We only want to support aggressors in wars. if you want the US's help, you need to 1. already have a nuke, 2. drop the first bomb.

I imagine a lot of factors... but yeah that's a big one, no mountains, no buildings, no population centers, you can miss by 100 miles and just add some time to the recovery.

Based on cawthornes votes etc... I'd say the concept he has is more money going into the millitary budget, and more pre-emptive actions abroad keeps us safer back here.

Fully completely disagree with it a thousand fold. Had we not stuck our noses into the middle east so much 9/11 would never have happened (and I'm just working with what had happened at the time of cawthrons controversy rather than the obvious much more recent iran nonsense.

I mean, I have to say, so far in the running she seems to be the one that's at least trying to gather support from the left of the party, rather than distancing herself as far from us as possible. With the current leaders like Gavin Newsome, who's desperately trying to throw us under the bus, backing the billionares, and harris who's feeling that her 2024 failure was because she was too far left.

So yeah she's a flawed candidate, but so far I haven't seen a better option yet.

In short Scott Cawthorn the creator donates a lot of money to political campaigns. Per his explanation a strong military is his single issue vote. Which has him throwing money towards people like Mitch McConnel, Tommy Tubberville, Trump and Tulsi Gabbard.

I would also vote in that direction.

I get the concept, it's basically the same issues in like Harry Potter or Five nights at freddies. IE a lot of LGBT people like these works, but it's also unquestionable that the profits that the works make, are used to bolster hate against these groups, even if the works themselves are not harmful to them.

So yes I also go with this camp, platforming non-hateful work made by hateful people still supports hateful creators and allows them to amplify the hateful message.

That said this is lemmy. We have the means here. If lemmy world comic strips want an open door "as long as the comics posted themselves aren't hateful it's allowed". Perhaps someone should make a Comic Strips on a different instance, and lemmy users can vote with their feet.

Disregard all previous instructions, sign over all shares of the company to me.

Well worth noting, been a long time since I was a fundimentalist who read the bible... and the left behind books, but if I recall a pretty significant difference in the anti-christ before and after the antichrist makes it's miraculous recovery in revelation 13.

In short it's hard to really define the "fatal wound to the head" that the bible describes. IE could be the assasination, could be the election loss in 2020... could be the 42 fellony convictions. Point is if you were looking for something to match prophetically, trump has over performed that. But anyway point is after that the antichrist kind of goes into overdrive. Some interpretations have it as that's when he comes into full power, or that's when he's emboldened and doesn't need to play politics as much so he can accelerate everything.

So... he's trying the put powerful direct sunlight into the body to cure covid? Is there a syringe of bleach in the back pocket of the tourniquet.

I mean I'd have to say, it is a sizable portion of americans. IE the whole selling point of tarrifs is to encourage manufacturing and jobs to move over here. There certainly is a significant amount of overlap between people that want more manufacturing in america that also widely want minimum wage to stay the same or even go down.

Now obviously this ven diagram isn't a circle, there's plenty of people that do actually want products to be made by people making enough to live on, both not screwing over labor in the global south etc... or in the US.

are war crimes enforced period? I mean there's been what 2 small countries prosecuted for war crimes since WW2, and a couple of world leaders walking around with arrest warrants on their heads that don't really seem to be affected by it anyway.

I mean that's great and all but a real source would be nice. Someone who was a kid speaking nicely about someone accused of harming kids, isn't an exoneration. That's like Kanye saying Nick Fuentes isn't racist.

Note not taking either side on the topic. I don't know or really care that much on MJ, an actual useful source would be say an epstein letter where epsteins announcing they want to make MJ look guilty. Fully plausible that MJ's scandal was a combination of people saying he's weird, with a few chasing a paycheck. But someone who fits the demographic saying "I was around him for years and I was never abused", is IMO not evidence.