My favourite part of that final fight is that this dude breaks a guys neck for no reason after comprehensively beating him, gets booed, and is then shocked that he’s getting booed.

My second favorite thing about the movie is that it’s actually shot in Kowloon walled city.

It’s fun and games until Kash asks you to put your name down on known falsehoods and implicates you in fraud.

This whole idea reminds me of the “putting solar panels on highways” idea that keeps popping up from time to time. Anyone who has ever built anything understands how stupid it is. Even if you could do it, it still wouldn’t make sense over just putting solar panels next to highways.

It’s worth remembering the hype cycle when it comes to these things.

I mean fair, but Israel does it deliberately as a matter of policy, and this criticism would never be leveled by Schumer or Biden or most democrats despite all of them knowing it’s true.

The problem with manipulating a narcissist into supporting your war is that when it blows up the narcissist only really cared about himself and isn’t going to adhere to pre-existing norms like “never criticising Israeli military tactics”.

Mostly Bibi just knows how to play the game of respectability better than the freaks in his cabinet.

The motive that makes sense to me is that Zelensky is really speaking to everyone else in Russia who might be exhausted with the war, and seeking to embolden them. Ukraine can now do this from a position of strength, where Russia simply cannot protect their own airspace.

Notes for anyone else: when someone speaks on complicated topics with 100 percent confidence in exclusively absolutes, they’re usually not a good source of information.

NAFTA did not in any holistic way “destroy Canada’s economy”. It resulted in a mostly free trade zone and the specific upsides of that are very well studied. To be clear, all parties (yes even Mexico) benefitted from this arrangement, even the US.

The interdependencies created however, result in asymmetric strategic dependence. There is no credible case for why Canada-US trade prior or even after 2016 was bad for the US, but their current admin wants to blow it up anyways. In that environment, Canada just by virtue of being smaller bears a much larger disadvantage.

It’s easy in retrospect to say that we should never have done this and there’s a fair case that a more measured approach should have been taken, but the few percentage points of less economic growth this would have caused compounded over the last 3-4 decades would have resulted in all parties being significantly less wealthy than they are today.

Who do you think is going to do the ass kicking? American isn’t Nazi Germany - they didn’t come to facism through calamity and poverty. The US got there through wealth concentration, scapegoating, and cumulative cultural rot. But the US is also coming to facism from a position of immense wealth and power. Nobody is coming to save the US from themselves, because no one else can.

Isreal has de-facto veto power over any deal since they can just fly over and blow up something if a deal gets signed that they don’t like and most of the US political establishment will not only not criticize them but they’ll defend them.

David McGuinty stumbled into the defence minister job just by staying alive and continuing to win his riding long enough. He had no expertise on the defence file and is a pure political operator - he is just towing the line because fundamentally he’s just happy to be there.

Unfortunately is he minister of defence and his statements do matter to some extent, but it’s worth remembering the context here.

There is now a free home assistant plugin to implement it at home lol. Crazy shit. Imagine what’s possible with classified tech.

https://github.com/francescopace/espectre

1. Trump is legacy shopping and “fixing” Cuba/Iran/whatever fits the bill. 2. He has yet to face a single actual consequence for any of this military adventurism so for him there’s really no reason not to.

Who is we? Plenty of people support this.

Context: US political polarization is too severe to be contained. It’s too severe for non-partisan organizations and institutions to truly exist. These aren’t political differences competing in the marketplace of ideas. It’s opposing cultures that are more invested in their side winning than in the system that keeps all of this mostly non-violent (democracy).

In this case: Populations shift, maps have to be periodically redrawn by people. Those people will wield political power whether they want to or not, so controlling who gets that power and what they do with it is a natural incentive.

Many countries do these maps in a mostly non-partisan way, but that is only possible when the majority of people believe the system of democracy to be more important than any one (potentially bad) outcome. That is simply not the case in the US. The power to redraw maps must exist and at the level of political polarization that exists in the US, that power will ultimately be corrupted for partisan ends.

To be clear, he’s not a billionaire. He desperately wants to be, but he’s currently not.

One that he just announced on fake Twitter without even consulting any of the required allies apparently lol. Not sure you can call that a plan.

Rubio is hoping to stay alive next to Trump long enough to be crowned Governor of Cuba. The fact is that despite Rubio himself being useless, this could actually work.

Which is why he won’t do this. One of his sycophants will explain at a 5th grade level that those bases benefit the US and Trump will forget about this.

Uh oh. Somebody’s going to get a call from Bibi and immediately back down from this stance.

No they can’t because they lack the strength. There are no reasoned arguments or claims in play here beyond “the strong do what they want”.