It’s been broken in the sense that the average person has been getting screwed over economically, but the system was still able to maintain basic rule-of-law and international relations. This is different.

I appreciate the social awareness, but can we just have a nice thread about elephants for once

Try potatoes. They’re ridiculously cheap (where I am) and loaded with nutrients.

Coomscrolling

Then I can’t eat all the wide variety of delicious meals that are only possible with a slow cooker.

Not while they’re out on the open water thank you very much, I’d rather avoid massive oil spills.

Honestly this has become my attitude as well. I hate it, but it seems like everyone else is even worse.

I did, couldn’t find anything. Have a nice day.

And what are those lots and lots of reasons?

Again I ask you, who do you propose we vote for instead?

They require presidential authority to launch, but the physical operation of the weapons themselves is wholly independent. This allows for things like retaliatory strikes in case leadership is killed or can’t be reached immediately following an attack. This also makes them vulnerable however, if the people overseeing these weapons and the states they’re housed in become compromised by extremist ideologies.

“candidate X would easily win if everybody voted for them”

No shit, now who are they and how do you propose convincing people to vote for them?

If the rebels in question include several state governments then they may indeed be nuclear capable.

With every party involved being nuclear capable?

English can be difficult for western Europeans because it is the mutant child of both Germanic and Latin based languages that picks and chooses which words and rules to use at random.

Connect is a mobile app for Lemmy. That is quite a nice stick.

I have you tagged on Connect as “ask about the stick”, and so now I must ask, about the stick?

Oh there is absolutely poverty. I’m specifically referencing what the commenter above me was discussing, which is a trend on social media of finding a bad area of town, taking pictures from 40 different angles, and presenting it as though American cities are nothing but miles upon miles of tent encampments and despair. I will admit I have only ever lived in the rust belt, so it may very well be like that in other places, but in general you see one or two small areas of extreme poverty mixed with working class, a few rough-ish neighborhoods adjacent to those, and the rest is pretty quiet, if not always the most affluent. By your description, it sounds like Chinese law enforcement keeps closer tabs on people through mass surveillance rather than active patrolling. Personally I’d rather have more crime and fewer government CCTVs, but to each their own.

Propaganda. Every city has one or two neighborhoods (usually full of working class minorities) where police dump the homeless and addicts from everywhere else. Each of those areas has one or two particularly bad streets that look like shit and make for great fear mongering.

Another American here, currently stuck living in the great state of Ohio. I keep a bag under my bed with a change of clothes, a few cans of food, a wad of cash, a pistol, and a passport. I may be fucked, but I’ve got some friends in Quebec that might be able to save my ass.