there is not any particularly strong evidence that study of the humanities make people good people. the elites of many brutal empires were extremely well-read!

Interesting priorities...

Israel has impressive military, but also a joke of of "justice" and "law enforcement" systems, let alone the tragedy that is human rights there.

I used to support Israel, but now it is just another (very well armed) MENA shithole.

The dignity of one NATO secretary general is a small price to pay for the security of the European continent.

Opinie: Duur, inefficiënt en ongezellig – we subsidiëren de verkeerde studentenwoningen

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for a while Musk really did seem like the most relatable billionaire. yeah, if i had that kind of money I'd want to go to space and make sports cars, etc. Turned out that was just PR, and what he really wanted out of life was to be seen as funny by teenaged Nazis on the Internet

Dear Mexico, Canada, Panama, and Europe:

100 percent tariffs on Tesla.

this is the big problem with "oh he's just talking shit"

POTUS doesn't get to talk shit, the words out of his mouth become the official policy of the United States upon utterance

if he tweets tomorrow "CANADA IS THE 51st STATE" that means jets are getting scrambled no matter what

To the government of Denmark: the best thing you can do re: Greenland threats, is to not express fear but anger instead. “Keep threatening and we will deny you access to Greenland.” Trump, like Putin, understands threats and will back down.

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Geert Wilders dreigt de extra steun aan Oekraïne te torpederen. Als de VVD, BBB & NSC écht pal achter Oekraïne staan, dan moet dit een kabinetscrisis betekenen. Of waren het allemaal mooie woorden voor de bühne?

Voor geprivilegieerde liefhebbers van de liberale democratie is het tijd om ergens hun vechtlust vandaan te halen

Despite never wanting to write about this again, I have written about whether or not we should take Trump's rhetoric around things like using military force against Greenland seriously, even if the ideas aren't presented seriously.

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“If only America had seen Carter’s real accomplishments and hadn’t senselessly turned him into a figure of contempt, we could have avoided electing the clownish TV star who followed in his wake.”

*two minutes later*

“Joe Biden is a do-nothing whose entire administration is a failure”

Dry needling: zelfs premier Schoof deed het, maar werkt het eigenlijk wel tegen pijn?