I've watched the whole thing, and it's just embarrassing. Apparently, American conservatives think this is ‘what an American president is supposed to look like’;* a mobster, essentially, and a pretty stereotypical movie one at that.

*Marjorie Taylor Greene according to De Volkskrant, can't find the original quote

There's also one moment where Trump descends into a rant that's just completely senile.

VANCE: She’s asking, ‘what if Russia breaks the ceasefire?’

TRUMP: Well what if they—what if anything! What if a bomb drops on your head right now? Okay? What if they broke it? I don’t know. They broke it with Biden because Biden, they didn’t respect him, they didn’t respect Obama. They respect me. Let me tell you, Putin went through a hell of a lot with me. He went through a phony witch hunt where they used him and Russia—Russia, Russia, Russia, you ever hear of that deal? That was a phony—that was a phony Hunter Biden, Joe Biden scam. Hillary Clinton, shifty Adam Schiff, it was a Democrat scam. And he had to go through that. And he did go through it and we didn’t end up in a war. He went through it, he was accused of all that stuff—he had nothing to do with it. It came out of Hunter Biden’s bathroom. It came out of Hunter Biden’s bedroom. It was disgusting. And then they said, ‘Oh, oh, the laptop from hell was made by Russia.’ The 51 agents, the whole thing was a scam, and he had to put up with that. He was being accused of all that stuff. All I can say is this: He might’ve broken deals with Obama, and Bush, and he might’ve broken them with Biden. He did, maybe, maybe he didn’t—I don’t know what happened. But he didn’t break them with me. He wants to make a deal. I don’t know if he can make a deal.

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Die Waffen, legt an!

He doesn't say ‘fuck’ because he's not making a mistake. It's just plausible deniability.

Yeah, I've pretty much just continued to use the media software my dad used in the 2000's, which was Winamp for mp3s and VLC for video.

Me :)

With the old UI too (Winamp)

Lots of things in life may change, but my mp3 player must always stay the same.

Maybe the EU can strike a deal with Musk and Trump. I don't mind the EU providing funding for an American Mars mission, so long as it includes Orbán going there.

Es ist nicht wichtig ob die Geste denn nun wirklich 100% dem Gruß den die Nazis tatsächlich gemacht haben gleicht, was wichtig ist, ist das rechtsextreme Propagandisten eine Geste machen die klar in einer Kontinuität mit dem Nationalsozialismus steht. Was Musk und Bannon da gemacht haben, gehört einfach zum kulturellen Phänomen 'Hitlergruß', und trägt zur immer fortschreitenden Normalisierung rechtsextremer Äußerungen bei.

This is it, and we (in the west) have gone so far to the right that the richest man of the world, with a powerful position (formally) near government can do the Hitler salute and the established media just shrugs.

Doing the Hitler salute used to make you a pariah. Now, it's just a thing the extreme right does to 'provoke' (that word I saw used to describe Bannon's salute in a German newspaper title). In a couple of years, it is normal that the right does this, and the established media doesn't bat an eye anymore.

It's clear that you still can't trust established media to be a force against nazism. They'll start analysing the nazi takeover as nazi only when it's much too late, out of fear of not being 'neutral'.

Wirklich seltsame Geste. Hat er denn auch Autismus?

Spain?

="I like Dutch function names in Excel at least, "&ALS(DutchFunctionNamesRule=WAAR; ALS(IS.EVEN(DAG(VANDAAG()))=WAAR; "I just like not always using English for everything."; "I just like using Dutch."); "though it can be a bother having to translate them when troubleshooting.")

This isn't a new position. Putin has already said years back that he doesn't care if Ukraine joins the EU.

Yeah, in that case I understand.

I get Hungary, but you'd expect all constructive countries to be invited.

Saudi Arabia isn't an ICC member state, though, so they don't have to comply with the warrant (probably part of why they picked Saudi Arabia).

If they want Europe to enforce the peace in Ukraine, a 'deal' without Europe is meaningless as well (you'd hope, anyway. Otherwise the European establishment would agree with America treating Europe like their removed).

Dann braucht es natürlich noch eine Säuberung in den eigenen Reihen.

Hey, we at least already have this great new small-scale social medium called Feddit.nl.

(relatively new, anyway)

I'll share a somewhat relevant Dutch song from the German occupation. The NSB was the main Dutch nazi party collaborating with the Germans, Volk en Vaderland (People and Fatherland) was their newspaper.

On the corner of the street stands a Pharisee

It's not a man nor a woman, it's one from the NSB

With a newspaper in his hand he's peddling his wares

He sells his People and Fatherland for six lousy cents

Right, some of us are swamp Germans!