@Mojeek so i'd like to transition my mobile (iphone) search to your app, but the problem i have is that when i find something, i often want to copy the URL to share, or save an image i've found to Photos, and i haven't figured out how reliably to do those things. i feel like i must be dumb, but i've had a hard time with these things and end up twitching back to Gulf of America.

@Phil @realcaseyrollins i'm all for defending US citizens abroad. i'm also for defending the separation of powers!

@Phil @realcaseyrollins I mean, domestically Musk is "projecting power", illegally and doing great harm. Much of that will be reversed, but much that is broken will take a long time to fix. And none of what he's attacking is at the heart of any of our problems. (Of course the heart of all our problems is brain death: the Constitution makes Congress the brains of our system, and Congress no longer functions due to rigging the electoral system for job security.)

@Phil @realcaseyrollins of course i hope i'll have to concede this one to you. god help us we don't need a war now.

people don't like their franchise transgressed, i guess. it's fun when accusations of "judicial coup" issue from the people pursuing the more old fashioned kind.

@realcaseyrollins @Phil i guess i'll respect it when i see it. so far, the folks i know who went for Trump on a supposed ant-imperialist / anti-war line have not been willing to acknowledge any important transgressions. "russiagate" outweighs all of it, they say. it's just his bluster.

@realcaseyrollins i can respect that.

but then i’d expect some expressions of disappointment for a “no new wars” candidate who has now hinted at openly imperialistic military actions that were so far off the table you’d have needed a warp drive to find them a few months ago.

@gl33p i guess i’m talking about a community maybe exemplified by Glenn Greenwald, but of whom i know others. does anti-US-imperialism necessarily lead to apology for other imperialisms? not necessarily, but the Tulsi Gabbard arc is pretty common.

there are lots of elements of US foreign policy principled people can and should oppose! of course!

but a large swathe of these people became essentially a part of the MAGA coalition. they exist, and that’s the group I’m addressing.

@realcaseyrollins i’ll believe that when i see more of them disavowing their support for Trump as somehow the lesser evil.

@realcaseyrollins if you tell me you believed this was Trump’s line when you supported him during the campaign, okay. If you tell me you still believe it now, well, i’ll tell you one is born every day.

@realcaseyrollins anti-imperialist, or pro other empires, our dear Tulsi. Trump portrayed himself as antiwar while campaigning, now he won’t rule out the use of force against Greenland/Denmark and Panama, he promises “all hell is going to break loose” in Gaza Saturday if all hostages are released, openly seeks territorial expansion in a way no US President has for more than a century.

@ShiitakeToast i’m friends with some of them. it’s difficult. “mistake the country’s failures for its goals” is an excellent summary.

on the anti-US-imperialist left (“tankies”), i wonder if part of Trump’s appeal, perhaps only semiconsciously, is that he’d be openly as bad as they were always sure the United States always was. they’d be proven right, and no more of what they perceived as hypocritical sanctimony.

“We’re gonna shit in the swamp!”

this is like a cartoon where the legion of doom wins and takes over the world.

in the cartoon such moments are always brief interregna. may life imitate art.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/trump-order-foreign-bribery-act

ht @T0nyyates

the George Carlin bit is gonna be really catchy. https://mas.to/@markwyner/113984319867071750

i put a few bucks in the freezer and i don't see what the big deal is.

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source: https://xcancel.com/ggreenwald/status/1888965357714416072