It was amazing watching the FDP not even have to think about approving the last €100B Schuldenbremse-excluded military gift basket.

Idk it tickles my brain in a good way. Especially this one, given Musk's history with Dogecoin.

Don't get me wrong I'm not a muskbro I just like funny acronyms and alliterations.

... it's part of why every country on earth [...] has been very "No nukes! Not for any purpose!" all throughout until today. Like everyone understands it's doomsday shit.

Everyone except the arch-ghoul Kissinger and his merry band of war criminals. IIRC his initial political rise had to do with the book he wrote about "tactical" nukes. His thesis was something like, "ok, maybe big nukes are bad, but we can use little ones. As a treat".

Controlling the narrative is just as (if not more) crucial for national security as aircraft carriers and troops.

It's hard to say for certain as these things are in constant development and refinement, but the broad themes are clear. It'll likely be a combination of bilateral currency swap deals, as was common practice pre-WWII, and multilateral institutions governing currency baskets or supranational units of account, similar to Keynes' proposed Bancor, and thus keeping international balance of payments within healthy and sustainable parameters.

The bilateral agreements are already starting as the US is no longer able to militarily or economically threaten anyone who doesn't use USD as their international unit of account. The second will take more time, but institutions like the BRICS bank and the Shanghai Cooperation Agreement are working in that direction. These institutions are based on cooperation and mutual benefit of all parties involved, in stark contrast to the US and its Bretton Woods institutions which make sure the US always wins.

The Bretton Woods institutions were designed to assist the USA in its post-war project of global imperial hegemony. They were never meant to assist developing countries, quite the opposite, they were meant to assist the US and to a lesser extent western Europe to more efficiently extract resources and value from resource rich countries.

It's the same with FOSS. IP is just as fake as physical private property, but that doesn't mean we can't pay people for their labour.

If I find a really useful open-source licensed app developed by one or two people as a hobby, and they have a donation link in their repo, I might send them something.

If it's a really useful open-source licensed app developed by some corporation, there's no way I'm giving them money. The company has invested in developing the app as open source; they chose to (or were forced to by virtue of open source dependencies) make it public. The devs were already paid by the company. Whether the company takes in enough revenue by other means to pay for this open source project isn't my problem.

The US needs Israel to destabilize the region and help develop methods of oppression.

The nations perpetrating and supporting this should never be allowed to talk about press freedom ever again.

Sort of. The US government has created the extraordinary privilege of dollar hegemony, which lets them issue money ad nauseum at the expense of the rest of the world. This privilege ends when the rest of the world stops underwriting this debt, as is slowly happening under the broad name of dedollarization.

Revolution works well.

Individual personal transportation in the form of cars is not the solution, regardless of how they are powered. Electric cars are at best kicking the problem a couple years into the future.

Any reasonable climate as well as social goals can only be achieved with public transportation and walkable/bikable neighbourhoods.