At first yes, but then it grew on her.

Oh at least she is not looking like she is in the midst of an orgasm, she’s ok. I don’t mind a nice nude statue. One of the best, I think, is in Ostend, Belgium.

He stayed quiet and went in hiding, Trump can’t for the life of him, do that.

Even if the US government went though a lot of trouble faking his death and relocating him he’d be bragging about it on twitter before the end of the week.

Has he created a movement, or has there been a movement that has attracted him? As I see it, it’s not just him it’s most of the current GOP leadership, Thiel and the Heritage foundation, Citizens United and a few adjacent organizations that need to go before you can go to a somewhat reasonable functioning society in the US. And frankly the way some Democrats react to the New York primary, they also seriously need to clean house.

Well it can’t have hurt that the beast owned a magical castle.

And then they ask me, an EU citizen, why I worry about and comment on US politics, “It’s not your business or your problem!” Yes, yes it fucking is! I do live on the same planet.

Russia’s most densely populated, and politically most relevant are is on the European continent. Get that into your fucking head.

It is but losing the traitor in the assembly is not a bad thing. Now if Europe could jailbreak all that American tech they have in their military gear too, that would be nice.

I read Musk fired the Tesla manager for Europe and North America over the low sales, as if those weren’t a direct result of Musk’s own actions. Like there is only one person responsible for pushing the stupid cybertruck and for associating the brand with fascism.

Happens regularly often the police officers find themselves compelled to kill their passive aggressor in self defense.

It’s only a way of starting an interaction, it escalates easily with things like “illegal possession”, “resisting arrest” and “assaulting a police officer” . Which are all things that might happen without the suspect doing anything really.

You are very optimistic. You need the state to optimize sharing of resources because without it you get smaller and smaller tribal groups competing. Mutual aid groups on a voluntary basis alone are easily splintered and there are too many people who get a kick out of destruction.

I agree that it currently is, but it doesn’t have to be.

I really don’t know how to solve these problems. It would require people to stop being selfish, scared , petty and mean to start with, but there is a huge propaganda machine fanning on those feelings constantly. Revolution is a huge waste of resources, energy and people and usually leads to a new government by the new batch of the most eager and ruthless opportunists.

Accelerationism is a horrible idea. It’s based on the ideas that,

1. We can’t prevent having a fascist state now and then,

2. We can afford the waste and suffering this causes.

With climate change, it should be clear that we can no longer afford the luxuries of wars or even culture wars. Technological advancement should allow us to live with far less waste and far less labor than we do. But that would mean departing from capitalism entirely. We need that post scarcity society now. Resource wise it’s a lot cheaper than what we have now.

What is the alternative though?

Yes and every time you vote in our little country it’s still for the least bad party. It’s the nature of politics. You may like a party, but it still has politicians in it, who are human. Humans seem to be inherently flawed.

You prefer the more evil?

It’s not just murderers that get that though. Even if you went to jail for something like driving while black, you are a dangerous ex-con for life.

Hey, nobody messes with the Zohran!

No the guns weren’t as fetishized. On the other hand in the first half of the 20th century large bits of Europe had been occupied by the Germans twice. The idea that you wanted to be armed in case of a foreign invasion happening was a lot stronger, and more well founded, than the wettest dream of a 2nd amendement lover. Lots of people had been in the armed resistance and a lot of those who had not wished they had had the opportunity.