Do you not remember the Migrant overflow facilities they concentrated immigrants in under Biden, in greater numbers? Oh right, you went back to brunch once a D was doing the same shit we all agreed was bad when Trump was doing it.

You know how you could change it? By convincing the DNC they will 100% lose on the platform and actions that made them lose. Nothing else, going back and trying to tell millions of people that ICE will send people to concentration camps and deprive them of due process and give Israel unlimited logistical and diplomatic support as they commit a genocide, and they will say “…like theyre doing now?”

We had all that under Biden too, and Kamala promised to do what Trump had been doing, but more competently.

If you did have a time machine, how would you get everyone to vote?

If the police shoot it and it doesnt look like a Rottweiler or Doberman, its a pit bull.

Every time I try switching to Linux I run into some issue I just cant fix and go back to windows, currently pirated win10 IOT LTSC. Last time it was getting the USB ports to recognize an ESP32, the time before that graphics card drivers, the time before that it would either take ages to boot or not boot at all, the time before that software I couldnt get to run.

Each region on a dymaxion map is absolutely fine though, it’s just when you put it all together it becomes god awful.

A butterfly map is a better compromise if you need a world map.

There absolutely are better maps for specific purposes. Or do you think this map would be no better or worse for the purpose of teaching school children?

They are fulfilling their obligations under the convention on genocide by using every means at their disposal to stop a genocide. Or were you under the impression they were risking their lives and what little wealth they have to enforce a blockade because they hate boats and love the feeling of terror?

america deserved 911.

I mean we deserve far worse than 9/11, not that killing a few thousand civilians has the potential to move things in a positive direction, a lesson america still hasn’t learned.

Crimea is Russian territory.

Crimea has been administered by Russia for years now, like it or not, its currently Russian territory and is likely to remain so in the near to mid future. In the 20+ year term though, who knows what Russia will look like, you don’t sell 10 and 20Y bonds with 17% rates without consequences.

China’s takeover of Tibet

I have my criticisms of the CPC, but liberating Tibet from the theocratic, slave-owning Lamas is not one of them. Theres a reason when we dropped a bunch of gusanos into Tibet and gave them weapons, instead of sparking a rebellion, they were lynched by their former slaves.

Backs the “reeducation camps” China has for the Uyghurs.

It was better than earlier policies, somewhat successful, though it could have been done more competently seemed like the general consensus when I was in Urumqi earlier. Theres more nuance than I was able to parse with my limited knowlege and language, so I dont have any solid opinions here, but I am certain that knowledge is greater than someone who has never been there and gets their understanding from other people who have never been there.

Plays Houthi terrorist propaganda videos and backs Hezbollah.

They’ve been the defacto state for a decade now, they’re defending against a genocide, what exactly are you getting out of handringing over this?

Only liberals say this shit, and they mean “abandon any leftist projects and give unquestioning support for imperialism abroad and austerity at home”

It reminds me of nazis complaining the left calls everyone nazis; this isnt a general problem everyone has.

What’s wrong with Hasan? He seemed fine last I knew.

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Did something change? Last I knew they were insufferable libs

Liberals must believe the free market is socially just.

NATOpedia is a great resource if you go in with an assumption of a pro-western bias, but a source of truth lmao.

No, because the lowest-level voter typically has less direct knowledge of higher level politician or policy than the guy who has to work with them.

I don’t think tiered representation is bad if 1: every person’s vote is equal regardless of zip code 2: you have instant recall and can just have a representative replaced if they vote against their constituency wishes.

TikTok IS spying on you.

1. No more so than any other social media app, and as someone who lived in America at the time, China having my data was far less threatening than America having my data.

2. Tiktok duplicated their server infrastructure just for America so no American data would leave the country.

3. See the thing about boosting what the state department wanted boosted and censoring what they told them to censo. Tiktok isn’t Chinese propaganda, it’s American propaganda.

But it’s true that the evil CCP is no longer communist: just totalitarian crony capitalist.

The CPC’s tendency to favor the working class over capital suggests otherwise; they’ve raised a billion people out of poverty, while India is a net exporter of food but still has children dying of hunger-related diseases. When a baby formula factory in China killed or sickened a dozen babies due to greed and gross negligence, they took the executives out back and shot them, and opened the market up to foreign imports. When the same thing happened in the US, nobody went to jail and the US didn’t even approve EU imports of formula because that would hurt the profits of the company that had just murdered literal babies.

I would never call China a utopia, but you have to actually understand a thing if you want to make meaningful criticisms of it.

This is the natural progression.

They started hiring a bunch of natsec ghouls when Trump tried to ban them in 2020, and increased it under Biden when the dems jumped on the “tiktik is spying on you! Evil CCP is turning the youth into communists!” Bandwagon, and started algo boosting right-wing content under Trump pt II.

Well you can either look at the now public soviet archives to see what the government was saying to themselves, you know primary sources, and plenty of historians who cite those or you can accept what anti-communists with no primary sources and a weird tendency to rehabilitate nazi-collaborators say.