Tommasi

Genuinely incomprehensible that someone can sit and brag about not following "Geneva Conventions or any other nonsense LOAC" and not understand you're an evil ghoul.

Like what needs to happen to your brain for that to be possible?

At least Eurasianism was one of his main ideas, yeah. Lots of weird, esoteric fascist stuff.

Thought this guy got hit by a car bomb or something a few years back. Sad to see he's still around.

Edit: Nevermind, that was his daughter, I misremembered. My day is now a bit worse being reminded he is actually still alive.

Yeah, the libs and neocons really hate you for your brave stance against anti-americanism and degrowth dude

I think that's the way its supposed to feel, so that's good It's very possible i'm just viewing it unfavourably, or experienced the changes in tone as bigger than they actually were, just because it wasn't what I personally wanted from the show

I think some book fans had dreamed for so long of an adaptation that it was never going to be good enough, but I think what ruined it for me was that it doesn't seem to want to tell the kind of story that the books were telling.

I remember the first book as this pretty simple coming of age, fantasy adventure, but the vibe I got while watching it was that the writers really wanted it to be more like GoT. And that just felt like such a cynical decision to me, like the point was to sell more by making it more like the insanely popular thing that just ended a couple years ago.

(My relationship to the books is a kinda complicated. I was hooked as a teen, but feel a lot more ambivalent after a re-read because of the constant sexist garbage I spotted when I was more mature. Like, I'm kinda pissed that teen me was tricked into thinking the weird gender essentialism was a normal, healthy way for men and women to think about each other and themselves, and every other female character is a sexist stereotype. But the nostalgia is unfortunately pretty strong so idk, I never soured completely on it like I did with Harry Potter for instance, so it must have had some redeeming qualities.)

And experience shows that Trump gets what he wants while liberals and Europeans fold like paper

This is just not true at all though. Biden and Obama were both much better at getting Europe to do what they wanted than Trump during his first term. When has Trump being some geo-political mastermind able to bully other countries into submission been anything but a conservative fantasy? He is not even going to get Canada to play ball, let alone all of Europe.

To say that they don't have the ability to resist just giving away their industries is bizzare. You would have to give them genuinely zero other options to survive first, and while Europe is stagnant like most first-world economies, it's still an obscenely wealthy and un-proportionally influential region of the world. It's facing slow economic decline, but it's not in any danger of collapsing anytime soon. To say otherwise just feels like wishful thinking.

Europe is going to decline, that's basically certain, and their relationship with the US souring is going to be a part of that. But it will be slow, as more and more thirld-word countries rise out of poverty and are able to push Europe out of its unique position on the global stage. It's not going to be because they give away all their shit to the US because they couldn't resist Trump's secret genius.

It doesn't work like that though. They're capitalist countries who function on the same logic as capitalist countries everywhere else.

Tell them to slash welfare to fund imperalist wars and they'll preach about international solidarity and the rules-based order while gleefully taking their citizens money. Tell them to just tank their economies and ruin their capitalist class and that speech switches to the importance of nationalism and self-sufficiency in a heartbeat.

If that's their plan, they're definitely not going about it the right way. For most European countries, the chances that they'd be willing to let vital industries be sold to the US has changed from at least some possibility to actually impossible under Trump. He's practically forced everyone to become more protectionist.

This is the chud equivalent of "Can't wait to see Drumpf try wriggling his way out of this mess."

Just wait a little bit more and he'll prove he's actually a genius