Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.
Spent many years on Reddit before joining the Threadiverse as well.
I guess we’re back to the old way of things, where countries could simply roll into neighbours with their militaries and claim pieces of territory for themselves. The relative peace of the past 80 years was nice while it lasted.
I suppose if I had to look for silver linings, it’d be that Africa sorely needs some borders redrawn after the clusterfuck of colonialism. This isn’t really the best way to do that though.
I’m pretty sure James Bond was tied up inside the spacesuit on that Tesla Roadster he launched in the direction of Mars.
Meanwhile, Europe is pursuing replacements for Ukraine. Obviously none as good as Starlink and there’ll be a rough time in the switchover, but Musk is not the only source for this kind of service.
And in the meantime, by merely making this statement Musk has doomed Starlink to never be seriously considered again as a provider for critical services like this elsewhere in the world.
Yeah, I’d much rather have random humans I don’t know anything about making those “moral” decisions.
If you’re already answered, “No,” you may skip to the end.
So the purpose of this article is to convince people of a particular answer, not to actually evaluate the arguments pro and con.
America losing is not equivalent to Russia winning.
No he hasn’t.
One of the biggest gripes I’ve had with Americans over the years has been their perspective that America was the whole world. The rest of the world was just “out there somewhere”, some vague hinterland that news stories came from sometimes but that didn’t really matter and was totally at the whim of whatever was going on in the real place in the world, America. Even now, even among the Americans who are horrified at Trump and what he’s doing and want to say sympathetic things to the allies he’s screwing over, we’re still seeing this.
Putin’s useful idiot has smashed America and America’s global dominance. This is bad for America, sure. But it’s not necessarily bad for the whole world, and it’s not necessarily even good for Putin in the grand scheme of things. Putin is still three years into his three-day “special military operation”, with his troops travelling to the front lines on crutches and donkeys to die in meat waves. Finland and Sweden joined NATO. The EU is allocating hundreds of billions of Euros to defense. Germany just elected a government that seems willing to stand up and join them in combating Russia. Russia is still completely hosed. It is not bending the world to Putin’s vision.
Sure, it would have been nice to have America fully on board with defeating him too. But America’s only a part of the whole world, and an increasingly smaller part these days. Let them go wallow in the isolation they seemingly crave.
Sounds like an auction with extra steps.
“If you don’t stop trying to defend yourself from me I’m gonna attack you!” Yeah, that’s really reassuring.
I mean, I guess we’ll see. Donald just spews out whatever comes to his spongey brain at any given moment.
I’ve long thought that even if Russia is supporting Donald, that doesn’t really make Donald Russia’s “operative.” That gives far too much credit to Donald. He never keeps any agreement he’s made for one second longer than he thinks it’s personally benefiting him.
Canada is actually in a pretty good position, geographically, if you ignore the fact that our two immediate neighbours are hostile powers bent on conquering our land and taking our resources. We can get involved in both Atlantic alliances and Pacific alliances. All we need to do is survive long enough to get those nicely sorted, and rebuild our strength after having America yank the rug out from under us.
Ah, MAGA has found a new idiotic slogan to parrot. How tiresome.