Trump’s unprovoked disaster war that no allies want to touch with a ten foot pole is bad for China?

Coming from US-headquartered The Atlantic this feels like someone throwing stones from a glass house. Maybe they have some weight to their argument… I’ll keep reading… OK I’m at the end now, nothing substantial really.

Perhaps Xi expects that an America divided at home and extended abroad will eventually recede, like history’s other overstretched empires. But patience can slip into complacency, and Xi’s reluctance to offer more than lip service and trade deals to allies may prove that China isn’t a suitable alternative to America’s global leadership.

Ok, so definitely no then.

China’s modern diplomacy is renowned for its patience and medium to long-term goals. This article is pure copium hoping to balloon-animal this fresh disaster for the US (in a long succession of disasters) into some kind of accidental win.

No, if your president throws troops onto a landmine and some blood spatters onto a neighboring enemy, that is not somehow a partial victory.

“Scientists again surprised to validate something hippies have practiced for 70 years”.

Hey I’ve seen this one.

Let’s hope the real ending is the same as the film.

Might just be patrolling, or putting in an appearance to make people ‘feel safe’ during uncertain times, and justify our $368 billion being pissed away.

The University of Florida deactivated its College Republicans chapter after the Florida Federation of College Republicans alerted the university to a photo showing a student leader performing a Nazi salute.

Worth championing that this is R’s calling out R’s. Good to see.

I can already envision the FB commenters labelled this a ‘leftist overreach’ of course.

Even if you’re a 30%-lead boomer with decades of severe alcoholism, and think this is a good idea of geoengineering (it is not).

There’s no way that intentionally irradiating large key trade areas of several middle eastern and north African countries for hundreds of years could have any negative blowback on the US now, is there?

This would explain where all the USA freedoms have gone.

I appreciate the effort to bodge together a composite image of a possum eating an Oreo instead of a slop AI image. Nice one spinoff.co.nz.

No idea, might be a filter she like to film with - she’s a new creator to me but i thought the content was good also.

Working fine down here in the land of Auz.

Here’s a snap so you can seek it out via Youtube search maybe:

In a healthy democracy, religious preference does not trump legal inquiry in suspect deaths - eg autopsy.

In a healthy democracy, someone with a daughter making claims of long-term sexual abuse by her mother and family, and a son that was convicted of kidnapping and torturing a Palestinian boy (leaving him naked and beaten in a field) has no possibility of a continued political career. If there are no better alternative politicians from your political party to fill your role, then that is an indictment of your entire party.

But she is a proud ultrareligious racist fanatic and so is her party, and so all of this is no problem for them. Nor apparently a large amount of the voters - her party has 7 seats in the current Knesset. Which is more seats that Israel’s only firmly left-wing party ‘Hadash–Ta’al’, which holds 5.

They/there

They will spin this as “our AI is so advanced now that we’ve downsized our programming teams”, guaranteed.

Yep, he figured out that as soon as you become wealthy, all law becomes selectively applied.

Kiwifarms fan spotted.

This would destroy what’s left of Germany’s groundwater (already quite heavily polluted by various industrial runoff).

Sounds like an incredibly short-term-thinking idea - much like fracking is everywhere.

Yes…

But more are always welcome.

Other poster is right, I conflated Holt with Whitlam.

There’s an ollld conspiracy theory that Holt was a Chinese spy and spirited away when he was close to being nabbed by ASIO iirc, zero hard evidence to this day, just novelists and crackpots.

https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/curated/asset/98238-allegations-and-conspiracy-theories

Don’t give me hope bro I’m a recovering optimist.