Biden isn’t quite as bad as the soundbites make him seem, but he is slowing down (physically and mentally) in his old age and was just generally an extremely uninspiring candidate. Trump, if anything is worse than you portray. He’s way more senile than Biden, in addition to the blatant corruption, rulebreaking, childishness, and being horrifically and openly racist and sexist. He has literally quoted Hitler! No decent and reasonable person who is paying the slightest attention to what he says and does would think he is remotely qualified for any position of authority. The fact that he is polling roughly evenly with an extremely qualified and intelligent person like Kamala Harris is indeed an absolute clownshow.

That does seem to be the story of this war, doesn’t it? I bet all the major militaries are looking at stuff like this and investing in more drones for themselves, too.

Unfortunately for the residents of Moscow, all Russian AA weapons are currently in Ukraine.

It seems that we have progressed to the “find out” stage. I wonder if this will have any measurable effect on Putin’s support, though. Russians seem like heavy sleepers.

Okay that’s something. I’d like more, obviously, but it’s nice to hear.

That’s great. Are they actually going to do anything about it?

This is an important part of it. The other part is the fact that success in politics is very hard without money, and most rich people aren’t progressives.

We’ll see how it works out, I guess. I voted against it, personally, because it adds a bunch of extra responsibilities to existing programs without any extra long-term funding to go along with it. I’m concerned that stretching limited resources even thinner may not be the best strategy.

Actually the battle lines have hardly moved at all since Ukraine withdrew from Avdiivka.

https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/can-either-side-actually-advance

Well, of course he is. He’s evil, not crazy. He knows he would lose that war very badly.

Great. That always works out well. /s

Right, a smaller country can never successfully resist a larger one. That’s why Vietnam has been under US occupation (or was it French? I can never remember for some reason) all these years since Ho Cho Minh wisely surrendered to spare his people’s lives.

Even if he can’t formally quit, he could effectively quit by just refusing to meet the obligations of the treaty. Who would stop him?

I’m not holding my breath. The idea that work=morality is too strong here. People working fewer hours would be seen as laziness no matter how much sense it makes.

The safe bet is Russia becoming more and more subordinate to China.

It’s still censorship. The distinction is that most private entities can’t enforce their censorship with violence.

Seriously? Anyone voting for mister “grab them by the pussy” has zero right to criticize a married man for talking about having sex with his wife. What an absolute nothing of a story.

“Please be aware of the power dynamics in your group and ensure that everyone in your meeting feels able to express themselves and has an equal chance to be heard.”

That seems extremely reasonable, actually?

Good thing Ukraine isn’t fighting the USSR, then.

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