I met some dudes during the election who were joining local trump corner sign parties in KKK outfits lol. This sign would’ve been the cherry on top.

Is this loss?

ha ha, pathetic.

Don’t delete your comments big boy, say it with your chest.

No, sorry.

From an economic angle, that level of control is hard power, as removing it, or worse, putting behind an opponent, can be as damaging, and coersive

That’s just objectively untrue. It only becomes hard power when they lean on that influence coercively. The implication that it could be taken away is the literal definition of soft power. A direct threat to take it away as leverage would be hard power.

When China builds a port in Djibouti, the implication is that if Djibouti doesn’t conform largely to China’s geopolitical goals in the region the port could be shut down or funding pulled. That’s soft power, even though it carries conditions, because of the ambiguous and uncertain nature of the consequences. China in this example wouldn’t be exercising “hard power” unless they actively threatened to pull all Chinese shipping to and from the port or change the parameters of the loan structure to get the country to fall in line.

They have influence over it, they don’t control it. Elon can’t threaten Sam Altman with a hellfire missile strike over their ongoing lawsuit.

I mean, it’s definitely part of the reason. That kind of data is valuable to more than just governments and intelligence agencies.

Sorry, no. Sponsoring a ballroom or paying for an inauguration are examples of soft power. Hard power is when you use coercive means to achieve your goals, in a geopolitical sense (where the terms come from) hard power is military action or the threat thereof, or economic sanctions. Funding things, building things and paying for things are examples of soft power. A billionaires version of hard power would be blackmail or a hostile takeover.

The marketing department decided on “assisted suicide” because euthanasia is an icky word. Didn’t you get the memo?

Hospice is not the same thing as assisted suicide though

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The entirety of .ml in a nutshell. They even proudly label themselves tankies but if you ask them if they support killing civilians in the Hungarian and Czechoslovakian uprisings, they have no idea what you’re talking about. Genocide denying bootlickers the lot.

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$100 doesn’t make it better. $100 to find out, for most people, absolutely nothing of substance, and they PAID to turn over their DNA for free. I thought it was like a $49.99 kinda thing and even then I wouldn’t have done it and didn’t. And if $100 is the basic, it only goes up from there, no?

If people on lemmy think I’m a loser I’m doin alright

You’re proving my point dumbass. You copied two comments and pasted them into a word count website to make a point in a meme subreddit

Lemmy is much better than reddit in so many ways but you can’t escape the losers.

Bro actually counted the words lmfao. Touching grass isn’t enough, you might be a lost cause.