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  • Greenland PM Tells People to Prepare for Possible Invasion

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  • Getting real fucking sick of Europeans saying shit like this. You spent the last 70 years benefiting from the U.S.'s obscene military spending, and now you're whining that the superpower has gone mad and come for you. Well, it turns out the imperial boomerang doesn't just describe the people getting beaten and shot by militarized thugs in American streets. It also describes the countries that sat back and watched the U.S. empire grow, occasionally clucking their tongues in disapproval while happily lapping up the benefits of an imperialist ally.

    The empire has come for all of us now. Find solidarity with those who want to fight it or surrender, but throwing up your hands and saying, "it's not my fault, you fix it," sure as shit isn't helping anyone.

  • Greenland PM Tells People to Prepare for Possible Invasion

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  • Well, he was found civilly liable for rape, so I'd say that one is settled. As for pedophilia, we have a lot of circumstantial evidence, and he's literally blocking the release of the hard evidence, so I'd say most reasonable people can come to that conclusion.

  • Stocks sell off globally as traders digest Trump message saying he wants Greenland because ‘your Country decided not to give me the Nobel’

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  • Is every authoritarian strongman a catty old bitch, or is it just ours?

  • Teaching seems like a frustrating job

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  • I mean, that depends on the age. If that kid is 7 or older, yeah, you should probably look into therapy to figure out where that behavior is coming from. 5 or 6, well, kids are still developing emotional regulation at that point. I'm not saying the reaction should be, "OK, we packed a banana," but probably something more like, "Oh no, I'm so sorry, we're going to have a talk about how it's never OK to hit, have you witnessed this kind of behavior before?" then offer to pay for the glasses. (Also, packing a banana isn't a bad idea, as well as making sure he's getting enough sleep. 9 times out of 10, when young kid gets disregulated, they're over-tired or hungry).

  • Trump’s a T-Rex and ‘pathetic’ leaders need to confront him, rages California’s Newsom

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  • "You Europeans need to learn how to stand up to Trump and the far-right fascists! Now if you'll excuse me, I need to get back to my podcast, where I platform people like Steve Bannon, Ben Shapiro, and Charlie Kirk, rest his soul."

  • If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win?

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  • No. Facism rewards loyalty and cronyism, not competency. We have the most powerful military on the planet, but the regime is full of bumbling idiots whose only skills are flattering the president. For now, there's enough brainpower left at the Pentagon to pull off the Maduro abduction or invade Greenland, but after a few years of Trump/Hegseth/Miller calling the shots and firing anyone who points out their mistakes, we'd be toast.

  • 75% of Americans oppose US attempting to take control of Greenland, CNN poll finds

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  • OMG, yes, thank you, that was a pretty big typo.

  • 75% of Americans oppose US attempting to take control of Greenland, CNN poll finds

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  • It's worth looking at the framing of this. CNN asked, "Would you (favor) or (oppose) the U.S. attempting to take control of Greenland?" A poll from 4 days early found, when specifically asked about taking over Greenland by force, found it was a 86% support, 9% oppose. [86% oppose, 9% support] (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/86-percent-in-new-poll-against-us-taking-greenland-by-force/ar-AA1Udv9k). (I was very tired when I wrote this. Most Americans are very, very tired right now.)

    Trump has made several bids to buy Greenland, and I think most of the support in this poll is for that option. I think the majority of Americans really don't believe he'll send the military to Greenland and destroy the NATO alliance. They think this is a negotiating tactic, and they are seriously mistaken.

  • Minnesota Is Just the Beginning. California and New York Are ‘Next’ | The Trump administration appears to be planning to leverage the same playbook used in Minnesota to go after other blue states.

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  • Yes, I seem to recall some kerfuffle between LA citizens and their local authorities over a fellow named Rodney King. If I remember right, things got pretty rowdy

  • Minnesota Is Just the Beginning. California and New York Are ‘Next’ | The Trump administration appears to be planning to leverage the same playbook used in Minnesota to go after other blue states.

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  • I grew up in NYC, live in Boston now. I would say that New Yorkers are rude, impatient, and short-tempered. Bostonians are mean, with a deep-seated rage that's always threatening to burst to the surface. I don't know much about Minneapolis, but if they're anything like the midwesterners I've known, they're kind, polite, and helpful folks. If a large-scale ICE operation provokes that kind of reaction from them, they are not prepared for what they will receive in the Northeast.

  • Gov. Tim Walz encourages Minnesotans to film ICE agents for future prosecutions

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  • He can't pardon them for state crimes, only federal.

  • Trump says anything less than having Greenland in the United States’ hands is ‘unacceptable’

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  • That's not what the special elections are showing. In last years special elections, Democrats have gained, on average, 14 points in districts that Trump won. Miami elected a Democratic mayor for the first time in 30 years. At the beginning of 2025, people were wondering if Republicans could hold on to the House. In 2026, they're speculating on whether or not Democrats will retake the Senate.

    And this is all happening while Democrats have hit historically low approval ratings. Only 18% of voters approve of the job they're doing in Congress, including -6% approval in their own party. And still, voters want Democrats in charge of Congress, 47% to 43%. People hate Democrats more than they have ever hated Democrats in the history of Democrats, and they are still hate Trump more.

  • Trump says anything less than having Greenland in the United States’ hands is ‘unacceptable’

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  • LOL, no. As I already said in this thread:

    Trump is increasingly unresponsive to polling, even within his base, and it seems like the Pentagon really is planning an invasion. It would fracture his own MAGA movement, completely destroy NATO, make America a global pariah, and potentially start WWIII, but it seems he is seriously considering it.

    Approval isn't changing Trump's actions, and he's actively talking about canceling the midterms (though using his ICE for voter suppression is more likely). The only hope is that enough neocons tell him that they'll support impeachment if he fucks up NATO.

  • Minnesota Is Just the Beginning. California and New York Are ‘Next’ | The Trump administration appears to be planning to leverage the same playbook used in Minnesota to go after other blue states.

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  • They've done two big, "operations," in New York, and both of them failed spectacularly and immediately. The population density of that city basically means, no matter where they show up, within minutes there will be several dozen angry people chasing them down the street. They're getting constant harassment in fucking Minneapolis, they've got no hope of getting anything done in NYC.

  • Trump says anything less than having Greenland in the United States’ hands is ‘unacceptable’

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  • Maybe. MAGA is fracturing right now. Withholding the Epstien files really was too much for some of them, and Marjorie Taylor Greene's defection gave a lot of them permission to question and criticize him. Invading an ally for no reason might actually break through to good chunk of the average red hats.

  • Trump says anything less than having Greenland in the United States’ hands is ‘unacceptable’

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  • I read an article that claimed some top Generals are trying to distract him with an invasion of Iran (which is also really, really bad). Traditional neocons certainly don't want this, though; they don't want to throw away 80 years of military alliances. Still, if the president tells the Pentagon, "make me a Greenland invasion plan," they're gonna do it.

  • Trump says anything less than having Greenland in the United States’ hands is ‘unacceptable’

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  • Well, I hate to throw cold water on that comfort, but I'm not sure the numbers matter. Trump is increasingly unresponsive to polling, even within his base, and it seems like the Pentagon really is planning an invasion. It would fracture his own MAGA movement, completely destroy NATO, make America a global pariah, and potentially start WWIII, but it seems he is seriously considering it.

  • Trump says anything less than having Greenland in the United States’ hands is ‘unacceptable’

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  • I really want to stress how deeply unpopular this is in the U.S. The MAGA movement is about 30% of the electorate, so you can generally expect that even the dumbest, most insane Trump decisions have a floor of 30% approval. 9% of Americans support this, 86% oppose it. At minimum, two-thirds of Trump's most rabid, loyal followers are against this.

  • ’Stranger Things’ Creators Accused by Fans of Using AI To Write Series Finale

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  • But it generates off what you put in, right? Like, if you fed it a script up to a certain point and said, "write a scene where Mike explains to the group what happened with [X]," it could do that, right?

    Because my experience with Volume 2 was that it was almost entirely exposition dumps or recaps. Episode 5 and half of episode 6 are essentially just characters going to different locations and explaining previous events or future plans. Like I said, I've never used AI, so I'm not an expert, but from what I've seen from ChatGPT, it doesn't seem impossible to write an outine, write the scenes you're most interested in, then say, "turn this summary into a full scene" or, "add dialog where these characters explain what happened in them in the upside down to Joyce."

  • ’Stranger Things’ Creators Accused by Fans of Using AI To Write Series Finale

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  • What do you mean? I don't use ChatGPT, but I've seen it's outputs, and it seems more than capable of writing exposition dumps.

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    Seems Legit

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    He's cracked the case!

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    Ghosted

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    I have been waiting for this community my whole life

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Not to get too topical, but...

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    I thought he sounded fine.

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