ComradeSalad @ ComradeSalad @lemmygrad.ml

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Not really in all honesty, China needs a financial capital for the time being, and Shanghai has worked perfectly for that. Little changed has happened there, and it is a major international hub, so the influence persists.

Hopefully in the near future.

The tickets are like 100-200 dollars lmao. There’s no way it isn’t a tax scheme.

Shanghai was a primary "treaty city" meaning it was EXTREMELY heavily influenced by the western world and liberal ideology for nearly 2 centuries.

Its also a financial capital, meaning its full of bankers, investment moguls, and the ultra rich.

Moving Zelensky closer to Colombia seems like a bad idea…

Modern gasoline is roughly 10-15% ethanol in order to prevent thermal damage to engine parts and to support performance in cold climates.

Why is our resident Capybara in Australia?

You’re Australian I’m guessing? It’s because the Burger King Oceania franchise license was bought by Aussie billionaire Jack Cowin, and the Burger King name was trademarked by Adelaide, so they renamed the company after Jack.

Basically, Burger King was already taken.

It might depend on what country you’re in. In the US? At least where I am, both are horrific garbage, but McDonald’s is at least edible.

If I remember correctly, this was when Burger King opened a location in the main US Iraqi base.

They don’t have that contract anymore though, that expired in the early 2000’s. Last I heard Subway owned the contract, but they lost it to someone else a year or two ago.

Damn, not even McDonalds. If the US sends you a Burger King, they REALLY hate your country and are trying to kill you with food poisoning.

Excuse me, I'll have you know capitalism is the most efficient system we've ever come up with! There are no alternatives! Socialism doesn't count because "Mao 1 gazillion iPhone Vevezula Stalin Spoon Human Nature Gulag!"

I do agree with that first part. 9/11 was pretty much a wake up call of the consequences of American imperialism. While the perpetrators were evil, vile, and backwards religious extremists, the shock felt by the US after 9/11 did tangentially support the anti-imperialist movement.

Also I do agree for the second part partially, but at the same time Osama was hardly the one building schools, and very gleefully participated in blowing them up alongside the US. So he doesn’t really get the benefit of eating his imperialism cake, while whining about how evil it is when he runs out his usefulness to the machine. Not to mention that he was the same “moral degenerate” that he rallied against, as most Afganis saw him, Al Qaeda, and the Taliban as backwards, imperial hicks that was actively taking Afghanistan back in time. (I wonder why Afghanis didn’t like a random deranged Saudi man).

A fate worse then death.

Not really. It was a violent and desperate assault by deranged fundamentalists that the US had armed, trained, and abandoned; therefore making their own bed to lie in.

It doesn’t really seem like it was meant as a rebellion if the Taliban pissed their pants immediately and offered to surrender Osama, and to aid international forces in capturing him, if the US didn’t invade.

Even in his infamous letter, Osama spends the majority of it wailing and and ranting about hating those that don’t follow Allah, and the “moral degeneracy” of the west.

Eh, the first blow came long before that. This was just the most visible one, and not worth the cost.

You consider that a win???

Killed a few thousand innocent civilians and in response we got 1 million Iraqis and Afghanis dead, the passage of the Patriots Act, ramping up of domestic and overseas fascism, etc.

1991

If you can spin that year as a win I will eat my pants.

You mean the US political class. NASA is the one sponsoring this blatant side step of the ban in a massive fuck you, in the name of science.

Plus NASA side steps the ban commonly. They usually send samples to Vietnam or Taiwan, and the samples “””accidentally””” ends up in Chinese hands. Who study and then return the samples.

Why damage science and political relations over something like that?

It would be goofy though.

The past tense of forbid?