u/Gustephan

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_ping

Not the person you're responding to, but it's hard as an American to see our country as decadent. The majority of us poors are barely making it paycheck to paycheck and don't experience anything you might call decadent. For the record I agree with you that on the world stage decadence is a valid adjective for the state of the US, but I don't know that I'd have that perspective if I never lived outside of the US and never got to see it from the outside looking in

I'd bet at least some were a lot more graphic than what was reported. I'd really love to like, run into a Greenlander in this thread whose door was knocked on and hear what they actually said. There had to be at least a few "go fuck yourself with a rusty crowbar" type responses

You're supposed to wager something with value, I don't think any other country would accept florida

Wasn't "protecting Russian language and culture" one of Putlers first justifications for the invasion? Like, I think it's kinda fucked up to ban the language and culture, but then again my country has never been invaded by a neighboring war criminal who used "we're just protecting our language and culture in your land" so my opinion isn't nearly as valid as the opinion of people who are currently in that situation