Not relying on the US is only part of the solution, they have to stamp out their populist nationalism movements while they still can.

I’ll cut a tiny bit of slack to the 9/11 sign-ups, it was harder to fact-check the various lies coming from the feds.

Arunachal Pradesh is home to over a million people, which China claims and is slowly building into in much the same way Russia bled into Ukraine. (And it probably should be part of Tibet which should be it’s own nation, that China has been occupying it so long that its government-in-exile has little influence is a terrible defense)

The 9-dash line? Not to mention the border disputes with India.

Well then it’s a good thing China swooped in and saved them from savagery!

Nah. It’s fucked up when Western colonial expansion absorbs people against their will and it’s fucked up when China does it.

A single unified culture, the stated intent of this law, means erasing the minority cultures. It’s no secret that Beijing does not let Tibet do what Tibet wants, just ask the 14th Dalai Lama.

It’s non-violent cultural erasure, the more popular kind in the 21st century.

Terminally online Europeans and pick-me Americans can’t handle that the two regions actually have very similar food safety and labeling laws. EU is better overall on livestock welfare and doesn’t have the same dairy and corn industry lobbyist problems, but a lot of the “it’s actually illegal to sell this american product here” are just protectionism to keep their economy competitive.

Trick question, the answer is c) you establish mutually beneficial ties with your neighbors and stop being jingoist fuckstains so neither of you have to launch missiles at each other.

Blatantly untrue.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-163/subpart-B/section-163.130

Most sweeteners don’t bother me but stevia has a very distinct flavor that I dislike.

As for safety, aspartame is extremely well-studied and understood. It’s been used for over 50 years now. Sucralose for 30 years. We also know a lot about the dangers of high sugar intake. The no-calorie stuff is probably healthier overall in the amounts people actually consume.

most US ‘chocolate’ is disgusting.

Most by sheer volume because four companies make damn near every candy bar in the grocery store? Sure. Most by percent of discrete chocolatiers? Nah. There’s tons of good chocolate in the US, it’s just priced as the luxury good it should be (turns out slavery is great for keeping prices down)

As an American I sincerely hope that’s true, though I’d wager most of the people within “guys on quads” distance are pretty sympathetic to the effects our federal government is having on old allies.

All but impossible, the major players keep an eye on all the things necessary for nuclear weapons.

Well they must just all be morons then since they live there but you solved it with no actual information about their infrastructure or logistics or anything. That’s the kind of people we need in the C suite!

the west was too modern, scientific, and secular to fall prey to this stuff.

Anyone who grew up openly atheistic could have told you this was bullshit the entire time, at least in the US. The normalization of Christian lunacy did not start with 9/11.

majority of Americans here

As in on Lemmy. It’s not exactly a right-wing bastion.

“We should simply let imperialist tyrants do whatever they want!”

I know it feels good to vent, but the vast majority of Americans here already hate most of the American government (and the private entities that guide it).

And since you brought them up, Germany didn’t solve its own Nazi problem. Help. And stay vigilant because this problem is not confined to the United States, the Anglosphere, or even the “West”. We’re just further along.

We’re way too early for that kind of optimism. Race, gender, sexuality, all that and more can’t be irrelevant until all are considered equitably by the law and treated equally by society. Pretending things are fine before they’re actually fine doesn’t help.