StJohnMcCrae

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[–] StJohnMcCrae@slrpnk.net 10 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

This is of course after they spent decades consolidating power, wealth and influence with those same IP laws, while snuffing out all smaller competitors.

The speed with which Americas tech CEOs have embraced this new oligarchic system is astounding. It's almost like that was the plan all along. Almost.

[–] StJohnMcCrae@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You're Goddamn right.

[–] StJohnMcCrae@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So the holiday that's coming up in a week... Is it 4/20, or 20/4?

[–] StJohnMcCrae@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A stalemate where China is locked into its territorial waters and has to rebuild its military while suffering a military blockade, medium and long range bombardment - while America retains freedom of navigation and inter-continental trade?

Doesn't sound like a stalemate to me. It sounds like a slow death. China is even more reliant on trade than we are and in a hot war, they lose the majority of their trading partners.

What does America lose?

[–] StJohnMcCrae@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

How so? China has a manpower advantage, but they don't have the capability to project that advantage beyond the mainland/local territorial waters. In what way would America not "come off well", when the enemy has no credible way of actually getting to us, and no way of supporting it's economy without international trade? Are they going to island hop from one American defensive position to the next, all the way across the Pacific, while also securing shipping lanes through the Indian ocean for the oil to make that possible?

Sounds like a bad time - for them.

[–] StJohnMcCrae@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago

Argentina and Spain are good examples. Peron and Franco organized ratlines for Nazis fleeing the Nuremberg trials.

[–] StJohnMcCrae@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah what you said - fire him out of a cannon.

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