Phenomenal point, thank you for taking the time to explain.

Expand on that

I’d like to think they’d be more accommodating.

“Ahhh Mr. Albatross, we’ve seen your social media traffic and we’ve been expecting you! In anticipation of your arrival, we’ve prepared some lovely poop, if you would just step this way…”

I honestly feel safer with my data in a foreign authorities hands than domestic.

China can’t do dick to me nor should they want to. I’m just a lil guy! The US does nasty things to its citizens on the reg, I don’t wanna be caught up in that!

It has been right add the top of the page, it looks like they changed it.

Holy shit that image… we need to destroy AI I’m sick of this absolute garbage polluting the web

It’s a good reply even if it helps but one person

This user seems to be going around and reposting old articles and posts in new communities, for some reason.

I can’t believe someone taught him how to use the phrase “paper tiger”.

I think “teleporting to Waffle House” is a new favorite euphemism for getting totally shitfaced

What a stupid world we’ve allowed to be concocted.

Choke!

Did they do this to ask Iran to allow them passage through the Strait of Hormuz? I think this was one of the conditions that was offered to Arab and European countries.

That’s the thing, you don’t ever have to actually launch the dang nuke. The goal is that deterrent, not annihilation.

For whatever it’s worth, I think your questions make sense. MAD is kind of madness, but its how the world has worked since the invention of the atom bomb. And anyway, I can’t see or cast downvotes on my instance.

The consequences of having nukes?

MAD dictates that the US doesn’t fuck with nuclear-armed nations. That’s the consequence. You don’t need to actually launch it, just be able to.

Countries with nuclear weapons aren’t subjected to as much US imperialism because of the threat of retaliation.

Because no matter who wins, the DNC does the same shit. They continue the same RNC policies and programs they vocally decried during the previous term, but quieter, they expand US surveillance, military budget and expand the tools of oppression, they do fuck all to truly address the material conditions of the working class and we just get to watch the rich get wildly richer.

The DNC just… doesn’t help people. They just act as a way to lower the temperature away from revolutionary acts, but food, housing and medicine just keep getting more expensive, wages are utterly detached from productivity, they don’t get money outta politics and they won’t stand up to protect the rights of Americans.

They know damn well what candidates and policies are popular and they continuously pander to the donors instead of the hard working people that make this country turn.

They concede power to fascists again and again and make nothing more than milquetoast “resistance” to it and even exacerbate it in plenty of examples.

Biden was an utter failure. He was all talk. He didn’t act to enshrine Roe v. Wade into law, he slept on his promises about minimum wage, he could only give modicum to support to union workers fighting for better working conditions and he did nothing to stop the rise of fascism in his country.

Call me crazy but I think it’s on the DNC to run candidates with policies people like moreso than it’s the people should be demanded to vote for whoever they run. The latter policy has done nothing to help the working class American in the past 30 years, at least, it’s no shock they’re tired of it.

I think people would trust the DNC again if they started doing things to help people instead of just function as a halt to leftward politcal progress when it’s their turn.

As it stands, I really don’t care what they say they stand for or do, I don’t really trust the DNC to do much of anything other than maintain the status quo and quietly expand the RNCs horrors.

Not that my vote even matters in our wildly broken election systems. The vote always goes to the DNC candidate and has done so for nearly four decades.

There’s really just no way to actually vote for supporting the worker in the US. Hoping for change from Congress or the President is a fools gambit.

I don’t think you understand addiction and it’s causes if you think it can be mitigated by education alone.

The issue with substance abuse isn’t that people don’t know that nicotine, alcohol or methamphetamine is wildly addictive.

Eyyy we don’t need resources shortages we can make our own!