Do they? As much as we like to play it quiet, the US exports a lot of food globally- China gets some $17b worth. Those tend to be perishable, so any hot war would have to be over quickly for China to come outahead, and any protracted war would see them need a new breadbasket eother domestic (reducing the industrial/military work pool), or international (which comes with the same risks they have now over US ties).
Do we have any fun infographics to help educate those that aren’t autodidacts?
It sounds like Mr. Carville is happy enough ruling over a burnt-out husk, so long as he doesn’t have to do anything about it.
Any other wild takes? Is Hamas hiding the Fountain of Youth? Do they coordinate Iranian weapons shipments with the Mothman?
Do you make your cottage pies with minced beef?
For some reason I find the beef fat takes on an unpleasant flavor/texture when chilled and reheated. Maybe I’m doing it wrong.
Pizza is one of my favorite ledtovers, though. Cheese is good warm or cold.
They were convicted? Last I’d heard the trial was set for… March?
Yum! Definitely something to try. Might mix weirdly with crispy cabbage/soft mushroom, but oh well.
How am I to read “xaddies”? Is this a gender-neutral “daddies”? A gen-z “baddies”?
Seeing as cars and computers are increasingly shared platforms, where is the car-hacking community? As distinct from the car-optimizing or car-modding communities.
Fair 'nuff. I hadn’t really considered an alt account.
It isn’t really that odd, considering you’ve only been here a couple of weeks. Mutual Aid is a foundational idea in most if not all anarchist projects and theory.
There may be many scammers, yes, but the goal remains the same - get help to those who need it from those in a position to give it.
As for being part of the problem, I must disagree. Scammers aren’t leeching just this, they’d be present in any system purporting to help others (in gov’t systems this is called fraud), the goal of these grassroots aid projects is to help those who fall through the cracks of more formalized systems and decentralize some aid in case the church/NGO/gov’t can’t or won’t help (see the Hurricane Helene/Katrina responses when FEMA is overwhelmed).
Means-testing recipients is kinda a dick move anyway: those who have demonstrable need will have a harder time getting aid and time/money that should be spent helping are now spent with verification.
Does the foreign vacuum work better? Is it more compact? Are the technologies it is built on protected by IP law? If it’s a cheap junk crescent wrench that I’ll use once because I need it only once, I’d rather not pay double for quality.