Of course they did. Running guns into Mexico in order to arm the cartels and keep the country unstable is US oligarch policy, snd this SC's sole purpose is to serve the interests of the oligarchs.

Nicotine juice has been flavored from the very start. Way back in the day when premixed juices didn't even exist and vapers - who were pretty much exclusively smokers looking for a safer alternative - had to buy propylene glycol and nicotine extract and mix it themselves, we also bought flavoring, because the simple fact of the matter is that unflavored nicotine juice doesn't taste like cigarettes - it tastes sorr of like hand sanitizer mixed with ear wax.

This whole uproar about flavored vapes is a bizarre fiction being promoted by busybody assholes and idiots - by crusading fuckwads using something they self-evidently know absolutely nothing about to feed their desperate and pathetic need to feel self-righteous.

After thirty years of trying and failing to quit smoking, vaping is almost certainly the only reason I'm alive today, and these foul busybody shitbags want to ruin that for me and everyone else in the same position, and bluntly, fuck them. They're fucking scum.

Or in other words, Trump reveals himself to be a lying sack of shit. Again.

Probably not even the first time today.

Even if this is true, it's already so awful that I don't know how anyone would notice any difference. What would it do? Go from "really sucks" to "really really sucks?"

Lemmy isn't a site at all. It's a piece of software.

Right, but China is untrustworthy in a standard international wheeling and dealing sense, while Russia and the US are both direct, existential threats to the EU and its constituent nations.

Yes - they'd be best off avoiding entanglements with all three, but their very survival might depend on allying with China against an overtly hostile Russia and US.

And you just know that he was exactly the same in middle school, except then it was Super Mario Bros. on the NES.

I presume yes.

Trump's US and Putin's Russia are natural ideological allies - both oligarchic and autocratic kleptocracies dominated by quasi-religious moralism and repression, militaristic imperialism and white supremacism and both warped and corrupted to the benefit of the wealthiest few.

Western Europe, with a greater (if still less than optimum) focus on egalitarianism, social welfare, equality of justice, international cooperation and respect for the law, is the natural ideological enemy of both.

So yes - I believe the long term goal is for a US/Russia alliance to go to war against and devastate western Europe, to destroy the EU and NATO and essentially bring Europe into the fold, to build a globe-encircling empire of corruption, oppression and malfeasance -a modern-day feudal system with the wealthy few (individuals and corporations) as the new nobility and the people - American, Russian and European alike - reduced to the status of serfs.

And of course by "activist judges," he actually means non-activist judges, and specifically judges that issue rulings according to law and precedent rather than according to ideology, whim, personal preference and bribes received.

There have been lots of comparisons between Trump's administration and those of Nazi Germany and modern kleptocratic Russia, but lately I've been seeing an awful lot of North Korea.

Fascism doesn't have a uniquely distinctive economic system per se, but it does generally exhibit a handful of specific features, including private ownership of the means of production, the melding of political and business interests with the notion that support for (specified) domestic conpanies equates to patriotism and lack of support for them to treason, and a "revolving door" by which individuals can and do hold positions of power in business or in government alternately or even simultaneously.

Some kind of dark ages - yes.

I suspect it will be considered the Lunatic Age or the Misinformation Age or the Willfully Ignorant Age or something like that, since its most distinctive characteristic, in retrospect, is likely to be the oddity that the creation of the most efficient and comprehensive information-sharing system the world has yet seen led pretty much directly to a worldwide epidemic of ignorance, stupidity, irrationality, and insanity.