wonderingwanderer

That’s fine, we don’t have to disagree in order to have a conversation

Even one is enough to kill a lot of people. A laser that can destroy them in orbit is an ideal solution.

And the WMDs were a lie, but that doesn’t change the reality for Europe today, which is that russia is still a threat at least until their economy collapses and their federation dissolves.

While true, I don’t think we should base our entire defense strategy on hoping that the russians are so incompetent that they can’t even deploy their most destructive munitions…

Someone queue up “Swan Lake”

Just because their economy is on the verge of collapse doesn’t mean they won’t keep sending millions of “undesirables” into the meat grinder.

They might be lacking in heavy equipment and expertise in maneuver warfare, but a million invaders still takes about a million rounds of ammo to pacify.

We can hope the russian economy collapses and the empire balkanizes, effectively making it impossible for them to keep up their war of attrition. The sooner it ends, the sooner we can stop producing munitions and the sooner people stop dying.

I think I read somewhere that the UK is developing a new lazer that can take down hypersonic ballistic missiles for approximately the cost of the electricity it consumes. Pretty sweet if true.

And if it did it would just get the national guard deployed in your city. And the city government wouldn’t be able to do anything to help, because their office burnt down…

Have you heard of a primary? Cause it basically invalidates everything you just said.

Also, the more the left refuses to vote Democrat, the more Democrats pander to the right. They’re trying to win the “moderate/centrist” vote because apparently they won’t get the leftist vote no matter what they do. They’ll never pass the purity test.

People with your logic are the ones shooting themselves in the foot at every election. Your logic got trump elected, and no amount of armchair philosophizing will be enough to squirm around that fact.

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Exactly, and that’s what the journalism should focus on. It detracts from the message when they give it a misleading spin. It’s already bad enough without the distortion of facts. That’s the point I’m trying to make.

From what he actually said, it sounds like talks about a potential decision will begin then. That’s not at all what a deadline is.

The way it was reported made it sound like a decision was already made, and actions would be taken by then. That’s not at all what he said though.

There’s already plenty of legitimate reasons to criticize him, so I can’t stand when journalists distort things to make them seem even worse. It gives too much credence to the people defending him by framing all criticism as media spin.

Things are already bad enough without reactionary sensationalism, so just focus on the facts without compromising journalistic integrity. Otherwise it’s just disinformation, which doesn’t help anyone. We’re supposed to be better than this.

He added: “We need Greenland from a national security situation. It’s so strategic.”

The US already has military bases on Greenland in accordance with diplomatic agreements. This isn’t about national security or defense strategy. If it were, there would be diplomatic ways to increase US military presence. This risks losing the diplomatic agreements which allow the US to maintain a military presence there. It won’t be very strategic if US forces get banished from the realm.

This isn’t about national defense. It’s about natural resources. Trump wants to exploit Greenland for its rare minerals the same way he wants to exploit Venezuela for its crude oil.

It’s so transparent.

Apparently he thinks one month is ten days…

But yeah, calling that a deadline is kinda clickbaity.

Also, this year for example i can count the amount of days below 0°C on one hand

I can count the number of days this year on one hand…

For real though, I knew what you meant. I just couldn’t resist the opportunity (after all, there’s only five days a year when this joke might apply)

It’s not that climate change is causing this change of climate. The change of climate is climate change. That’s why it’s ridiculous for someone to say “Oh, the climate’s changing. But it isn’t climate change!”

Oh no, it must be those pesky democrats and their secret government weather control /s. Trying to convince people to believe in climate change so they can… checks notes… promote self-sufficiency through renewable energy…

What’s causing it is primarily greenhouse gasses along with several other compounding factors (deforestation, concrete and asphalt coverage, melting ice caps, etc.).

So yes, human-induced. No one would run a gas-powered lawnmower indoors, but somehow they believe that billions of people driving outside every day is totally fine?

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Maybe he means harmful to the world’s rainforests?

I doubt it, but maybe…

I see. At least they weren’t firing live rounds into the air. That would be dangerous…