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New comment by Neonlicht in "Senators revive bill to restrict TSA facial recognition at airports"

Neonlicht — Thu, 08 May 2025 20:28:50 +0000

To be perfectly blunt I would rather deal with machines than the US border Gestapo. Anywhere else my Dutch passport and white skin gets me through in a blink.

New comment by Neonlicht in "Nothing Radicalizes You Against Dirty Diesels Like Riding a Motorcycle"

Neonlicht — Thu, 08 May 2025 20:25:43 +0000

As if motor cyclists are known for their decency.

As soon as the first nice weather comes on in spring they start driving around in their loud death machines swerving through traffic.

New comment by Neonlicht in "Rage of the Oligarchs Naomi Klein: 'What They Want Is Absolutely Everything"

Neonlicht — Wed, 07 May 2025 20:47:27 +0000

Its a lot easier to "bootstrap" yourself in a country with a functional government.

The ultra rich don't want to pay the taxes that keeps civilization running. People like Elon Musk would not be on top in a Mad Max world.

New comment by Neonlicht in "India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir"

Neonlicht — Wed, 07 May 2025 20:23:27 +0000

I was reading the obituary of the Dutch guy who helped Pakistan get its nukes a few weeks ago. Thanks to him and a few visionaries the balance was maintained Harper style!

New comment by Neonlicht in "Vatican Observatory"

Neonlicht — Fri, 02 May 2025 20:08:53 +0000

Ask one of these famed Catholics how they feel about democracy or gender equality and they are just like all the other Christians. After all they get their orders from the same book.

New comment by Neonlicht in "International Workers' Day"

Neonlicht — Thu, 01 May 2025 18:39:46 +0000

All of Europe celebrated May day. All of Europe? No one village stood against the lazy commie legions!

New comment by Neonlicht in "Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral"

Neonlicht — Thu, 01 May 2025 18:26:40 +0000

I recall Apple's commercial slogan "There's an app for that"

Apple did not write those apps themselves.

New comment by Neonlicht in "Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs"

Neonlicht — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 19:17:08 +0000

People remember those days because the Republicans hadn't destroyed trade unions and the pension system yet.

New comment by Neonlicht in "Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs"

Neonlicht — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 15:59:51 +0000

Giving up your economy for a future war with China that may or may not happen is frankly idiotic. The US already has thousands of nuclear warheads in storage so what are you afraid of? This is basically how the USSR collapsed.

New comment by Neonlicht in "Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs"

Neonlicht — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 15:20:33 +0000

Nobody in Beijing or Brussels was surprised they had plans. Observe how neither of them is kissing his ass at the moment.

New comment by Neonlicht in "Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs"

Neonlicht — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 15:03:03 +0000

Thank you it seems everyone has already forgotten project 2025.

Look I don't want to be too harsh on Americans nobody took the Nazis seriously when they had already written a book about how they saw the world... But none of this is shocking.

There is an ideology behind what Trump is doing and he never hid it from the world.

New comment by Neonlicht in "U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat"

Neonlicht — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:39:47 +0000

I disagree. The root cause is obviously Israel founding which was the the last colonial project that Western European countries undertook.

I predict that in the next decades Europe will cut ties with Israel completely but until then we reap what we sow.

New comment by Neonlicht in "U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat"

Neonlicht — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:26:20 +0000

This Yemen situation is quite interesting. In 1948 nobody could have conceived a situation in which white people wouldn't be running the world, Dutch people were still religious and public opinion was pro Israel. Hopefully when the last boomers die we can finally extricate ourselves from this self imposed fuck up.

New comment by Neonlicht in "I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud"

Neonlicht — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 18:45:08 +0000

I always think that if you have a very expensive dress you're better of bringing it to a professional dry cleaner service anyway.

New comment by Neonlicht in "Extreme poverty in India has dropped to negligible levels"

Neonlicht — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 11:38:33 +0000

Culture can be changed. That's the power of Western countries- constant change. Nothing is ever set in stone.

New comment by Neonlicht in "Extreme poverty in India has dropped to negligible levels"

Neonlicht — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 11:26:53 +0000

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8rk5d7ekjmo

I found this article interesting. Personally I think starvation is a very low bar to clear. What matters to the first world is whether or not India has a middle class that is able to buy stuff.

New comment by Neonlicht in "Europe's most wanted man plotted my murder and that of my colleague"

Neonlicht — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 01:58:19 +0000

It's called living in a high trust society.

New comment by Neonlicht in "Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges"

Neonlicht — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 18:33:44 +0000

Printers are mostly used by companies and they don't care. It's all tax deductible.

New comment by Neonlicht in "Regulatory gridlock in the U.S. risks losing the drone arms race"

Neonlicht — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 17:50:30 +0000

If China wants Taiwan back the only thing they need to do is make sure the US Navy and cargo ships can't reach the island.

New comment by Neonlicht in "Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Atreides, and the roots of Frank Herbert's Dune (2021)"

Neonlicht — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 17:34:30 +0000

Considering the British supplied weapons, explosives and tactics to the Saudi uprising "white man saviour" is not far from the truth no?

I don't know why it is considered politically incorrect nowadays to say that the world as we know it was shaped by white people. Deng Xiaoping himself constantly told his own comrades how fucking pathetic China had become. And nobody could argue with him.