Sad truth is having a nuke is a prerequisite to self determination in today’s world.

ART OF THE DEAL

Technically isn’t Highlander?

The only way for us to leave the middle east alone is if they have the bomb. The further they are away from possession of the nuke, the more likely we are to invade and generally fuck with them.

At this point they are wasting their money. US, China, and Russia each have enough nuclear weapons to destroy the earth. Having enough to destroy 1.1 earths is dumb.

Lol you know people can like move around. Also, it’s a Commuter City. Meaning kinda like NYC, during the day the number of people inside the city during the day is magnitudes grater than the cities offical population number. Grow up

Trump and conservatives do.

Trump and Republicans are trying to paint the protests as chaos and a race war as well.

We need to rethink the whole global economy. This “problem” is only an issue in a society that demands forever growth. And shocker alert, the only way to mitigate the short term effects of population decline is immigration!

Not like he pays attention during important international security meetings anyways. All they need to do is make the power point more than 3 slides long and more than 45 words.

Right. That’ll show them… Western leadership has never read a book on China have they? Him saying this all but ensures China is going to the opposite.

Not my point. We act so high and mighty while a literally rapist is in the white house and is talking about needing more babies for labor… We are speed larping the Handmaids Tale but the DM can only read at a fifth grade level.

Edit: we as a society seem to envy China but want to do it our way… The white male Christian way… That’s my point.

America is gearing up to put illegals, brown people, women who don’t want kids/women who believe in women’s right to choose, and the LGBTQ+ in slave labor camps.

Right! That move got him on the short list of possible popes. If the church actually made any remediation towards their victims they would be broke. And since they can’t make things right from their past actions they’ll never stop doing those acts. Organized religion will always lead to corruption and abuse.

Going? We’ve already arrived.

Because you have critical thinking skills

Uhhhhhh my point still stands and I was sorta right. Simply committing to ending a genicide lost votes. As well as just being too right on minimum wage, immigration, wealth redistribution, education, LGBTQ+, law enforcement reform, the military industrial complex, etc to pull populist appeal. And if the dems continue to ignore the working class issues they’ll lose the next election as well. (if there’s another election.)

In all fairness, the last 80 years of economic order has been shit for 99% of the population. So I don’t get too excited about experts that suggest going back to a less broken system as the answer. We need to rethink our whole economic systems outside of the current ideas.

3 out of 8 is a weird way to present a static. Kinda a red flag for spotting anyone trying to push a narrative. There’s more than enough data on this to present information in solid percentages or when dealing with population numbers of a society in the millions to billions people in base 10 numbers. 1:10, 1:100, 1:1000… 3 out of 8?! Like what was your sample size? 8?!

Remember, “just following orders” isn’t a defense when being tried for war crimes