You don’t want them thinking they can take that attitude into the workplace! Imagine if they start thinking they can just demand more pay, or better working conditions! Madness!

If they truly intended it to be a neutral question, then they used a particularly bad choice of phrasing.

Most people understand the CIA is a tool of imperialist violence/authority, but framing that as “how does it feel to x” is clearly a condemnation of the association being pointed out, which in this case would only matter if that association itself in some way taints the topic it was brought up in response to… I.e. the definition of feminism by Steinem.

Sure, because they cared about controlling the direction of the political movement, same way they influenced the Civil Rights movement. But once again, unless they are implying that the definition of feminism as offered by Steinem, quoted above, is part of a CIA influence op, or tainted by their influence, then what’s the point of bringing that up?

Are you implying that feminism is a CIA initiative?

Absolutely.

If you’re a guy, you’ve heard guys talk about women when none are around. Maybe it’s coworkers, maybe it’s family, but the culture of misogyny is not some on-the-wane thing, it is alive and well.

Bruh, you done been black pilled.

Major international incident/ escalation/ act of war prevented by a bus driver kicking a drone.

People in power knew, but it served their interests to pretend otherwise.

It’s not wrong, though. Trump shattered the illusion/ laid bare the lie to the rest of the collective West, of the US being any kind of virtuous entity.

Even when we were bombing Iraqi kids daily in to assuage GWB’s ego, or drone striking Afghan farmers so Obama could claim we were ‘winning’ the GWOT, most Americans and Europeans really bought into this idea of the moral superiority of the Neoliberal World Order (the aforementioned “international order”), when it was only ever a veneer maintained to generate consent by citizens for the US and European governments to do as they liked.

Now Europe is beginning to feel the same fear of US aggression that the Global South has been feeling since the start of the Cold War, and lots of them are going to react accordingly. Hilariously, despite the author acknowledging that many Europeans see the US as a threat, the authors still seems to think this reaction is purely about confronting other threats, probably because they don’t want to admit we’re the baddies.

They’re being invaded.

Lebanon, Syria, Gaza, Ukraine…

In a just world, they’d be intervening to stop an ongoing invasion and occupation.

A flight plan to success!

There’s a combination of poverty, shame, and (misogynistic) cultural narratives that makes Hungarian men very susceptible to manosphere-adjacent toxic masculinity. They actually have their own Hungarian-language mini-manosphere, mostly on TikTok. They need a real economic change before anything else can happen, because (just like with the US) conservatism is great at finding external groups for people to foist blame for their problems on. When you remove those problems, (i.e. increasing education, increasing wealth, increasing access to healthcare, etc) people become less conservative.

He’s a “center-right” nationalist, instead of a far-right authoritarian Identitarian, at least.

“Here’s why”

As if we don’t know. Republicans and conservatives and do-nothing neolibs have turned America into even more of a racist shithole than it already was, somehow.

I saw one gal — she had a 2-week-old and a 2-year-old and a dog in a crate and a suitcase. So she was just at the moment, you know, looking to get out of danger, get to someplace safe. And now we’re at the point where families are back and they’re starting to ask the question: ‘Well, what’s next? Will we go back?’

Or how about not taking your infant and toddler to live at a base designed to enable power projection for military incursions and strikes?

Instead of being bombed and killed, like you or your spouses are doing or assisting in doing to the children in Iran, you’re being given:

a spaghetti dinner

crisis counseling, financial and legal assistance, relocation support, educational resources, coordination for child and youth programs,

$1 million to roughly 2,000 sailors and their families

reimburse[ment] for living in hotel rooms

Am I supposed to feel bad for the invaders’ families not being able to live peacefully with cars and pets and houses a stone’s throw from the place they’re invading?

Nah, sorry Zelensky. I understand that you want US and EU support because you’re in a war, but Trump is literally just a wannabe-Putin. He’s doing literally right now to Iran what Russia is doing to Ukraine. It’s even a ‘special-not-a-war-operation’. Hell, he’s already tried to sell Ukraine down the river multiple times now by floating Russian “peace agreements” that amounted to Ukranian surrenders.

We need to become so isolated and ostracized that these disinterested, delusional Americans stop thinking we’re “world leaders” in anything other than violent imperialism.

“sorry, I can’t deploy to Iran today, I have to wash my deck”

dryer lint fires tend to happen most often by the lint not getting cleaned out, and getting squished into the internals and coming in contact with the dryer heating elements and igniting. Lint is basically a perfect tinder material, because it burns fast and hot. You can actually save your dryer lint to use for campfires. in my experience, it’s nearly as good as char cloth.