(I worry the MAGAists would delight in using this as a wedge between "real Americans" and stereotypes of the kind of people who book getaways in Paris. That's not to say the EU shouldn't! They have cause regardless of US domestic politics. But I'm not sure it would be too effective.)

If you’re ever around…

[new draft post] Where am I? https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2026/01/18/where-am-i/index.html

look we all prefer the normative state but defunding the prerogative state polls terribly.

throwing over the table is simultaneously an act of performative aggression and a way of forfeiting the game.

he’s still a lame duck. he manufactures crisis after crisis to distract from that but he’s the lamest fucking duck.

Impeach. Convict. Remove. Rinse. Repeat.

oh, i didn’t mean to imply the European replacements would themselves be bug tech, in the same style and architecture as US platforms. i would hope they wouldn’t be, they’d be either more decentralized or else publicly run. only that they would replace the function and role of US private incumbents.

will Europe actually get their shit together building EU-based replacements for US big tech internet platforms?

90 deals (circumventing the United States) in 90 days.

it’s his turn.

The curtains will be chartreuse. All curtains! I will sign an Executive Order that all the curtains must be chartreuse! Thank you for your attention to this matter!

he’s bored of peace and he wants your billions.

abolish the SS! well aren't you going to need some kind of police force? sure, but it doesn't have to be the SS. why don't we go back to how we did policing before the SS. but isn't that the SS by a different name?

anti-"leftism" is mostly just "good people aren't good enough, so they're fucking hypocrites, so what's the point of even trying, are you virtue signaling? you're bad just like we are, trying to win status games. you just don't admit it. we do, so at least we're not hypocrites, we're better than u."

stated by a guy who could not defend the bathroom he is shitting in.

every day is #MAAA, Make Americans Ashamed Again.

stupidity and cupidity rhyme.

will Canadians be allowed to drive across the border and flaunt their Xiaomi and Geely and BYD EVs?

the nobel peace prize is basically meaningless if you haven’t taken it by force.