all their points about cville are pure post hoc speculation trash; this is way too close to the “but but violence is bad!”; laughing at the fash is good; beating up the fash while laughing is even better.
and, no matter how much this has helped you to cope with your personal trauma, going through that trauma does not entitle you to use emotional blackmail to silence people who do not subscribe to the llm hype.
are you one of these fuckers who suggest that “red” states' citizens deserve all that happens to them without realising how gerrymandered are the voting districts, and that the “red” states are not really red?
i don't think you understand the gravity of the situation.
this is an actual large scale conflict, a land war, and we need to finance very traditional sort of armaments and ammunition, because that's what ukraine needs the most.
this requires ramping up actual production capacity, not just paying more for the same.
(i'm astonished, or rather really angry, that after two years there are still western fucking leftists who never did the minimal effort to learn what's happening and are happy to talk in platitudes and exude the feeling of moral superiority. from our point of view in eastern europe, large swathes of western left are just useless bumblefuckers; especially the american so-called democratic socialists.)
a little correction: it's not the united states pressuring that makes the eu governments reconsider military spending, it's the russia invading ukraine again and the full-scale war that followed. (the general tone of your comment suggests that you're not aware that russia is at their most aggressive stance in decades).
ah, and before you start spewing bullshit in the style of chomsky or, goddess forbid, begin quoting the likes of mearsheimer, my advice is: don't.
also: it was microsoft's business decision to make the api required for av (or, more general security subsystems) to function so low-level that it has to be delivered as a kernel driver and operate in ring0. i guess it's primarily for the performance reasons, but still, there are other technical options. someone made the executive decision there.
on the other hand, it was crowdstrike's business decision to make the bloody update parser run in ring0, and without verification that the update data is correct, nobody forced them to do it that way.
again, there's no need to defend microsoft: microsoft could do the right thing and not try to use the situation in an attempt to undermine eu antitrust policies using a bullshit take.
i find the level of ms apologia unsettling. remember, we're only a few news cycles away from the time ms almost shipped windows with spyware and keylogger built-in
replying to your questions/points in order of appearance: yes; go to hell; get in the sea.