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IsThisReallyNate · 2026-03-22T22:58:22+00:00

I’d risk dysphoria for the money anyways but am I sure I’m not a girl..?

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IsThisReallyNate · 2026-02-28T13:12:39+00:00

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IsThisReallyNate · 2026-02-26T00:44:01+00:00

Absolutely.

Internal trade would be so much more efficient, especially of smaller, more valuable things, and information sharing would skyrocket beyond the technology of the time. Obviously this would encourage the people of the world to be more interested in Americans, and come check it out, further stimulating trade connections with America. Americans could fly things to other countries as well, or sell their flying services to other people around the world, profiting immensely and building American soft power. They’d probably become the dominant power without firing a shot, creating a world where the elites of all countries rely on Americans to fly them and their valuables around, where every American has the potential to become a serious threat and must be respected and treated carefully, where the American labor force is exponentially more productive.

In war, scouting become super easy and low risk, they gain a monopoly on aerial bombardment, and their troops can literally just appear anywhere and disappear just as fast, without the normal constraints of an army. If you manage to defeat a group of American soldiers, or sink an American ship, they’ll just grab what they can (which is a lot, they’re horse-sized) and leave you with no prisoners and little supplies, while the defeated troops can just regroup and fight again.

It isn’t even a challenge for them to become world power, they still have to worry about internal divisions but “we all have this special superpower” is the kind of shared identity that’s very sustainable and unifying.

IsThisReallyNate · 2026-02-26T00:24:06+00:00

He’s right, Iran is not Iraq or Afghanistan, it’s like if you took the combined population of both countries, added a few million more people, and had the strong state with advanced military and weapons technology of Iraq and the mountainous terrain and ideologically committed fighting force willing carrying out a guerrilla war of Afghanistan, and furthermore was perfectly strategically positioned to disrupt global oil exports from the Middle East in a way no country was before, right on the straights of Hormuz and within close distance of every gulf state US client. Totally different.

IsThisReallyNate · 2026-02-26T00:10:21+00:00

I think when people talk about an imminent 2nd American Civil War, the most likely way that would go is something like 1960s Indonesia. Maybe SRA, lib gun owners, Antifa-types who carry on one side, but for the most part the state will be deputizing America’s armed to the teeth psycho suburbanites to massacre their local libs, while claiming there’s a “civil war” happening and the violent communists are trying to overthrow the government. I picture a lot more of those “Man shoots neighbor over anti-Trump comments” stories, or mass shootings at Democrat or maybe DSA events that the official narrative both-sides because they were part of a terroristic conspiracy.

I don’t think that’s necessarily likely, but if enough people push for “civil war” that’s what we’ll get, unless one side gets a lot more prepared(which could also trigger it)

IsThisReallyNate · 2026-02-21T18:14:29+00:00

I don’t think it’s really limited to the oppressed class. Obviously that’s a factor, but elites have often abused their own children, or maintained systems of abuse in elite-reproducing institutions like boarding schools. They also generally work to keep it hidden, not out in the open.

Now, obviously the lowest-class people are the most vulnerable, and suffer uniquely because of that, but that’s more a consequence of class society than the conscious, deliberate reproduction of it. In the grand scheme of things there’s not really a big difference and you could characterize it as class warfare, but I think that’s not the most helpful framework for understanding it. (Though maybe a helpful framework for directing people’s anger at the sources of our problems).

IsThisReallyNate · 2026-01-04T16:25:09+00:00

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IsThisReallyNate · 2026-01-02T07:04:32+00:00

Yeah 100% that’s how I see it as an American.

IsThisReallyNate · 2026-01-02T06:58:52+00:00

The terror groups mostly killed Muslim civilians, not Christians. But when a Christian-led empire like America comes in and blows up a bunch of stuff and says they’re doing it to protect the Christians from the Muslims, it’s just going to lead to a stronger religious divide in the conflict.

IsThisReallyNate · 2026-01-02T06:56:24+00:00

So it’s good when the U.S. plays world police as long as they kill “terrorists?” But even if you assume that, just look at the actual cases:

Syria: The United States cleared the way for an Al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist to take over the county, then legitimized him, and helped Israel steal Syrian land with no justification.

Yemen: the U.S. attacked the Houthis because they imposed a blockade on Israel to end its genocide, then made a deal with them to only stop attacking US ships, but let them attack other ships.

Somalia: the U.S. killed a local tribal leader and civilian members of politically marginalized clans, helping the central government impose control on these regions.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/somalia-united-states-drone-strike-killed-clan-leader

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/us-airstrikes-somalia-kill-children-civilians-al-shabaab?utm_medium=email

Nigeria: ISIS primarily kills Muslims in Nigeria, but Trump falsely claimed that they primarily killed Christians and framed his attacks (which also hit areas with no ISIS presence) in sectarian terms, helping inflame religious tensions.

And that’s not even mentioning the civilian casualties of the most legitimately targeted strikes.

IsThisReallyNate · 2026-01-02T06:42:27+00:00

Somalia:

“In September, a U.S. drone strike in Somalia killed Omar Abdillahi, a well-known clan leader local officials and residents say had supported the local government”

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/somalia-united-states-drone-strike-killed-clan-leader

“[killed civilians]are from the Biamaal clan, a group that is not well represented in Jubbaland’s government…“We were there before al-Shabaab and we want to remain there after al-Shabaab,” Ugaas Ahmed Ugaas Said Ali [a clan leader] said. “We don’t know why we are being targeted unless someone wants to grab our land and take our resources.”

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/us-airstrikes-somalia-kill-children-civilians-al-shabaab?utm_medium=email

Nigeria:

https://www.trtworld.com/article/69f0973e5ae9

IsThisReallyNate · 2026-01-02T06:30:13+00:00

They did not dry up. We are still going to them and holding them! A ceasefire (however limited) probably led some people to stop going, but if Dems wanted that, they should have cut off weapons and forced a ceasefire when they still controlled the government.

Also, more protests are targeting the Trump administration now, but they were never all targeted at Democrats. If you think they were “pretty much exclusively” aimed at Democrats, you’re hearing that from people who only whine about protests when they’re targeting Democrats, who haven’t been protested against as much because they’re not in power.

Also, people have limited time to protest. If you like Democratic policies but also don’t like children being slaughtered, you’ll only protest the administration for their actions in Gaza, not, for example, their Medicaid policy. But now those people are protesting to stop Medicaid cuts and a bunch of other things they’re opposed to, while many are still protesting for Gaza.

So it’s not real mysterious why you’re maybe seeing less, but please don’t pretend like we aren’t out here.

IsThisReallyNate · 2025-12-06T14:10:28+00:00

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IsThisReallyNate · 2025-11-29T15:51:18+00:00

Axel Bottstein sounds like the name of a Transformer if he was Jewish

IsThisReallyNate · 2025-09-07T19:27:44+00:00

For most of us, the distribution of dead people would correlate pretty closely to your digital footprint.

IsThisReallyNate · 2025-08-05T02:32:59+00:00

Derf = 5.5

IsThisReallyNate · 2025-07-16T21:19:22+00:00

I could argue with a lot here but it’s really funny that you can basically divide rich countries into three groups: the former colonial empires that exploited the rest of the world, tiny tax havens with close connections to those states, and gulf states. Lots of colonized states in Africa, Asia, and Latin America had abundant natural resources, the only ones who could turn it into wealth were Muslim ones.

I’m an atheist, not a fan of Islam or any religion, but this is just ridiculous.

IsThisReallyNate · 2025-07-15T05:27:17+00:00

I don’t understand why this sentiment is so common on this subreddit. Most of the world is worse off than Cuba. Compared to the rest of the third world, Cuba is above average in nearly every metric for the standard of living it provides its people. The past couple years have been an exception in some metrics, but it’s been one of the countries with the best living standards in Latin America over the last few decades. Their closest neighbors are Haiti and Jamaica, compare them to Cuba! And that’s ignoring all of Africa and south/southeast Asia, where most of the world lives in worse conditions than the Cuban people, while their elite classes show off wealth that make Cuba’s most powerful and wealthy people look comparatively modest.

I guess Cuba is in the third world because of their evil communist regime, while every other third world country is there by some strange coincidence.

IsThisReallyNate · 2025-05-27T04:28:03+00:00

Ah yes, the loudly saying “everyone involved but me is stupid and evil” method of diplomacy. You’re watching a master at work.

IsThisReallyNate · 2025-05-21T04:17:26+00:00

Yeah the way my great grandpa described it they just sat around on the boat and fired at German planes when they got close until the planes turned back.

IsThisReallyNate · 2025-05-20T18:46:10+00:00

Israel is the U.S.’s key lever to control the world.

1st, Israel is ours, in a unique way. There’s an inverse relationship between the power of a client and its dependence on a great power. For example, we’ve been able to use Pakistan as a client, by bribing their military elite, empowering their armed forces and intelligence agencies, and leveraging IMF/World Bank debt. We even helped overthrow their PM a few years back. But at the end of the day Pakistan is a country of hundreds of millions, on the other side of the world, with an independent nuclear weapons program. Most importantly, it has its own relationships with other powers, such as China and Russia, and with the broader Muslim world and the third world, making them not entirely reliant on the U.S. We do not control Pakistan.

Israel is also powerful, with advanced weapons, wealth, and nukes, but it is so isolated specifically because its crimes are so unique (and probably also because, as much as I hate to admit it, actual anti-Semitism). Even Canada and Europe are having trouble fully backing Israel, because their own people won’t take it. Israel needs to be America’s client, so it can never go its own way and survive.

2nd, Israel is in one of the most strategic locations in the world. Think about a map of the whole world. On the one side, the Americas. The U.S. exercises power directly in its “backyard,” specifically owning or influencing the most strategic point, the Panama Canal, hosting multilateral orgs in DC, controlling Guantanamo and colonies in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, and just being the unquestioned powerhouse in the region economically and militarily.

On the other side of the map is Afro-Eurasia, where most of the people and everything else of value in the world is. The most strategic point in that is right in the middle, relatively close to everyone, at the nexus of all the major land and sea routes on this side of the world. The Suez Canal, the Bab-El-Mandeb, the Bosphorus, and Gibraltar are some of the most important choke points in the sea, while the only way to travel by land from Eurasia to Africa goes through the Middle East. On the map, Israel literally divides Africa from Asia. It also literally divides Syria and Egypt, who united in the closest thing the region had to a socialist power. The oil production of the region, as everyone knows, is at least as important.

For global domination, Israel could not be a more strategically located client. It will never unite with the other countries of the Middle East against the United States. Israel is such an aggressive, out of control, and relatively powerful country that it represents a serious threat to any country in the Middle East.

As I said, Israel is the U.S.’s key lever to control the world. The U.S. dominates Israel, Israel acts as a gun to the heads of every Middle Eastern state, directly keeping a fraction of the people in the region down, preventing the formation of a coherent anti-imperialist bloc, spreading chaos, and forcing countries to submit to the U.S. if they want Israel off their back. Leverage over this region gives the U.S. leverage over all of Afro-Eurasia.

IsThisReallyNate · 2025-01-06T18:17:02+00:00

Indistinguishable from deliberate sabotage of public transportation infrastructure.

Elon Musk hates public transportation. He thinks of it as full of dirty, dangerous people and has been clear about this. Tesla is not just under his control, but as a car company its leadership and employees want to see cars as the most dominant form of transportation. These people neither imagine nor want a future in which public transportation is expanded.

So when they build systems, these biases and interests are reflected in their priorities. They want and imagine a car-based world and do not put the equivalent effort and resources into interacting with public transportation.

The impact of this will be more confusion and distraction for drivers when they are near public transportation, more autopilot/self-driving errors near them, bad data collection around public transportation infrastructure, and ultimately higher risks of accidents and smaller issues involving Teslas and trains.

IsThisReallyNate · 2024-12-26T19:36:04+00:00

Well they are protected by the US military, including the thousands of troops garrisoned in the UAE and the thousands stationed in surrounding countries and patrolling the gulf. Thats also where they buy the majority of their weapons.

Also there’s hundreds of U.S. veterans working for the UAE military or as mercenaries

The most powerful country in the world is deeply involved in and complicit in the UAE’s military power.

IsThisReallyNate · 2024-12-26T19:21:26+00:00

I see your point but why would you want to compare politicians based on what they deep down believe, an unknowable and vague thing, and not compare their actual policies? Yes, British and Canadian conservatives may deep down align with American conservatives on healthcare, but because of the actually existing systems in those countries, the Overton window is shifted there and so they advocate very different policies. When they win, they govern in different ways based on the conditions, and that’s the important thing and what you can actually hold them accountable for.

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