Think of all the profits you're delivering to shareholders!

Oil lobby makes whatever claim it takes to make more profit

There are actually stories coming out of Niger that suggest that the French tried to smuggle croissants into the embassy but were discovered by Nigerien police.

https://twitter.com/Sprinter99800/status/1701656176801231257

China has infrastructure investment and affirmative action. What do red states have?

I'd recommend that you read a more insightful commentary on Red Army practices during WW2 rather than following Nazi propaganda from that period. David Glantz' work is particularly insightful.

Either way, those are 19 million civilians. That isn't military dead, that's civilians.

FWIW a lot of your problems with apartments were fixed in the Soviet Union lol

The only territorial claims China has tried to enforce recently are to literally uninhabited lands (Aksai Chin and the SCS islands) and Taiwan (which they are still at war with).

How much do you really care about a piece of rock with no people and no animals living on it?

Electronic warfare time?

So... Now Tiktok gets to be a surveillance tool for the US government like every other major social media? Wonderful.

Never thought I'd agree with good ol Kim, but it turns out we DO have shared beliefs.

It's not like the scientific community isn't divided on the release of the wastewater, just that the release of tritium is probably not the biggest concern.

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/24/1195419846/fukushima-radioactive-water-japan

There's still concern about the custom-designed ALPS system and the trace contaminants it may leave, which WILL bioaccumulate. Plus, Tepco hasn't really been known for, y'know, prioritizing health and safety over profit.

Because FPTP is a farce of a system, so building a farce on a farce doesn't really increase the farce-ness very much?