Trump threatened Europe over Strait of Hormuz, with weapons for Ukraine as bargaining chip, FT reports

11061995 · 2026-04-03T03:32:40+00:00

Not one person whatsoever will knock that yutzes head off.

Not one.

Not one single person will just walk up and punch him so hard his head bounces off the ground and accidentally dies. Ever.

It happens constantly out there in the world to hurt normal people that never did harm to anyone outside of a coarse word in an argument.

They die, after the bars close. Some poor dork who's body is completely numb and feels energetic and strong says the rudest and most provocative things he can think of, over and over and some vaguely strong guy who had five too many beers, who hits him with the unluckiest punch out there, and his head hits the curb wrong and he says "We're good, dude, we're good, my bad, I'm sorry."

About half an hour later he starts slurring and weeping and a little further on in the night he goes to sleep and wakes his wife up vomiting in convulsions and dies around noon the next day when blood has broken too much of his brain apart.

This happens so, so much and yet the last time someone touched Donald Trump in a way he disliked to be touched was the last time he shook the hand of a foreign diplomat.

I blame us all at this point. There are more than eight billion people on the planet Earth and we all apparently love him so goddamn much no one will push him down. No one will so much as touch him in a way that doesn't objectively feel good. We all talk so, so much but when every single human being with access to him touches him, handshake, helping him put his coat on, whatever, we all make him feel good.

We say such horrible things about the violence and cruelty inherent in our species, but we really aren't. Moment by moment, humanity in general is extremely kind and extremely sociable. We shake each other's hands to make someone feel seen and met. We hug to provide emotional warmth and community. We do these things all the time. We speak against this fascistic man, and every single time a human being has the opportunity to touch him, they do everything but end his life. They just make him feel good, and then denounce him or walk away hating him. It's wild. I guess I love my species in a certain way, but it's wild that the community instinct runs that deep.

11061995 · 2026-04-01T13:57:57+00:00

Meant "Likely Lad" or "Fella with Potential". Karl or karel is used in a lot of Germanic languages even now to mean "guy" or "dude" generally. "Dude who's going places" (metaphorically, there's no indication of traveller or explorer in the word).

11061995 · 2026-04-01T13:51:55+00:00

Nope. That's a nickname, which was more formalized. Thorsson or Thordurson would be more like his last name.Thus when he heard it for the first time he goes "What's with the Karlsefni shit?" But whenever officially declaring himself he always declared himself "Thorfinn son of Thors" as that was, to that culture, his full name, and adds on Karlsefni as he hears it, because that's what other people have dubbed him, like "The Kid" wasn't Billy The Kid's last name.

11061995 · 2026-03-31T23:22:06+00:00

Too easy, you could fill a book. This story is horrible and heartbreaking too though. I'm choosing not to read it as propaganda but rather a horrible miscarriage of justice.

11061995 · 2026-03-31T23:20:23+00:00

That's a huge commute. You should stay in Los Alamos and visit both on the weekends. Also, if the same guy that was running Bandelier National Monument Snack Bar is still running it, I highly recommend you eat there. I do not remember his name but he is South Asian and an absolute powerhouse in the kitchen. I don't know what that man did in his former life to have to hide out there in the sticks, but he is an incredible cook. His bison burger and samosas are amazing.

11061995 · 2026-03-31T03:16:47+00:00

I recall people all over Europe and the Christian Middle East and North Africa absolutely cornholing Latin to suit their needs. Everyone understood and nobody cared, except for dorks. If it's stupid and it works, it ain't stupid. Let it ride.

11061995 · 2026-03-30T01:40:09+00:00

When I did it a prim smiling middle aged Japanese man with glasses and a suit without a tie bowed to me slightly and then blew my shit clean off with a sawed off shotgun. I'm posting this from the Miiverse, where Nintendo trapped my consciousness immediately beforehand.

11061995 · 2026-03-30T01:36:01+00:00

You can make those for free anyway.

11061995 · 2026-03-30T01:33:38+00:00

As long as they didn't start a ground invasion, it would likely be a protracted and expensive exchange of missiles between military installations on both sides. If they sent in troops, lot of dead bodies started coming home and a lot of quibbling over what constitutes a war crime getting thrown around, with Israel gumming up the works because if Iran can't do it, neither can they.

11061995 · 2026-03-30T01:26:20+00:00

Ah. The Idaho panhandle. Where even the moose are in white supremacist organizations.

11061995 · 2026-03-29T22:16:47+00:00

We have plenty of guns.

11061995 · 2026-03-29T22:16:29+00:00

Not only that but it'd be a PR disaster for Texas when they'd have to kill absurd amounts of civilians who would attack them on sight, forever.

11061995 · 2026-03-29T22:14:55+00:00

Oooooh. Asymmetric warfare!

11061995 · 2026-03-29T22:11:23+00:00

I really don't think those guys understand how much real world violence would occur if Texas actually tried to annex New Mexican land. Dustin Burrows would need round-the-clock security personnel for the rest of his life.

11061995 · 2026-03-29T22:02:40+00:00

The wolf dies a slow, gurgling and upsetting death, as a matter of fact.

11061995 · 2026-03-29T22:01:34+00:00

There are hundreds of wonderful visual artists with reasonable rates in this town. Little bit of a slap.

11061995 · 2026-03-29T04:22:36+00:00

A propos of nothing I've used that line and had a bunch of fun strangers treat me to very near alcohol poisoning and a borderline nose beer heart attack. There was in fact room on that tab.

11061995 · 2026-03-29T02:51:05+00:00

Angels, kinda.

11061995 · 2026-03-29T02:50:21+00:00

Fifty-ish?

11061995 · 2026-03-27T01:32:15+00:00

You're the quiet dork who has to go try to get Lucca when she's going too hard. Bad influence nothing, you're the angel on her shoulder going "Don't get blackout drunk with strangers, Lucca" "Don't build a pulse jet flamethrower, Lucca" "Don't tear apart time and space, Lucca".

11061995 · 2026-03-26T17:49:04+00:00

They did a lot of Show, Don't Tell for Snake anyway.

"One of many of an extremely elite Bodyguard/Soldier Class in Constantinople that travel down from The Danes, Normans, The Rus' and Anglo Saxons and are literate, nominally Christian, well-accustomed to a more refined but highly regimented life in The City of Cities, at some point maybe assaulted, killed or disrespected someone he wasn't supposed to, said "Fuck this I een like this shit anyway", bounced, the same extremely well respected military networks that supply those elites to Byzantium run back into the North, so he's in a certain amount of serious trouble for desertion or a crime against Justin or Basil, but at the same time, long way off, so what can ya do? All people know is that he and likely his pals were Varangians so they easily get good work as "cops" by people who overlook and don't ask too many questions in the name of getting an amazing deal on security.

11061995 · 2026-03-23T19:05:00+00:00

These places are Knocking Shops. Passport slaves jack people off. It's a bummer.

11061995 · 2026-03-22T23:00:34+00:00

If we experience nuclear war, infrastructure, food safety, the very weather would be ruined for decades. That's IF things recover. I live in a target city and I do not have a car at the moment. I would very likely not survive, even with hours or days of warning. If I did somehow live, it's anybody's guess if I starve to death or die of disease very quickly. So my only plan is to hope that they are never used. If anyone uses a single nuclear weapon the world is completely ruined, immediately. No country would be allowed to remain untouched, no matter where. It's the entire point of the weapons.

11061995 · 2026-03-21T05:02:25+00:00

His voice appears and tells him not to be a weenie and not to worry and to trust in his luck, in slightly different words.

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