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What if we’re not American have never had guns in the first place?

Why is every discussion of left vs right politics always couched as if only the United States has politics and the rest of the world essentially doesn’t exist in any real meaningful sense?

The American system has the president be the ultimate authority. In order to face any kind of justice someone would have to deny that authority.

He is in effect a dictator, as bad as in Russia or North Korea, someone would have to have the balls and the executive authority to be able to hold him to account. Right now he is the president, the ultimate executive authority. Someone somewhere would have to control enough firepower to be able to overcome that executive authority.

Who is going to challenge the ultimate authority in the universe, and have the power to haul him in front of the jury that isn’t rigged, and have that jury actually capable of rendering a verdict?

How does any of the above happen, when the president of the United States may as well be the god emperor of all human activity?

I could be wrong and I admit that I don’t have as a firm grasp of US politics as I’d like, but I really cannot see a situation where anyone is going to be able to control Trump to the point that which they might be able to get him from front of a jury. I can’t see that happening without some level of conflict. He’s already talking about a third term, the only way that doesn’t happen is a rebellion, or him having a heart attack or something.

Is red wine still good for you. I’m sure that was a thing at one point.

Got it. Sugar cube sandwich it is.

In game dev we seem to use HSL a lot. Apparently it’s better, but I find it hard to think about after years and years of HEX

May cause cancer in California

No one needs to prove that NATO is a defence pact they need to prove that it isn’t.

If you’re accused of committing a crime it’s not your responsibility to demonstrate to the court that you didn’t commit the crime, it’s a police’s job to actually find some evidence. They can’t go into court and go “well I don’t have any evidence that he didn’t commit the crime”. That makes no sense.

Chronic under spending doesn’t mean no spending it just means that the size of the military has reduced, which if you don’t believe there is much chance of a land war makes financial sense. But it’s still got some pretty high-end tech. Meanwhile Russia has lost all there good military tech in a pointless war. So now Western tanks designed to fight other modern military vehicles are going up against stuff from the cold war. Multi-stage explosive shells designed to go up against metamaterial armour plating, are instead of being fired at pig iron, which is basically just rust held together with paint.

The assumption always was that if there was ever a war in Europe it would be a nuclear exchange, and therefore the size of your military wouldn’t really matter, it would be all about readiness and contingencies. They never assumed that a superpower would just sort of disintegrate on its own, and then lash out. That would be an absolutely ridiculous scenario, that only it has happened because the Russian military command were too scared of Putin to actually tell him the truth.

The irony of course being that NATO doesn’t particularly have any interest in vast expanses of undeveloped potato fields giving away to frozen tundra, so they never had any impetus to invade. But Putin is now giving them one and at the same time demonstrating why the invasion would most likely be successful.

Not legally. That’s why you always hide the body.

NATO is definitely taking its time then, it’s been around since 1949. Also the strategy of not ramping up military production until after your enemy attacks a neighbouring country, for the second time, seems like a risky one.

Perhaps it’s communist apologist? It’s hard to tell with these people they have so many weird in jokes and references, rather like Nazis and their special numbers

They believe a lot of what they hear about Russia is propaganda and not true. Oh boy would they get shocked if they actually got what they ask for. You would turn out that all of the propaganda was in fact reality, too often do those two things get confused.

Sometimes they will even go to Russia expecting a warm welcome and they get stuck on the front line and you never hear from them ever again.

That’s the point.

Upholding the oath requires defying the president. Trump doesn’t understand this because he’s an egomaniac. But it’s interesting that military personnel are starting to feel comfortable enough to actually post about this. I still wonder what would happen if the order was given to fire on protesters.

This is on Android. I have no idea what the screenshots are because your instance is geolocked.

You need to escape the square brackets otherwise Lemmy converts the entire thing into a link (that goes nowhere) which is just displaying as a single long string with no line breaks making it rather hard to read.

You also need, Statements contradicted by objective reality.

When he inevitably dies of an aneurysm I hope you like have a script ready to change “is” into “was” because otherwise it’s going to take forever.

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Yeah it’s definitely too long. But whose fault is that?