It’s unfortunate that fascists don’t give back power. I have a coworker who was getting fed up with people like Macron succeeding over here, and he was saying “sometimes I wonder about Le Pen getting elected, maybe it’ll work to show how bad they really are at doing anything and people will finally vote left” (he’s from Algeria, he absolutely 150% isn’t a far right voter or even heavily religious himself) and when he saw Trump the first time, on Jan. 6, it finally registered in his head that you really can’t give fascists a single step in the door, ever, even if they’re shit at doing anything, you have to erase them everywhere because they’re not shit at keeping and abusing power.

What’s even more unfortunate is that the other people who are in power most of the time (“center right”) don’t actually want to keep fascists out of power if doing anything costs them power.

Take off the last word from that title, see what that does

Yup, standard fascist procedure. All the Nazi parties in Europe want to be elected to the European Parliament with the very publicly expressed goal of breaking it from the inside to prove that European unity and globalism don’t work.

What if there were elections every year? There’s always someone who needs to act.

Don’t care, still better than the ads.

I’ll sit for 2 minutes in front of a black screen and it’ll still be better than 45 seconds of ads.

Greece and Turkiye have that problem - not a war or anything but they have an open conflict about territorial waters and islands that’s been going on for a long time. No one wants to get involved.

so I guess it depends on who in NATO the US gets shitty (shittier) with - most big countries in Europe act like they’re ready to stand up, but we’ll see if they actually get physically involved or if it’s more finger wagging. Looking at Greenland…

AIPAC doesn’t leave a lot of names available.

Shouldn’t be incompatible with nationalizing SpaceX and Starlink. Just give it all to NASA, actually.

It follows the historical events that came after. The book is over, but History isn’t.

Iron Man 1: Rich selfish asshole has a wake up call

More precisely, the wake-up call being: the weapons that he sold to the US military as a war profiteer have ended up in the hands of the enemies and he gets blown up with a missile that has his name on it. It was rather on point.

100%. Great story, great characters, classic gameplay, cool skills and spells. Best of the series in the opinion of someone who never got into BoFIII (which most BoF fans view as the best)

Rogan leaving his podcast for this would be an incredible net positive.

Smashing windows.