States do not need to contract with companies owned by oligarchs who seek those states' demise.
No matter what services an anti-democracy oligarch's company provides, it is not in the national interest of any democracy to send them money.
Some in Europe apparently realizing that. And acting on it.
One thing I learned when I was just out of college and watching 6-8 hours of Fox News a day for my research job at Media Matters: Ingesting hours of propaganda on a daily basis changes you, no matter how smart you think you are. If you don't notice the changes, that just makes you an easier mark.
me, walking into the British museum
Please send me posts like these, they’re so funny
To put it another way, I think Musk’s purchase of Twitter has helped reify the vague pundit instinct that Trump in some way channels the will of an inchoate true Volk, because now the voice of the Volk speaks through X, the everything app
Doing free propaganda for election deniers bc it gets me little hearts from chuds on elon musk’s social network bsky.app/profile/mjsd...
The Washington Wizards are gonna be NBA champions!
Calling it now: when all is said and done, Trump is going to end up giving Iran over $500 billion.