I mean between the House and the Senate you're looking at upwards of 500 people, or ~$200k per person per year. That's senior software developer money, which if anything is too low for the highest authority of the current global hegemon.
True, but you also do run into a "when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail" problem, especially as investing in the military inevitably empowers people who absolutely would like a war to break out. Doubly so for countries with long histories of imperialism (cough cough France cough). It's also not like Russia is a conventional military threat; if their performance in Ukraine is any indication present European militaries should be more than enough to wipe the floor with them. He's also 100% true about military spending taking away funding from worthier causes, and while this isn't caused by a lack of funds per se (if European countries wanted to they could always tax their ultra-rich) with rising austerity you do get a situation where money is being taken away from social welfare and put into the pockets of the defense industry. It's not nearly that simple on either side, but there are plenty of valid reasons to oppose militarization. If European countries want to defend themselves they should give more money and weapons to Ukraine, or invest in renewables to cut down on Russian gas, or do any of the hundreds of things they could be doing before selling their souls to the military-industrial complex devil.
If the polls are right we will see a change in governance. If the new boss is willing to prosecute the old boss in January then we start down the road to change.
Yeah like all those other old bosses that got punished... You really buying this after Bush? Hell, you really buying this after Trump's first term? We've seen this movie before.
If they steal an election or try to nullify our voice
Except that's exactly what they're doing? If you really had any intention to take those "drastic measures" you (singular and plural) would prepare for them.
You sit there like nothing is happening, passing judgment on a population that has been trying very hard to peacefully change things in order not to start an armed conflict or at the very worst a civil war.
Yelling slogans and going on parades does not change make.
most of us are trying very hard every day to make the change we need.
Most of what you said is a cope of one form or another, but this is probably the biggest cope of them all. In what world is a majority of Americans doing anything about Trump? Hell, in what world does a majority of Americans care enough about any of this to actually do anything about Trump?
So, get fucked, you self righteous twat and let us cook.
I'd like to see some of that cooking first, but y'all can't even protest on weekdays.
Oh, and last but not least: You are not voting your way out of this.
The mask came off, more or less. The people getting brutally murdered by American-backed death squads absolutely didn't and don't look up to America. Libs see Trump as an anomaly in an otherwise functional system, but really Trump and America is a match made in hell. And to be clear none of this is unique to America; the exact same chickens are coming to roost in most of the West.
I mean even pragmatically there's literally no reason to do this. Not having to do that is the whole reason neocolonialism is a thing, and that's a game the US are already masters at. Really it's just the dementia again.
And a new primary with the actual gerrymandered districts will happen in July?
FTFY. The gerrymandering is the objectionable part here, and the new primary will produce gerrymandered results that don't reflect the will of the voters.
While Iran is run by a terrible regime, their demands from America (and the West in general) are 100% fair and just with the exception of the part about Hormuz. The West has no business deciding how Iran is governed, and Western aggression hasn't exactly made Iran a better place to live anyway.
Yeah, and that's not a nothingburger. Like I said I'm objecting to the focus on school education in Mandarin in thr article, not defending China's broader treatment of Tibetans.
I'm not defending China's treatment of Tibetans in general, but a uniform language of instruction is a nothingburger. Not a nothingburger I'm happy about to be clear, but still a nothingburger. Otherwise at least half the world would be engaging in cultural genocide
I mean to be fair China is helping Iran with intelligence so these companies are providing an actual military service to Iran. Not to say Trump isn't being stupid, but this isn't just about saving face.
I mean between the House and the Senate you're looking at upwards of 500 people, or ~$200k per person per year. That's senior software developer money, which if anything is too low for the highest authority of the current global hegemon.