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“turning revolutionary”

Please, in the West we’ve had huge societal crisis after crisis, crumbling rights, services, and stability, etc, and nothing has turned revolutionary.

You think people who are willing (if you look at supposedly developed, modern places like the USA for example) to put up with a clearly predatory evil healthcare & police system, fascist government, almost no basic workers rights, disappearing people from the streets into concentration camps, etc etc, are going to ‘turn revolutionary’ over ANYTHING?

We’ve had every opportunity, every chance to stand up and fight for what’s right for us and others, and the best we can do are a few days of mild protests with some cardboard signs (which, given how far we’ve allowed our rights to be eroded are just as likely to land us in jail, or labeled as extremists).

Turning revolutionary my arse.

Why would the electricity company making extra profits affect how beneficial the DCs are to a region?

Sure, it’d pay for a few more CEO yachts, but that’s about it.

Why must we make everything about Americans?

Sure, the guy paid a visit, but he’s hardly a big political or social force here in Europe.

The funny thing is, THIS seems to be the part the media is rolling with, but if you read the full details about what it can do and how poorly it’s made, tracking your location is only one thing to worry about (though it’s a big one to be fair).

E.g The potential for running arbitrary malicious code if one random dude on the internet (who is unrelated to the US government) has his GitHub account compromised? Daaaaaaawg

The US seems to want us to be extremely focused on one small part of their war - the Strait of Hormuz. It’s all they ever harp on about.

What’s the situation across the rest of the theatre? How close is the US to accomplishing it’s primary war goals?

Why do they suspiciously want us to ignore everything else and focus on this one international shipping transit lane?

What allies?

We must continue to build our defences against US aggression.

They’ve already threatened to invade our allies on multiple occasions recently, and that’s on top of the deeply evil things they’re already doing, both to their own people and to others around the world.

We must take them seriously and protect ourselves.

They will come for us once they’re done crushing their own citizens, and once they’re finished securing their control over the global strategic and industrial resources needed for their future peer wars of domination against enemies and former allies.

It’s sad, I know, but it’s the reality we live in now. We mustn’t live in denial just because the future is scary. They will continue to do evil things like this, and eventually come for us.

What I hate most about the Independent these days is that they’re a UK news agency for UK news reporting, but seem to want to heavily report on local USA news now.

Not just big international news worthy stuff, but lots of small local area USA news.

I’ll see some headline that sounds serious, only to open it and find it’s not referring to events in the UK at all, but in the USA, which is entirely irrelevant to me.

Not sure why they pivoted to being a US news company, but I’m sick of it, so they’re on my blacklist now.

Why don’t France want to go to war with a random country for lols? Are they COWARDS?!

The American military is a den of animals and monsters. disgusting subhuman cowards; Bloodthirsty beasts.

Dehumanising people, calling them animals, subhuman, beasts, etc - using their own horrid, evil tactics basically - is not how you win me, or anybody decent, over.

They can be bad people doing bad things, but the moment you try to persuade us that they’re not human, but are less than human (and it thus follows that doing bad things to them is more acceptable than doing bad things to actual human people), you immediately lose my support.

No thank you.

I wanted to keep using Boost, and they banned third party applications from Reddit.

Especially annoying given that their own application was awful and at times unusable with whole features completely missing.

How dare you contradict the Great Leader! He has said many times that it’s a War (the best war, nobody does wars like him)

Not our war, fuck off Miliband.

Irish Stew with pickled red cabbage on top.

Because I’m lazy and wanted to make something good that’d last a few days.

Hey now, they care so much about protecting children that they’ll cover them in body armour and send them in big groups to far away lands (to keep them safe from domestic terrorism ofc)!

Did they actually have domestic concerns though?

It looks more like their Dictator wanted to start another war (possibly to distract from his many crimes, or to distract from his domestic racist death squads, or to raise his side’s standing in the upcoming elections, or to distract as he works to rig said election), and did so because nobody can stop him.

It seems to be very effective, people are paying huge amounts of attention to this, especially those who were on his side but starting to rethink their position given the continued fallout of the Files. Many of them have instead focused on him as a strong no nonsense wartime leader, which was, I suspect, the plan.

Anyway, just a reminder that a few weeks ago he also promised to use his military to annex a European NATO nation if it didn’t surrender in full to him and cede itself to be annexed.

Given that he’s started two crazy wars this year already, it would be unwise not to take him seriously when he threatens us directly.

The point being, aside from everything else, Europe must not drop its guard against US aggression. They will eventually turn their military sights on us, and we must stand together.

Exactly, like my box of condoms! Knew they’d come in handy one day 😎

Don’t worry, I’m sure the USA will take responsibility for their actions and fully fund the environmental cleanup efforts, as well as apologise for having caused the disaster.

They are, after all, a noble people.

If it has a MicroSD slot, 3.5mm jack, a removable battery and costs no more than £300, I’m interested! <3

I’d rather it were made in Europe too, but I understand we can’t have everything, supply chains being what they are.

P.S Bonus points if it has an IR blaster, I use the one on my current phone quite a lot, surprisingly enough!

Gambling. Call it gambling.

Trying to whitewash it as “Prediction Markets” so it doesn’t sound scummy, addictive, damaging and horrible is really annoying.

There is a market for predicting outcomes of things and waging money against those predictions, yes. We call it Gambling.