And the Hellfire missile will fired upon the invading American troops. Did you see how much damage that missile could do? It’s pretty epic!

Because some people go: akshually, we inflicted more casualties on the Vietnamese than they did to us so technically we are not defeated.

It’s an often repeated excuse since the US signed the Paris Peace accords and agreed to pull out of Vietnam. A US official at the time told that to his North Vietnamese counterpart. The based North Vietnamese official quipped “that may be the case, but that is irrelevant.”

Sorry to sound condescending, but the full faith on the law has already gone past in the US. Americans should prepare for a potential civil war.

McNamara wasn’t expecting that his plan to recruit idiots will work but against his fellow Americans! What an irony!

Can you recommend such companies?

Not trying to pass judgement on you, but even European defense companies’ hands are not clean because most of them supply arms to Israel. I had stocks in Airbus, until later I found out that one of their American subsidiaries make drones, which are then used to kill civilians in Gaza. If the October 7th hadn’t happen and Israel wasn’t going on full rampage, I would have happily remain investing in European defense companies. My only European defense stock remaining is MTU Aero Engine, which has not grown in the past year but still has potential.

Again, I’m not trying to dissuade you to divest, at the end of the day we just want a comfortable life. I mean, with the growing wealth inequality and inflation, working hard and saving alone isn’t enough to keep us comfortable that’s why we invest. My coworker made money from investing In Palantir but I am not really judging him in spite of controversy with the company.

Welcome to the club!

Artists are typically among those who are more than willing to fight against dictators.

Europe has had a long history to look back on. US is still in that teenage hormonal phase and doesn’t know what to do despite being spoiled for 80 years.

I see a lot of right wing influencers arguing a kind of might makes right rhetoric.

Always the case with fucking fascists.

While that is the case, I wonder how many in America actually approves of this given the proliferation of right wing bot accounts. I think that even if the US decides to invade Greenland, that might trigger a US civil war because, unlike Venezuela and Iraq where there are dictators which give plausible excuse to invade, Denmark and Greenland is clearly a democratic and peaceful country. A lot of Americans know this. Invading Venezuela did not even create a rally around the flag effect in favour of Trump admin as some might have expected, in order for Trump to artificially shore up his approval ratings. I certainly thought that more Americans might have gotten on board with Trump admin immediately, considering how they jumped the bandwagon to support the invasion of Iraq.

He was a realist in the most cynical sense. Maybe because of French experience throughout history that their allies no longer become allies as time goes on. The French used to be allies with the Ottomans. Then Russia used to be allied the West until the collapse of the tsardom (well, even in Putin’s earlier years as president, he had warm relations with the West until the late 00s). UK and France used to be bitter rivals but now have warm relations.

Prager U is set to replace PBS, I think.

The Nazis remilitarized which spurred short term economic growth, which was then used to pay for the extremely generous social welfare benefits to the Germans, who were appreciative of this because they were deeply traumatised by hyperinflation of the Great Depression. But this excessive government spending is turning the German wallets inside out; and the plunder of conquered nations gave Nazi Germany some needed cash injection to keep their economy going. If you don’t believe me, look up Hjalmar Schacht, Hitler’s economic minister, who warned the fuhrer that the state’s finances were nearly out in the late 1930s. Schacht’s savvy financial acumen had kept the Nazi German economy running longer than it should have been. He was dubbed the “dark wizard of finance”, partly because his confiscation of Jewish assets, before the war, yielded the Nazis much needed finances.

you have been spoiled by the cinematography of the modern age. almost 100% of all the camera tricks from the last 70 years of film history came from Citizen Kane.

Yup. I think Citizen Kane’s story is mid, but the cinematography is absolute divine. The more I think about Citizen Kane, the more I see why it’s a classic. While watching the movie, it didn’t feel like an old movie at all! The extreme low angle shot is still in my mind many years after watching Citizen Kane.

It’s definitely a community in Reddit. At first I didn’t take them seriously but now I realise it isn’t a joke. It may have been run by Heritage Foundation.

Ever since Trump’s full turn to fascism, I haven’t seen an ex friend post something far right on Facebook.

I also wonder what my ex housemate thinks of Trump now. He supported Trump because of promise of being anti-war.

Oh people. Insecurities really make people’s brain turn to mush. It’s especially bad for insecure men. As a guy, I am glad I was taught at early age to not give in to insecurities and that I should embrace my individuality.

Economists said that Kamala was a better choice but people thought otherwise.

Most people don’t realise Nazi Germany was on a brink of another economic collapse before Poland was invaded.

Hitler invaded Poland to plunder the country to stave off another impending economic collapse of Germany, thanks to his runaway excessive government spending. In that sense, he was distracting the Germans from being revealed on how bad of an administrator he was. Trump invaded Venezuela and wants to annex Greenland to distract people from the fact that he is a pedophile. And that’s a helluva weirder reason to go to war for distraction…

the reality is the world’s reliance on US financial and tech companies makes things like sanctions and embargoes effectively impossible.

Yeah, and I find it funny that there were plenty of naive and emotional calls to sanction US demanding world leaders to stand up to Trump. Good luck to them, it’s easier for them to make demands since they don’t make the decisions.