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FDR goaded Japan into that attack by cutting off their oil and suppressed intelligence about the impending attack to ensure a decisive entry into WWII over the opposition of 90% of the American public. Having political leadership so opposed to the will of the people is a state US 'democracy' seems perpetually unable to end, re Iraq, Vietnam, WWI, WWII etc. Hearing US lecture governments that fight on behalf of their people instead of manipulating them into war would be a national embarrassment if Americans weren't firmly ensconced in their pro-US empire media bubble.

PS: FDR began sending supplies to the USSR before pear harbor despite its mass murder and atrocities across Eurasia and extreme unpopularity of the Soviet government with the US public. The embargo with Japan was made for geopolitical reasons and any "humanitarian" argument is post hoc.

EDIT: Remarkably, President Herbert Hoover remained politically active in the post-FDR media landscape and his account of the events and of FDRs actions leaves little room for doubt about FDRs aims in his foreign policy with Japan.

https://www.hoover.org/research/freedom-betrayed-herbert-hoo...

Stuff like paypal exist so that powerful people can shut you out of the economy if you challenge their power. They complain about money laundering while the CIA is the biggest money launderer in the world and no one goes to jail when Deutsche bank launders Jeffery Epstein's payments. But operating a Bitcoin mixer is a federal offense. They are scared.

Not just a raise, she got 3 million dollars.

With all these advantages, why did the industrial revolution happen in Europe instead of Asia?

Remember the conspiracy nuts who said WMDs were a lie? Or the nut jobs who said the lab escape origin for Sars cov 2 should be taken seriously? Yea. I didnt see the comment you just replied to but Im pretty mad at people who dismiss everything they've been told not to like the way you just did.

This is just Herodotus' well known account right? I don't see any new evidence here, only an informed guess "reconstruction" of what the trip would have been like.

This is just Herodotus' account. I don't see any new evidence here.

Nice lol. My bet is on crackpot then.

The authors of the paper didnt write that. Thats the article's words.

I dont think the Palestinians are mad at Jews for being bourgeoisie. The identity issue is at the heart of that conflict, its not a proxy for class. If the Palestinians had more money they wouldn't get Israeli citizenship. I guess some identity politics could be proxies for class struggle though.

Edit: That makes literally no sense earlking. If Israel Palestine is a struggle between two bourgeoise then it isn't a class struggle. Its an ethnic struggle like I said above.

The media class deliberately created these narratives about how "the other side" are unredeemable monsters and the only solution is to vote for one of the two corporate-backed political parties (and certainly not the other one). So I don't sympathize with Katherine Brodsky getting bitten by her industry's own polarization tactic.

What is the secret meaning of "white supremacist" and who are the only ones that hear that meaning when the term is used?

EDIT: ok. Yea I agree the term is used very broadly. I thought something else was being said.

Regan called Al Queda "freedom fighters". Bush called them "terrorists". Activists are people the speaker agrees with, bullies are people he disagrees with. I would rather have a discussion about the issues without needing to get into semantic debates and call out rhetorical non-arguments.

And they never will be. We are at the limit of safe battery energy density.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8RbwOhM6PUk

Yea. Its closer to the first 30 years of its existence doing pretty much nothing but being sport for rich people.

Thats not what happened. There was no piracy problem. Then the US toppled the government. Then there was a piracy problem. The US didnt intervene to stop a problem that didnt exist. I was responding to the claim that destabilizing the Somali government in 1993 was profitable to wealth Americans because shipping lanes are near Somalia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy_off_the_coast_of_Soma...

>After the collapse of the Somali government and the dispersal of the Somali Navy, ... groups, using small boats, would sometimes hold vessels and crew for ransom. This grew into a lucrative trade, with large ransom payments. The pirates then began hijacking commercial vessels

You dont make up for being a brutal expansionist empire by being a "kinder gentler" expansionist empire. Until there is regime change in the US nothing it does will be good for anyone but its own ruling class.

>The US and Saudis both have a very large gun to each other's heads

Thats just not true. Saudi family rule over Arabia is predicated on US support. If all SA oil production stopped it would not topple the US government. If the US decided to back a political opposition like it did in Syria the Saudi regime would implode in days.

Then why did piracy spike after the US intervention?

>people that like to show their bodies as well as software developers

I really dont understand what you mean.

>Your observation happens, but you're reading way too far into it.

I also dont understand this lol. So you admit this happens but just don't think I should care that much? Well I do care about the rich parlaying their wealth into political power by buying up newspapers and social media companies ala Jeff Bezos and Jared Kushner and the Qutaris and I would hope you do too.

That's probably because it was invented by Indians speaking English in India. Its not illogical etymologically but there is no reason you should be expected to understand it.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/prepone

>Indian English

Ok. Why are we even sitting here speculating about it? Why don't they say what its being used for and instead leave it vague and open ended?

And who is to blame for so few transactions fitting in a single block? What is the energy consumption of the petrodollar-backed wars in the middle east? Presenting numbers without discussing the alternative is sophistic misdirection.

This is reminiscent of Seaborg's work in the 1960's that lead to the discovery of lots of new heavy elements. Everyone was pretty sure they could be created but someone had to build an accelerator to do it.

>if a site doesn’t use RSS, Google will fall back to its existing content index to keep users updated.

This sounds like an "embrace extend extinguish" strategy. Piggyback on websites that have RSS for basic functionality, but use Google's control over the browser to ultimately push websites into something like update aggregation to "reduce server load" that allows Google to track people even when they think they are using an open alternative. It's similar to Google's recent move on FlOC. Making small easily reversible moves towards an open web that protect Google's core position from regulation and users choosing alternatives.

EDIT: If Google deserved the benefit of the doubt they wouldn't still be reading people's email to build creepy profiles on everyone's interests and browsing history. I'm not a fool, I'll consider giving them the benefit of the doubt after they stop that and delete all the data they have collected.

"Independent" is often used by American media when describing pro-western publications backed by the CIA.

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/26/archives/worldwide-propag...

>In its persistent efforts to snape world opinion, the C.I.A. has been able to call upon a separate and far more extensive network of newspapers, news services, magazines, publishing houses, broadcasting stations and other entities over which it has at various times had some control.

I don't think the internal affairs of Belarus ought to be the concern of Americans.

But DOJ won't unmask Q anon, even after Jan 6. Biden is President and Q anon is still active and anonymous.

Reusing an electronic payment allows your trips to he connected and used to track you. There was nothing wrong with tokens and this fee is a huge increase for people who don't want to be tracked. RFID would make it even more difficult to avoid the eye of sauron.

>saying things like that with no consequences.

Should I be allowed to deny the sanctity of Christ in public without consequences? You would be hard pressed to find in all of Tudor England a man to defend such an outrageous proposition.

In all seriousness, this new religious struggle will probably tear the US apart over the next two decades. Hopefully it wont be as bad as the reformation was in Europe.