Cool!

FWIW, they very recently had an election that was won by an all conservative/nationalist/right-of-center coalition iirc. “Food for Russian trolls” was my first thought.

Let it be known that what goes for conservative/right-of-center in most of the world does not compare to MAGAGOP at all. The US political landscape translates to “one big centrist party and one big far-right populist party”.

Vierundneunzig, bitte.

Since they got much more than 6% during the last election, and 82% of all people voted, yes.

Of course countries are looking for stability elsewhere now. Great job, Trump 👍

“POTUS doing X at Kremlin’s behest”

get used to seeing more headlines like this

Oh sure, bashing the UN as if it was some sort of deep state global elites cultural communism bla bla… shit, I can already spout all their buzzwords.

Nobody believes a fucking word either of those clowns says.

Let them mash their heads together and spout BS to the media. If they still do it in a month I might start listening. Just listening!

I thought “what a clickbaity headline, what’s that outlet?”

Then I saw that the outlet is the UN human rights office and I realized what sounds exaggerated is actually a report of stark reality.

Boisterous is good, he sounds like a stage actor, and his passive resistance is just as refined 😙👌

😇 Seen this before. What’s the context?

probably very colourful cars

Unlikely. Back then cars used to be mostly black. Or as colorful as men’s suits. Tones of dark grey. See here or here.

This or some other company, that’s essentially what Maria Ressa said (with proof).

richest country in the world

I wish people would stop spreading tropes like these. While the USA as a whole has the highest GDP globally there are better ways of measuring how rich a country is.

I think you misunderstand. This:

could NATO even defend Europe against Russia, against the US’ will?

was a question about how NATO internals work, decision making and bureaucracy, not raw firepower.

You know Canada is a NATO founding member, don’t you?

You know, you’re right. The alliance is already there.

But the USA is also in it… could NATO even defend Europe against Russia, against the US’ will?

Familiar playbook.

Thanks for the update-in-a-nutshell!

Maria Ressa

Yes! Thanks, I couldn’t remember. Was an amazing podcast series on PBS iirc.

I’m sure he does. But his constituency still doesn’t.

Let’s again quote this from some 2016 article that stuck in my head:

They voted for the elephant in the china shop. Little did they realize that they were the china.

And. They. Still. Don’t. Realize.

My only hope is that right now, his supporters are dwindling. How much though and will it still have an effect come next election and won’t it be too late anyhow…

I know, religion is bad an’ all that, but I like this guy. Always did.

Good

Fuck Duterte. He did to his country almost a decade ago what Trump is doing to the USA now. I remember this Philippine-American journalist saying in 2016 that

we (the Philippines) are the test bed for things they don’t dare do in “the West” yet.

Isn’t his daughter president president now? No doubt that’s better, but by how much I wonder.

It seems selling Tariffs to his constituency as something that only affects other countries was his biggest grift after all.

Ah, who am I kidding. It’s all grift. A gigantic hairball of grift.

I wish I knew enough about Canadian politics to have a deeper opinion, but afaics: Good

Oh and as a Eu citizen I feel very good about Canada maybe hopefully joining some sort of alliance with us. I didn’t have it on my radar before 2025.