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ruff_dingus 1 point ago +1 / -0

We won’t be directly involved in that war. China has bought lots of land and influence in Africa. We will, however, fight a proxy war against someone supported by Russia, who is a regional power projection antagonist to China. It’s going to be Syria or the Ukraine, or just back to the well in the Middle East.

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ruff_dingus 11 points ago +11 / -0

You and I may know this, but it hinges on the “care to look” part, and they don’t. Being a useful idiot is probably easy and fun until you aren’t useful any longer.

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ruff_dingus 3 points ago +3 / -0

When I encounter these people, it makes me think of one of my favorite literary characters- Sand dan Glokta, who said “An open mind is like to an open wound. Vulnerable to poison. Liable to fester. Apt to give its owner only pain.” So many have chosen to close their minds and ignore reason rather than face the concept of their moral superiority crumbling like the house of cards it is.

Unrelated edit: if you’re into fiction, read Joe Abercrombie’s first law series- it’s fuckin rad.

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ruff_dingus 29 points ago +29 / -0

No, they don’t. “Where is the evidence?” quickly devolves to “how do I know that’s true,” and eventually to sticking fingers in ears going “nanananana I can’t hear you, bigot!”

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ruff_dingus 4 points ago +4 / -0

I like your energy, pede.

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ruff_dingus 2 points ago +2 / -0

Poll or not- it looks like a great way to end up on a list. Do the cattle trucks have first class seating for those who commit early to re-education?

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ruff_dingus 1 point ago +1 / -0

Not anymore- they’ve added plastic packaging and a plastic scoop. You know, for safety.

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ruff_dingus 33 points ago +33 / -0

Disney cranking out woke films while using Uighur slave labor in western China is an interesting look.

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ruff_dingus 5 points ago +5 / -0

Very similar experience here, and I concur. It never used to be so political. Many of my classmates are unrecognizable online from the people I knew when we were younger.

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ruff_dingus 11 points ago +11 / -0

Remember when leftist leaders encouraged citizens to publicly harass conservative elected officials wherever they are?

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ruff_dingus 74 points ago +76 / -2

Needs more drunken face droop, but I love it

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ruff_dingus 3 points ago +3 / -0

Seriously. He must have been doing a shitty job to have spent all that time under the ice, etc, to come back and not even get promoted to Major America

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ruff_dingus 1 point ago +1 / -0

I like my outrage to sparkle

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ruff_dingus 1 point ago +1 / -0

To be fair- the inland northwest had 60 mph wind last night/this morning.

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ruff_dingus 1 point ago +1 / -0

Not being a doomer? No- statements like that go way beyond simple dooming when your comment serves to drive supporters away, fren.

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ruff_dingus 2 points ago +2 / -0

And Brutus wept while stabbing Caesar

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