dogslayeggs @ dogslayeggs @lemmy.world

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It's unbelievable how much hatred these people have.

Yes, let's just grind the entire worldwide economy to a halt. Smart idea, genius. You do realize, don't you, that more than one country ALSO does international trade in the waters between Europe and Asia, right? The US has the most to lose, so they foot the bill. But the rest of the world benefits from the US military presence in pirate-filled waters.

Also, US citizens and US businesses pay taxes (well, some of the do), which pays for the US military... so in reality they ARE footing the bill for their own protection services. If you want them to pay 100% of the bill, then every single thing you buy in every single country will suddenly triple in price. I'm sure you'd love that. Jesus, you're as good at managing the economy as Trump.

It's almost like that's a very dangerous area of the world where US citizens and businesses are forced to operate and having a US military presence keeps them safer, along with nearly every other nation with international commerce.

Solid point. It is always the same story: the only moral abortion is mine, gay marriage is evil until my son/daughter comes out, get rid of all government programs except the one that benefits me, don't vote against the party unless you have a personal reason not to.

Nah, he's just at the end of his career and is no longer concerned with reelection while also 100% confident in the vote passing without his vote. He has the seniority to be allowed to have a "conscience vote" that the other members can't have.

they should’ve used Alibaba/Qwen for their other markets, too.

Which would get them banned from all government use. Smart call.

It's called the Logan Act. There are actually laws about how civilians can interact with foreign officials. Dennis Rodman famously violated those laws when he went to North Korea to act in an official capacity that wasn't officially sanctioned. Trump is a civilian until inauguration, so his meetings with heads of state to discuss official matters (not just shooting the shit about movies and new restaurants) would have had to be sanctioned to be legal.

My understanding from a video I watched is it's a mix of shrinking world survival like PUBG and co-op Elden Ring with a boss at the end of each day when a shrinking happens.

Every person in that chain of command should feel absolutely awful about how they personally acted. Not one of them will, but they should.

Man, I had almost forgotten about that bit of absolute lunacy. I had just switched from working F9 certification to Vulcan cert when that happened, and I'll just say nobody I worked with was surprised they blew up another one.

What the fuck is going on at airports these days?

I absolutely do not believe this. It sounds to me like they are trying to act like they are enemies again while they work in the background to take control of everything.

His voters wouldn't care.

It took me a few reads of the headline to understand it.

Look, I wasn't a big fan of the half time show, either, but that's because it was only one person and wasn't a big spectacle. I think Kendrick absolutely crushed his performance, and the dancers and choreography were amazing; but it was like a really large music video and not a halftime show spectacle. If any other person had made a musical cameo besides the woman I didn't know who sang two short lines, then it would have been better. The reason I say that is, in my unartistic opinion, Kendrick is a bit one-note; so adding another artist would have punched harder.

I knew people would complain about the lack of diversity on stage, but I also think it was completely intentional to make a point. I loved that aspect of it.

This year's commercials were unbelievably boring and/or bad. They were all somber and super serious, except for the Dodge Ram Fuck Yeah America ad.

His post was emulating the excuse people use when they are trying to deflect away from something obviously bad. The state of Israel will refuse to say that what Elon did was antisemitic or an actual Nazi salute. They will talk around the subject and say it wasn't ACTUALLY the Nazi salute, just him being exuberant in the moment. Or they will point out that the salute was around in Roman times and isn't actually an antisemitic salute even though Hitler used it, just like people will point out that the swastika is an ancient symbol from Hinduism so it also isn't antisemitic.

He was agreeing with you, basically.

I'm pretty sure they understood your point... not sure you got theirs.

“People are taking a deep breath. It’s too early to render a judgment."

"maybe it was a mistake to vote for President Trump,”

"some of Trump’s comments relating to the Middle East have been extremely, extremely concerning to the community.”

That's pretty muted if you ask me.

And an awful lot of them voted FOR this. I am marrying into an Hispanic family with some people who voted for Trump... who were then surprised when they were fired from their jobs immediately after he announced the DEI orders.