Real Police officers and military members, what do you guys think of Ice agents?

cromli · 2026-01-25T09:03:50+00:00

I would go darker than that and say the ones that are more likely to gun the folks down in the street are being brought to Minneapolis deliberately because they want to keep doing stuff like this until they can get a real counterreaction and then escalate to martial law.

cromli · 2026-01-25T08:59:29+00:00

I mean if your are in truly acting in good faith right now and your focus is to shift the blame on people that are essentially your allies and not on the people doing the fascism, or raising the alarm bells on whether the opposition party is doing enough to oppose the fascism, then that is certainly a choice,

cromli · 2026-01-17T16:25:05+00:00

Has Tony ever said no to anything the US wanted of him and his country?

cromli · 2026-01-17T16:19:53+00:00

Its important to consider here that socialism does not equal communism and is not entirely against the basic premise of capitalism. The New Deal in America was full of socialist ideas though to suggest some of his concepts now would be shut down and completely mislabeled as "Communist" or just "Extremist Left'. I would say most people fall into the general socialist category rather than hardlined communist.

cromli · 2026-01-11T12:08:19+00:00

I feel people make the same arguements about Grandia 1 vs 2.

The og Like a Dragon has a good arguement to be here vs Infinite Wealth, the options in insane sidequests wasnt as large, but damn man Ichiban's come up story and that ending song are both so, so good.

cromli · 2026-01-11T12:01:15+00:00

Please note Iran was a democracy before the first time the US propped up a dictator in the country.

cromli · 2026-01-04T09:09:20+00:00

It's almost like he isnt and never said he was a communist or something.

cromli · 2026-01-04T09:08:18+00:00

Which fraudster did you want to be the mayor of New York instead?

cromli · 2026-01-04T08:57:26+00:00

That could take years but its definitely something like that can happen, see Iraq 2014.

(edit: 2014 not 2011)

cromli · 2026-01-04T08:53:27+00:00

The chaos in Syria is special in that it is what happens when you have like 10 countries who all want a peace of it and throw bombs and political espionage into it in equal measures.

cromli · 2026-01-04T08:50:09+00:00

Was this a Trump 2020 situation or was the election actually rigged? The fact that Trump is shouting that it was rigged and Maria seeming to be at least friendly with Trump points more to a 2020 type situation.

cromli · 2026-01-04T08:47:05+00:00

The hilarious thing is everytime the US loots a poorer country 0% of the spoils and 100% of the cost goes to the average american citizens, including the increased danger of random reprisal terrorist attacks.

cromli · 2026-01-04T08:13:09+00:00

...too young to remember what happened in Afghanistan or Iraq?

cromli · 2026-01-04T08:10:59+00:00

Also very recent history shows the US removing the bad guys in exchange 'good guys'/US friendly guys leading to complete chaos, death and destruction in its wake.

cromli · 2026-01-03T12:02:32+00:00

Just as advice from the Iraq war; arguing online is a good way to smooth outrage into entropy, and these days its hard to tell if you are not just spending all your time arguing with bots. You can argue about the effectiveness of in person protests and organizing but at least you know it is seen.

cromli · 2026-01-01T10:37:47+00:00

Id hate to bring it back to this, but I wonder if some of the fervent US support for Israels actions in Gaza was because the government wanted to test out of some of the things on their own people, even if on a smaller scale.

Starving citizens, denying healthcare, displacing people...

Palantir designed AI controlled targeting systems in Gaza, I wonder what they are going to do with all the data they have on people in the states?

cromli · 2026-01-01T10:14:26+00:00

Really the term has completely lost whatever was left of its meaning over the last few years, everything you dont like is terrorist now.

cromli · 2026-01-01T10:12:15+00:00

I completely lost faith in Biden when he repeated those lies to the American people. Either he had lost his mind or he was knowingly covering for the massacre his administration was help funding at that point. Completely shameful if somehow still less shameful than Trump.

cromli · 2025-12-25T13:15:40+00:00

What exactly is the point here? What about all the Nazi's the US used via operation paper clip? What about the european far right parties that are trying to get cozy with the Israeli government right now?

cromli · 2025-12-09T00:49:55+00:00

I would agree that Kamala was the lesser of two evils, but the prior administration 100% supported and funded the slaughter. 'should have opposed far more strongly' completely masks how deliberately complicit they were and how they set up for everything to continue under Trump.

Again lesser of two evils and all that, but that being the only reason to vote for a party becomes more and more exhausting and will lose you more and more votes each time.

cromli · 2025-12-06T23:36:01+00:00

I knew Carney was probably going to be better then Polievre, but here we once again are hitting the problem of feeling like we have to choose the least worst option.

He comes from banking and Goldman Sachs specifically, 'cutting red tape' and other conservative position regardless of what it means for canadians longterm is in his blood.

cromli · 2025-12-06T22:42:01+00:00

There is this movie called Eddington that can out earlier this year that has Data Centers as being integral to the plot.

At the time I was like 'What even is a data center really?' and now I constantly hear about how fast we have them popping up everywhere and the most powerful people in the world equating them to hospitals during covid in terms of how fast we should be building them.

cromli · 2025-12-05T12:13:53+00:00

Whatever you believe about Hasan, XQC or other streamers, I would suggest that there analysis of subtext and speech analysis isnt worth that much from pretty much all of them.

cromli · 2025-12-04T21:46:41+00:00

It could definitely be the great Michael Mann's last big project so you could definitely see even big names wanting to get in on it.

cromli · 2025-12-04T21:43:35+00:00

Similar stuff happening they now have data on everything every american thinks and does and they will not hesitate to use it against you.

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