$100B for generically engineered babies.

Not one penny on education or health care.

And you know none of these kids are getting vaccinated.

The man with the perfect dick size, but he ejaculates in ten seconds and immediately lapses into a coma.

That’s why you can have a Democrat running around hand in hand with Liz Cheney while the corporate media cheers.

Hitler is easy to fixate on as a bad guy because he’s an evil dead foreigner. Cheney is harder

His presidency was more like these prior administrations as well.

Trump is not a unique aberration in American politics. He’s a continuation of a historical trend.

The point here is that Hitler is cleraly the most famous crazy dictator.

He’s the Big Historical National Enemy. The one that we famously ground into humiliating defeat.

it’s looking like this Trump fellow is going to be remember quite a lot as well

Trump didn’t pattern his campaign after Hitler. He patterned it after Eisenhower, Nixon, and Reagan.

your message comes across as quite anti-semitic, because you went to some deliberate effort to write “Israeli Jew”. Why?

It’s a self-identified religious apartheid state. You say it for the same reason you’d talk about Irish Catholics versus Irish Protestants, or Hinduvistas, or Radical Islamic Terrorists.

The Arabs aren’t the ones bombing Gaza, blockading the ports to induce a famine, and systematically raping captives.

We’ve been watching fascists pile into legislatures from Russia to the UK for decades. It’s cute to make everything about Hitler, but this isn’t an event unique to '33.

• Fearmomgering over migrants
• Secular violence encouraged by colonial powers
• Stagnating global economies and bottlenecks in critical resources
• Anti-colonialism in the third world
• Those damned Marxists refusing to sit down, shut up, and back the liberal party

You can find historical parallels in the collapse of Yugoslavia and the Irish Troubles, Modi’s rise in India and the Nixon/Reagan reaction to the US civil rights movement, the military coups in Guatemala and El Salvador, the dictatorships of South Korea and South Vietnam…

There’s deeper historical roots to Trumpism than just “America made another oopsie cause we’re dumb-dumbs”

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The early COVID pandemic response was largely voluntary, as people bunkered down out of terror. I knew a few people who caught the disease early on, during an international flight, and they were stuck overseas for months simply because the US didn’t want to let them back in.

And the death toll for COVID wasn’t anywhere near the potential of an avian flu. We’re talking high double digits - 50% of the historical sampling holds. People only get to go to the super spreader rally once before they either get smart or stop mattering. And Trump’s a fucking hypochondriac, ffs. The anti-ax shit was far more a consequence of corporate media trying to bully people back to work than anything Trump personally believed. That’s half the joke of the #NeverTrump movement. Most of the shit they hated about Trump was the silver-lining break from neoconservative dogma.

Vladivostok is barely the closest populated Russian area.

Its a major base of operations for the Russian Pacific fleet.

Russia has the technologies and infrastructure for efficient resource extraction under extreme conditions

Now, sure. And France has the technology and infrastructure to extract resources from the Mississippi delta region now. But the Alaska purchase was in 1867. Russians were still trying to secure territory on their own continent during this time. Repeated wars with Japan, the Ottomans, and with domestic insurgencies plagued the country through the 19th century.

And Alaska was already being filibustered by western colonialists as far back as the early 1800s, necessitating a Treaty (the Russo-American Treaty of 1824) to settle an ongoing dispute over territory (The Oregon Boundary Dispute) that Russians had little capacity or real interest in prosecuting. Much like with the Louisiana Purchase, this was a token transfer intended to get some kind of compensation to relinquish a claim the Russians were poised to lose one way or another.

For some reason it was exploding in popularity from the the 1900’s (as in the oughts, not the century) to 1930 in Finland.

It’s because everyone wanted to associate their kids with the English Queen Mary. Idk why. My Italian grandparents named all their kids after English royalty too.

This does raise the question “Does your age count when you’re in Valinor?”

Because it’s literally the undying lands. Are we really going to pull rank between two functionally ageless beings? Seems petty.

Christian Earth: 6000 years old

Middle Earth: 30,000 years old

Middle Earth wins again

This is the hard truth. Folks like RFK Jr can afford to isolate and live comfortably. People in the service sector, people with landlords aggressively hiking rents, people with student and medical and cost-of-living debts, people with aging relatives and young kids to support - they don’t have a choice. They show up to work, suffer the risks of exposure, and carry it back home to vulnerable family members.

On the plus side, COVID drastically cut our carbon emissions for a year or two.

Imagine what bird flu would accomplish.

But, it was a media event. It wasn’t “rigged”

You could gamble on it, which means there was money to be made courting suckers.

I’m sure the lion’s share of “rigged” proclamations were coming from folks who got baited into bad bets.

Once Twitter has been (hopefully) de-platformed we can talk about Mastedon and the Fediverse and the idea of a non-corpo platform.

BlueSky is as prone to enshittification as Twitter. If you’re waiting for BlueSky to take off, you’re just setting yourself up for the next rug pull.

I mean, go to BS and enjoy it while it lasts. But don’t think this is the future.

Earth’s surface is 2/3rds water and that’s not changing.

But intense heat means more storms with stronger winds and heavier rain. Imagine a Cat 5 hitting the coast every year.

For the price of the bundle? Sure.

There’s about 60km between modern day Russia and Alaska

There’s over 5000km between Vladivostok and Anchorage. Virtually nobody lives in the interior.

Alaska was seen as nothing but barren piece of cold land

It still is. The mineral wealth is extremely difficult to access due to the weather.