sheikhnbake

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by sheikhnbake 9mo ago
We in the US have been so propagandized against China that even relatively progressive people that are completely against the Trump admin think China is an authoritarian hellscape. And while China is obviously not a utopia, I'd be hard
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by sheikhnbake 9mo ago
Idk man, i dont keep a list of China's breakthroughs handy. You can find the same results on google that I can. And I wasn't aware that breakthroughs needed to be nobel laureate worthy at a minimum to still be considered breakthro
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by sheikhnbake 9mo ago
Sigh. The US is in a weird spot. The electorate does not generally want education and research cut. Republicans here have convinced their base that education and the educated are bad, which has fed their desire to cut academic funding and r
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by sheikhnbake 9mo ago
It also flies in the face of China's currently accelerating pace of research and breakthroughs by producing insane numbers of STEM majors and PhDs
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by sheikhnbake 9mo ago
Every protester and registered democrat has been labelled a domestic terrorist already in both rhetoric and policy.
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by sheikhnbake 9mo ago
The true problem is that it happens no matter who is in charge. It's like that old phrase about weapons that are invented are going to be used at some point. The same thing has turned out to be true for intelligence tools. And the wors
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by sheikhnbake 9mo ago
The trend has been bucked by the fascists currently in power.
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by sheikhnbake 9mo ago
I'd be surprised if Walz has the spine to deploy the Guard in response.
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by sheikhnbake 9mo ago
People keep citing law as if this administration has ever respected them. Realize that laws are just pieces of paper with words that are useless without enforcement. The administration has systematically removed leadership in both the milit
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by sheikhnbake 9mo ago
That's great on paper, but we saw what happened in international waters and Venezuela after the SOUTHCOM shake up
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by sheikhnbake 9mo ago
We need a new Smedley Butler
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by sheikhnbake 9mo ago
Based on your reply, I suspect you've never served in the US military. I have. The majority of the US military is comprised of the poor or persons who otherwise have nothing going for them. There's a lot of internal jokes about US
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by sheikhnbake 9mo ago
This is cool, but I'm waiting for the announcements for datacenters to start establishing on-site geothermal power for baseload power supply.
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by sheikhnbake 9mo ago
He is a democratic socialist. I didn't say he was liberal. I said he wasn't extreme left. *To expand, Mamdani is moderate left. Extreme left, at least here in the states, would be actual communists and anarchists.
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by sheikhnbake 9mo ago
MAGA and their ilk love to claim a warrior/strong man identity while simultaneously whining about censorship and persecution and accusing their political opponents of being overly sensitive snowflakes. This is a logically self-contradi
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by sheikhnbake 9mo ago
Fascists are defined by their constant paradox of claiming to be the strongest while always playing* the victim of anything and everything.
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by sheikhnbake 9mo ago
Bernie/Mamdani are not extreme left. Further left than liberals for sure, but no where close to extreme left.
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by sheikhnbake 9mo ago
The comment you replied to was calling out gun propaganda. When I said prohibition doesn't work, i'm talking about removing whatever the contraband is has been empirically proven to not work. Guns, drugs, and booze are too prolife
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by sheikhnbake 9mo ago
Invade, none. Continue to occupy to this day? Several. Edit: Although we did take a small chunk of Syria without asking.
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by sheikhnbake 10mo ago
Bump stocks are also extremely rare when it comes to violent crime. I would also say they're the tip of the ice berg when it comes to modifying AR's. I'm gonna take a guess that you aren't overly familiar with firearms,
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by sheikhnbake 10mo ago
I suspect geothermal is going to quickly replace Nuclear as the most viable option for base load stabilization. Tech has come a long way towards letting us access it away from hot zones and it uses a lot of the same infrastructure and exper
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by sheikhnbake 10mo ago
Prohibition has historically been proven to not work. Even so, the effectiveness of gun laws can't be measured when neighboring states don't have equivalent restrictions. Saying we have 20,000 gun laws and that they don't inh
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by sheikhnbake 10mo ago
Automatic weapons aren't being sold en masse and are rarely used in violent crime. The most common culprits are regular hand guns. The banning of which would require draconian laws. Laws that would need to be enforced, failing a massiv
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by sheikhnbake 10mo ago
At least part of this is a lie. A transferable M240 is like $400k-600k. And in order to sell those, they have to run a background check as an FFL which requires some form of identification.