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Wow. I knew the current administration was bad but this is something extra. It also shows the short-sightedness of the "scholars" in the administration. Sure,
by _doctor_love 7mo ago
Wow. I knew the current administration was bad but this is something extra.
It also shows the short-sightedness of the "scholars" in the administration. Sure, the Avignon Papacy did occur, that's historical fact.
It's also a historical fact that the Catholic Church is an actually ancient power broker in the world still and they have been around for much, much longer than the United States. The Church is actually quite good at playing the long game (and I say that as someone raised firmly Protestant).
I saw a headline in NYT today saying this current historical situation is the United States "Suez Crisis" moment. Hard to disagree and hard to see how America recovers from this. I don't feel the pinch will come in the next few years but by 2036 I think the US will wonder what happened.
Also...I don't think a fast-follow conflict in Cuba right after this Iran affair is going to do much good, but that seems like where their appetite is going next.
- reactordev 7mo agoAI, Politics, Social Media, and indifference have all played their part. It’s not just the administration. The administration just knows how to manipulate those things.
- _doctor_love 7mo agoI would reluctantly have to agree. The current administration is the culmination of something like 30 years of effort.
- SauciestGNU 7mo agoI'd say closer to 90-100. At least since the New Deal, but probably since the times leading up to it. The America First movement in the lead up to WW2 who thought we should side with the Nazis is indistinguishable from the America First movement today, which is comprised of Nazis.
- ASalazarMX 7mo agoIt's a sombering thought that Germans were not all nazis, their government was. Right now USA has a lot of (semi)closet nazis both in economic and political positions of power.
- red-iron-pine 7mo agoBig business interests have been pushing for this since the 1970s; a proto Tea Party, which morphed into the Fox News and actual Tea Party Putin has been working on this since he came to power, ~30 some years Israel has been trying to make the US do its dirty work since the first oil crisis in the 70s too / Yom Kippur War.
- reactordev 7mo agoIt’s been a field day for them this last year…
- queenkjuul 7mo agoIt's just business as usual for the empire really. Trump just dropped the mask
- Imustaskforhelp 7mo ago> Also...I don't think a fast-follow conflict in Cuba right after this Iran affair is going to do much good, but that seems like where their appetite is going next. I was watching a video by Man carrying thing about Iran war, (he makes skit about things which are still good) and he mentioned the Cuba thing. I am being 100% serious right now, I thought that it was just a joke of the skit. Are we actually being serious right now of America doing a conflict with Cuba? After the Iran war where now Iran gets to tax the Strait of Hormuz, something it previously didn't do. As Non-American, where is my say in all of this, heck, where is the say of every american in all of this. Nearly all the americans I know/talk to is disappointed themselves in all of this. You have got to be joking about yet another conflict.
- lostlogin 7mo ago> After the Iran war where now Iran gets to tax the Strait of Hormuz, something it previously didn't do. I find it hilarious that one of the conditions of the ceasefire is that the straight opens. It was open prior to the war. Great negotiation. Wow.
- Aurornis 7mo agoThat's how ceasefires work. One of the conditions of a ceasefire is that they cease firing. There was no firing prior to the war.
- lostlogin 7mo agoWhere does the tax on shipping fit into this? The US administration and military look like fools.
- rebolek 7mo agoOf course they look like fools, war has changed very quickly in last few years since their friend Putin fully attacked Ukraine but they’re arrogant enough to not notice. Super-sophisticated ultra-expensive weapons are really nice to have but not that useful against swarms of cheap drones.
- orochimaaru 7mo agoSo but T is unbiased. He threatens the Holy See and the holy khamenei. Just another day.
- Imustaskforhelp 7mo ago> So but T is unbiased. He threatens the Holy See and the holy khamenei. Reminded me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hSEwy8ZORc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hSEwy8ZORc (Herbert Moon blames the Jewish British Catholic Homosexual elite for the undead plague.)
- ourmandave 7mo agoEvery day is a new WTF? moment, but that's the point. They keep pushing and pushing until the unthinkable is the new normal. POTUS F' bombing on Easter? Sure, why not.
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- _doctor_love 7mo agoNot sure if you'll find it useful, but this is a prompt I fire when looking at an article. I plug it into all the three main LLM providers, turn on web search (or deep research on occasion) and then see what comes up. focus: {url} Analyze the article and provide a brief summary. Then analyze the topic across the political spectrum, from The Nation to National Review. Bring in Financial Times and WSJ coverage as well, include The Economist also. Analyze coverage of the topic from domestic US news sources and then international news sources. Consider finally what is outside the Overton window on the topic.
- nickthegreek 7mo agoTrump did not rename DoD to DoW like you confidently state to GPT. DoW is a secondary title bestowed to the DoD (as that is all the power the President has). It would take an act of congress to rename the DoD to the DoW. Your chatgpt results are so much different than mine. Are you using thinking on the newest model on a paid account? Do you have a strong personalization prompt enabled?
- queenkjuul 7mo agoJust read the fucking article, what is wrong with you
- theodric 7mo agoLaziness, and only marginally caring about this international drama that affects me not in the slightest
- 1attice 7mo agoOh I am so excited to see what happens to you next from this. But you'll never connect the dots. It will be "just" a layoff, "just" higher prices for everything, "just" a mortgage of 10% and stagflation everywhere on Earth. Buckle up, my insouciant friend; you will find the future both hard and surprising.
- bigbadfeline 7mo ago> I saw a headline in NYT today saying this current historical situation is the United States "Suez Crisis" moment. From the get go it looked like an engineered "Suez Crisis", on the inside and out. Nobody with real power is that dumb. > Hard to disagree and hard to see how America recovers from this. Hard or not, there's no alternative to recovery.
- xethos 7mo agoBluntly, the alternative to recovery is failure to recover. America being the sole superpower in a mono-polar world until the end of time is hardly pre-ordained