It’s eastern Poland tilting the scales to the far-right, despite all the nationalistic talk they are still pretty russified.

Who let them watch the Hunger Games?

If the war on terror counts as a world war, then we are at least on world war 10.

If they have red lines this needs to be it. If they allow the Republican Party to send people to a concentration camp without due process, especially when they claim they can’t get people back, the Supreme Court might as well fire themselves and lock the doors on the way out.

Because nothing helps a struggling economy like legalized nepotism.

Plot twist: the Tulsi Gabard in the chat was an Iranian spy instead of the real Russian spy.

You mean the law regarding Crimea and Donbas that Europe persuaded Ukraine to withdraw a month before Nazi Russia decided to violate the ceasefire? That’s a great example of the ceasefire mechanisms working.

The language law was only approved after the invasion, and given the Ruskyy Mir speech, it’s not surprising Ukraine is not comfortable with promoting Russian inside their borders.

Why go so far? Ukraine had a ceasefire with Russia between 2019 and 2022. There were even working mechanisms to deal with conflicts. Russia showed it can’t be trusted.

Just a reminder that this entire situation means everyone that still has access to the White House press conferences is propaganda and not news.

The lackeys were the ones actually doing the illegal act. To sue Trump they will need to prove he gave direct orders to censor media and that it’s not a “will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?” situation. And even in that case the lackeys still need to be held accountable for following illegal orders.

This might be the best argument ever for putting grok in charge of the US Government

In working democracies that’s how it’s supposed to work. That’s why it’s called opposition not obstruction.

The balance to this is that all parties should be responsible while in the opposition and the party in government shouldn’t try to reform the state according to medieval principles. And this is why American democracy is broken.

There’s an ocean between me and Trump, the international coverage of the US campaign was miserable even by the mediocre standards of modern journalism, and somehow it was still clear enough to me. I have to assume that the only “excuse” an American citizen would have would be willful ignorance

When people vote they are (hopefully) not voting just for the names in the ballot, but in the political program and plans that those names presented. Otherwise no elected politician would have political legitimacy to do anything more effective than waving to the camera on TV.

The Donald Trump that people voted for is the same Donald Trump that openly said he was going to take dictatorial measures and would put Musk in charge of dismantling the government. After this no one has the right to say they didn’t know what they were voting for

Both DOGE and Project 2025 where public knowledge when people voted. So people voted for Musk and everything that’s happening even if they are too stupid to understand what they did

Elon Musk may now be the Führer of the American reich

Fixed that for you.

It looks more and a more that Trump is playing Paul von Hindenburg.

When you are the headliner of a political fiasco you are supposed to take all the blame and lay low for a while. I assume that’s what she’s doing.

Isn’t this going to fuck republican states the most?

Human error is almost never the root cause of an incident.

As lots of people pointed out, there are lots of well identified contributing factors to this accident that don’t have anything to do with the pilots.

As social democratic hardcore atheist I’m not conflicted at all. Places of reflection (including places of worship), learning, and recovery, shouldn’t be casually defiled by violence including law enforcement.

There are valid exceptions, where the necessity of protecting human dignity (in the philosophical sense) is paramount, but they should remain exceptions.