Can’t just admit you lost, can you, Trump? I guess this is Biden’s fault too? Such a waste of every life lost to this dumb game.

https://web.archive.org/web/20191028041753/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/nov98/nazicars30.htm

The history is a little more complex than giving weapons, but US-owned companies manufactured equipment for the Nazis. “The business of America is business” rings true.

“American managers of both GM and Ford went along with the conversion of their German plants to military production at a time when U.S. government documents show they were still resisting calls by the Roosevelt administration to step up military production in their plants at home.”

During the war, US bombing plans avoided American-owned factories. When they couldn’t, they compensated the companies for the losses inflicted.

Again, it’s complex, and fascinating in many regards, but the business interests that drive the US government were also building the Nazi war machine.

Sounds like more bluster to me. Possibly more set up for a false flag. The lies that get spun to convince people to prepare for war never cease. Why doesn’t Europe shake themselves free of the US-led war machine and set their own path? NATO had outlived its usefulness decades ago. Now it seems only to exist to create markets for weapons manufacturers and to create wars to test them in. It’s grotesque.

That General wouldn’t be in that office if he weren’t loyal to pushing the agenda of Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth. He doesn’t have Europe’s best interests in mind. Only those of the US-led war machine.

Maybe that decision should be up to the people of Ukraine. They hold elections for that office, don’t they?

FTC chairman’s comments sound reasonable on the surface, but just vague enough to be meaningless.

It sounds to me like the “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” argument, but a first draft attempt to put AI issues away from the tool. Then, his definition of ‘developer’ is unclear.

With guns the argument is more straightforward, the tool is made to send projectiles in one direction when a user pulls the trigger.

With AI, does the end user know what the tool is capable of doing to achieve their goal when they direct it to do something?

Sorry folks, best we can do is beat the war drums and spend your taxes on armaments. That’s better than ‘social services’, right?

I think your second statement answers the first. 🙂

All the legal protections and multiple inherent contracts that come from having a state-sanctioned marriage, all for $20 ($100?) or whatever for the town/county clerk vs hundreds or much more for enacting every individual contract it stands in for.

I have a long winded reply in my head about how these relationship types are not a new idea, humans have had multiple types of relationships for millennia, etc., etc. But I’m tired, and it’s preaching to the choir at this point. (So to speak, lol)

Hey, now there’s something beyond speculation. So it was true. I don’t apologize for my original skepticism with the info at the time. I am willing to be swayed with additional info and in this case confirmation from the horses mouth.

Thanks for posting that!

Lol, how rude. I’m not the one defending a media organization proudly funded by oligarch money, dressed up real nice in tax exempt foundations.

https://www.propublica.org/supporters

Lol, OK kid

It’s also entirely possible I just have unique, nuanced opinions that don’t completely align with yours. If this article is true, add it to the pile of things that family should be run out of town for. Better yet, impeach, convict, remove from office, and go after the rest of that corrupt family enterprise based on mountains of evidence that supports that end. I just am not ready to swallow this news story as-is simply because it supports that narrative. Guess that makes me a bad person.

Lock me up. 😒

I can also argue with an Internet rando for leveling baseless belief. Propublica may be legit, but they’re not showing the receipts on this one that connects the dots. Propublica is the platform, these 4 reporters don’t earn any credibility with this kind of reporting. Propublica should demand better.

Not saying reveal the 3 individuals, yes, they’d surely have the regime’s sights set on them, but contracts, receipts, accounting leaks can be shown, shit gets hacked and dumped all the time. Deniability as to where it came from, but when they have it, they can validate it with additional sources, company documents, other experts, etc. All we get here is, ‘trust us’. Produce some documentation.

There’s plenty of out in the open corruption to light this administration up for. Surely there are other more obscure stories of corruption with better sourcing than this. They show photos of the couple watching fireworks reportedly funded by the guy, but not a receipt to support that claim?

Simple, that’s their sugar daddy.

https://media.npr.org/documents/about/annualreports/NPR Annual Report 2025 mobile.pdf

Corporate sponsors starting on page 59, some other notable names starting on on page 38.

Other clues spread throughout, as to who they have to please to stay funded, and in business.

…“according to records reviewed by ProPublica and interviews with three people familiar with the event”…

Show the records, at the very least. Provide the evidence for your audience, if you respect their intellect and ability to draw the same conclusion. Otherwise, just more nonsense posted by ProPublica with sourcing to “people familiar with the matter”. Laughable. The article is pure speculation made out to be something more.

Until then, Hitchens’ razor applies. What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

In the US, that’s what the 2 major parties are for. Each blames foreign influence for the extremes of the opposition (within or out of the actual party). Articles just parroting some in-power government agency’s assertion are clearly just carrying water for the power structure they thrive in and support. No questioning, no demanding those claims be backed up by any evidence. By the time actual journalists dig into whatever was used to support the claim (if it exists at all), it ends up being the most benign nonsense that could hardly be called a coordinated campaign by external actors. By then, enough people just see the headlines and believe it on the surface because it aligns with the us vs them narrative. It serves the powerful in my country to claim there’s some external enemy rather than give the masses any room to realize that power structure serves big business interests and the disagreements are largely for show.

You and belluck have a point, they want to keep people with similar interests divided rather than work on solutions. It’s just far more likely that coordinated divide and conquer campaign is coming from inside the country than outside.

Right… The only reason citizens in any country are upset is because of influence by an external entity.

Sure. Can’t be any other explanation. No valid concerns. Got it.

The power structure works to protect the power structure. No way this warning is the disinformation?