I literally never said any of that. If they can’t be allowed to go free before they trial (which, fair enough) then they should get a trial as soon as possible, not spend a year in pre-trial detention. Quoting from the European Convention on Human Rights:

In the determination of his/her civil rights and obligations or of any criminal charge against him/her, everyone is entitled to a fair and public hearing within a reasonable time by an independent and impartial tribunal established by law.

If people can be jailed for a year without a trial, then that is A Problem, which is the whole reason this clause exists.

First, because a nation with a nuclear arsenal ia not going to be allowed to collapse.

I mean, the USSR pulled it off.

This is where they grow politicians.

Never was a good guy. What America is transitioning from is their role as leader of the West, but Trump’s America is only somewhat more evil than baseline America.

Can we… uh… can we have a fair trial first? If (alleged) terrorists don’t have civil rights, then nobody does, and it’s important to note here that pre-trial detention is a very common way for authoritarian regimes to punish dissent while maintaining a veneer of democracy. Really the question here is: Would you trust the AfD with this kind of power?

It’s a real shame we lost all our military leadership,

What do you mean? It’s great. I’d rather have the guy who farts empty statements over the people whose job is to bomb weddings and schoolgirls.

It’s a harder sell, but it’s impacted by media straight up not talking about policy that way. Investigative journalism in America (and probably the broader West) is essentially dead, so the public becomes wildly uninformed and has to go off vibes.

A weak and servile Europe? Besides, America is squandering its overseas power at a rapid rate while destroying exactly the strengths that allowed it to maintain that power in the first place. America is obviously still the strongest country in the world, but it’s also in terminal decline that will become more and more visible over the years.

The suspects were arrested between October 2025 and May 2026 and remain in pre-trial detention.

Amazing civil rights you have there, Germany.

Taking territory and giving it to vassals does not, in fact, make one less of an empire. Britain had the East India Company running India yet it’d be ridiculous to say that India wasn’t part of the British Empire before the Raj. Also you get three guesses for why how America managed to extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

Wow damn. I didn’t exactly like the Houthis before now but this is low.

Sucks to be Europe right now though.

For mostly self-inflicted reasons. If those guys weren’t American vassal states they’d have just negotiated with Iran and the Houthis for safe passage for their ships.

I hope they keep training the Somali pirates as well.

Wait they’re doing that? Do you have a source for this?

Or the Saudis could just… give up on regime change in Yemen? Besides, they’ve tried this twice by now and it didn’t fucking work.

Well akshually it’s estimated that 1% of Americans identify as trans.

True, but even at its pre-Trump worst America never tried to starve Cuba to death. You could say that Trump is willing to be more brutal in doing the things America has always done.

Mutual defence pacts, world bank lenders, and trade organizations are not empires, the USA has been giving away territory for many decades.

Until they overthrow inconvenient regimes on the other side of the world for sport, then they become empires.

Now the US has gone the way of Russia,

America today is only somewhat more evil than it was, say, 20 or 16 years ago. The “lesser of X evils” thing has always been bunk.

Resistors don’t make switches; transistors (among other things) do, though resistors are used as a component part. Long story short: Essentially you don’t always (or even most of the time) want as much current as possible; sometimes you want to limit your current and for that you need resistors. This can be used to split a current between two or more wires (the wire with the bigger resistance will get less current and vice versa), or it might just be to prevent a short circuit (too much current will fry or melt whatever you’re passing it through because circuitry consumes power as heat), but the point is that the amount of current you want passing through a wire or circuit isn’t always “all of it,” so you have to use resistors.

Ban them from tourism, but allow immigration and the like. People who want to extract themselves from that toxic society should be allowed to, not to mention that it hurts Israel to lose the kind of skilled snd educated folks who’d make such a decision.

Edit: I want to note that this isn’t a hypothetical. Emigration from Israel has been climbing since 2023, and it has been disproportionately from the educated middle classes.