Hemingways_Shotgun @ Adderbox76 @lemmy.ca

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Is that even a question?

I doubt they even know, or care, where he is anymore.

Once they got him off that plane and into that prison, they stopped keeping track.

I'm going to be pedantic here, because it's sometimes my favourite thing to be. But "Vegan Meat" is an oxymoron.

Meat is specifically defined as the flesh or edible parts of animals.

These aren't Vegan Meat brands, they're Meat Substitute brands.

“Absolute truth no matter what” people are freakin exhausting.

They also don't exist outside of their own inflated egos.

It's almost comically easy to catch one of these "I always tell the truth" people in their hypocrisy.

Yes.

Anyone who says otherwise is (ironically) lying.

That's why privacy laws are so important and why the old "If you haven't done anything wrong, you shouldn't care about your data being collected by literally everyone" argument is bullshit. Because it's not about breaking the law, or lying about some big secret. It's about presenting to the world the you that you want to present to the world.

The most basic fundamental right is to be seen as we want to be seen.

Everyone...and I mean EVERYONE...has something that, if it were public, would change the way that others look at them. Maybe for the good, maybe for the worse. It doesn't matter. It could be that you're into midget porn. It could be that you anonymously donate a quarter of your paycheque to charity and you want it to remain anonymous for whatever reason. The point is, THAT IS YOUR RIGHT to keep that to yourself.

We get to show the world who we want them to see, either good or bad. And we all do it.

So yes, to circle back around. Anyone who says that they don't actively have any lies is lying.

The Donald Trump effect seems to be the opposite of what Far Right leaders were hoping for.

Every country other than the U.S has seen what Trump is doing and decided "fuck that...let's nip this shit in the bud before it can spread."

• Canada's Pollievre has tanked in popularity.
• France's LePen guilty of embezzlement.
• Argentina's Meili blocked by the supreme court.
• Far right, hateful politicians in Germany potentially barred from running for office.
• Connor Macgregor in Ireland being told to fuck off.
• Nigel Farage being treated like slightly more of am embarrasement than he usually is.

Around the world people look at the United States and say "keep that shit away from us by any means necessary"

Yes. But carefully. And with eyes wide open.

True. But I'm going to give America some credit here. When they came in, they came in hard. Two of the hardest beaches in Normandy with the highest losses of any allied force during the landings. Front line in pretty much every major engagement from the moment they entered. I am anti-american in general, and no...I don't think Germany would have won if they hadn't gotten involved (the soviets bought our victory at the cost of 11,000,000 casualties...)

They committed more troops than any other country except the soviet union and germany itself. I'll criticise a LOT of what the United States has become, but I would never ever in a million years claim that they had "barely taken any damage", and in fact kind of take offence to the statement even though I'm not American.

I could see Oregon and Washington State throwing in with Cali, giving all of them a direct line to nice fresh Canadian Rocky BC Springs because we up here in Canada would be an instant ally of any states that broke off.

Half of Paris would already be ash.

And the U.S. got all the money to build up their industrial base by the fact that they were they only country able to give out loans to the European nations fighting in the First World War since every european country spent everything they had and then some fighting each other.

World War One represented the largest transfer of wealth in the history of the world. It was bigger than the economic exploitation by the British Empire of Africa, India and Asia combined. In four years, the U.S. basically held all the cards and (I know this is controversial) only ended up getting involved militarily when it seemed possible that the allies would lose and therefore be unable to pay off their loans.

And you know what...all credit to the Americans; they took that new found wealth and built up the strongest, most powerful industrial base the world had ever seen; an industrial base that, without which, the second world war would have been nearly impossible to win (Russian blood, British Strategy, American Industry...isn't that the saying?)

It's what they proceeded to do with that industrial base afterwards that lead us to where we are now.

Admitting your country has problems is "woke", though. /s

It's not the corporations, it's the billionaires that run them. Every time Trump does something that makes the stock market drop, they get richer by scooping up more for less. Than sell them when Trump says "Just kidding" and the stock market rises again.

Not to mention that all of their companies get to raise prices and blame "tariffs" in order to increase their profit margin.

It's the entire reason they paid to get him into the white house.

The fact that McHitler hasn't stroked out by now is all the proof I really need to say that there is no god directing all this shit.

What the fuck did the idiot THINK was going to happen?

Definitely uncut. All the extra shit they can add to it just dilutes the high.

His Big Mac was served cold on Monday.

Working toward a nuke free world was going to get humans past the Great Filter

Ironically, I'm increasingly of the opinion that the Great Filter will turn out to be Ignorance; more specifically, greed, stupidity and humankind's more selfish nature delaying positive change long enough for climate change to wipe us out.

Them him/her I have to think about it for a bit, and then take a recorder in my pocket when "revisiting" the conversation.

Bohemian Rhapsody or Paradise by the Dashboard Light