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Perhaps you should use the internet and find out before asking questions that are stupendously biased.

Was just discussing this with my wife

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This is not a convincing argument. It tells me nothing about why I should not stand with Europe, rather than American isolationism and pro-Putinism. It doesnt even support your own claim about how Europe "actually" is. Wtf does that even mean.

Europe is sooooooo actually.

What??? What does that mean?

Idk man you just have to know how actually Europe is.

Though I have not lived in Europe, I have traveled there frequently and hold EU citizenship and I cant fathom what you are saying except your prefrence for America, but not why you prefer it.

Trump is ashamed of losers. Only losers get pissed on.

This sounds a lot like being pro-bully. Also, it sounds like you dont unserstand what saber-rattling is. Putin is the one who is saber rattling. We are helping him pay for it by helping him steal land from Ukraine.

How is defending against Putin's encroachment on a soverign country "saber-rattling"?

...how it actually is? What do you mean?

Alternate take: the gilded age was bad for most people, and we dont want to go back.

Nothing like being stuck betweentwo hegemons to galvanize a continent.

As an American: I stand with Europe.

Yes. I see this as a battle against authoritarianism, which is always worth fighting.

Well, what we have now is manifestly not conservatism. I would argue it is Yarvinism:

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

"In his blog Unqualified Reservations, which he wrote from 2007 to 2014, and in his later newsletter Gray Mirror, which he started in 2020, he argues that American democracy is a failed experiment[5] that should be replaced by an accountable monarchy, similar to the governance structure of corporations.[6] In 2002, Yarvin began work on a personal software project that eventually became the Urbit networked computing platform. In 2013, he co-founded the company Tlon to oversee the Urbit project and helped lead it until 2019.[7]

Yarvin has been described as a "neo-reactionary", "neo-monarchist" and "neo-feudalist" who "sees liberalism as creating a Matrix-like totalitarian system, and who wants to replace American democracy with a sort of techno-monarchy".[8][9][10][11] He has defended the institution of slavery, and has suggested that certain races may be more naturally inclined toward servitude than others.[12][13] He has claimed that whites have higher IQs than black people, but does not consider himself a white nationalist. He is a critic of US civil rights programs, and has called the civil rights movement a "black-rage industry".[14]

Yarvin has influenced some prominent Silicon Valley investors and Republican politicians, with venture capitalist Peter Thiel described as his "most important connection".[15] Political strategist Steve Bannon has read and admired his work.[16] U.S. Vice President JD Vance "has cited Yarvin as an influence himself."[17][18][19] Michael Anton, the State Department Director of Policy Planning during Trump's second presidency, has also discussed Yarvin's ideas.[20] In January 2025, Yarvin attended a Trump inaugural gala in Washington; Politico reported he was "an informal guest of honor" due to his "outsize influence over the Trumpian right."[21]"

MMA-based diplomacy.

This is by design. Aleksandr Dugin literally wrote the playbook; it is called "Foundations of Geopolitics":

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

What was that about free markets, Jeff?

They are biased against Musk (IMO, there is reason to be; Musk is biased against our democratic norms), but did Jalopnik make this up?

Facts don't care about your feelings.

Also, recent reporting is indicating that the funding for the Ebola prevention programs has not been restored, contrary to Musk's assertions:

https://www.rawstory.com/ebola/

Most likely, you have 0 proof of your assertion.

Great, so they are turning the LLMs Republican too.

The whole administration is showing a lack of understanding of how our entire country, and indeed the current global order, works.

So you are saying that a unanimous vote is more likely a coup than a reaction to the horror of the president ordering an attack on innocent protesters? An attack that killed some hundred people, in fact.

I guess you could call that a "coup." I guess I could argue that war is peace, too. Both could be called propaganda.

I reeeaaaallllly don’t want this tool to create unnecessary pressure on regular engineers. Any ideas on how to prevent that? I want the bad energy directing in exposing slackers, not adding stress to everyone else.

Then destroy it. It will ultimately be used as a surveillance tool to cow the masses (of engineers, in this case), as all surveillance tech ultimately becomes.

The US has not resumed making payments that were already apportioned by Congress, and cut by DOGE/Trump/Musk.

Most eggs are not produced in "liberal states." 1/3 of eggs in the US are produced in Ohio, Indiana and Iowa. Only 30% of eggs are cage-free.

https://www.eggsunlimited.com/egg-production-101/

You could always buy the non-free range eggs, which are cheaper. If they are not cheaper, that is a function of the egg producers, and not the "liberal states"

We are aware that some people call it a coup, and we point out their factual errors, which are many.

Wait, so the birds will get vaccines, but RFKjasdfjkl won't let us humans get them?

Bezos is 100% Pro-Trump.

Anti-Putin != pro-war

pro-Ukraine != pro-war

Defending one's sovereign territory is not being pro-war. Only a bully would say that defending oneself from the bully is being aggressive.

In more normal times, with a more normal president, I would agree. However, this particular president has shown an absolute lack of interest in the details. It would not surprise me (and is in line with Curtis Yarvin's suggestions of how the government should be run[1]) if Trump were just the executor of Musk's whims.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin

Yarvin has been described as a "neo-reactionary", "neo-monarchist" and "neo-feudalist" who "sees liberalism as creating a Matrix-like totalitarian system, and who wants to replace American democracy with a sort of techno-monarchy". He has defended the institution of slavery, and has suggested that certain races may be more naturally inclined toward servitude than others. He has claimed that whites have higher IQs than black people, but does not consider himself a white nationalist. He is a critic of US civil rights programs, and has called the civil rights movement a "black-rage industry".

Yarvin has influenced some prominent Silicon Valley investors and Republican politicians, with venture capitalist Peter Thiel described as his "most important connection". Political strategist Steve Bannon has read and admired his work. U.S. Vice President JD Vance "has cited Yarvin as an influence himself." Michael Anton, the State Department Director of Policy Planning during Trump's second presidency, has also discussed Yarvin's ideas. In January 2025, Yarvin attended a Trump inaugural gala in Washington; Politico reported he was "an informal guest of honor" due to his "outsize influence over the Trumpian right."

Does constraining opinion markets help or hinder free commercial markets?