Lip service must be given to the OCP lest Mainland China decide playing the long game isn't worth it. Speaking against the policy is a signal that the only legitimate claim to Taiwan is through force, while also jeopardizing trade with the entire West Pacific.
"I don't want to get hurt" isn't a choice and I have to assume you're like six years old if this is seriously the first time you've look at the way world politics work.
If a defense strategy doesn't include "we will use weapons to stop you from doing this" it isn't actually a defense plan, it's a strongly worded letter.
I know it feels good to vent, but the vast majority of Americans here already hate most of the American government (and the private entities that guide it).
And since you brought them up, Germany didn't solve its own Nazi problem. Help. And stay vigilant because this problem is not confined to the United States, the Anglosphere, or even the "West". We're just further along.
We're way too early for that kind of optimism. Race, gender, sexuality, all that and more can't be irrelevant until all are considered equitably by the law and treated equally by society. Pretending things are fine before they're actually fine doesn't help.
If you study economics deeper than 101 you learn that supply-and-demand is mostly a fantasy in the modern age and the problem is oligarchal control and lack of regulations.
But both of your issues boil down to the same point: there are more people than there are useful jobs. The solution is not more jobs or fewer people, it's decoupling productivity from food and housing. Anything else is admitting that a permanent underclass of jobless, homeless people must exist as an implicit threat against the working class if they get too uppity.
Also, immigrants commit less crime on average and get less in government benefits than citizens. Your "statistics" (that you did not even cite) are made up right-wing xenophobic propaganda.
Fuck em. Stop giving religious people special rights and permissions and exceptions and privilege. Give them no new things and start taking away old ones.
"Vegetable" isn't a botanical term, and I doubt something like cucumber or corn or snow peas would get the same pushback. The legal designation matters for taxation and is totally normal.
As in on Lemmy. It's not exactly a right-wing bastion.