And so the blame game has begun. And just like in 2016, Dems will point at everything except themselves. But that’s not how democracy works.

Ignoring all the assassinations and strikes by Israel, including the unprovoked bombing of the Iranian embassy in Damascus?

So you’re saying that the GDPR makes it illegal for individuals to use surveillance for self defense. That’s not true. Recital 50 specifically allows people to share data with law enforcement. And if you’re referring to putting up cameras, that’s actually very ineffective at reducing crime while it does expand mass surveillance.

A state-department funded propaganda outlet with a “controversies” Wikipedia section longer than any I’ve seen. Yet MBFC gives it the highest possible rating?

That’s an obvious lie. If you bothered to actually read the report, you can see on page 2 that the vast majority of shots are coming from Israel.

These scams are convincing enough that countless people fall for them. Blaming them individually is not going to bring us any closer to a solution. Better fraud detection and mitigation will.

The 2 percent of GDP target is imaginary. They made it up, in no small part because of lobbying from the defense industry. There is no reason for NATO to spend so much more than all other countries combined.

Stopping Russia should have been done through economic and diplomatic means. No amount of NATO bombs or tanks would have stopped the invasion. It only would have fueled the flames and given legitimacy to Russia’s claimed insecurity. Economic power is much stronger than military sabre rattling. The EU is founded on that exact principle and it’s the reason why it’s still together.

Just because the US government likes to funnel trillions to their military industrial complex instead of healthcare, doesn’t mean the rest of NATO has to do the same. Even without the US, NATO already spends more on defense than Russia and China combined, even before the invasion of Ukraine.

You know very well that’s not what I said. But please educate me why nuclear armageddon is good, actually.

It scares me that anyone could come to this conclusion. Are you so clueless about the unimaginable, unprecedented suffering and death that such a conflict would bring, or does your emotional attachment prevent any rational assessment? There is no reality where WW3 and “not necessarily a bad thing” belong in the same sentence.

It’s a good thing to punish territorial aggression, but there can be no doubt that WW3 is the worst outcome for everyone.

Would there be any evidence that could satisfy you, or are you just looking for a reason to dismiss this?

Deliberately taking the most negative misinterpretation of what was said. It almost feels like Reddit again.

No, they’re just piles of general waste. You know, the same stuff we throw in rivers or elect as president.

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The scenario you describe is so far from reality that it’s hard to take as something other than a creative writing exercise. Israel is not existentially threatened at all. The IDF is far better equipped than all the other countries in the region and Israel was just in the process of normalizing relations with some of its neighbors, including Saudi Arabia. All the military support from the USA isn’t saving anyone, it’s just funneled there to keep the military industrial complex happy and kill Palestinian children as a byproduct.

Soon hundreds of churches will claim to have a genuine fragment of his fidget spinner.

Ah yes, the unenlightened peasants cannot be trusted to form their own opinions. In fact, why let them vote at all?