Vintzsche

proud non-theist, lover of wisdom

[Vintzsche @dbzvin]

The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
- Thomas Paine

[Vintzsche @dbzvin]

Reason is our only Oracle. - Thomas Jefferson

[Sam Neill @TwoPaddocks]

For heaven's sake , please please peace in #Gaza . So horrible , so tragic , so utterly pointless.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Sam Neill (2025): “It’s not a happy place, America, and I wasn’t happy there. I’m interested in the condition of America now. It beggars belief what’s happening there now. When you hear a slogan like Make America Great Again, it makes a sort of weird sense because America could be great again, but at community level. Not with sort of strange billionaires making weird decisions”

[JimmyTheGiant @jimthegiant]

There is something about the anti-climate people that I find so impressive and its that they never even attempted to really prove climate change wasn’t real

If you asked trump why he doesn’t believe it he would have no coherent argument

They just told people “climate = woke” and that was enough

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Hunter Biden on Graham Platner: “I have not heard anything in any way that would say to me that he’s an abusive, misogynistic, antisemitic or racist person. I have heard this from Graham Platner: he thinks we should have free healthcare, we have to radically change our politics, working people are getting fucking screwed, they have us at each other’s throats and we should be at their throats, the oligarchs and our tech overlords and billionaires are really making the playing field unfair for working class people”

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Hasan Piker: “If you steal from the poor, you become rich. If you steal from the wealthy, you go to prison. There’s only one direction where you can do unlimited theft. Wage theft is the most consequential amount of theft that takes place in the United States of America”

[Hollywood Horror Museum @horrormuseum]

Sadly this is 100% correct

[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

Who did this!

[Vintzsche @dbzvin]

@davenewworld_2 Including Bernie Sanders unfortunately.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

A ‘Jurassic Park’-themed #SuperBowl ad for Xfinity has been released.

Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum all reprise their roles.

[🇰🇵단일성 Commie on the Rez 단일성 🇰🇵 @patriach2051]

Facts

[Vintzsche @dbzvin]

@cultofdusty1 But... Scott Addams!

[Vintzsche @dbzvin]

https://t.co/bIKQEeHPV1 @Change

[Fight for a Union @FightForAUnion]

NO LIES DETECTED.

Predatory capitalism is destroying our country.

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

Type shit this Thanksgiving

[IsDown.app - Is it down for everyone? @isdownapp]

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[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

BREAKING: After the release of an ad that caused Trump's tantrum ending trade talks with Canada, the original video of Ronald Reagan slamming tariffs has resurfaced. He called the new ad "fake."

The original destroys Trump on tariffs.
Share this widely.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Singaporean statesman Kishore Mahbubani (@mahbubani_k), the former president of the UN Security Council, is imho one of the most astute geopolitical observers out there.

He too believes there has been "a big shift" recently in the US's approach to China: they've gone from seeking to subjugate China to "implicitly accepting China as its peer competitor," in effect resigning themselves to coexistence as equals.

This is not done out of kindness or goodwill, but - as Mahbubani explains - driven by structural forces: subjugation only works when there's asymmetry but once you know the other side can hurt you just as badly as you can hurt them, resignation to parity becomes rational.

I've written a lot in the last 6 months on this, as I see this shift too (and so do many others), and I always get a lot of pushback from people arguing that the US is fundamentally imperialistic, that they'll never truly abandon their hegemonic ambitions and that this is merely strategic obfuscation or a tactical retreat.

But that's not how power works. Obviously the US would prefer to remain hegemonic and would crush China in a heartbeat if they could - but they can't, and that's the entire point. Power isn't about what you want, it's about what you can do. And the fact is that the US simply cannot dominate China anymore. People focus on intent when it's almost irrelevant, as the saying goes people in hell want ice water...

This also shouldn't be confused for what it isn't: the US isn't going to stop competing with China or attempt all sorts of efforts to gain or maintain advantages - accepting China as a peer doesn't mean friendship (which doesn't even exist in geopolitics, as De Gaulle said "no nation has friends, only interests"). It just means that domination has been ruled out as a foolish thing to pursue and that the game shifts from "how do we eliminate this rival" to "how do we gain advantage despite them."