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The dispute is over whether it should be a military base of a foreign power

Every other carmaker will do the same if it works

most Christian dominations are rather chill nowadays and recognize each other

I mean… kinda. My Jewish father peaced out of a Methodist service that he decided was too antisemitic for his tastes. I’ve sat in Catholic mass where the priest was a very thinly veiled White Nationalist. Second Baptist, in Houston, only exists because too many rich oil money shits decided the First Baptist Church was too Woke.

We’re not at 30 Years War levels of interfaith schism. But there’s definitely bad blood, if you know where to look.

Mormonism literally extends the Bible with some American Exceptionalism shit.

Plenty of the American Churches do that. Hell, even the chill ones. My friends go to a Unitarians Church that do readings from the Declaration of Independence and Emancipation Proclaimation. I’ve been to churches that proudly hang the Stars and Stripes above the pews. One that hung the Stars and Bars, even.

That’s not unique to Mormonism.

Might as well list Catholicism under Judaism if sequels to holy scriptures that alter pretty much everythivg count as the same religion

Literally what “Judeo-Christian” implies

Mormonism quite literally does not fit within Christian theology

I have it on good authority that it is the only religion that TRULY fits within the Christian theology, and it’s all you other guys who are wrong.

Here’s an idea, let’s not have a list of “recognized” religions at all.

If we don’t have a list of legally recognized religions, we won’t be able to rationalize pogroms against the illegal ones.

Don’t you want to purge the county of Muslims? Don’t you want to send all the Jews to Israel? Don’t you want all those Communist Atheists rounded up? I hear a bunch of them work for the CCP.

Can’t believe the guy who mass markets the currency used for CSAM would be involved in something like this.

Remind me to avoid Hyundai like the plague. Every time one of these automation plans goes live, the quality of products falls off a cliff.

Sort of the joke with the meltdown over PS6 going all digital.

If they hadn’t, who would be left to retail them?

All this time and I hadn’t clocked that tankie was referencing the Tiananmen Square massacre.

It’s not. It’s referencing the Hungarian Revolt of '56.

I thought it was something related to think-tanks or something

Hahaha.

Well, in my heart of hearts, this is who it’s really talking about.

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I think it can be fixed

I mean, good luck. The Principle-Agent Problem is a classic of sociology, particularly with respect to business. If you can solve it, there’s a Nobel in Economics waiting for you.

Democracy is an attempt at aligning in the interests of the plurality principles with their government agencies. But there’s obviously a whole lot of flaws with democracy generally speaking, even before you get into the particulars of the American system.

I do think that the Lockean Social Contract, as the foundation for any governmental system, is a more interesting and more well-thought-out concept to explore than the mythology surrounding the American three-branch system. Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent does an excellent job of breaking down how a public body can be turned against its own interests. Zinn’s People’s History gives a ton of insight into the underbelly of the American political beast and how people respond to industrial and state oppression. State and Revolution does an excellent job of describing the role of the state in society and how it can best be dismantled.

But the endless debate around whether US Government works as described or intended really loses the forest of social economy for the ideological tent post trees. Fetishization of the US system only contributes to its rot and our own downfall.

“Fighting Communism” by handing a billion dollars to my cousin, who regularly combs the beach with a little metal detector looking for bits of communism along the shore.

“Fighting Communism” by giving Jack Jason and the Fartbox on AM Radio 1400 another million dollars to run ads about how cool President Calvin Coolidge was.

“Fighting Communism” by hiring a bunch of skin heads from San Bernadino to drive around in a sprinter van and shoot people out the window gangland style when they see any communism they don’t like.

“Fighting Communism” by giving the American owned branch of TikTok ten thousand new AI generated influencer accounts to do the “Why Hitler Should Have Just Sacked Leningrad rather than Sieging It” dance numbers.

“Fighting Communism” by redoing the DC reflecting pool another ten times.

So, the storyline on “every last Jedi” gets soft around the edges with all the EU material. Because everyone wants to write a book or do a game or whatever about “the OTHER other last Jedi”. And then you’ve got to explain Joruus C’baoth. And nobody wanted to see Ahsoka Tano die. And they resurrect Darth Maul at some point. And and and…

This means you get a bunch of hand-waving explanations for why this or that professionally trained force user doesn’t fall under Yoda’s strict categorization of “Jedi”, at the moment he says the thing to Luke Skywalker in the Third Movie. And, along the way, it carves out a bunch of caveats and exceptions for why Darth Vader didn’t quite get them all.

Frankly, I think it’s enough to say the galaxy is big and Tatooine is very remote and the Empire doesn’t have a ton to fear from a Jedi survivor who kept his head down for twenty years.

Can’t be worse than wearing a tan suit.

victims of another big tech company’s layoffs

The tech sector has been heavily inoculated against any kind of labor solidarity for my entire life. At some point, you can’t just be a victim. You’ve got to fight back. And I don’t know if the people getting sucked into and shat out of Silicon Valley year to year have the gumption to do it. Seems like they’ll line right back up at Facebook the moment Zuck wants to hire them again, under even worse terms, salaries, and working conditions than when they were kicked out.

Plenty of these clowns wanted a DeSantis or a Cruz and are more than happy to proclaim, “I only voted for Trump because Democrats Are Worse!”

It’s the mirror image of the neoliberal ghoul who wanted President Pete Buttigieg or President Michael Bloomberg, but swallowed their pride and dutifully lined up for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

When you look at glonal perception data of the US, it was favorable under Clinton, Obama, and Biden

YMMV

We had a big leap from Bush to Obama in '08/'09. But Obama burned off his confidence over two terms, particularly with regard to Climate Change. Clinton enjoyed a similar honeymoon his first year in office, before souring on the world stage with repeated military interventions and trade fights.

Trump, curiously, gained back a bunch of his approval between terms, especially in big O&G linked nations (Australia, Saudi Arabia, Canada), before fucking it all up with the tariff bid. And he gets sudden upswells of support among ex-pat communities - Cubans, Venezuelans, Iranians, Chinese dissidents - depending on whether he’s promising to do regime change against an American enemy leader.

Outside of the obvious partisan implications, the data shows that perception changes a lot and very quickly

One of the technical upsides of Trump’s brand of transactional politics is that international leaders (and their ultra-wealthy handlers) can often buy favorable treatment from Trump directly, even when the domestic residents don’t really care for him. So while we’ll see “The world hates Trump!” we’ll still end up with a cartel of international business leaders lobbying for him and doing pay-to-play politics in order to win concessions.

you can’t even use China as the positive comparison here

tankie

Yeah, the comparison is positive, but also anyone who disagrees with you wants you murdered by a tank.

FFS, can you people take any level of criticism?

Both governments suck

Which policies have the Chinese bureaucrats failed to deliver for their civilian population?