China wants it to continue. They’re happy to watch NATO and others empty out their supplies for Ukraine. Potentially less supplies to later support Taiwan.

The kleptocracy will survive past Pooty. It’s what put him in charge after all.

How do you so consistently have the dumbest takes?

They’re especially loud here because Lemmy’s developers are tankies. Some are even supposedly former Chapo Trap House peeps that got kicked off reddit. It’s the most annoying part of this place trying to be a reddit replacement. But it’s getting better with users calling them out.

It was a few years into them being pissed at the audacity of a black man becoming President.

They do actually. CNN was bought by open Trump supporters back in 2022. It’s been stated a few times they want CNN to become another Fox News.

Yep. Had a profile and pics on sugardaddymeet.

Plus had another profile claiming she was an actress on Explore Talent. Which oddly enough so did Candice Owens. And a few other random people that have become GOP props. https://x.com/DelVeneto/status/1432793689848520704/photo/1

We need to bring back communal psychedelic rituals. Will fix most of these people.

Yeah the amount of Finding Out possible from this decision has high schadenfreude potential.

I see your caffeine and raise with amphetamines.

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It’s not that weird given that account is one of the idiotic “bOtH siDeS” posters.

Depends on how much subsidization they’re getting

All good. It’s a pervasive myth that on the surface seems plausible. There are other examples of what you mentioned that probably were a false flag or manufactured consent. Extending a conspiracy like that to Pearl Harbor takes a lot of credit away from Yamamoto’s strategic genius.

That take on Pearl Harbor is not historically accurate though. US Naval command had Japanese radio transmissions as well. It was more hubris and incompetence than some secret desire for an excuse to join the war. The US was already preparing for war with Japan. And Japan was crazy enough to skip straight to attacking US Naval command in Hawaii head-on as an opening move. Whereas US command assumed they’d take smaller targets first and try to stretch the fleet across defending many locations.

Japan ironically was both more and less successful than intended because of US mistakes. US carrier groups were sent west out near Wake Island and the Marshall Islands to cut off the attack that was thought to be coming. But Japan sailed around Midway approaching Hawaii from the North. They even had their planes loop around to fly in from the East to cause extra confusion until it was too late. What they found was less resistance than expected because the carriers weren’t there. It didn’t end up being the kinda suicidal knock out blow Yamamoto was going for.

Congress demanded multiple investigations over the years after. They all bore out a similar conclusion that US command and intelligence fucked up. They went looking for the fight in the wrong place. Assuming the attack on Hawaii intelligence had to be a ruse.

And people should have known Iran was working on ways to help create a distraction for Russia. Hamas had been planning and building up for this attack for a while. They even intentionally chose October 7th which is Putin’s birthday. But I get downvoted all the time as some crazy person for pointing out how easily it was to predict Iran’s proxies were going to act up to help split US attention away from Ukraine.

Well for better or worse they also tend to not vote. Which is why the parties ignore them anyway.

Because it is

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