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God I would hate to be his press secretary, your days have to be a nonstop panic of “he did/said/tweeted WHAT now?”.

Fair. At least the stated mission of the Chinese isn’t to be evil for evil’s sake. Palantir just seems like an accelerationist’s tool and nothing more.

Fully agree. I just don’t trust China any much more than the US to respect privacy and consumer choice. Color me prejudiced if you want, but I’ve dealt with enough Chinese suppliers to have a decent idea of how they operate.

I’ll take any silver lining, but I’m not sure if whatever replaced it will be any better given how the Chinese have acted in markets they’ve achieved majority stake in.

Agreed. It was a blast to play with friends.

Far too coherent, this was definitely written by an intern not DJT himself. ;-)

I feel that, for a lot of folks, he was the last candidate that promised an actual brighter future to believe in. It’s a shame corporate donors pushed him out of the race, as it left a lot of folks feeling that their voices would never be heard. I think it’s even fair to say that his dismissal by the Democrat party directly led to the voter resentment that helped Trump win the elections.

Just totally normal stuff here folks, nothing to see. Just move along and don’t realize a couple of protestors are being treated like a goddamn violent insurrection.

The folks in charge are pouring all the gasoline they can find onto the fire in hopes of it actually escalating into a war zone.

Correct, and exactly what I was referring to when talking about ICE.

As for the exact history, the original SS were nothing but a bunch of untrained thugs too. Hitler has just grown distrustful of the SA and wanted his bodyguard to be loyal to him alone instead of the party. This is also what ultimately led to the night of the long knives and the execution of Ernst Röhm. It wasn’t until Himmler took control of the SS in 1929, and with the institution of military training in 1934, that they slowly formed into an actual military organization with properly trained soldiers.

Sure, but since the SA preceded the SS I think my point still holds. You are more historically accurate though :-)

The parallels with the SS are striking. In more than one way.

LOL being the abbreviation for Lament Our Loss here, I presume?

You mean our glorious fermented fish - Surströmming. If so, I propose we send several cans to each person involved in this administrarion. Daily. Set to open the minute they enter the building.

(Pro tip: Swedish doesn’t use the Danish/Norwegian ø, we write ö to express the same sound)

Not really. I think I may have seen them in stores once or twice, but in the tradition of picking from a large wall of candy every Saturday, I don’t think I ever saw them in any bin.

As someone from Sweden I always assumed they meant our wild variety of weird fish dishes when USA Americans joked about Swedish fish. But no, it’s of course a candy. Really goes to show my overestimation of the average USA American’s familiarity with foreign cuisines.

This is another great example of “a lie has already made it to the other side of the world before the truth has finished putting on its shoes”.

By academic standards this study was lightning quick, and yet it’s like three months behind the original lie by those two fraudsters.

By the end of 2026 it will be considered quaint. The US is inching closer and closer to a Tiananmen Square incident. [Edit] I mean, with tanks and all deployed against the populace.

I am partially convinced he started the war with Venezuela specifically because he felt slighted by her winning the prize. Just so he can be petty and deny her the reason she was awarded the prize in the first place.

Often transparently so. I remember the whole “toy bus” thing he pulled at one point during an interview.

Seriously, he’d look so much less like a clown if he dropped the bronzer habit and horrendous comb-over that I am certain he does this on purpose to deflect criticism for his actions by drawing all the attention to how he looks. It’s like a diversion tactic, and sadly it’s working.