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Really? I remember the opposition politician had a 'reset button' ginned up for Putin to press during her talks with him. Trump famously chastized Germans to not buy Russian energy and was mocked in turn. If you think trump is the most pro Russian president you really have very little knowledge of American presidencies. Like you formed your opinions during the Reagan era and have simply assumed things haven't changed at all since then.

@TKohoto Sorry you can’t deal with facts He’s the most pro Russian president the USA has had And that’s fine I got no actual problem with that, everyone being friend with Russia would ease more tensions etc, but why can’t you just admit it instead of rating it’s some European “TDS”

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.

The main driver that blocks this is the fear of living near 'those' people. 'Those' people varies by person, but generally it includes lower income, 'trashy' and yes some racism. But various fears of allowing density and the ability to block it through various legislative means is the primary block to having walkable cities/condos/tinyhomes etc. Also fear of having your house decrease in value both from more building of housing and of the dreaded 'those' people.

Americans… this is a good faith question. I’m not baiting or trolling. Why are you so scared of condos and walkable cities? Does not having to drive for your groceries freak you out? What about it makes you uncomfortable? Please be honest.

@C_3C_3 SM Sterling's Marching through Georgia.

Alright guys… Finished your last pick: Pillars of the Earth The Tomb by Wilson Forgotten Hero Saga Hitchhiker’s Guide The Loop Hyperion Need a book series that makes me continue to book 2. Fiction. Fast Paced. From epic worlds to dystopians I like everything. What you got?

@rockmom @asymmetricinfo Why?

@asymmetricinfo Sorry. Dogs should not be anywhere where food is prepared and served. If you can't leave your dog at home for a couple hours while you grab dinner, just order DoorDash.

As a member of the dog person community, I am begging my fellow dog people to respect boundaries and not inflict your canines on people who don't want them, while at the same time begging non-dog-people to not begrudge us spaces where we can dog out.

@jacobin If that were true the Dems would be supporting it and the GOP would be against.

The SAVE Act isn't designed to stop noncitizens from voting. It's designed to stop citizens from voting — especially poor and working-class ones who can't make time for the bureaucratic hassle.jacobin.com/2026/04/trump-…

@MAC_Arms I don't think they had choreographers back then

This has to be one of the best fight scenes in history. The choreographer should have won an award of some sort.

@fandompulse I never watched the show because it signaled it was going to sermonize at me just as having two clean cut conservatively dressed men at my door means I'm going to get a sermon on Mormonism if I let them in. Some people like getting moralized at but I'm not one of them

The Tumbleweed Dossier author Dave Chadwick explains why Alex Kurtzman's Star Trek failed: "New Star Trek failed because he abandoned Star Trek’s core principle: good storytelling. Star Trek at its best presents the crew with a moral dilemma and the captain must wrestle with how to solve it. Sometimes that means making hard decisions. Sometimes it means admitting you were wrong. But it never lectures the audience. It never tells them what to think. It presents arguments, and then makes a choice. And hopefully, if the episode did its job, it was entertaining and enlightening. They were morality plays in a sci fi setting. But Alex Kurtzman abandoned this formula for action slop and heavy handed moralizing. It was poorly written and unwatchable. That’s the reason new Star Trek failed, more than anything." Is this an accurate assessment?

In regards to the Midway v. Guadalcanal as the turning point debate it was sort of irrelevant given larger trends. I was reading about how the first part of the war (roughly up to either Midway or Guadalcanal), carrier tactics were sort of hit-and-run, launch planes, sink ships, fade back into the vastness of the sea. But the second part of the war basically saw the Americans with multiple 4-5 carrier fleets that just cruised around wherever they wanted to go, because they outnumbered the Japanese so much that it didn't really matter if the Japanese knew where the carriers were. Source: amazon.com/Naval-Military…

For all our new Japanese friends I have a question. So in the US we are taught that the turning point in the pacific (mildly debated) is the battle of midway. Are you taught the same thing? Or is it more like “that is when we knew we may have made a mistake”. Just curious.

@napoleon21st You...don't have a lot of experience with Democrats, do you?

Democrats will position as sane to contrast to Trump's deranged behavior and sweep

@weirdinnit97 @interbellica Pretty much everyone did

@interbellica Edward VII did WHAT to Mrs. Churchill?!

>unironically had a harem of sluts >ate a cold chicken in bed every night >shagged Winston Churchill's mother >multiple baby mothers (ALLEDGEDLY) >spotted leaving a brothel at 12 noon >die peacefully infront of queen and hysterical mistress THE PEOPLE'S KING

@interbellica Tbf everyone basically shagged Winston's mom

Dei isn't just putting disabled, gay and trans people in the cast. That's just the surface. What it is indicative of is that you're going to routinely get dei sermons in the form of plotlines. Mormon missionaries on your doorstep have a recognizable 'look' too and I'm sure most Americans know that look. Whatever you think about religion, imagine Mormon missionaries coming to your door every week and asking to be let in to talk. How many times would you let them in? Sure, some people would let them in every week, probably other mormons. But most people have better things to do with their time.

Starfleet Academy star Kerrice Brooks urges fans not to hate the show because of DEI: “If it’s not nice, like, let’s just talk about it. Don’t just say, like, I hate it because it’s DEI. Tell me you hate it because of something else, and then we can have a conversation.” Is DEI a valid reason to hate Starfleet Academy?

@thinkingshivers Iv'e taken the spread between @McDonalds and their competitors. @McDonalds will win over five guys or whatever.

Imagine you're McDonalds. Your most hated rivals, Shake Shack and Five Guys, are flourishing. Even their loser friend, Smashburger, seems to be having more success than you. It doesn't make any sense. Don't people want cheap food? Aren't people constantly complaining about inflation and the economy? And yet, voting with their wallets, more and more often they pick the pricier fast-casual places over good ol' Mickey D's. So you change your strategy, right? If that's what people want, dagnabbit, you're gonna give it to them! More premium products, more premium ingredients, for just a modest step up in price... barely higher than inflation. And everyone HATES you for it!

@masa_sendai The real variable is oil availabilty. The US had massive oil available. They could afford to send their best pilots back from the front to train next gen pilots. The Japanese could not. They were up against the wall and had to use or lose their pilots

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@DiffinWilliam @TheStingisBack You're less grown up than my 16 yo autistic kid. Repeating your autistic agenda. Go back to bluesky.

@amaxen @TheStingisBack Be quiet and watch your cartoons while grown-ups are talking

Only 16 episodes of Hong Kong Phooey aired between Sept to Dec 1974. I could’ve sworn there were hundreds. Scatman Crothers (The Shining/Cuckoo’s Nest) voiced Penry: mild-mannered janitor by day, ass-kicking superhero by… also day. He sang the theme, too. You know the words.

@DiffinWilliam @TheStingisBack Whatever, geek.

@TheStingisBack Yes... of its many sins, not least the belittling of Chinese martial arts culture in a weak attempt to indoctrinate children with racist narratives of occidental superiority at the end of the Vietnam War era, /Hong Kong Phooey/'s chief sin perhaps was that it simply wasn't funny.

@gazlarplease @TheStingisBack Well I mean they were not wrong.

Standard Hanna Barbera policy for most of their output back then. Make as few as possible and then put them into repeat cycles for eternity as they thought kids attention spans were poor and therefore wouldn't recall plot lines from earlier episodes. Wacky Races also although there were 2 races per episode and so everyone thinks there were 100's! Me included!

@feelsdesperate There's an old Spanish proverb that goes "The converted moor eats pork three times a day"

IRL Catholics (disproportionately among the best people I’ve encountered in my life) are very different from recent online Catholic converts who can be lunatics. That’s fine though. The Catholic Church is 1750-2000 years old based upon how you date it and it’s way more likely that over time the Church will change the converts than the other way around. I think when we look back sociologically in 10 or 20 years this will be a good example of how important it is to have stabilizing institutions that orient people the right way and help prevent society from going off the rails.

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@Tankverket @theobjectivist @Falkvinge I wouldn't know about which foods are poison, but the fact remains that is health outcomes are better than European, especially if you adjust for our higher homicide and car crash rates.

@amaxen @theobjectivist @Falkvinge Dude, some got rich by poisoning the population. Look at the US food industry vs the EU.

This perfectly captures the parasite's delusion: that wealth is static loot to be seized and redistributed. Here's what actually happens when you "repossess all their stuff": The producers will rebuild. They'll create new wealth because that's what they do. They identify opportunities, solve problems, innovate, build businesses, and generate value. Their wealth came from their minds, not magic. The looters will consume what they stole at light speed and wind up with nothing. Because they never learned to produce. They only know how to take. Look at every socialist revolution in history: seize the factories, the farms, the businesses. Within years, everything collapses. The factories stop producing. The farms stop yielding. The wealth evaporates. Venezuela. Cuba. Soviet Union. Zimbabwe. The pattern is identical. Why? Because wealth isn't stuff sitting in a vault. Wealth is the ongoing process of human intelligence applied to production. Confiscate a factory and you get the building. You don't get the knowledge, vision, and competence that made it productive. The "rich" you want to loot aren't dragons hoarding gold. They're producers creating value. Rob them and you rob everyone, including yourself. You'll be left with ruins and still blame capitalism.