Good point. Although one could argue that Israeli defence firms are part of the US military industrial complex.

I don’t disagree, but the Military Industrial Complex is enabled and funded by both the Republicans and the Democrats. Nothing will stop your tax dollars flowing to it.

sick of seeing their taxes going to countries not even in NATO.

This misconception needs to be corrected.

The tax dollars go to America’s milliary industrial complex. It’s their surplus (which is already budgeted and paid for by the American government) that is sent overseas. No tax dollars leave the USA.

Academic research is the standard that should be aimed for. References and no opinions.

Yes, it is possible to fact check with integrity. Not like this example.

Opinions should not enter into fact checking as opinions are not fact.

In this case the job of these people is clearly to perform damage limitation for the WEF

This is why fact checks are bullshit. Reuters admits that

a WEF social media video from 2016 that stated eight predictions about the world in 2030, including: “You’ll own nothing. And you’ll be happy. What you want you’ll rent, and it’ll be delivered by drone.”

Now to make the statement false they bring in a strawman “Stated goal” condition and prove that particular part to be false, then claim that makes the whole thing false.

Such bullshit.

What I was fishing for. Thanks.

I vote John von Neumann for tech savant.

Yes, there are a lot of better things we could be spending the enormous military budget on.

I chose NASA because it’s the closest to military spending while still being peaceful.

The military budget is 36x bigger than NASA.

Mars could be the 51st state if the US were not so war hungry.

The cap of Bic pens!

Allows you to scoop and clean without the fear of going too deep (adults only).

Utopia (UK 2 season version)

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_jIDr2tZiuRHlp-bLwYNgWaFAp6dR7_Y

Chatgpt is decidedly unerotic in its responses.

Yog’Sothoth does his dark bidding on the internet.

Not voting at all is just laziness.

Spoiled ballots may have some long term influence. But they have no power over the election being boycotted.

Certainly not. But choosing to punish at this precise opportunity would be like shooting your own feet.

Punish at the local level. Punish by supporting voting reform. Etc.

You have to think of the lack of primary as a sunk cost. The decision in front of you is independent of all previous decisions.

Fiddy.

Not too expensive.

And now … the Larch

IMHO, RFK jr is pro environment and anti big phama. He changes his policies based on fashion more than money. He is populist, not corporatist.

Both the Republican and Democrat parties are corporatist because of lobbying. Nothing to do with Trump. If we voted Hillary and Kamala then the same court outcome would occur.