If everything goes right, by the end of 2026, Trump has lost America, Orbán has lost Hungary, and Putin has lost Ukraine.

[rotatoe@mastodon.social]

@randahl trump, putin, and orban never got the countries they usurped in the first place. All of them stole elections left and right.

[petrapanda@mastodon.social]

@randahl love your optimism.

[paul_stilgar@mastodon.social]

@randahl

Speaking of the UFA and lost , the EU moves quietly ( without diarrhea post ) its pawns.

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The European Central Bank unveiled plans ….
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With investors reassessing the dollar's status due to the unpredictable nature of U.S. President … economic policy, Lagarde has argued this was the time for the Euro to gain market share, but this required a revamped financial and economic architecture.
….

reuters.com

(www.reuters.com)

#eu #ecb #usa #euro

[amorpheus@kind.social]

@benroyce

Did he really complain? I'd rather call it rational pessimism, which may not be worse than naive optimism.

@welkin7

"How the heck did the world get so screwed?"

We let power concentrate... again. We remained silent when we should have spoken out. We all shaped this world by our individual choices.

@randahl

The first and most important factor to civil disobedience are large numbers. Only if we are many, we will prevail.

The faster we unite, the easier it will be.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@Amorpheus @welkin7 @randahl

I am not championing airhead optimism

But no, I disagree, I saw airhead pessimism

[miguelmferreira@social.vivaldi.net]

@randahl halleluja brother!

[amorpheus@kind.social]

@benroyce I saw both. I conceive both strategies as a conservation of individual sanity, which is a general human affliction. I prefer not to not judge over individual inner conflicts. Life is quite difficult to get a sense of. Was and is for me at least.

All I am interested in is a realistic strategy on how to shape the world so we all are able to live more and suffer less.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering. (Sophocles)

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@Amorpheus

I will judge them

We're drowning in cowardly spineless cynicism

I fucking despise cynics

Useless fucking whiners

The realistic strategy you seek includes telling these pathetic assholes to shut the fuck up

They have some issues in their lives? Ok. Understandable. How does that give them the right to run their whiny fucking mouths on our serious world problems

[amorpheus@kind.social]

@benroyce I deeply commiserate with your anger and the thrive that arises with it. As for many, your motivation is justified. Yet we need to join forces, not divide over inner conflicts.

[connynasch@mastodon.social]

@randahl I am hoping that the Hungarians will vote him out, I have a memory of our (Luxembourgish) Premier, Juncker in the '90's on meeting him in Brussels, rubbing Orban's head and calling him "our wannabe dictator". As far as I can follow, Putin has lost, and it is beginning to crumble in Russia too, we can learn a lot from the Ukrainians. I have a deep respect for their will and learning power. Let us hope the US rights the situation with votes from more people (also keeping the ballots safe)

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@Amorpheus and likewise, that is a noble sentiment. except for the unfortunate detail that all cynics do is whine. there is no force to join because they don't represent a force. they need to be kicked in the ass to make them into a force

[phl@mastodon.social]

@randahl Would be a nice change from the crap that's been going on for like a decade plus at this point.

[phl@mastodon.social]

@connynasch @randahl The slap I know about was in 2015. We hadn't been members of the EU in the 90s and Orbán wasn't showing dictatorical tendencies until like the end of it. (and even then that's mostly "hindsight 20/20" stuff).

[phl@mastodon.social]

@MyRemzi48 @randahl @muod Well if anything he's not young and one can never know if another uprising doesn't happen until then.

[connynasch@mastodon.social]

@phl @randahl Oh dear - after my last stroke my memory is a little questionable... Thank you for the clarification

[elfburgerman@mastodon.social]

@Enea90 @randahl
Fingers crossed!
But erm... stop calling them social! They are quasi-social at best, unlike the actually social media platforms one finds in the fediverse.

[elfburgerman@mastodon.social]

@randahl
What is your plan?

[elfburgerman@mastodon.social]

@Enea90 @randahl
Indeed, Randahl, please consider! Don't you think your viewers like you enough to follow you to PeerTube?

[tschekka1982@mastodon.social]

@randahl i would be totally for it

[amorpheus@kind.social]

@benroyce If I were to use any force on the ones I love, only for their desperation and hopelessness as they choose their own path according to their perception, I'd hate myself.

Please forgive me, I might be delusional.

I still believe that the pen is mightier than the sword.