Seeing what happens when the US just stops helping makes me realise: The good they did as a superpower over the decades isn’t talked about as much as the bad. Obviously now, there is plenty of that, too.

The absurd “pizza-gate” suddenly makes sense.

tbf, getting shot in the face IS one of the better interactions you can have with Dick Cheney.

I mean, which one would you pick?

• waterboarded at home
• sent to allied torture prison abroad
• accidentally groped during family Christmas photo
• he jumps awkwardly onto your presidential campaign train last minute and you lose it
• shot in the face

Dick Cheney was among the worst in an administration that disrespected human rights, international law, honesty, trustworthiness and set the US reputation as well as the fight against global warming way back.

Usually, that probably would have been my last thought of him.

Except, we have this crazy timeline. This timeline, in which he was able to stand out just by pointing out that he is still in favour of free elections. At least that was still a given in his time, even though the decision about the loss of Al Gore was considered controversial by some back then.

A low bar, a low bar indeed. But here we go, on this positive note: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Nq9SpGzic

Not sure what kind of “together” we can have. Working with anti-MAGA conservatives is supposedly wrong, working with (even anti Netanyahu) Israel supporters is supposedly wrong - won’t get a majority that way.

It was a shock, and my faith in the internet will be lost entirely if it turns out that your name is not actually Killgrind.

(Her supposed real name was Julia Goethe Gothe, in case anyone wants to know. Former Twitter handle @JuleStinkesocke.)

I’ve also fallen for and followed a fake account before. It was some neckbeard pretending to be a female disabled doctor. Apparently, he actually was some kind of advocate for the disabled, possibly started with the self-justification to “help”.

Oh wow, apparently it was a bigger deal than I thought back then: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jule_Stinkesocke

Is the one about Kirk unbelievable? Some parts, yes, such as the immediate registration as Republican (not shown in screenshots), but in general, there are favorable non-Republican responses, such as “Shoe on Head”. I’m also upset about quotes out of context, that part seems to be real, and so it builds a bridge from reality to fiction. It’s just that I wouldn’t turn full MAGA because Stephen King smeared a conservative.

The spam detection works, though!

(As intended - on the ones criticising these posts.)

Sad thing is that in this day and age, they’d hardly need to lift a finger to have this rephrased 100 times. But they know they don’t have to. People eat up the garbage from their feed, people (often the same) know that a lot of it is Russian bots.

p. s: Still surprised how poorly ChatGPT-5 Thinking handled this. A lot of obvious bot content, such as “weeks of uncut videos and policy dives” by a Democrat, “attended a live event” etc.

Aren’t these guys against VOLUNTARY lethal injection at the same time? There was a whole “That’s my Bush!”-episode about it and everything.

It was essential and without alternative when it was new, and it’s stupid to ban it, as it’s still a great choice now, but for most people, non-mRNA alternatives are about as good.

A stupid move, yet possibly with few consequences. I got 2 % of my “fortune” in Moderna stocks though, lol.

Far worse is EU and its member states, which just delayed the release of the new adapted one just enough that everybody can meet in class for 3 weeks after returning from summer vacation before getting it. Although it was ready for shipping a long, long time ago. More madness than the US, for once.

Conspiracy theory:

Soviet Union realises it’ll never become the sole superpower by conventional means. Makes “stupid” decisions, collapses, becomes “democracy”. Let things calm down for a few decades, then plant a pro-Russian president (Communist president would have been too radical). Suddenly, it’s the right that is pro-Russia. Now, bring back Communism and the Soviet Union.

MAGA-patriots: Yay, Communism!!! Tankies: Unsure what side to pick

I wonder how much of the problem would be avoided if the top personal CO2 emissions per capita were capped at Scandinavian upper middle-class level since 1970 (imported CO2 included). Flying on vacation only occasionally, comfy car yes, SUV just if needed, nice modern house yes, wasteful lack of insulation no, buy what you need and treat yourself to some fashion, electronics etc. yes, mindless consumerism no. Just a comfy standard of living.

I wonder if the mindless consumerism in certain countries with insane emissions per capita makes up a big part of the problem, or if the sheer number of “decent standard of living” would have pushed us over the edge anyway.

Reminds me of an ad (!) German conservatives (CDU) made. I don’t remember all the details, but it showed the politician as he stated something like: What the social democrats want to do would make housing in Berlin affordable again, thus removing real estate from the free market.

These people are in it so deep, they think that the common man would hate that just as much as they do.

LA is also a good opportunity to say: This and this and this high ranking officer failed and will be replaced (by a loyalist).

The leading all but one languages help to me a Lord with Google assistant not your relevant

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