It might be helpful to think of how elsewhere in the world, certain ethnic groups experience anxiety if they lack a place where they constitute a majority of the population. It hurts these people more on an tribal level to see Hmongs/Somalis in a place they view as being deep in "their" territory

Minneapolis is to them an archetypal example of an overwhelmingly white place that has been "overrun" by migrants - white people never had such large pop majorities in the West Coast/TX. They probably were fantasizing about "taking Minnesota back" and the Somali brainworms played a contributing role

Russian courtiers screwing their own careers over on gambling that the US will simply force its (& Russia's) will upon Europe and Ukraine - based on the logical fallacy that Europe and Ukraine cannot act independently - would be very on brand

A substantial portion of those analysts and journalists who do care will only care because they live in D.C. and get to see the White House in person regularly

Eric Adams for mayor of Gaza City

Nope, he didn't, my bad. Seems there was a VK post back in May '24 alleging he died in a command post strike, it got shared by some accounts over on Ukraine war Twitter, and then the likes of Yevgeny Poddubny denied it on Telegram. Seems he's alive and well.

Didn't Lapin's son get killed by a HIMARS strike last year? Unless we're talking about posthumous medals

Fortunately for it, despite whatever Netanyahu may say it is rather unlikely that Israel will be compelled to do anything so radical, and even more unlikely that it will become "autarkic" by its own volition

Algeria and Turkey seem like the only destinations left, although with the former Israel could just do a reenactment of Operation Wooden Leg. Turkey is probably the safest option left since it at least *probably* rules out the possibility of using an airstrike, and forces more covert methods instead

At least the Paradox Youtubers managed to bully Paradox into adding some bug fixes and improved modding support for Imperator. Better than what we could have reasonably hoped for when they stopped development

If you read what gets said in tech/crypto bro Twitter circles enough you'll see this rhetoric in an already more advanced form. Europe is totalitarian, stagnant, pessimistic and choking under bureaucracy while the US is innovative, forward looking, optimistic and only growing more wealthier.

If I was a TSLA shareholder I'd be praying X stays offline until markets close. Between the stock market itself and more importantly X being down all day, Elon is liable to rage tweet something that sends S&P down even further

The idea is that interacting with a woman at all is gay, and that ideally the only thing you should be doing is giving your money to a surrogate father figure

Those interest payments are strangling KAMAZ. Are we at the stage yet where they'll just be taking out more loans/bonds at ultra-high interest to pay back the previous set of creditors?

If FSA's current advances can be secured and defended, it should also move a bunch of people in places like Darat Izza out of FPV drone range, making them a *little bit* safer.

At least future prospective authors maybe won't need to pay for new imagery?

For what it's worth, as someone who reads a lot of history books I do notice and appreciate it when images are high quality