unnamednewbie13
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the resignations in general, to be specific. when it's stooge for a stooge it does feel inconsequential.

i think you're right about the mood not reflecting the threat. trump is a mad king willing to drag the world into the grave with him, and people are still like "well congress/courts won't let him do xyz. it will never happen!" while we invade and threaten and insult and bully with abandon. may be at the point where we can't wait ant longer, and one of the princes will have to do their duty and lower the curtain on the era of teflon don, for the sake of all humankind and the last frayed shred of american dignity!

et tu, barron?
SuperJail Warden
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We are already in a recession. GDP growth in 2025 was revised down and we were losing jobs 3 months in a row before the war even started.

...

Newbie, have you done anything I suggested in regards to getting involved with IRL politics? If you get involved on a local level you will feel much more in control of your life and less likely to fall into despair.
https://i.imgur.com/xsoGn9X.jpg
unnamednewbie13
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i live in a blue city in a blue county of a blue state. where i live specifically is fine as far as locals have control of things. if local dems actually needed a hand with an event, i'd even help pick up plastic bottles after. not a lot i can do about a hundred million americans' maga votes and the international chaos of trump, though.

this is more advice you'd give to the listless republicans of washington on their ntieth year in a row whining about the blue governor streak here. if they want to see change. actively change the candidates and platform to something washingtonians want to vote for!

aren't you the one saying you're tired of engaging in political stuff, anyway? not that i blame you. i watch city council on stream and like 2/3 of everything said is 'uh, ah, um' and silent pauses for thought while gabbing about the merits or demerits of making a major road connection near a hospital.

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SuperJail Warden
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I live in deep blue too. Don't take it for granted and expect other people to maintain it for you.

...

I don't remember saying that but it could have been venting. I have a city council meeting in an hour. Clothing drive tomorrow. You could start very small by helping organize a local charity event.
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unnamednewbie13
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it's not that i don't track it or anything. gotta make sure we don't go purple, after all!

haven't you denigrated these charity events? "i'm tired of spending time on these ingrates" or whatever.
SuperJail Warden
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I personally challenge you to just do one charity event. You have the skills to make a poster, talk to some people, collect some stuff and take a picture.

That is within your power. Republicans in Tennessee aren't going to stop you from doing right by your community.
https://i.imgur.com/xsoGn9X.jpg
SuperJail Warden
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unnamednewbie13 wrote:

haven't you denigrated these charity events? "i'm tired of spending time on these ingrates" or whatever.
Yes and then I get together and help the ingrates again.
https://i.imgur.com/xsoGn9X.jpg
unnamednewbie13
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side note, charity stuff is bittersweet in its necessity. literal human interest stories built around the orphan crusher that wouldn't exist if we were a proper society that understood remediating stuff like homelessness and poverty saves money. i buy into food drives, and give money directly to people so they can buy groceries (without ghoulishly filming it for internet points). it's not special and not something i want to beat my chest about. not even a visible ripple from the forest view of billionaire-hoarded resources. there's also a good chance i've been scammed on that in the past, but it's worth it if it meant others got to eat within a starvation-averting timeline between then and whenever americans decide we don't mind if a person on food stamps buys a bag of corn chips.
uziq
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current scenes coming out of the ME are apocalyptic. looks like a rubicon has been crossed in the global energy crisis.

-25% to global LNG supplies and a huge hit to helium is not going to be good. lots of products essential to semiconductor manufacturing.

AI bubble will pop soon if the massive datacentre roll-out cannot proceed apace.

trump has basically caused the biggest economic issue since the 1970s oil crisis.
unnamednewbie13
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i literally have no gas left in the tank for talking about that stuff with a lot of trumpers who voted for trump because they wanted fuel prices to drop a few cents. "if only biden did this instead, and obama is what lead us here to begin with" even as they're getting wrung dry as a direct result of trump decisions. if only it could just affect them.

they're not even up to date on the whole ai situation. the thing all the techbros boosting trump love so much. "consequences? i'm sure it won't be that bad."
SuperJail Warden
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This is America's Suez Crisis moment. Our allies refuse to help us. Our own economy is shot too. How can you trust us to defend Taiwan when we don't have the heart to commit to this thing?
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uziq
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you killed 150 schoolgirls, either on purpose or relying on fucking anthropic AI to devise your top targets, on day one.

you've just intentionally targeted the largest gas field in the world.

this is a bit more than suez. your country is literally fucking up everything for the rest of everyone. with zero off-ramps.

all to depose a regime that had totally agreed to hand over their enriched uranium and to kill a cleric who literally issued a fatwa against developing a nuclear bomb. you guys are fucking stupid. your allies hate you.
SuperJail Warden
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A lot of us know it is bad. We are trying our best to oppose it.
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uziq
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we are really in that stage of idiocracy where a retard president and his 'department of war', riding high off the chinook fumes of capturing a puppet dictator in latin america, are continuing to plan foreign forays based on Claude. that's really where we are at.

it's hilarious seeing the top-ranking members of the iranian eilte you guys are killing on a daily basis. PhDs, engineers, philosophers. meanwhile you've got chud hegseth and a bunch of populist stooges who think a chatbot is like consulting with an oracle for auguries before battle.
unnamednewbie13
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i remember back when it was popular to make fun of people for comparing current events to idiocracy.

i also remember people making fun of george lucas for making the prequels about an interstellar war waged over trade routes.
unnamednewbie13
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reminded of

uziq
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trump insulting the PM of japan to her face over pearl harbour. considering how badly all this LNG stuff is affecting the japanese economy, lol ..

south korea forfeited - what? - several hundred billion dollars worth of trade and reciprocal agreements with china? in agreeing to host THAAD/patriot systems within their borders. huge diplomatic furore at the time and a major cause of offense within the region. within 10 days of a conflict in the middle-east ... yoink, america withdraws those white elephants overnight.

america has a consistent pattern of asking a lot of its closest allies and then pissing in their mouths. not sustainable.
uziq
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another case in point: trump keeps personally insulting starmer and saying "he's no winston churchill". he's profoundly disappointed in the UK.

meanwhile:

https://ukdj.ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/2026/03/fr24.jpg

you've been using our soil as staging posts to murder schoolgirls the whole time, you fucking yankoid morons. decades of rent-free british facilities. the EU won't even let your elite fearsome bombers travel through its airspace, because what you're doing is so illegal and harmful to civilian infrastructure.

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uziq
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Denmark prepared for a possible U.S. attack: Flew blood supplies to Greenland and planned to blow up runways

Key sources in Denmark and Europe are now revealing for the first time what happened during the most critical days, when Donald Trump threatened to take Greenland “the hard way.”

When Danish soldiers were rapidly deployed to Greenland in January this year, they brought explosives with them. The plan was to destroy runways in Nuuk and Kangerlussuaq to prevent American military aircraft from landing troops on the island, should the U.S. president ultimately decide to seize Greenland by force.

They also transported blood supplies from Danish blood banks so wounded personnel could be treated in case of combat.

This is reported by DR, which over the past year has spoken with central sources in the Danish government, top military officers, and high-ranking officials and intelligence sources in Denmark, France, and Germany.

All sources have played—and continue to play—key roles in the international crisis triggered by the United States’ demand for control over Greenland.

Together, the sources describe an unprecedented year marked by sleepless nights. None of them had concrete intelligence of specific American attack plans against Greenland. Still, many feared in January that the historically important ally, the United States, could attack at any moment.

At the same time, Denmark reached out to its European allies, leading to closer cooperation.

“With the Greenland crisis, Europe realized once and for all that we must be able to handle our own security,” said a French senior official involved in the intense period.

A rapid-response force consisting of Danish, French, German, Norwegian, and Swedish soldiers was first deployed to Nuuk and Kangerlussuaq.

Shortly after, a main force followed, including:
-Soldiers from the Danish Dragoon Regiment in Holstebro
-Elite troops from the Jaeger Corps
-French alpine troops trained for cold and mountainous warfare

At the same time, Danish fighter jets and a French naval vessel were sent to the North Atlantic.

According to several sources, the goal of having multinational troops on the ground was to ensure that any U.S. attempt to take Greenland would require a large-scale hostile action—thereby deterring such an attempt.

“We have not been in such a situation since April 1940,” said a Danish defense source, referring to the days before Denmark’s occupation during World War II.

Unlike in 1940, when Denmark chose not to resist militarily, the government and defense leadership this time decided—after extensive confidential discussions—to take the opposite approach:

If the U.S. attempted an attack, Danish forces would be armed and ready to fight. Danish F-35 fighter jets deployed north were also fully armed.

All this despite the understanding that Denmark could not realistically withstand a U.S. military attack.

“The cost for the U.S. had to be raised. The U.S. would have to carry out a hostile act to take Greenland,” said a senior Danish defense source.

Source: DR
it is amazing how much you’ve burned the good will of basically centrist liberal europeans who were all eagerly helping out as your allies.
unnamednewbie13
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uziq wrote:

trump insulting the PM of japan to her face over pearl harbour. considering how badly all this LNG stuff is affecting the japanese economy, lol
some of my maga contacts are in love with her because reasons known only to them. let's see if pearl harbor shows up in my inbox soon, and how "nukes were absolutely necessary actually," and how "japanese americans should just get over the concentration camp stuff, that was ages ago!"

uziq wrote:

Denmark prepared for a possible U.S. attack: Flew blood supplies to Greenland and planned to blow up runways

Key sources in Denmark and Europe are now revealing for the first time what happened during the most critical days, when Donald Trump threatened to take Greenland “the hard way.”

When Danish soldiers were rapidly deployed to Greenland in January this year, they brought explosives with them. The plan was to destroy runways in Nuuk and Kangerlussuaq to prevent American military aircraft from landing troops on the island, should the U.S. president ultimately decide to seize Greenland by force.
center-maga: "it will never happen. congress will stop it. the courts will stop it. we will never invade greenland!" shit, i hope.

you fucking yankoid morons.
can't even argue. we need someone back who will counter with 'actually, london stabbings' and 'muslim takeover' or something.

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