Destiny needs to get out of the headspace of thinking these actions are just "stupid" and without logic behind them. The administration banks on people underestimating their strategic competence.

Imagine how unpopular it would be to willing drop out of NATO? Pretty unpopular. But moreover, even if it was popular, you would need congressional support.

Fortunately, supporters of continued U.S. participation in NATO can take some solace in knowing that Congress has recently taken steps to help protect the alliance. Late last year, Congress enacted a statutory provision—located at Section 1250A of the most recent National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)—that expressly prohibits the president from withdrawing from NATO or using any appropriated funds for that purpose without permission from Congress.

Ok, well darn. Trump can't unilaterally leave NATO. But how else can you leave NATO? Well it's obvious. He's trying to get us kicked out of NATO. This alternative approach is far easier because he's the head of the executive branch and can do things that undermine our treaties circumventing Congress entirely.

This is in-line with how this administration operates. They will not back down in achieving their goals. Ever. If one approach is blocked, they will try another. And another.

Leaving NATO is a principle goal of this administration. If that means threatening NATO countries to achieve such goal, so be it.

Will do one for the remaining 26-50 soon. Begins at Episode 16 because that was the first episode where they would properly cut away to the intro at the end of an episode.

https://youtu.be/eTcsiw9tE_c?si=Jyd8orJRJ4gQAW_o

Specifically the ones that seem to "have never heard of" some story painting their side in a bad light.

Just ask them one follow up: "if what I said was true, would it change your opinion on any of this?"

Now, they're never going to say "yes" to that question, but in my experience you'll get one of 2 options:

• they'll go ahead and tell you why whatever was alleged isn't that big of a deal, which means you get to force the argument anyway and they're defending from a position where they're not sure of all the facts

• or they'll say something along the lines of "not trusting the lefty news" and you get to say, ok let's just look it up real quick and check. We'll find a source you're comfortable with.

Either of those routes seem to be better than letting them just completely weasel out of the topic through "ignorance".

Trump should have wore his suit properly and said "Thank you Mr. Kristersson"

Yesterday a chatter came in to Destiny's stream and was asking about how it's hard to be woke and not cringe and brought up Avatar the Last Airbender as an example, unfortunately Destiny hasn't seen peak, even though I think this show is the PERFECT example of non cringe woke and how to execute that when you juxtapose it to its sequal series Legend of Korra

In avatar the last Airbender you have countless strong females characters. Katara, Suki, Yue, Toph, Azula, Tai Lee, Mei, and I'm sure others im forgetting

The way avatar does this perfectly is by making these female characters strong by showing us rather than telling us and preaching about

Katara and Suki both have points early on about sexism and you could say this is "preachy" but the reason no one complains about it is because they've already been shown to be capable warriors, Katara through her waterbending and Suki through her martial skills. The reason they can escape with being a bit preachy and calling out the initially sexist character of Sokka is because they've already been shown to be capable and Sokka is being demeaning towards them as woman purely as a form of cope because he knows and the audience knows they have proven themselves to be respected fighters

We also see this with the rest of the female charactes I've mentioned, they're always shown to be strong and capable and badass so preachinness is never even needed cause the audience just sees all of these strong female characters who've earned their respect especially with Toph they do this well because she constantly says "Im the strongest there is" but she's already proven to be capable and she doesn't reference her gender because honestly it's unimportant toph is just that good and she happens to be a girl.

Now we can juxtapose this to the follow up series The Legend of Korra

This shows protagonist is fucking cringe and painful to watch because throughout the entire show especially the beginning she basically earns nothing and the show clearly gives off the vibes of "I'm a strong female protagonist". We don't see her earn her bending skills with the 3 elements she knows at the beginning. She doesn't actually earn Airbendending, she just randomly gets it when the story says she needs it, and she doesn't earn the control of the avatar state she's just given it, making all of her "triumphs" feel unearned and her professed strength annoying. This is essentially a constant throughout the show as she tries to throw around this tough energy that's been unearned and then being beaten or outsmarted by enemies but still keeps this energy. This is the type of unearned cringe woke feeling I think is shown here

Even the other female character in the show Asami is a better example of strong and unpreachy. Asami knows martial arts, is a capable fighter, an inventor, and can run her father's business and hold herself together after her father is arrested. She does all these things cause these are just part of her as a character without the cringe sort of preachy "strong female protagonist" feel that korra gives off

Anyways that's my tedtalk I think this show is the perfect example destiny should watch it lmao, lemme know what you guys think

A Dave Smith-type free market libertarian that went full Maga that I've known for years works for the postal service, and has gone from "💯" on DOGE firings to "I hope me and my coworkers are safe from layoffs, already dealing with a reduced workforce".

Still don't even know if he sees it more as him being a martyr for the good of government spending cuts than "oh shit DOGE is not actually being thoughtful about this", but first time Ive seen it happen to someone I actually know

They have more foresight and strategy in their playthrough than any current secretary.

The fucking penguin island tariff should be the biggest meme of the past 2 months, and should be weaponized by every Democratic leader to emphasize how foolish these people are.

"According to court documents, the CBP officer denied Cortez-Martinez's entry as he was "ordered removed in absentia" on June 11, 2024, and the advance parole document "was issued in error."

Sharma-Crawford told CBS News in a statement Friday that his removal was "extremely out of the norm." 

"Regulations don't permit for someone who is on Advance Parole to be subjected to expedited processing, but in terms of how advance parole works, even if someone has a removal order, that doesn't prevent them from traveling out of the country and returning," Sharma-Crawford said. "That's the piece that is so jarring."

Sharma-Crawford is urging other dreamers not to travel outside of the U.S. under the Trump administration. "If you don't have to travel right now, you should probably not travel. It's just too uncertain, it's just too unknown."

Disgusting

This is Putinst-level, "we know what they tell us is a lie but we like them anyway," propaganda.

Here’s the text from 2nd picture:

The broken window fallacy is perpetu- ated in many forms. Whenever job creation or retention is the primary objective I call it the job-counting fallacy. Economics majors understand the non-intuitive reality that real progress comes from job destruction. It once took 90 percent of our population to grow our food. Now it takes 3 percent. Pardon me, Willie, but are we worse off because of the job losses in agriculture? The would-have-been farmers are now college professors and computer gurus… So instead of counting jobs, we should make every job count. We will occasionally hit a soft spot when we have a mismatch of supply and demand in the labor market. But that is temporary. Don't become a Luddite and destroy the machinery, or become a protectionist and try to grow bananas in New York City.

Really need your help.

One thing that's frustrating for me is that I know some people who live in completely different media ecosystems than I do. They are very susceptible to misinformation that is largely propagated by the right.

I'm not a very argumentative/debatelord type person, I do enjoy that type of content, but it's been increasingly important that I have some sort of ability to debate because so many times i'll be hanging out with my friends and they'll start spouting out misinformation they heard from Joe Rogan or some right-wing figure and I just won't have the ability to immediately challenge everything they say. There's also an element of "not ruining the vibe" or not "burning a bridge"..

Do I just nod my head in agreement and move on? or do I try to challenge them in their views and if so, how do I do it in a way that doesn't make them angry. Also there's the issue that I may not know every single detail of every topic, if they are conspiratorial in any way and bring up obscure facts, I wouldn't know how to address it.

To the people in this sub who can relate, how do you navigate this situation??