Shaggy0291 @ Shaggy0291 @lemmygrad.ml

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It must feel like frostpunk down there for the locals rn

This kind of thing (and e-waste in general) is why I think we need radical laws about unsupported hardware in general.

Agreed. Out of market for over a 10 years? The game is made public and preserved in a government library that is available to the public as a service.

Things happen slowly, then all at once.

That OSes peaked with Windows XP.

Anti-NATO sentiment is building in the UK too. Take the upcoming no2nato conference, for example. It's gotten loud enough that reactionaries feel the need to send threats to venues in an attempt to shut it down

It's bad. That's the story.

This entire crisis has illustrated just how compromised the European nations are by American finance capital. It's hit a point where their own national bourgeoisie have less sway over their nation's politics than the American bourgeoisie do.

This is the sort of behaviour you'd normally expect from a semi-colony, like Argentina when it was held in thrall by the British empire. That America can do this to the Europeans, despite them pooling their power within the EU, speaks volumes about how far these countries have fallen.

The thing that strikes me the most about all this though is how anyone really feels surprised about it; there was never a world where the US would have tolerated a European power with the potential for independent action. Building up such a power economically would mean building up their own imperialist competition.

Therefore, it was a foregone conclusion that Europe's economic development would only be tolerated so long as it served US imperialist interests; so long as they offered a lucrative market for American goods and a bloc of allies to sign off diplomatic alibis to cover up the horror of their adventures abroad while pressuring and concern trolling their enemies they can be tolerated. In the final analysis, Europe's wealth is tolerable only so long as it can be controlled by Washington.

I said it once, I'll sat it again; the F35 exists simply because it represents a $1.5 trillion dollar slice of the Pentagon's budget. To bin it off now would cause a crisis to ripple throughout the American MIC, as contractors are dependent on the revenues this faulty fighter jet brings in.