Or if they cared about a convicted felon pedophile.

No one gave a shit until it came down to the price of gas. And they wonder in amazement when the world hates them.

True, but no state cares about dead civilians. Not one.

Iran was killing its civilians wholesale for protesting before the US invaded and covering up the reporting of it so numbers couldn't be tabulated.

My dude, I am a statesian and I'm gonna be honest, I don't give a shit about the dead ones. They are dead. For them the struggle is over. They are free. I care about the alive ones. I've been picking up the pieces of capitalism and the military industrial complex, especially predatory loans and people naive about the tax structure of the country and helping them figure out how to not only protect themselves from undue taxation but give back to their communities at levels they are comfortable with,for so long I don't want to admit. It's thankless work but someone has to do it

"Appear weak when you are strong and strong when you are weak" - Sun Tzu

Both Russia and the US were thought to have very powerful military capability. Both made a strategic mistake when they decided to show everyone their hands.

I wouldn't say either nation is weak, but the power of deterrence was actually bigger than either one's true military power. Deterrence can be even better at protecting your people than actual military power. But you don't win offensive wars with deterrence.

Now, nobody's going to attack Russia or the US, so they can afford the loss in deterrence... But at least for the US, the middle eastern allies are now vulnerable to attack (particularly from Iran) and if China's willing to show their true hand, they might try Taiwan now. Though I imagine that perhaps China's leadership is wiser and won't repeat Putin's and Trump's mistakes. After all, their military might also be less powerful than we all think. Because it's very beneficial to have everyone think you can't be fucked with.

At the end of the day, it's hard to make efficient use of a large military. And the people protecting their own homeland have an advantage in morale. Invading a moderately weaker country is pretty stupid. Invading a moderately weaker country halfway across the world is even more stupid. To have an "easy" time conquering another nation, the power balance needs to be HEAVILY in your favor because of all the disadvantages of being the invading party.

TL;DR: Trump and Putin are idiots who gave away a huge advantage their countries had by showing how they are weaker than previously thought.

Yeah, Trump is unilaterally shredding the paper tiger that was American global power.

Probably not about being explicit, but more about not getting your accounts banned from everywhere.

Apparently they do it because it drives up engagement

Solution: downvote or ignore

They do it because people will comment about it and they make more money that way

"fucking" is f-ne but "pedophiles" is t-o expl-cit not to c-nsor? This tr-nd is so god damn st-pid

BUT DANCING WITH THE STARS IS ON LATER AND I DON'T WANT TO MISS IT!!!!!!

It's called election.

I know it's what you get used to but that sounds still absurdly low when compared to your [country's] median disposable income. I assume the UK the real cost is twice that.

P3do, stop redacting the Epstein files and shut down all trash compactors on detention level!

Pedophile is a filtered word on a lot of social media. They are just making it so their meme can meme the most.

~$10.40/gal in the Nordics (diesel). So that's roughly $0.25 per mile in my case.

Ours is still hovering around 3.80

It depends on how close you are to the refineries and pipelines. What they're listing is the average which includes the highest price in the country and the lowest price in the country.

But surely we should shun the free energy we get from the sky

Memes can't keep up with the increasing price of gas