Simple Slav
@simpleslav
Slavic person living in the EU, attempting to blend in by being grumpy.
Photos that Belarusians like to post when it comes to roads and russia:
Dude thinks ICE are elite and professional. To think those overweight inbred morons are elite at anything is a pretty hot take, not gonna lie.
Someone’s having quite an episode. Fingers crossed it doesn’t end badly, actually. 🤞
Germany and Austria slooowly understanding where and just how much they fucked up is glorious. Pathetic and sad, yes, but gloriously so. (The direction was known to be wrong 10+ years ago already, but intelligent planning and politics don’t cross over well here.) orf.at/av/video/new...
I swear I saw a couple that came really close in Belarus, though sadly didn’t take pictures. Wildly popular among babushkas to get to their dachas and out and about on unoaved roads. Only got a shot in one of the stores of this awesomeness:
Yeah, a bit under 20V made the other components go *poof*, but I really just wanted to try with a board that was there for testing/practice only, to see how “magic smoke” looks and be able to recognize it (and blowj components) in the future. This this thingie:
And, yeah, there is a graphics designer out there who was told to make a "badass" poster for this:
Je schleimiger die Politiker, desto mehr Freude an der Art von Arbeit. 👍
If a Navy SEAL can’t wield a 15 feet long fly swatter quickly, like I imagine the old dude in the photo can, then what business do they have calling themselves special forces in the first place?? ☝️🧐
And just to add numbers to this, a google-translated slide from a recent study (took me a bit to summarize the ALT text to make it accessible). There are efforts underway to fix the situation to be fair, but, well, cultural changes take ages. Source: letsempoweraustria.at/wp-content/u...
Austria’s economy is in the shitter and its Minister of Economic Affairs decided that the best strategy is to go on tour shaming people who don’t work full-time and don’t "contribute to the economy" enough. All you need to know about Austria’s economic strategy and future prospects right there.
In 2025, in the age of the internet, the Spanish government would have to be pretty fucking retarded to not have known about this. I would not trust Spain with EU defense contracts. Because they’d probably sell all info straight to russia, as long as there was an Euro to be made (same as Austria).
While I am sympathetic to Americans being butthurt and going all “We’re not the only country with a russian puppet president!” at Ukrainians, I’d also like to point out it’s the whole fukken civilized world that is throwing those stones right now. But hey, let’s start a Euromaidan US Edition timer?