I never said it excused them, but it does to some degree explain them.

I was talking about the US leveling 95% of the buildings in what is now the DPRK. That put the North at a pretty big disadvantage economically, and hard economic times often lead to despots.

As long as everyone who drinks from the well is a slaver, I see only upsides (well, unless you use too much poison and it leaches into the groundwater).

If you’re buying on credit it by defintion means you can’t afford it and thus shouldn’t buy it.

Buying it on credit doesn’t mean that that’s the only way you could buy it. I buy everything on credit, and I’ve paid about $50 total in interest in 10 years of doing so, a number far outweighed by the hundreds of dollars of rewards I’ve redeemed.

Now, obviously the bank wouldn’t let me do this if not for the fact that people as a whole pay more in interest than they redeem in rewards, but that doesn’t mean that any given individual does.

I don’t recall the human rights abuses in North Korea being a direct result of us intervention.

I wouldn’t say that the US had nothing to do with it, though. The Korean Civil War was brutal for the south, but it was even more so for the north.

Madagascar was also on the short list.

No-one seems to be long-term greedy anymore.

The CCP seems to factor this into at least some of their decisions. Their infrastructure projects (like any infrastructure projects) take years, sometimes decades, to pay off, but boy howdy do they pay off.

Correct, except if 51% of voters in each state choose third party, they would have won.

But I knew, before the election and beyond a reasonable doubt, that that would not happen. That leaves me with the three choices mentioned above: keeping genocide the same, increasing genocide, or abdicating responsibility for choosing between the two.

And to be clear, I’m not very high on the genocide list. I will likely escape to a less horrible country before my number is drawn. It’s my LGBT+, Chicano, and indigenous comrades I’m most worried about, followed by a long list of other traditionally marginalized groups.

The choices were:

• Vote for Trump (Netanyahu’s preference)
• Vote for Harris (still bad)
• Don’t vote (or vote third party, which has an identical effect) (leaves the choice between Trump and Harris to the rest of the voters)

They keep getting new photos, so she might be in on it.