SpaceCowboy

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The moon program in the 1960s was originally called Artemis and got renamed to Apollo for the same reasoning.

So it'll probably get renamed to Apollo 2.

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

Make something that'll EMP everyone's replicators before people start replicating nukes.

Yes the Max is the current status quo, but given the Min is almost certainly the destruction of the world, so status quo is probably the best we can hope for.

And maybe I'd make a sandwich if there's room for it along with the EMP.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Have fun living in a 1m^3^ house.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Damn these AIs are getting good at understanding exactly what I want.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Yes because Russia will build more tanks and other equipment in the next decade. Not a problem if Europe builds up too. But that will be a problem if Europe does nothing.

If Russia were an immediate threat, Europe would have no choice but to give Trump whatever he wants so the US will protect Europe. But with Russian forces being decimated by this war, Europe has the opportunity to build it's own arms industry to be able to produce it's own weapons to be able to counter Russia in a decade's time.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (11 children)

Drones don't hold ground, soldiers do. Soldiers that have tanks are going to be more effective than those without them.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What's bullshit is that you believe that people capable of the horrific things that happened on October 7 would never ever torture and kill people that threatened their power.

Hamas is a fascist organization, and this is how fascists roll.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Your comment might carry more weight if this thread wasn't full of people being outraged and claiming that anything that suggests Hamas aren't good guys must be "zionist propaganda".

You may not support Hamas, but maybe ask the people in this thread that are clearly pro-Hamas whether or not they consider themselves to be pro-Palestine.

The contents of this thread suggests there are a lot of people that are part of the pro-Palestine movement are indeed pro-Hamas. And there is little push-back within the pro-Palestine movement for people that take pro-Hamas and even anti-semitic stances. Anyone who does gets labelled a zionist and gets harassed and threatened.

Sure not everyone in the pro-Palestinian movement are pro-Hamas, but Hamas is a significant part of that movement. And when you have violent extremists in a movement, they are the ones that control the movement, not the pacifists. Because as we can see, the violent elements of a movement are willing to kill the pacifists if they speak against them.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I see America becoming more fascist every day because both the right and left have been conditioned by social media to hate democracy.

You may feel like you're better than those that support MAGA, but you really aren't. You're the ones falling for catchy slogans like "late stage capitalism" and "genocide Joe" which have "radicalized" you (another way of saying you've turned off your brain) to turn against democracy. You're just as narcissistic as Trump, just you want to be the one imposing your will onto others instead of Trump. Tankies claim to dislike MAGAs but are incapable of seeing they are the exact same kind of people.

By abandoning democracy, the Tankie crowd is just as complicit as the MAGAs in the suffering that will result from fascism. Just got scammed by a different of authoritarian grifters, but the result is the same. Nobody will respect a movement that did nothing while their country became an fascist shithole, and they certainly won't be making you the authoritarians in charge. The "late stage capitalism" narrative was a scam and you fell for it just as hard as MAGAs fell for Trump telling them he'd bring about a golden age for America.

There are no shortcuts for progress, and you're currently moving backwards because internet algorithms have made you willing to trade democracy for a fantasy golden age just like the MAGAs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Have you ever considered that the Democractic party isn't 100% aligned with your views because there's more people out there that disagree with you than agree with you? That's part of democracy, accepting that the will of the people may not be the same as what you want and accepting that you need to convince others of your views.

If most people don't agree with you, and you want to use violence to impose your will on others, then you're just an authoritarian. You aren't going to accomplish anything through violence when you're incapable of convincing anyone through peaceful means. Even if you get power through violence you'd just be another tyrant that people would need to destroy to be able to live in a society they want to live in.

Instead of romanticizing revolutions, maybe try studying the ones that have happened in history and apply some critical thinking. Wanting to end democracy to get your way makes you a fascist no matter how much you tankie rationalizations you try to paint it over with.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

They made the classic mistake of autocracies... they started believing their own propaganda.

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