Here’s Tim Walz giving a 9/11 anniversary speech where he claimed to have “stood one night in the dark of night at Bagram Air Base in Iraq” and watched an American soldier’s body be loaded onto a plane.
Bagram is in Afghanistan, not Iraq. Walz didn’t deploy to either.
Source: Official Minnesota Government website: lrl.mn.gov/docs/2023/mand…
Bagram is in Afghanistan, not Iraq. Walz didn’t deploy to either.
Source: Official Minnesota Government website: lrl.mn.gov/docs/2023/mand…
How poetic is it that the first name and middle initial of Kamala Harris’ daddy is “Donald J.”?
Sr. Presidente @nayibbukele, muchas gracias por el regalo de @BeanofFire café, I can’t wait to try it ☕️
Since I work outside in the sun now I am eating a lot of hard italian cheeses. You know those crystals in parmigiano and piave? Those are tyrosine crystals. Tyrosine is an amino acid your body uses as a substrate to make melanin and dopamine, along with phenylalanine, which parmigiano is also a rich food source of. Tyrosine can be synthesized from phenylalanine it’s true, but I love cheese.
For context, current Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin was down 9 points at this point in the race in 2021. Biden was polling 8 points ahead of where he finished. Democrats are often greatly overestimated in VA polls, partly because it’s hard to model what rural VA will do.
This was The Pirate Bay response 20 years ago to a Dreamworks copyright complaint, note this particular line:
“As you may or may not be aware, Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a country in northern Europe. Unless you figured it out by now, US law does not apply here. For your information, no Swedish law is being violated.”
That was still somewhat true 20 years ago. European countries still retain a measure of sovereignty, even though they were under the US defense umbrella. The French and the Germans were in particular more than comfortable with openly defying and insulting President Bush.
This relationship was changed pretty dramatically in the Obama era. There is no longer a pretension of sovereignty in Europe, the U.S. government openly calls the shots. It used to be that people could flee serious crimes in the US by going to France (see Polanski, Roman). That doesn’t work anymore. Now the US State Department can tell the French government to arrest a French citizen on our behalf, and they will do it.
Make no mistake, this isn’t “France falling to totalitarian censorship” — it’s just another day in the American Empire. The era of infotech having a special dispensation of liberty is drawing to an end. It is joining the ranks of every other regulated industry. it is not just governments that are cracking down on this either, normal people are getting fed up with the constant disruption emanating from Silicon Valley. I think in the not too distant future we’ll see assassinations of some of the more irritating tech founders.
“As you may or may not be aware, Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a country in northern Europe. Unless you figured it out by now, US law does not apply here. For your information, no Swedish law is being violated.”
That was still somewhat true 20 years ago. European countries still retain a measure of sovereignty, even though they were under the US defense umbrella. The French and the Germans were in particular more than comfortable with openly defying and insulting President Bush.
This relationship was changed pretty dramatically in the Obama era. There is no longer a pretension of sovereignty in Europe, the U.S. government openly calls the shots. It used to be that people could flee serious crimes in the US by going to France (see Polanski, Roman). That doesn’t work anymore. Now the US State Department can tell the French government to arrest a French citizen on our behalf, and they will do it.
Make no mistake, this isn’t “France falling to totalitarian censorship” — it’s just another day in the American Empire. The era of infotech having a special dispensation of liberty is drawing to an end. It is joining the ranks of every other regulated industry. it is not just governments that are cracking down on this either, normal people are getting fed up with the constant disruption emanating from Silicon Valley. I think in the not too distant future we’ll see assassinations of some of the more irritating tech founders.
My grandfather was a B-17 mechanic. He hauled bodies out of planes that came back shot up over Germany. Probably why he drank so much. My best friend’s grandmother once showed me the shrapnel scar from an American bomb that exploded over her German village. She was 6.
The postwar consensus was largely accurate. The only real aspect needing extensive revision being the role of Stalin and the USSR, given many of the relevant documents were locked away until after the fall of the USSR.
The post-cold war consensus is where it got cartoony.
The post-cold war consensus is where it got cartoony.
They were all bad really. Except Mussolini, the only one confirmed to have made it to heaven.
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Good meme fodder though
The wedding video “first look” shot of the groom seeing the bride for the first time and bursting into tears needs to be shut down. I talked to a guy whose bride had the marriage annulled because he didn’t start bawling when she walked out and her friends and family kept asking her about it like it was some deep dark scandal
Going to weddings is even more annoying these days because you see the chubby aunts salivating in anticipation for the groom being reduced to a whimpering puddle of tears.