if you continue to try { thisBullshit(); } you are going to catch (theseHands)

This is the most beautiful thing I’ve read all year

Blaming voters for the results of a liberal democracy is like blaming consumers who don’t recycle their plastic for climate change.

I’m writing in Lina Khan for president.

It’s not a matter of being ok with another country abusing their neighbors, nor is it about ‘letting them do what they want’, it’s about acknowledging the mutually assured destruction established during the cold war and having to reckon with the fact that there are other nations with the ability to end civilization that have other ambitions than you.

Leftists get mocked a lot about their pie-in-the-sky economic goals, but at least they have an intimate understanding of international conflict and the reality of oppositional superpowers. Unlike sheltered american adolescents who’ve never left their country for more than a week and have been assured their entire life that the US is the most powerful and moral nation on earth.

And that’s to say nothing about the fact that america is the antagonist to most other nations on the planet.

The alternative to this “line in the sand” is the eventual destruction of all things beautiful and good at the hands of the world’s most evil people.

Lmao who’s being naive?

The existence of nukes takes direct military intervention off the table, full stop. Diplomacy is the only way unless a nuclear exchange is acceptable to you.

The US is so privileged that they don’t realize that “just sit back and let it happen” is how the rest of the world has had to deal with them for the last 80 years, and now it’s unconscionable to think they have to ‘let it happen’ with a foreign adversary themselves

I think the world would be better if every country had nukes and countries like Russia, Israel, and the US couldn’t simply steamroll every other country standing in their way.

We can’t let the threat of nukes keep us from doing anything and allowing for Russia and China to just invade anywhere they want.

I’m sorry, but yes-we-fucking-can.

Jesus, people here are so fucking blood thirsty that they’re willing to entertain nuclear-fucking-holocaust just to ‘draw a line in the sand’

Friendly reminder that the US has already been ‘invading anywhere they want’ - I sure am glad the baddies aren’t as eager as the good guys are to glass half the planet.

Every time he takes a step in the right direction he punishes that foot by shooting it

Well yea, the US has had imperial ambitions since its founding, but they definitely doubled down when their primary adversary set up camp in their backyard

Fair point, Margot Robbie

How can we be totally fine with continuing to support and supply such a brazen and visible genocide?

yup.

I’m not saying there isn’t reason for those countries to want to joint an alliance against their imperialist neighbor, but honestly it’s kinda hard not to see how NATO’s influence has been abused for purposes other than defense.

I’m not sure who would say that it was to ‘stop NATO aggression’, but it’s not hard to imagine it as a some kind of response to NATO’s continued expansion around them.

NATO hasn’t been in any direct operations against Russia but they have been involved in the ME where they have been active.

I think of it a lot in the same way as the US’s pacific ocean and Caribbean territorial expansion and involvement in central america as a response to the Cuban Missile crisis and Soviet posturing.

This would be less believable if we didn’t do it so goddamn often.

You win.

Commence downvotes butthurt tankies.

I’m honestly confused about who the tankies are supposed to be at this point. Downvotes for what?

Oh god, that would fucking suck. Glad it worked out though.

I also prefer cheap laptops. I don’t need a supercomputer to work.

I’ve been feeling this one lately. I recently had a very large, super heavy laptop stolen, and I’ve been wondering why I even had such a mammoth to begin with.

I have a desktop with all the overhead I need for large tasks, any laptop I get basically just needs to run remote desktop with decent latency.

Thanks, corrected my comment above.

I’m interested in ksmbd… I chose SMB simply because I was using it across lunix/windows/mac devices and I was using OMV for managing it, but that doesn’t mean I couldn’t switch to something better.

Honestly though, I don’t need faster transfers typically, I just happen to be switching out a drive right now. SMB through OMV has been perfectly sufficient otherwise.