force disarmerment

Current standard for disarming is to eliminate Iran’s ability to make medium range artillery. I’m not sure what that would even look like. You’d need to do to Iran what the US failed to do to Yemen.

German right-wing party AfD’s close ties to China

The AfD has deeper ties to Elon Musk, Steven Miller, and Steve Bannon than anyone currently working in the Chinese Communist Party. And that’s outright ignoring the mass proliferation of home grown fascism, thanks to Friedrich Flick, Fritz Thyssen, and Günther Quandt - all of whose business empires have spawned fascist movements leading right up to the modern era.

The Sinophobia is, itself, a product of that extreme right-wing language and culture. By propagating it, you’re spouting fascist rhetoric and contributing to the fascist turn across the US and Europe.

It’s a fundamentally extremist party with close ties to and backed by China

Blaming Hitler on China.

Decoding Australia’s “China Threat”

They better not be getting any of those batteries from China.

I gotta wonder which Europeans were chanting “Less Ethnic Unity!”

The Germans? The French? Certainly not the Portuguese.

Gotta say, this feels like a great moment to lead by example. How many European states are excited about a large Muslim ethnic enclave running a rump state in their own backyards? Bueller? Anybody?

Hey, how about we at least let Turkiye join the EU? Oh wow wow! Now you’re all super mad at me! Okay, put down the guns, I’ll leave.

Why?

Well, for starters… nobody really likes being tortured and caged indefinitely.

Their kit is junk and they don’t know shit.

Pete Hegseth after his morning bender.

The Israel Special

Strike a civilian center. Strike the EMS workers that respond to the attack. Strike anyone who responds to aid the EMS workers.

Eventually, what you’ve killed isn’t simply other humans. What you’ve killed is the popular supply of social empathy. You’ve engaged in a kind of natural selection, by which anyone with a reflexively decent and caring bone in their body is wiped from the face of the Earth.

This is how you destroy a civilization. This is how you make the rest of the Middle East more Israeli.

And once they’ve got the plutonium to trade, another four days away from getting ahold of Doc Brown’s time machine.

Older versions of him work. The newer versions tend to be Wizard in a Gundam.

I had him as more of a Lex Luthor.

Larry Ellison feels like more of a Bond Villain.

Mark Zuckerberg could work as some kind of 80s/90s action movie baddie. I know a good analog is out there, but the best I can come up with is the VP from Robocop or the various evil CEOs from Tron.

Elon Musk feels like a Captain Planet villain.

Compared to Western, modern designs

When was the last time the US built a reactor successfully?

It’s weird to see this much of a cover-up of the mismanagement of a nuclear facility while people insist we need to build more, bigger, and less regulated facilities.

I wonder what the Polymarket on Chernobyl would have looked like if it existed back then.

Chinese Robots on notice.

Trump single handedly doing more to end fossil fuel addiction than the last five presidencies combined

Of the 76M Boomers born between '45 and '69, 64M are still alive. With a life expectancy of 85 and the first traumch entering their 80s this year, we would expect to see a rapid fall off in the population (or a rapid climb in life expectancy average) over the next decade

But nothing in the (incredibly brief) article seems to say what they’d be trading.

Stalking horse for the next round of anti-China hysterics.

Canada, at all costs, must be prevented from importing Chinese EVs and solar panels

Marinho told Mello to hold off adding BYD’s name, without citing any technical justification, the sources said.

Two days later, a court granted BYD an injunction removing it from the list. A final ruling is pending.

Wait, so what’s the problem here?