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You're completely forgetting the sixties, a decade after Truman, in where the Soviets and Cubans were pointing rockets at us from our own back yard. It was a necessity for America to be able to represent itself on the world stage in the face of communism.
I’m not forgetting anything. I already said that I could make a compromise if it were in our backyard. Dying in Cuba and dying in Vietnam are two very different things. Also, the fact that we even had to deal with it in our backyard is proof that our foreign wars were useless because they still didn’t stop Cuba from being a communist shithole to this day. If you are going to advocate for useless wars that have no effect on national security, you better be one of the first to enlist when it begins.
If we lost Korea the reds would get a blank check in the Pacific which is our backyard. If we go by your logic we also give up Europe and now we’re threatened in the Atlantic as well. I’d rather a few boys die in Korea than a lot more die having to clean up something we easily could’ve avoided.
No kek, losing Korea wouldn’t have given the communists control of the Pacific. We had tons of bases there, still occupied Japan, and our European allies we were in the process of betraying still had colonies there too.
For the record, I have a huge hatred of Britain so I’d advocate for decolonization, and a far more extreme variant than what we saw, just because of that. Britain has been nothing but trouble, they stopped northward expansion by holding Canada, dragged us into world wars, and costed us hundreds of billions. They’re not an ally they’re a fucking parasite. But even putting aside my Anglophobia is it really worth it to prop up a dying empire and support them against a bunch of insurgencies when we could easily retain these areas in our orbit by backing independence? No. And make no mistake, while we could’ve slowed decolonization we could not stop it. All slowing it would do though is give the reds another way to fuck with us.
I didn’t say we should prop up these empires or try to stop decolonization, did you miss the part where I said I’m an isolationist? I just said that we shouldn’t have betrayed them by advocating for independence. And areas under our orbit? Why risk communists or evil warlords taking over these areas when their old European owners were already our allies?
 
Why Crimean war? Because Russian expansionism.
Why destroy Ottomans from within? Because Britain and the Ottomans were at war.
My point is that these military actions kill the large numbers of people on both sides and destabilize the host country. This causes massive diplomatic backlash as well. You can't have a trade empire when no one trusts you. Eventually they'd rather take the devil they don't know.
 
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My point is that these military actions kill the large numbers of people on both sides and destabilize the host country. This causes massive diplomatic backlash as well. You can't have a trade empire when no one trusts you. Eventually they'd rather take the devil they don't know.
I fully get your point. I'm not in disagreement with you. My main rebuke was with the other guy stating that the French and British were the primary drivers behind World War 1, when there's more evidence in support of Austria-Hungary, Germany and even Russia instigating conflict.
 
So far 10K Afrikaners have decided to evacuate.
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This is such a win. Bring in based whites who breed like crazy. Leave African niggers with nothing but empty land which niggers don't know how to toil. Incorporate the said based whites into your party and give them positions of power.

New White America.
 
Why did they need to escalate from a stupid invasion in the Balkans?
Why did Germany need to further escalate with its unjustified invasion of Belgium which in turn is what brings Britain into the fighting? The Anglo-Franks are actually the responsible party who honor their treaties when called upon. WW1 was mostly the blame of the central powers who actively wanted war with Russia and the Balkan invasion was just a means to facilitate that.
 
Taylor Swift--I wouldn't be surprised if some of those boos were coming from people aware of Justin Baldoni suing Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, several PR firms, and the NYT for trying to destroy him and his career, to the point of figuratively murdering him in the latest Deadpool movie. I'm linking the website where the court docs and receipts are. It's a ton, but worth the long read. Disney is also involved (because of Deadpool) and while Taylor is carefully not mentioned by name, it's clear she's a part of the whole thing and it's why she's been distancing herself from her BFF and mother of her godchildren. There's a thread on it that I was going to necro but there doesn't seem to be a lot of interest in discussing it
No, that had absolutely nothing to do with it.
Once again, Football fans were furious all of last year because the NFL kept taking time out if every broadcast to shine a spotlight on Taylor Swift, which angered them because it took attention away from the game just to try and get teenage girls to watch football. There were even conspiracy theories that the relationship was fake just to be a publicity stunt.
They were booing solely because NFL fans are unanimously fed up with ever having to see that stupid pop star ever again
 
Even if that weren't the case, I think it's vitally important to remember it will be necessary for DOGE to rip out the hearts and drink the blood of the very Republicans that are currently cheering it on before this is all over. I want to see just as much rending of garments and gnashing of teeth from Mitch McConnell or Steve Scalise as they slaughter their sacred cows and uncover their slush funds.

If I don't hear weeks of shrieking "but muh national security but muh terrorism but muh Christian values!" before the end of this, I'll consider DOGE a job only half done.

So far 10K Afrikaners have decided to evacuate.
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Wait Afrikaner is a real word and not a made up joker slur?
 
Well, let's hope tehy fuck up, FEMA. It should be fun to see how it will effect the US.
I imagine curtailing mission creep. Unironically that’s something that would be the easiest thing. Just have them be an auxiliary organ to states crisis and emergency services.

A huge issue with a lot of government services or departments is mission creep where you have goals that can never be actually fulfilled. Racism should not be a CDC mission.
 
Page one kills the suit, how can a judge distinguish between a "civil servant" and a "political appointee". Trump also has Section 2 of Article 2 of the constitution, "The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments" This seems fairly clear that he is the head of the executive branch. I will confess not crystal clear.
 
The DOGE case in New York has been assigned to Judge Jeannette Vargas. She’s a Biden appointee who has been a judge since November. She also clerked for Justice Sotomayor. But she apparently is friends with and was colleagues in the past with counsel for the United States, according to her order on recusal. Make of this what you will.

For more info: https://vettingroom.org/2024/03/26/...-court-for-the-southern-district-of-new-york/
 
Maybe the predditors should admit the possibility that people understand it and still support it because they do?
It's twofold.
1) The left cannot meme.
They cannot find humor in something they don't 100% disagree with, ergo they cannot sympathize with gamers who play along with the narrative because its fucking funny. In the case of Helldivers, part of the fun of the game is pretending that you are an actual Helldiver, and clowning around with other players online as you spread Managed Democracy (TM). This does not mean you actually fucking believe in an authoritarian government, it means you're just having fun.
While I'll usually knock Starship Troopers for being one of the first cases of "Hollywood intentionally raping the source material", I cannot deny the (first) movie was fucking funny and campy yet enjoyable. When people post [DESIRES TO KNOW MORE] or "I'm doing my part!", they are just having a laugh, not literally endorsing a militarist one-world-government.
(ironically, because half the faggots who scream about this see themselves as "global citizens" who "trust the reliable media sources")

2) The modern redditoid has zero sense of holistic thinking.
They are entirely interpretive, and would stand there in the shadow of a precariously-placed boulder on the side of the hill wondering how it got there and writing 10-page theses about either who's fault it is the boulder is leaning over the edge or what the teetering boulder symbolizes rather than just move the fuck out of the way.
They cannot bare to comprehend the idea that in a hypothetical dystopian future where your choices are: 1) killer aliens [and/or robots] who want TOTAL HUMAN DEATH and 2) authoritarian government that lies to you, that most humans would pick the latter.

So not wanting communism to spread makes me a Jew? Are you insane?
Back in my day, it was acceptable to hate commies (and muzzies) without being called a jew...

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You would think after some of the shit storms they would fucking stop fed posting on main.
I think really they just need to make an example out of a few of these people and perp walk them. Then it will stop for the most part.
Fucking leftists are such lazy forever-dependents that even when fedposting they can't help but reveal the need for someone else to do it for them.
 
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