✨ semantic satiation ✨

I am entirely confident that you don’t understand the full implications of the vacuum of power that this will create.

Is there a law against something they do in NV? Or is it a gambling related thing?

It is fucking bonkers to me that the intelligence agencies and/or the DoD didn’t immediately say “we’re taking that over” the instant it was discovered that he was communicating directly with Putin.

The thing is that real damage has already been done. Trust that was built over the course of - without exaggeration - most of a century has been squandered by imbecilic and ham-handed “move fast break things” tactics. Trust is very fickle, and the gain/loss dynamic is completely asymmetrical: it takes ages to build, but can be destroyed in an instant. And the recovery phase is always going to be slower than the initial build, and it generally doesn’t ever reach as high as was before the initial betrayal, because, you know, people remember things.

And more broadly, the tactic is known as sealioning, and is a tactic commonly used by bad-faith actors.

The “referendum” they conducted was not at all an accurate representation of the resident’s opinions.

Are you trying to say that you trust literally any electoral mechanisms administered by Russia at this point?

I’m in a safe blue state. I’m seriously considering leaving parts of my federal ballot blank or doing a write-in if people outside of the old guard don’t win the primaries.

I love that for him <3

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Yep, I remember seeing that a while ago. That’s what I was referencing.

I bet at some point soon he’s gonna suggest the creation of camps for ADHD-havers to help them concentrate better. We can call them “concentration camps”.

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HL Not So Jolly Good Fellow

ROU Memorandum? But I Hardly Know Him!

GSV The Treaty Was Never Officially Ratified

I still smell toast

Yes, my child?

Also, old people run everything these days

It is absolutely an Iain M Banks reference (and thank you for noticing <3). I identify as a GSV.

Type II (alternate): said cheekily, immediately after finding a loophole in the Geneva Convention

As an American, it is utterly insane to me that there’s a good number of Americans that are just like “huh yeah I guess we’re gonna bomb Canada to make them do what we want”.

Then again, there’s a lot of utterly insane things happening these days.

A lot of my countrymen are gonna be finding out about Type II “sorry” if we try any military adventurism. And I’m sure Greenlanders would welcome an expeditionary force of Finns, considering their rich and storied experience (5-6.5:1 KD ratio; ~5:1 overall casualty ratio, without even considering the Continuation War).