So we can afford space weapons but not universal health care and basic social safety net programs?
this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2026
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The alternative was a woman of color. With a funny laugh.
/s, only not really
I voted Harris, but I really suspect that hypothetical better timeline would still have homelessness, a medical care crisis, and also space weapons.
A pro Israel woman of color with a funny laugh.
I don't even think she was that pro Israel though. She at least called for a ceasefire in Gaza and sufficient aid to be allowed in. So the options were "ceasefire and aid, but I'm not going to actually dismantle the Israeli government" vs "I want to exterminate all Palestinians and build a resort in Gaza."
Yeah I never really understood that, obviously Trump is worse for Palestine... and also Venezuela, Iran, Greenland, etc. Really cool that they didn't vote and got us saddled with the worst president in history
They wouldn't have voted either way. I totally believe a major candidate could run 24/7 ads for 6 months leading up the election with the only message of "I am going to kill everyone" and somewhere between 15-30% of the population still wouldn't vote.
Was anyone running who wasn't pro-Israel?
I doubt it, since every party seems to be right of center.
I'm gonna assume that whomever downvoted me here either doesn't live in the US or is butthurt about my only referring to the major parties and not your tankie or blatantly anarchist bullshit.
Yeah. So, the lesser of two weevils.
Super glad we got the pro Israel orange moron instead. /s
First time?
"Looks familiar? Scenes like these are happening all over..."
/s
Dan Olson's Call of Duty: Ghosts video got super prescient but I didn't expect "America built an orbital superweapon while 'in decline'" to rear it's ugly head so soon.
Life imitating ~~art~~ comic books.
This is the typically profoundly short sighted shit we can expect from the Americans.
Look--there is a VERY simply counter to ANY space weapon, no matter how poweful and expensive:
If you don't have the technology to compete in space, all you do is throw shrapnel grenades into space until the entire orbit is full of little bits of metal zipping around at hundreds of miles an hour, shredding any weapons that are up there.
Unfortunately, any satellites, used for communication, or for weather forecasting, or space observation, will also be shredded.
The United States is actively fucking with the future of humanity. The world needs to divest and sanction this shitshow of a country.
(Officially called Kessler Syndrome--has a very nice wiki page).
Once a year I go to the local library and print some blank 1040s and other tax documents, costs me like $2 in print fees. Nobody (except maybe Ratheon) wants weapons in space. Can we make tax season more efficient instead? For example, gov sends a tax bill that one either pays or disputes rather than forcing everyone to calculate a number they already have?
If only they put half the effort spent lobbying taxes, putting hurdles for space development instead, the whole world could benefit from not turning earth's orbit into an american clusterfuck
we'll be losing wars in space soon!
The U.S. government is already killing aliens on Earth. May as well expand the practice to space.