We haven’t discovered that touch is an illusion, we’ve learned what touch is.
“The interaction of fields doesn’t count as touching” is parochial prejudice.
@NightSkyNow Considering the current congressional body likely contains a significant overlap with the kind of people who will believe anything…. Maybe they don’t think we’re all stupid? Maybe they’re just the stupid ones?
@elonmusk Supply and demand. You always cry about birth rates but I’m pretty sure the fastest way to increase the supply of goods for individuals on a universal basis would be to eliminate the majority of them. And I’m pretty sure you know that.
Since the Cold War, successive US governments have gaslit Americans into thinking Europeans get free healthcare, free education and decent parental leave, while Americans don’t, because the US pays for Europe’s defence.
It’s a myth that also helps them justify 750+ US bases worldwide.
Europe spends $550bn a year on defence, more than China and Russia combined. Even without the US, Europe is the most heavily defended continent on Earth.
US bases in Europe cost approx 3.5% of the US annual defence budget and deliver outsized strategic power.
That isn’t charity. It’s central to US strategy.
@SoveyX I promise you can provide value for yourself without producing value for capital interests. Don’t worry they’ll get theirs from you one way or another. Might as well be comfortable instead of suffering to pay bills monthly. Spoken like someone who hasn’t had that experience.
This is a perfect encapsulation of the asymmetrical coverage of Biden vs Trump. Biden’s pardons were covered as world-ending events that would tarnish Democrats for decades to come, while trump’s long list of controversial pardons elicit no reaction from the media whatsoever.
« For having stopped 8 wars »
▪️Biden administration, 4 years, 500 airstrikes in 5 countries.
▪️Trump second term, 1 year, 600 airstrikes in 7 countries, including 3 new.
▪️Syria 🇸🇾
▪️Irak 🇮🇶
▪️Yemen 🇾🇪
▪️Somalia 🇸🇴
▪️Iran 🇮🇷
▪️Venezuela 🇻🇪
▪️Nigeria 🇳🇬
Threatened to invade :
▪️Greenland 🇬🇱🇩🇰
▪️Canada 🇨🇦
▪️Mexico 🇲🇽
▪️Cuba 🇨🇺
▪️Panama 🇵🇦
▪️Colombia 🇨🇴
▪️Venezuela 🇻🇪
Put high tariffs on :
▪️Everyone, even closest allies
Are you sure he is okay ?
Your lack of self-awareness is staggering. You promised a renewed and more independent Congress when you were a tea party constitutionalist, and instead you've been Pres. Trump's key lackey in the Senate and have ushered in an era of Congressional weakness and ineptitude.
@teameffujoe Much as it might feel a certain way to you, nobody has come to America and changed the very foundation of our society and government. Unless you count MAGA dismantling democracy in favor of mass scale corruption and self serving sociopolitical control.
Putting aside the fact that I was castigating Biden for his deteriorating mental abilities since the Afghanistan withdrawal, think about the argument at work here: Because Joe Biden's cabinet left him in the Oval Office as he sunk deeper into senility, Trump's cabinet MUST keep him in the Oval Office as he loses his marbles.
What kind of logic is that? Doesn't anyone care about, you know, the actual state of the country?
Hi. Nuclear command-and-control wonk here.
As the [...checks notes...] VERY NEXT POST notes, the US already has an early-warning radar in Greenland and is already allowed to build additional radars.