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  • Pentagon no longer views China threat as top priority

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  • British PMs are usually asked if they'd use such weapons and the answer is always yes

    Corbyn publicly said no. This refusal to potentially kill thousands of civilians was seen as a sign of weakness.

    the USSR was too principled to use their nuke

    China also has a 'no first use' policy.

  • Here is what Stalin had to say about reddit/r/atheism posters:

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  • Ignatius shouldn't have stopped at Paris.

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from January 12th to January 18th, 2026 - Abolish ICE - "C"OTW: USA

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  • for inference use domestic chips, for training buy Nvidia.

    Is this to encourage local manufacturing, or due to espionage concerns? My understanding is that usually GPUs do not have direct access to the internet, and so putting a backdoor in one of them would be pointless.

  • What kind of fucking "wallet" is that?

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  • Just zeroeth world things

  • Swag bag

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  • Yes, it could be a military coup. It could also be the US using classified alien technology they found in the Bermuda Triangle.

    But the simplest explanation is that Trump / Rubio were angry at Venezuela, their generals told them a ground war would be Vietnam 2.0, and that it would be safer to kill / kidnap one of their leaders and declare victory. The US can do this - Venezuela has one modern Russian-made air-defence battery (see MarmiteLover's posts in the news threads) and that can't cover the entire country. (Older systems won't work against the modern US military.)

  • Swag bag

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  • Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. You're alleging that an entire military command collaborated with their enemy. You'll have to provide some proof for that.

  • Swag bag

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  • Source?

  • What kind of fucking "wallet" is that?

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  • not having to carry keys or a wallet.

    It's great to have that option, but relying completely on your phone sounds scary. What if you drop / forget to charge / misplace it?

  • US east coast could see rolling blackouts as data centers strain the electric grid

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  • One could say the US electricity grid was already under the kill line.

  • Why are the two American political parties so much more firmly entrenched than in other bourgeoisie democracies?

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  • There aren't a lot of first past the post republics, since first past the post is largely used by English speaking countries and most of them have the British King as their Head of State. If you drop the 'republic' condition, then Canada is probably the biggest example.

  • Ein volk, ein Reich, ein Charger Cable

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  • This is a good thing, though? All the Chinese companies already use USB-C. Just force Apple & Co to comply, and you cut down on so much inconvenience and lost time, not to mention e-waste.

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from December 22nd to December 28th, 2025 - The War on Christmas - De-Decemberization

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  • The fishing boats are Venezuelan. The tanker is Chinese.

    Edit: Chinese -> Turkish

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from December 22nd to December 28th, 2025 - The War on Christmas - De-Decemberization

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  • But why does Algeria need Su-57s? They aren't at war with anyone, and don't have any neighbours (except France) who have comparable tech, right?

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from December 22nd to December 28th, 2025 - The War on Christmas - De-Decemberization

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  • You cannot make a man understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it, etc.

  • Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features

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  • It's open-source. You don't have to trust them.

  • Why did Colonialism happen?

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  • India or China ... being large landmasses without much interruption by mountains.

    Both India and China have one large plain covering about a quarter of the country, and a handful of smaller plains with about half the land covered by hills and mountains. Not that different from Europe.

    China and India, with their vast floodplains, could both feed an astounding amount of people and remain more or less unified in a single political entity for extended periods of time

    China was unified for most of its history. India was only politically unified by the British - historically there would be one large state somewhere in the central plain, and dozens of smaller states that may be under its economic and cultural hegemony, but otherwise independent.

  • Basic science

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  • Plus if you cut one in half and bang them together you get a horse.

  • Man dies after falling from lamppost putting up Union Jack flag

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  • groups that display the Union Flag and the Saint George's Cross

    There's some difference between these two. The first is cringe but otherwise run of the mill tory, the second is EDL shit. US equivalent would be flying the official US flag vs flying the Confederate flag.

  • Daily dose of atrocity propaganda: IOF soldier reported executed via air embolism (someone took a syringe and injected her with air)

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  • Depends where it is, but generally no. They'd need to inject like a large syringe full of air to have a good chance of killing her. Even if they wanted to kill her, there are easier and more plausibly deniable ways to do it (like 'accidentally' giving multiple doses of an actual medicine).

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    A Modest Proposal