yes, please people stop falling for the marketing bullshit. There is nothing "intelligent" about these language models, it is not "thinking" you're just being impressed by their emulation abilities

I don't think Americans even remember why there was a war and just consider Vietnam "the bad one" next to WW2 "the good one", no lessons learned or historical curiosity

It doesn't matter what color the cat is, as long as it is cute and cuddly

America can and should be protectionist and buy American

why? So you can get something of worse quality for 5 times the price? Are you ever going to understand that 21st century globalization was designed for YOUR benefit so some sweatshop worker in SEA can make you a pair of sneakers for barely more than the cost of materials? Maybe if chuds like you opposed the international slaughter and oppression of ecological activists, labor unionists, and anti-imperialists the fucking coddled modern American "worker" (consumer) wouldn't feel like they're getting outcompeted by the rest of the world now. Get your shit together and realize a global proletarian revolution is in your best interest, before the armed guard drags you back into the coal mines.

I mean, I agree, i want global liberalization of narcotic law, really as a right to bodily autonomy first and foremost. But it's a complicated subject with a fraught history in many countries. Drug criminalization is not just governed by national law but also international treaties at the UN (and LoN, drug laws are old af). And its global criminal status also chokes the supply and transport which makes the drugs trade extremely lucrative and thus lots of shady powerful characters (like the CIA) have a interest in keeping it illegal globally.

It would need to be an international effort negotiated multilaterally like climate change or AI. Until then just leave your blunts at home if you go to Asia, its not associated with fun times and Bob Marley, more like exploitation and suffering unfortunately.

Of course, their laws aren't racist. And their opium crisis was also perpetuated by local traffickers and growers as well. (Warlords would fund personal armies off opium sales, for example)

I told him they would have had so much more support and legitimacy if Israel attacked first

this is where I think you are mistaken. The Palestinian independence cause was about to be quietly erased and forgot after many Arab states normalized relations with the Zionist entity, and this was in process (Abraham Accords, ect) until the Al Aqsa flood completely derailed this diplomatic plan.

The atrocities committed by the IOF since then have sank normalization with Arab states for the foreseeable future, and attacking first allowed the resistance to capture valuable settler hostages. They would be in an even worse position with no leverage if the Zionists were allowed to start this war on their terms, though I understand that is cold comfort to the present reality of Gazans. They are on the frontlines of imperialism and all they can do is try to endure and fight.

I remember when the far left was a jewish controlled conspiracy led by the notorious judeo-bolshevik "Lev Bronstein", now that the Zionist entity has taken up the mantle of Nazism they gotta change all their history and propaganda

I hold more loyalty to my dish rag at this point

you don't even know the half of it man, coaches and college recruiters will take football players out to restaurants, hook them up with girls, hell multiple investigations caught athletic staff buying cars for players. Especially in the southern united states, high school and college football is a state religion

Americans should be careful with these open endorsements for collective punishment. You reap what you sow and history has a funny way of surprising people.

can't make an omelette without violently shaking and destabilizing the social fabric of the egg first

Contradictorily I wish x-com or Xenonauts toyed more with unique geopolitical situations, specially the latter with the cold war. It would make a lot of sense for different countries to have very different reactions to alien contact in general for cultural, geopolitical, economic reasons in any context

Terra invicta is an in-dev game that focus more on this aspect, but the geopolitics kind of drop off mid game in favor of space colonization being more powerful, which is a shame because imo the early game political maneuvering is more fun than the rest of a campaign right now. There's only a 2022 start now but supposedly a cold war start is planned.

My comrade, you must try Idle Civilization: World Story (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=su.nkarulin.cardshistory)

idle civ clicker using Marxist historical materialism and class conflict. You can cause the October revolution, sounds like what you are looking for.

Mexico is like 70% mountains, yeah you could probably shatter the Mexican military but good luck with Afghanistan part two but this time the resistance fighters can directly attack the American metropol and her strategic treat reserve. That "soft invasion" is going to get real hard, real fast. Not to mention the internal resistance when they inevitably start rounding up anyone who speaks Spanish.

Even if you have a lazy cat, mice have since learned to avoid the smell of cat pheromones. So just having a fat furball laying around will make it more likely the local mice go bother your neighbor instead.

Windows is actually fedware these days.

take a look at bazzite perhaps?

any game that needs to install a rootkit on my computer to play it was never going on my computer anyway. Proton can more or less handle every else on linux at this point. Hardware driver support is getting quite mature too. 2025 is legitimately the year of the linux gaming desktop imo.

As well as hating black people he also hated Slavs too and laid the foundations for anti-soviet US foreign policy