Just because the US government likes to funnel trillions to their military industrial complex instead of healthcare, doesn’t mean the rest of NATO has to do the same. Even without the US, NATO already spends more on defense than Russia and China combined, even before the invasion of Ukraine.
You know very well that’s not what I said. But please educate me why nuclear armageddon is good, actually.
Is this a threat?
It scares me that anyone could come to this conclusion. Are you so clueless about the unimaginable, unprecedented suffering and death that such a conflict would bring, or does your emotional attachment prevent any rational assessment? There is no reality where WW3 and “not necessarily a bad thing” belong in the same sentence.
It’s a good thing to punish territorial aggression, but there can be no doubt that WW3 is the worst outcome for everyone.
Not my idea of a good date, but to each their own
Why do you keep posting articles from CIA-funded outlets?
“Safe” being defined in a user-hostile manier, i.e. with unmodified Google components and not rooted.
“Google-controlled” would be a better word.
“I dropped my fair share of hard Rs back then”
Such is the fate of hypercentralized spaces. The fediverse fixes this.
Would there be any evidence that could satisfy you, or are you just looking for a reason to dismiss this?
I don’t see how this is so difficult. Given the choice between a narcissistic billionaire or an independent, accountable government commission that’s bound by the rule of law, I’ll choose the latter every time.
They are not above the law, because these is no law in the US that regulates how social media platforms should be moderated. This is new territory. The EU only recently passed the Digital Services Act that broadly deals with this topic.
I don’t have an opinion on the matter being discussed
You know it’s an option to just… keep scrolling right? This isn’t high school, you aren’t obliged to leave a comment.
With this approach you would lose the subvolume structure and deduplication if I’m not mistaken.
If you genuinely don’t see that as a problem, I’m concerned for the safety of women around you.
Deliberately taking the most negative misinterpretation of what was said. It almost feels like Reddit again.
No, they’re just piles of general waste. You know, the same stuff we throw in rivers or elect as president.
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The 2 percent of GDP target is imaginary. They made it up, in no small part because of lobbying from the defense industry. There is no reason for NATO to spend so much more than all other countries combined.
Stopping Russia should have been done through economic and diplomatic means. No amount of NATO bombs or tanks would have stopped the invasion. It only would have fueled the flames and given legitimacy to Russia’s claimed insecurity. Economic power is much stronger than military sabre rattling. The EU is founded on that exact principle and it’s the reason why it’s still together.