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  • Stephen Miller Asserts U.S. Has Right to Take Greenland

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  • The other day Stephen Miller was on Jake Tapper's show and was ranting about how everything went bad after the end WWII.

    I can understand why some people want to go back to how things were in the 50s and 60s because there was a lot of economic prosperity then.

    But Stephen Miller wants to go back to the times before the Nazis were defeated. So that's a little unusual, isn't it?

  • January 6, 2021. The U.S. Congress is attacked by MAGA rioters trying to stop Joe Biden from becoming President

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  • You're not going to stop fascism by attacking those that are opposing it.

    American culture has become rotten. It's all about greed and laziness. The real winner of the last election was laziness. More people didn't vote than voted for either candidate. Then there was those that voted for a fascist under the false belief they would somehow share in the profit from being cruel to others. Over 2/3 of Americans were either hoping to profit from cruelty or were too lazy to prevent it.

    I'm not American and I'll tell you that the Democratic party is a completely normal political party in a democratic system. All parties in democratic countries are like that. The reason you hate them is because deep down you just hate democracy.

    Americans are incapable of any kind of introspection, so you just look for someone to blame rather than recognize how rotten American culture is. You're just not the brave freedom loving democratic people that you loudly proclaim to the world you are. You're cowardly, greedy, lazy, and hypocritical people. You'll never improve your country if you just go on looking for scapegoats rather than taking a cold hard look at what America is really all about. The first step is admitting you have a problem and you can't do that.

  • I did not care for the Godfather

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  • It's about corporations taking away people's humanity. Note how few people in the movie have any empathy at all.

    Robocop never actually escapes the control of the corporation. He's only able to kill that guy at the end after he was fired.

    It's not a movie that demands you pick up on it's themes. You can enjoy it as a dumb action movie where you see a cyborg shoot a guy in the dick. Or you can think about what it's saying and get more from it.

    It's actually more consistent with the themes of Phillip K. Dick than Blade Runner was. I do like Blade Runner, but if we're being honest, it is a little boring and only touches on PKD's themes. One of the writers on Blade Runner wrote the script to RoboCop to get more of PKDs themes into a movie. Robocop has the PKD that Blade Runner missed . So RoboCop is a more exciting movie than Blade Runner, while having more PKD.

    RoboCop gets the Dick right while shooting a guy in the dick.

  • I did not care for the Godfather

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  • Without some caveman rubbing sticks together we wouldn't have fire. That doesn't mean rubbing sticks together is better than a Bic lighter.

  • This photo was taken at the White House Protest against the current American Venezuela War

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  • What are you talking about? Maduro is the Trump of Venezuela, rigging elections and preventing opponents from running, like the most recent Nobel Prize winner. Just because Trump is against someone doesn't automatically make that person the complete opposite of Trump.

    Both Trump and Maduro are gangsters. Gangsters often take out other gangsters so they can take control of their territory. When you see a mafia hit do you automatically assume the guy that got whacked must have been anti-mafia LOL?

  • US not at war with Venezuela, Rubio says, as Maduro held in New York jail - live updates

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  • Maduro was indicted in a federal court.

    Why am I not surprised you think only courts that indict the people you don't like are legitimate? Why is it fundamentally different for a US court to do something different from a UN court? Other than the fact the UN court isn't capable of actually arresting foreign leaders and the leaders they indict are people you don't like. For the law to be legitimate, it should just prosecute the people it's popular to go after. There's plenty of dictators in the world that have done far worse than Netanyahu, where are the arrest warrants?

    The ICJ is making political moves and that's not what justice is supposed to be about and damages it's legitimacy. The fact that actions by the US that are basically identical to the ICJ's actions are labeled authoritarian, colonialist, actions of a rogue state, just goes to prove the illegtimacy of the the ICJ. You can't have it both ways, either courts can indict foreign leaders and countries can execute arrests on them or they can't. And it shouldn't be down to a court conforming to political opinions, justice is subservient to politics is not justice at all. The ICJ seems intent on using it's power to effect political change, same as Trump.

  • US not at war with Venezuela, Rubio says, as Maduro held in New York jail - live updates

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  • Iran supplies weapons to Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis, chant "death to Israel" while enriching uranium for building nuclear weapons.

    "Unprovoked" LOL.

  • This photo was taken at the White House Protest against the current American Venezuela War

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  • 36% of eligible voters didn't vote. So 68% of Americans either wanted Trump or didn't really care.

  • What's it going to take to truly stop the US?

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  • Kinda like how the US, UK, and the Soviet Union were not aligned before the 1940s?

    Alignments can change when there's a common enemy. Sure those alignment changes may be temporary but they can last long enough to see a country bombed flat and the leaders dead in a bunker.

    You're obsessed over ideology but that's mostly irrelevant in geopolitics. If it's in the best interests of a bunch of countries to work together to destroy the US economy, those countries will work together regardless of ideology or internal politics. In WWII the UK had a government of national unity with both the Labour and Conservative in a coalition. Perhaps the US is incapable of having political parties working together for the common good of the country, but not every country has the same weaknesses the US has.

    And countries can always go back to being adversaries for bullshit ideological reasons after the enemy is destroyed like the US and Soviet Union did after WWII. So animosity between countries can be put aside temporarily.

    If Trump thinks he can be an existential threat to a large number of countries in the world, it's a FAFO situation.

  • Badum.

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  • Used to be it might be a BSOD. Today it will still crash because it will distract you constantly by pestering you to try copilot. Or maybe you actually do try copilot and you say "My break time is almost over" and it disables your brakes.

  • Badum.

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  • It used to be in linux su would give some scary error message when you put in your password wrong that would say something like "this incident will be reported".

    Reported to whom? I'm the only one using this computer and I'm the one that installed the OS....

  • Badum.

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  • But I run linux...

    "Code red, I need SWAT team backup, I've got a confirmed terrorist in sight!"

  • Canadian woman charged with illegally crossing into U.S., kicking border agent’s face

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  • OMG you're so hardcore!

  • Chinese social media hails Trump's Maduro move as Taiwan template

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  • The biggest defense for Taiwan is the fact that it's an island. I don't thing that's going to change any time soon.

    Ukraine's Sea Baby drones have been remarkably effective in the Black Sea. I don't see why they wouldn't be effective in the Taiwan Straight and I feel like Taiwan has the capability of mass producing similar drone boats.

    Yes China has massive troop counts, but it doesn't amount to much if those numbers can't get across the Strait.

  • Chinese social media hails Trump's Maduro move as Taiwan template

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  • Note that Ryan MacBeth has also said that it would be impossible for Israel to do airstrikes on Iran.

    That guy often speaks authoritatively about things he doesn't know anything about.

    He's absolutely certain that China is going to invade Taiwan. China doesn't currently landing ships and is putting a lot of money into the Belt and Roads initiative to establish land trade routes.

    That's what we call a clue!

    The US defense analysis on China invading Taiwan states that it would likely result in a stalemate. Also it says the US should spend billions upon billions of dollars on Lockheed Martin missiles.

    That's what we call a clue!

    The reality is while China does a lot of saber rattling over Taiwan, they likely don't actually have the capability to take the island. Yes if you put troop counts on a spreadsheet it may look like China could take Taiwan at any time they please. But then when you consider that Taiwan is an island, and the troop counts engaged in the battle would be limited to the number they could supply across the Taiwan Straight (which would likely be contested by drone boats which have been very effective in the Black Sea) and the fact that amphibious landings are actually really hard to pull off (especially if you're attempting to do it with appropriated civilian RORO cargo ships) the whole thing starts sounding very stupid. Of course everything is dependent on how willing the Taiwanese are in fighting off China. And as we've seen with Russia, just because an invasion plan is stupid it doesn't necessarily mean an authoritarian disconnected from reality won't try it.

    But anyways, take the things Ryan MacBeth says with a big grain of salt. Defense analysts are often heavily influenced by the Military Industrial Complex, and they'll tend to say China is going to invade Taiwan tomorrow unless many billions of dollars worth of missiles made by Lockheed Martin are procured.

    Americans are always susceptible to any version of a story that indicates they aren't complicit in wars for oil when they vote for politicians that bring down the price of gas. Venezuela, Iran, and Nigeria all have oil. Sure there could be reasons other than oil for attacking these countries, but that's a hell of a coincidence, and Trump is straight up saying that he wants Venezuela's oil.

    That's what we call a clue!

  • Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination

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  • People can get arrogant enough to think that they won't get caught.

    Emmanuel Clase was a Major League pitcher making ~$5M per year. He got caught intentionally flubbing pitches for $5000. 5M a year gone now to get a few thousand dollars. Why would someone be that stupid?

    Because they don't think they'll get caught.

  • Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination

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  • It's why things have to happen in a certain order. You can't do the more aggressive economic actions against the US until after certain conditions are in place. First you need to cut dependency on the US for anything essential. Food and strategic resources like aluminum, steel, and energy. You also need a strong enough military to make any US military action costly for the US.

    Once those conditions are met you can take further action. Hitting the US tech sector is more of a middle option. Manipulating the US bond market is the nuclear option.

    Currently these options aren't on the table since the US can kick out the legs of that table if you tried to play those cards. But many things are quietly changing around the world while Americans are obsessing over Epstein files, Trump playing battleship, and Hegseth and Rubio fucking around with tinpot South American dictators.

  • Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination

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  • Something not often discussed is the possibility that the UK and France might not have been capable of stopping Hitler through military force at that time.

    I mean even later even after building up a bit more, France got curb stomped and the UK barely got out of Dunkirk. And that happened while Germany was occupying Czechoslovakia and part of Poland which took significant military resources from fighting the UK and France. There's a very real possibility that standing up to Hitler over Czechoslovakia would have gone even worse than standing up to Hitler over Poland. Sure the Soviets might have helped at that time, but their military wasn't even capable of taking on Finland at that point.

    At any rate at the present time, the world needs to build up it's military power before standing up to Trump. We're saying it's because we're fulfilling NATO obligations (like Trump told us to!) or getting ready to fight Russia maybe. But military build up is happening but it's not going to happen overnight.

  • Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination

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  • Just declare any simple script that does a wget on copyrighted information to be "AI". AI is immune from copyright infringement it seems.

  • Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination

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  • It's possible the US might have some radar systems that can detect incoming nukes and they might even have some submarines in unknown locations capable of hitting back after someone has nuked them.

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    Toronto police increase presence along hospital row after pro-Palestinian protest

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/toronto/mount-sinai-hospital-protest-1.7114042
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    UN agency probes staff suspected of role in Oct. 7 attacks

    www.reuters.com /world/middle-east/un-palestinian-refugee-agency-investigates-staff-suspected-role-israel-attacks-2024-01-26/