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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.

How the hell did this guy keep his job as law enforcement after the first DUI?

The answer is "Police Union"

This situation could have been avoided if the police were more critical of themselves as an organization and had stricter rules and regulations for themselves.

Police Union automatically fights any and all attempts at imposing more accountability to their members.

Don't forget the newest hit single; "Sorry we shot through your four-year-old child in order to kill the man holding him hostage."

That is quite literally not how attraction works.

As someone already mentioned, the more you get to know a person, the more attractive (or less attractive) they objectively become to you. I firmly believed that my wife was beautiful, and as our relationship soured and she started cheating on me, she quite literally became physically uglier in my eyes.

It's just how the brain works. If you love someone, they're beautiful. End of story.

You see in the original universe, Trump's grandfather was never expelled in 1904 The Trumps became rich and successful in Germany, and when the Nazis came along, the Trump family was right there with them.

After the war, the Trumps pulled a BMW and managed to survive the backlash, becoming as powerful, or more than they had been before WW2, and when neo-fascists started to pop out of the wood-work in the late 2000's, it was in Germany that DJT (or as he was known in that universe Gerhardt Johann Trump) rallied the far-right to take power in Germany, leading to another world war which ended when the USA dropped a nuke on Berlin.

In the chaos that followed, one man invented a time machine, travelled back through time and arranged for Trump's grandfather to be deported by making it impossible to fulfill his military service and thereby creating a new timeline in which Trump ends up in America.

How much do you want to bet that the cop would not have taken the shot if the hostage had been a white kid.

Another dead black kid to an American cop is just killing them pre-emptively to save time later.

Fucking cops are scumbags, and body cams don't seem to be making any difference because they just don't care if they get caught; they've got the union protecting them.

You do what you can, when you can. Every bit helps. Buying your iPhone used is a great thing. Self-hosting services. Also great.

There is no "one" solution that is ever going to be perfect, because the corporate greed has been allowed to run rampant as far back as the 80s. Reaganomics took us from a world where company "x" would make a product, attach a reasonable profit margin to it (usually 30-40 percent) and be happy with that. Then shareholders came along and suddenly it wasn't about a profit margin, it was about INCREASING a stock price at the expense of everything else. At the expense of customers. At the expense of employees. At the expense of the environment.

But all we can do is do what we can, when we can. Otherwise we're rapidly heading for the movie "Elysium", where the super rich live on a space station (or other paradise) while the rest of us are in slums. The only difference being is that unlike Elysium, no one in the slums will notice or care, as long as long as they can spend a months wages on the new hotness each year.

Other than a few of them (Like Mike Johnson) I don't believe that any of them really were offended by it. They just know that it's something that their donors would be offended by, and so they make a show to keep the "campaign contributions" coming.

Republicans have no convictions of their own. They're literally about power for power's sake. If suddenly Fundamentalist Christians decoded a new Dead Sea Scroll and it said Jesus was trans and therefore trans are the chosen people, Republicans would be wearing rainbow ties the very next day.

Hell no. Fuck all of them. My point is get off the corporate cycle.

You're phone isn't dead just because two years have gone by and Apple/Samsung/Google tell you so. Stop giving them money and use your phones for longer, or preferably (though understandably much more difficult for most regular people so not really feasible for most) replace the built in software with privacy respecting alternatives that don't send all your data back to their home office.

Apple devices could literally be the best device ever created and they should still never be purchased because Apple is a garbage company.

The shit state of the world right now is largely because we keep giving garbage companies our money because they make the shiny shit we like to be distracted by.

The absolute strategy of the billionaire corporate class is "who cares if the world burns as long as we collect all the money and keep people looking down at their screens so they don't notice."

Fuck them. And fuck anyone who keeps the status quo going by shelling out for their shit. And doubly fuck anyone who then shills for them on social media.

I may be biased being from a Portuguese family, but I really like Portugal's. It's realistically low key but still a little stylised without being gaudy.