we're not an alliance. we just don't like y'all.

[intertribal]

I recognize the value of legislatures.  I truly do.

But goddamn, legislators are dumb.

"Another difficulty was that key Congressmen, whose support would have been necessary for the passage of any loan, quickly made it clear that they would demand in return nothing less than free elections and freedom of speech inside the Soviet Union, and the

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[royinpink]

answer to your current music: yes.

also your hungry kitty is so cute.

wait...how do congressmen give russia a loan? i'm dumb. like the same way we have bailouts? or what? money makes no sense to me...

when i told jason that symbols were general terms, and he tried to think of an example, the first thing that came to mind was "babymama."

[intertribal]

the answer to my current music is no, lindsey! gosh! stop trying to emasculate men over 50 who are still able to climb up hills and go fishing!

well, the US gives loans to foreign countries all the time. we used to do it in exchange for control over the foreign country's governance (dollar diplomacy) - now we just do stipulations for the loan. Russia and China are popular these days with the developing world because they basically give loans (and other aid) without stipulations about democratization or human rights or the rest of it.

haha.

[royinpink]

women are too weak to climb hills.

omg i just realized this meant the US congress. *facepalm* um, anyway, thanks for the explanation. we used to what? they actually let you govern them in exchange for money? o_O

[intertribal]

oh, you thought the Russian "congress"?

countries in the Caribbean did. we took over the Dominican Republic's entire customs department when we decided their government was inept. it was more like letting the US have a say in how they ran things rather than just straight up the US government running things, but still. Liberia was basically controlled by the US-based Firestone Corporation for a while (all the leaders were Firestone-approved, everyone went to work in the Firestone plant - the largest in the world).