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every new detail about what the us thought would happen with this war makes me feel like I’ve suffered cataclysmic brain damage

these fucking idiots cut off fossil fuels. now we'll never get the sea level rise we need to get a new strait.

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

every time a street in nyc becomes more pedestrian-friendly and more parking-hostile, all the local business guys who drive to the stores they own from their homes on long island, in jersey, the mcmansion-y parts of queens, all flip out wondering how people will get there. my man you dont live here!

* SPAIN REMOVES AMBASSADOR TO ISRAEL, ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL STATE GAZETTE

@reuters.com

I can only posit that those people forgot objective reality exists and not everything is Washington DC cave allegory imperial court kabuki.

It's genuinely incredible how "listens to what Trump says and interprets it as a policy goal" puts you in the top 5% of Trump understanders

sorry to be an old-fashioned scold but there is something deeply pathetic about being an adult and shoplifting just because you kinda feel like the rules don't apply to you

If you get into a “who can cut taxes more” battle with the GOP, you’re going to lose because they are far more shameless and antagonistic to the idea of living in a functioning society.

Don’t concede to their framing that taxes are nothing but a problem to be solved.

I think you can argue Wall St Hopium for really a year is the only thing keeping Trump afloat at all

No Democrat in Congress wants to do it, but we need:
- A full reversal of all Trump I and II tax cuts
- From there, all tax brackets to go up a few points.
- Increase the gas tax
- A financial transaction tax set to fully cover debt interest.

I’m sick of this goddamn city, county, state, and country thinking that we need the state to provide everything but also somehow working ourselves into the idea that None Of Us Need To Contribute To It Financially

The American electorate is so uninformed, self-centered and nihilistic that we’re forcing the entire world to touch the stove before we learn to stop doing it ourselves

a lot of discussion about how "cosmopolitan" urban dwellers are, but a really underdiscussed trend is the homogenization of culture across *rural* areas of the USA - replacement of once-distinct regional cultures with generic "redneck" accent and culture, regional religions with evanglicalism etc

EU’s top diplomat Kallas: Israel should cease operations in Lebanon * * *

They lost Kaja Kallas?

i do like actually believe that lol

there is many reasons to doubt polling in france

that's what polling said in 2024 too

i'm getting called a campist for pointing out meloni is not as big a threat to europe as orban lmao

i don't believe a damn thing french poling says, they're always threatening to elect some RN freak then they don't do it

what are you actually talking about right now? it is extremely crucial to europe that meloni is anti putin, that is not campism. do you know what campism means?

russia is the heart of modern european fascism

that is extremely crucial to europe in 2026, that's why

i'm sorry like why are you using ireland and cyprus as examples here when norway and the netherlands have both recently rejected the far right?

italy is not "fascist" meloni is not nearly as bad as orban, putin or lukashenko nor has signaled any intentions to become anti democracy like trump has, you seem to be ignoring there has been several elections in europe since 2025 and many of them have massively rejected the far right

i don’t even think you can count italy because they’ve had so much weird stuff going on long before 2022

slovakia? literally the only country i can think of and well it's slovakia

i lived in the UK during this first wave, i know what it looks like, it is not the same, there is little evidence to suggest it's about to dominate europe

pedro sanchez is the most popular guy in europe, like it is just Not Happening

in 2014 europe actually *did* have dominance of far right parties, we know what it looks like when it happens and it is currently not happening