Argikeraunos

Argikeraunos t1_j7wy7xs wrote

Reply to Chinese spy balloon carried 'multiple antennas' for collecting signals intelligence, State Dept. says by StevenSanders90210

I really don't see why this is my problem and I resent the fact that they're going to use this to try to increase the military budget even more. I didn't sign up for the great power competition and China and the Chinese are not my enemy, a sentiment that I think most reasonable people would agree with, but in the US there is no real democracy when it comes to foreign policy. There is no pro-detente, anti-cold war, anti-imperialist politics in the US.

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Argikeraunos t1_j2bp4mk wrote

Reply to comment by Arguesovereverythin in Chevron sending two oil tankers to Venezuela under U.S. approval by Octavus

There was an attempted right-wing coup in Venezuela in 2019, supported by the US and some of its allies. The coup failed, and the leader of the coup Juan Guaido, who has attempted multiple failed insurrections and has courted foreign military support to install him, has pretended to be the legitimate president up until about three hours ago. Nevertheless the US applied sanctions to Venezuela in support of Guaido in the hopes it would lead to the collapse of the VZ government, once again inflicting collective punishment on the people of a weaker nation for political and ideological reasons. Economic reality has hit the US, though, and now they need VZ oil on the global market more than they want to topple the government.

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Argikeraunos t1_j1byj38 wrote

Reply to Why is this sub so luddite now ? by Shelfrock77

>We will enter multiverses inside our own minds. The video games of the future are lucid dreaming online 3.0. Our nervous system will wirelessly link with a super computer via AR contacts and swarms of nanobots that translate, transfer, and synchronize our consciousness.

Gee sounds great.

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