


Not surprising to me in the least, Spotify has been consistently showing their colors and all you need to do is look how big they were in being pro-ukraine in 2022. A complete no go for me.

Yep, it's Lindsay Graham again, the guy pioneering the shitty depths of neoconservatism.

Simply put I just don't think Soviet era S-300s which make up the majority of Iran's AD are sufficient against stealth aircraft like the F-35. They would need quantum radar systems like China has to reliably counter them and Iran just isn't at that level.

Yes but I think most libs would superficially agree that the Vietnam war was a mistake. Praising the Vietnam war as something good is more of a hard right chud thing.

Appropriate- Condemning past wars
Inappropriate- Condemning present wars

I find DW to be insufferable even by Western media standards. It's thinly veiled NATO state media.

Demanding the PLA to go marching to Iran's aid of course would be silly but it's clear Iran is suffering a severe deficit in their air defense and are very much in a vulnerable position if no one steps to help them in that area at least. It's not going to stretch the US empire all that much if they decide to simply start wrecking havoc on Iran with B2 bombers. I don't think anyone who doesn't already hate China is going to be upset if they start sending Iran Pakistan level military aid.

Yes, because George Washington and his crew didn't want to give the wrong message about monarchies back in 1776 and succeeded through their commitment to non-violence.

Pakistan needs to have a talk with China and tell them what Israel is doing unacceptable, and that Iran at the bare minimum needs the same level of Chinese military support that allowed Pakistan to send India packing not long ago. If we are going to talk about pragmatism, it is not pragmatic to allow Israel to destroy Iran's oil and gas fields that it uses for trade with China.

Monarchy bad, oligarchy good.

Right down the road from the place I used to live I recently found out that their was a facility where they were illegally hoarding tons of radioactive fracking waste which was found to be leaking into the nearby river and area. So yeah, fun.

Seems that India inadvertently granted China's military industry a huge PR win.

Tornados, nukes going off, teeth falling out.

The SNES through PS2 days were the golden era of JRPGs imo. FF4-FF10 plus FF tactics are all legendary titles I’d highly recommend even in spite of their age. When I played the FF10 remaster sometime ago I was blown away by how fleshed out and complete it felt compared how most games today. I never owned a Switch however so there is no doubt a lot of good recent JRPGs out there I missed like the Fire Emblem games and such.

Capitalists paywalling their own propaganda, some problems really do fix themselves.

I worked in a plastic factory for a few days...yeah it was absolutely soul crushing. I was placed onto a machine where the speed required to keep up with the bottles felt like a sadistic prank, and the shifts where 12 hours long. I was left on it by myself my first day being on it and it got to a point where all the bottles where falling off the machine because I couldn't. Then the lady in charge came over and told I'd be sent to that office if it happened again.
On top of that, the place was filled with plastic fumes and particle and didn't provide any breathing masks that I saw. Another lady there told her husband got fired because he got cancer and they want didn't want the liability.
Yeah, not the best experience.

So everything that matters basically, China already largely shifted away from low level manufacturing.

Respect, if there is one country that could benefit from workers taking control it's South Korea.

Seems like they are trying to play good cop bad cop to the Democrats and sweet talk Russia into agreeing to the same empty one sided agreements that they have in the past. Even if Trump really is genuinely pro-Russia, Russophobia still runs deep in the US and his position to push for a true 180 with Russia is fragile. While it is mostly a democrat thing, it isn't like there isn't any Russophobic republicans, and while a decent amount of Americans might want to stop sending money to Ukraine, few actually have a positive view of Russia.