General News Thread

[Zear0]

1 hour ago, Lionator said:

Good news: diesel prices are about to tumble.

 

Bad news: everytime you buy diesel, you’ll be contributing to the deaths of Ukranians. 

Everything written here is just wrong. Russia can’t export any more as their refineries are battered and Europe still isn’t buying so it’s nothing to do with us. 
 

This is Trump manipulating markets and seeing if people are thick enough to think this will do anything to prices, it won’t.

[leicsmac]

8 minutes ago, Zear0 said:

Everything written here is just wrong. Russia can’t export any more as their refineries are battered and Europe still isn’t buying so it’s nothing to do with us. 
 

This is Trump manipulating markets and seeing if people are thick enough to think this will do anything to prices, it won’t.

Well, up until now all he has had to do is con enough people into thinking that the prices are going down on his watch. 

 

Again though, thankfully, the act finally appears to be wearing off, so he's moving to more direct voter suppression and outright rigging attempts instead. 

[Zear0]

5 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Well, up until now all he has had to do is con enough people into thinking that the prices are going down on his watch. 

 

Again though, thankfully, the act finally appears to be wearing off, so he's moving to more direct voter suppression and outright rigging attempts instead. 

I mean he could get diesel from Canada but he’s decided they’re the baddies over Russia.

 

He’s not even hiding how under the thumb of Putin he is now. Oh no, Ukraine have dismantled our oil sector, surely the US won’t be daft enough to agree to make them part of our supply chain so they feel obliged to protect it will they?

[leicsmac]

13 minutes ago, Zear0 said:

I mean he could get diesel from Canada but he’s decided they’re the baddies over Russia.

 

He’s not even hiding how under the thumb of Putin he is now. Oh no, Ukraine have dismantled our oil sector, surely the US won’t be daft enough to agree to make them part of our supply chain so they feel obliged to protect it will they?

Yeah, that's about the size of it. As is the case with such regimes, as they get more desperate, the mask slips more and more. And it was never a particularly well-fitting mask to begin with. 

 

Unfortunately for everyone else, in the history of such regimes, that's also when the violence tends to ramp up to previously unseen levels. Now, the US apparently has more checks and balances than your typical despotic state to prevent that, but...

[Lionator]

35 minutes ago, Zear0 said:

I mean he could get diesel from Canada but he’s decided they’re the baddies over Russia.

 

He’s not even hiding how under the thumb of Putin he is now. Oh no, Ukraine have dismantled our oil sector, surely the US won’t be daft enough to agree to make them part of our supply chain so they feel obliged to protect it will they?

Literally axios have printed that he’s basically agreed the deal with Putin because Zelenskyy refused to stop bombing Russian oil ports after many US requests to stop. Of course if it wasn’t for Trump’s stupid Iranian adventure, Russian oil wouldn’t be anywhere near as valuable as it now will be.