He’s quite bad. Peter Thiel is worse imo.

F for effort I guess

Treat it as a blessing instead of a curse. I had like half a mil karma and was pretty pissed for a bit. But this place is better. Less traffic, but the higher quality is denser, once you nail down the curation of your feed.

I would 100% have stared at the fucker and not lifted a finger

Tell me you don’t understand how inflation works without telling me you don’t understand how inflation works

Tell me you don’t understand geopolitical strategy around an expansionist nuclear state works without telling me you don’t understand how geopolitical strategy around an expansionist nuclear state works

Tell me you have a reductive and naive view of history and current events without telling me you have a reductive and naive view of history and current events

lol well hey, I guess going from “that’s not happening, of course not, what are you talking about” to “here’s how it works, and isn’t the upside awesome if everything works according to our plan, and please don’t short the stock” is technically moving the dialogue in the right direction in terms of honesty…

…Says the guy who avoided the Vietnamese front line

I’m not shocked that German outlets are still in denial about this

All I’m hearing is that I might be able to score something dangerously powerful that’s possibly underlabeled which could melt some ice.

Lmfao it’s so fucking comical.

• Carney certainly couldn’t give less of a shit; nor should he
• nobody and no country worth a damn anymore give a shit about orangeboi’s wish.com UN knockoff, or think that it will have any meaningful - let alone positive - impact. Not to mention, the group is such a hilariously obvious shakedown attempt.

This is 10/10 “I don’t want to come to your party” “WELL YOU CAN’T COME BECAUSE I’M UNINVITING YOU >:(“. Fucking kindergarten-grade rhetoric. What a time to be alive.

So… paradoxically, I do think this is actually going to be better in the long run - especially if any weapons are actually dedicated to the defense of the entire Union, not just particular states. It would very much begin to level the strategic playing field between the EU and other major powers - that is, the US, China, and Russia. The US is clearly not a reliable ally, and recent events have made that fact blindingly obvious. If the EU doesn’t want to be carved of state by state into a collection of vassals, it’s pretty crucial that the continent begins to discuss and enact some very serious, not-fucking-around defense policies and shifts.

Twist it!

There is at least one active case under consideration in which the regime is trying to extend the power of the presidential pardon to cover state crimes as well.

What I mean is that Germany should have taken this fucking seriously at some point between 2014 and now. Because to many people - including myself - it looks like they’re doing essentially fuck-all, and are being so punctiliously bureaucratic that they’re going to procedure themselves into an early fucking grave. The willful ignorance is absolutely astounding.

We need to make up a fundraising shortfall of $541,376 by midnight. We’re counting on you to make up the difference!

There are still a lot of competent people who continue to let themselves be used by the regime, particularly in the military.

• it is unfortunately a fake cover
• i would LOVE if it was real
• i do not expect orangeboi to understand that it is fake
• i expect orangeboi et al will get big mad over it

I think his open acknowledgment of the until-now taboo points that the “rules based international order” has intrinsically been significantly self-serving, and has consistently favored the global north over the global south, and has overall exacerbated global wealth inequality was pretty incisive and important as well. The facts have been fairly obvious for a while now, and he had the stones to call a spade a spade.

it can’t happen here!

It can, and it has, and it is.