That's the joke

Free the beers and we might see some novel inventions like the Japanese toilet bidet )

Agreed. This is why I download mp3s and buy CDs still. Radio and Spotify streaming is good, but honestly, a better idea or service would be free group book reading events and coffee, help those budding writers etc to share ideas and increase the entropy and size of our universe lol

Dude the state can take your citizenship away, if the state was destroyed your citizenship wouldn't mean shit.

Consider all of that and then now imagine that there is a state that has a sizable number of people without citizenship that the system has no current means of sustaining or helping except to bomb their stuff.

Clearly genocide and a good move for money laundering, but look man I don't have a horse in the race, I just observe and I wanted it to become transparent that the issue is ironically, not worse, but dumber, not because of a lack of transparency or obfuscation, but because of the fact that this is a system, and a collective mindset that ought to be challenged if not addressed

Agreed

Nah he'll just be forced to sell some shares before a big profit or they'll arrange a boardroom coup to take away some of his autonomy, CEOs be warned, acting out like too much of a wildcard can appear self destructive and irrational to investors and shareholders alike

Interesting. I would be happy to get to know y'all

Agreed

Sensible regulations would be rubber bullets for newly minted firearms owners. Keep it empty, but if the day comes that you think about going on a mass shooting spree, you'll probably change your mind when you remember that you'll be loading rubber bullets and have to explain yourself after you've shot someone.

I think the more important point is that people form militias to protect themselves, and carrying a weapon means considering bad thoughts and being aware of them, the same way that an ex drug user or addict practicing abstinence consistently needs to exert a degree of self discipline.

If you ask me, owning a gun just makes violent assholes have a shorter fuse. Think about it, have you ever carried a stick or a knife and thought that carrying it meant something? Now you can be more assertive, but the risk of accidentally shooting people or just flying off the handle and shooting someone suddenly becomes a real risk.

A great test would be to give recent licensed gun owners three rubber bullets to use. When you get around to firing it after losing your shit you'll know that you really lost your cool.

Someone once told me, be careful of your thoughts for your thoughts may affect your words, be careful of your words because your words may come to become your actions, be careful of your actions for your actions may reflect on your character.

If you ask me, owning a firearm and making violent threats don't necessarily mean actions, but I agree that there's a definitive correlation. I guess that I still believe that the action itself is the most honest and serious commitment to something a person can express.

I think you're mistaken, it is Putin who is the warmongering conqueror here, not Prigozhin.