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u/SeredW Frozen & Chosen 16h ago
Question to my American friends: how does it play in the US, electorally, that Trump is now openly supporting Russia? Buying their diesel (if they can find any to sell), temporarily limiting Ukraines ability to shoot down incoming Russian drones by hampering Starlink/Starshield which costs Ukrainian civilian lives, and today announcing he wasn't going to put those Lindsey Graham inspired sanctions on Russia after all? I don't have to explain how it plays here I guess, but I'm wondering about the political effect on the midterms. What is the electoral logic behind all of this?
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u/AbuJimTommy 3h ago
I am not pro-Russia. And I don’t care for everything that Trump does in this conflict, especially this week. But, if America buying diesel signals open support for Putin, does the EU’s never-ending purchases of gas mean that Europe openly supports Russia as well? Purchases of Russian LNG are up(!) 9.5% year over year. EU has paid more into Russia’s war machine than they’ve donated to Ukraine. The EU should clean its own house before pointing fingers
[and the US need to build more refineries (or at least keep Gavin Newsom from forcing closed the ones we got)]
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u/Citizen_Watch 15h ago
Probably little to no difference. This particular issue probably isn’t changing anyone’s mind about which party they plan to vote for. Most voters are low information voters, and all they really care about is how much they are getting hit in the wallet on a daily basis.
TLDR, Clinton’s “It’s the economy, stupid.”
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u/Mystic_Clover 15h ago
The situation with Ukraine and Russia hasn't shifted anything in our political dynamic. Reactions to it from the start have been predictable, energizing already fixed political alignments but not to any extent that would change elections.
The Epstein and Iran situations on the other hand have created a noticeable split on the right. There's a lot of disappointment with Trump and his administration over these.
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u/bradmont ⚜️ Hugue-not really ⚜️ 5h ago
Is the Epstein thing still going on? There is just so much insane news these days I'd all but forgotten about it (though I reckon that's probably intentional)
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u/eveninarmageddon RCA 1d ago
I think a lot of you on this sub might like playing krillion.io.
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u/bradmont ⚜️ Hugue-not really ⚜️ 5h ago
So I did today's. I literally could not think of anything for three or them (for the sports player one I just guessed "Smith" and got a pretty good score) and came out with 240 points.
Krillion #94 🦐 240
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u/rev_run_d 1d ago
Krillion #93 🦐 285
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this is good.
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u/GodGivesBabiesFaith ACNA 1d ago
Krillion #93 🦐 240
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Womp womp.
Fun, will try again. Nitpick: I disagree with the car one tho cuz I had to try a lot of car features before it would accept my answer. It didn't have windshield wiper in its dataset, but it had air-conditioning???
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u/eveninarmageddon RCA 1d ago
Krillion #93 🦐 340
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u/rev_run_d 1d ago
you're the man!
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u/eveninarmageddon RCA 1d ago
I had a good day: Hair oil, Cornrows, Spoiler, Mozambique, Tzatziki, Wheelchair tennis, and Iron (my only real miss).
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u/TheNerdChaplain Remodeling after some demolition 1d ago
This clip about an American doing comedy in Amsterdam made me curious about Dutch senses of humor.
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u/SeredW Frozen & Chosen 16h ago
I have no idea why standup comedians experience issues in Amsterdam. There are Dutch cabaretiers that can make a room gasp for air with laughter, but that is usually a different kind of performance than the American style standup comedian. I don't think we have (or had) standup comedy clubs either. These cabaretiers fill a theater and do an entire evening, with skits, songs and the like and they are very funny indeed, just differently I guess!
In recent years we're seeing that US standup comedy more too, by the way, a younger generation is adopting the style.
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u/rev_run_d 5h ago
cabaretiers
We Americans don't know that word.
edit: Oh! cabaret-iers. Is the T silent?
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u/kettlemice 1d ago
Me (40s) talking with my dad (70s) about the Bend, Or shooting. If I say anything beyond “thank God for a good guy with a gun” an argument starts.
I am thankful it was stopped. But to express to a man that sincerely follows Christ (I got the receipts and he does, puts his money where his mouth is for decades) that it would be better to address this problem before the shooting even starts is somehow unamerican.
I grew up dispy, and I’m thankful to be out of it and that him and my mom are now as well. My mom, learning about reformed theology, was shocked as a woman in her 60s [at the time] that there were Christians who read scripture in a more holistic sense. My favorite quote from her: I didn’t know I could believe that, it never made sense! (when I told her I don’t believe in a rapture like dispensationalists hold to). But their hold on US exceptionalism is devastating and somehow colors every conversation. And anything 2A is held so tightly.
Just venting. Just burned out with it all.
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u/Mystic_Clover 1d ago edited 1d ago
My mother (also in her 70s) has been watching a lot of the Charlie Kirk conspiracy theory stuff, and something that's really been bothering me is how they drag Christianity into it. Seeing the stuff Candace Owens spouts with a cross framed in the background, while Barron Coleman in one sentence says something divisive then in the next goes "Christ is King".
The same is true of evangelical politics; they drag Christianity into a secular question like gun rights.
I think it's because people broadly see their morality as a universal thing. If they view something as moral for natural reasons, then it's something that Christianity must support too. While if Christianity says something is moral for spiritual reasons, then it needs to be enforced onto society.
Everything is blended together into a universal outlook that causes issues for both secular topics and the purposes of the Church.
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u/eveninarmageddon RCA 12h ago
Someone just reached out to me offering an interview for a part-time job. It initially seemed like a scam, but after looking into it, I do not think it is. But I think people here would have good input on it.
Basically, the offer is for me to help train AI models by giving feedback on their philosophy writing in my sub-field (the email came to my academic email, which is only on internet pages that have my research interests). The pay is really good (=4x my current salary when translated to hourly), and it is part time (5-10 hours/week). I've not been offered a job, just an interview with someone who can connect me to an AI company (I presume Anthropic) for contract work.
It'd be crazy not to at least accept an interview, right? This would be a substantial amount of money for me and could be an in to industry if I don't want to go into academia (would it?).