If there was a suitable banquet hall, why are state receptions held on the South Lawn by every admin?

Not passing judgement, making an observation

That’s a reasonable way to think about it, but what “should” happen and what “does” happen are different.

It seems like historically, state visits happen at the White House, which to me makes a lot of sense given the logistics of hosting foreign entourage.

The US is a world power, part of being a world power is being able to project that power, including through aesthetics, compare the aesthetics of a state visit in the Kremlin and Great Hall of the People vs. hosting in a temporary tent on a lawn.

Why is defence of it insane? The article makes a good point re: state guests and needing to erect tents to accommodate them.

Genuinely curious

Don’t care, use Linux.

It’s the ethical choice.

Don’t put yourself in the learned helplessness box

It happened more than once. Charles, Lewis, Lando, wtf is wrong with fans at the Mexico GP?

Yes, but the EU is currently a US vassal and surprisingly weak as a driver of any geopolitical decision.

I wish the EU would have closer relations with the PRC as a balance to being screwed over by the US

Unfortunately such a system doesn’t exist. Britain used to be hegemon before world war 2, then the US, and soon the PRC.

I’m not part of the imperial core (US), so I’d rather deal with Beijing than Washington in foreign affairs.

Unfortunately, my country already has all those discriminations, so the only thing that would change for me is dealing with a more cooperative rather than extractive “pole”

Nah, I think he’s just bad at these tracks, from his 2024 results:

• United States: P5
• Mexico: P8
• Brazil: P8
• Las Vegas: P7
• Qatar: P3
• Abu Dhabi: P10

Not drinking today

It’s more likely that AI will become a middle, or upper manager than a floor worker.

Humans are still very cheap to work with, especially if you gut worker protections

China is orders of magnitude more of a force for good than the US is.

China becoming hegemon would unironically be amazing for humanity

That was… hard to watch. Piastri down in 8th… oooh

Germany used to send their car manufacturers to China to do knowledge transfer, they’d surely benefit from some reverse knowledge transfer from the Chinese these days.

What’s the point of being able to criticise someone publicly, if nothing’s going to change to your material conditions? Sounds like yelling at clouds: feels good, but doesn’t achieve much

Milei did it, he managed to turn lazy socialists into savvy entrepreneurs /s

What Trump is doing makes a lot of sense. It’s just standard iconoclasm.

Authoritarian regimes routinely destroy historical monuments to erase a past they oppose, promote their own ideology, and control national identity.

Rotten society

Meta returning to their roots it seems

So… if you tax millionaires, they won’t simply leave?

Hmm…

Genuinely surprised that Western media painted the CDU a salvation front against the AfD, but their Wahlsprogramm was equally, if not more bigoted and extremist than the AfD (at least on paper)