Are_Euclidding_Me [e/em/eir]

Well, damn

You’ve made a massive rhetorical blunder here, friend.

Your comment here in context clearly means “Europe shouldn’t buy heating fuel from America, just like it shouldn’t buy from Russia”. But 6 hours ago, here, you said the opposite, that if Europe must buy fuel (and indeed it must, I hope we all agree), then they should get it from America in preference to Russia

Edit: oh, actually, what might have happened is that you changed your mind in the intervening upon learning new information! That is admirable and I withdraw my comment if it’s the case. (Although from a rhetoric standpoint, mentioning you’ve changed your opinion would probably be a good idea)

88 can absolutely be a fascist dog whistle. (It may or may not be here, hard to tell.)

Here’s the explanation of they dog whistle: the phrase “Heil Hitler” becomes just the pair of letters “HH”, which then becomes “88” since H is the 8th letter of the alphabet.

88 by itself is kind of rare, you’ll usually see it paired with 14, most often as 1488. The number 14 is a reference to the 14 words which is a fascist saying that I can never remember but can always recognize. To paraphrase, it’s something about securing the future for white children. It’s pretty easy to find if you just search “14 words”

Does nonsense from a usian propaganda rag count as world news now? And you didn’t even bother to include an archive link so I could hateread this shitty “article”. Disappointing.