RiverRock

I have looked into it, and it isn't obvious

They are not thinking of those places, but it is kind of helpful of you to point out other countries where the US empire has repeated the same strategy

Okay, so DM me when Russia surrenders and I'll make a big mea culpa post

I gotta get stellaris, it sounds fun

When you're definitely on the side of humanity

Okay congrats, you have now been wiped out by a society that prioritizes collective well-being and is therefore able to field a larger, healthier army with more advanced technology.

ITT: guys who probably consider themselves too smart for religion thinking in terms dictated by the church.

"Deserving" and "undeserving* are made up concepts disconnected from any concrete reality, just shards of Christianity preserved in the amber of American civic religion and exported throughout the capitalist-dominated world. If you talk about who "deserves" this or that, you might as well be talking about who's holy and who's a sinner. The truth is, we are just animals who banded together tens of thousands of years ago to help each other survive. Many anthropologists say that society began when we started taking care of those who could no longer contribute as much physically: the old, the sick, the injured. But hey, if you want to be less socially evolved than a bunch of cave-dwelling hunter gatherers, that's your choice. Just don't expect the rest of humanity to entertain your rotten ideas about useless eaters, and don't act surprised when you find yourself put out on the ice.

Is that obvious?

"Lalalalalala you're not a real person you're not a real person I don't have to think about what you're saying"

"Ugh, look at these delusional commies who think that the purpose of human society is to keep each other alive."

Judge us by our enemies

Swedish ruling class looking at Ukraine's demographic collapse and being like "yes please"

I guess guns are pretty neat, if you ignore all the massacres and the school shootings and the suicides and most of the other people who like guns