You're censoring regular words now, no longer just the curse words that might offend a puritanical corporation or your aging parents? smh
this post was submitted on 05 May 2026
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Pedophile is a filtered word on a lot of social media. They are just making it so their meme can meme the most.
If your platform blocks talking about current events, you need a better platform.
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We're a surprisingly weak nation, regardless of all the big boom booms we have.
"Appear weak when you are strong and strong when you are weak" - Sun Tzu
Both Russia and the US were thought to have very powerful military capability. Both made a strategic mistake when they decided to show everyone their hands.
I wouldn't say either nation is weak, but the power of deterrence was actually bigger than either one's true military power. Deterrence can be even better at protecting your people than actual military power. But you don't win offensive wars with deterrence.
Now, nobody's going to attack Russia or the US, so they can afford the loss in deterrence... But at least for the US, the middle eastern allies are now vulnerable to attack (particularly from Iran) and if China's willing to show their true hand, they might try Taiwan now. Though I imagine that perhaps China's leadership is wiser and won't repeat Putin's and Trump's mistakes. After all, their military might also be less powerful than we all think. Because it's very beneficial to have everyone think you can't be fucked with.
At the end of the day, it's hard to make efficient use of a large military. And the people protecting their own homeland have an advantage in morale. Invading a moderately weaker country is pretty stupid. Invading a moderately weaker country halfway across the world is even more stupid. To have an "easy" time conquering another nation, the power balance needs to be HEAVILY in your favor because of all the disadvantages of being the invading party.
TL;DR: Trump and Putin are idiots who gave away a huge advantage their countries had by showing how they are weaker than previously thought.
if China’s willing to show their true hand, they might try Taiwan now.
Xi is too busy getting rid of generals to invade Taiwan.
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What if we all grouped up, and then decided to clean him and his cronies out of the government?
Too sensible?
BUT DANCING WITH THE STARS IS ON LATER AND I DON'T WANT TO MISS IT!!!!!!
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Its almost like we waste 40% of all oil just to ship it from the holes we dig to the pumps or something
But surely we should shun the free energy we get from the sky
Definitely, it's not like there's terawatts of power beaming down at the planet every second
Of course not, that would clearly kill us
5? Prices are almost at $7 in some places
I know it's what you get used to but that sounds still absurdly low when compared to your [country's] median disposable income. I assume the UK the real cost is twice that.
Oh I'm sure. But you have to remember what the USA is, in terms of how to l capitalist it is and it all adds up. Plus, destabilizing a "stable" country by doubling such a fundamental cost as fuel as an indicator is so much more.
Putting it like the USA is whining and playing trauma Olympics on a global scale ain't great, either. All that does is play into normalization of some pretty fucked up stuff that we should actually be more unified against and have solidarity around everything that's happening right now.
Gas prices are bad, yeah, but the deeper discussion around it isn't simple at all, and gas prices themselves aren't really the big issue.
It's a really good point. Sorry, I wasn't trying to imply people are whining but I can understand in the current environment why it would come across like this.
I also didn't realise something so critical has doubled, we historically have relatively cheap food in the UK and I can only imagine the uproar if that doubled over a short period.
Gotcha gotcha. Yeah I think of it as like systemic problems in society. In some ways, the costs of certain things going up is acceptable or even good (no more slave labor), but then you find out that the money isn't actually going to workers, but instead CEOs and stockholder investment firms, leeching money and power from society, slowly sucking it dry.
Every action that benefits them more than the rest of civilization is another step closer to collapse.
Gas gouging, billionaire deals behind closed doors, extreme consolidation of power, another day without a guillotine... Is another day society gets weaker and frustrated and closer to conflict.
p3do sounds like a Star Wars character.
P3do, stop redacting the Epstein files and shut down all trash compactors on detention level!
Five dollars a gallon?! My area is over SEVEN dollars a gallon.
~$10.40/gal in the Nordics (diesel). So that's roughly $0.25 per mile in my case.
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Spell it out or STFU
and like also because of all the oil industry subsidies with your tax dollars
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