Stellula
4d ago
Yes, I think it’s correct to say that Europe at its best is strategically similar to Trump. Looks obsessed, statements over actions, etc.
Maybe this is just the trajectory of civilizations? The sort of “evolution keeps making crabs” of the gestalt.
Stellula
5d ago
The EU thinks of the US a lot because they are very clearly just a vassal of ours, and they hate us for it. The US perception of Europe is that of an adult thinking about a child.
Think of all of the meetings an letters and absolute bullshit that they did in response to Ukraine/Russia. It was ALL just whining (like a child would whine) to try and get us to do something. If you asked a random European what they thought of Donald Trump, they would have an answer, likely a negative one. If you asked an American what they thought of almost any European leader they would have no idea who you were talking about. Does the EU have a president? Is it a government of some kind? Some countries have kings, but also presidents and prime ministers? What is the "house of commons" and "house of lords" and what the hell are the various political parties? Torries and bories and dinghis and labor and whiggies or something? It's all a joke.
And now consider that this morning news broke that there had been some sort of NATO-but-not-really meeting that didn't include the US: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/2/uk-led-coalition-of-35-countries-vows-action-on-hormuz-strait-gridlock.
Here was their big plan:
The countries participating in Thursday’s summit, including the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan, and the United Arab Emirates, have signed a statement demanding that Iran stop its attempts to block the strait and pledging to “contribute to appropriate efforts to ensure safe passage” through the waterway.
"Pledging appropriate efforts", yeah okay. With what? It would take a whole-of-Europe effort, with every country pledging their entire Navy to match the US.
I'm meandering here a little bit, but truly: Americans just find Europeans annoying. They're like the rainbow kids at burning man saying "why can't we all just live like this [where rich people give us free food and drugs and alcohol and spend millions of dollars on entertainment for us] all the time, man? Just living totally free and united [in the middle of a desert where it costs $400 to get in]???" They are not a serious people.
I think this is why Trump's message about Europe opening the strait themselves had some resonance with Americans. They can't. They are children who can't think strategically, and got themselves tied into a situation where they are at the behest of Iran, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. A regional conflict between Israel (and her vassal, The US) has realistically threatened their economy. This is the second time this has happened in the last decade, btw (previously, with Russia and natgas).
Little Marco's speech at the Munich Security Conference lays out the American perpective on Europe: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dlL3pwlO2rE
Stellula
14d ago
There's a tool called yt-dlp which allows you to easily download youtube videos (including entire playlists).
You could download the "whitelist" videos to your computer, transfer them to the tablet via USB thumbdrive or somesuch, and just cut youtube out completely.
If you really wanted to be crafty, you could install jellyfin on a computer somewhere on your network, download the videos to that (as well as any other videos you want to whitelist), and then put the jellyfin client on the tablet and give him a youtube-like experience.
Stellula
22d ago
Does anyone have a place where people in favor of this war are discussing it? I’m struggling to find anybody who genuinely thinks it’s a good idea.
This feels like an abusive relationship because my general feeling is (paraphrasing Glenn Greenwald a bit): I would happily donate to his victory parade if it genuinely means this is over. I don’t care if it’s wrong, let him feel like he won, just stop this nonsense.
But also: he needs to go. Impeachment or 25th amendment. Threatening to end a civilization after recklessly surrendering our sovereignty to a foreign, adversarial power (Israel) is not acceptable.
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