when the alternative is the shitscape in the US, I’ll take the dutch’s attempt any day.

LOL it is cool, thanks for noticing. Bet it really burns you up that absolutely no one agrees with your garbage lol

sure thing sparky. whatever helps you sleep at night, I’m sure if I’d made these same decisions it’d keep me up lol.

to one of the richest women on Earth b

just making shit up.

not in the top 100 - https://www.celebritynetworth.com/list/top-100-richest-women-in-the-world/

fuck, she’s barely a multi-millionaire if you don’t count her shared assets with her millionaire husband.

https://fortune.com/2024/10/26/how-much-is-kamala-harris-net-worth-money-salary-president/

nowhere anywhere near ‘one of the richest women on earth’

so easy to check, what the fuck mate do you believe everything fox news or whatever shit source you got this garbage from tells you?

you can’t comprehend the difference. amazing. I’m not sure if you’re insufferably dense or just duplicitous, but abjectly wrong either way

like all things with this administration, it’s so fucking stupid, and it’s so fucking racist.

remember, the GOP could stop this tomorrow, but they choose to let the madness continue every day.

or just appreciate birds.

he let jesus take the wheel and stopped even thinking

wow, took this long AFTER HIS GOONS RIOTED TO HANG YOU to make that connection mike?

goddamn I do believe pence may be dumber than trump.

n fact I’d say that’s the most likely because they definitely messed with the elections last time

yeah I still can’t figure that one out. even with the reluctants, the conflicted because of gaza etc., you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know trump’s gonna make all those situations worse, plus lgbtq plus racism…

hope springs eternal. VOTE!

yup. dude is a genuine nutcase racist dirtbag

“Now it’s a question of whether or not she is willing to be transparent.”

she’s fucked up the entire process from day one, she’ll never be willing to be transparent.

or he’s gonna try to cancel / fuck with them enormously.

honestly that’s where my bets are.

ok let’s just peg technology as done and live with the same buildout we have, now, forever and ever amen.

?!

funny how easy it is to get power companies to hook up data centers but god for fucking bid we improve the grid to deal with these problems today

yep. at some point we’re gonna realize that a modicum of storage will smooth out so many issues.

it’s a genuine inquiry about your response - China has long desired to recapture their ‘lost’ island (never was theirs but set that aside) and continues to run all kinds of pressure campaigns from political interference in Taiwanese government to artillery attacks on the outlying islands to pressuring the vast majority of the world to ignore their existence.

Taiwan has shown incredible resilience over decades and decades.

Now, if Trump robs them of the support and legitimacy, throws them to the wolves, all bets are off. Perhaps Taipei sees the writing on the wall - but man, I don’t see that going well either. Hong Kong illustrated - there is no separate peace, you get china, you get chinese rule and it’s not light handed.

It’s a shit sandwich, and the US has made it all worse with the iran bullshit draining our magazines, fleet deployments, and most importantly, resolve to stand up for our allies.

China will conquer Taiwan from within

if they could ever do that, don’t you think they’d have done it already?

do you have any evidence to support the idea that taiwanese attitudes have changed?

I’d be amazed if they wait that long. It would give us a chance to rebuild stockpiles.

I don’t think Taipei is at risk tomorrow, but holy hell this is gonna be a fraught year…

what’s wild are the killed vs injured ratios on the russian side… for years, they’ve just been leaving tremendous numbers to die on the field, and even when they’re recovered from the battle and recuperate, there’s no respite - they send the dumb bastards into the fight on crutches and torture anyone who objects.

I’m convinced we are in WWIII,

the preamble perhaps. the conflict that sets the stage.

fml, the idea that putin/bibi/trump ally so closely in their desire to destroy their own countries, and xi is like: let’s make more terawatts of solar power and help cuba - the world is stranger and darker every day.

ebola may finally hit globally, thanks to stupid cuts at cdc/who/usaid

and then there’s taiwan… just sitting there, all tempting, and the US having expended tremendous amounts of our arsenal for the iranian folly… gee whiz…