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Lots of countries committed colonialism, not many countries committed genocide on the native population and stole their land to create and expand their nation. The U.S. and Israel are members of a short list.

Lots of countries committed colonialism, not many countries committed genocide on the native population and stole their land to create and expand their nation. The U.S. and Israel are members of a short list.

Except now Trump is starting to play hardball with Netanyahu, and is distinctly unhappy with the the U.S. taking so much flak while being treated as a money fountain.

There is a much more real world where Trump gets sick of Bibi and pulls his support than Harris pulling support from Israel. A fully isolationist U.S. is better for Palestine.

As far as I know, we are still not quite in an Authoritarian state here in the US.

Just wanna drill into this; the United States has been an authoritarian state for as long as I’ve been alive. Deporting people without due process is not new. Supporting genocides is not new. The police state we live in is not new. The rule of law has been a joke for so long zoomers have internalized it. There is a reason why most of the governments we have overthrown have been democracies, and there is a reason the US has mostly replaced those democracies with dictatorships. We are the evil empire, and we have been for decades at this point.

it just means “looking” idk what’s so hard about it.

Really fucking stressed and hoping I can escape the country before I get killed.

Considering a lot of us were projecting that the U.S. would begin arming Russia and the war would end quite dramatically in Russia’s favor? Yeah no change is a massive silver lining.

As I was sitting at my desk with some tea and a stroopwaffel, one of my coworkers commented that I “really knew how to live.”

I honestly feel like Smith gets a real bad rap from undereducated progressives. He would also have hated what the United States has morphed into, and I’m sure he’s spinning in his grave over people using his economic theories as justifications for pure laissez-faire capitalism. “The Invisible Hand of the Market” that conservatives use to justify trickle-down economics and often attribute to him isn’t even really his, it’s from a batshit insane later guy called Paul Samuelson! Smith only referred to it in the context of international investments, never this idea that “domestic corporations will always do what is good for the public.”

I don’t agree with everything in Wealth of Nations, but it seems a lot of people just dismiss Smith completely out of hand. We should talk about him just like we talk about Marx, his work is not useless nor trivial.

Here comes the boom!

too out there?

Not even a little bit. I’ve seen a lot of children’s names at my job. At the very least, I can pronounce Zenith, and it would fit our database’s size limitations, so I think it’s a better name than some of the wilder ones.

Going to guess America, since all of those rules apply for dealing with U.S. police. If you call them, you have to expect someone to die.

What’s the CCP’s stance on femboys? Are we allowed to corrupt fragile heterosexuality?

I’m a bisexual femboy who’s been horny on main for decades now, proud to be a constant brand risk to any platforms I force to host my dumbass thoughts.

There are literally people in this thread claiming misandry cannot exist. People are pretending hating and abusing men is totally okay, and then getting surprised when some of those men start to resent them for it. To say nothing of the fact that the loneliness epidemic has been scientifically measured and is effecting both men AND women.

absolutely, but apparently such a concept “doesn’t exist.”

Reduction of consumption at this point will not actually work, we’re already too far down the path of annihilation. We’re either going to need to find a way to manage our planet’s climate ourselves, or we’ll need to find a way to adapt our cities and lives to be able to survive in the coming world. Both of those require technological solutions. So far, we have not found a good one yes, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

The issue is that somebody kinda has to fill the vacuum if we want to have literally any hope at surviving our rapidly oncoming self-created climate disaster. I don’t exactly love the PRC either, but you have to admit that right now, they are the ones best positioned to find and implement a technological solution to our crisis. It’s certainly not going to be the U.S., Europe is going to have it’s hands full trying to deal with Russia, do you think there’s any other power strong enough or better than China even left?

If my options are the Chinese model, or the extinction of the human race, then I’ll choose the PRC.

Perhaps my favorite example of this is the 4kids One Piece dub. They couldn’t get rid of the scene where Helmeppo threatens Koby with a gun, so they turned the gun into…well.

I dunno. I guess the question is if I would ever meet anyone I told a lie to ever again. That’s definitely not happening, so I guess I’m not maintaining them anymore.