The troll farms are very happy with the fediverse movement. It’s much much easier to exploit and deceive compared to big regulated tech companies. The neckbeards behind Lemmy are also typical ‘marketplace of ideas’ naïve idiots, making it that much easier for groups to spread their misinformation unopposed.

Yeahhh that’s not how diplomacy works. That’s how edgy high school kids would imagine running NATO.

I can’t imagine he’s someone to strongarm. Nor would it be good for the alliance if members are forced into accepting things they don’t want.

I’d imagine he got his desired concessions, or it was mostly just bluster for internal politics.

Don’t threaten the US with a good time.

Loeb is a nutjob. He’ll claim anything is proof of alien life as long as it gives him media attention.

The idea of extraterrestrial life has been commonplace since the 1600s. Since then, there’s been many waves of belief-disbelief in extraterrestrial life.

This won’t be anything new for Christianity to ponder, and they’ll have plenty of theological material to fall back on.