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This is the worst thing I’ve seen all week.

I love it.

But it still plays into the narrative that everyone should be afraid of supporting Ukraine because you never know what Putin might do, with the added bonus that it make it seem like Trump isn’t his lapdog.

When has Putin shown disdain at being called crazy? If I remember correctly, a lot of world leaders have instead claimed that seeming crazy has been one of Putin’s tactics to avoid being challenged as people are afraid of what a crazy person might do, especially one that rules a country with one of the world’s largest armies and the largest nuclear arsenal.

This reads a bit like “that hasn’t happened to me so that doesn’t happen”.

Two vowels after the K, Käärijä.

There are innocent people on death row too.

The UN only has power insofar as other countries agree that it does. If they start taking harsher stances, countries will start pulling out of the UN which defeats its whole purpose.

It’s the 250th birthday of the US Army, this was supposedly in planning already under Biden’s administration. Trump is definitely taking the opportunity to make it about himself though.

Would be much easier to counter if there was a functional system of checks and balances or a well-educated population that’d hold their leaders accountable, but here we are.

I once read a quote by someone that went roughly like “Voting with your wallet means the ones with the biggest wallets get the most votes” and it has stuck with me ever since.

What would it look like to start from scratch with a massively simplified standard for specifying UIs, based on all we’ve learned since html/css was invented?

Probably a lot better. The difficult, and expensive, part is getting everyone to migrate over to this new standard, not because it’d be unfeasible but because companies don’t want to spend any time or money on things that they don’t think will make them profit.

What we’d need is, for example, the EU realizing that Google’s attempted monopoly on the internet is dangerous and requiring a certain standard for private consumer-facing websites to get the ball rolling.

The point is to cause obstruction and attention. Force them to show that they don’t respect the rule of law so everyone can see it, people like the idea of “mavericks who don’t bend a knee to bureaucracy” but when it’s obvious that they can (and will) take your livelihood without leaving you with any legal recourse, a lot of people are less enthusiastic. And if the courts actually put a stop to their efforts every now and then, it undermines their position of authority and shows that the power they claim to wield isn’t as far-reaching as they’d like to pretend.

They want people to give in without a fight, they want people to silently just accept their authority. Don’t give it to them for free.

I was hoping it was gonna be that video! One of the few times I will agree that size matters.

Wouldn’t it be “Nåo trit”?

I personally think that shared interests are far less important than shared values (as in equality, for example), and while it’s fun to have a partner who has shared interests I don’t necessarily think it’s a prerequisite. If you enjoy spending time with them and they’re a good person, that’s all that matters if you ask me.

She’ll be 60 by the time of the election though.

edit: it’s not a bad thing, she’s still a lot younger than both Biden and Trump so it’s a huge step in the right direction, I’m just pointing out that she won’t be under specifically 60.

Yeah, the northern parts of the gulf of Bothnia tend to freeze up during the winter.

What’s the question?

While the US campaign cycle is more extended than other countries’, even then the people who are going to be the main candidate for their respective parties (party leaders for example) are usually known well in advance and have managed to build up a reputation with their constituents before they even start campaigning. In this situation, you’d have to start way further back.

I’m not saying it’s the wrong way to go, but everyone should be aware that changing candidate to someone completely new this close to the election absolutely won’t be a cakewalk.

There are third parties, they just don’t have any support and the FPTP system is exactly why. If a third party with more leftist ideals form, they’d siphon most of their voters from the Democrats, which means that Republicans would have a bigger bloc and win. So to mitigate the worst result, it is strategically more valuable to vote for the one of the two biggest parties that you hate the least.

Proportional representation and the popular vote would make it easier for more parties to gain influence and in turn get voters.