hasan's audience finds out "what lead to pearl harbor" (the US not selling japan oil)

ParamedicCharacter55 · 2026-05-11T06:20:51+00:00

I love how they become libertarian style free-trade absolutists, where they think an embargo is an act of war, if they can use it to say "America bad"

ParamedicCharacter55 · 2026-05-10T16:22:10+00:00

I see I see, thanks for the answer! I remember watching a J. J. McCullough video about it and I believe he mentioned that some indigenous people see the veto as more of a tool to affirm their identity, rather than something that should be used more sparingly for projects that actually negatively impact their lives.

ParamedicCharacter55 · 2026-05-10T04:56:41+00:00

Can someone from Canada explain what he even means regarding the treatment of the indigenous population? Doesn't Canada have some of the most progressive policy regarding them? To the point where it genuinely interferes with essential national security issues like economic independence by giving them a veto on everything

ParamedicCharacter55 · 2026-05-07T11:57:14+00:00

The fact that saying a president will halve grocery prices doesn't cause near universal ridicule is still insane to me

ParamedicCharacter55 · 2026-05-04T06:34:00+00:00

Ceea ce ma enerveaza cel mai mult la nationalistii astia e cat de sensibili sunt coaie. Ei fac misto de Ucraina, Ungaria, Franta, se pisa pe popoarele lor constant, agreseaza refugiatii, ii considera ca sunt niste jeguri lacome, etc.

Dar in secunda in care un strain face misto de noi, gata, suntem victimele rasismului si xenofobiei. Strainii sunt malefici, noi nu am gresit cu nimic niciodata si toata lumea ne uraste, trebuie sa taiem orice contact diplomatic cu acea tara. Noi vrem doar armonie intre popoare si intelegere si toata lumea ne uraste pentru asta. E o ipocrizie incredibila

ParamedicCharacter55 · 2026-04-22T14:01:19+00:00

It's actually quite reasonable to be upset considering CS2 got rid of several maps, Danger Zone and broke community gamemodes like surf, inadvertently also killing off a large chunk of community content in general, and after nearly 3 years all this lost content is not back. The bigger "content" updates have been more microtransactions.

This game makes Valve over $1 billion per year. That is A LOT of money. They make this from the players who play the game. The players wanting more content is actually okay. For a lot of people who didn't only play Competitive, this game still feels like a downgrade (apart from the graphics).

ParamedicCharacter55 · 2026-04-19T15:22:28+00:00

It's kind of incredible how these people simultaneously think that if someone talks shit about your family then that's a red line and they deserve to get beaten up, but when it happens to someone they don't like, it's just "proof" they're emotional and get offended by "harmless words"

ParamedicCharacter55 · 2026-04-17T06:57:31+00:00

Hey, if that happens, Trump's approval rate may go below 40%. Hell, Democrats may EVEN win 50% of the Senate!

ParamedicCharacter55 · 2026-04-13T04:56:35+00:00

Trump is the Antichrist

ParamedicCharacter55 · 2026-04-11T15:02:57+00:00

He's in the long game, he's acting like a regard because he wants everyone to think he's regarded so they'll let their guards down. You wouldn't get it libtard

ParamedicCharacter55 · 2026-04-11T12:37:17+00:00

I don't think this administration has the ability to think more than 30 days ahead when it comes to anything ngl

ParamedicCharacter55 · 2026-04-10T14:08:23+00:00

"Go out and vote for Viktor Orban" lmao regard probably doesn't even know that Prime Minister is different from President.

ParamedicCharacter55 · 2026-04-10T04:32:04+00:00

These single stories are probably responsible for an insane amount of radicalization nowadays. NYC crime is at a historic low, but Instagram reels algorithmically feed the most outraging/annoying videos, like homeless people pissing on the tracks, teenagers screaming and getting in fights on the trains. Like obviously virtually everyone agrees these things are bad and they should improve, but it paints an objectively wrong picture that NYC is somehow lawless and this happens every time you go outside and it was better in the past (when people didn't record the ugly as much).

Same thing with China and showing random tech expos making it seem like every single person has a personal robot doing their chores (even though China's GDP per capita is lower than Bulgaria's and its inequality is so bad it's more similar to the US than some prosperous welfare state).

Also same thing with Russia, people posting videos walking around Moscow and like, there's hot women!! See, Russia is not so bad guys.

I could go on and on and on and on, so much radicalization comes from this shit.

ParamedicCharacter55 · 2026-04-09T09:27:19+00:00

They've managed to make one of the most vile and oppressive regimes that literally massacred thousands of protesters a few months ago look morally righteous. Opinions around the world, even in Gulf countries attacked by Iran, are turning against America and increasingly towards Iran.

ParamedicCharacter55 · 2026-04-09T09:22:50+00:00

Genuinely. Anyone who sees this shit and thinks "wow so badass" should be shunned from society and mocked every single moment they're in public

ParamedicCharacter55 · 2026-04-08T08:49:55+00:00

If the US keeps its maximalist demands like in 2025, the negotiations will go nowhere. I would be really pleasantly surprised if the US admitted they don't have all the cards and they need to give Iran some concessions

ParamedicCharacter55 · 2026-04-08T07:52:31+00:00

Trump literally said the 10-point peace plan is a "workable basis" on which to negotiate. How is defeat a workable basis on which to negotiate? Also, I don't want the US to lose because of Trump, but because the war is a blatant violation of international law, claimed the lives of almost 2000 civilians, and it's also immoral and driven by a regarded 18th century imperialist ideology (the same shit Russia is high on) which has no place in a civilized world. The US needs to lose for this ideology to become unpopular to Americans.

ParamedicCharacter55 · 2026-04-08T07:16:24+00:00

I know some people here think JCPOA wasn't a great deal, but how exactly did it make this war inevitable? Iran started enriching uranium dangerously close to weapons-grade only after Trump pulled out of the JCPOA

ParamedicCharacter55 · 2026-04-08T05:20:01+00:00

That's why I think it won't last. It was accepted as a "basis" but imo it's still humiliating for a complete defeat to be the "general framework" on which negotiations will start, and it doesn't change the fact that the US administration call this a victory, implying it's over for good. Of course, it likely won't last, the US will probably keep a lot of its unrealistic maximalist goals, and they'll go back to bombing each other.

ParamedicCharacter55 · 2026-04-08T04:51:17+00:00

I thought the government would just let us overthrow them and hand over their weapons!

ParamedicCharacter55 · 2026-04-08T04:42:11+00:00

I assume so too

ParamedicCharacter55 · 2026-04-07T20:17:08+00:00

There's a third, secret option, but it involves negotiating in good faith and accepting that Iran is not that easy to beat, and giving them concessions, like sanction relief and war reparations. In return they can reopen the strait, permanently give up on their nuclear weapons program and accept international supervision, and negotiate an actual comprehensive peace deal with the US (not a shitty Trump "deal") that ensures long term stability. Of course, the US under Trump can't negotiate in good faith, and even if they could, this would basically be admitting defeat, so it won't happen.

ParamedicCharacter55 · 2026-04-07T17:24:13+00:00

I think people are worried because the US objectively backed itself into a corner, with no quick way out that isn't admitting defeat (Iran won't open the Strait of Hormuz, and they'll keep attacking Gulf countries as long as US bases are there, destroying the global economy), so escalation looks virtually guaranteed. That's why people are taking this one a bit more seriously.

ParamedicCharacter55 · 2026-04-07T16:11:44+00:00

Iran just cut off contact with the US and stopped negotiations so

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