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- Comment on We are not the same. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Your parents 640x480 glory. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Crowd goes wild 3 weeks ago:
If true, it would still not be the stupidest thing Trump has said this week.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
liberate your own country
Tibet was not China’s “own country”. It was imperialistically annexed.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The excuse of every imperialist. Even using the word “liberated”. Yellow man’s burden?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
China has been acting like shit in Hong Kong, but it was originally Chinese territory. So I wouldn’t count that as imperialism.
China’s behavior in the South China Sea is a much better example.
- Comment on the simulation jumped the shark with the is Trump guy 3 weeks ago:
ChatGPT normally writes at a way higher grade level than that tweet. It seems unlikely to be from a LLM.
- Comment on the simulation jumped the shark with the is Trump guy 3 weeks ago:
China gets 37% of the oil normally going through the strait. So while China might be happy that the US is projecting less power, I assume the oil shortage will still be painful for China in the short run.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Have you ever heard of Tibet?
- Comment on Not even close 4 weeks ago:
Anti-SLAPP suit is gearing up very soon: feddit.dk/post/20969245/19914002
- Comment on Some cheeses are luminescent. 4 weeks ago:
Not a joke. She has said stupider things in the past.
- Comment on Polymarket bet: Will Trump praise Allah again by April 15? 4 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago:
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- Comment on we're cooked 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 1 month 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... 1 month 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 1 month ago:
The opening text image did explicitly say that the writers did come up with explanations.
- Comment on Americans be like: 1 month 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! 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
Ross Perot
Ah yes, the billionaire. Electing a billionaire businessman is just what the US needs, right?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
From a narrow ethical standpoint, there is no issue I can see?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
No, because there is a high chance of genetic defects if you accidentally have a child.