This is just his oligarch backers dictating his policies though. They will still be around to dictate policy after his demise.

They have the advantage of stupidity. Truth is complex and mostly requires longer sentences to convey all nunces, while lies are simple and can be conveyed by just a couple of words.

“Real cold” and “real hot”. How completely accurate and informative terms which everyone can agree upon what is.

When exactly did it used to be? We have archaeological evidence that stone age people kept long distance trade connections. Could you enlighten us as to when this fabled period of history occurred?

Not to forget the fact that a lot of trips were planned and bought and paid for before Trump had even won.

Yeah, that should have been the headline.

Every time a court rules against the Trump administration it becomes a “is this the one where he enacts his coup?”-moment. Probably isn’t there yet, he needs to install a few more crucial stooges in various posts, but he is definitely getting there. Making his oligarch backers profit billions from his tariff scheme certainly was a good way for him to secure their backing for whatever he has planned.

Definitely affectation. I suspect the strong German accent is as well. His vocabulary is too good for it.

Lots of Americans especially.

He has been insane his entire life. He just is at a point now where it gets to unfold much more freely than it ever has, because he has been crowned de facto king of everything.

Trump is chaotic and unpredictable. His actions are mainly decided by personal greed and petty whims and grievances prone to change from one day to the other. But there is one constant in his behaviour since at least 2016, and that is his allegiance to Putin. He has never once convincingly criticised him, and everything he has done which involved Russian interests has always been in favour of Russia.

Anything she wants? Who is going to stop her?

It is possible to play singleplayer. In fact I would suspect most Stellaris players are playing it as single player.

You haven’t got a single clue about what you are talking about.

They are not smart people.

It was about incels spouting misogyny and all other imaginable forms of bigotry. It served as yet another fascism pipeline for a lot of kids.

Not on the US corporate curated internet. It hurts the feelings of advertisers.

You are confusing a lot of pol science terms, as well as using some which aren’t part of pol science at all.

All modern democracies are representative democracies, as in voters votes for representatives to represent them. Switzerland has elements of direct democracy, but on a foundation of representative democracy as well. Constitutional, presidential and liberal democracy are not an actual meaningful terms in political science.

Technically the US is a representative democracy, but I am pretty sure OPs is asking about the practice of the thing. And the practice is very different from the written word about how it was supposed to be, especially this recent presidential term.

Very much depending on the topic. For specialised niche subjects, which are usually the ones students choose for final papers, literature can be very scarce, and 1994 would be fairly recent. For my specialised field the main study (which is still being cited frequently) is from 1870.

Im still not convinced that crypto is worth it. I

That’s because it isn’t. In fact it is a completely destructive concept, which utilises a shitload of energy which could have been better applied elsewhere, and only facilitates scams and other crimes.