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I don't think that's necessarily true. And surely the Ukraine war shows that nukes are useful for deterrence. Biden was reluctant to give things to Ukraine (tanks and planes) because he feared escalation from Russia - i.e. the use of tactical nukes.

If Ukraine had nukes, maybe they wouldn't have been invaded.

This reminds me of something I read from a British left-wing journalist the other day (source). She suggested that perhaps the left should focus less on identity politics, and more on wealth and class:

By making a virtue of marginalisation, breaking ourselves down into ever smaller and mutually hostile groupings, we make it impossible to build a mass movement capable of taking on extreme concentrations of wealth and power

Fair enough. I don't think I'm convinced of God's existence myself. But I think freedom of belief is important - we should be free to believe or not believe in God, because I don't think anybody knows the answer for certain.

What evidence is there that proves God's existence?

1. You've assumed that person is a westerner, which I think is unbelievably arrogant
2. You're suggesting that person shouldn't comment at all just because of a mistake they made

To me it seems the arrogant one here is you

You’re making a lot of assumptions based of one mistake, but you don’t have to insult me.

You're a member of the wrong instance if you don't like assumptions and insults.

I think Wikipedia's description is good: "Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof."

Also:

• Puma (German)
• Lacoste (French)
• H&M (Swedish)
• Primark (Irish)
• Ellesse (Italian, owned by the British)

Also there's Fred Perry and Fila which are both Asian-owned (by Japan and South Korea respectively), but they're at least nominally European brands.

Some European brands are American-owned though, like Umbro and Reebok.

The phrase about freedom and convenience in the OP image reminds me of what France's foreign minister recently said about Europe's relationship with the USA:

We are faced with a choice that is imposed on us, between effort and freedom, or comfort and servitude

I assume the 27% are mostly fans of Marine Le Pen and they quite like Donald Trump.

Meta is bad although I would argue that X and Tesla are worse.

If you really want to represent Europe, you could wear Lidl clothes:

Or just buy Adidas stuff I guess, whatever you prefer.

Ah okay. Maybe I will just stick with a password + 2FA for now though. I'm sure I will eventually learn more about passkeys when I make the effort to read more about them.

I see, thanks. It mentions biometrics on that page. Maybe if my next laptop has a fingerprint reader then I should look into passkeys more.

Interesting thanks. I will probably just stick with passwords + 2FA for the moment because I'm lazy. It would be cool to have something like a hardware key though.

I have no idea what a passkey is and I will probably only learn what it is when they become mandatory

I will just use passwords + 2FA for the moment

Fair point. Maybe I just think the pain of being shot would be less unpleasant than the pain of a botched injection or electrocution.

Every single representative of Russia including Putin gives long ass speeches about why this is happening

The same government that has lied about so many things that I have lost count

Also the US is hardcore plotting and funding terrorism against Russia

Evidence? Do you think the US plotted and funded the Crocus City Hall attack for instance?

Would you have preferred to see the West provide nothing to Ukraine and instead just watch Ukraine get taken over by Russia? Perhaps that would have resulted in fewer deaths, but who knows. Russian forces probably would have still killed a lot of Ukrainians, and they would have subjugated Ukrainians, and probably they would have still committed rape and other acts.

Ukraine’s not a member of NATO

Indeed. That's why I said maybe Ukraine should have been allowed to join NATO years ago. That might have prevented this invasion.

i never disputed who the primary aggressor was in this war

So you think Russia invaded, but then the West used this as an opportunity to harm Russia. Maybe the West wasn't interested in harming Russia for the sake of harming Russia. Maybe the West just wanted Russia to stop its invasion of Ukraine.