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[striped_wine @StripedWine]

@Anon727940 @LostMemeArchive The whole point of DK was it needed to quickly reuse the failed Radar Scope chips and cabinets. Nintendo simultaneously released a Popeye Game & Watch, then an actual Popeye arcade a year later and a second Game & Watch.

[striped_wine @StripedWine]

@Anon727940 @LostMemeArchive Yep, Gunpei Yokoi testified this during the Universal case. Decades later Miyamoto said he couldn't remember why they couldn't use Popeye at the time, the internet ran with that, and the myth perpetuates because YouTubers just regurgitate the top Google results.

[Sa’eed Jiddan @mish_aderr]

How is it “de-nazification” when the grandchildren of the Nazis are still some of the wealthiest people on the planet? It’s all just a scam.

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

craziest part about this is that the end result was a Community episode getting pulled off Netflix and police budgets going up by like 700%

[Andrej Hunko @AndrejHunko]

Es gibt wohl kaum ein Land, dessen Selbstwahrnehmung und tatsächliche internationale Reputation so weit auseinander klaffen, wie Deutschland.

Außenminister Wadephul war im Vorfeld überzeugt, in den UN-Sicherheitsrat gewählt zu werden. An Ende war der Abstand zu den beiden europäischen Mitbewerbern Portugal und Österreich mit 23 fehlenden Stimmen deutlich. Zum ersten mal scheiterte eine deutsche Bewerbung und das hat Gründe:

Eskalatorische statt diplomatische Politik im Ukrainekrieg, Unterstützung des Völkermords in Gaza. Die Unfähigkeit den Angriffskrieg gegen den Iran oder die Entführung des venezolanischen Präsidenten klar zu verurteilen. Dass ausgerechnet die ehemalige Außenministerin Baerbock, deren Außenpolitik für das Ergebnis mitverantwortlich ist, dieses verkünden musste, ist das I-Tüpfelchen der Geschichte.

Die Regierung Merz, die die „stärkste konventionelle Armee Europas“ aufbauen will, verspielt Glaubwürdigkeit und Sympathie, die wichtigste Währung in der internationalen Politik. Nachhaltig. Das ist mit militärischen Großmachts-Fantasien nicht wettzumachen.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This shows that Germany obviously still doesn't get it: their "historical responsibility" isn't to support Israel even as they commit genocide.

When the lesson of Nazism is obviously a universal one about justice, they instead think it's a blood debt to a particular people.

Which is, when you think about it, the Nazi way of looking at it: hierarchizing peoples and assigning collective responsibility - or collective impunity - on that basis.

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

This is very good news. It is still troubling that so many states supported the genocidal Berlin regime, but it seems more countries are waking up to the German threat. Never Again can Germany be unleashed on the world.

[Gérard Araud @GerardAraud]

Une défaite sans précédent. Un événement historique.

[Stefan Talmon @StefanTalmon]

Germany's bid for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council ends in crushing failure

After Germany's reactions to events in Gaza, Venezuela, Lebanon and Iran, no one could believe that "its utmost priority will be respect for the rules of international law", if elected

[𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐎𝐍™ @Devon_OnEarth]

I follow two Basset Hounds on here, one American and one German. I don't know how to say this without it seeming rude but If I didn't know I could easily tell which of these dogs is German

[striped_wine @StripedWine]

Germany has always had a "Blood and Soil" ethnonationalist concept of citizenry. Permanent residents born in Germany of non-ethnic German descent weren't even legally able to become citizens until the year 2000.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The fuck is it with Germany? Why is it just consistently uniquely horrible among nations at every point in history?

[Afshin Rattansi @afshinrattansi]

Barack Obama’s administration intervened and forced Haiti’s government to kill a plan to raise the minimum wage. The minimum wage was kept at approximately a mere $0.31 an hour.

A fact not known by many about the Butcher of Libya.

[J M Nightingale @jmkivals]

@MaxBlumenthal AOC likes to virtue signal to her gullible low-information voters that she is some kind of authentic bleeding heart leftist but she sends separate signals to the sophisticated donor class that she is for sale.

[#StopCopCity @ChuckModi1]

1—Yes, MTG is bigoted white nationalist and
2—proposed slashing Israel Iron Dome funds
3—ALSO supported by Dems Rashida Tlaib/Summer Lee/Ihan Omar/Al Green bc
4—Voting on POLICY is NOT endorsing MTG
5—And you know this

U didn’t oppose Iron Dome funds bc of MTG—you opposed it bc as much as you say (& even mean) that you oppose Israeli g-cide of Palestinians, you’ll still support g-cide if you think it will help your career, a pretty vile calculation even the bigoted white nationalist refused to take. So where does that leave you?

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

AOC will not team up with MTG to sanction Israel because of identity politics

But she teamed up with Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton to call for more sanctions on China

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

British press: THERE IS A DANGEROUS EPIDEMIC OF ANTISEMITISM IN OUR COUNTRY

Jewish political leader: We should tax the wealthy and stop doing war crimes

British press: HE'S A HOOK-NOSED JUDEO-BOLSHEVIK PARASITE WHO'S CONSPIRING TO SUBVERT OUR SOCIETY

[Sopo Japaridze @sopjap]

Berlin today, cemetery full of cops mobilized to stop ☭ symbols and Soviet flags. It’s so convenient for Germans to weaponize Russia’s invasion to ban USSR (which included Ukrainians) so they can whitewash their Nazi history and ban power that defeated their most savage regime.

[striped_wine @StripedWine]

@charmreduction Cambridge University Press does this now too. I'd mind it less if they weren't still charging egregious prices. Amazon even lists the book as a "1st Edition" because technically there was never a second edition between the original publication and these print on demands.

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

It is quite remarkable to witness how rapidly Finland’s capture by NATO has transformed its foreign policy — while at the same time curtailing options for the EU as a whole. The system is working precisely as intended. It is subordinating European policy to the interests, first, of Washington, and, second, of a European oligarchy long hell-bent on dismantling the last remnants of its social democratic compact. Decades from now, we will learn that the entire process — including the sudden rise of a new cohort of second-rate leaders whose only calling cards were their rabid support for NATO — was carefully engineered by the Pentagon working in cahoots with the Finnish military-industrial complex.

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

No one:
No one ever:
No one in their imagination:
The financial times: