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GOP - Grand Old Populism ?

18 Jul 2024 1 minute read 9 comments Vladan Lausevic

  Donald Trump's selection of Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate for the 2024 election solidifies the dominance of MAGA populism within the Republican Party. This choice emphasizes the party's commitment to non-interventionism, protectionism...

Russia's Economic Bluff

17 Jul 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/ZpD19_Z5K3avYGdD A post about faith in democracy and free markets or command economy. If you believe that the economy is a "plug and play" mechanism because Russian projects and Moscow can put e...

Movie Review: Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024)

16 Jul 2024 6 minute read 2 comments peerynt

[Cross-posting - the original post can be seen here.] Directed by Kevin Costner (also plays a character named Hayes Ellison), written by Jon Baird, Costner and Mark Kasdan, this Western of Westerns, the ultimate Wild West drama impresses right off th...

Political tribalism leads to political violence

16 Jul 2024 1 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic

  TLDR  On July 13, 2024, an assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally highlighted the extreme political polarization in the U.S. Trump, the GOP's presumptive presidential nominee, survived with minor injuries. Still, one attendee...

Asian Icons: Bruce Lee - Forever An Icon In Pop Culture

16 Jul 2024 10 minute read 0 comments OogaBooga

July 20, 2024 marks the 51st anniversary of the passing of Bruce Lee, one of the most influential and iconic figures in the history of martial arts and pop culture. Though his life was tragically cut short at the young age of 32, Bruce Lee's legacy h...

The Current Situation in Washington, DC

16 Jul 2024 2 minute read 3 comments Cje95

I think it is safe to say that what happened Saturday afternoon to President Trump will have incredible and reverberating effects moving forward. There will be effects not only on candidate safety but the safety of everyone involved including the lik...

Zombie Wastoids Have The Power

15 Jul 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

“Beware that, when fighting wastoids, you yourself do not become a wastoid... for when you gaze long into the clown, the clown gazes also into you.”Pablo Smog I have gazed long into the floor of the circus, in search of change, and also meaning. I ha...

What The Tech?! VHS & VCR

15 Jul 2024 7 minute read 10 comments Investigator515

In a digital world, it’s easy to forget how vital media storage once was If you aren’t a medium member, you can read with no paywall via substack As we’ve moved through our technical evolution, it's more than fair to say that we’ve seen substantial c...

THE SPARTAN-PERSIAN ALLIANCE, 413 - 411 BC: The Aegean Revolution

14 Jul 2024 24 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked

In the late summer of 413, the once seemingly invincible state of Athens, at the head of its Delian League, now saw its complete destruction on the horizon. Constant raids against their homeland, the deadliest plague in memory at the time, great defe...

What the Trump Shooting Means for Crypto

14 Jul 2024 1 minute read 3 comments Hamminy

Trump just saved crypto, and you all know it. Well, not Trump exactly. Whoever it was that shot Trump in the ear.  Shit was probably staged (how this perfect? Just graze the ear? Perfectly placed lines of action-hero blood across the face as the cand...