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"We value your privacy"

That's what makes it worth invading.

You're making a false equivalence, but regardless, I am fine with any of that, even though I hate Nazis and the IDF, because it's a video game. It's virtual.

Because democrats are only interested in upholding the status quo. With the republicans only pushing the status quo to the right, you can see where this ends up.

No word on the attorney general who was hand-picked by democrats to sit with his thumbs up his ass for four years?

Yes. It was one of the countries that weren't sucking israel's dick so it had to go. Just look at the pattern of all the other Middle Eastern countries that have been regime changed.

You'll see why when this new government gets established.

I'll have plant protein instead, thanks.

Shrimp is actually crustaceans, but also it's around the bottom tier of seafood.

Turkey is ruled by a two-face jackass who tries to play both sides. He's mainly interested in slaughtering the Kurds and carving out a piece of Syria for himself. So yeah, wrong horse for the people of Syria who will have to endure an ultraconservative theocracy, but the west will celebrate this because this benefits israel. Syria had been a thorn in israel's side.

They're just hoping they'll be the ones to rug pull others. For the ones believing in the long-term prospects, they assume bitcoin will always continue going up (even with some dips along the way) and that stablecoins will cover the other use cases.

The imperial power was there from the start. Multiple imperial powers, actually.

No regulations needed here, nope.

The non-genocidal option is a practical impossibility to achieve in this system. It would've required coordination among tens of millions of people. I don't care how intelligent they are, it's like herding cats. Many will claim that we shouldn't risk the non-genocidal option since the "less" genocidal option is far more established and has a better chance of winning against the "more" genocidal option. Smart people can make different calculations and justifications for what they did, and sometimes they land on - what would seem in the end - a baffling decision to still support genocide, but it's rationalized as the realistic harm reduction option.

Now throw in billions of dollars influencing (or outright buying) the politicians and dominating mass media. Everyone is susceptible to such powerful influence on some level, regardless of intelligence. If they weren't fooled by the current setup, then obviously billionaires would use their power to find a different approach that would.

It can be both, but the much larger contributor by light-years is the system.

Where did I say voters are not responsible for their actions/inactions?

What does Occam's Razor say about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction?

No, and yet it happens, because the system is designed for it to happen. Do you think it's possible for one of the two parties to never get voted in again? Democrats don't seem to think that should happen since leaders in the democratic party have repeatedly stated that we need a republican party for whatever reason, even though the republican party is one of fascists (and no, getting rid of trump won't change that). It's like having a staircase without a railing and only blaming the people when they fall off/down the stairs. Perhaps the people should be less clumsy, but that doesn't excuse the unsafe setup.

I wouldn't be surprised if CISA, which was created under the Trump administration, is manufacturing consent for escalation with China.

Kinda dumb to paint a broad stroke like this when the election system is rigged to have only two viable parties that both favor the rich, mass media is controlled by the rich to constantly indoctrinate people, and the rich force people to work long hours for low pay just to barely survive. I'm sure a distinguished professor could figure out why such a system would produce such results, but it's easier to blame the stupid masses instead of scrutinize the institutions, just like how it is easier to blame minorities for high cost of living instead of the rich hoarding resources and cornering markets.

That's not how research and development works.