givesomefucks
@givesomefucks@lemmy.world
- Comment on Unsubscribe from users without blocking them - Is it possible, at all? If so, how? 6 days ago:
I don’t think you can separately block posts/comments.
But I wish we could for the opposite reasons. Lots of people post pretty good articles, but have terrible takes.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 6 days ago:
Clémence Guetté, Vice President of France’s National Assembly, submitted a parliamentary resolution calling for France to withdraw from NATO’s integrated command structure, citing President Trump’s threats to seize Greenland from NATO ally Denmark as evidence the US-led alliance threatens world peace.
So one politician from France submitted a resolution in the French gverbment to do it.
And you…
You honestly and legitimately think that is the same thing as:
I saw France had proposed an initiative to withdraw because of the US’ shenanigans
Like, you didn’t just go and try to find a source but didn’t read it. You just don’t understand how what that says and what you said are vastly different things?
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 6 days ago:
I saw France had proposed an initiative to withdraw because of the US’ shenanigans…
Where?
France is leading NATO air and ground troops this year, and I didn’t see anything about France leaving NATO when I just checked.
- Comment on X could be banned in UK amid sexualised AI images concerns 1 week ago:
Well, that explains the post I saw earlier about how they turned off image generation…
Every sane co.pany needs to ban it for more reasons than just this.
- Comment on I’m the Mayor of Minneapolis. Trump Is Lying to You. 1 week ago:
If only the mayor had a large, well paid, and highly equipped group of employees with guns and the legal authority to arrest people…
Arrest every ICE officer for disturbing the peace and throw them in jail.
It’s the only peaceful way to fix this
- Comment on Johnathan Ross right now... 1 week ago:
Would he lie to you?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
How could you think this would be a better way to find out than just asking her what she meant?
Also, weird as fuck to be throwing yourself in drama like that, but as least your friend will find out your super messy if they haven’t. If they already knew, this is what they signed up for anyways
- Comment on Trump Administration Live Updates: President Expects Impeachment if G.O.P. Falters in Midterm Elections 1 week ago:
“They’ll find a reason to impeach me,”
Chuck “Magoo” Schumer even could…
And after midterms we re-elect congress leaders and the neoliberals can’t threaten to cut off funding to states who don’t vote for their pick anymore.
I really want AOC to run for president, but there’s a good chance we can see AOC/Bernie as party leaders in Congress next session. Even if we don’t, we’ll get someone willing to impeach.
Martin won’t have the DNC push for them, but he won’t push for anyone.
- Comment on as a young person, what must one look for when it comes to finding a new country to live in? 1 week ago:
I mean, there’s a shit ton of variables…
You need to look specifically for people going from your current country, and the destination will change a lot of things.
Sometimes it’s very easy, other impossibly difficult.
- Comment on Can other countries impose sanctions on the US? 1 week ago:
I’ll admit that I don’t really know how that works, or how it’s enforced, or whatever
They almost always mean “economic sanctions”.
Cutting them off from “western banking”…
Essentially not letting them buy/sell any stocks in the western market.
Which unfortunately is headquartered in NYC, explaining why it’s the NY Stock Exchange.
There are others, Europe has 5 worth over a trillion each and some others, Asia has the NICA index.
But trump personally would be very hard to sanction in other markets, because he’s so shady banking institutions usually won’t deal with him. It’s why he pivoted to crypto.
He does have some money in NYSE, but that’s overseen by the SEC, and trump won’t sanction himself
- Comment on Denmark Tells Trump to ‘Stop the Threats’ About Greenland 1 week ago:
www.globalfirepower.com/coalitions.php
That’s a pretty good way to eyeball it.
But realistically it’ll be some kind of WW3 scenario pretty quickly, Denmark is a founding NATO member, and has a shit ton of alliances We’d have Russia, China, and US somewhat supporting each other, but trying to gobble up as much land as they can individually during the chaos. Then a NATO/EU coalition trying to stop them. And a lot of civil unrest everywhere else as each group tries to install dictators as allies.
And even if Russia/China/US win, they’ll just eventually turn on each other in giant meat grinder land wars over terrorist for the sake of terrority.
It’s not going to be good for anyone.
There’s also the whole thing where kind of the biggest point about NATO is “if any of gets invaded, we’ll nuke the invader back the Flintstones”
The role of NATO’s nuclear forces The fundamental purpose of NATO’s nuclear forces is for deterrence. Nuclear weapons are unique and the circumstances under which NATO might have to use nuclear weapons are extremely remote. Furthermore, any employment of nuclear weapons against NATO would fundamentally alter the nature of a conflict.
Should the fundamental security of any NATO Ally be threatened, NATO has the capabilities and the resolve to impose costs on the adversary that would be unacceptable and far outweigh the benefits that any adversary could hope to achieve.
nato.int/…/natos-nuclear-deterrence-policy-and-fo…
Putin is pushing trump to take Greenland, because the US is the least likely country for NATO to nuke.
Once they don’t nuke America, that’s his greenlight on NATO countries.
But NATO leaders know the consequences of not following thru.
Like, people been saying “trump will start ww3” for over a decade, but we’re at like 11:59:59, it’s very plausible it happens now, and we won’t know until missiles are headed to either DC or Florida, probably both. Because NATO leaders will know before the American public or likely even Congress.
- Comment on Gadgets For People Who Don't Trust The Government 1 week ago:
Didn’t watch it, but if anyone else is curious I copied this from the description
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro 2:58 - Meshtastic Solar Light 10:44 - Flock Safety Detector 13:55 - Anarchism (Taborites) 15:30 - Weather Satellite Ripper 21:58 - Anarchism (Zapatistas) 27:03 - Stingray Detector 31:40 - Failed Spotify Alternative 35:17 - Anarchism (Goonan v Dempsey)
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 2 weeks ago:
His leadership position was voted on before the DNC chair.
So his threats to cut off funding to the state of any Dems that wouldn’t back him still had some teeth.
It doesn’t now, mainly because the DNC immediately jumped into the largest twin esture into state parties, ever.
He’s been a lame duck all but maybe a month of this senate leadership term, and will almost certainly lose it next year.
If he doesn’t, it’s a bad sign.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 weeks ago:
What are you talking about?
There’s no American troops there now.
If you’re arguing there’s going to be a response or separate action in the future, yes…
That’s how time works, there’s always something happen, obviously something will happen next
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 weeks ago:
When you get the time it’s worth reading up on, super interesting and I’m surprised there hasn’t been a big movie about it despite America being the bad guys.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 weeks ago:
That was an invasion, not a kidnapping.
The first hint is the situation was called “invasion of Panama”
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 weeks ago:
Nah, Hawaii was an invasion, I believe the Queen was travelling to DC.
She left Hawaii as a queen and when she got to Hawaii to negotiate a treaty, she was told Hawaii was already an American territory
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 weeks ago:
Approximately 24,000 troops descended upon Panama in December 1989, beginning a weekslong siege of the country that scattered the government and military officials.
That’s an invasion, not a kidnapping…
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 weeks ago:
No, this is different and completely unprecedented.
We went into a foreign country, abducted their leader, and brought him back to America to be tried under our justice system for laws he was never subject to for crimes he almost had nothing to do with.
I’d love to see a source for America abducting the leader of a country we’re not at war with, and bringing them to America for trial.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 weeks ago:
It might have already happened…
Capturing a foreign leader you’re not at war with like this is a huge fucking deal, but it hasn’t even been 24 hrs yet, we can’t act like there won’t be a response.
Not anything overt, but our election system is sloppy as fuck.
Why wouldn’t foreign governments start using all the loopholes to pay (relatively) nothing to limit his powers in midterms and get rid of him in the presidential? A couple million thru a PAC isn’t even really breaking any laws, and compared to the cost of the chaos from trump, it’s a no brainer decision.
It’s why turnout for primaries is so important. We have to ensure that the people who make it to the general are going to be good in office.
- Comment on Can America's patriotism be rebuilt? 2 weeks ago:
Patriotism is fine, like it’s even a good thing.
Because it’s about being proud of your country, for the good shit it’s doing.
Nationalism is bad, because it ignores reality and is just belligerent yelling that their country is the best while disregarding facts and repeating propaganda.
Like, Norewegians are proud to be from Norway, because they have a great society that looks after the weakest, that’s patriotic and something we should strive towards.
That’s different than a trump supporter flying flags and laughing at how much people with empathy are upset, that’s nationalism.
There’s a reason we have two separate words for it, but the fascists keep wanting to erase the differences in usage.
- Comment on If God (or any creator of the universe) exists would he be made out of atoms? 2 weeks ago:
the difference is that one is still ongoing while the other ones are largely ridiculed and understood as nonsensical.
What?
Loads of people believe both…
It sounds like this is one of those things where you’re just gonna keep saying false things no matter what I explain.
You don’t seem to have any intention to learn and change.
You have an opinion and nothing can change that, which is fucking depressing because loads of people think like that now. So I’m going to block you now because it’s already too much like Idiocracy without running into your willfully ignorant comments again.
- Comment on If God (or any creator of the universe) exists would he be made out of atoms? 2 weeks ago:
Bruh…
Fucking ridiculous and western centric as fuck to say Jesus was the first person labeled “god personified”…
Like, the current Japanese emperor is “believed” to be the descendant of a literal god. And that shit took off long before AD or Jesus. But it undoubtedly happened much earlier all over, we just don’t have evidence of pre-historic times, that’s literally why we call that period “before history”.
Doesn’t mean nothing happened, just that we don’t know what was happening, yet.
- Comment on What the actual science says about “brain rot” 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t downvote the post…
Just commented on the irony.
I have no idea what your problem is
- Comment on What the actual science says about “brain rot” 2 weeks ago:
That’s not attention span, that’s not watching random videos.
Attention span is ability, this was lack of desire to even try.
If you read more and watched less, you might know that
- Comment on What the actual science says about “brain rot” 2 weeks ago:
The irony that it’s presented in video format…
- Comment on What’s up with Myrrh being more prevalent? 3 weeks ago:
Because it’s Christmas which is the only time people think of it
- Comment on If Browser and Wario are Mario's mortal ennemies, why did he invited them for a kart race? 4 weeks ago:
I always thought because the target demo was kids…
You’re biggest villain/rival is still a kid in your class that goes to the same gym class as you.
- Comment on Is the RAM prices explosion another manufactured crisis to corps drain money from people before the AI bubble collapses? 4 weeks ago:
when the bottom line replaces humanities interest
And there’s room for some capitalism before that point…
Like, UBI with stores where you pay for goods is still capitalism to some degree, if capital is involved at all, that’s capitalism.
- Comment on Is the RAM prices explosion another manufactured crisis to corps drain money from people before the AI bubble collapses? 4 weeks ago:
Capitalism is like any other vice.
In moderation it’s fine, often even beneficial.
But if it’s the sole focus you’re fucked. We’re not responsible cocaine users who want to stay up dancing every other weekend, we’re full blown crackheads on capitalism.