SSJMarx

Dunno why this thread is filled with people equating Hezbollah and Hamas

Because the kind of person who sides with Israel heavily overlaps with the kind of person who assumes that everyone in the Middle East is the same and that they’re all terrorists.

I just want a normal operating system where I double click an app to activate or install it

If you’re an average user then this is how you should be installing all of your apps on Linux, using your distro or DE’s app manager. If an app you want isn’t listed there, then you should find an alternative that is.

For example if you’re using KDE Plasma then your default “store” app is going to be Discover and you use it just like you would the Microsoft/Apple/Google stores.

If you’re trying to run non-Linux compatible software on Linux, then you need to understand that that’s a more advanced task, just like running Mac software on Windows would be. If you absolutely require that software, then you would be better served by that operating system.

Her boobs are the same size, she just wears a sports bra now because doing martial arts without one was getting painful.

I mean… it’s just Lunchables, isn’t it?

I imagine they might vote differently now, lmao.

The Whiskey Rebellion was a response to taxation that unfairly targeted the rural poor. George Washington crushed it.

the FSB couldn’t find any Nazis for the livestreams

Brother, there isn’t a single picture of a single Ukranian military unit taken in the past ten years where somebody isn’t wearing a fascist symbol of some kind. The reason the SMU stretched on is much more material - the Russian leadership greatly overestimated their military’s capabilities.

I don’t think you understood their argument.

The people in Donbas have spoken Russian and been considered an ethnic minority in Ukraine since the USSR broke up. The people of Donbas started a civil war in response to government discrimination against their minority. If the people of Donbas are through with being a part of Ukraine, then they absolutely should have the right to secede and either be independent or join with Russia.

Unfortunately we don’t live in a world where any minority group has the sovereignty to actually make that decision fairly and democratically, which is why instead of having a vote they had eight years of war followed by being annexed and two more years and counting of much more intense warfare.

It’s because the so-called “subsidies” from the Chinese government are much more than the “subsidies” wielded by the American government. In America a subsidy amounts to throwing money and tax breaks at corporations and asking them to make something with it - but Chinese subsidies are direct investments, with the government controlling how the money is spent and staying involved every step of the way. That’s why they turn so reliably into increased production and reduced prices while our own subsidies tend to turn into stock buybacks.

There’s really no practical reason why the US couldn’t adopt a similar industrial policy - imagine going to GM/Ford/Chevy and paying them to build new EV factories in Detroit, directly overseeing the whole process from start to finish, and leaving behind government representatives at all levels of the factories’ operation - but the reason we don’t do it is pretty much purely ideological.

5 - it’s just imperialism. They want to control more territory, so they do

Your definition of imperialism is straight out of the 3rd century BC, comrade.