Chewing the beans, I believe.

Who wants to bet that this attack had little-to-no military objective, and is just murdering civilians because Trump thinks that will make him look ‘tough’.

Explanation: While use of coffee beans originated in Ethiopia, it was the Arabs of the 15th century AD who discovered that it could be brewed into a drink. While I’m not a coffee drinker myself, both an appreciation for the historical importance of the drink and the fantastic smell makes me thankful for the discovery as well! Truly the world’s first step into modernity 🙏

Neo-colonialism in Mali

UN Peacekeeping and support missions of the local governments are truly peak imperialism

and helped America invade Afghanistan

… okay?

My grandparents used to watch it. I think it had one (1) funny moment I saw in all the show’s run that I caught when living with them - when Neil DeGrasse Tyson calls up Bill Nye and says “I hear you’ve been talking shit about me”, and Nye immediately hangs up the phone in abject terror.

Nuance is good, sure, but that’s not the same as saying there shouldn’t be models for emulation. Just as stripping a culture of its heroes does not destroy the need of individuals to find heroes, but rather decentralizes and deregulates who those heroes are (and what they might represent), so too with nations.

There is a void in leadership in the international community regarding Western democracies now that the US has effectively abdicated in an… unpleasant manner. Arguably we’ve been unworthy of the unofficial title for a long time now, but maintained the reputation through inertia and a lack of willingness of anyone to challenge us on it. If there is no model, we splinter and find our own models - each of which has a very high chance of being a much more imperfect candidate than Sweden.

So why not Sweden?

It doesn’t require us to ignore Sweden’s faults, no more than Europeans ignored America’s faults even when she was most deserving of the position. It doesn’t require Swedes to stop demanding better of their country - demanding better of one’s country is how you stop yourself from falling into stagnation and… well, what the US is experiencing.

It is only a request to celebrate that democracy and liberty are more than ideals; they can be executed in the real world, and the proof is right there, in a currently functioning society, even if an imperfect one. It is not simply something that the local idealists are saying can happen; it is something that has happened, that is happening, and that is better than oligarchy and serfdom.

And, of course, to bring to bear that reputation in favor of those ideals on the international stage.

If you can somehow get the EU to agree for more than ten seconds, the EU would be a prime contender. But let’s face it, one-country-veto-power kind of fucks that in such a large organization.

If all of that isn’t enough and Swedes are still against it, I vote for Canada instead

It’s almost like all countries have problems.

If you have a better nominee for leader of the free world, I’m all ears.

We have only imperfect candidates.

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Fantastic 🙏

Yeah. It would appear the Union won the war and lost the peace.

Could be true, but I wouldn’t trust anything this administration says. Especially not on China at a point in time when the administration is shitting their pants in impotent fury that China has dared to not sit back and take exceptional tariffs without comment or reaction.

Facehugger from Alien

https://www.vice.com/en/article/el-salvador-prisons-gangs-torture/

Entry was unlawful, but was granted a status similar to asylum, I think.

Hot plasma, fresh from the rifle, just like mama used to make

I should’ve double-checked the meme before reposting. I’ll edit it.

United Front against Slaver Scum 💪

It is unfortunately common amongst certain segments of the Western left.

Would you like to explain to me how Turkiye has never genocided Kurds, whom they regard as “Mountain Turks”?