Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]

Thumb-Key, hands down!

(By the way, in case anybody doesn’t get my reference, it’s “My N@zi Roommate” by Atun-Shei Films)

During his inauguration speech, [Trump] referred to the U.S. as a growing nation expanding its territory.

“Yo, Klaus, what is this?”

“It is the natural Order. My Beer requires enough Territory to support its Population.”

“Dude, make some room in there, I just got some Soft Parade for my friend in Michigan and I want it to be cold by tonight.”

“That’s not going to happen.”

“Excuse me??”

“German Beer is superior both in Taste and Culture. It must be allowed enough Territory to survive and to thrive, lest less civilized Beers, which are more energetic, take their Place. A Day will come when the Fridge is dominated by the Laws of Nature, and Nature favors those Beers which are of a more brutal Vim. It is only right that the strong and the pure should dominate, and not every Beer has a Right to exist.”

“Are we… still talking about beer?”

“Of course we are. What else would we be talking about? — Besides, your Pisswater has its Place, in the Back, where it belongs.”

“OK man, well um… I gotta go do some work.”

“Auf Wiedersehen.”

“What if you stepped on dog poop out on the street, and you went home without realizing it? What if the American father and mother and eldest son and eldest daughter all stepped on poop and went home without realizing it?”

If what you’re trying to get at is that whereas it is very important to unlearn the lies and exaggerations one was told about a country, that people also need to avoid replacing these lies with an overly simplistic and uncritical understanding of that same country, and that the current social media landscape makes it very difficult for many people to have the necessary nuance to avoid this pitfall… Then I would agree with you, but I’d also tell you that mentioning the eugenicists’ favorite way of measuring “intelligence” is a very bad way of phrasing this idea, and that your standards of what counts as “circle-jerking” about a country are probably not nearly as inviting of nuance as you’d think.

We wouldn’t need a translation feature if cxiuj lernis Esperanton, just sayin’

(I mean, we would, but)

HELL yeah

Hasn’t China also sold drones to Indonesia for use in West Papua? I think that might’ve stopped, though, but I’m not sure.

I am waowin’

I am bakin’

I have lost it all

I remarked the previous time this Telegraph article came up that I don’t believe Professor Anna Smajdor (who is a philosopher and not a physician) was sincerely endorsing the idea of whole-body gestational donation (WBGD). The key line in the Telegraph article is this:

Prof Smajdor argues that there is no moral difference in such circumstances between organ donation and surrogacy.

This makes it seem to me like Smajdor is really just trying to comment on the ethics of organ donation by imagining something obviously horrifying that would follow from what she considers to be the same rationale. Indeed, Smajdor’s article as written (which you can download here — I will note that I have only read it in part) concludes with this passage:

What I put forward here can be viewed as a thought experiment on one hand. But if we regard WBGD as being clearly outrageous, this suggests we have some uncomfortable questions to answer about the future of cadaveric organ donation. On the other hand, if WBGD is viewed as a straightforward means of facilitating safer reproduction, and avoiding the moral problems of surrogacy, we should be ready to embrace it as a logical and beneficial extension of activities that we already treat as being morally unproblematic.

…So I dunno, it just bothers me that we’d be taking a headline in the fucking Telegraph at face value.

The article itself seems to be saying that this “defense boost” was something Denmark was already planning on doing, and Trump’s remark really just coincidentally came just before they actually signed off on it. The Danish defense minister, Troels Lund Poulsen, called the timing an “irony of fate”.

The article describes the boost as encompassing the following:

1. Two new inspection ships.
2. Two new long-range drones.
3. Two new dog sled teams.
4. Increased staffing at Arctic Command.
5. Upgrades to a civilian airport to be able to handle supersonic fighter jets.

It’s worth noting that the Arctic Command carries out a lot of tasks other than just defense per se, and as SoyViking pointed out, Danish military buildup in Greenland is largely due to anti-Russian paranoia rather than anything to do with Seppoland.

A “small invasion” of Mexico, Canada as the 51st state is a “great idea”, controlling Greenland is an “absolute necessity”, and he also wants the Panama Canal to return to US control to boot. Is our big wet boy trying to, like, speedrun expansionism?

Holy Hell, who could’ve possibly seen this coming!

It makes my blood boil. I can practically feel the drool of capitalist ghouls salivating at the thought of forcing a third world war — they can barely conceal their glee about their own profits and the preservation of their dictatorship through words about a “deteriorating security situation” even though they brought that “deterioration” upon themselves.

And now, it seems, the capitalist ghouls will convince people that risks are more real than they are, by building bunkers, and mailing pamphlets, and putting aircraft carriers in our harbors, and tripling the number of American military bases in Norway, and doing military exercises in the middle of dense urban centers, et cetera et cetera et cetera. The people of Europe generally trust their governments still, so they would see all of these things happening around them and assume that it must be for “a good reason”, right? Because it would be an awful lot of effort to just be “theater”, right?

Thus when the people are trusting of their own government, they are easily scared; and when the naïve are terrified, they’re more willing to accept this sort of absolute nonsense, the idea of a “preemptive strike” in this case, which will surely trigger or bring us within inches of a third world war.

“For the sake of security” — Give me a break!

I’ve tried to look into what the Rome Statute says about non-cooperation, and historical cases of this happening, and it really would seem like the Statute’s “mechanism” against non-cooperation is just a complete dead-end. So states “obligated” to respect arrest warrants can just ignore their obligations and nothing will happen to them whatsoever. Sasuga.

This is such a fucking scam, Jesus Christ. No wonder my immediate response to this news was “That was a lot sooner than I expected!” — no, it’s still gonna be a long time yet before the Brits and Seps will actually concede their rule of Diego Garcia in any meaningful way. This agreement is as good as toilet paper.

I wonder when Lalit is gonna make a statement about this agreement.

It isn’t like American elections are in any way real or the government of the United States gives a fuck about the people who live there.

Pfft! Obviously elections in the USA are legitimate. After all, every single US state and electoral district is situated entirely on land that the USA legally annexed, right?