Is this loss?

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.

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.

Ratio

I’m not saying it’s not worth the price, just that it’s not a ready made replacement for the average consumer.

“request a quote”

Ya I’m gonna say that’s a $2500+ printer

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.

In the US though he’s absolutely correct. It’s just not a term anyone but MAGAts use. This rule really is only gonna censor the people trying to fear monger, and not any actual “antifa members” because they don’t exist.

$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.

Bro we’re in a meme subreddit and you’re writing walls of text. Touch grass.

If you can’t look at that source, read it for 5 seconds and realize it’s a shithole rag of disinformation and conspiracy theories, then you probably should be relying on other people to parse information for you. If you can’t find another source on the same information by using your thumbs, then you may want to get off the internet altogether. OP clearly wasn’t trying to fool anyone or spread disinformation, it’s a meme and you losers are in here demanding a better bibliography.

I know this is a meme sub

Then why did you comment? You know that everyone who saw this meme chuckled, and then either went “probably bullshit” and moved on, or googled it, found out it’s click bait and moved on. You accomplish nothing but giving yourself a soap box.

Pro tip: check if you’re in a meme sub before taking any posts seriously or making judgements of peoples intellects. Big loser energy bud.

Holy shit was it really $200? Is that how much everyone’s been paying for this 23&me shit? Holy fuck I just lost so much respect for several people.

Windows Vista wasn’t created with the intention of preventing war, so that makes no sense.

Where I’m from people use it frequently, but never about disabled people. They just mean stupid. In that capacity I agree, it’s literally the same on every level as idiot, moron, imbecile, feeble-minded, dumb, etc.

If someone uses the word to refer to a mentally handicapped or disabled person, we’re gonna fight. If you call attacking Iran retarded, I agree wholeheartedly.