It matters to pirates. China isn’t worried about a war with the US. Let’s face it the US is gone in a decade at most.

China is worried about transporting goods over sea from their belt and road allies using routes that pass by nations famous for naval piracy… Something currently kept in check by us patrols. If the US does start divesting one way or another from its navy, nations will need to guard their own ships from piracy, and that’s China’s clear goal with their entire naval forces.

MMT is how it’s currently run, and that’s fine if we didn’t schizophrenically fuck up that path every four years by trying to pretend taxes pay for spending like a business.

Realistically, though, the government should just distribute the resources necessary for life, utilizing whatever means necessary to obtain and redistribute those resources equally without harming anyone’s basic human rights.

Money, currency, etc is for trading with outside forces. That’s what it was developed for. Trade with people you don’t trust. For the majority of human history local economies ran entirely without currency being involved, with it only being needed for trade. It was fine, it was better locally.

We can even more easily implement a sharing or trust based local economy now that computers are a thing, and we can easily distribute and equalize necessary resources for the same reason.

Except then you couldn’t obtain capital, and couldn’t rent things. And without rent you can’t become obscenely rich. So we can’t have that.

Ignoring whatever happened in the majority of your comment, that last sentence is a purity test.

A purity test in the context of politics is essentially a test to see how close to an ideology you are in order to exclude those that are less close.

In an example from the gop: all elected gop officials have to swear an oath to never support legalized abortion. This is a red line and has been since the 1970s, and is the primary purity test for that party.

What this person is talking about is the same, the idea that no one that aides or supports genocide should be a part of (presumably) the left or anti GOP side of politics.

This purity test, however, means you can’t logically vote for Biden or Harris, and Zionists shouldn’t be allowed in the left regardless of any support for lgbtq they may show. Since they explicitly support genocide.

That’s great and all, but your criticism needs to be redirected at yourself. Gay people aren’t gods. Neither are Jews. Neither are disabled people.

They are not ubermensch to which we should sacrifice our children to unwillingly.

They are not special. No one is.

If your cause is great you’ll have no problem finding volunteers for your war. If not the cause wasn’t that great. You don’t get to tell others how they should die or what they should fight for. The right of life and death over themselves is the only true right that humans have, and violating that right is the most evil thing; whether it is murder, genocide, or conscription ending in either.

Nazis are awful, they deserve to die. I’ll probably die fighting them based on my class and characteristics. But forcing someone in front of their bullets for my life would make me as evil as they are.

Victims of communism was created by the CIA to spread anti communist propaganda. There are few if any facts in any of their ridiculous statements.

The only real victims of communism were Nazis, kings, and people that aided those groups. Any monument with random names from ‘victims’ will only realistically have Nazis on it.

It’s still important to have judicial and executive power under your own control, rather than the British.

My time at evershine, the sequel to my time at Sand Rock and my time at Portia … Think stardew valley 3d but more collecting resources and punching llamas to build things than farming (though you can also just farm).

…the art style takes some getting used to if you start at Portia; but its incredibly fun for a couple of play throughs.

Guns. The advent of firearms revolutionized warfare to the extent that no other military arms mattered, and no other training mattered.

Before firearms were adopted, it would take a good ten to twenty years to raise a standing army, and retinues would still need a few months of training to not be slaughtered within the first battle. With firearms you just need a week or two and any peasant with two arms became an effective soldier.

Contrasting this, bowmen weren’t peasants. They did not return to their family when there wasn’t war. They were trained from around the age of seven to around the age of 15, and after this would be a professional soldier until they retired or died; training every single day (except Sundays or Saturdays depending on religion). They were paid to be bowmen, nothing else. Even if a peasant could use a bow, say if they were a hunter, they would never qualify for military service. Its that big of a difference in skill.

As to their differences in effect, range and force.

The weakest powder musket equals a ~80lbs draw war bow. Both can pierce plate armor on a good day, but the former can do so from a longer distance and again with decades less training. As guns get more advanced, their range and penetration increases massively, whereas most archers will be unable to draw a 120lbs or higher bow, meaning there is a maximum distance and effectiveness of bows that is almost comically lower than weapons.

To keep with freedom units, a deadly long range bow shot tops out at around a quarter mile with a high draw weight long bow. That’s about the absolute max, assuming the victim is wearing no armor. The current record for a sniper with a gun is around 1.5 miles, with the target wearing body armor.

That’s nice dear, but some of us need food and shelter to exist long term.

No, I value freedom over something as stupid as a country. If the country is worth defending, people will volunteer.

Kidnapping them and sending them to their death is pure evil regardless of the reason. There is no justification. If your country does that, it deserves and needs to be wiped off the face of the planet.

It’s not naive to value human life over a nation.

Because the FBI was created with the explicit purpose of assassinating left wing politicians and activists in the US, and the CIA was founded for the same reason but abroad.

Ripping apart a baby to bring the rain is a bad thing regardless of whether or not it rains. Kidnapping kids under threat of decades of torture and telling them to kill or be killed is bad regardless of whether or not it stops the Nazis.

Forced conscription is a crime on the level of genocide, because often that’s what results.

Because it’s tasty. Because we have a few million year history of eating it and it satisfies a deep itch in our consciousness.

The only issues with meat are the ethical concerns and the environmental issues, both of which are eliminated with lab meat. We get the taste without the pointless suffering.

Not everyone likes plant proteins as a sole source, and that’s okay.

And they were still bad for doing that.

Anything that can be seen as anti Ukraine is going to generate a lot of down votes in liberal/right wing instances.

Including very real ethical questions that just use Ukraine as an example.

That’s fair but for a population to take to a previously forbidden food group requires decades to centuries of conditioning, and have to be better than not having them. Cheese, for example; even populations with high levels of lactose intolerance and without a strong culture of fermented foods tend to like cheese, because it fills a niche that’s difficult to fill without cheese.

I’ve had a lot of traditional insect dishes as well as more modern takes where they just sub a random flavorless food for insects like the flavored dried crickets… None of them are that good. The sauces or seasoning makes them edible. Anything you can get from an insect based dish you can get using beans or potatoes or rice or literally anything else without a particularly strong flavor. They don’t have a niche they fill.

Adoption without just making it a generic protein bar a’la snowpiercer isn’t likely unless all other protein sources become out of reach… And we really shouldn’t force it since we did crack lab grown meat. Lamb and veal are incredibly delicious unethical, but we can make that. Well likely be able to do seafood as well, bringing back whale, real tuna, even dolphin. And we if really want bugs well there’s shrimp on the far horizon to be grown…

There’s really no need to deal with the downsides of bugs. Like legs or exploding guts.

Palestinians, to the average Zionist aren’t human. They range from animals to demons, depending on whichever fulfills the fascist propaganda needs at the time.

Closing off Gaza is closing the gates of hell, keeping in the demons and making sure they stay there while gods holy soldiers kill them.

This type of thinking is common is Israel, and why the state of Israel is beyond redemption at this stage in history. The Nazis won there.

But we have literally no need to do it. Lab grown meat requires the same level of input as industrial cricket or worm farming per gram of protein and produces fat at the same time while being far more palatable.

There’s no need to go back to famine era stone age practices to solve the ethical and environmental problems of meat eating.

…did you forget black people exist again?

He’s the president and it was an official act. That’s the end of any lawsuit against him; the movant isn’t even legally allowed to question the motive of the president, so if the president says it was an act of office and uses the tools of the office, he’s completely immune.

It’s the same reason Biden can’t be sued or criminally charged for anything done during his time as president by anyone.