It won’t, but it could.

Hope Lindsey Graham and his friends pay their bodyguards well!

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Excel is proprietary software made by a company that achieved monopoly status by intentionally designing “compatibility issues” into its products. If you’re telling me you have a business need to use the Microsoft Windows desktop version of Excel specifically and nothing else will do, then throw your PC in the garbage and pay whatever tithe Microsoft tells you to pay. Or more specifically, have your employer do that if it’s their decision anyway.

https://www.libreoffice.org/

When determining Russia’s position, one mustn’t rely on the things Russia has consistently said publicly for the past 40 years, because that would be Russian propaganda. Instead, we must rely on the divination of anonymous Western sources that don’t live there or speak the language about how the unique cranial ridges on the Slavic brain pan reveal an innate lust for duplicity and authoritarianism.

We can debate the tactical merits of this or that individual action forever. Was it worth it? Was it the right time? Was it the right target? What could they have done better? What’s not debatable to me is that it accomplished infinitely more than a hundred lifetimes spent posting on social media, writing to the imperial congress, or holding signs at permitted peaceful protests. There are 2 fewer people engaged in the extermination of the Palestinian people today than there were yesterday, and the world is better for it.

https://ssd.eff.org/module-categories/basics

General Kurilla, head of U.S. Central Command, had proposed a prolonged 8–10 month campaign to degrade Ansar Allah’s air defense systems and carry out targeted assassinations of key leaders—modeled on Israeli tactics in Lebanon.

So, open terrorism then. The “Israeli tactics in Lebanon” involved smuggling concealed explosives into civilian supply chains and detonating them in crowded areas.

I think most of Trump’s strategies come down to high stakes games of chicken. He correctly estimates that most world leaders are cowards who will accept any indignity the empire heaps on them, and that he won’t personally suffer consequences for anything he does. Given those two things, there’s little incentive for him to not at least try shaking down the entire planet just to see who capitulates.

The lesson the EU learned from WW2 is that whenever Nazis lose an armed conflict, the United States is supposed to be there to ensure they stay in power and dictate the terms of any superficial political transition.

For anyone confused: this isn’t coming out of nowhere,

It’s still a strange marketing choice for a fairly successful movie a few days after release.

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“How come everybody else on the Death Star seems so happy Alderaan got blown up?”