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I would say China might actually be a better military power than Russia. No one would have believed just how fucking bad Russia's military crumbled away. I doubt China has the same issues (but I don't really know). Let's say their weapons are copied (copies of what? State of the art weapons systems?) - I'd guess that means they can do some serious damage eitherway, and probably better than what Russia has. They have nukes too.

Honestly it sounds like the management there lacked the vision to truly appreciate the gift you gave them.

They could harness such a tool for years to come, but it sounds like it was a small department anyway so who knows

They will blame some scapegoat for not doing enough or they will blame some scapegoat for doing it on purpose, they will never look at themselves and see the issue is them - same playbook we just watched happen.

And I guess we will just sit back and watch it happen, again. What is there to do? Try to teach these people science? Explain to them nicely herd immunity? They will never ever listen because that's just who they are, conspiracy dumb dumb conservatives who think they know better because they looked into it i.e. some grifter on TV told them so.

Now the obvious solution might be to have the grifters in right wing media actually tell the truth about the matter, but this entire episode was already made political and we will be stuck with the fallout for probably generations.

The big point you didn't mention is that conservatives will consume whatever made up message is thrown at them, apply zero critical thinking and take whatever they accept as an authority as never lying to them. Their lying leader is more of a symptom of this scourge thats plauging all us regular, compassionate people in society

Work to live vs live to work

Sounds like you've been surrounded by live to work people, the saddest most pathetic people in society (unless they own the actual business they are slaving for, that's a different dynamic)

I ask because the republicans viewed her as a threat from the time she was first lady (she wanted universal healthcare - which she almost got, but the rightwing defeated her by talking about a republican vision/plan for an individual mandate, which was basically obamacare, she talked about women's rights, she was pulling her husband to the left on some issues, etc). They knew she had the type of balls to run for president and the Hillary hate propaganda machine has been running strong for over 20+ years, because they were scared she would win. That's why I'm wondering what got you to hate her - what tactic of their hate machine do you think worked on you?

Edit - and I hope you understand conservatives would destroy the internet as it is, and they have been trying

So what was your hatred of Hillary based on out of curiosity?

I traveled through Europe this summer during the heatwave. The hostels were fucking saunas lol. As a traveler I was not staying at people's houses where they might have a decent ac system

Old buildings are hard to retrofit a modern central air AC system into, and Europe has a lot of old buildings. Also, from an American viewpoint, Europe is much higher in latitude that the USA, so it's like Canadian weather which is usually believed to be cooler. The USA is more of in line with middle eastern latitude

My problem is with people assuming she is wealthy and what does that even mean, it's such a relative term. She just looks like a nobody to me who did something bad and will pay the consequences, like most other people. I just don't understand why people are throwing her into the top 2% of this country based on this headline

No, that's very specific and you can put an exact number on someone who is in the top 2%

I'm referring to statements in this thread, where we don't know shit about this ladies finances, other than her dad has a "successful" business. People making assumptions about her wealth. What does being a "socialite" even mean? She likes going to art galleries and events? Spoiler alert - anyone can do that, don't assume these are things that cost money (other than what it costs to catch a train/cab/Uber to get there, and possibly price of admission, which might not even be a lot either).

She's going to prison for a few years, she clearly ain't got the resources many people here assume she does.

Reminds me of the most accurate definition of "what is wealthy" I ever heard.

PersonA: "What does being wealthy even mean?"

PersonB: "It usually means someone has more money than me"

The Grammer Nazi's are here to

Kinda gotta admit I'm surprised there is such diversity in this group, woulda thought it would be only old white dudes 😭😂

Would an ally be willing to go to prison for decades? A reasonable person would say of course not, but here we are. If someone is an ally of Trump's, they clearly left reality long ago

Boomers got you beat for sure, anyone that lived through the cold war.

I also suspect many people don't truly appreciate just how devastating a nuke is - in the sense that hearing "blah blah destruction, mushroom cloud" a hundred times over seems to numb people to the concept. I did a deep dive into nuclear blast videos some time ago, just watching how destructive they are really made me realize I was one of these people who knew, but didn't really "know"

No, I haven't seen them, I've been trying to stick to this fedaverse shit and not go back to reddit.

Post some sources/links brother

They wouldn't stop him. More than Half of them would probably help him do what he wants to do

Turns out they have always been pro tyranny as long it's their guy hurting the "correct" people...

When they vote for, and are ok with open arms for far right extreme shit, what should it be called?

I know some people might seem to be normal and perhaps moderate, but when you sit down with them and explain some of this shit to them, and they basically are ok with it because they feel the bad shit will only impact other people and not themselves (for example religious persecution - "I'm Christian so I'll be fine") what does one call that?