Renton

Americans pay 25 to 35% of their income directly on taxes. But they also pay up to 20% of their income on healthcare. Which do you think is more wasteful? Cos one of them is going to get a lot more expensive.

HMHM, MF, and PL are all newish to me.

I blame all that pov porn I've accidentally seen.

Can only empathise Craig. I'm a ball of nerves at the minute. Not helped by all the crazy shit happening in the US, which is beginning to directly impact my job as a lot of my work is on vaccines and have communications with the CDC and ACIP. Those people are going through hell, it's insane what is happening. Just taking a day at a time, look for another job, and staying off the drink is all I can do at the moment.

I was joking mate. Infrastructure does take too long here but that's not down to H&S. Nimbyism, planning regs, political incompetence. My wife was an industrial claims solicitor so I know the importance of it.

Well we must have zero fucking health and safety in the UK cos it takes decades to build a public patio here.

Oh, it's actually all a penis and the bellend is the heart. This just gets worse!

Arrows are usually depicted hitting the front of the heart and are relatively small. This "arrow" has a huge shaft with a tribal tattoo on it, replete with a pubic hair quiver, going straight in the hearts arsehole. Hey, blame Meenzer, not me, why do I get the blame?

It's no coincidence female buttocks look like a love heart from above. Honestly don't get what that is even supposed to be though?

1000% this. I don't see any other description on what Musk has done other than it being a coup. And some people still think there will be fair elections in 4 years time.

I haven't read but I know people who have who say it is EXACTLY like the start of that book. Iirc from the series at least in that Universe Canada was a safe haven, now it's looking like it will be annexed.

Not sure about this. MBS might not be that arsed, but the muslim brotherhood thing might cause civil unrest in ME societies. Always a strange one Palestinians for me, on the one hand they are Sunni but on the other Hamas were proxies of Iran (Shi'ites). Can't see it going down well regardless.

Weakness and incompetence contrasted with malevolence. I know which deserves most condemnation.

Interesting thing about America's soft power in one of the podcasts I was listening to. Basically the US has spent decades developing it, growing roots in nearly all western countries and some far Est ones too (Japan, South Korea). You can only pull this shit and shaft your neighbours once though. Nobody can trust the US now. Military bases will be removed from foreign soil. Canadians will continue to boycott Bourbon. Etc.

Oh aye, it's definitely impolite. They're either saying you look like your about to croak or congratulations, you're not a fat cunt anymore.

He's flooding the zone with so much shit its almost impossible to keep up. Almost gone unnoticed yesterday that the World's richest man, who is entirely unelected, cut off aid to literally the poorest people in the World. They and their children will suffer unheard. The US has become an abomination.

And a means of delivery. The iron dome pretty much took out hundreds of simultaneous missiles they fired at it. And they won't get even one nuke miniaturised enough to get onto a warhead. The US can easily prevent that now.

Braver than me then. Who's going to pay for the permanent army required to keep them safe?

Iran is completely impotent after last year. Their military is shite and their proxies have capitulated.

Nowt we can do. The US is a monopolistic economic and military superpower. You have to hope for resistance from within but that doesn't seem to be there. Maybe it will appear if the US goes down the pan economically.

Can't really disagree. Still think where we've arrived was unimaginable then though. I mean, it takes millions of Americans to get us here and here we are. We're going to go through more shit in the coming years than we ever thought possible, just hope we see the other side. Got to laugh when Trump tells us to learn from history. I am all too well aware of what ethnic cleansing does you orange shit gibbon. None of this is even remotely viable, who the hell is going to want to risk their life holidaying in Gaza by the sea? Is this just dementia?

Think there's some hindsight there mind. I mean yes, I agree, but nobody at the time could foresee this, we assumed Trump would slink off to Mar a Lago and die quietly. It seemed the most pragmatic thing to do at the time to minimise conflict during fractious times.

Why when he's getting unloaded by a cunt?

My first thought too. I remember those Muslims in michigan refusing to vote for Biden. What the fuck did they think would happen? Granted this is a worst case scenario but it was always on the cards. At this stage the US is no different to Russia, in fact, it is jarring how similar it is.