Thanks, that explains it.

From people close the me, the ones that are MAGA/religious all were actually the most depraved ones when they were younger.

I don’t know if they think of they have to make it up for those years to still be able to get to heaven or something.

If that threat is even an option to bluff, then unfortunately NATO will likely be going away no matter what :(

I so hope I’m wrong.

I’m Polish, I played it a while ago, and might be forgetting details, but I don’t remember those chants being in Polish.

Nobody represents us, so we should represent ourselves: https://runforsomething.net/

What actually happened? I know nothing about it except the name. Why it is considered dead by others?

LOL I thought of Witcher too.

Ryan is good explaining how military operates, how weapon works, but this is really about predicting what trump will do, and frankly this is much harder to do.

We talk about common sense, it is a non brainier, as helping Ukraine stop Russia is the most beneficial thing for the US and the West. As he pointed out, Ukraine losing likely will bring war to the rest of the Europe and Taiwan, but trump might not care.

What worries me is that so far trump never stood up against putin, he insulted many world leaders, but never did that to putin.

The reason likely is that he was almost bankrupt and putin help him get on his feet, he has a huge debt to him.

I also link to Anders Puck Nielsen https://youtu.be/gOwjmKMmkV4 he is generally more familiar with strategy and so far was on point in his comments (I also believe Ryan is watching him too). Again, we are trying to predict what trump will do, which is not as easy and his decisions seem to be more about what gives him immediate benefit.

The absolute worst scenario that could happen is that the NATO collapses. I hope that won’t happen.

The argument was that Russia has no chance against Poland, because how it is doing on Ukraine.

But it won’t be Russia vs Poland it will be Russia + Ukraine + (whatever else putin gets on the way).

He also won’t have any problem sending Ukrainians to die fighting with Poles.

Foreign policy is important for too as it also affects US domestically.

Having said that, US president can do very little to stop the conflict if fascist like Netanyahu doesn’t want to cooperate.

You’re forgetting that if Russia takes Ukraine it can use their resources to continue fighting.

Nazis were weak when they attacked Czechoslovakia and then Poland.

I read recently “On Freedom” by Timothy Snyder and he mentions that. Billionaires are sucking or wealth and when we suffer, we are told that this is temporary and toward a greater good (which never comes).

Sadly it is successful and a lot of Americans believe that.

It opened my eyes seeing how we are set up to fight each other (blaming minorities) while oligarchs are making our lives more miserable by hoarding country’s wealth.

I mean it’s early to tell, but so far it is reported that those were precise attacks towards military targets. So if that’s true, that would explain that attitude from ordinary Iranians.

Is there a way to switch UI without switching the server. I do not like the web UI, I got used to old Reddit + RES.

What is “No need YT ads” and the “Ctrl+P”?

Isn’t Ghostery made by an ads company?

The problem is that those Reaganomics affect younger much worse than older. He probably still did fine and that’s why he didn’t understand what others are complaining.

It’s the mentality that billionaires use to impose on us. Yes, our life sucks, but it is not bad, because there are people for whom or sucks much more.

I am currently reading book called On Freedom by Prof. Timothy Snyder and is really eye opening, how we are being manipulated to hurt our and our children’s future. I think everyone should read it.

Twitter is for narcissists, and when they say Mastodon is not as good as twitter they really mean that there’s not as many people watching them as on Twitter. So Bluesky gaining 500,000 new accounts could help in making it “better”.

Yeah I was surprised about it. That tracking parameter is one that I notice the most and almost everyone includes it. It made me think that feature is either broken, or in misunderstanding what it supposed to do.