cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/488620
65% of U.S. adults say the way the president is elected should be changed so that the winner of the popular vote nationwide wins the presidency.
cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/488620
65% of U.S. adults say the way the president is elected should be changed so that the winner of the popular vote nationwide wins the presidency.
Sorry, I only have so much time in the day to respond to these sorts of things.
When I said “I’m not sure what your point is”, I didn’t mean it as in “I don’t understand” I was essentially saying you don’t have a point, because you were highlighting an issue that applies to everything that exists.
Sure it does. You can’t correctly say that it is a good thing for the UK when all of the evidence suggests it is not.
I see that I was mistaken on that part, and I apologize for that. However I want to make it clear that I never said trade is a guarantee of peace. Russia decided that the cost/benefit analysis of the situation was worth it. They took a gamble and were luckily dead wrong, but it’s never a guarantee.
That disunity is largely between urban and rural, not state and state. So unless you plan to turn every U.S. city into a city state, and every rural region into it’s own state, then this idea of splitting up doesn’t make sense. But either way, it’s objectively harmful.
And having more allies against imminent danger is far more preferable to the alternative. Just because things won’t last forever doesn’t mean that we should abandon our allies.
This conclusion is based on the unfounded assumptions that it will be better in the long run, that the pain of the coming decades is unavoidable/unmanageable, and that allies will ultimately hurt us.
And there is plenty of evidence against these notions, such as Ukraine. Without it’s allies in the west, Ukraine would have been toast by this point. The only reason it is standing is because it is getting billions of dollars of funding from it’s allies.