TheDrink [he/him]

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Cake day: November 21st, 2024

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  • This is going to break US relations with the very rebels we funded to success in Syria. No way do they take a massive loss of territory lying down, which means they’ll get into conflict with Isreal, which means they’ll get on America’s shit list, which means they’ll go to Russia in search of allies, and we’re gonna be right back to where we were at (from a regional strategic perspective) when the whole fucking war started - only this time instead of a baathist dictator they’ll have a salafi one.

    I guess that’s the theme for America’s interventions in the middle east. Decades of death and destruction only for things to go right back to how they were.


  • I know I’m bad about it. I delete my account every couple of months but I bet a dedicated person could track me down based on my posts.

    Though I’ll say that in the real world I’ve gotten more guff for not having a mainstream social media account than for openly expressing my communist views. Even lost a job offer over it once (though I consider that a bullet dodged) because I had shared with them my linkdin acct that only has my resume and they wanted to check a Facebook acct that I’ve never had.





  • Fair, it’s a totally different situation, but I think that if nothing else cooperation and development remains provably the best path to stabilization and therefore reducing radicalization. Just imagine fighters coming home from fighting in Syria to find out that the rest of their family is making twice as much as they are while working half as hard, how many do you think will just want to settle down?



  • This page cites some studies that have already been done into this idea, and the prognosis is not good. Even if we embarked on the absolutely massive undertaking of building the pumps, desalination facilities, and wind turbines necessary to do this at scale, and committed to the massive cost of maintaining all of those machines in the harsh environments of the arctic/antarctic, the effect would only be preventing a small amount of sea level rise in the short term.

    So yea sinking some cruise ships seems to be the best option.