assaultpotato @ assaultpotato @sh.itjust.works

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What? There's absolutely no way we can interpret intent in this case - this could genuinely be a fair question asked in good faith.

"What about US tech?" could be interpreted a number of ways, from "are Canadians also divesting from US tech?" to "But Canadians aren't divesting from US tech, what about that?". There's no reason to believe this person is going after the latter case here when "ok that's retail, how's tech doing?" is equally likely and imminently reasonable.

I'm fine to get dog piled here but I think you've assumed bad faith where there is no reason to make that assumption, especially after the user attempted to disambiguate in exactly the way I've described.

I'm also curious to see how Canadian usage of American tech companies has changed. I wonder if it got more people to quit Twitter finally.

Postmedia has a bunch of "* Star" papers and the Toronto Sun but notably not the Toronto Star.

I was pretty sure it was the Toronto Star that was Postmedia... I may be remembering incorrectly. I'm gonna delete my comment until I can verify.

Except those who dissented publicly, right? Pretty sure Sotomayor was pretty publicly pissed off at the rest of the court.

Probably. But who knows. And the fact that the only cope is "it's just a negotiating tactic" like MAGA after prices increase from tariffs is giving me a headache. What a time to be alive.

Here's another

https://www.ft.com/content/ce9eb7e4-7989-45f6-a3b3-3cdec73a8540

A Nato official confirmed the message’s authenticity.

I can only provide some sample articles that reference a confirmation from Rutte's office. I don't think they put out a statement or a release, I think reporters called the office and got confirmation that way. Not sure you'll be able to find a public statement.

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250624-trump-posts-nato-chief-gushing-message-praise-extraordinary-iran-action-rutte

Here's a French one that theoretically isn't bound to gobble Trumps knob.

"Congratulations and thank you for your decisive action in Iran, that was truly extraordinary and something no one else dared to do. It makes us safer," Rutte wrote in a message shared by Trump on Truth Social – and confirmed by the NATO chief's office.

I regret to inform you Rutte's office has confirmed officially. I took massive psychic damage when I discovered this was a real post of a real text not a real post of a fake text.

I would love and hate to see proof that Mark Rutte really texted this to Trump.

The "Truth" post is 100% real, inarguably, but I haven't seen anyone reporting the picture is of a real message from Rutte to Trump.

E: never mind that is... apparently Rutte's office has confirmed the message is really from Rutte????

?????

I need to go lie down.

And signs their essay texts with their name. Very common as we all know.

Real tweet, fake text... no way any NATO leader would say "Europe is going to pay BIG" it's just too Trump. Same with the incessant comma splices.

But big congrats to Trump for ruining the information space so completely that I genuinely cannot tell what's real anymore.

Of course it is, LLMs are inherently regurgitation machines - train on biased data, make biased predictions.

International "law" is a misnomer, as you've noticed... it's only enforceable at the end of a pointy stick, physical or economic. "Conventions" are a more appropriate phrase. This is indeed disappointing.

Yeah probably, he has the foresight of an infant. Doesn't mean NATO countries will respect an attempted invocation of Article 5.

Trump can act as he wants, that doesn't magically make other nations forget what NATO agreements actually say.

NATO was never involved in any of the other US-lead wars. Western countries may form a coalition for a war but that's independent of and unrelated to NATO and purely at their own discretion, not out of any obligation. Feel free to protest your national government if they choose to get involved, but don't act like they have no agency and Trump forced them to do anything.

NATO also only works defensively - the US struck first, and as a result no NATO country has any obligation to get involved, even if it were an attack on home territory.

I emotionally agree with you, but really the problem is that... anyone could do that in the future. Denying someone owed care because of political belief is a horrendous situation to explicitly allow, regardless of political affiliation.

/sigh

affirms that free and open communication between State and local law enforcement and their Federal counterparts remains the bedrock of public safety

Objectively true and aligns with Newsom and other's critiques of why the LA situation is bad in the first place

expresses gratitude to law enforcement officers, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel, for protecting the homeland.

You can't just cherry pick shit you dislike - this statement was part of a compound resolution EXCLUSIVELY about the Boulder terrorist attack, in which DHS and ICE were positive forces. That's what all the "whereas" means, it means "in the context of"... stop intentionally misinterpreting things to be mad about it.

You can keep quoting the same Newsweek article at me, it doesn't become truer the more its linked.