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- Comment on ICE arrested a Navajo man and dismissed all the proof he presented of his identity, claiming he faked it and that they'd "get his family next". 20 hours ago:
There aren’t any reservations in China. So… But in all seriousness if anyone is interested in the history of native conflicts with the US government, Blood Struggle is a pretty good starting point. Several tribes fought the US military to a standstill and occupy their ancestral lands (or at least a significant portion of them). Navajo Nation is larger than the Netherlands.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 20 hours ago:
Half of all people are below average, and that’s pretty fucking dumb. But apparently, smart enough to have dominated the rest of the world for a hundred years so…
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 20 hours ago:
Well, let’s give it a shot then I guess.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 20 hours ago:
Arguably caused by psyops and political capture by China and Russia but. Technically caused by US citizens, albeit traitors.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 20 hours ago:
It’s not even as good when everyone is just scraping by. If you’ve never been to a place that’s truly thriving it’s kind of amazing. Rising tides lift all boats and tsunamis don’t care about bank balances.
- Comment on Are there any quick ways I can study, read and process socialist/communist theory? 3 days ago:
Try reading something less technical to get your brain in shape. Ursula K Leguins The Dispossessed is a pretty great read and it draws on a lot of the more academic literature.
- Comment on Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First 1 week ago:
Pretty easy to take video on an old phone without a SIM, or with a cheapo burner sim.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 weeks ago:
The US is the ugly violent older brother’s friend for the EU. They are loving this. Venezuela is one of the countries that Russia has propped up for ages. We’re beating up the bully’s friends, and reminding the bully that we can do what they can’t.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 weeks ago:
Hot take, this was a way better outcome than carpet bombing Baghdad had. Objectively bad of course, but maybe the US military has actually learned something. I’d argue that Trump is a figurehead for the MIC, and it is telling that they have behaved with relative restraint (relative to Gaza and Ukraine for instance). If he was calling the shots for real how would this have gone down? It’s been obvious since the Nobel prizes that there was a western consensus on regime change in Venezuela. It’s directly related to Ukraine. This is a demonstration that the US military is far more capable than Russia’s, and a message directly to Putin and simultaneously any sub-peer nation considering alignment with Russia or China.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 weeks ago:
Not a boycott of products, a divestment from the dollar and the US stock market. Sell all treasury bonds. It’s possible.
- Comment on 'A den of bandits': Rwanda closes thousands of evangelical churches 3 weeks ago:
Don’t ban them, but tax them like the businesses they are.
- Comment on 102% 4 weeks ago:
🌎👨🚀🔫👨🚀
- Comment on Do we have No Man's Sky fans here? 4 weeks ago:
Finding nice fishing spots is fun.
- Comment on If WW3 breaks out, what countries are going to be on which side? 5 weeks ago:
China would go to war to protect their energy supply. If the US and Russia+Saudi team up its game on. Looks what’s happening now…
- Comment on Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It 5 weeks ago:
Sounds nice tho
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 5 weeks ago:
Fungible, portable, valuable. Gold isn’t a scam, as far as the concept of wealth and hierarchy isn’t a scam.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 1 month ago:
If it crashes the hardware will suddenly be dirt cheap though so. There’s that.
- Comment on Honestly wtf? 1 month ago:
They have a higher velocity, you know.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
You’d have a moral obligation to rip the bandaid off.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 1 month ago:
The fact that it’s mind-blowing to him is unimpressive to me so. Potato tomato.
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 2 months ago:
Should go to trade school instead.
- Comment on Air Tag Alternative 2 months ago:
Apparently launching your own satellite is getting more and more affordable.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 4 months ago:
Then all the software nerds become hardware nerds, and the cycle continues.
- Comment on That one Pokémon 4 months ago:
Octopus.
- Comment on WATER! 4 months ago:
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 4 months ago:
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