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Helping Ukraine has been simultaneously the morally correct thing to do AND in our objective national interest AND something we can do (and have done) effectively. An exceedingly rare trifecta and it has completely broken the brains of cynical people who assume there simply must be a catch or angle

"anyone else plotting a coup against the president to restore the constitution? 😳" You have been kicked from army chat You have been added to army chat (secret)

It means Europe must move away from all American enablers. Including GPS. The mind boggles. The scale of change required is very large. But it must be done.

Journalism is nothing more than a parlor game for status competition for many political journalists they don’t think these things have real consequences

they like him and want him to rule us like a king.

Housing is more important right now than it ever has been.

There has never been a more important time to get serious and build more Canada

Biden shows the extreme good and extreme bad that an old hand President can achieve

It's absolutely infuriating how this idea that Russia is a great power for tautological reasons is something believed by statesmen and world leaders

don't want to be too Freudian but let's be honest, too many people's understanding of authoritarianism is the woman who was the dictator of the first 18 years of their life

They got mad that Biden took away their playground, they got bored with their new one when it turned into "we are now on week six of Russia trying to capture this one cornfield and sometimes blowing up random apartments", but the Helmet And Flak Jacket demand to be worn for some journo to get it up

Trump take insulin

on balance Biden was a bad president who lost an election primarily for the thing he did better than any leader in history

Trump take farm

Thinking about this point specifically I would just like to point out that this is a worldview that may be the preserve of those on the left now but we had ALL agreed was normal after WW2 so like, here's an alternative way of interpreting this data: everyone else's cordon sanitaire has collapsed

it is shocking the extent to which they openly sneer at morality

Specifically in North America. They are pulling out of Europe, Africa and the Middle East because their primary geopolitical objective is a reign of blood in America, Mexico and Canada.

i know Canada doesn't want to think about this but we genuinely need to be prepared for either an American failstate *or* an expansionist NatCon regime

the only thing i can think of which compares is the Iron Guard, an Orthodox fascist movement in Romania which was condemned by the Nazis for its antisemitism and which considered damnation in pursuit of a theologically justifiable order to be the highest form of martyrdom.

i keep joking about the GOP being in league with the chaos gods from the warhammer universe but there are so few movements in human history that thought of themselves explicitly as evil that i have to reach a bit. i am not even sure if historical fascism is a good analogue bc of this

“western civilization is saved” i say, while i smash its high cultural artifacts, abandon its ideological mandate, and dismantle its institutional entrenchments

They are barbarians who despise anything good and true and beautiful. I assume next we are replacing Noseda with Kid Rock because Beethoven is too woke. Welcome to the slop future

This is not an abstract moral debate! The only message Americans need to hear from us right now is ‘we will make you, personally, suffer if your government tries this’.

They want war crimes. I do not know why the media will not say this. They say they want war crimes. Heggy got his job because he supported war crimes on Fox News. They think it is good to hunt children for sport.

Nobody has ever done something like this before, because it would have been instant impeachment. If we are a liberal democracy in 2030, we will have a very different constitution than in 2024.

we are currently threatening ukraine for mineral rights which they cannot give, we cannot use, because the chief executive wants to do an imperialism