I’d imagine that’s how all black market spies work these days. Sell product and buy protection while making everyone complicit. What is CIA to do - they could not work with him “ends justifies the means” and “our guy’s there need protection” basically means that everyone’s in it to some extent at least.

Any social influencers of this level obviously have indirect power and anyone who claims otherwise is delusional.

That being said, I do think it’s possible that ceremonial representation can be beneficial. I’d love states start electing purely ceremonial roles more as it’s a really powerful social tool for uniting people and can be done right.

How do these people feel about paying big chunk of their GDP (10% in Kosovo’s example) to appease a foreign king? Crazy.

Auto upload to cloud that someone bas access to. Even Google photos with shared partners will automatically download your partners auto uploaded videos and photos. This should be more than enough until nazis take full control.

All of these grifters tend to be so incredibly ugly which kinda make sense thst ugly people in power would be in so much hurt that they lash out and burn the world with them. It’s basically like incels

Same way a single benevolent godlike dictator could be incredibly efficient and good thing but completely unrealistic and would never happen and whenever we attempt this we get millions of people killed and set humanity back by decades. It would be such an easy fix though - we all low key want it.

Some strategies simply don’t work due to lack of self correcting and self correcting a few keys that control the world is very hard. This is exactly what’s happening today - social media gave us the power to express the need for self correcting some aspects of our society and people holding the keys have decided to not allow this. Yet again leading to conflicts that have millions of people killed and set us back by decades.

Exactly what I meant - each billionaire is our collective investment. We invest 99% of our wealth into a few billionaire projects which might trickle down to other smaller projects but trickle down is mostly a myth we can’t accurately represent and control with our current tooling.

Yeah yeah “both sides are the same” yada yada - keep doing nothing in your eternal defeatism and preferably keep to yourself rather than spread this disease.

So tired of this tbh - I just don’t understand how anyone thinks wealth consolidation to few could be a good thing.

Even if you ignore ethics and assume the billionaires are benevolent - it’s just a bad investment to invest majority of resources to a small number of investments. Does any successful large project hold 99% of their investments in few projects? It’s absurd.

It makes absolutely zero sense no matter how you look at it unless you’re truly full in on delusion that benevolent dictators exist and are impossible to corrupt or overtake.

Justice intervention? The country is being run by a magic holy priest that says protesters are enemy if the god and deserve death sentence. You have to be functionally brain dead or evil to side with that.

You know that they’re just salivating over possible reality of doing this themselves. These people have no ethics or morals.

Funny how all of China bots are silent on China’s support of Iran whenever news like this breaks.

Powered by China and Russia btw

Lmao literally while supporting Russia for doing the exact same thing but like a billion times worse.

This never happened in US history and I don’t think americans have the spine to do anything even remotely close to this.

Thailand is incredibly welcoming and my favorite place on earth. You’ll have no issues with your transition here though you need to make real money abroad or have good set of skills (like certified teaching) to get local employment.

Thailand visa is very easy. You can get elite visa which is like 12k usd for 5 years.

Tbh I think Japan is mostly doing fine and China has much more time given in entered the issue with tech that is much more mature.

Which is really weird give how decentralized and hard to control the world is right now. This empire strategy is a failing one for everyone involved.

Except that those with nukes will never allow any country to develop one.

Taiwan tried to in the 80s and got immediately shut down when a scientist defected to the US and revealed the nuke facilities and that’s shut down by allies. And look at them now on the brink of being invaded - bet the scientists feels real fucking stupid.

Eventually it seems like developing nukes will be easy enough i secret that everyone will have them. Apparently it would take many countries like Japan only a year or so to develop nukes in an emergecy so I imagine in 20 years that number will be few months for most countries.