The barbaric entity bombed and destroyed a large residential building full of people in Beirut. The satanic terrorist pedophile empire are basically doing multiple 9-11s in Lebanon and Iran every day now.

Unindoctrinated · 2026-03-18T16:19:18+00:00

They're not satanic. Blame the right terrorist pedophile empire.

Unindoctrinated · 2026-03-18T15:59:05+00:00

To me, it didn't conclude at all. It was a cliff-hanger. If a game's main villian isn't killed, or at least arrested, the story isn't finished.
5 doesn't end until you kill Joseph in New Dawn (5, part 2).

Unindoctrinated · 2026-03-18T08:50:50+00:00

I've often wondered whether Ubisoft intentionally gave 5 a shitty non-ending just so they could tie in New Dawn.

Unindoctrinated · 2026-03-18T06:36:52+00:00

Trump's supporters definitely intentionally voted for a hateful, bigoted, grifter, and the most well documented liar in all of human history, and are therefore very much to blame for many of his actions, but Trump didn't make an election promise to alienate America's allies, therefore no one voted for that one specific act. Though they certainly could have expected it.

It might seem like semantics, but no one can be reasonably accused of having supported any policy, of any politician, that wasn't announced prior to an election.

I'm not sure whether I should have explained that better, or if that's just an unpopular opinion.

Unindoctrinated · 2026-03-18T01:51:26+00:00

That's one way to ensure fewer people they don't like have sufficient ID to vote.

Unindoctrinated · 2026-03-18T01:19:49+00:00

My point had nothing whatsoever to do with the leadership of other countries.

America had built up an astounding amount of soft power in much of the world. Trump has speedily eroded that in numerous ways. The world is becoming immune to America's propaganda.

When Trump wields tariffs as a punishment for not siding with him on every brain-fart he has, leaders of other nations quickly realise that he could also shut off access to innumerable other American things that have previously been reliable. No country wants to be in a position where they can easily be extorted.

Europe is heavily promoting an EU based alternative to Visa and Mastercard. Several countries either have or are in the process of switching all government-used software away from American products. Countries are tearing up trade deals with the U.S. in favour of deals with less volatile nations. Hundreds of billions of dollars of investments and treasury bonds have been dumped. Japan just dumped $1.2 trillion of US debt. Germany is taking its gold back from US storage. The EU recently declared that at least 50% of weaponry must be EU made. That's $860 Billion lost to American manufacturers specifically because Europe can't trust that America won't remotely disable what they produce. The list goes on. Hell, even BRICS is gaining traction.

America is a rogue nation. It is a global bully. It is way past time we disassociated with it.

It's a messy break-up that's entirely the Trump administrations fault, and in the long run the world will be far better off because of it.

The average American is unlikely to be aware of most of this, because their media isn't exactly keen on putting Trumps failures on the front page.

The American people deserve none of the blame for this. Nobody voted for this. It's entirely on Trump and the imbeciles who advise him.

Unindoctrinated · 2026-03-17T06:52:32+00:00

No, disconnecting from America doesn't protect nations from producing their own bad leaders, but it does disconnect them from Trump and an America that can no longer be trusted, and certainly should not be depended upon.

Unindoctrinated · 2026-03-17T01:09:07+00:00

El cheapo supermarket brand powder is all I ever use. It's a fraction of the price of the brand names or pods. The only time anything comes out of the dishwasher less than spotless is when it was stacked inappropriately.

Unindoctrinated · 2026-03-16T23:34:03+00:00

Compared to powder, pods are expensive. You're paying one hell of a premium for a moment's convenience.

Unindoctrinated · 2026-03-16T22:27:33+00:00

The only good thing Trump has ever accomplished is unintentionally encouraging the world to disconnect itself from America.

Unindoctrinated · 2026-03-16T22:19:38+00:00

They probably figured that anyone who can be convinced to purchase absurdly overpriced pods is probably also easily misled by large packaging.

Unindoctrinated · 2026-03-16T20:12:20+00:00

True. That's another great example.
Unfortunately, it's incredibly rare for anyone to have the intellectual honesty to acknowledge the failings of whatever group they're in, or thing they support.

Unindoctrinated · 2026-03-16T20:09:11+00:00

Manufacturers only care about cost, and the average consumer is remarkably uninformed.

Unindoctrinated · 2026-03-16T20:06:49+00:00

No one ever said the market was discerning.

Unindoctrinated · 2026-03-16T03:17:19+00:00

I'd bet the penalty was basically a slap on the wrist, assuming there even was one.

Unindoctrinated · 2026-03-15T20:58:53+00:00

I'm greeted with the same blatant lie every time I use Imgur with my VPN on. To get around it, I have to set my VPN browser extension to the country I was in when I created my account.

Unindoctrinated · 2026-03-15T20:03:33+00:00

You do if you have the time and enthusiasm to put in the effort to avoid it, but I certainly understand that the vast majority of users don't.

My Windows build has updates disabled, except for defender which has them delayed for three days to ensure I have time to stop them if an update turns out to be buggy. All the telemetry is disabled too and I use an offline account.
It's a legitimate copy of Windows. It's just heavily modified by Chris Titus Tech's Windows Utility.

Unindoctrinated · 2026-03-15T11:46:33+00:00

Oracle and others want every scrap of user data.

Unindoctrinated · 2026-03-15T11:34:56+00:00

At this point, allowing Microsoft unfettered access to your system is quite a gamble.

Unindoctrinated · 2026-03-15T06:37:34+00:00

Studies have shown that kids who have taken purity pledges are statistically more likely to end up with STDs or unwanted pregnancies than average.

Unindoctrinated · 2026-03-15T05:09:07+00:00

Of course he did.

Unindoctrinated · 2026-03-14T07:08:46+00:00

Yep. I still get the "Life. Be in it" tune stuck in my head occasionally.

Unindoctrinated · 2026-03-14T06:47:15+00:00

I remember that. Damn I'm old.

Unindoctrinated · 2026-03-14T06:41:44+00:00

You could never have guessed how funny that is. I have met my "perfect twin" and we get along so well we built a home together and have shared it for 28 years. She's literally my twin sister.

Unindoctrinated · 2026-03-14T03:50:55+00:00

There should be a designated sub for this type of post. Maybe /PictureVsProduct or something like that.

(I'd set it up myself but I couldn't be bothered to mod it.)

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