I guarantee private equity is circling them like a flock of buzzards smelling death. This is why they’re preemptively making the same actions that a private equity company would do after acquisition, layoffs, restructuring “bold new plans” and a bunch of lip-service to inflate value before divvying up any resources of value like licenses and senior programmers to form a new brand, and throwing the rest away.

I love it even more when they force their employees to return to office work, nothing makes me happier as a gamer than knowing the people making the games I love are miserable and the company has a much narrower hiring pool.

implementing cost-cutting, project cancellations, and a return-to-office mandate.

Yes, as a gamer, I cannot count the number of times I’ve thrown the controller down and screamed “WHY WON’T THESE EMPLOYEES RETURN TO THE OFFICE?!”

Even the puppets pulling his strings wouldn’t want this.

One of those string-pullers is Stephen Miller, who is obviously mentally deranged and maybe even sub-human. A living embodiment of all the cringey super-villain speeches made by incels since the millenium.

He absolutely wants war and suffering.

In Greenland specifically, it means staring wistfully out at the ice and ocean and considering your life choices.

Hah, joke’s on you guys, Trump already crushed our economy starting in his first term that we can’t even afford wine or champagne!

(Seriously, drinking is falling off a cliff in the US, a lot of people cite health reasons but for most of my life when I heard someone say they’re cutting back for health reasons, they just don’t wanna say they’re broke.)

Friendly reminder from your neighbor who is clinging to the railing of the sinking ship…

You are also in a ship held afloat by the whims of capital. Make sure what’s happening to us doesn’t happen to you. Get involved with your community, make sure the wealthy are kept in check, keep your media free.

It’s a lost cause, this infection will spread as long as money exists, but you can slow it down long enough that a new generation of leadership may come into power who have more experience and knowledge how to protect us from the Kayfabe future of manufactured drama meant to drive prices.

What is almost more infuriating about this entire thing is that Russia wasn’t even primarily responsible for any of this. I’m sure they had a hand, but there are so many other forces trying to do this at once. For example, Elon Musk monetizing his blue-check engagement just enough for someone in India to make a living on has been a disaster for our public discourse. There are literally millions of people who are spreading propaganda and lies around the internet in attempts to make people angry, to get reshared, to get views, so nothing is off-limits to them, because they don’t have a stake in the future of the US and EU, they’re just working for food.

It actually helps their cause that there is a new study now - according to their disinformation machine this is just another “opinion” and proves their point.

KGB manuals written decades ago in the Cold War outline this tactic for destabilizing nations and getting populations to stop holding their government accountable, it’s the relatively simple process of just amplifying every argument, every side of every social issue, every scandal and every news story from the most extreme framing and to make sure you’re turning even the most reasonable idea into two extreme sides screaming nonsense at each other.

And for average, poorly educated, incurious people, a scientific argument is as nonsensical as a rambling spiel about raw milk and essential oils. If you don’t know how cells and chemistry work on even the most basic level, you have no framework to question if it makes sense putting red meat at the top of a new food pyramid. You just see arguments that you don’t understand both for and against it.

Since most people now get curated, atomized perspectives of the world, they don’t have a baseline to refer to for truth, so this effect has been distilled and enhanced with the internet and algorithms. Many people just read stories with competing, extremist language all day and tune the fuck out. They don’t know who or what to trust anymore, because everyone is shrieking that everyone else is lying, so they default to just whatever their mainstream media reporters tell them and stop feeling involved or connected at all. This is how state-media takes over a nation and cements the rule of the manipulative ruling-class.

I find it very strange

You’re getting too close to the truth, you better watch out, they might get wind of your investigations.

You decided to feel preemptively offended. Don’t play dumb(er).

Our problem here is one that has cropped up in history over and over, which is a huge, stable, liberal, comfortable population benefitting from their state’s imperialism become aware of a schism in their country’s direction, they see two sides:

One side is screaming that the country is collapsing, burning the country’s flag, lecturing about human rights.

The other side is declaring glory and success for the mighty Empire, worshipping the flag that keeps everyone safe and comfortable.

We can argue day and night about what events and specific things started the schism and how aware the population was about the atrocities, but at the end of the day, the majority of a comfortable population is always going to veer away from change and accountability, they will always lean towards the nationalists who basically say “You don’t need to feel bad or worry, our country is fine, we’re all gonna be okay, just go back to work, pay your taxes.”

This has happened over and over, and eventually always has the same end. I wish to fuck more of my countrymen would learn about history.

I don’t play stupid games.

The fantasy that this is all entirely the fault of outside influence gives everyone a nice, comfortable “out” for not having to get involved or feel like they’re not doing enough.

They’re not doing enough.

I don’t have the crayons to explain how large-scale wars inevitably drag in every “side” country because every country is a resource and the key players are not going to just fucking ignore resources, please read some history.

As simply as I can state it without delving into geopolitics that I know I’m not qualified to claim authority on, if two world super-powers faced off in a full-scale war, not even nuclear, it wouldn’t be a quick spat, it wouldn’t be a couple wacky years as the rest of the world looks on, it will ravage everything, and everyone will get drawn in. Everyone.

But it’s worse than that, because it’s not even going to be a border-war, it’s going to be a strategic/ballistic war, that means bombings, and if you don’t think two powers at war with each other, bombing each other’s cities, aren’t going to eventually cow to public demand for nuclear retribution, maybe not in short term, but somewhere down the line as the original actors are long gone and new leaders have taken the reins, in a world far less stable and reasonable world, man do I have some Fermi-Paradox solutions to show you.

Why?

I don’t even know how to begin to explain this if you can’t already see how biblically devastating that would be for all human life across most of the world.

africa shit

There won’t be a rest of the world for Africa to work with, I cannot even fathom how someone can’t see how bad this would be, even if it never escalates to nuclear exchanges.

I can only assume you have typical American hubris if you assume the US will be allowed to do whatever they want.

Are we really doing this shit? I’m not reading the rest and I’m blocking you, you know damn well I don’t represent my country’s politics, and you fucks out there need to do better than become like this rotten country and start doing the tribalism shit. I am giving political analysis and if it sparks you to want to hate someone for it, send that hate where it belongs, the people who are controlling the US and will soon control Canada and europe as well. And I don’t mean Trump.

Global instability from a Europe-North American war would likely cause a lot of conflicts around the world.

An actual Europe/US war would raze the world to cinders. This is why Greenland is going to get us shut out from trade and protection, not start a war. I can’t speak for this current administration of death-cultists, but the EU doesn’t want the world reduced to cinders. This is why the administration thinks they can get away with annexing it, and they may to some degree.

I agree, they are deliberately picking a “low-value” target to drive a wedge between the US and EU/Canada. Miller and Trump are panicked that they won’t finish the term and are trying to crank all the isolationist, fascist, hermit-empire world-building into one year.

Nobody wants to start World War 3 over Greenland, so it’s a testing ground for how far this administration can push their dumb agenda.

If he was a halfway intelligent dictator they would be negotiating for rights to set up a stronger US presence in Greenland and work through soft power, trade and other back-room negotiations, but they’re utter fucking morons so they’re trying to use hard power to divide alliances and threaten the world.

All we will get out of this deal is embargos on US goods and the slow, steady decline of the US superpower status as the rest of the world moves on and we slowly rust.