Yeah I meant like the end result since yours is the clean white look and mine is very busy lol

Easy to talk about dying for a flag when it's someone else doing the dying.

I go even further on the minimal UI personally lol. Black box over the date/time is an edit and the theme I have is animated so it has rain partiles falling down. But I like as much of my screen as possible to be the content and want the browser out of the way. I'm hoping they don't entirely break my current setup. It's technically Floorp but that's Firefox based so we'll see.

Edit: Figured I should clarify. When I say minimal I mean like how MUCH of the UI I have. Like tabs and search bar in the same row. I don't mean like minimalism. I'm clearly more maximalist in my themeing than you lol.

What is this fantasy you live in where we just have to give Taiwan the right amount of guns so it'll suddenly be able to defend itself enough? Should we give them nukes? All because a generation ago the US got involved in the tail end of the Chinese civil war and created this schism in the first place. The solution to the problem caused by US guns is not more US guns.

You say you wish there was a diplomatic solution. There is. But that is never going to happen while Taiwan is a battleground for 2 global superpowers. The Taiwanese island is right next to mainland China. China is a global superpower. Taiwan has about as much of a realistic chance at full independence from China as Hawaii does from the US. It will never happen. Thinking that sending more guns is going to make it happen is just fantasy. The ONLY solution is to dial down the temperature and let China feel secure enough to not need to force the issue. China has shown a willingness to wait things out as they prefer stability and diplomacy. But if their hand is forced there is no amount of US aid that can stop them from taking Taiwan. The US can't even beat Iran for fucks sake. All giving them more weapons is doing is getting more innocent people on both sides killed by prolonging their inevitable defeat in the military conflict those very guns will be the catalyst for.

I very much think the Iranian people have a say. And they said "No." to US Intervention in case you didn't notice. Strait of Hormuz looking awfully based lately.

"China bad" essentially. lol. Such a nuanced and factual argument. I can't compete!

A completely ridiculous article that is as divorced from reality as current paper oil markets. They speak of this as if it is a bump in the road. Look at their graphs. First they assume the strait will reopen by the end of May. Ridiculous. Then they say how bad it will be if it "takes a few more weeks" to reopen. It will never reopen the way it was before. It is Iran's now. They are not giving it back to the west and its puppets.

Then let's assume for a moment they were right. Why do their graphs show a mere months until production levels reach the previous level again? When the gulf states themselves admit it will take years. Their infrastucture is damaged. They have had to shut down production. Even if the strait reopened today the production would not reach normal levels again for years. And it won't reopen today. It will stay as it is, and they will have to pay Iran's tolls.

Guess I'll have to be the one who gets downvoted by the liberal imperialists and say this is a GOOD THING!

Taiwan would be better off if the US fucked off and stopped trying to use it as a way to undermine China. China is much less likely to attack a Taiwan that is just being annoying than one that is slowly being armed to the teeth right off its coast. The people of Taiwan do not need more guns. They need competent leaders that can negotiate with Beijing in good faith to rejoin peacefully and on good terms.

Americans who are so concerned about this should be more concerned about the fact the US is probably going to attack it's 3rd country this year soon (Cuba) instead of whining about a hypothetical Chinese military action that has not happened, and absent the US forcing China's hand, will not happen.

You do not have the moral high ground. You are making the situation worse by sending weapons not better. Take a good long look in the mirror. Look at what happened to other countries the US did this to (Ukraine). Stop slurping up the Anti-China slop like mindless children. The US is the bad guy. Not China.

Ironically American Revolutionary Thomas Paine in his Common Sense said something that explains this quite well, "A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right,[...] Time makes more converts than reason."

Well it is actually true that an integral part of Christianity itself is the imperative to spread or proselytizing. It is baked into the religion itself. Originally this was an idea to convert all Jews to the new religion, but it was Saul of Tarsus, or the Apostle Paul, who introduced the idea that this should apply to all peoples, not just Jews.

In the words of the Bible itself: Matthew 28:19–20: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them... teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you." Mark 16:15: "Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation."

So while you may be correct that there is a psychologal aspect to it as well, it is also true that it is simply a part of their religion. They are taught that they should do this. It is generally seen as a holy duty to convert others and save their souls.

The lady went to school to learn how to use the tube fucker wrench. The wrench you shove up inside some random tube for no reason apparently. No one else is allowed to use the term tube fucker wrench. I am copyrighting it.

I would push back on the idea that humans inherently want to push their religions on people. In actuality that behavior is an effect of the memetic construction of more modern religions. Memetics being the concept "viral ideas" or contagious ideas. Where an idea becomes a thing of its own and spreads without outside interference. (yes like memes). The polytheistic religions were generally not so inclined to spread their religion to others. They'd show up in a forgein land and see other peoples worshipping gods and either think those were the names for their own gods here or think that these are just the gods of this land. The Greeks for example would make offerings to Isis while in Egypt.

The more recent idea of "An imperative to spread" is an invention of christianity that was picked up by Islam as well. Over time much like our societies evolve the ideas we have evolve too. It's natural selection. Given enough time any idea that has baked into it the imperative to spread will overtake ideas that do not. Hence the death of paganism in Europe and the dominance of Islam, and Christianity in that region by comparison over the last few centuries.

Eventually (As is already happening to some extent with political ideologies imo) a new memetic construct will come along that outcompetes christianity. Just as the christians before it absorbed paganism (Arch Angels and Demons are literally just pagan gods given new names) this new one will absorb christianity and outcompete it and the other religions into near extinction. This may be a new religion of its own, it may be a political movement, it may be something else. Whatever it is it will better fit the material conditions of the current world than the now quite outdated christianity which was more suited to a medeival time period. Giving it an advantage and leading to inevitable spread.