Why is American culture so money-centric?
Instead of “he's not believing me” they say “he's not buying it”. Also, “put your money where your mouth is” and “don't let your mouth write checks your ass can't cash.”

Well you see the king of the brits wanted to do capitalism (usury), and that was forbidden so he broke off from the pope and with the money he borrowed from the jews that he later killed, he started to build a bunch of gun factory. So the french and dutchies and germs started to do the same.

Now these greedy fucks are ruling the fucking world.

I mean we're talking about invisible hand believers. They are not that bright.

It's because of the fully-synthetic bacon.

@donkulator our bacon of hope

@antigermanist when something economic happens you always say that the invisible hand will correct it :p

I will take the "preoccupied with money" over the "preoccupied with buggering" I see in UK comedies. Maybe UK comedies don't represent UK culture?

Speaking of money. How you enjoying the billions we have sent to Ukraine to stop the great evil Putin? You know the great evil that will take out NATO nations when Ukraine is done.

@Demolishun you did it because it was economically beneficial to you. Otherwise you wouldn’t have cared at all

@kiki I sure hope so. I don't see any other benefit coming from it. I honestly think we should be getting some land out of this deal.

@retoor you’re orange now!

because they can't afford anything

@Demolishun oh it's not gonna be economically beneficial to the peons

it's because they wanted to mine all the lithium from under Ukraine. some graham politician said there was 12 trillion worth of lithium and/or minerals under Ukraine. they're also gonna be converted to smart cities. blackrock was buying up stuff after it got totaled by "the war"

cause strife, buy up all the land when people are fleeing. or alternatively flood them with a hurricane (not hard to change the directions and all that). something something quartz mines in Appalachia, the purest in the world. necessary for chips. sure interesting eminent domain applies now, since previous roads washed out and the landscape changed so much it can't be anything but public land now!

my bf thinks Americans actually can own land. I think if you have to pay taxes or the government takes it that's not you owning jack shit

Ukraine is also a big exporter of wheat

I'm not sure of the details on that cuz I don't like wheat

but I'm sure the wheat problem hit Russia to some degree. with global warming, evidently the Russians are aware of it but have no incentive to stop it. since most of Russia is boreal. so if global warming happens an awful lot of southern land will become capable of growing wheat, so Russia can support to feed a bigger population. especially with Ukraine, which was a major trading partner of Russia's, now probably not providing very much wheat to russia, which has a mostly cold climate and difficulty growing much food as a general because of it

@jestdotty yeah, the people doing this are kinda shitty. I wish we had not sent any money there. I think the politicians are getting kickbacks and lining their friends pockets (banks, military contractors, etc). Ukraine is a cesspool of deep state crime. Nato cannot legally have shit in their countries near Russias border. So they keep Ukraine out of Nato so they can put all the treaty breaking stuff in Ukraine. Then Ukraine was bombing their own citizens because they were too Russian or some shit (before Putin did anything).

All the politicians say we need "green new deal" yet all their scumbag kids were execs in Ukrainian petroleum companies. Nothing screams crime like shit like that.

Then that short fuck Zelenskyy needed more money. Starts threatening US citizens with a draft on our own soil. The stupid scumbags in Washington DC celebrated this shit.

@Demolishun Ukraine also has biolabs, and USA signed a treaty saying they can't research some things... so a way around it was using a Wuhan lab since China didn't sign that treaty, but Ukraine didn't either

and the weapons sent there... uhhh... didn't get there lol. so some arms trafficking is going on. wonder what random militia group will bud into existence after this one!

Ukraine was also always notoriously corrupt. I don't know if it was USA or Russia or just Ukraine. honestly it was probably just Ukraine. when I was growing up there everyone knew all the politicians were corrupt. like you ever talked to a Ukrainian or stepped foot there you wouldn't have sent money to their government. that money was gonna disappear, it was no fucking duh. anyway, something something hunter Biden barsima... and other such weird nonsense

yeah 2014 shelling of donbass and such. lol also Ukraine kill list hosted by Langley/FBI, ha. also the legit Nazis...

@Demolishun I don't know zelesnky could draft Americans? I thought he was out of touch. what threat is that lmao? how could he even do that? I thought he was a deranged yapping Chihuahua. I don't think that was a credible threat in the least. maybe it was a threat to the reputations of Western leader who propped zelensky up, so if he says dumb shit like that they need to shut him up otherwise they all look like fools having backed the guy

@Lensflare that was sooo 5 minutes ago. I'm finding the right color for my skin tone

@jestdotty I can't remember the exact words. It was something like we need money or we will need your sons or some shit. I read it as a threat. The dude has been lining his pockets since this started.