Except the moment you have orbital dominance over a planet then no amount of ground or atmosphere based weaponry matters whatsoever. All they would have to do is drop some mass from orbit and they can cause destruction far beyond even the most powerful nuclear weapons.
What you forget is that weapons are just an application of the sciences. Superior science = superior weaponry, even if the aliens haven’t bothered to “spec into” weapons research.
Capitalists are parasites who feed off of crises. Look no further than the COVID-19 pandemic, where the economy faltered and yet the ultra wealthy made record profits. These are not sane people interested in long-term sustainability, they’re egotistical psychopaths addicted to gambling, and their tokens are human lives.
Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Wow, I know some of those words.
I’m the one blind to reality? You actually think Bernie had any sway over any one of the moderates who dropped out to give Biden the win? They were loyal to the Democratic Party, not Bernie, and certainly not to their principles, if truly they had any.
She’s a young woman with strong opinions. That’s enough to make conservatives pop a blood vessel.
This is just bait for grant and investment cash. Sounds genius to venture capitalists divorced from reality.
It seems like you’re going down the Silicon Valley Techno-Libertarian rabbit hole, so I highly recommend looking into some Anarchist critiques of Libertarianism and reflecting a bit. This is a trap you’re stumbling into.
That’s literally just politics.
This gives the same energy as saying “it’s just business” after doing some heinous shit.
Name a more iconic duo than Marxists and Anarchist-erasure.
You seem to think that Anarchism is just the extreme/pure form of Libertarianism, and that it’s just about more/less government, which couldn’t be further from the truth.
I’ll acknowledge my bias upfront, I consider myself an Anarchist, so keep that in mind as you read my comment.
American Libertarianism presents itself as being about “small government,” which makes it sound appealing to people who are skeptical of authority but have a very shallow understanding of politics. In truth, it’s an ideology that holds individual property rights as superior to all others. To an American Libertarian, any infringement on their property rights is the most egregious possible violation of their freedom.
Anarchism means “without rulers.” Anarchists oppose all forms of exploitation and oppression, which is described as any arrangement in which one person or group exerts authority over another person or group, usually by force. They favor organizing society via “voluntary free association,” which is when people make decisions together on the basis of general consent. To an Anarchist, private property (as opposed to personal property, there is a distinction) is just another way for someone to exploit another, such as when a landlord collects rent.
This text explains what anarchism is pretty well.
A lot of them justify their defense of fascist-imperialist Russia with revolutionary defeatism. It is a much more difficult argument to deconstruct than the argument that Russia is somehow still socialist.
In my view, it is similar to accelerationism, and so the same arguments against accelerationism work against revolutionary defeatism. Marxist theory also argues that improved material conditions result in increased success of liberatory movements, which is in direct contradiction to revolutionary defeatism and accelerationism. For this reason I don’t believe marxism-leninism is internally consistent if it includes support for accelerationism.
It may not be this particular case, but I remember looking into something similar before where an oil and gas company claimed a similar reduction in emissions at one of their plants, but the fine print made clear that the number came from a device installed on only one of several exhaust towers that was only able to operate for short periods of time, and was removed shortly after getting the publicity because it was considered too expensive to maintain.
I see lots of liberals online insisting that the US pulling out of the Paris accord will make everyone else, including China, abandon their climate initiatives.
If any nation does so then - just like the US - they weren’t truly committed in the first place, and they would have quietly rolled back their climate goals like the US has been doing already anyway.
Lefty redneck here, looking forward to receiving my free horse.
Theoretically there’s nothing stopping Trump from being president from prison.
There’s no rule that says a dog can’t play basketball.
Let me guess… the right wing in your country works to keep it that way to legitimize their case for privatizing healthcare?
Referring to the place you live as hell while having free healthcare and a $600 mortgage on a 3 bedroom house has demoralized every American who read your comment.
The fantasy is the competent opposition to all of those things.
Agreed, until prosthetics can achieve full parity of both function and sensation then they are only good as replacements for parts that are already missing. No sane person is swapping their hand for one that lacks a sense of touch just as good or better than what they have already, even if it’s mechanically superior. In such a scenario that mechanical superiority is desired they would opt for an augmentation over a prosthetic.