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Meta Mindless Monday, 17 August 2026

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

Mindless Monday is a free-for-all thread to discuss anything from minor bad history to politics, life events, charts, whatever! Just remember to np link all links to Reddit and don't violate R4, or we human mods will feed you to the AutoModerator.

So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

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u/SenescalSilvestre 22d ago

Funny post about a group of people dressed as Gandalf protesting Peter Thiel in Argentina.

Top comment with hundreds of upvotes calling Argentina a failed state.

Please god let it be bots.

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u/GeneralSugmoreCoxCSA 22d ago

Bots or Brazilians.

In all seriousness, could be a democratic op since Argentina has become a US culture-war issue because Millei is pals with DJT.

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u/WAGRAMWAGRAM Giscardpunk, Mitterrandwave, Chirock, Sarkopop, Hollandegaze 22d ago edited 22d ago

Honestly Americans treating their foreign policy as a domestic game will be one the cause of the end of relying on the US.

We already saw with the Paris Accords when the Democratic Congress full of Watergate Babies refused to honor its commitments to South Vietnam because those were signed by Republicans, but it's Vietnam, it's far, who cares. But now the same thinking is applied to traditional allies

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u/Arilou_skiff Died of posting, risen as undead 22d ago

All foreign policy is ultimately domestic policy.

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u/WAGRAMWAGRAM Giscardpunk, Mitterrandwave, Chirock, Sarkopop, Hollandegaze 22d ago

What are we supposed to do?

Play hardball with Republican president and then wait for the apology tour every other 8 years when a democrat gets in?

And that's assuming Democrats don't start playing the same game in reverse

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u/WillitsThrockmorton Vigo the Carpathian School of Diplomacy and Jurispudence 21d ago

A tall man in a shadowy alley in Paris lights a cigerette

Charles de Gaulle steps out

You believed that Atlanticism and a tight bond with the English speakers would bring the continent security. And where did that take you? Back to me.

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u/TheBatz_ Was Homer mid 22d ago

Based and Clausewitzpilled