Oh, I’m sorry—I didn’t realize independent thought meant regurgitating conspiracy buzzwords like a malfunctioning chatbot. Try forming an original argument instead of just copy-pasting skepticism from whatever YouTube video your algorithm fed you.
Wild watching the dumbest reactionaries on the internet get everything they ever wanted.
You’d think after Brexit, after the first Trump term, they’d have re-evaluated their pre-existing beliefs.
It’s like the worse their outcomes are the more certain that they are correct. It’s almost a coping mechanism.
Yeah I’m sure the brown people on their way to the newly minted Guantanamo Bay concentration camp are real excited for what the collapse will look like.
Feels like these were barely a thing for a month before mp3 players took off.
I remember people talking about how small media storage was getting
Records - > Tapes - > CDs
People thought they’d eventually all the pill sized but still contain exactly one album or one movie.
We never thought ‘what if I could fit every album I own on one Disc?’
I remember showing my iPod to my uncle who had a hige music collection and telling him that his whole wall of albums could fit on this white rectangle and then some. He was impressed but didn’t see much value until he thought about driving in the car.
France and the UK’s nuclear arsenal is minuscule compared to the US stockpile.
You only need a few.
And a lot of the nukes at NATO bases are on loan from the US, so if the US pulls out there will not be nearly as many bombs close to Russia.
Both UK and France have nuclear armed subs, those are all that matter.
Anyone insane enough to start a nuclear war may decide that absorbing a hundred or so nukes isn’t so bad when they have hundreds of Cold War era bunkers and thousands of their own nukes.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say even Putin doesn’t want to spend the rest of his life in a bunker.
Either France or the UK can easily fill in. Both have nuclear submarines. Mutually assured destruction baby.
You have the remarkable ability to confidently navigate the world with a mind so barren of critical thought that even a Magic 8-Ball would outthink you in a debate.
Trying to imagine the wrath i would’ve wroght if someone did this to my Pokemon red
Problem now is that americans see themselves as consumers, not workers.
It’s one of the few levers they have. If they don’t use it they’re complicit
They’re eager to appease. They all want to be giant corrupt monopolies and are thrilled at being given the opportunity by the tv gameshow host.
They know if they don’t take our political power away, we will eventually dismantle and regulate their tech empires.
Fall for it? They’re grateful he’s made their job insanely easy. They used yo have to investigate things and then risk running afoul of the powerful. Now they just have to print whatever the latest outrageous bullshit comes out of Donald’s mouth and reap the clicks and ad dollars.
Sort of funny that as soon as the greatest generation died their children, who were too stupid to understand what they had built, destroyed their empire
Start accusing them of communism, start telling people this is what communism is
The people dismantling the agencies don’t work for the government so I’m not sure that will work.
Balkanisation - except Yugoslavia becomes bigger than ever
Gets rid of the borders which are honestly just traffic jams.
And I think more regional nationalism will be healthier for everyone. Lot of frustration seems to come with seeing someone on the other side of the country behaving in a way that you think doesn’t fit in with the idea of your nationality.
I personally support all of Canada amd the US breaking into smaller countries but with an EU style freedom of movement and trade deal.
California has a rural state within it that’s called The State Of Jefferson and it’s very rural and conservative. You can just cut that part out of Cascadia
Vichy Apple