In case you didn’t notice, he gains power and confidence when you try to act above the fray and not confront him.

It’s a media war, and fighting him and his propaganda in all ways is not a distraction, it’s an obligation.

I own one, and my experience disagrees with your conjecture.

AI companies are consuming all the electricity, and will destroy the economy when their bubble bursts, in their quest to eliminate millions of jobs and control the lives of everyone, to profit the global tech elite.

Memes are not-for-profit cultural detritus. They are not the same.

Have an upvote. Both sides are not the same. Anyone who can’t distinguish between them is seriously not fully operational.

You picked a bad start date for Arab/Jewish trouble in Palestine. You also appear to ignore how the other Arab states screwed over the Palestinians to keep them desperate.

But I didn’t comment to debate this. I commented to disabuse the notion that Israel is using the Iron Age to think what they think. Neither are the Arabs.

Uh, no. They live in the living memory of the Six-Day War. I’m not going to defend the behavior of the current Israeli government, but in no way are they just living out the biases the Old Testament when they think neighboring Arab states are antagonistic to them. They remember 1967, and if you think that all neighboring Arab states have done a 180 from where they were then, you’re very much wrong.

I very much hope Ukraine’s reported success is as good as they claim. Deleting 1/3 of the Russia’s bomber capacity against Ukraine is nice.

This is not enshittification. It’s just shitty.

Someone he doesn’t like personally came from Norfolk Island, I’ll lay odds.

We know. We hate it.

If the GOP had an iota, a molecule, a QUARK of integrity, the cabinet would be impeached en masse. They are a disaster.

The chaos is the point: make nothing normal, make nothing certain, and he can be free to do anything.

If he’s not a Russian asset, he’s working for them pro bono.

You could not more wrong. American capitalism is the worst form of capitalism in the world. It is only attractive to people from truly desperate situations.

This is always the Libertarian shitpost response: “you’re free to do what you want” because you don’t recognize economic coercion. It’s a perfectly OK form of limiting freedom. Fuck off.

The kabuki performance that is international diplomacy is almost never dropped, but in this case, it is justified, and the world should line up with Zelenskyy.

Yay, we got him! That’s the game, folks, we caught Trump in a lie.

Because men are babies.

Bullshit. They’ve been accepting deportees for years. They objected to the treatment and military transport of deportees, and refused those. They each threatened tarriffs, and then Trump agreed to treat them like human beings and send them home on commercial flights, like has always been done.

Stop making it sound like Trump’s strongman tactics are doing anything.

There are always upvotes for people saying that everything is solvable with a perfect moral stance. There are always downvotes for anyone saying “political realities exist”.