having a tantrum

Is reminding you of the questionable history of Apollo Global a tantrum?

What they lack in technology they make up for in brutality.

That’s how surveillance works

It absolutely is a national security issue!

Tell it to Volkswagen

That is until you consider Tik Tok

Wasn’t the big concern with TikTok entirely around how people were talking about the Palestine Genocide while US controlled social media had effectively blacked it out?

China is undoubtedly the worst followed by the US and Russia.

I doubt it. Russia doesn’t have the infrastructure or the manpower to compete with a modern surveillance state. And the US doesn’t operate alone, it’s part of the Five Eyes network, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Nevermind NISRF.

Part of what makes the US network horrifying is how many other countries are blithely along for the ride.

DON’T CRITICIZE CHINA

We put a machine with a radio in a room and the radio continued to try and function.

This is why we cannot import low priced, high quality foreign made electric engines.

if any other countries product was doing that, you’d have a fit

Why? It’s the same tired story, used to scare people who know nothing about communications technology. It’s all about making “Buy American” a national security issue.

If Brazil or Italy or even the dreaded Russia was being accused of this, why wouldn’t we stare sideways?

its doing the exact opposite of what was promised

I mean, remind me again why I’m trusting autos.yahoo.com on their reporting? Isn’t Yahoo a subsidiary of Apollo Global Management, a company with deep ties to the Epstein human trafficking cartel?

they do not connect to the internet. yet, they still attempt to connect to Chinese servers

Via?

Okay, but China Bad

They stole elections in Chile, Columbia, and El Salvador, just for starters.

But there was a huge uproar over Nicaragua cancelling elections when faced with alleged systemic manipulation and fraud. It’s just easier to believe a Leftist Government is Cheating than to acknowledge that the bourgeois in these states are stacking the decks.

they were just minding their own business

You think that’s what happened in 2003?

After the U.S. invasion, the Coalition Provisional Authority under Paul Bremer banned senior Ba’ath Party members from government jobs and dissolved the Iraqi Armed Forces.

This mass dislocation of soldiers became the root of opposition to US occupation and eventually the core of the ISIS movement.

Incidentally, also a group the United States clumsily expended in their efforts to harass Iraq’s neighbors.

That would be the 3rd unprovoked attack on a country by the president of peace

Way more than three.

Venezuela: In January 2026, U.S. forces bombed Caracas and captured President Nicolás Maduro after months of a naval buildup, oil tanker blockades, and anti-drug strikes in the Caribbean.

Iran: The U.S. carried out joint strikes with Israel (including Operation Midnight Hammer) targeting key nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan.

Yemen: The U.S. military expanded its air and naval campaign against Houthi forces in Yemen and the Red Sea to protect commercial shipping lanes.

Somalia: U.S. warplanes launched counterterrorism strikes against Islamic State (IS) operatives hiding in the Golis mountains.

Iraq and Syria: The military conducted airstrikes to hit ISIS positions and defend U.S. service members from hostile fire.

Nigeria: U.S. forces executed targeted air strikes against local Islamic State militant groups

Nice to see the ICC is still capable of prosecuting Africans, despite having so much trouble with everyone else

She’s a far-left eco-antifa something something Putin’s dick yadda yadda, which is close enough for Lemmy political rankings.

Americans had every chance to NOT VOTE

The conservatives scream at the liberals for ruining the country and forcing them to adopt Trump. The liberals scream at the indies for refusing to back their milquetoast pos candidate, because margins are thin and a handful of people can maybe sort-of flip a state. The indies scream at the non-voters for refusing to get off the bench and support someone outside the two-party system. The non-voters ignore it all, because there’s no real political engagement, just an endless cycle of hype and recrimination and betrayal every two years.

But, like, ya’ll got your eight years of Obama. And then you got your four years of Biden, even. Through all of that, Donald Trump was very nakedly and notoriously doing crimes. He was taking flights on the Lolita Express all the way back to the Clinton Era. Nobody investigated him. Nobody prosecuted him. Nobody refused his campaign donations.

And let’s not forget, Trump was a creature of the Clinton Campaign. He was a close personal friend of the Clintons, especially after Hillary took the NY Senate Seat. And he was the stalking horse intended to humiliate and dethrone Jeb Bush. Worked brilliantly!

What choice did lay Americans have in any of this shit? What were the alternatives? President Ted Cruz? Soviet Premier Jill Stein?

They could have just stayed home instead.

Lots of them did. Lots of them still do. Non-voter is still the largest voting denomination.

The USA deserve the fall of their empire

Absolutely agree. But Trump’s just the means toward that end. The US has deserved to fall for my entire life. And for a great many lifetimes before that.

As it stands, all we’re really suffering is a marginal diminishment of Superpower status. We’ll “fall” to the level of Japan or Germany or Brazil. Far less than we deserve.

People elect a representation of who they are.

They don’t, though. They elect representations of who the parties are. Sometimes. Other times, the representation fucks up in the middle of a debate and gets dragged off stage to be euthanized. Then his second-string understudy steps up and delivers some of the most lackluster campaigning since Mondale, effectively handing the election to a man who has spent the bulk of his political career underwater on favorables.

South Park chokes itself on its libertarian farts, but one thing they got right was the “Douche and Turd” metaphor. Genuine popular politicians - from Jesse Jackson to Bernie Sanders - never seem to make it to the final lap. Popular election winners never seem to have enough Electoral College votes to become President. Election counting systems never seem to function as advertised, forcing the SCOTUS to decide elections on the voters’ behalf.

This shit is rigged seven ways from Sunday. The voters are at the bottom of the list of people deserving of blame for their reps. As often as not, the candidates they produce are a reaction to even more loathem options on the primary ballot.

Americans love to tell one another that Muslims are barbaric child-raping uneducated rubes.

They really don’t like being reminded that they killed dozens of little girls whose very existence defied their racist caricatures of the Iranian people.

It’s incredible to see come to fruition, but we definitely had advanced prothetics speculated in the 1970s.

The Patch was hypothesized in 1988 and first documented in 1997, by a passing yacht racer. Research on the patch began in earnest in 2009.

Estimates on the size are still nebulous, as it continues to expand and shift. But I doubt anyone in the 1970s was predicting a patch of trash twice the size of Texas would appear in the Pacific Ocean over the next 50 years.