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Forget the Iran attribution for a second. The FBI director's personal email was already in leaked credential databases from prior breaches.
by _slih 6mo ago
Forget the Iran attribution for a second. The FBI director's personal email was already in leaked credential databases from prior breaches.
- bcjdjsndon 6mo agoEvery now and then something happens that makes me wonder how the fuck America is number one, this being one of them.
- jorts 6mo agoBecause America is a lot more than a podcaster put into a position that he has no qualifications for.
- 1234letshaveatw 6mo ago[flagged]
- 1234letshaveatw 6mo agoWe're ranked number one based on the summation of all the angsty teen America bad comments on social media. At least that is the stat the press goes off of I believe
- bpt3 6mo agoLoads of natural resources, no local military threats, and historically a government that stayed out of the way and allowed individuals to reap the rewards of their efforts. The first is almost impossible to screw up, though we're really trying on the last front.
- krapp 6mo agoAmerica had the advantage of getting through WW2 relatively unscathed with lots of resources and intact infrastructure that it used to leverage against the reconstruction of Europe, Japan and the USSR and entrench its cultural and economic hegemony. Also the US essentially colonized the West with nuclear weapons under the guise of "Pax Americana" and making the dollar the reserve currency. That's really it. Not moral superiority, not technical ingenuity, not the indomitable American spirit. Just imperialist opportunism.
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- mna_ 6mo agoPlus huge amounts of braindrain from all over the world after WW2 (originally from Europe, but nowadays mainly from India and China).
- basisword 6mo agoNumber one based on what metric other than they constantly say they're number one?
- vrganj 6mo agoDon't worry, it's on its way out.
- bobsmooth 6mo agoOne of the largest populations, and by extension, GDPs.