Hmm I didn’t see a commitment to respond with force. Just a statement of what is “right,” as if Trump gives one shit about that. Fail.

This is a good video on the topic - 2 years old so not just based on this week’s hubbub.

https://youtu.be/sxRdKRORYoA

Only country that ever burned down the White House? We won’t forget you! ;)

Dirty little secret: advertising drives very little of what we know as capitalism. It’s honestly just kind of a drain hole in capitalism, out of which flows billions of dollars into the void.

I have wondered a lot whether we could enshrine laws that would protect us from corruption like we’ve seen. Executive overreach in general is a problem but there are also smaller things like the fact that Trump filmed a fucking canned food advertisement on the Resolute Desk that seem like they should be eliminate-able.

It just doesn’t seem like we actually have laws anymore. The Supreme Court has declared presidents untouchable. And the way demographics are shifting, it’s harder and harder for Republicants to control Congress, but the electoral college favors red states, so Republicants WANT an overpowered president.

We could probably get them to agree to presidential controls during a Dem presidents’ administration, but could we get to a constitutional amendment or something they couldn’t just undo later when it suits them? I doubt it.

We are in a death match with an implacable foe who wants nothing more than our total destruction. There is no negotiating or agreeing our way out of this: the only thing we can do is win.

It’s completely not practical.

7Gs is, granted, not categorically lethal hut average people will start to pass out around 4Gs if the acceleration is vertical, and 9 is about the upper limit that trained, fit Air Force pilots can experience without losing consciousness.

So 7 is nothing to sneeze at even under ideal conditions.

Well now we need to design the train with all seats facing forward and restraints to keep people in place, and we need to have staff abord to do do a safety check that everyone is seated and strapped in before we can get those 2 seconds of theoretically-survivable acceleration.

Come on. This is cool from an engineering perspective but will never be used on an actual passenger train.

You don’t control geopolitics but you do control your own outlook. If you can’t accept a someday threat but continue living today, then you are losing the battle before you even know if you have to fight. Yes, losing the ability to get through the day is overreacting, even in light of the threat potential. I could give you 6 other things to worry yourself into paralysis about if I wanted to. But you control your own outlook.

There is very public evidence. A former national security advisor Alexander Lebed claimed that 100 nuclear suitcase bombs had been “lost track of” on the TV program 60 minutes. That’s not very hard evidence, but it’s certainly worrying. And I don’t know what kind of hard evidence you could reasonably hope to get over such a damning and embarrassing state of affairs. Is Russia going to issue a report documenting how they lost 100 portable nukes? Doubtful.

Just when you’re celebrating the collapse of your enemy, you realize that all their armaments are hitting the secondary or black markets, going into who-knows-whose hands. Same thing happened with the breakup of the USSR. Nukes were “lost.”

Mark Twain, Mary Cassatt, James McNeill Whistler, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, Henry Miller, Josephine Baker, Alexander Calder, Man Ray, Stuart Davis, James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Beauford Delaney, Kay Sage, Joan Mitchell, Ellsworth Kelly, Sam Francis, Alexander Archipenko, and Edmonia Lewis all did it before it was cool.

“If I did it, here’s how I would do it”

By OJ Simpson the CCP

That’s how change occurs at the government level and so that is absolutely failing. If you can’t muster sufficient support to carry your agenda out and you get overwhelmed by challengers, that’s failing. If your agenda needs perfect conditions to succeed, it’s a fairyland dream.

This same thing is all that’s happened to the US as well.

Moreover, social programs across Europe are struggling to remain solvent in the face of aging populations and shrinking workforces. Even when the will is there.

We talk a lot about the failure of the American experiment but it seems that Europe’s experiment with social supports is also failing.

Yes you can see this culturally in the old stereotypes about “old money” versus “new money.”

Rich family with a hereditarily passed down fortune, lands, and control = old money = feudalism.

Entrepreneur who came from nothing but tok advantage of emerging economies to become wealthy overnight = new money = capitalism.

Old money hates new money because capitalism dethroned feudalism.

Imagine thinking that what god wants most is for you to put on a little hat, grab a rifle, and go live in the desert in an RV.

Like I said, childish. And you just used a fucking AI reply as evidence? Call me when you’ve ever had to accomplish something in this world.

I see what you did there

Heh… yeah… awkward!

Inheritance. Your move.