And is it your thesis that teh EU can enforce their will? Because someone will. Or is it your thesis that the EU should be isolationist and rely on their superior qualities to bring the world to a different conclusion, ruled by that moral superiority?

Whether you like or dislike the USA, do you believe that there are no reasons ever for military involvement? Example, After WW2, and the late 1940's, the USSR and China were very expansionist, the US stood in their way, in a series of proxy wars. If this happened with the EU as the top dog, should they just allow that to happen? And if they stood in teh way, would the US be able to sustain what the USA did?

the questions and answers are not as simple as many believe, Would you like to live under Russian or Chinese influence as opposed to having the USA involved?Another tough question.

Another tough question - is the EU capable of withstanding the integral issues and mindsets that brought forth the National Socialists and their resulting genocide? There were even genocidal actions in the 1990's.

Am I wrong for being concerned, or has the EU changed so much that it will never happen again.

Do you have concerns about left wing extremists?

And you know - every word you write drips with hatred for the USA. I ask questions b asked on the fact that no country is immune from perfidy, and you write more invective.

So this has become pointless, if you don't think you hate the USA, you have been brainwashed.

Fair enough.

I agree. Bet you didn't expect that. The US healthcare system is broken, and simply will collapse. Simply not sustainable. If I were a businessperson, I'd want that, because it allows for more consistency budgeting. My Wife's company had a horrid time. Insurance costs were going up several times every year, so you had no idea how to budget for it. But no, it does not fail all of the time, that's hype.

I watch PBS news, I watch CNN, MSNBC Fox, BBC, RT, Al Jazeera, Breitbart. Are those all the US propaganda you claim I am indoctrinated by?

Iv'e come away with the informed impression that there is a lot of news in the world, and merely choosing what news to present makes it impossible to not be biased in some manner, and pray tell, which is the one that tells the absolute truth as a consumer of the US propaganda you accuse me of, I want to know where you get the truth. And the truth is that the US is one nation among many, and if you think we are evil, I have news.

What I have seen is the rest of the world being concerned about Trumps health and deterioration - it is a growing concern, how huge a mistake it was to "invade" Iran. how previous administrations tactic of selectively taking out Iran's attempts at developing nuclear weapons was a pinpoint tactic, not an invasion strategy. How he has managed to damage the entire world, and cause Inflation at home that is affecting many of the people who voted for him with the promise of making their lives on the edge better. Major Fail that some celebrate.

A lot of the propaganda put out by other nations put us as all supporting trump and supporting the War in Iran and all of the terrible things that have happened.

Are you surprised that there is propaganda put out than others not just by the country that maybe you don't hate us, but consider that you are using the words of a person who hates the USA?

As I've always asked, if the fever dreams to the end of the US as a world power, what country do you want becoming teh new Superpower? Might be a hypothetical, but a happy one for many.

Who is it, because when one goes down, another always takes it's place? Waiting for where I can get the truth., And of course, who become the world power, and your acceptance that it will be better.

Without theSlashdot requires anti capitalism posts, Since I am required to be on FB (but maybe not much longer, thanks be) I'm inundated with AI junk, and for some reason Erectile disfunction pills as well as endless ads for women's vibratory stimulation products. RFI blocking hats, fake Rolex watches, RF blocking underwear, as well as weird AI generated stories. And offers to join thirst traps

And very little else, about the only things I am interested in is Maxwell Parrish and Weyth paintings, But there are better sources.

As far as I can see Facebook is teetering very close to the same fate that hit USENET, so much dreck and so little of what it originally was, that it is going to collapse soon.

Feel that hatred. Let it burn deep into your soul. It is your power, and salvation.

Out of curiosity, since you hate America and Americans, why in the bloody hell do you care about our healthcare. That is inconsistent. You. would want us dying, so a better country can take over and the world will have never-ending peace.

So very true. What is telling is that the nutcase is equating every atrocity as an equal to Chiquita bananas.

That is not sane.

And while we are at it, 66 percent of Finnish people say that Finland is racist . Norway, the happiest country in teh world, and their citizens like to brag about that.

And then there are the very few who are teh other to them.

And I use "very few", because it is incredible ease to act like other countries aer so terrible racist, when your country is a virtual monoculture and skin color.

After a while it gets a little annoying to hear the hate based culture on Slashdot, only they only direct it one way. But that's how many are, they have a deep and insecure need to hate.

And in closing, at the end of WW2, there were a lot of German soldiers trying to get to the west of Germany, apparently they thought there was a difference in treatment they would get by Surrendering to the USA, rather than Russia. But hey, what do I know.

Nope, the US is not perfect, and present leadership is demonstrably incompetent. But we can change. People who have a deep abiding hatred seldom can change

Did someone just fart? You're smelling your own arse, widdle coward, sissyboy.

Is it not weird how they are doing their best to typecast you into some sort of MAGA? Reading your posts, I see some pretty even handed outlook. I get this all the time, dealing with intellectual lightweights who can only see two positions, and need to identify you as the other. Then they fall on their hypocritical faces.

I guess this is what a person gets when trying to discuss matters with dimwitted ideological kooks, amirite?

Your nutter friend has nothing to say about the 70 million dead in Germany/Europe's, Italy and Japan's attempt to take over the world, where the US was originally isolationist, then Pearl Harbor happened. Then Germany declaring war on the USA happened. Or Stalin's reign of terror happened, (perhaps 20 million excess deaths) including an attempt to starve an entire country in the Holodomor, or Chairman Mao's Great Leap Forward, selling food to Russia while millions of it's own citizens died (between 15 and 55 million). Or Pol Pot's Cambodian fun fest, resulting in maybe 3 million people killed. The Ottoman Empire's Armenian genocide, maybe a million and a half dead. Even the relatively small numbers of dead in the Serbian genocide in the mid 1990's.

But yeah, those pale in comparison to Chiquita freaking bananas. US is not pure and innocent. We've done some bad and stupid things. But in general, we own them. I am kind of wondering since the nutter only complains about the USA, that there is a non zero chance he supports this other people I mentioned above.

He is not. He is a 3rd grade level troll, and not even a good one. People like that are only good for the proverbial verbal beatdown , then ignored (the ignoring part is what they hate the most.

Wow, projecting much?

We know the truth. We are not perfect. Even teh asshat in charge now is nothing compared to some of the other offerings of the world, that you don't mention

So comrade, what country do you want in the prominent position? You can't decide that the US needs ended, a barely veiled desire, but since you cannot mention the others who were worse, my assumption is that you sup[port those countries.

And no - no one is hiding anything, even if you seem to be trying to. And your hate appears to be consuming you, as logic and rational thinking have eluded you. But feel that hate, let it consume you. I think you need it.

Perhaps you would care to tell us where you are from? Is it okay for me to point out your country is perhaps not perfect?

So Chiquita banana's are an example of US perfidy?

Awesome. How about where Europe systematically eliminated Jews and other undesirables? Putting them in special camps to work them to death. And before you claim that was one country - sorry, the Germans found willing executioners who apparently really enjoyed the actions. Or how European genocide happened in the 1990's, Or Joseph Stalins activities, like the Holodomor where Ukrainians were purposely starved to death, or the Armenian genocide, or Chairman Moa's great leap forward, which ended up creating a famine that killed between 15 and 55 million people in 1959-61. On purpose.

I can provide more citations, Perhaps you would prefer one off their leaders to rule the world.

Can you perhaps add condemnation of their activities when you get a rageboner about the USA? You apparently prefer that sort of world.

No homie, the USA has problems. The USA has done things that most of us are not proud of.

But your apparent endorsement of everyone else is perhaps not a very good look. Or maybe that is exactly what you want. Some people look at anti-US hate as if they are peace loving people, wishing a wonderful life for all. Or maybe some of them just want to pick up where Adolph, Joe, Mao, and Pol Pot left off.

The short answer is that many have been inculcated to utterly hate America. It is a core value they now have, based upon the manipulation of the human need to have "the other.

Yup. This is not to say that an ailing and questionably competent president and his subservient lackeys have not royally screwed the pooch in that area of the world. But using ancient and actually irrelevant examples just puts the claimant firmly in kook territory.

And if it is so important to the kooks that old history one brought up to impugn the present, perhaps we should talk about Mao's 5 year plans, Uncle Joe's holodomor and pogroms and Europe's little escapades during the 1930s and 40's. Or even European genocide in the 1990's.

I suppose it depends on how you define poison. If it is only the representation of facts as we know them, then satire sites like The Onion, or Babylon Bee will be equally guilty.

We hear of AI causing someone to kill another person or themselves. I'm pretty certain that they'd find an excuse regardless. This is just another form of the Helter Skelter defense. A song about a conical sliding board, and lyrics that are nonsense, but not quite, hard as hell, and used by Manson for other, nefarious reasons.

Manson was already crazy, but many people blamed the Beatles song.

Correct. One does not inculcate an interest in art. It is there, we can only expose people to it. And if someone wants to watch "Naked and Afraid" or "The Bachelorette", and watch others doing things, then that's perfectly okay. Not my thing, but I'm not going to force them to do otherwise.

But I reject the claims that poor people are too physically beat down and exhausted by their socioeconomic status to ever want to look at art, only consume television, or look as something on the internet. Not been my experience ever. And I've been at a level of poor that might make people here gasp, when considering the support people can get now.

And what is the difference between watching Reality TV and say https://www.thecollector.com/f.... Have a smartphone or laptop? https://www.pcsforpeople.org/e... Free laptops, free internet for people. who are in a poor demographic.

My point - and my only point - is that income is not a determinant of interest in art. And to bring this to the subject, I have no doubt that art can be a major calming, stress relieving activity.

Maybe a lot of poor people are just not interested? Maybe the meme of art being for the wealthy is a sort of self fulfilling metric for many? A lot of wealthy people are not interested in art as well.

I answered not from knee jerk, but experience. If you find my lack of trust problematic, I do not care.