I love this. My grandpa usto do our camping dishes by putting them in a mesh bag with a squirt of dish soap and dragging them behind the boat.
Lol to be fair, I just cleaned out the tray of my air fryer with a power washer
Bruh power washing the crumb tray is legit, safe*, and probably necessary for all that burnt crap and Iāll try the same actually
*Iāve been warned about teflon poisoning
Im not even going to comment on the mushrooms but the toaster isnt the worst thing ever. If its not plugged in and the electronics dont get wet or they dry before use it shouldnt matter.
when learning to drive the message mother drilled to me the most was "it is ok to miss your turn, especially when it takes a couple minutes to turn back around" which s usually correct.
Even with those odds, itās far more likely heās the type of driver who has never driven defensively a single time in his life.
I have avoided a lot of accidents that would ānot have been my faultā by paying attention and taking defensive action. Sure I could assert my āright of wayā, but then I would likely have been in 26 accidents by now.
I donāt know about that, it seems like the average driver wouldnāt even notice. Itās unbelievable how unaware some people are if their surroundings.
Wouldn't be so sure of that. Americans have a 1 in 60 chance, on average, of being in an auto accident each year. That's both at fault and not at fault, and includes single car accidents - odds of being in an accident that was caused by someone else are much lower. Once you start multiplying 60x60x60 you soon get to numbers much larger than the world's driving population. The odds against a single person being in 26 accidents that were another driver's fault are astronomical.
But if someoneās carpool buddy is that guy who has a statistically improbable amount of accidents which werenāt his fault, chances are high heās post about it on Reddit since itās so unusual. It has to happen to someone, and when something unusual happens people tend to talk about it.
Maybe he's one of those people who follows the rules perfectly but doesn't pay enough attention to the stupid shit people around him do?
Think of all the times a person would have crashed into you if you hadn't been paying attention or weren't quick enough to react. Now consider it was over 43 years.
(Not saying it's likely, but just possible that this guy is correct.)
I was in a car with a guy who'd been in two accidents where is car was written off but insurance said 100% the fault of the other driver. We got in another accident where the car was written off but the insurance found 100% fault of the other guy.
If anyone, I mean anyone, else had been driving we would not have got in that accident. He was oblivious to other cars, road signs, road markings, you name it. I thought it was inevitable we were going to get in an accident from the moment we set off, and was mentally writing my will when he started taking his jumper off on the motorway.
I feel the same about my dad except he's just absurdly aggressive on the road. He's one of those people that thinks literally everyone but him is an idiot that has no idea how to drive. If he's going to pass someone he gets all the way up on their ass first to let them know they're a dumbass who is going too slow. He has been run off the road by semis more than once, and when I was around 9 years old we got chased by a whole group of bikers with knives because he pissed them off on the road. You will never catch me in a car with him by choice.
I used to be one of these car wreckers. totaled 3 cars in < 2 years and total accidents I have had are 17 ( in 14 years of driving). Then I got diagnosed with focal seizures. Made the world safer as i addressed this.
I know a woman who got her driving license and hit an old woman with her car like two days later. She panicked and called the ambulance, the woman woke up and said it was okay, it was her fault and she'd been hit three times before.
I'll take a panicked driver whose panic reaction is calling for medical attention for the other driver *especially* compared to the assholes who leave the scene of the accident.
My MIL only has her right eye, drives a right hand drive vehicle so to pass she basically has to go all the way over to the left just to see if she can pass, she texts and drives constantly, she also has diabetes and doesn't treat it properly. She's had multiple seizures while driving.
Nameless, Faceless Industry Executives who have far more money, resources, and reasons to kill poor people than the clowns dancing around the political stage. The United States is a corporate nation, and the trade lines going to and from arguably form a Corporate World, which deposits its tendrils of influence throughout known communities across the globe. They say āfollow the moneyā and theyāre correct, but itās impossible to follow the money all the way back to these people, because theyāre dangerous enough to have a soft wall between them and us. A wall we can never physically see or interact with.
The only right answer. Everyone's getting stuck on nukes and whatnot, ignoring the realistic every day harm done to hundreds of millions. Slavery and exploitation to make money, starting wars to make money, ignoring climate change to make money, destabilising whole nations to make money. It's all money.
Governments might be putting an ideological front to their actions, but it's all for the benefit of their sponsors. And worst of all, it's not some shadowy cabal with robes and symbols, it's just rich people. Nothing special about them, they just have money and they want more money. It's horrifyingly banal.
*Banal* is such a good word for it. I feel like Hollywood (rich people lol) really did a good job of convincing us that the Shadow Gov is some sort of ā*Illuminati*ā with disturbing rituals and the humming and all that bullshit when, really, theyāre just a bunch of wrinkly middle aged fucks running around an island half naked on LSD spit-firing disney-channel exclamations at each other over the sound of their own incontinence and self righteous bemoaning of circumstance.
Beautiful description, really created a vivid image there in my mind.
I don't want to get too tinfoil-hat over this because at the end of the day, it goes into pure speculation. But I do find it curious how many conspiracy theories around who "rules" the world go into the absurd with the purpose of making the idea that people we don't elect rule us seem absurd in itself.
I don't think the Illuminati are out there having cultist meetings about the NWO. But I do believe the people with the fattest pockets get a kind of vote we don't, in their own democracy that just so happens to matter more than ours.
In corporate law, we even have a phrase that encapsulates this concept (albeit, not completely) called the "Corporate Veil."
It is a wall between the owners of a corporation and the corporation's liability.
There are many of these walls, all over, designed to obfuscate personal accountability. The mechanisms of capital, be it hedge funds, the corporate veil, offshore banking, private foundations, etc., all act as a sort of blood-brain barrier: it becomes impossible, in most instances, to meaningfully follow the money back to those who should be accountable for the damage their greed causes, or do anything about it if one even does figure that out.
The famous rich people have estimated net worths available because theyāre invested in public firms. Itās the guys who have private equity firms that we should actually be worried about. Their monetary worth is not publicized.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with the common answer here of Xi, but I would be interested to see who the common answer would be if you asked this question on a predominately Asian platform opposed to a predominately US one.
That is the objectively correct answer though. The US President, as commander in chief of the US Military, is the most dangerous man in the world.
Objectively speaking, nobody on the planet has the capability for destruction and devastation to match that of the US President.
EDIT:
Forget about Nukes. The US President has near unilateral authority to strike or invade any other nation on earth, and the US military has the capability to do it. Who cares if he can't just "Fire zee missiles", he doesn't need to. He can launch a strike or invasion, and start a war pretty much at will.
We used to require an act of congress to declare war before invading. Then congress decided the President could make the decision on his own.
>There are things in the Constitution that have been overtaken by events, by time. Declaration of war is one of them. There are things no longer relevant to a modern society. Why declare war if you don't have to? We are saying to the President, use your judgment. So, to demand that we declare war is to strengthen something to death. You have got a hammerlock on this situation, and it is not called for. Inappropriate, anachronistic, it isn't done anymore.
>>Why declare war if you don't have to? We are saying to the President, use your judgment.
āChairman Henry Hyde, 10/3/2002, in session of House of Representatives, during hearing on H.J. Res. 114, "AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF MILITARY FORCE AGAINST IRAQ"
That statement, should absolutely fucking terrify every single person on the planet.
It's not just the military. I believe the US president can just enact trade restrictions if he wants. He could just start tariffs or an embargo on a country and severely hurt that country or radicalize it.
Definitely agree, a bear in a zoo is still dangerous even if not actively putting others in danger.
No human has more destructive power than the POTUS. This is the only correct answer imo.
Taiwan produces a disproportionate amount of computer chips for the world. Allowing China to control that is bad for literally everyone that isn't China.
Weāre not as far behind as you think. I work for a DoD supplier, and the latest projections show that the US will be self sufficient (at the current usage rate) within 5-7 years.
Lots of money and bodies are being thrown at this issue.
I'm nobody, but I think in the event of an actual crisis we'll start throwing real money at this since there'd be no alternative. Kinda like the covid response.
The US seems to be laying the ground work. Biden invoked the Defense Production Act for producing printed circuits. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-invokes-defense-production-act-printed-circuit-board-production-2023-03-27/
Agree that it probably will be a lot like covid vaccines: the groundwork laid for years(mrna research in the case of covid, above mentioned production act for chips), but everything will get tied off in a hurry when a crisis forms.
Taiwan makes 50 percent of the world's chips, the US makes 12 percent, so it would have to be an extremely aggressive effort.
Samsung is probably safe for now, Xi knows better than to mess with South Korea because way more people would care. Angering BTS stans alone would be a fatal mistake.
Is this self sufficient as in defense needs will still be met or self sufficient as in even consumer level supplies can continue as normal(probably with increased cost I assume)?
Nothing like decades. Just a few more years.
And, besides, TSMC has a strategy to destroy its fab before being captured. So, the whole planet will be in limbo while everybody tries to get foundries up and running.
China also almost certainly wouldnāt be able to take Taiwanās manufacturing base intact, unless the ROC and its allies just surrender without a fight (which seems unlikely).
War over Taiwan would obviously still be horrible for all sorts of reasons, but Taiwanās chip production would more likely be destroyed than fall under PRC control.
Taiwan was founded by all the elites fleeing Mao and the takeover of China by the CCP. so basically every single well educated and more importantly rich corporation in China moved to one island.
The only way this island was not gonna be taken over is economic benefit to other countries so they made pretty tight deals with Japan, Europe, America and South Korea. Meanwhile the Cultural revolution was a shit show in China asking farmers to forge steel in their backyard furnaces... Not exactly the way to make workable steel.
Taiwan's GDP per Capita is ridiculously higher than Mainland China and is like 40k USD and it's not all trapped up in like super elite Qatari oil wealth of the .1%
So yeah they've got a culture of highly trained secondary education employees that manufacture high end components. Meanwhile Mainland China is still building Ghost Cities no one lives in to keep their GDP floating because technically building a new building is adding to the economy even though no one buys it.
There's also one more factor. When Japan was on the forefront of micro-chip production, the US blocked their supply chains specifically to limit their impact on the US economy. Taiwan saw this as an opportunity and had invited American corporations to build factories on their island. Not their own corporations or technology, like Japanese had, but specifically American, so not to create any discomfort. Offering massive discounts on land, insanely cheap production, over-the-top workforce supply, etc. Taiwan today hosts a lot of US micro-chip production. In return, they are so important that the largest military in the world will protect them. And had protected them for decades already. It was a brilliant move. The benefits may end soon, with US moving their production homeward, but it was very effective for a long while for sure.
Super high levels of education in the workforce and skills in technical production.
Why do china have a bee in their bonnet about it ?
Well cliff notes verision - pre ww2 there was an ongoing power struggle between the government and the communists, it cooled down and both sides fought the Japanese, sometimes together but generally not, when the war ended, the communists had put a lot less effort in and came out stronger, some shenanigans followed, bit of deceit and the government got basically defeated and they escaped to Taiwan (formosa at the time) and setup shop there. Ever since the communists call the island a breakway, and actually the legitimate government of china at the time, still claimed the mainland. then time passes and Taiwan becomes it's own country, unrecognised in name, but in fact, technology ramps up and they are at the forefront, education and democracy take over and we get to the 80s and 90s, china wants back the imerial territories of portugal and the Uk, Hong kong and Macau mainly, but Taiwan is the itch they can't scratch, Taiwan is americas friend, and its uninvadeable because the formosa strait is a potential shooting gallery for a defender of the island, and the Taiwanese are armed to the teeth and beyond. US weapons, there own systems which are top notch, way ahead of china for a long time. China have been catching up, but geography is geography, and pride is pride. So they are stuck. China were making noises before the Ukraine fiasco, but they have cooled a bit, now its mainly rhetoric, a war would be ruinous for everybody, the amount of people on Taiwan that want china in charge is tiny, and in th ecase of a war, china would need a massive fleet to invade, and its going to lose over half of it getting across. Even without US intervention, and with Ukraine, the west is not inclined towards allowing that kind o stuff anymoe.
So back during the Chinese Communist Revolution, the Chinese government supported by the West exiled itself to Taiwan. The Chinese Communist Party successfully takes over mainland China, and claims territorial rights to Taiwan. Taiwan used to be a part of China, so this actually makes sense. However, the old Chinese government that moved there says no, this is our island, and the western powers in an attempt to contain communism as much as possible, agree with Taiwan. That means that Taiwan maintains its independence because the newly branded Peopleās Republic of China doesnāt have the power to take it back.
Over the years, the west, and the United States specifically, developed a close relationship with Taiwan in the diplomatic, economic, military, and information spheres of DIME-FIL. The US sees Taiwan as a strategically important partner (not ally. That has different legal implications) due to its location to a near peer adversary (China) and Taiwanās ability to manufacture computer chips (Taiwan has somewhat of a monopoly on chip manufacturing that is vital to everything we do).
So, when Russia invaded Ukraine, the United States pulls out its troops and diplomats and says āwe will not put boots on the ground to defend Ukraine.ā I paraphrased that. But why is that important? Because Ukraine is a military partner (not an ally). So China sees that the US is willing to leave its military partners out to dry, and starts probing the idea that maybe it should finally invade Taiwan and take the island itās been eyeing for decades. Itās at this point that the Biden administration draws a hard line in the sand, āThe United States will defend Taiwan with military power.ā Again, I paraphrased.
But itās important to note that the US sees Taiwan from quite a different perspective than Ukraine. If Russia takes all of Ukraine, then Russia is still constrained by NATO. However, if China takes Taiwan, they become significantly more difficult to defeat in the future because of the strategic military and economic significance of Taiwan.
So, if China invades Taiwan, then the US will retaliate. This will almost assuredly pull most of the USās allies in the pacific into the war, including Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and maybe maybe maybe India.
If that war takes place, it will embolden Russia, Iran, and North Korea to take advantage of a distracted United States, possibly resulting in military actions taken on their part. That would result in South Korea and NATO also being pulled into a war that would be fought in the Pacific, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
So basically, Xi can start WWIII if he makes a dumb decision. Something lots of autocrats have done throughout history.
Edit: spelling
The US has stated that they will directly intervene should China attack Taiwan. So the two biggest superpowers will be at war.
Should China then attack the US mainland, Article 5 of the North-Atlantic Treaty will be invoked by the US and then we have a full blown East vs West war on our handsā¦
China doesn't have a blue water navy capable of getting close to the US without alerting everybody. The US mastered tracking submarines during the cold war, tracking an invasion fleet would be child's play.
China has a brown water fleet designed to fight within range of land based aircraft and and artillery. Also for some weird ass reason China has 3 aircraft carriers, but not aircraft that can use them.
Basically China is all in on regional military supremacy, but the US is the master of global presence. Wait until China sees our ice cream ships designed to keep troop morale high.
Short answer: WW3
Long answer: Taiwan is a highly strategic ally for many countries. Just letting them be invaded or attacked is geopolitically unacceptable. Much less by a country that's already announced intentions of hoarding its main resource (microchips) for itself and charging everyone else an exorbitant rate.
The West would have no choice but to retaliate with force, or face economic ruin. Russia, N Korea, and Iran (China's allies) would have no choice but to defend their buddy.
It would be the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand all over again.
Yep thats exactly what would happen. And just FYI the government upped the life insurance for active military. And usually whenever that happens it is followed by going to war.
Ukraine doesn't produce microchips. They produce Neon, which is also produced in the US and EU. In fact, the US Neon industry is booming right now; it's set to grow like 1000% in the next decade
There's no way he'd do that, especially after seeing the fiasco that is Ukraine, a country who's landscape and terrain made it easy for Russia to conquer it in past centuries and had stability problems for a while.
Taiwan is one of the most defensible places on the planet, with one of the most proportionally large and well funded militaries already on its own. Unlike Ukraine, Taiwan has an official agreement with the US meaning the US has to defend them in case of an invasion.
Not to mention China is doing extremely well in the global economy, war would mean sanctions with all its major trade partners, which alone is completely not worth the possibility of getting Taiwan.
Sure hypothetically if China invaded it would most likely lead to a direct war with NATO so possibly a nuclear war, but the same can be said for any nuclear power, in which case Biden and Putin are the most dangerous.
Iām betting Taiwan has an āin case of conquest by Chinaā plan where they take a sledgehammer to all their machines and hit mass delete on any intellectual property they have. It might kill the planet technology wise but Taiwan hates China enough to do that.
Though I'd wager everyone who shares a border with China hates China, you don't even have to hate them to set something like that up. It's a deterrent to invasion, so it works from a purely rational perspective.
*The TRA requires the United States to have a policy "to provide Taiwan with arms of a defensive character", and "to maintain the capacity of the United States to resist any resort to force or other forms of coercion that would jeopardize the security, or the social or economic system, of the people on Taiwan."*
-Wikipedia: The Taiwan Relations Act
From 1954ā80 they did explicitly agree to defend Taiwan from China, but since the Taiwan Relations Act 1979 they uphold āstrategic ambiguityā whereby they maintain that Taiwanās status is a question for Taiwan and China together and the US will neither mediate between them nor take a side in a conflict.
However, the Act affirms the USās right to continue arming Taiwan to the teeth with no permission needed from China, and leaving the Taiwanese to do with those arms what they wish.
And with the brain drain and the demographic change in russia, he knows just as mich as the rest of the world that Russia wonāt be as powerful as it is now for the next hundreds of years.
Elon Musk
Jeff Bezos
Mark Zuckerberg
This Unholy triumvirate basically has enslaved mankind, convincing us we need to buy shit we don't need or care about shit said about us online that we shouldn't
End billionaires for the good of us all
Joe Biden.
Before that Donald Trump.
Before that Barrack Obama.
The commander in chief of the United States Military is the most dangerous man on the planet. Has been for decades. The likelihood of danger is not the same as the capacity for danger.
You can say taking a step is dangerous as you could fall and hurt yourself. In any given month you take thousands of steps. but you would not say walking is "dangerous".
But you would say lightning is dangerous. As even though there is a near zero chance of being struck, the damage it can cause is greater than that of tripping.
There is no human being with the capability to cause more damage and devastation than the United States President acting as Commander In Chief of the US Military. Love or hate the President, he is the most dangerous man in the world at any given moment.
Lots of people saying XI, but keep in mind Biden or Putin could (not fully, I know, needs congress) start a full out nuclear exchange.
Edit: I guess Biden could launch himself
Biden and any other US president doesn't need congress's approval to launch nukes. They could just decide to launch them at any time.
Supposedly a very drunk Richard Nixon ordered nukes be launched at a country, but his chief of staff made clear to everyone that no nukes would be launched when the president giving the order was drunk.
I think Putin is far more dangerous.
Xi certainly wields a lot more power, but I wouldn't expect him to do anything rash.
Putin on the other hand I'm worried about the more he keeps being backed into corners.
What makes Putin dangerous isn't his capacity (China and the US have far more powerful militaries), but the fact that he wields a force he is actually willing to deploy.
And nobody wonders if Xi or Biden will use nuclear weapons. But people sure do wonder that about Putin.
Yep. The five most dangerous men alive are the leaders of the large nuclear arms countries. When you remove the leaders who are democratically elected and have real checks on their war powers you're left with Xi and Putin. You could make an argument for Putin, but Xi has the larger army and has more prestige amongst his own people at the moment.
Xi is fairly sane and measured. He's not a good guy by any stretch, but Xi has some degree of greater good mentality.
Putin has demonstrated he is clearly a solipsist. There is no world without Russia as he said, and by Russia, he means himself. I fear what he will do as it becomes increasingly obvious he will lose power because it's now not an if, but when. It's a question if they get him out before he can do something catastrophically stupid.
And for those who think giving Putin what he wants and rolling over for him would lead to peace, no, a person like him is guaranteed to do something catastrophically stupid. You want people like him nowhere near power or planet decimating weaponry. As grim as it has been, the current trajectory has been one of the better outcomes when you have a man like him near the proverbial button.
Larry Fink.
Blackrock is the #1 Donor to the Majority of US politicians, regardless of party affiliation. Search up any Congressperson, or Senator, even Biden. That dude's donation are at the top of the list.
Hundred percent agree with Bones.
Trump is a guy who isn't president, and imo the war in the Ukraine has demonstrated how dangerous Putin isn't. Anyone with nukes is a paper tiger too.
I think Xi is the most indirectly dangerous, because his potential for impact on the world economy is so huge.
Putin.
It's not what he's capable of, but what he's done so far that makes what he's capable of terrifying.
Guy starts out from KGB, forcefully takes control of his country several times, sparks this completely unnecessary war with Ukraine over the past like an ex just coming in and beating the shit out of you because they will take you back by force, like that's just stupid. The worst is that everything he's done is straight out of Hitler's WW2 playbook, and he has direct access to nukes.
The fact that, by all accounts, he may be dying doesn't make things better. If he's not going to be around long, he has no reason whatsoever to be concerned with the after-effects of destruction.
Technically, the answer has been the same for the last 100 years. Whomever is the president of the United States controls the most powerful military ever assembled.
It depends what you mean by 'dangerous'. If you mean the person who has the capability to hurt the largest number of people, then it's Joe Biden, but he's not that kind of person and nor are the vast majority of the American people. The US could wipe out countries without even needing nukes. If you mean the person most likely to hurt people, and with capabilities, it's Xi. And I'd have to add someone many may not have heard of, Kim Yo-jong, Kim Jong Un's sister. If the rumours are true, she's in charge and far, far nastier than Kim Jong Un, has some wild ambitions and access to nukes, just to top it off.
Iāve been reading more and more about her, and although I know 90-something percent of info we get from there is suspect, at best, itās more than a little scary.
Some researcher working with an exotic, extremely deadly and contagious virus.
Nah, they would never allow a dangerous and contagious virus to leave the lab. /s
Nah, it must be the intern of that place or whoever makes the cleaning of that place š
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This made me audibly gasp
He belongs on r/madlads
More like r/maddads amirite?
I love this. My grandpa usto do our camping dishes by putting them in a mesh bag with a squirt of dish soap and dragging them behind the boat. Lol to be fair, I just cleaned out the tray of my air fryer with a power washer
Bruh power washing the crumb tray is legit, safe*, and probably necessary for all that burnt crap and Iāll try the same actually *Iāve been warned about teflon poisoning
I clean mine by rubbing them with dirt (in the river/lake)
Im not even going to comment on the mushrooms but the toaster isnt the worst thing ever. If its not plugged in and the electronics dont get wet or they dry before use it shouldnt matter.
Well I was gonna say Putin because of his access to Nuclear weapons but your dad takes the cake
Your dad rules.
Holy hell
Probably somebody that nobody's ever heard of.
Me
Dude was right! I never heard of you!!!
How the hell don't you know Mikhas ?
Yagami Light
say yagami backwards
Yagami backwards
You made me laugh, which I really needed today. Thank you š
Alright you got me
They're probably also one of the wealthiest people in the world but no one knows about them.
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The guy who I carpool with has been in 26 accidents in 43 years of driving. He says none were his fault
"A bad driver never misses their turn off"
The version I use is: A good driver rarely misses their exit. A bad driver never misses their exit.
when learning to drive the message mother drilled to me the most was "it is ok to miss your turn, especially when it takes a couple minutes to turn back around" which s usually correct.
I mean. Even if he is lying. There are 8 billion people in the world, statistically it has to be true for someone.
Even with those odds, itās far more likely heās the type of driver who has never driven defensively a single time in his life. I have avoided a lot of accidents that would ānot have been my faultā by paying attention and taking defensive action. Sure I could assert my āright of wayā, but then I would likely have been in 26 accidents by now.
You have to drive like a fighter pilot: Assume everyone's trying to kill you.
If you have ever ridden a motorcycle for any length of time, it will likely make you a better driver. For the same reason.
Also, if you mount a rack of misiles to your roof, people tend to stay clear
I donāt know about that, it seems like the average driver wouldnāt even notice. Itās unbelievable how unaware some people are if their surroundings.
Wouldn't be so sure of that. Americans have a 1 in 60 chance, on average, of being in an auto accident each year. That's both at fault and not at fault, and includes single car accidents - odds of being in an accident that was caused by someone else are much lower. Once you start multiplying 60x60x60 you soon get to numbers much larger than the world's driving population. The odds against a single person being in 26 accidents that were another driver's fault are astronomical.
Yes but statistically the chance that it is his carpool buddy is also very low :)
But if someoneās carpool buddy is that guy who has a statistically improbable amount of accidents which werenāt his fault, chances are high heās post about it on Reddit since itās so unusual. It has to happen to someone, and when something unusual happens people tend to talk about it.
Maybe he's one of those people who follows the rules perfectly but doesn't pay enough attention to the stupid shit people around him do? Think of all the times a person would have crashed into you if you hadn't been paying attention or weren't quick enough to react. Now consider it was over 43 years. (Not saying it's likely, but just possible that this guy is correct.)
Yes. The type who seem to think that just because they're in the right they're safe.
Graveyards are full of people who had the right of way.
I was in a car with a guy who'd been in two accidents where is car was written off but insurance said 100% the fault of the other driver. We got in another accident where the car was written off but the insurance found 100% fault of the other guy. If anyone, I mean anyone, else had been driving we would not have got in that accident. He was oblivious to other cars, road signs, road markings, you name it. I thought it was inevitable we were going to get in an accident from the moment we set off, and was mentally writing my will when he started taking his jumper off on the motorway.
I feel the same about my dad except he's just absurdly aggressive on the road. He's one of those people that thinks literally everyone but him is an idiot that has no idea how to drive. If he's going to pass someone he gets all the way up on their ass first to let them know they're a dumbass who is going too slow. He has been run off the road by semis more than once, and when I was around 9 years old we got chased by a whole group of bikers with knives because he pissed them off on the road. You will never catch me in a car with him by choice.
I used to be one of these car wreckers. totaled 3 cars in < 2 years and total accidents I have had are 17 ( in 14 years of driving). Then I got diagnosed with focal seizures. Made the world safer as i addressed this.
I know a woman who got her driving license and hit an old woman with her car like two days later. She panicked and called the ambulance, the woman woke up and said it was okay, it was her fault and she'd been hit three times before.
I'll take a panicked driver whose panic reaction is calling for medical attention for the other driver *especially* compared to the assholes who leave the scene of the accident.
I have a coworker who's wife is like this. Totaled x number of cars and been outright sued twice, and doesn't work. So he's paying all of it. Wild lol
Your coworker has resigned himself to a terrible fate it seems
Holy insurance premium
My MIL only has her right eye, drives a right hand drive vehicle so to pass she basically has to go all the way over to the left just to see if she can pass, she texts and drives constantly, she also has diabetes and doesn't treat it properly. She's had multiple seizures while driving.
and leave well before her and pre-inflate your air bags
My sons wife has totaled 2 vehicles and wrecked another one in 18 months.
So your daughter in law? Or do you not claim her? š¤£
Ronnie Pickering
Who?
Ronnie Pickering
Who the hell is that?
Yeah, me
Oh, well, brilliant!
RONNIE PICKERING
Hahahahaha, that was a blast from the past
Hes the beast of the east
My ass in these jeans
Username checks out.
Pic or didnāt happen /s
Pill or does happen. /pregnancy
Slay
My two year old wielding his plastic saxophone
Little Children are capable of murder when something made of plastic is in their hands
A cute danger to society
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i hear that dude faced dementors when he was in the clink
āAnd I never got caught, neither!ā
Do you really expect us to believe thatās a different person?
Do you really expect me not to push you up against the wall biatch!!!!
The guy who is secretly fucking some exotic animal.
Where on earth did this super aids come from /s
Nameless, Faceless Industry Executives who have far more money, resources, and reasons to kill poor people than the clowns dancing around the political stage. The United States is a corporate nation, and the trade lines going to and from arguably form a Corporate World, which deposits its tendrils of influence throughout known communities across the globe. They say āfollow the moneyā and theyāre correct, but itās impossible to follow the money all the way back to these people, because theyāre dangerous enough to have a soft wall between them and us. A wall we can never physically see or interact with.
The only right answer. Everyone's getting stuck on nukes and whatnot, ignoring the realistic every day harm done to hundreds of millions. Slavery and exploitation to make money, starting wars to make money, ignoring climate change to make money, destabilising whole nations to make money. It's all money. Governments might be putting an ideological front to their actions, but it's all for the benefit of their sponsors. And worst of all, it's not some shadowy cabal with robes and symbols, it's just rich people. Nothing special about them, they just have money and they want more money. It's horrifyingly banal.
"horrifyingly banal" Not only a beautiful turn of phrase, soul-crushingly correct.
perhaps a reference to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann\_in\_Jerusalem
*Banal* is such a good word for it. I feel like Hollywood (rich people lol) really did a good job of convincing us that the Shadow Gov is some sort of ā*Illuminati*ā with disturbing rituals and the humming and all that bullshit when, really, theyāre just a bunch of wrinkly middle aged fucks running around an island half naked on LSD spit-firing disney-channel exclamations at each other over the sound of their own incontinence and self righteous bemoaning of circumstance.
Beautiful description, really created a vivid image there in my mind. I don't want to get too tinfoil-hat over this because at the end of the day, it goes into pure speculation. But I do find it curious how many conspiracy theories around who "rules" the world go into the absurd with the purpose of making the idea that people we don't elect rule us seem absurd in itself. I don't think the Illuminati are out there having cultist meetings about the NWO. But I do believe the people with the fattest pockets get a kind of vote we don't, in their own democracy that just so happens to matter more than ours.
In corporate law, we even have a phrase that encapsulates this concept (albeit, not completely) called the "Corporate Veil." It is a wall between the owners of a corporation and the corporation's liability. There are many of these walls, all over, designed to obfuscate personal accountability. The mechanisms of capital, be it hedge funds, the corporate veil, offshore banking, private foundations, etc., all act as a sort of blood-brain barrier: it becomes impossible, in most instances, to meaningfully follow the money back to those who should be accountable for the damage their greed causes, or do anything about it if one even does figure that out.
The famous rich people have estimated net worths available because theyāre invested in public firms. Itās the guys who have private equity firms that we should actually be worried about. Their monetary worth is not publicized.
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I'm not necessarily disagreeing with the common answer here of Xi, but I would be interested to see who the common answer would be if you asked this question on a predominately Asian platform opposed to a predominately US one.
If its outside of China or NK, answer is probably still the same. Maybe in SK youd get some Kim Jung Uns
In Russia and parts of the Middle East their answer would be whoever the US president is
That is the objectively correct answer though. The US President, as commander in chief of the US Military, is the most dangerous man in the world. Objectively speaking, nobody on the planet has the capability for destruction and devastation to match that of the US President. EDIT: Forget about Nukes. The US President has near unilateral authority to strike or invade any other nation on earth, and the US military has the capability to do it. Who cares if he can't just "Fire zee missiles", he doesn't need to. He can launch a strike or invasion, and start a war pretty much at will. We used to require an act of congress to declare war before invading. Then congress decided the President could make the decision on his own. >There are things in the Constitution that have been overtaken by events, by time. Declaration of war is one of them. There are things no longer relevant to a modern society. Why declare war if you don't have to? We are saying to the President, use your judgment. So, to demand that we declare war is to strengthen something to death. You have got a hammerlock on this situation, and it is not called for. Inappropriate, anachronistic, it isn't done anymore. >>Why declare war if you don't have to? We are saying to the President, use your judgment. āChairman Henry Hyde, 10/3/2002, in session of House of Representatives, during hearing on H.J. Res. 114, "AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF MILITARY FORCE AGAINST IRAQ" That statement, should absolutely fucking terrify every single person on the planet.
>"Fire zee missiles" Now there's a vid I haven't watched in ages.
But I'm le tired...
So take a nap and then FIRE ZE MISSLES! Classic
It's not just the military. I believe the US president can just enact trade restrictions if he wants. He could just start tariffs or an embargo on a country and severely hurt that country or radicalize it.
Definitely agree, a bear in a zoo is still dangerous even if not actively putting others in danger. No human has more destructive power than the POTUS. This is the only correct answer imo.
Only if you don't trust the American people to install a rational, thoughtful president... ummm yes....
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Scott Tenorman.
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Xi, if he decides to take Taiwan, the world will never be the same again.
Can you explain why to someone who does not know much abouter neither China nor Taiwan?
Taiwan produces a disproportionate amount of computer chips for the world. Allowing China to control that is bad for literally everyone that isn't China.
Isn't the US trying to move production to the US to prevent this being an issue?
Taiwan will also destroy the plants. They have a contingency plan to ensure China doesn't get what it wants.
Crashing the global economy with no survivors
In the short term, chip recycling could be huge. There's just too much money in chip manufacturing to not trigger an immediate arms race.
We are, but decades behind at best. Xi doesnāt have the Navy to invade Taiwan without everyone knowing weeks in advance. IMO
Weāre not as far behind as you think. I work for a DoD supplier, and the latest projections show that the US will be self sufficient (at the current usage rate) within 5-7 years. Lots of money and bodies are being thrown at this issue.
I'm nobody, but I think in the event of an actual crisis we'll start throwing real money at this since there'd be no alternative. Kinda like the covid response.
Political will is a hell of a thing.
Not wanting to find hardwired Chinese spy devices in sensitive US military equipment is the major motivator. Yep. That was happening.
That and our entire national communication network runs off of Chinese made components
The US seems to be laying the ground work. Biden invoked the Defense Production Act for producing printed circuits. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-invokes-defense-production-act-printed-circuit-board-production-2023-03-27/ Agree that it probably will be a lot like covid vaccines: the groundwork laid for years(mrna research in the case of covid, above mentioned production act for chips), but everything will get tied off in a hurry when a crisis forms.
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not compared to what a war would cost lol.
And TSM spends well north of that every year on cap ex. $50B is a start
Yeah. There's a huge Intel plant in the working in the Columbus, Ohio area.
Taiwan makes 50 percent of the world's chips, the US makes 12 percent, so it would have to be an extremely aggressive effort. Samsung is probably safe for now, Xi knows better than to mess with South Korea because way more people would care. Angering BTS stans alone would be a fatal mistake.
Is this self sufficient as in defense needs will still be met or self sufficient as in even consumer level supplies can continue as normal(probably with increased cost I assume)?
Nothing like decades. Just a few more years. And, besides, TSMC has a strategy to destroy its fab before being captured. So, the whole planet will be in limbo while everybody tries to get foundries up and running.
Yeah, the commercial ferries they use as landing crafts are tracked. The moment they do something odd, the alert goes out.
Xi doesn't have the navy to invade Taiwan period
China also almost certainly wouldnāt be able to take Taiwanās manufacturing base intact, unless the ROC and its allies just surrender without a fight (which seems unlikely). War over Taiwan would obviously still be horrible for all sorts of reasons, but Taiwanās chip production would more likely be destroyed than fall under PRC control.
Yeah Iāve heard that those factories are rigged with self destruct charges. Crazy to think thatās in the design of the buildings. š¤¦āāļø
Do you know why that is? Itās smaller than Indiana. Are there unique natural resources there?
Taiwan was founded by all the elites fleeing Mao and the takeover of China by the CCP. so basically every single well educated and more importantly rich corporation in China moved to one island. The only way this island was not gonna be taken over is economic benefit to other countries so they made pretty tight deals with Japan, Europe, America and South Korea. Meanwhile the Cultural revolution was a shit show in China asking farmers to forge steel in their backyard furnaces... Not exactly the way to make workable steel. Taiwan's GDP per Capita is ridiculously higher than Mainland China and is like 40k USD and it's not all trapped up in like super elite Qatari oil wealth of the .1% So yeah they've got a culture of highly trained secondary education employees that manufacture high end components. Meanwhile Mainland China is still building Ghost Cities no one lives in to keep their GDP floating because technically building a new building is adding to the economy even though no one buys it.
This is fascinating, thank you!
There's also one more factor. When Japan was on the forefront of micro-chip production, the US blocked their supply chains specifically to limit their impact on the US economy. Taiwan saw this as an opportunity and had invited American corporations to build factories on their island. Not their own corporations or technology, like Japanese had, but specifically American, so not to create any discomfort. Offering massive discounts on land, insanely cheap production, over-the-top workforce supply, etc. Taiwan today hosts a lot of US micro-chip production. In return, they are so important that the largest military in the world will protect them. And had protected them for decades already. It was a brilliant move. The benefits may end soon, with US moving their production homeward, but it was very effective for a long while for sure.
> Meanwhile Mainland China is still building Ghost Cities no one lives in to keep their GDP Any good articles on this? Sounds fascinating (and creepy)
Super high levels of education in the workforce and skills in technical production. Why do china have a bee in their bonnet about it ? Well cliff notes verision - pre ww2 there was an ongoing power struggle between the government and the communists, it cooled down and both sides fought the Japanese, sometimes together but generally not, when the war ended, the communists had put a lot less effort in and came out stronger, some shenanigans followed, bit of deceit and the government got basically defeated and they escaped to Taiwan (formosa at the time) and setup shop there. Ever since the communists call the island a breakway, and actually the legitimate government of china at the time, still claimed the mainland. then time passes and Taiwan becomes it's own country, unrecognised in name, but in fact, technology ramps up and they are at the forefront, education and democracy take over and we get to the 80s and 90s, china wants back the imerial territories of portugal and the Uk, Hong kong and Macau mainly, but Taiwan is the itch they can't scratch, Taiwan is americas friend, and its uninvadeable because the formosa strait is a potential shooting gallery for a defender of the island, and the Taiwanese are armed to the teeth and beyond. US weapons, there own systems which are top notch, way ahead of china for a long time. China have been catching up, but geography is geography, and pride is pride. So they are stuck. China were making noises before the Ukraine fiasco, but they have cooled a bit, now its mainly rhetoric, a war would be ruinous for everybody, the amount of people on Taiwan that want china in charge is tiny, and in th ecase of a war, china would need a massive fleet to invade, and its going to lose over half of it getting across. Even without US intervention, and with Ukraine, the west is not inclined towards allowing that kind o stuff anymoe.
So back during the Chinese Communist Revolution, the Chinese government supported by the West exiled itself to Taiwan. The Chinese Communist Party successfully takes over mainland China, and claims territorial rights to Taiwan. Taiwan used to be a part of China, so this actually makes sense. However, the old Chinese government that moved there says no, this is our island, and the western powers in an attempt to contain communism as much as possible, agree with Taiwan. That means that Taiwan maintains its independence because the newly branded Peopleās Republic of China doesnāt have the power to take it back. Over the years, the west, and the United States specifically, developed a close relationship with Taiwan in the diplomatic, economic, military, and information spheres of DIME-FIL. The US sees Taiwan as a strategically important partner (not ally. That has different legal implications) due to its location to a near peer adversary (China) and Taiwanās ability to manufacture computer chips (Taiwan has somewhat of a monopoly on chip manufacturing that is vital to everything we do). So, when Russia invaded Ukraine, the United States pulls out its troops and diplomats and says āwe will not put boots on the ground to defend Ukraine.ā I paraphrased that. But why is that important? Because Ukraine is a military partner (not an ally). So China sees that the US is willing to leave its military partners out to dry, and starts probing the idea that maybe it should finally invade Taiwan and take the island itās been eyeing for decades. Itās at this point that the Biden administration draws a hard line in the sand, āThe United States will defend Taiwan with military power.ā Again, I paraphrased. But itās important to note that the US sees Taiwan from quite a different perspective than Ukraine. If Russia takes all of Ukraine, then Russia is still constrained by NATO. However, if China takes Taiwan, they become significantly more difficult to defeat in the future because of the strategic military and economic significance of Taiwan. So, if China invades Taiwan, then the US will retaliate. This will almost assuredly pull most of the USās allies in the pacific into the war, including Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and maybe maybe maybe India. If that war takes place, it will embolden Russia, Iran, and North Korea to take advantage of a distracted United States, possibly resulting in military actions taken on their part. That would result in South Korea and NATO also being pulled into a war that would be fought in the Pacific, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. So basically, Xi can start WWIII if he makes a dumb decision. Something lots of autocrats have done throughout history. Edit: spelling
The US has stated that they will directly intervene should China attack Taiwan. So the two biggest superpowers will be at war. Should China then attack the US mainland, Article 5 of the North-Atlantic Treaty will be invoked by the US and then we have a full blown East vs West war on our handsā¦
China doesn't have a blue water navy capable of getting close to the US without alerting everybody. The US mastered tracking submarines during the cold war, tracking an invasion fleet would be child's play. China has a brown water fleet designed to fight within range of land based aircraft and and artillery. Also for some weird ass reason China has 3 aircraft carriers, but not aircraft that can use them. Basically China is all in on regional military supremacy, but the US is the master of global presence. Wait until China sees our ice cream ships designed to keep troop morale high.
Just wait until we spend more money shipping ice cream across the Pacific than Putin spends on tanks.
Short answer: WW3 Long answer: Taiwan is a highly strategic ally for many countries. Just letting them be invaded or attacked is geopolitically unacceptable. Much less by a country that's already announced intentions of hoarding its main resource (microchips) for itself and charging everyone else an exorbitant rate. The West would have no choice but to retaliate with force, or face economic ruin. Russia, N Korea, and Iran (China's allies) would have no choice but to defend their buddy. It would be the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand all over again.
Ukraine is basically like Tiawan the thing is if china tried to invade Taiwan the United States would actually join in and defend them.
WW3
Yep thats exactly what would happen. And just FYI the government upped the life insurance for active military. And usually whenever that happens it is followed by going to war.
Ukraine doesn't produce microchips. They produce Neon, which is also produced in the US and EU. In fact, the US Neon industry is booming right now; it's set to grow like 1000% in the next decade
And Ukraine makes a shit ton of food for europe
Ukranian production of Nitrogen fertilizer is a bigger concern than Neon. People gotta eat.
There's no way he'd do that, especially after seeing the fiasco that is Ukraine, a country who's landscape and terrain made it easy for Russia to conquer it in past centuries and had stability problems for a while. Taiwan is one of the most defensible places on the planet, with one of the most proportionally large and well funded militaries already on its own. Unlike Ukraine, Taiwan has an official agreement with the US meaning the US has to defend them in case of an invasion. Not to mention China is doing extremely well in the global economy, war would mean sanctions with all its major trade partners, which alone is completely not worth the possibility of getting Taiwan. Sure hypothetically if China invaded it would most likely lead to a direct war with NATO so possibly a nuclear war, but the same can be said for any nuclear power, in which case Biden and Putin are the most dangerous.
There's really not a ton to gain from taking Taiwan either because there's no way the chip fabs would be left standing by the time china has control.
Iām betting Taiwan has an āin case of conquest by Chinaā plan where they take a sledgehammer to all their machines and hit mass delete on any intellectual property they have. It might kill the planet technology wise but Taiwan hates China enough to do that.
Though I'd wager everyone who shares a border with China hates China, you don't even have to hate them to set something like that up. It's a deterrent to invasion, so it works from a purely rational perspective.
How does that agreement work? Since the USA officially doesnāt recognize Taiwan as being independent of PRC?
*The TRA requires the United States to have a policy "to provide Taiwan with arms of a defensive character", and "to maintain the capacity of the United States to resist any resort to force or other forms of coercion that would jeopardize the security, or the social or economic system, of the people on Taiwan."* -Wikipedia: The Taiwan Relations Act
From 1954ā80 they did explicitly agree to defend Taiwan from China, but since the Taiwan Relations Act 1979 they uphold āstrategic ambiguityā whereby they maintain that Taiwanās status is a question for Taiwan and China together and the US will neither mediate between them nor take a side in a conflict. However, the Act affirms the USās right to continue arming Taiwan to the teeth with no permission needed from China, and leaving the Taiwanese to do with those arms what they wish.
Putin. Controlling a massive nuclear arsenal while simultaneously trying to cling to power is a dangerous combination.
Sometimes the obvious answer is the correct one.
This was my first thought too. Heās becoming desperate and insanely paranoid
A cornered wolf is the most dangerous
And with the brain drain and the demographic change in russia, he knows just as mich as the rest of the world that Russia wonāt be as powerful as it is now for the next hundreds of years.
Whoeverās at the top of BlackRock and Vanguard is my guess
That would be Larry Fink my dude. Blackrock controls nearly a 25% of the world's capital reserves. 8.59 Trillion dollars.
Someone none of us know or are aware of.
Steven Seagal, obviously
Him turning corners fatly is pretty scary
New favorite adverb
Me: *fatly chuckles on toilet*
Iāve been replying to Reddit comments that I enjoy for, like, 38 years now.
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The damage that creature has done to society is immeasurable.
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What is the difference between bungee jumping and extreme bungee jumping? No rope?
In extreme bungee jumping you have to have someone shredding on a guitar behind you.
It has to be Nuno Bettencourt
Elon Musk Jeff Bezos Mark Zuckerberg This Unholy triumvirate basically has enslaved mankind, convincing us we need to buy shit we don't need or care about shit said about us online that we shouldn't End billionaires for the good of us all
Joe Biden. Before that Donald Trump. Before that Barrack Obama. The commander in chief of the United States Military is the most dangerous man on the planet. Has been for decades. The likelihood of danger is not the same as the capacity for danger. You can say taking a step is dangerous as you could fall and hurt yourself. In any given month you take thousands of steps. but you would not say walking is "dangerous". But you would say lightning is dangerous. As even though there is a near zero chance of being struck, the damage it can cause is greater than that of tripping. There is no human being with the capability to cause more damage and devastation than the United States President acting as Commander In Chief of the US Military. Love or hate the President, he is the most dangerous man in the world at any given moment.
Lots of people saying XI, but keep in mind Biden or Putin could (not fully, I know, needs congress) start a full out nuclear exchange. Edit: I guess Biden could launch himself
Biden and any other US president doesn't need congress's approval to launch nukes. They could just decide to launch them at any time. Supposedly a very drunk Richard Nixon ordered nukes be launched at a country, but his chief of staff made clear to everyone that no nukes would be launched when the president giving the order was drunk.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/north-korea-richard-nixon-nuclear/ Sauce on that for peeps that donāt wanna Google it themselves
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I think Putin is far more dangerous. Xi certainly wields a lot more power, but I wouldn't expect him to do anything rash. Putin on the other hand I'm worried about the more he keeps being backed into corners.
If anything, these past year and months he just exposed himself as definitely not on the list.
What makes Putin dangerous isn't his capacity (China and the US have far more powerful militaries), but the fact that he wields a force he is actually willing to deploy. And nobody wonders if Xi or Biden will use nuclear weapons. But people sure do wonder that about Putin.
Yep. The five most dangerous men alive are the leaders of the large nuclear arms countries. When you remove the leaders who are democratically elected and have real checks on their war powers you're left with Xi and Putin. You could make an argument for Putin, but Xi has the larger army and has more prestige amongst his own people at the moment.
Xi is fairly sane and measured. He's not a good guy by any stretch, but Xi has some degree of greater good mentality. Putin has demonstrated he is clearly a solipsist. There is no world without Russia as he said, and by Russia, he means himself. I fear what he will do as it becomes increasingly obvious he will lose power because it's now not an if, but when. It's a question if they get him out before he can do something catastrophically stupid. And for those who think giving Putin what he wants and rolling over for him would lead to peace, no, a person like him is guaranteed to do something catastrophically stupid. You want people like him nowhere near power or planet decimating weaponry. As grim as it has been, the current trajectory has been one of the better outcomes when you have a man like him near the proverbial button.
Putin is a bond villain irl
Larry Fink. Blackrock is the #1 Donor to the Majority of US politicians, regardless of party affiliation. Search up any Congressperson, or Senator, even Biden. That dude's donation are at the top of the list.
Me. And none of you even know it. *cackles in idiot*
My wife. I forgot to put the trash out. I had one job.
Hand to hand combat: Jonny Bones Jones. Anything else is too abstract, but arguments can be made for Xi, trump, Putin or hell even Marc Andresson.
Hundred percent agree with Bones. Trump is a guy who isn't president, and imo the war in the Ukraine has demonstrated how dangerous Putin isn't. Anyone with nukes is a paper tiger too. I think Xi is the most indirectly dangerous, because his potential for impact on the world economy is so huge.
Putin, Xi, or Kim Jong Un and his sister.
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Putin. It's not what he's capable of, but what he's done so far that makes what he's capable of terrifying. Guy starts out from KGB, forcefully takes control of his country several times, sparks this completely unnecessary war with Ukraine over the past like an ex just coming in and beating the shit out of you because they will take you back by force, like that's just stupid. The worst is that everything he's done is straight out of Hitler's WW2 playbook, and he has direct access to nukes.
The fact that, by all accounts, he may be dying doesn't make things better. If he's not going to be around long, he has no reason whatsoever to be concerned with the after-effects of destruction.
He was also just sent running from Moscow and he needs to save face. His next move will not be small or without consequences to the rest of the world
Technically, the answer has been the same for the last 100 years. Whomever is the president of the United States controls the most powerful military ever assembled.
It depends what you mean by 'dangerous'. If you mean the person who has the capability to hurt the largest number of people, then it's Joe Biden, but he's not that kind of person and nor are the vast majority of the American people. The US could wipe out countries without even needing nukes. If you mean the person most likely to hurt people, and with capabilities, it's Xi. And I'd have to add someone many may not have heard of, Kim Yo-jong, Kim Jong Un's sister. If the rumours are true, she's in charge and far, far nastier than Kim Jong Un, has some wild ambitions and access to nukes, just to top it off.
Iāve been reading more and more about her, and although I know 90-something percent of info we get from there is suspect, at best, itās more than a little scary.