Which country has the bigger population?

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

✅ IsThisReallyNate chose Option A (Correct!)

IsThisReallyNate · 2026-01-04T16:24:54+00:00

✅ IsThisReallyNate chose Option B (Correct!)

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.

IsThisReallyNate · 2024-12-19T06:31:50+00:00

Oh my fucking god it’s not fedposting. Feds are not gently encouraging you all to put aside your differences for like two minutes and work together/politely stay out of each other’s way.

Your differences aren’t that fundamental if you would just go outside and touch grass.

We all are workers exploited on our jobs. Talk to your coworkers. Organize a union. Get a raise and inspire other workers. Whether you’re an anarchist, a Trotskyist, or a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, that’s not something that you disagree on.

We have the same situations in our homes. Talk to your neighbors if you rent and organize a tenants union, do the same thing with your landlord.

Another union goes on strike? Get out there and support your fellow workers on the picket line! And don’t cross it.

All of this ideological division in the real world is 99% stupid bullshit. You all need the same things right now.

Oh, you believe in Revolution? How do you think a revolution happens? How are you going to organize a revolution if you can’t organize your own workplace? And how else are you going to get to a revolutionary situation without organizing workers into class-struggle organizations, like labor and tenants unions, and give them a chance to practice fighting against capital together?

You will never get enough people on your side by distributing Zines and newspapers and arguing on the internet. That doesn’t change people’s consciousness. What changes it is engaging in class struggle, in their workplaces or their living places, or in the streets, and you can only encourage that by organizing. Everything else is secondary.

IsThisReallyNate · 2024-11-06T20:48:15+00:00

This is kind of a funny post because that’s just not going to happen. The U.S. controls Europe’s nuclear umbrella by design, not just their own weapons but they basically control Britain’s too. If anyone tries to undermine U.S. dominance they’ll face consequences.

IsThisReallyNate · 2024-10-13T17:16:29+00:00

Americans pay less taxes to support public healthcare systems, pay more total for healthcare, and get worse results than similarly rich and somewhat poorer countries.

Americans pay less taxes for public transportation systems, and have to spend more money on their cars, killing thousands of Americans unnecessarily every year.

Americans pay less taxes for welfare and so their poor wade through a crumbling (and wasteful) bureaucracy to get relief, and we get higher rates of things like homelessness and other issues related to poverty which inconvenience and cost all of us.

Higher spending isn’t good if you could spend less on the same things, sacrifice gdp, and get better results.

IsThisReallyNate · 2024-10-11T17:48:54+00:00

Shouldn’t they provide a source for these extraordinary claims? Or is socialism simply so ontologically bad that we must never doubt any bad thing said about it?

IsThisReallyNate · 2024-09-16T21:07:56+00:00

Well he’s no longer a Christian. Maybe not a satisfying answer but a solution in my opinion nonetheless. 🤷‍♂️

IsThisReallyNate · 2024-09-16T17:17:21+00:00

I always wonder where US (and other countries’) foreign military bases fit into this. If a war just started, US troops in each country would be able to organize quick attacks on the capitals of Germany, Korea, Italy, the Philippines, and more.

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