Canada did the same. It’s depressing seeing them all cave to Trump’s demands of the week. It only guarantees there will be more demands next week.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/business/cpi-report-inflation-june.html?smtyp=cur

Getting something in writing and signed by Trump isn’t worth much. He’ll still change his mind and tear it up next week.

Who are “you guys”?

You again? Last time I came across you, you were being racist too. Your username is racist. Is racism just a hobby or a full-time job for you?

They’re calling these people terrorists for holding signs calling for the end of Israel’s genocide. They’re not calling the people who have been committing genocide every day terrorists: they’re valuable allies. This is the UK Government’s morality. I hope it’s not shared by the British people.

What’s with the suggestion that they’re injuring people at all? Has it happened?

Israel has killed 70 healthcare workers in 50 days. And they’ve been doing this for years, every time claiming it’s not a deliberate policy. The world can see what Israel is, and its words are worthless.

An article on the same topic:

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-the-ap-stylebook-warps-reality-to-serve-power

I seem to remember he took a poster off the wall to keep as a souvenir, so they killed him. Don’t touch the posters, people.

No one is immune to a concerted propaganda campaign. American propaganda has just been a bit more extreme than most, for a bit longer.

The investment in demonizing scapegoat groups does seem to pay off for the far right. It helps them sell their own ideology as a solution for people’s woes, if they can convince people their problems are caused by the designated scapegoats. It effectively distracts people from the plunder of their lives by rich kleptocrats, while filling them with the kind of misdirected hatred that fascism thrives on.

I think the intel was wrong

The intel said that Iran was not developing nuclear weapons. The strikes happened because Trump decided to ignore the intel in favor of the random imaginings in his head, and no doubt Netanyahu encouraged him.

“… they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing.”

He always was a master of projection.

It has been working for them for decades. Why stop now?

sometimes the only way something worthwhile ever gets done in the first place is because somebody started on it without realizing how hard it would be.

Yes, that’s a good point. We both benefit and suffer from humanity’s overly optimistic moments.

often the achievement lasts a lot longer and outweighs the trouble by orders of magnitude.

True too, but Columbus might not be the clearest example of that.

Very brave of them. I too used to stand up to school bullies privately, at home, in my mind.

Hook up a couple servers to some dams.

As someone who works in IT, I love the optimism of making it sound this simple. Things that I expect to take 10 minutes can end up taking weeks, because there’s always a surprising answer to “How complicated could it be?”

Specifically, since Thatcher and Reagan. The UK never recovered.

A highly selective natural disaster maybe.