Also good for people who want to flee the US before the bubble pops.

Alternative to the cone of shame?

Patriotism is just nationalism for people who haven’t grappled with the reality of patriotism. The core is still juxtaposing human worth and real estate.

sugar sandwiches

Fairy bread without butter?

Ok, so if someone is not American, you don’t care about their welfare?

If no, thats internationalism, the opposite of patriotism, if yes, you see why we have trouble distinguishing yall from fascists, right?

Oh shit thats Altay, I was over there. 99% chance I would have gotten mauled trying to pet the kitty, but 1% is still worth the risk.

Disney merch isn’t that uncommon.

They are the reason we are here. Instead of delivering what the democratic voters demanded in 2020, they funded ICE, diverted covid funds to police, appointed an AG who chose not to lock up Trump, and sent the police to kick the shit out of the politically activated college students who make up the dem’s ground game.

Least psychotic small business owner.

Which issues are you talking about? That it collects as much data as Insta and Snapchat?

But you don’t hear shit about those two, because 1. They’re owned by US companies who handed user data to the US from day 1 and 2. They were never used for organizing against the regime.

The issues I’m talking about is that the US was influencing the algorithm.

The US does not command Korea’s military

The US takes control at will during times of war, as determined by the US, and the exercises occur with the US in command. The difference between this and the US commanding SK forces all the time is not meaningful.

ice cream outside at 13F

Why do people do this? It doesn’t look enjoyable.

I will judge people who go drive in the snow and don’t even take a few minutes to do donuts in a parking lot to figure how the car behaves.

Google showed that they’d comply with the Chinese government to operate in the country years ago.

Google refused, as a consequence, are blocked by the Great Firewall. Microslop bent the knee and continues to operate until China gets an alternative going.

Harris could have won, when she first announced, and then picked the left candidate for VP, her popularity skyrocketed, then cratered as she embraced the policies that had just killed the Biden campaign.

A democrat cannot win on “we’re going to be Republicans, but more competent”.

Which is exactly what dems are planning when they fund ICE, but ask that the gestapo stop wearing masks.

Korea, Japan

The US commands Korea’s military. Japan literally sacrificed their own economy to prop up the US in the 80s. You can’t achieve sovereignty from the US by making deals with other vassals, because the US can simply lean on them if they don’t like it.

Europe

I don’t see Europe becoming more independent at this point given 30 years of liberalism hollowing out their industry and welfare state while supporting US foreign policy unconditionally.

No, negations for bananas usually goes “Suppress your workers enough that we get bananas for pennies or we will arm terrorists”.

Do you think it could have been bribery? Lockheed and Boeing have a history of doing so, both legally and illegally. That time a porn-star 9/11’d a yakuza’s kitchen was revenge for this.

one abusive superpower to another

So don’t put yourself into a situation where either can force abusive terms on you, not that China’s terms have been abusive, as evidenced by the development of countries who take chinese loans vs the eternal “developing” of countries which accept western “help”. I’m not even advocating entering China’s sphere, just having the threat available that the US can’t push any terms with no fear of consequences.

Chinese goods are cheap because market function and the profit motive was not of central concern

Correct, building the means of production was. Now they’ve done that, one unit of labor goes a lot further when you’re regularly setting up complex, automated assembly lines in days. If market function was the central concern, China would look like India or Africa; still exporting cheap resources and labor while your own people starve.

human rights, labour rights or environmental rights

Maybe 25 years ago when they had children working in machine presses and rivers that turned funny colors, it’s a different country now.

We could build nukes in a year

I don’t know if anyone’s ever set up plutonium extraction and refinement that quickly, even if you had design documents for the nuke itself.

Yes, except Russia instead of China.

To what extent it was the US sending other countries a message “Buy American or else” vs “We think you’ll let the radar systems send data on F-35s to Russia”, we don’t know, but if the second was a genuine concern, all the better for keeping F-35s away from your airspace.

IDK if it was the second tho, since the US flies F-35s near the North Korean border every spring, and if Russia wanted radar data, they’d just give one to the DPRK.