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I was telling my friend earlier about how I hope this guy is laying low working at a cinnabon in nebraska or something bc US law enforcement is no doubt working overtime to find and make an example of him. The powers that be seem pretty butthurt that the vast majority of people are just laughing about it lol

The only thing you can count on from narcissists is their own sense of self-preservation.

I think they will blink as well.

Speaking of blinkin', I wonder what sort of conversations he's having rn...

mojitos w/ Fidel 😳

hopefully not too fun, I daresay...

like you said, as soon as Russia retaliates on any NATO country and the US cuts and runs, the bluster will crumble and they'll be hyperventilating into a paper bag asking "how could this happen??!?!?!"

I agree, they make this seem like licherally the biggest hack in US history and the article itself is like 3 paragraphs supported by the testimony of some venture capital tech spooks. Hilarious if true tho, as you said lol I don't doubt that US IT infrastructure really is that shitty

joined bluesky recently (against my better judgment) and spent like 4 hours trolling a guy who was talking out of his ass about how Ukraine will totally licherally win any day now, and I just kept asking the simple question of "how??". They basically just kept saying "muh advanced technology" and I was like... is there some sort of portal technology that the US has been sitting on? What possible "technology" can undo the fact that Russia has already completed several of it's war objectives while UKR has completed exactly none of them. Americans really do believe they're invincible and it's just by good grace that they don't conquer the rest of the world by force.

yeah man, how fucked up would it be to have to have to constantly fear a genocidal hegemony who can surveil your every thought, holds a nuclear arsenal, has a total strangehold over the means of information, and ruthlessly destroys any perceived threat to itself. What a nightmare. /s

Moved back to my small Ontario town after like a decade away a couple years back and it's all virtually the same (except with way more empty storefronts downtown, thank god we give landlords a tax break for letting them stand vacant!).

I have heard this fear expressed too that Trump would somehow bail on project Ukraine and NATO as a whole but I recall him also having similar bluster in 2016 and we know how that turned out. I haven't seen any serious evidence to prove it and I personally cannot foresee a situation where he unilaterally just pulls out as a vanity project given what is at stake, and who the stakeholders are. If there was a case to be made I'd be open to hearing it tho, I am not an expert. I think it's just dems slinging mud

It is subjective like others here have said but for me a big part of it is Longevity. Most "great" movies stand up to repeated viewings bc there is some density in the text, or because the spectacle is just that good. Jurassic Park is a perfect movie to me because it both has richness in its themes but also incredible spectacle that emerges from the text. All my favourite movies can be watched whenever bc there's so much there visually and textually.