heywood on 5/5/2025 at 15:23
His standard pattern is to announce something first to gauge the reaction, and delay implementation to see if anyone will negotiate with him while his underlings try to figure out how to implement it.
Your federal election results are somewhat shocking. The polls in April seemed to indicate Labor would stay in power, but didn't predict a landslide of this magnitude. The Coalition parties seemed to be gaining support steadily over the last couple of years, until they suddenly tanked. It is interesting that the trend reversal coincided with Trump entering office, but he can't be responsible for all that swing, can he? The effect he's had on Canada is understandable, but Australia is not nearly so linked with the US.
demagogue on 5/5/2025 at 20:21
On the bright side Star Wars will be prohibitively expensive to watch in the US now, if we're lucky, I guess.
I can just imagine the fall out when the studios come begging to Krasnov, tears in their eyes, "but sir...", and Steven Miller will be little Himmler on his shoulder to remind him that the Hollywood Jew is a crafty one that you need to watch out for and this order was passed to exactly purge US media of their globalist influence. =L
(It depresses me because I think that's really how they think and talk.)
Nicker on 6/5/2025 at 13:39
Putin's plan is working better than his wildest dreams, even if Ukraine is handing him his ass on a platter. Maybe he can leave Europe to the Europeans and have his own continent.
Cipheron on 7/5/2025 at 02:46
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https://www.dn.se/sverige/usas-ambassad-kraver-lydnad-av-stockholms-stad-bisarrt/)
Translated from Swedish:
Quote:
Stockholm's city planning office must not work for equality, diversity and inclusion. The US embassy demands this in a letter, with a contract that they expect the city to sign.
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The embassy begins the letter with "Dear City Planning Office" and then explains that a new policy requires that everyone from whom US government agencies purchase goods and services must sign the contract.
The City Planning Office is expected to sign and return the contract within ten working days.
- We absolutely do not intend to do that, it is the opposite of everything we stand for. They should withdraw these strange things, says Jan Valeskog.
It is the embassy that benefits from the city of Stockholm, not the other way around, he believes.
- If the US terminates its relationship with the city planning office, the embassy will have difficulty obtaining a building permit if, for example, they want to rebuild. That is their headache, not ours, says Valeskog.
heywood on 7/5/2025 at 12:14
This would be hilarious if it wasn't so arrogant and mean-spirited.
Of course the same thing is happening everywhere in the US. And they're having some success here because federal funding pays a lot of people's salaries. But I'm pretty sure Sweden could get by without a US embassy.
Nicker on 7/5/2025 at 21:23
Is there a tariff on exported cruelty?
demagogue on 7/5/2025 at 23:56
On the contrary, I'm sure overseas cruelty gets a hefty subsidy.
There's nothing that gets them off harder.
This admin is in the process of wrecking the global economy just for the chance to exacerbate human suffering.
Nicker on 13/5/2025 at 18:40
The human suffering is bad enough but one thing that concerns me is our closest living relatives and their ecosystems. Great apes and other primates are critically endangered and many of the places they cling to are in precisely the areas hardest hit by the withdrawal of aid. Desperate people do desperate things, like poaching or slash and burn farming.
Homo sapiens will survive trump but some of the other people on this planet may not.
heywood on 14/5/2025 at 11:03
I can't blame that on Trump. Values and cultural norms have to change in equatorial Africa if great ape species are to be protected. Consider the lack of support for governance and preference for militias, tribalism, the never ending cycle of coups and wars, the widespread use of massacres and sexual violence as tactics, and the genocides. The dominant cultures in that region don't even value human life, let alone animal life. Colonization, missionaries, and aid workers didn't change much. What are we supposed to do, recolonize the whole region, kill off every militant, and force our values on those people for as many generations as it takes to make it stick?
Kenya is an exception in that region and worth investing in. But I view most of equatorial Africa a bit like Afghanistan. The Soviets tried to change Afghanistan, and so did we. But the majority of the people there only saw us as a temporary source of money to go grab while they could.
