Thats education for you🤷

3 tabs will put you in the swirling, raw chaos of the unintelligible universe. Face of God stuff.

He did many things, killing wives was among them.

Attempting to annex Russia would end more than just election interference.

Just waiting for our Henry VIII moment.

If you can be afraid, you aren’t dead. If you’re dead, you can’t be afraid. Don’t waste your time.

I’m a donor (woe betide whoever gets anything from me) but I totally understand not being OK with it. This guy says we won’t need them, but that’s unknowable. Maybe there’s a bunch of donors at the gate not being let in until the rest of them gets there. But if ever you have a right to claim ownership over anything, it’s your body. Your organs aren’t collective property others have a right to. You fuck off, these are my organs is a totally reasonable position.

Democracy manifest.

Yes, but

It will never go back. The new US will need to learn to be one of many at the table. A powerful one by all means, but one of many nevertheless. The ability to dictate terms to others is gone, all of the leverage has been used, for little gain, and the trust isn’t there anymore. Everyone has hedged against the US, decoupled, and persued other arrangements.

Europe is gone from the empire and will demand massive concessions to let the US even near its strategic policy. Concessions the US can probably can not pay. Remember, the US started a war with the Russians on Europe’s doorstep and then not only abandoned it’s allies, it threatened to invade from the other side (and is still doing so). Europe deployed against the US. The US is openly hostile - an enemy of Europe. There’s no coming back from that.

For better or worse the US is on its own now. Allies are theoretical at best. On its own the US is a western hemisphere regional power. The global power it enjoyed came from the alliances and it was paid for by the economic interdependence of the alliance system. That system is over.

The dominance of the USD is done, that was based on trust, trade is no longer conducted in USD exclusively and currencies no longer route through USD. With the reserve currency status destroyed, the US will have to learn to pay it’s bills like everyone else, from productive work. No more printing money to pay debts on printed money.

Without those things trillion dollar military budgets are out of the question, global force projection becomes impossible. Even enforcing Monroe is probably impossible, the Chinese and Europe are already making inroads in south America and as those investments increase so will the need to protect those.

So apologies are necessary for a reset of relations, yes. But those new relations will look very different from what we have known. It’s a multi polar world now and the US sphere of influence is shrinking to just north America, and even there, the other two countries are not on board and are moving towards EU.

The future is one of US decline and it’s up to Americans how they want to navigate it. Learn to live with the others or fight a losing battle against everyone. Or end the world.

I certainly enjoy my pandemics trapped in a network of caves full of infected people.

It’s the catchy songs right?

At this rate of growth we’re all going to be billionaires soon!

Dot forget fat!

They want you to give up on search and ask their AI

TBi slams sensationalist headlines!

Eh, I watched Tron.

I heard there’s a fabled “trickle down set” featuring Ronald Reagan but it was too raunchy for the Economist.

We didn’t need all that Margaret Thatcher stuff anyway