@CNLiberalism If anything, during his call to the team he seemed to be genuinely fanboying over them like the rest of us. I mean, when does Trump ask for someone else's autograph?
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Supposed to have a bio I think. After almost 4 years (3 of them inactive) I finally put up a banner image. WIP.
Katılım Ağustos 2021
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It’s pretty amazing (and very good) that Trump did not inject himself into the festivities surrounding the Artemis 2 launch. Everyone seems really positive about it and it easy to see how that could have not been the case.
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If the U.S. manages to clear the SoH and traffic returns to normal, that’s basically a U.S. victory. Maybe @Cirnosad is right, lol.
WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧@WarMonitor3
Trump-We are beginning the process of clearing the strait of Hormuz. “Praise be to Allah.”
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@TKohoto Bless our sweet Japanese friend for asking the Euros "have you considered that maybe you're the ones being influenced?", because independent of if that is that case the answer is no, they have never considered the possibility, except hilariously, when it allows them to blame us.
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I used to think ‘Eurocentric’ was fine, like yeah, they’re industrialized, of course they see the world that way. But lately I realized I completely misunderstood it. What I had in mind was ‘Western-centric,’ not Eurocentric.
What really opened my eyes is how a lot of Europeans actually conceptualize geopolitics. Most of the time, they don’t think in terms of systems where both sides act based on their own interests. It’s not ‘A does X to get Y, B responds to get Z.’ That framework just isn’t there.
Instead, everything revolves around them.
If Trump does something bad → must be Russia controlling him.
If Trump does something bad to Europe → he’s just evil.
It never crosses their mind that the U.S. is its own nation with its own interests.
Like, if the U.S. shifts from ‘global hegemon everywhere’ to something like a ‘chokepoint policeman,’ then of course it’s going to pull back from Europe if the cost outweighs the benefit. That’s just basic geopolitics.
But to them, that doesn’t even compute.
Why would the U.S., a country across the ocean, with no obligation or ‘mandate,’ act in its own interest? Why would it not center Europe?
That’s the part that really got me. It’s not just bias, it’s a completely different way of seeing how the world works. And no amount of argument is going to change that.
Pete@Petewrestling
@Cait_Sith_co So let me ask you If a USA president was heavily influenced by Russia what would they do that would be different from what trumps doing Russia hates nato Trumps taking out other countries that supply oil to China leaving only Russia left Eased sanctions on Russia
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@teortaxesTex I get why he's touchy. Tensor sees the conflict as his golden opportunity to post his way out of being seen as just a dollar store knockoff Adam Tooze and dadgummit he will not let *anyone* make him look the fool for even a second at such a critical juncture.
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Policy Tensor has blocked me for disrespecting *checks notes* Iranian Missile Technology, and maybe for broader object-level disagreement. One of his followers called me a "closeted zio shill".
I have special distaste for tribalists who feign a disaffected analytical mindset.
Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞)@teortaxesTex
@policytensor 1) this is all technically trivial 2) the US doesn't invest into such missiles because the US has better things, namely aviation that can deliver more payload for cheaper. Each F-15 sortie does more damage than an Iranian missile 3) your third worldist enthusiasm is ridiculous
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@MizutamariVT Tbh it just seems that Hemomal wants him to be socially ostracized so that he'll no longer have "options" other than her.
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People gotta learn to read google docs critically and not just run with the headline.
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@toffee_32 "Imperialist" is in almost all of these cases just the preferred word for the valence/hedonic tone of "bad". It's like "stinky" or "gross".
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falklands discourse is frustrating beyond the general discussion because I'd really really perfer people call us argentines revanchist psychos instead of ''imperialists'' brother we are hungry the average person in this country is going in debt to buy groceries
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@uncle_deluge Personally, when someone goes "Doing X would be a disaster, besides it's over, who cares, it's not a big deal, I won, MOVE ON" it makes me way more sympathetic to X.
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The first draft proposal would have increased the count by precisely 3. I would argue that the definition of "planet" has no real scientific importance whatsoever (Earth and Jupiter are not the same kind of object) and, being completely arbitrary, we can extend it arbitrarily
Andrew@Cosmic_Andrew1
I get people like Pluto, it has a cute name and had an amazing photo shoot with New Horizons but it will not be a planet without adding at least a dozen others and new definitions would likely push us up to or over 100 planets which is silly. Nobody actually cares, move along
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@J_K_Wood "The evil stepsisters are good actually and just misunderstood and their authority over Cinderella is thusly justified and legitimate" is the story the evil stepsisters would tell, which should tell us about the person or persons who insist on telling it.
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Stories have villains for a reason.
A child who can’t identify evil is a child who can’t resist it.
“Misunderstood” is starting to sound a lot like “ignore what your gut is telling you.”
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
First look at Cinderella in ‘STEPS’, voiced by Amanda Seyfried. The film follows Cinderella’s evil stepsisters who are actually depicted as kind & misunderstood. Releasing later this year on Netflix.
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@teortaxesTex I know that Cirno's position at this point is that the US actually did pull off the pseudo(?)-coup but I can't make heads or tails of anything going on, so I guess we really are just going to have to see what happens.
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> America has agreed to all of Iran's demands and Iran has agreed to all of America's demands
Only with Trump.
Gregg Carlstrom@glcarlstrom
So if you're keeping score at home, the ceasefire includes Lebanon but also doesn't include Lebanon, America has agreed to all of Iran's demands and Iran has agreed to all of America's demands, America will recognize Iran's right to enrichment and also insist on zero enrichment, Hormuz is completely open but also Hormuz is subject to unclear limitations... There are a lot of confident predictions about a deal that is still unclear and unfinished Both sides are scrambling to portray this as a war-ending victory when there's a decent chance that the war hasn't even ended
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@KaiKai2492 You what is the song of the edit, I am trying to find it I can't
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@tenbillionswans @nekomimipalau The Via Negativa or Apophatic approach is most certainly a thing, though it is generally the purview of mystics, of which I am not.
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@JadeAtrophis A degree of obsession/derangement where they've even turned their own participation in the faith into being the B-plot of something they imagine happening in America. We should pray for them.
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Wow it’s so convenient that the Pope agrees with you on everything and dislikes all the people you just so happen to
“The exact opposite” gimme a break lol
The Pope is not your woobie puppet, I know you got used to that with Pope Francis, but it ain’t how it works
Christa Sydney@christasyd
Lowkey funny that the sudden rise of Catholicism being trendy amongst the American right wing coincides with the current Pope being American but the exact opposite of them and is directly and openly rebuking them.
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@EmperorAssad @_bezpilotnik It's reached such a point of ridiculousness that I find myself nearly unable to use the word fascism in its normal established context because whenever I do the image of some dimwit like this calling a tangerine fascist or whatever comes to mind and I feel so embarrassed.
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@_bezpilotnik Are you actually joking? Is the existence of believing Christians "fascist" now?
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Why is my timeline full of absolutely bonkers and frequently AI-generated influencer-type content about how crucifixion is really painful and unpleasant, and that's why Jesus was truly the hardest saviour? Even the very normal historian off the famous history podcast is doing it!
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@teortaxesTex @kellyboltonyes The pictures people are sharing of the planes idling on the ground and then going up in smoke in the early morning would also fit with that.
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@kellyboltonyes Why not? If you look up previous wars, the US + allies constantly lose C-130s for various dumb reasons. hell, even Iran has lost 3 of theirs, lol. It's a very abundant plane.
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You have to hand it to Americans. The Commander in Chief may be a retard at his job, Hegseth is worse, but the actual combatants are competent and effective as all hell. Yes, it's heavily about the tech, but it's not just tech. They are good.
Acyn@Acyn
Trump: WE GOT HIM! He sustained injuries, but he will be just fine. The fact that we were able to pull off both of these operations, without a SINGLE American killed, or even wounded, just proves once again, that we have achieved overwhelming Air Dominance and Superiority over the Iranian skies.
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@teortaxesTex It's wild. The first team went in to create a forward operating base *in Iran* to bring in planes to evac, which is the craziest part to me.
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@tenbillionswans -the socialist states in setting are going to navigate this only to be met with a last minute asspull where it turns out there's an artisanal free-range humanitarian alternative and there's just enough of it in the right places for all the socialists to use
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@tenbillionswans Had a number of quizzical moments reading the lore for 10KSAH but one that stuck out to me was how in universe they process human potential into energy by burning people on samadhi fire and this forms the basis for the technological age so you're left wondering how-
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@nekomimipalau Anyone who thinks they can fully describe God has simply tricked themselves into thinking they are not analogizing and should be gently reminded for their own good.
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@nekomimipalau It is also a limitation of human language. In language there is a difference between the signifier and what is signified, in God there is no difference, so words cannot work to "describe" God so just by talking about Him we are employing analogy.
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@zt5019576939774 @hirayasumi I think an issue for some of my fellow believers in the West is that they don't feel confident in their own ability to explain who and what God is, so they compensate by acting loud. This is very improper.
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使徒パウロがアテネで宣教した時、どうやってキリストを紹介したのか。
「テメェらが信じる神々なんて偽物だ、クソ野郎！」とは決して言わなかったよね？ むしろギリシャ人の信仰心に敬意を表してから本題に入ったんだよ。
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