Yes, the US is purposely starving the world.

Unironically yes. While the US is particularly fond of bombs and drones, another favourite weapon of theirs is starving the countries of people who have the audacity to disagree with them. See: Cuba*, DPRK. As a bonus, they even get to blame the countries they are starving for the lack of food.

Not even only other countries, the US is happy to do it to their own people because the hungry are easier to exploit. The US has an absolute staggering amount of food waste, it is the largest component of most US landfills. They'd sooner throw away food before giving it to the needy. In many cases, they will punish you for giving it to the needy (see the charitable organizations repeatedly fined in Texas for feeding the homeless).

*Incidentally this exact same map can be used for countries voting to end the US sanctions of Cuba.

Conscription in the framework of modern warframe makes increasingly little sense to me. It's always been a pretty terrible thing, but one could argue that throwing a pike in the hands of a farmer and pointing them at the enemy had some degree of success. There was definitely a period of history where having more warm bodies than the other side was extremely important.

These days, so much of warfare is conducted without even seeing your enemy, I am not sure how much it accomplishes. Having one more guy on the front lines to get hit by a mortar doesn't do much, and you probably aren't putting conscripts on roles like drone operator or artillery from my understanding. Having trained soldiers seems increasingly more important than having more soldiers.

It doesn't matter how much money you spend on giving fancy gear to your military if the military is comprised of civilians who have no idea how to use them.

Surely, this must be satirical? There is no way somebody could write "no vague statements like 'Russians are human' " with a straight face, right?

So he will only buy cars from companies that explicitly recognize Taiwanese independence?

Cool, we need more cyclists, it's good exercise.

It's a pretty liberal space, there are some extremely liberal communities/users around. I would honestly almost understand the arguments if people were advocating they come to lemmygrad or something.

Maybe (let's be honest, definitely) they are just upset they can't be overtly racist towards Chinese people and get celebrated for it.

I would say the US is already pretty busy humiliating themselves, they don't really need any help with it.

That seems to be an ongoing trend. The issue for them isn't that these folks are nazis, but that they are too visibly a nazi. Kind of like the soldiers with nazi patches making it awkward for the poor New York Times.

Western media needs at least a couple more years to condition people first before they can be quite so public about it.

Alternatively, the perfect choice.

Always gotta love the faux-confidence the libs have of knowing they are always right, because they can dismiss anyone who doesn't agree with them as biased/a shill/propagandist.

Heaven forbid somebody engage in an intellectually honest debate with somebody with a differing opinion. Even if somebody IS spouting propaganda, you don't become tainted by having a discussion with them; you might even convince a third party who is viewing.

I believe I also saw that they were using glass graded for 1300m max for the viewport. ...for a 4000m dive.

Even if the oxygen supply wasn't an issue, I can't imagine that the thing hasn't shattered by now. I swear, this was all an elaborate ploy to get rid of rich people, because nobody would actually put together a vessel so unsuited for the task.

I mean, at some point as a head of state you probably just ignore anything he says.

Are box cars an official term of measurement in the states now? Man, the imperial measurement systems are weird.

“That’s a great embarrassment for dictators. When they didn’t know what happened.”

Unlike Biden, President Xi is pretty aware of what is happening in and around his country. I have little doubt he knew what happened to the balloon, but I also can't imagine he was particularly embarrassed about it. He wasn't the one who missed shooting at a freaking balloon.