We do not spend "1000%" more than other countries, and what we do spend is heavily wasted as well.
A 30% reduction is the largest cut for the military in decades. It will absolutely have an impact, as will losing the trust of our allies. No one will let us station troops in their country when we show the world that we're a bunch of backstabbers.
The problem isn't the tech, it's the people who are controlling the tech.
The tech is literally made by those by people. The tech itself is in fact the problem. You will never have a version of something like social media that's actually healthy. One way or the other someone with power will get their hands on it and abuse it.
Good God you people are deep in the sauce. Just straight up ignoring the fact that tech enabled propaganda to be spammed in people's faces 24/7. It's so obviously a net drag on society at this point. But don't dare take away my dopamine rush.
It was the generation after the Nazis that did all the work to redeem Germany. The Nazis themselves never admitted that what they did was wrong, even when it destroyed their own country.
And of course they felt free. To the mediocre, the hateful, and the weak-minded, "freedom" means power over others, and the Nazis gave their supporters a tiny bit of that power.
The BLM protests were the largest in US history. The fact is that most Americans have been coddled by a stable democracy and don't care if they lose it, as long as someone puts a buck in their pocket. They think it won't affect them because Congress bad, both sides bad.
Of the ones who do care, they think protests dOn'T wOrK because BLM or the Palestine protests failed. Completely ignoring the fact that other civil resistance movements have succeeded and are historically more successful than armed revolts against the upper class.
How does letting Russia win in Ukraine help America? Oh that's right, it doesn't. It only helps Russia. What these GOP traitors really mean is "USSR first, USA second"
She's a fascist collaborator, of course she's covering for the Russians. She WANTS us to be vulnerable. And when Russia takes advantage of those vulnerabilities, she'll turn it on Ukraine, the EU, Canada, and the liberal "enemies within".
We're going to see some shit happening in the US that's never happened before. People are not ready for how far this regime is going to take us. And frankly, I have no faith that Americans as a people can or even want to do anything to stop it.
This isn't just bad politics. We've publicly threatened invasion and annexation of our closest allies.
Trump irreparably compromised our national security by doing this. We rely heavily on our alliances and soft power for counterterrorism, military and counterintelligence operations. Before Trump, we were leading the most powerful network of defense alliances in the world. In one month Trump pissed that away, and made us a much weaker country.
Don't care, I'd rather live under the neolib European governments any day than a fascist Russian shithole. It's not even a difficult choice. It's not like there's some leftist utopia as an alternative. The neolibs don't murder gay people and don't decriminalize violence against women as a state policy.
We do not spend "1000%" more than other countries, and what we do spend is heavily wasted as well.
A 30% reduction is the largest cut for the military in decades. It will absolutely have an impact, as will losing the trust of our allies. No one will let us station troops in their country when we show the world that we're a bunch of backstabbers.