BynarsAreOk

The Home owner association thing is so incredibly backwards and reactionary, I get the impression Crusader Kings 3 is just a white middle class neighborhood simulator 2022 or something.

The typical white middle-high income suburban experience of living in a McMansion and having to drive 45-60 minutes on a 10 lane highway just to buy a 6-pack of beer or something. If someone told me "you can come and live here for free" I'd still reject(it would be my last choice) because it just sounds like misery. I'd prefer decent housing anywhere else.

Attempt being the keyword, once you catch onto it deliberately trying to lie to you the confidence surely must be broken, otherwise you're having to double and triple(or more) check the output which defeats the purpose for some applications.

Intellectual property: The country would be ineffective in protecting and enforcing copyright, harming American creative and innovation workers. (Piracy for own consumption is not illegal in Brazil, and a popular shopping street like 25 de Março simply ignore enforcement).

I do have to say even though all these points are incredibly funny, this one is the top one. Like someone complaining about bootleg DVDs as if its still 2002.

The Brazilian street vendor market is pretty much cheap stuff made from China sold by people mass importing either from Aliexpress, Shoppee, Shein and others. Again I can't imagine literaly anything that is actualy sold that comes from the US. Do they think people are buying bootleg iPhones? It costs almost half the price of a brand new car btw lol.

This is all so incredibly unhinged, the online reaction is hilarious so far. This reads like talking points from Bozo himself, like he is the epitome of someone so clueless.

Like complaining about ethanol when Brazilian sugar cane farms literaly employ slave labour conditions. Why would he tell Trump to swing against his own base? Fucking Lula is more pro-reactionary landowner agribusiness class these days, what a wild switch.

Like the US complaining about unfair "anti-corruption" when it was Lula who was jailed on an anti-corruption scandal, supporting anti-corruption lawfare is literaly how the US locks down the global south. Absolutely clueless.

I'm realy not sure where the intersection between hating Gamers and the shallow reasoning Visa should be the ones to set our moral standards. Like shit you must realize they're two steps away from labelling anything LGBTQ+ as "morally deviant" too.

Yes I'm entirely aware its whataboutism but I'm not sure there are any other points one could take. I'd rather put more direct pressure from movements and whatever direct pressure on Steam one can make rather than just looking at this as some sort of W because 4chan got their fav games banned.

Steam says payment processors got a say but realy they got the final decision here. It makes no sense to imagine Steam agrees this is good for them in the future either. In the future what is to say games from a certain country must be banned because Visa says so. Might as well substitute that for the US State Department already.

This is a slippery slope where a cheap W doesn't mean its a good outlook. With still 3.5 years of Trump left and the tariff shit still going I'm not surprised if eventualy they force region locking by default. Oh you're Brazilian? I'm sorry you can't buy because Visa doesn't allow this game to be sold over there and Visa also says local payment systems should be banned(literally current news).

There is nothing else to shift attention towards, Superman would have made MAGA crazy years ago but the popular reaction seems to be overwhelmingly positive. Its realy only Zionists and Synderbros coping and seething. I'm not sure they can move away from this.

I think its already clear that the majority of the global south is irrelevant now, its the logical conclusion of the end of history people. USAID was a very old initiative from the 60s, its over 60 years old. Trump is ripping off the mask of what was already quite the trend of the last 2 decades imo.

To give a clear example, the Ukraine war issue around Ukrainian grain exports. They tried to claim it was going to poor countries but in reality Ukrainian grain goes to Europe and China and it is Russia who are one of the biggest agricultural exporters e.g grain and fertilizer(biggest in the world even) to the global south. So they completely believed just telling the world it was "Putin's war" as if the global south gives a shit. They maintained the sanctions and did not acknowledge the crisis at all.

If the liberals in charge back then understood soft power, they would have immediately done something to stabilize the global food market. But obviously that is impossible, after all western companies were making huge profits from this inflation too. Maybe they would have understood to e.g not put sanctions on Russian agricultural exports, again though, impossible to imagine. As a result Russia-BRICS and others got a huge amount of free anti-western sentiment because it was clear it was western sanctions to blame.

These people already proved they are not that much smarter than Trump. So IMO the point is the last 1-2 decades of geopolitical conflicts kind of already destroyed US soft power, Trump is only far more blatant about it.

I mean you can even look at Gaza, they could have done a proper theatrics by allowing some form of aid and telling Israel "maybe just keep the genocide to Palestinians only and not the UN staff too, you know the ones we spent decades legitimizing as heroes", but its not like Biden gave a shit either. The concept of USAID soft power is not even effective anymore I'm willing to say probably for years now.

Earlier reports this year mention its $500 million worth risk of spoilage.

I remember some very old hexbear comment-poster years ago already coined the idea tankie is just liberal version of woke. This sub is a legacy of that era imo.

think if Russia goes nuclear, even with tactical nuclear weapons, India and China would not be impressed, to say the least.

Absolutely not, this is why the DPRK alliance was crucial. China looks at Russia funny like that and they got 3 nuclear armed hostile countries near their borders.

India though is pretty much irrelevant in the long term, like they're literaly the #2 region to get fucked by climate change just second to Africa.

Maybe, anyone living in post 9-11 Patriot act would say the same, more like a tendency rather than a bump?

Like you see that Munich conference in February right? The official media loves it to an extent that is mind boggling, as if there is no hint of irony, going to the enemy side of the cold war and being applauded by almost the same ghouls as if its a sign that justifies the dengist path so far. "See its working they love us" and then merely weeks later the Trump tariffs happened. These are events that I'd laugh even 5 years ago. "Yeah the US just bombs Chinese allies but its fine because China got a round of applause in Munich!".

Chinese pacifism is basically gaslighting themselves into thinking they're not enemies of the west.

Most users here with that type of perspective ignore the people they claim to defend, and allege to speak for them anyway. Iran didn't ask for help and didn't need it at that moment, why should we assert that China needed to do something when Iran itself wouldn't assert it? One example of many

How is someone seriously suggesting the world's third largest nuclear power defending Iran is a bad outcome simply because Iran didn't bother asking, when literally the point is Iran getting their own nukes to defend themselves. Either Chinese or Russian umbrella would have seriously changed the calculation overnight.

The point made is Iran is China's major trading partner not the US. There is nothing to ignore here other than the fact China is the one getting fucked if they lose Iranian oil. You're asking us to justify why China wont act out of material self interest as if its an own. China is the one that constantly boasts about win-win relationships. I guess Iran is winning when they get bombed and China watches... respectfully obviously.

When the Palestinians call for a global revolution or global resistance to zionism that does not include Beijing either, clearly because Hamas didn't send a delegation to Beijing asking for a Chinese liberation force? Deeply unserious.