/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!
Biden and the rest of Europe never gave Ukraine enough support to win either.
This should tell you that the goal of US intervention in Ukraine was never to win.
Liberals don’t want to talk about that. They want to pretend the only problem is Putler having Trump’s pee tapes or something lol
Doesn’t work, I’ll just daydream.
My family was discussing what the NFL turducken would look like if it was alive.
Possible contender!
Yes, Russia controls all the world’s governments.
This is a reasonable thing to believe and not at all fucking stupid. 👍
Please recommend me a news outlet that isn’t propaganda. CNN? MSNBC? Fox? lol
Yeah, look at how we all read the threads posted to our instance.
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Are we the baddies?
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Driving is simultaneously the most boring and most dangerous thing people do day-to-day. They want the driving to stop as soon as possible, so they speed. They don’t want to be stuck with their own thoughts for even a single second, so they text.
And there’s no choice. It’s not like they can get anywhere without a car in this shithole country.
Yes, the US is a stupid country full of stupid people.
But, there’s a reason Europe is bending the knee. As stupid and self destructive as the US is, it can still wreck their economy.
A sudden 20% drop would be catastrophic. Europe could possibly thread the needle but things would be hard for a while, at least causing a multiple year recession.
I’m just explaining to you the material reasons for why Europe bends the knee to the US. What’s your explanation? They’re just dummies?
The US would just wait for the EU to collapse, because even a single winter without US imports would destroy them. The UK couldn’t ramp up production that quickly, they’ve been declining as producers for a long time. There’d be at least a few years when people can’t heat their homes or run factories because they’re cut off from the US and Russia at the same time.
Trump also seems fully willing to destroy the US just to teach his enemies a lesson lol
Besides, just drilling for more fossil fuels is going to kill us all. Electrification is the only serious solution.
Europe is essentially a collection of neocolonies of the US empire. As Europe’s colonies gained independence and as NATO constantly increased demands for US military hardware and as fossil fuels became dominated by trade in dollars and as the Eurozone robbed them of currency sovereignty, they became stuck in a state of dependency on the US and USD. The amount of leverage Trump has to punish Europe is actually massive, tariffs are the tip of the iceberg.
How does a winter without imported US gas sound? You can’t get it from Russia anymore, after all.
The only hope I see for Europe is if they pivot to Asia, especially China. The only alternative is to get off of imported US natural gas and oil traded in dollars by switching to Chinese solar and electric vehicles, embrace electrification. The Netherlands backing down on stealing that Chinese chip factory gives me some hope that Europe isn’t going to alienate itself from China too.
Force employers to pay transportation costs and you’ll see commute lengths plummet.
There would certainly be consequences if they stood up to the US.
None. Everyone will have an AI interpreter implanted at birth that can translate gestures and grunting into language as we desperately try to communicate like our ancestors did.
None will be able to read, write, or speak. ChatGPT will do it for you.
I’d be concerned that any phone company that works with Israel might modify their phones to explode.
I don’t care what this Nazi thinks.
He’s not entirely wrong. Democrats didn’t care about the Epstein files before Trump’s reelection and they don’t have anything else to talk about because most of the party hates the DSA’s ideas. They don’t care about the victims and they’d have been happy to bury this, they’re doing this because there’s no other choice. It’s their best political move.
Don’t get me wrong, Trump is obviously in the files and this is a great political move!
But, Democrats are fair-weather allies.
I’ll maybe start pacing around, but I can do this shit all day.
It’s an ADHD thing, I think.