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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Paywalled. Unblocked version here

https://archive.ph/YOwRm

EDIT not unpaywalled, subscription only

What the fuck is the point of posting a link to an article no one can read ?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 hours ago

It's a more concise way of saying "wankers who buy a massive pickup they never use the bed of for anything other than a grocery bag to compensate for their small penis and try and pretend they're hard men"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

He'll be long dead before the US realises how badly he screwed them for Putain

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

I look forward to the day Trump, Thiel Musk and Vance get the same treatment

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

Well said that man ! I certainly agree with all your points and have said similar things but reading between the lines I suspect I was a little less, umm, forceful about it 😁 I've been banned from a few subreddits but not an outright ban yet

Yeah, those dirty snowflakes can't stand it when someone talks about them the way they talk about everyone else.

Absolutely true

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

There was another guy that said "Comrades, go back quietly to your places".....we shot him days later.

Who was that guy btw ? I've just done a search and nothing is coming up on ddg

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That's not actually correct. The missiles (the rocket part) are indeed leased from the US, and the maintenance every few years is thus done by them - which keeps the cost down. The warheads are the UKs.

A freshly serviced trident missile should be good for 5-7 years (although they currently get serviced more frequently).

If the UK falls out with the US then we have a number of years to either build our own replacement missile to put the warheads on or buy/lease a missile body off another country - France for example has several options in this space that could be easily adapted.

We are where we are because nobody could imagine the US going rogue like this, a failure of imagination for sure but our nukes are in fact in our control

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/heres-how-britains-nukes-are-operationally-independent/

https://www.chathamhouse.org/2025/03/uks-nuclear-deterrent-relies-us-support-there-are-no-other-easy-alternatives

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/no-america-doesnt-control-britains-nuclear-weapons/

Edit, tidied up the wording

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Surprisingly I didnt get banned (I have a similar post history), what did you do ? Any idea ?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In addition to fdroid (your other reply) you can uae aurora as an anonymous front end to play store.

You'll need to download it off fdroid or the git page

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

He doesn't need to. A false flag incident can be arranged

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Oh come on ! China has an authoritarian govt. Of course it can immediately respond. The EU is an alliance of 27 countries, it takes time to agree a mutual response, which everyone has to agree to, particularly when you have Putain's trojan horse in the middle of it disrupting everything.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No but it's the first step. As momentum builds more people are emboldened to protest, and the scope of the protests widen and get more effective.

This sort of statement is typically made by people who want to stall and prevent action. You see it all the time in various forums: "if this activity doesn't 100% fix everything immediately then there is no point in doing anything".

Unfortunately we don't live in a black and white world where a switch can be flipped from awful to wonderful (as if it was even possible for everyone to agree on that). You get there in small incremental steps with messy interactions and disagreements along the way.

Protests like this can lead to ongoing effective resistance like strikes, work to rules and etc. But you don't get someone to go from never having protested in their lives to manning a blockade of a govt building in one step.

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