That’s why it used to be not orange, obviously.

Ok now apply the same kind of criticism to the anti-liberal memes you’re consuming on the internet. Who do those benefit? Who benefits from dividing people?

Where does this stuff originate from? Some millionaire trust fund baby influencers on youtube or twitch? Why is this Hasan guy on the front page of a website owned by Jeff Bezos?

Keep on repeating the bullshit that Jeff Bezos wants you to about liberals being the real enemy. You’re soooo much smarter than everyone else LOL. You’re really “fighting the power” when you consume the content the billionaires want you to consume.

Yeah I’m not into that kind of thing. Rogue One was weird enough trying to be Saving Private Ryan while having the toys I played with as a kid on the screen. And I find it kinda find it boring when shows spell out what they’re about instead of having a deep subtext so I tend just get annoyed by plot holes since there’s nothing else to think about.

Isn’t all of Star Wars about fascism?

It’s just all emotion and no rational thought now. People just go into outrage mode when certain topics are mentioned.

Really it opens a channel to criticize ICE without needing to logon to X to do so. But that’s bad because preventing communication is good?

Of course I doubt ICE will care about criticism directed towards their account on bluesky. But that means things said on the internet don’t have much of an effect on things, which means it doesn’t matter whether they’re on bluesky (or any other forum).

Mostly it’s about some weird belief by some about controlling what is being said on the internet gains power. You’d think the events that have happened would have proven this wrong, but still people continue to be upset about things being said on the internet and want some power over those things.

Really words on the internet don’t matter as much as people think, and the idea of blocking unwanted information is annoying at best and can lead to ignorance. What matters is the horrible acts ICE is doing. We should want more light being shown on them, and welcome any potential channel of discussion.

Wanting to prevent discussion indicates you feel you’re in the wrong. ICE is indicating they want discussion, while those that are outraged by ICE being on bluesky are indicating they don’t want discussion on ICE. Why would anyone want to make is seem ICE is in the right while they’re in the wrong? It’s people not thinking and only reacting emotionally and handing ICE a W because they are raging instead of thinking.

The real news here is Juilan Assange still exists? People still think he’s relevant?

To me the whole thing is stupid.

They should just flat out tell Trump they’ll give him the stupid medal at the end of his term if he doesn’t bomb any more countries.

Kinda like how the US, UK, and the Soviet Union were not aligned before the 1940s?

Alignments can change when there’s a common enemy. Sure those alignment changes may be temporary but they can last long enough to see a country bombed flat and the leaders dead in a bunker.

You’re obsessed over ideology but that’s mostly irrelevant in geopolitics. If it’s in the best interests of a bunch of countries to work together to destroy the US economy, those countries will work together regardless of ideology or internal politics. In WWII the UK had a government of national unity with both the Labour and Conservative in a coalition. Perhaps the US is incapable of having political parties working together for the common good of the country, but not every country has the same weaknesses the US has.

And countries can always go back to being adversaries for bullshit ideological reasons after the enemy is destroyed like the US and Soviet Union did after WWII. So animosity between countries can be put aside temporarily.

If Trump thinks he can be an existential threat to a large number of countries in the world, it’s a FAFO situation.

Yup. Sadly the US has handed the 21st century to China without a fight.

I remember what some Hong Kong dude said to me once… “China is the future, and it’s a bleak future”.

And so long as the US is the wealthiest nation on Earth, what’s going to deter them?

I think the answer to your question is contained within the question. Americans are greedy people and a coordinated effort by China, Japan, and the UK could sink the US economy.

But I doubt that would even be necessary. Why kill someone intent on suicide? The US economy will likely collapse on it’s own if it continues on the path it’s on. I’m not talking about some recession like in 2008, I’m talking a collapse you’ve never experienced. Something similar to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Also if you were going down the military strike route, an aircraft carrier would be stupid. Trump has broadcast to the entire world what the achilles heal of the US is and it isn’t the aircraft carriers. It’s something that’s dug up from the ground and needs to be processed by refineries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law

I mean he is a generational talent at scamming people. Even more than that, I’d say he’s the most successful grifter of all time. Who else in all of history even compares to the level Trump has scammed the US?

John Blunt? Points for being a sword-maker named blunt that founded a joint stock company. But he just scammed the upper class in the UK. Trump has so much more thoroughly scammed the US, and even many non-Americans around the world.

Yet somehow this particular Anthony Perkins is more of a ghoul than the dead actor.

It’s super-woke to define woke.

I think it’s stupid for anyone to use it at this point. The word has lost all meaning.

Company changed it’s signage? It’s woke. Didn’t like a movie? It’s woke. If you disagree with my comment? Believe it or not… woke.

Yeah Mutually Assured Destruction is a helluva thing isn’t it?

Antisemitic types that want another holocaust might be butt-hurt over this, but most people understand that all nukes are bad, but Israel’s nukes aren’t somehow worse than those owned by Russia, USA, China, UK, France, North Korea, India, or Pakistan. Every one of those countries would nuke another country if they became an existential threat to them. But why are you upset over Israel having nukes and don’t worry at all about the other eight countries that have them?

Oh right, because they’re Jews.

Feel free to your rationalizations over why your feelings on this aren’t rooted in antisemitism below this comment.

I tend to downvote hateful content and disinformation. So is it “hatorade” to downvote hateful content and straight up lies?

Though more often I reply back to tell people to tell them to try not to be so hateful and then I get downvoted. I cry myself to sleep every night when that happens :P

While you’re judging people, someone else may be judging you. If you’re motivated by upvotes maybe consider going to reddit?

Yeah… source needed.

I thought it had more to do with the fact that there isn’t a ≠ key on most people’s keyboards.

Now if you want to flatten out everything, even the floor under the sea that is then also filled with what has been land before, then we do not even need to know how much the land is. The water will be above it, regardless the height of the land.

But wouldn’t moving the land from the high points increase the circumference of the solid part of the Earth and stretch the water around it a little bit, making the height of the water a little bit less?