Matt GoddenMay 6

The latest #AustraliaInstitute podcast with Allan Behm and host Dr. Emma Shortis contains an interesting observation about one of the factors behind #USia being so thoroughly outwitted by #Iran; namely, that #American "diplomats" / negotiators just aren't that bright, skilled, or educated, when compared to their Iranian counterparts.

#USPol folks might find it interesting as an external perspective.

https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/supreme-court-guts-voting-rights-as-iran-war-support-hits-new-low/

Supreme Court guts voting rights as Iran war support hits new low

160 years after the American Civil War, the Confederacy is ascendent.

The Australia Institute
Matt GoddenMay 4

Why is #Guilani still titled by "Mayor" as an honorific? Is that the normal thing in #USia - you get a job for a couple of years, and get to keep the title for life?

Or did he change his first name from "Rudy"?

Matt GoddenApr 13
It's pretty impressive that #USia and its Elected King have managed to make the Catholic Church, and Iran into the moral and sympathetic heroes of the world.
Matt GoddenApr 10
I'm sure #Iran is terrified by threats issuing from a guy who sexually molests furniture. #USia
Matt GoddenMar 23
It's time for #America #USia to recognise its strategic situation; that it cannot hold the straits of Hormuz for longer than Iran can close them, thus the futility of continuing to fight, and to surrender to #Iran and begin funding the necessary reparations to rebuild the damage inflicted by its illegal act of aggression. #USPol #WorldPol
Matt GoddenMar 21
I have at times tried to figure out what #USia's King Floridaman sounds and looks like; references to other world phenomena. The combination I think I've landed upon, is that he sounds like a stupid person, who thinks they're smarter than everyone around them. So his speech is always condescending, but made up of child-size words with simple modifiers. The real weirdness though, is his mouth; the way he moves it when he talks is just odd, it's like a dog's pooching anus when it's defecating.
Matt GoddenMar 17

People ask “when did #America ( #USia ) go wrong?” and the obvious answer is; when the population of the British trade administration colony, established to facilitate trade between Britain and a vast planned Native American commonwealth nation, allowed a “sovereign citizen” and 1%er-of-his-day tax cheat, one George Washington, to lead a tax rebellion against his government.

Everything rotten about the #USA, and its national character, comes from their celebration of this crime.

Matt GoddenMar 1

How to tell you live in a #Monarchy, elected or hereditary; The partner of the leader has a role, or is even relevant or visible in the functioning of the government. This is systemic, not specific to any one regime.

#USia #USPol

Matt GoddenFeb 19

About the only industries #USia has any "leadership" in, are #NuclearPower, and #AI.

Unsurprisingly, they're both environmentally destructive, offer no unique benefits to make up for their downsides, and have to be forced on people through compromised safety legislation. Pretty much the only argument in favour of them, is "people invested in this (be it money, or educational years), therefore they have a right to a return".

Matt GoddenJan 31
Imagine if SCP had been the distributed fiction community, the roleplaying of whose content had taken over the #USia government, rather than QAnon.