You think the French nobility fund d US revolutionaries because they were upset about taxes?

If a country is doing something in another country, it’s for selfish reasons 99% of the time.

If China wants to allow a place for people to complain about trump not controlled by a billionaire in Trump’s side…

What they get out of it isn’t the primary concern. It’s helping the American people even if only done to fuck with Trump’s administration

the problem is that it is controlled by an adversary

As opposed to billionaires working with the trump admin…

If you don’t think this is adversarial government, I won’t try to convince you, it’ll keep getting more and more obvious

You think Elon and Zuck are better?

The day Israel is at peace is the day they throw Bibi out of power…

The only reason he’s still in office is he’s refusing to allow elections to be held.

So he’s not going to allow peace because an election will almost immediately follow, if he’s not in charge, he can’t stop his corruption trial. And he’s guilty as fuck so he’d go to jail.

No matter what happens, Bibi isn’t going to let it be peace.

They’re gonna have to kick him out of office first, hopefully straight into a jail cell.

I legitimately have zero idea why anyone expected this to work.

It’s like sometimes I live in a country filled with Charlie Brown’s who gets irrationally angry everytime I point out Lucy will keep yanking the football away at the last second.

I never understood the “enough spam” communities…

They don’t stop posts from going to main communities, it just doubles every post.

Like, especially in this case I agree that there’s too many musk posts…

But I just don’t understand how reposting every article about him helps anything.

Meanwhile, American users are flocking to RedNote because authorities have worked themselves into a lather over privacy concerns about TikTok, while U.S. tech giants harvest user data with industrial efficiency. The difference? American data collection is done for profit, and Chinese data collection is done for control. Pick your poison.

Hard to argue Zuck and Elon don’t want control either…

Under President Biden, Zeller said the White House asked him to lay out a timeline for how a nicotine rule could be finalized by the end of 2024. Zeller said he delivered the plan in one of his last acts before retiring, and was not sure why the Biden administration failed to finalize the rule.

“I would not be forwarding this timeline to you, if I didn’t believe in good conscience that it could be met, as long as clearance times could be sped up,” Zeller recalled telling White House officials.

Didn’t stop people from giving Biden credit for accomplishing something just a few days ago…

This is the danger of giving credit before anything is done, they get the credit and quit.

No idea why you would make that assumption…

Or why you think that would be meaningful to the discussion…

Just sounds like a bad attempt at an insult which resulted in demonstrating ignorance. If that was your goal, then well done.

Nah, just what I think of everytime

I have no interest in a slap fight, have a nice life.

You people

What do you mean “you people”?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p5ZfDg3zdo&t=22s

Yeah, but in the real America police have literally never had “serve and protect” as part of their duties…

It was just a PR slogan.

Invalidating the whole analogy.

It’s just not relevant, and I’m sorry I can’t communicate that in a way you can grok

it’s not even praising the police, just stating its purpose

Maybe in that universe…

In ours “serve and protect” was never what the police were for, it was just a PR slogan they put in cruisers

That’s what I’m talking about, our universe is not the same, although you seem to not be sure about how our universe works…

If not youd see why the quote isn’t applicable.

Ah, so it’s not relevant at all because it’s literally not even based on our own universe…

Thanks!

If that guy truly believes cops “serves and protects the people”…

Then we shouldn’t be listening to anything they have to say.

What?

The “controversy” was manufactured by authorities…

There was no violence, no looting, no destruction until police attacked the protestors, then they drove them into another minority area after using violence to antagonize them…

Like, this was 30 years ago, lots of people have investigated this by now.

We knew it the year it happened

“In April, for whatever reason, there was no government assistance in this area. For three days we tried to find police officers. There were none,” he said. “There were conscious efforts to move officers from this area to other areas.”

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-09-12-me-298-story.html

Cops are still doing it, when there’s a peaceful protest they instigate violence so they can label protesters as violent looters and use that as an excuse to not listen to their demands.

Everyone who was sent to LA to help with the riots then just stood at the border where “white neighborhoods” started instead of actually going to where the riot was knew what they were doing and why.

It doesn’t take a fucking genius to put it together. Yet the author and some commenters appear to be having a lot of difficulty…

They’re ending it in America, because it’s what trump wants.

If they end it in civilized countries, it’ll get banned like Twitter was in Brazil.

“There was real sensitivity about keeping federal troops away from the front lines,” said Ollivant, who was ordered in by President George H.W. Bush as rioters in central-south LA set fire to buildings, assaulted police and bystanders, pelted cars with rocks and smashed store windows in the aftermath of the videotaped police beating of Rodney King, a Black motorist. “They tried to keep us in support roles, backing up the police.”

Important to note the real reason they kept military and cops “from the front lines” is they kettled Black protestors into Koreatown and then just let the two groups of minorities to fight it out while cops, ambulances, and firefighters were forming a barrier to protect the white neighborhoods.

I stopped reading the article as soon as the author showed they didn’t understand that. It’s been over 30 years, if the author didn’t know by now it’s because they didn’t bother to research what they’re writing about.

Cyberpunk was basically an unfinished alpha when it was released.

I played it the day it was released on pc, the only issue was how shitty the cars drove. But you could change the setting so bikes were usable

Consoles were different, but PC I never really had issues.

The gold standard in games retaining playerbases in this genre is Baldur’s Gate 3, which still puts up over 100,000 players nightly, though it released just over a year and a half ago.

“Released”…

Going off memory but I think BG3’s act 1 was out before cyberpunk or close to the same time. I had 100+ hours before the game released, and it was with huge gaps of play time. I think it was in Beta for at least two years.