hannibal and scipio meeting in ephesus, in 183 bce

i'm sorry but i keep coming back to the toxic ex because this website just doesn't have the juice twitter has i wish that weren't the case but it do, it be, it do be do be doo

“The United States remains fully committed to NATO.” Maybe he should talk to his boss who persists in threatening NATO allies with territorial conquest.

youtube is fucking unusable without adblock, 🏴‍☠️ youtube premium if you have to

oh yeah this app still exists I'm supposed to start posting on here, right? I've heard this site already went insane, is it true?

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski @radek-sikorski.bsky.social an annual address to the lower house of the Polish parliament: "The times have changed.I have a message for Mr. [Alexander]Dugin's patrons: u will never rule here again.Neither in Kyiv,nor in Vilnius,nor in Riga,nor in Tallinn…

the aesthetic of left-liberal politics should be kinda terrifying and imperial imo. every post office should look like a tomb built by a caesarian cult.

This is essentially 95% of MAGA's appeal.

My absolute bong rip hot take RN is that YA dystopia fiction was a PsyOp to convince people that the reaction to rising authoritarianism was to sit back and await some teenage Messiah instead of taking part in collective societal and institutional pushback against the Fascists.

I don’t really give a shit how much of a conservative this makes me sound like, but the United States has suffered an existential collapse in the civic virtue of our citizens necessary to sustain a liberal democracy.

the only thing worse than rainbow capitalism is not having rainbow capitalism

i'm gonna be real: the fact the most gun toting, trigger happy country on planet earth is speedrunning a fascist takeover and not a single person is suggesting the most obvious answer is kind of insane

what I keep coming back to about this quote is how many people in the era of the internet — from the brokest to the richest — thought they could afford to stop being an adult. the actual lever-holders of the economy thought they could go back to having high school problems.

There was merit in wooing Trump to come on side it’s clearly going nowhere. Better to be honest that the US can’t be counted on to help Ukraine and Europe needs to come up with plans that completely bypass America.

He likes Russia and wants them to win. Can European leaders please stop pretending this isn’t the case.

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RFK is using "healthy" here in a moralistic and eugenic sense if you die of an infectious disease, that just tells him you weren't healthy--in the sense that either you were irresponsible about your health and thus deserve to die, or you are defective and thus are a drain on society while you live

here's the secret they're all this pathetic and afraid and unable to handle their emotions. it's kind of the base requirement to be a conservative. act accordingly

turns out they were all corrupt retards all along, huh who knew

i don't know shit about fuck when it comes to global finance but this is the biggest known pump and dump scheme we've seen so far, right?

okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line

A lot of very frustrating American political behavior is explained by reasoning something like this: A pathologically mentally unbalanced moron surely could not receive a major party presidential nomination, let alone win, twice. Therefore if he seems like one, it must all be a clever act.

para ontem, se faz favor www.noticiasaominuto.com/economia/276...

depois da pastelaria suíça e da livraria ferin, hoje o pequeno-burguês lisboeta chora o encerro da ginjinha sem rival (meteu lá os pés 0 vezes)

i 100% mean it when i say americans deserve everything trump gives them and thensome, i'll never get tired of saying it because it's true, objectively so

eu acho mesmo que estamos a assistir à morte da produção cultural como a conhecemos

a verdade é que os democratas fizeram literalmente de tudo para alertar para este cenário, mas as pessoas tatuaram na testa o lugar-comum da incompetência/falta de comunicação democrata e cagaram de alto o problema das ideias feitas é este, podem levar o burro à fonte mas se ele não quiser beber...

10/ And once Trump has the lawyers, colleges and industry under his thumb, it becomes very hard for the opposition to have any viable space to maneuver. Trump didn’t invent this strategy. It’s the playbook for democratically elected leaders who want to stay in power forever.

9/ The tariffs are DESIGNED to create economic hardship. Why? So that Trump has a straight face rationale for releasing them, business by business or industry by industry. As he adjusts or grants relief, it’s a win-win: the economy improves and dissent disappears.

8/ What could Trump demand as part of a quiet loyalty pledge? Public shows of support from executives for all his economic policy. Contributions to his political efforts. Promises to police employees’ support for his political opposition.

7/ But the private sector also plays a rule to protect democracy. Independent industry has power. The tariffs are Trump’s tool to erode that independence. Now, one by one, every industry or company will need to pledge loyalty to Trump in order to get sanctions relief.

6/ Healthy democracies rely on an independent legal profession to maintain the rule of law, independent universities to guard objective truth and provide forums for dissent to authority, and independent state/local government to counterbalance a powerful federal government.

5/ Trump knows that he can weaken (and maybe destroy) democracy by using spending and taxation in the same way. He is using access to government funds to bully universities, law firms and state and local governments into loyalty pledges.

4/ British kings used taxation to reward loyalty and punish dissent. Our own revolution was spurred by the King’s use of heavy taxation of the colonies to punish our push for self governance. The King’s message was simple: stop protesting and I’ll stop taxing.

3/ You see, our founders created a President with limited and checked powers. They specifically put the power of spending and taxation in the hands of the legislature. Why? Because they watched how kings and despots used spending and taxes to control their subjects.

2/ This week you will read many confused economists and political pundits who won’t understand how the tariffs make economic sense. That’s because they don’t. They aren’t designed as economic policy. The tariffs are simply a new, super dangerous political tool.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

The people have lost faith in politics. Politicians seem above the law. They are corrupt. They use public money for their own benefit. They lie to the public about who funds them. That is why we must allow the convicted criminal who embezzled from the public purse to run. - Me, for the Spectator.

NATO member Finland plans to quit a global convention banning anti-personnel landmines and boost defence spending to at least 3% of GDP by 2029 in response to the evolving military threat from Russia, the government said. (Reuters)

Clown statement. Did she or didn’t she embezzle the funds, Yanis? Does law not apply if you’re a politician?

I bet the amount of alcohol consumed in beijing since trump came back is egregious xi jinping is probably recreating fear and loathing in las vegas as we speak

It is absolutely right that we do not need Greenland (or Canada) for natsec reasons because they are already close NATO allies. So the only rationale to turn the US into an aggressor in our own hemisphere is if you don’t plan on NATO being a US alliance in the future.

one interesting tidbit from THE WAGES OF DESTRUCTION is that while nazi germany gave the appearance of a capitalist system, in practice it was a command economy even for the richest industrialists and the command was "do what we tell you or get shot"

I’ve seen even folks on this site scolding Canadians for “overreacting” which I think misreads the power dynamic quite a bit. America is the biggest military power to have ever existed and I don’t think people understand what it’s like to contemplate being on the other end of that

El Salvador is a signatory to the Rome Statute; some Democratic Senators should send a letter to the ICC Prosecutor asking them to investigate Bukele for human trafficking.

European messaging today in Paris was exemplary. Strong message that Europe won’t prematurely lift sanctions for sake of a terrible Black Sea deal. Efforts to goad Trump into seeing he’s being played. Signals that Europe won’t accept caps on Ukraine‘s military. And pressing on w/ coalition planning.

thinking about how this ai shit is just stuck culture on steroids, like at least the past decade was defined by 80s and 90s nostalgia, while this decade's cultural offering is an endless recycling of 2016 memes

Trump has no concept of the nation or of its security. This is not an insult to his intelligence. These are just not cognitive categories for him. He can’t care about national security because it’s not a thing in his world.