conscious objecters used to be either released from service or offered some sort of alternative to completing their service. So if you really don’t want to go, you’ll likely be able to dodge it.

Right, so we should just sit back and let Eastern Europe get overrun by Russia? I’m sure it’ll work out great for youth unemployment and affordable housing. Freedom and democracy are actually worth fighting for.