China likely wants the soft power that the US is flushing down the toilet as we speak first and foremost. As long as we let China abuse minorities, as long as we don’t talk about human rights and as long as we never ever mention the Tiananmen square massacre…They will probably leave us alone.

Question is… Do we want it that way?

The thing with drones is that people are willing to take basically any risk with them, since you are so far away from the action yourself.

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Sweden’s party is bad, but not AfD-bad. They are also already in the coalition as a supporting party, but not actually in the government. Though I dread the day they will be in the government.

Right now though, polls point to a center-left coalition next year…

Dude I wouldn’t be surprised if Denmark is planning on getting nukes right now.

He has a lot of flaws, but he is the guy to have as a president when getting invaded.

I mean yeah, but there are legit issues with social media for kids as well, especially with trash like tiktok.

Restricting how the algorithms of social media platforms work instead of restricting the age would be much better though, but that would mean rich people earning less money. And we can’t have that right?

Nah, the EU is just “less sellout” than most others. There are terrible things coming from the EU as well. But generally I much prefer living in the EU than pretty much anywhere else.

No he does not. You need well formulated questions if you want good answers in a poll. If you asked “would you prefer we give up fortified front line territory and forcibly halved our army in exchange for ceasefire?” you would not get that percentage.

They are sick and tired of this war, no question about that. But this war is existential. Russia does not acknowledge Ukrainian as a real language and culture. Everyone knows Russia would attack again. Ukraine has no choice but to defend themselves.

These polls are so bad. It’s like asking “would you like peace?”. Ukranians know perfectly well what would happen to them and their relatives if they lost the war. Fighting a war SUCKS but it was not their choice to go to war. It was not their choice to get terror-bombed every single night.

It was not Ukraine’s idea to go to war.

Finally one single comment nuancing this instead of just going “wtf censorship!!!”. Women are literally feeling pressured to get choked during sex because we have a sick porn industry thriving on depicting women as an object you can treat in any way you want. This is a fucking disgusting cultural development and moat people here (99% men obviously) are defending it. What you do at home in consent is up to you, but you guys must realize that the way we depict women in porn will shape the culture of how men expects women to behave, and what obscure shit women feel they are expected to put up with.

Several likely scenarios are possible, and we need to account for all of them. Russia is still producing massive amounts of war equipment every day and many reports are suggesting that a lot of it is not going to Ukraine anymore. Same reports suggest Russia is also training new troops that are not sent to Ukraine. So in the scenario that Ukraine does not win and the Russian economy holds up for a while longer than expected, we are in big trouble. We can’t take the risk of just assuming that Russia will collapse.

Vaccine and hygene, sure. But pasteurization is not something that prevents an extinction, at least not currently. It prevents unnecessary death and illness for many.

We can take milk for example. If everyone drank unpasteurized milk, most people would be fine. But every now and then, you’d get nasty e-coli outbreaks here and there. Most would survive it after a really really shitty time, but some would die. This is really why some people are lead to believe pasteurization is unnecessary, because you don’t realize how important it actually is through anecdotes - you need statistics.

But of course, skepticism towards health science in general is a huge problem and most antipasteurizationers are antivaxxers as well.

It’s always black and white and clear who’s the good guy and who’s the bad guy, right?

Sad people can’t think a nation can be the lesser evil in one war and the greater evil in another war…

Nope, politicians are not military targets. And that makes sense. Nobody would ever talk and try to settle things diplomatically if they could be legally assassinated while doing so.

Also, you can’t have a Nuremberg-style trial with the responsible people if you kill them. The military are following orders and doing what they are told (well, hopefully). The politicians are the ones with the highest responsibility for an invading army. An army serving the state won’t invade unless politicians tell them to.

Billionaires? Sure. Millionaires though… Someone getting their company successful through a good idea, hard work and a great ton of luck can become a millionaire. People with a million € or $ are not the main problem really. There will always be richer and poorer people. The problem is that we have people with 1000+ million, and that these people are yet getting even richer by simply just having that wealth. The difference between a million and a billion is enourmous.

Exactly, no one here played Street Fighter 2 on SNES?!

I think we’re seeing the same reaction as when Russia invaded Georgia in 2008. Basically “oh no this is not okay. anyway…”.

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