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This is what being rich means to me.

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I’ve been thinking a lot about Tolkien.

It is often remarked that a central thesis of his books is that evil provides the means of its own defeat. Sauron crafted the One Ring that killed him, Shelob impaled herself of Sam’s blade, Smaug exposed his belly to Bilbo and let him see the weak point.

I think it is less often commented on that the corollary to that is that good must still act to use those weaknesses. The Ring did not cast itself into the fires of Mt Doom but was brought by the Hobbits. Shelob was only able to impale herself because Sam kept his arm strong and held it out. The black arrow still needed to be shot into Smaug’s belly.

And a final point that I don’t see often enough is that Tolkien clearly believes good only loses if it surrenders to hopelessness. Denethor’s suicide driven by fear would have broken Minas Tirith if not for the Fellowship, Frodo would have fallen to despair if Sam had not been there to carry him, if Bilbo had seen the shot as hopeless then he never could have warned of the weak spot.

But because in those cases someone provided hope, good triumphed.

I don’t know. I’ve just been thinking about that a lot lately for some reason.

Drüben bei BS geklaut aber so gut, dass es auch hier sein sollte. Alttext hatte ich für dort schon geschrieben, viel Spaß

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For the last few days there’s a massive “let me explain slowly” dick contest unrolling on Twitter with hundreds of “patriotic Americans” making categorical statements like “don’t even expect we will help you when you need us” because, apparently, “Europe refused to help USA in Iran”. One expert uses even more absurd argument - “you’re not dealing with a man [Trump], you’re dealing with the authority of the United States of America”.

The mistake they’re making is that regardless of any future Trump’s decisions nobody is going to even ask them, precisely because that’s the core of Trump’s new management style.

Do you remember the Congress debate or invocation of Articles 4-5 of the North Atlantic Treaty prior to the “ the authority of the United States of America” entering the war in Iran?

Neither do I, because none of the mechanisms designed to ensure a democratic state based on rule of law only enters wars for a good reason were used here.

That’s the very essence of my criticism of the war, regardless of how evil IGRC is objectively - Trump basically did precisely what Putin did in 2022: he the whole country to a war without asking anyone.

As it comes to Putin, almost all experts agree that it was a strategic mistake but the very point of Putin’s and Trump’s style of management is removing experts from the decision process and replacing them with sentiments and feelings. And Trump seems to love Putin’s decisiveness, even if he’s decisively making absolutely moronic decisions. Both seem to honestly believe you can cover up literally any mistake with enough talking and hand waving.

As I said, the fundamental fallacy of the “patriotic Americans” threatening “we won’t help Europe” is that nobody is going to ask them.

If Trump decides he sends US troops to Ukraine… no, not to help them but to gift it to Putin, nobody is going to ask the Americans - Trump will just do it.

Same if Trump decides he gives Taiwan to China.

If Trump decides to sell the key US strategic assets to Russian cronies because they offer him a multi-billion dollar kick back, he will just do it… and blame “leftists”, “gay Europe”, “Ukraine” or whoever else crosses his mind at that moment. And some people in the US will still buy it, even if they lose jobs or are robbed of their property - because that’s precisely the business model of Russian cronies.

That’s the main problem with Trump’s style of management - he reverted a century of of US state-building based on rule of law back into one man’s “I feel that’s what we should do” decision only because he liked the decisiveness that Putin has. Whether they’re both making good or bad decisions doesn’t matter, what matter is that they’re making them decisively.

P.S. when I speak of “patriotic Americans” I specifically use double quotes to differentiate between the people infected with Trump’s tribal morality and Americans who actually believe in the values of the United States Constitution.

Zum Weltfrauentag erinnern die GRÜNEN Rhein-Erft: Gleichstellung ist noch nicht erreicht. Frauen sind weltweit weiterhin dort unterrepräsentiert, wo Entscheidungen getroffen werden. Mehr Rechte, Ressourcen und Repräsentanz stärken Gesellschaft und Demokratie – global und bei uns vor Ort.

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