Oil and gas revenues last month amounted to 771.3 billion rubles ($8.6 billion), a significant drop from 945.6 billion rubles ($10.5 billion) in February 2024 and a moderate decrease in comparison to 789.1 billion rubles ($8.8 billion) in January.
Yeah. I know it sounds a bit paradoxical, but I really do genuinely think that this whole episode needs to be absolutely catastrophic for the vast majority of our citizenry to learn anything - and even then, we’ll still have a large number of jingoistic assholes who will continue to not give a fuck.
To follow that up: I think the only thing that has a chance of shaking the American people out of this craze is that the trump admin crashes and burns the US economy on a level that hasn’t been seen for 100 years. Something so bad people are forced to remember what happened that time they elected a populist dictator’s puppet for president.
The danger with that is what we’ve seen before (and which the people planning stuff like Project 2025 may be banking on): A broken economy breeds populism and fascism. In that sense, there’s the paradoxical danger that trump running everything to the ground may push even more people into the maga-camp.
So yeah - there’s a ton of stupid and gullible people who are just bandwagoning for one reason or another. Those are the people who I think (hope, really) can be snapped out of this shit.
The ones I’m REALLY concerned about are:
psychopathic capitalists who can never have enough money (see: Bezos, Musk)
accelerationists (see: Zuck)
Christian Dominionists (See: Johnson, Pence)
white supremacists and neofascists (don’t really need to explain that one)
conservative militias (See: Proud Boys, 3%ers, etc) - they’re WAY better organized than most people realize. And Trump’s probably gonna invoke the insurrection act and deputize those fucksticks, and bam, you got your brand new home-grown American neo-Sturmabteilung.
Yeah. I know it sounds a bit paradoxical, but I really do genuinely think that this whole episode needs to be absolutely catastrophic for the vast majority of our citizenry to learn anything - and even then, we’ll still have a large number of jingoistic assholes who will continue to not give a fuck.
To follow that up: I think the only thing that has a chance of shaking the American people out of this craze is that the trump admin crashes and burns the US economy on a level that hasn’t been seen for 100 years. Something so bad people are forced to remember what happened that time they elected a populist dictator’s puppet for president.
The danger with that is what we’ve seen before (and which the people planning stuff like Project 2025 may be banking on): A broken economy breeds populism and fascism. In that sense, there’s the paradoxical danger that trump running everything to the ground may push even more people into the maga-camp.
So yeah - there’s a ton of stupid and gullible people who are just bandwagoning for one reason or another. Those are the people who I think (hope, really) can be snapped out of this shit.
The ones I’m REALLY concerned about are: