I'm a zoomed so I can confirm you completely failed to bring up any media relevant to Gen Z, and Star Trek TOS and Ali are closer than Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, and Bond.

I cannot exaggerate to you that this 100% fulfils the negative perceptions of European governments that American isolationists have. The article says they cut Ukraine funding to fund social programs. The right-wing narrative in America is that needing to have the huge military is why we have a weak social safety net (not true btw, med4all for example would save Uncle Sam money) which is framed as "we pay for European social programs." But here's a government... literally cutting military spending in the middle of aiding a real war that could be highly consequential to the country in question to fund social programs.

How is an American supposed to argue in favor of funding the defense of Europe when the richest country in Europe doesn't want to fund the defense of Europe? If Germany gets to decide to go for "Germany first," how long until "Britain first?" "France first?" "Italy first?" Will Ukraine funding just be a hot potato that everyone will claim is important but nobody actually wants to do?

When European countries started raising military spending in response to a threat, it weakened American isolationist arguments. But this strengthens them. I hope no other European countries pull this shit.

If you're in a country that shares a border with Russia, or are Canadian or British and understand the end goal of this, you've been sick of it for a while.

TikTok basically controls the Billboard Hot 100 right now. Some say that's why 2023 was, according to a lot of pop music critics, such a bad year for pop.

But honestly, TikTok losing control over Billboard or less UMG artists on the charts are both positives to me.

All of the sixth gen ones. Dreamcast, PS2, OG Xbox, GameCube.

Also SNES and 3DS.

But letting them "ruin every single PTO and School Board meeting" means "letting them ruin every child's education."

Worst for the world was Bush (so you could say Bush was more immoral) but worst for America was Trump (so you could say Trump failed at his job harder.)

Bush's actions killed a staggering number of people on flimsy evidence.

Trump changed phrases like "balkanization of the United States" and "Second US Civil War" from far-off possibilities and fun speculation to serious concerns.

Trump was a much better speaker in 2016 than he is now. Maybe his speeches didn't make much sense, but to get people excited you don't have to.

DeSantis was never a good speaker.

When have most Americans ever been able to afford to buy new?

Gmod and Source Filmmaker were this for the generation that is around 30 now.

There's Roblox which is more or less a game engine, but the company is shady.

Deploy troops in Mexico

This is why we need to vote Dem. If we let them do this it will destroy the US.

Is AI actually involved in any way or is it just being used as a buzzword? I just see animated advertisements. Like, to me these seem like just mascots.