I’m considering renaming the United States of America to Cringetopia

From what I can tell, the closest thing that Tellarites have to a main cast spot is Nus Braka , the recurring “Klingarite” (Klingon-Tellarite hybrid) main antagonist in Starfleet Academy, played by Paul Giamatti.

I hate the existence of billionaires as much as the next person, but it always rubs me the wrong way when journalism wears its bias as a badge of honor. Just the facts, please; trust me enough to come to the right conclusion on my own.

Depends what you define as “okay”? My family moved back to Ireland in the early 90s when I was young so I don’t really know how it compares to Canada in terms of racism. Racism certainly exists, and it seems to be worse now than it was before COVID, but I can’t say I see it personally in my own life, maybe one minor incident (eg most recently a kid in the street throwing pebbles and shouting racist abuse at passersby) every fifteen years or so. And every time it’s happened, everyone else on the scene takes the POC’s side (most Irish people pride themselves on being sound).

TBH I’m not really sure I’m qualified to answer, though, as I’m white and I don’t hang around with racists so just because I don’t see racist stuff happening doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen when I’m not around. I suppose the most objective measure I can point to is that we have a racist political party but they’ve never won even a single seat in the Dáil.

Here in Ireland I’m getting a bunch of ads to come visit the USA that I never got before.

The sad thing is that that’s probably not true.

I suspect that part of the reason they’re also taking gold out of Canada is to give themselves plausibility when they say that it’s not a knock against the USA.

Trump doesn’t WANT the dollar to be a reserve currency. Not exactly, anyway.

Desperate or vindictive. There was a recent debate over whether the EU should use the money in the Russian accounts it suspended to bankroll Ukraine, because Russia owes Ukraine reparations. One of the reasons that might not be a good idea is that a lot of EU money is in the USA, and with Trump it’s monkey see, monkey do. Except for “the EU should” read “the USA should”, for “Russian accounts” read “EU accounts”, for “bankroll Ukraine” read “line Trump’s pockets”, and for “because Russia owes Ukraine reparations” read “because Trump likes money”.

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“Just because you’re not interested in politics doesn’t mean politics isn’t interested in you”. Israel, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Western Sahara, etc… these are all countries in Europe’s immediate vicinity and what happens in these countries affects the EU whether we want it to or not. If I’m rich, I’d rather live in a nice neighborhood with neighbors who are doing as well as I am, than in a dangerous neighborhood where all the neighbors see me as a stuck-up rich boy whose car has too many hubcaps.

The STILL ongoing civil war in Libya, for instance, causes a constant stream of migration across the Mediterranean, with a lot of human trafficking, because Libya hasn’t got time to worry about that when Libyans are killing other Libyans.

Morocco intentionally sent refugees into Ceuta for politically motivated reasons.

An unstable Arabian Peninsula is not good for Europe. An unstable North Africa is not good for Europe. Perhaps the USA can cause shitstorms in the Middle East and then blithely walk away back to the other hemisphere, but that shit is on our doorstep.

He’s not saying “we’re gonna target civilian aircraft”, he’s saying “we’re starting to really like using drones to hit various targets in Russia and are planning on doing more of that, so civilian aircraft might wanna avoid flying through Russia because it’s gonna be hard to fly around all the drones there”.

It’s interesting how the main argument Israel gives for its ethnic cleansing of Palestine is “security”, when the people pushing the ethnic cleansing are abysmal at actually keeping Israel secure.

Or to paraphrase one of Bibi’s frenemies: “I like the leaders who DIDN’T let October 7th happen on their watch”.

Different Charles Dickens novel.

None of those recommendations are gonna be acted on under Trump.

You say that as if it’s up to the EU whether Russia attacks or not. Then again I suppose it is, insofar as si vis pacem, para bellum.

Stopping genocide by doing what?

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Keep it up, Europe! You have the public’s support

You should put more thought into the arguments you make, because clearly 11 members would.