• eicker@lemmy.worldOP
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    21 hours ago

    The US spent decades telling Europe to trust the transatlantic relationship, then somehow managed to make a literal cable across the Arctic look like the more reliable connection. That’s an impressive achievement in diplomacy: when your allies start routing around you like a network failure.

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      11 hours ago

      They don’t seem to have a problem using the current ~20 cables running between Europe and the US.

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        18 hours ago

        Calling Trump “senile” downplays the traitorous duplicity.

        At this point, he’s done so much shit that “ineptitude” no longer cuts it as a plausible explanation. Occam’s razor says he’s trying to destroy the US on purpose.

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          17 hours ago

          I would argue it says he’s trying to increase his own wealth at any cost. Destroying the US is a byproduct of this behavior, not the intention.

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              14 hours ago

              Dark enlightenment reads like such a fucking joke, then i remember people like Peter thiel actually believes that shit and i despair.

              Its new age mysticism + im 13 and 2edgy4you culture. I can almost smell the stench of stale doritos wafting from that ideology… i have trouble really putting into words just how fucking lame that ‘movement’ is. Its like the brainchild of someone whos only read Ayn Rand & Julius Evola, i mean just how braindead can you actually be and still operate a body my god

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            10 hours ago

            Even blatant greed isn’t enough to explain shit like randomly picking fights with Greenland and fawning over Kim Jong Un.