[-] RustledTeapot@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago

Morally, we made a commitment to preserve democracy and we keep our word.

Geopolitically, microchips.

[-] RustledTeapot@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

It tells me that most people prefer an eternal cold war to escalating to a hot war. If China backed off and made it clear they would not attack, those numbers would change.

[-] RustledTeapot@kbin.social 40 points 1 year ago

I hope he pays you for this kind of oral service.

[-] RustledTeapot@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Generally someone who makes justifications and/or excuses for totalitarian communist regimes and their atrocities.

It came from still supporting Stalin after he sent tanks into a rebelling territory.

[-] RustledTeapot@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

It's also possible that Wagner did it to themselves to create a casus belli for action.

[-] RustledTeapot@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

Typically before you even leave the womb, these days.

[-] RustledTeapot@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

And either way, your mother starts treating you differently based on apparent sex.

https://psycnet.apa.org/buy/2005-02259-007

[-] RustledTeapot@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

You might not believe in the social construct at birth, but the social construct believes in you. Children are treated differently based on assigned gender from birth.

[-] RustledTeapot@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

"Relationships between gender identity and birth sex."

[-] RustledTeapot@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago

This trend of companies firing the person responsible for giving safety warnings is really troubling, and I'm concerned that our whole planet is going to go down like that someday.

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