- US negotiators told Ukraine US could shutoff Starlink if minerals deal not reached
- SpaceX-owned satellite internet service vital for Ukraine
- Zelenskiy says U.S. and Ukraine working on an agreement
From world police to mafia protection racket.
we did impeach him for extorting ukraine last time.
Let’s do it again! Let’s make sure nobody can break his record for impeachments.
I’m just going to tell you something very important today. You know, we’ve all heard about impeachment, right? People talk about it all the time, but let me tell you—nobody knows impeachment like I do, okay?
I’ve been impeached not once, not twice, but three times. That’s right. Three times, folks. And you know what? Nobody else has been impeached more times than me. Believe me.
It’s an incredible record, a huge record. People are talking about it everywhere. They say, “Donald, you’re amazing, you’re a winner!” And you know what? They’re right. Who else has had such a remarkable impact? I’ve made history. Some people, some really great people, say it’s the most impressive thing anyone’s ever done in politics. I didn’t just get impeached once, or even twice—no, I did it three times, folks. Unbelievable.
And, you know, there were a lot of people who tried to bring me down, but they couldn’t do it. They tried, but I stood strong. Stronger than anyone thought. They couldn’t break me. No one could break me. It’s a testament to how tough I am. The greatest toughness, folks.
Let me tell you, other politicians, they wish they had that kind of resilience. They wish they could say, “I was impeached three times and survived!” But they can’t. Only one man, only one—Donald J. Trump—has done it. And it’s amazing. It’s absolutely amazing.
So when you hear people talk about impeachment, just remember—no one, and I mean no one, has done it like me. And I did it better than anyone ever could. Big league. Thank you, thank you very much.
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Nevermind that the terminals were not free and were paid for mostly by European allies. Duo of fuckers will leverage them anyway.
Jesus fucking christ. If you do this, and exploit Ukraine while they are literally under the gun, the US will be dead to the rest of the western world.
I cannot express how hard you can go fuck yourselves.
The literal rest of my life will be spent trying to fuck over America and Americans. Fuck you, you selfish, coward, pieces of shit.
oh my apologies! I’ll personally see to stopping it myself.
Come on doc, you’ve gotta help us, we’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!
what? you want more? i can turn the socialized healthcare lever on as well. there it is! right there.
its so simple!
any other changes you think you want? i can grab a magic wand, if that will make you feel better.
Oh yes of course, the whole world has of course been watching the mass protests and general strike being organized with baited breath, oh wait.
what do you think I can do personally? on some level that would satisfy you?
what would you do in my situation? just one person.
tell us, mighty canadian of war! one who knows all answers! who rights all wrongs with his witless rage!
oh won’t the angry canadian man save us with his wisdom??
American here: hard agree. This is all insane, but it’s predictable, and they told us about it ahead of time, and people still fucking voted for it. We shat the bed, now we must lie in it.
I’m probably gonna try to leave the country and renounce my citizenship at some point, particularly if the next few months are as catastrophic as I think they’ll be.
I was planning a holiday in the US this or next year, but decided not to proceed with it. I’d rather go anywhere else now really. Currently for me Russia = India = China = North Korea = USA now. Plenty of european countries I’d rather throw my money at.
Come visit us in Canada! It’s beautiful here. Better come fast before Trump decides to invade us for our oil and minerals though. I expect it’ll be much less beautiful after that, and we won’t have as much time to spend with you while waging a guerilla resistance.
The fuck did we… Oh right, Modi.
That’s a bit of an extreme take. Surely you can see some differences between them…
That’s true, the spellings are very different.
But otherwise they’re all countries ruled by petty men trying to project their power and rob their neighbours of their resources, liberty, and lives.
I feel this. I would love to see Russia, China and India…but there’s not a chance that I would knowingly give my money to those regimes. Not even through participating in their economy for half a week.
I think a global boycott on US-made goods + services is necessary. Trump can only do this because the US is such a powerhouse.
We don’t really make anything though, aside from software I guess.
That is already happening in Canada. Those imperialists threatening annexation was finally what brought us Canadians together on something lol
Has there been any progress on dropping tarrifs between provinces?
Ottawa announced yesterday that they’ll be dropping more than half of federal internal trade barriers.
I think I heard something about easing trade barriers between Ontario and I think it was either Saskatchewan or Manitoba.
Would be nice to see global sanctions against the US. Not realistic, but I hope all countries are moving towards significantly reducing American reliance. It’ll be a slow process, but needs to be done.
Honestly sanctions agains companies like these that can be weaponized politically sounds very reasonable.
They are national security threat in the true meaning of the word.
The US is only such a powerhouse, because they generally have the support of their allies. That makes it the unparalleled biggest economic block in the world.
But without their allies, USA isn’t that much stronger than China economically. And USA wouldn’t be nearly the powerhouse they’ve gotten used to be.So China just has to look on and do nothing, while USA is losing their world dominance quickly.
Yea, buyFromEU is already getting traction. More intense on reddit and a little bit on https://feddit.org/c/buyFromEU
Just relax and let trump continue destroying the USA. He’s doing putin’s work and fucking us all, Europeans and Americans alike.
I moved all my cloud computing from DO and Vultr to European owned options. It’s a small thing, but it’s about the only thing that I had been purchasing from the USA.
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The literal rest of my life will be spent trying to fuck over America and Americans.
As an American, I’d just like to say we absolutely deserve this.
Sure, but does the rest of the world?
No we don’t. Trump deserves to be kicked to the curb, but Americans are absolutely fine, if a bit short sighted.
A country is not its leadership, it’s the people. And it’s incredibly hard for the people to replace their leadership outside of election season, and even then, there’s a lot of pressure to make poor choices on your ballot.
it’s incredibly hard for the people to replace their leadership outside of election season
What have you tried? Have you written any letters? Protested? Marched? Gone on strike?
There’s a whole lot of defeatism in your comment and I’m getting major “we’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas” vibes.
All Amerikans deserve this and worse because they sit at home and complain online while a literal textbook definition of a coup is happening to their country. The country that literally screeches at the top of its lungs about the second amendment and right to have a gun “in case of a tyrannical government”. Not a single shot fired. No protests, just complaints. Y’all gave up your country without a fight.
We’re definitely protesting. It may not make international news, but every day there are angry crowds outside government buildings or in the streets of our cities. The last I went to was this past Monday in NY and there were at least a few thousand of us. Personally I think we need more serious measures but protesting is a start.
I’ve gone out of my way to look for coverage of any sort of protesting. I saw a single day of scattered small-medium protests called 50501 or something a couple weeks ago. That’s it. Angry crowds in front of government buildings doesn’t sound like serious protests given the sheer amount of what’s been going on in that country.
I understand your feelings, and I share them. Let’s stay strong and united, refusing to let fear or hatred divide us. Remember, we have allies in America who stand against extremism and are working tirelessly to promote justice and equality. There is a growing movement of brave activists, judges, and everyday Americans who are standing up against these challenges. It’s crucial that we support them and let them know they are not alone. Together we are stronger.
You can find an overview of the current resistance in yesterday’s post on Substack: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/ten-reasons-for-optimism
As someone who didn’t vote for the Cheeto Nazi, thank you for the nuance.
That said, comment OP and anyone reading this - please boycott and sanction the US! Starving the billionaire leeches and smacking government into pretending they have an iota of decorum or sense is necessary, and any outside influence on that is helpful.
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I’m with you. Fuck this shit.
Exactly. I’m already thinking about pulling my pension pot out of any US investments. It’s a tiny amount but maybe we can start a movement to keep pension investments in countries and systems you believe in, not whatever mix are typically used
That does literally nothing though. Buying a share of a company is like buying a used product, none of that money goes to the company. The only benefit to a company is the share price rising, and your contribution to that is effectively zero, and it only matters if the company issues or buys back shares, which is somewhat rare.
It’s the same reason that buying “green” shares does nothing.
Invest based on what’s most likely to give you a good return, even if you don’t agree with their products. And then buy products based on your convictions. If you want to feel like you’re “sticking it to the man,” use the profits to buy from their competitors.
Given there is going to be serious economic disruption there is a lot be said for diversifying your assets. If most of your assets are currently in the US moving your pension fund into assets held outside it is a strong de-risking move, particularly if you can move it out of the country totally using a foreign
proverprovider as well as holding non-US assets(not sure if that last is legally possible, don’t know much about your pension system).Note you may get poorer performance - it’s really up in the air just yet what the short term impacts will be economically (depends what King Mango ends up deciding, it’s mostly speculation right now)
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Canadian. I’ve divested 100% of my meagre savings out of us stocks. USA is not a reliable trading partner, or a leader in anything anymore except deceit.
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haha a butthurt Canadian. Bet your ukro ancestors moved there in 1945 https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/09/27/ejel-s27.html
Sounds like someone who is sensibly voting with their dollar. I’m not from USA or Canada, and I am doing the same.
They have been imperialist warmongers destroying and looting countries their whole miserable existence.
Now the vasals and bootlickers who profited and joined in get betrayed they feel butthurt and get a conscience.
Not only Canada but also Europe.
Hypocrites.Go stick your tongue back into Putin.
Anyone with a conscience and denounces that disgusting, violent cancer of a country is a Putin lover right?
I gueass these low slander tactics are all you have since everything Is ay are facts.
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Yes the US obviously.
And everyone knows this? I don’t think so.
Our/my EU governments were also part of the vasals and bootlickers I mentioned.
Perfectly fine with everything they did in the world. And still did not too long ago.
Not a peep when Nuland said ‘fuck the EU’ while meddling in ukraine or later when they blew up Nordstream and ruined our economy.
Time for the UK government to make good on all that money we spent rescuing OneWeb…
Please, everyone else quickly develop options other than the US. We’re going to need a minute to sort this mess out. :(((((((
I’ve had the great fortune to visit and live among other peoples in their countries (primarily the Baltics, Russia proper and Belorus) many years ago (first when Eesti still used the ruble, and then later again when she used those beautiful Eesti Kroon), when the people of those countries had much to tell me about their lives and cultures. I then had to return to the states, where knowing these things was frowned upon heavily, because they weren’t US-centric stories.
I’ve lived outside US borders just perhaps long enough to be able to disdain US exceptionalism, and understand that its head hasn’t been cowed enough yet for its population to understand humility relative to the much older and wiser world.
It’s very sad that I have to live to see it, especially with Canada and Mexico as our neighbors, but it seemed inevitable decades ago, so I’ll watch grimly as the country I was born in is made to fucking reckon… if it ever even learns to understand that fact.
For what it’s worth, plenty of us who have lived here our entire lives reject US exceptionalism, protestant work ethic, etc.
How pathetic.
Makes me wonder if this was Musk’s plan all along - make Starlink indispensible and then leverage it against Ukraine when the time came.
Modern capitalism in a nutshell. Establish a monopoly through any means, then exploit the hell out of that monopoly to become richer and more powerful.
*will.
The space Nazis are here.
“It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.” - Henry Kissinger
Was that a warning or a threat from Kissinger?
Maybe it was from his Nobel peace prize acceptance speech.
You can do directed WiFi with pretty long range. But you have to set up both transmitter and receiver antenna, and you’ll want to tune the direction of both antenna since radio waves don’t travel in a straight line along the surface of the Earth. Bit of a faff really.
Long-range Wi-Fi - Wikipedia - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-range_Wi-Fi
The point is that they can’t set up a receiver. Modern warfare uses a lot of land.
