Awww. Don’t worry. Nobody is saying putin could ever be bad. He is everyone’s friend and the most heroic and ethical person in any possible conversation.

Now go back to sleep. The grown ups are talking

Any succession plan for a dictator is a mess. That is why they are very rarely “concrete” in the sense of being formally announced.

But a significant percentage of those who would have had a claim have likely agreed already. Allegedly this was a big effort last year.

Whether the chosen successor is any better is… very questionable. But, like with any regime change, we are either looking at ramped up atrocities or a reprieve for the populace as the successor keeps their head down for a few years.

Part of that has been that:

Under Biden, we were worried about actually going to war with russia and needing them ourselves. Under fuckface, we are worried about them being used against russia.

But a big part of it is that… patriot missiles fucking suck. So does the Iron Dome. Intercepting even “normal” velocity missiles is really hard. Let alone high velocity ones. It is just that israel has a lot of reason to shape propaganda to pretend they are insanely effective (for their own military industrial complex needs) when it is mostly about getting people into bunkers the second you think there is incoming fire. And then you just don’t really report on why so many construction contracts just hit the market.

And you see this when we deploy patriot missiles elsewhere. Off the top of my head, I want to say the official numbers put the Iron Dome at closer to 80% effectiveness. And patriot missiles… there have been engagements where that number might be closer to 0% than not. With recent use mostly juicing things up with aircraft and drones (MUCH easier targets).

And considering that Ukraine’s government benefits from reminding people how evil russia is? They aren’t going to be pretending the anti-missile tech is better than it is.

You have WAY too much faith in anti-missile defense systems.

Incorrect.

Only a subset of tariffs were ruled illegal. Mostly because of the method they were declared with.

Others are, as of now, perfectly legal and will remain in place. And expect many of these to just be declared in a different manner to maintain them.

Never trust a rapist.

And if he (so his oligarch handlers) want those trade agreements and treasuries back, hold the US accountable. Get concessions with very documented repercussions for when he inevitably tries to stop once he gets what he wants.

NATO without the US is dependent on each (simplifying) EU nation’s military.

The EU, like sane people, focused on their own economies and people. The US focused on having one of (if not THE) largest standing militaries on the planet.

And with war increasngly on the horizon? Most NATO nations aren’t going to want to deploy their troops until THEY are “safe”.

We’ve already seen it with the hemming and hawing over what to actually send Ukraine in terms of weaponry

The US attacking allied territory of the EU is basically the death of NATO, one way or another. WW3 is a hop and a skip from that.

I’ve not been following super closely for mental health reasons, but if it is just Denmark? We are looking at another Ukraine. Everyone is going to hem and haw and say “just give it to the pricks” to “avoid World War 3”. Whereas, if we start seeing other EU/NATO nations deploying troops to protect Greenland… there is a chance that SOMETHING remains and we don’t just have russia running over everyone else one by one.

And… I don’t give a fuck about a corporation’s best interests (at least, not one I don’t own significant stock in).

But also: Epic have the financial backing of god, hollywood, and fortnite behind them. Valve make more revenue off their cut of everyone else’s games than many small nations have in annual GDP.

GoG is a recently spun off loss leader for a large regional publisher. And you don’t add these kinds of capabilities without a LOT of corporate investment… or management who decides “AI Can Do It”

Ehhhhh.

I actually think the current model is what more stores should be doing. Have a solid web store/client with the ability to just download games without anything else. Provide hooks so that third parties (e.g. Heroic) can manage games for people.

Rather than assuming every single store needs to dedicate resources towards building out library management tools. Especially since EGS has shown that people will then just want social media on top of that.

I mean… yeah. Missiles can cause serious damage. This has been true since (ass pulling) the 1950s/1960s.

The reality has always been that it doesn’t actually take much to take out some VERY expensive equipment. Which is why combined arms have been the name of the game since folk were in armor on horseback.

Oh. It would go about 4.45x worse (ignoring Alaska). And russia can’t even properly protect their border and prevent Ukrainian strike teams from crossing it.

You are taking the position right now that America’s descent into fascism can be attributed to Muslim and Arab Americans in Dearborn who decided not to vote for Kamala after she promised to kill their brothers and sisters in Palestine and Lebanon with an extraordinarily “lethal military”. These people are the true fascists, according to you.

As opposed to trump who outright called Biden a “Palestinian” as an insult and accused other ethnic groups of “eating cats”?

But hey, sure. They hated Kamala because she was associated with Biden who “good Palestinian” aside, has always been a racist asshole across his entire political career.

Can you, or anyone else, say that they honestly expected trump to be better for the Palestinian people than Kamala and Biden (who wasn’t even running…)? Again, he outright called Biden a “Palestinian” as an insult.

So, at the VERY best, you are looking at two candidates who are equally horrible for one group. And then you look at anything else and realize trump is MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH worse for basically everyone else on top of that.

So… yeah. I do fucking blame the Arab Americans and anyone else who decided to sit out the election (and effectively give trump their votes). Because, at the very best, they were doing the same knee jerk “someone else” voting that got trump elected in 2016.

And, in the process, they actively harmed the people they claim to care about. Let alone everyone else.

And I’ll ignore the rest that mostly makes it clear you don’t give a fuck about Palestine and are just puppeting tankie talking points where “accelerationism is good because Reasons”

I’m… “optimistic” is not at all the right word considering how depressing all of this is.

But I’m Something that the US has no intentions of using military force against Canada (so just economic and political…). trump can demand whatever he wants but even the lowly colonels will soil themselves at the thought and find ways to refuse.

Because starting a war in The Middle East or Venezuela or even Europe is one thing. Pretty much nothing can actually hurt the continental US without fighting through a fleet of aircraft carriers and all our airbases.

Whereas Canada and Mexico share pretty massive borders with us. If they want to retaliate, they will.

Of course… its trump so he might very well just tell people on twitter to go throw pipe bombs across the border to get the war he wants.

Why do democrats need to earn your fucking vote against a rapist who led a violent insurrection against the us government? Because clearly trump already did. I mean, sure, he TOTALLY had a much better platform for how to minimize the harm to the Palestinian people. He’ll give them jobs in his hotel!

Really showing your ass there. What next. Is it Hilary Clinton’s fault you didn’t vote? Could she have done better to make you care about a rapist warmonger?

A few reasonAs the polar ice caps melt even more and war likely ramps up, having a very large base of operations in the North Atlantic has a lot of strategic value. That makes the generals like it.

The oligarchs like it because, as global warming intensifies, Greenland will likely be prime real estate. It is similar to why they want to annex Canada.

And putin wants it because it will likely kill NATO and the EU. Because Greenland is… weird. It is technically part of Denmark but also isn’t. It is an ally of the EU but it isn’t actually IN the EU. So it will be very easy for the EU to basically say “We don’t want a war. Whatever. Take one for the team Denmark” which will pretty much guarantee its death because no nation will trust any other nation to “have their back” in the event of a war.

I mean… there is a shitty golf course he loves a lot more than anything outside of his daughter’s snatch.

Yeah. I don’t give a shit.

trump was a known evil. This wasn’t 2016 with “ha ha ha, maybe the reality tv star will be fun”. He led a fucking violent insurrection and was campaigning on hate.

I don’t fucking care how sad folk were that they didn’t get the candidate they wanted. By not voting they effectively voted for trump and the entire fucking world is suffering for it.

Own up to it.

Its basically a web browser in one of the tabs. I assume it injects Heroic’s affiliate link.

Yeah, same. At first it was just Nioh 2 (and, fair. That game is such a technical mess that it is a miracle to run it under normal circumstances) but I’ve increasingly had crashes in Warframe which makes me REAL sad.

Was aware of the kernel bypass. Wasn’t aware that gamescope had an impact so will definitely try that. Thanks