I just wanted to add some context for one of these bullets.

The US is upping the amount it spends on nuclear weapons maintenance and production because China has reentered the game as a major player. They’d been stable at 300-350 warheads for decades but is expected to ramp up to producing 100+ per year by 2030.

So one major adversary has just been replaced by another. Everything old is new again, including the cold war arms race.

The ancient wonders series or whatever they’re called is wild too. It’s like some kind of unified conspiracy theory adventure.

If blue no matter who worked, the Democrats would have won. So that’s obviously not a thing.

5.56 is ~50 cents a round and has been for years at this point

I’m pretty convincing he’s being encouraged to outright collapse the us by Putin

No, it isn’t like the nemesis system in a Lord of the rings game. A new VP is appointed, instead of everyone moving up a rank.

Why not just…hire spokespeople for a PAC at $500k/yr based on a public contest/audition about making right wing content? Same outcome, not at all illegal.

Hayes ending reconstruction is one of the worst and possibly one of the most consequential decisions in the history of mankind.

We’ve devolved past Idiocracy

Their time in isolation from when reddit banned chapo did them no favors. When it was banned it was a flavor of radicalism that was tolerable.

They’ve devolved into something much worse, in the style of the red guard in China killing avowed communists for not being communist enough, and thinking it’s a good thing. They’re just screaming into the void making all leftists look unreasonable and bad, and wondering why no one can stand them.

I’ve yet to have an interaction with someone from hexbear post reddit exodus where I thought to myself, “you know I bet they’re pretty chill in real life.”

I mean, yes, but grass roots and I’m not paid lol

It really is surprisingly effective. So few people actually contact their legislators.

I set up a harassment campaign and got a few hundred people to contact a state legislator whose committee was holding up legalizing weed in my state and a few months later it was legalized. Agitate. Make a difference. Protesting doesn’t do shit, get all the people there to call their representatives and senate members - especially for state and local stuff, and you might actually get something changed. Or even better, send a letter.

Lmao, the middle child of generations

My housemate is completely incapable of installing mods without using a mod manager, so when my subscription to vortex lapsed he wanted my help and I was like, “look… just read the fucking instructions man, odds are it’ll tell you exactly what to do”

“We took your $8.5 billion and instead of building 8.5 billion dollars worth of extra capacity, we built the capacity we were in the process of building anyway and used 8.5 billion dollars of our money to buy back stock”

Could be, most gun parts actually have a limited life span. Barrels for instance last between 20-25k rounds.

He’s gunna go blow up an old computer monitor on BLM land a mile and a half down the road from the sign that says, “absolutely no tannerite” if he’s anything like my friends, lol.

“Work for 3 hours”

Sure, I actually agree, I get more done in 3 hours than my coworkers do in a day. But it’s not like I’m going to get to go home after that. I’ll just get to sit and do nothing for the rest of the day looking busy.

I have a sub to dashlane that came with ten additional subs and despite trying to literally give them away to family and friends and you’d think I was trying to pull teeth.

Yeah, that, lol. It’s just a description of the gameplay loop.