It hasn't even been a month and already this has aged poorly.

"While you guys are back there pounding us, would you mind also checking our backs for moles? Thank you." EU to US.

Feels particularly relevant after all the Stonetoss and Jago entries recently.

Whatever your views on him as an actor or his political affiliation, you should watch the original speech in its entirety, rather than keep this soundbite in and of itself and hijack its meaning. It's also worth noting this was recorded in early 2023, so a lot of things have changed since then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsETTn7DehI

I think it's a powerful message and well delivered. Something the hardline MAGA crowd definitely needed to heed. And all around the world, as more of these populist movements rise or have risen.

Oh wow, the people who consistently vote conservative are addicted to platforms owned by billionaires which constantly spew disinformation and create echo chambers by design. There's probably nothing more to look into, there.

I'd say Democrats never learn from their mistakes, but there probably won't even be a 2028 election.

Man, Phantom Menace being the worst Star Wars movie when it came out is like George W. Bush being the dumbest US president: those were simpler times, somehow.

I'll say the prequels aged better than I'd remembered them, though. And they get a lot better with the existing fanedits, especially HAL9000's take on Episode I, which trims a lot of the dumb humour, dials down the Jar Jar antics significantly and tightens the plot a nice bit, to make it more of a classic Star Wars adventure.

Can the world NOT be evil, for like a minute?

This artist shows up a lot on Lemmy and what I've gathered from his comics is boobs.

Too late, they're my ducks now and we're gonna do drugs together.

Then, they'll just sob and cry for bailouts when people ultimately switch to cheaper chinese EVs after being shafted for the upteenth time by gas price hikes.

Audiophiles get a lot of shit outside their little online dens and it's always the same cable memes everywhere (that's not even the gear most people sell their kidneys for, afaik), but if you're one and you have a shred of self-awareness, this kinda makes ya laugh out loud.

I don't know whether to be glad that women's wellbeing and dignity are being defended through this gesture, or to be sad that someone needs to do this in the first place, because some assholes out there don't know how to behave as decent human beings.

Chicks, amirite fellas?

According to lawmakers, parliament agreed to scale back its demands – and the final text notably gave the United States until the end of the year to drop surtaxes above 15 percent on steel components, rather than insisting on it as a precondition.

The EU has absolutely no spine. This level of appeasement will only be rewarded with further scorn and disdain.

How's this for an exit plan from the war:

Actually, the speech is mostly about that last part even as it starts on the Holocaust. Since so far I didn't see a link to it, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsETTn7DehI

Oh no! -anyway...

Decidedly have no love for the GOP, but he was a politician in a time where the GOP was immensely different from what it is today, and the focus of the party was not overt bigotry and absolutism. Iirc, he was also talked about as a bit of a black sheep during the Bush Jr.-era GOP politics, but I might be misremembering things based on my own impressions from that time.