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    11 hours ago

    The GOP was putting out a lot of bullshit about how the US spends so much money on other countries and doesn’t help people at home to get votes for a long time. Eventually some people that actually believed the bullshit got into power and killed it.

    Really USAID was about soft power. The US provides aid and that allowed the US the threaten to cut off aid if a country didn’t go along with US interests. Way cheaper than threatening to use military force to get your way.

    USAID had a lot of problems and definitely could’ve been made a lot more efficient. But eliminating it was a stupid move.

    In many places China stepped in when USAID was gone. Not because of altruism but because China wants that soft power the US abandoned.

    Yes, it was incompetence.




  • But what’s the point of it then?

    I guess if you have multiple computers you can access the files from either computers. But for people that just have one computer the whole thing seems kinda useless. And then MS forces people to use this product they have no need for by holding their computer ransom. People don’t want their files on One Drive, they only have it because MS forced it upon them.

    This is like forcing a passenger to fly a 747 and then saying “well the plane crashed because of pilot error” and ignoring the fact that someone was forced some to be behind the controls of something they understand against their will.

    For a home user, a backup service or just a way to share files actually makes more sense than something that mindlessly syncs file actions, including deletes. One Drive could be useful if it were what people expect it to be. As it is, it’s useless for most people, and bad on them for thinking MS One Drive was a useful product I guess.





  • What are you talking about? That’s the crowd that still hates Jews and are peeling off more and more “leftists” into their right wing movement.

    Have you ever heard of Candace Owens? A lot of the “leftist” “anti-Israel” crowd are flocking to her now.

    Nationalists and socialists finding common ground over their hatred of Jews. Where have we heard this one before?

    How do you feel about your failed movement being the gateway to fascist anti-semiitsm? Do you just not care as long as people hate “Israel” as much as you do?









  • Yeah it’s kind of a thing where the switch benefited from the failure of the Wii U while the Switch 2 is being hurt by the success of the Switch.

    BOTW was available on the Wii U, but since so few people had one of those, it made sense to get a Switch to play it.

    With the Switch 2 I feel like “Meh, I already have a Switch it doesn’t seem like it’s offering much more than what I already have”. Also it’s larger and when I want to use the Swtich hand held (mostly just when I’m on a plane) seems like that might be a pain in the ass. Also with the Switch 1 they eventually came out with a better OLED model, so I’ll just keep playing the Switch 1 until they come out with something a little more compact and maybe with a better screen or whatever. Stick drift has been an issue for me so also want something with more reliable sticks.

    Seems like I might be asking a lot, but for the price they’re asking if I’m not getting what I want, then I’ll stick with the Switch 1. It’s fine.


  • Yup, and it’s generally “alleged murderer” only after they’ve been charged.

    Knowing how the media uses these terms helps understand where along the line things are in terms of the justice system. If I read “murder” I’d assume the guy has been convicted (so justice is being served) because of the convention of not using that word until there’s a conviction. “Shooter” means he hasn’t even been charged, so I know there’s been no justice.

    It wouldn’t be good for the media to imply justice has been served when in reality it hasn’t. So it’s good that they call him a shooter so those of us with media literacy know the situation accurately.



  • It’s about corporations taking away people’s humanity. Note how few people in the movie have any empathy at all.

    Robocop never actually escapes the control of the corporation. He’s only able to kill that guy at the end after he was fired.

    It’s not a movie that demands you pick up on it’s themes. You can enjoy it as a dumb action movie where you see a cyborg shoot a guy in the dick. Or you can think about what it’s saying and get more from it.

    It’s actually more consistent with the themes of Phillip K. Dick than Blade Runner was. I do like Blade Runner, but if we’re being honest, it is a little boring and only touches on PKD’s themes. One of the writers on Blade Runner wrote the script to RoboCop to get more of PKDs themes into a movie. Robocop has the PKD that Blade Runner missed . So RoboCop is a more exciting movie than Blade Runner, while having more PKD.

    RoboCop gets the Dick right while shooting a guy in the dick.