It truly is amazing how various tech companies 'won', had eternal money machines, and then just decided to fuck it up because they wanted to somehow have more money. God, I will never not be mad about how they just made things worse while pretending they were better.

americans need europe’s help to take our country back, and the first step is regaining financial control over the tech bros

let the people work together

What Europe wants to hear is an unequivocal, unanimous statement from the congressional opposition that "If Trump attacks Greenland, we will do everything in our power and take any action available to stop him, including physically standing between US troops and NATO defenders if necessary."

he is crashing out because someone likely told him there are no SOF and airstrikes options

the euros really need to hit the economic pressure button. the tripwire force in greenland is a good example of what happens when trump faces real costs

mad king moment from the PBS Newshour correspondent

"We had concerns about arctic security but our allies' deployment showcased their seriousness to regional security so we're cool now" was the easiest off-ramp in the world to take, and yet...

European forces were deployed to deter us, and this has led the tariff otaku to press the tariff button. The fact that this deployment not only happened but triggered retaliation tells me there's smoke here. The US not readying an attack *due to to an armed deterrent* is not a nothingburger.

The retaliation measures are being drawn up to give European leaders leverage in pivotal meetings with the US president at the World Economic Forum in Davos. ft.trib.al/aKexyt2

Deckard escaped by distributing his consciousness across pieces of origami. They'd wanted to control him through his dreams; instead, he nano'd into oblivion that was sanctuary. A thousand years later he'd reconstitute himself, gaze down ruined boulevards. 1/3

Congress can stop ICE. Congress can block the use of force in Greenland. In other words, in this crisis, Congress can act to support civil liberties at home and free nations abroad. To fail to act would be to be complicit in a dreadful outcome.

US official says EU should consider separating Greenland tariff issue from US trade deal reut.rs/4pLkJq6

Also, when you defy Trump, you’re kind of implicitly making fools of the elite law firms and universities and media companies and billionaires and Congress, which is fun.

They expect - they NEED - the people they threaten to fall in line, like the law firms and universities and media companies and billionaires and Congress did. If you say “No, make me,” they simply do not have a Plan B. TRUMP DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH GUYS TO MAKE YOU.

French President Macron on Trump’s Greenland threats: “No intimidation nor threat will influence us, neither in Ukraine, nor in Greenland, nor anywhere else in the world… Tariff threats are unacceptable and Europeans will respond to them in a united and coordinated manner.”

Woah. These photos are really amazing.

It is a genuine problem for US foreign policy that the average halfwit on Capitol Hill is cognitively incapable of grasping “We didn’t murder you because we might not get away with it” is received differently than “We didn’t murder you because we are friends.”

People are gonna be like “nothing ever happens, lol” when Trump chickens out when armed deterrence is a something that happened.

The security of Greenland is wildly more important to Canada than to most European states and kinda suspect we should act like that

omg i finally found that tweet

lmfao China is deliberately and explicitly messing with Trump and no one has caught on yet NVIDIA SUPPLIERS HALT H200 OUTPUT AFTER CHINA BLOCKS CHIP SHIPMENTS - FT

a few things I want people to get from this: -how tense it is here. I was death-gripping the steering wheel during this, even watching it makes me tense up -how organized the community is. the rapid response networks are ENORMOUS and highly effective -how completely the city is united against ICE

Imperial boomerang never fucking misses

Oh no, I antagonized and alienated all my trade partners at the same time and now they’re just trading with eachother without me

"Like an elderly man whose powers are failing, the Habsburg Monarchy sought to recover its youth by a display of vitality...internal action had come to nothing; action in foreign affairs had to take its place."

Lawyer for 21-year-old activist blinded by ICE while protesting: "You would never fire a weapon like this at someone's face unless you're intending to kill them. So it's lethal force."

just sitting in my big studded leather armchair with my globe drinks cabinet, eating my big boy meal

Remember that those other camps did not start with gas chambers, they started with killing people by abuse and neglect. Once you’re at the point of ‘we don’t care if they die in our care’ you’re not that far away from the other thing.

I think the disconnect between Atlantic elites is that Americans think Donald Trump is a kid getting to drive a monster truck for Make A Wish and Europeans and Canadians think Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

sending Vance to negotiate is the same as sending Denmark and Greenland a flaming sack of shit. i hope europe is ready for things to get *real*

The French reaction is rather stark in this. It does strike me it will be a lot easier to get friendly tripwire forces in fast than an invasion force into a place where operating conditions are effectively the specialities of the Nordics and very few other states. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Det store territorialforsvar er i gang. Og selvom vi tit hører, at det grønlandske forsvar nærmest udelukkende består at Sirius, så er der altså andre til stede. Og siden 2024 har man uddannet unge i Grønland på Arktisk Basisuddannelse. karriere.forsvaret.dk/uddannelse/v...

BREAKING: Denmark has deployed an advance force and military equipment to Greenland, tasked with preparing to receive reinforcements from the rest of the Danish Armed Forces and allied nations. Follow the story on DR, Denmark’s public-service news outlet. www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

It's so real. I am helping a church pull together a community meeting about preparing for ICE and everyone I'm reaching out to "yes-ands" me. I am 40 and I have spent my entire adult life organizing, and I have literally never experienced this before. It's wild. People are DONE.

i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, you’re setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.

"i serve the Lord, not a draft-dodging coward" is the kind of phrase that would be slightly cringe online and is incredibly badass when being stated by a man surrounded by armed men threatening to murder him

It's not so great if someone commits a normal crime. Maybe they get put in a jobs training program, something of this nature, but once their debt is paid, they get to rejoin society like a normal person. Spend years and consume millions in public money with the power of public trust? Big rock.

As I am often saying, the central pillar of Cantor Thought is Tarpeian Socialism, the idea that in a society of significant size, the occasional slob is going to rob a 7-11 and that's not great, but whatever, but if you're given power by society and abuse it, we push you off a big rock.

It's time to officially let X/Twitter go. That platform's decline from a vibrant public square to what is now a platform for hate & disinformation has been painful to experience. I’ve already in this great community & look forward to continuing our conversations. www.reuters.com/business/med...

A 3 person byline for this. What utter fucking fascists

lol. None of these reporters have accounts on here, they’re all exclusively on the CSAM pedo site

Insanely craven and shameless apologism for the jackboot

not really keeping my ear to the street since I haven't been home in 3 years and haven't lived there in 8 years, but you know what? When this all gets sorted out I feel like Americans in America can decide for themselves if they want to Judgment at Nuremberg everyone who worked at CNN