It’s already open except for the whole Iran thing, remember?

Source??

But the question is why would China even want to help the US when the US has been so hostile?

The crazy thing about all this is that Trump could’ve attacked Iran, I don’t know, a month into his presidency. Before all the “invading Greenland” stuff, before “Have you said thank you even once?” and if this situation happened then it would put European leaders in a much more difficult position. They’d have to pick a side, and those who cooperate would then have a harder time going against Trump because they committed, and those that didn’t cooperate, their lack of cooperation could be used as a pretext to fuck with them. And the mood early on was like, “We just have to comply and appease him to weather the storm.”

But by showing his hand first, he’s made it incredibly easy for everyone to say they’ve had enough of his shit and he’s on his own. It doesn’t make any sense to me.

Only explanations I can see is that Trump has hit cognitive decline to the point that he doesn’t know how to not look like a loser anymore, or it really was unplanned and Israel forced their hand.

Btw, can someone explain to me why the US asked for China’s help with the straight? Does this accomplish anything other than making the US look weak and desperate?

Ngl, the fact that the US lied about masks and had such a clusterfuck response while China listened to the science was a major step in me becoming China-pilled.

If she left someone else to write the policy on her website she’s probably going to leave it to (the same) someone else to determine that policy once in office.

This is just the current version of “Thank you Jack Bauer.”

So you’re saying there was good news and bad news.

You might be interested in Oh Jeez, Oh No, My Rabbits are Gone a retro puzzle-platformer about finding 100 lost rabbits. It’s very cute and has a nice difficulty curve and you can pet the rabbits.

I didn’t for him. How do you become leader then?

Lizardman constant.

The thing is there’s kind of an inherent problem between trying to make informed policy decisions and trying to represent the popular will, especially when people are uninformed. This is especially a problem when it comes to foreign policy, where’s it’s completely impossible for the average person to be sufficiently informed about every country in the world. Politicians generally aren’t that knowledgeable either, because that’s generally not what they’re selected for. Adding on to that the fact that foreign policy arrangements generally outlive the terms of politicians, and there’s strong incentives to defer decisions to “experts,” who are generally unelected and unaccountable. At that point any concept of “interpreting” the popular will or “acting as people would want if they were as informed as we are” is pretty much just a pretense. In many cases, it’s pretty much impossible to determine what the average person would think if they were informed about a situation because they simply don’t think about such things at all. However, especially in the US today, “deferring to the experts” essentially means blind trust in the people who lied us into Iraq and Afghanistan.

Tbh I don’t really know if there is a clean solution to that. But that’s one of the issues that direct democracy would encounter: how do you make informed, stable arrangements with other countries? Is every person expected to be informed about every country?

Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red kiss each other on the lips

Found the source

I always like to imagine a time travelling liberal standing next to a ship while slaves are being loaded on board and they’re trying to debate the slavers in the marketplace of ideas to convince them they’re acting unethically.

Yet another W for #nolivesmatter edgelords

I think I figured out Trump’s strategy.

If the US takes over Canada, Mexico, and Greenland, then it’ll only have three places that can get attacked, plus it’ll be getting five bonus armies every turn. Taking Iceland would also deny the EU their bonus armies. Then, the natural place to take is South America, starting with Venezuela.

Cancelling elections seems like the sort of thing you don’t talk about doing. As the rule goes, “Don’t talk about the coup in public, do it day one or just shut the fuck up about it until you do.”

What he’s doing is making people freak out, which 1) makes them look alarmist when the elections happen, and 2) shifts the goalposts to that instead of all the fash shit he’s actually doing. “See, you were wrong, we’re having elections so that means Trump’s not a dictator like you said.”

I can’t listen to this without hearing it in Angron’s voice.