Socialism is when the government helps people with a different skin color than me.

Well, you could just change all the names and remove all explicit references to the original and then sell it. I was just looking at the new game Tempest Rising, which is extremely obvious about copying the plot and design of Command and Conquer, but it’s been changed just enough to avoid copyright.

I’m happy to see a new rts actually getting a good reception. Sometimes it seems the genre is cursed.

Press X to doubt.

Elementary school administrators have more spine than the heads of every US university put together.

What do you mean? He bought that title fair and square!

he’s living in an 1890s bubble that no one around him is willing to puncture

I think this is a Simpson’s reference. Trump is literally Mr Burns confirmed.

People somehow still think Trump is an expert businessman who actually has a plan. If you assume that, it becomes plausible that this is a negotiating ploy, talking tough to get concessions out of other countries.

The market may question the extent to which a sufficiently structured planning process for major economic decisions is taking place," Saravelos said.

This is a joke, right? There very clearly is no planning process at all other than Cheeto Benito’s unhinged whims.

The bar is on the absolute floor, but I’ll take it. Better than that one guy who said he didn’t regret his vote after ICE got his wife.

Silver lining, the fact that the child of such a terrible person can turn out okay gives me some hope.

What a bunch of nonsense.

The idea that Russia landed airborne troops in Kyiv without wanting to at the very least overthrow the Ukrainian government (just as the US likes to overthrow Latin American countries, which leftists rightly deride as imperialist, but many can’t seem to recognize when non-western countries do it) is laughable. It also ignores Putin’s clearly-stated belief that Ukraine has no legitimate existence as a separate country, a belief that he reiterated during his interview with Tucker Carlson instead of saying anything that Western supporters of Russia wanted him to say. It ALSO fails to mention reports from early in the invasion that Putin has personally rejected a peace deal because he wanted to go to war.

A couple other things that jumped out at me:

The idea that the war was over NATO membership is outright nonsense, since that goal HAD ALREADY BEEN ACHIEVED by the annexation of Crimea and support for separatist factions, since NATO membership requires territorial integrity.

The statement that the West gave Ukraine their most advanced weapons is a ridiculous lie to anyone watching Ukraine beg for years to get moderately updated tanks and jets, and mid-range ATACMs. In reality, the Biden administration had been withholding the best weapons specifically because they wanted the war to end like this and just didn’t want to admit it. The things people do are more important than what they say.

The article conveniently fails to mention any Russian war crimes, such as the repeated bombing of civilian infrastructure, including schools and hospitals (only a bad thing when Israel does it, apparently), the Bucha massacre, or reports of mass graves in occupied areas.

Good thing the Democrats already gave up all their leverage for the next six months, or else they might be expected to do something to capitalize on this.

Why would the US need this access for anything aside from trading with other countries?

To move warships rapidly between the two oceans during the world war he’s going to start, obviously.

It’s almost as though fascists are unreasonable and attempting to avoid their ire by compliance is doomed to failure if they’ve already decided to hate you.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5178797-texas-measles-outbreak-kennedy-vaccines/

Kennedy has begun promoting the use of vitamin A, cod liver oil and the steroid budesonide as a way of treating measles

Elon truly is a genius businessman. Letting him run the government is clearly a great idea.

I’m not a fan of the US military, but as a supporter of LGBT rights it is important to acknowledge that military service has historically been an effective means of gaining public sympathy for expanded civil rights in the US. (The most obvious examples being African-American service during the Civil War and WW2.) In the context of the militaristic US culture, forbidding people from the military is inherently a clear declaration that they are lesser and unworthy.

I don’t think the shambling husk of Twitter is a good representation of the U.S. population. My impression is that Elon has driven away most good and reasonable people.

The leopards are eating well this month.