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  1. Hollup. There's hard power, and then there's soft power. You're thinking all hard power. You need both. Sure, you've got to have hard power initially as an implicit threat to enforce rules, norms, and such. But over time, you build trust and gain buy-in from others who decide to join your side willingly. And, well shit, then you really prosper through all sorts of creative and productive trade (if managed wisely and fairly). You don't fuck that up by using only hard power, because then you always have to waste resources to keep others in line, and the only "gains" made are through forced exploitation and suffering. You also might lose your soul.
  2. It's sorta like CHIEF up above playing chess: "I don't care if I lose my queen, I'm gonna take that goshdurn pawn!" They just don't think things through.
  3. I've lived out in the West Texas patch for a couple of years now, and there are some real fucking idiots out here who were making stupid money, so they got bored and went all in on the idiotic culture war shit, acting like they were some sort of oppressed minorities. My backyard looks out over from a ridge, and today, a couple of miles away, I can see five idled rigs on the other side of town, just standing there. Depending on how you count all the knock-on effects (direct, indirect, and induced) for each rig, that's probably a total of 400-500 great-paying jobs now gone. But hey, the local private prison might reopen because of a new ICE contract, producing about the same number of jobs, but those guards only make about $40K a year. Had to get gas today: $2.22.
  4. I mean, fuck the Danish whites, because Greenland. But I will never recognize those Dutch bastards.
  5. He just gave a license to Xi, Putin, and every other tinpot tyrant out there to violate international law and fuck with their regional rivals. “We live in a world in which you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else, but we live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world that have existed since the beginning of time.” Do you want to live in a world like that? Shit, do you want to live in a town or neighborhood like that? Does that sound like a safe place to live? Were you the schoolyard bully who took other kids' lunch money and never learned your lesson? Is that why you have a hard-on for stealing another country's primary natural resource and means for improving the lives of its citizenry? Because all of that is what you're asking for: A shitty ghetto where everyone's trying to swipe each other's shit at the end of a gun. When the rule of law dies, the rule of the gun arrives. BOLVERK
  6. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/us/politics/trump-interview-power-morality.html
  7. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/us/politics/trump-withdraw-un-organizations.html President Trump withdrew the United States on Wednesday from dozens of international organizations intended to foster multinational cooperation, cutting ties with a wide range of prominent forums addressing international security, law, trade, economics and human rights. Secretary of State Marco Rubio listed several reasons for the simultaneous withdrawal from so many international organizations, many of which are part of the United Nations. Pointing to waste, mismanagement and redundancy, Mr. Rubio more broadly suggested in his statement that the international influence gained from sending U.S. representatives to these organizations was ultimately not worth the effort. “It is no longer acceptable to be sending these institutions the blood, sweat and treasure of the American people, with little to nothing to show for it,” Mr. Rubio said, asserting that many of the organizations were “dominated by progressive ideology,” including gender equality and climate change. In trumpeting the withdrawal, Mr. Rubio suggested that it was in line with the Trump administration’s decision to shutter the U.S. Agency for International Development. The United Nations did not immediately comment on the United States’ severing relationships with some of its organizations. An executive order, signed by Mr. Trump on Wednesday, follows a broader vision of American foreign policy that shuns the consensus of nations and building coalitions, focusing almost solely on projecting American power and dominance. But Mr. Trump’s unilateral withdrawal from international bodies stands out even when compared with the actions of other regional and world powers that are skeptical of international agreements on democracy, climate or human rights. Biden administration officials had argued that a withdrawal from those bodies would create a vacuum for U.S. rivals to exploit. For example, China and Russia are both members of the Global Counterterrorism Forum, the International Energy Forum and the International Renewable Energy Agency, as well as the U.N.’s International Law Commission, Peacebuilding Commission, Alliance of Civilizations and the Register of Conventional Arms. The United States withdrew from all of them on Wednesday. Many of the organizations listed in Mr. Trump’s executive order also do not appear to require direct membership from nations, but the move seemed to signal more broadly that the Trump administration was likely to refuse to cooperate with them. Mr. Trump has already pulled the United States out of many significant U.N. organizations, including UNESCO, the U.N.’s cultural agency; the World Health Organization; and the U.N. Human Rights Council.
  8. Here's the story: https://www.npr.org/2026/01/05/nx-s1-5660698/nprs-archive-preserves-the-facts-of-the-jan-6-capitol-riot Below is the database.
  9. Since you put it that way, GO CONVICTS!
  10. https://archive.is/Navve The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fatally shot a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis Wednesday is Jonathan Ross, the same officer who was dragged and injured by a fleeing driver in a separate incident last year, according to a person with knowledge of the case and verified by court documents. Little public information is available about Ross, described only by federal officials as “an experienced” officer. On Wednesday morning, Ross was embedded in a group of federal agents on a targeted crackdown in south Minneapolis when Good was shot. ICE has not reported the identity of the shooter and did not respond to request for comment for this story. A photo of Ross’s face has since circulated social media, as online sleuths have attempted to identify him. On June 17, 2025, Ross was participating in an arrest of Roberto Carlos Munoz-Guatemala, a Mexican citizen, in Bloomington last year. Munoz had previously been convicted of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct and had been put on a detainer by immigration officials. Munoz ignored the agents’ commands, including to fully roll down his car window, so Ross broke open his rear window and reached inside to unlock the door. Munoz put the vehicle in drive and accelerated onto the curb, the charges said. Ross was dragged alongside the vehicle and twice fired his Taser as Munoz weaved back and forth “in an apparent attempt to shake” him from the car. About 300 feet down the road, Munoz re-entered the street and the force knocked the officer from the car. The agent required 20 stitches for a deep cut in his right arm and another 13 stitches in his left hand, according to court documents. A jury convicted Munoz of assaulting a federal officer in December. Hours after the shooting Wednesday morning, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said the agent involved had “been dragged by a vehicle” in an earlier incident. At the time, she did not provide specific location details for where that occurred. But she described the unnamed officer as “an experienced” agent who’d been in similar situations before and “followed his training.” The Department of Homeland Security confirmed Thursday that the agent who killed Good was the same officer dragged by a suspect in Bloomington, Minn. last June. Although Ross was not named in the 13-page indictment of the driver, he is identified in several court records filed in the case, including photo exhibits from the hospital. He is also listed by name as a witness. A law enforcement source, who is not authorized to speak publicly, confirmed that Ross is the shooter.
  11. Has the number of undocumented drastically increased in MN within the last 24 hours? Because ICE has no legal authority over US citizens, beyond actual arrest and detention of non-citizens. Obviously, it's a show of federal force, but against whom? US citizens. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/us/politics/border-patrol-minnesota-trump.html
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