In war, if it's not an ally it's an enemy.
Uh... no?
NoneOfUrBusiness
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So the US is a threat because... it might not help Europe? That's not really how the word "threat" works, setting aside how Russia isn't even a military threat to non-Ukraine Europe in the first place assuming the EU's mutual defense mechanism holds.
Ah, yes, everyone who disagrees with you is a filthy foreigner.
Upvoted according to sub rules, but wow what a shit take.
Capitalists compete amongst themselves. That competition works for everyone, as long as unions are the brake pads on that train. We took the brakes off and blamed the train conductor wanting to go fast. Well, that's his job in this poor metaphor, hope it comes across.
Okay, but here's the thing: This system is not in equilibrium. When you have workers and owners in a permanent tug of war, eventually someone is going to win and when they do they'll either secure their position as the winner or let the other side recover and repeat it all again. What's going on in the modern West is specifically that; the owner class won the tug of war in the 80s and went to work ensuring they'd never need to play that game again. They took a system that was not in equilibrium and pushed it towards their own preferred equilibrium, and as you can probably tell that equilibrium fucking sucks.
The fundamental philosophical error here is assuming that all forms of simulation are computational or mathematical.
Uh... that's literally what a simulation is.
Counterexample: your dreams are a form of simulation (probably). So I can literally disprove this take in my sleep
But dreams aren't simulating reality as we observe it; they just kinda do their own thing. Your brain isn't consistently simulating quantum mechanics (or, hell, even simple things like clocks) while you're dreaming so this is a moot point.
US "allies" haven't gotten the memo yet, US enemies aren't going to interrupt America while it's killing itself and non-aligned nations don't give a shit. Human rights abuses are almost never the real reason for sanctions, just like the US didn't invade Iraq to spread democracy.
US "allies" haven't gotten the memo yet, US enemies aren't going to interrupt America while it's killing itself and non-aligned nations don't give a shit.
The US is an existential threat to Canada and countries in the Americas that MAGA has bones to pick with. Maybe also Iran. The vast majority of the world is mostly safe, because America has no interest and/or capability to start shit there. For your Germany example, Hitler made it clear exactly what he wanted to do in Mein Kampf.
Not the laws of physics, the laws of logic. Those are what math (and therefore the proof) is based on, and it's harder to imagine those being different in the hypothetical parent universe.
Cost of living is an important factor here. There are places where $10 would be closer to $50 in purchasing power, so while America does have relatively low poverty rate dollars per day numbers shouldn't be taken at face value.