Welcome to the sixteenth century! When Queen Elizabeth couldn’t afford to go to war against Spain so created ‘letters of marque’ which legalised piracy against Spain and its empire. Single handedly created the pirate economy.

Then, welcome to the eighteenth century, when america created the fiction of the Barbary Corsairs to legalise american piracy of the atlantic trade.

Isnt it Mark Twain who states that history rhymes?

i know thats all true, but where is Team America! Fuck Yeah!

just more metcan exceptionalism. Effectively saying “ we’re the toughest so cave in and give us what we want “

Might actually be true inside the us. But the americans i encounter outside of the us ( probably wealthier) are all pretty much delighting in whats going on. My observation of americans outside of the us : 100% smug and gloating.

Started to type a reply but then realised you wouldn’t understand / believe anything said because it didn’t come from faux news. So decided i was wasting my time and deleted my whole response.

Two bad experiences with airbnb. Will never use them again. I’d prefer hotel now. Actually cheaper, closer to right things and much much less hassle.

Why is it possible to seize assets of weaker countries like Venezuela but not war mongers like Russia and the USA ?

So americans are pushing for regime change in Europe now as well as Canada, Venezuela, Brasil, etc. Do they have enough aircraft carriers to simultaneously position in the Baltic Sea, Gulf of St Lawrence, Caribbean Sea, East China Sea etc? Don’t think so although the tariffs are taxing americans so much now they could actually fund a few carriers groups.

Fake newd. Everyone knows that the economy is A++++++.

Oh come on. Everyone knows its Venezuela thats been doing these nasty things to mercan patriots with their narcocommunist submarine regimechange programs.

I’m thinking a lot of americans are feeling pretty smug now with tariffs, threats of annexation and regime change part of the daily menu. The rest of us are thinking - never going to trust an american again. Even further, my brother ( married an american ) told me they went to Mexico on vacation last week and identified as Canadians everywhere they went.

couldnt possibly be for the disunited states given the anti-health policies of maga.

Love the directness of the commentary “ we will never fucking trust you again”.!

I wish Australian politicians would wake up and dump the stupid AUKUS deal: spend $300 billion and ‘hope’ the americans will honour their word. Really a snowballs chance in hell they will honour their word or contracts.

long overdue but unfortunately the corps pay the politicians so i think it’s unlikely we’ll see anything that might introduce ‘sovereign risk’ oh my!

Its pretty clear now that big chunks of the military have no problem complying with and energetically supporting trump and his illegal activities. I’d go further and say that the us government has lost control of the military now. They work for trump and his cabinet. They thumb their noses at the other branches of the disunited states government.

This timeline is like one of those star trek episodes where the federation is ruled by an evil empress. Also, the world looks a lot like what you see in Alien Earth. By 2060 there are only 4 corporations that own and rule over everything everywhere and everyone. Pretty Dark. One of the corporations is weyland yutani from the Aliens movie universe.

Pick me! pick me pick me. I fart in your general direction! I think trump is the anti-christ. Peter Teal told me so.

oh come on. The quality of life of the inner circle is good. The rest can just join the queue heading to the front lines. Look at Russia as a guide to where the american oligarchs are driving the economy to.

She’s perfected the “ resting bitch face “.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resting_bitch_face

It also means humans will be progressively pushed into the most dangerous jobs because the robot circuitry can’t cope with harsh environments. The easy cushy jobs will go to the robots.