If you were under the illusion that Trump is going to improve the situation for the Palestinians in any way, I have a bridge to sell you…

Inconsistency is the only thing Trump can be counted on to do reliably.

2 Trump administrations, 2 pandemics…

You don’t fix things by picking the worse option on purpose.

That’s exactly what the electorate just did.

That’s utter lunacy.

I fully agree

goons to wield guns

Such as Hegseth?

That seems to be all he was when he was enlisted.

holding any such event in a country culturally and ecologically most similar to Mordor seems weirder.

Maybe they’re hoping for a “This is what your country will look like if everyone continues to ignore this problem” reaction from the attendees?

Or maybe it’s just the place that offered the most kickbacks to the organizers…

If nukes are an excuse to prevent all conventional intervention, then nukes are a free pass to commit any crimes one wishes against non-nuclear powers

That is the assumption Russia is operating under.

More precise than dropping a bomb on an appartment building, I suppose…

But, yeah, not the best example of preventing collateral damage.

this is a fringe right-wing party with one seat in Japanese Parliament’s lower house.

One seat too many, if this is the attitude of their leader.

Now we can’t even band together against a pandemic disease that is obviously killing people right in front of us (as opposed to the less visible to the average person ozone hole), and we sure as hell won’t be able to move against climate change in any uniformed way before its much too late (as we can already see).

I was being a little sarcastic in my first post,

Your mistake was not using the /s to indicate that.

Poe’s law is a thing.

Remember Poe’s law.

I really hope that was intended as sarcasm and that you simply omitted the /s

Past elections are on Wikipedia. And this one will take a while to pull the numbers together, but it’ll be added in the coming months.

I mean there’s a 99% chance Pierre wins.

Sadly true.

Hopefully we can at least hold him to a minority.

Given how allergic the conservatives seem to be (since at least Harper’s days) about working cooperatively with any other party, a minority parliament ought to be able to minimize the damage. I hope.

it is easy to see why people might be feeling disenfranchised and might just not vote

And now they get to see the results of their letting perfect get in the way of good.

If you don’t think Trump will actively accelerate that you’re deluding yourself.

Europe has already been pulling their weight in Ukraine. Now they’ll also have to pick up the slack that they US is about to create.

I’ll have to take your word for that.

I have no interest in using either platform.

And they dont work with gloves when it’s cold.