The 105000 in Tokyo not enough? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo The 25000 in Dresden not enough? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden The 246000 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki not enough? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki Post war casualties? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties

But those civilian casualties aren’t in the millions unless you count the post war casualties. That makes the US a “Good guy”. Right?

Or they know that there weren’t any “Good guys” around.

The Japanese war crimes are well known in the West. The US ones are routinely glossed over or ignored.

Wars don’t determine who was right. They determine who’s left.

teslas are really nice cars now that theyve dialed in the quality

Have they really? With all the problems with the cybertruck I don’t think so. Also there design issues that make them death traps.

This is why I love EU’s GDPR. Reply to their spam with an official GDPR request to be removed from their records.

It doesn’t work all the time. But it works well enough.

Where the wild pigs will get them.

It should be obvious to all Ukrainian allies that this is in their long term interests.

But alas we have the “escalation paralysis”.

Tax the rich! They taste bad!

Know when to walk away. Know when to run.

Under Siege 2 was so bad that I remember it. Under Siege 1 was just meh and I don’t remember anything about it.

The media uses these idiotic headlines because it gets clicks. And this narcissistic moron is using it to advanced his career. “Career” being avoiding prison.

Democracy doesn’t have to be a tyranny of the majority. In its purest form it is. And that is why constitutional republics ensure citizen’s rights in their constitutions. We need a similar system for economy.

A sketch of that would a be a system where you’d have constitutional republic with independent legislature, judiciary and executive branches. Separated from the economic players as well as possible. They would provide the the outer bounds of a level playing field. Economy would a market economy, where ownership of companies would be distributed among the stakeholders of the system workers, customers and the executive. Similar to how governments ideally function. Workers would have “legislative” power in the company. They would be responsible for company policy. Executives would implement those policies. Customers would decide how well the company performs by either buying their products or withholding their patronage. This would need a lot of guard rails in place. But this would prevent centralization of power in the hands of an “owner”-class.

Transitioning to this type of system would not be that difficult. As most of what it has is already there. In western democracies. At least on paper. There would be a lot of resistance to this from the “owner”-class. I have no doubt of that.

Viva la Révolution !

For a growing economy with an excess of people and resources it’s pretty good.

Our current world, not so much.

The problem is that there isn’t a currently viable alternative.

Yeah, that’s how it has been done for ages. At least when it comes to the administration. Best democracy money can buy.

Yeah, let’s show him how democracy and actual justice works.

The problem is that most heretic versions were intentionally and efficiently destroyed. The only ones that survived were by accident.

Most of the work on the Bible was done in a committee hundreds of years after the alleged events. So most probably just plain old fashioned alcohol.

“Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?”

Everyone who says that is actually a fascist. Countries are not businesses and they should not be run like them. They are not profit seeking enterprises.

The whole concept of maximising profits for the shareholders is toxic. Even for companies. It totally ignores the cost-benefit calculus of every other group connected to it. Employees, customers, environment, countries. There needs to be a change to this basic tenet in order for humanity to survive.

Other than, you know, taste. People can tell the difference in blind taste tests. And most people prefer the sugar sweetened version. It’s just that in the US the corn lobby will not give you the option to choose anything else.