FaceDeer @ FaceDeer @fedia.io

Basically [a deer with a human face](https://imgur.com/9Wg5TTx.png). Despit

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I would imagine it's not a problem if the betting market is small compared to the things being bet on. In this case you'd have to manipulate the long term outcome of the Ukraine war to win a few tens of millions of dollars, which seems unlikely.

Nice. This implies that these businesses are concluding that Ukraine is going to win - or at least, not lose - and will therefore retain its sovereignty. Their investments wouldn't be safe otherwise.

This sort of thing is why betting markets are so good at prediction. Experts can pontificate and analyze all they want but at the end of the day a betting market requires people to put their money where their mouth is.

People who decide not to vote are in fact making a positive statement, they're saying "we agree with whatever the people who do vote decide." I don't give America a pass due to apathy.

It's right wing too, but it's not populous.

California's population is roughly equal to Canada's. Alaska's got less than 2% of Canada's population. We can absorb Alaska without too much disruption, California would be more of a fusion. And their economy is twice the size of Canada's, so likely it'd be seen as more of Canada joining California rather than the other way around.

How ironic that the only country to actually invoke Article 5 and receive NATO assistance under it is the one that's now ditching NATO.

Nah, California is too right-wing and populous, it'd overwhelm Canada's Canadianness.

I think we should take Alaska, it always made more sense as a Canadian territory.

AI can do subtitles too.

It really sucks how the US has given "spreading democracy" such a bad name. And democracy itself, I suppose.

You think Obama didn't accomplish anything? He was some kind of completely helpless nobody in the face of a Republican party that didn't control anything for two years of his term?

This is exactly the reason the Democratic party is being dumped on so hard these days, and deservedly so. They don't even do the right thing when they are handed the power to do it on a silver plate. They insist on "compromise" with a party that brooks none.

Shutting down Guantanamo would have been effectively irreversible since it's Cuban land. Cuba doesn't recognize the American claim that they have a lease on it, so as soon as it's shut down it's never coming back.

During the first two years of Obama's presidency Congress was also controlled by the Democrats.

If someone breaks into my house and there's a huge amount of evidence showing who did it, and I present that evidence to the police, and they do nothing and then the thief comes back and breaks in again, I'm going to be super mad at the police. They failed at their job.

Mad at the thief too, of course. But also mad at the police. I can be mad at two different groups.

You realize there's plenty of blame to go around, that it's possible for more than one "side" in this to be doing bad things and making mistakes?

I'm not. I'm blaming them for not doing anything to prevent the actions of a republican president.

If only one of the several Democratic presidents that had been in power since Gitmo was established had gone ahead and closed it down like they said they wanted to.

Because a lot of people feel like the world is getting shittier, and so they're voting for the parties that tell them "the world is shitty and we have the solution. It's simple and straightforward and someone other than you will bear the brunt of it."

If the left wants the far-right to stop gaining then it has to defuse this argument. They should be working to make people feel like the world is less shitty, convincing people that they have solutions for the world's shittyness, and ensuring that those solutions are simple and straightforward and put the brunt of the effort on someone else.

This is the downside of democracy, you have to do what the people want. Sometimes that's kind of annoying and difficult.

Why do you think he's American to begin with?

Heaven forbid an open protocol see adoption.

What "rules?" There are no universal rules across the Fediverse, it's an open protocol. There are no universal laws, it's spread across multiple jurisdictions.

If you want a platform where there is One True Ruler Over All, that's the Reddit model.

I'm not expecting them to do anything specifically to benefit the rest of us. But let them fight. If nothing else, it costs them money.

Same here. I've never been fond of the proliferation of these "think about

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