"WHAT!? YOU'RE MAKING THE BAD GUYS IN YOUR BIDEO GAME ANALAGOUS TO A REAL LIFE DICTATORSHIP THAT OPPRESSES YOU!? AND YOU'RE MAD THAT THEY INVADED YOUR COUNTRY, MURDERED YOUR COLLEAGUES AND TURNED YOUR CITIES INTO WASTELANDS!?
AAAAAAAAHHHHH, I AM GOING INSANE! KEEP POLITICS OUT OF MUH VYDIA! HOW DARE YOU ADD THEMES OF WAR AND DICTATORSHIP IN A SERIES THAT HAS BEEN ALL ABOUT WAR AND DICTATORSHIP SINCE THE FIRST BOOK!?"
European work culture gets romanticized a lot online
- 5 weeks vacation
- 35 - 40 hour weeks
- Long lunches
- Work to live not live to work
All true. Also:
- The average net salary in Spain after tax: €1,800/month
- Average rent in Madrid for a one bedroom: €1,200/month
- Percentage of that salary left after rent: you do the math
The system is designed for people who own property, have stable long term employment, and aren't trying to build anything outside of it
If you fit that profile: genuinely excellent quality of life
If you're trying to build something, save aggressively, or earn based on output rather than hours: the same system that protects employees will slow you down in ways that are hard to see until you've lost three years to them
The amount of western commies who fall for 30+ y/o Soviet propaganda aimed at their parents & grandparents which was produced by a country that hasn't existed for over 3 decades will never cease to amaze me.
"I’m always at your service" said Hungary's FM to Russia.
In an alleged leaked call, uncovered by frontstory poland, Hungary secretly cooperated with Russia in removing EU sanctions.
Hungarian FM even asked "Did I do something wrong?" A true vassal.
If Trump straight up killed Putin with a perfect decapitation strike - zero US casualties, zero Russian response - almost every liberal would immediately take Ukraine flags out of their bio and NAFO accounts would complain that it was “illegal.”
Rory Stewart would go on the “Rest is Politics” podcast and complain that Trump didn’t follow the right process for killing him. The Anonymous account would call the US a rogue state. Tucker would bleat like an old woman that assassinating foreign leaders is un-Christian. Michael Moore and Stephen King would put out Boomer tweets asking “Is America the real terrorist?”
Obama would return from his self-imposed internal exile formulating Spotify playlists to post a joint statement with Angela Merkel saying “the international rules based order is under unprecedented strain — the world stands at a crossroads.”
The EU, Macron and Starmer would release statements expressing “concern.” The UN would release a statement mourning him and 90% of all governments from the Global South would vote at the UN to condemn the killing. South Africa and Ireland would fly their flags at half staff and declare official mourning.
This is the level of Trump Derangement Syndrome we have seen over the past week
Love this new hilarious trend of English speaking journalists cherrypicking a random word in Russian to pretend like it's some exotic, unfathomable concept, that only exists in Russian (it's easily translatable) to make their stupid article seem 𝓵𝓮 𝓭𝓮𝓮𝓹