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- Comment on Not even close 1 day ago:
Anti-SLAPP suit is gearing up very soon: feddit.dk/post/20969245/19914002
- Comment on Some cheeses are luminescent. 3 days ago:
Not a joke. She has said stupider things in the past.
- Comment on Polymarket bet: Will Trump praise Allah again by April 15? 3 days ago:
But there is some support from USA at this moment, right?
Limited. There are 1) some sanctions on Russia 2) intelligence support (which Trump has withheld intermittently) and 3) allowing European countries to pay for US weapons to be sent to Ukraine. 4) Maybe I forgot something.
If the US completely stopped supporting Ukraine tomorrow it would be suboptimal, but wouldn’t really change the situation fundamentally. If the EU stopped tomorrow, Ukraine would be completely fucked, and Russia would win within 6 months.
- Comment on Polymarket bet: Will Trump praise Allah again by April 15? 4 days ago:
Europe seems perfectly happy to fight Putin alone, right now. Europe might lose, but Europe still tries to do what is right there.
- Comment on Polymarket bet: Will Trump praise Allah again by April 15? 4 days ago:
Like, it was not all a lie. E.g. the 1991 Gulf War was perfectly morally defensible, while at the same time being in the US economic interest. But there is no inherent problem with defending your economic interest. And the US deserves unqualified praise for the 1999 Serbia intervention to prevent a genocide in Kosovo.
What the US is doing in Venezuela is (at least Trump thinks so) in the US economic interest. But completely amoral at the same time.
If America, Russia, and China is going to be evil, then Europe is also going evil for sure.
I don’t see why Europe would necessarily turn evil.
- Comment on Polymarket bet: Will Trump praise Allah again by April 15? 4 days ago:
What is the point of fighting evil
Traditionally, America has seen itself as standing for goodness, morality, doing the right thing, Democracy, etc… Most of the voters have, at least.
Trump does not think that. Look at Venezuela: It is open and blatant colonialism, resource extraction. Trump has just come out and said that he doesn’t care if the Venezuelan people have freedom and democracy - Trump only cares about profiting from resource extraction. Now maybe America has sometimes acted like this in the past, but Trump openly stating it is new.
This open disregard for doing doing what is morally right is a new thing. Which Trump can do without consequences from Republican voter, apparently - Trump still had ~90% approval among them, last I checked.
So in conclusion, asking “What is the point of fighting evil” is a non sequitur - Trump is not claiming to be the good side fighting evil.
As another example, look at Ukraine. Rarely have I seen a more black-and-white, good-vs-evil conflict. A fascist dictator is invading a budding democracy, with the openly stated purpose of annexation, without even pretending to have a casus belli. With Putin openly doing warcrimes left and right, torturing and executing prisoners of war, threatening nukes, and sending his own soldiers on suicide “meat assaults”. And yet, Republicans and Trump seems more sympathetic to Putin than Ukraine.
- Comment on Polymarket bet: Will Trump praise Allah again by April 15? 4 days ago:
It is sarcasm making fun of their religion. Iranians think their faith in Allah will save them, but Trump bombing will demonstrate that Allah will not save them. Demonstrating (according to Trump) that Islam is a fake religion, unlike Christianity.
- Comment on Polymarket bet: Will Trump praise Allah again by April 15? 4 days ago:
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- Comment on we're cooked 5 days ago:
there are sources that substantiate him saying something very similar.
As in, you can go read Trump’s actual post yourself.
- Comment on Fake News 6 days ago:
But I assume that nobody at the time had autism, because they were not vaccinated. Worth it!^/s^
- Comment on Strange are afoot at the Walter Reed 1 week ago:
Apart from the lack of misspellings, it is a very Trump post. Does this mean that Trump is not dead?
- Comment on Anon takes a writing workshop 1 week ago:
Like, maybe? She could also just be a jerk. It is hard to know without social cues on context.
- Comment on who said satire is dead 2 weeks ago:
Uproar in Heaven from 1964. Freely available on YouTube.
- Comment on The Iranians HAVE to realize that demanding the release of the unredacted Epstein files as a condition to re-open the strait of Hormuz is probably the strongest card they have right now... 2 weeks ago:
The Iranians essentially practicing piracy in the strait is unambiguously counter to international law (UNCLOS), and breaks one of the fundamental elements of how world diplomacy has worked in the modern world. What the Iranians are doing is in fact an act of war against all nations which ships the Iranian stop.
Countries like those in the EU are keeping a low profile right now, because Trump has made such a giant mess of the diplomacy. But long term, I can’t imagine they will let this fly.
- Comment on Anon watches Lost 2 weeks ago:
The opening text image did explicitly say that the writers did come up with explanations.
- Comment on Americans be like: 2 weeks ago:
From both a moral and an economical perspective, price controls on oil in the US would make tons of sense right now.
- The US oil producers have done nothing to deserve the current arbitrary price windfall. So morally acceptable
- The US economy would do much better without the price increase
- Comment on Precognition proven! Parapsychology vindicated! 2 weeks ago:
Republicans are way ahead of you:
How Ronald Reagan’s wife Nancy let her astrologer control the presidency
- Comment on Are Americans Actually Idiots? 2 weeks ago:
Ross Perot
Ah yes, the billionaire. Electing a billionaire businessman is just what the US needs, right?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
From a narrow ethical standpoint, there is no issue I can see?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
No, because there is a high chance of genetic defects if you accidentally have a child.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
There is a power imbalance when dating your daughter. Just like a teacher is generally not allowed to date their student. So there is an issue with dating your daughter.
- Comment on don't worry, be happy 2 weeks ago:
Yes - but you can choose any point to stand on. So all arbitrary separations in to “East” and “West” are equally valid.
- Comment on don't worry, be happy 2 weeks ago:
How exactly were the names “East Antarctica” and “West Antarctica” in that map decided? What does “East” and “West” mean at the South Pole?
- Comment on That's how the world works. 2 weeks ago:
You will need to do a small amount of research on planting times
And climate zone. There are many places where it is too cold.