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          I’m guessing people in US allies countries like the UK, even billionaires, realize how bad Trump will be for foreign relations. So while Musk and Besos will suck his dick because all of their shit is in the US, these guys aren’t so eager to play ball.

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            Primarily because all the billionaires outside of the US understand that the US leaving NATO (which imo will absolutely happen if Trump managed to gain a hold on power) would basically put them in existential danger from Russian expansionism, and potentially a full blown nuclear exchange + WW3 - because without us backstopping Europe, the Russians very well may be able to straight up saturation-strike most major European military bases, and just steamroll shit.

            Don’t get me wrong - Russia is doing embarrassingly poorly against Ukraine, all things considered. But if the US becomes isolationist, Russia and China will likely take that to mean that it’s open season, and there really aren’t that many world powers outside of India that could credibly stand up to a full on combined onslaught from those two.

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          Not the greatest background but certainly unsurprising for The Economist. Oh well, an endorsement is an endorsement.

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      My ballot had 3 options: Kamala Harris, Donald Trump and Robert Kennedy, Jr.

      Write-ins are not allowed in Indiana.

      Who should I have voted for?

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        You can just block .ml at an instance level and you’ll be better off for it and you can add Hexbear in there too.

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          I didn’t see what you were responding to, but I’m very close to doing this. Yesterday I unsubbed from just about all the .ml communities I was subbed to. They’re impossible to talk to and have gotten incredibly nasty. They just start indignantly name-calling immediately, there’s no real engagement anymore. I consider myself to be extremely left wing, but I also live in the real world. They are insufferable.

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            I’m blocking a bunch of .world communities and “power users” because of how toxic they are. The same stupid memes over and over insulting people who don’t want to vote for a pro-genocide candidate, condescending attitudes, calling people tankies/bots/shills/Russians etc. I don’t consider that “real engagement”. I consider it self-congratulatory preaching to the choir. No wonder some people are hostile to that kind of nonsense.

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              This is exactly the kind of crap I’m talking about. You are literally the first and only person who has ever called me right wing, because I objectively and genuinely hold far left beliefs, and I always have. You don’t know me, and since you obviously don’t want to engage in a good faith conversation, your trolling means nothing to me.

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    MBFC: Least Biased - Credibility: High - Factual Reporting: High - United Kingdom


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