NoneOfUrBusiness

Just pirate it.

As a wise man once said: The card says Moops Krasnov.

TL;DR: Maybe he is, maybe he isn’t, and either way it doesn’t matter because he sure as hell acts like a Russian asset.

The “any other type of war” part is definitely intentional though.

They’re definitely dying in Europe. The YoY sale numbers are horrific.

I mean then Vance would succeed him, which is… not good. At least Trump is an idiot.

I am really wondering how long will the global world order allow Donald Trump to continue to screw things up for everybody else?

I mean what are they gonna do? Invade and depose him? We’re witnessing the end of the Pax* Americana, simple as that.

*Terms and conditions apply.

We’re entering a world where international law will be less important. Sadly.

At the risk of sounding like a broken record: International law was never important. It was always rules for thee and not for me.

I mean I know these guys are one trick pony Trump clones but come on dude fucking read the room.

It’s still worth something in the Middle East, just in case they want to give out “freedom” again.

I mean he just casually pledged 1.6 billion so that’s not nothing. The only plan there was ever going to be was what Europe was already doing, only more of it.

Be productive as in literally just that: produce the goods society uses to sustain itself. Intelligence is only one part of the equation here (the rest of it being energy, physical wellness, etc), and even that deteriorates shortly after retirement age when people enter their 70s.

Also I have no issue with swear words, but just spamming them doesn’t substitute for an actual basis for your argument. Unless you want 70 YO people to work factory production lines, they are for all societal purposes unproductive.

World population is projected to peak out at about 10 billion, likely less because of climate change, so we won’t be getting much closer to the 15 bil limit anyway.

If wage growth went up at the same rate as GDP, one part time worker could support multiple elderly people

Then prices would have to go up at the same rate, and one part time worker would not be able to support multiple elderly people at a reasonable quality of life. It’s not about money; under capitalism money is a shorthand for how much power one has in and over society and isn’t directly convertible into useful goods at a constant rate. What you need to be looking at is total productivity, because that’s the bottleneck here. If X working people can only make Y things a day and X+Z people need 2Y things a day to survive then a society with X working people and Z non-working people can’t survive.

Egypt lasted for thousands of years,

It’s called “ancient Egypt” for convenience’s sake, but it’s not just one continuous state; it’s many states that either succeeded or competed with each other as the country went through cycles of rise, decline, fragmentation and reunification. For a more familiar example think of it as another, much smaller China.

the Ottoman Empire was fairly stable without growth for a 1000.

Uh… No?

I know the left really (and rightfully) hates capitalism, but this isn’t a capitalism problem; it’s a society problem. You’ll always need a certain amount of labor to sustain non-working portions of the populations. Thanks to advances in technology the necessary working person percentage is decreasing but you still can’t have the majority of the population be elderly people who will never again be productive.

Not every comparison is whataboutism.

This particular comparison is one Zionists love to make to discredit the Palestinian cause, though, so I tend to view it with suspicion. That said, with the assumption that you’re talking in good faith I’ll try to address your point.

This looks like more “Israel Bad” virtue signaling than it does helping Palestinians.

Boycotting settlements is one way to either strongarm the Israeli government into not expanding settlements (which make no mistake are built with their blessing) or disincentivise their expansion by making it economically disadvantageous. To quote the article:

Critics say that doing business in these areas normalises and provides revenue for these settlements. Support which has landed Airbnb on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement’s list of international companies complicit with Israeli violations of Palestinian rights.

Another quote:

Sari Bashi, programme director at Human Rights Watch, said that, in allowing properties in Israeli settlements to be listed on their sites, “Airbnb and Booking.com are contributing to land grabs, crippling movement restrictions and even the forced displacement of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, abuses that Israeli authorities commit in order to maintain oppression and domination over Palestinians as part of the crime against humanity of apartheid”.

This isn’t virtue signaling; it’s one of the few things someone in a Western country can do to help the Palestinian cause without getting into direct action. And how do you know it works? Because Zionists fucking hate it.

Like I said before, if a large number of Native Americans launched a credible campaign (as in one with specific, achievable goals like “we want X land for Y reservation”), they’d also be well within their rights to call for a boycott on that land until their demands are fulfilled and at least I personally would support that boycott. The logic in your comparison works, but not in the way you’re implying.

Edit: Aaand no reply.

then shouldn’t we be boycotting these platforms until they are out of non-native USA and Canada?

I mean if Native Americans launch a credible land return movement and ask for it then sure yeah. Right now that’s not the frontline of the Native rights movement, so you’ll need to find another whatabout (whataboutist???) argument.

It is actually taken seriously.

I’ll believe it when they stop selling Israel weapons.

Hate is self-consuming. God I sound like a Westerner.

Now, sure. Not in Nov 2024 when everything suddently quieted down right after the election.

Uh… Nothing quieted down in Nov 2024. I was here in Nov 2024, arguing that Biden is the root of all evil, and the concentrations of people saying that Biden is or isn’t the root of all evil didn’t change much in November.