These contribute for sure. But I honestly think that narcissistic people that are wealthy enough just don’t have the level of stress throughout life that a normal person does.

Dude acts like a child looking for gratification from mommy and gets it from the “media” that asks him questions.

Less stress throughout an entire lifetime. It makes up for being an overweight old man that would have died decades ago if he ever had to worry about paying rent or had back pain from manual labor.

This happens BECAUSE it’s the wealthiest country on earth.

We live in a time of larger wealth disparity than the times of peasants and kings.

The royals were also really wealthy as they said in ignorance “let them eat cake”.

Sometimes I think Marx was just the first “conspiracy theory loving podcast bro” but he didn’t have any of the material to distract him. He also was very privileged and did not have to spend his entire life delivering Taco Bell for Uber Eats. But for some reason he still had that same fundamental need to find an explanation for what we all feel so strongly today. It’s punching us in the face.

Like, Marx gets a lot of credit because he and Engels wrote the best criticisms that have stood the test of time. But, if you lived in that time, most writings were about class conflict in some form. Hell, the “father of capitalism” (Adam Smith) was even extremely critical of obvious contradictions and was very critical of landlords.

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

The last century has been mostly about trying to scare the working class into submission. Pointing to “failures” of socialism as if they existed in a bubble; and not the reality of every necessary resource of the capitalist class going to fighting it.

This is primarily done in developing nations. The US ensures it installs dictators or makes the conditions of the countries impossible through embargos (Cuba/DPRK). But in the US it’s mostly controlled by distractions. The conspiracy theories, toys, drugs, etc.

But the imperial core control is failing. And, my hope, is even if we don’t see progress in the west. That the internal chaos we experience will finally allow the nations the west oppresses to break free.

The alienation we feel needs to be understood in this context. We hate our jobs because they serve no other purpose but to allow us to afford the available distractions we are allowed. Distractions that are becoming less and less meaningful as our material conditions decline and we become more connected to all workers of the world.

If all American foreign policy just disappeared the world would be at a net positive overnight - and it’s not even close.

3 years of us arming Ukraine, encouraging them to NOT negotiate (when they had much better position to previously than they do now), and then abandoning them once we finished dumping all our weapons. America was proud to fight to the last Ukrainian.

Russia is like the bullie that punches you in the face.

America is like the bullie that spends weeks pretending to be your friend just so they can steal your lunch money, humiliate you in front of your friends, and then push you into the other bullie that’ll punch you in the face for bumping into them.

Also, Trump just puts a blunt face to what America has always been. Foreign wars in this country are bipartisan. Ukraine would be just as fucked if Harris was president. She’d just have a better narrative for it to make Americans feel less guilty for the fucked up way we treat our “allies”.

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If we normalize assaulting people that want to walk around with cameras on their face being creepy then less people will walk around doing that. Sometimes the solution is as simple as some minor violence.

Except when it’s Israel. Then they keep using “alleged” even after humans right organizations and world courts confirm their crimes. Always gotta add that “We asked Israel and they said everyone is Hamas and Antisemitic” so we kinda have to “show both sides” of course. Journalistic integrity and all.

Probably. But there are more home depots. We’ll go locally owned, Ace, Lowe’s, and Home Depot in reverse burn priority given proximity. Deal?

mkv and mp4 are the container not the codec. It’s a bit more complicated than just the file extension. You likely have more luck with mkv because of just more consistency as mkv is used more often when the file is meant to be played locally and not streamed.

So, you’re right. But just looking at the container isn’t going to ensure compatibility. The codec is significantly more impactful on whether playback is supported. That’s the part that’s literally taking the compressed video data and decoding it into viewable pixels/frames you see on your screen.

I’ve never downloaded an mkv that wasn’t just standard h264 or h265. So it’s still a good bet. But h265 is less universal and much more CPU intensive for playback (because it has significantly better compression).

I’m not a gun person so maybe I was just fooled by a video. I also probably don’t use the right terms so forgive me.

But it was awhile back; one video I saw of a guy showing how he was clearing the chamber of a pistol. Pulled it back from a full clip and counted each one. He counted 8 (which was expected for the size). Kept clearing it while nothing came out. Asked the viewer “Clear? Nope. Did you notice what’s wrong”?

Pulls the gun back to show the bullet still visually in the chamber.

Apparently it was a pistol with a recall or common issue of not correctly clearing the last round. He had an additional bullet chambered at the start so he counted the clip size but the pistol had 9 rounds initially with one still completely capable of firing at the end.

Like, he literally pulled it back and cleared it like 20 additional times. Bullet still just sitting there at the end.

Will try to find the video.

And tiny Tim’s illness didn’t give his family medical bankruptcy forcing them to lose their form of shelter.

Not sure why you’re downvoted. It’s not like the west is doing well at following the promises and projections it planned in Paris to reduce its addiction to fossil fuels. Promises of something being done in the future are only useful or relevant when they actually occur. They are meaningless until then.

Something something let the invisible hand of the market decide.

The West really likes capitalism until they start losing at their own game. Truth is. They’ve always enjoyed stacking the deck of free trade in their own favor. “But China is subsidizing it’s industry and cheating!”. Uh, ok. So why can’t the west just do that? Oh, because we literally have been subsidizing industries all over the place for forever. The west has just not ever had to actually compete with a trade power of equal power.

They liked living in a monopolar world of western control. Too bad. Sucks to suck. Losing at trade in the neoliberal economic world order that they setup to benefit themselves. Getting absolutely outplayed and now taking their ball home.

None of this has to do with “moral actions” or stopping Russia. They literally buy Russian gas like it’s an addiction. This is literally all about the fact that the west is losing out to China’s trade dominance throughout the world.

Well, explain in what what way my analogy was bull shit then. Because it’s not perfect, but creating a hypothetical analogy based around America is sometimes the only way to get Westerners to understand something.

But, you, trying to equate the real bay of pigs invasion to an invasion of Taiwan that was dumb. It just showed you don’t know the history of the Chinese civil war (the entire point of my analogy in the first place) or the history of Cuba.

But, go ahead. I’m waiting for you to explain why my hypothetical analogy is bull shit. I explained why yours was.

And you still haven’t answered why you want the US involved with defending Taiwan. That really worked out well for Ukraine. Fighting for years so we could sell them weapons, get their men killed, and then abandon them once we found a new war to start.

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It’s like Trump has issues with basic child development of mind.

It’s like he’s permanently stuck between a state of everyone having a state of false-belief until he discovers something and everyone else having a state of positive-belief once he believes something.

There is no understanding of him being able to have a false-belief. He can have a non-belief. But the moment he believes something it becomes a true-belief.

It’s why he talks in these absolutes of “everybody” and “nobody” all the time.

I think it was on purpose at some point. It was a tactic of a conman and being able to pivot well. If Trump had one skill it was definitely this conman with charisma.

But, as he gets older, and is losing his mind live in 4k, it sounds like his brain is devolving to that of a child.

Like, I think someone should do the Sally-Anne experiment with Trump. I think his cognitive decline is literally failing and it might explode his brain not being able to say “everybody knows where the marble is” or “nobody knows where the marble is”.

So a country halfway across the world supporting your “freedom” because they benefit from the manufacturing the country outputs is freedom. But a country that is your neighbor, like China, that has literally never invaded you and has normalized relations with you is “a threat”. The Allie is a country that literally just abandoned an allie in Ukraine when it became unprofitable to support them.

How many times does the US need to abandon an allie like this for people to understand that being an Allie of the US is not beneficial to the “freedom” of that state.

Russia invading Ukraine is unjustifiable. IF China invaded Taiwan it would also be unjustifiable. But, do you really think the US policy of “fighting to the last Ukrainian” and then abandoning them was good for Ukraine?

There is no benefit that comes from being an Allie of the US. If Taiwan wants to remain out of conflicts it’s best option is to distance itself from the US. The benefits only exist until the US decides it’s no longer as profitable to their weapons manufacturers. Then shift their focus to somewhere else (Venezuela for example).

Your analogy is completely off. Cuba wasn’t ever historically a part of the US. Did not participate in a civil war within the US.

I think you need to read up on your history before you try to make a “better analogy”. I used the American civil war as an example because Americans seem to be completely ignorant to the fact that Taiwan exists as separate from mainland China because of a civil war.

Cuba literally liberated itself from a US supported dictatorship. The US did invade Cuba during the bay of pigs though. China has literally never even attacked Taiwan though. So, it’s really not at all compareable. Taiwan exist today as separate from China because the losing side of a civil war retreated there.

China in the 1950s absolutely would have every right to invade Taiwan and overthrow the western supported dictatorship that existed there. It would literally be liberating it’s own people.

The issue is that they didn’t; the people there were forced for decades to live under a puppet dictatorship of the west due to US support.

But, again, we are in this situation in the first place because of US global interests. For some reason no one can answer why the best solution is not for the US to stop trying to control and maintain influence over countries half way across the world?

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