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It's an acronym.

The S stands for "Scam".

the rest stands for bullshit.

Yeah but they're fighting over the inevitable ad revenue.

it's spicy rocks all the way down.

What's the point, the incoming commander is just going to sell those secrets anyway.

I hope they fail, not because accelerationism, but because Republicans lack empathy. They only get it when it happens to them, and I want the "moderate" and "traditional" Republicans to feel exactly like the girls Ge aetz creeps on: powerless and alone.

Maybe then they'll understand what the sane half of the country has been yelling about.

This statement has strong Bilbo " I like less than half of you as well as you deserve" energy

(No hate, it just struck me as funny)

The US is when you've dominated the map militarily, neuter the other civs instead of sacking them, and then spend the rest of the game uncontested getting the cultural victory for the lulz.

I'm convinced the answer is "Israel absolutely has nukes and will use them if we stop providing them conventional arms"

But the real answer is probably as mundane as "They are the core of US power projection and intelligence gathering in the middle east, and we really don't want to lose that level of influence in the region".

Oof, so to prove your point, I always thought satay was peanuts.

Historical fact: In the distant past, guys like this belonged to a Union, and the union told them how to vote.

The union was led by ruthless people whose power was entirely dependent on the support of the union.

The union leaders kept their people happy by negotiating better prices for their labor, and the happy people did what the leaders said. Their tribe was the union, and the tribe stuck together.

At some point the owner class realized it was easy to redefine what happiness meant for idiots: Lying. A lot. Tricking absolute idiots is easy, so they started whittling away at unions with promises of prosperity a union leader could never fulfil, until we get to today where unions and union membership is lower than it's ever been.

And idiots like that still vote for who their handler tells them to, only their handler now has zero investment in keeping them happy. Lying to them is sufficient as long as the rest of the tribe reinforces the lies. The tribe is now everyone too stupid to not vote for Hitler, and the tribe sticks together.

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Ha!