Stefferi
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Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
5d ago
You can love something and still be disappointed in it, of course.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
6d ago
Obviously no-one's happy if the team sucks. The local football team I follow is going through a bad season (Finland plays summer leagues in football so the season is on right now) and no-one's happy about it, or some of the absolute shit games we've had to suffer through as supporters.
I think what the comment you're replying to meant that it's still interesting, since the battle is not only about winning but also avoiding relegation (or, if we're really lucky, winning the Finnish Cup and making it to Europe that way). The team's performance has improved but relegation is still not completely out of the question, so every game is still a part of a greater project to see whether we're completely out of the danger at some point.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
12d ago
So while it's true that Europe has been in the process of improving, it seems pretty clear that it took a literal invasion of a European country to get that going.
So what? The point is that Europe is doing what the US claims it wants Europe to do and the result is, well, all the things that Trump has done.
I'm all for Europe distancing from US and developing independent capabilities, and have been so even before Trump, but it's also obvious that you can't just achieve a neat split where both commit to doing their own thing without the other - the recent events have made clear that whatever US does globally will in any case have a huge impact on Europe (and what Europe does of course also has some impact on the US).
Regarding Greenland, it's odd to argue for Greenlandic independence aims (without anything concrete about the details vis-a-vis relations to the Western alliance, or anything else really, on the table), considering that Trump admin itself attempted to present itself as some sort of an opponent of Danish colonialism on the island and what have you.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
12d ago
It still blows my mind that European NATO countries can do things like "miss NATO spending goals and fall behind on military readiness for years despite years of increasingly pointed US signals that there will be consequences for this"
But they had already started ramping up spending before Trump's election and were continuing to do it after he was elected. That's the point - yes, Europe has been failing in several aspects, but it's been in the process of improving on those, and the result has been a continuous stream of piss on the face by the Trump admin nevertheless.
"make preparations to literally give away territory that is crucial to American defense preparedness"
The Chagos Islands? That's the UK specifically, it's not within the purview of (other) NATO (countries) to intervene in this affair. Why take out complaints with the UK on Denmark?
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
17d ago
In fact, curiously, Iran is apparently giving up their greatest leverage by opening the straits.
Why wouldn't they do that if they get a deal? The whole idea is that they can open and close the strait with relatively little in the way of consequences (sure, Iran has suffered various consequences from this war generally, but the biggest ones were before they closed the strait), and that includes opening it as well as closing it if they get what they want (we don't know what they're getting yet, of course).
If there's a strike at some factory and the striking workers get a deal, they're not "giving up leverage" by returning to work, they've just demonstrated very concretely the existence of the said leverage.
America bombed Iran, decapitated its leadership
Has the regime collapsed? No? That would seem to demonstrate both that the regime is quite a bit stabler than most would have expected and that it's ruling regime do not have much in the way of personal fear of death.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
24d ago
It's probably more (universally) popular in anglo countries. Yes, I know, that's not what "universal" means. Still...
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
24d ago
Because it's one of the last really big, universally known rock songs before rock lost the last remnants of its cultural force (or was killed by poptimism, whatever?) Sure, there are some well-known songs coming after it (Sex on Fire, Chelsea Dagger etc.) but I don't think they compare in bigness. Seven Nation Army is a competitor.
Also, it came in just at the right time to lodge itself in the minds of the Millennials, a generation that's bigger (IIRC) than the generations coming both before and after it.
Some Dem politicians that have used the phrase "Epstein class" include Jamaal Bowman, Graham Platner, Jon Ossoff and Ro Khanna who, according to this, coined the term. New York City DSA, at least, also uses the term.
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