US: “You guys need to be more responsible for your own security.”

Europe: Takes a stronger stance on Ukraine.

US: “No…not like that…”

I mean…sure Google. Knock yourself out. But I still prefer Jenga.

Because of wave function collapse.

Think of it this way:

We live in a universe where we did NOT travel back in time to kill Hitler.

If we then jump backwards in time to kill Hitler, we create a tangent universe in which we DID travel back in time to kill Hitler.

Its not the act of killing Hitler that creates the tangent universe, its the act of going back in time itself. We are moving from a universe in which we DIDN’T go back in time to one in which we DID.

If we then travel back to before our initial jump backwards, yes, we are travelling back along the original universe, but we are then simply creating a third tangent universe starting from THAT point.

I think time travel is possible, but you can only change things from the perspective of the person who travelled back. The original timeline just keeps on going.

Person (a) travels back in time to kill Hitler and succeeds. That new timeline exists now without Hitler, but in the original timeline is already written in stone. There is no changing it. The moment that person travels back, they’ve created a new timeline. It’s both impossible for them to change the original timeline, and impossible to ever return to the original timeline because if they go back to the future they’ll only be travelling along the new timeline.

Throwing your hat in with Trump is absolutely toxic worldwide, and yet MAGA just doesn’t fucking get it.

The fastest way to tell if something is the right thing to do is to ask whether or not Orange Julius Caesar opposes it.

Is it bad that my immediate thought was “Is the penguin okay?”

Trump thinks literally everyone is supposed to be subordinate to the U.S. because 'murica.

I say Mexico drone strikes the source of it’s gang’s weapons supply; namely the gun manufacturers in the United States.

Traitors, traitors everywhere and not a noose in sight…

I’m sure that’s what his handlers tell him while they’re changing his diaper.

I would argue that he already thinks the rest of the world are vassals and always have been.

When he puts out demands to foreign companies and calls it “an issue of compliance”; it’s clear he’s not thinking of other countries as equals.

He thinks we’re vassals and this is how we all should have been treated all along since WW2.

China can do without United States luxury imports like cars and iPhones for far longer than American consumers can do without coffee makers, microwaves, televisions, blenders, dishes, utensils, clothing, and literally every other consumer good in existence.

Maybe pay some attention instead of just posting a meaningless number. It’s not HOW MUCH trade is done, it’s WHAT is coming to and from each of the countries.

China doesn’t need America’s crap. America most definitely does need China’s.

The worst type of person is the person who is so allergic to being “wrong” that they’ll constantly double down with new bullshit to try to convince people why it wasn’t a mistake in the first place. It’s fucking exhausting.

The Donald Trump effect seems to be the opposite of what Far Right leaders were hoping for.

Every country other than the U.S has seen what Trump is doing and decided “fuck that…let’s nip this shit in the bud before it can spread.”

• Canada’s Pollievre has tanked in popularity.

• France’s LePen guilty of embezzlement.

• Argentina’s Meili blocked by the supreme court.

• Far right, hateful politicians in Germany potentially barred from running for office.

• Connor Macgregor in Ireland being told to fuck off.

• Nigel Farage being treated like slightly more of am embarrasement than he usually is.

Around the world people look at the United States and say “keep that shit away from us by any means necessary”

Yes. But carefully. And with eyes wide open.

In reality, “Democracy” as invented by the Greeks was never intended to be held by the uneducated. Ever citizen got a vote, but frankly not everyone was a citizen.

The rights of a citizen came with certain expectations, and that included knowledge of the Ars Liberalis, or “Liberal Arts”, which…far from today’s demonized meaning created in order to attack higher learning, literally translated in the greek world as “the exercise of freedom”.

In other words, citizenship and voting rights obligated a person to be knowledgeable of things like Logic, History, Rhetoric, etc… You TRAINED to partake in the affairs of state just like you would prepare for any other task that requires skill and THAT was what granted you the priviledge of citizenship. (Well…that an being part of the wealthy class…)

Modern “Democracy” is predicated on the opposite; not just citizens that are ill-informed, but citizens that are so intellectually incurious that they can’t be bothered to exercise their right properly.

It’s not the corporations, it’s the billionaires that run them. Every time Trump does something that makes the stock market drop, they get richer by scooping up more for less. Than sell them when Trump says “Just kidding” and the stock market rises again.

Not to mention that all of their companies get to raise prices and blame “tariffs” in order to increase their profit margin.

It’s the entire reason they paid to get him into the white house.

A French court found far-right leader Marine Le Pen guilty of embezzling over €3 million in EU funds, potentially ending her 2027 presidential bid.

“pfffft…amateur.” (Donald Trump, probably)

I would make one hell of an ugly woman…

I was an archaeology major, hence the history thing. And I’m fascinated by the psychology of crime.

I’m far far far from a younger consumer, and I find that I too have moved almost entirely to online content, mostly in the form of True Crime podcasts and YT channels, History Documentaries, etc…

Especially in non-fiction content, there’s pretty much nothing that paid TV can offer that Social Platforms cannot. It’s the only place where I think this whole internet experiment is actually working as intended; the democratization of knowledge.