I would simply not Zero Sum. I would simply behold the wheel of creation on it's side as I

The only Maori in NZ with too much power is Winston fucking Peters.

Hasn't Lara been canonically bi for a while?

alongside the fashy callsigns. Ukraine wants to appear both weak and strong at the same time to get western support.

We need a Sankara Sicko.

Look, the loss in the 2nd Emu war was culturally scarring, and when we found out they were fleeing the Cassowary advance...

Funny, but I see Ukraine is at the "what about wolfpacks!? We can collapse their economy and logistics chains!" Stage of denial about military prospects.

The fact of the matter is that it is relatively easy to alter production for resiliency and push your construction sector to rapidly rebuild factories. The one exception to this is ships, and even that doesn't work, as we saw with the Nazi blockade of the UK in 1940.

Turns out Fascism is imperialism revisited upon the core populations.

Get on their bad side and they'll fuck with you for life. Get on their good side and they'll send their babies into your yard for a visit and keep the cockatoos and kookaburras from fucking with you.

This isn't true, as everyone knows, Trotskys reproduce via splitting.

Its a bit assholish but understandable.

I think they've seen people "get wierd with it" online and have just overrcorrected a bit. Remember that Hexbearians are, somehow, comparitively normal people compared to most Extremely Online types. And Matt's acid rants skew to a wierd audience.

They've seen a lot of stalkers etc, they know they'll get a flurry of morbid speculation, and the last thing they want is for some wierdo to show up at Matt's hospital room or start camping his house.

Also they are distraught over their friend. They have to read prepared statements and...well it seemed heavily edited. His wife must be in hell right now, about to have a child! You'd be an asshole too under that type of stress!

Heck most of us here can't talk about bees without a vicious struggle session. So I think they're handling it ok considering and we should cut them some slack.

He'll just declare them an essential industry and force them back to work like with the rail employees.