Top 10 tips for 2025
“Venezuelans were sacrificed in the Maduro raid” - False. As far as we can tell at the moment Maduro had only Cubans in his security. Why? Because Venezuelans mostly hated him and he couldn’t trust them to not backstab him.
More heartwarming proof of the fact that you can be anything you want to be:
Nigel Farage was a commodities trader
Elon Musk shoveled grain
Kanye West worked at a gap store
Jair Bolsonaro fished and farmed palmito
Modi sold tea at a train station
Trump: McDonald’s employee
Maduro: bus driver
Assad: ophthalmologist
All of these guys made it to the presidency. Never let go of your dreams 
Valid point, but something I didn’t really mention is that China’s military doesn’t have an outward purpose. The PLA just wants to keep China and the CCP itself stable. They don’t really do operations out of the country (except in the South China Sea). So maybe they could do a similar operation, they just really don’t want to.
I still think China couldn’t do Iraq, Afghanistan, or Libya like we did. It’s just not possible for them.
i mean it's not like venezuela is that far from the US… they aren't invading a country on the other side of the world..
i’m sure if there was a country at a similar distance from china (like in oceania or whatever) that had nobody major backing it on the international stage (just like venezuela), they could probably capture the leader if they wanted
People say that America is losing its position to China, but at least militarily only America has a world-spanning military force. We’re the only country that can invade a country on a different continent (Venezuela) and capture their leader, invade Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc. China could literally never do any of that.
Trump: McDonald’s employee
Maduro: bus driver
Assad: ophthalmologist
All of these guys made it to the presidency. Never let go of your dreams
I don’t like Philippe Pétain, but I think invading Vichy France violates international law and must be condemned.
People say that America is losing its position to China, but at least militarily only America has a world-spanning military force. We’re the only country that can invade a country on a different continent (Venezuela) and capture their leader, invade Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc. China could literally never do any of that.
I don’t like Trump but I want him to take out the regimes in Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran before he leaves office. That would be a net positive for the world.
fellas, I’m passing this along to y’all:
We’re giving away Childish Things t-shirts to three people who leave reviews online in the next week.
(Shirts look like this:
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Here’s how you enter:
Write a review for Childish Things
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Thanks team!
Years of glazing the Schengen zone finally paid off 
Didn’t know Mr. Kaja Kallas changed their gender, but I don’t really follow European news like I used to.
2025 was a great year, I really enjoyed it. Looking back, the whole year I felt like it was worse than other years. But now I can see how much I’ve grown in ways that I wouldn’t have otherwise. I’m super thankful for it.
New blog post! Book review of Spiritual Disciplines for The Christian Life by Donald S. Whitney. Read here: https://blog.lindsey.studio/posts/spiritual-disciplines-for-christian/
I made a blog! and I’m starting a new project: https://blog.lindsey.studio/posts/book-reviews/
I have an affinity for West African independence monuments, especially ones from French colonies.
W dert We made the right person famous
Just found out my 84 year old crippled neighbour is on his own tomorrow, so I’ve just been over to collect his spare chairs to borrow :)