Literally training osama bin Ladin

Canada should annex russia

And just see if we die

Norway should annex Russia

Even better

We helped Russia economically by giving them foreign aid, and goods shipments after the collapse of the Soviet Union, extending into the early years of the Obama Admin.

Pathological altruism is indeed a key feature of their success, or rather, exploiting it.

Aside from that, our intervention in the Middle East caused a global oil shortage, shifting demand onto Russian exports, which jump-started their recovery process.

See here.

The communists don't need to be controlled or fought. They just need to be ignored, and they'll wander on home

Finland should annex Russia

Helped Canada become the amazing for the first act and shit in the second

@Miniature Menace yes

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?locations=RU

The Fins annexing Russia. <:pot_of_kek:544849795433496586>

That’s a jump

Anyway, notice the uptrend beginning with U.S. intervention causing a global oil shortage.

https://images7.memedroid.com/images/UPLOADED419/5aa8022593c41.jpeg

All of that revenue was from the artificially inflated value of oil, the result of the intervention, which thus increased the value of their exports and jump-started the economy.

That it is, Ram.

Farmers are fucking hardcore

I mean, look at Vietnam

They know how to handle a hoe

Have smarter people take the helm and stop acting like Finland is Poland

@Miniature Menace, indeed, as it relates to altruism, but it always grows into a menace on its own, without much of any interference cultivating it.

@RAM II or France

Nonetheless, it is true academia is polluted with Communist materials.

Imagine going to Canada and thinking this might take year I don’t need a jacket pfft

Really napoleon and hitler listen to Momgolia and put on yer coat

@Jeremy yeah, but no guns

So....

It was either the University of Michigan or Minnesota, whose library page I visited a few months ago, only to discover all of their recommended reading materials on their index was related to feminism, communism, and black marxist writers, such as Cedric Robinson.

Then you have the University of Chicago.

Don't even get me started.

That place is a Communist factory.

Cause they aren’t smart enough to use their phones their always on so the go to the library

It's an INEFFECTUAL communist factory

@Jeremy Basically, my observation is that this is for the moment a perhaps unavoidable consequence of prosperity. Without the urgent scarcity and imminent threat narratives, folks are often unmotivated to confront parasitic behaviors, or to resist indulging in narcissistic displays of token charity. This is unlikely to be addressed until not addressing it becomes credibly lethal.

They can't do anything except bitch

It’s hard to take that as a serious statement because I’m imagining you pfp talking

Indeed, Menace. Philosopher Immanuel Kant once wrote of Envy that,
```…a propensity to view the well-being of others with distress, even though it does not detract from one’s own. [It is] a reluctance to see our own well-being overshadowed by another’s because the standard we use to see how well off we are is not the intrinsic worth of our own well-being but how it compares with that of others. [It] aims, at least in terms of one’s wishes, at destroying other’s good fortune.```