They are doing this on purpose to exhaust, and when we are exhausted they can get what they want.

Pick your battles, don’t stress over things in advance that you can’t control.

Why January 19 was selected as the date?

Things looked like we might finally see justice, but after this victory, I think he got away free. Pardon or not.

I think those advocating on pardoning him now think that this would remove his incentive to turn DOJ into his personal agency, but he likely will do that anyway no matter what.

Exactly. Want to fight China? Do it together with other allies and put tariffs on things you actually produce yourself and don’t want China to get competitive edge on, like for example EVs.

If you fight with allies you are weakening yourself and make China stronger.

Regarding Ukraine, there could be nothing further than truth https://youtu.be/7gxssycoxz0

As for Israel the problem is more that it isn’t a lapdog, it looks like US is Israel’s lapdog. As it looks like Israel does whatever it wants even if it is against US interests, and US still supports it.

Sure it wasn’t out of altruism. If Ukraine loses, more things will happen (remember, this didn’t start with Ukraine, we had Chechen, we had Georgians, we had Ukrainian Crimea and now Ukraine)

1. Ultimately we’ll have war in Europe which will force US to be involved (as mentioned Ukraine is not first and not last)
2. More likely invasion of Taiwan (if US couldn’t help Ukraine, how will they help Taiwan?)
3. We will get a nuclear proliferation, a bunch of other countries (Japan, South Korea, Poland, Germany and others) will be interested to obtain nukes, as that will be the only guarantee to not get invaded

They had multiple shots. They could easily have bill that replaces or worth something else, but they instead opted to remove it without alternative.

Looking at Russian weapons performance I would disagree.

Also maintaining nuclear weapons is extremely expensive. Russia spends 126 billion and no way that can cover all their nuclear weapons.

Also it is crazy, that it was trump that increased spending:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States#/media/File%3AU.S_-_China_-_Russia%2C_Military_Spending.svg

Then under Biden or actually stayed that way (maybe slightly even dropped) until Russia made an attempt of full invasion of Ukraine.

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the 20th Century by Prof. Timothy Snyder is a very relevant book that everyone should read. It is actually short.

The most important lesson is to not obey in advance. If people just give up and accept their new changes, that’s really all they need.

We can’t just wait it out, we also need to resist and support anyone that resist it.

The author also reads the book on his YouTube channel.

Off topic, but where does this picture originates from?

That’s because people put resistance https://snyder.substack.com/p/dictators-for-a-day

Dictators will only succeed if people comply in advance.

Also a general strike started demanding him to step down.

Sounds more and more like Nazi Germany.

There’s no way trump can depart that many people, and unlikely that the other countries will want them back, so they will end up in camps.

It is disinformation warfare. We can argue this and that should be done, but it is unlikely it would make much difference. Many people who voted for trump had believed Harris positions that were opposite from reality. People get their news from social media which is easily manipulated.

Ironically social media are no longer social, they are full of bots and AI generated content that is used to manipulate our views.

I doubt it. We are continue to underestimate information warfare. Look at Romania. A guy sympathetic to Russia who no one heard about few months ago won the first round.

The same techniques were used this election and previous one in US and Europe and we still ignoring it.

The manipulation is affecting others as well. You want to see how well it works, look how pro Russia candidate in Romania who no one knew won first round, and might win the next one.

I see this blame of various groups, of Harris of Democrats often one contradicting the other, but almost no one is acknowledging that we are in the middle of information warfare. We saw is effects in invasion of crimes in 2014, in brexit in 2016, trump election of the same year, across elections in Europe and still very little is done about it.

When some people were asked about why they voted for trump their answers were bizarre, out of touch with reality.

Today majority of people gets the news from social media which unlike traditional MSM is much more prone to be manipulated by foreign powers. Russia especially matters it, add their active measures developed during cold war work really well with current Internet.

He made everyone think he did, what he cares about were the government subsidies.

BTW: I still see bots on various social networks promote him as some kind of genius, a lot of us got fooled.

Yeah, I feel Elonia and Ramaswamy are only there to divert attention to them, while the actual work will be done.

I was initially strongly in defense of it, but it now benefits corporations and almost no private users (as it originally was intended). So removing it probably would be a net benefit. Or maybe make it only applicable to private people and non profit.

The social media sites are known to collect vast information about us. The explanation is that it is meant for targeted ads, but the same information can be also used to know which buttons to press.

You scroll between funny videos and once in a while you get something that maybe will anger you, or maybe scare and in any way impact what you will do.

Just taking a recent example. To pro Palestinian people they received messages that Harris is bad for Palestine and we can show her and protest by not voting.

Meanwhile the same social media was telling pro Israeli people that they should not vote for Harris, because she is pro Palestine.

This is how they are getting desired outcome. And unlike MSM they can fine tune the message to specific category of people.