I do wonder how much the leadership of the entity actually thinks of themselves as a vassal. If Europe doesn’t and thinks their relationship with the US is an “equal partnership” then Israel absolutely doesn’t think they are a vassal.

I don’t think people will be as easily fooled as they have been in the past, they might have a monopoly on mainstream media but there are plenty of independent sources that are much more easily accessible than they were 20 years ago thanks to technology.

The US was doing a great job capturing and controlling alternative media right up until they cut USAID funding, really shot themselves in the foot there.

I wouldn’t say it is “selling off” but more “We compromise to avoid a war that will result in millions of our people dying.” It sucks, but I don’t really blame them for refusing to fight the US down to every last man, woman and child in Venezuela.

It means Copilot will be abandoned by Microsoft but will still be on every PC and be used as a backdoor for easy hacking.

Yeah, ziplock bag to crush things up is always a good idea, make sure it isn’t overfilled though or else it might burst.

It’s going to be so funny when runaway inflation makes it so that $100 ends up being the most commonly exchanged note and they all have Trump signing off on the financial disaster.

Maybe if the US starts being really nice to China, they’ll let us visit.

China probably would let them visit, but it would be very funny if they do to the US what the US did to them and exclude them from international space development. Everyone else can visit, just no yankees.

Gotta line the pockets of the shareholders of SpaceX and whatever Bezo’s space company is called.

It’s sort of both. He’s a bullied kid who is small and wears glasses, but doesn’t actually do anything nerdy or have any nerdy character traits, then he becomes a jock almost accidentally by discovering a hidden talent for wizard football. So he’s not a “mean jock” who looks down on nerdy kids or tries to be a tough guy or anything, but he also doesn’t have any nerdy traits that could be potentially off-putting to the audience, only surface level aesthetic stuff like wearing glasses and being bullied by his cousin.

At worst she was actually writing a MKULTRA program to create the next great tyrant.

I mean…considering how huge Harry Potter got, it wouldn’t surprise me if the CIA got involved at some point in pushing it, they probably wanted people to read the “Neoliberalism and the status quo are great actually!” books a lot more than any other fantasy novels that might’ve made people question the system.

Yeah, it’s less of a “rags to riches” and more of a “Oh, turns out I didn’t need to be wearing these rags, I was rich the whole time” sort of story.

The only person I know (mid 30s) who never really outgrew Harry Potter is also probably the most basic “normie” person I know. And the only person I know who could possibly watch this new HBO series.

I hate that this could actually be a part of the US planning for this.

It isn’t exactly a perfect strat, but I usually just use a chopstick to break it apart and scrape off all the spice I need from the big spice lump, works better than something like a spoon or a fork in my experience.

Very few. It’ll be like FIFA, where they do everything in their power to silence anyone who tries to uncover the fucked up shit they do behind the scenes.

Damn, even Israel is falling for this peace talk lie the US keeps doing. Or maybe it’s that even the concept of peace with the untermensch is so horrifying to their population that the government needs to placate them and tell them it’s actually part of a master plan for the final solution or else they’ll riot or something.

Oh jeez, that means the way that the books describe every “ugly” woman as being “mannish” is going to be front and center here isn’t it?

I love how all these sorts of articles orbit around the idea of China’s moon missions without ever addressing them directly, because if they did, they’d need to admit that China is ahead of the US and the US is setting very unrealistic timeframes to complete their goals.

It looks like my old Honda Civic would’ve provided more protection than this. Yikes.

This is the classic problem facing airborne forces

And I remember the Soviets having a similar problem, trying to deploy glider tanks with their airborne divisions, but any tank heavy enough to be useful on the battlefield was also too heavy for the suspension to handle the landing, but any tank able to handle the landing didn’t have the armour needed to actually be useful, so they also abandoned the project.

Thanks for this write up, it was very informative!