So that’s why there was all that butter everywhere

The headline is so much better than the real thing, but it also totally covers how Trump was treated by Rutte today.

Can someone tell Pakistan there is a form to withdraw your nomination? That’d be great, thank you.

This is not an image of her, could be ai for all i know. This is Mikayla Raines:

Assuming there is a single god and there cant be one before or after him, his age is surely interesting. But if there are multiple gods or they succeed each other or something like that, it matters much less. But since Earth was not created by God (in the book/movie i mean, cant say anything for sure irl), how would Earth be an experiment in figuring out the Answer?

Looks like 66% liked the gifts.

So maybe they’re not even burying someone. Maybe they are just burying a bag of dirt. Or a coffin-shaped matryoshka doll.

So now it’s 2-0? Better pick up your pace Canada.

But it’s pride month, we can let bigots be bigots for a moment. We’re already fighting them the rest of the year.

Hetero- festival

Totally, but would if have been meaningful before? It might genuinely make me believe a lizard class of baby blood drinkers rule the world or something like that

He lives in a fantasy world I think

I agree, the us’ imperialism is driven by a lot more than just a few individuals at the top. The ‘aesthetics’ would likely have kept a lot more allies on board. But the biggest change I see is how the powers driving the country are not only hurting a lot of people outside of the US (which goes for most developed countries), but is also more and more hurting people inside the US (similar to oppression in autocratic countries).

As far as the war in Iran goes I’m not so sure, if Democrats would have continuously stayed in power, the deal would most likely be up. But then the defense industry would still push for war somewhere else, so who knows what the world would have looked like. I’m not convinced it would look better.

I didn’t want to either, so here is a link to the full article: http://archive.today/2025.06.21-220113/https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-lists-reasons-he-deserves-nobel-prize-in-epic-meltdown/

And here is the part you ask about:

“I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for stopping the War between India and Pakistan, I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for stopping the War between Serbia and Kosovo, I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for keeping Peace between Egypt and Ethiopia (A massive Ethiopian built dam, stupidly financed by the United States of America, substantially reduces the water flowing into The Nile River),” Trump wrote on Friday. “And I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for doing the Abraham Accords in the Middle East which, if all goes well, will be loaded to the brim with additional Countries signing on, and will unify the Middle East for the first time in ‘The Ages!’”

He added, “No, I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize no matter what I do, including Russia/Ukraine, and Israel/Iran, whatever those outcomes may be, but the people know, and that’s all that matters to me!

If they actually give him a nobel peace price I don’t think I’ll be able to comprehend that. My brain will have an error for as long as I live probably.

Cloudflare keeps refusing me access for some reason, so here’s an archived version for anyone else who can’t get to the original: https://archive.is/RBsKv

I guess the countries sceptical or hostile back than didn’t really have much reason to change their mind about us. But Trump sure did a lot of damage to the relationship with befriended countries, guess all he has left are strategic allies with a similar world view. But I guess that’s what autocrats want after all. Who needs friends if you’ve got power. But for me personally, even though my view on american people didn’t change much my desire to support them definitely increased. If i were to meet someone from the US tomorrow that person would likely get a better treatment from me than if I had met him a few years ago. Not that i feel sorry for them or anything, but i just am really glad im not in their shoes. Had a colleague from Russia years ago, who left a hostile nation behind. Think I’d feel similarly for someone migrating from the US.

“[…] four [countries] contributed troops to the invasion force (the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland). An additional 37 countries provided some number of troops to support military operations after the invasion was complete.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_of_the_willing_(Iraq_War))

Far far less for sure. Although are quite some far right leaders in Europe right now. Perhaps Hungary and Italy are on their way already.

A decapitating strike to the regime of Iran also seems fair. Maybe not according to international law but my moral compass says it’d be a win for humanity.

China also has relations with Israel, they will most likely try and remain neutral (or at least try to look that way) just like they’re (acting as if they’re) neutral in the war in Ukraine.

In history class i regularly heard about people leaving warmongering countries, not as refugees but as economic migrants. I don’t know your personal situation, but this is a friendly reminder it is possible you end up regretting you stayed. There might not be a better time to leave.