I fail to understand how UK Labor keep electing atrocious leaders. I thought it could never get worse than Jeremy Corbyn, but i was wrong.
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Reading the comments, apparently this guy is a well known Nazi.
I wonder how long before America has a full blown progom?
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I really only get me news from Blitz , which might be a bit of a problemâŚbut is there anyone in the US pushing back against this â â â â ? Are there not people trying to pump the brakes?
One of Trumpâs lieutenants justifications for the role of Musk as an unelected person , the role of Congress and the true enemy of unelected bureaucrats:
- Trump was elected by the whole of America , Congress members are only elected by their State (Note: This logic ignores the fact that the President is elected by a weighting of State votes, not the total number of votes)
- Section 2 of the Constitution empowers the President to make appointments. The President is the Executive. Therefore anyone appointed by the President under his Executive powers comes under the umbrella of an elected person . They are subject to the orders of the President and must give effect to his decisions. They hold their positions at his will.
- Unelected bureaucrats are the enemy. With their tenure they can ignore the directions of elected members and challenge their decisions and directions.
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What makes you think we would go to defend Taiwan without USA holding our hand? I really have no idea but my gut says China would win any conventional war with Taiwan easily and Australia helping wouldnât make any difference. Winning the peace would be a different proposition. I am genuinely interested in why I might be wrong in this thinking.
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Have you watched the video?
It isnât a âgotchaâ still photo taken out of context. Heâs sayin âfight,figh,fightâ then snugly looks to the side and very deliberately does the salute. I honestly canât say why heâs doing it but my guess itâs a big fixk off to his âleft wing enemiesâ or maybe he is just a racist.
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Stop stalking Lawry you Karens.
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Look at some think tanks and institutes war gaming of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
Currently if US comes to Taiwanâs aid, China loses (but everyone suffers heavily).
If US doesnt come, Taiwan holds out longer than anyone thinks - porcupine strategy and itâs incredibly difficult for the Chinese to land troops on the island - but Taiwan gets absolutely pummeled⌠China will have to destroy much of what they call âtreasure islandâ to take it. (And the real treasure is the chip making capacity, of course.)
China wants everyone to think it would be a breeze, so we might as well let them swan in. But thatâs propaganda, not reality. Letâs stick with reality.
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Thanks for the reply, well thatâs pretty much what I thought would happen but why would Australia get involved? I just canât see that happening without a Uncle Sam.
There are many reasons why presidential democracies are inferior to parliamentary democracies - and why you only find them in South America and Eastern Europe ⌠and the US (noting Franceâs hybrid): no formal opposition structure. Its up to individual, uncoordinated politicians to try to raise objections in an environment where Trump has sucked all the attention toward himself and where the largest news outlet pedals propaganda that would make Goebbels blush.
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If itâs our job to protect Taiwan from a neighbour with expansionist ambitions, then itâs also our job to protect Greenland from a neighbour with expansionist ambitions. (We should stay well away from both).
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Interestingly the French far right leader decided against making a photo collage and instead cancelled his speech and condemned Bannonâs Nazi salute. Must be odd to find yourself further extreme right in your positioning than this creep, especially if youâve allegedly got family these people hate. Weird.
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Probably more like Ukraine offer weapons and mercenaries but nothing official on the ground.
Probably more interesting what other nations step in. Canada Euro, Uk, US
They gave a general warning about Russian interference and misinformation (not unreasonable). Facebook interpreted it as being in relation to the Hunter Biden âstoryâ.
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China is the 3d printer of the world, US still makes stuff - crap cars, largely crap electronics with very notable exceptions which are manufactured in China anyway, plenty of very good niche products from traditional small companies. A different take though, for all its flaws it has been an engine of cultural and design production especially since ww2, and waves of immigration are the reason.
Imagine if, as the current radical movement in control are attempting to achieve, the US had insisted on isolationism and only had its largely religious conservative stock to draw upon. A different kind of exceptionalism, even more boring cities, a depressingly shallow pool of creativity. As much as I detest the modern US and large aspects of its history, it has extraordinary achievements, individuals, creations, stories. And so many of them have âforeign soundingâ names attached. Even Drumpf is a story, just a sick one.
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One for the movie thread but in light of that post I highly recommend The Brutalist. Over three hours but a genuine intermission built in, well worth a trip to the arthouse of your choice. Mostly unsentimental, a bit grim, a bit beautiful, a bit like the best of the US. Thereâs luck and connections because talent and effort will only get you so far. They champion a dog eat dog society but itâs an awful and unnecessarily harsh ethos and it breeds big fat old dogs who eat the rest.
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Also stole the ch 10 news tune
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CSIRO has just had to emergency download ALL its relevant data in anticipation of its removal.
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