@tanyakaroli I am indebted to a world full of fabulous cooks, who share their knowledge.

Yesterday, I made Balinese slow cooked sticky ribs. And luckily, I made extra rice. (recipe here: https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/balinese-sticky-glazed-pork-ribs)

So, today, I think we need to have some kim chi fried rice - with super-crispy fried eggs on top!

@SuneAuken Actually, this has been a consistent theme throughout his life. He has a pathological inability to view the situation from the entity on the other side of the table's point of view. It is impossible for him because, in a certain way, they are not real to him.

He thinks this makes him a 'tough' negotiator. But what it makes him is a man who is impossible to do a deal with. @rogue_corq

And meanwhile, someone needs to make sure the rest of us understand that the US is NOT your friend. Not your ally. Not your protector.

It's over. The post-WWII relationships are OVER. The quicker we digest this, the quicker we can reposition ourselves accordingly.

Someone needs to explain to Trump that the price for Greenland is every US base on foreign soil in the world.

"As a Catholic, Vance knows better than to peddle this brand of gaslighting and agitation. Vance knows that, by virtue of her humanity, Good was endowed with inherent dignity, made in the image and likeness of God. Vance knows that only God can take life. Vance knows that protesting, fleeing or even interfering in an ICE investigation (which there is no evidence that Good did) does not carry a death sentence. Vance knows that lying and killing are sins"
https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-voices/catholic-vice-president-vance-takes-social-media-justify-killing-renee-good

@benroyce I am not offended by repetition.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/115902590165875706

This so much. I have been very wary of posting any of the footage coming out of Minneapolis because, honestly, I cannot tell when something is AI.

The outcome is that real footage that people should see, to understand what is happening, doesn't get the reach it should have, because we're so frightened of being shamed.

@jon thank you! I will!

@tanyakaroli I think perhaps I have not stated my point well.

The response shouldn’t have been “Greenland isn’t for sale”. It should have been “Don’t be ridiculous, the US already has full access to Greenland for security purposes under NATO. You’re demanding something you already have.”

We are at the absolutely ludicrous point where Greenland and Denmark are engaging in serious talks with him regarding the possession of Greenland in response to a patently RIDICULOUS utterance on his part.

For all intents and purposes, the US already has had all the access to Greenland it would ever need UNDER NATO. And UNDER NATO there was never the remotest possibility of either China or Russia taking over Greenland.

He should have been forced to admit that his problem was with NATO.

Trump’s tactic has always been to throw up insane test spagghetti and see what sticks to the wall. The moment something sticks (i.e. someone responds to him like the idea is serious or has a shred of merit), he inches forward by increments.

The only insane ideas he abandons are those he is consistently and universally shamed for uttering. Because it is the one thing that terrorises him - looking stupid.

On #Greenland - a thread

At the moment, we cannot know what diplomatic discussions have been going on out of the public eye regarding Trump’s threats regarding taking over Greenland, but I have to say that I’m really, really disappointed with Denmark, Greenland and Europe’s responses.

Specifically because the one and only response should have been a unanimous: “Don’t be ridiculous.”

And that response should have been repetitively consistent across the board from every quarter.

But I do hope this is a warning to people in the US. Because Iranians have been living under this tyranny for 40+ years. Once you let a leadership get that much power to act with impunity, it’s insanely hard to get rid of it.

If you think this can’t happen to your country, you’re not paying attention.

They have 70% - SEVENTY PERCENT inflation on food. Over 100% on bread.

The IRG has their fingers in a ton of commercial ventures and there’s fuck all competition. Trump level corruption. And the hypocritical sanctimony of the modesty laws is incoherent.

My knowledge of this is only anecdotal, but my dear friend in Tehran is adamant that the protest has no roots outside the country. It is purely grass roots and is simply the obvious: they are socially, legally and economically oppressed as hell and the population - 50% of whom were born after the Islamic Revolution, are fucking sick of it.

Sick of the fucking tyranny.

https://apnews.com/article/iran-protests-tehran-forced-confessions-human-rights-f7cd9b1987480a8024a6e549fc51535d

@paulk Seems fair to me.

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115854908039065969

I wish I could boost this 1000 times.

Because it is so fucking true. These people who claim to be so passionate about defending ‘women’s spaces’ from Transwomen, seem unfazed by the kind of obscene public displays of misogyny that are being perpetrated.

They never cared about women in the plural. They cared about themselves and their prejudices.

@anolandria This. 1000 times.

They don’t need to find an ‘excuse’, and they aren’t waiting for anyone to give them one. If they think they need an excuse - as you said - they just make shit up.

Their acts are their acts and their responsibility. Yours are yours.