Thomas Kalmich
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- Boston Celtics
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- Christopher Hitchens
I was born in the USSR and grew up in an ex-soviet "republic". Want an honest opinion on communism from someone who's experienced it firsthand? Ask me.
Joined Nov 2022
You don’t say.
The whole “trickle down” economics concept goes contrary to anything you read in an economics book, actually.
The first introduction you get to Economics in high school contains such postulates as propensity to save (or consume) which directly posits that people will stash away excess of money or invest it for additional personal gain to stash THAT away in its turn. Spending is giving back to the economy; saving isn’t.
Untaxing the rich plays into their propensity to save MORE.
A few more hot air balloons still intact on the territory of America
Russian universities introduced a new compulsory subject: The Scopes of The Special Military Operation in Ukraine
A priest, a school teacher, a doctor, a hockey player and a firefighter walk into a bordello
Hello CoSo
It’s been a week
My Dad’s in a bad way but life goes on eventually
Was listening to Shpongle today, Are We There Yet, and a beautiful quote was used there, I dunno, probably by Carl Sagan, but I’m not sure, I didn’t recognize the voice.
“We should worry ourselves not so much with the pursuit of happiness but with the happiness of pursuit”
Street survey in Russia asks what they think about a price hike for pills and medicines.
Answer: “Thank God we’re waging war on Ukraine! We shall suffer happily to ensure victory!”
Lithuania displayed a very interesting map at today’s European summit
Russia commandeers WWII era T-34 tanks from Laos to whom they were given decades ago.
Some publicists seem to take it as an indication of a rapidly diminishing military strength of Putin’s fascist regime
Russia demonstrates the fastest in the world rate of descent into dictatorship, falling from position 124 to 146 in the Democratic Index.
Russia's war on Ukraine has been accompanied by severe suppression of political rivalry, total censorship of media and widespread repressions. The Russian state can no longer be considered anything other than a dictatorship.
Air raid alert across Ukraine as missile-carrying jets take off from airfields in Belarus
A father of two conscripted Russian young men asked state authorities to help him out with burning wood, but was refused.
He then cut down a few trees on his own, but was caught and is facing criminal charges.
The white flag of Russia belongs on the battlefield, not in the Olympics
A priest in Russia turned up on Tinder.
His account reads “sex of partner doesn’t matter, will satisfy either as long as they’re under 20”.
The commie red flag with portrait of Jesus is a doozy too
Thomas Kalmich
- Fan of
- Boston Celtics
- And of
- Christopher Hitchens
I was born in the USSR and grew up in an ex-soviet "republic". Want an honest opinion on communism from someone who's experienced it firsthand? Ask me.
Joined Nov 2022