i wonder if the “donroe doctrine” isn’t the actual monroe doctrine (a limitation on influence by European or Asian powers in the Americas), but sold to the President by advisors and, oddly, to the public as crass resource imperialism, even tho that’s kind of fake but the President gets it, likes it.
we should have factional battles over which faction most squanders our energy by drawing us into factional battles.
if AI is so good and the US is the world leader, wouldn’t you expect us to act with more intelligence?
who do you have to kidnap to run Greenland?
if the Bush Administration erred in the direction of too-aggressive debaathification, the Trump Administration, interested in winning news cycles, not occupations, happily makes the opposite mistake. 1/
and perhaps from their perspective it’s not a mistake at all. stability much more than liberty avoids bad press, and they are interested in winning news cycles, not freedom or (ha!) democracy. /fin
i suppose they’ll say the Venezuelans are indians not taxed.
“We have, in Western society, managed to simultaneously botch the dreams of democracy, capitalism, social coherence, and techno-utopianism, all at once. It's embarrassing actually. I am embarrassed. You should be embarrassed.” @apenwarr.ca ht @spavel.bsky.social
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as i grow old, i live in fear of someone confronting me: “Have you no recency, sir, at long last, have you no recency?”
on the one hand it’s good to live a long full life but on the other hand the longer you are around the more the more is taken from you.
the big loser today may be guyana.
a thing about history is you can tell the same story a hundred different ways and all of them are true.
i condemn this knife in your back i have my palm wrapped around.
i think it’s just that no one can be upset at a kid holding a pineapple, and that helps deescalate things.
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this is so spooky. the news this early morning was real, but who knows which of the videos by which we learned it were?
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almost certain imho. though there will be elections of some sort to maintain appearances. any improvement for the broad public will be the result of economic investment rather than political liberation.
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when God said “Let there be light!” did you ever inquire into upon what throne He was sitting? 🧻
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Mao: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun MAGA: Political power grows out of the cheapness of a barrel of oil
since Venezuela is a territory under the control of the United States apparently for the indefinite future, aren’t Venezuelans now US citizens?
maybe if Machado had won the *FIFA* Peace Prize, she’d have the kind of respect she needs.
florida turns blue when floridians realize venezuela has nicer beaches.