This is glorious and I’m convinced!

The Palestinians have suffered more than enough, and the US is entirely complicit in that suffering already.

Fuck that shit. We don’t want your garbage. That country has already shit on us enough for generations.

I knew a teacher who would have English students read Trump speeches in class just to see if they could find complete sentences.

It’s the pilot of a sitcom in which a goofy husband and hard nosed wife blah blah zzzzzzzzzz……

That’s definitely a bonus for them

I have no idea why anyone left the high seas in the first place. The wind blows so gloriously strong out here, and the more the merrier, so come back to your past to build a future together.

All these shitty streaming companies need to be collapsed. I’d rather make my hard earned cash walk the plank than give any of it to them.

I run into people all the time who use the term “America” without at all meaning that country wedged between Mexico and Canada. Los Estados Unidos is often how you’ll hear the nation state referred to in Latin America, whereas “America” usually refers to the entire hemisphere.

It always blew my mind that the USA colonized the word America to have it refer only to themselves. How fucking on-brand is that?

I’ll give you this; historically, they’re at least as real as the concept of whiteness.

https://theconversation.com/whiteness-is-an-invented-concept-that-has-been-used-as-a-tool-of-oppression-183387

Fuck, that last bit cracked me up. Consider it stolen.

I fully agree with you, but add the additional point that countries are fictions as well.

Liechtenstein

You’re making good points and they’re all true, though it just seemed quite coincidental to me that in the exact year that the US drops a lot of support for Ukraine, the EU just happens to be capable of ramping up the funds available to their eastern neighbor.

Thankfully, the EU is not the US, but I still believe that political will has been playing an outsized role until Trump curtailed US support. Of course there’s obstructionist Orbán, at least for now, yet somehow in 2025 the EU still managed to increase their support for Ukraine.

I really hope that continues and even expands. Otherwise it may be dark times ahead for the entire EU, which I don’t want to see.

I see this and my first thought is that Europe could have been doing more the entire time, which would have been in its best interest to do.

That’s not at all to say the US shouldn’t contribute to help their (previous?) allies, but at least the blundering haphazard mad house that is the current White House has accidentally prodded Europe to help itself more.

Wow, just learned that Pras recently got sentenced to 14 years in prison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pras

Doesn’t at all impact The Score being a legendary album.

It’s been said before and worth saying again. Fuck the IOC, and fuck the Olympics. I love that amateur athletes get to shine, but the overt corporatism and lack of respect for local communities makes it quite counter-productive.

When an athletic event is “brought to you by Coca Cola,” I mean, who are we even trying to fool?

I greatly prefer reading that to “boutta.”

Fair enough. I’ve read their articles over the years here and there whenever I happen to come across them, though I don’t recall ever looking at their opinion pieces. Great tip about the RSS backdoor!

Right on!

I’d be curious to know why, since “sucks” didn’t give me quite enough context, oddly enough.