Your argument hinges on the idea that everybody in Europe can just show up on the front lines and immediately get training and a drone army to control, and that is not the case for either the Ukrainian or the Russian side.

I am not demanding Ukrainians do anything. I just support those who want to fight against nazi imperialists.

I already personally donate to the Ukrainian army, and my friends and I organize coordinated help for Ukraine.

I am not militarily trained, so I wouldn’t be much help as a volunteer.

But you’re right, Europeans should show more solidarity and support Ukraine more.

No, it’s sick how Ukraine has beared the brunt of Russia’s aggression since 2014. We should have NATO troops in Ukraine.

I’m sure their words havent been twisted at all here

Worse for Putin

Are the investments for long term drone improvements coming from Ukraine’s budget or NATO procurement?

These are Russian lies.

Every day without Russian boots on the neck of Europeans is a good day.

I agree with you. Filming evidence of a crime should always be legal. But I will say that posting negative videos of people to social media is considered libel in some countries. There’s a line where freedom of speech ends and harassment begins.

I would say secretly recording a politician as they admit to corruption and sending it to journalists and the police is ok, but filming a politician when you ask them loaded opinion questions and then posting it to social media to dunk on them is not.

Virginia has had a bipartisan districting commission intended to discourage gerrymandering since 2020. Unfortunately, it’s designed terribly and just passes districting powers to the state Supreme Court.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redistricting_in_Virginia

The US just needs to have PR and stop doing this flawed fptp stuff

Yeah, right or left, filming people without their consent isn’t ok. We can win debates without abusing public servants.

How is this hacking? You have access to someones phone, and then you can see their photos? It would probably be better for the app to delete the local photos but that’s not a GDPR violation, and it’s clearly an early-stage prototype.

Amateur political scientists making arguments that a certain kind of political is inevitable is something of a pastime. Apathy begets apathy.

Tim Snyder’s “The Road to Unfreedom” actually talk a lot about how apathy first destroyed Russia, and is currently destroying the US.

The best case scenario here is sieging Iran until they go bankrupt, but more likely that the US will go bankrupt first.

It’s one thing to be a unreliable, distasteful ally who at least has common enemies.

It’s another thing to be a bigger genocider than Stalin and Hitler combined and knowingly rolling the dice on the end of the world.

Europe knows the US sucks, but it’s better than the alternatives at the moment. Letting a nuke slide is not an acceptable alternative for any country in the world. The US would immediately be a common enemy of every country in the world, and even the most cynical, bootlicking neoliberal cannot go against that.

Or maybe the political class is just all lizard people and waiting for the moment to Kill The Poor.

Immediate global pariah. All agreements with a rogue nuclear state would immediately be voided. All trade ceases, all loans rescinded. Every US base would be evacuated and be blown up from afar by their host countries. The word American would become a synonym for murderer.

doesn’t this just immediately violate the EU trade deal his cronies lobbied so hard to pass recently?

Then the system is broken and we should be fixing it

I think the cold war was less about ideology about economic systems and more about alignment with the Soviet Union.

There was plenty of eurocommunism and social democracy in Europe that wasn’t commented on by the US. Relations with the PRC were normalized in the 1970s after the 1961 sino-soviet split.