Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has surrendered to Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh war. Mass protests have erupted in Yerevan (see thread).
Translation of the peace terms signed by Pashinyan. Armenian forces will cede control of Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan, which will be occupied by Russian peacekeeping forces. The Azeri-Armenian border will be opened for transportation.
Armenians rioting in Yerevan right now, demanding Pashinyan's resignation and the country to be taken over by the military.
Realistically, this was probably the best outcome for Armenia. The Azeris were making advances and were on the verge of taking the Lachin Corridor. That would have cleaved Nagorno-Karabakh in two a la the Battle of Vicksburg and let the Azeris grind their way to a total win.
A total Azeri takeover of Nagorno-Karabakh would have resulted in mass ethnic cleansing of Armenians and given the Azeris the ability to march into Armenia proper. With Russians controlling Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenians have SOME guarantee that won't happen.

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9 Nov
mentioning Full Throttle earlier got me to thinking how much I don't like most energy drinks

all of them taste like Red Bull, aka they taste like cough medicine mixed with horse urine, and Full Throttle is the only stateside brand I like because it actually tastes good
there used to be an energy drink called SoBe No Fear that was the absolute best, but it was discontinued a decade ago

it was briefly revived in 2012 (I remember jumping for joy at seeing it in convenience stores in Washington and Oregon), then disappeared again
Europe is a mixed bag when it comes to energy drink selection

Sweden is the worst country I've ever been to, nothing but Red Bull

the U.K. is also bad, but Sainsbury's at least carries Monster Juiced, which is way better than regular Monster
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8 Nov
Reminder that in the original color revolution (the 2000 Bulldozer Revolution in Serbia), Slobodan Milošević would have almost certainly won reelection had it not been for an army of NGO-trained rioters forcing him out of power. Image
Milošević's primary opponent did not win a majority in the first round of the presidential election. Albanians and Montenegrins, who were opposed to Milošević, boycotted the vote, and the runners-up were from right-wing parties who would have backed Milošević in the runoff.
TPTB knew that Milošević would have won the runoff, so they immediately set up a narrative that he was trying to "steal" the election in the hopes of forcing him out of power before the runoff could be held, complete with riots. They succeeded because Milošević was a wimp.
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7 Nov
A problem with the proposed plan to have GOP state legislatures discount the popular vote and appoint GOP electors is that Congress has to approve the electoral vote count in a joint session. Democrats, being in control of the House, would have the numbers to reject the electors.
I presume at that point, it would move to a contingent election. Another problem there: a majority (26) of state House delegations are needed to elect a president. Republicans have only 25, Democrats 24, and one delegation (Pennsylvania) is split.
Republicans would have to convince at least one Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania to switch sides. Democrats could convince a GOP PA congressman to switch sides, but then you're at a 25-25 deadlock. This assumes that no state delegations change hand in the new Congress.
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7 Nov
In 2018 in Hungary, Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party won their third consecutive election, taking 133 seats out of 199 total. The West decreed that the election was "free but not fair" on the basis that opposition parties were denied equal media coverage.
The reality is that the opposition had plenty of opportunities to engage the public. It's just that outside of Budapest, nobody cared. You can't make money running a pro-LGBT, Europhile, pro-immigrant news outlet in rural Hungary for same reason you can't in rural America.
Social media also actively intervened in the Hungarian election. Facebook censored a video posted by government minister János Lázár on how migrants had overrun Vienna and turned it into an unsafe, run-down slum, warning the same could happen in Hungary if the opposition won.
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5 Nov
Finished the MASS EFFECT games. Took forever to finish ME3 because I was dreading the ending.

Tired of this election shit so here's a LOOOOOOONG Tweet thread looking back at this classic RPG trilogy of our youths. Is MASS EFFECT art? Does it hold up? FIND OUT!
MASS EFFECT:

Best of the trilogy. The only one that is an actual RPG. Had the most interesting story, most interesting characters. It and DRAGON AGE: ORIGINS are the last two great games BioWare put out before the twin pincers of wokeness and EA turned them to utter shit.
BioWare listened to players who criticized JADE EMPIRE for being too dumbed down for the console set. MASS EFFECT has tons of character stat, weapon, armor, magic (oh excuse me, "biotics") customization, hoo boy! Just wish they hadn't built such a completely borked interface.
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5 Nov
three big copes going on:

1. "Trump/Tucker can run in 2024!"

they'll be in prison

if they're not, new hate speech laws will make their political beliefs illegal, the voter rolls will be swollen with 30 million illegals, and they'll also be banned from the Internet and banks
2. "if the GOP(e) doesn't support Trump we'll vote THEM out!"

neato, so you'll trade milquetoast Republicans for Democrats who will support the acceleration of totalitarianism

and no you're not forming a new party (see above, your political beliefs will be illegal)
3. "the red states will secede"

no, they won't

secession in the Civil War happened because state governors and legislatures voted for it

right now, there is not a single GOP governor or state legislature who will vote to secede, not one
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