I’d be very disappointed in any jury who found him guilty

Doesn’t help that dod pentagon is so big because the USD is so strong. Kinda bad for national defense if the dollar loses value.

Looks at the USD forex over the last month. Umm, I think I have some bad news…

While it is possibly true that pro nuclear weapon proliferation advocates (do they really exist ?) may be happy the sub headline of

“Weapons contractors could not be happier,” is certainly not true for the US MIC anyway. In the last week alone Portugal cancelled their F35s, and Trump refused to sell (not gift) hundreds of millions of $s worth of Patriot missiles they were happy to pay cash for. European MIC companies like Rheinmettal and Saab are happy because they’re now getting the orders that would have otherwise gone to the US.

I wonder what his definition of Transshipping would be

I think that’s when a fishing boat puts on some guns and radar and starts calling itself a battleship ?

Quite the opposite

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/03/31/top-10-most-american-cars/82739892007/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimgorzelany/2023/06/21/all-four-tesla-models-are-ranked-as-the-most-american-vehicles-for-2023/

“All cars source at least some parts internationally, but some are more “American” than others. Cars.com’s American-Made Index ranks the “most American” cars and one brand has topped the list consistently for the last several years: Tesla.”

Without even reading the article I’ll bet Betterridge’s law of headlines applies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge’s_law_of_headlines

Betteridge’s law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.

It was ICE detaining him not the judge. The authority for ICE to detain him over rode the judges ability to release him

German president Paul von Hindenburg thought that he could “control” Hitler, and that he wouldn’t do the extreme things he promised in his election speeches, and thus brokered his move into the Chancellor’s position in a minority govt. I think we all know how that turned out.

Almost a century later the barons of Wall Street have just had the same “oh shit” moment the German conservatives had in 1933

The Scots wiki had the same problem. A teenage American who didn’t speak Scots edited and created 10s of thousands of entries

For those not aware Scots is a Germanic language that split from Old English back about 700-800 years ago - closely related to modern english like frisian is, but also retaining many words lost to english (some of which are retained in Swedish / Dutch etc). It is distinct from standard scottish english.

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

Edit

Articles on the fiasco

https://inews.co.uk/news/scotland/scots-wikipedia-language-articles-native-speaker-mistakes-610689

https://www.engadget.com/scots-wikipedia-230210674.html?_fsig=8ckIe_eK7juchNpKgsYQww--~A

https://www.thenational.scot/news/18679711.scots-wikipedia-us-teen-wrote-swathes-articles-devastated-reactions/

Oh lord, what now ?

That’s weird. The bluesky links in the article work fine for me, and I don’t have a bluesky account.

Ahh hang on, this one doesn’t work but all the rest do

https://bsky.app/profile/megzavala.bsky.social/post/3lmdz2tu6xk2x

Ahh here we go: it’s a user made setting not a bluesky one

“Sign-in Required This user has requested that their content only be shown to signed-in users. This label was applied by the author.”

I look forward to the day Trump, Thiel Musk and Vance get the same treatment

Well said that man ! I certainly agree with all your points and have said similar things but reading between the lines I suspect I was a little less, umm, forceful about it 😁 I’ve been banned from a few subreddits but not an outright ban yet

Yeah, those dirty snowflakes can’t stand it when someone talks about them the way they talk about everyone else.

Absolutely true

There was another guy that said “Comrades, go back quietly to your places”…we shot him days later.

Who was that guy btw ? I’ve just done a search and nothing is coming up on ddg

That’s not actually correct. The missiles (the rocket part) are indeed leased from the US, and the maintenance every few years is thus done by them - which keeps the cost down. The warheads are the UKs.

A freshly serviced trident missile should be good for 5-7 years (although they currently get serviced more frequently).

If the UK falls out with the US then we have a number of years to either build our own replacement missile to put the warheads on or buy/lease a missile body off another country - France for example has several options in this space that could be easily adapted.

We are where we are because nobody could imagine the US going rogue like this, a failure of imagination for sure but our nukes are in fact in our control

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/heres-how-britains-nukes-are-operationally-independent/

https://www.chathamhouse.org/2025/03/uks-nuclear-deterrent-relies-us-support-there-are-no-other-easy-alternatives

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/no-america-doesnt-control-britains-nuclear-weapons/

Edit, tidied up the wording

Surprisingly I didnt get banned (I have a similar post history), what did you do ? Any idea ?

He doesn’t need to. A false flag incident can be arranged

Oh come on ! China has an authoritarian govt. Of course it can immediately respond. The EU is an alliance of 27 countries, it takes time to agree a mutual response, which everyone has to agree to, particularly when you have Putain’s trojan horse in the middle of it disrupting everything.

No but it’s the first step. As momentum builds more people are emboldened to protest, and the scope of the protests widen and get more effective.

This sort of statement is typically made by people who want to stall and prevent action. You see it all the time in various forums: “if this activity doesn’t 100% fix everything immediately then there is no point in doing anything”.

Unfortunately we don’t live in a black and white world where a switch can be flipped from awful to wonderful (as if it was even possible for everyone to agree on that). You get there in small incremental steps with messy interactions and disagreements along the way.

Protests like this can lead to ongoing effective resistance like strikes, work to rules and etc. But you don’t get someone to go from never having protested in their lives to manning a blockade of a govt building in one step.

Rightsholders in the EU will lobby against this like rabid dogs. While it would benefit the consumer it would expose their revenue models to the cold calculation of whether the current intellectual is actually worth it on balnce. (Spoiler alert it almost certainly isn’t)