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They forgot to mention that it will be a country with the most efficient political system, with all opposition parties abolished making election decisions easy for voters.
lmao
:monkeys-paw: By 2030, Ukraine will exist only as a free digital asset in Horizon Worlds.
Just dogshit on every conceivable level. Seven years!
Like the conflict isn't going to rumble on for another three or four as regional militias try to grab power because Green Shirt Guy and his mob fuck off to Switzerland with the aid money, leaving the country to (further) melt into another Eastern Europe Authoritarian Themepark. Because sure as shit those Azov motherfuckers aren't going to go back into the fold with all that military hardware kicking about.
It's going to be fascinating to see what happens with Zelensky. I can't think of a U.S. proxy war that similarly lionized its local puppet ruler. I'm not getting my hopes up, but there's at least some potential for folks to realize they've been had.
It's gonna be that one "Anti-Soviet freedom fighter puts his country on the road to peace" article times a thousand
That came out a decade or so before 9/11, though, and a few puff pieces don't come close to the wall-to-wall Zelensky propaganda we've seen over the last year.
Say the war turns hard against Ukraine in the next 12 months, and say Zelensky takes the money and runs instead of getting couped by Nazi hardliners in his military. That (hopefully) would be a lot more jarring.
Like the conflict isn’t going to rumble on for another three or four
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You fucking wish it'll be over in four years. I've got my money on somewhere closer to forty.
Because sure as shit those Azov motherfuckers aren’t going to go back into the fold with all that military hardware kicking about.
I mean, there's a conceivable world in which Ukraine becomes another tin-pot military dictatorship, a la Panama or Zimbabwe or Israel. Azov gets folded into whatever personality cult governs the country for the next generation. The army just drives around in humvees doing some fascist mix of state security and highway robbery to whatever residents can't escape. And those residents eventually spill into the long-running guerrilla insurgency that justifies the ultra-authoritarian dictatorship.
But the idea that you're going to do anything productive with the vacant real estate under these social conditions is absolutely delusional.
The freest country? Freedom for whom to do what?
Also, it's almost endearing how naive liberals seems to think that "bureaucracy" will vanish if you just pour enough magical technology sauce over it. — My brother in Christ, technology doesn't limit bureaucracy, it enables it. As soon as you are no longer limited by the cost of paper and postage and you can automatise your way out of paying to have actual living bureaucrats to process all the forms, there is no upper bounds for how much bureaucracy you can do.
And now we're talking about "bureaucracy", exactly what bureaucracy do you want to get rid of? Is it means testing people out of social services, is it deliberately complicated practices businesses use to cheat people out of insurance payments or refunds or is it labour protections, environmental protections or consumer safety rules? Tell me, motherfucker, tell me.
wow interesting, that's very different from the much more likely prediction that by 2030 ukraine will be a smoldering ruin with psychotic extremist terrorism
Crimea/Donetsk/Luhansk in the map of 2030 Ukraine
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One doesn't preclude the other, a smoldering ruin is a lot easier to take over and turn into a playground for tech oligarchs.
Tech bros keep pretending like "bureaucracy" is only present because of government, when the real thing that causes bureaucracy is means testing.
Privatized healthcare is the best example of this. It is an endless sea of bureaucracy because the system will break its own back rather than admit you "need" certain medical procedures enough to get them for free.
There was basically no bureaucracy with distribution of COVID vaccines in comparison. I remember in Israel (yeah yeah I know) they were literally just yelling at people on the streets "Hey you, wanna get vaccinated?" and tadaaah, results.
when the real thing that causes bureaucracy is means testing
The real thing that causes bureaucracy is the Principle-Agent problem. How do principles demand labor from agents at a cost less expensive than doing the work themselves? They need a system to efficiently monitor and evaluate the work performed by their agents prior to release of payment. So they invent a bureaucracy.
There was basically no bureaucracy with distribution of COVID vaccines in comparison.
There was absolutely a bureaucracy involved in distribution of COVID vaccines. Agents promising to collect and distribute tests and jabs in exchange for fees needed to interface with the agencies warehousing the vaccine materials and prove out that shots were going into the arms of US residents in a timely manner. There was a plethora of licensing and monitoring and auditing that occurred around the production, distribution, and payment for services rendered.
But because vaccinations have a very inelastic demand, people had a high propensity to receive the initial jabs and virtually no propensity to get subsequent jabs. This is starkly different from demand for food or housing or straight cash, wherein any individual participant will happily consume more given the opportunity and capping per-unit distribution makes a lot more sense.
This is starkly different from demand for food or housing or straight cash, wherein any individual participant will happily consume more given the opportunity and capping per-unit distribution makes a lot more sense.
I don't know that I would necessarily want to consume substantially more food, or housing that what I do right now. What I have with those seems like the most optimal for me to be able to manage, tbh.
But I do wish that I was able to get Covid Boosters, cause I went to my GP & they told me they outright didn't have any that they could give.
they want to be Estonia so bad
yoooo they removed that Hammer Sickle from the Motherland Monument
they removed that Hammer Sickle from the Motherland Monument
Then it's no motherland monument anymore, it's just a pointless statue of a tall menacing lady.
most digital country
They're gonna do that shit where you burn a painting and make it into an NFT but with a whole country
The freest
Well, Blackrock et al will certainly free them of all their productive farmland...
Every chud in the comments freaking out about the WEF
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They’re making the gungan shields from phantom menace. Not sure it will work without the giant camel dinosaur to carry it tho
Zelensky does give off JarJar vibes. What with them both being clowns who became easily manipulated politicians and all.
Working my 5000 year shift in the Metaverse Chipotle in Metaverse Ukraine
