But some people will be a bit turned off by murder so it probably evens out.

What do you mean? You think it should be lower or higher because of the killings?

You’re right, I was wrong by 20%. His support is around 50% and he’s pushing it to 70%. Does this mean he’s not supported by general public? 40-50% is as much as any government gets really.

WTF? Whataboutism would be if you said “Russians killed Ukrainian children” and I replied with “But what about Russian children!”. I said “yes, children are innocent, ESPECIALLY Ukrainian children”. I’m playing especialism you dufus.

I think you don’t know what playing with the wording means.

Because he needs to pretend support for him is absolute while in reality only vast majority supports him. Because he cannot allow any opposition to grow in Russia in case he makes a mistake, like he did with Ukraine. Because if there’s any sign of weakness even his allies will turn against him in a heartbeat.

He’s tampering with elections to move it from 70-80% to 100%, not to move it from 10% to 100%. It’s lower since the war didn’t go as planned but most Russians supported Putin and his war.

I get what you’re doing, trying to play around the wording.

No, I’m agreeing with you while taking the opportunity to remind everyone what absolute scum Russians are.

no one is apologizing for what the Russian military is doing.

Exactly. Someone should apologize.

And I also see what you’re doing, putting all the blame on the military like Putin was not generally loved in Russia before the war. Russian are pissed only because now they also have to die. If Putin only murdered Ukrainians they would still happily support him and his war.

You’re right, especially the Ukrainian children kidnapped and held in Russia.

So fire them into Russia. Problem solved.

We’re almost there…

Oh no! Please, don’t deprive me of your wisdoms! Tell me more about The Electoral College!

No, you don’t understand that Biden is president and Hilary wasn’t. Everything else is just some meaningless BS.

And Biden got 7 million more votes. That’s his achievement. He not only ‘would have won if not for the rigged system’ but actually won. You see the difference?

Well, she didn’t win enough.

translation: his greatest achievement has been not being Trump

No, the achievement was actually winning the election. Unlike Hilary for example.

This story was also told in a movie. I don’t remember which one.

Fun fact: in most countries in the world breaking and entering is not a life or death situation for the cops. Cop shows in Europe are really boring. Cops show up, ask questions, figure out what happen and arrest someone (or not). How insane is that?

Sorry, I couldn’t hear you over you shooting me. Can you repeat?

Russia is not going to overrun Ukraine. Worst case scenario is that Trump will win elections, stop any aid and Ukraine will be forced to sign a peace deal putting it in similar situation as before the war (no EU, no NATO and some territory lost).

Better scenario is that Trump loses and Putin, seeing his best chance at getting advantage is gone, will sing a peace treaty ending the war. He will soon win re-election and he just murdered Navalny. His position is safe enough to give up on Ukraine.

Best case Ukraine will not sign any treaty and regains all it’s territory and Crimea. The war formally continues but Ukraine joins NATO ending any actual fighting.

Sorry to hear that. Where I live (Spain) everyone I know, even workers with no education and very basic jobs, go on holidays with their families at least once a year. The perspective here is that leisure (holidays, weekends at the beach, vacations) are a basic right and I think it should be viewed like this everywhere.

Also, as I explained in another commend the article talks about travel in the same category as dining out, not groceries.

So while vacation is a basic need it’s obviously not as basic as food or rent (which the article doesn’t claim).