"The West" is essentially the group of nations attempting to abide by a moral code. It is not always, or maybe even often, successful, but there is a vast gulf between their morality-based approach and what China, Russia, DPRK, and other fascist/semi-fascist nations are doing.
andyburke
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The answer is simple:
Religion is not based in fact.
We need solutions based on facts if we are going to handle the problems our species faces.
Can someone explain how Biden is supposed to do this?
Republicans are tilting further and further toward Russia and away from Ukraine. Independents don't understand why we should be "spending" millions on another country.
Biden seems to be sending about as much as any current US president could hope to.
Russia has launched a war of aggression. Russian leader Putin enjoys an 80% approval rating. This change won't happen for a year:
Consequently, the planned deliveries for the year 2024 will remain unaffected.
Stop trying to make this out like the west is doing anything even close to what Russia is. If Russia wants to be an aggressive pariah state, they can make their own fucking drugs.
I think this has a lot to do with the horses we have bred.
When you're always running into assholes...
Additionally, I'm not sure how China would have reached this position without a specific effort by the United States to engage in increased trade with them.
We said we would trade more in the hopes of an improving human rights situation and steps toward democratic self-rule.
We didn't get what we were promised. Stop whining, Xi.
Also the group was collectively pregnant, injured and hypothermic - just so we are clear on the dire threats they posed to the crew.
My young friends are forgetting the days of IE where we really did almost lose the web. It's been a constant struggle, always, against the corporate interests who only see the internet as a money printer.
I am more excited about the web today, with the fediverse for example, than I have been in a long time. Maybe since those days, when the future of any browser but IE was in doubt.
The pieces of wood shaped like slices of bread are disturbing.
The sad truth is it will need to get much worse until conservatives will admit there is a problem and let progressives solve it.
It has always been this way. You either live in a progressive, upwardly moving state with improving quality of life or you get stuck in a conservative, stagnant or downward trending place where people are more concerned with "others" than they are with doing anything productive as a society. As a species, we seem to slowly wobble back and forth between these extremes. It's maddening.