Mallspice

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[–] Mallspice@lemm.ee 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

The Biden admin and Dems literally tried giving the majority of the people what they wanted and the Reps stopped them to make Biden and the Dems look bad and the irony is Biden and the Dems were ready to give the Reps what they’ve been asking for with the border and immigration for years.

[–] Mallspice@lemm.ee 6 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

We have first past the past voting here, this means we don’t vote based on who we like but rather who is the lesser of two evils.

It makes it easy for good and smart people here to support things like this, even if they don’t want to, because the alternative is worse.

[–] Mallspice@lemm.ee 11 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

Depends. Everyone who voted against Trump knows this and it’s probably why they did but most non voters and maga are still ignorant.

[–] Mallspice@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Maybe but I feel I’ve made it worse sometimes too.

There’s a couple sayings. ‘The smart man sounds like crazy man to the stupid man’ and ‘You can’t win an argument with an idiot’.

As complex as it can be, it usually boils down to that or you just find out they’re rich, selfish, like control, and love schadenfreude.

[–] Mallspice@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago

Because going to war with people who like the cold is always a good idea.

Smh

[–] Mallspice@lemm.ee 27 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The value of Reddit is the content which it is able to create. If users aren’t free to create content, there is not value.

[–] Mallspice@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

Baldur’s Gate 3 ruined Solasta for me…

[–] Mallspice@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

My only real hope is that just as WW2 gave us nuclear power, microwaves, atomics, and accelerated technological development, that any future war will end with the technology to save our world and the will to use it.

There’s also aliens 2027 but I’m not gonna hold my breathe on that until I see some drones say hi.

[–] Mallspice@lemm.ee 6 points 3 days ago

Yes. As an American I can’t help but think of how difficult and expensive the war on terror was to wage and how not only did we lose but we may have inadvertently help start a global jihad in the future we pissed off the Iranians so bad.

Not to mention how Germany failed to get the UK in WW2 and how without the literal mafia we’d have not taken Sicily and gained a solid foothold in Europe. Even China is hesitant to invade Taiwan and they wrote the fucking art of war.

[–] Mallspice@lemm.ee 27 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I think a lot of tyrants like the idea of invasion until they realize how fucking expensive it is to move war equipment across water and that unless you have the actual Mandate of heaven and earth behind you so to speak, you won’t have competent people with you. Trump doesn’t have that, he didn’t win the popular vote or by a large margin which is what the mandate requires, half his voters hate Musk, and he’s driving away more smart people than attracting. Doesn’t matter how effective and coercive your spy network is, takes hearts and minds to win long term.

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