This project makes for a perfect fit. As nothing about the Effective Altruism movement is effective or altruistic.

... social media.

Rubio just banned several Europeans from entering the US because he considers the EU social media regulations to interfere with the free speech rights of Americans. The hypocrisy is staggering.

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My point is that he will be able to pay for a pardon, just like the Biance guy did:
https://www.politico.com/news/...

Utterly corrupt pay-to-play pardon scheme by this most corrupt administration. Mindboggling how many pardons he already granted.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/08...

The Dems should make a lot of noise about this pardon corruption.

It's easy to explain and easy to understand that pay-to-play pardons make a mockery of justice. I think this could cut through similar to the Epstein Files.

And while I am all in for Ukraine, I don't think that this administration's betrayal and, frankly treason, will resonate as much. Fog of war, and a country far, far away, will make this less front and center than these domestic affairs.

I think Epstein, affordability cost and pardon corruption will be the winning issues.

Only 9% of refugees aged between 25 and 54 are unemployed.

SOURCE: https://madeinca.ca/refugee-st...

But thank you for illustrating what MapleMAGA looks like, and for demonstrating that we are fighting the same kind of willful stupidity and hate mongering up here.

We are just lucky that our system doesn't allow for gerrymandering.

If he still has enough to grease Donnie's palm a pardon won't be a problem.

Most corrupt administration in my lifetime.

They had a very good reporting engine when OLAP was a new thing back in the early 2000s. A business model licensing software that actually delivered value to their customers. What a concept!

Now they are a Ponzi scheme dressed up as a company. Another indication how far the US has fallen that the SEC tolerates this kind of BS.

No amount of AI can make up for the number of interceptors. The entire dome metaphor is stupid and misleading. Layered air defense systems have been around since forever. Slapping the AI and dome label on it doesn't change this one bit. It's just marketing.

The only new quality in air defense are laser based systems such as the British Dragon Fire. But those aren't a dome either.

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

OK. So just petty.

And BTW I am based in the "51st state" and advocate that we need a nuclear break out capability because of such nice neighbors as you.

During the Biden admin the US passed several support packages. None during the current administration. The support now falls squarely on Europe alone.

https://www.kielinstitut.de/to...

There also has been a bipartisan sanction bill ready in the senate for months now but it won't move unless he gives the go ahead.

The current DimWit "peace plan" obviously originated in the Kremlin and Witkoff couldn't act more like a Russian agent if he tried.

https://slate.com/news-and-pol...

The NATO operating budget is but peanuts and I am not aware that any member ever missed their dues on those.

The GDP targets were politically set goals. I don't have an issue with Donnie hammering on those, I just wished he would have made clear that this was about overall defense spending.

Of course by abandoning Ukraine he now gives EU countries plenty of motivation to play catch up and to spend more on defense.

Sorry, but you sound incredibly butt hurt and whiny.

Lets base our foreign policy on who was mean to me online ...

Yeah, that's the ticket!

While the Soviet Union existed it tempered capitalism's worst excesses. The Communist threat was enough to ensure that Western leaders were compelled to spread enough wealth around to the working class as to not give them ideas.

As soon as the Soviet Union collapsed America was off to the races towards the next gilded age.

Europe with its strong trade unions kept this more in check, but with an aging demographics it is now outcompeted.

There is no such obligation to NATO. The obligation is about the percentage of GDP spend on defense overall. The money doesn't go to NATO. Donnie boy either never understood this or simply kept lying about it.

Pax Americana means that the world standardized around the US dollar as the most important (arguably only) reserve currency.

This gave the US enormous economic clout and the ability to issue USD denominated debt at very low interest.

As the trust in America's leadership erodes so does the trust in the US dollar. This can be seen by the enormous appreciation of the gold price since Trump was sworn in. Central banks around the world have been acquiring gold to diversify their reserve holding away from the US dollar, and I don't see this stopping anytime soon.