Recent content by Lord Shadow

US will 'move on' from Ukraine peace talks if no progress soon https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20x5xn1g92o Ha. Big surprise.

Yeah. Here's a CNBC article trying to explain where Trump's numbers are coming from. It was obvious to me they couldn't be taken at face value, and there had to be some backstage shenanigans, as with everything he does. How did the U.S. arrive at its tariff figures...

Atlantic magazine publishes Yemen strike messages shared in White House group chat https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cz9e875gd11t How many more blunders until the so far passive not-quite-Trump institutions begin to dish out actual consequences? So much for the negationist BS that Trump is all...

I'm not sure how not ruling for the benefit of the "collective" (the People, you know, kind of important in the founding texts) somehow benefits the individual in the end. I'm not sure how trampling civil rights wholesale somehow serves the right of the individual. I don't think the...

I'm not sure what's your point by now. What are you even arguing for? Am I supposed to believe the rise of a Fourth Reich due to German rearmament is a likelier threat than that of a new dictator currently and actively acting against Europe? Really?

Who knows. But it's the kind of thing that can happen when you have a rogue dictator who won't back down from his imperialist ambitions. Nobody's asking for NATO tanks to be sent into Russia. The most sensible option is to build a solid enough wall to decisively deter further delusions of...

Technicalities. Initial fear, yes, sure. Makes some sense in the immediate aftermath of a world war. Though I'd contest the predominant intent with the fact it was readily apparent by 1945 that further Soviet advance was a far greater and more immediate threat than an German aggressor, presently...

No significant political power on its own. The fact majority right-wing organizations (which includes the Democratic Party) adopt minor left-leaning concepts into their doctrine is simply the reason we talk about shades of right instead of a universal, monolithic far-right. That's pretty basic...

Social Security and Medicare are not political forces. They may be left-leaning concepts*, fundamentally speaking, but they're organizations with no power of their own and ultimately exist at the pleasure of higher political administration. As for the "the power to control what ideas are within...

Is there such a thing as an American Left as a meaningful political force? The United States is predominantly a country of shades of right. It's my impression 95% of the power of the "Left" is a boogeyman fantasy fabricated by the farther right as the typical fascist trapping of an Enemy whose...

It’s Trump vs. the Courts, and It Won’t End Well for Trump https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/opinion/trump-judge-venezuela-deportation.html The land of the free needs to be the home of the brave to remain so. For the institutions to prevail, the people within them need to act. The law cannot...

Highly concerning? It's blood-curdling what they did to Jasmine Mooney. Shipped off to a privately-owned concentration camp at the drop of a hat, no due process whatsoever, on a technicality. She was held in inhumane conditions, completely disconnected from the outside world for the most part...

Reassurance, not peacekeeping: What Ukraine coalition force will and won't do https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgz8jlxlk3o

This is just legalistic pedantry, no offense. Democracy is more than ticking boxes for the sake of it. How can you have safe, fair and representative elections when a chunk of the voting base is under enemy occupation, another is being actively bombed by the aggressor, and yet another's...

Trump Says a Recession Might Be Worth the Cost. Economists Disagree. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/business/economy/trump-recession-tariffs-inflation.html Seems the "golden age" now has a price, and is subject to inflation as well. :p What I was talking about is that people (some? many...