KinglyWeevil

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I just wanted to add some context for one of these bullets.

The US is upping the amount it spends on nuclear weapons maintenance and production because China has reentered the game as a major player. They'd been stable at 300-350 warheads for decades but is expected to ramp up to producing 100+ per year by 2030.

So one major adversary has just been replaced by another. Everything old is new again, including the cold war arms race.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

The ancient wonders series or whatever they're called is wild too. It's like some kind of unified conspiracy theory adventure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If blue no matter who worked, the Democrats would have won. So that's obviously not a thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

5.56 is ~50 cents a round and has been for years at this point

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I'm pretty convincing he's being encouraged to outright collapse the us by Putin

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

No, it isn't like the nemesis system in a Lord of the rings game. A new VP is appointed, instead of everyone moving up a rank.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Why not just....hire spokespeople for a PAC at $500k/yr based on a public contest/audition about making right wing content? Same outcome, not at all illegal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Hayes ending reconstruction is one of the worst and possibly one of the most consequential decisions in the history of mankind.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

We've devolved past Idiocracy

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Their time in isolation from when reddit banned chapo did them no favors. When it was banned it was a flavor of radicalism that was tolerable.

They've devolved into something much worse, in the style of the red guard in China killing avowed communists for not being communist enough, and thinking it's a good thing. They're just screaming into the void making all leftists look unreasonable and bad, and wondering why no one can stand them.

I've yet to have an interaction with someone from hexbear post reddit exodus where I thought to myself, "you know I bet they're pretty chill in real life."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, yes, but grass roots and I'm not paid lol

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It really is surprisingly effective. So few people actually contact their legislators.

I set up a harassment campaign and got a few hundred people to contact a state legislator whose committee was holding up legalizing weed in my state and a few months later it was legalized. Agitate. Make a difference. Protesting doesn't do shit, get all the people there to call their representatives and senate members - especially for state and local stuff, and you might actually get something changed. Or even better, send a letter.

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