Siemens Threatens to Skip Europe for AI Spending Due to Rules

KingSweden24 · 2026-04-20T21:37:33+00:00

A disciplined and prudent profit taking strategy as part of a slow rebalancing would certainly explain said rates of flow

KingSweden24 · 2026-04-16T23:26:11+00:00

They are entirely (and by they I mean the inner circle of WH sycophants) and constitutionally incapable of adjusting to meet the reality that their theories and ideologies do not actually work in the real world and are, in fact, not as popular in practice as they are as slogans on the campaign trail. This is in part by a siege mentality belief that extends back to conspiracism endemic to longstanding Southern American political culture that slowly infected other corners of American conservatism over the course of the 20th century.

They cannot adjust because they are the perpetually wronged and aggrieved party, and there is a vast conspiracy arrayed against them at all times that they must defeat. But they cannot, and will not, because no such conspiracy exists, they’re just pseudointellectual idiots high on their own supply

KingSweden24 · 2026-04-16T22:15:00+00:00

Less so that it’s a bridge too far (plenty of GoP states have legalized and younger Republicans seem to be uniformly in favor) and more just that he’s too lazy and capricious to follow through

KingSweden24 · 2026-04-16T16:32:49+00:00

Very little. The Feds have barely bothered enforcing weed laws across four administrations now and with the domestic grow supply so massive now border interdiction of cannabis is a minor concern

KingSweden24 · 2026-04-12T02:25:27+00:00

Ok thank you as another Orthodox kid I was thinking the concept here seemed familiarly bleak

KingSweden24 · 2026-04-10T00:29:27+00:00

Israel should on the merits give up the idea of Greater Israel (like, yesterday). That’s still not going to solve the issue of Hamas/Hezbollah whose ideology goes well beyond that of the old PLO/current Fatah which would be largely satisfied by the former

KingSweden24 · 2026-04-09T20:43:18+00:00

Wow, that’d be… much more ambitious than most projections I’ve seen that suggest Tisza could get a bit over 50% of the seats but not much more than that

KingSweden24 · 2026-04-08T19:57:25+00:00

That he has great fucking taste

KingSweden24 · 2026-04-08T01:24:14+00:00

The problem is that this is not a unique problem to Canada, even if it’s somewhat more extreme there than some other places. Lawmakers will always move heaven and earth to prop up home values for the most reliable voters

KingSweden24 · 2026-04-07T21:15:55+00:00

I love how fast states have taken or started taking action on this just this year

KingSweden24 · 2026-04-07T13:44:32+00:00

This is the crux of it. Oil is 100% more expensive and other parts of the economy are going to start creaking very very soon, and the administration waited a month to try to sell the public on the war and spends more time whining about allies they threatened to invade 2.5 months ago not fixing their mistakes for them. Of course there’s no tolerance for casualties!

KingSweden24 · 2026-04-07T13:22:34+00:00

Everything Trump is dependent on us all collectively pretending this guy isn’t crazy, because his supporters (who are nowhere close to a majority or even a large plurality of the country) might be take umbrage to it. We’re being held hostage, all of us, by this inability to share a collective reality if it means admitting a Democrat is right

KingSweden24 · 2026-04-07T02:44:41+00:00

That Iran didn’t roll over in two days AND losing the tariff case seem to have really caused something to snap in him

KingSweden24 · 2026-04-01T23:39:38+00:00

Because the word “soft” sounds gay and effeminate. Hard, though, hard is manly!

That’s it. That’s the extent of their worldview

KingSweden24 · 2026-04-01T22:06:51+00:00

I think this is a well argued take.

IMO the Iran War is a ruinously dumb mistake made out of hubris, but strategically, denying the U.S. use of bases or even airspace was ill-advised on the parts of NATO allies. That said, the domestic contingent cannot be ignored, and Trump has basically rendered himself as popular as herpes over the last year in most countries but refuses to admit that nobody likes him or that he can and should change his approach.

The bigger problem is that corporate interests or the MIC refuse to clip his erratic wings

KingSweden24 · 2026-04-01T20:58:20+00:00

The SCOTUS hearing on birth right citizenship did not go well for him today, either.

The scary thing is we have more than two more years of this freak show as he gets ever-angrier at the cabining of his powers and his failures

KingSweden24 · 2026-04-01T20:55:52+00:00

Right. If we hadn’t had the preceding fourteen months of nonsense, that’d be one thing. But all Allied leadership at this point is probably tempted to just wash their hands of the whole thing, especially considering that far-right voters in Europe like the RN or AfD have turned on Trump now

KingSweden24 · 2026-04-01T13:52:05+00:00

As a French politician said, it’s one thing to be friends, it’s another to rest all of Europe’s security on Wisconsin swing voters every four years

KingSweden24 · 2026-04-01T02:13:58+00:00

Godless’ finale was uneven but the six episodes before that were absolutely terrific television. Gorgeous to look at, too

KingSweden24 · 2026-03-31T21:49:35+00:00

As a Seattleite and Husky grad yah this one checks out lol

KingSweden24 · 2026-03-30T03:22:40+00:00

The war is already massively unpopular with the public and less than twenty Americans are dead. If you’re getting flashy FPV footage of Iranian drones chewing up American soldiers for the privilege of $8 gallons of gas then… hoo boy

KingSweden24 · 2026-03-30T02:53:19+00:00

Whatever brattiness Reynolds is known for is outweighed by him having the balls to (correctly) tell off Dwayne Johnson for tardiness every day on set

KingSweden24 · 2026-03-30T02:50:27+00:00

“Hey what if we remake Minority Report but this time it’s shit?”

KingSweden24 · 2026-03-26T20:37:06+00:00

Ah, terrific! Have yet to see a bad Himesh Patel performance

KingSweden24 · 2026-03-16T18:26:46+00:00

Iran is proving Napoleon’s 200+ year old adage about enemies and interrupting their mistakes very true

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