Other countries have gone along with a surprising (to me anyway!) number of Trump's demands, but I think Greenland goes beyond what they will accept, and if he keeps pushing it many other deals could unravel.

This is the guy who sheltered Orbán in the EPP for years and then had the brass neck to pretend to be standing up for European values against autocratisation. And now he wants a rinse and repeat?

The logical problems with PW are so well known they don't need much rehearsing. It's not so much an argument as a vulnerability report on human belief formation that explains why certain kinds of religious claims tend to spread virally.

I hadn't known until I saw this writeup from @friendlyatheist.com that Scott Adams announced a very transactional deathbed conversion to Christianity, which I find fascinating because it makes very clear what's wrong with Pascal's Wager *theologically*. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/scott-adam...

Agreed with 90% of the piece but doubts crept in with this passage. Not sure a regime can erode basic state and economic capacity with few consequences

These problems can destabilise a regime over time or generate civil conflict if succession is botched once the leader is gone

I cannot overstate how insanely funny this particular backstab is.

the markets have spoken and they're woke and gay

Hungary is not an Autarchic Sovereignist closed economy!

If they copy Orban then they are copying a vibe and empty slogans without any relation to reality

The Hu economic 'Nationalism' was fed by infinite subsidies from Brussels. There is nothing to replicate here outside sloganeering vibes

The economy in HU is in the shithole now precisely because its effectively the sole EU state not to receive the COVID recovery funds due to Orban being a thief

Lawn-sign ready (via @scottlincicome.bsky.social).

The Romanian Deep State is so powerful its taking down Twitter now to stop the Georgescu stans

The woke far-left anti-family feminist agenda of feminist harpies hopping from man to man hundreds of times a year must have Hungary on an ironclad grip I assume

These “chess masters of the great game” twats are nearly always fucking American or Russian something.

There’s no place for Ireland or Estonia or Palestine in how these people see the world.

My entire reaction to that way of thinking is basically just “die imperialist scum”. I demand better sorry.

Idk if it’s just being from a small country that was only part of someone else’s empire, but the neo-realist framing that Russia gets a veto on any country other than Russia joining the EU because it’s a former imperial territory and “great power” dynamics must be respected is just revolting to me.

we’re all trying to find the guy who did this

Russia bombs hospitals on two different continents and yet we still get a deluge of "imagine if Russia did this" guys whenever someone else does a war crime

I have long had zero patience with Americans who furiously post about how cool and fun a bloody leftist revolution would be, because that is the stupid shit you say when you don’t know very much about how those revolutions tend to go for people who aren’t rich and powerful

Tariffs were another area of policy continuity between Biden and Trump that were, on the whole, bad. I understand the rationale for some strategic things especially against China specifically, but it was definitely broader than that.