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roadriverrail

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Signs & Codes Founder. I talk a lot about #ttrpg and especially #WorldOfDarkness (#WoD), #ham #radio, #edm, #retrocomputers, and all sorts of #foss stuff, especially systems software.

I'm #trans, #nonbinary, #transfeminine, #polyamorous, #kinky, and polymorphously #queer.

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rbreich , to random
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Reminder: When you cut taxes on the rich, the rich get richer and the gains don’t trickle down.

When you invest in the American people, the middle class expands and the economy grows.

It’s that simple.

roadriverrail ,
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@rbreich it actually is

randahl , to random
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The US is pushed to the sidelines of international security politics:

NATO partners want to remedy the lack of US support for Ukraine, by introducing a USD 100 billion fund, and taking over the coordination of military aid.

Until now the US played a key role with Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin leading the meetings at Ramstein Air Base, etc.

Clearly, Mike Johnson will not succeed in making Russia win. He will just make the US lose influence.

https://www.politico.eu/article/natos-stoltenberg-floats-100b-five-year-fund-for-ukraine/

roadriverrail ,
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@randahl and, to be frank, that's exactly what the US (my country) deserves for dropping the ball when it mattered most.

roadriverrail ,
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@randahl The thing is, I see this as part of a far worse pattern. There's this idea that "we shouldn't be the global police force," and, from a point of view, I get it. But, really, that should mean "we shouldn't go jack up Iraq on obviously shoddy intel," not "we should just quit on helping enforce the fundamental rule that you don't just take countries for your own."

I'm so fucking furious about this. Peace in Europe was built on these basic lines in the sand.

roadriverrail ,
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@randahl We're still a net exporter on grains so we'd probably find a way through that, but we'd ultimately find it a deeply bad idea.

The thing to keep in mind is that, for Reagan, that was all delivering a win over communism and nothing else. Republicans have turned isolationist pretty much as soon as the Cold War was over. They were very much against our involvement in the former Yugoslavia, for example. That's what really put the "neo" in "neoconservative"-- the interventionism.

futurebird , to random
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It's always bothered me that when people adapt Kafka's Metamorphosis they depict Gregor Samsa as a roach. Cockroaches do not undergo metamorphosis. They are born as nymphs which are just smaller wingless versions of the adult form.

Kafka writes that Gregor can only enjoy rotten food. Which also makes him not at all roach-like. Roaches strongly prefer fresh vegetables to rotten ones.

I always imagined him as a beetle. Which implies that the man Gregor was a larvae for all his pre-bug life.

roadriverrail ,
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@futurebird Someone once told me "It's not Kafkaesque to wake up an insect. If you wake up an insect and your first thought is that this might make you late for work...that is Kafkaesque." That completely changed my perspective on a lot of things.

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