What does the evacuation mean for what’s going on?

Hexbear is down. Expect an influx of people to this megathread if it stays down for too long

Defends vs. High-Explosive rounds fired at the back of the turret

I don’t see how this is in China’s interests at this point. Committing to a position right now just presents more risks than potential rewards.

This looks nice! Can I just install a bog-standard android OS on it with no problems?

Makes sense. Under Trump, the COVID stim and student loan pauses, along with reduced gas expenses, reduced spending habits etc., has been the best times economically that a lot of regular folks have had in a long time.

Then Biden Admin came and winded all of that back, slowly but surely, and while he ran on cancelling student loans, for a lot of folks, they’re basically being UNcancelled.

And Trump was happy to put his name on every stimmy check so you knew who your sugar daddy was.

Under Biden, we have inflation going nuts, stagnant pay, and economists blaming workers for it and promising to raise unemployment numbers.

Republicans never set out to make peoples’ lives better, but did out of necessity during quarantine, and Democrats were too stupid to recognize that and try to keep the good times rolling for the working class.

Ah that makes sense. In the US, I don’t hear a lot of chatter blaming the war for our woes, just the usual partisan politics stuff

but now people are increasingly connecting the war with their declining standard of living. This is now translating into a political backlash against the people who championed the war.

Could you elaborate on this? I dont follow. How is our standaed of living connected to this war?

Those who can’t do, tweet.

Those who can’t tweet, tweet anyway.

One lib group I have eyes on called 2014 an uprising to replace a Russian puppet

Be the change you want to see in the world

What counts as the end of the US? Did Rome end when the city proper was sacked, or when Constantiople fell?

If the US balkanizes would that be the end? Or maybe when DC falls to a foreign power or collapses and loses influence over the states and territories?

I suspect we’ll have something that calls itself the United States for a long time to come in any case

I have no idea what landback entails. That’s why I asked. I get what OP was mocking here. I want to know what the actual advocates for this are seeking, not what reactionary opponents assume they are seeking

Genuine question: What would returning look like practially? Isn’t most land stolen from indiginous groups in general? Would we see people ofnforeigb descent emigrating back to nations of historical origin? Or is this a question of who governs the land, and not who resides on it?

Or that Nordstream 2’s sabotage wasn’t a false-flag perpetrated by the very people that benefitted from it the most, and not their mortal enemies!

Big if so

Holy shit, I never expected there ti be an actual RL explanation for Forrest Gump and Bubba

Most people would rather join a winning side than a losing one

I’m genuinely ignorant on this: What makes China Marxist today? From my uneducated standpoint, they do seem to have a lot of the trappings of capitalism. What is their long term plan to advance communism (I’m assuming the current state of affairs is temporary and strategic)

One encouraging trend I’ve been noticing lately is immigrant communities moving into poor neighborhoods and setting up ethnic groceries in low-rent buildings or lots . Because immigrant communities tend to concentrate in areas, that guarantees a market for what would otherwise be a niche product. Then other poor US-born neighbors start shopping at those stores simply because they’re local and sometimes even walkable.