PumpkinSkink

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 19 hours ago

I really hope he's stupid enough to fail to understand that this is why most of the ruling class is smart enough to keep their mouth shut in public. He's the best advertisement of all time for "Billionaires do not deserve the wealth they have". Keep talking Musky.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

They'll clearly just send them to El Salvador regardless, so Canada will likely be spared.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Great powers rearming will not be good for anyone no matter what the context is around it. After Napoleon, European leaders were so afraid of war between great powers that they avoided it for 100 years. The moment they let their guard up we got WW1. The weapons do not make us safer. Don't think for a moment it can't happen again.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago (6 children)

If she's banned from running it will be the first instance of a western liberal country reacting appropriately to the resurgence of fascism. Good on France.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

We have to keep in mind that Europe needs to justify austerity for the citizens and rearmament for their militaries. I have no evidence of this, but I think it's an entierly sensible read that the warning from Germany is an overstatement with that intent in mind.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

If the choice is "be an acomplice to the destruction of an entier country and it's people" and "don't get a discount code for college", like, surely we can see that's not really a good excuse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

More risk to the US personnel or assets, and it would be a diplomatic and domestic incident if it came out that US troops or assets were operating in Yemen. It's much safer to bomb them from a plane.

Also there's the terror aspect where the US government presumably wants to cause chaos and fear explicitly to make continuing the blockade less appealing to both the Houthis and the people of Yemen.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You might be right, but I also submit that, when talking to Trump voters (older family members of me and my friends mostly), instead of "proving them wrong" about Trump, I've been redirecting the conversation toward "isn't all that bad stuff the fault of rich people?", and it has had a 100% success rate so far. They fucking hate the wealthy too. They ain't waving the red flag, but I bet a lot more of them would vote for someone just to screw over the rich than most people think.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean the "neoliberal world order" was just facism abroad.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Türkiye is gonna be pissed.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Was there an alternative word he should have used to describe himself?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah! We usually puppet the dictators! This is all wrong!

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