It's so fucking funny to me that like, Sweden and Finland both confidently strode up to NATO and were "We want in." and the whole media cycle for a day or two was journalists - who think that they're uniquely intelligent people whose opinions have any more merit than anybody else's - making articles with headlines like "You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it. Putin has brought us together into unity and together, autocratic regimes will never prosper." And then like a day later, Erdogan comes out of nowhere and stops the whole parade.

Like, this is the funniest thing that could have happened, and I feel bad for not predicting it based on the principle that the stupidest and/or funniest thing will always happen because we live in a dying world run by failchildren and the failchildren of those failchildren. And it's similar for Orban blocking the oil embargo for so long. Like, it sucks so fucking bad that the only people who are putting up any fight against this are these horrific quasi-fascist turds (aside from the really principled ones, like the Portugese communists or some of the more left-wing groups Sweden or Finland).

But there's few things I like more than watching liberals eat shit on their takes and predictions, and some overpaid motherfucking journalist who starts half their articles with a quote from the Iliad, writing an article about how Turkey and Hungary should be kicked out of every organization and sanctions put on them that you can obviously tell was written with incredible seething anger - watching their fury is like nectar from the gods to me. These are some of the most passively evil people on the planet, people who are doing propaganda for this genocidal global empire but actually fully believe the bullshit to their core, and them crying over their keyboards is just :chefs-kiss:. Really hoping for the day when I can get a Liberal Tears mug and have it not be automatically assumed that I'm a weirdo chud.