"get to dictate the lives of hundreds of millions of democratic citizens"
You are singling out "democratic citizens" as if it is some better kind of people.
Your "democratic citizens" cheered for the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003 and
reelected Bush even though it had become clear by that time that the "justification" for the invasion was fake.
Not impeaching Bush in 2003 was stupid, reelecting him was callous.
> You are singling out "democratic citizens" as if it is some better kind of people.
They're not better, they're free to think, express their opinions, have agency over their lives. They're fortunate because they were born in a given place, or because they, or their ancestors fought for that change.
My democratic citizens are free to change their minds and change their leaders whenever they see fit. That's the beauty of democracies, it renews itself.
I can see you're resentful and stuck in the past, but you're on a Western platform speaking openly about it - you won't be arrested. Maybe you should look at the present and what oppressed citizens are allowing Putin to do in Ukraine.
So your democratic citizens can elect and reelect leaders who illegally invade other countries and wreck people's lives there but it's outrageous when democratic citizens are a bit inconvenienced by jammed GPS?
"I can see you're resentful and stuck in the past"
Wouldn't it be great if everyone in the world just forgot what the "democratic citizens" did a couple of decades ago?
"The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia." [0]
> So your democratic citizens can elect and reelect leaders who illegally invade other countries and wreck people's lives there
I'm not sure what you're referring to precisely... I'm assuming Iraq? The guys that tried to pull what Russia is doing in Ukraine, but in Kuwait? Or do you think you can try to annex a sovereign country, violate the UN Charter, and get a slap on the wrist?
And yes, democratic citizens can elect, and reelect leaders who make illegalities.
> but it's outrageous when democratic citizens are a bit inconvenienced by jammed GPS?
Oh my friend, when Russia murdered 300 people on the flight MH17 was a bit more than an inconvenience.
> Wouldn't it be great if everyone in the world just forgot what the "democratic citizens" did a couple of decades ago?
Not at all, everyone speaks openly about it. Now try to speak about the Tiananmen Square protests in China, or oppose the genocide in Ukraine in Russia, for example.
No one hides the past in Western democracies.
Why do you think there's a popular Russian say about Russia: "The Future Is Certain; It's the Past Which Is Unpredictable" - now Putin is trying to rehabilitate Stalin and Hitler.
I'm talking about the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003 by the so called 'Coalition of willing': the US, the UK, Australia, Poland, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Netherlands[0]. All are full of 'democratic citizens'.
The cited paragraph puts down big numbers and scary words in random order to basically say "zomg the MaGnEtOsPhErE might climate change!".
It's worthless, waste of time FUD.
And on the off chance what they're saying has any scientific basis: They should have cited papers and explained the process in detail. That they didn't means this is still a waste of time FUD.
I admit I didn't click this link at first given the seeming vapidness of the claim, and I will correct myself here that the passage cited is from the cited would-be paper rather than the linked article.
I say "would-be" because that's what the article has to say about the would-be paper:
>In the new theoretical paper, uploaded to the pre-print database arXiv in December 2023 but not yet peer-reviewed, Sierra Solter-Hunt, a doctoral candidate at the University of Iceland, proposed that this atmospheric spacecraft dust may compromise the magnetosphere — the part of Earth's magnetic field that extends into space and protects the atmosphere from solar radiation.
So it's not a paper yet and namely hasn't been reviewed by peers, nor is the author a doctor (as in PhD) proper yet. This isn't something layman can refer to for information, not yet anyway.
Given that, I stand by my initial claim that this is fearmongering and FUD. Nothing in there has been confirmed as worthy of our time to discuss.
If someone asks me to fear/panic/rage over something that is at best speculation as of publication? Yes I will call that FUD and be on my way. Doesn't matter if it's from Arxiv or 4chan.
> The Georgian allegations of a Russian invasion were supported, inter alia, by claims
Great explanation for the type of person to think the Gaza conflict started on October 7th 2023.
Russian troops were preparing to repel upcoming Georgian takeover of South Ossetia. At the start of the war Georgian military commander announced on TV that they are moving to take control of South Ossetia and said nothing about Russian invasion.[0]
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