u/FarceOfWill

"faces down" does not mean "surrendered to"

There's a reason they're called the Chair Force

I agree with some commentators cleverer than me, the current state of the war economy is so extreme that it'll be crippled by both continued war and also by peace.

The longer it goes on the worse the resolution will be

Trying to fight the EU in a trade war is truly mud wrestling a pig.

Well, everyone who wasn't a slave, or foreign, or a woman,or.. etc.

Yes of course. But she doesn't need to appeal to the American electorate for her job. I'm not sure what point you think you're making?

Why compare a European activist to two American politicians?

Of course they try to get on with the American right, they need their votes.

If you can't trust lebedev's newspaper on russian related matters who could you trust?

Fuck no this is a technocrat idea?!

Hahahaha. Those fucking idiots had ideas so bad they're going to destroy the USA a hundred years later. Amazing

The raw numbers maybe obscure this but aren't the popularity levels are really about how far along the radicalisation they are?

People start watching for the lifestyle and fitness then end up believing the other stuff and watching for that.

I guess women stall out more because who could believe that kind of stuff about themselves?

I suppose if you use that definition then when America invaded it became a failed state run by warlords and now it has recovered.

The thing to understanding crashes is that they're a crude signal of an underlying reality. Not a thing in themselves.

This isn't like the 2008 crash, or any other, because the reality that's causing the number to go down is totally different.

Except maybe the great depression. It's a bit like that.

There was a story about two teens in Germany recruited to a private discord through I think Roblox, a bellingcat podcast on use of games as recruitment mentioned it.

The act of helping in the game builds trust fast and speeds up the recruitment.

Luckily these two went to the police after the blackmail/encouragement/ conditioning escalated to performing real world violence.

How many others didn't? Or were pushed slower so they were more caught up?

Awful stuff. And we have the UK shutting down local biking forums and fedi servers to protect children.

A different reason every day

PPP is difficult with defence spending, especially when nations are running a war economy and recruiting prisoners for free

The us spends that much more than anyone, including its enemies.

The us just spends way too much. Matching us defence spending is kind of a lot.

Combined the EU current defence spending is second only to the us