Well that was quick. Kinda get the feeling Carney didn't outright reject the invite knowing that Trump would revoke it out of pettiness sooner or later. Now Trump feels like he "got him" while really he did exactly what we wanted him to do.
He did... but just one sentence: "And on AI, we’re co-operating with like-minded democracies to ensure that we won’t ultimately be forced to choose between hegemons and hyperscalers."
And Carney was only invited to be on the board, but it seems we're not going to be paying the billion dollars Trump is demanding. So it doesn't seem likely that's going to happen.
I legit think streaming sites have become worse than video rental places.
It seemed like a big advantage that you could have unlimited number movies on a streaming site while a video rental store had limited shelf space. But it turns you you have to scroll through endless pages of crap to try to find something you actually want to watch.
Also the shops would eventually have any movie you want to watch. With streaming sites many things will never appear there because the corporation that owns the movie owns their own streaming site and will keep it exclusive to them. In the past it wasn't a thing where you'd have to keep track of which video rental shop had the rights to rent the movie you want to watch.
There was a time when it was just Netflix and pretty much anything would come on there eventually. That killed video rental. But it's been a long time since you could find everything on one streaming site, and it's gotten to be more expensive and time consuming to find a good movie to watch, so going to a video rental shop might actually make more sense now. But they're all gone now.
Luckily there are websites with dubious legality you can find everything on. I'm willing to pay for a streaming site that's actually convenient, but they don't exist anymore, just like Blockbuster.
Whenever I hear news of China, they built a new electric railway, invented something new, or made massive tech progress.
A lot of things in China fall apart in a few years. You can build things fast when you don't care about people's rights and just force them off whatever land you need, and make people work insane hours. A lot of the amazing things China brags about is a Potemkin village, just made to show the authoritarian leaders they did got the project complete on time and they in turn use it in their propaganda. Authoritarians always love to brag about making the trains run on time, right? The reality is often different from what the media portrays it to be in an authoritarian country.
But still, China is slightly preferable to the US at the moment.
Eh if you're a peasant and stay at home you might be conscripted to fight for your lord against the people lord the next county over just because they have a disagreement or maybe because they're bored or whatever. Probably gonna die a gruesome death either way. Going on a pilgrimage you at least see some of the world before you meet your gruesome death.
The US always wins the invasion but pretty much always loses the occupation.
Air power isn't how you win, because it's hard to hide a jet fighter. Assault rifles, RPGs, IEDs and a willingness to fight longer than they're willing to is what's needed to win the occupation.
Americans forget that Canadians served in Afghanistan. But I don't. I know someone who diffused IEDs over there, pretty sure he knows how to build them if needed.
And landmines don't actually stop an army, they just slow it down and inhibit maneuver.
The supplementary reserve of 300,000 citizen soldiers that's being planned is a better idea. There would be no stopping a US invasion, but 300,000 resistance fighters ensures the US would lose the occupation, as it usually does.
Ok now apply the same kind of criticism to the anti-liberal memes you're consuming on the internet. Who do those benefit? Who benefits from dividing people?
Where does this stuff originate from? Some millionaire trust fund baby influencers on youtube or twitch? Why is this Hasan guy on the front page of a website owned by Jeff Bezos?
Keep on repeating the bullshit that Jeff Bezos wants you to about liberals being the real enemy. You're soooo much smarter than everyone else LOL. You're really "fighting the power" when you consume the content the billionaires want you to consume.
It's difficult to know who's a dissident and who's a spy or terrorist.
Iran just threatened to kill the leader of another country. Yeah fuck Trump and all that, but you aren't going to open the doors to anyone from a country that's issuing threats, especially a country that's complicit in a lot of terrorist acts.
Russia is engaged in a sabotage campaign in Europe, so the reasons for blocking Russians from Europe is similar.
My grandparents had to hold their noses and be allies with the Soviet Union for a while.
But unlike the Soviet Union which was way behind the West in technology, China is ahead of us on EVs and we will have to catch up. But before worrying about that, we gotta take down the US.
US is the same as China now. Well that's not true, US foreign policy is way more batshit insane than China's. If you can even call it a foreign policy... it seems to me it's just the whims of a deranged old child molester surrounded by fucking Nazis.
And China is further away and there's pretty much zero probability China will invade my country. With the US, who knows? Kinda stupid to send money to a country I may have to be fighting against within a year.
That's why it used to be not orange, obviously.