Taiwans only saving grace is the US couldn’t care less about hypocrisy when protecting it’s interests. The bad side is Taiwan is their intetest. Not their ally, not their partner, an American interest. To be used and discarded as soon as they’re no longer interesting.
Your argument is kind of like trying to blame any crimes I commit on my great great grandfather.
That was not my argument, that was the argument of the person I replied to when they decided the US being stolen was relevant. I literally only asked who stole it, that’s is. There were no Americans until the American revolution. Just Natives and European colonists.
How do you imagine the second amendment being used going? Tell me specifically what you’re asking for because training and organizing takes time, so do plans against a military your country is deathly afraid of, but if what you want is random people shooting in the streets just say so, because that’s easy but leads to Trump declaring Martial Law. So I really want to know what exactly do you want to see?
All I’ve said is we’re not the only ones who need to change which is pretty unarguable. It’s so strange seeing people misinterpret that the second they feel called out. Why is it controversial for the top level commentor to ask for sanctions, aka ask for other people to aslo not support a war mongering country? Is that not what we all agreed was best to do to Russia? Or would sanctioning the US inconvenience you too much?
There were only Native Americans before America was ‘founded’, so who exactly stole it, remind me?
I don’t remember having a say in Citizens United, or the defense contracts of other countries. I can say I’ve voted for every politician on my ballot that promised to challenge CU and/or reduce military spending though. But those votes aren’t always democrats so half the time people tell me I waste my vote for it.
For gardening, more than anything I like just knowing I can do it, some seasons I just have a few tomatoes or peppers in buckets to have something to tend to.
I like reading about revolutions so you could call it a specific mix of thing’s I’ve admired along the way but yeah. Unrelated I also think mechanical watches are cool so that’s another interest that could go either way lmao.
If only he took less stimulants so that he stood still enough for that nice young man from Pennsylvania
Brother, a South African Billionaire poured all the money he could into the last election until it was broken. An Australian media mogul set the stage for this with 30 years of propaganda and Europe themselves built a system of reliance on America, all of which were necessary steps to getting here. This doesn’t happen without Fox news, without Elon Musk, or without Europe being so entangled in the US they can barely enact any sanctions without destroying their own countries.
Im not super jazzed that my hobbies of amateur radio, vegetable gardening, and target shooting are starting to look more and more like life skills than hobbies . . .
The only notable challenge was a few republicans during the Biden administration and I’ll give everyone reading along at home one guess on how serious they were about repealing it. Haven’t heard a peep from them since their party won all three branches of government. Feels like it’s all just one big show.
GW Bush, Obama, and Biden all used a specific interpretation of a law called “2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force” to commit strikes on other countries without congressional approval, which is exactly the precedent Trump is trying to use here. Congress in truth likes this so they can do things like this and pretend to be upset about war instead of having to defend their yes votes for it, as many of their donors would require of them. If they really wanted to do something about this it boggles my mind that in the 25 years since that law, they’ve never rallied specifically around repealing or re-interpreting it and have scarcely even called attention to it.
Trumps gutting of the little environmental progress that the US made only helps to make oil even more expensive and in demand for his brazen thefts. That may be a coincidence to him but to his handlers it’s not.
US does something completely American: “What are we a bunch of Russians?”
Even before that, look at what Obama did to Libya not too long after they voluntary dismantled their nuclear program.
The real international law is might makes right. This is why the US chastises others for doing exactly what it does when it claims its invoking ‘international law’
If no country on earth can invade the US and the US has already been protesting and demonstraing at record turnout what exactly do you expect citizens to be able to do that a financed and organized military cannot?
Italy was also part of the Axis powers, there was a lot of external pressure on that country by the Allies. There is none on the USA. Also hasn’t there been three assassination attempts on Trump ‘from within’, Id hardly say he hasn’t gotten lucky.
Oil companies. The oil companies knew before Congress knew.