Even better, some Danish politician was citing their nation’s gleeful involvement in USAmerica-led invasions as a reason why it’s bad to invade Greenland.

The mental gymnastics to support this one are on an Olympic level of stupid.

Well, yes, but so were the mental gymnastics to support all the previous interventions.

Always reminds me of this masterpiece quote:

First we must study how colonization works to decivilize the colonizer, to brutalize him in the true sense of the word, to degrade him, to awaken him to buried instincts, to covetousness, violence, race hatred, and moral relativism; and we must show that each time a head is cut off or an eye put out in Vietnam and in France they accept the fact, each time a little girl is raped and in France they accept the fact, each time a Madagascan is tortured and in France they accept the fact, civilization acquires another dead weight, a universal regression takes place, a gangrene sets in, a center of infection begins to spread; and that at the end of all these treaties that have been violated, all these lies that have been propagated, all these punitive expeditions that have been tolerated, all these prisoners who have been tied up and interrogated, all these patriots who have been tortured, at the end of all the racial pride that has been encouraged, all the boastfulness that has been displayed, a poison has been instilled into the veins of Europe and, slowly but surely, the continent proceeds toward savagery. And then one fine day the bourgeoisie is awakened by a terrific reverse shock: the gestapos are busy, the prisons fill up, the torturers around the racks invent, refine, discuss.

People are surprised, they become indignant. They say: “How strange! But never mind — it’s Nazism, it will pass!” And they wait, and they hope; and they hide the truth from themselves, that it is barbarism, but the supreme barbarism, the crowning barbarism that sums up all the daily barbarisms; that it is Nazism, yes, but that before they were its victims, they were its accomplices; that they tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, that they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples; that they have cultivated that Nazism, that they are responsible for it.

— Aimé Césaire Discourse on Colonialism (Please read it, it’s short)

If not for Venezuela’s oil, you wouldn’t know who Maduro is.

but that article smells like a steamy pile of progressive-washed dung.

Why would you say so? What’s the problem with it?

The Chinese people sure feel oppressed by “elites beyond democratic control”:

And no, people aren’t just “too afraid to share their real thoughts”, there are studies specifically designed to counter that potential tendency and they find the same results.

If you’re willing to understand WHY the Chinese people hold those opinions, I can recommend this article: Building Whole-Process People’s Democracy in China.

Someone I disagree with used a word I don’t know, must be a russian agent slipping up! I knew it!

Well, France just renewed its contract with Palantir to manage it domestic intelligence. I guess they didn’t get that memo. I’m sure they’re working really hard in the background to some day replace it.

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Good job, Europe!

China doesn’t do illegal unilateral sanctions.

It’s way easier to trick people than to have them admit them they have been tricked. CIA knows that.