TiredTiger

He should ask the last group of countries that strove to be neutral between the USA and a second large power how well that worked for them.

To describe the American justice system as "imperfect" is something of a massive understatement. Who is actually bound by the law? Any allowance of set monetary penalties shows that the laws exist to bind workers, not owners. If a $500 fine is enough to bankrupt a worker, but is pocket change for the owner, then can that really be called 'justice'?

And who is the law enforced against? People of color, and workers, predominantly. In some parts of the USA, a poor black man can wind up serving a life sentence for selling some marijuana, a crime most people would agree does not merit that punishment, while a rich white man can defraud millions of their life's savings and not serve a day in prison. That injustice is structural; it's not an accident.

And if a man commits no crime, that is no guarantee he will not be convicted of one, as we have seen time and time again. For-profit prisons have need of their enslaved workforce, and the system will provide them. As we're constantly saying on here, the purpose of a system is what it does, not what it claims to do.

Exactly this. This idea that any country could just will itself into communism is deeply anti-materialist. If that were possible, it would have been done already. The fact that these vibes-based "socialists" always reject actually existing socialist states makes me suspect that they're actually just racist.

They've already stopped exports of rare earths to US arms manufacturers. They're the largest producer of gallium by several orders of magnitude, if I remember correctly, so it won't be easy to find an alternative.

This is just FUD to herd people into areas where they're easier to track. Do they really think we've forgotten about Snowden? I also highly doubt any of these elected officials give a damn about privacy.

Anyone in upper management or in an executive role, cops, and HR personnel.

They're gearing up to shove President Newsom down our throats.

Even while I was still a clueless lib, when I saw insurance companies sponsoring the DNC, I knew we'd never get publicly-funded healthcare.

The same private industry that off-shored as much manufacturing as possible and pocketed the rest. If people can't see the contradictions of capitalism after the war with Iran, they're just not paying attention.

If the reduced usage isn't offset by the burning oilfields, at least.

The US isn't capable of anything approaching peer conflict, and these chucklefucks thought they were going to fight China. These are the true believers in American exceptionalism - America is so great it doesn't need things like supply lines or an industrial base!

NSPM-7 in action.