I’m sure China is gleefully rubbing their hands, and busy not interrupting their enemy making mistake after mistake.

How fucked is the world, when Meloni is the reasonable one…

I’m sorry friend, but this is what cognitive dissonance looks like.

It’s an attempt at resolving the conflict between a belief (that Trump isn’t that bad, that a president has merit, that things will be ok) and reality, where everything we see him do is increasingly harmful, short sighted or self serving.

Actions speak louder, please re-evaluate your beliefs based on what you see him do.

You clearly underestimate my ability to run headfirst into something. It’s like a superpower really.

Oh of course, sorry about that… (winks) officer.

Nice try. How long have you been working at DOGE?

Dear sir, may I refer you to my previous rebuttal to the esteemed colleague @[email protected]

I can’t xD

OMG I feel sorry for that poor bear…

Ah the mythical Ouroboros of Pegging.

Can I subscribe to more whale facts?

For some, the only way they’ll ever learn is going nose first into a brick wall.

I only hope that trump crashes the US very quickly, but with the help of enough billionaires so that when the people rise up, they all get taken down and it becomes a better place.

There’s no other way now that the institutions have fallen.

All lovely ideas, but if I own a small business, do I just close the doors when my source materials and energy start costing more than my finished product?

You misundertand. Legal fees are not there as punishment, they are only there to prevent poor people for looking for justice.

Alternative news source reporting the same, because FT is paywalled into oblivion.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-sales-sliding-europe-problem-politics-2025-1

Their CEO is basically president of the USA.

Short term fluctuations don’t matter, they’re betting that in the long run they’ll be making massive profit on deregulation (lower labor costs, lower safety expenditure, fed gov “boost” programs, etc).

It helps a lot that we still have fairly unbiased mainstream news media sources, and solid institutions that are holding the foreign and oligarchy attempts at subverting them.

But they are being eroded, over time, step by step. Bot/propaganda accounts in social media that normalize extremist views, corporate takeovers and acquisition of media, financing of political far-right parties, etc.

Honestly the only possibility I see is if Trump/Musk fuck us over so badly that everyone realizes what’s going on and unite against it, kinda like Canada did when threatened by tariffs.

Time will tell…

Did they miss how Trump strong-armed the very same Colombia with the immigration planes? Is the misinformation that strong there already?

Of course I am, there’s no way I can escape mkvs. It’s not too bad if it doesn’t have to transcode the actual video stream, but having to burn in subtitles is a common issue 😭

I still can’t play my videos on Firefox without transcoding them, so I honestly hope they get it right this time.

The Danes win this war very easily.

They restrict the sale of Ozempic and Wegovy to the US, and half the country just dies of obesity related complications. It’ll be a genocide.