Part of the reason for the invasion is that Putin wants more Slavs in Russia. It’s getting a bit non-Slavic for the tastes of racist ultra-nationalists. See the birth rate collapse. Hence the kidnapp… (View Post)

MAGA put a huge amount of effort getting their people into every systemic office in government. Because of the US system of electing dog catchers, this means that lots of officials who supervise &… (View Post)

Only the truly stupid do that. Maduro cheated enough to win - to keep his Tankie friends overseas. 99% would have been embarrassing for sone of them. (View Post)

Good to see that complete ignorance of vaccines and what they do is still out there. No vaccine ever produced is 100% effective at preventing illness or preventing transmission. Nor has anyone claime… (View Post)

Er.. nope Because the vaccines were tested to detect *negative effects* just as every other vaccine is tested. They compressed the schedule by doing stuff in parallel and not leaving gaps between ste… (View Post)