That’s not negotiation! That’s not deal making!

It is. Just not in your interest. Might be worth asking what Trump thinks he’s getting out of it. Did someone at a Russian bank just pick up another $50M in Trumpcoin recently? How will a brokered peace enrich Trump’s family and friends?

The US isn’t Ukraine and Trump isn’t capitulating to an enemy, he’s carving up Ukrainian territory alongside an erstwhile ally. He’s making deals, he’s just not on your side of the board.

He was coaching them on how to convince YOU, Mr. Trump, on how to manipulate YOU

He’s an agent of the Trump administration selling a deal brokered by Russia to his boss, presumably by promising the kind of quid pro quo Trump would endorse.

What’s notable is how sloppy and slapdash the dealmaking was for the benefit of the public at-large. Trump’s team might have gotten out cleaner if the authors of the deal hadn’t just chucked it through Babblefish to get an English translation.

I wish it did. Unfortunately, conservatives seem to rule our world far more often than not.

Ever hear of an atheist needing an exorcism

You joke, but…

Demon Spirits – The Real Root of Addiction

Growing up in the 80s/90s, I 100% heard about how everything from Heavy Metal music to D&D to Voting for Michael Dukakis caused the godless heathens to become possessed and driven to deplorable acts. Exorcisms are for people with insider access to high ranking church officials. The folks living outside of the fence - the migrants, the hippies, the drug users, the fornicators and exotic dancers, the non-believers - why do you think they have all that crime and disease and misery?

They’ve fallen out of God’s love and light. They’re all tortured souls, possessed by any number of evils.

Barely on the cusp of calling it “Fake News”

Rising American anti-Semitism isn’t a foreign influence operation.

If I’m not allowed to blame Putler for this, why should I even consider it a problem?

Yair Rosenberg is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of its newsletter Deep Shtetl

Oh boy, excited to hear his opinions on Israel-Palestine.

The War Israel Was Ready to Fight: The strategy that led to the October 7 disaster is the same one fueling Israel’s current successes.

Yee-haw!

finger snaps heard over jazz music

Some beautiful new art on a very old joke.

A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland

Shrug

The Eastern Block got the same fuzzy treatment from NATO that countries like Afghanistan and Columbia and Iran enjoyed.

Americans love a color revolution when your government aligns with Russia or China. But they have zero tolerance for dissent once their friends are in charge.

They fled Fidel for the US and lost everything they owned in Cuba.

The Bay of Pigs created their hatred for the Dems.

That’s a story I’ve heard. But Dems continued to win Florida through Obama.

Seems like a lot of the Cuban Exile energy came out of their 80s era gray market role in drugs and arms dealing through the Caribbean. And that put them at the forefront of the crypto ponzi schemes under Obama, Trump, and Biden.

Now they’re just bog standard libertarian fascists.

Sure, that’s a work around. But it relies on a trusted third party, along with wiki mods who don’t yank the entry because they don’t recognize the archived source as a valid citation.

It isn’t a feature integrated into the encyclopedia.

40 years ago poland was the most progressive country in europe regarding homosexuality because unlike everyone else they never criminalized it.

Damn, that’s wild. What was Poland like 40 years ago?

flips open history book

Omg, you’re a fucking tankie! TANKIE! TANKIE! Mods, get this guy out of here!!!

Here, enjoy this stew.

I still have my dad’s 1957 edition sitting on my childhood bedroom shelf.

It is genuinely kind of wild to read through that thing, in light of modern history.

Guilty as charged 😈

he’s Cuban

Some people will tell you that Communism made Cuba a better place. But I suspect a big part of it was all the worst fuckers on the island moving to Florida.

I mean, just having the ability to roll up your own Wiki is very handy.

I would appreciate a way to archive the citations, so that a link-break down the line doesn’t cause the raw data to be lost. But that’s a problem with copywrite and IP more than anything Wikipedia does natively.

I’ll always remember their big dusty fishbowl with the outlines of all the keys.

That’s Free Markets, baby!

It can’t pop if the US Treasury just keeps dumping tens of billions of dollars into it as a backstop.

The Infrastructure Reinvestment Act kicked this mess off, but it didn’t pad the wallets of the right people to the right degree. So now Trump is just cutting idiots and assholes across the VC Tech Sector ten-digit checks to keep doing what they’re doing.

We’re increasingly operated as a Planned Economy that exists to turn natural resources into AI slop, because this is what the federal government’s leadership believes they need to maintain the illusion of control over the public.