You’re right, meddling with elections in other countries has been done pretty often (see how many times the US appear in this list on wikipedia ) but sitting Presidents usually pretend to be politely looking the other way.
What’s different now is that Trump likes to put his name on everything, preferably in big golden letters, and he can’t keep his mouth shut to save his life. In the news it’s hardly ever “the USA” now; it’s “the Trunp admin” or just “Trump” doing everything.
Oh, now he’s concerned that Roblox is bad for kids? After he bought Trump?
…out of the overwindow?
Oh, new intelligence has just emerged that your country’s government is supporting a terrorist organization that sending drugs to the US! /s
so… NATO-minus-the-US are considering creating a committee to discuss maybe retaliating AND they are helpfully announcing their intentions to Russia?
I know nothing of diplomacy, foreign politics or war but what the f#@k is this? If NATO did have the strength and consensus to do something like that, wouldn’t they just launch a cyber attack and then immediately deny that anything happened? If we AREN’T already actively doing at least some light sabotaging in Russia, how do I return my NATO loyalty card?
If someone is declaring something like that, it strikes me as a declaration of weakness for EU-internal reasons. It’s a call for the EU to start preparing to maybe start having this kind of capabilities in the next 10-15 years. And I fully hope I’m wrong and that there’s a better, 4D-chess type of strategy behind this.
EDIT: I don’t mind the downvotes, but why? I WANT to be wrong on this so I’d really like to read a comment that explains why.
If I know anything at all after I’m dead, I will already have the answer to the biggest question from all major religions
I’m appalled at all these people who condone throwing flour and eggs at politicians. Everyone knows that the egg goes first, because it helps the flour stick.
Etymology, slogans, rhymes or catchy acronyms give our brains the illusion of hearing something that makes sense. Repeating them a million times drills them in your neural pathways. Plus they are easy to scream loud enough to drown any attempt at intelligent conversation.
That’s right-hand populist communication in a nutshell.
Not unique, but still how safe is to create a new powerful army when the forces against democracy could just democratically take control of it?
the (false) sin/cos dichotomy
but… but… if sin/cos is false, that is literally tan ! (yes, I was frequently bullied in high school, why do you ask?)
What is drawing top comedians to Saudi, a place where you get killed for saying or writing things the ruling family doesn’t like?
I see a trend there but I can’t quite… Wait, could it be loads of money?
no. no, what she was trying to say is that we are 100% shooting Russian jets IF they are on the table. Unless we’re having dinner, in which case we’ll invite them at the table because hospitality is sacred if you are armed and not an immigrant.
To be fair all kings initially became kings exactly the way Trump is trying to do. No matter how they try to paint it as a God-given right or create elaborate origin myths, it all started with violence, marrying into power, betrayal, political scheming and a lot of inbreeding.
It’s kind of appropriate that a kingdom recognizes this (although that was probably not what they were trying to do).
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I can’t imagine how sternly worded our letter to Russia is going to be! Scary stuff.
How does the madman theory work when your head honcho is an actual, bona fide madman? Don’t go anywhere, we’ll find out right after this quick commercial war!
Awesome, isn’t it?
Turns out that if the government is controlling the narrative by threatening, harassing or jailing whoever dares go against it, people will only read about the good things!
Wouldn’t it be great if the US did the same thing? Could we all become a happy place like China if we tried a bit harder to make our country… I dunno… great again?
Hedonic threadmill: it’s the theory that we tend to a baseline level of happiness and on average, after some time, people who have won the lottery are as happy (or unhappy) as people who have gone bankrupt.
Look at us, we are apes, barely out of trees. We were fighting predators and cold and diseases that no longer exist. Just by being alive, we are the winners of millions of years of genetic lottery, through evolution, fights, love and ingenuity.
We have access to most of human knowledge through devices that fit in our pockets, can visit other countries that were legendary to our forefathers, instead of hunting wild beasts we have satellites that guide us step by step to the nearest McDonald’s.
Imagine time-traveling a few generations back, describing our life to our grand-grandparents, seeing their eyes grow wide. Now imagine, at the end, telling them how ennui got to us and we can no longer find meaning in our life.
yes, but which one is more likely to try to invade Sweden, grab the Nobel Peace Prize and take it to Trump with blood still dripping from it?
Underestimating China isn’t wise, but always using China as the new Boogeyman to get even more trillions invested in “national security” is getting old fast. “Secret reports” my ass. If you’re reading it on the internet it’s most likely plain old FUD.