tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org

@kallekn
Skillnaden är väl att Sydsvenskan trycker mer än okorrade insändare, plus den är inte gratis...

@AnthonyFStevens
There's one reason for hope though, Trump is quite willing to sell himself to *anyone*, so if you have the cash he could be in your pocket instead of Musk's.

@AnthonyFStevens
I haven't read any complete analysis yet (since good analysis takes time and I'm not informed enough to safely read the quick takes), but from the glimpses I've seen it appears like it indeed was quite close where it mattered (lots of lost democrat votes in places that Harris won anyway), and the big gap in electorates is mostly the usual first past the post distortion.

Like how labour did a landslide recently but got less popular votes than Corbyn when he lost big (I think, but don't rely on my recall of a tweet from three months ago).

@AnthonyFStevens
Meh, we would beat Russia back from Ukraine if we really sent troops, it just wouldn't be painless.

The full counter invasion all the way to Moscow is of course a much more challenging prospect, probably not possible without going to full war economies and total mobilization if the Americans don't join. But also that is obviously a much different thing from merely deterring Russia from invading the EU propper.

The big problem with the US dropping out of NATO is a loss of capability to invade distant countries beyond the EU border, and of course that the US would consider strikes on EU territory.
@Remittancegirl @Eetschrijver

@AnthonyFStevens
Personally I wasn't so surprised, in my online circles the polling was described as very close.

And obviously Trump has already been elected once so it's not really something unthinkable, just depressing. I guess it also helps that Biden proved to be a throughoutly disappointing world leader, in practice just making US foreign policy appear more normal but not really breaking in substance from what Trump provided.

For example, the US returned to the Paris agreement, but only to do the bare minimum to rank above Saudi Arabia and in practice holding the process up from behind the scenes.

@vorlon
Why would an air ambulance count as a private jet when most commercial air travel doesn't? It's all privately owned planes, that's not what makes it a "private jet".

@Mabande
Tillräckligt fånigt toot för att ursäkta att jag ber dig, i form av hiphop expert, förklara vad Planetoz menade med "afropaus"?

Av texten framgår enbart att man dansar, och sen pausar jättekort, och sen dansar igen; men oklart vad som är afro med att ens ström buffrar...

@jaztrophysicist
Well, Trump might ruin the world economy, that could buy some time...

@carnage4life
When you win a bet that has close to 1:1 odds, you aren't really right, you are simply lucky.

Had Harris won you could write almost exactly the same story, the market was close to evenly split.

@JohanEmpa
Hopefully this will really get the carbon tariffs going

@jonny
Well, we've got both China and Russia as two big examples, so there's *some* idea of what is possible.

Though a Trump whitehouse might well feel they need to close the oppression gap against China and cook up some really spectacular things, maybe the FBI starts running LLMs that DM you with the intention of getting you to commit crimes...