This is so stupid: "In diplomacy, the side with leverage doesn't wait in the room." If this was the case, no one would ever enter the room of any negotiation.
This was humiliation. No one in modern history has made America wait and beg for negotiations. This was the moment JD Vance should have returned to Washington. The Islamic regime did this on purpose. Trump, if you don't understand politics, you should at least understand protocol.
The visuals from Switzerland:
• The U.S. delegation entered well before the Iranians. In diplomacy, the side with leverage doesn't wait in the room. You claim to be leading and winning, yet you arrived first. First mistake.
• Ghalibaf did not enter while the press was inside. JD Vance did. Another mistake. It looked as though you didn't just abandon allies, including Israel, you also diminished America's image by ignoring basic diplomatic protocol.
• The Iranian foreign minister entered last and refused to shake hands. We didn't need photographs to tell us who looked confident and who looked desperate, but these images made it easy for the world to draw its own conclusions.
@szuchans If this was true, Korean parents would have stopped sending their children overseas. The Korean undergraduate population in the US is bigger than ever.
@MsMelChen "So one of the smartest things LKY did was to make English the working language" Nah, it was a BRITISH colony. LKY himself was most fluent in English.
The Trump Tax Loophole is keeping about $20 billion from schools and health care every year.
I pledge to shut down this scam and get back money for Californians.
@mualphaxi@MacroscopeEcon You misunderstood him. Sanders did answer why there's a huge different between the U.S. and Europe: because of Europe's stupid social welfare system.
@MsMelChen That's silly. It is the woke machine that forces people to say Happy Holidays. It is the CCP apparatus that forces people to say CNY. I don't like to be forced. Besides, 唐人 should not be 中國人, as the CCP wishes.
@gerardtbaker You all read it wrong. Trump found a new path different from neocon and lead-from-behind: overwhelm the opponent, high-tech precision attack, no ground troups, no US-led regime change, but alter the path of history from afar. He will strike Iran.
Personal views, may delete
- East Asian culture is very grindy, relative to American culture
- No need to worry, because American culture is too powerful. In a generation, grind culture among Asian Americans will die, and the kids will be completely culturally American
@beckpeterson You previsouly wrote "More shares were voted in support of the xAI proposal than against" and now wrote "Tesla shareholders had previously voted down"
Unbelievable lie and you call yourself a reporter!
Tesla will invest $2 billion in xAI https://t.co/87HCly9E9b
@Austen A small business, say, a restaurant, has no systems of tracking inventory and orders. The owner can have a ClawdBot that reads receipts and sales orders and then frequently asks the bot, via iMessage, to check the status of inventory and re-order whenever needed.