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Riff McClavin's avatar

Putin just agreed to sell gas to China four or five times cheaper than what europe pays and recognizes Taiwan as belonging to China, so the western plan to draw their two main adversaries ever closer is working brilliantly.

Our national trajectory continues to be determined by blatantly obvious well-heeled fuckups.

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Rob Brown's avatar

If anyone says that earlier in the same episode there was indeed ONE bear roaming around the streets of Springfield and the analogy fails because of that, I would remind them that the bear didn't do much harm at all (it wrecked a mailbox and that was it, not counting Flanders panicking just from seeing it and driving his car into a tree since the bear was just sitting there smiling) and that therefore creating a whole Bear Patrol just because of that one incident is an enormous overreaction. Just like going to war with Russia over the barely-greater-than-zero percent chance of them invading Ukraine would be an enormous overreaction, and the price would be way too high. Higher than just a Bear Patrol tax.

Hey wait, Americans are already paying the equivalent of a Bear Patrol tax, aren't they? The money for that ever-increasing military budget has to come from somewhere. Well, anyway, WW3 would make them poorer and also dead, so it's not worth it.

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