I’m guessing that these Jews always understood anybody could be sucked into fascism. The ones that were willing to reduce the Holocaust and WWII to German ethnicity aren’t going to have a problem reducing Israel-Palestine to Palestinian ethnicity either.

Add ethnicities to that list, which is the main driver here, although religious Zionism is present and growing. The Nazis weren’t particularly pious either,

Almost certainly similar in spirit, regardless of what their Western fans like to project.

It’s a pretty symmetrical situation, even if they have different skin colours. If only we could treat it that way (edit: and then the capability gap wouldn’t be there either).

Most of Trump’s economics ideas are nonesense. Like the general idea of the US making all it’s own stuff, but also exporting goods a lot. Exporting in exchange for what?

If they own an amount of land farmable for soybeans they’re worth at least a couple.

Orban isn’t buying, though - Russia sends it cheaper.

Oh shit, TIL that’s not how you spell that. Fixed.

That’s a bit rich. A rising gold price is a sign people are expecting trouble. That happens a lot even when civilisations aren’t collapsing.

Looking at facts other than that, bad stuff is going to continue to come, but nothing directly world-ending (yes, including climate change).

Basically, this is a tabloid selling “end is nigh” stuff.

The trick there is that there’s always a new normal that comes, and that food is heavy (per value) and hard to use for hastily arranged or large purchases. It’s a decent guess that you’ll eventually be able to spend your gold coins if fiat becomes worthless.

Buy it during the apocalypse is still my personal plan, though.

No, we’re really all grug cavemen.

Edit: Maybe the programmer gets a copper spear, but we don’t get to be hyperintellegent and still write code this shit.

Impunity.

Really, that’s the main reason why they’re different from other places built on someone else’s land. There’s no incentive not to bomb everyone you don’t like, with the unconditional backing of a distant giant.

You can’t expect them to go “cold turkey” off of bombing, they need to ween themselves off with alternative targets. /s

A competitive system is more what I was expecting. So, somebody who’s a big name in Irish art but doesn’t currently make a living would get priority above someone who just has an Etsy shop.

That is a judgement call, but not neccesarily about the worth of the art itself.

Sure, it’s not without advantages, but it waters down the concept quite a bit. Which may or may not be a bad thing, I guess - lots of people could use a basic income.

Yeah, exactly. If the selection isn’t competitive it’s vaguely art-themed more than anything, in practice.

For sure, it must be a more respected occupation there. The entirety of Ireland basically being the IRA, I’m not so sure about.

It’s weird that doing this just for artists flew there. I can only imagine the uproar that idea would generate here.

So it’s a lottery? WTF.

There’s literally no existing roads anywhere near the Russian end. Rail probably comes closer (because this is Russia), but it’s basically as remote as you can get.

One day connecting the continents there seems like it could make sense. In the short term, lol no.

Like, libertarians? I have to think anyone seriously down the chud rabbithole would be embarrassed to even ride in one. Symbols of tribal loyalty are as big as ever in fascist land.