Unapologetic American Maximalist. Anti-Communist, Pro-US Constitution. Stephen Kotkin admirer.
The Republic will survive Trump.
Thomas Paine is my hero.
@F_viibtmh@matrix07012@The_Davos_Man This one is such a no brainer and reputation of Trump it is hard to see it not happening, despite democratic fecklessness π€·π½ββοΈ
@matrix07012@The_Davos_Man USAID was cheap soft power and influence for America.
Ceding that space to our enemies is shortsighted and stupid.
Plus, despite some failings it did some real good!
The next admin will resurrect it. It is a no brainer.
@kel93934 You can make the case the death toll from communism in the USSR was higher than Nazism, but most deaths were from famine caused by collectivizing agriculture. The mass deaths under Mao were also largely from repeating this mistake
The mass murder of the Nazis surpassed both.
@avidseries Itβs a foregone conclusion he will exit the scene soon. Itβs a matter of time though naturally a boon for humanity.
The collapse of the CPC however would be a world-historic event, as would the fall of the regime in Iran.
@georgePilled@PhilWMagness I have, actually. I have a couple of publications and I won a departmental prize for my thesis at a top 50 university.
Calling it abstruse was polite; Useless nonsense is probably more appropriate
@jason_finazzo@sharp_stick_eye@sunnyright Neither side does
But if Hamas and the Palestinians had the capacity Israel does, they would have killed all of the Jews there.
Israel on the other hand has done no such thing in relation for Hamasβ attempt to start a regional conflict quite literally aimed at Jewish genocide
@jason_finazzo@sharp_stick_eye@sunnyright It is true.
Even Hamas now admits itβs about 70k mostly male casualties.
Genocide is wiping out an entire people not destroy buildings.
This will be the only genocide ever where the population increases within a year or two of the supposed genocide.
Hamas is genocidal
@jason_finazzo@sharp_stick_eye@sunnyright Half of the worldβs Jews were systematically murdered in the holocaust. It took 75 years to reach the pre holocaust levels. Something like 3% of Gazaβs were killed in the high side. Their pop has increased hugely over the past 20 years.
Hamas openly wants to genocide the Jews!
@jason_finazzo@sharp_stick_eye@sunnyright Nonsense.
The war in Gaza is not mechanized slaughter of millions based on race.
70k died per Hamas and almost all were combat age men. That is urban warfare
Horrific but it is nothing like the holocaust or any of the other genocides that are debased by such comparisons.