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Yep, the search was definitely measured and calm. Not an ounce of "frantic" anywhere other than the inevitable over-excitement of the media outlets in reporting it.
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They're really reaching for some alarming headlines, I doubt the search was overly frantic. It's the Australian outback, there aren't a whole lot of people out there who would happen upon it.
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At what point does Israel consider that the consequences of their continued, brutal occupation of a region is not worth the damage to their international reputation?
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The geopolitical reality, whether you like it or not, is that advocating for a carte blanche Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank is asking for thousands of dead on both sides, and asking for the conflict to yet again erupt into something more akin to a regional war than a military occupation with intermittent flair-ups.
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Germany needs to act like a true leader in the Western world and do what is necessary to secure Europe from armed invasions and annexations.
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It's not a fair play. Not only is Germany refusing to send THEIR tanks, but they are prohibiting other countries (Poland) from sending Polish tanks.
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What country exists that isn’t corrupt? The US committed genocide against its indigenous population, enslaved people of color, placed Japanese Americans into internment camps, currently funds Israeli Genocide in Palestine, is currently bombing Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Afghanistan, funded the extermination of over one MILLION CIVILIANS in Indonesia alone during their anticommunist efforts in the 60’s, targeted and assassinated civil rights leaders and activists such as Martin Luther King jr, Malcolm X, and Chairman Fred Hampton during the FBI’s CointelPro operations, recruited Nazi leaders after WWII with Operation Paperclip, funded the Mujahideen terrorist organization while working to destabilize the middle east, destabilized multiple countries in South America in conjunction with the Contras, and has held Cuba under embargo for decades. Is Cuba really that much worse than the US? Cuba has a higher literacy rate, more doctors per capita, and far less wealth disparity. They aren’t some cartoonishly evil country, they’re a tiny developing island nation which made massive strides under communism despite opposition from the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world.
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Edit: the US introduced Metering for Cuban immigrants in 2017, which essentially ended the old “Wet foot/Dry Foot” Policy, and then further limited Cuban immigration with the Migrant Protection Protocols, and then all but completely ended Cuban immigration with Title 42. While there have been attempts to end Title 42, it is still currently in place. Meanwhile, Cubans are able to leave Cuba however they cannot pass the US Embargo into America via legal means and thus must instead either travel via Mexico or other means. The US is the country blocking direct legal routes, currently.
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There are four ways for wars to end: truce, balance of power, elimination of the core issue, and convergence of values.
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Elimination of the cause is when for whatever reason the thing they were fighting about goes away. An example is the end of American conflict with North Vietnam when the North conquered the South in 1975. After that what did the US have to argue with Vietnam about?
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Thats a funny way to say the Trump administration mismanaged and lied about the pandemic that led to hundreds of thousands who died needlessy because of lies Trump spread and the GOP that fell in line.
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Commandeering the CDC, sidelining scientists and experts in the field like Fauci, as well as appointing his stupid son-in-law as the COVID czar are just a few examples of how Trump criminally mismanaged the pandemic. In fact, he spent his entire time in office after the outbreak in abject denial that COVID was a serious threat. And even after a million+ deaths and millions more left with the debilitating effects of long COVID, the MAGA faithful continue to deny the hellscape we HCWs endured as “not that bad”.
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There's nothing genius hackerbrain about it. It's just plain criminal and anyone with a few ECTS of programming can do it.
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Consider this: Russian "hackers" steal passwords, troll social media and send the occasional ransomware.
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I hope so. And then what, if Trump is still around four years later it’s gonna be a nightmare if they try again. I want someone further left, and I’m hoping it’s not Biden and it’s not Trump but someone else we’re not talking about! Idk who though.
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I guess. But in the US, the Trump signs are often in front of a shack or run down house. Do you think those people know who Nikki Haley is? Or have any affinity for Pence? Trump told everyone Pence is disloyal.
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If he wasn't a supporter of Trump they would have been getting weapons they needed all along instead of him using blackmail of Ukraine (see first impeachment).
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I agree to support Ukraine with tanks, but when you're actively helping Trump, who was impeached the first time for blackmailing Ukraine by withholding weapons...
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They started immigrating in larger numbers in the 1800’s with with the full consent of the rulers of the land, which was the Ottomans.
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Jews immigrated to Palestine in increasing numbers in the 1900's, without the consent of the people living there. Some of the European Jews had a colonization mindset.
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"hmm he votes different from party line 11% of the time, so why don't we exchange him for a corrupt ultraMAGA GOP senator?".
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I don't get Manchin criticism, he's from one the most conservative states in the whole country and people are think.
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Unfortunately it does not have be 51 as of now the senate is 50 blue and 48 red only because there 2 people that are not democratic or republican and they have already said there going vote blue and in my opinion if you not democratic or republican you should not have say when it comes to tie breakers.
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It's all good let them control it for 2 more years by the time there next seat comes up and people are tired 5 to 7 dollars a gallon gas after 4 years red will take everything house senate and president and also not every senate and house was even up for reelection and red still took seats away from democrats. What you think going happen when those senate and house seats are up in 2 years really think the democrats are not going lose more seats.
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Look into it. It's really interesting. Medication companies are realizing that a lot of their medications don't work any better than placebos (and sometimes worse than placebos), so its cheaper to use placebos. There are also placebo surgeries.
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It's not really the placebo effect. If you have a kidney stone and receive morphine, it going to have an effect whether you believe or not. Don't ask how I know (.
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I really do not think this is an issue. Or why it is even getting any coverage at all. These documents are from when Biden was VP. What is any relevance here? And Who cares?
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For a Democrat to become speaker, they'd need to get votes from Republicans. I don't see AOC getting to dictate who becomes speaker; it's more likely to be somebody like Valadao or Newhouse.
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Alaska, California, Louisiana, and Washinon don't do partisan primaries for federal office. You'd have to find Republicans in moderate districts from those states.
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331M/576k = 575 representatives to be distributed based on approximate population counts . There are only 435 reps in the house.
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But it's also not equal still. Senate has the static rule of 2 senators per state, but the House is way off.
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Bibi accepting extremists into his coalition to avoid corruption charges, Abbas likely dying of old age soon without any successor, and Hamas increasingly having a presence in the West Bank. Good fucking luck, Blinken.
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Yep. Unfortunately it seems like a demographic issue as well. Current Israeli adults have predominantly lost trust in Palestinian leadership due to the intifadas plus the growing share of Haredim as a % of population. Will require some buffer time until (hopefully) the voter base has replenished with people who have not experienced intifadas. Similarly, Palestinian youth are increasingly affiliating themselves with Islamist groups (Hamas, PIJ, etc.) rather than secular groups. While I have plenty of criticism for the PLO/PA, at the very least they are ideologically able to make compromises and less tied up in religious absolutism.
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But that doesn't account for the fact there are many districts that, either through gerrymandering or just normal demographics/district drawing, that are heavily Republican.
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That's why I said running unopposed, or where the Democrat doesn't really stand much chance of winning.
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And since he is a Republican in a crucial otherwise Democrat district, nothing will happen to him for 2 years.
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Democrats tried to be more “inclusive” in their latest redistricting this year, and also majorly dropped the ball.
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To me, pro-life is a higher standard than anti-choice, and requires that the politician be concerned about policies that actually help people conceive, carry, and support children, physically and economically. Universal pre-k, universal healthcare, paid family leave... all of these policies are pro-life, but not necessarily anti-choice.
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They are not pro life, pro life would be against the death penalty, for universal health care, for feeding and housing the poor, for workers getting a living wage. They are anti-abortion or anti-choice period.
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Well, um.. yeah. It’s the job of judges and the judicial branch to imprison people. You make referrals because you want to bring attention to the jailers with who you think should be locked up and why. Just because something is more symbolic than 100% action doesn’t mean it’s useless. Not to mention all of the documents they’ll transfer to DoJ that none of us know about, and politicians are always going to do political stuff.
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The only thing the congressional referral is going to accomplish is to weaken the DoJ case, and to make any charges appear political.
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Naturally, I asked—with obvious skepticism—if she had ever seen this murder room. “No, it’s a secret.” Now, she was a high-ranking administrator/nurse there, so I asked her if she at least knew where it was given her rank. “No, it’s a secret.” Had she ever seen them carrying babies around the halls who mysteriously disappear? Of course not.
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idk. They've been talking about how democrats cheat in elections for as long as I've been alive. Usually it's pointing to one off cases of dead people voting or people voting twice that are quickly proven false under scrutiny (i.e. two people happen to have the same name) and claiming that it represents a broader pattern. The main difference lately has been that instead of just claiming they were cheated, they try to do an insurrection and just install their guy.
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But again, I haven't seen any examples of someone unable to get the healthcare they need simply because they refused to get vaccinated, with the exception of organ transplant. I'm not as familiar with other countries, but in the US the doctor and US organ donation system is making the call on who is at the top of the organ recipient list, not the insurance companies. Organ recipients are required to adopt lifestyle changes and get vaccinations to ensure the lowest risk/highest success rates to get to the front of the line for the next available, compatible organ. All that is completely independent of if they've paid their fair share in insurance premiums. Even with the best private insurance money can buy, you still won't get a healthy organ to swap for your dying one if you're not willing to put in the effort to allow for the best-possible outcome for that organ. That sourcing part of the procedure has nothing to do with private vs socialized medicine, as a quick search online seems to indicate most countries handle that portion similarly.
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. High level takewaway: "Government-sponsored plans, like Canada’s, are frequently publicly-portrayed as limiting choice. However, there is clear evidence that for Canada’s health care system, less choice in insurance coverage (although guaranteed), has not resulted in less choice of hospitals, physicians, and diagnostic testing and treatments compared to the U.S. In fact, there is arguably more.".
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We had a year and a half of zero covid while your lot were dying in droves. During this time most of the population was vaccinated. Then Omicron arrived and no one can contain Omicron so our borders were opened and we all started getting covid.
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No we are not. You may not have noticed but we have a ton of covid already which is why it won't make much difference especially since the tests are not reliable.
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I’ll join you in the armchair psychology. I wonder if he gets a kick knowing that she’ll read his crap because he knows everything he says at this stage will be spread across every news site in existence? What a man.
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He really is. I had no idea until he purchased Twitter, honestly. I had always thought of him as a planetary activist based on nothing more than owning Tesla. How informed I’ve become in the last 6 or 7 months. Wanting an EV myself, I would never purchase a Tesla.
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Because it’s effecting white teenage girls, it sure didn’t matter in the 90’s when Pearl Jam tried to take them on because it mainly effected white guys.
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“Mainly effected white guys” are you arguing that most fans of Pearl Jam were female, or did you just ignore the part that would make your comment irrelevant?
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The problem is not retreating, it's retreating competently. It wasn't a total debacle. This means they are still very much capable of being organised, and if they can retreat swiftly, then they can probably do the same in offensive too. Would it be efficient? Not necessarily. Would it be deadly? Absolutely. And Ukraine cannot afford to lose as many people as Russia can, unfortunately.
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Don't destroying these Russian units means that they will continue destroying Ukrainian cities and killing Ukrainian soldiers.
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I learned recently South Korea has post natal centers where about 75% of women will go to recover because no non birthing paren leave means that you’ve basically got to take care of yourself after giving birth. It’s usually out of pocket for them too which is unusual contrasted with the rest of their birth experience/expenses.
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Could this be due to women seeing men as poor/non viable caregivers? Or because it’s considered a poor career decision for men to take the leave? Or cultural norms that mean women don’t want to be a burden to their partners, etc? Not trying to be a jerk but I know SK isn’t the warmest place to be a woman so I wonder if these aren’t part of the equation for them.
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Indeed they were hiring seasonal workers, they said so and it was not a surprise to me. What I found disingenuous was firing outsourced employees with the pretense of low productivity from the employee. There simply was not enough demand.
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You are right. Some co-workers felt that could lead to a steady job and Amazon pretended they needed us for a bit longer than they actually did, just to keep the workers invested in their job.
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This is a case of non NATO country fending off Russia, if Russia invaded Poland that would be the full deployment of NATO forces.
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If these pro-russia / anti-nato right-wing leaders get elected and Russia wins in Ukraine, there is a possibility of Russia attacking EU or Nato nation in the future.
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Cool, so I assume that you would be willing to address the fact that the Keystone Pipeline 2017 spill happened while both houses of legislature and the executive office were held by Republicans and they had even less to say than in the spills that I mentioned before.
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Wait, where is this coming from? Are you suggesting that the US is responsible for the bombing of the Nord stream 2 pipeline?
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He IS "insane" in the sense that his sociopathy and narcicism are so far out of balance that he consistantly makes decisions that not only break societal norms, but routinely put him in danger.
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Well, unfortunately for all of us who will be cleaning up the remnants of the damage his post-factual scorched earth brand of fascist hate-fueled plutocracy caused for decades.
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So while we spend a lot of money on our military, whether or not we send our old stuff to Ukraine doesn't free up that money. We were going to spend it either way.
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Much of what we're sending is stuff that was going to "expire" soon. Ammunition has a limited shelf life, for example. We were going to buy new ammo anyways. By sending it to Ukraine, we're actually getting more "value" out of it than if we destroyed it (value in terms of stopping Putin from running roughshod over Eastern Europe).
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Edit: If the folks downvoting would like to explain why it’s whataboutism to talk about France in a thread about France, I’m all ears.
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Not that I really believe France did this, but that’s just not the right word. Whataboutism would be something like “France tried to kill this guy, so it’s hypocritical to criticize Russia for assassinating people.”.
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I don't think we should be taking the word of law enforcement as some perpetual good as if "known to law enforcement" actually MEANS anything. Plenty of people are subjected to them having done no wrong.
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From that day on I was personally "known to law enforcement" as a sixteen year-old who hadn't broken any laws and pulled over regularly as a "check-in" because they were pissed their corrupt buddy had to face consequences for his actions.
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the upside of Hungary doing this again and again and again might be that Hungary sets a great example to other possible wannabe about the likely unappealing consequences resulting from becoming "Hungary no 2" right now in Europe.
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of course it would be better if Hungary played ball but anyone in Europe wanting to switch to "the Hungary way" right now has front-row seats to watching the impressive spectacle of possible negative consequences that such a choice probably brings...
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Its funny because if you go to the USMC reddit there is a thread of actual Marines saying this guy is an ass clown and deserves to stay where he is.
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Yep, and you have to take into account that Marines are assholes by nature. It’s a requirement and it is screened for at MEPS. So to be discharged on bad conduct means you have to be a whole other level of asshole. Not the usual “ha, this asshole is hilarious. I should buy him a drink,” but “holy shit what is wrong with this asshole?”.
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They define a 'drag performance' as basically dressing in opposite gender clothing, so what this means is trans people just trying to live their lives can't, you know, go anywhere kids might be present.
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Since to these people assigned sex is all that exists, they implicitly see trans people as full time drag performers. The legislation to ban drag is just a guise for banning trans people.
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Who cares who does it more or less? That’s just feeding your own inability to accept your heroes might be flawed. Corruption is corruption and it should never be as common place as it is now.
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Not likely as the right currently see corruption as simply the price to pay for minority rule. They value power more than the rule of law.
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Lula wasn't perfect in his first two mandates. Regarding environment, deforestation was low but it still happened so they had every right to complain. Now we are in different times, not only Bolsonaro was way worse, but also Lula is showing to be even more open to address environmental issues.
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I mean, while deforestation wasn't as big back when Lula first took office (in 2003) his first term saw drastic decrease in deforestation, which held for his second term and his sucessor's (Rousseff).
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It is a problem as old as time - the Dems are going to argue about the best way to help people and the GOP are going to scream "NO!" about literally anything the Dems propose.
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The Dems are then forced to get even more support, dragging things out, and adding more time for the party to split and special interests to do their dark work.
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It's an inappropriate form of housing for the majority of homeless people. Asylum is a solution, but not a one-size-fits-all solution. It can exist alongside housing programs.
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Housing is the most important factor. Forced treatment would help, but most homeless people aren't mentally ill enough for asylum.
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MBS wasn't a head of state during Biden's campaign and therefore had no immunity at the time. MBS was appointed Prime Minister in 2022 which then made him head of state which has the international privilege of immunity to legal action.
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MBS has immunity for two reasons: he is the head of government & he is the Crown Prince. Even if he were not PM, he would still have diplomatic immunity as Crown Prince, just like Prince William of the UK also has immunity.
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If you think Putin isn't in an absolute state of panic over how he's going to wrap this up without getting tried for war crimes or admitting defeat, you haven't been paying attention.
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We don't have to be the ones to remove or kill him. But there aren't many ways where this war ends with Putin still in power. And I think he knows that. I think he knows that his oligarchs are recognizing how much he fucked up.
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Except for when Cubans get a debit card and housing from the US government as soon as they set foot in this country. Socialism for me and not for thee.
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They only understand socialism in their own terms. This is their problem. The Republican party will exploit this fact and they will continue to support the Republican party of so-called conservatives.
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I guess it's seen as kind of an extreme cost cutting situation to pay no rent on all of your headquarters. That's the sort of stuff you would do if you were about to go bankrupt. It's like... an emergency cost cutting measure. But it doesn't actually save you any money because you're going to have to pay legal fees fighting it and you will be imposed fines for non-payment.
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That amount of money is about 8x the operating cost of Twitter. If he really infused $7B into Twitter he could have run it at a loss for 8 years. But it really doesn't look like that. It kinda looks like he's starving out the company of capital.
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I think is under appreciated of how much shit we in Ukraine are dealing with. Russia fails on the battlefield and bombs our peaceful cities in an attempt to leave us in the cold and in the dark.
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Paradoxically, even with this large aid packets we are not given tanks or long-range artillery in the fears of escalation. I would argue that wiping out russian military capacity will end this war. And no more aid will be needed.
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That and if the Democratic Party were actually concerned about "playing into the hands of the GOP" through a split with anyone to their Left, they would function very differently.
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I just have to ask though, how is the Democratic Party shown itself as anything separate from neoliberal capitalism? Both parties ultimately serve the interests of capital above all else. That’s why we see corporate profits skyrocket during social unrest, pandemics, and other crises. If aligning yourself as a socialist means upholding capitalism through the Democratic Party, how is it any different?
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Liberal Christians have multiple countries to choose (eg the Scandinavian nations). Liberal Buddhists and Chinese folk religion believers have Taiwan. Liberal Jews have large communities in the US and can live in liberal Israeli cities like Tel Aviv with relatively little influence of orthodox Jews in their daily life. Where would a liberal muslim go if he wants to live freely among fellow muslims?
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And so dies the illusion of the "liberal" Muslim country. To be clear, this isn't about Islam, it's about failing to separate religion and the state. It's simply too tempting for governments to utilise religion to cement their power. All states should be secular to be accepted into the global community and global partnerships.
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seems like the FAA has pretty clearly defined prohibited airspace… but hey at least you tried, right?
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As for flying over an air force facility, was that a published MOA or NSA restricted airspace? And what altitudes are restricted?
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This morning I was looking for a compilation of funny scenes from an anime (a goofy comedy about a woman who has a dragon for a maid) and about every eighth one was some smug right-winger ranting about...whatever. Note, this is even after I've blocked channels and clicked "Not interested in this type of content " constantly.
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I'm constantly getting fed stupid Joe Rogan clips on YouTube and I keep blocking or saying I'm not interested.
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North Korea is still communist and as such has all the police state and indoctrination propaganda to go along with it.
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in the world and has almost 25% of the prisoners in the world and you're still thinking communist countries are blinded by propaganda. Who's got the police state? Lol.
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Russia are FULLY escalated apart from nukes which they cannot use because they know NATO will annihilate them, so sending Ukraine everything cannot cause escalation, which is often cited as a reason for not sending anything.
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The Russian's genocidal actions, and their use of torture, has erased any logic behind the acts of surrender or of ceding territory; both would mean a worsening of conditions under Russian control.
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Again if guns are the causal link in catalyzing people to commit suicides as claimed then the US should be number one in per capita suicides when in reality we dont even hit top 20. Did you even read the study or is this one of those reddit cases of just reading the title and not the paper itself. Idk maybe look up "successful suicides" in the context of that paper.
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Again, that's a valid discussion to have, but I was responding to the idea that people ignore suicides. Suicides have no place in a conversation about people using semi-automatic rifles to kill a bunch of people. Some gun control proponents, probably including the person I originally responded to given their glib comment, believe that gun owners ignore suicides because they get called out for including suicides in conversations where they do not belong.
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Any people who would flock back to Putin just because the russia's neighbours and prior victims didn't take "these people in" deserves what's coming for Putin.
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"Our boys" as in "our poor boys forced by bad Putin to do bad things" and not "guys ravaging neighboring country for personal gain and delusions of grandeur". You should watch their lives, the theme ov russia being the victim is noticeable.
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Well Iran supply’s the people lobbing rockets at Israel every other day so I guess it’s tit for tat, but my feeling is this may escalate more because of the Iran nuke stuff.
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Iran already supports the ongoing war against Israel by supplying Palestinian terrorists with weapons, but engaging in open war would bring the US into the conflict directly, which Iran doesn’t want.
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Not really. If you had nothing really on the line at the start and get into a nuclear conflict it doesn't even matter who is at fault. You went from being fine to everyone involved losing.
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The idea is not to get yourself wiped out if you can avoid it. The line countries seem to have decided for that is not directly attacking Russia because they've decided spinning those dice is not worth the risk given how fast everything could spin out of control.
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That's an incredible thing to say when someone who hasn't been elected to any office won the presidency in the 2016 election.
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And I note that you said "held" instead of elected; because it's clear to everyone that Abrams rightly won the 2018 gubernatorial election in Georgia, which back then was a solid red state and is now a crucial purplish state thanks to Stacy Abrams' effort.
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Any moderate Republicans left in Washinon DC either joined the Dems already or they don't have a job.
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For a Democrat to become speaker, they'd need to get votes from Republicans. I don't see AOC getting to dictate who becomes speaker; it's more likely to be somebody like Valadao or Newhouse.
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TL;DR western tanks are more or less better at every level than Russian, better maintained, and were designed with more intelligent, modern military doctrine. IE modern western combined arms. Ukraine's army is modernizing like a true Western army, but has been stuck using Russian tools designed for Russian tactics. These tanks change that.
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It's not just about the tanks. It's about the IFV's, AFV's, fire support vehicles, missile defense and artillery too.
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What makes you think an independent Palestine without Israel would've been immune to the same kind of radicalization we see all across the middle east?
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You said that in Israel's absence, a secular government would be in control just like before Israel; In real life, before Israel the place was basically a colony, and not controlled by the local arabs. If it was controlled by the local arabs, they would establish a country that's similar to Afghanistan today.
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Why wouldn't you donate to your own charity if you know everyone running it and you agree with the mission?
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That’s why you have “charities” like the Clinton Foundation or whatever. You can say “we are donating 50 million dollars”, but you’re just reinvesting your own money back into your own company. Lol.
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The R&D is very expensive for a advanced tank, looks like not even russia can afford and the original plan of export didnt work, so now they collab with India?
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Remember when Russia sent T-90MS to Ukraine that were built and paid for by India, instead of fixing them per their contract?
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The other part of that is, the remaining fact that Biden did better against poo poo than any other known democratic candidate.
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Yes, Biden won because Biden is better than poopoo—essentially the worst Presidential incumbent in the history of our nation. That is not a high bar to clear. If the bar is in the ground (Trump) and Biden is on the ground, it doesn't take very much to get above that. . Now tell me, what happens if it's not Trump again in 2024? What happens when there's a 36-year age gap between DeSantis and Biden? How do you think that will be perceived by the electorate? We know how it will be perceived because we got a glimpse of that in Obama vs. McCain in favor of Democrats.
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If they had concentrated their entire offensive on the push to Kyiv, it may have worked out. Instead their forces- and their flawed logistics- were stretched along several huge axis of attacks Instead of just focused on one.
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I'd also wager that they could have also targeted all the bridges over the Dnieper and taken the enfi Eastern Bank, splitting Ukraine in two and getting themselves a much easier front to defend against counterattack over the river.
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A buddy of mine has one of their rifles in .300 Winchester Mag. I have fired that gun once. It was not pleasant. Composite stock, not very heavy. Barrel was facing the sky when I opened my eyes again. Lol.
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Apparently during the winter war between Finland and the USSR the Soviets were notoriously under equipped and poorly supplied. They were basically starving and the Finn’s were very good at preventing the Soviet’s supplies from getting through. They managed at one point to bait and ambush an entire column of Soviets by making a huge kettle of sausage stew, and letting the smell waft downwind where the famished soldiers could pick up the smell. The Russians found what they thought was a Finnish encampment that had been abandoned so quickly the food was still cooking over a fire. Instead of being cautious, or remembering that the Finns were never caught off guard they instead rushed to the stew and started gorging themselves. Guns were dropped, guards were let down and the Finns surrounded the Russians and blasted them all straight to commie hell.
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But they want to maintain the precedent that the Supreme Court matters and people shouldn't go around them.
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Third, the Supreme Court has no power to enforce its rulings. It must rely on the executive for enforcement.
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Yes State courts have the authority to review congressional maps. No state courts do not have the authority to draw congressional maps. The constitutionality seems pretty straightforward to me.
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Nah. State courts very clearly have the authority to rule on election maps and very clearly have no authority to draw their own maps. A ruling that reflects that reality is more than fair.
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Scholz: "Hey, I'd be up for all of us working together and to not divide the world in spheres of influence, but China and Russia are a threat to that. The west must work together more closely and stand up for freedom and democracy".
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I understand that half of you americans wanna jump into this guns blazing. This would be a bad idea:
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Yep. He sees the windmills as being the eyesores, devaluing his resort. It started with his Scottish golf course apparently.
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When he was told about the new electronic catapults used to launch planes on aircraft carriers, he demanded they return to using steam powered catapults, because the new technology was impossible to understand. He was incapable of understanding it, therefore no one else could understand how to operate either - not even the engineers who designed it and the crew operating it.
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Brazil has a massive beef market in Russia and China. The Amazon is burned to create pastures for cattle that provide those countries with cheap beef. Shouldn’t be a huge surprise that Brazil’s not a hard-charger for the west.
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Also more: Brazil, as I've said before, doesn't have war culture, we also don't have amo to spare. The last war Brazil had was against Paraguay centuries ago. Brazil's international politics was always of "friendly neighborhood", be in good terms with everyone to help in discussions as a neutral part, call it Swiss of South America if you want.
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But the problem with a pandemic is other people’s decisions still affect me. So I would prefer if everyone was Vax’ed and boosted because while it’s not a sterilizing vaccine, it does reduce the spreading of covid and any reduction is helpful to everyone.
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In my case I have pretty much all the vaccines and the covid one twice so I wouldn't categories myself as anti vax just because I don't believe that this particular one is necessary to be taken in its current form in perpetuity. That being said, I'm open to taking one that provides a longer term protection.
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They aren't "looking down" on Africa. They are using them as a baseline because they are one of the only countries with military might of noteworth. That meets said specific baseline in the theoretical deduction.
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They fell for the Russian propaganda somehow. History has always been my favorite subject and I've always been fascinated by military might as well... Anyways the point is if they had paid attention and did a just a little bit research and listened to what our history teachers were saying at even the basic level. They would have known Russia was more bark than bite. Nukes are the only real deterrent they've got for NATO.
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Florida wants everyone in academia to label themselves politically so they can go after liberals and leftists.
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Florida wants everyone in academia to label themselves politically so they can go after liberals. They want to “kill wokeness”.
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Leaving suddenly and bailing out on the allies was wrong, but I don’t know how you can sit there and say that the USA wasn’t trying to do the right thing by establishing a democratic government in afghanistan… they were actively trying to stop the Taliban from being in control because of how they treat their people. It’s not the USAs fault that the government/army that they have been training to defend themselves for 20 years just gave up and let the Taliban take control in a matter of days.
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Most people are against war so say what you want about that but nobody but the taliban is to blame for the harsh conditions the country is dealing with right now. And if you think giving them money is going to change that you need to do some research.
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The way things have gone I think if russia could use nukes on ukraine without risking a full blown nato invasion or nuclear retaliation, yes, absolutely.
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Russia has no credible nuclear threat against the west or they would have been swinging a bigger nuclear dick.
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If they fly the flag of a nation that's waging offensive war and they are accepted in front of the public eye, then they are ambassadors for the nation. If they didn't represent a nation and didn't film it and the athletes only did their disciplines.... Then they wouldn't have much to do with war.
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This is an interesting subject, how many times have warring countries competed against each other in the Olympics? Is it a common occurrence? If not how often are countries barred from the games for being at war?
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Isn't the biggest debt holder the American people? So even if China holds a big chunk it's still going to be smaller than all of the debt held by Americans.
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That’s why I don’t understand why people get so up in arms about China owning lots of US debt like it makes us dependent on them in some way. It’s the complete opposite. If China gets too uppity and does something like invade Taiwan, we just say “hey, you know that trillions off dollars we owe you? Yeah.. about that.. we’re not going to pay you back”.
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I said they may not be the majority, but they're voting in enough numbers to put these people in office. You just used other words to say the same thing.
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I can absolutely see them telling women they have to prove a miscarriage was natural (I dont even know if one can do that) and then charging them anyway for not being perfect incubators.
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Why do these people keep saying they’re “running” for a position that is essentially handed out by GOP elites.
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I believe it speaks volumes about the Republican party when the Mike Pillows of the world naturally flock to positions of power within the party.
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Nuclear is expensive yes but much more efficient and scalable and plenty has been done to deal with the waste.
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And the government will have to spend billions cleaning up the mess of nuclear waste again like they have been forced to do in so many cases.
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Also they pretend it's weird that America thinks they want to take the whole Ukraine while saying earlier that they will take to at least the dnipro the next 3 years, preferably further.
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It was interesting to see that they didn't play back a clip from the press conference but only showed the footage and let the host give some highlights. To be fair I haven't watched it either but it's very easy for them to change what has been said if viewers can't watch the original footage.
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Also the “there’s guns” ITS TEXAS, open carry is legal and without permit, of course there’s gonna be guns. Stop moving the goalposts because you don’t agree with the activity. That’s where my “me me me me me” comes from. Some drivers would say the same about lane splitting or bicyclists or whatever, but we still accommodate. We do the same for funeral precessions and school team marches.
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Edit: we host parades, fairs, and markets in the street. I understand people’s concerns about safety, some of the other ones are a little overblown, but this is going to happen regardless and I’d rather it be monitored and conducted safer than it be done with no safety and people get hurt/killed (though i haven’t heard of any deaths).
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Strictly speaking, people stilll haven't come to terms that russia=/=communism and that being anti-imperialism, anti-USA and pro-russia can act as separate positions; you don't have to be pro-USA if you are anti-russia and viceversa but people don't seem to grasp this, much less consider it. And this affects both sides.
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However, the situation now is a bit paradoxical. In theory, everyone supports Ukraine. In reality, I have met left wing people who defend things like saying that Ukraine is not a democracy; while also meeting some right wing people defending Trump as "he also did great good things you know" and criticizing the invasion while also defending that Putin was a great leader until the invasion.
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The problem is from finnish viewpoint they are basically being exploited as slaves, bad working conditions, no workers rights, bad pay etc.
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People working without a proper contract is called svartjobbare (black workers) and yes, its not only illegal but also a big problem in many Swedish sectors.
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Serbia has also never backed up Russia in this war as as far as I know, they have actually done the opposite thing and condemned the war in several UN resolutions and have joined the EU sanctions on Belarus for their role in supporting Russia in the war. The only “support” they have offered Russia is not placing sanctions on them, however this does not necessarily mean that it is because they support them in the war, rather you also have to take into account the Serbian energy industry which is solely dependent on Russia and Russian gas.
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How is the country starting shit? You people seriously need to read past the headlines. The article says Russia is recruiting Serbian citizens and it says that the Serbian president and defence minister are urging the citizens to not go and fight as it is against the constitution and will result in legal repercussions. How do you then conclude that Serbia is the one starting shit when the Serbian government officials and representatives of the state are urging the citizens to say no to the recruitment and not go to fight?
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People in these comments dont understand what it means to be “leftist” or “conservative” in Latin America.
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Well, if the gringos think that Bernie Sandie is "extreme-left", I already want to imagine how they will see the people of Perú Libre or Juntos por el Perú.
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That being said, if a reactor has a catastrophic meltdown in Ukraine, it would still be cause for foreign intervention to at least clear the area and stop radioactive pollution from spreading into the rest of Europe. And that's something that's absolutely on the minds of Russian leaders.
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I mean, the unfortunate reality is this would be a disaster for the entirety of Europe and international intervention would be required to at least slow the spread of radioactive materials and entomb the reactor.
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Amy etymological analysis, or maybe an example of antisemitism being used to refer to hatred of people or semitic ethnic descent in general?
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And no, being treated as second-class foreigners from the Levant in Europe for centuries does not mean Ashkenazi Jews are “actually European”.
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That, along with the fact that Putin's removal will likely be extremely violent (the greatest threat to his regime right now is not a democratic opposition, but an ultranationalist one), makes it so that these next 10-20 years could very well be enough. The corruption will still be there, of course, but just cleansed enough that they get their shit together and form a decently trained and armed army. And if the ultranationalists take the wheel, they probably won't be aiming for peace.
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Take a look at the Weimar republic, and see the paralels (ik it's not a perfect example, but close enough to what Russia is looking like it's becoming, especially once their foreign currency reserves fully run out). Their economic/industrial/societal state was going down hard, and it looked like they wouldn't be able to become any kind of threat for a long, long time (which was the main goal of the Versailles treaty). A decade and half later, well...
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There's no reason for the dems to stop laughing at the ineptitude. If reasonable moderate republicans exist and are tired of looking like a joke, they can come crawling to the democrats. No reason for the democrats to come in and save republicans for themselves.
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The Democrats would be fools to trust the Republicans on meeting in the middle. If the aftermath of January 6 hasn't shown them that the Republicans will lie about this every time, then we are doomed. They need to insist Republicans take irrevocable action first, then they can compromise.
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Either we stop Russia now, or they take Ukraine fully over the next decade, and kill millions of ukranians, because people like you whine about helping other countries defend their homeland.
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Where we are now is that the far right MAGA element of the Republican party are openly pro-Russia and they want to cut military aid to Ukraine to help Russia to win the war. That's all this is. Please don't take them at their word, because they've shown time and again that they don't deserve it.
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Seems like too many caveats which leaves things open to interpretation. Just make it a law or don’t and move on to figuring out why the documents were able to be handled so poorly in the first place.
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“President must have logs kept of all interactions from the day they are certified as the winner of the election, until they die.” Is my actual stance on this matter.
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When we are talking about politics ultimately most of these types of being an asshole is in support of a fascist agenda, so you could just say fascist. Since it is literally a political movement based on the idea of being assholes to everyone who doesn't fit within a very narrow spectrum, it is quite appropriate in this situation.
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He's right but it's weird to cast virtue signaling as a bad thing that only your enemies do - it's how all American political groups express their political identities. By publicly signaling what their virtues are. Ted does it, dems do it, Twitter libs do it, the magas on parler and truth social do it, boomer fox News grandpa's do it with bumper stickers, tankies do it, libertarians do it. He's stupidly pointing to something normal as if it's a problem.
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I personally see no way to fairly determine who gets and who pays. There are many blacks and whites in this country whose ancestors had nothing at all to do with slavery or Jim Crow. I would support something along the lines of the GI Bill of Rights to pay for education, home loans, business loans to all underprivileged blacks, which could cost more but that’s ok with me. I strongly support that because it helps blacks and helps the country. Reparation is a con job that does nothing for the country except engender massive resentment by those unfairly forced to pay.
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Why should non-blacks whose ancestors suffered war, death, injuries and maiming from fighting for the Union be forced to pay?
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-Asked to compare the scale of the abuses by both sides, Bogner said the mistreatment of Ukrainian prisoners by Russians was "fairly systematic" whereas she said it was "not systematic" for Ukraine to mistreat Russian soldiers.-.
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Actually the line that matters is the observation that the Ukrainian abuses were limited to 3 detention sites, while the Russian abuses seemed to be systematic. So Ukraine it's specific individuals responsible at those sites (which should 100% be investigated and prosecuted) while Russia it's the Russian military/government as a whole and seems to be a matter of policy.
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Any force large enough to simultaneously taken out all the guns before passing, ignoring anti ship missile launchers, would be very noticeable as an invasion force, and would cause turkey to send their fleet there as well as requesting NATO navy support.
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Just because you know the position of a whole range of defensive guns doesn't mean you can just take them out, even if you didn't mind declaring war on turkey and NATO while losing a war against another small independent nation.
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Sadly, until she’s back where she belongs, she will be a member of the U.S. House of Representatives with the ear of the probably speaker, and way more influence than she should have. I would like to see her hateful rhetoric implode the current GOP, but so far, the only people suffering are the ones they are focusing their hatred upon.
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Get ten people even more centrists and the "middle" scared of Republicans and encourage each of them to terrify ten more and on and on.
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At the end of the day, Russians lost a voice of opposition and a voice of reason in amongst the propaganda being spewed at them by both Putin and the West.
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Any people who would flock back to Putin just because the russia's neighbours and prior victims didn't take "these people in" deserves what's coming for Putin.
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