I’m loving this Nic Cage renaissance

In case someone doesn’t get the reference

“Sub? What sub? We didn’t sink any subs. If a Russian sub sank they probably sank it themselves.”

Sweden should get to sink one of them, as a treat

Republicans who have integrity, and are truly committed to the true Republican tenets.

What you see now have always been the “true” Republican tenets. Their talk about “small government”, just like with literally all conservatives, has always been a façade.

The Party is more important than having principles

Twatter is also acceptable

If you think conservatives are unhinged now, just imagine what they’ll be like in a few years after the conservative-dominated media field (including more traditional publishers, online platforms, and social media) really starts normalizing nazism. It’s still not quite this normal on most “mainstream” platforms, but it probably won’t take more than a few years for it to be completely normalized.

Oh yes that’s true, or poor category naming too. The HOPE not hate page the article links to uses the same naming & descriptions, so I guess the description is more important than the name of the category?

Financially insecure and politically volatile, the diverse Contrarian Youth mix cynicism and conspiracy with flashes of optimism and a craving for belonging.

45% of “contrarian youths” are over 35 (10% are over 55)?

Yeah great polling there

I’m a non-native English speaker, learned it by watching cartoons without subtitles when I was a wee little squirt

Europe does produce more artillery shells than the US or at least that was the situation the last time I checked a few months ago, but I was specifically wondering about missiles since that’s what was brought up in the headline (and drones too although I didn’t mention it in my previous comment).

Not sure we even have locally produced ground launched missiles that’d be equivalent to eg. the ATACMS? I’m honestly not too up to speed on the military industry situation; I do know that the European missiles that are most often in the news – SCALP-EG and Taurus – are both air-launched.

I’m maybe not quite as optimistic about thinking that US reich-wingers would be averse to dictators, considering how happily they’ve gone along with a domestic dictator, and how obviously enamored many conservatives are with Russia (or a Russia-like system in any case.)

But my ultimate problem with relying on the US for, well, anything really is that there are no guarantees that the Trump regime or one of its successors won’t just leave us out to dry, or won’t try to extort us in exchange for aid. As long as a conservative mafia-like regime is in power, any agreement isn’t going to be worth the paper it’s written on

NATO outproduces the Russians, or mostly the US outproduces them? Do eg. Rheinmetall or Nammo produce missiles?

This distinction is important because I doubt we can actually trust the US as an ally against Russia at this point.

Even if they were trolling, anybody who’d spend that much time pretending to be a sociopath is fucked in the head

Haha being gay is bad amirite

Angelika Niebler of the Christian Social Union says fraud allegations by the EU’s prosecutors are “unfounded.”

Reich-wingers trying to take responsibility challenge

Weird hill to die on