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Cake day: July 22nd, 2025

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  • Putin offered the oligarchs a deal: bend to my authority, stay out of my way, and you can keep your mansions, superyachts, private jets, and multibillion-dollar corporations (corporations that, just a few years before, had been owned by the Russian government). In the coming years, the oligarchs who reneged on this deal and undermined Putin would be thrown into a Siberian prison or be forced into exile or die in suspicious circumstances. The loyalists who remained — and the new ones who got filthy rich during Putin’s long reign — became like ATM machines for the president and his allies.

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  • The guy “threatens” the company by saying he’ll leave and the company’s response is to give him more money? What the fuck do guys like musk and trump have on these people that makes them unable to say no to them? If someone threatens me I’m going to tell them to pound sand even if the thing they are threatening to do to me is good for me. I don’t take well to being threatened. Once you capitulate with someone like that it’s like bargaining with terrorists, it’ll be death by a thousand cuts since they know you will capitulate again. You can’t win by being a fucking Neville Chamberlain.

    Have some fucking principles. He is one man. He isn’t some super genius making your business glorious. He’s a fucking nazi piece of shit draining you dry. Kick him to the curb and do actually good things for society.





  • This reminded me of my favorite anecdote about Homelander’s suit. From Jensen Ackles when he showed up on set completely jacked like a superhero:

    I was told to beef up, and so I worked out like a madman. The physical preparation was something that I’ve never done before. But I think it helped me get there mentally. I get to set and Anthony’s like, ‘Why didn’t you just tell him to add muscles to the suit, bro?’ And it just deflated me. Just crushed me. All that effort and it was for really nothing,” shared Ackles while speaking with EW.