[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 day ago

They need to be educated

[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 day ago

LOL, making the Third Amendment to the Constitution of the USA relevant?!? What the fuck are you on? You're a lower class Uighur with lived experience of the CPC but you view the world through the lens of the American Constitution as it was ratified in the late 1700s?

Get bent.

[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Oh there's rent. Most US prisons charge per diem rates for housing, and they charge for many "services" and they charge literal extortion rates. Prisoners leave US prisons deeeeeply in debt

[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Not so much a threat as much as just accruing profits.

[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Sure, but the fact that the US did this could be evidence that they see Japan as a flight risk

[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Possible sign that Japan is slowly leaving the imperial orbit and moving closer to China?

[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 4 days ago

Proletariat works for money and does not profit from the labor of others. Bourgeoisie does not work for money and extracts profit from the labor of others. Petite bourgeoisie work for money and extracts profit from the labor of others.

[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 4 days ago

This will be interesting to monitor. Seems like a potential test balloon for China to observe the effects on these companies and map out what kind of leverage China actually has on the defense industry.

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Because I am self-employed, I have to buy my health insurance from the NYS marketplace. It is bonkers. Literally unfathomable.

The cheapest plan, for young healthy individuals with no anticipated healthcare needs, is $1,500/month. That is literally the cost of an apartment in many places in this state.

But wait, what do you get for $1,500/month? A deductible of $5,500 and an out-of-pocket maximum of $7,500. So you get to literally pay the equivalent of a second rent for the privilege of NOT GETTING ANY BENEFIT unless you have a major health event. It's madness. What the fuck could you possibly justify paying $18,000 a year for if every single time you go to a medical provider you have to pay the full bill anyway?!

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I am looking for anyone writing about the various theories and "revelations" regarding extraterrestrial and cryptoterrestrial technologies and their implication in geopolitics.

Specifically, I am looking for analyses that seek to identify conditions that might be true if we assume one or more actors of various classes (states, militaries, intelligence communities, alliances, non-state actors, "aliens" themselves) has possession of non-contiguous technologies. Having identified some of these conditions, I would hope the analysis then goes on to compare historical and current conditions to see if there is evidence to support or contradict such possession.

An example might be an analysis that shows a state, like the USA, with possession of such non-contiguous technology, if they were able to make it battle ready, might under invest in traditional warfare production like what we see today.

Another example might be how a state like the USA might use limited conflicts to gather intelligence on capabilities from other states that could reveal those states' level of non-contiguous tech readiness, and then analyze how the Ukraine war might fit those conditions or predict how the prosecution of a hot conflict with China in Taiwan or Korea might look under these conditions.

Does anyone know of any writers doing this sort of work?

[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 59 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Such disgustingly deliberate word choice when China hasn't dropped bombs in, what, 60 years? The bombardment is happening in Gaza, not the fucking tech sector

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[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 65 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It is the USA that has been the target of appeasement. Every expansion, every death squad, every war crime, every black site, every assassination, every war of aggression, every single time the world appeases the USA.

If you think the USA is appeasing China, your head is screwed on backwards. I know it's a common trope for abusers to feel offended and attacked when their victims standup for themselves, and I know you probably stand with the victims and see through the abusers' bullshit. You need to do that with the USA.

Abu Ghraib - appeased.
Nord Stream 2 - appeased.
Solemaini - appeased.
Iraq - appeased.
Iraq 2 - appeased.
Vietnam - appeased.
Laos - appeased.
Cambodia - appeased.
Korea - appeased.
Hiroshima - appeased.
Nagasaki - appeased.
Guantanamo - appeased.
Libya - appeased.
Syria - appeased.
StuxNet - appeased.
Pulling out of nuclear treaties - appeased.
Refusing to be accountable to ICC - appeased.
Refusing to sign landmine treaty - appeased.
Agent Orange - appeased.
Napalm - appeased.
White phosphorus - appeased.
Depleted Uranium - appeased.
Yugoslavia - appeased.
Afghanistan - appeased.
School of the Americas - appeased.
Wiretapping the entire US civilian population - appeased.
Wiretapping every embassy through Siemens supply chain attack - appeased.
NATO expansion - appeased.
Economic shock therapy kills millions - appeased.
Training terrorists - appeased.
Airlifting terrorists into other countries - appeased.
Environmental devastation - appeased.
Sending expired vaccines - appeased.
Refusing to send vaccines - appeased.
Refusing to follow the predefined protocol for sharing vaccine research - appeased.
Iranian regime change - appeased.
Color revolutions - appeased.
Extracting trillions from Africa - appeased.
Child separation - appeased.
Toddlers in solitary confinement - appeased.
Forced hysterectomies - appeased.
Collective punishment of civilians - appeased.
Support for Israeli apartheid - appeased.
Iran-Contra - appeased.
Fast and Furious - appeased.
CIA drug trafficking - appeased.
Haitian assassination - appeased.
Bolivia - appeased.
Nicaragua - appeased.
Pinochet - appeased.

I can keep going if you want.

[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 50 points 1 year ago

LOL. Raises questions for whom? Libs? Everyone knows what the fucking USA was doing all along. Except the libs.

NB: both USA Rs and Ds are both liberal in their political philosophy and are both subject to this critique.

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