While this being a touching story this will be used by the greedy at the top to justify abandonment of childcare in the long run… in internal discussions. And posts like this are used to normalize the idea.

This father shouldn’t be forced to bring his child to work at all.

There is a difference between “having enough money prevents people from turning to crime to survive and meet their basic needs” and “having more money allows you to buy more happiness, even if your basic needs have long since been met.”

How unexpected…

Moving large naval targets into the range of enemy defenses despite having the technological advantage necessary to keep out of it must be another 5D chess move from the orange master mind.

/edit: If it’s really true and not another pump and dump scheme for Oligarchy Brows Ltd.

On a positive note:

It’s fairly probable that someone inside those companys doesn’t pay enough attention due to being overly confindent in the product… and we’ll see leaks of classified data decades before they would have been available to the piblic.

There’s a german word for this: Führerkult.

A common denominator of dictatorships and facist regimes of all kind.

,Let them eat cake."

I think most people from rich countries would still prefer the US to be dominant than China. The US at least talks a good game when it comes to freedom of speech, etc. China doesn’t even try to pretend to care about that. But, the US is chaotic and belligerent, whereas China is mostly using soft power these days

I agree with you.

The assumption I make is that the advantages of the US (higher personal freedom, of speech and economically) will further decline as Mango Mussolini respectively the people pulling his strings are far from done with restructuring the US democracy in their favor. In the end US citizens might end up with a repressive system similar to China but with lack of the claim to care for everyone.

For the moment I agree that most Western citizens will still prefer the US society over a Chinese one.

Concerning the ‘will the US recover?’ question, my two cents:

I don’t think the US will be able to recover the lost influence since the prerequisties for it reaching that level if power and influence have changed / are gone. The US dominated ‘the West’ in its fight againgst an authoritarian communist regime and build its global hegemony on the victory in this conflict. Even if the US could regain some trust the current system rival China is way smarter and more convincing in its promises to the regular citizen than the SU was during most of its time… eventhough both systems labeled themselves ‘communis’.

That being said I don’t think the modern US could realistically neither win an arms race based on state finances against China nor make a better promise for the insividuals future. The US hegemony crumbels and imho impossibly will return… if a chinese dominance is better, especially for western citizens, also remains questionable.

I get the point but honestly: Why does that matter?

If we only accept judgement or action by ‘perfect individuals’ aka. ‘heroes’ the world won’t ever get better as influential humans are still humans and often have, by design, flaws and mistakes build within them and their character. Does that mean we shouldn’t judge anyone for their actions? Obviously not.

But to claim that ones vision or ideas are outright wrong due to ad-hominem argumentation against their personal flaws is also bullshit. You’ll always find something to point out, especially with historical figures. Since, ironically due to their imperfect actionism, our social norms have improved and we often rightfully so critizise things deemed normal during their time.

Ironically high fossil prices speed up thr solar punk process. But yes, if these nut jobs could stop killing millions in the process would be really nice. I’m all for 1 vs. 1 fights if old men feel the need to solve things violently.

New living space for master race/ God’s people in the east…uh, north.

He most probably has his dirty hands on Venezuelas oil… high oil prices are a feature, not a bug.

Of course they do… they also bombed Iran during the last two negotiations, didn’t they?

That assumes that the current narcissist in power is even willing to accept that he has lost… given that they seem to be preparing to label everything to the left of MAGA as terrorism and the federal government is currently buying tear gas in bulk, I would put a big question mark on that.

“Those who fall asleep in a democracy may wake up in a dictatorship.”

In my everyday life the only ones bringing up woke positions are right nut jobs that complain about ‘everything being woke’.

So no, I personally don’t experience much annoyance by ‘woke policy’.

Both can be true:

The US tried to arm protesters via the Kurds to provoke a civil war paving the way for destabilization of Iran in the long run and possible intervention (with the Kurds not being willing to pass on the weapons as they got betrayed by Trump not that long ago).

And at the same time the peaceful protesters in Iran were murdered by the theocracy fearing for its power… possibly enhanced should the regime have gained knowledge of the planned US weapon deliveries.

He’s a clown that’s what makes it probable he said the quiet part out loud which no other POTUS was dumb enough to admit in the open.

You got a point though, with all that bullshit coming from him we can’t decide what might be true between all those lies and shouldn’t chose based on our world view.

This was / would have been the case during Trump I … since he scraped anyone with at least a bit of reason from his admin in favor of yes-man following his ideology… I’m disturbingly unsure if you’re right under for Trump II.

Thank you for the correction! I didn’t know that.

Based comment, have an upvote good Sir and a splendid easter!