CarmineCatboy2

I think that would prove too limiting. That is, pending a sudden Yellowstone mega-eruption. That said, these are partner countries. Meaning that no consensus was reached as to them joining as full members, and their consensus is not required as to other countries joining as full members either.

I think its a defense mechanism. Some people overreact to any implication that they aren't being their best moral selves. Sometimes with anger, others with denial. An example of the former is the unwarranted hatred that gets thrown at vegans. Not for being vegan but for the implication that the non vegan is being a bad person. That's where the viciousness comes from: we, as a culture, are obsessed with being a good person and drawing a line between ourselves and the bad people.

Weaponized delusion can arise from that same place. These death of the author types are harnessing denial to hollow themselves out. Instead of confronting the author's monstrous nature they avoid it. They get to have their cake and eat it too, condemning the monster while celebrating his works.

Funnily enough people I know were treated better than they expected in Paris, and worse than they expected in Barcelona. Came out of Europe thinking all the racists were in Spain.

One particularly common line that I've seen is that 'Trump and Netanyahu have been illegally in contact just to make Biden look bad'. It's taking the pathetic nature of Biden's administration and just running with it.

i reserve the right to be lazy and or not pay for another service

before the invention of standard maoist english, there was the brazilian state of Santa Catareich

Unironically true. The person best primed to enter the cult of Elon is the tech-bro. Those people also tend to play videogames. Which in turn means they are primed for takeover by chud channels. Elon's fuck up is such that even the biggest chud channels can't help but point and laugh.

I used to think that the one redeemable skill Musk has is that he's a good marketer. He created the self image of a genius inventor and turned it into several speculative bubbles all his to profit from. Mayhap that was never even true because at the very least his ego is stabbing him in the back.

Elon could have made a video of him being a normal player having fun and fucking up at a Path of Exile boss. He'd have gained mad 'respect' from everyone who watched him. But no, he has to be the Tony Stark of videogame timewasters. It's just embarrassing.

As a rule of thumb, its always way easier to put sanctions and such in place than it is to remove them.

The US is famously the sort of country that takes its massive in-house crude production and adds in different types of petroleum from the rest of the world to create a robust and very lucrative refining industry.

This seems like just a way to scam the american people at large by charging extra for energy. It's not the sort of measure that increases internal production either because actual crude production in the US has been in a plateau for a long time now. Not because of lack of demand. But because that's just how things are. Oil is not an infinite resource.

there are like 50 'US intelligence agencies' and most of them are privatized nonsense. its not all CIAs, FBIs and DHSs.

whoops, all Puerto Ricos

This is obviously irrelevant to Canada since its a resource colony of the US. But its obviously relevant to almost everybody else. Trump's tariffs creates a world where nobody but the most efficient exporters of all time have access to the US market. Meaning China. And everybody else becomes more dependent of China as a result.