As an American, I don’t know. Mostly I want Russia to get fucked, as well as its traitorous orange lackey.

None of the circumstances you mentioned were luck. Trump is his patsy, Trump is closely aligned with Israel (Netanyahu), and Russia is a primary instigator of European discord. His international game is on point.

Having a pedophile is pretty unpopular… It’s starting to rend MAGA apart. Ongoing open warfare would be much harder to hide than child abuse from 10-20 years ago though, so it would be harder for the MAGA faithful to deny.

As much as I understand the worry from Europe,

1. this would be deeply unpopular across the political spectrum in the US. Even MAGA would hate this. Who’s I do think Trump is a Russian stoog, he hasn’t yet (can’t?) consolidate enough power to do this unilaterally.
2. all of Trump’s actions seem to primarily revolve around what will benefit him personally, through his corruption of the Justice and financial systems. This would devastate markets across the world.

This strikes me as in line with the Trump administration firing/ ignoring any and all types of oversight.

I am surprised that most of the jobs for your industry are on Facebook. I don’t even know how to find job reqs on Facebook… I don’t actually know how to post on LinkedIn either though. But most of the job reqs I see that are a decent fit are on LinkedIn, and I’ve heard of a lot of the new start-ups in my industry from LinkedIn. … If you work in engineering for defense or space companies, I’d start with making a profile on LinkedIn.

Israel’s primary weapon is starvation via blockade. Yea, it’s not very precise.

Was the person you’re responding to sincere? Fuck. I thought it was heavy sarcasm.

Sigh. The Internet has killed satire.

I don’t know man. Even cell phones seem pretty dangerous in Israeli hands.

All of his pure idiocy too. Acting like drawing sharpie lines on a map for the path of a hurricane will convince anyone not to see what their eyes show them. Covfefe announcements. Press conferences at the Four Seasons Landscaping while their makeup drips down their faces.

Anyone else old enough to remember when misspelling potato or using a word tone of voice at a really was enough to end a politician’s career? What a different universe.

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Thank you! I had no idea about most of that.

Agree. But a question: As someone who used Twitter for 5 minutes (and then stopped because I realized it was making me too angry), what is the mechanism of monetizing a Twitter account? Kickbacks for getting people to click links (aka advertising)?

But I don’t understand why she didn’t just finish her term without running for reelection? Is it so they hold a special election to get a Republican in there they think can hold the seat in November?

Those Chinese River dolphins have.

Your phrasing there is intentionally misleading.

The wiki you link discusses 20 people of obviously mixed race, with half? of those likely parentages seeming coercive. ‘Many many’ sounds like dozens.

I guess you mean that the number is rapes likely far exceeds the number of people conceived from rapes? The wiki also mentions guests expecting sexual gratification from slaves, but not whether or not those expectations were met. “Overseeing” any activity, kind of implies you’re managing said activity, seeing it through to it’s completion. Looking the other way would certainly be complicit, but it’s not the same thing as commanding and ensuring those rapes happened.

Also, I set the bar intentionally low for zombie Washington. Child rape was the bar. There’s no amount of revision of American history that has lowered Washington to Trump levels of evil yet. And I further wrote couldn’t rape kids with the expectation that zombie dicks probably fall off.

So anyway, zombie Washington still gets my vote over Trump.

Zombie Washington probably wouldn’t/ couldn’t rape children, so yes. I’ll give it to you.

This is it. I don’t think they have particular respect for the offspring of other wealthy elites either, they just know there is power and money protecting/ defending the children of the elites if anything happens to them. These people don’t have respect for anything but themselves. They’ve just gotten where they are by having a keen instinct for self-interest and preservation.

Every single time I open my windows PC (which has now been force fed windows 11) they have disabled my Internet connection until I install yet another update. Which takes at least 15 min with a reboot. It’s maddening. Reading all the lemmy Linux posts is about to convince me.

GenX turned out at the highest rates for Trump in the last election. They out-MAGA’d Boomers.

My Boomer parents and FiL definitely seem to hope/ plan for being dead when shit hits the fan. But most GenXers will still be around in 5 years, so they’ll get to reap what they sewed.

The whole reason China winning would be bad is because of their surveillance state ensuring no one gets around their curtailment of civil liberties…