The point was the form, not the actual map. As I believe I said.

I'm for supporting US manufacturing but I don't think the US govt should be picking winners and losers in the marketplace regardless of whether the president is an R or a D.

... Let's instead use a map that sizes countries and regions by their economic impact on the world.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.richmond.edu%2Flive...

Oh, that one illustrates that African leaders probably have vastly more important stuff to focus on like literacy and drinking water? Huh. Whaddya know?

...but "plans to draw approximately $300 million from its U.S. pension fund" makes me want to storm the fucking barricady with the red banners of the proletariat.

If that's your employees pension fund, yes, you may be managing it BUT IT'S MORALLY NOT YOURS TO SPEND. This is money you've promised to people as part of their compensation.

I keep hearing this from the most deranged lefties, probably why you're posting AC.

While there certainly are a few, largely the right doesn't do the "cult of personality" thing like the left does. It's just down to basic nature; the left is conformist group thinkers, city-dwellers, "we not I" (even leftist anarchists hilariously join in groups), while the right tends to be individualist, rural, and isolationist.

As mentioned, Trump has certainly been driven to the right by the tidal wave of personal attacks and lawfare from the left, he's still at heart a NY liberal. His instincts are still very much to the left of the political midpoint; you just can't see that through your filter of "he's not on my side so he must be SATAN".

Remember: apostasy has always been worse then heresy. The stronger the cult, the stronger the response when individuals leave it.
Also remember that, in their circles, both Trump and (in slashdot context, especially) Musk were, if not idolized, at least archetypes. Trump, the amoral NY property guy, the super wealthy blowhard gadfly always the first invite to Democratic fundraiser parties. Musk, the autistic dot.com billionaire all over the Web, obsessed with tech and compulsive about literally putting his $ into anything that seemed cool.

To liberals, their defection* feels like Aquinas and Augustine both turned to Islam. Moreover, particularly with Musk, there's probably a subconscious sense of identification with the slashdot audience, where they wonder "if I got rich and successful, would I turn into (what I've spent my last 238 posts on Blue Sky and Mastodon insisting is) a Nazi?"
*when anyone with sense can see they still are largely what they were, but the left has been so viciously tugging the binary break point further left that they have been marooned "on the right".

Hairsplitting and inauthentic pedantry. If we want to go that road:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fihl-databases.icrc.org...
The only applicable provision there is that UNDEFENDED cities shouldn't be attacked; this was not the state of Japanese home cities which were aggressively defended as best they could. None were declared 'open' in the context of the Hague rules.

Hague 1923 DRAFT version (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Finternational-review.icrc.org%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2FS0020860400071370a.pdf) proposed standards re air attacks BUT WAS NEVER ADOPTED AS INTERNATIONAL LAW.

Because of this lack of clarity, during Post WW2 war crime trials no German/Japanese soldiers were prosecuted for 'indiscriminate bombing of civilians'. I'm curious about your assertion of German officers prosecuted in Nuremburg for 'technical violations ... that were carried out for humanitarian reasons"? Examples?

In short: I don't find your assertions persuasive or challenging at all.
Your position is nonsensical and Pollyansish. That's fine, there's nothing wrong with being a pacifist. Everyone else recognizes that war happens, and refusing to participate simply means you accept that you are handing power to those wiling to wield it.

Well it certainly seems like you people are afraid of white males, given the numbers of statues you've torn down to replace with statues of fat black chicks or fentanyl-suiciding felons.

Just keep arguing with nobody, AC. It's important to your C-ness.

"You're basically eating toxic waste"
"Yes, but there are no animals harmed!"

I'm a carnivore, but I've had amazing all-vegetarian meals at friends' homes or some restaurants. I truly don't understand why someone morally opposed to flesh-as-food wants something that looks/tastes(vaguely) of meat?

And Democrats won't cover it at all because it was basically all white men, not one of them trans.

It occurs to me that is exactly what a fledgling Skynet would want us to do...

"And probably almost all those could run Linux just fine and perform better than they were with MS-Windows 10 or could with 11."

I'm not sure why Linux devotees are so consistently delusional about this.

It's simply not true. Almost nobody who plays games, for example, could play as easily or better on Linux.

...but getting LEGISLATION PASSED is how you change things.

People need to stop taking shortcuts which is all administrative rulings are - they can be changed at the whim of the executive (because they were never intended to be for meaningful things, more just managerial decisions).

Do it the constitutionally-correct way, and it will be a lot more durable.

Not at all. Kind of a clinical thrill observing a OCD psycho that can't stop responding. Say something bad about Trump! I know you want to! C'mon, he's awful isn't he? How can he continue just going along every day, blissfully unaware of your rage?

It's almost like you're inconsequential? That has to hurt.