Weird Latvians
Latvians are weird.

A roof collapsed, killing about 50 people. The collapse was caused by some really stupid Green decisions by someone involved with the building; we don't know yet who decided to put a roof garden on a flat roof, but it was clearly a stupid idea.

Therefore the country's President resigns in shame, claiming that he "takes responsibility" for the disaster.

Everyone knows that "taking responsibility" means saying words about "taking responsibility". Everyone knows that NO executive at any level ever gives up. Latvia needs to look closely at the American way of "taking responsibility", which is obviously the only correct way because it's American.

We had a similar-size disaster (proportionally) a few years ago when two large buildings in NYC collapsed after an encounter with an airplane. This disaster could have been prevented if we had been controlling our borders and immigration properly, and it could have been prevented if the FBI had been paying attention to signals from its own agents. Did our President resign? Hell no. Did he take steps to tighten immigration? Fuck no. He opened the borders. Did he take steps to improve FBI response to signals? Of course not. Instead he started two wars in random countries that were short on feminism and graduate education, in order to bring the wonders of feminism and graduate education to those benighted countries. Those wars killed 5000 Americans and 100,000 foreigners with absolutely no results. No feminism, no graduate education, just dead people. Did the President resign? Fuck no. His position was strengthened! Then some of his friends collapsed the entire economy of America. Did he punish his friends? Did he resign? Fuck no. He poured trillions of dollars into the pockets of his friends.

The next President continued to pour trillions of dollars into the pockets of those friends who run banks and collapse countries for fun and profit. He decided to completely collapse our already broken health-care system in order to pour even more trillions into the pockets of a different set of friends. The people saw that the system was even more broken than before, and they complained. Did he decide to stop collapsing the already-broken system? Hell no. Did he resign? Fuck no. He took responsibility the American way by saying words about "taking responsibility." USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! We're EXCEPTIONAL!!!!!

Latvia doesn't know the first thing about responsibility. If you want to achieve American-size total collapse and total failure and total poverty for everyone except bankers, you need to STAY IN OFFICE.

Just think of the awful consequences of resigning: the government might actually change its ways to avoid losing power again. It might look carefully at the disaster and try to prevent future disasters. Absolutely bizarre and incomprehensible.

These Latvians seem to think that "learning" means "attempting to avoid another mistake." Everyone knows that "learning" means MAKING INFINITELY BIGGER AND INFINITELY DEADLIER MISTAKES.
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