Yep, smoking is down because of it being a taboo thing now. You make it illegal…and you got another drug war on your hands.

Prohibition will never work.

Uhh what? No one is doing this in the USA. The Republican party is trying to with their fascist bullshit agenda, but we’re not there and are fighting it and the resistance is growing daily.

Because you’re in a tankie sub with tankies spouting off random shit about capitalism being the root of all evil…while you posted more shit about capitalism being the true cause and not the fact that shit humans exist no matter what system is in place.

They impeached their president…seems democracy is working pretty well there.

Let’s see who runs NK?

Who runs russia?

Who runs china?

O right, lifetime appointments with rigged elections…got it.

Sure thing

South Korea is a capitalist economy…this has nothing to do with capitalism…

Fair enough

True, but most people who mess with POE aren’t in the habit of just randomly plugging shit into switches, and those who aren’t don’t touch it anyways cause…scary.

POE is fine… it’s been fine for a long time.

That corn is grown so they have money for when it’s needed.

That corn also goes to feed beef cattle which we eat.

https://usafacts.org/articles/federal-farm-subsidies-what-data-says/

They’ve been doing this since the great depression in the usa because no one wants another great depression. Other countries do it as well to keep the food supply stable and affordable.

I don’t know why you’re arguing this.

No one says it’s efficient. You don’t do efficiency on your food for your citizens. You make sure they can eat.

This is america where we pay our farmers to grow stuff that they can’t sell. And we think we like it this way

We pay them to do that so we have a surplus so we all don’t starve… every country does this so if there is a bad year, you don’t have farmers stopping production because they can’t survive and have to sell everything.

No clue why they vote red though, considering they get a ton of subsidizes.

LEB ftw. Seriously almost all the vps deals I’ve gotten over the years has been through LEB.

Is it just me or does it feel like every powerful nation is afraid of pissing off Israel? Especially after the whole “we didn’t kill kirk” shit they keep repeating.

Edit: this wasn’t a I support Israel post. This was a “does anyone else feel like isreal is basically saying back us or we’re going to start assassinations”

This is a pointless comment. You don’t even tell us what model router you’re running…

I mean China can absolutely be a victim of US foreign policy and still be an aggressor to other parts of the world.

They’re a victim of what? Exploiting their citizens? Stealing IP from other nations?

Is your understanding of foreign policy really so limited?

No I’m just not a CCP bootlicker who thinks that China/russia/NK is better and more free than the USA is.

You know something that China doesn’t do that the United States does? Periodically bomb Sovereign states For no reason.

Because they can’t… it’s why they’re supplying russia with shit in Ukraine.

Definitely inspiring stability throughout the Middle East and Latin America.

The middle east is and always has been a mess. Russia tried it before the USA did and china hasn’t been a world power long enough to give it a go. We should have never be involved with the middle east, but you’re defending china like they’re victims of big bad westernism. The difference between you and I is I don’t use whataboutism to defend nations that do fucked up shit.

To even remotely suggest that china is some sort of victim is hilarious, but ml gonna do tankie shit.

Seriously, the USA has its issues, but prior to trump, world stability was something that the USA was known for, because it projected our soft power via backing the USD. It’s why the world is quite pissed that the turnip is being a fucking idiot. China is not that way at all. They want to conquer countries, only reason they haven’t is because their land neighbors have nukes and they have a shit navy that’s crap for invasions.

CNA is a nonprofit the name isn’t directly associated with the us gov. They get funding from the gov just like a ton of nonprofits do but this doesn’t make them propaganda.

https://www.cna.org/our-media/indepth/2024/03/china-loans-to-africa

It takes 2 seconds to research that china is using Africa as a debt trap with loans that are designed to trap nations.

Tankies gonna tank I guess…

China is raping Africa and they will be in debt to them forever. China is also a huge bully in the Philippines. They are not going to be good for stabilizing shit.

But you’re from lemmy.ml so it doesn’t matter what anyone says.

Grenade attacks as well

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_grenade_attacks_in_Sweden