I still have faith in America
Good for you, Robert. I don’t.
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Nukemap was literally the second website I visited this morning, after the Guardian. I wanted to see how the fallout will drift when Putin uses tactical nukes in Ukraine after the US leave NATO.
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There is no God.
Homo sapiens is a mistake of evolution.
People would rather be ruled than served.
I’m only staying on this plane of existence for my son and our cats. Nothing else matters to me any more.
(addendum: and it’s my brother’s birthday. what a fucking loser present to get)
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I have a feeling the US will not leave NATO. They will be forced out of NATO for trying to bring it down from the inside.
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Instead of happy mutants, we should be an army of shadows.
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I doubt that. Nobody can afford losing the US, especially its logistical infrastructure and its carrier groups. I wouldn’t be surprised if they threatened to leave and got offered a sweetheart deal where they pay no contributions.
Not that that would matter, since the contributions to NATO command are negligible anyway. Trump always confused the requirement to spend 3% of GDP on one’s own military with the direct cash payments to keep the lights on in NATO HQ. We could easily swallow the US’s share of the latter. Unfortunately, I am certain they will leave outright anyway.
I do hope we then throw them out of their bases in Europe. Something like Ramstein AFB would be a good base for a joint EU logistical corps.
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FD Signifier is doing a livestream autopsy of the election…
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It’s my brother’s birthday today, too. It took me a while to send him something positive and hopeful. I suggested we make plans to celebrate elsewhere next year. We’ll be discussing plans to move and stay safe in the coming months, because that’s become our focus now.
We’ve had to struggle all our lives and rise to the challenge of loving a country that doesn’t love us back. After one experience with an extremely abusive leader, I’m not staying to get beat up even worse a second time. Too many of our family members died on his watch.
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Something to keep in mind if anyone needs to get their head down. (Funded by the Uihleins of Uline.)
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hate won today. and i so hate what this does to my beloved country. i’ll try hard not to add to this culture of hate in the days to come. but i really can’t see the path in my total despair. here’s hoping that the rest of the world (i’m closest to Canada) can fence off the American depredations to come. reform NATO to be 100% European. try to protect Ukraine (beats me how). make the Euro the international currency. i feel sick. Please try to look to your simple happinesses for a while.
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I already doxxed myself at the BBBS by posting my GoFundMe for Pussycat’s medical bills (it didn’t help much).
Come at me, you redneck nazi motherfuckers!
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The only, very small silver lining in my part of the world is the YES vote on Missouri’s Amendment 3, ending our state’s abortion ban.
How long before the state legislature figures out how to gut it? I give it 6 months.
EDIT: Looks like 7 of the 10 states voted in favor of adding abortion rights to their constitutions.
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For reasons, I know that Roxham Road used to be a thing, but it seems they’ve closed that loophole.
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There’s always the front door. USCAM/NAFTA arrangements, outright immigration. It’s slow, but it’s there.
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Request granted since i just shared it. 
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This was in the WaPo on Jan. 20, 2021 & it has remained on my wall since.
FWIW.
(ETA: Presumably, 8 years later, now I’ll find out that the group who placed the ad was some nefarious outfit)
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I don’t fully agree with this guy but I chuckled at the subtitles. And I think everyone needs a chuckle.
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I just woke up to read the news. There’s nothing I can say to sound optimistic without coming off as trite. Being Canadian - it’s easy to say ‘c’mon up!’ but historically we end up mimicking the US - just on a shallower level.
I never expected to see Roe overturned in my lifetime, never expected fascism to be openly celebrated - but here we are and it’s slowly spreading to other countries like mine.
Why? Maybe someone needs to tell me. What incentive is there to turn to dictators and false prophets or to hate others you don’t know?
Regardless- I’m sending positive thoughts to all of you today.
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