For countries, poltical parties and even at the individual level, I think that this is an important lesson of the times:

Do not be too shy to act, do not be too afraid to stand up against the ones that are pushing the boundaries of what is tolerable.

Yeah, agreed.

Thanks for the response and interesting link. I should have worded my initial comment better, I suppose.

What I am saying it that it may be worth considering that the extraordinary nature of the leak warrants a critical analysis of a possible ulterior motive or furtherance of some other agenda.

What I may be, I don’t know.

However, for instance, even more than the leak itself, I find it ultimately more relevant that a very anti-European stance was expressed in the coziness of a “private” chat by the senior most national-security officials of the US.

Yeah, I find the “accidental” chat with a journalist too strange to take it at face value.

This story is so weird that I take it with grain of salt.

Top level personnel added him to a chat. He wrote a piece that otherwise makes them look good (at least mildly competent). Then left the chat.

Admits? Weird choice of word.

OK, I have an idea for a new TV show.

Let’s form a club of boomer, anti-democratic, rightwing-extremist, power hungry narcissists, and invite them to a private island and have them get stranded there because the flight authority botched traffic control (due to budget cuts, obviously).

Record it in the style of a reality TV show.

The US is a rogue state.

The Heritage foundation has ties to Orbán.

“[a] formal agreement struck last year [2023] between a think tank funded by Orbán’s Fidesz Party, the Danube Institute, and The Heritage Foundation…”

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/01/trump-orban-embrace-00176832

The Great 1929 Recession boosted conservatives.

The argument that climate catastrophe can’t sustain enough economic growth seems like it’s missing the forest for the trees.

US will make a stupid move, Russia will make a stupid move, China will make a stupid move.

Life imitating art. Uncle Junior Soprano had the same beef with his sketch artist.

Foreigners don’t have political rights by definition. This is something that should be enforced to the last consequences.

Headline is 10/10.

Uuu, what a great idea! But why not go further, hear me out,

Why not establish a secret police that only answers to a couple of powerful men, tasked with the detection of actual or potential enemies of the state, the neutralisation of any opposition, policing the American people for their commitment to Maga ideology, and providing domestic and foreign intelligence.

It worked great for the Germans, for a while at least.

Good for them, I guess?

"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

No worries, I’ve had that game wishlisted for a bit but haven’t pulled the trigger. Thanks for the giveaway, though!

Oh, nice! Is there a chance to get Necromunda?

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