Wait what?! How the shit is this still working it's way through the system after 23 years?!
I don't know why I'm bothering to feed a troll. But he literally travelled there in order to put himself in a situation where he might have to defend himself because he wanted to fucking shoot someone. He purposefully created the opportunity to shoot someone without having to "technically" be the attacker.
The JD Vance Experiment sounds like a B-grade horror flic.
Or a shitty prog-rock band where the lead singer hits the stage dressed as a couch.
more likely to have dark triad personality traits
That article could just be titled "Who is Donald Trump"
I was asking myself about that the other day when watching some coverage or whatever about Laura Loomer and all the hateful shit she tosses out there. Like why hasn't anyone just brought libel charges down on her? Are they too busy doing other things to allow themselves to be distracted by it?
Why do websites think that "turning off my ad-blocker" or "paying for a subscription" are my only two options?
It's the internet. The option to x out of there and go read almost the exact same article elsewhere is always a third option.
Demands only work when you have content no one else does.
Heck yeah. Just yesterday I solved a gnupg key issue the good old fashioned way; digging through dozens of forum posts from various websites until one of them worked...
The good old days. Where's the fun in letting a robot do all the work. You don't learn anything.
The nice thing about Open Source is that the very moment some distro decides to stuff A.I. into itself, that shit will immediately be forked so that we don't have to deal with it.
I'm happy to visit a website where I can ask an AI to grammar check my code or something similar. But There is no way in Hell I'm allowing one to live on my system accessing all my things.
Hitler very much didn't want a third front in the war. If Barbarossa had shifted to North Africa, it would mean fewer troops to deal with the soviets when they inevitably invaded (which Hitler was sure they would do). As it was, North Africa was (at first) an inconvenience to them. Mussolini had invaded North Africa to get his "empire", and when they started taking heavy losses there, it became clear that the Allies could take advantage of it to come up into Europe through Italy and the Mediterranean (which is ultimately what they did). Germany had to deploy Rommel and the Africa Corp. to help the Italians or face fighting a war on three fronts.
In short, Italy was supposed to be Hitler's protection against invasion from the south. But Mussolini was an idiot.
Edited to add: You must remember that at this point in time, North African oil reserves were for the most part undeveloped. As far as Hitler was concerned, it was just a bunch of sand.
Germany was doomed the second they became a hostile middle entity in an already divided continent.
You'd think they would have learned from the last time they tried that...
Germany didn't have the manpower or the economy for a protracted war. Hence the early reliance on "Blitzkreig" when taking France/Poland/etc...
The moment that first push petered out and it became a slog instead of a blitz, they had already lost. It was just a matter of time.
As someone already mentioned, the Nazi state's entire strategy relied on getting access to Russia's oil reserves before their own ran out. They were on a ticking clock until they could make that happen (which ultimately they didn't).
As for operation Sea Lion giving them British Empire oil, why would you think that taking the island of Britain meant that they automatically take all the colonies of Britain? Conquering an island doesn't mean they get Canada and India (for example). That's not how war works.
Haha haha haha haha.....
...oh wait....you're being serious.