@rpardee Not in any meaningful sense. But no communist country has been "communist". China is a one-party dictatorship. The CCP is like the Party in "Nineteen Eighty-four". The ideology is a facade. Its true ideology is power.

#CosoHistory

Was the Byzantine Empire the heir to Rome, or to ancient Greece?

Discuss.

@AkomoCombine Hungary needs to be kicked out of NATO and the EU. Let it join the CIS.

Black male misogyny is real.

Well!

My DColor Android streaming dongle died a dirty death last night. So I ordered an ONN box from Walmart.

Gotta say, the reviews live up to the hype. 32gb of storage, 3gb memory, very robust.

And only $50.

cc @opie

This guy faces 155 years in prison for making terror threats against Jewish hospitals in NYC.

The master race, everyone.

@TwiHusband Like @corlin replied to me, what was needed was that Putin's "red lines" be shown as Potemkin villages. Ukraine did that. I don't blame the US and the West being cautious over striking a country with a nuclear arsenal. But now that it's obvious that Putin's nuclear bluster is just that, full steam ahead.

@AkomoCombine David Brin wrote a wonderful novel called "Earth". Its background premise? That the world turned against Switzerland for its corruption and invaded, only to discover that it had developed nukes. Then the country was nuked.

Russia has hundreds of private militias run by oligarchs.

Russia is a feudal country. It's never been anything other than that. It is a politically stunted nation which has never progressed beyond the 16th century.

I saw that the US has officially authorized Ukraine to use American weapons in Kursk.

@nursefrombirth I haven't had that cough since, but then again, it was rare for me to have it to begin with. I just visited my NP, and she's switching me to albuterol for use when I feel the cough coming on. The problem is that it happens at night when I'm sleeping, so I won't have much warning time.

Very demure.

You know who I'd love to see live? Avishai Cohen and his trio. Just amazing music. I doubt he tours the US, though; the birthplace of jazz has surrendered to Europe and Asia.

Unedited photograph of Trump and Kellyanne Conway.

@Maude Well, she had shorts on, at least... @JoyfullyDazed

Don't stop believing, principes y princesas!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcjzHMhBtf0

#CosoMusic

Good morning.

Ladies and gentlemen, the man, the legend, Mr. Kurtis Blow!

https://youtu.be/VpVHPFvr7Ok

@JolieSaboteuse Think of me once in a while, I'm on WKRP in Cincinnati.

@Keysalagain And we hate Illinois Nazis. Or any Nazis from anywhere.

@JolieSaboteuse Smalldick Golftits.