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Breaking now: Ministry of Economics reporting the tariffs have not caused significant changes to our trading volumes

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Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

submitted 3 days ago • 1041 comments

Talk about climbing the ladder and then pulling it up just so you can pad your fucking retirement fund.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

How to destroy US hegemony: 1. The hegemon targets allies with trade war (and in some cases, actual war) 2. Allies respond by deepening ties to each other and reduce interdependency on hegemon 3. Hegemon threatens allies with escalation if they reduce dependency on them 4. Rinse & repeat

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

After 2 months of the current administration, it's clear Putin has no idea how to run the United States

submitted 8 days ago • 53 comments

It’s a sign of how peaceful the U.S.-Canadian border has been that most Americans know very little about how it came to be. But this doesn’t mean its current location was inevitable or without controversy, Nick Danforth writes.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

It has become too hard and too expensive to build physical things in the United States, argues @briancdeese.bsky.social. Policymakers must understand that the key to lowering prices for American consumers is the country’s ability to build new infrastructure.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

they called masks 'tyranny' but remain curiously silent as the regime kidnaps people off the street

submitted 9 days ago • 37 comments

I’m not judging individual scholars for leaving the US for theoretically safer universities. I’m judging the rest of you for not noticing or caring that roughly 75% of your adjunctified colleagues have neither the putative protection of academic freedom nor the means to leave.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Alarms are clanging at the U.S. geographic military commands around the globe. Is the White House listening?

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

✔️Japanese invasion of Manchuria ✔️Italian aggression against Ethiopia ✔️Military uprising in Spain ✔️Russian incursion into Ukraine 🔲Chinese annexation of Taiwan 🔲U.S. control of Greenland I can't quite put my finger on what happens next. 🤔

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

DubV looks solid. /s Anyone expect RichRod to change their scheme? #wvu

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🚨 Tomorrow parliament will be dissolved and an election will be held on April 28

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

Health Canada suggests limiting alcohol to 2 drinks per day unless you’ve already had 3 in which case fuck it

submitted 20 days ago • 17 comments

It's almost like these guys heard that empires fall after 250 years and they're scrambling to meet that 2026 deadline

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

“The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history.” Fareed Zakaria on how upending the world order will only weaken America: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 20 days ago • 1533 comments

Canada’s retaliation against Trump’s tariffs is wiping American alcohol off store shelves—and fueling an unexpected push to deregulate its own restrictive liquor laws.

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🤣 Sounds about right.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Beware the Ides of March.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Myles Garrett just requested a trade again

submitted 27 days ago • 6 comments

I know what you’re thinking: We should mirror the United States government based on how this website is run.

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Anyone who believes in liberal democracy must unequivocally recognize the second Trump administration’s illiberal nature and develop a democratic defense strategy, write Maciej Kisilowski and Anna Wojciuk.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Dropping my post-combine consensus big board Takeaways: EDGE class is real deep (6 in top 20) Tons of day-2 value at RB WR and CB are top-heavy public.tableau.com/views/2025Co...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

The US is the global leader in national unity, solidarity and bringing together people of diverse backgrounds towards a common cause...except for the US itself. 🤔

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Apparently there's a movie about a prostitute that falls in love with an Russian oligarch getting a lot of buzz and wondering why it didn't win best documentary. #Krasnov

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#StateOfTheUnion

submitted 33 days ago • 51 comments

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

submitted 33 days ago • 1813 comments

"Incoming transmission!" 📡 Classic Command and Conquer games are now open source—ready for modding, preservation, and innovation! Read more: ea.com/games/comman... Dive into the code: github.com/electronicarts

submitted 37 days ago • 48 comments

"When we’re facing a trade war, a carbon border adjustment (essentially a partial carbon tax on American companies) is a retaliatory tactic that has no equal." by Hugo Cordeau in @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

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If you're wondering just how bad things would need to get politically for the business community to react, it can get much worse. Exhibit A: Audi Bayer BMW Continental Deutsche Bank Lufthansa Krupp Mercedes-Benz Porsche Volkswagen

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

1/ TL;DR: The narrative surrounding firearm ownership in America (2A) is either being disingenuous or (more likely) straight up dishonest about the true purpose of 2A. /start rant

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

"If the president is able to defy or ignore court orders against him, then the executive branch would be effectively free of legal constraints…we would no longer have a constitutionally constrained federal government, except perhaps in name only."

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments