In particular I like the last line.

“It’s all true, but you’re still an asshole”.

I mean, Mossad agents repeatedly stated at his apartment, and his main aide was the daughter of the most famous Israeli agent in history.

…IDK, the sentiment in the article doesn’t strike me as disappointment, just resignation. More “it is what it is” than the leopard-faces moments you see from, eg., Miami Cubans. Even the woman who voted for him sounds more like she rolled the dice than she actually thought he would help.

Were there? I saw people saying there was functionally no difference, but not that he was better.

IDK, the Altman talk a few days ago sounded a lot like bargaining.

Well, there is the argument that a lot of aggressive actions by the Third Reich were in part an attempt to keep their economy from collapsing after blowing everything on the military.

The same argument, from the opposite side, is made by Bob Altmeyer in “The Authoritarians”: there is a psychological profile defined by a desire to be, and have everyone else be, a cog in the machine - the purpose of which is entirely irrelevant.

It’s the sauerkraut.

I believe it’s called “pressing the advantage”. Or, by the looks of it, “overplaying your hand”.

If I remember Devereaux, the village itself was set up to minimise that risk first and foremost, at the expense of optimisation for max yields. So, every year was around subsistence, never much above, but also never much lower.

…So, then, running a socialist would take votes away from Trump, no?

If anything, I’d say that makes it even more glaring.

ITT: Americans once again diging up the nuanced difference between the people and the government from the memory hole they dumped it in the last time Russia was mentioned.

To be fair, you also went to war because the fuckers shot first.

“First as a tragedy, then as a farce”

This is Juan Guaido erasure!

“Fascism arises from the collapse of legitimacy of liberal institutions”

They should just give the next one to Kissinger, posthumously. Just drive the point home.

They don’t consider those people “America”.

Not American, haven’t posted an image in quite a while, and wasn’t joking. Three strikes - you’re out!