It’s a common American view that the other countries weren’t spending “enough”, whereas from the perspective of everyone else on the planet it’s America that’s spending a hugely disproportionate amount of wealth on killing, and just expecting its allies to do the same.

https://www.globalfirepower.com/defense-spending-budget.php

I wish they were just removing themselves from the world stage. What they’re actually doing is shifting away from a model of direct co-operation with allied nations and strong economic ties with otherwise less friendly nations, to unilateral action wherever and whenever they feel like it.

Their foreign policy isn’t moving towards isolationism, it’s moving towards unchecked fascist domination.

I don’t know anything about New Zealand, or Maori culture, or history, or parliamentary procedure, or the Treaty Principles Bill, or the hearings that led to this decision, or the Haka, or sociology, or anthropology, or race relations, or indigenous issues, but I think…

why don’t they just have everyone do their hakas at the start, like in the rugby?

Congrats to the Wikipedia contributor who managed to get “shitposter” into a sentence without it being removed

The millennial era of “work hard, play harder”

I hate to be that guy that calls everything Orwellian, but this is NOT how Fortune was describing Millenials 15 years ago

Sure, I’m just bemoaning the fact that you’ve taken cloud hosting to be the default. It’s as much a complaint about the world in general as anything specific to you. Good luck with it all.

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I’m old enough to consider the framing of the question to be weirdly loaded.

It does not feel that long ago where people would be asked to justify entrusting their product’s functions and data to a bunch of strangers who can make unilateral decisions about your service with zero comeback. Now we’re being asked to justify not doing that.

Sounds like they are on the tail end of the find out phase.

What, including the 10,000+ children killed so far by Israel? Yeah I’m sure they were asking for it. Definitely a proportional response. GTFO

And this will reduce terrorist recruitment how?

You posted almost verbatim what I was about to write. It’s a proper “don’t shit on my pie and tell me it’s a blueberry” moment. That’s not what friends are.

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like 100 times

Is it closer to 100 or closer to 3?

They’re not saying it because they believe it to be true, they’re saying it because they need it to be true in order to justify what they’re doing.

It’s also worth keeping in mind that if the USD/CNY exchange rate fell in line with the two countries’ PPP, China would be biggest economy in the world by a margin of nearly 30%.

You’re correct, but are getting downvoted by people who treat the whole topic like they’re supporting a sports team.

It wasn’t until all this kicked off that I learned just how many companies that I thought were European were in fact owned by American conglomerates.

Which makes MAGA’s “the world is taking advantage of America” rhetoric all the more infuriatingly hypocritical. You spent decades using the strong dollar to go on a massive global shopping trip buying up every other country’s companies, and are now crying foul that those companies you own are supplying their local markets instead of importing from the US?

Reminder that after setting the political stage for the Khmer Rouge to take power with the carpet-bombing of Cambodia, the US Government continued to recognize Pol Pot as its rightful ruler all the way through to the early 1990s, simply because the actual Cambodian government of the 80s was installed with Vietnam’s help.

The USA seems to be on an never-ending quest to fuck Indochina over for no fucking reason.

The horrible cruelty regarding Cambodia is that the reason they have such a high trade deficit is that most Cambodians are too poor to be able to begin to afford anything that America has to offer.

It’s one of the poorest countries in Asia, they could cut their tariffs to 0% and the net effect would be less than the measurable rounding error on total American exports.

Trump is going to tank the economy of an already poverty-stricken country and plunge it into exactly the kind of instability that destroyed it once already just because “fuck you, give me more”.

It’s sickening how they genuinely think they’re bailing Europe out and deserve compensation for it, when they themselves are a big part of why there’s so much instability in the region to begin with.