Soon as a bill goes to collections it’s not your problem anymore. There’s a guy in a suit whose job is to ask you for $100. He went to law school to learn how to be a bum. You’re a winner, you don’t talk to people like that anymore. Go buy a sandwich
@ploretariat1949 Cuba knew that the US military machine was going to turn it's ire on them as soon as the Iran war ended. It was either make some concessions or deal with a brutal bombing campaign that they can not survive.
@SamuraiApology Death of Stalin the was the same way - no ideological disputes; just pure self-preservation. The most 'political' work of that vein made by Ianucci is In the Loop tbh.
@LegoRacers2 People are quoting Lenin's take on academics in Russia - at the time an incredibly tiny sect of people mostly drawn from landed gentry/aristocracy/bourgeoise.
Even then, in What is To be Done, Lenin argued for the necessity of "intelligentsia" in a revolutionary movement.
@BigFritz1917@surv1917 I'll start giving a shit once ACP becomes anything more than a Larouchite microsect founded on a golf course by failed twitch streamers
@DeliaCore J Sakai wrote settlers when he became completely disillusioned with white American workers after his experiences working in the auto-industry.
So you are not wrong.
@besslilburne US has a special relationship with the UK in the same way that Paris Hilton had a special relationship with the chihuahua she kept in her handbag
@khanofkhans77@NondescriptRed Really Venezuela was just trying to do social democracy based on their oil reserves the same way Norway was; but see what happens when a developing country tries to do what Europeans nestled in the Bossom of empire do.