In the future, computers will do all our art and entertainment for us so we can concentrate on making rich people more money. Yay!

Men are going off the deep end

I just remember news about Germany planning to halve military aid to Ukraine from the summer, but honestly I haven’t been keeping up with the situation

But considering that Ukraine has been facing consistent shortages of materiel – including things like various kinds of artillery ammunition (although part of the problem especially with shells is that production is still ramping up) – that really doesn’t seem to have been the case. A lot of the equipment they’ve been given has just been token amounts that are clearly not enough but makes it seem like at least we’re doing something.

And none of that necessarily translates to a sufficient will to help Ukraine. Germany has already been making it clear they want to scale down support

While allies of US President-elect Donald Trump insist that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky may have to cede territory to bring the conflict to an end, Sir Tony insisted that Western allies would be resolute for “as long as it takes”.

Let’s see how long that resolution holds once the US stops aid and starts blackmailing other countries to do the same by eg. threatening to cut NATO funding

Absolutely, but at least in many countries people understand that – here people love to pretend that there is no corruption here at all and that we’re good, honest folk all of us.

I’m going to die of liver failure, aren’t I?

Harris wouldn’t exactly be someone I’d want to vote for myself, but being all the way Over Here™ she wouldn’t have been nearly bad enough for me to start shovign 0.75L of rum into myself after not sleeping a wink at 10am.

Winners’ breakfast

Finland is surprisingly corrupt (it’s just not the sort of corruption where you bribe cops) and Finns are generally stupid and gullible enough to think we’re not corrupt

I can only imagine how bad y’all must feel, because I’m here getting very drunk at 10am and feeling like I don’t even want to see what’s going to happen in the next few years.

One thing I can’t help thinking about is what the hell is Russia going to get up to in the future if they get an effective carte blanche from Trump. I’m Finnish and those fucks are right next door

Wait, they can’t vote if they’re drunk?

You don’t say?

Oh yeah it’s going to be a temporary reprieve at best, unfortunately fascists don’t disappear even if they lose an election

Yeah I should have said “at least 4.”

What you said is exactly why I needed the rum in reserve

Well I wasn’t but I certainly am now

In my head I feel that those from other countries see our country like a really bad car accident that people drive by, slow down a bit and say oh gosh I hope everybody’s okay when in reality you know damn well none of us are okay.

… you said it, not me 😅 It’s a combination of worry, horror and a sort of sick fascination.

But yeah the stereotypical joke of some Americans not realizing there’s a world beyond their borders does have some truth to it. I guess it’s sort of understandable given just geographical facts alone (let alone hegemonic status): continental US of A only has 2 countries as neighbors and one of them mostly speaks the same language, where in continental Yurop you can probably hit 4 countries with 7 languages on a 6h drive.

“Understandable, I hope you have a better one”

My dear friend that’s a healthy inclination if I ever saw one ❤️ I’ve definitely struggled with various addictions over the years and my drinking is like barely in control right now, so I absolutely get where you’re coming from. Not like this is a healthy mechanism for dealing with shit, right?

No wonder you feel powerless, what with first-past-the-post voting and… well, everything else 😅

We’ve definitely got our problems here in Yurop too (like literal fucking neofascists being super popular), but at least we get proportional representation – I get to vote for democratic socialists so that it actually means something