Can you recommend such companies?

Not trying to pass judgement on you, but even European defense companies’ hands are not clean because most of them supply arms to Israel. I had stocks in Airbus, until later I found out that one of their American subsidiaries make drones, which are then used to kill civilians in Gaza. If the October 7th hadn’t happen and Israel wasn’t going on full rampage, I would have happily remain investing in European defense companies. My only European defense stock remaining is MTU Aero Engine, which has not grown in the past year but still has potential.

Again, I’m not trying to dissuade you to divest, at the end of the day we just want a comfortable life. I mean, with the growing wealth inequality and inflation, working hard and saving alone isn’t enough to keep us comfortable that’s why we invest. My coworker made money from investing In Palantir but I am not really judging him in spite of controversy with the company.

Artists are typically among those who are more than willing to fight against dictators.

Prager U is set to replace PBS, I think.

All my investments in energy and utilities are in renewable sector. It’s been doing well so far, if I do say so myself. To my knowledge, the companies I invested in are pretty ethical. I mean, green renewables are seen as the saviour and good guys industry compared to oil and gas.

It’s what I say and will always say until the United States fully reform: Trump is merely showing what America truly is which many people pretend not to be.

Would have, should have but didn’t.

Me: Come on, pop already. There are funds betting on AI bubble burst, ready for me to invest in.

Nvidia has competitive edge. They won’t go bankrupt but they they will undermined heavily when the AI bubble pops.

France and USSR actually signed “some kind” of mutual assistance agreement against Nazi Germany before the war started. Emphasis on “some kind” because the agreement wasn’t binding and very vague on when and how should they assist with each other.

Of course, we can call out the Soviet atrocities, but credit to the superhuman sacrifices they made and snatching victory from the jaws of defeat despite being back stabbed and caught on the wrong footing by the Germans. The thing is with World War II is that it’s a fight between evil and lesser evil. The Allies were objectively less bad, even though they had colonies and committed heinous acts in the previous 400 years of colonisation and even during the war. A joke in Tropico videogame sums up the meta-nature of the belligerents in World War 2 when you are forced to take sides: “One is bombing civilians. The other-- is evil.”

You question vaccines and yet you probably don’t have any problem asking for antibiotic when you get flu, even though antibiotics don’t work on viruses and only kills the healthy bacteria in your gut. Or, taking painkillers for headaches, even though one of its side effects for constant use is eventual hearing loss.

You question vaccines as if they are all the same, but don’t question other medicinal products that are made in the exact same process as vaccines. And all medicines have some side effects nonetheless. Heck, almost anything you consume has side effects. As another person mentioned, we take medicines and they are approved because the benefits outweigh the risks. They are tested first for crying out loud.

Unless we live in a one-world government, the default set up is the Thucydides trap where one state tends to dominate.

Who’s going to dominate trade? Cos people are hoping it won’t be an authoritarian state like China.

ItS sTiLl bEtTeR tHaN uNpAiD sLaVeRy!¡

Exactly. In my opinion there is no social justice without economic justice. The two come together.

no idea how he got picked to host a TV show.

The American media intentionally give airtime to dumb individuals.

Blame capitalism as much as we want, but in this case it isn’t some nebulous boogeyman. Who are the people supporting capitalism? Who are the people selling meat to the meat industry? The same people who I am talking about. There is naïveté that farmers don’t have a hand in exacerbating climate change. Holistically, we are all to blame.

Vegans will have history side with them. However, farming and pastoralism is a way of life for many people. It’s a job passed down from generation to generation. It’s one of the world’s oldest job. Unlike fossil fuels where there is no sentimental attachment and we can tell people to reskill, farming isn’t. Some cultures and communities centre their identity to farming and pastoralism. How do we convince farmers and herders to give up the practice because it is extremely damaging not just to the environment, but to the entire human species?

Even though farmers do worry about the climate change making seasons becoming less predictable and yields becoming less productive, they are also the same people who complain and felt hindered by climate change policies, so they vote for the right wing parties that provide easy answer band aid solutions, but have far more dire and longer term consequences.

You just made me realize one thing. Yes the republicans are THE problem, but democrats are like an accomplice.

You just realised that now? This is what others have been saying for a long time! As an outsider looking at American politics, the Democratic party is the opposite cheek of the same ass, in which the other cheek is the Republican party. It’s unbelievable that many Americans refuse to see this. I get that the US has first past the post and has to vote for “lesser evil”, but other countries also have the same system, and yet these countries have third parties gaining seats and influencing policies massively. Heck, even one hundred years ago, third parties are getting elected in Congress and Senate.

Why are third parties aren’t getting elected anymore? The American public has been pacified by corporate mass media to think within a narrow and curated worldview. To quote Noam Chomsky: the smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum. Americans have been conditioned to think it’s only liberals versus conservatives, and Democrats versus Republicans. Meanwhile, both parties are in the pocket of the oligarchs.

It’s good that more and more Americans have been waking up, in an unironic sense, to think outside the corporate narrative, because the No Kings protests is a start for the mass mobilisation and activism. But this is useless if the movement does not translate to substantive electoral changes. Even many Americans still assume that the next presidential election will be establishment Democrats versus the far right Republican. And those who make assumption repeat the Democratic party thought terminating cliché of “vote for lesser evil” and “perfect is the enemy of good”. That said, it is good that many Americans gradually turning away from the corporate establishment worldview, and starting to become more politically active by now discussing to primary progressives into power to circumvent the first past the post system.