i thought the president would do something that would distract people from the virality of Bus Thread but somehow he managed to do the exact opposite

There is no conventional reason that the leftist and rightist lines should be “popular revolutions are Jewish CIA magic to threaten the traditional working people of Great Russia who welded together and civilized the peoples of their natural sphere of influence with the power of Stalinium”, AND YET

It's genuinely insane.

I was reading this article last night. It made me feel even more insane

Ofcourse Trump would fuck it all up!

So Trump's envoy Barrack gave SDF leadership false promises of keeping SDF military units unified under Syrian army just kept quiet in public and that they will keep rule in Kurdish populated areas. Al-Sharaa had no idea about this, hence Abdi left feeling negotiations are led in bad faith.

In a peculiar way, Trump is not that different in his mindset to old Soviet leaders. He cannot grasp the notion that something important would happen in a country that was not directed and approved by its leadership.

After Labour won the 1945 election Attlee was closely interrogated by Molotov at Potsdam because the old Bolshevik couldn’t believe that Churchill hadn’t been removed by a coup. The idea that Clem genuinely hadn’t known the result beforehand seemed preposterous to him.

That's the ballgame, then, isn't it

Doesnt feel like hes backing down on this one

People who claim the war in Ukraine is great for the "military industrial complex" are delusional. Nothing ends some contractor's boondoggle project like sending it to be used in real modern battlefield conditions and finding out it sucks.

apparently denmark is not one of the countries where your own party will invite their leader to give a speech in the senate about how the sitting president is a piece of shit and he ought to be removed from power

Didn’t believe this was true but have checked and am told it was sent to the Norwegian government yesterday.

American Supremacy thinking infects everyone in different ways and this is one of them. The idea that we would invade an ally and begin a prolonged military conflict, on top of everything else, and the contours of our political culture and system would be the same horse race is truly unbreakable

We'll Eminent domain their now worthless land and convert it into National Forests/Grasslands, or hand it over to the migrant workers who they treat like slaves.

So this is it. The End of the Syrian civil war. 15th of March 2011 to 18th of January 2026. 14 years, 10 months, 3 days.

Radical liberalism was the ideology of the abolitionists, and is in many ways is the bedrock on which the modern American liberal left is built more than anything else.

SDF is kicked out of Raqqa. With Syrian military crossing the river to eastern and western countryside with help of Arab tribes, along with same tribes and residents fighting them in the city, positions by SDF were untenable. This will lead to SDF being split in two in Kobani and Hasakah-Qamishli.

We may be seeing the final days of SDF in Syria.

This is the moment that outs the real hardcore 51st-staters - “their country, right or wrong”.

This will be the central question of the 2028 GOP primaries

doing the interview with shapiro was proof enough that his instincts were trash, kind of him to confirm it beyond all doubt

we need to Build the Cathedral. we need to reify the right's insane delusions. they will behave like we have regardless, we might as well get the benefit of it.

This 57% negative view of ICE is almost exact inversion of a 1970 Gallup poll: 58% blamed the students for the killlings at Kent State. Only 11% blamed the National Guard (and 31% had “no opinion”). The world is dfferent yes, but we start from a new place.www.kentguardvoices1970.com/the-shooting...

the post everyone got mad about for two hours has been updated turns out it's the opposite actually

trump has basically hit the "can only get worse if you lose a war or the economy goes into the shitter" benchmark

elected democrats who want their constituents to remain non-violent in their protests of these abuses must actually offer a path for ending the abuses non-violently. they currently are not as a party and it’s a major problem.

These people genuinely don't understand that non American people speak English and watch American news

Special Order 191-ass contrivance

if nothing else, he has guaranteed that there is going to be a rapid response force of wine moms and honda fit dads ready to run interference at every single polling station he very well may try some bullshit after the votes are counted, but he isn't going to be able to stop them being cast

RT to scare the Trump administration

Fun to think about how, say, Tim Russert would have reacted to Bill Clinton doing this. Or Jake Tapper if it was any Democrat at all.

I think I can safely say I am not guilty of excessively tolerating the intolerant anymore - the last four years have pretty thoroughly beaten that out of me

There are also, like, 15,000 of them, not a million

Yeah actually. Yes I am. We will be your Waterloo Greg

Anthem the game had fun gameplay and deserved a chance to get better with the Anthem Next team. Anthem the project drove good people out of the company and put others in the hospital.

Anthem the game is officially dead.

So some Chinese dissident came to some far right American show and claimed that population of China isn't 1.4 billion but under 500 million. That's fucking stupid! You don't just fake 2/3 of your population, especially a near billion worth of people!

The really messy thing going on rn is that DJT is unhealthy, likely on a cocktail of uppers and corticosteroids (that are probably mauling his kidneys), and in the middle of one long manic dementia episode. Putting an 80 year old in a pressure cooker like this was.. a decision.

a rather significant portion of the founding was based on “no guys like Donald Trump in particular” they really specifically wanted to avoid this type of know-nothing demagogue