jabroni of the shadow realm

I can't imagine many soldiers are excited at the prospect of dying for this poorly planned and unnecessary war with poorly defined goals. That being said, part of me wonders if the seeming disorganization is part of a strategy to seem so for reasons undisclosed?

The only good can happen doctrine (OGCHD) states quite clearly that when bad things happen, no they didn't and it's good that it happened actually. Why are you so confused?

The whole thing? Damn

This ogre sounds like he wants to get airdropped in there himself with nothing but a parachute and a Bowie knife

Also we need to reform the Supreme Court, reverse citizens united, ranked choice voting, break the duopoly and have more like 4 main parties with power sharing

I think you're right. They're going to have to be, because otherwise we won't be able to dig ourselves out of this. They gotta do 3 big things in my view. Undo all Trumps bullshit and have Nuremberg trials, make lasting peace with our enemies & repair alliances, & build a more stable framework

Reports of data breaches and ddos attacks worldwide as the Norwood polymorphic virus wreaks havoc on infrastructure

and you know these dipshits will put together a training montage with unlicensed music for propaganda purposes

*Emperor Leto II has entered the chat* what's all the ruckus about

this inquiry*, Bluesky needs an edit comment button

The strategic ambiguity has unfortunately shrouded this inquiries in a thick impenetrable fog and I can't see it

Overturn citizens united, stock trading bans alone wont cure all the rot

We have terminal gridlock about these things because we only have 2 parties who are allowed to be in power and stack the deck to make sure nothing challenges their duopoly. We need something like 4 parties, ranked choice voting, and a supreme court that's always 3 left, 3 independent, and 3 right

That said I would prefer if this particular administration were a bit less "strategically" ambiguous about basically every topic now

Trump and all of his incredibly arrogant toadies see the public as mindless peasants who are very expendable

Hmm fair point. Changing postures right now could come with significant blowback after this Iran business

You are prob correct, I think there are also potential risks with strategic ambiguity though. if they don't know how America will respond doesn't the uncertainty create its own tensions?

I was under the impression that she said she wanted to drop strategic ambiguity while reassuring Taiwan that we are not going to abandon them, which seems fairly rational. I don't know that it would necessarily escalate tensions to do so, but I'm not a China expert or anything so could be wrong

Could be an incentive for companies to spend the cash to turn their fleets electric, but Donald took away a lot of the subsidies for that sorta thing iirc

They're being targeted by influence bots I feel like, aipac just dropped a fat stack on trying to defeat her

I just keep coming back around to, "there is a reason that no previous president did this foolish thing and it was not because they were weak, woke cowards, but because they could read a cost-benefit analysis."

I have a strong sense that propaganda bots are widely used by intelligence agencies around the globe. They all kinda share similar mannerisms and if you catch them they usually just stop responding

Dunking on people in public is far more emotionally stimulating than trying to make a point without insults, I'm not surprised that's the primary mode by which people sort things out now from behind a screen. People are less volatile in person for a reason

In America, people see an asshole like Trump and unconsciously equate his confidence with competence

It's because America is an individualist culture that rewards greed and prioritizes the self, gradually over time that will result in sociopathic personality traits being selected for over generations as they are good at attaining power but also terrible leaders.

The stress from worrying also creates health issues that can accumulate over time and shorten your lifespan. Rich people don't understand what it's like to have that weighing over your head

Does every decision need to be scrutinized with a microscope or are people allowed to have a party sometimes without deeply considering any and all possibly problematic situations? Feels like people are constantly looking for reasons to feel betrayed or create interpersonal conflicts lately

The scene from Game of Thrones where Ramsay Bolton is letting Reek give him a straight razor shave despite having tortured him because he knows he has fully broken, that's Trump with the shoes. Sociopaths love their mind games

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I am not happier than Steven Miller.
I am not happier than Pope John XXIII.
I am not happier than Shinzo Abe.
I am not happier than MurderBryan.

But if I stand back and watch and learn,
I will be happier than I am.