Munrock ☭

The Trump regime is throwing out most of the USA’s soft power (except for entertainment media) and switching to hard power wherever it can. Going mask-off with its relationship with Europe (and NATO, Ukraine etc) is one of the ways it’s doing that.

I’m enjoying immense Schadenfreude from it; especially from all the smug European NAFO bros getting hit by the reality check that being a European NATO member means having a pair of boobs tattooed on your back.

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Starmer hoping nobody notices that his “coalition of the willing” is not a coalition of the capable.

Honestly after the way Zelensky got humiliated here, he should ask Putin to let Ukraine join the Russian Federation. It would spite Trump, it’d be funny as fuck, and Ukraine would probably get better treatment from Russia than it would under the US vultures at thos point.

The dog robot was objectively better than the humanoid robot back when the humanoid robot couldn’t walk unless the floor was completely smooth. The humanoid robots can walk now, and they can do an increasing number of tasks in a work space designed for humans without needing hardware additions.

The dogs still win out in terms of speed and agility for the moment, but working in a power plant I think if the situation calls for speed and agility it’s time for the human supervisors to step in.

Put the billionaires in Guantanamo Bay and then give it back to Cuba. Win-win.

Isn’t it such an amazing coincidence that the rebels who liberated Syria have goals and ambitions that line up perfectly with US Foreign Policy?

“We’ve liberated Syria, but Israel unliberated the rest of the Golan Heights but hey, they can have it. We don’t want to take on Israel, we want peace with Israel (who the UN says are doing a genocide on muslims) and war with China (who the CIA says are doing a genocide on muslims).”

The Democrats knew this was going to happen. There’s no way they couldn’t. And I don’t mean Democrat supporters, many of whom were vehement that Biden was fine like so many anecdotes in this thread recount. I mean the Democrat leadership, who manage his campaign and more than likely manage his presidency. Unlike the public, they have access to him. They have his medical records, the reports of his doctors and caregivers, everything. There’s no way they didn’t know this would happen if he debated.

They might start seeding support for a different candidate into their supporter’s discourse after this, but they will have been planning for this outcome long ago. And when a left-leaning (left from a US Overton window) news platform hosts a debate that shows him up that badly and then publishes commentary like this, you have to wonder if that caused friction with the DNC or if they assented to it.

As the party starts singling out a replacement, the question I hope people start asking is why they didn’t replace Biden earlier? Did they need to wait until the urgency of imminent elections made their new candidate more palatable? And if they don’t replace Biden, why are they letting Trump win?

He gives lots of reasons, but if one of them isn’t “oil-producing countries are starting to escape US hegemony and your gas-guzzling motor industry is on borrowed time” then I don’t think he’s really appealing to the US government’s interests.

That’s not just research, molten salt heliostats are in active use already.

How’d that work out for Australia and Gough Whitlam trying to close Pine Gap?

It doesn’t matter what the people outside China think. The people inside China - on both sides of the Taiwan strait - think Taiwan is part of China. They all call themselves Chinese except the tiny minority that speak with American accents. There are indigenous ethnic minorities on Taiwan whose ancestors were not part of China, but they didn’t call themselves ‘Taiwan’ because that’s a Chinese word.

Guy thinks South China Morning Post is “Communist Party Controlled”… it’s owned by Alibaba Group but anyone who reads that rag can see that they absolutely don’t bother ‘controlling’ it.

Conscious and Conscience are different things (but understandably easy to conflate)

You gotta think outside the box. There’s more than 7,000 bricks in a typical Western European house. All you need is for the MIC to bolt some fins on and design (and build and sell) a launch system and the war could go on. Europeans just aren’t willing to sacrifice hard enough.

I mean there’s a possibility they spin this up into an invasion justification with experts telling us how they could strike Europe in less than 45 minutes again.

I think an ugly reality is that these countries are also weighing the price the Palestinian martyrs are paying against that immense damage this is all doing to the Western propaganda machine. The lies that the West uses to gain its peoples’ approval for the evil it commits across the world are falling apart. If and when Arab countries get involved and bring this all to a full-scale war, those same lies will immediately start getting traction again.

11M views. 11M well-informed Westerners casually parroting this arrogance.

Now I wonder how many of those responsibly-up-to-date Westerners have seen the videos about how weong this one was?

“I see you haven’t given up yet! Well, then I shall start hitting myself in the face even harder! Let’s see how you like this…!”

“Made in the USA” is the new “Made in China”