Headline translated: in the US state of Minnesota, police are on the hunt for the 57 year old shooter who shot 2 Democratic politicians and their spouse in their homes. Two victims have died. The attacs seem politically motivated. A list of names of politicians was found in the suspects car.

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2025/06/14/twee-democratische-politici-doodgeschoten-in-amerikaanse-staat-m/

This is from a national news site. I haven’t seen their television news of today yet but usually their television news and the site story are identical.

I’m not saying the news reporting here is not colored a bit, but it tends to be non sensationalist so there is that.

A blues brother?

It’s on the news in Belgium.

I would not trust US troops in Ukraine not to suddenly switch sides and shoot the Ukrainians in the back.

Luckily, there is a lot of vaccine research and production outside of the US so once you pay the tariffs you will have vaccines despite your government, as long as you don’t get a disease endemic to the US.

What if they got into a monetary union with Canada and linked Calidollar with the Canadollar with the same value and entirely interchangeable the way the Belgian and Luxemburg franc used to work?

I’d say that you are spot on and people in the West who want to believe in strange middle east cults can do so quietly at home and not bother anyone with their hokey faith. That goes for Muslims, Jews, Christians and the rest of them.

No, the private funding of politicians, which nowhere in the world happens as thoroughly or blatantly as in the US, is another issue to solve. It’s companies pushing for privatization of services that they sabotage first to show that the government doesn’t do well with them. It’s like the postal service headed by that Trump appointee that was a big cheese in a transport firma. I forgot his name.

You think the state of NASA isn’t caused by privately funded politicians?

I’ve owned a few Volkswagens and yes when they are over 12:years old they start having issues, before that they never ever let me down.

Nothing wrong with German or French engines, but I admit British and Italian engines aren’t the greatest for not breaking down.

Tire sizes too? For some reason we get funny sizes for tires and bike frames in Europe. I don’t really know what they’re based on, they do seen to have some kind of connection to imperial/cistomary but I never really know how it’s measured.

Sounds like they wanted engines that work.

Musk risks nothing because TACO.

Doesn’t it feel like he is orchestrating the whole thing to give the IDF excuses to shoot people?

Israel practically organized Hamas to have an opponent easily disliked by western nations. They funded and molded it to the exclusion of more secular and leftist organisations like PLO. Hamas is not a problem for Israel, it’s a tool to allow them unlimited brutality on the Palestinian population. I know people on lemmy don’t want to hear this but when you look at what happened since the days when people like Rabin and Arafat were making headway in peaceful solutions that might have ultimately led to freedom, safety and dignity for everyone in the region.

The agreements they made werent perfect, they were stepping stones in the way to a better situation, and they were what could be eeked out in the existing situation. Of course Zionist extremists could not live with that. Never forget who killed Rabin.

They both do, it’s what narcism does.

If there was one funny thing Trump could do was weaponize the doj against Musk and get his companies seized in civil forfeiture. It certainly would be a win for the US, so he is not going to.

And keep it up till halfway the summer when you switch out for Halloween…

You might get accused of waging a war on Easter though. I suggest joining forces with the Easter Bunny, hares that lay eggs are queer as can be.

Indeed, while Israel is indeed a Jewish country, it does not represent all Jews, nor do all Jews agree with the way the Israeli behave. Condemning Israel is justified, hating all Jews because of Israel is not.

Very moist!