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Dodd-Frank has been mostly reversed or watered down.
The Citizens United freedom of speech court case has already been decided. Congress can't place restrictions on corporate lobbying and fundraising.
I think that Russians take note of this. Hence in their eyes their own oligarchy system and the power of US corporations that politicians basically serve, make less and less difference.
Your writing is very good. I read somewhere that living under a totalitarian regime with state capitalism is like living in jail...and after certain number of years and thoriogh destruction of the past...individuals are crippled for life...
Quite sad to view Russia transformed into a banana republic, into a Venezuela....
But, all that Putin mental diarreah about the west...is it for real? I just think he's being populist to be popular among "drunks" as you say....but he's supported by a group that are not drunks that are loosing money...
What is he after? I don't think he cares about Ukraine....or elections, since elections must be rigged...
He reminds me that turd called Maduro, always inventing western conspirations to mask jis failure....
But Putin is a clever man, what is he after? A dictatorship?
Rabid anti-Westernism is to the modern Russia as an apple pie to America. That's a key tie that holds the regime together. The enemy at the gate unites the Fuhrer and his people. Unlike people in a modest banana Republic, Russians have a bunch of complexes and manias they've inherited from their long Imperial past.
I believe it's a primitive psychology. Egocentric disorders usually develop to compensate for the the sense of fear and insignificance. Russians tend to place Russia in the center of the cosmic order of things (no exaggeration there), and it's a sure sign of a major psychological disorder.Most of the Americans don't suspect they wage a war on Russia, or they don't know that Russia exists, but many if not most Russians believe they fight a war with big bad USA already. Why? Americans don't think about cosmic purposes much, they don't need cheap psychological tricks to live their lives, and that what makes Americans inferior in the averaged Russian opinion, they, Americans, don't think about the "meanings" and eternal purposes as much as the Russians do (a claim is not mine).
Exceptionalism and messianic manias are the two things people and nations use to overcome their smallness and fear. Essentially, Russians don't want to live in the modern world of uncertainty and anxiety as equals. Russians must have a sense of purpose to function in the meaningless universe, and the only way to achieve that purpose is to exert Russian will on the less significant ones, like Ukraine, for example. Being anti-western gives the Russians a purpose & meaning, to deliver the world from the evil liberal rot, moral decadence and Anglo Saxon domination, to bring the majesty of the Russian world to the light for everybody to see (in essence Russians parrot German nazis to a letter on this one). Putin is a money hungry criminal but he has a huge esoteric side to him, a Russian mystic of a sort, who interacts with all sorts of the shady philosophers of the Russian fascism and who has many nuclear weapons (unlike Adolf).
When he will get tired to write this crap and leave this topic?
Purely Russian craziness of Ukrainian variety.
It's like "Amok" and "Russiaonline" before that - from those series, just more intense)))
So he won't put it to rest until he'll get banned)))
Purely Russian craziness of Ukrainian variety.
It's like "Amok" and "Russiaonline" before that - from those series, just more intense)))
So he won't put it to rest until he'll get banned)))
Erasure, almost) It was yestreday, we celebrated Defender of the Fatherland day.
As for Remembermee, I have what to say on his accusations, but don't see a reason.
Porasha is buying more weapons, wonder if DPR is going to intercept as always
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