Given that the Roman Republic lasted for something like 480 years
Half a millennia of near endless military conquests and civil wars. What’s not to love?
Why is martial law currently in effect buddy?
Because your liberal reformists consolidated enormous powers in the executive branch. Again.
You keep giving governments the ability to end elections and entrench themselves indefinitely. That’s exactly what it will do, every time.
Romans extraordinarily appointed someone to have full authority to resolve a specific problem, such as when a serious threat the the state was present.
And how’d that work out?
The Ukrainian constitution says no elections while war.
While in a state of martial law. A constitution re-written as recently as 2015, the year following Ukrainian Oligarch Petro Poroshenko’s ascension to power.
You’re witnessing the end stages of the collapse of democracy in the country under a set of rules authorized barely a decade ago.
It’s called dictatorship
Zelensky eats out of his hand
I get European as a status symbol
All comes down to marketing. You think European products are a status symbol because LVMH spends enormous sums to convince you of their quality. American firms do the same thing in China.
I associate American goods with ruggedness, cool, or cheap.
Speaks to your media consumption habits. I’ve always associated American goods with hip hop and street art. But I’m also bombarded with images of kids in track suits and giant hair doing kick-flips while downing soda. Or bohemian-types rolling up to a drive through in a top-down convertible while belting out pop music.
But it’s all just image. None of it is material.
“They’re going to steal the elections so we cancelled them” will be Trump’s go-to in a couple of months.
Let’s hope
Have you gone to see the dinosaurs yet? No?
Okay, then are you going to go see the dinosaurs after this?
The National Intelligence Service (NIS) said it took a “range of circumstances” into account including her increasingly prominent public presence at official events" in making this assessment.
Coup what shit? This speculation seven layers deep.
Tesla out spends them on marketing. And Chinese consumers continue to be as big a bunch of suckers for the All American Status Symbol as everyone else in the world.
Still won’t save them from other luxury EVs flooding the market. Or the repeated bad press they get when their shitty vehicles malfunction.
But you can carry a lot of water just by blasting people’s eyeballs with marketing material.
On April 4, 2007, shock jock Don Imus referred to the Rutgers women’s basketball team as “nappy headed ho’s” following their Cinderella Story NCAA playoff run that left them the number 2 women’s team in the nation
It’s how these fuckers talk about everyone.
It’s a 45 year old story. Woody Allen in the photo montage is a big red flag. But I wouldn’t exactly call this breaking news. Brooke Shields had been out about her atrocious treatment even before #MeToo.
Love a permanent state of exception.
I mean, it blows my mind that people were excited to watch the Super Bowl at all. The advertisements are often the best part, given that the game itself is so mired in interruptions - often to deliberately increase the amount of air time for ads.
The eternal pestilence of physical advertising. Our world will not truly be clean until Linux purges the sins of marketing from this Earth.
Incidentally, you might be interested in Cidade Limpa
Federation is easy. BlueSky is federated, ffs. You think Jack Dorsey would be shy about selling his Twitter knock-off a second time?
The longest portion of the offering, a 40-year bond, is expected to yield 0.95 percentage points over US Treasuries, down from 1.2 percentage points during initial talks, the people said.
Gotta be really bearish on treasuries to consider this a good idea.
Martial Law was written into the Constitution by a billionaire Oligarch and his corrupt friends, specifically so he could leverage the fighting in the Donbas to secure his position indefinitely.
He needed an excuse to consolidate power, just like every other successful dictator.