nxdefiant

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[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This is some text book projection. Maybe talk to a professional about it. And yeah, you probably should stay away from cartoons and kids until you get these repressed urges figured out.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago

Yestsin won with 58 and 54 percent of the vote in his two elections, hardly a 'landslide':

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Russian_presidential_election

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Russian_presidential_election

Putin's lowest was 53, in his first election. The latest was 88%, with most of the others being in the 70% range.

Historically though, Russians, have a way of guaranteeing results like that. Yeltsin is kind of a low percentage outlier by comparison:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Soviet_Union_legislative_electionr

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_Soviet_Union_legislative_election

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Soviet_Union_legislative_election

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/18/1196979929/in-unsurprising-result-putin-is-reelected

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 24 points 10 months ago (5 children)

woah, who the fuck is talking about kids?

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 25 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Some of the oldest porn is cartoons scratched into rocks, get off your golden age of porn high horse, or get off with it if that's your thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_erotic_depictions

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago

Ukraine feeds a lot of the world, and it's in everyone's best interest that it keeps doing that.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure Yeltsin is the reason Russia has Putin.

Yeltsin oversaw the dissolution of the ussr and brought capitalism to Russia, of course the west wanted him to be president of Russia. All he did was ask Bill for favors on the world stage (and got most of what he asked for).

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

if you're actually interested, even the considerable powers granted in a state of emergency are defined by laws passed by Congress:

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/guide-emergency-powers-and-their-use

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago

Battlefield Earth

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago

I don't know if that's a typo, but "cheey" is a delightfully terrible name that I am stealing.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It seems very likely that this uncharacteristically conservative move was calculated to produce these results. The house won't pass any pro immigration laws, so letting the SC strike this down would let the administration essentially leave things where they were and say "can't do anything else oh well", effectively removing the topic from election discourse and putting the ball firmly in the Republican court, who won't be able to get anything past the Senate.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago

Senegalese refugees comprise the bulk of the migrants, and all sorts of things like drought and commodity prices (due to the invasion Ukraine among other things) are driving their economy into the ground. In the end, climate change is definitely a non negligible component of the problem which is only going to get worse.

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