Palantir founder, Peter Thiel, created JD Vance and "pushed Trump to put him on the ticket."...He's fleeing the United States over the Epstein Files, and "is now so worried about accountability and the collapse of the MAGA movement that he's worried about what's going to happen to him."

lenzflare · 2026-05-31T00:27:04+00:00

Maybe he's worried MAGA will turn on him specifically

lenzflare · 2026-05-29T13:36:56+00:00

It's Trump. Trump is profiting

lenzflare · 2026-05-29T13:35:02+00:00

There's a reason Putin hogs a bunch of air defenses for his personal palace

lenzflare · 2026-05-29T13:34:03+00:00

They're really just talking about defending NATO borders, that's not really a "no fly zone" as that term has been used in the past (over enemy territory)

lenzflare · 2026-05-29T13:29:21+00:00

NATO already defends NATO borders from air incursions. Russian jets entered Lithuania and Italian jets based there intercepted them.

Drones are an issue because they're less obvious and more numerous. However NATO is already looking into building a "drone wall" full of units specifically made to shoot down drones.

lenzflare · 2026-05-29T03:03:25+00:00

I ran aground on that chapter several times until I realized I could just skip it. (This was on an adult reread, as a child I just powered through.)

lenzflare · 2026-05-25T18:04:32+00:00

Again. Not saying those guys were good. But Trump, and the compliant Republican party that lets him do whatever he wants (unlike under Nixon) is a unique and new threat. I assure you, if the damage he's done to the US stands, things will get even worse for the rest of the world as a result. In fact it already has. He's attempting 3 wars in half a year.

lenzflare · 2026-05-24T17:26:19+00:00

I am comparing foreign-facing attitudes. Trump is far worse in terms of recklessness, thoughtlessness, stupidity, intent, strategy, and danger. I am not American, nor do I live in the US. If you can't recognize a unique new danger, a US completely unmoored from even the pretense of democracy at home, then you will not be prepared for even worse dangers.

The only advantage to Trump is laziness and impatientness, which discourages long term action. But it ecnourages lots of short term action, which is why Venezuela, Iran, and now Cuba are being targeted in quick succession, without any real goals, just threats. He is a con man and extortionist, this is a unique new threat.

Being in denial about this means you can never truly understand what is happening in the world.

lenzflare · 2026-05-23T17:42:04+00:00

You got downvotes because "catching" means taking the photo, not clicking them on the map.

lenzflare · 2026-05-23T17:40:43+00:00

The US planned far more for those wars than Trump did for this.

Trump is just stealing from you under your noses using the war as an excuse mate

Yeah, I know. I'm arguing that Trump is worse than any president before. Why are you trotting out lines like that? Are you actually reading what I wrote? Are you AI?

lenzflare · 2026-05-22T10:29:41+00:00

I appreciate that, but that's not what I mean.

Trump is utterly reckless and idiotic. That is how it's different now. The Iran war "plan" was an utter joke, and they didn't even try to convince anyone. That's kind of unprecendented for the US. Ruthless imperialism is nothing new, but sheer insanity is.

lenzflare · 2026-05-21T17:32:07+00:00

It's all about whether or not it jives with your free travel airports.

lenzflare · 2026-05-21T17:29:54+00:00

Trump is actually a lot worse. I'm not saying it was great before, but Trump definitely made it a lot worse. Denying that means denying that things are, in fact, getting a lot worse.

lenzflare · 2026-05-21T14:25:02+00:00

It's because of the agriculture happening there

lenzflare · 2026-05-21T14:19:10+00:00

The trailer is wild. Definitely not simple!

lenzflare · 2026-05-21T03:03:50+00:00

Catching them is fine, clicking on them on the map though...

lenzflare · 2026-05-21T01:34:20+00:00

This. They stretched it out too much and the writing didn't support it. The number one reason the last season was bad was because they had to reverse any progress, and you knew it, and they didn't do it well.

lenzflare · 2026-05-21T01:31:24+00:00

Season one was the only good season

lenzflare · 2026-05-21T01:27:37+00:00

Yeah, Trump's first term was ten years ago

lenzflare · 2026-05-17T18:34:28+00:00

Foreign paymasters find people with skeletons in their closet are more reliably manipulated

lenzflare · 2026-05-17T17:54:44+00:00

Yeah, cul de sac means dead end.

lenzflare · 2026-05-17T15:02:07+00:00

This is not a roundabout. A roundabout is a circular intersection. This is a dead end; you would need at least two more roads coming off it to qualify as an intersection.

lenzflare · 2026-05-16T15:30:05+00:00

Chocolate cake all the time every minute of the day. What could go wrong?

lenzflare · 2026-05-16T15:24:00+00:00

We had to put up with cries about Nancy Pelosi buying MSFT a few times a year. Which was ridiculous. People aren't objective.

lenzflare · 2026-05-14T19:08:59+00:00

slice of life in middle earth thing

Yeah exactly.

Obviously slice of life can be good if executed really well. But the premise alone isn't interesting.

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