They didn’t share a border until the Soviets and NAZIs jointly invaded their neighbor Poland.

Exactly, the country that shared a massive land border with the NAZIs and was a direct target of their aggression suffered many more casualties than the ones what didn’t, who’da thunk it? Without the combined efforts of essentially the entire rest of the world, the USSR would have been toast.

And the Ukrainians, and the Poles, and the French resistance, and the British, and the Americans, and the Canadians, and…

Sometimes, late at night, while futilely trying to sleep, I think back to this image and wonder “whatever happened to the great piss bag?”

Would you rather the Chinese be allowed to have their way with the entirety of the Asia-Pacific region? Based on what we’ve seen in Hong Kong I don’t think that’s a good idea.

Porque no los dos?

Thank you for sharing.

Harambe was assassinated by a time traveler

as one does

Oh there is absolutely poverty. I’m specifically referencing what the commenter above me was discussing, which is a trend on social media of finding a bad area of town, taking pictures from 40 different angles, and presenting it as though American cities are nothing but miles upon miles of tent encampments and despair. I will admit I have only ever lived in the rust belt, so it may very well be like that in other places, but in general you see one or two small areas of extreme poverty mixed with working class, a few rough-ish neighborhoods adjacent to those, and the rest is pretty quiet, if not always the most affluent. By your description, it sounds like Chinese law enforcement keeps closer tabs on people through mass surveillance rather than active patrolling. Personally I’d rather have more crime and fewer government CCTVs, but to each their own.

Propaganda. Every city has one or two neighborhoods (usually full of working class minorities) where police dump the homeless and addicts from everywhere else. Each of those areas has one or two particularly bad streets that look like shit and make for great fear mongering.

I’m attempting to post a very old meme about Rafael Cruz to a shitposting forum…

Sell feet pics

Off topic but you HAVE listen to this song at least once before you go. The whole album is one of my favorites.

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The biggest, flattest, thinnest sheet you can make.

Is that academy award winning actress Margot Robbie, star of the silver screen sensation Barbie?

Oh that’s Ohkay, yoo know we all have days like thiat