Nick Peterson

N: London
E: Jakarta
W: Seattle
S: Luderitz

Only counted actual towns/cities

"I want hoe scaring made into government policy" does effectively describe all Republicans under 40.

Just need Dick Cheney to declare the war in Gaza as genocide and Sarah Palin to defend the Department of Education and we'll have our 4 horsemen of the wokepocalypse.

Yeah, I ain't got a clue what the hell this means, either. Bringing up packaging is a good question since even US foundries effectively send everything overseas for that.

mfw when i learn that i’ve acquired the reputation of being “a man of eccentric habits, secretive and retiring”

A real kick in the teeth because under Biden the US invested billions to reshore a lot of automotive chip manufacturing (see commitments by Global Foundries) of course most of that production isnt online yet, and no one wants to invest further capital funds in the US with so much Trump uncertainty.

Unless you have one of the small number of carburetor engines Subaru sold in 91 your car still has dozens of computer chips inside it.

Gillibrand is specifically a long time member of Cuomo's machine, and her remarks should really be viewed as her being a representative of that camp, as opposed to a message of actual D leadership, considering she was promptly slapped down by actual D leadership for those statements.

There is a scaling issue here, Mamdani can directly interact with a much larger percentage of voters and even meet with a greater number of surrogates by being confined to a single city vs. an entire country. You can't really do Mamdani style retail politics to 340 million people

Fun fact: the Albany County Democratic machine in Upstate NY hasn't lost a race in over a century. For all the complaints about NY Dems on here, when you have to go back to 1917 for the last time a group was out of power, it says something about party partisanship in elections.

I recognize that global inequality and lack of infrastructure plays a big part in shaping this, but my big fat American Tourist™️ complaint while traveling is that almost no place you eat at provides enough water to drink. Currently sipping water from a 100ml glass.

Yeah, this is not to say Fallujah set some sort of gold standard or the US is the "most ethical force on earth" as some like to claim about the IDF, if anything, with 20 years of hindsight & lessons learned, Fallujah should be viewed as the current "bare minimum" of care & the IDF isnt meeting that.

Not even remotely similar, even the most high intensity battles during Iraq such as Fallujah or the battle of Mosul against ISIS still produced a fraction of the civilian death toll being seen now, & still featured humanitarian corridors & serious efforts to provide aid to the population.

2nd Congo War is still the deadliest war since WWII, too.

Maybe The American Experiment Isn’t Dead Yet Death by a thousand cuts still requires a thousand cuts.

“Trumps is at 18% approval, 70% disapproval on his handling of the Epstein matter. He’s also at 31% approval, 63% disapproval, on the issue of tariffs and on that of inflation—our old friend from the Biden presidency which may well bedevil Trump, too.”

www.thebulwark.com/p/maybe-the-...

Yes, to be clear, my defense of LKY basically ends at "did not directly authorize mass-murder nor immediately drive his country into a ditch" which is the extremely low bar the other people discussed here cant pass.

The least worst of third worldists. (But open to opposing oppinions)

LKY is maybe the only cold-war era figure worth offering a very qualified defense of, and even then I would question how much of his achievements were simply the natural result of overseeing a newly sovereign nation in a geographically strategic location vs. his actual leadership/policies.

Top Trump officials will discuss Epstein strategy at Wednesday dinner hosted by Vance | CNN Politics Top Trump administration officials will gather at the vice president’s residence Wednesday evening as they continue to weigh whether to publish an audio recording and transcript of Deputy Attorney Gen...

The highest levels of the Trump administration are collaborating with the FBI and DOJ to cover-up evidence the President committed sexual crimes against children.

Unspeakably corrupt, and not a single Republican in Congress can be expected to speak out against it.

Yeah, I'd vote to kill him for that, too, honestly.

They are "self-evident!"

The vote to execute Socrates had a greater margin than the vote to convict him What? Socrates was convicted by a margin of 280-220 by a 500 man jury. However they voted that he be executed by a margin of 360-140 Apparently they were insulted by his proposed punishment for himself being very light. But that means there's a portion of rhe jury that was like, "This guy is not guilty, but man, fuck him."

Woke: The people want socialism!

Broke: The people want white Christian nationalism!

Bespoke: The people don't know what they want, you have to tell them what they want and make them believe it. AND you have to say that it was really their idea all along and compliment them on it.

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Posting this while sitting in a small restaurant in Northern Sumatra near an Orangutan sanctuary.

Who's going to be the leftwing Ollie North?

Okay fine, I'm willing to share my super-secret tricks for being an Alpha Male who gets laid all the time*:

1. Stop being a whiny fucking weirdo.
2. Acknowledge women have agency and treat them like human beings, not property.
3. Seriously, stop being such a fucking weirdo. Get over yourself.

Driving through Northern Sumatra is quite an experience. Basically every guide book & internet forum says "dont do it" but Im built different.

P.S. If I dont post for a couple of days look for news articles about an American tourist who drove into a ravine and died.

Trump’s firing of BLS commissioner is undemocratic and economically dangerous Today, Trump directed his team to fire the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) because he didn’t like the jobs numbers they released. This is a move straight out of an autocratic play...

Today, President Trump directed his team to fire the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) because he didn’t like the jobs numbers they released. This is a move straight out of an autocratic playbook, says EPI President ‪@hshierholz.bsky.social‬
www.epi.org/press/trumps...