My reasoning:

It is because they are all nations that are despised by a noticeable share of the world.

Based on the image above, we should expect China, Russia, and Israel to fall first. Followed by an ever weakening USA over time if the future leaders of the US are similar to Trump and strain international relationships further.

China and Russia would lose primarily because they are working together and one or the other of the group is hated by the majority of world powers. The US hates China, EU hates Russia, Japan hates China, India hates China, UK hates Russia, Brazil hates China. This pretty much guarantees that over time these economies will fail and die because there will be major powers constantly trying to undermine them every step of the way.

Israel will also fail because lol just look at the Israel hate map, which is pretty much half of Africa, parts of South America, and the middle East. There is no coming back from that much hate for your people. Especially as a small nation state. Israel is doomed both from within and without. As outside of Israel only US guarantees its safety and over time the US cares less about Israel every generation. From within because Israel has its demographics getting replaced by the most orthodox Israeli populations who aren't known for being practical geniuses.

Conclusion:

Russia and China will split in time. Russia breaks apart into multiple regional powers. Same for China splitting into two parts. This leads to India dominating the eastern half of the world but never reaching up to catching up with the US. Meanwhile parts of Russia that have broken free now act as the new buffer zone between remaining Russia and Europe, with Ukraine now joining the EU because there is more buffer zone between them and Russia.

Western world order will remain in place, with European Union and the US acting as equal partners. They will have to give up on Israel in time however, as Israel is overtaken by the arab populations from within, and all cultural connection to Europe is lost forever.

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!the_donald !project2025 !trump2024 !trump2028

I picked up some grass fed ribeyes on sale.

Anyone have any tips?

I've never cooked grass fed steaks before.

!catholics !christians happy Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time!

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First Reading

In the year King Uzziah died,

I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne,

with the train of his garment filling the temple.

Seraphim were stationed above.

They cried one to the other,

"Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts!

All the earth is filled with his glory!"

At the sound of that cry, the frame of the door shook

and the house was filled with smoke.

Then I said, "Woe is me, I am doomed!

For I am a man of unclean lips,

living among a people of unclean lips;

yet my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!"

Then one of the seraphim flew to me,

holding an ember that he had taken with tongs from the altar.

He touched my mouth with it, and said,

"See, now that this has touched your lips,

your wickedness is removed, your sin purged."

Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying,

"Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?"

"Here I am," I said; "send me!"

-Isaiah 6:1-2a, 3-8

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Responsorial Psalm

R. (1c) In the sight of the angels I will sing your praises, Lord.

I will give thanks to you, O LORD, with all my heart,

for you have heard the words of my mouth;

in the presence of the angels I will sing your praise;

I will worship at your holy temple

and give thanks to your name.

R. In the sight of the angels I will sing your praises, Lord.

Because of your kindness and your truth;

for you have made great above all things

your name and your promise.

When I called, you answered me;

you built up strength within me.

R. In the sight of the angels I will sing your praises, Lord.

All the kings of the earth shall give thanks to you, O LORD,

when they hear the words of your mouth;

and they shall sing of the ways of the LORD:

"Great is the glory of the LORD."

R. In the sight of the angels I will sing your praises, Lord.

Your right hand saves me.

The LORD will complete what he has done for me;

your kindness, O LORD, endures forever;

forsake not the work of your hands.

R. In the sight of the angels I will sing your praises, Lord.

-Psalms 138:1-2, 2-3. 4-5. 7-8

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Second Reading

I am reminding you, brothers and sisters,

of the gospel I preached to you,

which you indeed received and in which you also stand.

Through it you are also being saved,

if you hold fast to the word I preached to you,

unless you believed in vain.

For I handed on to you as of first importance what I also received:

that Christ died for our sins

in accordance with the Scriptures;

that he was buried;

that he was raised on the third day

in accordance with the Scriptures;

that he appeared to Cephas, then to the Twelve.

After that, Christ appeared to more

than five hundred brothers at once,

most of whom are still living,

though some have fallen asleep.

After that he appeared to James,

then to all the apostles.

Last of all, as to one born abnormally,

he appeared to me.

For I am the least of the apostles,

not fit to be called an apostle,

because I persecuted the church of God.

But by the grace of God I am what I am,

and his grace to me has not been ineffective.

Indeed, I have toiled harder than all of them;

not I, however, but the grace of God that is with me.

Therefore, whether it be I or they,

so we preach and so you believed.

-1 Corinthians 15:1-11

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Alleluia

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

Come after me

and I will make you fishers of men.

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

-Matthew 4:19

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Gospel

While the crowd was pressing in on Jesus and listening

to the word of God,

he was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret.

He saw two boats there alongside the lake;

the fishermen had disembarked and were washing their nets.

Getting into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon,

he asked him to put out a short distance from the shore.

Then he sat down and taught the crowds from the boat.

After he had finished speaking, he said to Simon,

"Put out into deep water and lower your nets for a catch."

Simon said in reply,

"Master, we have worked hard all night and have caught nothing,

but at your command I will lower the nets."

When they had done this, they caught a great number of fish

and their nets were tearing.

They signaled to their partners in the other boat

to come to help them.

They came and filled both boats

so that the boats were in danger of sinking.

When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at the knees of Jesus and said,

"Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man."

For astonishment at the catch of fish they had made seized him

and all those with him,

and likewise James and John, the sons of Zebedee,

who were partners of Simon.

Jesus said to Simon, "Do not be afraid;

from now on you will be catching men."

When they brought their boats to the shore,

they left everything and followed him.

-Luke 5:1-11

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"Woe is me, I am doomed! For I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!"

"Last of all, as to one born abnormally, he appeared to me. For I am the least of the apostles, not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God."

"When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at the knees of Jesus and said, "Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man.""

Isaiah, Peter, and Paul, three extremely holy men, all said they were unholy and unworthy. This is very humble of them, admitting that any grace they have is a gift from God, but it's also a teaching example. You don't have to be perfect to share the Gospel; the Good News are still good when coming from a bad person. A common question I see here is "how can you be preaching about Catholicism on rdrama of all places? Good Christians shouldn't have anything to do with this site." While it may be true that good Christians shouldn't be here, it's certainly better to be here and share your Christianity than to be here and not do so.

Hey folks! Happy Valentines day! After a long hiatus I've brought 80's night back!

It's V-day, post cheesy 80's love songs in the comments or as your own submissions! 😍

@Spiderman thanks for reminding me to do this!

tldr: Obama created the USDS (united states digital service) in 2014 after the launch of the buearecratic nightmare that was Obamacare to streamline govt digital services particularly the busted Obamacare website. Drumpf didnt actually create DOGE out of thin air, and instead simply rebranded the USDS which is why he didnt need congress to approve the agency/appropriate funds/authority.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Digital_Service

!superheroes

"having problems with lust can be an issue if yoy make it one. The spirits inside you, the angels, the demons, are fighting inside you when you are at strife. So when the fight is inside you and you freak out, nobody else can see YOUR angels fighting YOUR demons. So switching from BBBW/BBC to Bi Asians will imply that you insist the idea behind an incubus/succubus. Each controls your spirit and there sre many. You can allow and be with the incubus/succubus of Bi Asians rather than the BBBW/BBC. Same goes with any spirit inside you that inhabits you and you allowed to grow from mind and spirit connection, the seeds of thought that is the garden of your mind that you visit oft, tending and not even know the grabbing feeling of inside your body is the connection of spirit and you are not reality but projecting inside reality. People speak of a simulation but they are not schizophrenic enough to explain it in theory rather than just trying to throw buzz words like SIGMA or BRICKED to click bait your attention for part two of their saturated shit series like wtf am i clicking your clickbait click baiting broke fuqq. Get a job!" - or so they said to me..

There is no best-practice way of doing this because it's frowned upon. What do you do when they're not there? What do you write pen on paper? What will you loose?

More on clickfo.me/hopelessneurodivergent

#Vlog #AskingSomeoneOut #Romance #valentinesday

and im dying of ligma

The thing Musk is discovering, but without realizing it, is that deaths are recorded by states while Social Security is run by the feds. And these things don't work together. Administering births and deaths federally would increase efficiency but blah blah federalism.

— Matt Bruenig (@MattBruenig) February 17, 2025

Ladygarden lived to 90.

Maybe there is something to this adrenochrone business after all.

in case you were fricking wondering