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aaaaaaadjsf, 4 days ago

You can’t be serious it actually uses Reddit and Quora for answers?

The google AI is going to turn into some deranged Nazi in a few weeks time.

aaaaaaadjsf, 4 days ago

Targeting Ticketmaster is the major victory she wants to hoist up as a way of dealing with inflation?

I mean Americans do love their treats…

aaaaaaadjsf, 6 days ago

I want a burger now 😳

aaaaaaadjsf, 8 days ago

Lots of effort posting in the news mega thread still. For those scared to engage, just best the Marxist hipsters at their own game and post theory. It’s what I do lol.

aaaaaaadjsf, 12 days ago

Going to pretend to be Sigmund Freud for a minute and try make sense of this:

in the annual poll conducted by IllicitEncounters, that brands itself “the best online dating site for married people”.

Okay that makes sense, Clarkson’s considered the sexiest man among middle aged adulterers that still use these niche sites. He’s rich, powerful (or gives off that impression) and older.

Meanwhile, Spider-Man actor Tom Holland secured the second spot in the UK’s sexiest man list, which coincides with his return to the West End.

Also makes sense, middle aged adulterers looking to relive their “glory days” and get with someone that looks much younger. The opposite of Clarkson.

aaaaaaadjsf, 14 days ago

I mean McBride has explained this multiple times. He was upset that the military was pinning all the war crimes on junior soldiers, using them as scapegoats and allowing for war crimes to continue and the higher up people in command to go unpunished. The media then proceeded to frame this as “McBride protects war criminals”. Some people believe McBride, others don’t. But it’s important to acknowledge this context.

Bad Empanada is just allergic to reading, context, or nuance, this is evident to anyone who has watched his videos for more than 5 minutes. Or that very twitter thread where Bad Empanada digs up a single sentence from 12 years ago to try discredit McBride.

aaaaaaadjsf, 16 days ago

The article is just pure fiction.

As a presidential candidate, Trump has threatened to quit NATO unless European allies contribute more, and should he carry it out Europe may decide to go it alone on defense, the game suggests. “A US policy of frustrating NATO has the potential to cause the alliance to collapse, with the EU as a candidate for eventually replacing NATO’s ultimate function — defending Europe from Russia,” wrote Finley Grimble, the British defense expert who designed and ran the game.

Trump threatened NATO with this, Biden actually got NATO to contribute more and bombed European infrastructure with the destruction of the Nordstream pipeline. The US is NATO, they can even destroy the infrastructure of other NATO members without consequence. The war game obviously did not account for this.

“Ultimately, SACEUR is answerable to the president of the United States,” said Grimble. “So he [SACEUR] can start slowing things down, or prevent things from happening. The US can just take the funding from NATO programs and they will collapse.”

Yes, because the US is NATO. This is how the military wing/monopoly of imperialism works. Do the people in charge not understand how their own system works?

Some NATO members also quail at the thought that they might actually have to fight Russia without support from America, the most powerful NATO member given the size of its conventional forces and nuclear arsenal. “If I’m Italy, for example, I’m certainly guaranteeing the security of Estonia,” Grimble said. “But I’m not really expecting to have to play such a prominent and crucial role in this.”

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However, fictional Moscow does launch new offensives in Ukraine. Bereft of US support — which Europe is unable to compensate for — Ukraine feels compelled to sign a peace that cedes eastern Ukraine to Russia and installs a pro-Russian government in Kyiv. Europe faces another problem: fear that Russia might attack NATO is scaring off domestic and international investors, causing European economies to stumble.

This is likely to happen anyways. And the whole point of the Ukraine war is to subjugate and vassalise Europe, and cause their economies to stumble. That is fully intentional from the Biden administration.

By the end of the game, the effects of a US pullback from NATO are global. China realizes that the US has really shifted its focus from Europe to the Pacific, which deters Beijing from invading Taiwan.

Again, this is going to happen anyways and is the US strategy. Win the inter imperial rivalry with Western Europe by vassalising it through the Ukraine war, for a united refocus to China. This is the plan, regardless of who is the president.

Yet at the same time, there was a genuine desire to keep NATO alive. “Many NATO members — except for France mainly — thought post-Trump it could be salvageable,” Grimble said. “So it was necessary to keep the US in, keep it together, and rebuild later.”

Yes, because again, the US is NATO

aaaaaaadjsf, 20 days ago

dean-smile

If the offending users are banned, it should be fine. The moderator on DB0 that caused this whole mess was just your classic internet mod taking a meme personally and getting offended. I still don’t understand how someone can get offended at first world privelege getting called out, it’s the most obvious and visible type of privelege that even libs and chuds recognise. To deny it’s existence would be to live in an alternative reality and be even more insulated than your average lib or chud.

aaaaaaadjsf, 21 days ago

Someone that lives a comfortable life in a first world country got offended and removed the post, that’s all there is to it. There’s nothing “tankie” about the meme

aaaaaaadjsf, 1 month ago

The lion part is how a lot of ignorant people from Europe and the USA view South Africa lol.

aaaaaaadjsf, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Okay then. What solution do even the most egalitarian or radical progressives/liberals, who you call the “adults”, have to solve capitalism’s contradictions and crises, with capitalism’s inherent unequal division of private property, leading to rising inequality and homelessness, being one of them? Because everything I’ve heard from just sounds like they are talking around the problem and avoiding the elephant in the room, the capitalistic system. In fact, many progressives when talking about issues such as homelessness, do not challenge the notion of private property and accept the inequality inherent to such a system, and then explain it away through bogus reasoning. I do not think that this way of avoiding about talking about how the modern capitalistic system works is adult behaviour. In fact, I’d say that it is childish behaviour, and does not deserve to be called progressive. The right wing being more brazen with it’s lack of ethics does not excuse the failure of liberals to address current issues.

The contemporary version of bourgeois emancipating reason, egalitarian liberalism, made fashionable by an insistent media popularization, provides nothing new because it remains prisoner of the liberty, equality, and property triplet. Challenged by the conflict between liberty and equality, which the unequal division of property necessarily implies, so-called egalitarian liberalism is only very moderately egalitarian. Inequality is accepted and legitimized by a feat of acrobatics, which borrows its pseudo concept of “endowments” from popular economics. Egalitarian liberalism offers a highly platitudinous observation: individuals (society being the sum of individuals) are endowed with diverse standings in life (some are powerful heads of enterprise, others have nothing). These unequal endowments, nevertheless, remain legitimate as long as they are the product, inherited obviously, of the work and the savings of ancestors. So one is asked to go back in history to the mythical day of the original social contract made between equals, who later became unequal because they really desired it, as evidenced by the inequality of the sacrifices to which they consented. I do not think that this way of avoiding the questions of the specificity of capitalism even deserves to be considered elegant.

• Samir Amin, Eurocentrism

aaaaaaadjsf, 1 month ago

Okay then, why is the solution of making sleeping outdoors illegal bring debated by the highest court in the land? Why is the supreme court of the US even entertaining such an unethical proposition? Doing so is just the US abdicating responsibility for it’s people, and intensifying and welcoming inequality. Why not debate starting housing programmes for people instead, so that people do not have to sleep outside in the first place?

aaaaaaadjsf, 1 month ago

So cute, you want to join an adult conversation. Come on pal, let’s see your work. Gotta back up your claims with evidence if you want to continue sitting at the adult table.

This was you two hours ago. I thought you wanted an “adult conversation” with “evidence”? I provided that.

aaaaaaadjsf, 1 month ago

Have you seen the one where they turn a tank into a camouflaged self propelled gun by putting a house on top of it like this? There is some wild stuff going on in this war. From the most advanced technologies mankind has ever made, to the most primitive.

v.redd.it/aqhrtxf1u5vc1

old.reddit.com/…/a_russian_tank_disguised_as_a_hu…

aaaaaaadjsf, 1 month ago

It’s actually funny how the right wing have the same conspiracy theories everywhere.

aaaaaaadjsf, 1 month ago

Because data and internet connections are expensive, and white people are the richest group by far. Twitter is more representative of the country than Reddit though.

aaaaaaadjsf, 1 month ago

Going to be honest back when I was in high school we drew penises on the fields in the dew/frost. It was an all boys school so yeah.

aaaaaaadjsf, 1 month ago

Yeah, there’s a reason rich Trump supporters are referred to as the “boater kulaks” by @SorosFootSoldier. It is basically what they are. It’s a great observation because there are so many similarities. You see this with poorer Trump supporters going against their apparent class interest and siding with Trump and the richer MAGA base, in the same way some poorer peasants sided with the kulaks.

That’s my outside observation though. Not American so I could easily be very wrong.

aaaaaaadjsf, 1 month ago

r/chapotraphouse AOC-haters are forever vindicated

We warned everyone and told them to read back-to-me, and where did that lead us? Back to this

aaaaaaadjsf, 1 month ago

I always thought the “they hate us for our freedoms” thing was a bit/joke from a comedian or SNL, similar to Sarah Palin’s “I can see Russia from my house” stuff, I never realised that Bush Jr actually said that…

That man was deeply unserious but also incredibly evil.

aaaaaaadjsf, 1 month ago

"We favor a diplomatic solution, we know there is no military solution."

• US envoy to Yemen

Guess that the Yemeni made, and iranian designed anti ship ballistic missiles are tough to stop then. It’s the first time in history ballistic missiles have been used against ships in an armed conflict. There is no military solution, because every day this continues, is one day that a US Navy ship could be sunk. The Houthis only need one successful hit to accomplish that. The US Navy is in a lose lose situation thanks to the Houthis military actions against them, and have now been forced to negotiate.

aaaaaaadjsf, 1 month ago

It’s also a case of the sailors onboard the US Navy ships having to be successful everytime in their missile defence or intercept missions, while the Houthis only need to have one successful attack to sink a US Navy ship. It’s unsustainable long term for the US Navy, one mistake and one of their ships is toast. The US has been forced to the negotiation table by the Houthis military actions.

aaaaaaadjsf, 1 month ago

Richard Dawkins has been saying that he’s a cultural Christian, or implying it, for decades now. I remember my highschool English teacher making fun of Dawkins for doing so.

aaaaaaadjsf, 1 month ago

Even if that was true (it’s not, long term exposure to UV rays from the sun causes skin cancer), sun damage is still a thing. I live in a super sunny country, I don’t want my skin to look like worn out leather by the time I’m 50. I’m putting on sunscreen every morning. SPF50.

Also the Andrew Huberman guy, basically a “science based” Joe Rogan knockoff, advised against putting on sunscreen because he thinks that the chemicals in it are more harmful than the damage caused by the sun. For some reason health and fitness gurus are going hard against sunscreen at the moment. I have no idea why they are doing this. One of the easiest ways to stay looking younger is to use sunscreen every day lol. Probably the easiest health and beauty “biohack” that exists. 30 seconds of work a day which consists of applying a cheap cream to your face and exposed skin, so you look 15-20 years younger when you’re 60. You’d think health and fitness gurus would promote the hell out of this.