Carney told Trump and America to fuck off and then did a world victory tour. A weakened Trump, his agenda and popularity at the nadir of either term is having a good conversation.

Art of the deal.

I love it when the regime gets caught up in the symbolic because it means they’re not using that energy to harm people.

Besides, Trump has probably never interacted with AI. I assume every time he logs in, it’s just Zuckerberg, Musk, or Altman on the other end typing the response.

The only non-trivial similarity I can find between Iran and Vietnam is that we’re stuck in the conflict because leadership doesn’t want to admit they fucked up. The way it started, the way it’s being prosecuted, the politics, even the geography is different.

What if Vietnam isn’t the mold and model for all American imperial adventures, but just another typical example? Why didn’t we learn our lesson in the Mexican American war, or the Spanish American war, or the war of 1812? What books can teach us to avoid another Philippines?

Maybe this is a little contrarian, but the the through line of Vietnam is American myopia. It’s that same myopia that the Vietnam war is more culturally important to the US than the American War is to the Vietnamese. Even the Vietnam memorial is a literal monument to American solipsism. Only the American dead are listed, not the ARVN, not the Hmong, not even the French, Australian, or Canadian allies.

America’s relationship to the Vietnam war is like a dude who can’t get over his ex.

at its core all social media proved is that human beings are easily swayed and are uncapable or, even worst, unwilling to interact in a civil manner.

The idea that human nature is rotten and cannot change is a core belief in Christianity, capitalism, and conservatism in general. It’s one of the oldest and most contentious political and philosophical debates. It’s OK to take the misanthrope position, but you shouldn’t speak about your opinion like it’s settled and obvious fact.

There is an idea in Capitalism called “surplus labor”. It’s not controversial, economists from Marx to Freedman acknowledge it. What it means is that a capitalist labor market must have a pool of “unused” labor. Capitalism isn’t able, and it wouldn’t be desirable to simply employ everyone who wants to work. The same way capitalism needs some businesses to fail, it also needs some people to be poor.

Zoomers are not the “first” to be surplussed, the new part is it’s happening to people who imagine themselves to be in the middle class.

Ublock’s easylist blocks that whole site. Anybody got a reputable source for this?

Just keep in mind that what they may be “planning” is Plan-R because they’ve burned thought plans a-q with their incompetence. If America ever recovers from it’s fascist experiment, it’ll be because we chose the dumbest Nazi alive to lead it.

Even better, let the AfD types raise the money to restore it. Then torch it.

Hitler is not a man. Hitler is a symbol who’s purpose is to be crushed and destroyed or redeemed, imitated, and uplifted. Fascists want to do the latter. Taking a ‘centrist’ position is also being a fascist just without the courage of your convictions.

Apparently, their taking Iranian threats seriously. And they should. I’d be nervous too if I was protected by a secret service that allowed an bumbling assassin to take 7 shots at at me.

I read a book called “Blackpilled” by Elle Reeve. The most shocking thing in the book was her interviews with “old guard” Nazis. Think people like Stacy Ketch in “American History X”, or Patrick Stewart (RIP) in “Green Room”. According to Reeve, the one thing they all said about the alt right youngsters was they were disgusted by how poorly they treated their women.

Rape is a partizan issue in the US, and conservatives are pro.

You have to learn Arabic numerals fist.

The Democratic “rift” is between the leadership and the voters. Islamophobia doesn’t play with Democratic voters like it does with Republicans.

I hope whatever happened to him hurt like hell.

“My entire life has been consumed by these events, these allegations, these accusations,” he said.

That must be so hard. Those women and prosecutors are doing this horrible thing to him against his will.

That’s enough for a whole Twitter plus a little left over to buy a congressman.

I’m skeptical that empires have stages and supposing existing empires will obey these stages is dubious. Previous efforts to suss out patterns in history for the purpose of predicting the future have not gone well.

No amount of money can keep bad parents from traumatizing their kids. I hope her daughter has a healthy relationship with the nanny.

I’ve been ride or die with FF since before Chrome was a thing. I keep Vivaldi installed for a few things, but FF is my daily driver.

I know that Mozilla has made some decisions that I don’t agree with, but the Internet would be worse off without FF.